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On Friday, former President Donald Trump’s legal team went on the offensive, using a strategy many conservatives have recommended.
They argued that Trump did not use any inciting language on January 6th, before the breach of the Capitol, but that numerous members of Congress have done so repeatedly over the past two years. Then they played lots and lots of videos.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the 2016 election was “hijacked.” She has also called the president both an “imposter” and a “traitor.” And she recently referred to her Republican colleagues in the House as “the enemy within.”
Speaker Pelosi never called the violent left-wing anarchists who conducted a sustained assault on a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, “insurrectionists.” Instead, she called the federal law enforcement officers protecting the building “storm troopers.”
When violent mobs destroyed public property, she shrugged it off saying, ”People will do what they do.”
In one instance in 2018, referring to anger over migrant children being separated from their parents, she told reporters, “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be when people realize that this is a policy that they defend.”
She also said on multiple occasions, “You have to be ready to throw a punch.”
Other Democrat leaders have followed her example.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), during a 2020 appearance on MSNBC, said, “There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives.”
Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged people to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bailed out defendants charged with murder, violent felonies, and sex crimes.
President Joe Biden and a number of senators spoke to crowds on multiple occasions about beating Trump up.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) objected repeatedly to 2017 electoral results, something that supposedly is a threat to democracy if Republicans do it.
The point clearly went over Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s (D-CT) head. Afterwards, he told reporters, “They’re trying to draw a dangerous and distorted equivalence. I think it is plainly a distraction from Donald Trump inviting the mob to Washington.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that the prosecution’s case presented “virtually no argument” on how Trump’s conduct meets the legal standard of incitement. “The House managers focused a great deal on the president, using words like ‘fight or fight like hell.’ Well if that constitutes incitement, then every single political candidate in America is guilty of incitement.Because I guarantee you all 100 senators in that chamber have stood on the stump and said we need to fight or fight like hell.”
CANCEL CULTURE: MMA fighter-turned-actress Gina Carano, who starred in the Star Wars show “The Mandalorian“, has been fired for comparing criticism of conservatives to the oppression of Jews in Nazi Germany.
But, unlike the Left which eats its own, the Right takes care of its own. The Daily Wire has picked up Carano with an offer to let her develop, produce and appear in an upcoming film.
Carano says, “I cried out and my prayer was answered. I am sending out a direct message of hope to everyone living in fear of cancellation by the totalitarian mob. I have only just begun using my voice which is now freer than ever before, and I hope it inspires others to do the same. They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them.”
Ben Shapiro said, “This is what Daily Wire exists to do: provide an alternative not just for consumers, but for creators who refuse to bow to the mob.”
CATHOLIC: [15:37] – CINO Pelosi says that promoting abortion and slandering pro-lifers is “for the children.” EWTN interviews Pelosi’s archbishop, Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, about his criticism of Pelosi. “Killing children in the mother’s womb is evil.”
In related news, Catholic University of America (CUA) chaplain has come under fire for pressuring the university’s Students for Life chapter to cancel its invitation to pro-life activist Abby Johnson. The CUA College Republicans group hosted the event instead, while the pro-life group’s president resigned “because of how I was pressured, against my conscience, by the University Chaplain in his capacity as adviser.”
COVID-19: The CDC is now recommending “intubation kits” at vaccine sites. Know why? Probably because the VAERS reports include many cases of anaphylactic shock so severe that multiple doses of epinephrine were not sufficient to restore breathing and intubation and ventilation were required.
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D., a world-renowned microbiologist living in Germany says masks and social distancing are unwarranted, while the COVID-19 vaccine is “downright dangerous.” His book, Corona: False Alarm?, gives the facts and figures.
DEMOCRAT vs. REPUBLICAN: A data mining geek has found that the best predictor of voting trends, bar none, is marital state.
In the presidential race, married men voted 56% Trump – 42% Biden, while married women voted 52% Trump – 48% Biden. Married couples voted for Trump at a higher rate in 2020 than they had in 2016.
While it is true that conservatives are more likely not only to get married, but also to stay married, researchers suspect that getting married tends to make couples become more conservative, particularly if they have children.
EATING THEIR OWN: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of former U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, nephew of former president John F. Kennedy, and reliable left-wing Democrat, has fallen prey to the Left’s ever-changing, yet always-rigid standards.
RFK Jr. is the founder of Children’s Health Defense (CHD). In recent years, he has been an outspoken critic of harmful vaccines. Too bad for him that the Left’s speech police are currently pimping the COVID-19 vaccine. Because he posted negative information to his Instagram, the platform has banned him.
At the time his account was removed, he had over 800,000 followers.
GERMANY: A German court has fined a Christian minister €8,100 for “inciting hatred.” His actual “crime” consisted of defending the biblical definitions of gender and sexuality.
