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BORDER: In FAUXTUS’ first six months in office, over one million illegals flooded across our now-wide-open southern border. Detention centers can’t handle the crowding, so they are bused or flown into the interior. And they bring COVID-19 with them.

In the last week of July, more than 1,500 COVID-positive illegals were released into a single Texas town. They were told to quarantine for two days … like, yeah, they crossed the border illegally, but they’re going to obey some coronavirus rule?

Many localities have claimed they are widely contributing to the surge in COVID-19 cases. The Left says this is just a right-wing conspiracy. Everybody knows COVID only spreads at motorcycle rallies!

CATHOLIC: Religious freedom scored a win in court on Wednesday when a federal court ruled that the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Roncalli High School were within their rights to discontinue the employment contract of a guidance counselor at the Catholic school after she “married” another woman.

Lynn Starkey tried to sue both the archdiocese and the school for unconstitutionally discriminating against her because she is LGBT, but Roncalli argued that Starkey “was a minister for purposes of the First Amendment’s ministerial exception,” the court explained.

DEBT CEILING: A letter signed by 46 Republican senators said they will not vote to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling amid Democrats’ “spending spree.” Republicans claim that Democrats own the debt question because of their decision to pass a $1.9 trillion COVID bill in March and a $3.5 trillion budget resolution yesterday, both without a single Republican vote.

The four GOP senators who did not sign the debt limit letter are Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, John Kennedy, R-La., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala. But they alone won’t be enough to break a filibuster, meaning that the Senate won’t be able to raise the debt limit through regular order unless some of the 46 Republicans who signed the letter flip-flop.

END TIMES: [25:30] – Part of the biblical End Times prophecies involve the revival of animal sacrifice at the Temple in Jerusalem. The Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD. Before Jesus can return, a Third Temple has to be built. The majority of scholars have always said the Temple was built exactly where the Muslim Dome of the Rock is, and for centuries, this has prevented any attempts to rebuild.

When I learned these things, I figured God had arranged all of the above and that, when it was time, He would either clear away the Dome of the Rock or else reveal conclusively that the Jewish Temples had been built somewhere else. I think the latter has now happened.

In the video, Christian Widener presents a very simple and very coherent argument, based on biblical sources, for why both of the Temples had to have been to the north of the Dome of the Rock. In fact, the argument is so simple, it occurred to me that God must have been clouding the scholars’ minds all these years!

In his book, The Temple Revealed, Widener notes that the site itself is wide open and that political considerations are the only things blocking construction of a Third Temple. He presents a few scenarios for how that could change. I’ve been watching for this ever since I read about how, back in 1987, Orthodox Jews began actively working to prepare everything they will need to build and outfit the Third Temple as soon as God reveals the true site and makes it available.

HEALTH CARE: A deeply flawed study is being pushed by the Left because it supposedly proves we have the worst health care system in the developed world. If you care, click the links. It’s detailed, which usually is just what I love to simplify for all y’all. But today, I am just too hot and tired!

HISTORICAL NONSENSE: “’Non-binary’ is a modern western invention. You might as well speculate that he worked at an Apple store and had a Tik Tok account.” – Matt Walsh

“By this logic, every gent in 18th Century Europe was a non-binary kween.” – biccyboy

“Cant wait for academics to find those ancient Scots buried in kilts.” – Titus

“I dare you to go back in time and call him non-binary to his face. You’ll find out what that sword was for.” – Sam Parker

HUNTER: CLICK https://rumble.com/vl1q9m-hunter-biden-says-he-lost-another-laptop-to-russian-drug-dealers.html to see the smartest guy Joe Biden knows tell a hooker how Russian drug dealers stole one of his laptops for blackmail, because his dad was going to run for president. Democrats went berserk about the Trump “pee pee” tapes that never existed; this … they don’t care.

INFLATION: On Wednesday, the Department of Labor released its consumer price index report showing consumer prices increased 5.4% over the past fiscal year. This is the highest number since 2008.

