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ANTIFA: CLICK https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/1988055123910930942 [:20] and https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1988065091947032843 [:24] to see the tactics they used to try to stop people from attending a TPUSA event at UC Berkley.

CLICK https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/1988092309507072374 [:15] to see how thoroughly they failed to stop people from attending a TPUSA event at UC Berkley.

CLICK either link below to hear what else happened.

• https://notthebee.com/article/muslim-named-jihad-pummels-conservative-at-uc-berkeley-tpusa-event-tears-away-his-cross-necklace
• https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/us-news/protester-named-jihad-charged-with-assault-and-robbery-after-brawl-at-berkeley-turning-point-usa-rally/

ARGENTINA: A currency swap is an agreement between two countries to exchange currencies for a specified period, allowing them to stabilize their currencies and manage foreign exchange risks. Recently, the U.S. signed a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina to help prop up the Argentine peso amid its economic challenges. CLICK https://rumble.com/v71jpwq-scott-bessent-educates-economically-illiterate-msnbc-host.html [1:31] to hear Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explain why this is a win-win for America, not a “bailout” to benefit a foreign nation at our expense.

• https://thehill.com/policy/international/us-buys-argentine-pesos-finalizes-20-billion-currency-swap/

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1988038226888847434 to hear RFK’s wife, Cheryl Hines, talk with Bill Maher about how mean the left has become. I blocked a lot of hateful posters in the thread who, as one person noted, proved the point.

• https://notthebee.com/article/i-cant-say-that-for-the-democrats-cheryl-hines-says-republicans-are-very-kind-to-her-even-when-rfk-was-a-democrat

END TIMES: CLICK https://x.com/secureainow/status/1988684446577602779 [1:15] to hear from a Japanese woman who married an AI chatbot.

• https://notthebee.com/article/japanese-woman-marries-ai-boyfriend-of-her-own-creation

EVERYDAY HEROES: “My dad Jacob was only 17 when I was born—and living with Down syndrome didn’t stop him from raising me on his own. People said he couldn’t do it. Some even thought I’d be taken away. But dad never gave up. He learned how to change diapers, make bottles, and calm me when I cried. My grandparents helped at first, but it was my dad who stayed up through the nights, reading stories and singing off-key lullabies. He worked part-time at a grocery store, saving every dollar for my school supplies and birthday cakes. We didn’t have much, but I never felt like I lacked anything. When I graduated, he was right there in the front row, clapping the loudest. Looking at him that day, I realized how much he had done for me—and how grateful I am that he never stopped trying.”

• https://www.facebook.com/fabiosaliveeasy/posts/pfbid0rajDzniWKqr5GTnmQXeCCPScQ4fCn2i6JYL6ds9umZxAZtmPuZDgoZ9N4MugZpw5l

GO, BABY, GO: [4:49] – There are no powered wheelchair options for small children. This man fills the gap. I was thinking, “This is so cool,” until he got to how they modify them to also promote the individual kid’s rehabilitation goals. Now I need a tissue.

LAWFARE: President Donald Trump has pardoned Michelino Sunseri, calling his case a “prime example of excessive prosecution” and an example of regulatory overreach that burdens everyday Americans. Michelino Sunseri was convicted in 2024 of having briefly used an old trail that had technically been closed in the 1980s. However, the only indication that the trail was closed were two small forty-year-old signs. Morever, the trail had long been used by hikers and runners without the park service caring.

Sunseri was charged under 36 CFR § 2.1(b), a rule barring walking in nondesignated parts of protected areas, punishable by a fine and up to six months in jail. Prosecutors offered Sunseri a plea deal requiring him to pay a $5,000 fine and accept a five-year ban from Grand Teton National Park. Sunseri said no, because he is a local member of the community who regularly runs in the park.

He offered instead to perform community service and assist in closing or rehabilitating the trail. The National Park Service withdrew support for the prosecution, but federal attorneys pressed ahead with what Cato legal fellow Mike Fox called a case of “vindictive prosecution.”

Sunseri and his lawyers expressed gratitude for the president’s pardon, but noted “it never should’ve gotten this far.” Indeed.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-pardons-trail-runner-in-push-to-curb-regulatory-overreach-5942948

NUMISMATICS: The U.S. Mint began producing pennies between 1792 and 1793. Due to inflation, it now costs more to make a penny than a penny is worth, so on Wednesday, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach hit a button to strike the final penny saying, “God bless America, and we’re going to save the taxpayers $56 million.” Officials said the final few pennies will be auctioned off to collectors.

