by | September 4, 2023 · 10:59 am

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ABORTION: FAUXTUS’ Department of Health and Human Services is giving $23 million dollars to several organizations, to provide abortions for “youth in foster care, youth in juvenile justice, rural youth, expectant and parenting teens, [and] younger adolescents in middle school” – all young girls in vulnerable situations. 

BIDENOMICS: Over the last two months, our economy lost 110k jobs, unemployment rose by .3%, and average hourly earnings rose a meager 8 cents. The average national price for gas is $3.95; four years ago, it was $2.27.

COVID-19: On Thursday, Trump dismissed the “left-wing lunatics [who] are trying very hard to bring back COVID lockdowns and mandates with all of their sudden fearmongering about the new variants that are coming.” I’d love to hear him say, “My biggest mistake first time around was listening to and trusting Tony Fauci. I understand the Swamp now, so that won’t happen again.”

DNA: Twenty years ago, this couple adopted an abandoned newborn boy; a year later, they adopted an abandoned newborn girl. The kids recently had their DNA done and learned they are not just adopted siblings, but also full biological siblings.

Adoptive mom reports that, when her daughter got the DNA results, “She’s screaming her head off, I couldn’t understand a word she was saying. I was like, ‘Were you in a car accident? Are you OK?’ And she goes, ‘Me and Frank are brother and sister!'”

Angela was confused — what on earth was Victoria talking about? This was hardly news. “I said to her, ‘Of course you’re brother and sister. I raised you.'”

“And Vicky says, ‘No, Mom. You don’t understand, we’re biological siblings.”

ESCAPE THE WOKE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=984649642684669 [1:01:05] to hear an excellent lecture by Michael Shellenberger. Full of FACTS.

FLORIDA: “I’ve told all of our personnel at the state level, you protect people’s property, and we are not going to tolerate any looting in the aftermath of a natural disaster,” said DeSantis. “I’ll also just remind potential looters … you never know what you’re walking into. People have a right to defend their property.”

KENTUCKY: When this woman attempted to leave her abusive baby daddy, he slapped her around, threatened her with death, then chained her to the floor. While he was gone, she managed to break a window and get a neighbor’s attention with her screams. The suspect is in custody and faces charges of kidnapping, intimidating a participant in the legal process, wanton endangerment, domestic assault, terroristic threatening, and physical harassment.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is not assisting any effort to keep anyone off the ballot doesn’t expect ballot access will be a problem for the former president. Unfortunately, some of the biggest states with the most electoral votes are deep blue havens for Trump haters. We need to PRAY.

NICARAGUA: According to Wikipedia, dictator Daniel Ortega attended but was never graduated from Central American University in Managua. On August 16, 2023, his government seized all of the university’s property, evicted the Jesuit priests, and renamed it after a Marxist revolutionary.

The United Nations condemned the seizure on X writing in Spanish, “The impact of this measure with the suspension of classes seriously affects the right to education, which is essential for the fulfillment of other human rights.”

OREGON: An arsonist is in custody for starting the fire that destroyed the sanctuary at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Salem. The parish serves 3,500.

RAFFENSPERGER: You can always tell what Dems are doing, by what they accuse us of doing. For example, the Wrongs have been claiming that, during a January 2021 between former President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Trump insisted Raffensperger fabricate enough votes for Trump to win the state.

This week, Raffensperger was subpoenaed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to testify during a motion hearing. During his testimony, he said that the call in question was about whether or not to pursue another recount of votes. Trump believed he had actually won Georgia and wanted the votes accurately assessed … which is a long way from demanding that Raffensperger do what the Democrats had actually done, which is fabricate enough votes for Biden to win the state.

SANCTUARY: CLICK https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1697326909913227403 [:29] to hear a formerly woke Democrat spew angry hatred toward illegals in her back yard. “I don’t want them there! Take them someplace else or send them back to Venezuela! I don’t care where they go!”

She added, “I am absolutely livid, livid. You all are so hypocritical. I live right across the street from that hotel. Back when they were there in the spring. They would be on our lawn, on our benches. I’m walking around the building; what do I walk upon? Three men urinating on the building.”

TRUMP: A Georgia just has ruled that the kangaroo trial in Fulton County will be viewable to the public and that all parties and spectators are allowed to use recording devices.