In a recent CNN interview, FAUXTUS declared that the Democrats’ multitrillion-dollar spending bills “will reduce inflation, reduce inflation, reduce inflation.” Uhhh … no.

MASKS: CLICK https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425878511915577344 [2:20] to hear Matt Walsh tear into his kids’ school board. It’s priceless.

TEXAS: A Democrat state senator suffered through an entirely pointless 15-hour filibuster. Just minutes after she wearily left the floor, a voting rights bill that is favored by a majority of Texans passed 18-11. The same bill is still stalled in the House, because of the run-aways who have been in breach of their contract with their constituents for more than a month.

TRANS: The latest assault on the English language comes via The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) which recently published new language guidelines. Because “not all people who give birth and lactate identify as female”, breastfeeding will now be referred to as “chestfeeding” and nursing mothers will now be referred to as “human milk-feeding individuals.”

Joel Abbott says, “So to affirm the tiny fraction of a fraction of people suffering from a medically diagnosable mental condition where they believe they do not fit their XX or XY chromosomes, we’re going to dehumanize all women everywhere by referring to them with sterile terms that make them seem like cattle. Good job.”

Yes, basically. Just like the desires of a handful of gender-confused males totally trumps the rights of all women to dignity and privacy.

VAX: A new study out of the Mayo Clinic examined the effectiveness of the two mRNA vaccines in use in the U.S. – the Moderna and the Pfizer/BioNTech. What they found was the effectiveness dropped sharply in July, when the Delta variant became dominant. At this point, Moderna is 76% effective, while Pfizer/BioNTech is only 42%. The researchers are unclear whether the results signify a reduction in effectiveness over time, a reduced effectiveness against Delta, or a combination of both. This study has not yet been peer reviewed.

This writer is unclear what “76% effective” means. It seems like the only thing it can mean is that 24% of the people who got both jabs caught the virus afterwards. If I am thinking clearly here, the problem I see is that we can’t know what percent were never exposed to the virus after getting the jabs, can we?

VIRGINIA: [2:38] – The far left school board of wealthy Loudon County voted 7-2 to implement Policy 8040, which requires teachers to use preferred pronouns, allows “gender-expansive and transgender students” to participate in sports and other activities “in a manner consistent with the student’s gender identity“, and allows them to access to school facilities that correspond to their “consistently asserted gender identity.” In short, they told parents to pound sand.

CLICK https://twitter.com/PACTstopcrt/status/1425648216700297217 [1:51] to hear one of the dads, an Iranian Christian immigrant, tell them off. I love the part where he says his kids’ preferred pronouns will be “King” and “Queen”, while his will be “Master.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Thursday was a Scout Project Day for our intrepid travelers. They helped a National Park Ranger intern start restoring an old campsite. There used to be camping at El Yunque* and they’d like to open it up again at some point. Mama Buzz reports, “We were able to help move this site along quite a bit! The Scouts had the option to be done around noon. They all voted to keep going and finish the one tent site. The intern was so happy with how much got done and very thankful they wanted to work with him the whole day.”

*El Yunque National Forest is the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest System and the United States Forest Service. El Yunque is pronounced ell joon kay with a very soft jay.

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AFGHANISTAN: The capital of Kabul could fall within the next 90 days. [2:12] – This breaks my heart. My kids were among the thousands of troops who sweated and bled to try and free these people.

BORDER: A lawsuit has been filed against the Biden administration for violations of the Flores agreement. That agreement requires the government to “place children in facilities that are safe and sanitary, appropriate for their age and special needs, and concerned with their particular vulnerability.”

The plaintiffs are arguing that illegal minors being held at detention sites are subject to unsanitary conditions, served raw or under-cooked food, and are not being afforded recreational activities or education. The lawsuit also alleges that while some minors have their cases resolved quickly, others wait weeks or months to even speak with a case manager.

BUDGET: U.S. Senators will begin debating the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution bill. They just passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure measure. The national debt now stands at $23.6 trillion.

