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by | August 9, 2025 · 11:31 am

A Meditation on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary

Joseph never slept with Mary.

Not before Jesus.

Not after Jesus.

Not ever.

And the reason why?

It’s not what you think.

Let’s talk about the forgotten Jewish custom that flips this whole story upside down.

Imagine this:

A man marries a woman and chooses never to touch her.

Not because he’s weak.

Not because he’s cold.

But because he knows who she is.

Joseph didn’t “hold back.”

He bowed before the Ark of God.

Yes. I said it.

Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant.

Just like the Ark in 2 Samuel 6, her body carried the Divine Presence.

And just like the old Ark, her body was untouchable – not out of legalism, but out of awe.

In Luke 1:34, Mary tells the angel,

“How can this be since I do not know man?”

She’s already betrothed.

Why say that?

Because she had already made a vow of virginity.

A Jewish custom not many know existed.

Yes, consecrated virginity within marriage.

Joseph was a devout Jew.

A “just man” (Matthew 1:19).

That doesn’t mean confused. It means reverent.

He didn’t reject Mary out of suspicion.

He stepped back because he knew:

“This woman belongs to God.”

This wasn’t repression.

This was radical holiness.

Joseph wasn’t less of a man.

He was more.

He understood something most of us miss:

You don’t claim what God has consecrated.

You protect it.

And let me make this blunt:

Mary’s womb wasn’t just a vessel.

It was the Holy of Holies.

Joseph was no ordinary husband.

He was the guardian of the untouchable, the silent protector of God’s dwelling place.

You might think that’s weird.

But weird to us doesn’t mean wrong.

Joseph and Mary’s marriage wasn’t a loophole in the law.

It was a sign of heaven itself.

A love that gives, not takes.

Modern minds are scandalized by virginity.

Ancient minds were scandalized by touching the sacred.

Joseph’s silence speaks louder than our discomfort.

He teaches us this:

Some things are too holy to claim.

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by | August 9, 2025 · 9:22 am

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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.

BORDER: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WdZDnnM6kEk to hear Clinton, Biden, Clinton, and Obama sound just like Trump.

DEMOCRACY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHbBESSdFvc for a quick primer into why we pledge allegiance to “the Republic” NOT “the Democracy.”

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.“

FORTY ONE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mGbo-YdsPeM for a very uplifting message about perseverance.

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.

TEXAS: How long could you go without showing up at work before they would simply replace you?


TRUMP-ONOMICS: [7:46] – Key takeaways from the video:

  1. 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?
  2. From January to June, 2025, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $1,174.
  3. During Trump’s first term, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $6,400.
  4. During Biden’s first term, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $551.
  5. 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.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/ForePlayPod/status/1952420990010458222 to see the party game score of a lifetime!

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rEDTxF6_kp0 for a heartwarming win.

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by | August 8, 2025 · 12:27 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, Have mercy on us.

AMERICAN EAGLE: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1951345141064573339 [1:04] to hear VP Vance’s political advice for all those who are unhinged about the Sydney Sweeney ads.

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.

DEMOCRATS: [10:07] – Since schadenfreude is a sin, I’m going to strictly enjoin all y’all not to laugh at this dubbed video @ https://www.facebook.com/reel/30817163957928723.

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 …

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_tiHqCL82co to see the pizza guy who was swarmed by a pack of furry pizza lovers. ❤

CLICK https://x.com/latterdaylaura/status/1950410955822944578 to hear what Bob Odenkirk said when asked, “Who are you jealous of?”

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by | August 8, 2025 · 11:05 am

Frankfurt School Victories

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.

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by | August 7, 2025 · 1:20 pm

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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.”

VAXXXINES: [2:22] – HHS Secretary Kennedy explains why 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts, totaling about $500 million, and will prioritize ‘safer’ vaccine alternatives.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1100969061964496 for a really clever idea to help young kids deal with long car rides.

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by | August 7, 2025 · 11:55 am

Gerrymandering

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?

West Virginia has 2 seats in the House.