TUCKER: The former Fox News host spoke publicly for the first time about his ouster, saying that he’s still not sure why the company kicked him to the curb. He said, “The Murdochs never got in my way. They were always good to me”, but that the network is “not really covering the news anymore.”

USPS: The post office is NOT having a YUGE sale!!! I fell for it :-(““““` My bank charge says “JOURNEBABY.COM” which does not exist … NOT “USPS” like it would if the offer was real. And the address, 1003 Balsam Dr. Durango, COUS, appears to be a house that is for sale. :-(““““`

I forgot all my lessons about avoiding scams … like entering the site via its normal port, not the sale link. The correct web site for USPS is usps.com. The scam ad sends you to uspstamps.com.

If you also fell for this (or something else) and had your card charged … go to https://www.ic3.gov/Home/ComplaintChoice. Fill out the form to report the scammers to the FBI. Also, ask your bank’s fraud person if there is any way to get your money back or report on these jerks. They take this stuff seriously.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://twitter.com/TheWorldAboutUs/status/1683159790103715840 to see a stunning spiral rainbow! H/t and thanks to Mindful Webworker.

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by | September 3, 2023 · 6:05 pm

Gentle Parenting

WARNING: Chrissy rant ahead.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vrcc89cf6W8 to hear a comedian mock “gentle parenting.” This parenting theory isn’t really about spanking vs. not spanking. At its best, it incorporates tried and tested parenting methods. At its worst, it advocates pandering to your kids rather than raising them to be responsible, morally upright adults.

One site claims that “gentle parenting” is different from “traditional parenting” in that it supposedly focuses on “age-appropriate development” rather than “punishment and reward.” Yeah, no. Some of the stuff they cite I learned from my mom (born in 1914) and some is stuff I found worked well with my kids (born in the early 1980s).

  1. Give choices not commands.
  2. Use playfulness to make chores more fun or to diffuse tension.
  3. Invite children to participate in making decisions that affect them.
  4. Forgive when they apologize.
  5. Apologize and ask for forgiveness when you get it wrong.
  6. Label the behavior, not the kid.

I also really like giving kids permission to say “No, thank you” to somebody who wants to get into their personal space. I remember being pawed by a drunken friend of my parents at a party, but when I complained, my mother snarled at me about how important it was that I not embarrass them in front of their friends. So not cool.

But really … imo, some of this “gentle parenting” stuff is just whacked out. For example, not requiring kids to say “please” and “thank you.” Oh, come on! Manners grease the wheels of society. They need to be taught early and often.

The fact that “gentle parenting” was first proposed in the late 1980s suggests it has had a lot to do with the absurd behaviors we’ve seen on college campuses in recent years. Take this rule for example: “Allow feelings to run their course. Rather than saying “shoosh”, or yelling “stop!”, parents actively listen to crying. They may say, “you have a lot of/strong feelings about [situation].” Yeah, maybe … in some circumstances. Just be careful not to teach your kids that they can use tantrums to get what they want when they want it.

I remember the Big Car Seat Battle we had with Mama Buzz. She had tried to unbuckle on an earlier trip, so I had pulled over, gotten out to put her back, and informed her that staying buckled was not negotiable. The next time, Daddy was driving, so she tried to push his buttons. I was there, so she didn’t get out of her car seat, but she did scream at the top of her lungs and thrash around for a long, long time. Dearest said, “What should we do?” I told him, “Keep. On. Driving.” Eventually, she realized that she was not getting any attention, but she was getting a nasty headache and stopped. We never had any car seat battles with #2 and #3, because it was obvious from #1’s behavior that kids got buckled and stayed buckled. Period.

Another “gentle parenting” theory that strikes me as blatantly absurd is that is no such thing as bad behavior. “There are only unmet needs.” That’s just … no.

Even worse, “gentle parenting” equates even the suggestion of a negative consequence with actual violence. Warning a kid, “If you continue to do this, then that will happen” is violence, even when “that” is something as benign as a time out or appropriate as a loss of a privilege.

