DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us each to focus on the significance of Christ’s birth and the hope He brings to the world. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
CALIFORNICATION: [14:09] – Major companies are moving elsewhere. The Nevada Globe called it “a brutal indictment of California’s hostile business climate.”
FILM HISTORY: [24:18] – Philip Van Doren Stern said he got the idea for the story in a dream. I can’t help thinking it was God’s gift to future America, because hardly anybody in the 1940s wanted it.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING: Also, pill organizers and adult coloring books.
HYPOCRISY: For the record, I am not posting this to excuse Trump’s bad attitude. I think we should be better than this! CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2001094249702367258 [2:40] if you can stand to listen to an overpaid bigot dump on a dead man for having a message that appealed to [dripping with disdain] “people sitting in their TRUCKS.” I stopped listening at that point.
MAR-A-LAGO RAID: Newly declassified emails may give Trump grounds to sue for civil liberty violations or prompt prosecutors to pursue a criminal investigation. They show that, before the 2022 raid on Trump’s home in Florida, the FBI expressed doubt that Trump had done anything wrong. FBI agents repeatedly recommended talking to Trump’s lawyers rather than raiding or, failing that, limiting the warrant to avoid private areas of the estate.
The Biden DOJ blew them off. On June 1, 2022, the Assistant Special Agent in Charge wrote, “DOJ has been adamant that no accommodation would be given and that they would not reach out to the attorney.” Nevertheless, the FBI continued to push for “a reasonable conversation with the former president’s attorney.”
When it became obvious the raid would happen regardless, the FBI advocated for a “professional, low key” search that respected “the optics.” As we all know, the August 8, 2022 raid, which was authorized by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, was anything but.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Turn our hearts and minds to the reason for the season. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
VOTER FRAUD: The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is suing 18 states for refusing to provide complete state voting registration lists. The Trump administration says it wants the information to verify the states are following federal election law in an effort to strengthen voting security. The 18 states, all of which Trump lost in 2020, call it intimidation in an effort to influence elections.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RoMUXRZAO-I and count how many of these you’ve heard of before. I’m fascinated by working dogs, so I figured I’d know them all. I was wrong.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us peace in our homes, in our churches, and in our hearts. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
EVERYDAY HEROES: [4:29] – I’m going to be thinking about this one for a long while.
FAFO: On Monday, Hunter Biden admitted to engaging in conduct “involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” and consented to being disbarred in Connecticut. Last May, he was disbarred in D.C. for the same reasons.
FAKE NEWS: CJ Pearson posted the graphic above, but I added the ‘FAKE NEWS’. I said in his comment section, “CJ, I have followed you for a long time, but that ends today. I read every word of the linked story. Key point: ICE agents stopped her son. As soon as he produced his U.S. passport, they let him go. IOW, there was no nabbing, no showing up anywhere by Mommy Dearest, and no doing of anything ‘unthinkable.’ Bye, bye, CJ. My tolerance for fake news is ZERO, regardless of whose narrative it promotes.”
I’m not posting this here to pat myself on the back, but to let all y’all know that I want you to call me out if I fail to thoroughly vet a story. From Day #1, my goal as a blogger has been to uplift, entertain, and inform. If I get something wrong, I want to know about it, so I can fix it.
HISTORY: Families divided by MAGA will relate to this story. Benjamin Franklin’s only surviving son, William Franklin, was not merely a Loyalist; he was the royally appointed governor of New Jersey who believed deeply in the stability of the British Empire and saw the colonial rebellion as reckless and dangerous. When the Revolution erupted, he refused to abandon his oath to the Crown; arrested by Patriot forces and imprisoned for years, he was eventually released in a prisoner exchange and spent the rest of his life in Great Britain. He and his father never reconciled.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN: [8:29] – Neo-Darwinians predicted most of our DNA would be “junk” left over from failed evolutionary modifications. They were wrong.
