MASCOTS: While the Buzzers were here, they made HUGE progress on their fear of dogs. By the time they left, they were so eager to play with Daisey that she was begging to get locked in her crate so she could get a rest! LOL
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GRAMMY IN RECOVERY: Hugged and kissed the last departures yesterday morning. ::sigh:: It was a great holiday. I’m exhausted! LOL The toys are almost all back on their shelves, but I can’t find the marbles for the marble run. No doubt the fastest way to find them will be to order a new bag of marbles. Dishes – half done. Laundry – half done. Desk – don’t ask. Aaaaaand, on to the news …
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Border Wall Shutdown
SHUTDOWN NOTHINGBURGER: Rasmussen polled voters and found that while we are overwhelmingly aware that there’s a partial shutdown of the federal government, most of us haven’t been inconvenienced at all. Two percent of those surveyed thought it hadn’t even started yet!
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Must Watch: Tucker Carlson’s Wisdom
TUCKER CARLSON: America First means Families First –– Tucker’s 15 minute commentary on what is wrong with America is very well worth your time and attention. It can be seen at the link.
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JANUARY 4: I started this yesterday, then had to go be a Grammy. “Poor” me ;).
FAKE NEWS: NBC says, “Hours after being sworn in, Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib appears to tell a cheering crowd of supporters that the Democrats ‘are gonna impeach the motherf—er’ in a video posted online.”
No, NBC, that is not what she appeared to say; that is what she did say. Continue reading
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MASCOTS: Our autistic mascots have a sensory swing at their house. They use it every day. They also have a mini trampoline that folds up and fits into its own carry case. That one piece of equipment is so important to Lil Buzz’s well-being that it goes with them whenever they are spending a night or more away from home.
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GRAMMY UPDATE: The Buzzers departed this morning. The Texans arrive tomorrow afternoon. Grammy is semi-comatose with exhaustion, but will do her best by all y’all to check out the news! 🙂 When I get to the Pearly Gates, I hope to find someone who can explain why God decided that small children should have sooooooooo much more energy than the grown-ups who love them!
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SCIENCE CENTER FUN: This sand table is hooked up to 3D mapping software. If you wiggle your fingers over it, the computer will make “rain” and show you how the water will behave on the terrain you built with the sand. As I write this, the Mascots have finished getting Bootz’s “I face planted on a table” stitches removed from his lower lip and are enjoying lunch at Friendly! So I’m going to be rushing again to get this posted before they return cuz Grammy gotta be Grammy!
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HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION: Remember, my Catholic readers, that tomorrow is the Feast of Mary, Mother of God. It is a Holy Day of Obligation.
WALLOWING IN LOVE: Gotta be quick here — The Buzzers are at the Science Center getting their energy out so they don’t demolish Grammy, so I can do a quick blog so long as I finish up before they return. 🙂 They are heading home on Wednesday morning, then Army Princess and her crew arrive mid-day on Thursday!
BORDER: Democrats don’t care — Sunday morning on FOX and Friends author and columnist Deroy Murdock broke down the Democrat Party’s record on border security. On issue after issue Democrats have voted against securing the borders and Democrats have protected illegal entry into America. This is a very dangerous policy. Thousands of Americans die each year from violent assaults and illegal drugs.
MEANWHILE: Trump’s outgoing chief of staff, John Kelly, says — “To be honest, it’s not a wall. The president still says ‘wall’ — oftentimes frankly he’ll say ‘barrier’ or ‘fencing,’ now he’s tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it.”
OBAMACARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL: No appeals — A federal judge who recently declared Obamacare unconstitutional has stayed (or halted) his decision to allow for appeals. Judge Reed O’Connor says he stands by his earlier conclusion that the law was effectively invalidated by the recent tax law that reduced the penalty for not getting insurance to $0.
