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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.
by | August 16, 2021 · 8:31 am

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AFGHANISTAN: On Saturday, Afghanistan’s president claimed he would be able to defend Kabul (pop. 6 million). On Sunday, he fled the country shortly before Taliban terrorists invaded Kabul and claimed the presidential palace.

CLICK https://rumble.com/vl6u8l-biden-just-months-ago-promised-the-taliban-wouldnt-retake-afghanistan.html [1:48] to hear FAUXTUS assure us over and over throughout July that the Taliban was never, ever going to take over.

Back in April, VFAUXTUS bragged about having a key role in deciding to pull our troops out of Afghanistan.

DVE: I believe these tweets qualify as inciting domestic violence under the Department of Homeland Security’s latest advisory, which says that threats to the Homeland continue to be “posed by domestic terrorists, individuals and groups engaged in grievance-based violence [who are] increasingly exploiting online forums to influence and spread violent extremist narratives and promote violent activity.”https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-august-13-2021

ENERGY: FAUXTUS has done everything he can to reduce domestic energy production. Now that folks are pissed about rising gas prices, his response is to beg OPEC to increase its production. As I recall, under Trump, we were net energy exporters and gas prices were excellent.

H.R. 1: This unconstitutional power grab has been passed by the House. In the wee hours last Wednesday, Chuckie Schmucker tried to slime it through the Senate. Thankfully, Ted Cruz stayed awake and was able to block it. CLICK https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1425493918293057539 [1:04] to hear his statement, which was tweeted by Forbes.

I first found this item at Not the Bee and tried to find even one major news source that reported on it. These are the links I found. Notice who is NOT listed!

KLAVAN: [5:27] – Andrew articulately explains why he believes feminism today is anti-male, anti-female, and anti-the values that most women hold.

MILITARY: Thanks to the FAUX administration’s hasty withdrawal (minus a peace deal or follow up mission), billions of dollars worth of U.S. military equipment now belongs to Islamic extremists.

“Let me guess, we topped off the fuel tanks and left the keys in the visors?” – Spearsy27

NBC SUCKS: CLICK https://rumble.com/vl6v06-insane-dhs-advisory-lists-opponents-to-covid-restrictions-as-terror-threats.html [:13] to hear NBC spew fake news about the latest terror advisory from the Department of Homeland Security. You can read the advisory for yourself at the link below.

I noted a strong emphasis on violent extremism, which I’ve yet to see in any of the right-wing stuff I consume daily. Most of us are into peaceful, legal means of protest, not hurting people or blowing up buildings.

I also noted that NBC skimmed right over the top point, which is that “through the remainder of 2021, racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists will remain a national threat priority for the United States.”

RESIST: I saw this on FB – “Walking into a restaurant. Hello. Table for two, please. Sure. Do you and your guest have your vaccination cards? Can you tell us who our server will be? It looks like Brad. Great, can you show us Brad’s vaccination card? Also, we’d like to see proof that he is not carrying HIV, Hepatitis A or B, or any other communicable disease. And we’d prefer not to be served by someone who is on or uses recreational drugs, so could you provide us with Brad’s most recent tox screen? Um, let me get the manager. That would be great. Thanks.”

SNOPES: David Mikkelson, who co-founded Snopes with his wife Barbara, has been suspended as the website completes an internal review of his chronic plagiarism. So far, they’ve retracted 54 articles in which he lifted content, word-for-word from other websites using “Jeff Zarronandia” or “Snopes Staff” bylines, and neglected to include links to his sources.

Mikkelson says, “I didn’t come from a journalism background. I wasn’t used to doing news aggregation. A number of times I crossed the line to where it was copyright infringement. I own that.” Sorry, pal, but plagiarism isn’t solely a journalism issue. You should’ve learned this in grade school. Also the part about putting your own name on the work you post at your own site. Sheesh.

Using pseudonyms sounds like he was trying to puff up his site by making it look like they had an actual staff, when it was just him and his wife at the beginning.

FYI: In a spirit of full disclosure, I wish to inform all my readers that I mostly write my own content, but if I’m too tired or the original is as well written as I could wish for, I tend to just swipe it. And, while I make a serious effort to include all the URLs, I don’t always include all the quotation marks.

STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA: [7:26] – Gov. Kristi Noem smashes back at Fauci for shaming Sturgis Bike Rally. She also discusses liberal COVID hypocrisy and how she’s handling immigration on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

VAX: More than 3,000 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards were seized in Memphis, Tennessee, en route to other cities. They originated in China. Buying, selling, or using a counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards is a crime, and violators will face a fine and up to five years in prison.

WASHINGTON POST: A federal judge has ruled that WaPo published a story about Rep. Devin Nunes with “a reckless disregard of the truth.” That means the case will move forward instead of being thrown out.

