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1984: For more than 20 years, people have freely shared a “Letter to America” on the internet. The letter, which has been attributed to Osama bin Laden (who may not have written it) justified the 9/11 attacks as retribution for, among other things, the West’s alliance with Israel’s “occupation” of Palestine.

The letter said that attacking American civilians is justified because America claims to be governed democratically and thus every man, woman, and child is responsible for the government’s decisions. But now the cool kids “stand with Palestine” so a “Letter to America” has had to be disappeared.

The Guardian, which published the letter on November 24, 2002, removed it on November 15, 2023. A copy that was posted on Scribd has also disappeared. And TikTok has removed the hashtag #lettertoamerica from its search function.

Edward Teach writes at Not The Bee, “I hate to tell you, but this was always the end-goal of neo-commie land acknowledgments, tearing down statues, The 1619 Project, and CRT classes. Wokies have been brainwashed into thinking that America is the Great Satan.”

• https://notthebee.com/article/these-leftists-are-now-agreeing-with-osama-bin-laden-because-america-is-evil-or-something
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/11/16/tiktok-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america-september-11-terrorism/?sh=5bfe519d2e3a
• https://www.scribd.com/doc/266009735/Letter-to-the-American-People
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tiktok-removes-hashtag-for-osama-bin-laden-s-letter-to-america-after-viral-videos-circulate/ar-AA1k3yPD
• https://twitter.com/search?q=osama%20bin%20laden%20letter%20to%20america&src=typed_query

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chjSLZMxys0 [5:03] to hear Fr. Mike explain what priests wear at Mass. The vestment colors in the photo (l to r):

• Violet/Purple symbolizes sorrow, mourning, repentance, and penance. It is used in Advent and Lent. Violet/Purple or Black may also be worn in Offices and Masses for the dead. On Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of Advent) and Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent), Rose may be substituted for Violet/Purple. These are the same Sundays when we light rose (not pink!) candles on our Advent wreaths.
• Red symbolizes the Holy Spirit, the Passion of Our Lord, and for martyrdom. It is used on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, Pentecost Sunday, celebrations of the Lord’s passion, “birthday” feasts of the apostles and evangelists, and celebrations of martyrs;
• Gold and Silver: May be substituted for white on most solemn feasts and carries the same symbolism of white.
• White symbolizes joy, exuberance, celebration, resurrection, victory, purity, and innocence. It is used in the offices and masses during the seasons of Easter and Christmas, as well as for celebrations of the Lord, other than of His passion, for celebrations of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the angels, saints who were not martyrs, for the Solemnity of All Saints (November 1), the feasts of the Birth of John the Baptist (June 24), of John, apostle, evangelist (December 27), of the Chair of Peter (February 22), and of the Conversion of Paul (January 25). White may also be used for Masses for the dead.
• Green symbolizes hope, everlasting life, and fidelity. It is used in the offices and Masses of Ordinary Time.

• https://catholicexchange.com/the-color-of-vestments-throughout-the-year/

EV: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6w1Ms1VWxM [4:30] to hear about a problem with EV charging stations that nobody talks about.

FAUCI: A FOIA’d email has been released by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). It was sent on June 17, 2021 by Fauci deputy, Dr. David Morens, the senior adviser to the director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Morens has worked for the agency for more than two decades.

Entitled “CONFIDENTIAL WITHOUT OUR SMALL GROUP, PLEASE,” Dr. Morens’ missive went to a group of colleagues in the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (AJTMH). These people included Dr. Peter Daszak, whose EcoHealth Alliance group helped funnel money from the NIH to the Wuhan laboratory to do gain-of-function research that may have contributed to the development of the COVID-19 virus.

In the email, Dr. Morens referred to a request to the NIH by a group of senators for documents on how the NIH handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Morens wrote, “I have retained very few emails or documents on these matters, and continue to request that correspondence on sensitive issues be sent to me at my gmail [sic] address.“

Senator Johnson noted that Dr. Morens appears to have intentionally deleted or destroyed the very records being requested. Furthermore, his stated preference to receive correspondence on “sensitive issues” through Gmail shows a willful attempt to evade federal record keeping requirements. Johnson also noted that the NIH has repeatedly failed to hand over the requested records that were requested more than two years ago.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/new-email-shows-fauci-adviser-suggesting-he-destroyed-records-5531024

GAYS FOR GAZA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1088573538810652 for a quick dose of reality.

JOHN McNAUGHTON: (Left to right) Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Anthony Fauci, Xi Jinping, Rachel Levine, General Milley, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Jen Psaki, Hunter Biden, Vladimir Putin, and Barack Obama.

• https://www.ebay.com/itm/265574177143

JOY BEHAR: And yet, I also love you, Joy, albeit in a “only because my God commands it” kinda way.

• https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/11/16/behar-saying-you-love-trump-and-jesus-is-an-oxymoron/

LIFE: On Wednesday, the U.S. bishops affirmed without floor debate that abortion is their “preeminent priority” ahead of the 2024 elections “because it directly attacks our most vulnerable and voiceless brothers and sisters and destroys more than a million lives per year in our country alone.” The amendment passed an overwhelming 225 votes in favor, 11 opposing, and seven abstaining. Methinks 18 bishops have some explaining to do.

• https://catholicvote.org/bishops-reaffirm-abortion-is-preeminent-priority-ahead-of-2024/

COMICS: Like Budweiser, the makers of superhero comics don’t seem to have a clue who their target audience is. In October 2021, DC started a series about a gay Superman who was super into climate change; sales were terrible, so a year later, the series was canceled.