One site says that when some behavior is hurting someone else, you say things like, “Pulling the dog’s tail hurts him. I will not allow you to do that.” Then it goes on to explain that this involves “guiding instead of controlling, connecting instead of punishing, encouraging instead of demanding. It’s about listening, understanding, responding, and communicating.” That may work well with kids who have very compliant personalities. Mine were all very strong-willed. They would’ve steamrollered us if we hadn’t had a “that’s enough talk, now you do what you’re told” rule.

Another site talks about setting clear expectations. E.g., “If bedtime is always at 8 p.m., try not to deviate from that. If you put your foot down on a decision, stand your ground.” But there is no explanation for what constitutes putting your foot down. I’ve seen so many episodes of Supernanny where a very strong-willed kid has been allowed to run roughshod over the entire household, making parents and siblings miserable. Supernanny’s methods work, but so far as I can tell, they are not approved of by the GP gurus.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) suggests the key to this parenting approach is teaching, not punishing. Well yes and no. I’m all for teaching. It’s the way I was raised, it’s the way I raised my girls, and it’s what Supernanny advocates. I totally agree that when a kid does not understand what the boundaries are, then they don’t deserve a negative consequence for crossing them. However, when you’ve explained the rules and the reasons for the rules and the consequences for breaking the rules, and you’ve even given them a “next time” warning, then by golly, that consequence had better come immediately after the first repetition.

But I was told by a “Gentle Parent” that even having rules is violence. According to him, my telling my girls, “If you don’t stop hitting each other, I’m going to turn off this movie and return it”, was an act of violence. Furthermore, when they continued and I stopped the video and returned it to the rental store*, that was another act of violence.

*I think they thought I’d want to see the end of Titanic too much to actually follow through on my threat. However, being a good parent was much more important to me than seeing a movie. Plus, I knew how it would end. The boat sank.

I asked him if he believed in sin or in raising his kids to become mature, functioning members of society. He ignored both questions and proceeded to explain how I should have gotten down on the floor with them, found out what unmet needs they were expressing by poking, slapping and kicking each other, then done everything in my power to meet those unmet needs, so that they would choose to stop their undesirable behavior.

It’s amazing how good my kids turned out. His, meanwhile, aren’t even teen-agers yet.

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by | September 3, 2023 · 3:13 pm

Cult Watch: C3 Church Global

Formerly known as Christian City Church International, C3 is a progressive denomination that promotes the prosperity gospel. The conglomerate boasts more than 500 churches in 64 countries. The original founder, Phil Pringle, started out as a garbage collector. Like LRH, he discovered that religion is more lucrative than trash. He now enjoys yachting (photo), owns a luxury car, and lives in a palatial clifftop mansion valued at $4 million.

The C3 message of salvation leans heavily on donating to the church. A minimum of 10% pre-tax is expected, even if you’re in debt. “Go make millions and give it to the House of God … Amen!” Phil Pringle preaches at one conference, recorded and published online. Another C3 leader preaches, “God is brilliant with ledgers. God is the most perfect accountant, he knows everything you give and he makes sure it comes back to you with interest.”

I could find zero mention of the need for repentance, confession, or conversion in the church’s statements of belief. “We believe that faith alone in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord frees us from sin, and its consequences of death and eternal separation.” However, there is repeated emphasis on working out your own salvation by participating in a specific church. While I don’t disagree with that … I too believe we are called to actively participate in a specific faith community, this church’s emphasis combined with the pressure to tithe is very problematic. E.g., a former member reports, “They call it a free will gift or free will giving, that simply isn’t true. You’re brainwashed into giving this kind of money. There were nights in our house when my children did not have food. And I never got any assistance whatsoever from anybody.”

Leaked internal documents from another C3 pastor reveals what Pastor Sam Picken of C3 Church in Toronto expects from his staff. First and foremost, they need to understand that they are not there to serve God. They are there to serve Sam Picken.

I watched part of a sermon by a guest C3 pastor from Fort Worth. He spent an inordinate amount of time fan-boying Sam, including how awesome he looks in Crocs. It reminded me a whole lot of Tom Cruz’ embarrassing worship of David Miscavige, so I turned it off.

Also, about “Jess. No one is more important. If you make her life hard, you make my life hard. Therefore making your life hard.”