CONVERSE: There’s some buzz in Christian circles about Converse putting out a new sneaker featuring the Satanic pentagram. I followed all the links and googled “Converse sneakers.” I am really puzzled at the hype. Converse has been using a five-pointed star for years. This new shoe is no different … though I will readily agree that the marketing is very creepy. And I could really have lived the rest of my life without seeing the rest of that picture on the right which shows a whole lot too much of that guy’s tighty whiteys. Why did I need to see that in a SNEAKER ad?! :0P

JAN. 6: [26:23] – On Monday, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling denying bail to George Pierre Tanios, 39, of Morgantown, W.V. in connection with charges he assaulted police. Tanios was arrested on March 15, was indicted on March 17, and arraigned on April 13 where he pleaded not guilty to all counts. His next court date isn’t until September 8.

“The record reflects that Tanios has no past felony convictions, no ties to any extremist organizations, and no post-Jan. 6 criminal behavior that would otherwise show him to pose a danger to the community within the meaning of the Bail Reform Act,” the court wrote.

MEDIA: CBS deserves some credit for finally reporting on how COVID-positive illegals are being released into the interior in large numbers. [:20] – But you gotta laugh … on Tuesday, when CBS This Morning reporter Mireya Villarreal talked to a border mayor, she seemed almost stunned to find out that he agrees with GOP governors raising alarm about the threat. The video is at the first link.

OREGON: Gov. Brown has signed a bill into law allowing high school students to graduate without proving they can read, write, or do math. I expect the percentage of parents pulling their kids out of the public schools to go up again.

PSAKI: Five years ago, the Center for American Law & Justice filed a FOIA request to the U.S. Department of State to find out why deleted from official video footage a spokesperson’s acknowledgment that the Obama Administration lied about its secret bilateral talks with Iran. At first, the Obama State Department claimed the deletion was a glitch; later they admitted it was deliberate.

Part of the FOIA produced a heavily redacted email chain that included FAUXTUS’ Press Secretary Jen Psaki who was the State Department’s spokesperson during the Obama administration. The ACLJ sued to get the unredacted email string and the judge has just ruled in its favor.

It occurs to me that perhaps Leftists lie with such aplomb, because they believe it is a virtue. I’ve heard it’s in the Koran that it’s okay to lie to advance the cause of jihad. And I’m pretty sure they all work for the same spiritual ruler.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: In February, a judge in a North Dakota Eastern Division court ruled in in favor of the Catholic plaintiffs in their challenge of the Biden administration’s mandate that they perform and provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures. The government has appealed the decision.

But now a second federal court has moved to block the mandate. On August 9, a Judge for the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas, granted a permanent injunction to the Christian plaintiffs, enjoining HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra from “interpreting or enforcing” the mandate “in a manner that would require them to perform or provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures or abortions.”

In this case, the plaintiffs were a religious hospital and a group of more than 20,000 healthcare professionals.

TEXAS RUN-AWAYS: While basically taking paid vacations, these turds and their lapdogs in the media promoted their “bravery” as if they were facing dogs and fire hoses. But there may be an actual price to pay, because the Texas Supreme Court has upheld the right of the Texas House Speaker to have them arrested.

TEACHERS ARE FED UP: I believe this one happened in Virginia. https://rumble.com/vl03oi-teacher-cries-quits-on-the-spot-at-school-board-meeting-over-crt-and-censor.html [2:14]

This one is from Kansas. https://rumble.com/viohlz-teacher-resigns-during-kansas-school-board-meeting-with-powerful-speech.html [4:22]

GRAMMY NOTES: It was play in the ocean day for the Scouts. 🙂

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A+A+A+: Breaking! Top of the Line!! Above the Fold News!!! Andrew Cuomo will resign before the end of the month!!!! CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=994746824654926 [1:48] if you want to hear a clip of his crap. I don’t, so I didn’t. According to NY Post, he yammered on for 22 minutes about how the whole thing was politically motivated. S’funny how, when it’s a Republican, we must Believe All Women.