• https://notthebee.com/article/the-last-penny-will-be-minted-today
• https://apnews.com/article/us-mint-treasury-department-penny-end-production-86139df5644ef0885a9baf98e9677380

PLAYING THE AIR: [4:22] – The Mascots are studying unusual musical instruments this month and I am absolutely captivated by this one. It looks like the soloist is just pretending to play an instrument. But she isn’t. Her instrument is called a theremin. It is an electronic musical instrument named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.

The two metal antennas you can see in the video each function as one half of a capacitor, with the thereminist’s hands functioning as the other half. One antenna controls frequency, while the other controls volume.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Holy Spirit, Breathe life into our nation once more. Sweep from city to city, breaking spiritual apathy and stirring hearts to repentance. Let Your glory fill our land. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

SECRET SANTA: [5:27] – One commenter posted, “These are how I start my day now.” Indeed. The person behind these gifts blesses so many more than the families in the videos.

TRANS: According to multiple large-scale surveys, non-binary and transgender identification among teens and college students peaked in 2023 and has fallen by half ever since.

• https://notthebee.com/takes/the-trans-tide-turns-but-the-wounds-will-remain

SHORTS:

CLICK https://polination.blog/2025/11/12/bits-bytes-2193/ to see a beautiful love story.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2YTZGv2yF4U to hear an honest review of The Rainbow Salon.

BOOTYJUDGE: Yesterday morning during a live CNN interview with Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), Jake Tapper said that Pete Buttigieg had accused Kennedy of being “out of touch, behind the times” and that Kennedy “should do [his] homework.”

Kennedy pulled a sheet of paper out of his jacket pocket and read, “Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg. Mayor of South Bend, population 103,000 — smaller than Baton Rouge’s airport. Oversaw 1,000 potholes fixed… in eight years. Left office with a 38% approval rating. Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey — fancy words for ‘I’ve never met a payroll I couldn’t consultant away.’ High-speed rail plan: $2.1 billion for 12 miles of track that still ain’t laid. Current job: shows up to disasters after the cameras leave.”

The senator then folded the paper and said, “Jake, tell Pete I did my homework. Tell him when he can run a city bigger than a Cracker Barrel parking lot, maybe then he can tell Louisiana how to spend our money. Till then, bless his heart.”

Buttigieg’s communications team later called Kennedy’s remarks “childish.” Kennedy responded, “Son, childish is promising trains that never leave the station.”

• https://storynews.us/2025/11/do-your-homework-son-senator-kennedy-shuts-down-cnn-and-pete-buttigieg-in-viral-on-air-moment/

FAKE NEWS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3954549228138991 [1:11] to hear the true story behind the latest anti-ICE Democrat media lie.

On November 5 in Chicago, agents attempted to make a “targeted traffic stop” on a vehicle registered to Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, an illegal alien from Colombia. Rather than comply, Santillana Galeano and the man who was driving the vehicle sped away. Pulling into a shopping plaza, the two fled the vehicle and ran into the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center where they attempted to barricade themselves.

Fortunately, they were blocked from endangering the children by a set of locked inner doors and agents were able to apprehend the woman inside the vestibule. Video of them wrestling her, screaming and struggling, out the front doors went viral, with flaming headlines about a “day care teacher” having been “violently” arrested in front of her young students.

FACT ONE: The woman, who was not a teacher or an employee at the day care center, fled from a lawful traffic stop, then attempted to endanger children to evade arrest.

FACT TWO: ICE agents never entered the classrooms to arrest her.

• https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11/05/dhs-sets-record-straight-illegal-aliens-attempt-evade-arrests-recklessly-attempting

ITHACA, NY: My home town.

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, We pray in a special way today for all of our veterans, particularly those who are still suffering ill effects related to their time in service. Help them. Heal them. And grant them all eternal life. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

SECRET SANTA: [5:00] – Another good one.

TARIFFS: On Sunday, Trump announced his plan to spread the t ariff wealth around in the form of dividend checks to all but high-income Americans.

