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by | July 20, 2022 · 1:48 pm

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2A: The Greenwood Mall shooter (whose name I will not repeat) follows the pattern for mass shooters – young, male, and fatherless. And since he brought 100 bullets with him, he clearly planned to do as much damage as possible before he either escaped or was killed.

Naturally, this means nothing to gun control activists who are weeping and gnashing their teeth because Eli Dicken killed the shooter before he could give them a politically beneficial pile of bloody victims. Where normal people think what Dicken did was heroic, anti-gun activists are angrily condemning him as a “vigilante” and bitching about how somebody called him a “Good Samaritan” when everybody knows the Good Samaritan in the Bible story didn’t kill anyone. He did save a life though … not that they care. Plus, the term “Good Samaritan” actually has a legal, not just a scriptural, definition:

“The Good Samaritan Law is a law that protects civilians who help people they believe to be injured or otherwise in danger. … The law defines ‘duty to act’ as a person using any available remedy to prevent harm from coming to an individual person, or to the public at large. … In the case of a Good Samaritan, an individual creates a duty to act by voluntarily inserting himself into a situation. By assigning responsibility to himself for the wellbeing of another person, the individual now has a duty to act to see his remedy through to the end.”

Another thing these pathetic excuses for humanity are harping on is that Dicken was supposedly carrying his weapon in the mall “illegally.” Yes, the mall has a “no guns” policy, but that is all it is. A policy. And it’s not enforceable, because the actual law gives citizens the right to carry. James Ison, the Greenwood Police Chief, specifically said Dicken was “legally armed.”

“He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun — was very proficient in that, very tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him. Many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of the shooting.” [Actually, it was more like 15 seconds!]

Dicken killed the shooter within 15 second of the first shot. And of the ten bullets Dicken fired, eight hit the target. From 40 feet away! To my mind, the most notable fact is that Indiana’s new constitutional carry law only went into effect on July 1, 2022 … just 17 days before the shooting.

ABORTION: CLICK https://twitter.com/rncresearch/status/1549469119740796938 [:55] to hear Democrat Rep. Kathleen Rice insist we stop “throwing the word abortion around” because the word has been “weaponized” and will thus “prevent a meaningful conversation from happening.”

After pointing out that we thought it was supposed to be cool and edgy to “Shout Your Abortion,” tweeters suggested “infanticide” or “murder” would make good substitutes for the big, bad weapon word. One noted, “It’s not the word that’s the problem. It’s the killing.”

BIRX: Remember the COVID Task Force doctor with the pretty scarves? She’s written a book. An article at Red State says it’s “about her one-person attack on our form of government and our economy under the guise of saving us from the Wuhan virus.” Michael Sanger says the book has “earned rave reviews from Chinese state media.”

CATHOLIC: Eighteen nuns from the Missionaries of Charity – the order founded by Mother Teresa – were escorted out of Nicaragua by police after the Nicaraguan Parliament revoked their legal status on June 28. The order of sisters has been operating in the country since 1998, running a home for abused and abandoned girls, a children’s nursery, and a nursing home. The move is apparently retribution by President Daniel Ortega whose human rights abuses the Catholic Church has condemned.

COVID-19: While everybody was distracted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation, the British government quietly issued a report confirming that the vaxxxed account for 94% of all COVID-19 deaths since April and that 90% had had one or even two boosters.

FAUXTUS: [13:08] – Nothing new here. Best comment on the video: “Biden reminds me of the Monty Python ‘Dead Parrot’ sketch: we are the customer pointing out that the old bird we were sold is deceased, while the democrats, RINOs and MSM are the shopkeeper trying to convince us otherwise. The sketch was funny, the reality… well, isn’t.” – Richard Wysocki

FAVORITISM: More than 300 people are still awaiting trial for walking around the capitol building without permission on January 6th. Meanwhile, nine staffers for Stephen Colbert’s show who were recently arrested for walking around the capitol building without permission will be facing zero consequences.

MEDIA: [4:21] – Why on earth are they surprised that we don’t trust them?! It’s not like they don’t lie to us on a DAILY basis. Tuesday’s Big Fat Lie – CLICK https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1549407807816056834 [1:32] to hear CNN report that women who are miscarrying or suffering an ectopic pregnancy “are struggling to receive treatment in some states & doctors are fearing prosecution.”