BACK THE BLUE: CLICK https://rumble.com/vky7tq-chicago-police-turn-backs-to-mayor-lightfoot.html [3:03] to hear Laura Ingraham report on the lethal shooting of a female Chicago cop during a routine traffic stop. The vile mayor of Chicago was told not to visit her partner, who is in critical condition. She showed up anyway; all the cops there turned their backs on her.

Emonte Morgan, 21, has been charged with first-degree murder. His brother Eric Morgan, 22, has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and obstruction of justice. The gun used was illegally purchased from Jamel Danzy, 29, who purchased it legally in Indiana, then knowingly provided it to another individual in Chicago who was not permitted to own firearms. Danzy was charged by federal authorities Monday.

BHO’S BDAY: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=980411212531413 [10:50] to hear Tucker talk about the bash, COVID, Fauci, etc.

COVID-19: Early treatment protocol from Frontline Doctors – Drugs and dosages at the link. If your physician will not prescribe, you can get a Telemed appointment with one who will at the Frontline Doctors link.

FAUCI: Grrrrrrrrr. On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on the “Hugh Hewitt Show”, where he defended forcing children in to wear masks.

Hewitt asked Fauci why he disagreed with a Wall Street Journal article by Dr. Makary and Dr. Meissner, who argued that masking children is abusive. The doctors wrote they could only find one inconclusive study on whether children wearing masks actually decreases COVID transmission.

“It’s not comfortable, obviously, for children to wear masks, particularly the younger children,” Fauci said. “But hopefully, this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn’t have any lasting negative impact on them.”

In other words, he didn’t answer the question. AS PER USUAL. But when he’s challenged, he tells his questioners they’re stupid because SCIENCE. I despise this man.

FENTANYL: Being exposed to just a few grains can be deadly [3:58].

KINDLE: Hmm – In the middle of the night, I finished the book I was reading – the first in a series of three – and I really wanted to read the next one. But I really did not want to get up, fire up my ‘puter, go online, etc. Then, I remembered my Kindle has a wireless connection that I have to turn on when I want to download a book. I usually do this when I’m at my computer, so I can research titles before purchasing. And, of course, Amazon has my credit card on file. So I thought, Hmmm. Within a couple of minutes, without budging from my comfy bed, I had purchased, downloaded, and started reading book two. This could prove to be a somewhat problematic super power…

TLAIB: On Sunday, Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib partied in a large crowd of people at a wedding reception in Dearborn, Michigan. But it’s okay. I’m sure it was a sophisticated Democrat crowd, not a superspreader Republican crowd.

GRAMMY NOTES: At breakfast, Mama Buzz texted for prayers, because the news said they were going to get some heavy weather. At dinner, she texted, “What an awesome day! God was so gracious and we had occasional spats of rain but no thunder, lightning, or heavy wind so we spent the whole day in Old San Juan like we originally had hoped. Our first destination was San Juan Cathedral. We got to walk around and take pictures, then stayed for daily Mass. It was a beautiful service and at the end he blessed our troop.”

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AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban terrorist group has taken control of a sixth provincial capital in about as many days in northern Afghanistan amid claims that government forces simply retreated without fighting.

BANKRUPTCY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vkwoxj-debate-with-liberal-guest-goes-off-the-rails.html [3:24] to hear a Democrat answer Dan Bongino’s question about how big of a national debt will trigger national bankruptcy. Her first answer is, “I have no idea.” Later she says, “We’re well beyond it”, which I happen to believe too. In between, she swears we simply must spend even more trillions of dollars on infrastructure.

BEWARE OF CLICK-BAIT: I first came across this story at Facebook, in a long, drawn out video format, about a terrible, awful, no good Christian school that supposedly took a 9-year-old White girl’s rainbow pants off and sent her home in her t-shirt and panties, because the rainbow is an LGBTQ symbol. This version is set in Boston and the family name is Thomas. The tale smelled like dead fish to me, so I googled and found the same story in one other place.