Instagram writer “C3churchwatch” writes about the Toronto User Manual, “This is a great document for show as this is some of the real expectation for staff and leaders at many C3 churches, but Sam doesn’t bother coating his words in bullshit like other pastors do. When you attend or work for C3, you follow random dudes and their fragile/egotistical whims, nothing more. You get promoted by how many people you bring in who give them money. I found it funny that being likeable is a factor in how you move up given how entire Toronto communities *really* don’t like Sam. I wonder what spurred this document. Sounds like he’s lost control of something. Can’t imagine why 👀 #toronto needs to pass on this place and let it die. The wounds of former members are too deep here. #c3toronto”

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by | September 3, 2023 · 10:31 am

Bits & Bytes

CALIFORNICATION: The Spreckels Union School District in Monterey County has agreed to pay a mother $100,000 for socially transitioning her 11-year-old daughter without her knowledge or consent. The girl has since decided to re-identify as the female she is.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au9Bemm6yD0 [6:22] for a quick primer in what the RCC teaches about the Mass and Holy Eucharist.

FINLAND: Finnish lawmaker Päivi Räsänen (63) is on trial this week for violating Finland’s hate speech laws by using Bible verses to express her support for traditional marriage. Along with Räsänen, a Finnish Lutheran bishop named Juhana Pohjola is also being tried for hate speech for publishing a pamphlet written by Räsänen that advocated for the biblical understanding of sexuality and marriage. 

Both were unanimously acquitted by a Finnish District Court in 2022, then prosecutors appealed their acquittal to the Helsinki Court of Appeal. The two, who are being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADF), face tens of thousands of Euros in fines and possibly two years in prison if they are found guilty. Additionally, the court could also rule to censor Räsänen’s publications.

OMG: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ1S7M5Tfcw [20:29] to see James O’Keefe’s report about school board officials who called police because some of the citizens at a meeting looked “Trumpish.” The cop is just as bad. “Get a life.” LOL That is James O’Keefe’s life. ::smh:: The follow up is @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ffb6z8G08 [6:44].

VAXXX: A paper was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases (Volume 75, Issue 1, 1 July 2022, Pages e545–e551). Entitled “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Naturally Acquired Immunity versus Vaccine-induced Immunity, Reinfections versus Breakthrough Infections: A Retrospective Cohort Study,” it reports on a study done by scientists in Israel.

The study was designed to compare long-term protection from symptomatic breakthrough infection conferred by 2 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine (Group 1 = 16, 215 individuals) vs. long-term protection from symptomatic reinfection conferred by naturally-acquired immunity (Group 2 = 46,035 individuals who were never vaccinated).

Participants were all 16 or older and had either had two doses or had recovered from a documented SARS-CoV-2 infection by February 28, 2021. The groups were matched as closely as possible for age, gender, and comorbidities.

At the completion of the study, no one in either group had died from COVID-19. Among the 62,250 individuals in the study, 748 caught SARS-CoV-2; 640 from Group 1 vs. 108 from Group 2. Eight of the Group 1 cases needed hospitalizations vs. none of the Group 2 cases. After adjusting for comorbidities, researchers calculated that the vaccinated group were about 6 times more likely than the naturally immune to get sick.

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by | September 2, 2023 · 12:59 pm

The Great Blessings

In The Secret of the Rosary (p. 65), St. Louis De Montfort states: “The Rosary recited with meditation on the mysteries brings about the following marvelous results:

1. It gradually gives us a perfect knowledge of Jesus Christ;

2. It purifies our souls, washing away sin;

3. It gives us victory over all our enemies;

4. It makes it easy for us to practice virtue;

5. It sets us on fire with love of Our Blessed Lord;

6. It enriches us with graces and merits;

7. It supplies us with what is needed to pay all our debts to God and to our fellow men;

8. It obtains all kinds of graces for us from Almighty God.”

On page 12 of his great work, St. Louis De Montfort wrote, “If you say the Rosary faithfully until death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins you shall receive a never fading crown of glory. Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in Hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practise black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and save your soul, if — and mark well what I say — if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.”

The “irresistible novena” originated when Fortuna Agrelli, a girl of Naples, had suffered intense pain for 13 months. On February 16, 1884, she and her relatives began a novena of Rosaries for her recovery. Sitting on a high throne with the Infant Jesus on her lap, the Blessed Mother appeared to Fortuna on March 3. She held a Rosary in her hand and was accompanied by St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena.