S&G: When the FAUX administration issued a directive that would force schools and workplaces to allow trans people to use the bathrooms of their choice, twenty state attorneys general sued. On Friday, US District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. issued a temporary injunction on the feds until the matter can be resolved by the courts.

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by | July 19, 2022 · 10:05 pm

Our Lady of Las Lajas

The story of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Las Lajas began in 1754, when a village woman named María and her little deaf-mute daughter Rosa were resting near a cave on their walk between two villages. The little girl ran into the cave and began to shout, “Mommy, there is a woman in here with a boy in her arms!”

The mother was terrified, because the locals believed the caves in that area were haunted. But then Maria found Rosa in the cave, kneeling in front of a splendid woman and playing affectionately with a child. Maria fell to her knees, understanding that she was not seeing ghosts, but the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus.

Fearful of ridicule, Maria kept quiet about the event. But, frequently, she and Rosa went to the cave to place wild flowers and candles in the cracks of the rocks. Some time later, Rosa became gravely ill and died. The whole village knew she was dead and were preparing her funeral when her mother took her body to the cave to ask Our Lady to restore Rosa to life. And young Rosa awoke in perfect health.

Their friends and neighbors were overwhelmed with awe and went to the cave themselves. That was when the miraculous image on the wall of the grotto was discovered. It had not been there before. In it Mary appears as a Latin American. (The crowns were added later.) She is giving a rosary to St. Dominic, while the child Jesus is giving the Franciscan cord to St. Francis. These two orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, are the founders of the two Orders that first evangelized Colombia, South America.

Geologists have drilled several feet into the stone, taking core samples from several spots in the image. What they discovered is amazing. The colors of the image penetrate deep into the rock! There are no pigments or brush strokes on the surface of the rock. The colors are the colors of the rock itself. The miraculous image can still be seen today, behind the main altar of the beautiful church that was literally built around it. Because the image is in a cave on a mountain side, the church had to be built over the canyon on giant pillars.

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by | July 19, 2022 · 1:14 pm

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1A: In 2017, Southwest Airlines fired a flight attendant for posting anti-abortion messages on her Facebook page. A jury in Dallas has awarded her $5.3 million in damages. If the verdict withstands appeal, she will get $4.1 million from the airline, plus $950,000 from the union that failed to defend her.

BIBLE: A recent survey divided American respondents into three groups: Scripture Engaged (consistently interact with the Bible), Scripture Disengaged (minimal interaction), and Movable Middle (sporadic interaction).

The survey then asked about the priorities of things like welcoming immigrants into one’s community, befriending people of other races, befriending people of other religions, caring for those who are in prison, caring for the environment, advocating for those who are oppressed by society, and generally being a good neighbor. The survey also asked about civic participation and mental health.

Across the board, the Scripture Engaged scored consistently higher, with the Scripture Disengaged scoring lowest and the Movable Middles scoring in between.

BORDER: Between January and June, 2022, more than 2 million illegals from more than 150 countries were encountered or apprehended at the U.S. southern border. This is the largest number in U.S. history.

Mayor “You’re a Raaacist” Bowser was all kinds of tolerant about illegals flooding into the country … until Arizona and Texas starting bussing them to her back yard. On Sunday, she reported that D.C.’s homeless shelters are overwhelmed. I think I just heard Greg Abbott snicker.

Meanwhile, far from trying to stem the tide, the FAUXTUS administration is trying to expand it by making it easier for illegals to come in by air.

COVID-19: Hospitals that mandated the ‘rona jab for all employees lost hundreds of employees who refused the experimental protocol. And now that the stupid vaxxxines are proving to have a negative impact on immunity, the remaining staff members, the ones who accepted the experimental injections, are getting COVID-19, leaving hospitalS with critical staff shortages.

ENERGY: FAUXTUS went to Saudi Arabia to ask them to pretty please increase their output. They told him to go suck an egg. Then the price of crude went up.

FAUXTUS: When prices were going up, Slow Joe said he couldn’t do anything about it. It was Putin’s fault and those eeeevil gas station owners who were doing it. Now they’re down a smitch (most likely because he raided our wartime reserve again), he’s spiking the football. Plus, you know, we’re not “saving” $25 a month on gas; we’re paying hundreds more per month than we did when Trump was in office. But, phew, no more mean tweets, right?

