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.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Remind us please what that first thing You said was and grant us the graces to get it right the next time. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: SHOUT OUT to Pistol Pete who is 75 years young today!
COVID-19: [2:43] – “I’d be in Heaven HR on Day One!”
GRAMMY NOTES: I will be forever grateful to the FMG members (usually wives of drill sergeants) who kept us up-to-date with what our offspring were doing at boot camp. One of them literally stood in one spot during a run and took more than 300 photos to make sure every parent got to see their kid. It also helped me understand why my curvy daughter came home from Parris Island looking like a pencil. (She got them back. LOL) … P.S., sorry for the shortie today. Usually, I’d just skip when I’m having a rough day, but I didn’t want to miss Pete’s birthday. ❤
The following was written by Senator Tom Cotton [R-Arkansas] and published the New York Post on August 7, 2025 (link below). I added the graphics.
It was on Aug. 8, 2022 that 30 FBI agents, armed and authorized to use deadly force, raided the home of then-former President Donald Trump — with the blessing of his successor, then-President Joe Biden.
The absurdly broad raid warrant covered “any government and/or Presidential Records” dated during the years of Trump’s presidency, and “containers/boxes . . . collectively stored” near classified documents.
According to the FBI raid affidavit, Trump possessed “Presidential records subject to record retention requirements” — an odd claim, given that presidents have an established right to designate records as “personal records.”
In fact, under the Presidential Records Act, only the president decides which records are presidential and which are personal. Odder still, one would expect a search warrant to be based on alleged violations of criminal law. But this one wasn’t, because the Presidential Records Act is a purely civil statute.
The FBI also claimed that Trump violated the Espionage Act because he refused to return classified documents after the National Archives demanded them. Yet the FBI had no evidence to support that Trump knew the boxes sent to his home contained classified information.
To get around this inconvenient fact, the Department of Justice tried to thread the needle by arguing Trump “caused” the boxes to be packed, attempting to make him appear just as guilty as if he knew their contents.
Attorney General Merrick Garland also ignored the only existing precedent, which involved President Ronald Reagan. After leaving office, Reagan kept classified material from his presidency in his home — and while the Justice Department was aware of this situation, it took no action. Since this precedent worked in Trump’s favor, the Biden DOJ conveniently ignored it.
Similarly, given the president’s unique position in our constitutional system, the Supreme Court has ruled that certain laws should not apply to a president unless that law explicitly specifies otherwise. The Espionage Act does not contain such language, but the DOJ ignored that inconvenient fact, too.
Ironically, while Biden’s administration was weaponizing criminal law against Trump, Biden himself was caught red-handed with more than 130 classified documents — that we know of — dating from his vice presidency and his tenure as a senator.
Biden kept these sensitive documents in his personal Washington, DC, office and all over his Wilmington, Del., home, some of them in file folders labeled with Biden’s own handwriting. No legal compulsion was sought in Biden’s case, even though Biden told his ghostwriter in 2017, “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” In other words, he confessed on tape.
Pundits defended the different handling of the two cases on the grounds that Biden cooperated with investigators, while Trump did not. But Biden “cooperated” with a rigged process, designed by his own administration. That process allowed Biden’s lawyers to sweep and search the crime scenes — after classified documents were discovered, and after a criminal case was opened — before any FBI searches took place. At one point, a Biden White House lawyer intervened in the chain of custody of a classified document, seizing it from the FBI because the then-president had not consented to the FBI’s possession.
This double standard is nothing short of breathtaking. Where Trump was charged for merely “causing” boxes to be packed, Biden was specifically not charged because he “did not move the files himself” and “depended on staffers.” With Trump, the Reagan precedent was ignored; with Biden, it was upheld due to “basic principles of notice and fairness.”
For Trump, the Supreme Court’s “express statement” doctrine, that certain laws should not apply to a president unless expressly stated, was ignored. For Biden, the DOJ applied this doctrine — historically extended to include vice presidents — and declined prosecution to avoid “significant separation of powers concerns.” Prosecutors charged Trump with 40 felonies — effectively life in prison. Prosecutors charged Biden with nothing.
Those now angrily denouncing Trump for enforcing US laws — laws he is duty-bound to enforce — fully supported forging the justice system into a guillotine to lop off Trump’s head. Because they don’t really care about law. And they don’t really care about justice. They only care about power. Regaining power — and retaining it.
DAILY PRAYER: Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen.