Last month, Disney’s Marvel launched a super gay and ponographic series, “Alan Scott: The Green Lantern (2023-)” which has 2 books so far. Its writer, Tim Sheridan, even begged readers to flip the bird at “the haters and the queerphobes” by making “this book an undeniable success. The only way to prove to the big publishers that there’s a huge market for authentic stories about LGBTQIA+ characters and these stories are for everyone is to buy the heck out of books like this.”

Funny how he didn’t say, “It’s great and you will totes want to read it!” Nope. It’s all “buy it because it’s all gay and celebrating sodomy.” But you know what they say. Get woke and go broke. The book’s sales were so bad that it failed to even make it on to the ComicHub chart. One reviewer at Amazon wrote, “If you ever wonder why so many new Hollywood sequels fail so bad, look no further than this poorly written graphic novel. My six year old son could write a more interesting book. Just really bad.”

• https://notthebee.com/article/after-comic-book-readers-rejecting-a-bi-superman-dc-tried-again-with-a-gay-green-lantern-the-results-were-the-same
• https://notthebee.com/article/sad-dc-cancels-gay-superman-comic-over-lack-of-sales
• https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/11/08/comic-book-readers-reject-sodomy-filled-alan-scott-green-lantern-book-by-tim-sheridan/

TENNESSEE: Montage above shows postings by Nicholas Jones, an elementary school teacher in the White County School District in Sparta. She calls herself “Nicholas Vice”, a “drag queen”, and a “certified sl*t.” Her posts also include dark images about killing people and a lengthy “hate this country” rant saying pro-lifers should “f-ck off.”

• https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/daily-briefing-targets-tucking-backlash
• https://www.whitecoschools.net/

VAXXX: The United States Army is begging unvaxxxed soldiers who underwent involuntary discharge for their refusal to take the vaccine to return to service. They’re even offering to remove the reprimands that were placed in their military records.

• https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/the-army-is-begging-unvaccinated

GRAMMY NOTES: One of Buzz’s birthday presents was this super fun ax throwing game. 🙂

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rGaTDksZsSc and I dare you not to smile.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uZPl0n-rB6s to see a wonderful UPS guy go above and beyond.

2024: A Michigan judge has squashed an effort to keep Trump off the state primary ballot. Trump’s campaign said, “Each and every one of these ridiculous cases has LOST because they are all un-Constitutional left-wing fantasies orchestrated by monied allies of the Biden campaign seeking to turn the election over to the courts and deny the American people the right to choose their next president.”

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/michigan-judge-dismisses-case-to-take-trump-off-the-ballot-5529642

ASTRAZENECA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDWdXXclQvs [17:19] to hear Dr. John Campbell report on lawsuits filed by British citizens who were injured by the AstraZeneca COVID vaxxxine.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LWMW7A1I8 [4:34] to see a lovely video about the profession of a cloistered nun. Both nuns and sisters are women religious, but there is a difference. While both take vows of chastity, poverty and obedience and spend their lives in prayer and work, nuns typically live in cloistered convents, while sisters typically live and work in more public venues, often in education or health care. Sisters usually live in community (i.e., a convent with other sisters of their order) and may or may not wear a habit.

• https://www.simplycatholic.com/nun-vs-sister/

FINLAND: The Helsinki Court of Appeal has voted unanimously to dismiss charges against two Christians who had been charged with “hate speech” for expressing their religious beliefs. Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADF International) said, “The cross-examination bore all the resemblance of a ‘heresy’ trial of the Middle Ages; it was implied that Räsänen had ‘blasphemed’ against the dominant orthodoxies of the day.”

• https://catholicvote.org/finland-court-ruling-upholds-religious-freedom-free-speech/

LOL: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXcFGgwP1J4 [6:15] to see Chris Pratt try to do a card trick. Watch to the end. 🙂

PEDOPHILE: Slade Sohmer (44) has been charged in Massachusetts with possessing and disseminating hundreds of child pornography images and videos. Since 2010, Sohmer has worked as a co-director at Camp Power, a nonprofit which “provides kids from New York City’s most underfunded and underserved neighborhoods with freedom and encouragement that are often lacking in their communities back in the city.”

Court documents allege that his phone contained disturbing video clips showing boys believed to be as young as three years of age being raped and forced to perform sex acts by adults. More charges are likely coming, since Sohmer appears to have crossed over from enjoying and sharing kiddie porn to creating it.

• https://nypost.com/2023/11/14/media/ex-editor-in-chief-of-the-recount-charged-with-child-pornography/
• https://www.theblaze.com/news/police-arrest-former-editor-and-chief-of-leftist-news-site-on-child-porn-charges

SATAN CLUB: A school district in Lebanon, Connecticut has started a new fun, fun new after-school activity for the kids. But no worries, haters. It’s not “religious” but “emphasize a scientific, rationalistic, and non-superstitious worldview.” Yeah, that’s what he said to Eve, too.

• https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1724486730877726789?s=20

TRANS: CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1724197370316128380?s=20 [:35] to hear an angry trannie go on, at length, about how much she hates everybody who doesn’t approve of his/her lifestyle. I wondered about the “many, many” trannies s/he states have allegedly been murdered by so-called transphobes, so I googled and found that the Slime Stream Media reported that, in 2021, 375 transgender people were murdered in what was allegedly the deadliest year since records began. The Forbes article was authored by Jamie Wareham, Founder of “QueerAF,” which I’m sure makes him a totally objective observer.

