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AOC: The gift that keeps on giving [4:00].

BORDER: The feds couldn’t (wouldn’t?) do it, so Texas did it for themselves. Texas DPS officers were able to stop the influx of mostly Haitian illegals (who clearly did not WALK to Del Rio) by bringing in a LOT of extra officers and vehicles. The spirit of the LONE Star State is alive and well.

Melugin also tweeted, “I’m now on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande where thousands of migrants crossed illegally into Del Rio today. The migrants left piles of trash, and the area has now been secured with barbed wire by Texas DPS.

WH Spox progsplains what the process is for illegals infected with COVID-19 @ https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1440010234358112258 [1:24]. Incredibly, she sounds even dumber than usual.

CDC: CLICK https://rumble.com/vmppy5-former-fda-comissioner-nobody-knows-where-the-6-feet-rule-came-from.html [:53] to hear former FDA Comissioner Scott Gottlieb say the CDC’s six-foot distancing recommendation was totally arbitrary.

COVID-19: They are telling us that ‘rona gene therapy shots (wrongly dubbed “vaccines”) reduce the severity of infection and claim the higher percentage of COVID-19 deaths among unvaxxed is proof. But they are lumping anyone who isn’t 14 days past their final shot with the unvaxxed. Given what that lab doctor said about the vax suppressing the immune system, we have no evidence at all that the vaccine isn’t a significant contributing factor.

And speaking of data we aren’t getting, how about correlating the partially vaxxed vs. fully vaxxed vs. non-vaxxed hospitalized patients who did or did not receive early treatment with Regeneron, Ivermectin, and/or Hydroxychloroquine? Ditto their zinc and Vitamins C&D levels, co-morbidities, severity of infection and outcomes?

ELITISM: The mayor of San Francisco says that she shouldn’t be criticized for breaking her own COVID rules. Charles C.W. Cooke scorches her hypocrisy at National Review.

CLICK (or not) https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1439953010977873920 [6:21] to hear her maundering explanations why her not wearing a mask is just soooo not important.

FAUCI: Watch this! [6:17] – He needs to go down. Can you believe how racist and short-sighted his excuse is for funding dangerous research in China rather than, say, New Jersey?!

FAUXTUS: [:41] – If this was Trump, it would lead all the morning, evening and late night shows, get rerun ad nauseum, and be turned into at least one if not more SNL skits.

GENE THERAPY SHOTS: The CDC just published the results of a new study into the effectiveness of the so-called “vaccines” in preventing hospitalization for COVID-19.

Their data show the shots not only do not prevent infection (which true vaccines should do) nor hospitalization (which is their big claim to fame), but also that their effectiveness fades over time.

The study involved 3,889 healthy adults ages 18 and over, who had no known prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and who received both doses of either the Moderna or the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA Gene Therapy Agent (GTA) more than 14 days before succumbing to COVID-19. (There were not enough Johnson & Johnson candidates to make their data meaningful.)

During the first four months after achieving “fully vaccinated” status, 93% of the Moderna group and 88% of the Pfizer/BioNTech group had not been hospitalized for COVID-19. After 120 days, the so-called “effectiveness” of these agents declined to 92% for Moderna vs. 77% for Pfizer/BioNTech.

The study concluded, “Two-dose regimens of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccines provided a high level of protection against COVID-19 hospitalizations.” Read that one again. Then consider that, according to my reading of the report (the link is below if you want to check my work), they did not track the number of non-hospitalized COVID-19 breakthrough infections in the group studied. There was also zero mention of early treatment protocols.

*True vaccines introduce a weakened or killed sample of the disease-causing agent to trigger the immune system to make an antibody key to that agent. I’m pretty sure their effectiveness is measured by how many breakthrough infections occur, not by how many of the breakthrough infections result in hospitalization and/or death.

GODWIN’S LAW: From Not The Bee – “You can click on that article and read it if you want, but basically the dude argues that the vaccine mandate cannot possibly be fascist, as some on the right have argued, because Hitler and the Nazis relaxed time-tested vaccine requirements in Germany. The Nazis figured more people would die without vaccines, which would technically help the world because those would be undesirable people and we would save time on, you know, sterilizing them (or worse).

So Republican anti-vaxxers are now Hitler and they want themselves to die so they can rule the world. Sounds plausible.

Technically the author of this piece is right, though: Hitler did oppose vaccine mandates. So bravo, bro. Your headline is not only hilarious, it’s true! Just not quite as true as you wanted it to be.

MEDIA SLIME: WaPo used the photo to accuse Texas officers of RAAACISM. Lede paragraph: “Every detail — the apparent anger on the face of the officer, the food in the migrant’s hand, the isolation of the location — is evocative and revealing. Nor is it possible to ignore the historical echoes suggested by a White officer of the law apprehending a fleeing Black man.” Way, way, waaaaay down into the story, WaPo showed this photo which totally debunks the VICE News “whip” smear.