MEXICO: Under the 1944 Water Treaty, Mexico is obligated to deliver 1.75 million acre-feet over five years to the United States from the Rio Grande River. The United States in turn delivers 1.5 million acre-feet of water to Mexico from the Colorado River.
While Biden was in office, Mexico did not keep up their end of the bargain. So Trump threatened Mexico with higher tariffs. Problem solved.
PRAYERS FOR THE PRESIDENT: The Donald let his feelings get the best of him when he posted this and he is getting taken to task by his own people for doing so. The majority of comments echo some variation of this one – “As a MAGA I have tried my best to support you every step of the way but not this time. EVERY human. I repeat EVERY human deserves respect during something like this. I am ashamed that you posted that. You must humble yourself and ask for forgiveness in what was a very HUGE lapse in judgment.”
GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wpni3o79I-s [1:23] to watch an interesting baby psychology study. When Mama Buzz was a wee one, she participated in a similar study, one aimed at discerning at what age and stage of language development kids understand the difference between the object and the subject in a sentence.
After answering questions about her language development, the researcher hooked her up to a device of some kind. While she sat on my lap, she watched a video showing made up characters with made up names perform a series of action that were described with simple sentences. E.g., puppet A gives something to puppet B.
The video played on a loop until the device showed my child had lost interest, at which point, the researcher brought the puppets into the room and asked her which puppet was which. Since the puppets were goofy looking and had made up names, she could only use the object and subject of each action she had seen to identify which puppet was which.
The main thing I remember (and still laugh about) is that my daughter beat every previous record for number of times she watched the video loop before losing interest. When I told the researcher, “Maybe that’s because we don’t have a television,” she looked thoughtful and suggested that might make an interesting thing to study.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, May the peace that only comes from You reign in our hearts and minds. Let us be channels of that peace to those who do not yet know You. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BROWN U SHOOTING: On Saturday afternoon, a still-unidentified gunman barged into the Barus & Holley building at the campus in Providence, Rhode Island, and started shooting. Two students are dead; nine more are injured. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kVozzSRhQWg [1:00] to see video a student took.
DOWN UNDER: On Sunday, two Islamic migrants – a father and son – attacked a Jewish beach party celebrating the start of Hanukkah. At least 15 are dead. On Tuesday, Australian authorities said the two had packed their vehicle with improvised explosive devices and homemade ISIS flags.
HOLLYWOOD: Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. Their 32-year-old son, Nick, has been charged and is being held without bail.
HYPOCRISY: AOC’s professional persona as a socialist woman of the people took a giant hit when her campaign filings revealed she spent nearly $50,000 on a trip to Puerto Rico in August. While there, she visited a housing development to rail against gentrification; the rest of the time, she was enjoying 5-star luxury that she billed as “campaign” expenses.
Former White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said, “These people … love to tell everyone what they should do about their carbon footprint, and then they fly private. They love to talk about the excesses of the rich and then they benefit from it, they trade stocks, they get rich in Congress. … The hypocrisy knows no bounds.”
MILITARY: On Saturday, an ISIS gunman killed two U.S. Army soldiers and one U.S. interpreter interpreter in Syria. Three others were injured. Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said our soldiers were there “in support of ongoing counter-ISIS/counter-terrorism operations in the region.” Trump has promised “very serious retaliation.”
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Help us to seek the common good, working together to build a society that reflects Your love and justice. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SCAMMERS: [1:39] – If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
SECRET SANTA: [5:01] – Amazing young woman. Love the t-shirt … and the look on her face. ❤
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tvi6GReOWUk to hear about the GOOD dogs of the week. Stay tuned to the end so you don’t miss the unlikely, but adorable “Farm Dog of the Year.”
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please send a special blessing on all those service members who are deployed far from their loved ones this year. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BIDEN’S BORDER: [8:39] – They knew.
CABINET WIVES: [8:54] – Faith, family, humor, beauty, brains. This group has it all.