HYPOCRISY: Can somebody come up with as good a nickname as “Fauxcahontas” for this Hispanic-American Princess? — Ocasio-Cortez was forced to change her campaign bio page after she was caught lying about living in two worlds when she grew up in Worcester. She left the Bronx when she was five years old. She grew up in a small, homogeneous, affluent suburb, where she attended excellent schools before pretending she grew up in the Bronx.
RAKE STOMP OF THE YEAR: Net neutrality freak-out — A year ago, Democrats were predicting doom if Obama’s net neutrality rule was overturned.
Chuck Schumer: “If #NetNeutrality is eliminated, the Internet may start to resemble a toll road, with the highest bidders cruising along private “fast lanes” while the rest of us inch along a single, traffic-choked public lane.” Bernie Sanders called it, “An egregious attack on our democracy.” Nancy Pelosi predicted “higher costs and less choice.”
Real life proved them all wrong, as per usual. My favorite nyah-nyah tweet: The internet is better now, but only because so many people died from overturning net neutrality that it freed up more bandwidth.
TRUMP ECONOMY: This makes Democrats nuts — Under President Trump “unemployment rate is matching its low point of the last half-century…An all-time high 130 million Americans now have a job…Wages are rising…Americans are again the most productive & among the highest-paid workers in the world.” — Sarah Sanders
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: Year end wrap up — Tom Gilson takes a look back at the major religious liberty stories from 2018, from the Little Sisters of the Poor to baker Jack Phillips to the outlawing of Catholic adoption services in Philadelphia.
MASS GRAVE OF CHRISTIANS: ISIS victims found in Libya — A mass grave of 34 Ethiopian Christians executed by the so-called Islamic State group in 2015 has reportedly been unearthed in Libya. The bodies have been exhumed and will be eventually repatriated to Ethiopia, the Libyan interior ministry says.
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OH NOES THE SHUTDOWN: President Trump canceled his Christmas trip to Mar-a-Lago to work during the shutdown, but Pelosi jet-setted to Hawaii while 800,000 government employees are currently not working. Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters was spotted partying in the Bahamas. Democrats are blaming President Trump for the shutdown, saying he’s acting like a spoiled child. But when he offered a compromise, they turned him down flat.
RUH ROH: President Donald Trump on Friday issued an executive order which would halt a planned 2.1 percent pay increase for federal government workers, something that is done automatically. Currently, about 800,000 federal employees are on furlough or working without pay because of the partial government shutdown. The only workers who are exempt from the blanket order are members of the military who are scheduled to receive a 2.6 percent pay raise
TRIP WAS UNANNOUNCED: Why would you want to tell the enemy that POTUS is coming? — Former Secret Service agent, Dan Bongino, says, “Dear Libs, Presidential trips to conflict zones are NOT scheduled days in advance. They’re scheduled weeks in advance with advance teams on the ground up to 1-2 weeks prior. Your dopey suggestion that Trump took this Iraq trip in response to your criticisms this week is just dumb.”
ACOSTA’S TAKE: “O.M.G. Trump signed hats!” — The reality: Troops cheered Trump. Wildly. And the hats? They belonged to the soldiers who ASKED him to sign. Not like Obama, who had free cameras distributed to the troops he deigned to visit AND who handed out White House challenge coins to soldiers while he was actively campaigning.
TRUMP’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS: What the media has ignored over the past two years — It’s a looooong list! Way too much to reproduce here!
COP KILLER ARRESTED: He’s a known gang member — Police have arrested the illegal suspected of murdering California Police Corporal Ronil Singh. Word has it that the shooting happened when Singh stopped the thug on a suspected DUI. Wait, wut? I thought Nancy told us that we’re all SAFER if we have no border, cuz immigrants just want a better life.
DEMS SUCK: A majority of the Democrats in Congress tweeted about the recent and unavoidable deaths of two children while in Border Patrol custody. Not one of them tweeted about the vicious murder of a California police officer by an illegal with known gang affiliation.