Fortuna petitioned Our Lady, “Queen of the Holy Rosary, be gracious to me, restore me to health.” The Blessed Virgin replied, “You have invoked me by various titles and have always obtained favors from me. Now, since you have called me by the title so pleasing to me, ‘Queen of the Holy Rosary,’ I can no longer refuse the favor that you petition; for this name is most precious and dear to me. Make three novenas, and you will obtain all.”

After Fortuna was cured, Our Lady appeared again. This time she said, “Whosoever desires to obtain favors from me should make three novenas of the prayers of the Rosary in petition and three novenas in thanksgiving.”

N.b., That works out to 27 rosaries in petition followed by 27 more in thanksgiving.

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by | September 2, 2023 · 12:25 pm

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CALIFORNICATION: Attorney General Rob Bonta is targeting state public school districts that have adopted parental rights policies. Multiple school districts in the area surrounding Sacramento have said they will stand firm in upholding parental rights.

CATHOLIC: On Wednesday, sexual assault charges against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick (now 93) were officially dropped after a judge ruled he was not competent to stand trial. I hope and pray his victims will find comfort in knowing this horrible excuse for a human being will face eternal judgment very soon.

HITLER: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/Brucemindfixtv/posts/3596005307386789/ [3:12] to see Der Fuehrer with his top advisors discuss how to stop Trump.

KEITH OLBERMANN: This miserable failure tried to gain himself a moment of relevance by tweeting that Riley Gaines “sucked at swimming.” So she gave him a virtual tour of her trophies @ https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1697327703592951943. LOL!

His Delusional Ugliness replied, “Happily for nasty, stupid, unsuccessful transphobe @Riley_Gaines_ she has no reputation to ruin.” She responded, “Ah, makes sense now why you got fired from ESPN.“

He also got canned by ESPN2, Current TV, and MSNBC (twice). HuffPost reports that “many of Olbermann’s previous jobs have [ended] with deep acrimony on both sides.” From what I read, a number of them were also followed by him filing a lawsuit.

KJP: Joe Biden has spent nearly 40% of his presidency on vacation, including nearly 75% of this August. Recent polling found that 77% of Americans, including 89% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats, believe he is too old to be effective for a second term.

When asked about her boss’ stamina, Karine Jean-Pierre hilariously claimed, with a straight face, “It is hard for us to keep up with this president, who is constantly, constantly working every day to get things done, and making sure that we’re delivering for the American people.”

MAINE: Two years ago, the nurses and other health care workers formerly known as heroes were fired by many hospitals for refusing the Fauci Ouchi. MaineGeneral Health, one of Maine’s largest health care providers, is now begging them to return to work, claiming they “had to comply with a state mandate for COVID-19 vaccination.”

Former employees are understandably livid that this organization went above and beyond the state’s mandate. They moved the jab deadline up to mid-September from the state’s mandated end of October, denied all religious exemptions, and charged vaxxx deniers with misconduct so they were denied unemployment benefits.

MILITARY: Service members were forced to receive ‘rona jabs during 2021 and most of 2022. The Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) shows that, during 2021 as compared with the average for 2016 through 2020, there were the following dramatic increases –

147% = intentional self-harm incidents

130.5% = myocarditis diagnoses

82% = injuries from assaults

41.2% = pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in the lungs)

38.2% = ovarian dysfunction

37.7% = complications and ill-defined descriptions of heart disease

DMED is a depository of all diagnoses—recorded using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes—when an active service member is seen on or off base by a military or civilian provider. The database doesn’t include any personally identifiable information of service members.

NEBRASKA: Governor Jim Pillen signed an Executive Order establishing the Women’s Bill of Rights. Gov. Pillen is the second U.S. governor to sign such an order, declaring that a person’s biological sex is defined at birth. This executive order goes into effect immediately.

OKLAHOMA: Western Heights Public School District is defending its decision to hire Dr. Shane Brent Murnan (52) as principal at John Glenn Elementary.

Shane Murnan is a drag queen who performs for children and reads books about gender to kids while dressed in drag. Shane has also been arrested for having child porn images, charges which were dropped because the prosecution couldn’t prove the kids in the photos were underage. Murnan has also won Miss Gay Oklahoma America and Miss Gay Oklahoma USA.