MEET THE PRESS: CLICK (or not) https://rumble.com/vmpxdp-lib-pundits-flummoxed-by-bidens-incompetence.html [2:10] to hear jerknalists say Biden can “walk and chew gum at the same time” so it’s okay. Plus, “they didn’t expect” this stuff. But yeah, there’s a lot of crap going on, so they really need to “get their feet under them.” But golly, “disinformation” is the really big problem.

TALIBAN: One of the atrocities FAUXTUS gets to answer to God for is the release of thousands of dangerous terrorists from high security prisons to rejoin the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

The Kabul airport suicide bomber who killed 13 of our soldiers, plus at least 169 Afghan civilians was one of them. Abdul Rehman was freed by the Taliban from Bagram prison on August 15. Eleven days later, he blew himself up in hopes of earning a place in Paradise. Allahu Akbar!

Bone-headed Leftists like to blame terrorism on poverty and a lack of education. But Rehman was the son of a merchant who had studied engineering. Islamic terrorism is all about the twisted teachings of the Prophet, which assures no Muslim can earn place in Paradise except the ones who die in jihad.

One officer who worked on the Abdul Rehman case said, “Literally a decade’s work on counter-terrorism has been undone by the US’ failure to secure key prisoners in Bagram,” he said adding that the consequences of this failure will be “very far-reaching.”

VAX: WATCH from 4:20:17 to 4:24:03 to hear the four minute comment by Steve Kirsch, executive director of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund and an FDA panel member, during the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting about boosters. E.g., There “are four times as many heart attacks [as is normal] in the treatment group in the Pfizer six-month trial report.The VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] shows heart attacks happen 71 times more often following these vaccines compared to any other vaccine.” The VAERS data also shows “we kill two people [with the vaccines] for every one we save.” Plus, “it’s pretty clear that the Pfizer trials were gamed.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP: Taliban terrorists commandeer swan-shaped pedal boats at at Band-e Amir National Park.

GRAMMY NOTES: Home school can happen anywhere. Buzz and Bunny are at therapy, so Bootz is doing his math while Mama does some internet errands on her phone. 🙂

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BODY LANGUAGE GUY: This is interesting [8:39] – My impression of the image was “Here is Harry, the beta male formerly known as Prince, and his Dominatrix.

FAUXTUS: A new Fox News poll finds Biden (used the word “unity” eight times in his inauguration speech) is failing at that too. What a shock. Not.

HATING TRUMP: [4:34] – FAUXTUS and his Democrat handlers purged all Trump appointees to apolitical boards. What a petty, vindictive, mean-spirited ………. I need to lie down and spend some time with Jesus.

SHALOM: “Shalom” is translated into English as “peace”, but it means SO much more than “absence of conflict” [4:09]. I found this material when I was looking deeper into what my daughter’s pastor preached on, which is @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1JzhjlRq5s beginning at 32:30.

THE UN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT: Steve Hilton gives us the words for our anger [7:40].

VAX: It reportedly does generally reduce the severity of later infection but so do Regeneron, Ivermectin, and Hydroxychloroquine. Also, vaxxed people are still dying of COVID-19.

WORST PRESIDENT EVER: Judge Jeanine covers stuff Steve Hilton didn’t [9:04].

GRAMMY NOTES: This graphic reminded me of something that happened to me when I was 2 years old, waaaaay before seat belts or car seats. My mother was driving and I was standing on the seat beside her. I remember putting my foot on to the door handle, which in that model opened the car by going DOWN. It did and I ended up in the gutter.

I told my mother once that I remembered it all, which amazed her because I was so young. But hey, it was traumatic to say the least! She filled in the blanks which included that she had just finished a right hand turn (I know the exact corner) so thankfully was going slowly when I opened the door. She said that as soon as she realized I was flying out the door, she laid on the horn and turned the car so no one else could hit me.

I remember her racing around the car to get me. I told her I thought she was really mad at me for falling out of the car. Now that I’ve been in similar situations with my kids (and now a grandkid!), I know she wasn’t mad. She was terrified!

I don’t remember going to the doctor, but apparently, I was fine. It made a heck of an impression though, because as soon as seat belts and later child car seats became available, I was an ardent user and supporter. I remember a baby sitter telling me she had put my not-talking-yet daughter into a car seat to run some errands, then got into the driver’s seat and started to pull out of the driveway. She said my kid kicked up a HUGE fuss, yelling at her and pointing to her waist. She finally realized she hadn’t buckled herself in and my kid was going nowhere until all the belts were fastened. 🙂

CLICK https://rumble.com/vmonm5-the-most-american-thing-ever-marines-walk-through-flood-to-help-stranded-dr.html [:48] to see a group of Marines do what real men do … even when they’re in dress unis with WHITE PANTS!

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BOOSTER: On Friday, the FDA’s vaccine advisory panel voted 16–3 to recommend against providing booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for everyone, but did endorse it for those who are at high risk or are over 65. Hmmm … I wonder if the negative push back from folks like us has had an impact…

CATHOLIC: If you’ve got young kids or grands, I encourage you to look into this weekly Mass prep resource. The video uses LEGOs to illustrate the Gospel and two young girls give a micro-homily. There is also a coloring page, a mini quiz, and the upcoming Sunday readings. I love it!