At first glance, the figure appears to be about murders in the U.S.; nope, they’re GLOBAL. Other enlightening stats are that 58% of those murdered were sex workers, while 96% of those murdered were mtf (male to female) people. It sounds to me like most of these victims were male sex workers who enticed johns who became lethally angry about not getting a real woman. Also, one in four trans victims were murdered in their own homes, which sounds more like domestic violence between cohabiting adults than random hate crimes against anonymous victims, you know?

In the U.S. for that same “most deadly year for trans people,” the FBI reports that only 3.2% of all the hate crimes reported to them were caused by the offenders’ transphobia (i.e., gender identity bias) and only 18 involved homicide. If I did the math right, that works out to maybe one trannie was murdered by someone solely for being trans. Not to minimize the sinfulness of killing anybody for any reason, but I don’t think that maybe one qualifies as “many, many.”

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiewareham/2021/11/11/375-transgender-people-murdered-in-2021-deadliest-year-since-records-began/
• https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-supplemental-2021-hate-crime-statistics

WORLD WAR II: CLICK https://aleteia.org/2020/10/18/the-act-of-mercy-in-wwii-that-made-former-enemies-brothers/ to read a beautiful story of mercy and grace.

WONDERFUL: CLICK https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwCrKH4g9O6/ [2:10] to see what happened when the lights went out during a performance of Georges Bizet’s “Farandole” by the Piracicaba Symphony Orchestra (OSP) in Brazil. This reminds me of a story I heard once about a concert during which a cat had strolled across the stage. The choir was so focused on the director and the music that none of them noticed.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/orchestra-continues-flawless-performance-in-the-dark-during-power-outage-wowing-audience-5521579

GRAMMY NOTES: Forty-two years ago, I became a mother. Happy birthday, Mama Buzz! Thank you for growing up to be one of my best friends ever!

2024: A series of recent polls show that RFK Jr. is gaining momentum and is having a mostly equal impact on both Trump and Biden.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/trump-or-biden-who-has-most-to-lose-from-rfk-jr-s-independent-run-5527656

ABORTION: A session during an international pro-abortion conference identified the top four obstacles to making elective abortion available worldwide. 1. Conscientious objection by Hippocratic healthcare physicians. 2) The presence of the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant missionaries in healthcare. 3) Ultrasound, which shows the mother toward the humanity of her unborn child. 4) People who don’t want elective abortion legalized.

• https://catholicvote.org/abortion-conference-identified-catholic-church-obstacle/

AYAAN HIRSI ALI: Before today, I was familiar with this woman only as a vocal opponent of female genital mutilation. She apparently has also been a staunch atheist since abandoning the Muslim faith of her childhood. She just announced that she has become a Christian. The article linked below is her autobiographical account of how she embraced, then rejected Islam, embraced, then rejected atheism, and has now embraced Christianity.

The overwhelming point of her testimony is that she has embraced Christianity because she has decided it is useful. “I no longer consider myself a Muslim apostate, but a lapsed atheist. Of course, I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity. I discover a little more at church each Sunday. But I have recognised, in my own long journey through a wilderness of fear and self-doubt, that there is a better way to manage the challenges of existence than either Islam or unbelief had to offer.”

I pray she grows into a true relationship with Jesus Christ as her Savior.

• https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/

BIDENOMICS: A new survey conducted by the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business asked voters if Biden’s economic policies had helped, hurt, or had no impact on them. Only 14% said helped, while 70% said either hurt or no impact.

• https://bongino.com/disaster-only-24-of-democrats-say-theyre-better-off-financially-under-biden

BORDER: October was the second worst month on record for illegals.

• https://bongino.com/illegal-immigration-in-october-the-second-worst-month-on-record

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94UegJ-WOco [33:32] to hear a fascinating radio show featuring Bishop Barron. This is really worth your time. BTW, if you prefer to read, there is a transcript on the right hand side of the screen at YouTube. At least, it’s there on my full-sized desk monitor, but maybe/likely not visible on a phone.

FDA: Two of the FDA’s high-level regulatory officials involved in vaxxx oversight got cushy jobs at Moderna just months after signing off on the licensure of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/top-fda-officials-accepted-jobs-with-moderna-after-playing-key-roles-in-the-licensure-of-covid-19-vaccines-5526390

GRAMMY NOTES: After Buzz got the painting I did for his birthday (can you believe he’s 14!!), he said, “Thank you, Grammy!” on the phone with his mouth words. I feel like I won the lottery! :-)<3

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9CMflazgCzw for a Babylon Bee quickie.

2024: South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott announced on Sunday that he is suspending his presidential campaign.

• https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/12/tim-scott-presidential-campaign-00126793

BIBLE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/77ZFrT-ZxVg for an interesting bit of ancient Egyptian archaeology that confirms what is written in the Book of Judges.

BIDENOMICS: Moody’s, a global credit rating provider, has changed assessment of American credit from stable to negative, in part due to the ballooning U.S. debt. 

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-credit-rating-changed-from-stable-to-negative-as-national-debt-balloons
• https://www.usdebtclock.org/

CATHOLIC: If you’ve read my previous post, Catholic Scandal, you’ll have to wonder with me how much longer our vindictive pontiff will suffer Cardinal Müller’s criticism. In response to Pope Francis’ statement on transsexual godparents and homosexual baptisms, he wrote, “It is confusing and harmful when the Magisterium relies on the terminology of a nihilistic and atheistic anthropology and thus seems to lend its untruthful content the status of a legitimate theological opinion in the Church.”