Brayden Savage, superintendent of Western Heights Public Schools, told parents to chill … then deleted his/her X account. Oklahoma’s State Superintendent has released a statement saying they are looking into the situation.

VIRGINIA: Cornerstone Christian Academy (CCA) in Loudoun County, VA, promises to support parents and families, which are the primary educators. The new school has only been open for a week, yet already has over 500 students. Their curriculum is “classically-influenced, and founded upon and permeated by the Word of God.” 

Loudoun County Public Schools have frequently been in the news over the past few years for their aggressively woke policies that led them to cover up the rape of a 15-year-old female student in the girls’ bathroom by a male student who wore a skirt. The girl’s parents were assured the boy was wearing an ankle monitor and was under house arrest, but the truth was they had merely moved him to another school, where he assaulted another girl.

VAXXX: The Epoch Times has found 26 death certificates across five states on which the ‘rona jab is listed as the cause of death.

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by | September 1, 2023 · 5:34 pm

Fauci Ouchie Update

A recently published study entitled “Detection of recombinant Spike protein in the blood of individuals vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2: Possible molecular mechanisms” demonstrates that the feds lied to us when they said “the vaccine stays in the arm” and that “harmless spike protein is only produced for a couple of days.”

Researchers in Italy and the UK noted that previous studies had found the modified spike protein used in the mRNA vaxxxines up to 28 days after injection. They decided to look at 20 jabbed individuals who were between 69 and 187 days out from the jab. They also looked 40 subjects who had not been vaxxxed – 20 who had had COVID and 20 who had never been infected.

Blood samples were run through a mass spectrometer. Modified spike proteins were found in 50% of the vaxxxed samples, some as long as six months after the jab. None of the unvaxxxed samples contained any of the modified spike protein.

In speculating on how the genetic material is persisting so long, researchers suggested the very scary possibility that “the mRNA may be integrated or re-transcribed in some cells” which I recall early “deniers” were warning about from the start.

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2023: CLICK https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1696937070550557006 [:46] to see Mitch McConnell freeze again. The man is not well. We need age limits!

ANGEL TRUCKER: The Truck Carriers Association (TCA) recently awarded their Highway Angel award to a driver who wishes to remain anonymous to protect his family from retaliation from human traffickers. The short version of the story is that the Highway Angel was at a truck stop in the wee hours when he saw a woman getting little girls, about 3 or 4 years old each, out of a locked cage in the back of the truck, take them to the toilet, then force them back into the cage. He called the police, gave them the truck’s plate number, then followed the truck while staying on the phone with the cops. When police caught up with the filth driving the truck, they found a whole bunch of little girls crammed into the cage. Many had been reported missing. Two were sisters. Police told him, “This kind of thing happens all the time.”

CANADA: CLICK or NOT https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1696619559141380201 [2:22] to hear Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland explain why Canada has issued a travel advisory for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or intersex (2SLGBTQI+) Canadians planning to visit certain red states in the USA. Because, of course, any state that has banned medical transitioning for minors or restricted bathroom use to biological sex is automatically as dangerous to the “pride” folks as, oh I dunno, Iran where they, you know, throw people like that off of buildings.

To save you time … basically, she uses a whole lot of wordy words to say this and so much more that isn’t important. “I know that our travel advisories are done very professionally. We have professional professionals in the government whose job is to look carefully around the world and to monitor whether there are particular dangers to particular groups of Canadians. That’s their job, and it’s the right thing to do.”

COOKING: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VhD5QyDEh4 [11:07] for another excellent lesson from Lan Lam. In this video, she teaches 3 ways to salt protein to improve its flavor. Mama Buzz has done brined turkey for Thanksgiving. I was fascinated to learn why it made the bird taste so good.

EXORCIST: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ynq5iTBO4_Y to hear Fr. Ambrose Criste explain that abortion is the sacrament of the demonic cult. The full interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKdYnZd9TiI (1:28:05).

HUNGARY: CLICK https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1696643892253466712 [30:26] to hear Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talk with Tucker Carlson about the war in Ukraine. “Trump is the man who can save the western world.” All I can say is … keep yourself prayed up. Every day.

JOURNALISM: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/16J5TrCIEB4 to hear an unbelievably ignorant woman interview a historian.