MASKS: Campaign Joe said he would mandate 100 days of mask-wearing; now he’s saying a whole year. Meanwhile, the science shows that, outside of a medical setting, masks make no statistical difference in case rates.
Iowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has lifted the state’s mandate on masks, physical distancing and size limits on gatherings, urging Iowans to make their own decisions.
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS: For the second time in two years, seven-year-old Skylar’s dad stood her up. But this time, her 11-year-old brother Christian was prepared to step in. He said, “She deserves to know that a man can keep his word and that she’s really special.”
His mom posted her pride in her son on Facebook saying, “Just know that I’m raising someone a GREAT HUSBAND one day.” Yes. And a great DAD too!
SUICIDE REGRET: Watch this! [10:10] – In the four seconds he had between stepping off the Golden Gate Bridge and hitting the water, Kevin Hines called out to God to save him.
“I thought I had to die, and I was wrong.”
As he struggled in the water, he prayed not to drown. To his amazement, and the amazement of onlookers, a sea lion kept him afloat, pushing him above the water until the Coast Guard arrived.
A year to the day after his suicide attempt, Kevin’s father father took him back to the Golden Gate Bridgeand encouraged him to throw a flower in the water. When he did so, a sea lion popped above the water.
TWITTER: Former President Donald Trump has been permanently banned from Twitter. Twitter’s CFO Ned Segal says they won’t let him back on EVER, not even if he runs for president again in 2024.
Project Veritas has also been banned forever and ever. I’m soooo sure The Donald and James O’Keefe are both weeping into their Cheerios over being booted off this loser platform.
I mean … it’s kind of like having the kids at the nerd table telling you to go sit with the other cool kids at the jock table, isn’t it?
VAX DEATHS: The Brits have revealed that 244 people, including 8 unborn babies, have died in Britain shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine injection.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is implicated in 143 of the deaths and 5 miscarriages; the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine is implicated in 90 of the deaths, plus 3 of the miscarriages.
The brand of vaccine was not specified in three of the deaths.
ZOMBIE IMPEACHMENT: The same Democrats who have repeatedly encouraged political violence on the part of their own followers have acknowledged that President Trump did urge the “Save America” rally to march peacefully.
BUT, he only said it ONCE in the whole 11,000 word speech! And he, like, said “fight” or “fighting” TWENTY times. Oh. Em. Gee.
GRAMMY NOTES: Our Texans had freezing rain for half a day straight! Army Princess sent a bunch of photos from their yard. The left one is a rubber tree plant, while the right is a close-up of the lawn.
My sil is such a sweetheart. They have a bird nesting in the rafters of their covered deck. He aimed his grill at her and turned it on low to provide some warmth during the frigid temperatures.
BLM: On January 10, protesters at a BLM rally shoved Tara Anne Szczepanski around, sprayed her with silly string, spat on her, hit her with a skateboard, smashed an egg on her head, knocked her cellphone to the ground with an umbrella, and smeared a dirty diaper in her face. The crowd shouted, “Don’t protect her. She’s for Trump.” Two men were recently arrested for their participation in the assault.
CAPITOL BREACH: Worth watching – CLICK https://www.facebook.com/cherry.walker1/posts/10221974220959248 [19:09] to hear Candace Owens look amazing AND speak coherently for 19 minutes about “mostly peaceful protests” vs. the “Capitol Hill Riot.” Why is this so amazing? She just gave birth and has a nursing newborn!
CHALLENGING ELECTIONS: When Republicans do it, it means the end of democracy. When Democrats do it, they’re champions of truth, justice, and the American way. Two very tight 2020 elections were recently called for the Republican candidate and both Democrats are crying foul.
In Iowa, loser Democrat Rita Hart wants the House of Representatives review the election and determine if action needs to be taken. The Republican won by just 6 votes, but Hart contends nearly two dozen valid ballots were not counted.
In New York, loser Democrat Anthony Brindisi has taken his case to the courts. To make it all the richer, Brindisi has hired a lawyer from the now infamous law firm Perkins Coie to, get this, look into the troubling possibility that tabulation machine errors disproportionately affected Brindisi. Yeah, those exact same tabulating machines we’re not allowed to talk about on social media, cuz THERE WAS NO VOTER FRAUD.
CHUDS: Acronym for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. Originated with a 1984 awesome horror flick.
This term is regarded as the WORST possible insult you can dish out on the social media circles today. When you call someone a CHUD, you’re basically calling them every foul name you can think of in just four characters.
Alternatively, people who are not suffering from Biden Voter Regret.
CUOMO: Following a March 2020 state mandate, hundreds of New York nursing homes were forced to take more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients. This number is 40% higher than what the state’s health department had publicly disclosed.