• https://notthebee.com/article/president-trump-announces-2000-tariff-dividend-for-almost-everyone-in-america

GRAMMY NOTES: Last Saturday, Bootz’s Trail Life troop built a Nativity scene. It was his first time using a power saw.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mi4CbKweLZo to see all the amazing costumes this one-legged man has created.

BABY ORCA: Whale watchers in Norway were observing a group of orcas when the water around the animals suddenly turned crimson with blood. They assumed they were watching a feeding frenzy … until a little head popped up. They watched in awe as the new mama and her midwives carried the newborn calf on their backs, holding it above water for air, until it was ready to breathe and swim on its own. These are the first known photos of an orca birth in the wild.

• https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/incredible-first-of-their-kind-images-show-an-orca-being-born-in-norway-and-the-rest-of-its-pod-forming-a-protective-circle

FLORIDA: A new state law goes into effect allows a jury to recommend the death sentence for sexual battery on a child under the age of 12. It passed out of the Legislature with support from both parties in both chambers, was signed by Gov. DeSantis in May, and went into effect last month.

• https://www.pnj.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/26/new-florida-death-penalty-law-for-child-rape-goes-into-effect-sunday/70972226007/

IDAHO: CLICK https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1986106156087964107 [:56] to hear the new mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Dan Gookin, sneer at his constituents. “Christian conservatives are mindless, cult-member morons. They are white, racist supremacists. They can fuck themselves and go to hell.”

CLICK https://x.com/snoopsmom123/status/1986167851963850853 [:15] to see what appears to be a woman who had her breasts removed say the same thing.

ILLINOIS: The state is one signature away from making euthanasia legal. Peter Heck writes, “On paper, of course, the bill includes guardrails: witness requirements, assurances that no doctor will be forced to participate, etc. But the history of assisted suicide laws – domestically in places like Oregon and Washington, or internationally in places like Canada and Belgium – demonstrates how unreliable those guardrails end up being. First they bend, then loosen, then erode.”

When I was a teenager, my mother told me we should never legalize abortion, because it would lead to euthanasia. She was more right than she knew. As with abortion, they use phrases like “dignity” and “choice,” but what it eventually boils down to is “convenience” and “cost.”

• https://notthebee.com/takes/illinois-looks-to-solve-suffering-by-eliminating-the-sufferer

MELATONIN: A large new study revealed that adults with insomnia who used melatonin for a year or longer faced a significantly higher risk of developing heart failure when compared to insomniacs who did not use melatonin long-term.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/long-term-melatonin-use-linked-to-nearly-double-heart-failure-risk-study-finds-5940621

NEW HAMPSHIRE: “Stacie” Marie Laughton, who was as the first elected transgender official in a state house of representatives, has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children this week. The Democrat, who was born Barry Laughton Jr., had more than 10,000 text messages on his phone discussing and transferring photographs of children. At least four were sexually explicit images of children who appear to be approximately three to five years old. The texts also included explicit descriptions of sex with children. The sexual exploitation charge carries at least 15 years in prison, up to 30, and five years supervised release.

• https://notthebee.com/article/update-nations-first-trans-state-rep-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-crimes
• https://notthebee.com/article/lets-check-in-to-see-what-the-nations-first-elected-trans-politician-is-up-to-and–oh—arrested-for-child-porn-shocker

NO KINGS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dWyPW4hqMYg to watch one of my favorite scenes in any movie ever. The pompous professor reminds me, at heart, of all the elitists currently running the Democratic Party. The only difference is in the accents they use as they tell us we’re too stupid to govern ourselves.

OHIO: CLICK https://x.com/Thefactsdude/status/1986750481709101194 [1:15] to watch the body cam footage from officers who responded to a call concerning a “male with a cowboy hat riding a whitish bull up and down the parking lot” outside a Walmart. The rider told police he was passing through town for a rodeo event at Garwood Arena in Columbiana this weekend. The situation ended without incident, but not before one of the responding officers climbed onto the bull for a photo (above).

• https://notthebee.com/article/ohio-police-respond-to-call-for-man-riding-bull-in-walmart-parking-lot

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, We lift up those who are struggling to put food on the table this month. Provide for their needs and move the hearts of 5 Democrats to vote to end the shutdown. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

SNAP: On Nov. 7, partial benefits went out to food stamp recipients and the Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a judge’s order that requires the federal government to fully fund food stamps in November. SCOTUS issued a late-night order also on the seventh, giving the court time to consider the case.