DURHAM: Michael Sussman, an attorney who represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, has been indicted for allegedly lying to federal law enforcement officials about who he was representing when he came to the FBI with information about Donald Trump and Russia.

After reading Don Surber’s piece linked below, it looks to me like John Durham has made a career out of managing long, drawn-out investigations designed to ensure Democrats get away with everything. It’s frustrating, but God knows what he’s done. And Hell is forever.

FAUCI: CLICK https://rumble.com/vmndzq-rnc-ad-shows-fauci-flip-flopping-on-vaccine-mandates.html [2:32] to see a new RNC ad showing Tony’s total flip flop on federal vaccine mandates.

FAUXTUS APPROVAL: CLICK https://rumble.com/vmky9n-bidens-approval-continues-slipping.html [1:39] to see Fox Business report on Biden’s falling approval rating. He’s taken an especially big hit among Hispanics.

In April, Quinnipiac found 50% of Hispanics approving or strongly approving Biden’s job approval. The latest Quinnipiac poll found only 38% approve, which is a virtual tie with the 37% approval among Whites.

IVERMECTIN: Onchocerciasis (aka, river blindness) is a tropical disease caused by a parasitic worm that can cause several skin diseases, visual impairment and sometimes blindness.

Some African countries have been experimenting with ivermectin to kill off the parasite. These countries are known as APOC countries, which stands for African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control.

A recent study compared APOC and nearby non-APOC countries and found that those using ivermectin had a 28% lower COVID-19 death rate.

LYING WITH STATISTICS: A leaked Zoom conference reveals Mary Rudyk, MD, telling the hospital’s Director of Marketing Carolyn Fisher and another hospital employee that she wants the hospitals to inflate COVID-19 patient numbers to make the disease more scary to the public. The message she wants out there is, “If you don’t get vaccinated, you know you’re going to die.

MARIJUANA: According to a recently published study, adult users under 45 are twice as likely to suffer heart attacks as adults who abstain.

In addition, habitual users are increasingly showing up in emergency rooms suffering from cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. CHS is marked by really bad abdominal pain, nausea, and uncontrollable vomiting that goes on for hours. One doctors says patients often report taking a scalding hot shower that didn’t help.

MEDIA MALPRACTICE: While appearing on liberal Jimmy Kimmel’s show, liberal Bill Mayer cited a survey from the liberal New York Times that showed 70% of Democrats grossly over-estimate their chances of being hospitalized for COVID-19 – 28% of Democrats said it’s between 20% and 49% while an incredible 41% believe it is over 50%!

Maher said, “Liberal media has to take a little responsibility for that. For scaring the s–t out of people.”

MILLEY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vmlu9w-real-america-dan-ball-w-general-michael-flynn-treasonous-milley-91521.html [13:59] to hear Get Real Dan explain the Milley issue, then talk with General Michael Flynn about it.

CLICK https://rumble.com/vmkxsx-dan-bongino-torches-general-milley.html [5:45] to hear Dan Bongino on the phone calls and the White House response to them.

CLICK https://rumble.com/vmjxc5-joe-biden-i-have-great-confidence-in-gen.-milley.html [:18] and https://rumble.com/vmju69-psaki-defends-gen.-milley-after-bomshell-report-on-alleged-treason.html [2:15] to hear Biden and Psaki express confidence in Milley.

Trump’s acting Defense Secretary says Gen. Mark Milley had no authority to make “secret” calls to his counterpart in communist China and needs to resign “immediately.

NEW YORK SLIME: The Israelis took out Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist who built weapons of mass destruction. But NEVER MIND THAT, he was just a really sweet guy at heart.

OHIO: The entire men’s basketball team at University of Cincinnati-Clermont has opted not to play this year in protest against the university’s vaccine mandate. The players say they oppose the vaccine on both safety and ethical grounds.

REGENERON: The FAUXTUS administration abruptly made a petty and vengeful decision to limit the number of doses of Regeneron being shipped to red states AND to give these states no warning.

Alabama reports that the rationing is hitting them hard, with some distribution sites having already running out of or projected to run out of supply soon.

Florida’s Gov. DeSantis says he is looking into getting the stuff directly from a manufacturer.

SHAMING THE UNVAXXED: CLICK https://rumble.com/vmlo15-gutfeld-to-don-lemon-do-you-have-the-balls-to-call-44-of-blacks-stupid.html [2:51] to hear Greg Gutfeld make an excellent reply to Don Lemon calling unvaxxed individuals uniformly “stupid.”

VFAUXTUS: As the southern border was erupting into utter chaos, Biden hit the beach while his border czar flipped a coin.

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Border Update

The number of “border encounters” in August 2021 was 208,887 – four times higher than just one year ago, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Fox correspondent Bill Melugin reported that “thousands of migrants under the international bridge in Del Rio, TX with more showing up constantly. We’re told the situation there is getting worse every day and the numbers are growing by the hour.