During a recent conference call, Cuomo’s secretary told New York Democratic leaders that the governor’s office purposely hid the actual number of deaths, because the Trump DOJ was investigating the situation.
“Basically, we froze,” she said. “We weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what … was going to be used against us … if there was going to be an investigation.”
Reportedly, at least some of the Democratic leaders on the call were underwhelmed by the apology and not ready to forgive Cuomo for the position he has put them in.
DEMONIC FOES: Skepticism about spiritual matters has become the dominant outlook in our culture, even among Christians. I once had an argument with the chair of the Theology Department at a well-known Catholic university who stated, without knowing a single thing about me, that the fact that I believe in demons and claim to have experienced their presence means, unequivocally, that I am cuckoo pants.
That’s why I’m sticking this plug in here for a new book titled Demonic Foes by Dr. Richard Gallagher, a practicing psychiatrist and medical school professor who is considered the world’s leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession. He has 25 years of experience working with people who have been possessed, attacked by demons, or have various kinds of paranormal abilities.
Also, a hand count of the 2020 presidential presidential vote in Antrim County, Michigan, showed the Dominion vote tabulation machines had given Biden 6000 votes that should have been President Trump’s. They called it merely a localized “glitch”, certainly not evidence of widespread election fraud.
Extraordinarily, the exact same “glitch” has now been revealed in the Town of Windham, New Hampshire where a hand count of paper ballots proved that the Dominion machines cheated every Republican candidate of roughly 300 votes. Who can believe it since there was NO VOTER FRAUD?!
FETUSES IN VACCINES: 2018 testimony, under oath, by Stanley Plotkin, an American physician who worked for many years as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers [9:30] – I’ve seen statements claiming that the fetal cells used in vaccines come from lab-grown cells originally harvested from a tiny handful of babies who were aborted way back in the 1970s.
This testimony proves that this is a lie. Plotkin also admits that orphans and disabled kids were used in the development and testing of vaccines.
HOGG: Gun control activist David Hogg (20) has announced he is going into the pillow business so that his besties on the left will have a leftie purist alternative to MyPillow for all their pillow needs.
Tweeters are having fun mocking him.
“Will your pillow business involve, at any point, the sale and manufacture of actual pillows?“
“It’s like they really believe they can run a business based entirely on a virtue signal. Let’s see if that works out.”
“If I gave my 10 year old a little seed money, he would be far more competent at making and selling pillows (or anything else) than Hogg and his band of merry men.”
PELOSI: Claudia Tenney has waited three months for her win to be certified. Normally, family is welcome at the swearing in ceremony. Not this time. Tenney says she was informed her son would not be allowed to watch from the gallery during “several exchanges” with Pelosi’s office through “text from staff and in person.”
Tenney’s son, Trey Cleary, is a 2013 graduate of the Naval Academy and a captain in the United States Marines who has served in Iraq. If Captain Cleary were a danger to democracy, it’s a good chance Capitol security would know about it. It’s a better chance Tenney’s opposition would’ve been shouting it from the rooftops during the campaign.
To my mind, his exclusion was just plain spite, something which Nancy “Devout Catholic” Pelosi ought to know (but clearly does not care) is a very serious sin.
The Catholic Catechism: “Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest. … If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell.” (paragraphs 1860-1861)
PURGE: YouTube has shut down LifeSiteNews’ account and removed all their videos completely. LifeSiteNews anticipated this and has put its content up at Rumble.
VAX DEATHS: In Kentucky, four seniors died the same day they got their COVID-19 vaccinations, while four more in Arkansas died after a week. They were all frail, so these may not be vaccine related, but what the hell?! Some of these people had RECOVERED from the disease!
Everybody knows that natural immunity is superior to vaccinated immunity. Why the hell are people who have recovered being vaccinated at all?!
CLASSIC COACH: Buzz’s PE teacher mentioned his interest in lacrosse, so Mama and I scanned the internet for mentions of my brother, particularly ones I don’t already have printed out for our genealogy binder.
I was so touched to find one of his players, who now coaches, has included him and his “Five Offensive Commandments” in a “Classic Coaches” blog! I need a tissue.
ELECTION FRAUD: [3:41] – I don’t know how this video has managed to escape the purge, but it’s still available at YouTube as of 12:45 am on 2/11/21.
The video shows evidence that an ability that should NOT EXIST in U.S. voting machines not only does exist, but was employed to help steal the race for FAUXTUS. That function is called “weighted race distribution.” Where this function was employed, votes for Biden were weighted at more than 1.0 while votes for Trump were weighted at less than 1.0.
The evidence is obvious and very easy to see in this particular example. Here it appears that someone used a variation where every vote, regardless of who it was for, was split .659 for Biden and .322 for Trump.