AI: Helpful advice for discerning what is real. [2:40] – I actually dismissed the bunnies as AI the first time I saw them, but only because we get to watch real bunnies in our back yard regularly. Only one and sometimes two come in the evening, before dark, to roll around in our sand pit and eat the clover etc. in our never-sprayed lawn. They tend to stay near the bushes and stop what they’re doing often to check their surroundings, because they’re prey. The idea that a whole herd of them would cavort, together, and after dark seemed absurd.
BOASBERG: [8:02] – The August 8, 2025 mandamus order issued against Judge James E. Boasberg by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated his criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration.
KAMALA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7o8zH2yC_Wk to hear Teamsters’ boss, Sean O’Brien, tell Tucker Carlson how Kamala Harris treated union members. There is a longer clip embedded at the Daily Mail link below.
WAR ON DRUGS: [28:49] – Fentanyl is an extremely potent synthetic opioid similar to morphine, but more powerful. It is a prescription drug but is also manufactured illegally and is sometimes mixed with other illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine, often without the user’s knowledge. The potency of fentanyl makes it very addictive and puts users at a high risk for overdose.
Illegally manufactured fentanyl has become more prevalent in the United States in recent years, leading to a huge increase in drug overdose deaths. Fentanyl overdoses are now the driving force behind the opioid epidemic, accounting for the majority of overdose deaths in the United States. In 2023, around 72,776 people in the United States died from a drug overdose that involved fentanyl.
Join me on the spooky journey my scrapbook paper has taken through space and time. The tale begins on Saturday, August 2, 2025, when I ordered 13 sheets of 12”x12” scrapbook paper.
The website, Scrapbook.com, which is located in Gilbert, Arizona, processed the order and sent me a confirmation email. On Monday morning, the human staff fulfilled the order and sent me a tracking number. On Monday afternoon, the Gilbert post office logged my package in, so … so far, so good.
From here, my package took its first detour through the Twilight Zone, making the trip from Gilbert to Phoenix in minus one hour and fifteen minutes. Gilbert is 20 miles from Phoenix and they are, in fact, in the same time zone.
Twilight Zone Detour #2. My package departed from the Phoenix, AZ Distribution Center (a major hub in the western U.S.) in a timely fashion, then traveled east for two days, passing through two unnamed sorting centers, only to inexplicably arrive at Warrendale, PA, Distribution Center. Warrendale is a key hub for Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. My hub is in Syracuse, NY.
Oh happy day! Somebody in Warrendale tossed my highly anticipated scrapbook papers on to the correct conveyor belt and it finally arrived in Syracuse on Thursday morning! Usually, this means it will be in my mail box the next day!
But nooooo … the Twilight Zone isn’t done with me yet. In the wee hours of Friday morning, my little package was marked as “in transit” to the next facility … two hours before it left Syracuse!
It was next logged in at the Cortland, NY, post office, having apparently traveled there at Warp 2, since just the driving time from Syracuse to Cortland is about 40 minutes. Don’t they have to scan packages before they’re loaded and depart and then again after they arrive and are unloaded?
Cortland is not a distribution center, but rather the primary facility for mail delivery to Cortland addresses. I do not live in Cortland, but hey ho, somebody notices and, an hour later, my scrapbook paper arrives at my very own Dryden Post Office! Hurrah! … Oh wait … two minutes later, it is “processing” at the HOMER post office. Maybe I should have ordered 12 pieces of scrapbook paper. Or 14. Anything but 13!
Having never been logged out of or marked as “in transit” between Cortland, then Dryden, then Homer, my package enters its next trip through the Twilight Zone, appearing 26 hours later at the Northwest Rochester NY Distribution Center. Rochester handles mail for Western New York. My distribution center is Syracuse, guys. Syracuse. Not Rochester. Not Warrendale flipping Pennsylvania. SYRACUSE. Sigh.
As I write this (10:03 am, Sunday, August 10), the tracking page tells me my scrapbook papers are back in Syracuse again, after yet another rapid early morning transit time. Grok says the route via New York State Thruway (I-90 East) is approximately 80-90 miles and typically takes about 1.5 to 2 hours under normal conditions. Grok also says that, as I suspected, scanning happens before packages are loaded and after they are unloaded … not when trucks actually depart or arrive.
Tune in again next time to find out what happens! Will my little package of scrapbook papers take yet another trip through the Twilight Zone? Or will it arrive on Monday in my mail box? Will it be mangled from too much handling? Will the paper patterns be distorted by time travel? Can I endure the suspense?