CLICK https://rumble.com/vmmjet-faa-shuts-down-drones-recording-bidens-border-crisis.html [2:40] to hear how the FAA has abruptly banned Fox News’ drones from flying over the crisis area in the name of “special security reasons.”

CLICK https://rumble.com/vmmvu3-biden-bans-drones-to-hide-border-crisisso-bps-gets-fox-news-a-helicopter.html [2:18] to see the Fox News report using a helicopter that Texas DPS loaned them. In just 48 hours, the crowd of illegals in this one area has jumped from 4,000 to 11,000.

It’s so bad that even CNN has noticed. CLICK https://rumble.com/vmmttb-cnn-says-bidens-border-crisis-is-at-a-breaking-point.html [1:55]

On Sept. 16, Texas Gov. Abbot said, “The Biden Administration is in complete disarray and is handling the border crisis as badly as the evacuation from Afghanistan.”

On Sept. 17, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called the situation a national security crisis and urged FAUXTUS to deploy the National Guard.

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A Pandemic of the Incompetence

From Maker S. Mark at American Thinker

Mr. Biden and other liberals are very upset with the unvaccinated. They’ve laid the blame, with the claim that this is “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

I call BS. This is a “pandemic of the incompetent.”

First, the CDC and NIH watched the virus ravage China and did nothing.

Next, they told President Trump that it was xenophobic to stop travel from China.

Next, they told us the virus was not transmitting human to human.

Next, they changed, without reasoning, the reporting requirements for potential deaths associated with the virus to guarantee a higher death total in the U.S.

Next, they misrepresented the data for the projected death toll in America with a completely incorrect model.

Next, they told us to shut down the country for two weeks to slow the spread.

Next, they told us a vaccine in less than a year was impossible.

Next, they pushed mask mandates with no science to back them up. Excuse me — the high point on masking science is the study out of Hong Kong on hamsters that seems to have been the basis for the start of masking science.

Next, they supported crazy items like mandatory masking outdoors, no swimming in public pools, and wearing a mask in your own home.

Next, they continued to keep businesses closed past the two-month mark, and they fail to provide evidence that closing any business helped slow the spread.

Next, they started paying people extra unemployment benefits while removing all incentives to look for work.

Next, we were told it was more important not to offend China by calling it the Chinese Coronavirus or the Wuhan Flu than it was to find a treatment.

Next, people started to get wise to the incompetence, and they started doing normal things. The incompetents would scream “super-spreader,” yet no super-spreader events were ever proven. People began to demonstrate they could manage the virus for themselves.

Next, states and locals started to drop the masking, and those states endured public recriminations, yet the infection rate continued to drop despite the dire predictions of the incompetent.

Next, we were told by a presidential candidate that he had a plan to shut the virus down. This implies that a virus can be shut down and that he actually had a plan to do something effective. Both now seem to be proven incompetent statements from someone with no real clue.

Next, an injection was developed that we were told was a vaccine, and administration of it began.

Next, the control group test data were corrupted by the injection maker by administering the drug to all participants in the trial. This has never been done before.

Next, virus variants were detected in other countries, and specifically, they were detected in South America.

Next, we opened the southern border to all.

Next, the American people found out that Big Government and Big Tech are colluding to block important information that is contrary to the approved messaging about the virus and the “vaccine.

Next, we have legislation called COVID relief, but really, more than 80% of that money went to political paybacks and pet projects having nothing to do with COVID.

Next, the illegal aliens detained at the border were jammed into small spaces and not tested at the border. Many illegals were sent to other states in the dead of night to be tested later.

Next, we are over a year into the pandemic, and we have one treatment approved by the FDA. Despite indications that there are at least three successfully in use around the world — Remdesivir, ivermectin, and hydroxychloroquine — the FDA has only reluctantly added Remdesivir for people after they are hospitalized.

Next, we find out that the CDC is making policy based on recommendations from the teachers’ union. We have yet to learn who else is dictating COVID policy to the CDC. China, perhaps?

Next, we find out that the illegals being dumped in the country are not being tested or reported to the local authorities.

Next, we find out that two of the drugs called a vaccine did not meet the legal definition of “vaccine.”

Next, we find out the FDA is trying to change its definition of “vaccine” without comment or notice.

Next, we are told by the current White House occupant that the unvaccinated are a risk to the vaccinated. How can that be if the vaccine works and protects the vaccinated? Or is it not legally a vaccine?

This list took less than an hour to generate. I am sure that readers at AT can expand it.

The current White House occupant is upset that we are not just accepting the standard of incompetence that has been displayed. We are researching options for ourselves; keeping our friends and neighbors safe; and making our own decisions, as Americans have a history of doing.

A virus-like this cannot be contained or shut down. It can only be managed, and part of managing a virus is treatment options. The incompetence and the denial of the FDA, NIH, and CDC to use proper science to validate treatment options continue to hinder our ability to manage this disease.

Please keep this list of incompetence in mind as you try to determine whom to trust in the days and months ahead. This truly is a “pandemic of the incompetent.”