“This is a major step toward holding irresponsible media outlets accountable for spreading fake news,” Nunes told The Epoch Times in an email. “We now get to bring the Washington Post into discovery to see how they put together this phony story. These are no longer news outlets, they’re Pravda-style propaganda artists and character assassins, and the courts are our best hope to force some sense of responsibility on them.”

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by | August 15, 2021 · 8:58 am

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AFGHANISTAN: On Thursday, the State Department announced that a contingent of 3,000 U.S. troops will temporarily deploy to assist the withdrawal of American diplomats from Afghanistan, adding that the U.S. Embassy in Kabul will remain with limited personnel.

BACK THE BLUE: Back in June, a group of police officers stopped at a family diner in Tennessee to get a good home-cooked meal following a day of K-9 training. When they went to pay their sizeable bill, they found it had already been paid by a local businessman who just wanted to thank the officers for all they do.

CATHOLIC: Today is the Feast of the Assumption* of Mary Body and Soul into Heaven. The Eastern Orthodox celebrate it as the Dormition of Mary, which is the same feast as the Assumption, just with a name that means “sleep.” Somebody clearly saw her being taken up to Heaven in her body, but it apparently happened at night, so they wouldn’t have known if she’d died in her sleep first or not.

I talked with a priest about it once and he said he thought she did die, because she would have wanted to be like her Son in all things. Her death is certainly suggested in many of the paintings I looked at to illustrate this piece. However, one of the seers at Medjugorje asked her once and she said she did not die.

When I was researching the End Times, I found clear evidence in the Scriptures that the Rapture will be a real thing. When in the timeline it will happen, I do not know, but the part where Jesus comes again in the clouds and “catches up” his faithful is something He Himself told us would happen. And it is definitely not the same event as the Last Battle, when He will come on a horse leading a vast army, or the Final Judgment, when all will be compelled to appear before the Throne.

I’m thinking that, where Jesus’ Resurrection is our model for what it will be like for the dead who will be raised into glorified, eternal bodies, Mary’s Assumption is our model for what it will be like for the living who will be caught up and transformed without dying first.

BTW, the Rapture gets its name from 1 Thes 4:17 where the Greek “harpazo” was translated into the Latin as “raptos.” They mean “to snatch up” or “to snatch up and rescue“, which reminds me of when Mama Buzz was a toddler. She tried to climb on to the bottom of a slide just when another kid was starting to come down. Another mom, who was thankfully closer than I was, literally “raptured” her just in time for the other kid to slide right under her feet.

*Christ, by his own power, ascended Himself into Heaven. Mary was assumed into Heaven by God; she did not do it under her own power.

EDUCATION: Public School SUCKS by Freedom Toons [5:06] – CLICK https://www.facebook.com/mediaresearchcenter/videos/272924590863260 [1:05] to hear a righteous mom tell off her local school board for trying to push an agenda onto their children.

FACT CHECKING: BHO has published yet ANOTHER autobiographical book (Cue: Eye Rolls). Thankfully, we have Jack Cashill to slog through the lies and mud. The link goes to a piece by Theodore S. William about this that is worth reading.

HAITI: On Saturday, at least 227 people were killed when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck about 93 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince.

LIFE: On Thursday, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled that a Tennessee law mandating a 48-hour waiting period before a woman can get an abortion is constitutional and does not cause an undue burden to women seeking an abortion.

OBAMA’S B’DAY BASH: In the week following the “scaled back, intimate friends and family only” par-tay, seventy-four people have tested positive for the coronavirus. This is more than any week since April. The health spokesperson said they don’t know yet if the surge is connected to the hundreds of guests and workers who attended the mask-less festivities … because they haven’t done the contact tracing. If it was Sturgis, the media would be screaming about unvaccinated, right-wing, super spreaders who are going to kill us all.

POLICE LIVES MATTER: My heart goes out to the LEOs struggling to keep the peace in Chicago where they don’t have to fight just guns and gangs, but also their own leadership. CLICK https://rumble.com/vl3s65-chicago-mayor-forgets-name-of-slain-officer.html [:21] to hear both the mayor and the city’s top cop butcher the name of Ella French, the CPD officer who was recently gunned down during a routine traffic stop.

RAAACISM: Leftists never let an inconvenient truth interfere with a useful narrative.

REMAIN IN MEXICO: On Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Biden administration must resume Trump’s policy of requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico for their claims to be heard.

SEGREGATION: An Atlanta mother has filed a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after learning her child and 11 other Black students were placed into black-only classes at their elementary school. The school’s principal, who is Black, implemented the plan of her own accord, arguing the decision was beneficial to all the students in the predominantly white district.