GOOD GUY WITH GUN: The anti-2d Amendment crowd are weeping and gnashing their teeth over the Good Samaritan’s swift take down of a wannabe mass shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana, on Sunday. Their arguments make no sense, of course. But then, neither do the idiotic things lefties are saying about Roe. Click if you must, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

PERSECUTION: In Egypt, Muslims outnumber Christians 9 to 1. In general, Egyptian Christians are treated as second-class citizens, with outright persecution ranging from Christian women being harassed while walking in the street to Christian communities being driven out of their homes by extremist mobs. In April, a Coptic Priest was stabbed to death and another Christian man was shot 22 times and killed.

Many Muslims believe it is illegal for Christians to repair old or build new churches or to operate social services. So whenever a church is built, legalized, or repaired — or is merely rumored to be built, legalized, or repaired — local Muslims riot and attack the Copts. Authorities frequently respond by appeasing the rioters and rescinding the church’s legal status, effectively shutting it down.

NPR: On Friday, National Public Radio (NPR) announced the creation of a “Disinformation Reporting Team.” This is the same “news” organization (funded by tax dollars) that once published an article about why they would not report on Hunter Biden’s laptop, that depicted Jussie Smollett as a victim of white supremacist Trump lovers, and that called the protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin “peaceful” and the two career criminals who tried to kill Kyle Rittenhouse “daily fixtures at the protests against police shootings and racial inequality.”

PROGRESSIVE BOSSES: Staffers in 8 U.S. House offices have filed to form the first union in Congress. They all work for “justice” Democrats like AOC and Ilhan Omar. Organizers say that a culture of abuse sparked their move, citing excessive work loads for pay so low that some are on food stamps and can’t afford rent.

PUBLIC EDUCATION: A new Gallup poll shows that only 28% of Americans have a “great deal/quite a lot” of confidence in the public school system. It was 62% in 1975.

The New York City public school system is the largest in the country with approximately 760K students. Over the past five years, they’ve lost 120,000 students and, this fall, expect 28K+ fewer to enroll. Meanwhile, charter and private schools are growing rapidly.

SAN FRANCISCO: On June 7, voters recalled the leftist DA that George Soros helped get elected. The new DA, Brooke Jenkins, has been busy cleaning house, firing at least 15 employees from the prosecutor’s office who are soft on crime. One of them whined in a statement that she had been “the highest-ranking Latina/LGBTQ member of the management team at that office.” I’m thinking that right there tells you all you need to know about her priorities.

VAXXX: In many other parts of the world, live birth rates took a suddenly nose dive in January of 2022. The change started nine months after people of child-bearing age started to be vaxxxed. Igor Chudov noted that, in Germany, where nothing significant happened with abortion laws, the rate of abortions also declined, suggesting unplanned conceptions also declined.

Of course, the PTBs are claiming it’s got nothing to do with the vaxxx. And if the birth rate drops even further, in line with the increased numbers who got the jab, I’m sure they’ll blame climate change. Meanwhile, in secret rooms around the world, Global Elites are laughing and drinking toasts to the success of their plan to reduce the world’s population.

VIOLENCE: Three of the teachers in the Sheltered English Immersion program at Charlestown High School in Boston are busily indoctrinating immigrant ninth- and tenth-graders with left-wing, anti-American, pro-violence propaganda. The curricula are allegedly part of the Humanities program. Once upon a time, public education was about producing good citizens; now it’s about producing angry rebels.

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by | July 18, 2022 · 12:21 pm

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CLIMATE: CNN contributor and Atlantic senior editor Ron Brownstein published a piece in his rag in which he blamed summer on Republicans in general and on Joe Manchin, who represents coal-rich West Virginia, in particular. According to Brownstein, heat waves, wildfires, and drought are signs that “Mother Nature is entering a dissenting opinion on last month’s Supreme Court decision that weakened the federal government’s ability to combat climate change.” Do they actually believe this crap or is it just the Virtue Signal du Jour?

GOOD GUY WITH GUN: At 6 pm on Sunday evening, a man armed with a rifle and several magazines of ammo opened fire inside the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana. A 22-year-old civilian who was legally carrying took him out almost as soon as he began. His quick action limited the shooter’s carnage to three dead and two injured.