IMPEACHMENT: Senate Democrats and RINOs Ben Sasse, Pat Toomey, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and Bill Cassidy voted 56 to 44 to proceed with the unconstitutional impeachment trial of private citizen Donald J. Trump.
Jeffrey Lord read through all 77 pages of the Democrats’ impeachment charges and found 75 lies. Lord is a contributing editor to The American Spectator, a former aide to Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp, an author, former CNN commentator and staunch Trump supporter.
Lie # 1: The very first sentence reads: “This trial arises from President Donald J. Trump’s incitement of insurrection against the Republic he swore to protect.”
Fact: President Trump did no such thing. I had a front-row seat at his speech on the White House Ellipse. I listened to every word. (Here is the text if you want to read for yourself. https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6) The President recounted his views of what had happened in different states when it came to running the elections in their state. Then he said this: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Read the rest at the second link below. But be warned, it’ll raise your blood pressure if you do!
JANUARY 6: A number of the FBI affidavits that have been filed against accused participants in the Capitol breach support our belief that the violent participants were already prepped to break into the building before they came to Washington.
Other evidence shows that federal law enforcement agencies had prior knowledge of a planned attack and that then-President Trump offered support from the military, but was refused.
It’s pretty obvious that a bunch of people wanted the incursion to happen so they could do exactly what they’re doing … demonize the right as violent insurrectionists who need to be silenced and removed from the public square.
MAXINE WATERS: [2:18] – In 2018, Maxine Waters was recorded at least twice encouraging her followers to get up in the faces of Trumpers and make sure they know they are not welcome to show their faces in public. They took her at her word.
Now, she says that her urging supporters to be increasingly “confrontational” and “forceful” against Trump allies was not actually meant to incite violence. Besides, in her opinion, it doesn’t compare to what Donald Trump said!
What she said in 2018: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
On January 6th, then-President Trump told his supporters, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patrioticallymake your voices heard.”
After the violence erupted, he tweeted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”
A half-hour later, he tweeted, “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
MEDIA MALPRACTICE: In a surprisingly brazen article, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” Time magazine brags about the “well-funded cabal of powerful people”, an “informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans” who engaged in a “conspiracy” to defeat Trump.
But far from admitting that they were “rigging the election”, the Time article claims proudly that “they were fortifying it.” What we call “election fraud”, Democrats call “a heroic grassroots movement intent on salvaging our democracy and preserving the integrity of this and future elections.”
MIKE PENCE: The Young America’s Foundation has announced that longtime ally and 48th Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, will formally join their team as the Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar.
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS: When 8-year-old Tallulah realized the fellow who delivered their packages was deaf, she learned to sign “have a good day” so she could say hello to him. It made his day! He taught her how to say “good morning, have a good day” before giving her a thumbs up. The two have become “lockdown buddies” who see each other once or twice a week.
CLICK the link below to see the embedded video. It’ll warm your heart!
RULES: Nancy Pelosi had metal detectors installed outside the House floor so that none of her fellow elected representatives could bring a gun into the chamber. And when a couple of GOP reps failed to go through the detectors, she slapped them each with a $5k fine. The fine for second offenses is $10k. (There is also a mask mandate for reps. First offense $500. Second offense $2,500.)
But as per usual with elitist Democrats, it’s “rules for thee, but not for me.” It didn’t take long for Pelosi to ignore her own rule. Multiple members report seeing her do it, but when Republican lawmakers asked the Sergeant-at-Arms to impose the penalty, he responded that the U.S. Capitol Police had not reported the incident.
“Only the USCP can determine whether an individual has failed to complete security screening as only the USCP has sufficient training to determine compliance with USCP screening procedures. I have directed that the USCP produce and provide unusual incident reports on any individual who fails to complete security screening without exception. I have not received any unusual incident report from the USCP concerning the Speaker of the House.“
IOW, Queen Pelosi gets to do whatever the hell she pleases, so shut up.
SAINT OF THE DAY: February 11 is the feast of St. Lucius, who was the bishop of Adrianople in the fourth century. He was martyred by the Arian emperor Constantius II in 350 AD for opposing the Arian heresy. Arianism was arguably the worst crisis the Christian church ever faced … until modern times.
Arianism was a 3rd and 4th century heresy started by an Egyptian priest named Arius who taught that Jesus was created within time by the Father. Arianism is also called Heteroousianism, because it taught that the Father and the Son have different essences or substances.
Arianism was declared a heresy at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, which reaffirmed Trinitarianism (aka, Homoouisianism), which is that Jesus is the second Person of the Trinity, who shares the divine substance with the Father.
Ousia refers to the essential nature or ‘substance’ of God. Hetero-, of course, means different while homo– means same.
Another way to understand the distinction is that Arianism holds that Jesus is sempiternal, meaning to have a beginning, but no end. (Humans and angels are sempiternal.) By contrast, the three Persons of the Trinity are co-eternal meaning they had no beginning and will have no end.