Montana has 2 seats in the House.

Idaho has 2 seats in the House.

Nebraska has 3 seats in the House.

Utah has 4 seats in the House.

Iowa has 4 seats in the House.

Arkansas has 4 seats in the House.

Oklahoma has 5 seats in the House.

CLICK https://x.com/SteveHiltonx/status/1952441998167642364 [1:26] to hear Steve Hilton explain how racial gerrymandering began with Democrats in California.

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by | August 6, 2025 · 2:23 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us all become “old ladies” who hold up the world in prayer. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

AOC: The Ethics Committee has fined AOC $3,000 for listing her partner/fiancé as her “spouse” on some documents so as to obtain certain benefits, while listing him as her “partner” on others so as to protect him from financial disclosure laws. Hmm … I wonder if those pesky financial disclosure laws are the reason for their absurdly long engagement.

They had been living together for years before Riley Roberts finally put a rock on AOC’s ring finger in April 2022. She stopped wearing said rock about 18 months later and there has been no talk of a wedding date ever since. As Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon noted, by not being legally married to AOC, Roberts “has been exempt from publicly disclosing his assets, stock trades, and his places of employment as a part of Ocasio-Cortez’s annual financial disclosure reports.”

BABYLON BEE: “How is that even possible?!” one Secret Service agent was heard gasping. “I’ve heard stories about how President Trump can do things no other mortal man can do, but I don’t know if I really believed it… until now. He just… walked. On a moderately sloped roof. Just like it was nothing. We couldn’t believe our eyes.”

CALIFORNICATION: In the 2024 presidential election, Trump won 38.3% of the votes in California. Yet, because of racial minority bias in districting, only 17% of Cali’s congressional representatives are Republicans.

In response to Texas Gov. Abbott’s proposal to redistrict his state in a way that would likely flip five D to R, California’s Gov. Newsom wants to gerrymander his state’s districts in a way that would likely flip five of those R seats to D.

Newsom’s plan faces considerable opposition, since it would require bypassing California’s independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which was established by voters in 2008 and 2010. Initially, this commission flipped seats in favor of Democrats, likely by replacing political bias with a minority racial bias. But SCOTUS is very likely going to declare racial minority biasing in congressional districting unconstitutional.

CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM: CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1952128404041703589 [:19] and https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1952127152620462489 [:31] to hear four classic Democrat BE AFRAID!! climate messages from the past. Pay attention to the years! ::smh::

CLICK https://x.com/grindingdude/status/1952138997515321763 [2:34] to hear the founder of the climate channel speak truth to power and hear CNN’s potato head tell this actual climate scientist he’s wrong.

ISLAM: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/553773691064618 to hear historical evidence that Muslims do not assimilate. They move in and take over.

JEANS ARE NOT GENES: Click the link below to read about how historians have uncovered a blue jeans ad featuring Adolf Hitler from 1942. “Hitler has good jeans,” declared the newly-unearthed advertisement, a clarion call for the violent establishment of a dominant Aryan race.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CfVoFPCsvMo to hear how Nick Freitas solved his issues with American Eagle. I think he totally gets it. American Eagle is just using sex to make money … something entrepreneurs have been doing since long before Jesus was a baby.

MASSACHUSETTS: CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1952702047670685989 [3:09] to hear how the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, which trains more than 20,000 police officers across the commonwealth, uses the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Map in its training materials. Moms for Liberty, which advocates against left-wing politics being pushed in schools, is listed along side ANTIFA and a host of KKK groups.

In 2024, the SPLC documented 1,371 hate and antigovernment extremist groups, including 595 hate groups and 835 antigovernment groups. At one time, Dr. Ben Carson was listed on the map, which should tell you all you need to know about where on the political spectrum SPLC sits.

RUSSIAGATE: AG Bondi has ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury regarding allegations of misconduct in the 2016 Russia! Russia! Russia! Collusion hoax. The grand jury will hear the evidence and consider criminal charges against former Obama administration officials.

CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1952466486523732057 [:18] to hear Schifty Schiff then and now.

WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/feDRDah6mnM for an excellent and brief rundown of what we believe and hold dear. For a brief history of how these values became something we’re supposed to apologize for, check out “The Roots of the Issue” @ https://polination.blog/2025/08/05/the-roots-of-the-issue/ which I posted here yesterday.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is updating visa policies to prevent trans athletes from coming here to steal trophies from real women.

GRAMMY NOTES: I love Catholic culture! 🙂 Mama Buzz just emailed this to me – “[Bootz] has had head and body aches lately too (he’s definitely been growing) and it’s been a good opportunity to remind him to offer it up in prayer. I told him that it might not go away but it can have a purpose and knowing that helps me sometimes to just be able to deal with it. Also I told him that sometimes mine start with a whine about my pain, but then I’m like, “Okay, fine,” and I remember to offer it up, lol!”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/724121506934141 and grab a tissue!

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2162259650942476 and hang on to that tissue. ❤

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by | August 5, 2025 · 10:54 am

The Roots of the Issue

The current political divide is not Donald Trump’s fault; indeed, he only ran for president because of the dangers he saw it posed to our nation’s survival. In some ways, the roots of this issue actually go back to the Garden of Eden. But more recently, we can trace them to specific people and ideas. Below is a brief run down of what I have learned over the years. I’m sure there’s more and would welcome anyone who can add to our knowledge and wisdom on this (and any other) topic.

In the early 1990s, Michael Minnicino wrote an article entitled The Frankfurt School and “Political Correctness” (link below) in which he traced the roots of what he called “the new Dark Age.” He wrote that our current state was “consciously fostered and organized.” He posited that “either we create a Renaissance—a rebirth of the fundamental principles upon which civilization originated—or, our civilization dies.”

Minnicino identified the “single, most important organizational component of this conspiracy” as having been a Communist thinktank known as the Frankfurt School whose members were desperately disappointed that the glorious Bolshevik Revolution in Russia had not inspired the proletariat of other European countries to rise up and overthrow their own governments.

One of the members – Georg Lukacs (photo above) – wrote, “Who will save us from Western civilization?” A hundred years ago, Lukacs promoted sex education in the schools, easy access to contraception, and loose divorce laws. So did Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. So do the majority of the leaders and members of today’s Democratic Party.

Lukacs believed that what kept the West from embracing Communism was their Judeo-Christian belief in the uniqueness and sacredness of the individual and in the possibility of enjoying an unmediated relationship with the Divine. From Lukascz’ (and Satan’s) point of view, no society infused with such beliefs could ever “reach the state of hopelessness and alienation which Lukacs recognized as the necessary prerequisite for socialist revolution.”

Lukacs and the other denizens of the Frankfurt School sought to identify the means by which the Judaeo-Christian cultural matrix could be replaced with a demonic world view. They sought cultural forms that would alienate people from truth and goodness. In modern art, literature, and music, they promoted ugliness, pessimism, and discord. Brecht, for example attempted to write his plays so as to make the audience leave the theater demoralized and aimlessly angry.

The Frankfurt School saw the new technologies of radio, film, and recorded music as golden opportunities to exert control over society’s cultural matrix. They sought to do this, in part, by substituting art with entertainment. In 1937, the Rockefeller Foundation (a supporter of the Frankfurt School) began funding research into the social effects of new forms of mass media, particularly radio, basing its headquarters at Princeton University. The director of the “Radio Project” was a Marxist named Paul Lazersfeld.

Under Lazersfeld was Frank Stanton, who one day would become president of the CBS News Division, and ultimately president of CBS. Stanton also became Chairman of the Board of the RAND Corporation and a member of President Lyndon Johnson’s “kitchen cabinet.” Another member of the Rockefeller Foundations’ radio research was Herta Herzog, who married Lazersfeld and became the first director of research for the Voice of America, which functioned from 1942 until Trump shut them down in March of this year.