TECH CENSORSHIP: CLICK https://rumble.com/vl2k9w-glenn-greenwald-stuns-libs-joins-rumble-to-combat-big-tech-monopoly.html [5:55] to hear Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald talk about the need for sites like Rumble.

TEXAS: Ben Shapiro talks about good parenting [3:35] – The State of Texas has declared that genital mutilation of a minor through reassignment surgery constitutes child abuse. Gov. Abbott said enforcement of this declaration would be effective immediately and that allegations involving this crime would be promptly and thoroughly investigated.

Professionals with cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse are obliged under Texas law to contact DFPS within two days after first suspecting abuse. Failure to report is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail, a fine of up to $4,000, or both. Intentionally concealing child abuse is a jail felony.

GRAMMY NOTES: The Scouts arrived home safely. Please remember our mascots in your prayers. Today is moving day for Blossom and her family, as dad transfers to a new duty station. There will be much sadness all around for these two families, who have grown so very close during the pandemic.

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by | August 14, 2021 · 3:16 pm

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by | August 14, 2021 · 9:22 am

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CATHOLIC: Today is the Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, also known as the martyr of Auschwitz. He was sent to the Nazi concentration camp for hiding 3,000 Polish and Jewish refugees in a shelter at his friary. During the nights in the concentration camp, he would go bunk to bunk saying, “I am a Catholic priest. Can I do anything for you?“

When a fellow prisoner attempted to escape, 10 men were chosen to be killed as retribution. Saint Maximilian volunteered to take the place of Franciszek Gajowniczek, a husband and father who had been chosen. Franciscek later recalled, “I could only thank him with my eyes. I was stunned and could hardly grasp what was going on. The immensity of it: I, the condemned, am to live and someone else willingly and voluntarily offers his life for me – a stranger. Is this some dream?“

Put into a starvation cell with the other nine men, Fr. Kolbe would kneel and lead psalms and canticles. He’d encourage them to forgive their persecutors. One of the SS guards even stated, “This priest is really a great man. We have never seen anyone like him.”

Father Kolbe was the last man in the starvation cell to remain alive. The Nazis then executed him by injection with carbolic acid on Aug. 14, 1941. He was beatified on Oct. 17, 1971 by Pope Paul VI and canonized by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 10, 1982. Franciszek Gajowniczek was present for the canonization.

How did this friar have such heroic virtue, mercy, and forgiveness in the face of such injustice and suffering? Practice. Indeed, Fr. Kolbe strove to live a life of mercy beginning years before his arrest. We would do well in these perilous times to also practice so that when the time comes, we will be able to behave in a way that honors Our Lord Jesus.

COVID-19: Sweden took the controversial route to achieve herd immunity as quickly as possible by not shutting down. The nation now averages of 0.6 COVID deaths per day. In nearby Finland and Norway, deaths are in the hundreds. In Denmark, they are in the thousands.

WATCH THIS ONE: CLICK https://rumble.com/vl0cjw-august-11-2021.html [5:59] to hear Dr. Dan Stock’s address to the Mt. Vernon School Board in Indiana over the futility of mask mandates and COVID-19 protocols in most schools. “Everything being recommended by the CDC and the state Board of Health is contrary to science.” One point he talks about is why the vaccinated are getting sick and how important Vitamin D, zinc, and ivermectin are.

DEATH of COMEDY: [6:08] – New York voters really know how to pick them. Before Skeezy Andy, we had Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 after it came out that that he patronized prostitutes while traveling on official business. Spitzer’s immediate successor, David Paterson, left following ethics complaints which, oddly enough were not about sex.

Paterson was accused of witness tampering, soliciting improper gifts, and making false statements under oath. He was eventually fined more than $60K for accepting free World Series tickets, but was not charged with perjury despite having lied about said tickets. I don’t know what happened with the witness tampering charge.

Steyn’s reference to Paterson and the Days Inn was from a time prior to when Paterson served as interim governor. He and his wife admitted that, during a rocky period in their marriage, they had each had affairs. Ultimately, they committed to fixing their relationship. “Like most marriages, you go through certain difficult periods,” Michelle Paterson said. “What’s important is for your kids to see you worked them out.“

GENDER: [5:31] – This race demonstrates in very short order why mtf trannies have no business competing against real women.

HUNTER: Only Newsweek and FOX News reported on the incident, but only FOX treated it seriously.

MEDIA: On Thursday, the Texas Tribune published a piece about how Texas children’s hospitals are experiencing a surge in cases of COVID-19 and RSV. (RSV is a highly contagious virus that can require hospitalization mostly among children 5 years and younger and especially infants.)

The 5,800 number actually refers to the total number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

The Tribune published the correction above, but not before the grossly inflated number had been tweeted out … which maybe was the whole point.