HEALING FAMILY WOUNDS: [6:09] – I needed this one.
ISLAM: CLICK https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1999960908723093722 [1:59] to hear a Palestinian doctor from Gaza says men have the right and duty to beat their wives. “When you’re beating your wife, just make sure not to seriously injure her, break her bones, or damage vital organs.”
KENTUCKY: CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1998853703470907768 [1:00] to hear a legislator support teaching white kids to feel badly about the color of their skin. Feeling badly about something you didn’t cause and can’t change is called SHAME. It’s demonic. The Left is demonic.
LEFTIES: CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1999596793512808838 [1:51] to hear a liberal white woman explain why she refuses to have a relationship with her only sister. Cutting off ties with family … cult much?
MEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1999916710237991096 [:22] to hear MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera report on a photo from the recently released Epstein files. She states that the blocks on the faces suggests the women could have been “minors and/or survivors” of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The photo has since been identified as an older, previously public image from an event at Mar-a-Lago where Trump posed with adult models who were there promoting Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion. Sooooo … not Epstein’s creepy island and not minors. ::smh::
Comment from X: “I wonder how Epstein’s victims feel watching Democrats go after Trump instead of the women who really raped them?”
SLIPPERY SLOPE: CLICK below to hear Lord Charles Leslie Falconer, a Labour party politician and member of the British House of Lords, state his support for state-sponsored euthanasia for …
GRAMMY NOTES: The Mascots had their first snowfall yesterday. Buzz said, “Jesus must’ve wanted us to have snow for Gaudete Sunday, because it brings so much JOY!!!” ❤
ILLINOIS: Gov. Pritzker just signed the state ‘s “Medical Aid in Dying” bill into law. It allows terminally ill adults, with a six-month or less prognosis, to get a prescription drug they can use to off themselves. Cue the slippery slope.
MIRACULOUS BIRTH: After 18 years of praying for a baby, the pregnancy test was positive. However, the woman’s uterus was empty, so surgeons decided it was a false positive and they needed to go ahead and operate to remove the 22-pound uterine tumor crowding her belly. Tucked away in her abdomen, they found a full term baby boy who had developed outside her uterus! The result of an ectopic pregnancy, he weighed 8 pounds at birth and is doing well.
NEW YORK: An audit has found that more than half of the Empire State’s commercial trucking licenses were issued to illegal aliens. On Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to yank $73 million in federal highway funding.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please instill unwavering integrity in our leaders. Strengthen them to resist corruption, bribery, and unethical practices. Help them value truth over political expediency. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
GRAMMY NOTES: I love our local ReUse It! Saw this on their Facebook feed –
Some people say, “I want a FRESH Christmas tree.” Okay, but these trees at ReUse are experienced. These trees have references. These trees have resumes. “December 2023 – Held 47 ornaments, zero complaints.” “December 2022 – Supported a 12-foot garland, didn’t even wobble.” We got trees with CREDENTIALS. Pick one. They’re all qualified. #Thriftmas#12DaysofThriftmas
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, As our holiday schedules gear up, help us to remember to also have fun! In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BORDER: On December 10, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that 2.5 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office. More than 605,000 were forcibly deported while the rest left voluntarily.
COLORADO: The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing a couple who are suing Jefferson County Public Schools for assigning their 11-year-old daughter to share a hotel room and a bed with a biologically male “transgender” student during a school trip. The girl was allowed to change her room, but was instructed not to tell anyone why. The mother says, “They wanted to protect the privacy of the other student. And our thoughts are, ‘Well, what about the privacy of our daughter?'” The case is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
FLORIDA: Eight 14- and 15-year-old boys on a Philadelphia youth football team were arrested and charged with felonies after they stole $2,296.07 worth of merchandise from a Dick’s Sporting Goods in Florida. Due to being detained, they were unable to play in their championship game later that day and their team lost 26-6.