Modern variations on Arianism include Islam and Mormonism.
BORDER: [2:58] – The stoppage was not just a stupid political move, but the immediate stoppage is just wasteful. Besides laying off workers, they’ve got thousands of dollars worth of uninstalled wall that has to be paid for. At the very least, FAUXTUS could’ve done a phase down to finish what’s been ordered and give workers time to find new jobs.
CLICK (or not) https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1358835902743797762 [1:50] to hear Psaki blow smoke about FAUXTUS’ immigration policy, which allows illegal aliens to stay in America even after they deal fentanyl and heroin, commit fraud, commit assault, drive drunk, and launder money.
FLORIDA: City of Oldsmar [15:29] – On February 5, a hacker breached Oldsmar’s water treatment plant and increased the amount of sodium hydroxide by a factor of one hundred (from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million).
Sodium hydroxide (aka, lye) is used in the water treatment process to counter the acidity of the water and balance the ph levels. In a concentrated level, the acid could have caused burns. After the hacker exited the system, the system operator immediately corrected the increase, so no one was hurt.
ILHAN OMAR: On February 5, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI-07) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI-08) introduced a bill called the “Oversight for Members And Relatives Act” or the “OMAR Act.” If enacted into law, it would outlaw the practice of political candidates pocketing campaign funds by hiring their spouses.
The FEC shows that Ilham Omar’s 2019-2020 campaign paid nearly $2.8 million to her husband, Tim Mynett’s political consulting firm. In the third quarter of 2020, the $1.1 million that went to Mynett’s firm, E Street Group LLC, constituted nearly 70% of money spent by the campaign that quarter.
Omar says it’s all okay, because her adulterous relationship with Mynett, that resulted in two divorces, didn’t start until after her campaign was using the E Street Group. According to reporter David Steinberg, Ilhan not only left the father of her children but also had him fired back home in Minnesota.
JANUARY 6: [1:18] – According to Mark Meadows President Trump offered Capitol Police, national guard and even offered the Department of Defense to help protect Washington DC prior to the January 6th protests. Each time, he was told no.
MINIMUM WAGE: A member of the White House Counsel of Economic Advisers basically said, “So what?” to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office that shows a federally-mandated $15/hr minimum wage would destroy 1.4 million jobs.
MLB: A new revision to the COVID rules requires every players, on-field staff and non-playing personnel who require access to them at ballparks must wear an electronic tracking device while in engaged in team activities. For now, vaccinations are voluntary.
NFL: The league started bowing to the Left in 2016 and has since seen ever-decreasing fan participation. In the latest episode of “Get Woke, Go Broke”, Sunday’s Super Bowl hit a new low for viewership … and this despite the coronavirus forcing potential in-person fans from attending.
On a related note, Washington Post printed a liberal-pearl-clutching article about how problematic it is that the Buccaneers football team name glorifies piracy.
OUT LOUD: Elitism on display [:41] – In January, the Massachusetts Undersecretary for Climate Change, David Ismay, said the following during an on-line meeting with the Vermont Climate Council.
“60% of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you, the person on your street, the senior on fixed-income. Right now there is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts, to point the finger at and turn the screws on and no break their will so they stop emitting. That’s you. We have to break your will. … That’s you. We have to break your will.”
PANDERING: The New York Slime demonstrates how pointless it is to bend the knee to the Left. Athletic events, particularly violent ones like football, are and forever will be tarred with the right-wing brush.
POLITIFACT: In November, Clara Hendrickson reported at Politifact that there was no evidence that ballots were smuggled into the Detroit counting hub at the TCF Center.
This week, The Gateway Pundit published video of a white van dropping off ballots late at night inside the TCF Center.
Afterwards, Clara Hendrickson reported at Politifact that, just because the video obviously shows ballots being secretly smuggled into the TCF Center hours after the deadline, it doesn’t prove there was any election fraud.
RELIGION: I prefer “radical” myself, because it means “arising from or going to a root or source; basic.” Radical Christians are the best people. Radical Muslims are the worst.
SAINT OF THE DAY: St. Scholastica (d. 543) was St. Benedict’s sister. St. Benedict founded his famous monastery for men at Monte Cassino, while St. Scholastica founded her monastery for women about five miles away. St. Benedict appears to have been spiritual director to both groups. Three days after St. Scholastica died, St. Benedict had a vision of her ascending into Heaven.
Bonchie at Red States writes, “The religious devotion to mask wearing is probably the most ridiculous thing to come out of the current pandemic. Over and over, data shows they don’t work. We’ve seen larger infection spikes in heavily mask mandated states than states that don’t have mandates at all. There appears to be almost no correlation between mask wearing and infection levels, likely because masks are simply an ineffective means of mitigation. You can blame that on a variety of issues, whether it be the type of mask, a lack of proper sanitation, or not ‘double masking,’ which is the latest fetish. Regardless, the fact that masks aren’t working remains almost undeniably true.