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/cardinal-muller-pope-francis-dubia-transsexual-godparents/

SATIRE or PROPHECY: Twenty months ago, The Babylon Bee published a satire piece entitled, “Illegal Immigrants Flee Back To Mexico After Being Dropped Off In Crime-Ridden Wasteland.” On Monday, New York Post published a real news article entitled, “Fed-up migrants who trekked thousands of miles to US already heading home: ‘American Dream doesn’t exist’”

• https://notthebee.com/article/americas-sanctuary-cities-are-so-bad-some-migrants-are-heading-back-to-south-america
• https://babylonbee.com/news/illegal-immigrants-flee-back-to-mexico-after-being-dropped-off-in-crime-riddled-wasteland

GERMANY: The nation’s Parliament has quietly accepted a constitutional amendment on “children’s rights” drafted by a pro-pedophilia activist organization. What should be named the “pervert’s rights” amendment was drafted by men involved in a pro-pedophilia activist organization. Krumme-13, a lobby group which advocates for lowering the age of consent and legalizing child pornography. The group is now demanding that the “pedophile [sexual] identity” be “protected from discrimination, criminalization, exclusion and persecution” under Germany’s equality laws. May God have mercy.

• https://notthebee.com/article/report-germany-is-considering-a-constitutional-amendment-on-childrens-rights-submitted-by-pro-pedo-group-and-written-by-a-man-who-has-been-convicted-multiple-times-for-possessing-kiddie-porn

IOWA: Hannah Hoxie, a teacher in the Des Moines Public Schools, posted this picture of herself online. She has since locked her Instagram. Des Moines Public Schools has also restricted comments on their X account. Cuz, you know, transparency. And inclusiveness.

• https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1723041906031047024?s=20

OBAMA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/317089167746446 to hear Alan Dershowitz utterly condemn Barack Obama and say, unequivocally, how ashamed he is of ever having believed in him or counting him as a friend. He was responding to Obama’s remarks at the Obama Foundation’s Democracy Forum last Thursday, where he called the occupation of Palestine “unbearable.” Dershowitz elaborated during an interview with Maria Bartiromo, which is embedded @ https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/alan-dershowitz-calls-obamas-deep-hatred-israel-ashamed

RAPINOE: The America-hating soccer player fell all by her lonesome in what is being called a “non-contact injury.” Yeah. She slipped and hurt herself badly enough that her career is likely over. Kinda karmic, you know? Not to cheer that her career is over, but dang. The woman actually said, out loud, that her injury was proof there is no God.

Hamilton Porter wrote at Not The Bee, “Megan Rapinoe very well may be the most selfish, self-centered person in the history of sports. God doesn’t exist because you tripped over nothing and hurt yourself? God doesn’t exist because the world doesn’t revolve around you? You tripped over nothing so nothing is all there is?” Apparently so.

• https://notthebee.com/article/megan-rapinoe-says-she-has-proof-that-theres-no-god-because-she-was-injured-in-her-final-soccer-game

UK: Remember when the libtards sneered at Sarah Palin talking about death panels? Well, she was right. In the UK, you have no right to health care except what government bean counters allow. Indi Gregory was born 8 months ago with a mitochondrial disorder that required her to be in constant care. The UK’s bean counters decided her life was not valuable enough to warrant the cost and ordered her taken off life support.

The Vatican’s pediatric hospital pressured British authorities to release the baby to them and the Italian government went so far as to grant her emergency citizenship status so she could be immediately transferred. A four judge death panel ruled that it was more “compassionate” to end Indi’s life. She died today at 1:45 am.

• https://notthebee.com/article/uk-hospital-removes-baby-indi-gregory-from-life-support-despite-weeks-of-pleas-from-vatican-hospital-and-widespread-outcry

Pope Francis has frequently promoted modernist, pro-LGBT clerics who, like Francis, hate the Latin Mass, support abortion, and despise conservative Catholics. He’s said nasty things like “Catholics don’t have to breed like rabbits” and made it impossible for many to attend the Latin Masses they so love. But he has really showed his ugly side with three actions he has taken in the past 18 months that directly attacked three of his most faithful clerics.

In March 2022, Pope Francis abruptly and without explanation removed Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres from the Diocese of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Although there was no explanation, it is likely the action was a response by this pissy, vindictive pope to Torres’ support for conscience objections to COVID jab mandates. According to Pope Francis, you can’t be a good Christian if you’re unjabbed which, like his position on the death penalty and climate change policies, is a violation of Church teaching.

At the time, Bishop Torres decried Pope Francis’ removal of him as “a totally unjust action” noting that he was never formally accused of anything and had, in fact, been informed that he had committed no crime. “I was informed that I had committed no crime but that I supposedly ‘had not been obedient to the pope nor had I been in sufficient communion with my brother bishops of Puerto Rico. It was suggested to me that if I resigned from the diocese I would remain at the service of the Church in case at some time I was needed in some other position; an offer that in fact proves my innocence. A successor of the Apostles is now being replaced without even undertaking what would be a due canonical process to remove a parish priest.”

In November 2022, Pope Francis again ignored Canon Law when he defrocked Father Frank Pavone, the founder and president of Priests for Life, without warning or legal recourse. If I recall correctly, Pavone received the notice shortly before his father passed away, so was unable to celebrate his funeral Mass. As a priest who was allegedly guilty of blasphemy and disobedience to his bishop, Pavone had specific rights under the Code of Canon Law. He was denied these rights and wasn’t even given the courtesy of a warning. He received a “Supreme Decision admitting of no possibility of appeal,” something only the pontiff can issue, and told he had to stop celebrating the sacraments immediately. As a laicized priest, he has one right remaining, which is to hear a confession and absolve a sinner who is in danger of death.