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted, “A single district court in Rhode Island should not be able to seize center stage in the shutdown, seek to upend political negotiations that could produce swift political solutions for SNAP and other programs, and dictate its own preferences for how scarce federal funds should be spent.”

The Hodge Twins posted, “Democrats are in TOTAL UPROAR after the Supreme Court drops a bombshell ruling that President Trump CAN’T just hand out SNAP benefits willy-nilly until Congress actually funds the government—for now, at least.

“They’ve been screaming ‘No Kings in America!’ from the rooftops, but now they’re flipping out because they can’t force Trump to act like some all-powerful monarch pulling money out of thin air!

“Hypocrisy at its finest—you seriously can’t make this level of clownery up.”

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/appeals-court-leaves-in-place-judges-order-to-fully-fund-snap-5941472
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/appeals-court-leaves-in-place-judges-order-to-fully-fund-snap-5941472
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/people-have-started-receiving-november-food-stamps-states-say-5941542
• https://www.facebook.com/thehodgetwins/posts/pfbid02dpHJomo52eNjdSxkmoGdfg8zPHWuiaj6AepX5cs6mt7wUcEHZMQHRSqUFMGMyAvel

TEXAS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1707234043566603 to hear what a cop says truck drivers can and should do.

TRUMP: I saw this on Facebook – After a man fainted in the Oval Office today, President Trump personally called the man’s wife to calm her down.

Dr. Oz: “I saw that he was starting to fall back a bit and then fall forward. You know, that wobbliness is never a good scene, especially in the Oval Office where usually you have attention being, you know, standing upright. So I grabbed him—the most important thing you learn in medical school, but you should learn it if you’re not a doctor as well, is just get people to the ground safely. So I bear-hugged him, and with some colleagues who were standing next to me, Secretary Kennedy and others, we lowered him slowly to the ground. So far, he’s doing well.

“But I’ll tell you a story that speaks loudly to the kind of person the President is. So I wanted to speak to the wife, to let her know what was happening, but also comfort her. And the President saw me in the corner, and he came over and said, “Who are you talking to?” I said, “Sir, she’s pretty upset, I’m talking to the wife.” And he said, “Give me that phone.”

“He talked to her and got her much calmer than I could have ever done. And I just think he’s just a wonderful human being that he would take time. He could have gone up and done 10 other things, but he actually cared that the wife of a man who he’s never met before felt in a safer place. He remembers the forgotten folks.”

• https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump4President/posts/pfbid0H7BzC47tFUdNnvtX483q1hYoV7ueUFGNJWbgvvP32CjWjBrFxsTgfsg29qUqkocVl
• https://notthebee.com/article/pharmaceutical-executive-passes-out-in-oval-office-ozempic-announcement

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wdCwOrfo5Ik and grab a tissue.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7HT7panu9f4 and get another tissue.

DAILY PRAYER: Amen.

CATHOLIC: [9:56] – An excellent explanation for the recent Vatican document rejecting the title “Co-Redemptrix” for Mary.

FYI: Muslims are not here to assimilate. They are here to take over. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/801577238903467 to hear what the Muslim mayor of Dearborn, MI, said to a Christian constituent.

HATERS: @Tribalism posted, “People are already attacking RFK Jr. and President Trump for how they handled the CEO collapsing today, so let’s set the record straight. It’s been reported RFK Jr. immediately ran to get help. He’s not a doctor and in a medical emergency, the best thing you can do is step aside and let trained professionals in. President Trump stayed where he was because it’s a security concern. Honestly, the Secret Service should’ve moved him out right away and leaving him there was a mess up by them. Both men handled the situation exactly how they should have. Don’t let clippers or the media twist it into something it’s not.”

CLICK https://x.com/EndTribalism/status/1986503557688771028 [:24] to see the incident.

Comment from @jeannine90932: “From a nurse’s perspective, the actual doctor went to the patient immediately. They slid him down safely and started assessing the patient. Next is getting the AED and calling 911. They did what they were supposed to do.”

MAHA: President Trump announced that Medicare co-pays for drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity drugs will plummet from $1,350 to just $50 in January.