“Further, when specifically talking about Florida, Smith’s outrage is more than misplaced. Florida has done things right. They’ve remained open so as not to destroy their economy, they’ve protected the most vulnerable, and they’ve created one of the top vaccination regimes in the country. All of that has added up to a death rate that’s barely half of the most disastrous blue states. The continued focus on them by hacks like Smith is purely political. You know what’s much more ‘shocking’ than some happy people buying groceries in Florida? The fact that New York continues to be a dumpster fire, or the fact that California, for all their lock downs and mask mandates, is doing terribly right now. You’d think a journalist would have an ability to separate the wheat from the chaff in this situation and do some real reporting.
“Tucker’s take down is deserved because these people need to be shown for what they are. Shepard Smith is not a newsman. He’s a partisan, and an especially cynical one given his propensity to play-act mental breakdowns on air over things he deems impure. Florida doesn’t deserve his scorn. They deserve his praise. Past that, he should focus his attention on one of the many blue states that can’t even get their vaccines given properly, not some Twitter video of people deciding to not be miserable in a state that’s doing well.”
SPRINGSTEEN: [2:10] – There’s a very odd line in Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl appeal for national unity. At :33, he lists “between servant and citizen” as one of the great divides in our nation. Apparently, in Bruce-World, all the housekeepers, groundskeepers, and nannies are illegals.
Also by Unity Bruce = “I love Australia. If Trump is re-elected I’ll see you on the next plane.”
ANTIFA/BLM: On Feb. 6, left-wing agitators marched through Washington, D.C., chanting “Burn it down” and “Black lives matter.” They also threatened people eating dinner in restaurants.
National Police Association spokesperson, retired Sgt. Betsy Smith, says it’s “extremely frustrating to law enforcement” that the media is obsessed with January 6th and white supremacists, while ignoring “the other 99 percent of violent riots that American law enforcement has been dealing with for the past almost year.”
IMPEACHMENT: The looming (and unconstitutional) impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has virtually no chance of success. The Democrat-majority House only needed a simple majority to send the articles to the Senate, but the 50-50 Senate requires at least 67 votes to convict. And any GOP senator who joins Democrats in voting to convict will likely face intense blow back from their constituents and local Republican Party chapters.
MSDNC: MSNBC released a TV promo in which it showcased reporter Mike Memoli fawning over Joe Biden’s coffee-drinking habits and how it felt to win the White House. The liberal news network’s tagline was “This is why you watch.”
NEW YORK: FINALLY! The State Supreme Court has ruled that Republican Claudia Tenney won by 109 votes in the country’s last undecided congressional race for NY-22. We’re in the 23rd, right near the border.
POLITICAL VIOLENCE: CLICK https://rumble.com/vdlytb-tipping-point-left-wing-mob-continues-with-kyle-shideler.html [4:27] to hear OAN’s report on continuing violence by Antifa and BLM, which naturally doesn’t get any attention at all from the political left. Because only right wingers are “dangerous.” Democrats are trying to use the issue to federalize law enforcement, which is an important step toward their One World goal.
PURGING TRUMP: Remember the old days, when Democrats mocked us for being Obama-hating whack jobs? As I recall, once he was gone, we focused on the new administration. Not so the Left.
Chase Bank has just notified the pro-Trump internet company, Covfefe Coffee, that they will no longer process payments.
A company spokesman said the company had been using the payment processor for two years without issue and that the declaration from Chase came completely out of the blue.
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS: Tissue alert! A Florida waitress saved a boy and his sister from an abusive home. Orlando’s police chief said, “We probably would have been talking about a potential homicide investigation if she had not intervened when she did.”
It started when the family of four sat down in Flavaine Carvalho’s area of the restaurant. In fact, they sat in the only table where she could hold up a note that the boy could see without the parents noticing.
Carvalho became suspicious when she noticed bruises and cuts on the 11-year-old boy. When the parents wouldn’t let him order any food, her concern was raised to the level of genuine alarm.
First she wrote, “Are you OK?” on a piece of paper and held it up. The boy shook his head “No.” So she wrote a second note, “Do you need help?” The boy nodded. So Carvalho check with her boss and then dialed 911.
In custody, the boy told detectives that he had been beaten by his stepfather using a wooden broom, hung upside-down from a door frame by his ankles, and strapped to a furniture dolly on Christmas Day as punishment from Santa. His body was covered in bruises in various stages of healing. He also reported being denied food and was 20 lbs underweight.