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Regeneron and the Well Formed Conscience

My family has significant autoimmune issues, so we’ve wrestled with vaccine decisions for many years. The doctor who helped us most when the kids were little had a simple formula. How prevalent, how dangerous, and how treatable is the disease vs. what is the vaccine’s track record with respect to effectiveness and safety. There is a new factor that we only recently become aware of which is what, if any, connection does a vaccine have to abortion.

We’ve applied these to the COVID-19 vaccines and believe that the vaccines are experimental and dangerous. So while, yes the disease is prevalent, it is also becoming increasing less dangerous as it mutates. Also, it is highly treatable and, while we both have age and health conditions on the con side, we also don’t smoke or drink, we live a largely chemical free life (e.g., organic food, air/water filters) and keep our zinc, and Vitamins C and D levels high.

This decision could potentially cost us access to medical care if mandates move to banning doctors/hospitals from allowing us in the door and/or Medicare refusing to pay for any care whatsoever. As far as that goes, well, I’m kinda hoping – with a nod to the fact that schadenfreude is a sin – that the problems the ‘rona vaccines are causing will soon become so obvious that the Left just drops the mandate thing and moves on to shrieking about something else … like climate change or racism.

Anyway, there still is an issue Dearest and I needed to talk through and pray about, which is, if we catch the China virus, our doctor is definitely going to want us to get Regeneron-COV immediately. And Regeneron-COV was tested on those aborted fetal cell lines from the 1960s.

As I’ve reported here before, the spoken guidance from my church’s leaders ranges from black to white. On one side are those who believe that using any product developed with and/or tested on the 1960 cell lines constitutes an unacceptable level of cooperation in the grave evil of abortion; on the other side are those who believe the two abortions from which the cell lines originated happened a long time ago, plus there are no non-abortion-tainted alternatives, plus anti-vaxxers are evil and want your grandma to die.

The Catholic Church’s written guidance on the use of such abortion-tainted products is more nuanced. A screenshot of the key paragraph is above. The full 8 page doc is available at the pdf link below. It is an interesting read that I highly recommend. Among other things, it lays out the levels of cooperation in abortion and their moral significance. As the screenshot above shows, the use of COVID-19 vaccines and Regeneron-COV falls into the “least of these” categories, which is “passive material cooperation.”

In short, the ethical burden for us is to weigh the cost vs. benefit carefully and prayerfully before making a decision. We will each stand alone before Almighty God at judgment, so freedom of conscience is paramount in Catholic teaching. But it must be a well-formed conscience. Just doing what is easiest won’t fly.

Dearest and I tossed the issues around last night. Regeneron-COV is reportedly safe and effective and we both have compelling co-morbidities to consider so, while we’re not going to love it, I think we’ve both decided it is the most ethical choice for us to get the shots should we contract COVID-19.

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AFGHANISTAN: CLICK https://rumble.com/vmjklv-devastating-video-exposes-biden-admins-lies-on-afghanistan.html [1:31] to see a montage of how wrong this administration got all of it. It boggles me that Psaki can continue to stand up every day and defend this administration.

AMERICAN AIRLINES: American Airlines reportedly turned a flight around so they could kick a mother and her asthmatic 2-year-old off the plane. The kid had an asthma attack in flight and was unable to bear to wear or even have his mother hold a mask to his face when he was struggling so hard to breathe. But yeah … John Kerry.

ARIZONA: The state has filed against Biden with the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona arguing that the mandates violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution by “favoring” illegal immigrants, who are exempted from vaccination requirements.

Thirty percent of the illegals being held in federal detention facilities are refusing to be vaccinated. And they have the option to refuse, because FAUXTUS’ mandates don’t apply! More than 18% of migrant families who recently crossed the border tested positive for COVID before being released by Border Patrol. Another 20% of unaccompanied minors tested positive for the virus.

CANADA: Nearly 13,000 airline employees in Canada have banded together to fight mandatory COVID-19 jabs as a condition of employment in the aviation industry. Their website says,

We are a group of professional pilots, flight attendants and other aviation professionals who passionately believe in the right to travel freely. As such, we are ardent defenders of people’s right to explore the world, without the threat of arbitrary limitations, such as vaccination status.

We believe personal autonomy is among the highest aspirations of every human being. For this to be realized, we must avoid unnecessary societal obligations, especially in the context of one’s health.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says people who refuse the vaccine are “endangering others” and he has “no sympathy” for their complaints about discrimination.

The last link below contains resources for Canadians trying to resist vaccine mandates.

CATHOLICS: Some of the worst things Pope Francis have been while he was schmoozing with jerknalists on his plane. And it’s happened again.

CLICK https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1438206601266176004 [:20] to hear the pontiff sounding just like our demented president, blaming division solely on anti-vaxxers and smirking* over one of them (Cardinal Burke) having caught the disease. He says he doesn’t understand how anyone can take the anti-vax position, describing the substances as “a little more than distilled water.