MISSISSIPPI: CLICK https://x.com/Arkadalo/status/1999172225228788196 [1:17] to hear Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MI-2] call the cold-blooded shooting of two National Guardsmen in D.C. an “unfortunate accident.”
OKLAHOMA: On December 3, 2025, a federal Grand Jury returned a 25-count Indictment, charging Tashella Dickerson, the Executive Director of Black Lives Matter OKC (BLMOKC), with 20 counts of wire fraud (up to 20 years in federal prison per count) and five counts of money laundering (up to $250,000 or twice the amount of the criminally derived property involved in the transaction per count).
Beginning in late spring 2020, BLMOKC raised more than $5.6 million, which was supposed to be used for pretrial bail for individuals arrested during George Floyd protests. The indictment alleges she embezzled at least $3.15 million for personal use, including recreational travel, shopping, food, a car, and six pieces of real estate.
OMG: CLICK https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1999296658908282920 [14:25] to see undercover video of Jonathan Franklin, a journalism instructor at Georgetown and a former NPR journalist, making racist statements about whites and black conservatives.
I looked him up at Georgetown; the page is there, but has no content.
TRANS: I know a woman who suffered an ankle injury in childhood that altered her gait and caused so much damage and pain to her hip that she had to have the joint replaced. Altering the pelvis as shown is likely to damage the knees and ankles over time.
TRANSPO: On December 10, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced his agency has gotten more than 9,500 commercial truckers off the road for failing English-language proficiency checks. Only truckers who can speak, read and write English can understand road signs, communicate with police and inspectors, and follow instructions at checkpoints and weigh stations.
VENEZUELA: On December 10, the Trump administration seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, stating that it was connected to terrorist organizations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Dec. 11 that the government will be moving the tanker to a U.S. port and keeping the oil.
The Venezuelan government called it all “blatant theft” and “an act of international piracy.”
Guyana says the tanker belongs to Venezuela, but was illegally flying the Guyanan flag. Maritime law states that any vessel flying a false flag is a pirate vessel and subject to boarding, seizure, and even sinking by any and all legitimate vessels.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to find joy in the simple moments of this season, and let that joy be a testament to Your love and grace. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
ACLJ: The American Center for Law and Justice has just filed a major federal lawsuit after a New York public school district forced students as young as 11 to spend two weeks analyzing images so pornographic that news outlets blurred them in their coverage.
The images, created by artist Keith Haring, included explicit depictions of sexual intercourse in various positions, graphic images of male and female genitalia, and depictions of genital mutilation and body mutilation. In addition to requiring students to study and analyze the images on-line, the teacher showed some of them on the classroom’s “Smart Board,” which drastically increased the size, and therefore the impact.
Parents were neither informed nor offered an opt out. When they found out and complained, the school district put the teacher on leave temporarily, then rehired her to teach seventh-grade English to many of the same children she had already harmed. At a school board meeting, the teachers union president publicly mocked concerned parents while school district leaders sat silent.
Haring was a prolific artist and an openly gay man who died of AIDS in his early 30s. Not only are the scale and breadth of his work remarkable, but also, especially in light of this evil art teacher’s assignment, the majority of it is not pornographic. In fact, he is most well known for his social commentary on issues like AIDS awareness, apartheid, war, communism, smoking and cocaine.
Point being … the art teacher could have introduced seventh-graders to Haring as an artist without ever once showing any of his sexually explicit pieces. But she didn’t.
J6: Brian Cole, Jr., the man accused of putting pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic National Committee offices in Washington, DC on Jan 5. 2021, is a “brony” (i.e., an adult man obsessed with My Little Pony. He created and posted to various social media accounts his original art, fanfic, and remixes of songs about the cartoon characters originally created to appeal to elementary-aged girls.
Mark R. Weaver posted, “I’m a prosecutor who has sent sex offenders to prison. Trust me when I say adults — particularity men — who show interest in this show need an increased level of law enforcement scrutiny.”