But I also found the same story repeated at multiple sites, many using the same photos, but in these, the White girl was six instead of nine, the public school was in Florida, and the family name is McCurdy. Here, the excuse the school supposedly gave was that the kid had wet her pants, because the school didn’t allow on-demand potty breaks. And the meanies running the school supposedly had spare panties to put on the kid, but no clean pants or shirts. They apparently also didn’t know how to dial a phone, since any real school would call the parents FIRST. In both the Boston and Florida versions, the focus is on the irate dad storming the school to demand answers.

The only version I could find that looked legit was the one in the YouTube video, which was at least an actual news story. Here the story was set in Asheville, Tennessee, the 6-year-old girl was Black, the irate parent was her mom, and the kid had wet herself twice, thus using up her spare outfit. After the second accident, the substitute teacher put her in a clean dress and clean underwear that she found in a closet. The mother was irate because the dress was too short.

I have trouble understanding why ABC made the original incident a “top story” in the first place. Or why the mother of a kid who routinely pees herself doesn’t send multiple clean outfits as back up. However, it seems clear to me that some click-baiter moved the story to Florida, made the kid White, changed the dress and panties to a long t-shirt and panties, and changed the mom to a burly dad who stormed the school that made his little princess cry. And, then some other click-baiter upped the social justice ante by making the girl older, throwing in some LGBTQ agitprop, and setting it in a Christian school in a famously Catholic city.

BREAKTHROUGH: On July 31, a Carnival cruise ship departed from Galveston, Texas; every guest and every staff member was fully vaccinated. They’ve now got infected people aboard. Hmmm.

DELTA: The usual COVID-19 symptoms include cough, fever, and/or shortness of breath. But the Delta variant may present with sinus congestion, runny nose, sore throat, and/or sneezing. If you get a relatively mild case, you could easily dismiss it as allergies or a mild cold. If I got it, I’d never notice, because I have those symptoms year round from all my allergies!

FLORIDA: In May, Gov. DeSantis barred private businesses from implementing vaccine passport-type systems in the state. But on Sunday, a federal judge ruled that Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings may require passengers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before boarding one of their ships in a Florida port.

LEBANON: We may be seeing the beginning of the end in this tiny Middle Eastern country which is suffering dire conditions as a result of 400% hyperinflation and massive power outages. More than half the population is likely below the national poverty line already as people fight in supermarkets over increasingly scarce necessities. Murder rates and other crimes are also rapidly rising.

NO ONE TO HEAR: CG Richardson had four abortions. Each time, she believed what the abortion facilities told her – that a preborn baby was just tissue, not a human being. But when she delivered her fourth child into the toilet, intact, she came face-to-face with the truth and had to face the fact that she is responsible for the deaths of four of her children. She wrote the book hoping to convince other women to choose life.

GRAMMY NOTES: The Scouts are on the lovely island! All COVID tests were negative! Yay!

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COVID-19 Update

BORDER: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=271359007662314&notif_id=1628429770723549 [1:33] to hear how happy the White House is about vaccine mandates. Funny how citizens are supposed to all get vaxxed and stay masked, but elites can party and illegals who have tested positive are released into the interior.

CALIFORNIA: On Friday, San Francisco’s sheriff’s union threatened that a number of deputies will quit or retire early if they are forced to get a COVID-19 vaccine under the city’s mandate. About 160 of its members are not vaccinated, preferring instead to wear masks and test for the virus weekly “due to religious and other beliefs.

CANADA: The provincial prime minister of Quebec, Francois Legault, has announced that vaccine passports are coming. “We will give certain privileges to those who have agreed to make the effort to get their two shots.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he fully supports Legault and the Quebec government and that he is considering mandating the vaccine for all government employees.

CATHOLIC: The Catholic bishops of Colorado have provided excellent guidance for those of us who oppose being vaccinated. The first link below is to their letter; the second is to a template for individual Catholics to use in applying for a religious exemption from a vaccine mandate.