And here we are, a year later, and it’s happened again. Pope Francis just removed Bishop Joseph Strickland from his position as shepherd of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas. Strickland, who is known for his unequivocal defense of Catholic teaching that is often cast in confusion by papal statements, says he doesn’t personally blame the pope. I don’t feel as generous. I think the man has shown his stripes to us all and has to take responsibility for the kind of advisors he has.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD7aknd8qgQ [7:13] to hear Terry Barber talk about the news. He says the apostolic nuncio (ambassador from the Vatican) to the United States said something to Bishop Strickland three years ago that should shock every faithful Catholic. The nuncio, Cardinal Christophe Pierre (photo above with Pope Francis), approached Bishop Joseph Strickland three years ago at a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and told him, “Look, the Holy Father is watching you. You need to stop talking about the deposit of faith. There is no deposit of faith.”

Note that being removed from their posts did not make Strickland or Torres back into a “father.” It just makes them bishops without flocks. In the Catholic Church, there are three steps to full ordination. The first is to deacon (“Deacon so and so”), the second to priest (“Father so and so”), and the third to bishop (“Bishop so and so”. The distinctions have to do with what sacraments the man is permitted to dispense. Only a full bishop can do all seven. Sometimes a priest will do a confirmation, but that occurs only with specific permission for that person on a particular day and only because the bishop can’t make it. Only a bishop can ordain a deacon or a priest; it takes three bishops to ordain a bishop.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-removed-by-pope-francis-after-opposing-vaxx-mandates-tells-scandalized-catholics-to-pray-and-trust/
• ttps://www.foxnews.com/us/defrocked-catholic-priest-frank-pavone-speaks-known-decades-some-bishops-hate-pro-life-work
• https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253111/canon-lawyer-fr-gerald-murray-on-frank-pavones-dismissal-from-priesthood-only-the-pope-can-issue-a-decision-without-appeal
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-pope-francis-personally-removes-americas-bishop-joseph-strickland/
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-strickland-i-was-removed-because-forces-in-the-church-what-to-change-the-teaching-of-jesus/
• https://www.voanews.com/a/pope-francis-calls-covid-19-vaccination-moral-obligation-/6390278.html
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/popes-removal-of-bishop-strickland-draws-huge-catholic-outrage-global-media-coverage/
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/terry-barber-reveals-us-nuncio-cardinal-pierre-told-bishop-strickland-there-is-no-deposit-of-faith/
• https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/catechism/index.cfm?recnum=428
• https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/026-The-Ordination-of-Deacons-Priests-and-Bishops.pdf
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-muller-some-statements-by-pope-francis-could-be-understood-as-material-heresy/

2024: Bernie Marcus (94), the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot, is endorsing Trump. He says, “For Democrats, the choice is simple. If you feel that you are better off now than you were three years ago, you should vote for Joe Biden or whoever is the Democrat candidate. For Republicans, the choice is also simple. Let’s face it: Donald Trump is going to win the nomination. You should be doing all you can to ensure his winning the general election.”

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-gets-major-endorsement-for-2024-stakes-are-just-too-high-5527055
• https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/11/09/high_stakes_and_a_simple_choice_150037.html

CRIME: Federal agents busted a major sex-trafficking scheme with operations based in the suburbs of Boston and Washington D.C. CLICK https://twitter.com/DMAnews1/status/1722366778821497085 [2:01] to hear the Acting U.S. Attorney describe the operation. Clients allegedly include elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, attorneys, scientists and accountants, among others. Three defendants have been named: Han Lee, 41, James Lee, 68, and Junmyung Lee, 30. Looking at these names and the list of the types of people they enticed makes me think this was a ChiCom operation.

• https://catholicvote.org/elite-sex-trafficking-ring-busted/
• https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-bust-high-end-prostitution-network-that-had-politicians-pharma-execs-and-military-officials-as-customers
• https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/usa_v._han_lee_et_al_-_complaint_affidavit_redacted.pdf

SAN FRANCISCO: It turns out the Dems running this hell hole do know how to end the homeless problem. They just don’t want to … unless there’s a Big Deal ChiCom they want to impress coming to visit. Then, whoops. Away you go, dirty tent dwellers! It’s easy to see where their priorities lie.

• https://notthebee.com/article/president-xi-came-to-visit-san-francisco-this-weekend-and-miraculously-the-city-figured-out-how-to-clean-up-and-move-the-homeless-off-the-street

TRANS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A97rWIi4Wq8 for why children can’t choose their gender. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c8RsOLAC7Zg to hear Matt Gaetz out the absurdity.

UK: In the latest example of global elites rewriting history, the guy who spooked then-PM Boris Johnson into imposing socially and economically crippling lockdown orders is now saying he didn’t actually tell officials to plunge the country into a lockdown. Ferguson is the same guy who was forced to quit his role as a COVID adviser after he was caught violating lockdown to meet his married lover.

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12640437/Professor-Lockdown-Neil-Ferguson-denies-calling-lockdown-admits-stepping-outside-SAGE-advisory-role.html
• https://brownstone.org/articles/professor-lockdown-denies-ever-calling-for-lockdown/
• https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/17/professor-lockdown-denies-ever-calling-for-lockdown/

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/REjd1QQpsDI to see what Almond does.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ycAiG_YcyaU to hear who won.