• https://notthebee.com/article/trump-announces-drastic-discount-on-fat-drug-ozempic

NATIONAL SECURITY: Three Chinese researchers have been arrested and charged with smuggling of biological materials from China into the United States.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/3-more-chinese-researchers-charged-with-smuggling-biological-materials-into-us-5940957

NYC: Less than 12 hours after Mamdani won, Jewish fire commissioner Curtis Tucker resigned.

• https://notthebee.com/article/fdny-commissioner-resigns-after-election-of-mamdani

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please end the shutdown. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

SCOTUS: The Supremes delivered a victory to the Trump administration’s position that passports should identify people based only on biological sex. “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment.”

• https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/06/how-supreme-court-ruled-transgender-passports/
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-allows-trumps-policy-requiring-sex-at-birth-on-passports-5941163

SHUTDOWN: The FAA and the Transportation Department have ordered traffic reductions at 40 airports. The reductions began at 4 percent on Nov. 7 and will be increasing to 6 percent by Nov. 11 and 8 percent by Nov. 13, before reaching 10 percent by Nov. 14. The reductions will occur between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. at each airport.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/here-are-the-40-airports-that-will-reduce-flights-due-to-shutdown-5941086
• https://notthebee.com/article/faa-to-reduce-flight-capacity-across-40-airports-due-to-government-shutdown

GRAMMY NOTES: A wonderful use for vintage hankies. ❤

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1327155722434596 and marvel.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X9e6lnVVQXk and click again and again and again!

DAILY PRAYER: Come, Holy Spirit. Fill our minds and our hearts. Enkindle in them the fires of Your wisdom and Your love. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

ANGRIER THAN EVER: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lXkgZNZASaQ to hear Nick Freitas make an excellent point.

ARCTIC FROST: Articles of impeachment have been brought against Chief DC circuit judge James Boasberg for signing off on secret surveillance of Republicans.

• https://notthebee.com/article/articles-of-impeachment-filed-against-judge-james-boasberg
• https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/11/251104-impeachment-resolution-judge-boasberg-.pdf

BBC: CLICK https://x.com/Telegraph/status/1985420805816135745 [2:12] to hear what this UK-government-sponsored television station did to mislead viewers.

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/03/bbc-report-reveals-bias-donald-trump/
• https://notthebee.com/article/report-bbc-edited-trumps-words-ahead-of-2024-election-to-make-it-seem-like-he-was-calling-for-violence-on-j6

ELECTIONS: Democrats won big yesterday. Californians approved a partisan redistricting measure, which could result in as many as five additional Democrat seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sherrill beat Ciattarelli for governor of New Jersey. Spanberger beat Earle-Sears for governor of Virginia. And New Yuck City will have its first Muslim Socialist mayor.

In better news, Texans approved Proposition 15, which amends the state constitution to enshrine parents’ right “to exercise care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to make decisions concerning the child’s upbringing” and the responsibility “to nurture and protect the parent’s child.” Texans also passed a ballot measure that disallows noncitizens from voting in all statewide elections, including local races.

• https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nyc-mayor-race/2025/11/04/id/1233246/
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/democrats-win-key-races-5-takeaways-from-election-day-2025-post-5939662
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/sherrill-beats-ciattarelli-to-win-new-jersey-governors-race-5939629
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/abigail-spanberger-wins-virginia-governors-race-5940043
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/mamdani-elected-mayor-of-new-york-city-5940031
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/democrats-win-key-races-5-takeaways-from-election-day-2025-post-5939662

EVERYDAY HEROES: A couple saved the life of a young girl whose rollercoaster seat restraints failed during the first hill. The “Mamba” at the Worlds of Fun park in Kansas City travels up to 75mph.

• https://notthebee.com/article/nightmare-terrified-passengers-caught-on-camera-after-roller-coaster-seatbelt-fails-during-ride
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15253885/Kansas-City-Worlds-Fun-Mamba-belt-failure.html

MASSACHUSETTS: [2:38] – Unbelievable.

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Expose every hidden deed of darkness and uproot systems of greed and manipulation. Raise leaders who will walk in integrity and uphold what is right. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

RIP: Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States, passed away on November 3. He was 84. May God have mercy on his soul.

• https://notthebee.com/article/dick-cheney-dead-at-84

SECRET SANTA: [6:01] – Grab a tissue.

SHUTDOWN: [5:32] – Where else in the world can employees shut down a business because THEY haven’t done their jobs?!