The basic argument is that vaccination is not morally obligatory in principle and so must be voluntary. A person is morally required to obey his or her conscience. A person’s assessment of whether the benefits of a medical intervention outweigh the undesirable side-effects are to be respected unless they contradict authoritative Catholic moral teachings.

In addition, Catholics have a moral duty to refuse the use of medical products created using human cells lines derived from abortion; however, it is permissible to use such vaccines if there are no other alternatives available and the intent is to preserve life.

FORGERIES: Sale sites for fake vaccine cards are popping up on the internet. No surprise there.

FRANCE: France’s Parliament passed a law that was upheld by the country’s high court last week that mandates so-called “health passes” to enter restaurants, theaters, gyms, and long-distance travel. Those health passes would require citizens to have had either a recent negative COVID-19 test or be fully vaccinated. Tens of thousands of demonstrators in a number of French cities took to the streets to protest the mandate, with some describing it as a form of tyranny.

MEDIA BIAS: CLICK https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1424405873472966661 [1:14] to hear Fauci chastise those attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: “You’re going to get to do that in the future, but let’s get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on.“

Then, CLICK https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1424391535118979073 [:10] to see hundreds dancing maskless at Obama’s birthday bash.

Now, CLICK https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1424159871319134215 [:22] to hear how the Slime Stream Media covered Obama’s birthday bash.

Finally, CLICK https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1424399282447298563 [3:37] to hear Rand Paul talk about how we can “Simply say no, not again” to the mandates.

PENTAGON: The DoD is pushing to require vaccination for all active duty service members. Please pray for Papa Buzz.

VAX: The COVID-19 “vaccines” are not true vaccines. And the future for the vaccinated is scary. [41:34, but the important part is in the first six minutes] – Time will tell one way or the other, but it makes me really sad to think that these vaccines may be setting thousands of people up for autoimmune disorders.

VIRGINIA: A George Mason University law professor is suing the school over its vaccine mandate, arguing that he has already acquired immunity after recovering from COVID-19 and therefore shouldn’t have to be vaccinated. Todd Zywicki, who has been teaching at George Mason for 23 years, has had multiple positive antibody tests since his recovery that suggest a high level of immune protection against the virus. But the school has told him he either has to teach remotely or else wear a mask, remain socially distanced from faculty or students, and submit to weekly testing.

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BORDER: Last Wednesday, border agents took into custody 834 unaccompanied children illegally crossing the southern border. 834 unaccompanied children. In ONE day. This is the highest daily total recorded since the FAUXTUS administration started releasing such data in March.

CLEVELAND VOTING MACHINES: The Cleveland Indians decided to honor Chinese President Joe Biden by naming their team after the devices that helped elect him. Since the name change, the baseball team has already won the forthcoming World Series 5.347 games to 2.129 before the season has even started!

CUOMO: Someone seriously actually attempted to organize a rally in support of my skeezy governor. Twenty people attended, all women. I wonder how many of them tweeted #BelieveAllWomen during the Kavanaugh hearings …

NYC: Mayor DeBlasio’s vaccine passport mandate is scheduled to be enforced beginning Sept. 13, but NYC officials are demanding it be canceled. Their letter notes that “coercing anyone into taking any form of treatment violates every principle of medical ethics and informed consent.” In addition, it is unfair to burden small business owners with the task of being vaccination police.

OUTING FOX CORP: CLICK https://rumble.com/vkt7c8-ivory-hecker-fox-was-manufacturing-stories-hoping-covid-would-be-more-deadl.html [10:46] to hear Stew Peters interview Ivory Hecker about why she sabotaged her career to get free of her Fox contract after they forced her to report lies about COVID and to ignore election fraud. She’s just started her own platform where she’s going to report the truth. Subscribing costs $4.99 per month.

SAINT OF THE DAY: Today is the anniversary of the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. It is also the feast of Our Lady of Nagasaki.

Immaculate Conception Cathedral was at the epicenter of the blast. The building itself was destroyed and the 26 people inside turned to ash. The ruins burned well into the night, yet somehow, the wooden bust of Our Lady survived. It is now known as The Madonna of Nagasaki or the Burnt Virgin.