POISON IVY: If you come into contact with poison ivy, you can avoid getting a rash by first removing all your clothes and putting them immediately into a hot wash. Then wash yourself with soap, hot water, and a wash cloth, using lots of each, on any area that may have touched the plant or anything that touched the plant. Remember that the oil transfers. Your pets can bring it inside on their fur!

Soap and hot water aren’t enough; you also need the friction of scrubbing. If in doubt, slather your skin with cooking oil, which will be easier to see than the poison ivy oil; then, scrub until that’s all gone. Don’t forget between your fingers! If you’ve got some, that stuff mechanics use to get oil off their hands probably works great.

And do NOT burn the plant. The oil goes into the smoke and you can get a poison ivy rash INSIDE your throat and lungs! Bundle it into plastic trash bags and send it to the landfill.

TRANS: Democrats are idiots. A biological male who is doing a 30-year bid in prison for manslaughter up and decided he’s a woman, cuz hmmm maybe he figured being locked up with women would be more fun? So anyway, New Jersey, being a Dumbocrat haven, sent him to a women’s prison, where he impregnated two of his fellow prisoners in what they say was consensual sex. So they’ve moved him out of the women’s prison … and into Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adult offenders. He’s 27 years old, but I suppose if he identifies as a juvenile … anything to avoid spending decades locked up with other men who are, you know, like, criminals, right? cuz never mind he killed somebody.

VAXXX: A recent study found that 42% of vaxxxed women who were having regular menstrual cycles at the time bled more heavily than usual after their COVID-19 vaccination, while 14% said they bled more lightly. Many of the women surveyed who do not menstruate (due to menopause or certain long-term contraceptives) experienced breakthrough or unexpected bleeding after the jabs. The survey included more than 39,000 women, 18 to 80 years old, who were fully vaccinated and had not contracted COVID-19.

GRAMMY NOTES: Fortunately, I had mostly finished breakfast when I got this text from Mama Buzz cuz ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ::gaspchoke:: I’m sorry that WordPress doesn’t have the breadth of goofy face emojis her phone has, cuz they added a lot to the experience. Try to use your imagination …

“It’s after 10pm and here is the question Bunny gave me ‘what’s a virgin?’ (thankfully I know it’s because she reads and hears about Virgin Mary) Since she also hasn’t asked about how babies are made etc, I had the awkward ‘joy’ of explaining sex as well. Then, Bootz pipes up, ‘OK so how are babies made?’ Oh boy, these kids with their late night questions!I tried to explain as honestly but cleanly as possible. I also briefly touched on how, sadly, not everyone has sex the way God intended and that it should only be done within marriage, husband and wife with each other and no one else. And I made a point to thank them for bringing their questions to me and if they wanted to know more, maybe we could have those convos during the day.”

I replied, “Well done, Mama Bear! I remember a gal in my studio painting class saying her kid had asked ‘Where did I come from?’, and after she explained all the mechanics, he said, ‘Oh. Well, Charlie said he came from Toronto.’”

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by | July 17, 2022 · 11:39 am

He likes to remember how strong he had to be

Tonight, after 2.5 years of living here, my oldest son sat down at the table with this.

He was about to chow down when I stopped him and asked what in the world he was doing.

He said, ‘I made myself dinner.’

‘But it isn’t cooked. I can cook that, you know.’

‘Well, I wanted to eat something I used to eat a lot with my old family.’

So, we sat down and I asked him to tell me about it.

He said that they wouldn’t feed him due to being passed out (you can guess why) and he would have to make dinner for himself and his brothers (ages 2 and 4 months when they came to us).

He said that all the money they had would be spent on cigarettes and other ‘fun things’ and so he would find change in their van and buy Ramen packets at the store down the street, at 6 years old!

He said he didn’t know how to boil water, so he would eat it like this. And, he actually grew to like it.

So, he would break it up for his siblings, and would try to make bottles for the baby (at 6!!!!!!).

I asked him to make me some.

I sat there beside him and crunched it down with lots of water because it’s not great…and he just started talking about how the first time I made them Ramen, he wouldn’t eat it and I told him I remembered.

He said it’s because it reminded him of his Ramen packets and he didn’t trust me (big thoughts for 9!).

He said he isn’t sad he’s not with his ‘old family’ (his words) anymore, but that sometimes HE LIKES TO REMEMBER HOW STRONG HE HAD TO BE.

I write this so everyone knows trauma isn’t healed quickly (sometimes never), and adoption doesn’t erase the past or the memories.