Pope Francis called anti-vaxxers “deniers”, which makes his attitude on this topic exactly the same as his attitude on climate change. He says he doesn’t understand climate “deniers” either and likewise indicts us as Bad People. But I heard that he refused to meet with top scientists who have serious problems with the whole climate agenda.

*Schadenfreude is a sin.

DELTA AIRLINES: Thousands of Delta Air Lines employees were pressured into getting the COVID shot after the company declared it was imposing a $200 monthly healthcare surcharge for unvaccinated workers enrolled in the company’s account-based healthcare plan. Roughly 16,000 unvaccinated Delta employees have thus far held out.

To avoid the surcharge, employees must either get the shot or obtain a medical or religious exemption. There do not appear to be any carve-outs for those who have already attained natural immunity to COVID-19. Unvaccinated employees must wear a mask while indoors and submit to weekly COVID testing.

In addition, the airline will only provide COVID pay protection to fully vaccinated individuals who are experiencing a breakthrough infection.

MEDICAL TYRANNY: A hospital in Georgia has flatly refused to honor the requests of two seriously ill patients, their family members, and their doctor to try hydroxychloroquine. The hospital has also refused to release the couple into their daughter’s care, so she can take them to a different hospital that will follow the couple’s wishes. The hospital said the daughter had to be vaccinated before she could take charge of her parents … who are already infected.

An Alabama hospital is refusing to treat a 43-year-old husband and father of two with ivermectin and Vitamin C as requested. He is in the ICU where his condition is steadily worsening.

A Chicago Catholic hospital refused a patient’s request for ivermectin and refused to let her be taken to another facility. She’s dead now.

MILLEY: I haven’t written about this yet partly because it’s confusing to me, but mostly because the COVID tyranny news is so abundant. CLICK https://rumble.com/vmim13-donald-trump-reacts-to-bombshell-gen.-milley-report-its-treason-if-true.html [1:54] to hear Trump commenting on it. Below are some links to explain the background.

NATURAL IMMUNITY: WATCH https://rumble.com/vmiqcq-real-america-dan-ball-w-dr.-russell-surasky-natural-immunity-91321.html [9:30] to hear Get Real Dan report on FAUXTUS’ tyrannical vaccine mandate that ignores natural immunity. I agree with Dan that it’s all about the money … plus the power.

SWITZERLAND: On September 13, the Swiss government decreed that all those 16 and up must produce a vaccine passport to gain entrance to restaurants, cultural and leisure facilities, and religious ceremonies with more than 50 people present.

Thousands of Swiss nationals took to the streets of Bern in protest, but the move was supported by both the Catholic bishops of Switzerland and the Evangelical Reformed Church of Switzerland who were apparently relieved that they didn’t have to bar people from smaller services.

TEXAS: The Dallas Independent School District is offering students ages 12 and up a $50 gift card if they get vaccinated before November 15. At least they can’t get the shot or the money without their parents involvement, since parents are required to provide proof of vaccination. And while the incentive and reporting are “voluntary,” the information will be used for contact tracing and quarantining.

UNCONSTITUTIONAL MANDATES: WATCH https://rumble.com/vmiq6c-real-america-dan-ball-w-attorney-lou-gelormino-unconstitutional-vaccine-req.html [11:57] to hear Get Real Dan report on the constitutionality of FAUXTUS’ tyrannical vaccine mandate, people who are suffering from it and their fight for freedom. This is a good report. What they’re doing to active duty military makes my BP soar.

WATCH https://rumble.com/vmimfw-september-14-2021.html [6:08] to hear OAN’s report about the legality of the mandates. “Never mind the law, never mind the constitution, we can do this until the courts stop us.” The lawyer says she thinks it’s going to go before SCOTUS within a month or two.

VAX DAMAGE: Some doctors have been predicting that the vaccinated would likely begin showing serious diseases. It looks like it has started.

CLICK https://twitter.com/ToTheLifeboats/status/1430589141344034816 [2:12] to hear a doctor report about a disturbing pattern of weakened immune systems in vaccinated individuals. “Since January 1, in the laboratory, I’m seeing a 20 times increase of endometrial cancers over what I see on an annual basis.

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Conscience and the Vaccines

The following is part of a homily entitled “God Is Not Mocked” that was given on September 5, 2021 – the 15th Sunday After Pentecost – at Notre Dame Monastery in Australia. I don’t know the priest’s name.

“What I am about to say here may strike some as being somewhat political. It is not political; it is pastoral. I speak these words as a Catholic Priest, a Benedictine Monk and as a Doctor in Moral Theology. …

“Let’s be clear. There is no moral responsibility to receive the vaccine. I’m going to explain why.

“For there to be such an obligation, a number of conditions would need to be met. Assuming there is a real danger:

1) the vaccine would have to present no ethical objections at all in its development;

2) it would have to be certain in its effectiveness;

3) it would have to be safe beyond doubt;

4) there would have to be no other options to protect oneself and others against the virus.

“Now, none of these conditions are met.

