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CATHOLICS: @EricRSammons commented, “Year ago some Mormon missionaries were at my house trying to convert me. Knowing I was Catholic, they started to recount papal sins of the past. I interrupted and said, ‘If you want to talk about papal scandals in history, have a seat—I know of a whole bunch you probably don’t!’ But then I followed with, ‘But that’s how I know the Church is divine: no purely human institution would have survived her members.’

FBI: On Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the bureau has captured of all 10 figures who were on the bureau’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list when President Donald Trump was sworn in as president. That’s 1 year and 8 months. In all four years of the Biden presidency, the bureau captured only four of the “Most Wanted,” maybe because they were wasting their time investigating and harassing Trump and his supporters.

IRAN WAR: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1728181091846355 [12:22] to hear Democrat Senator Schumer condemn the war, then Republican Senator Tim Sheehy respond. I learned how much Democrats care about our troops when they shed crocodile tears over each one who died in Bush’s wars, then couldn’t have cared less how many died in any of Obama’s wars.

MAHA: Dr. Alex writes, “Prediabetes means your blood sugar is above normal but below the diabetes threshold. In the UK that is an HbA1c of 42 to 47 mmol/mol, in the US it is between 5.7% and 6.4%. It is not a diagnosis so much as a warning, and it is the most winnable fight in the whole of chronic disease and so easily reversed with lifestyle change.

“Here is the evidence, and it is about as good as it gets. In a large American trial, people with prediabetes were put into one of three groups. One got a placebo. One got metformin, the standard diabetes drug. One got a lifestyle programme built around modest weight loss and 150 minutes of activity a week.

“Metformin cut the rate of new diabetes by 31 per cent. The lifestyle programme cut it by 58 per cent. The lifestyle arm beat the drug. Not by a whisker, by a mile, and it did it with walking and food.”

MASSATWOSHITS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1436706518395992 [2:10] to hear the appalling story of a Catholic family that has been broken apart by gender whackos. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1074943218728468 [:48] to hear from people who have talked to many detransitioners. “It’s very similar to getting out of a cult, because the indoctrination is so strong.

MIRACLE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jBIEyhKpOA8 [1 :23] and prepare to praise God!

OHIO: On Monday night, the Cleveland City Council passed Resolution 1047-2026, which renames “the easternmost and westernmost points of its shoreline and two miles into Lake Erie from its shoreline as the ‘Gulf of Cleveland.’

PSA: Consumer Lab tested and approved lavender essential oils by Aura Cacia, DoTERRA, Pure, and Young Living. Aura Cacia was Top Pick for being half the price of Pure or Young Living @ 60¢/mL. DoTERRA was the most expensive at a whopping $2.04/mL.

TRUMP ECONOMY: In the second quarter of 2026, as markets recovered and workers maintained strong saving habits, Americans’ retirement account balances climbed to record highs, with the average 401(k) balance hitting $155,800.

In other news, U.S. households registered their highest income levels ever last year, while the poverty rate fell to a record low. The median household earned $87,460 in 2025 which, after adjusting for inflation, is the highest since 1967, when the federal agency began tracking the data. The gains were highest among Black households, which posted a nearly 5 percent increase in median income.

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1430022675638223 [:41] to hear one LWW’s insane justification for supporting child-murderer, Lindsay Clancy. I love Brittany’s response LOL!

VDH: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2140811129840019 [:59] to hear his thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1490493896460106 [:21] to hear why the plane was granted its request for a long, slow descent.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2081405039187153 [1:32] to watch a flight crew give a little boy a great big memory.

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