The mother and stepfather have both been arrested and charged on multiple counts of child abuse. The boy’s 4-year-old sister did not show signs of abuse, but was also taken into the safe custody of the Department of Children and Families.
SEX TRAFFICKING: Former President Donald Trump’s efforts to create an office dedicated to fighting sex trafficking made an “incredible impact” over the last four years. So says the founder of SHAREtogether, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating child sex trafficking.
“No former president in the history of this country has used his or her platform to denounce the exploitation of children and then appropriate funding. So we’ve seen an incredible impact over the years, over the last four years, particularly towards the support for law enforcement.”
SPENDING: President Biden is reportedly giving up a hike to the federal minimum wage in the “COVID-19 relief bill” on the concern that it might doom the bill’s chances at passage.
But left-wing Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, claims he won’t support the bill without a hike in the minimum wage. If Sanders votes no, Democrats will have to win over the support of Republicans to pass their bill through the Senate.
If passed, Porkulus Two will add another $1.9 trillion to our national debt.
TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: A new report explains how the ChiComs are aggressively persecute their unruly citizens anywhere in the world with threats, kidnappings, and assaults. Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been involved in at least 214 cases of physical attacks on its nationals abroad, the largest by far compared to other countries.
TWITTER: Twitter suspended suspended conservative radio host Wayne Allyn Root without telling him why or for how long.
Twitter permanently suspended The Gateway Pundit for repeated violations of the platform’s “civic integrity policy,” which states that users may not use the platform “for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes.”
The actual policy is that no one may use Twitter in any way that may damage Democrats or help Republicans. But that’s okay. It just means that tens of millions of us will NOT be adding to Twitter’s profits.
GRAMMY NOTES: Sometimes I think about what it’s like to be Lil’ Buzz and it breaks my heart. He is so intelligent, but he can’t speak. He can’t ask questions or tell us how he’s feeling or what he thinks about. Thankfully, he has a tablet to help him speak and is using the computer keyboard to write out his own assignments. Next month, he and Bunny start in-person classes part-time. Mama enjoys their home school days, but the hybrid schedule will give her more time to do stuff with Bootz, so it’s all good.
ABORTION: Forty-eight senators have sent a letter to Majority Leader Schumer promising to block any bill that would undermine the Hyde Amendment or other current protections for the unborn.
CONFIDENCE: If it was Trump, it would say “EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY DOESN’T TRUST TRUMP!! DID YOU HEAR THAT?! EIGHTY PERCENT!! THAT’S 4 OUT OF 5 AMERICANS THINK DONALD TRUMP SUCKS!!”
HHS: FAUXTUS’ nominees for the top three spots at the Department of Health and Human services have two things in common. One, they are incompetent. Two, they are big supporters of abortion on demand.
1) Nominee for secretary of HHS – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra – has no background in the field of healthcare at all. His background includes attacking the First Amendment rights of pregnancy care centers in California, an effort he ultimately lost at the U.S. Supreme Court.
2) Nominee for deputy secretary of HHS – Wisconsin’s acting Secretary of Health Andrea Palm – has no healthcare education. She repeatedly exceeded her position’s lawful powers and, at public appearances, appeared not to understand the data. She’s been sued and lost after trying to close the whole state and for continuing to close and restrict religious gatherings. Under her leadership, Wisconsin hasn’t even completed its priority lists for who should be vaccinated and when; half of the vaccine doses provided to Wisconsin have not yet been administered.
3) Nominee for assistant secretary of health – Pennsylvania’s secretary of health Dr. Rachel Levine – is the worst of the three. Knowing it would lead to excess deaths, her office issued orders forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients, then moved her own mother into private care. Six of the 10 nursing homes with the most COVID-19 deaths in the nation were in Pennsylvania — a direct result of Levine’s policy. Her leadership has put the commonwealth behind more than 30 other states in vaccine distribution, though overdoses from illegal drugs increased 11.7% under her watch.
IMPEACHMENT 2: Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Feb. 6 that congressional lawmakers are violating the U.S. Constitution with what he described as a “show trial” against former President Donald Trump.
The House impeachment brief (pdf) alleges that Trump incited a mob to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while lawmakers were convened in a joint session to consider the certification of Electoral College vote.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: The Supreme Court issued a ruling late Friday night that California must immediately allow churches to reopen at 25% of occupancy — ending the state’s ban on indoor worship.
SAINT OF THE DAY: Today is the feast of St. Josephine Bakhita (b. 1869 in the Darfur region of Sudan – d. February 8, 1947 in Vicenza, Italy). In 1877, she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders and forced to talk 600 miles to a slave market. Over the next 12 years, she was bought, sold and given away more than a dozen times. Some owners treated her well. Some abused her viciously.
