I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.
CALI: Republican Steve Hilton was the clear winner in the recent jungle primary until mail-in votes that arrived after election day went largely to Democrat Xavier Becerra. With 88% of the votes counted, Becerra has 27.9% vs. Hilton’s 24.9%. If nothing changes, they’ll be the two candidates on the gubernatorial ballot in November.
DEMOCRATS: The two articles linked below are a fun read back-to-back. #1 is about what Democrats need to do to win. #2 is about what Democrats are actually doing.
LAWFARE: “E. Jean Carroll is a total loon.” [First five minutes of 10:36] – The second five minutes cover fraud and DOCTOR Jill Biden’s book.
LOUISIANA: On Wednesday, Gov. Landry signed his state’s “Biological Truth Act,” which declares that, “‘Sex’ means an individual’s biological sex, either male or female, as observed or clinically certified at birth. ‘Gender identity’ and other subjective terms shall not be used as synonyms or substitutes for the term ‘sex.’”
WELFARE FRAUD: A new report from the USDA revealed more than $3 billion in potential fraud, waste, and abuse. Among the thievery … 185,986 deceased people in 29 states collecting SNAP benefits (aka, food stamps), at an annual cost to We the Taxpayers of $419.6 million.
FEMINISM: “No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.” ~Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), French feminist
IRAN: Israel says Iran violated the cease fire on Sunday, launching missiles that the Israeli defense system intercepted. The attack came hours after Trump said in an interview on “Meet the Press” that the United States was “very close” to securing a deal with Iranian officials.
MEDIA: In 2025, Bari Weiss took over CBS News with the goal of making it less biased. After she fired 60 Minutes host, Scott Pelley, he said Weiss had actually asked the staff why the public didn’t trust the media any more, whining, “Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about? Because we certainly didn’t believe that.”
CLICK the link below to see multiple clips of the interview.
PATRIOTISM: @BuzzPatterson posted – When I was the Air Force Military Aide to Bill Clinton (and again, that was not a political appointee position, it was a military assignment), I served daily with very young staffers who were appointed because of their efforts in the campaign or who their parents were.
I really enjoyed interacting with most of them. Bright kids from Ivy League school. But their naïveté and lack of experience showed. Dramatically.
One day I was walking across the White House “campus,” the “18 acres,” and I encountered one of the young female staffers. We chatted for a bit, and she asked me, “So, why did you join the military? Were your career options limited or were you forced to by a judge?”
I wanted to throat punch her, but I said, “No, ma’am, I volunteered.”
She asked, “But why? Lack of education? No other options?”
“No, ma’am, I volunteered. Really. Not only do I have a Bachelor’s but also an MBA.”
She asked again, “Then why?”
I shook my head and walked away. They simply can’t understand a higher calling. They are incapable of understanding that another human who would selflessly serve.
Therein lies much of the Democrat vs. military disconnect. They’re missing the patriotism chip.
CATHOLIC: The archdiocese of Washington has fired Monsignor Rossetti from his post as exorcist and is cutting ties with the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal.
The archbishop said Rossetti’s statements “linking UFOs to demonic presence and the Center’s recent use of social media gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.”
I have no idea what they mean by this. The Catholic Church does not have an official doctrinal or dogmatic position on the existence of extraterrestrial life.
This feels like a replay of back when Father Frank Pavone was defrocked for refusing to give up his anti-abortion ministry. 😦
LIBERAL LOGIC: “Islam has a problem with gays, Jews, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, women, non-Muslims, atheists, apostates, beer, wine, bacon, and dogs. But if I have a problem with Islam, I’m the bigot & Islamophobic? Can you see how ridiculous it is?”
NEW YUCK CITY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MAVYVbOexS8 [1:39] to hear what Mamdani is doing. One commenter noted, “He was a councilman before he became mayor so he was well aware of the bullshit he was peddling.” Another predicted, “They also will cap rent so landlords can’t pass the additional cost onto renters. Once landlords get behind, they will foreclose on the properties and turn them into city-provided housing. This is already a stated plan.”
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Fill us with a passion for sharing the gospel. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On June 3, 1943, an Irish weather observer named Maureen Flavin carried out what she thought was just another routine task. It was her 21st birthday. Stationed at a remote post in Blacksod Bay, she recorded her hourly barometer reading and passed it along to Dublin, unaware that her small data point was about to ripple far beyond the Irish coast. The pressure drop she noted was subtle but unmistakable, an early warning of a powerful Atlantic storm forming to the west.