“The gravest objection [is that] all the vaccines currently available are made using and therefore abusing an innocent baby. It is the ultimate and gravest form of child abuse ever, and it is astounding that anyone could think God will actually bless such crimes by allowing them to save humanity. …

“Secondly, … the vaccines have not been properly tested; they are still on trial. This is not a debated point. It is clearly stated on the websites of those who produced them. … The whole world is being treated as an immense laboratory in which you and I are expected to be the Guinea pigs.

“A third reason is the danger from the vaccine itself. As of 1 September 2021, the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) of the Australian Department of Health affirms on its website that there have been no less than 462 deaths following administration of the Covid-19 vaccines. The same Department of Health reports that the number of deaths from Covid-19 itself is 1,008. In other words, in the few months since the rollout of the vaccines, the vaccine has killed already half as many people as the virus itself in the last 18 months. These numbers speak for themselves.

“A fourth reason is that serious caution has been issued by prestigious medical authorities, including Dr. Robert Malone (one of the original developers of mRNA technologies), Dr. Michael Yeadon (former researcher and vice president of Pfizer), Dr. Vladimir Zelenko (who has treated over 6000 Covid patients), and Dr. Luc Montagnier (a Nobel laureate for his discovery of HIV). They all encourage people not to take the vaccine. That alone, for anyone who knows anything about the virtue of prudence and its reliance on docility to people who are eminent for their learning and have everything to lose by saying it, is enough to convince, at the very least, that there is a serious problem.

“A fifth reason is that there are numerous effective protocols for treating Covid-19 that use accepted, affordable, commonly-available medicines and supplements which have been demonstrated to be safe. One of them was developed over a year ago by Dr Thomas Borody, who is one of our Australian experts, and who wrote at the time: “We have a therapy that can fight COVID-19. The medications have been around for 50 years, they are cheap, FDA and TGA approved and have an outstanding safety profile. Why are we just waiting around for a vaccine? To save lives we should be using whatever is safe and available right now. We could lead the world in this fight…”. One wonders what happened to that protocol.

“What conclusions are we to draw from all this? Principally, that those of us who refuse the vaccine have solid ground to stand on. But we will need to be strong. The pressure will only increase as time goes by. We will be locked out of many public places; we may even be denied entrance into our own churches; perhaps our own Catholic friends and shepherds will deny us. So be it. But we do have a word for them and this word is for everyone, including authorities, both civil and religious of every rank. It is a strong word. That word is this:

“Beware. Our conscience stands firm on this issue. If you wish to pressure us, know that you are violating the voice of a well-formed conscience, that is the voice of God Himself. You should also know that international law condemns severely the use of moral persuasion when it comes to that taking of any medication that is experimental. This sort of thing has been done before. It was perpetrated by the same people who put yellow stars on the shoulders of the Jews, and then ultimately decided that they had a better, more final, solution for them. Beware. Whoever you are, whatever badge or religious symbol you might wear, you are crossing a line that you will bitterly regret and for which you will have to give an account.”

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Abortion Tainted Vaccines

We’ve heard many times that the fetal tissue used in the development and testing of vaccines, drugs, and cosmetics is not a big deal morally, because the cell lines originate from a small number of fetuses “ethically and legally aborted” back in the 1960s.

The Very Well Health article below claims that since the 1960s, no additional fetal cells have been harvested to use in the creation of vaccines. And in 2017, the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life said that because a lack of vaccinations represents a serious health risk, it’s not morally problematic for Catholics to use vaccines developed with the cells “derived solely from two fetuses originally aborted in the 1960s.”

Unfortunately, this claim and the Vatican’s assurances don’t line up with the facts. In January 2018, Dr. Stanley Plotkin, M.D. (the man credited with developing the Rubella vaccine) testified under oath about the use of dozens of aborted, second trimester fetuses in the development of a particular vaccine. He notes the Catholic church says he’ll go to Hell for it and that he will be “glad” to do so.

A nine-minute excerpt from his testimony is at YouTube as “Testimony of Dr Stanley Plotkin Under Oath confirming Use of Murdered Baby Organs in Vaccine Develop.” The full 9 hour deposition is at YouTube as “Stanley Plotkin, Vaccines Deposition, Under Oath, 9 Hour Full Video.” CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=169178701347460 [17:07] to hear John-Henry Westen comment on clips from the 9 minute version.

IF YOU ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ONE VIDEO, watch this one! https://rumble.com/vd4z19-human-experiments-with-aborted-babies-with-dr.-stacy-interview.html [21:27]. On January 21, 2021, Dr. Stacy Trasancos talked about how scientists are increasingly using aborted babies and their body parts for research. She says their reasoning is that the babies are dead anyway, so we might as well get some benefit from the abundant, inexpensive source of human tissue.

Trasancos mentions the baby hair on mice experiment which The Sun reported on July 28, 2021, was funded by U.S. tax dollars courtesy of Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The two National Catholic Register links are to articles written by Trasancos that go deeper into this issue.

People who are opposed to abortion-tainted vaccines, medicines, and cosmetics can often get alternative products made from animal cells instead of human cells.