POINT OF NO RETURN: The true point of no return was when we allowed evil people to push God out of every aspect of our lives.

SHROUD OF TURIN: [3:59] – This is fascinating.

TEXAS RUNAWAYS: [2:14] – CLICK https://rumble.com/vl1qme-real-america-dan-w-bob-hall-august-11-2021.html [6:37] to hear Get Real Dan report about arrest warrants for the 52 Democrat slackers. The point isn’t to put anyone in jail, but to get them to come back to work … like they’re being paid to do. And, oh yes, took an OATH to do.

VAX HESITATION: A new study has found that the most highly educated Americans are also the most vaccine hesitant. It also showed that the number one concern among the hesitant is potential side effects, with a lack of trust in government close behind in second place.

The results of the investigation completely debunk the Left’s narrative that only dumb people refuse to be vaccinated, while all the smart and sophisticated people are already vaccinated.

VAX MUTATIONS: Exactly! It wouldn’t make Moderna, Pfizer, or BioNTech billions of dollars. Also, it wouldn’t give Progressives any excuse to keep us masked and locked down.

GRAMMY NOTES: On Friday, the Scouts hiked up Mt. Britton. Some of them made it all the way to the top of the tower.

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by | August 13, 2021 · 9:44 am

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BORDER: In FAUXTUS’ first six months in office, over one million illegals flooded across our now-wide-open southern border. Detention centers can’t handle the crowding, so they are bused or flown into the interior. And they bring COVID-19 with them.

In the last week of July, more than 1,500 COVID-positive illegals were released into a single Texas town. They were told to quarantine for two days … like, yeah, they crossed the border illegally, but they’re going to obey some coronavirus rule?

Many localities have claimed they are widely contributing to the surge in COVID-19 cases. The Left says this is just a right-wing conspiracy. Everybody knows COVID only spreads at motorcycle rallies!

CATHOLIC: Religious freedom scored a win in court on Wednesday when a federal court ruled that the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Roncalli High School were within their rights to discontinue the employment contract of a guidance counselor at the Catholic school after she “married” another woman.

Lynn Starkey tried to sue both the archdiocese and the school for unconstitutionally discriminating against her because she is LGBT, but Roncalli argued that Starkey “was a minister for purposes of the First Amendment’s ministerial exception,” the court explained.

DEBT CEILING: A letter signed by 46 Republican senators said they will not vote to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling amid Democrats’ “spending spree.” Republicans claim that Democrats own the debt question because of their decision to pass a $1.9 trillion COVID bill in March and a $3.5 trillion budget resolution yesterday, both without a single Republican vote.

The four GOP senators who did not sign the debt limit letter are Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, John Kennedy, R-La., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala. But they alone won’t be enough to break a filibuster, meaning that the Senate won’t be able to raise the debt limit through regular order unless some of the 46 Republicans who signed the letter flip-flop.

END TIMES: [25:30] – Part of the biblical End Times prophecies involve the revival of animal sacrifice at the Temple in Jerusalem. The Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD. Before Jesus can return, a Third Temple has to be built. The majority of scholars have always said the Temple was built exactly where the Muslim Dome of the Rock is, and for centuries, this has prevented any attempts to rebuild.

When I learned these things, I figured God had arranged all of the above and that, when it was time, He would either clear away the Dome of the Rock or else reveal conclusively that the Jewish Temples had been built somewhere else. I think the latter has now happened.

In the video, Christian Widener presents a very simple and very coherent argument, based on biblical sources, for why both of the Temples had to have been to the north of the Dome of the Rock. In fact, the argument is so simple, it occurred to me that God must have been clouding the scholars’ minds all these years!

In his book, The Temple Revealed, Widener notes that the site itself is wide open and that political considerations are the only things blocking construction of a Third Temple. He presents a few scenarios for how that could change. I’ve been watching for this ever since I read about how, back in 1987, Orthodox Jews began actively working to prepare everything they will need to build and outfit the Third Temple as soon as God reveals the true site and makes it available.

HEALTH CARE: A deeply flawed study is being pushed by the Left because it supposedly proves we have the worst health care system in the developed world. If you care, click the links. It’s detailed, which usually is just what I love to simplify for all y’all. But today, I am just too hot and tired!

HISTORICAL NONSENSE: “’Non-binary’ is a modern western invention. You might as well speculate that he worked at an Apple store and had a Tik Tok account.” – Matt Walsh

“By this logic, every gent in 18th Century Europe was a non-binary kween.” – biccyboy

“Cant wait for academics to find those ancient Scots buried in kilts.” – Titus

“I dare you to go back in time and call him non-binary to his face. You’ll find out what that sword was for.” – Sam Parker

HUNTER: CLICK https://rumble.com/vl1q9m-hunter-biden-says-he-lost-another-laptop-to-russian-drug-dealers.html to see the smartest guy Joe Biden knows tell a hooker how Russian drug dealers stole one of his laptops for blackmail, because his dad was going to run for president. Democrats went berserk about the Trump “pee pee” tapes that never existed; this … they don’t care.