Kids can change, and they will change with love, but please never give up on a kid because ‘they are hard.’

I walked away in shock, in sadness, and so so so proud of how strong my baby is. He’s so wonderful. And, we love him so much.

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by | July 16, 2022 · 2:21 pm

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ABORTION: On Tuesday, the DOJ announced it is responding to Joe’s executive order by launching a “reproductive rights task force” to police states’ pro-life laws.

DeSANTIS: Personally, I find it problematic that the guy who just donated $10 million to Ron’s political committee also believes aliens walk among us and invests heavily in UFO research.

If you have not yet read the book and/or watched the movie “Alien Intrustion: Unmasking the Deception” by Gary Bates, get on that asap. You need to be aware before you fall for Satan’s deception.

GEORGIA: Stacey Abrams, who has never conceded that she lost the gubernatorial election, is under investigation by the state’s Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission. It seems that the New Georgia Project — the voting rights group Stacey Abrams founded — failed to disclose more than $3 million worth of electioneering expenses and more than $4 million in political contributions between 2017 and 2019. Oops.

ME TOO: It turns out that the 10-year-old girl pro-aborts used to condemn Ohio’s six week abortion ban is real. But there’s a lot more to the story.

First of all, the abortionist could have simply done the procedure when the 7-weeks-pregnant child was brought to her. Ohio has a clause allowing abortions where a pregnancy poses “a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.” But instead of providing appropriate patient care, this activist abortionist dragged her to another state so she could be used as a political pawn. And let’s just never mind what having her story touted by the president might have done to this little girl’s mental and spiritual well-being.

Secondly, while the child’s identity has thankfully been protected, it’s unlikely in the extreme that she took herself to an abortionist. So somebody, maybe the rapist, maybe a guardian (maybe they’re the same person?), took her, but neither that somebody nor the abortionist nor any other adult surrounding this child – and there had to have been some, like a receptionist at the clinic? Nope. NONE of them reported the rape or took steps to ensure the child had a safe place to live. They just drove her to another state, vacuumed out her uterus, and dumped her back into the same situation where she got raped in the first place.

Thirdly, it was only after the Ohio AG looked into the situation that he learned the girl existed and knew her rapist. He was arrested on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, and is in prison on $2 million bond facing a charge of raping a child under age 13.

Fourthly, he’s a Guatemalan citizen who is here illegally. ICE has lodged an immigration detainer. Given the Biden administration’s past behavior, there is every possibility that federal officials will take him into custody, then deport him. Or, to save him time and trouble strolling back over the border, they could simply release him back into the community where he can rape another child.

It’s hard not to hate Democrats.

NEW YORK: Last February, the State Commissioner of Health issued an “Isolation and Quarantine” directive ordering health officials to lock down “such persons as the State Commissioner of Health shall determine appropriate.” Earlier this month, a State Supreme Court judge ruled the order to be a violation of state law.

PELOSI: On June 17, 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, bought 20,000 shares in stock options on a computer-chip company. Next week, the Senate is expected to pass a bill setting aside $52 billion to boost domestic production of semiconductors and give tax credits for production.

Because the “devout Catholic” Pelosis don’t appear to have any ethical problems with using her government access to inform his stock transactions, there is actually a stock trading app that exclusively monitors Paul Pelosi’s trading activity. Whatever he does, the app followers do likewise.

TRANS: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld a state law forbidding registered sex offenders from legally changing their names. The law was challenged by a rapist who tried to use trans privilege to circumvent the law.

At the time of the assault, the thug, who supposedly now identifies as a woman, was 6’5” tall and weighed over 300 pounds. His autistic victim, who weighed all of 110 pounds, was also blind in one eye. (The guy in the photo above is not the offender. He is Maori NFL-er David Dixon.)

The dissenting side wrote that requiring this vicious rapist “to maintain a name that is inconsistent with her [sic] gender identity and forcing her to out herself every time she presents official documents exposes her to discrimination and abuse.” Yeah, let’s all be real concerned with the possibility that a 6’5” 300 lb man might be “abused.” ::smh::

TWITTER: Don’t you DARE go against the Global Elite’s Vaxxx Agenda!