SUBWAY: Subway doesn’t own any of its nearly 22,000 locations, but it charges franchisees 4.5 percent of their revenue for a national advertising fund and controls how the money is spent. Many store operators — particularly those in red states — want the company to drop Megan Rapinoe. They say they’re tired of apologizing for her.

Ben & Jerry’s franchise owners are in the same boat ever since the far lefties at the top of the corporate totem poll announced that they would no longer allow Ben & Jerry’s to be sold in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Eighteen franchise owners representing 30 stores with a combined total annual revenue of $23 million have asked for the boycott to be rescinded. They say the backlash boycott has imposed substantial financial and personal costs.

TEXAS RUNAWAYS: On Friday, 22 of the Texas Democrats who fled the state rather than do their jobs have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott for causing them “anxiety, discomfort and distress.”

One of their Republican colleagues, Rep. Tom Oliverson, noted that their actions forced him to cancel a family vacation.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who represents Texas’ 2nd congressional district, sarcastically wished them well “as they suffer away from home, in Portugal.”

TRANS: CLICK https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1423598153140424704 [1:51] to hear a news report about a trannie confronting a crusty ‘Nam vet about the sign he posted in his shop window. LOL

TRUMP HATE: MSNBC and NBC News legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah that Attorney General Merrick Garland should arrest and charge former President Donald Trump to prevent a second insurrection. [2:19] – Well, yeah. Cuz we should totes arrest political opponents to prevent them from maybe some day saying or doing something we won’t like. /sarc

VAX: CLICK https://rumble.com/vkt4j9-democrats-dismiss-safety-concerns-push-for-americans-to-get-vaccinated.html [7:12] to see an OANN report about how Democrats and the media are sweeping aside all safety concerns in their rush to get Americans vaccinated at all costs.

CLICK https://rumble.com/vkt30t-flashback-this-is-what-dems-thought-about-the-vaccine-under-trump.html [2:35] to see a montage of what the Democrats were saying about the vaccine while Trump was still in office. Grab a barf bag.

GRAMMY NOTES: Please remember Mama, Lil Scout Buzz, and their (Catholic) Boy Scout troop as they embark on their Big Adventure … a week in Puerto Rico!

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BUBONIC PLAGUE: The US Forest Service was forced to close down popular sites in California’s South Lake Tahoe because members of the rodent population had tested positive for the plague. Apparently, it’s not unheard of. As one commenter put it, “Chipmunks and squirrels have had the plague for decades around the lake, nothing new. Just tell them to stay home and wear a mask.”

CALIFORNIA: The special Newsom recall election is set for September 14. In the first 19 days of his campaign, Larry Elder has raised nearly $4.5 million, surpassing what his fellow Republicans have raised in months.

CUOMO: A Quinnipiac poll conducted this week found that 70% of New York voters believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign and 55% think he should be criminally charged for sexual misconduct.

“The kind of man who would light up the skyline of New York to celebrate advancing abortion’s culture of death, and who would order infected patients into nursing homes and juke the death stats to pretend it never happened, is also likely to be the sort of person who doesn’t place a high premium on the dignity of women in his office.” – Ed Condon

DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vkq7du-aoc-masks-up-for-photo-op-immediately-removes-it-after.html [1:16] to see AOC and another guy I’m pretty sure is a Democrat legislator mask up for a photo op.

ELITISM: After receiving criticism for presuming to host a 500-guest birthday bash for his 60th, Barack Obama scaled his plans back to “a low key celebration with close friends and family.”

Among the close family and friends who made the deep cut were FAUXTUS’ climate czar, John Kerry, and other celebrity climate change activists who flew in on their private jets.

FAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/TrumpJew2/status/1423668833697546250 [:17] to see Slow Joe check his notes, then announce that 350 million Americans have been vaccinated. In 2020, 331 million people lived in the United States.