INFLATION: On Wednesday, the Department of Labor released its consumer price index report showing consumer prices increased 5.4% over the past fiscal year. This is the highest number since 2008.

In a recent CNN interview, FAUXTUS declared that the Democrats’ multitrillion-dollar spending bills “will reduce inflation, reduce inflation, reduce inflation.” Uhhh … no.

MASKS: CLICK https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425878511915577344 [2:20] to hear Matt Walsh tear into his kids’ school board. It’s priceless.

TEXAS: A Democrat state senator suffered through an entirely pointless 15-hour filibuster. Just minutes after she wearily left the floor, a voting rights bill that is favored by a majority of Texans passed 18-11. The same bill is still stalled in the House, because of the run-aways who have been in breach of their contract with their constituents for more than a month.

TRANS: The latest assault on the English language comes via The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) which recently published new language guidelines. Because “not all people who give birth and lactate identify as female”, breastfeeding will now be referred to as “chestfeeding” and nursing mothers will now be referred to as “human milk-feeding individuals.”

Joel Abbott says, “So to affirm the tiny fraction of a fraction of people suffering from a medically diagnosable mental condition where they believe they do not fit their XX or XY chromosomes, we’re going to dehumanize all women everywhere by referring to them with sterile terms that make them seem like cattle. Good job.”

Yes, basically. Just like the desires of a handful of gender-confused males totally trumps the rights of all women to dignity and privacy.

VAX: A new study out of the Mayo Clinic examined the effectiveness of the two mRNA vaccines in use in the U.S. – the Moderna and the Pfizer/BioNTech. What they found was the effectiveness dropped sharply in July, when the Delta variant became dominant. At this point, Moderna is 76% effective, while Pfizer/BioNTech is only 42%. The researchers are unclear whether the results signify a reduction in effectiveness over time, a reduced effectiveness against Delta, or a combination of both. This study has not yet been peer reviewed.

This writer is unclear what “76% effective” means. It seems like the only thing it can mean is that 24% of the people who got both jabs caught the virus afterwards. If I am thinking clearly here, the problem I see is that we can’t know what percent were never exposed to the virus after getting the jabs, can we?

VIRGINIA: [2:38] – The far left school board of wealthy Loudon County voted 7-2 to implement Policy 8040, which requires teachers to use preferred pronouns, allows “gender-expansive and transgender students” to participate in sports and other activities “in a manner consistent with the student’s gender identity“, and allows them to access to school facilities that correspond to their “consistently asserted gender identity.” In short, they told parents to pound sand.

CLICK https://twitter.com/PACTstopcrt/status/1425648216700297217 [1:51] to hear one of the dads, an Iranian Christian immigrant, tell them off. I love the part where he says his kids’ preferred pronouns will be “King” and “Queen”, while his will be “Master.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Thursday was a Scout Project Day for our intrepid travelers. They helped a National Park Ranger intern start restoring an old campsite. There used to be camping at El Yunque* and they’d like to open it up again at some point. Mama Buzz reports, “We were able to help move this site along quite a bit! The Scouts had the option to be done around noon. They all voted to keep going and finish the one tent site. The intern was so happy with how much got done and very thankful they wanted to work with him the whole day.”

*El Yunque National Forest is the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest System and the United States Forest Service. El Yunque is pronounced ell joon kay with a very soft jay.

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by | August 12, 2021 · 10:06 am

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AFGHANISTAN: The capital of Kabul could fall within the next 90 days. [2:12] – This breaks my heart. My kids were among the thousands of troops who sweated and bled to try and free these people.

BORDER: A lawsuit has been filed against the Biden administration for violations of the Flores agreement. That agreement requires the government to “place children in facilities that are safe and sanitary, appropriate for their age and special needs, and concerned with their particular vulnerability.”

The plaintiffs are arguing that illegal minors being held at detention sites are subject to unsanitary conditions, served raw or under-cooked food, and are not being afforded recreational activities or education. The lawsuit also alleges that while some minors have their cases resolved quickly, others wait weeks or months to even speak with a case manager.

BUDGET: U.S. Senators will begin debating the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution bill. They just passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure measure. The national debt now stands at $23.6 trillion.