SHERIFFS WANT THE WALL: A group of sheriffs from around the country recently called on Congress to pass at least $5 billion toward building a wall along the 2,000-mile southwest border. —
“The No. 1 issue facing all Americans, I don’t care who you ask, is the heroin epidemic that affects us all. And the Mexican drug-trafficking cartels dominate that industry and they’re controlling it coming into and throughout the United States. … I’m tired of dealing with overdoses. I’m tired of dealing with violent crime. I’m tired of dealing with human trafficking. … We’re making arrests all the time, but they keep coming and they keep coming because our borders are wide open.”
VIDEO: Language warning! — It seems like this stuff keeps happening, yet I cannot remember even a single instance of a right-winger insulting, refusing service, or oughtright assaulting ANYone who was wearing an Obama t-shirt or hat. Can any of you? Yet WE’RE THE HATERS?! I. Don’t. Think. So.
CLIMATE HYPOCRISY: “Do as we say, not as we do” — The New York Times published an editorial Wednesday lamenting President Donald Trump’s reversal of Obama-era climate policies. The New York Times flew wealthy readers around the world in a private jet for $135,000 a piece.
REALLY FAKE NEWS: The German weekly Der Spiegel, one of the top-selling publications in Europe, is reeling from a scandal that revealed that star reporter, Claas Relotius, has been making up his “news” stories for years.
GOOD RIDDANCE: An abortuary with multiple health code violations is now closed — Whole Woman’s Health of San Antonio, which was aborting unborn babies up to 17.6 weeks, was part of a larger Texas-based abortion chain that has amassed dozens of health and safety violations at its facilities. In 2012, they were caught illegally dumping aborted babies’ body parts. In 2013, they were cited for dozens of health violations, including problems with the sterilization of abortion instruments, lack of an RN or LVN on staff, rusty suction machines and expired and unlabeled medications. In 2017, they were cited for the same problems, including reusing instruments on multiple women without sterilizing and disinfecting them in between.
PROGRESSIVE ECONOMICS: New York’s Mayor Bill De Blasio urged New Yorkers not to patronize a Chick-fil-A that opened up in the city, but he’s going to hire people to pick up dirty needles that junkies leave lying around. Cuz golly gee whiz, those people who have just shot themselves full of whatever crap they use to avoid living in the real world rudely leave their used equipment on the ground rather than carrying it to the handy needle disposal bins the city’s tax payers provided for them. Who woulda thunk?
PROGRESSIVE EATING: How do you know someone’s a vegan? — Just wait two minutes and they’ll tell you. But hey, it turns out you can’t be white AND a woke vegan, because Americans are neocolonialist tools who have destroyed the diets of the native peoples who used to be able to afford tofu and quinoa. Or something.
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP: Organizers of the Women’s March in Humboldt County, California, announced Friday that they have canceled the local Jan. 19 event because the marchers are overwhelmingly white.
WAIT, WUT?: On September 20, 2016, Kellogg Community College in Michigan arrested three people for handing out copies of the Constitution on campus. Yes, you read that right…the Constitution, the very document that protects free speech. Only now, a year and four months after the arrests and after a full year of litigation, has KCC finally be forced by the court to change its ridiculous speech policy.
NO, NO, AND NO: California is about to implement new sex education lessons that promote abortion and homosexuality. At least one school district has told parents they will NOT be allowed to opt out of having their children attend.
DO BRAIN WORK FIRST THING: According to psychologist Ron Friedman, the first three hours of your day are your most precious for maximized productivity. “Typically, we have a window of about three hours where we’re really, really focused. We’re able to have some strong contributions in terms of planning, in terms of thinking, in terms of speaking well.”
I’M NOT THE WORST MOTHER IN THE WORLD AFTER ALL: I used to tell my kids I was whenever they complained about my rules — Alissa Evans, 9, had complained that her advent calendar chocolates tasted funny but her mother, Jess Evans, assumed she was just being picky so Alissa ate the candy each day … for ELEVEN days. Then Mommy Dearest read the front “Advent calendar for cats with Yogurt and Catnip Flavour Treats.” Whoops! But wait … an Advent calendar for cats?
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