Category Archives: Loose Pollen

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.

• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/detained-illegal-immigrants-face-5k-apprehension-fee-border-patrol-chief
• https://x.com/USBPChief/status/1996671005251543427

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.

• https://www.thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/pray-the-chaplet

EVERYDAY HEROES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qgxI-QzGgSk [2:01] to learn about Pizzabilities.

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.

CLICK https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1995318887093862889 to see an AI animated version of #1 that a fan posted on X.

• https://grokipedia.com/page/Franklin_the_Turtle_(books)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pete-posts-twisted-parody-of-beloved-kids-character-in-shock-strike/
• https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/1995291042346852861
• https://www.kidscanpress.com/series/franklin-classic-storybooks/
• “Franklin: Ideal Children’s Literary Idol or Flavourless Turtle of Privilege?” by Leanne Wilde @ https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/4090/3652

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.

• https://catchristmastree.com/products/cat-christmas-tree

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.

• https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-senior-dea-official-indicted-conspiring-provide-material-support-foreign
• https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2025/12/07/former-dea-deputy-chief-charged-with-narcoterrorism-in-cartel-money-laundering-scheme-n2422550

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.

• https://beachgrit.com/2025/09/rip-curls-pivot-to-transgender-market-blamed-for-mass-store-closures-and-83-million-loss/
• https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/rip-curls-uturn-on-promotion-of-transgender-female-surfer-is-living-proof-that-women-are-finally-fighting-back-against-erasure-and-winning/news-story/4c29f14ab8552eacca486641c04f88b0

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.

• https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf

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!

• https://notthebee.com/article/contractors-stumble-upon-10-live-grenades-in-washington-home-renovation
• https://www.foxnews.com/us/contractors-renovating-washington-state-home-discover-case-live-military-grenades-packed-tnt

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7f1xxlbFH-Q to see more cat people who have tried to have a Christmas tree.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Axd9Ir3J9kI and enjoy!

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask a special blessing on all students who have to study for exams instead of enjoy preparing for Your coming. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

BIDEN: CLICK https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1997071637250810261 [:15] to hear Slow Joe rename our great nation “The United States of Ameragottit.”

• https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/12/05/joe-biden-emerges-from-forced-retirement-to-remind-us-we-are-the-united-states-of-what-n2422502

DEMOCRATS: Back when it was newly freed slaves who were voting for Republicans, Democrats demanded they not only prove they were citizens, but also that they could read and write.

EVERYDAY HEROES: [2:39] – I need a tissue!

HOLIDAY SHOPPING: Bob The Sponge Holder. I am so tempted to get this for my favorite research assistant!

• https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851455536/bob-the-sponge-holder-decorative-sponge

J6 BOMBER: [7:33] – Why did the Biden FBI ignore this guy? I mean … they put so many resources into tracking down and arresting people who were just there. I find it unbelievable that they didn’t know who this guy was.

• https://www.lifezette.com/2025/12/dem-senator-blames-trumps-fbi-for-arrest-of-j6-pipe-bomber-taking-so-long-watch/

LIFE: [2:24] – A sidewalk counselor with Coalition Life reports on what he saw outside a Chicago Planned Parenthood on November 16, 2025. Coalition Life plans to ensure there is a permanent sidewalk counselor present outside the facility from now on.

• https://www.liveaction.org/news/planned-parenthood-collapses-staff-threw-out

MASS BLACKOUT: Mass Blackout 2025 was a leftist attempt to disrupt the Trump economy by having Americans refuse to participate in the busiest shopping week of the year. As per usual, it was a giant fail, as the week saw a 9.1% increase in spending over last year.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Blackout
• https://www.retaildive.com/news/winners-losers-black-friday-2025/806610/

MINNESOTA: The guy on the left is Abdul Dahir Ibrahim, an illegal alien from Somalia. The courts rejected all of his immigration appeals and ordered him deported in 2004. He has multiple convictions both here and in Canada for various crimes. At one time, he claimed his sister was his wife and that her children were theirs.

Ibrahim is one of dozens of Somali illegals who have been convicted of stealing COVID funds intended to feed school children via a fake charity called Feeding Our Future. These people stole hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, which they spent on themselves or sent to Somalia. Some of the money is believed to have ened up in the coffers of el-Shabaab, a radical Islamic terror group and ally of al-Qaeda.