CONVERSE: There’s some buzz in Christian circles about Converse putting out a new sneaker featuring the Satanic pentagram. I followed all the links and googled “Converse sneakers.” I am really puzzled at the hype. Converse has been using a five-pointed star for years. This new shoe is no different … though I will readily agree that the marketing is very creepy. And I could really have lived the rest of my life without seeing the rest of that picture on the right which shows a whole lot too much of that guy’s tighty whiteys. Why did I need to see that in a SNEAKER ad?! :0P

JAN. 6: [26:23] – On Monday, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling denying bail to George Pierre Tanios, 39, of Morgantown, W.V. in connection with charges he assaulted police. Tanios was arrested on March 15, was indicted on March 17, and arraigned on April 13 where he pleaded not guilty to all counts. His next court date isn’t until September 8.

“The record reflects that Tanios has no past felony convictions, no ties to any extremist organizations, and no post-Jan. 6 criminal behavior that would otherwise show him to pose a danger to the community within the meaning of the Bail Reform Act,” the court wrote.

MEDIA: CBS deserves some credit for finally reporting on how COVID-positive illegals are being released into the interior in large numbers. [:20] – But you gotta laugh … on Tuesday, when CBS This Morning reporter Mireya Villarreal talked to a border mayor, she seemed almost stunned to find out that he agrees with GOP governors raising alarm about the threat. The video is at the first link.

OREGON: Gov. Brown has signed a bill into law allowing high school students to graduate without proving they can read, write, or do math. I expect the percentage of parents pulling their kids out of the public schools to go up again.

PSAKI: Five years ago, the Center for American Law & Justice filed a FOIA request to the U.S. Department of State to find out why deleted from official video footage a spokesperson’s acknowledgment that the Obama Administration lied about its secret bilateral talks with Iran. At first, the Obama State Department claimed the deletion was a glitch; later they admitted it was deliberate.

Part of the FOIA produced a heavily redacted email chain that included FAUXTUS’ Press Secretary Jen Psaki who was the State Department’s spokesperson during the Obama administration. The ACLJ sued to get the unredacted email string and the judge has just ruled in its favor.

It occurs to me that perhaps Leftists lie with such aplomb, because they believe it is a virtue. I’ve heard it’s in the Koran that it’s okay to lie to advance the cause of jihad. And I’m pretty sure they all work for the same spiritual ruler.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: In February, a judge in a North Dakota Eastern Division court ruled in in favor of the Catholic plaintiffs in their challenge of the Biden administration’s mandate that they perform and provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures. The government has appealed the decision.

But now a second federal court has moved to block the mandate. On August 9, a Judge for the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas, granted a permanent injunction to the Christian plaintiffs, enjoining HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra from “interpreting or enforcing” the mandate “in a manner that would require them to perform or provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures or abortions.”

In this case, the plaintiffs were a religious hospital and a group of more than 20,000 healthcare professionals.

TEXAS RUN-AWAYS: While basically taking paid vacations, these turds and their lapdogs in the media promoted their “bravery” as if they were facing dogs and fire hoses. But there may be an actual price to pay, because the Texas Supreme Court has upheld the right of the Texas House Speaker to have them arrested.

TEACHERS ARE FED UP: I believe this one happened in Virginia. https://rumble.com/vl03oi-teacher-cries-quits-on-the-spot-at-school-board-meeting-over-crt-and-censor.html [2:14]

This one is from Kansas. https://rumble.com/viohlz-teacher-resigns-during-kansas-school-board-meeting-with-powerful-speech.html [4:22]

GRAMMY NOTES: It was play in the ocean day for the Scouts. 🙂

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by | August 11, 2021 · 10:05 am

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A+A+A+: Breaking! Top of the Line!! Above the Fold News!!! Andrew Cuomo will resign before the end of the month!!!! CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=994746824654926 [1:48] if you want to hear a clip of his crap. I don’t, so I didn’t. According to NY Post, he yammered on for 22 minutes about how the whole thing was politically motivated. S’funny how, when it’s a Republican, we must Believe All Women.

BACK THE BLUE: CLICK https://rumble.com/vky7tq-chicago-police-turn-backs-to-mayor-lightfoot.html [3:03] to hear Laura Ingraham report on the lethal shooting of a female Chicago cop during a routine traffic stop. The vile mayor of Chicago was told not to visit her partner, who is in critical condition. She showed up anyway; all the cops there turned their backs on her.

Emonte Morgan, 21, has been charged with first-degree murder. His brother Eric Morgan, 22, has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and obstruction of justice. The gun used was illegally purchased from Jamel Danzy, 29, who purchased it legally in Indiana, then knowingly provided it to another individual in Chicago who was not permitted to own firearms. Danzy was charged by federal authorities Monday.

BHO’S BDAY: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=980411212531413 [10:50] to hear Tucker talk about the bash, COVID, Fauci, etc.

