BABY ORCA: Whale watchers in Norway were observing a group of orcas when the water around the animals suddenly turned crimson with blood. They assumed they were watching a feeding frenzy … until a little head popped up. They watched in awe as the new mama and her midwives carried the newborn calf on their backs, holding it above water for air, until it was ready to breathe and swim on its own. These are the first known photos of an orca birth in the wild.
FLORIDA: A new state law goes into effect allows a jury to recommend the death sentence for sexual battery on a child under the age of 12. It passed out of the Legislature with support from both parties in both chambers, was signed by Gov. DeSantis in May, and went into effect last month.
IDAHO: CLICK https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1986106156087964107 [:56] to hear the new mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Dan Gookin, sneer at his constituents. “Christian conservatives are mindless, cult-member morons. They are white, racist supremacists. They can fuck themselves and go to hell.”
CLICK https://x.com/snoopsmom123/status/1986167851963850853 [:15] to see what appears to be a woman who had her breasts removed say the same thing.
ILLINOIS: The state is one signature away from making euthanasia legal. Peter Heck writes, “On paper, of course, the bill includes guardrails: witness requirements, assurances that no doctor will be forced to participate, etc. But the history of assisted suicide laws – domestically in places like Oregon and Washington, or internationally in places like Canada and Belgium – demonstrates how unreliable those guardrails end up being. First they bend, then loosen, then erode.”
When I was a teenager, my mother told me we should never legalize abortion, because it would lead to euthanasia. She was more right than she knew. As with abortion, they use phrases like “dignity” and “choice,” but what it eventually boils down to is “convenience” and “cost.”
MELATONIN: A large new study revealed that adults with insomnia who used melatonin for a year or longer faced a significantly higher risk of developing heart failure when compared to insomniacs who did not use melatonin long-term.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: “Stacie” Marie Laughton, who was as the first elected transgender official in a state house of representatives, has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children this week. The Democrat, who was born Barry Laughton Jr., had more than 10,000 text messages on his phone discussing and transferring photographs of children. At least four were sexually explicit images of children who appear to be approximately three to five years old. The texts also included explicit descriptions of sex with children. The sexual exploitation charge carries at least 15 years in prison, up to 30, and five years supervised release.
NO KINGS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dWyPW4hqMYg to watch one of my favorite scenes in any movie ever. The pompous professor reminds me, at heart, of all the elitists currently running the Democratic Party. The only difference is in the accents they use as they tell us we’re too stupid to govern ourselves.
OHIO: CLICK https://x.com/Thefactsdude/status/1986750481709101194 [1:15] to watch the body cam footage from officers who responded to a call concerning a “male with a cowboy hat riding a whitish bull up and down the parking lot” outside a Walmart. The rider told police he was passing through town for a rodeo event at Garwood Arena in Columbiana this weekend. The situation ended without incident, but not before one of the responding officers climbed onto the bull for a photo (above).
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, We lift up those who are struggling to put food on the table this month. Provide for their needs and move the hearts of 5 Democrats to vote to end the shutdown. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SNAP: On Nov. 7, partial benefits went out to food stamp recipients and the Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a judge’s order that requires the federal government to fully fund food stamps in November. SCOTUS issued a late-night order also on the seventh, giving the court time to consider the case.
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted, “A single district court in Rhode Island should not be able to seize center stage in the shutdown, seek to upend political negotiations that could produce swift political solutions for SNAP and other programs, and dictate its own preferences for how scarce federal funds should be spent.”
The Hodge Twins posted, “Democrats are in TOTAL UPROAR after the Supreme Court drops a bombshell ruling that President Trump CAN’T just hand out SNAP benefits willy-nilly until Congress actually funds the government—for now, at least.
“They’ve been screaming ‘No Kings in America!’ from the rooftops, but now they’re flipping out because they can’t force Trump to act like some all-powerful monarch pulling money out of thin air!
“Hypocrisy at its finest—you seriously can’t make this level of clownery up.”
TEXAS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1707234043566603 to hear what a cop says truck drivers can and should do.
TRUMP: I saw this on Facebook – After a man fainted in the Oval Office today, President Trump personally called the man’s wife to calm her down.
Dr. Oz: “I saw that he was starting to fall back a bit and then fall forward. You know, that wobbliness is never a good scene, especially in the Oval Office where usually you have attention being, you know, standing upright. So I grabbed him—the most important thing you learn in medical school, but you should learn it if you’re not a doctor as well, is just get people to the ground safely. So I bear-hugged him, and with some colleagues who were standing next to me, Secretary Kennedy and others, we lowered him slowly to the ground. So far, he’s doing well.
“But I’ll tell you a story that speaks loudly to the kind of person the President is. So I wanted to speak to the wife, to let her know what was happening, but also comfort her. And the President saw me in the corner, and he came over and said, “Who are you talking to?” I said, “Sir, she’s pretty upset, I’m talking to the wife.” And he said, “Give me that phone.”
“He talked to her and got her much calmer than I could have ever done. And I just think he’s just a wonderful human being that he would take time. He could have gone up and done 10 other things, but he actually cared that the wife of a man who he’s never met before felt in a safer place. He remembers the forgotten folks.”
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wdCwOrfo5Ik and grab a tissue.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7HT7panu9f4 and get another tissue.
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