• https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/12/05/the-minnesota-welfare-fraud-bombshell-just-got-really-uncomfortable-for-tim-walz-and-ilhan-omar-n2422501
• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/photos-emerge-somali-illegals-ties-top-minnesota-dems-after-ice-arrest
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/somali-terror-group-al-shabaab-taking-a-cut-of-millions-in-stolen-minnesota-taxpayer-money-from-welfare-fraud-scheme-report/ar-AA1QR7SD

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, We praise and thank You for inspiring the car thief to leave the child at a home with a cross on the wall. Amen. Alleluia!

SOUTH CAROLINA: Last month, a group of abortion survivors gathered outside Saint Anne’s Episcopal Church in Conway, because many of the church’s members and high leadership are active supporters of abortion, trafficking abortion pills into the state and helping women travel outside of the state to kill their children.

CLICK https://x.com/TheSurvivors_US/status/1985035583635456143 [:28] to see Richard Lovelace (79), a retired lawyer whose wife is a board member at the church, wave a hand grenade at the protesters, saying, “I have a grenade for y’all. A gift for you protestors.” Police were called immediately. Lovelace has been charged with threatening to use a replica of a destructive device, because the hand grenade did not contain explosives. His bond was set at $15,000.

• https://liveactionnews.substack.com/p/south-carolina-man-arrested-after
• https://www.westernjournal.com/lawyer-instantly-regrets-seemingly-brandishing-grenade-pro-life-protesters/
• https://recentlybooked.com/SC/Horry/RICHARD-LOVELACE~94_HC11022551652

USEFUL IDIOTS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/839792835431432 [1:55] to hear a former Islam extremist explain why they all vote Democrat.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DDj4esW8O00 to hear a new way to say “Merry Christmas.”

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1371417708055028 to see “Bowling with Dogs.”

DAILY PRAYER: Heavenly Father, Flood our heart with joy this Advent season as we reflect on the good news of Jesus’ birth. In Jesus’ precious name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: On Thursday, ICE announced that foreign nationals who’ve applied for asylum or other humanitarian programs will have to be be recertified every 18 months rather than five years. “Reducing the maximum validity period for employment authorization will ensure that those seeking to work in the United States do not threaten public safety or promote harmful anti-American ideologies,” USCIS Director Joe Edlow said in a public statement.

• https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/04/uscis-scales-back-work-permit-timeframe/

CALIFORNICATION: It’s been 11 months since a massive fire wiped out 13,000 homes in one of the richest neighborhoods in America’s second-largest city. On the Friday before Thanksgiving, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced ‘a major milestone’ in the recovery effort.

A four-bedroom house in Pacific Palisades had received its final approval from the city. That’s it. ONE house. Even worse, the approved structure was originally a model house that had been slated for demolition. The parcel is owned by a development company who has no plans for the structure to be inhabited by actual people.

I has been eleven months! The property owners are stinking rich! In Not-Bizarro-Democrat-World, the entire community would’ve been well on the way to being rebuilt by now. I mean … Florida managed to rebuild a bridge in THREE DAYS after a hurricane destroyed it.

• https://notthebee.com/article/las-mayor-is-celebrating-the-historic-milestone-of-approving-a-single-home-to-be-rebuilt-after-13000-homes-burned-down-over-a-year-ago

ECONOMY: On Dec. 3, President Trump eliminated Biden’s fuel standard regulations that dramatically increased the cost of new vehicles. “Today is a victory for common sense and affordability,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said during the ceremony.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-to-roll-back-biden-era-fuel-standards-admin-says-it-will-save-americans-109-billion-5953204
• https://notthebee.com/article/hallelujah-trump-just-paved-the-way-for-cheap-analog-compact-trucks-to-be-legal-in-america

EVERYDAY HEROES: [2:48] – It took team work to free four bull elk trapped in a frozen pond near Manhattan, Montana.

HOLIDAY SHOPPING: A perfectly annoying gift for the “No Kings” liberal on your list!

• https://www.etsy.com/listing/4317263042/trump-poker-card-deck-funny-maga

ILHAN OMAR: [9:01] – She’s up to her ears in the Minnesota Somali scandals. So why is the media protecting her?