At this time, the three mRNA vaccines approved for the U.S. and the Regneron-COV treatment were all developed and/or tested using the 1960 cell lines.

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CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER: The newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond issued an apology following the publication of a satirical cartoon mocking an unvaccinated patient sick with COVID-19, admitting it “lacked the love of Christ that we, as Catholics, are taught to preach and to live.”

It also ignored the fact that the Bible clearly teaches that karma is anti-Christian and that schadenfreude is a sin. “Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.” – 1 Corinthians 13:6

CHILD PORN: CLICK https://twitter.com/jennybethm/status/1437911039576875008 [:41] to hear the mayor of Hudson, Ohio, announce to the school board members that any of them who do not resign immediately will be charged with promoting child pornography. It’s not clear whether the board can be held criminally liable for curriculum material, but the stuff was pulled out of the school immediately anyway.

(The graphic has nothing to do with the story. I used it because it’s funny, school-related, and not about porn, which turns my stomach.)

CONFORMITY: If we are to be GOD’S people, we must be filled with the Holy Spirit and live steeped in prayer, so the opinions of others cannot push us into making bad choices.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY: During the first week of classes, 322 people tested positive for the coronavirus during the opening “surveillance testing”, despite a 95% vaccination rate. “Surveillance testing” at Cornell involves testing healthy individuals without symptoms for COVID-19 in order to quarantine them and stop them from spreading the coronavirus.

Does it strike anyone else as whacked out that healthy, most likely vaccinated students have to lock themselves in their dorm rooms to “protect” other vaccinated students from catching a mild case that would grant them broad, durable immunity?

N.b., I chose the postcard above, because this building – Anabel Taylor Hall – is where Dearest and I first met and where we had our wedding and reception. Our 42d anniversary is next month. 🙂

FAUCI: CLICK https://twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1437794006776287233 [:38] to hear the 2019 version of St. Fauci sneer at the “paranoid” idea that masks can help keep anyone from catching an infectious disease.

OOPS: When Detroit’s ABC station asked Facebook users to share stories of unvaccinated people who have passed away from COVID-19, an overwhelming number of the people who responded talked about death and injury that followed soon after the COVID-19 shot. Below is a brief list of some of the responses:

I know a 37 year old who got the vaccine and died of brain aneurysm 8 days later.”

I know 3 people personally that died shortly after being fully vaxxed.”

My Aunt died a week after the shot.”

My mother had a heart attack 4 days after receiving her first vaccine. She now has a blood clot in her lung.”

My neighbor died from the vax, the funeral is next week.”

My mom can’t feel her arms and legs.”

My BFF has been in ER several times with debilitating headaches.”

NEW YORK: Cuomo’s replacement, Gov. Kathy Hochul, recently sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting that the social media giant increase efforts to censor pro-lifers.

NOKO: North Korea said it successfully launched ballistic missiles from a train for the first time on Wednesday.

PERSONAL CHOICE: A new national poll by the Trafalgar Group shows American’s overwhelming reject vaccine mandates.

PRO-ABORTION: Google has banned all pro-life ads from Live Action, including ads for the Abortion Pill Reversal hotline, which is managed by a team of medical professionals.

They aren’t hiding their bias anymore. Google’s censorship baldly reveals that the corporation is in the pocket of the abortion industry.” – Lila Rose, president of Live Action

RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS: CLICK https://rumble.com/vc041p-pro-death-world-powers-use-vaccine-mandates-to-force-cooperation-with-abort.html [1:03:33] to hear John-Henry Westen’s December 2020 interview of Bishop Athanasius Schneider about the morality of Catholics receiving vaccines and drugs that were developed with or tested on cells derived from aborted human fetuses. This applies to all the COVID-19 vaccines, as well as to the Regeneron-COV treatment.

At the Fairview Baptist Church link (last one below), there is a good article from a non-Catholic-Christian point of view about religious exemptions. It covers informed consent, sanctity of life for the unborn, the body as a temple, and conscience. It’s worth reading.

TRANS BISHOP: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) just installed its first openly transgender bishop on Saturday during a ceremony at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco with 65 bishops and more than 150 pastors in attendance.

Bishop Megan Rohrer will lead the Sacramento-based Sierra Pacific Synod, which includes almost 200 congregations in California and Nevada. The 41-year-old biological female uses the pronouns “he” and “they” and is married to “his” wife, Laurel. The couple has two children.

TRUMP: Heads up to my fellow Trump supporters … beware of giving your email to any Trump group. I’m now on multiple lists, all of which send me nearly daily “Donate Now” begging emails. I wouldn’t mind it so much, but their “unsubscribe” functions do not work. So EVERY DAY, I have 4 or 5 of these “DONATE NOW” things in my spam folder!

P.S., I also had a bad experience with the Trump 2020 campaign store. They took my money immediately, but didn’t ship for 6 weeks! When I complained, they said, “That’s what everybody does.” No, it isn’t. I do the majority of my shopping on-line. Almost NOBODY charges UNTIL THEY SHIP.

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