The efforts of the Radio Project conspirators to manipulate the population spawned the modern pseudoscience of public opinion polling. Another member of the Radio Project was Hazel Gaudet, who became one of the nation’s leading political pollsters. In 1966, Gaudet organized the first meetings of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Nevada in her own living room. In 1970, she was elected Nevada’s representative on ACLU’s national board.

The major pollsters of today—A.C. Neilsen, George Gallup, Elmo Roper—started in the mid-1930’s and, by 1936, had become sufficiently widespread to justify a trade association, the American Academy of Public Opinion Research, which was located at Princeton and headed by Paul Lazersfeld. In 1940, the Office of Radio Research was turned into the Bureau of Applied Social Research, a division of Columbia University, also headed by Paul Lazersfeld. In fact, the entire development of television and advertising in the 1950’s and 1960’s was pioneered by men and women who were trained in the Frankfurt School’s techniques of mass alienation. Their techniques would eventually control American political campaigning.

The Frankfurt School also made major inroads in American academia. In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of baby boomers were exposed to the Frankfurt School’s poison, either directly or indirectly, when they attended college. It is no coincidence that this is also when student rebellions, widespread drug use, and the sexual revolution began.

By the 1990s, the ideas hatched at the Frankfurt School dominated the universities where students were taught to replace reason with political correctness. More recently, the cancel culture’s tolerance for all things left and intolerance for all things right have permeated our entire society. It is worth noting that Saul Alinsky and his protegé, Barack Obama, are both acolytes of the Frankfurt School.

Thirty-three years ago, Minnicino wrote that our only way out was “to discard the evil, and inhuman, and just plain stupid, and to go back, hundreds or thousands of years, to the ideas which allow humanity to grow in freedom and goodness.” I think it is clear that we are not embroiled in some new and different socio-political battle; rather, we are in the midst of what is likely the end of the ages old spiritual battle that began in the Garden of Eden. Obviously, the only way out is found in the Bible.

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by | August 5, 2025 · 10:21 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to intentionally choose Your will over our own desires, every moment of every day, regardless of who is or isn’t watching. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

CBS: [7:34] – CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, has been sold to Skydance Media in an $8 billion merger, which was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 24, 2025. The deal includes CBS, CBS News, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central, among other assets. Skydance, backed by Oracle founder Larry Ellison and led by his son David Ellison, made concessions like eliminating DEI and committing to an ombudsman to address alleged bias in CBS News.

CRUZ: CLICK https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1952390476473966882 to hear Sen. Ted Cruz reveal that he never spoke with Biden during the entire four years of his presidency. Not once.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SHBKgeFsQx0 to hear how hard they’re finding it to actually raise campaign money, instead of stealing it from taxpayers. Grok tells me the New York Slime has reported that the most recent disclosure reports show …

  1. Republican National Committee (RNC) currently has five times as much money as the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and,
  2. The Republican’s super pac, MAGA Inc., has $177 million cash on hand, while its Democrat counterpart, PAC Future Forward, has a whopping $2,826.08.

FLORIDA: Following a six-day undercover operation targeting online child predators, Florida arrested 48 pedophiles.

LIFE: [3:37] – CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/737237009169007 to see a guy go from “it’s a woman’s choice” to “maybe if it’s just the morning after pill” after watching the video above.

MARY’S MANTLE: Women in many cultures, including those of the Middle East, use their shawls as baby blankets and as cloth baby carriers to keep the hands free for daily tasks. While the theological and artistic depictions of “Mary’s mantle” typically emphasize Mary’s shawl used as a cloak, she likely used her shawl/mantle to swaddle Jesus when he was a newborn, to cover Him when he slept, and to carry him against her skin while she worked.

The etymology of the word “mantle” offers more opportunities for meditation. The Latin word “mantellum” meant “cloak, cloth, hand-towel, napkin” perhaps related to the Latin “manus” for “hand” – e.g., “manuscript” = “hand written”). In Old English, “mentel” referred to “a loose, sleeveless garment worn as an outer covering, falling in straight lines from the shoulders” and in Old French “mantel” meant “cloak; bedspread, cover.” From the 1300s, it has referred to something “that which enshrouds, something that conceals, a covering”, thus the layer of the earth between the crust and core.