Indeed. Here is an example of Cole’s work: “Applebloom’s eyes snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane […] The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their decaying bodies, rotting flesh sliding off from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently at the horrible images that inhabited her mind.”
MARKETING FAIL: McDonald’s created an ad about Christmas being “the most terrible time of the year.” The backlash was so bad, the company disabled comments on the post. I’ve been thinking about the ad and it occurs to me that they could’ve used the otherwise funny disaster scenes and made a very successful ad, if only they had kept the “most wonderful time” lyrics and ended with a heart-warming scene of family and friends celebrating together.
NETFLIX: CLICK https://x.com/libbyemmons/status/1998426552187416910 [1:35] to see the trailer for Netflix’s new movie, “Queen of Coal”, about a trans man who has to fight community superstitions about women in mines to achieve “her” dream of becoming a coal miner.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please bless everyone in our nation who is struggling with hard times this holiday season. Uplift them, hold them close, and grant them peace. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
S&G: [9:34] – Sixth graders in a Maryland public school were shown material like the video above for “Transgender Awareness Week.” Thankfully, the parents were notified ahead of time and offered an opt out for their kids.
SCIENCE: Newsweek asked RFK Jr., “Why don’t you stop promoting conspiracy theories?” That’s like asking a man, “Why don’t you stop beating your wife?” ::eyeroll:: But RFK Jr’s reply was beautiful.
“My father told me when I was a little boy that people in authority lie and the job in a democracy is to remain skeptical. I’ve been science based since I was a kid. Show me the evidence and I’ll believe you, but I’m not going to take the word of official narratives. The way you do research is not by asking authoritative figures what they think. Trusting experts is not a feature of science, and it’s not a feature of democracy. It’s a feature of religion and totalitarianism.”
CLICK https://x.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/1998736977672487423 [:30] to see porch video of a Door Dash driver deliberately spraying a couple’s dinner with pepper spray. Door Dash has fired her and is cooperating with law enforcement.
WASHINGTON: Female athletes at Eastmont High School held a signature-gathering rally to support “Let’s Go Washington,” a citizen-based initiative aimed at strengthening parental rights and communication with schools and restricting males from participating in girls’ sports. Each initiative requires 309,000 signatures by early January to qualify for consideration in the next legislative session. Lawmakers may adopt the initiatives into law or allow the measures to appear on the November ballot in 2026 for voters to decide.
WOMEN’S SPORTS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/810737138210437 [:35] to hear about Henry. It would be nice to learn that Henry is actually a courageous activist for the rights of female athletes. His “win” made national news and probably helped move the needle on national opposition to this insanity. Or maybe he really is just another pathetically needy loser.
Either way, the country has swung hard right on this issue. According to CNN’s statistics guru, Harry Enten, 79% oppose allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports, up from 62% in 2021. The majority consensus crosses party lines, with Democrats at 67%, Independents at 64%, and Republicans at 94%.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord God, awaken us, that we may be ready when your dear Son comes, that we may receive him with joy and serve you with pure hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
ANDREW WOLFE: Two weeks after getting shot in the head, this West Virginia National Guardsmen has gotten up off his bed! He isn’t speaking yet and is still in critical care, so he still needs lots of prayer. But wow!
BORDER: Under Biden, hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors who crossed the border disappeared. The current administration is working to locate them all. So far, 62,000 have been rescued from human trafficking and forced labor.
CATHOLIC: [4:19] – Section 188 of Austria’s Criminal Code states, “Whoever, in circumstances where his or her behavior is likely to arouse justified indignation, publicly disparages or insults a person who, or an object which, is an object of veneration of a church or religious community established within the country, or a dogma, a lawful custom or a lawful institution of such a church or religious community, shall be liable to up to six months’ imprisonment or a day-fine for a period of up to 360 days.”