That reading quickly moved up the chain, eventually landing on the desks of Allied meteorologists who were desperately trying to forecast conditions for the largest amphibious invasion in history. Their models were uncertain, their data incomplete, and the stakes almost unimaginable. Flavin’s report provided the missing confirmation: a violent storm was on its way, one that would have turned the English Channel into a death trap for thousands of soldiers. When the information reached General Dwight D. Eisenhower, it forced a decision that would define the course of the war.
On June 4, 1944, Eisenhower postponed the invasion, an extraordinary gamble that hinged on a single window of improved weather predicted to follow the storm. That window arrived, and on June 6, D-Day began. The success of the landings has been attributed to strategy, bravery, and logistics, but it also rested on the quiet precision of an Irish woman who never imagined her routine reading would help shape history. Maureen Flavin’s small act of diligence became one of the most consequential weather observations ever recorded.
ISLAM: “There’s a simple way for any country led by rational rulers to ban Islam. All you have to do is to ensure that the definition of ‘religion’ has the explicit requirement that in order to qualify as a religion (with all the perks that this confers), the religion cannot, in any way, punish apostasy. That’s all you need. If a potential ‘religion’ explicitly punishes people for leaving it, then it automatically qualifies as a ‘cult,’ not a religion, and loses all of the protections afforded to real religions. So unless Islam changes its holy texts to freely allow people to leave Islam without penalty or consequences, it cannot be qualified as a ‘religion.'”
The x-rays aren’t mine, but mine look similar. The solid white parts are metal and, in the gap, is a plastic plate to reduce friction.
I got my 38 stitches out and have had check-ups with my primary and with the ortho surgeon’s NP. Both were very happy with how well I’m healing.
My big job now is to “model” my scar tissue so it allows my new knee to fully bend and fully straighten. “Model” is a nice way of saying “rip out the scar tissue we don’t want” … over and over and over.” So fun! (not)
I’m posting this on Monday. By the time it appears, I’ll be in the OR, getting my bionic knee! If your someone you know is going to have this procedure done, I recommend the following YouTubes to help prepare.
In May of 2026, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. And we were declaring independence from such an extreme marriage of wealth and power in the state.”
Robert Morris would like a word. Morris, by most accounts, the wealthiest man in the country in 1775, was a Philadelphia shipping merchant who had built a fortune from nothing. He had come over from Liverpool, England, at thirteen and apprenticed his way into a trading partnership that eventually became what one biographer calls “the first national conglomerate.”
He signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, making him one of only two men to sign all three founding documents. The other was George Washington, who held the title of wealthiest American president in history for over two centuries, with an estimated net worth of almost $600 million in today’s dollars.
When the Continental Congress needed someone to manage the country’s finances during the war, they turned to Robert Morris because he was the only person with the business network and personal credit to pull it off. What followed was remarkable.
When Washington needed gunpowder, Morris smuggled it past British blockades. When the Continental Navy needed ships, Morris supplied three of his own. When Congress couldn’t pay its soldiers (which happened with alarming regularity) Morris issued what became known as “Morris notes”—personal IOUs backed by his own immense wealth that circulated as currency throughout the army for years. When Washington needed to move his forces south for the Yorktown campaign that effectively ended the war, it was Morris who came up with the money to make it happen.
For three years, Robert Morris personally financed the American Revolution out of his own pocket. His personal contribution to the war effort has been estimated at roughly $79 million of the total $101 million spent—numbers that are difficult to translate into modern equivalents but represent something close to everything he had.
Robert Morris died in modest circumstances in 1806, largely forgotten. The man who had funded the birth of a nation outlived his fortune by nearly a decade, but no evidence exists that he ever regretted his contribution.
And Morris and Washington weren’t anomalies. John Hancock, who presided over the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration in letters large enough to ensure King George could read it “without his spectacles,” was a wealthy Boston merchant whose fortune made him one of the most prominent men in the colonies. Charles Carroll, also a signer of the Declaration, was by some accounts the wealthiest man in America at the time of his death.
These were not desperate men with nothing to lose! They were men with enormous fortunes who looked at what the British Crown was doing and decided that natural rights, self-governance, and the principles of limited government were worth more than their own financial security or their lives—and then proved it!
The Revolution was about taxation without representation. It was about the right of a free people to govern themselves. It was about whether legitimate authority derives from the consent of the governed, or from whoever has the most soldiers. Those ideas came directly from John Locke, were refined by Jefferson and Paine and Madison, and were debated in pamphlets and town meetings for a generation before a single shot was fired at Lexington.
Wealth redistribution wasn’t a grievance in the Declaration of Independence. Punishing the successful wasn’t a principle of the Constitutional Convention.
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