PSA: Just a reminder to check the pressure gauges on your fire extinguishers. I noticed last week that ours had gone kaput, so we now have a new one.

TWO TIERS: There is no question that our justice system has been hijacked by the Wrongs.

On Monday, the city of Denver, Colorado, voted to give $4.7 million to more than 300 Black Lives Matter protesters who were arrested in the summer of 2020 for violating the city’s emergency curfew order.

On Tuesday, a federal court found five pro-life activists guilty of peacefully violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The defendants were immediately removed to jail where they face up to 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines of up to $350,000.

VAXXX: Igor Chudov writes, “Many of us shared anecdotes of loved ones vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines – and suffering from all sorts of unrelated illnesses afterward. I know a young individual who, after mandated COVID vaccination, had all sorts of bacterial illnesses that he never had before. …

“Finally, we have scientific confirmation that vaccination against COVID-19 causes a marked decrease in immunity to heterologous pathogens such as viruses,bacteria, and fungi. This decreased immunity to other pathogens (acquired immune deficit) is what people colloquially refer to as ‘VAIDS.’ (VAIDS stands for Vaccine-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)”

The study, entitled “BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination in children alters cytokine responses to heterologous pathogens and Toll-like receptor agonists”, was published in Frontiers in Immunology on August 25, 2023.

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by | August 31, 2023 · 9:25 am

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14TH AMENDMENT: Multiple challenges are being filed to keep Trump off the 2024 ballots. CLICK https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1695150791248490953 [:18] to hear Alan Dershowitz comment. His newest book, titled Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law, was published earlier this year.

BUYER BEWARE: The following is from Consumer Lab, which is a subscription site, so I won’t bother to link to it. But the advice about how to avoid getting scammed is worth sharing.

  1. Buy directly from the brand’s own site.
  2. Buy only “Sold by/Ships from” products from Amazon.
  3. Check product reviews. Personally, I always read the one star reviews.
  4. Scan the transparency code.

CATHOLIC: Pope Francis is reportedly writing a second part to his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si, adding new climate-related concerns to the original document. Oh goodie … more junk climate “science” tricked out as moral teaching. I could take him more seriously if (a) he had ever deigned to meet with so-called “climate deniers” like Lord Monckton, which he did not, and (b) he had any authority whatsoever to teach about science, which he does not.

CLIMATE DENIERS: A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists released a declaration this week entitled “There is No Climate Emergency,” denouncing politically-driven narratives about “imminent” climate crises. “Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.”

CORRUPTION: The Democratic Attorney General of Washington D.C. is going after the people who were most instrumental in overturning of Roe v. Wade. These include Leonard Leo, a Catholic lawyer, and a number of non-profit organizations with which he has worked.

“This is yet another dangerous escalation in lawfare – which is engaging in political war through baseless lawsuits and government investigations in order to sideline your political opponents. The political left has no use for winning debates. They want to smear their opponents as ‘criminals.’” – CatholicVote Vice President Joshua Mercer

FAUXTUS GUMP: While speaking on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the “Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,” Biden said to the audience, “I was able to — literally, not figuratively — talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died. And I thought, ‘well, maybe there’s real progress.’ But hate never dies, it just hides. It hides under the rocks.”

1. “I was able to — literally, not figuratively — talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act.”

Democrat Senator Strom Thurmond switched his party affiliation to the GOP in 1964, when he also voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At the time, Joe Biden was a 21-year-old undergraduate at the University of Delaware.

2. “… before he died.”

Thurmond didn’t die until 2003, however, there was a senator who died just seven weeks after casting his vote. His name was Clair Engle. At the time of the vote, he had terminal brain cancer and was unable to speak. He was wheeled into the chamber for the vote and signified his “Aye” by pointing to his eye.

3. “And I thought, ‘well, maybe there’s real progress.’ But hate never dies, it just hides. It hides under the rocks.”

In Joe’s case, it was right out in public. Senator Robert Byrd was one of the Democrats who filibustered for 54 days in opposition to the Civil Rights Act. Byrd, who had previously been a Ku Klux Klan Exalted Cyclops, died in 2010. Joe Biden gave the eulogy at his funeral.