2024: On Wednesday, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tim Scott participated in the third Republican Presidential Debate. The ratings were terrible.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/third-gop-presidential-debate-gets-lowest-ratings-of-2024-cycle-5521814

CATHOLIC: Pope Benedict XVI “responds” to Pope Francis’ recent decision that homosexual couples can get their kids baptized and that trans people can serve as godparents … even when there is no evidence of a commitment to abide by the teachings of the Catholic Church. Francis wants to be “pastoral” (or something), but IMO he’s heaping condemnation on sinners by encouraging them to participate in Catholic Sacraments while openly living in sin. The Catholic Rite of Baptism includes a solemn promise by the parents and the godparents to be actively involved in raising the child within the Catholic Church. If active gays and trannies want to get the kids sprinkled, they can go to one of the many leftist Protestant denoms that cater to them and avoid making vows they have zero intention of keeping.

GERMANY: For fifty years, a day care center in the town of Tangerhütte in Northern Germany has been named for Anne Frank. After some immigrants complained, the local administrators decided to remove the name of the famous Jewish victim of Nazism. The announcement sparked a firestorm of controversy that, at this writing, is not resolved.

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/german-city-renaming-anne-frank-daycare-center-to-be-more-inclusive-after-migrant-complaints
• https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-771852#771852

MICHIGAN: When the local government of Green Charter Township voted to allow a ChiCom factory to be built in their jurisdiction, the townspeople said, “Hell no.” An emergency recall election saw all five of the pro-commies booted from office; the first thing the new board did was get the locks changed.

• https://notthebee.com/article/these-michigan-township-board-members-voted-to-allow-chicoms-to-build-a-factory-there-so-voters-tossed-em-out-and-changed-the-locks-

MINNESOTA: The state’s Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit claiming that Trump should be barred from the primary ballot, because he allegedly violated the 14^th amendment. However, the judge noted that this dismissal would not prevent the petitioners from bringing forth the same claim again for the general election ballot.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/minnesota-dismisses-case-to-keep-trump-off-the-ballot-5526009

NEW YORK: In June 2022, New York passed a law targeting pro-life pregnancy centers for investigation. The Sisters of Life Sisters challenged that law, and this week a judge ruled the government had no right to demand the religious community’s sensitive internal documents.

• https://www.becketlaw.org/media/victory-new-york-gives-up-attack-on-sisters-of-life/

SCIENCE: Logan Brown, a woman who identifies as a man, authored a new children’s book called “In My Daddy’s Belly.” This book teaches kids that men can get pregnant and give birth. Logan was the same trans activist who appeared pregnant on the cover of Glamour Magazine.

• https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/daily-briefing-pregnant-men-trans

VIRGINIA: Photographer Bob Updegrove has won a settlement over the state’s attempt to fine him for even stating that he will not photograph same-sex “weddings.” The state law threatened fines up to $50,000, and then $100,000 per additional violation. The settlement grants him his First Amendment right to publish communications regarding his religious beliefs on his website and to choose or deny clients according to his religious beliefs. 

• https://catholicvote.org/va-photographer-wins-case-not-photograph-same-sex-weddings/

WASHINGTON POST: When antisemitic readers complained about the Ramirez cartoon above, WaPo deleted it. Somebody needs to remind them that political cartoons are supposed to be hard hitting.

• https://notthebee.com/article/the-washington-post-deleted-this-political-cartoon-because-their-anti-israel-readers-thought-it-was-racist

WOMEN’S SPORTS: Canadian Powerlifting Union has ruled against a female power lifter who has spoken publicly against allowing men to compete in her division. Their POV is that it is A-OK for men to crush women in their own sports, but not okay to tell the truth about it. The graphic above shows the very lady-like response that trans powerlifter, “Anne” Andres, sent to the female Daily Mail reporter who asked him for comment. Misogynist much?

• https://notthebee.com/article/this-canadian-female-powerlifter-just-received-a-two-year-ban-from-the-sport-because-she-spoke-out-against-men-competing-with-women

GRAMMY NOTES: Mama found this dry erase foam die for cheap. Bootz is currently enjoying throwing it around the house to practice his vocabulary. Home school is so fun!

2024: CLICK https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1722444742800068958 [:28] to hear one reason why The Donald is leading in the polls. The latest poll shows Trump is leading Biden (48% rto 47%) among his weakest demographic – i.e., voters aged under 35. It also showed him leading in a four-way race with independent candidates: Trump (41%), Biden (35%), Kennedy (16%), Cornel West (4%).

In other news, Ron DeSantis’ biggest donor, real estate tycoon Robert Bigelow, has switched his support to Trump, in part because the security threat posed by the unrest in the Middle East requires the “strongest commander” and the former president is the obvious choice.

• https://notthebee.com/article/cnn-poll-shows-trump-widening-lead-over-biden-for-2024-election-one-year-out
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-wins-over-desantis-biggest-donor-who-says-america-needs-strongest-commander-back-5525629

CATHOLIC: The Magisterium has consistently taught that deliberate bodily mutilation and homosexual acts are gravely sinful. And the Catholic Rite of Baptism requires the parents and godparents to promise to raise the child in the Catholic faith. So don’t ask me why Pope Francis has decided that homosexual couples can have their children baptized and that transgender individuals can be godparents even “when a purpose of amendment does not appear in a fully manifest way.” Cuz, all I can say is … we’ve had bad popes before. ::sigh::

On the plus side, the African bishops who took part in the synod in Rome last month held the line on the Church’s teaching on marriage as “a union between a man and a woman.” Cameroon Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bemenda said anything that departs from that teaching as “witchcraft.” Fuanya also said the pressure from the African bishops resulted in documents being “moderated” with “certain words that were very political” taken out.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-says-trans-people-can-be-godparents-homosexual-parents-can-have-children-baptized/
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cameroon-archbishop-marriage-man-woman-witchcraft/

HOUSE OVERSIGHT: Yesterday, the committee issued subpoenas for FAUXTUS’ son, Hunter, and brother, James. The committee also seeks to interview Hunter’s wife, Melissa, and James’ wife, Sara.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/republicans-subpoenaing-president-bidens-son-brother-5525778

VOX: The latest nonsense from this “news” outlet is an article explaining to moronic sheeple that prices aren’t high because of the inflation caused by Biden’s inflationary policy. They’re high because, um, they’re more than they used to be. BUT DON’T BLAME DEMOCRATS!