COVID-19: Early treatment protocol from Frontline Doctors – Drugs and dosages at the link. If your physician will not prescribe, you can get a Telemed appointment with one who will at the Frontline Doctors link.

FAUCI: Grrrrrrrrr. On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on the “Hugh Hewitt Show”, where he defended forcing children in to wear masks.

Hewitt asked Fauci why he disagreed with a Wall Street Journal article by Dr. Makary and Dr. Meissner, who argued that masking children is abusive. The doctors wrote they could only find one inconclusive study on whether children wearing masks actually decreases COVID transmission.

“It’s not comfortable, obviously, for children to wear masks, particularly the younger children,” Fauci said. “But hopefully, this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn’t have any lasting negative impact on them.”

In other words, he didn’t answer the question. AS PER USUAL. But when he’s challenged, he tells his questioners they’re stupid because SCIENCE. I despise this man.

FENTANYL: Being exposed to just a few grains can be deadly [3:58].

KINDLE: Hmm – In the middle of the night, I finished the book I was reading – the first in a series of three – and I really wanted to read the next one. But I really did not want to get up, fire up my ‘puter, go online, etc. Then, I remembered my Kindle has a wireless connection that I have to turn on when I want to download a book. I usually do this when I’m at my computer, so I can research titles before purchasing. And, of course, Amazon has my credit card on file. So I thought, Hmmm. Within a couple of minutes, without budging from my comfy bed, I had purchased, downloaded, and started reading book two. This could prove to be a somewhat problematic super power…

TLAIB: On Sunday, Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib partied in a large crowd of people at a wedding reception in Dearborn, Michigan. But it’s okay. I’m sure it was a sophisticated Democrat crowd, not a superspreader Republican crowd.

GRAMMY NOTES: At breakfast, Mama Buzz texted for prayers, because the news said they were going to get some heavy weather. At dinner, she texted, “What an awesome day! God was so gracious and we had occasional spats of rain but no thunder, lightning, or heavy wind so we spent the whole day in Old San Juan like we originally had hoped. Our first destination was San Juan Cathedral. We got to walk around and take pictures, then stayed for daily Mass. It was a beautiful service and at the end he blessed our troop.”

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Bits & Bytes

AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban terrorist group has taken control of a sixth provincial capital in about as many days in northern Afghanistan amid claims that government forces simply retreated without fighting.

BANKRUPTCY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vkwoxj-debate-with-liberal-guest-goes-off-the-rails.html [3:24] to hear a Democrat answer Dan Bongino’s question about how big of a national debt will trigger national bankruptcy. Her first answer is, “I have no idea.” Later she says, “We’re well beyond it”, which I happen to believe too. In between, she swears we simply must spend even more trillions of dollars on infrastructure.

BEWARE OF CLICK-BAIT: I first came across this story at Facebook, in a long, drawn out video format, about a terrible, awful, no good Christian school that supposedly took a 9-year-old White girl’s rainbow pants off and sent her home in her t-shirt and panties, because the rainbow is an LGBTQ symbol. This version is set in Boston and the family name is Thomas. The tale smelled like dead fish to me, so I googled and found the same story in one other place.

But I also found the same story repeated at multiple sites, many using the same photos, but in these, the White girl was six instead of nine, the public school was in Florida, and the family name is McCurdy. Here, the excuse the school supposedly gave was that the kid had wet her pants, because the school didn’t allow on-demand potty breaks. And the meanies running the school supposedly had spare panties to put on the kid, but no clean pants or shirts. They apparently also didn’t know how to dial a phone, since any real school would call the parents FIRST. In both the Boston and Florida versions, the focus is on the irate dad storming the school to demand answers.

The only version I could find that looked legit was the one in the YouTube video, which was at least an actual news story. Here the story was set in Asheville, Tennessee, the 6-year-old girl was Black, the irate parent was her mom, and the kid had wet herself twice, thus using up her spare outfit. After the second accident, the substitute teacher put her in a clean dress and clean underwear that she found in a closet. The mother was irate because the dress was too short.

I have trouble understanding why ABC made the original incident a “top story” in the first place. Or why the mother of a kid who routinely pees herself doesn’t send multiple clean outfits as back up. However, it seems clear to me that some click-baiter moved the story to Florida, made the kid White, changed the dress and panties to a long t-shirt and panties, and changed the mom to a burly dad who stormed the school that made his little princess cry. And, then some other click-baiter upped the social justice ante by making the girl older, throwing in some LGBTQ agitprop, and setting it in a Christian school in a famously Catholic city.

BREAKTHROUGH: On July 31, a Carnival cruise ship departed from Galveston, Texas; every guest and every staff member was fully vaccinated. They’ve now got infected people aboard. Hmmm.