VATICAN: From 8 to 9 p.m. on September 28, 1978, Cardinal Baggio met privately with the newly elected Pope John Paul I. The time of day and the absence of others at the meeting were both unusual. The meeting lasted about an hour. The Swiss Guards on duty said they could hear the angry voice of Baggio through the door and that he was furious when he left. It is believed the pontiff told Baggio he was being fired.

Pope John Paul I was found dead the next morning at 4:45 a.m. The official Vatican report as to the cause of his death changed several times. The last report was that the Pontiff suffered a heart attack during the night around 11 p.m. But no autopsy or blood test was ever conducted.

Three days prior to the meeting with Baggio, Pope John Paul I heard Archbishop Gagnon’s report on the three-year-long study of the Freemasonry’s infiltration of the Roman Curia that Pope St. Paul VI had requested of him. Cardinal Sebastian Baggio, whose membership in Freemasonry has been confirmed by INTERPOL, stood out.

Under Baggio’s tenure, a retirement age of 75 was imposed upon all bishops, leading to a huge number of empty offices all over the world. Baggio was successful in getting a great many of these offices filled with left-leaning men who shared his world view. The Freemasons were founded to destroy the Roman Catholic Church.

VFAUXTUS: She’s been in office for 18 months and her second chief speechwriter is quitting. This one only lasted four months. The only thing surprising about this is the idea that she has actually had a speechwriter.

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by | July 15, 2022 · 12:11 pm

COVID-19 and Vitamin D

In May 2020, just two months after shut down, British researchers found a link between Vitamin D levels and COVID-19 infections.

In October 2020, Spanish researchers found Vitamin D deficiency in 82.2% of hospitalized COVID-19 cases vs. only 47.2% of the general population. They noted that Spain, which has a high prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency, had “reached very high rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection and lethality.”

In July 2021, Italian researchers performed a large, population-based study and found that supplementing patients with Vitamin D3 so they achieved normal serum levels was associated with better COVID-19 outcomes.

In August 2021, researchers in India found that “Vitamin D status appears to be strongly associated with COVID-19 clinical severity. After COVID-19 confirmation, Vitamin D level should be measured in all patients and curative plus preventive therapy should be initiated.”

In February 2022, Israeli researchers published a study showing that COVID-19 “patients with vitamin D deficiency (less than 20 ng/mL) were 14 times more likely to have severe or critical case of COVID than those with more than 40 ng/mL. Strikingly, mortality among patients with sufficient vitamin D levels was 2.3%, in contrast to 25.6% in the vitamin D deficient group.”

In March 2022, Irish researchers reported that “the collective literature supports a causal association between low vitamin D status, SARS-CoV-2 infection, and severe COVID-19 (respiratory failure, requirement for ventilation and mortality). A biologically plausible rationale exists for these findings, given vitamin D’s role in immune regulation.”

In March 2022, researchers in Indonesia did a meta-analysis of 11 Vitamin D studies with 22,265 Covid‐19 patients. They found that Vitamin D supplementation was associated with lower rates of ICU admission, ventilator use, and mortality.

In June 2022, Spanish researchers published the results of a study that showed high doses of vitamin D3 during hospitalization for COVID-19 appeared to speed recovery.

In January 2011, researchers at U-Penn reported that the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in the U.S. population was 41.6%, but 69.2% in Hispanics and 82.1% in Blacks. It was also more common in the obese and those with poor health. Gee … it sounds like the same people who get the ‘rona more often and more severely.

Keep in mind that this study was published nearly a decade before the pandemic hit. Conclusion: “Given that vitamin D deficiency is linked to some of the important risk factors of leading causes of death in the United States, it is important that health professionals are aware of this connection and offer dietary and other intervention strategies to correct vitamin D deficiency, especially in minority groups.”

I’ve been following the ‘rona news since February 2020 and I don’t remember seeing any calls for the peoples of the world to boost their Vitamin D supplementation or for doctors to test it. My doctor does mine, because I ask for it. But he told me just last month that they still don’t routinely include Vitamin D in blood panels. But they sure do make sure to recommend you get the jab.