OKLAHOMA: In an effort to prevent leftist ideologies from infiltrating Oklahoma’s classrooms, teachers relocating from liberal-leaning states will be required to pass a new certification test to prove they align with Oklahoma’s curriculum standards.

RUSSIAN COLLUSION: [11:23] – Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff doesn’t pull punches.

TEXAS: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1952387626423476490 to hear Gov. Abbott play hard ball with Texas House Democrats who have left the state to break quorum and block a Republican-led effort to pass a redrawn congressional map that would flip five Democratic congressional districts to favor Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms. By refusing to come to work, they seek to prevent the House from achieving the two-thirds majority (100 out of 150 members) needed to conduct business, effectively stalling the vote. Gov. Abbott’s threat to remove them from office has the force of a 2021 Texas Supreme Court decision.

CLICK https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1952463495867269370 [:57]. The Texas House has passed a motion to issue arrest warrants for those legislators who fail to attend a mandated session. GOOD! I used to get into trouble for being ten minutes late to my shift. Skipping out altogether while still expecting a paycheck? ::eyeroll::

CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1952457586038706464 to watch live cam of the Texas House, which is set to convene today at 3 pm.

TRANS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1445970146460543 to hear the trans-detrans story of a young man who was abused and lied to by his pediatrician and his therapist. Thank God he never did more than socially transition for a couple of years, so is now a fully intact, fully functional man.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5l-wKAfqqzE. I think these two could recite the phone book and make me laugh.

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by | August 4, 2025 · 4:58 pm

We are not like them

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k5ZH0CZQtmY to hear a liberal white women and Charlie Kirk give their answers to this question: “Would you rather have a black kid’s role model be Kendrick Lamar or Clarence Thomas?”

Clarence and Ginni Thomas have been married since 1987. The liberal white woman’s repeated statements that Justice Thomas is opposed to racially mixed marriages is both stupid and wrong. Not only is his wife obviously a Caucasian, but also Grok says “there is no evidence in his judicial record, opinions, or public statements suggesting he has advocated for banning interracial marriages.” Speaking to the liberal white woman’s repeated references to Roe v. Wade, that decision was about abortion, not racially mixed marriages.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the man Charlie Kirk would prefer be a role model to a young Black boy, has been serving on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1991. He has consistently interpreted the Constitution based on its original meaning and text, often rejecting precedent (stare decisis) when he believes it deviates from the Framers’ intent.

Thomas champions federalism as a limit on federal power, as seen in Hyatt, Shelby County, and his Dormant Commerce Clause critiques (Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Harrison). He argues the Constitution contains no “negative” Commerce Clause.

He has been a robust defender of free speech, gun rights, and executive power. Likewise, he consistently opposes affirmative action, abortion rights, and expansive criminal defendant protections. His lone dissent in cases like Dawson v. Delaware (1992) and concurrence in Missouri v. Jenkins (1995) reflect his willingness to stand alone.

Kendrick Lamar, the man the liberal white woman would prefer be a role model to a young Black boy, is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. He was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Below are the lyrics from one of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” which won five Grammy Awards in 2025 (Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Music Video). It also won three BET Hip-Hop Awards, a Billboard Music Award, two NAACP Image Awards (Outstanding Song – Hip-Hop/Rap Song and Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album), and two ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards.