I asked Grok to list convictions under Section 188 involving Catholicism and Islam. This is the list:
May 1985: The Otto-Preminger-Institut was convicted under Section 188 for planing to screen a film depicting God as a senile old man, the Virgin Mary in erotic tension with the Devil, and Jesus as a “low-grade mental defective.” The company was fined and the film seized and destroyed.
January 2009: Politician Susanne Winter was convicted under Section 188 for having called Muhammad a “pedophile” and suggesting forced removal of mosques.
February 2011: A seminar speaker was convicted under Section 189 for saying Muhammad “liked to do it with children” and equated his marriage to Aisha with pedophilia.
DOGE: Reports of the agency’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. On December 6, DOGE posted that another 43 wasteful contracts had been terminated, saving We The Taxpayers $222 million.
DOJ: In 1971, the Supreme Court case Griggs v. Duke Power banned IQ tests for jobs on the basis that they were racist, setting the stage for endless lawsuits based on “disparate impact.” Even where a law or policy was meant to be neutral, if it affected some more than others, it would be struck down by the courts. On December 9, 2025, Trump’s Department of Justice said no more. From now on, lawsuits challenging equality under the law will require proof of actual discrimination.
EVERYDAY HEROES: In 1940, when whispers of Nazi atrocities began to spread, a Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered to go undercover. Inside Auschwitz, he built a secret network, smuggled out reports, and documented horrors that few could imagine. He watched the machinery of genocide unfold in real time and risked everything to get the truth out.
For two and a half years, he endured starvation, beatings, and death all around him. Then, in 1943, he escaped. Not just to survive, but to warn the Allies. His reports were among the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust. After the war, he fought against Soviet control of Poland, was arrested by the communist regime, and executed in 1948.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING: If you want to combine a prank gift with a real gift (or a second prank gift?), check out the empty boxes at the link. I’m debating between “Mold Farm Fungus Habitat (Hurray for Decay!)” and “Bathe and Brew Shower Coffee Maker and Soap Dispenser.”
MILITARY: On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court of Appeals for D.C. ruled, 2-1, to reinstate the War Department’s rule barring individuals with a diagnosis, history of, or symptoms “consistent with” gender dysphoria from joining or remaining in the military.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Heavenly Father, Bless America’s economy. Provide jobs and financial security for families. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SPAIN: In 2022, 21 Spanish pro-lifers were arrested for praying quietly outside an abortion clinic while holding signs reading “You are not alone,” “We are praying for you,” and “40 Days for Life.” During their November 2025 trial, abortion advocates alleged that the pro-lifers harassed the clinic’s clients, but were unable to provide any evidence. The court has just acquitted the defendants saying,
“There is no doubt that the defendants did nothing more than exercise their right to free assembly, choosing a location near a clinic where abortions are performed, understanding that expressing their demands in that place and in the manner they did was the most appropriate way for the message they wished to convey – praying for life and offering their help – to reach its primary recipients directly. “All of this was communicated to the competent authority, and the defendants conducted themselves at all times in an exemplary, peaceful manner.”
EVERYDAY HEROES: Photo: Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey receiving the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from President John F. Kennedy in 1962. In 1960, Dr. Kelsey was one of only seven full-time physicians reviewing drugs for the entire United States.
Her first assignment was a request from a pharmaceutical company named Richardson-Merrell to approve thalidomide for morning sickness and sleep troubles. The company expected approval before Christmas. They were planning to make a fortune. But Dr. Kelsey didn’t like the company’s “evidence” for the drug’s safety and asked for more data. Richardson-Merrell’s executives were furious, insisting the drug was “perfectly safe” and in widespread use in Europe. They threatened Dr. Kelsey. They bullied her and tried to go over her head, but she stood firm, demanding answers to her concerns for the drug’s affect on the unborn.