• https://notthebee.com/article/am-i-getting-gaslighted-an-economist-is-telling-me-the-economy-is-doing-wellbut-my-bank-account-keeps-telling-me-something-different
• https://www.vox.com/money/2023/11/8/23951098/economy-inflation-prices-job-market-sticker-shock

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pnvud9GIEWk … really! You gotta!

CATHOLIC: A recent report shows that the percentage of Catholic priests who consider themselves “liberal” has precipitously decreased, while the proportion of more “conservative” priests is on the rise. The study on which the report was based shows that the shift is especially pronounced among today’s youngest priests. This comes as no surprise to any Mass-going Catholic. The worst priests are the ones who are past or are rapidly heading for retirement. [N.b., retired priests often fill in for active priests who get sick or go on vacation.]

• https://catholicvote.org/liberal-priests-going-extinct/
• https://catholicproject.catholic.edu/national-study-of-catholic-priests/polarization-generational-dynamics-the-ongoing-impact-of-the-abuse-crisis/

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://twitter.com/matthewhurtt/status/1721895381330792638 [1:39] to see a prime member of the peace- and diversity-loving Party of the Smart People put a Republican in his place. There’s a transcript at the link if you prefer not to listen to smug, potty mouthed A-holes.

• https://notthebee.com/article/watch-unhinged-lefty-goes-on-insane-rant-against-a-republican-poll-greeter-in-viriginia

OHIO: Yesterday, Ohio voters ensured they will be visited by the wrath of God. And I don’t mean this in a mean or superior way. I live in New York, which was the abortion capital of the country even before Roe vs. Wade.

• https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255937/ohio-voters-overwhelmingly-approve-amendment-enshrining-abortion-in-state-constitution
• https://notthebee.com/article/ohio-enshrined-abortion-until-birth-as-the-law-of-the-land-last-night-the-way-i-see-it-there-are-two-ways-to-react-to-this-tragedy

PSA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSXoI9MDvU0 [10:27] for a really good tutorial showing three ways to effectively deal with insults.

THE SQUAD: The House voted to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib for her support of Hamas’ October 7 attack as well as her calls for Israel to be wiped off the map. Twenty-two Democrats crossed the aisle to say, “Hell no!” to anti-Semitism. One hundred and eighty-eight Democrats did not.

• https://notthebee.com/article/house-votes-to-censure-rashida-tlaib-for-her-anti-semitism

TRUMP: At one point in yesterday’s absurd trial, the judge told Trump that location is irrelevant to the value of real estate. And when Trump’s lawyers suggested the judge should just listen to their client, he sniped, “I’m not here to hear what he has to say. He’s here to answer questions.”

This is worth watching! CLICK https://rumble.com/v3uc42j-trump-attorney-reveals-what-really-happened-when-judge-lost-it-in-courtroom.html [7:58] to see Kudlow interview one of Trump’s lawyer about what happened during his appearance in court yesterday.

CLICK https://rumble.com/v3u9lpv-gutfeld-democrats-fear-trump-even-when-hes-not-in-power.html [7:18] to hear Greg Gutfeld’s monologue. If you don’t want to listen to the whole thing, skip to 4:30 and listen to the very end. He makes some very good points.

In the part before 4:30, he plays a clip where some guy I don’t care to know calls Trump “an awful human being.” They all forget that he was absolutely beloved by New Yorkers before he decided to run for president as a Republican. The night of his first announcement, he and Melania went to a do at the Met. As they walked in, some of the Democrats elitist jerks in the hoity toity gathering booed him. Melania said, “I’ve never heard anyone boo you before.” It reminds me of how Sarah Palin was the absolute darling of the Left when, as governor of Alaska, she forced Big Oil to start paying Alaskans part of their profits every year. Then, the instant she became McCain’s running mate, they suddenly forgot all about that and proclaimed her the stupidest bimbo on the planet. ::smh::

And speaking of stupid bimbos … the witch behind the New York trial farce is New York Attorney General Letitia James who Kudlow says “looked like a damn fool” campaigned on targeting Donald Trump. CLICK https://rumble.com/v3u9gcj-brutal-video-destroys-ag-james-credibility-in-one-minute.html [1:04] to see a compilation of her fiery hatred for the 45^th president.

• https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/06/defiant-trump-battles-justice-engoron-stand-new-york-civil-fraud-case/
• https://bongino.com/brutal-video-destroys-ny-ag-james-credibility-in-one-minute
• https://bongino.com/gutfeld-democrats-fear-trump-even-when-hes-not-in-power

WAIT, WUT?: I just read a news story that referred to a 69-year old man as “elderly.” I’m 69. When did I become ELDERLY?!

• https://www.foxnews.com/us/jewish-man-dies-apparent-assault-pro-palestinian-california-rally

GRAMMY NOTES: For whatever this might be worth to any of y’all …

This bit in yesterday’s Mass reading hit me in a special way: “We, though many, are one Body in Christ
and individually parts of one another. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us exercise them.” -Roman 12:5

Today, God inspired me to open up Romans 1:1. ” Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God …” 

Then, Mama sent me the latest Mabel and Olive video, which had the exact same theme. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOKOFkhPQ3Q [4:23].