• https://notthebee.com/article/cnn-asked-ilhan-omar-why-somalis-have-stolen-billions-of-dollars-and-her-answer-was-hilarious

ISLAM: When immigrants refuse to assimilate, they’re not immigrants, they’re invaders. One disturbing sign that Muslims are the latter is the rise of honor killings in western nations. From 2021 to present in England, these crimes increased by 81%. Other European nations also have recorded rises.

Last March in France, a man was convicted for shooting his estranged wife in the legs with a rifle, poured petrol over her, and setting her on fire, while also partially filming the incident. She died from her injuries. Over the summer, another Muslim man set his wife on fire in Belgium.

Last May in The Netherlands, two brothers bound their 18-year-old sister in packing tape, gagged her, and drowned her in a swamp for refusing an arranged marriage, having a boyfriend, and not wearing a headscarf.

In November in Austria, a 50-year-old Afghan man allegedly attacked his own 15-year-old daughter with a kitchen knife in the middle of the street, because he didn’t approve of her boyfriend. Thankfully, a witness rushed to help and she survived.

In the US, citizens are fighting back. In Hoover, Alabama , vigorous public concern over the growing Islamification of the area, the zoning commission unanimously rejected a rezoning request that would have allowed a Muslim K-12 academy to relocate to an office building in the Birmingham suburb.

• https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/europes-growing-honour-killing-problem/
• https://www.zerohedge.com/political/alabama-zoning-commission-rejects-proposal-muslim-school-after-town-erupts-fury

J6 BOMBER: [9:32] – Brian Cole Jr. has been charged with transporting an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction for allegedly placing pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters on January 5, 2021, before the Capitol riot.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1367824941382373 [:11] to hear CNN’s Jake Tapper call the recently arrested J6 bomber “a 30-year-old white man.”

• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-brian-cole-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fbi-arrests-person-in-investigation-into-bombs-placed-in-dc-on-eve-of-jan-6-post-5953624
• https://notthebee.com/article/fbi-arrests-january-6th-pipe-bomb-suspect
• https://notthebee.com/article/update-fbi-raids-home-of-suspected-j6-pipe-bomber
• https://notthebee.com/article/this-is-cnn-jake-tapper-calls-jan-6-pipe-bomber-suspect-brian-cole-a-white-man

LIFE: CLICK https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1996188396017057813 [2:38] to hear Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas force a pro-abortion lawyer to admit they initiated a lawsuit against a pro-life pregnancy center based only on their own desire to persecute pro-lifers. The Alliance Defending Freedom is representing the pregnancy centers in this case.

• https://notthebee.com/article/listen-clarence-thomas-just-eviscerated-a-woke-lawyer-for-targeting-christian-pregnancy-centers-with-no-cause

OBAMA: Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, has referred former President Obama to the Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution, alleging that he conspired to undermine Trump’s 2016 election victory through manipulated intelligence regarding Russian interference.

• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-receives-gabbards-criminal-referral-bombshell-claims-obama-admin-manufactured-russian-collusion-hoax
• https://cleverjourneys.com/2025/12/02/obama-directly-implicated-in-russiagate-hoax-is-officially-under-criminal-investigation/

OBAMACARE: On Dec. 3, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, aka, Obamacare), revealing that massive fraud has been costing American taxpayers billions of dollars.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/watchdog-uncovers-massive-fraud-waste-in-obamacare-insurance-tax-credits-5953587

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Give each and every citizen the grace to disagree without hostility or violence. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

TEXAS: On Dec. 4, SCOTUS approved the state’s redrawn election map which is expected to increase Republican representation in Texas’s U.S. House delegation. Predictably, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-upholds-texas-election-map-that-favors-republicans-5953611

TROLLS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1993072631514798 [8:36] to hear Turning Point USA’s response to Candace Owen’s vile lies.

VACCINES: Yesterday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to stop directing parents to get their infants quickly vaccinated against hepatitis B, unless the babies’ mothers test positive for the virus.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/rfk-jr-s-panel-recommends-delaying-first-vaccine-given-to-many-children-5953867

GRAMMY NOTES: I’m saving them up to give them to my gardening daughter. I hear they’re good for spooking veggie predators.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/618TgVs2tb0 to see Tubs get busted! LOL

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W0f2QdCm7gU to see the top 5 dogs, a drunken raccoon, and Hertz’s Gold Squad.