GEORGIA: Savannah-Chatham County Public School System has declined to remove pornographic books from their libraries because it “promotes intellectual freedom” and provides “access to a variety of information, ideas, and resources.” Never mind that it also poisons the minds and hearts of children while grooming them to be preyed upon by creepy “minor-attracted” adults. Blankets and Gender Queer are among the graphic novels they think kids should have ready access to in their school libraries. The former (black and white above) depicts a young boy watching his little brother get raped by a pedophile. The latter (color above) shows depictions of oral sex, masturbation, and promotes chest binders and sex toys.

KINDNESS: A homeowner got fed up with delivery drivers flinging his packages onto his porch. His brilliant solution was to place a box of supplies containing bottled water and snacks with a note on his porch, so the drivers were able to restock and refresh while on the go during hot weather. A series of clips that he captured shows the drivers accepting the thoughtful gift, and taking more care when delivering packages. Some even said “thank you” in front of the door camera.

RAMASWAMY: On Sunday, Vivek Ramaswamy appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” When asked if Mike Pence had done the right thing on January 6, 2021, he claimed, “I would have done it very differently. I think that there was a historic opportunity that he missed to reunite this country in that window.” I highly doubt that. He strikes me as another RINO traitor like John McCain, who promised repeatedly during his re-election campaign to “overturn Obamacare.” But when the vote to actually do it came down to him, and him alone, he voted with the Democrats, then turned to Schumer and high fived him.

TRANSPARENCY: While he was Obama’s Vice President, Joe Biden used three pseudonymous email addresses, including robinware456@gmail.com, JRBWare@gmail.com, and Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov.

The National Archives has revealed that they have 5,400 records containing these pseudonyms.

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AMERICAN CULTURE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KO3r5efOcMc to hear an airline pilot explaining the behavior expected of all passengers. It sounds like the talk we got on our first day of kindergarten, except for the part about flushing.

CALIFORNICATION: The Chino Valley Unified School District decided that schools must notify parents if their child seeks to identify as a member of the opposite sex. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, is going after them in court to try and make them stop.

COVID-19: CLICK https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1696305217770287159 [:23] to hear one of Fox Five’s token liberals tell us he’s going to get his 7th Fauci Ouchie and, by the way, he’s had COVID three separate times. Here at Casa Hyphen we are still 0 and 0. Zero jabs. Zero infections.

PEGGY ROWE: I follow Mike Rowe’s mom on Facebook. Here is her latest.

We were eating our entree this evening when I felt overcome.

“Oh John,” I said. “Sometimes I feel guilty. We’re served these wonderful meals every night, and I don’t have to lift a finger. I don’t plan a menu, shop for the food, prepare it, or clean up afterwards. I am so fortunate!” [N.b., they live in a retirement community.]

This evening my husband was carrying a piece of paper and a calculator when he came from his office and joined me in the living room.

Okay, I thought, it’s time to hear about how many hours of deep sleep he had last night, and how many times he used the bathroom, and how many steps he walked today.

I lowered my book and smiled.

He stood in front of me as though he were delivering the State of the Union Address. “We’ve been married for almost sixty-three years, and we’ve raised three sons,” he said. “During that time, you have packed 11,880 lunches, and prepared 21,900 meals. Don’t you ever feel guilty about being waited on! You’ve earned it!” I hugged him, and we sat together.

Five minutes later he said, “Hey, hon, feel like fixing me a snack? Some of your special cereal trail mix would be great! Oh, and I’ll have a cup of milk.”

And no, I did not reach for his calculator. It’s called marriage, and I’m ‘all in.’

SOUTH AFRICA: I can’t even … click if you can deal with seeing women who have been savagely beaten for being white. The farmers are now organizing armed community watches to protect their families and homesteads, but are limited by a government that sees the assaults as justice for wrongs committed under apartheid.

TRUMP: There’s more to the Democrats’ slimy indictments than just trying to hamper his campaign and protect their own sixes. They also want to invoke the above to keep him off the ballot altogether. Never mind that Democrats both stole the election for Biden and engineered the January 6th violence.

GRAMMY NOTES: The Mascot Home School is doing a unit on Egypt. When Mesopotamia came up, Bootz said, “Oh! That’s where Saul went!” And then proceeded to tell everyone what he had learned about it from What’s in the Bible. 🙂

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