And in late 1961, nightmare reports of deformed babies began coming in from Europe. Every mother who had taken thalidomide between the twentieth and thirty-sixth day of pregnancy – the exact window when limbs and organs form – gave birth to babies with arms and legs grotesquely shortened or missing entirely, hands sprouting directly from shoulders like flippers. And it wasn’t just limbs. Hearts, eyes, ears, and internal organs were improperly developed or severely deformed. More than ten thousand children across forty-six countries were affected, roughly half of whom died shortly after birth. Thousands more pregnancies ended in miscarriage or stillbirth, while survivors faced lifetimes of profound disability.
Because of one stubborn lady doctor, only 17 babies were harmed in the United States, each one the result of experimental samples of thalidomide that Richardson-Merrell had illegally distributed to physicians.
TRANS-SANITY: In August 2023, a trans man tried to make an appointment with an OB/GYN. The physician, Dr Victor Acharian of Pau, France, refused, believing he was not qualified. The trans man sued. The French Medical Council suspended Acharian for a month, with an additional five months’ probation. SOS Homophobie, a transgender activist group, thought the punishment too mild. The French National Authority for Health promised to create new guidelines for physicians on how to appropriately treat transgender patients.
WHITE HOUSE: In 1846, the U.S. bishops unanimously named Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of our nation.
From President Trump’s message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (linked below): “In her honor, and on a day so special to our Catholic citizens, we remember the sacred words that have brought aid, comfort, and support to generations of American believers in times of need: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, Help each of us to hear Your voice in a personal way and to be emboldened to choose joy regardless of our circumstances. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
BORDER: Under 8 USC §1815, all illegal aliens age 14 or older who entered the United States without inspection will henceforth be assessed a $5,000 apprehension fee, regardless of where they entered, how long they’ve been in the U.S., their current location, or any ongoing immigration proceedings.
CATHOLIC: [21:02] – CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aUBHADRdTSM [2:49] to hear an amazing true story from Father Chris about the efficacy of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
FRANKLIN the TURTLE: This Canadian children’s book/animated series reminds me of The Bearenstain Bears, in which cute, anthropomorphized woodland creatures help 3-to-6-year-olds navigate their expanding moral, social, and emotional worlds.
On Nov. 30, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted the “child-unsafe version of the Franklin the Turtle children’s book franchise” (shown above) to his X account. It has lefties’ panties in a bunch, which naturally has led to more MAGA’d versions that will likely appear on these pages whenever this author finds them amusingly appropriate.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/drC1rEmJpEw to see how to assemble the Cat Christmas Tree. It is a real product. It costs $350. It is SOLD OUT for this year! My brain is boggled at the idea that people have that kind of money to spend on amusing their pets.
INDICTED: Paul Campo and a friend have been arrested and charged with conspiring to launder millions for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of the most violent drug cartels in Mexico. On February 20, 2025, the United States Secretary of State designated CJNG as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, God bless our service members and their families, particularly those who will not be together for the holidays this year. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SECRET SANTA: [3:58] – Another lovely lady. ❤
TRANS: Rip Curl learned nothing from Bud Light. After the iconic one-armed surfing legend, Bethany Hamilton, publicly spoke out against trans men surfing in the women’s league, Rip Curl dropped her as their ambassador … and hired a trans man in her place. Since then, the company has closed 35 stores and lost almost $83 million.
WAR ON DRUGS: The United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) states that all vessels operating in international waters are required to sail under the flag of one and only one specific nation. Vessels flying no flag or switching between flags are designated as “stateless”, meaning they have no right to immunity from interference.
Further, any state may stop, board, search, seize, disable or sink a stateless vessel. Lethal force may be used when a vessel refuses lawful boarding, attempts to flee, poses a threat, or engages in illicit activities such as piracy or narcotics trafficking.
GRAMMY NOTES: As the long-time wife of a busy architect, I have often heard my Dearest remark on how contractors never know what they’re going to find when they open things up. I’m deeply grateful none of his people ever found anything like THIS!
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