Sources

May 2020 – Vitamin D linked to low virus death rate, study finds

July 2020 – Normal Vitamin D levels

Sept 2020 – Vitamin D and Immune Regulation: Antibacterial, Antiviral, Anti-Inflammatory

Oct 2020 – Vitamin D Status in Hospitalized Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection

July 2021 – Vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 risk: a population-based, cohort study

Aug 2021 – Vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19: A case-control study at a tertiary care hospital in India

Feb 2022 – Pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D is associated with increased disease severity and mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Mar 2022 – Vitamin D supplementation and Covid‐19 outcomes: A systematic review, meta‐analysis and meta‐regression

Mar 2022 – Understanding a Low Vitamin D State in the Context of COVID-19

June 2022 – Changes in the immune response against SARS-CoV-2 in individuals with severe COVID-19 treated with high dose of vitamin D

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by | July 14, 2022 · 2:53 pm

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BIDENFLATION: Consumer prices rose 9.1% in the 12 months ending in June, hitting a worse-than-expected 40-year high.

CATHOLIC: On Tuesday morning, a fake Twitter account started a rumor that Pope Benedict XVI had passed away. It’s not true. Apparently, the same thing happened in 2018.

CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS: The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan infiltrated one of those predatory, “bait and switch” places that don’t (gasp) perform or even refer pregnancy women for abortions! She reports that “The malicious woman who runs this clinic told me that it is ‘dedicated to acting as a support for women in times of crisis.’ Despicable.”

EDUCATION: A Florida school board cut off a dad’s microphone, saying that because the meetings are being broadcast, it is against the law for them to allow him to read pornographic excerpts from books that are in the public school libraries.

ELITE REALITY: This is a snapshot of what they want for the whole world. It’s basically the worst kind of feudalism writ large. – The Hamptons is an area on the east end of Long Island populated by mega wealthy celebs like Jerry Seinfeld, Billy Joel and Jay-Z and Beyoncé. They like their places to look good, inside and out, but they don’t like paying for it. So they hire illegals off the books and pay them too little to afford their own housing. Westhampton Beach resident Gina Webster, whose home is near woods that hide one of the encampments, said the situation was an open secret among residents. “It’s the Hamptons and we like to pretend real-life problems don’t exist here.”

MEDIA: In Sept 2021, Rasmussen did a survey in which estimates of COVID-19 death rates were correlated with respondents’ news sources. The correct answer is that, in the United States, those diagnosed with SARS-COV2 have a 1.6% mortality rate. (The mortality rate for influenza (flu) is 2%.)

Thirty percent or respondents chose the correct answer of “Less than 2%.” Of these, primary news sources were reported as:

  1. Newsmax (40%)
  2. No cable news (38%)
  3. Fox News (34%)
  4. MSNBC (24%)
  5. CNN (22%)
  6. OAN (21%)

Nearly half of Democrats say the cable news channel they most often watch is either CNN (24%) or MSNBC (23%). Among Republicans, the preferred choices are either Fox News (37%) or Newsmax (14%). Unsurprisingly, Democrats were twice as likely as Republicans to say the death rate is 500% of what it actually is.

Tellingly, “Americans who correctly estimate the COVID-19 mortality rate are more likely to believe public health officials are lying about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.” Imagine that!

MINNESOTA: A single judge has ruled that all legislative restrictions on abortion violate the state’s constitution, including the ones meant to protect women. These include a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before an abortion, a rule that both of a minor girl’s parents must be notified before an abortion, and requirements that only physicians perform abortion and that second and third trimester abortions be performed only in hospitals.

NYC: On July 12, 2022, NYC Emergency Management posted this PSA. [1:35] – There is a map at the last link showing the effects radius of a 300 kiloton nuclear airburst over southern Manhattan. The advice in the PSA – get inside and stay there until you’re told it’s safe to go out again – is the same as what the Blessed Mother told us through one of her End Times prophets.

PSA: [12:46] – This is worth watching.

STARBUCKS: This super woke corporation is closing 16 shops in major cities due to safety concerns. One guess which party runs those cities.

VAXXX: Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto has been barred from playing games in Toronto due to his vaccine status. He is standing by his decision to reject the shots, saying that he’s “not going to let Canada tell me what to put in my body.”

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by | July 14, 2022 · 2:20 pm

COVID-19 Update

If the Fauci-ites are to be believed, the vaxxx is the world’s only hope to beat the ‘rona. But the data do not support this claim. The graph above shows the countries with the highest death rates in the world, all above 3,000 per 1 Million population. The global national average is 818 per 1 Million population. And the vaxxx rates are all over the place, from Gibralter’s high of 127% to Bulgaria’s 16%.