Psst, I see dead people
Mustard on the beat, ho

Ay, Mustard on the beat, ho
Deebo, any rap nigga, he a free-throw
Man down, call an amberlamps, tell him, “Breathe, bro”
Nail a nigga to the cross, he walk around like Teezo
What’s up with these jabroni-ass niggas tryna see Compton?
The industry can hate me, fuck ’em all and they mama
How many opps you really got? I mean, it’s too many options
I’m finna pass on this body, I’m John Stockton
Beat your ass and hide the Bible if God watchin’

Sometimes you gotta pop out and show niggas
Certified boogeyman, I’m the one that upped the score with ’em
Walk him down, whole time I know he got some ho in him
Pole on him, extort shit, bully the flow on him
Say, Drake, I hear you like ’em young
You better not ever go to cell block one
To any bitch that talk to him and they in love
Just make sure you hide your lil’ sister from him

They tell me Chubbs the only one that get your hand-me-downs
And PARTY at the party, playin’ with his nose now
And Baka got a weird case, why is he around?
Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles
Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, Dot, fuck ’em up
Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, I’ma do my stuff
Why you trollin’ like a bitch? Ain’t you tired?
Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor

They not like us, they not like us, they not like us
They not like us, they not like us, they not like us

You think the Bay gon’ let you disrespect Pac, nigga?
I think that Oakland show gon’ be your last stop, nigga
Did Cole fouI, I don’t know why you still pretendin’
What is the owl? Bird niggas and bird bitches, go
The audience not dumb, shape the stories how you want
Hey, Drake, they’re not slow
Rabbit hole is still deep, I can go further, I promise
Ain’t that somethin’? B-Rad stands for bitch and you Malibu most wanted

Ain’t no law, boy, you ballboy, fetch Gatorade or somethin’
Since 2009, I had this bitch jumpin’
You niggas’ll get a wedgie, be flipped over your boxers
What OVO for? The “Other Vaginal Option”? Pussy
Nigga better straighten they posture, got famous all up in Compton
Might write this for the doctorate, tell the pop star quit hidin’
Fuck a caption, want action, no accident
And I’m hands-on, he fuck around, get polished

Fucked on Wayne girl while he was in jail, that’s connivin’
Then get his face tatted like a bitch apologizin’
I’m glad DeRoz’ came home, y’all didn’t deserve him neither
From Alondra down to Central, nigga better not speak on Serena
And your homeboy need subpoena, that predator move in flocks
That name gotta be registered and placed on neighborhood watch
I lean on you niggas like another line of Wock’
Yeah, it’s all eyes on me, and I’ma send it up to Pac, ay

Put the wrong label on me, I’ma get ’em dropped, ay
Sweet Chin Music, and I won’t pass the aux, ay
How many stocks do I really have in stock? Ay
One, two, three, four, five, plus five, ay
Devil is a lie, he a 69 God, ay
Freaky-ass niggas need to stay they ass inside, ay
Roll they ass up like a fresh pack of ‘za, ay
City is back up, it’s a must, we outside, ay

They not like us, they not like us, they not like us
They not like us, they not like us, they not like us

Once upon a time, all of us was in chains
Homie still doubled down callin’ us some slaves
Atlanta was the Mecca, buildin’ railroads and trains
Bear with me for a second, let me put y’all on game
The settlers was usin’ town folk to make ’em richer
Fast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda
You run to Atlanta when you need a check balance
Let me break it down for you, this the real nigga challenge

You called Future when you didn’t see the club (ay, what?)
Lil Baby helped you get your lingo up (what?)
21 gave you false street cred
Thug made you feel like you a slime in your head (ay, what?)
Quavo said you can be from Northside (what?)
2 Chainz say you good, but he lied
You run to Atlanta when you need a few dollars
No, you not a colleague, you a fuckin’ colonizer
The family matter, and the truth of the matter
It was God’s plan to show y’all the liar

Mm, mm-mm
He a fan, he a fan, he a fan (mm), he a fan, he a fan, he a

Freaky-ass nigga, he a 69 God
Freaky-ass nigga, he a 69 God
Hey, hey, hey, hey, run for your life
Hey, hey, hey, hey, run for your life
Freaky-ass nigga, he a 69 God
Freaky-ass nigga, he a 69 God
Hey, hey, hey, hey, run for your life
Hey, hey, hey, hey, run for your life

Let me hear you say, “OV-ho” (OV-ho)
Say, “OV-ho” (OV-ho)
Then step this way, step that way
Then step this way, step that way
Are you my friend?
Are we locked in?
Then step this way, step that way
Then step this way, step that way

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