DELTA: The usual COVID-19 symptoms include cough, fever, and/or shortness of breath. But the Delta variant may present with sinus congestion, runny nose, sore throat, and/or sneezing. If you get a relatively mild case, you could easily dismiss it as allergies or a mild cold. If I got it, I’d never notice, because I have those symptoms year round from all my allergies!

FLORIDA: In May, Gov. DeSantis barred private businesses from implementing vaccine passport-type systems in the state. But on Sunday, a federal judge ruled that Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings may require passengers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before boarding one of their ships in a Florida port.

LEBANON: We may be seeing the beginning of the end in this tiny Middle Eastern country which is suffering dire conditions as a result of 400% hyperinflation and massive power outages. More than half the population is likely below the national poverty line already as people fight in supermarkets over increasingly scarce necessities. Murder rates and other crimes are also rapidly rising.

NO ONE TO HEAR: CG Richardson had four abortions. Each time, she believed what the abortion facilities told her – that a preborn baby was just tissue, not a human being. But when she delivered her fourth child into the toilet, intact, she came face-to-face with the truth and had to face the fact that she is responsible for the deaths of four of her children. She wrote the book hoping to convince other women to choose life.

GRAMMY NOTES: The Scouts are on the lovely island! All COVID tests were negative! Yay!

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COVID-19 Update

BORDER: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=271359007662314&notif_id=1628429770723549 [1:33] to hear how happy the White House is about vaccine mandates. Funny how citizens are supposed to all get vaxxed and stay masked, but elites can party and illegals who have tested positive are released into the interior.

CALIFORNIA: On Friday, San Francisco’s sheriff’s union threatened that a number of deputies will quit or retire early if they are forced to get a COVID-19 vaccine under the city’s mandate. About 160 of its members are not vaccinated, preferring instead to wear masks and test for the virus weekly “due to religious and other beliefs.

CANADA: The provincial prime minister of Quebec, Francois Legault, has announced that vaccine passports are coming. “We will give certain privileges to those who have agreed to make the effort to get their two shots.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he fully supports Legault and the Quebec government and that he is considering mandating the vaccine for all government employees.

CATHOLIC: The Catholic bishops of Colorado have provided excellent guidance for those of us who oppose being vaccinated. The first link below is to their letter; the second is to a template for individual Catholics to use in applying for a religious exemption from a vaccine mandate.

The basic argument is that vaccination is not morally obligatory in principle and so must be voluntary. A person is morally required to obey his or her conscience. A person’s assessment of whether the benefits of a medical intervention outweigh the undesirable side-effects are to be respected unless they contradict authoritative Catholic moral teachings.

In addition, Catholics have a moral duty to refuse the use of medical products created using human cells lines derived from abortion; however, it is permissible to use such vaccines if there are no other alternatives available and the intent is to preserve life.

FORGERIES: Sale sites for fake vaccine cards are popping up on the internet. No surprise there.

FRANCE: France’s Parliament passed a law that was upheld by the country’s high court last week that mandates so-called “health passes” to enter restaurants, theaters, gyms, and long-distance travel. Those health passes would require citizens to have had either a recent negative COVID-19 test or be fully vaccinated. Tens of thousands of demonstrators in a number of French cities took to the streets to protest the mandate, with some describing it as a form of tyranny.

MEDIA BIAS: CLICK https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1424405873472966661 [1:14] to hear Fauci chastise those attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: “You’re going to get to do that in the future, but let’s get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on.“

Then, CLICK https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1424391535118979073 [:10] to see hundreds dancing maskless at Obama’s birthday bash.

Now, CLICK https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1424159871319134215 [:22] to hear how the Slime Stream Media covered Obama’s birthday bash.

Finally, CLICK https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1424399282447298563 [3:37] to hear Rand Paul talk about how we can “Simply say no, not again” to the mandates.

PENTAGON: The DoD is pushing to require vaccination for all active duty service members. Please pray for Papa Buzz.

VAX: The COVID-19 “vaccines” are not true vaccines. And the future for the vaccinated is scary. [41:34, but the important part is in the first six minutes] – Time will tell one way or the other, but it makes me really sad to think that these vaccines may be setting thousands of people up for autoimmune disorders.

VIRGINIA: A George Mason University law professor is suing the school over its vaccine mandate, arguing that he has already acquired immunity after recovering from COVID-19 and therefore shouldn’t have to be vaccinated. Todd Zywicki, who has been teaching at George Mason for 23 years, has had multiple positive antibody tests since his recovery that suggest a high level of immune protection against the virus. But the school has told him he either has to teach remotely or else wear a mask, remain socially distanced from faculty or students, and submit to weekly testing.

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