Normally, we assume that the superior nutrition and medical care enjoyed by those of us in the first world means we also enjoy better health and disease outcomes. But when it comes to the ‘rona, the best places to live are the third world countries like the ones in the chart above, where Ivermectin is distributed in mass to prevent malaria. These nations are among those with both the lowest death rates and the lowest vaxxx rates.

By contrast, the richest nations have ‘rona death rates well above the global average of 818 per 1 Million population per nation.

I did a search of the deaths/1M population in nations with 80% or higher vaxxxed populations. If there is some kind of correlation between vaxxx rates and death rates here, I’m not seeing it.

The only significant correlation I could find was in Ivermectin statistics. Ivermectin kills a variety of parasites and insects, including the Anopheline vectors of malaria parasites. As such, it is commonly used in countries where malaria is endemic. These nations enjoy an exceptionally low rate of COVID-19 infections and deaths.

As I’ve reported numerous times, this Nobel Prize-winning drug has shown promise for use both as a prophylaxis against and as a treatment for COVID-19. As early as April 2020, just one month after shut down, doctors and researchers were touting its benefits … and being silenced for their trouble.

In October, 2020, before the vaxxxine was rolled out, a WHO report found that the incidence in number of COVID-19 cases and deaths was significantly lower in the 31 nations that employ mass Ivermectin campaigns to control malaria.

In April 2021, a meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Therapeutics concluded that Ivermectin used as a prophylaxis had shown large reductions in transmission and fatalities.

In October 2021, researchers at the Tokyo Medical Center repeated the analysis done by the WHO a year before, comparing COVID-19 stats in the 31 countries using mass Ivermectin campaigns to control malaria with 22 countries with similar socio-economic and climate that do not use Ivermectin on a large scale. They found the ‘rona case and death rates were significantly lower and concluded that mass use of Ivermectin was the likely reason.

Inexplicably, unless you have actually been paying attention, the WHO, CDC, and all the Global Elites backing the VAXXX agenda not only pooh-poohed Ivermectin’s efficacy, but launched a campaign saying it was nothing more than a horse dewormer that is highly dangerous for humans.

BUT … Ivermectin is actually one of the safest, most well-tested human drugs in the world, so safe in fact that … as has been noted, it is distributed in mass quantities in countries where malaria is endemic.

Sources

July 2011 – Ivermectin Mass Drug Administration to Humans Disrupts Malaria Parasite Transmission in Senegalese Villages

May 2013: Ivermectin to reduce malaria transmission: a research agenda for a promising new tool for elimination

Nov 2014 – Evaluation of ivermectin mass drug administration for malaria transmission control across different West African environments

April 2017 – Ivermectin and malaria control

Apr 2020 – The FDA-approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro

Oct 2020 – COVID-19: The Ivermectin African Enigma

Apr 2021 – Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19

Aug 2021 – Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19

Sept 2021 – Game-Changer? In Places Where Ivermectin Is Used to Fight Parasites, Medical Group Notices Something Huge

Sept 2021 – More Countries Now Using Ivermectin Against COVID And Seeing How Effective It Is

Oct 2021 – Why COVID-19 is not so spread in Africa: How does Ivermectin affect
it? [Tokyo Medical Center]

Nov 2021 – Safety of mass drug coadministration with ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine, albendazole, and azithromycin for the integrated treatment of neglected tropical diseases: a cluster randomized community trial

July 14, 2022 – COVID-19 vaccination rates by nation

July 14, 2022 – COVID-19 case and death rates by nation

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by | July 13, 2022 · 11:04 am

Our Lady of Coromoto, Patroness of Venezuela

One day in 1652, the chief of the Coromoto Indians was crossing a stream with his wife when they saw a Lady of extraordinary beauty who said to them in their language: “Go to the house of the Europeans and ask for Baptism.”

In 1942, the Venezuelan episcopate declared her as Patroness of Venezuela and in 1996, the church of Our Lady of Coromoto was consecrated as a National Shrine.

The miraculous image the Virgin left in the chief’s hand is tiny, 2.5 cm high by 2 cm wide. On the left is how it appears today. On the right is a rendering of how it may have looked before it suffered water and insect damage that obliterated the Child Jesus.

And again, reminiscent of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a human figure can be seen reflected in the eye. I have added arrows to help you discern the head, left arm akimbo and right arm stretched forward, left leg stretched forward and right leg bent back.

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