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Show each of us what gifts You have given to each of us to give to Your son. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

EVERYDAY HEROES: During college, Veronika Scott was assigned the task of designing something to fill a social need. After five months of working closely with the individuals at a local homeless shelter, she had designed a heat-trapping jacket that can transform into a warm and weather-resistant sleeping bag. At one point during her visits at the shelter, Veronika was approached by a woman who stated that “We don’t need coats. We need jobs.” Scott began to hire and train homeless mothers to make the coats, a project that evolved into a non-profit organization known as Empowerment Plan.

“Our goal is to help build a better life for those that have become trapped in the cycle of homelessness. We mostly hire homeless parents from local shelters to become full time seamstresses so that they can earn a stable income, find secure housing, and gain back their independence for themselves and for their families.”

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika_Scott
• https://www.empowermentplan.org/

HOLIDAY SHOPPING: If you’re not into burritos, it also comes in waffle, sprinkle doughnut, pepperoni pizza, and dairy cow. Customer review notes the default (cheapest) is a baby blanket, not the big one shown on the model.

• https://www.amazon.com/SeaRoomy-Burritos-Tortilla-Blanket-Novelty/dp/B082SHCSH6/ref=sr_1_31

HYPOCRISY: CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1995586141287055630 [1:23] to hear Obama say in October 2016 how dangerous it is to question the legitimacy of an election, then in December 2016, question the legitimacy of an election.

ISLAM: [6:46] – Comment: “What kind of God would promise the souls of 72 virgins to a homicide bomber? Satan would.”

PHYSICS IS FUN: [7:35] – When I was a graduate student in Communication Arts at Cornell, our professor told us a story to illustrate his lesson about redefining a problem that seems to have no solution. IOW, asking the right question. The story was about an apartment building super who kept getting pink slips from tenants complaining that the elevator was too slow. He had the elevator guys come several times, but they said it was running at peak efficiency. The super changed his question from “How do I speed up the elevator?” to “How do we stop the tenants from complaining about waiting for the elevator?” Solution: Install full length mirrors beside each of the elevator doors.

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Fill our nation with Your Son! In His Holy Name, we pray. Amen.

SCIENCE: Maybe Australia’s draconian 94% COVID-19 vaccination rate might have something to do with it?

• https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/covid-19-vaccines/vaccination-numbers-and-statistics
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/cancer-diagnosis-rates-under-50s-rising-causes-four-corners/105495620

TRUMP: [15:09] – Jesse Watters reports on Trump’s 9^th cabinet meeting. Biden held 9 also, but that was during his entire term, not his first year. Also, Jill hosted one of them. But yeah, let’s hear from Democrats about how Trump is in decline. ::smh::

CLICK https://x.com/DOGE__news/status/1995815206161965056 [2:30] to hear Donald Trump on Oprah many years ago. Interesting! Democrats loved him when he identified as one of them. As soon as he decided to run as a Republican, he became the worst man on the planet.

CLICK https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1996241994255913386 [:32] to hear Scott Jennings speak truth to power about Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with Trump vs. Democrats.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KXg6199D6ak to watch a Foley artist at work.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZwZH9IbUie0 to hear an amazing true story!

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Inspire each of us to be as brave as the little girl in the video, walking boldly to light up the world with your love! In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. Alleluia!

CATHOLIC: When the Gospel is about to be read at Mass, the priest says, “A Reading from the Gospel according to St. ____” and the congregation responds, “Glory to You, Oh Lord.” At this time, Catholics make a small cross with the thumb over the forehead, lips, and chest, praying silently, “May the Word of God be ever in my mind, on my lips, and in my heart.”

CHARLIE KIRK: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g500R1vcCGQ to hear how very Christian our nation’s founding really was.

CONDEMNING SOCIALISM: On Friday, November 21, just hours before New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani — a self-described democratic socialist — was scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House, the House of Representatives passed a resolution (258-98) condemning socialism in all forms. All of the 98 were Democrats.

CLICK https://x.com/cspan/status/1991904830252802409 [2:27] to hear Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar [R-FL-27] challenge Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA-43] to condemn Fidel Castro.