SPYGATE: [13:35] – Thomas Speciale confronted former CIA Director Brennan regarding the fake Steele dossier and the Russia Collusion hoax twice at a conference on October 30 at Hayden Center at George Mason University. Brennan responded angrily.

• https://www.newsmax.com/us/cia-director-brennan-hunter-biden/2025/11/03/id/1232967/
• https://nypost.com/2025/11/02/us-news/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-explodes-as-hes-confronted-about-hunter-bidens-laptop/

TDS: CLICK https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/1985510440659468314 [:25] to hear Nancy Pelosi explain why she believes Donald Trump is “a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the earth.” Among other things, “he has abolished the House of Representatives.” Meanwhile, Harrison Ford says, “I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”

• https://notthebee.com/article/nancy-pelosi-officially-labels-trump-the-worst-thing-on-the-face-of-the-earth
• https://notthebee.com/article/harrison-ford-on-trump-i-dont-know-of-a-greater-criminal-in-history

GRAMMY NOTES: I am offended! All my life, I have believed ladybugs were harmless. Turns out, some of them, especially the Asian Harlequin ladybugs, will bite humans if they’re hungry. It’s usually just a little annoying, unless you’re allergic. But sheesh. Plus, ALL of the ones in the pictures above are Asian Harlequin ladybugs! I mean … seriously?!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WjgqVWTCUBs to see “the ghost walk.” Amazing!

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0GhnAt4torQ to see a wonderful old television ad.

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, May You be on our minds, on our lips, and in our hearts. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BIOPHILIA: [17:18] – Fascinating applications of psychological research to architecture and interior design. Several of the things she mentions explain why one of my favorite things is to sit on our deck and watch the leaves on our big basswood tree flutter in the breeze.

BREAST CANCER: Breast cancer accounts for almost a third of all new cancers among women in the United States every year. A huge new study entitled “Hormonal Contraceptive Formulations and Breast Cancer Risk in Adolescents and Premenopausal Women” has just been published in JAMA Oncology. Researchers who examined data from more than two million women from 2006 to 2019 found that thos who used hormonal contraceptives (i.e., birth control pills, implants, injections, and intrauterine systems) were at higher risk of developing breast cancer. They also found there was a “statistically significant greater risk” from progestin-only contraceptives as compared to combined formulations.

• https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2840506

DEMOCRATS: Damani Bryant Felder posted these from his in box. Based on this small sample, it appears the most racist Democrats are white.

• https://www.facebook.com/DamaniBryantFelder/posts/pfbid02Qbd83ASP9zniYtEw5EMFNQ5DJMdtFVwk3q5Fq2dEVWx3b4bYapBx9JCK5SFdSJ68l

EVERYDAY HEROES: “I parked my car in an outdoor lot. I forgot to roll up my window, because my mind, as always, must’ve been on other things. I came back a long time later — many, many, many days later. Look what a perfect stranger had done for me, in my absence.”

• https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0KsHhuHSgXTWSWDz9hiCAGvRjhUtTdk7PXXB9WCz7gRnV3rLHrAhixoL2rjZFvHQcl&id=61554311403331

FOOD STAMPS: The Trump administration has announced that food stamps will be partially funded using all $5 billion of the contingency fund the USDA has on hand. It costs about $9 billion to fully fund SNAP each month. There is a lot of really negative stuff about SNAP beneficiaries on the ‘net right now. I’d much prefer to see these sneering types put their energies into praying, donating to food pantries, and voting for representatives who will use our tax dollars responsibly. After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, my husband was put out of work for a year. I am disabled and we had 3 young children. He did anything and everything he could to find work, but while he looked, we all NEEDED to eat.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-admin-will-fund-november-food-stamps-filing-5939012

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please sweeten the hearts and minds of all Americans. Fill us with both generosity and gratitude. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

SECRET SANTA: [7:51] – A local Secret Santa is giving $1 million to deserving people in eastern Idaho this holiday season. Every day, from now until the end of the year, the East Idaho News elves will be delivering gifts from Secret Santa and we’ll be sharing the surprise videos here.

SCOTT ADAMS: The cartoonist famous for “Dilbert” has metastasized prostate cancer. He was approved for a new drug, but something went wrong with the scheduling. He reached out to President Trump, who got him an appointment for yesterday.

• https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1985060160004346147