UPDATE: My package arrived!
The USPS beat up the box, but thanks to Scrapbook.com’s excellent packaging, the papers inside are in perfect condition. ❤
Come, Holy Spirit. Replace the fear within us with holy faith. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
AI: CLICK https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1952543179699609888 [:25] to see former CNN host Jim Acosta “interview” an AI gravatar of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver. The AI was actually created by Oliver’s parents who, last year, had their AI dead son call members of Congress to demand they ban guns. Is it just me or is this way beyond creepy?
BIDEN: [4:29] – Anita Dunn, former senior adviser to Biden for communications, says Biden’s inner circle believed allowing him to take a cognitive test offered no political benefit. Duh. They keep talking about “cognitive decline.” From what I heard, Biden’s cancer is slow to progress, so likely he has had it for as much as ten years. Moreover, the drug(s) used to treat it are known to cause clumsiness and mental confusion, both of which we saw during the 2020 campaign. My feeling is that the cover-up began as soon as he was diagnosed, whenever that was.
DEMOCRATS: According to the NY Post, “people with direct knowledge of the matter” say the Biden administration’s banking regulators and the Federal Reserve pressured JPMorgan and Bank of America to debank President Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol Hill melee.
Back in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that Biden administration officials would demand Facebook remove certain content and, when Facebook refused, would “call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse.“
FRANKFURTERS IN AMERICA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1292604115558224 to hear Dr. Ben Carson give examples of how the ideas developed at the Frankfurt School in the 1930s had made major inroads into American culture by the 1960s.
HEALTH: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHbBESSdFvc to hear how many millions have been defrauding us to get free health care. In better news, twelve states now ban the use of SNAP (food stamps) to buy junk food. They include Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas , Utah, and West Virginia.
TRUMP-ONOMICS: [7:46] – Key takeaways from the video:
During the last two years of the Biden administration, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) overestimated new job creation by 1.5 million jobs. Political con job or incompetence?
From January to June, 2025, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $1,174.
During Trump’s first term, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $6,400.
During Biden’s first term, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $551.
When Trump’s and Biden’s first term income numbers are broken down by income level, every income group did better under Trump, while under Biden, only the rich got richer; everyone else got poorer.
Also, I asked Grok about the document and dark blue curtains on the wall. You can read about it at the Irish Star link below.
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill cut off taxpayer funding for just one year. It’s already started shutting down. The shutdown will not immediately end PBS or NPR’s national programming, as both have alternative funding sources and have pledged to continue. We shall see how that works out.
SQUATTERS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1080990427440645 to see farmers spray manure to remove squatters from their fields. This is likely from one of two locations in France from last month, after farmers got no support from law enforcement for their rights to use their land to grow food.
TEXAS: The Democrats’ silly soap opera continues. I have zero sympathy for their “cause.” Anybody else would’ve been FIRED by now!
TRANSPORTATION: Remember when Mayor Pete was Biden’s guy? Remember how he refused to upgrade air traffic control systems? Remember how he spent million$ on EV stations that have yet to be built? Remember how he pretended he rode his bike to work, then switched to an SUV as soon as the reporters left? Let’s see how Trump’s guy is doing …
So many of the stories at Not the Bee today highlight the success of Frankfurt School’s agenda that I decided to make them a separate post.
Earlier this week, police identified and arrested the man who stabbed a Montana husband and wife who were hiking with their daughters on an Arkansas trail. The perp is a school teacher who apparently had no motive for the crime.
CLICK https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1951599974862426229 [:40] to see a clip of an emaciated, tattooed, black, lesbian female sing the part of Jesus Christ while wearing a zombie costume. @MartyMcflizy commented, “Post a jeans commercial and all hell breaks loose. Blatantly mock an entire religion and it’s completely fine.”
A Christian was gunned down in front of his wife and child outside Pursuit Seattle Church. In May, after the same church was attacked by dozens of Antifa and Trantifa activists, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell released a statement basically saying the “extreme right” Christians were asking for it.
One of the goals of the Frankfurters was to destroy marriage and family. Their infiltration of American education was obvious by the 1960s. You can easily see here how successful their efforts have been.