• https://grokipedia.com/page/Mar%C3%ADa_Elvira_Salazar
• https://grokipedia.com/page/Maxine_Waters
• https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/teenager-in-love-paranoid-maga-blasts-fbi-boss-patel-amid-girlfriend-alexis-lawsuit-vs-schaffer/videoshow/125253660.cms
• https://www.currentheadlines.com/maxine-waters-castro-ties-exposed-love-letters-found/
• https://www.rvmnews.com/2025/11/democrats-divided-as-house-votes-to-denounce-socialism-nationally/
• https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hconres58ih/pdf/BILLS-119hconres58ih.pdf

G20: On November 28, 2025, President Trump posted, “The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them. Perhaps, worst of all, the soon to be out of business New York Times and the Fake News Media won’t issue a word against this genocide. That’s why all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business! At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony. Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year. South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere, and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Hmm … refusing to hand off the presidency to the next host country reminds me of Nancy Pelosi tearing up Trump’s SOTU speech.

• https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1994438728237064270

JAPAN: Japan’s growing Muslim population is currently estimated at 350,000.

• https://thaitimes.com/japan-the-muslim-request-for-more-cemeteries-is-denied
• https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250203-muslim-burial-dilemma-in-japan-sparks-debate-amid-growing-population/

LIFE: Isn’t it interesting how abortion is “only 3%” of the services Planned Parenthood provides, yet as soon as Medicaid stopped covering abortions, all of these places had to shut down?

CA = Gilroy, Los Angeles, Madera, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, South San Francisco;

IL = Bloomington, Decatur, Englewood, Ottawa;

IN = Evansville;

IA = Ames, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City, Urbandale;

LA = Baton Rouge, New Orleans;

MI = Ann ArborM Jackson, Petoskey, Marquette;

MN = Apple Valley, Alexandria, Bemidji, Richfield;

MO = Joplin;

NV = Las Vegas (2);

NJ = Bellmawr, Englewood;

NY = Manhattan;

OH = Cleveland, Franklinton, Hamilton, Springfield;

PA = Moon Township;

TN = Memphs;

TX = Houston (2), Tyler;

UT = Logan, St. George;

VT = St. Johnsbury;

WI = Delavan.

• https://www.facebook.com/SidewalkAdvocatesForLife/posts/pfbid02wgNT6JWspHYGwnaVDjFsW8ht1siZ658ZsN6BJ2nB5gA9PeBPV6dTB25WRCRxfBidl

LYING LIAR: CLICK https://x.com/Patri0tContr0l/status/1994792777167536576 [1:10] to hear a physician say, with a straight face no less, that Joe Biden a year ago was “high functioning” and “robust” while Donald Trump today is “clearly” suffering from “age-related cognitive decline.”

MARIJUANA: Cannabis-related ER visits have increased by 650% since 2016. One of the ailments is cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) that affects chronic cannabis users, causing severe nausea, repeated vomiting, abdominal pain, dehydration, weight loss, and, in rare cases, heart rhythm problems, seizures, kidney failure, and death.

• https://www.foxnews.com/health/mysterious-marijuana-linked-vomiting-disorder-gets-official-who-code-er-cases-jump
• https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21665-cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, When we feel discouraged, remind us of Miguel Pellicer’s persistent faith. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

SCIENCE: Studies are showing that eating foods rich in flavanols — natural compounds found in cocoa, berries, apples, tea and nuts — can boost memory and help protect blood vessels from the harmful effects of prolonged sitting.

• https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/bite-dark-chocolate-could-sharpen-memory-within-hour-study-suggests
• https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/sitting-all-day-new-study-says-certain-foods-may-protect-your-heart-from-damage

SECRET SANTA: [9:31] – “Who would do that?!”

VAXXXINE: On Friday, Dr. Vinay Prasad, Director of FDA’s vaccine division, reportedly sent a memo to staff revealing that ten children died “after and because of” receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. The deaths were related to myocarditis (i.e., inflammation of the heart muscle).

“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad reportedly wrote in the memo which has not been publicly released. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”

• https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/fda-implement-stricter-vaccine-rules-after-memo-ties-child-deaths-covid-19

GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz sent this fun photo to kick off Advent. She grew the Christmas cactus from a cutting she took from her paternal grandmother’s prized specimen.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1994492569368363473 [3:20] to see this year’s pro-family Christmas ad from Chevrolet. Grab a tissue. You’ll need it.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QCfQyumenQY to hear about this heart surgeon’s most memorable case.