One took her to Italy where another placed her in a convent while the family was traveling. There she learned about Jesus and decided to join the order. When her mistress returned from her trip, Josephine refused to leave the convent. A superior in the order took her case to court, where she won her freedom.
She was baptized on January 9, 1890, receiving the Sacraments of Initiation from Archbishop Giusseppe Sarto, twho would later become Pope Pius X. She spent the rest of her life as a member of the Daughters of Charity, where she worked as a cook and a doorkeeper at her home convent. She also traveled and visited other convents telling her story to other sisters and preparing them for work in Africa.
She was known for her gentle voice and smile. She was gentle and charismatic, and was often referred to lovingly as the “little brown sister” or honorably as the “black mother.” When speaking of her enslavement, she often professed she would thank her kidnappers. For had she not been kidnapped, she might never have come to know Jesus Christ and entered His Church.
GRAMMY NOTES: I just did the math and realized I am coming up on the 50th anniversary of giving my life to Jesus! I don’t remember what time of year it was, only that I was 17. I’ll be 67 on May 7.
Mike Lindell’s 2 hour documentary about 2020 election fraud has been wiped from multiple platforms. You can view it @ (add http://)michaeljlindell.com.
When I put the full URL there, WP tried and failed to embed it, then wouldn’t let me erase the block! I had to delete the post and start over. I hope this works.
Full disclosure, I haven’t watched it myself, but I’ve heard it can be difficult to find. If one of you does sit through it all, I’d appreciate a review in the comments.
2A: Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced a bill that would enact some of the strictest gun regulations in the history of the country AND give the federal government sweeping power to decide who can own a firearm.
Among other things, the bill calls for mandatory firearm and ammunition possession licensing and prohibiting of certain types of guns and ammunition. It would not only require gun ownership be restricted to those 21 and older, but also require that individuals who apply for a gun license undergo a psychological evaluation along with members of their household.
Licenses would be denied if any history of hospitalization for mental illness, disturbance, or diagnosis is found. It would also prohibit any person from selling or giving a firearm or ammunition to another person unless the person has notified the Attorney General of the sale or gift. Those who are actually allowed to own a gun would also be required to purchase insurance.
CATHOLIC: In an interview with Catholic News Service on Monday, Pope Francis called for unity in the church, saying, “The Church [in the U.S.] is very alive, very, very alive. There are perhaps traditionalists groups, but we have those here in the Vatican too. This can be healed.”
He also soundly condemned fundamentalist groups who, according to him, sow discord and war. There was no similar condemnation of progressive groups. If he were an American, he’d be a Democrat.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: [4:40] – Legal Insurrection’s William Jacobson talks with Tucker Carlson about the insidious spread of this highly racist ideology in America’s schools at all levels.
I.D.: Pennsylvania requires one produce a photo ID before receiving a COVID vaccination. Wait, wut? Haven’t Democrats proven by shouting about it that requiring photo ID adversely affects impoverished and minority communities?
Before the deliveries, Trump had a decisive lead. After the drop, Biden suddenly shot to the top. Legal ballots were delivered by USPS before the 8:00 pm November 3 deadline. Their chain of custody was supposed to be certified by both GOP and Democrat observers.
NON-INSURRECTION: D.W. Wilber (Counterterrorism Analyst, Former CIA) writes, “There was never any insurrection on January 6th, just like there is no such thing as white privilege or systemic racism. Those are all creations of the Socialist-Democrat Party used to create a political narrative that they exploit to create division in America.”
SENATE: On February 4, Republicans took advantage of a Senate procedure that allowed them to propose a series of amendments to the budget resolution to force Democrats to take a stand on a series of tough issues. Among those amendments and the vote counts included:
100-1 opposing the defunding of police
97-3 to support keeping the U.S. Embassy in Israel in Jerusalem
50-50 on a failed amendment supporting the free exercise of religion
50-50 on a failed amendment opposing the Biden administration’s move to restrict oil and gas leasing on federal lands
50-50 on a failed amendment opposing a federal carbon tax
50-50 on a failed amendment opposing stimulus checks for people in prison
53-47 in favor of an amendment supporting the expansion of health savings accounts
50-50 on a failed amendment to oppose packing the Supreme Court
50-50 on a failed amendment to support the border wall
51-50 in favor of a budget resolution for coronavirus relief allowing the Senate to proceed using budget reconciliation rules (to avoid a GOP filibuster)
UNITY: [25:17] – During his address to the National Prayer Breakfast, FAUXTUS emphasized faith as a unifer, while ignoring his administration’s hostile steps toward people of faith.
GRAMMY NOTES: Bunny and Bootz enjoy playing with Mama’s saint peg dolls. My favorite was when they put them all inside a doll house, then set up their toy dinosaurs outside the house, menacing them. It kinda feels like they get the whole spiritual warfare thing, you know?
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