I love it when God arranges these spiritual seminars for me. I need to take this message to heart and stop comparing myself to others and just do what God wants ME to do.

2020: Jim Jordan just dropped a bombshell report entitled “The Weaponization of ‘Disinformation’ Pseudo-Experts and Bureaucrafts: How the Federal Government Partnered with Universities to Censor American’ Political Speech.” It details how Homeland Security, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), Stanford University, and others worked to stifle anti-Biden and pro-Trump speech prior to the 2020 election.

• https://notthebee.com/article/jim-jordan-releases-bombshell-report-on-censorship-efforts-before-the-2020-election-targeting-journalists-politicians-and-even-the-babylon-bee
• https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/EIP_Jira_Ticket_Staff_Report_11-6-23_Clean.pdf

2024: During the past three fiscal years, Democrats have spent $4.1 billion of money we don’t have to encourage LGBT-promoting projects here and around the world. Meanwhile, these same Democrats are actively sabotaging the two things the Constitution actually directs the federal government to do – protect the border and run the military.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-the-us-spent-4-1-billion-on-global-lgbtq-initiatives-5524073

ALABAMA: CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1721381180300275983?s=20 [:59] to hear “Marie” Willa Bobo-Smith weepily warn parents to get their kids out of ‘bama. “Marie” is described by The Naturist Living Show as “a transgender nudist whose top free activism and public nudism make her a trailblazer for trans visibility.”

A search pulled up a reference for “her” TikTok account that says, “I’m a 59 year old transwoman & married to beautiful cis afab. she/her/ hers🌈🌈.Watch the latest video from MarieWilla (@misswilla).” The account isn’t there any more. Neither is “her” Facebook page. Or “her” Twitter account.

I googled and learned that “afab” means “assigned female at birth.” IOW, “Marie”, a heterosexual male who is married to a heterosexual female, enjoys wearing long blue hair, pretending to be a female, and parading his nude moobs in public “for health reasons.”

I find it really interesting that the bare boob parade pictured above is supposedly about gender equality. I mean, think how many times real women have been irked by men who can’t get their eyes off their cleavage. The chances that anybody will look at the faces of bare-breasted women are between slim and none.

• https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/daily-briefing-trans-nudist-tears
• https://mendovoice.com/2021/06/coast-activist-march-for-topless-equality-in-fort-bragg/

AUSTRALIA: The Labor Party is pushing legislation that would force home televisions to show government-funded news first. These would be their ABC and SBS channels – i.e., Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Special Broadcast Service.

• https://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/australian-smart-tvs-to-be-regulated-through-prominence-legislation-to-make-governmentfunded-news-appear-ahead-of-commercial-outlets/news-story/dfb7fec68d85ad4a41641d90d317d82a
• https://notthebee.com/article/the-australian-labor-party-is-preparing-to-introduce-legislation-which-will-require-smart-tvs-to-show-government-funded-news-ahead-of-other-sources-on-the-home-screen

BACK THE BLUE: I love our local PD. ❤

DEPOPULATION: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjg6gK9Hd0I [7:33] to hear former abortionist, Dr. John Bruchalski, talk about the horrors of 2d trimester abortions.

HAMAS: CLICK https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1720026256601702897 [1:06] to see a guy calmly get pro-Palestinian protesters to admit they can’t support “that.” It’s not clear if these morons realize the things they can’t support are exactly what Palestine’s majority Hamas government stands for. CLICK https://twitter.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1718291598679609733 [2:03] to hear Hamas leader, Ha-mad Al-Regeb, calls for the genocide of Jews, and prays to Allah to help Muslims behead Jews: “Oh Allah, Enable Us to Get to the Necks of the Jews.”

• https://notthebee.com/article/maybe-this-is-how-to-turn-pro-palestinian-protestors-on-a-dime

NASHVILLE MANIFESTO: The authorities have been stalling about releasing the contents of the Nashville shooter’s journal/manifesto. On Monday, Steven Crowder released three photos he said were leaked to him by a confidential informant. So far, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) said that they can offer no confirmation of the documents, but Fox News says they have confirmed their authenticity with the anonymous source who photographed them.

• https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1721545965402726734?s=20
• https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-tennessee-news-graphic-writings-left-behind-by-the-covenant-school-mass-shooter-leaked-reigniting-debate
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/nashville-authorities-investigating-alleged-leak-of-covenant-shooters-hate-fueled-manifesto-5523885

WOMEN’S SPORTS: For more gender absurd sports news, CLICK https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1721896581396607132 [:16] to hear Caster Semenya claim, “My testicles don’t make me less of a woman.” Semenya was born with a rare genetic deformity that affects only males. He has no vagina or uterus and, although his testes never descended, he has naturally high testosterone levels in the typical male range, looks like a man, and is married to a woman who has given him two children by artificial insemination. (Undescended testes can not produce viable sperm.) Yet he “identifies” as “a different kind of female”, a perk that has allowed him to dominate South African track events.

• https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1721328778071445608?s=20
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12713573/Tessa-Johnson-bicycle-trans-Chicago-competition-medal.html

GRAMMY NOTES: When we were newlyweds and Dearest had his first job (as in, zero office clothes), I scrimped to get him two new dress shirts. He’s an architect; this was back when they still used pens. With indelible ink. First day wearing shirt #1, he puts one of said pens in the breast pocket, capless. Co-worker notes this saying, “Oh boy. Your wife is not going to be happy about that.” He sheepishly reports his error when he gets home. Next day, he repeats the EXACT SAME MISTAKE on shirt #2. FYI: They call it “indelible”for a reason.