Meet Reverend Roger Haenke (60). Haenke was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on June 1, 1991. After several years in parish ministry, he quit to get a B.S. in Nursing, after which he worked as pediatric nurse, then as an administrator, nursing director, and nursing instructor until he retired. In 2017, he married Cliff Berkowitz and was received as an Episcopal priest in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. He is now rector at St. John’s in Chula Vista, California, where he enjoys hooking up with 14- and 15-year-old boys on the on the gay dating app, Grindr. On August 1, 2025, the group People v. Preds outed him. The church has put him on suspension and the matter is reportedly under investigation by law enforcement.
This gigantic statue of the Hindu god Ram was recently erected in Mississauga, Canada. As of 2021, there were 828,000 Hindus in Canada.
Last month, Theory and Society published a study entitled “Lying Increases Trust in Science.”
After HHS Sec Kennedy revealed that hospitals have been harvesting organs from people who aren’t actually dead, The New York Slime published a guest essay by three doctors bemoaning the shortage of organs. Their solution is to redefine what “death” means.
CLICK https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1952738682470895669 [1:34] to hear a history teacher explain why the way the Quechua practiced child sacrifice wasn’t all that bad, so stop being so judgy, Westerners with silly Judaeo-Christian values.
CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1951123729733525648 [:37] to see a clip of the oh-so-serious funeral for chickens at Trader Joe’s. One commenter noted, “They can hold a funeral in the meat aisle, but pro-life advocates can’t hold up signs of dead babies in front of Planned Parenthood? SMH.” Really. Personally, I think Purdue honored their lives by giving them lives. Chickens can’t live in the wild.
As of September 1, law-abiding citizens of Victoria, Australia, who do not have a government-approved permit to own a machete for farm work will be subject to a 2 year prison sentence and/or fine of $47,000. Australia banned guns; now they’re taking the knives. Welcome to the Brave New World where only the government and criminals (if they’re not even the same people) have the right to protect themselves from the government and criminals.
CLICK https://x.com/RGreggKeller/status/1951636282909638821 [1:52] to see Gregg Keller get kicked out of a St. Louis stadium for wearing a MAGA hat. According to the security guards, political paraphernalia are strictly prohibited. Meanwhile, “pride” and “trans” flags are flying, unmolested. In a later tweet, Keller says the DOJ is looking into it.
In St. Paul, Minnesota, a Somali immigrant abducted a 12-year-old girl who was playing in her backyard, shoved her into his car, and raped her. The liberal judge gave him the lightest possible sentence because he is allegedly “devoted family man … starting over in a new culture.” @MagaMattforever correctly notes they’re basically admitting that raping young girls is a normal and expected behavior among Muslim men in Somalia.
So far as I know, the Frankfurters didn’t specifically mention promoting culinary abominations, but I’m in favor of blaming them for this gag-inducing idea. Recipe: Acai sorbet, apple juice, strawberries, raspberries, Heinz Simply Ketchup, and ice.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please grant each of us a deep and abiding love for prayer, both private and communal. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BLACK DEATH: [8:04] – Learn how scientists discovered the original source of the deadly bacterium and how it made its way to Europe in the Middle Ages.
D.C.: [10:06] – This is exactly what the Frankfurt School wanted.
FEMINISM AGAINST PROGRESS: The link is cued up to begin at the speech itself, so you don’t have to sit through introductions etc. [1:28:25] – Mary Harrington, author of Feminism Against Progress, describes herself as a “reactionary feminist.” She argues that the pursuit of progress has, in many ways, undermined the well-being of the majority of women, creating new forms of dependence and inequality.
This talk is long, but worth your time. (If you prefer to read, click the transcript button below the video.) As I listen to it, I am struck by how much of what she describes is what the Frankfurt School promoted. And she does it standing in front of a supremely chaotic and ugly mural, something the Frankfurters would be applauding … if they weren’t all (likely) burning in Hell.
Her summary line is this: “As we stare down the monster of money and technology and ‘no truth, only power,’ Christian theology really is the only place left to stand. … There’s no other body of thought that can make the case for human nature as creatures of both flesh and spirit, capable of directing our purpose beyond the mere pursuit of food, sex, money, and status power.”
MEDIA: [4:35] – “It’s like trying to understand nature by going to the zoo.”
Gov. Newsom just tried to claim that Republicans were the true gerrymanderers by listing 12 states with no Democrat seats.
This list is totally bogus. These are all low-population, deep red states whose 30 total seats are only 7% of the entire House.
Gerrymandering is literally impossible in these states, because their borders are the districts’ borders. As for the rest of the states Newsom named, do you see how any of them could be gerrymandered to give Democrats even one seat?
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