FLORIDA: Joe Biden made reporters laugh by asking who Ron DeSantis was. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=526453395269113&notif_id=1628291151213435 [1:43] to hear Gov. DeSantis respond.

GENDER: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/aklavan/videos/262824458653631 [11:52] to hear Ben Shapiro ream out some of the stupidest Leftist TikTok videos out there. Why do these people think the rest of the world wants or needs to know precisely what someone else’s sexual preference is? Here’s another one for his collection: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1423720344607727621 [:35].

HATE CRIMES: An article in a scientific journal calls for “extending federal hate-crime protections” to scientists who are criticized by supposed “far-right extremists,” including Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Hate crimes were a bad idea from the get go. Our justice system criminalizes actions, not thoughts. Motives should only come into it at sentencing.

BTW, today is 8/8 which is supposedly a very special day for skin-head neo-nazis, because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. HH = Heil Hitler.

RACISM: Flashback to early October 2020 [15:52] – My favorite line is, “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about when he’s talking.”

RADICAL ISLAM: The International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) published a new report about Islamic terrorism against Christians in Nigeria since July 2009 and it is absolutely harrowing:

  • 10 million people “uprooted” (6 million “forced to leave their homes,” 4 million “displaced”)
  • 72,000 “defenseless civilians” killed (at least 43,000 Christians)
  • 18,500 Christians “permanently disappeared”
  • 17,500 churches attacked
  • 2,000 Christian schools attacked
  • 700 forests and farmlands “threatened, … attacked, or occupied”

SCHOOL CHOICE: On Friday, Florida’s Board of Education authorized tuition vouchers for families who are unhappy with public school districts requiring masks or other COVID-19-related measures.

SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS: Lefties are showing off their never-ending supply of hypocrisy AGAIN.

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by | August 7, 2021 · 12:55 pm

Natural Immunity: COVID-19 Update

Bryan Dean White tweeted the following. Some of the graphics are ones he included; some I added.

COVID vaccine passports and mandates aren’t an academic issue for me. They are a matter of life or death, especially if my Govt effectively forces me to take the vaccine or be purged from society. Let me explain why. Last December, I came down with COVID. It was a modest sickness, as science would have forecasted. I wasn’t obese, not over 65, and had no other co-morbidities. I should have sailed through the sickness without complication.

Shortly after recovering, an artery in my neck began to split. Doctors were confused. It was spontaneous; no injury proceeded it. The uncertain view was I had a rare — and unexplainable — COVID injury. I went in for emergency surgery, got a stent, and started blood thinners. He was unequivocal: do not get it. I had natural immunity, he explained. The vaccine would give me no additional known benefit. In fact, it could be injurious.

Now I face a threat more grave than COVID: Submit to my Govt’s demand to vaccinate, and risk fatal complications. Refuse the vaccine but potentially lose my job, income, home, and a country where I can enjoy life freely. It doesn’t matter that doctors and science are on my side. Natural immunity is just as good — if not superior — to vaccines. A recent NIH-funded study made that clear.

The only thing that matters — to the Biden Regime & his sycophants — is making my life miserable. No, seriously. That’s the goal. They want to make life for unvaccinated people so miserable & unbearable that they comply.

This issue is massively important for not just me, but the country. Why? Because the number of people with natural immunity is massive. Over 100M Americans have had COVID as of July 2021 (per CDC data). That’s nearly 1/3 of the nation.

Should these 100M get vaccinated? Not my call. Or the Govts. Recovered patients should talk to their doc about the NIH-funded study. Then decide.

But we’re past the point of logic, reason, and nuance, aren’t we? That’s because none of this is about good public health policy. What is it about? To me, it’s clear: The Biden Regime & the Left want unfettered power, and they need a compliant populace to get it.

I base this dark assessment on Biden & Co inflaming the passions of their Leftist supporters. The unvaccinated are the problem, Biden will say. They are bad, selfish, dumb. Worse than the virus itself, no doubt. Leftist followers are listening. Closely.

As a former CIA officer, I’ve seen regimes do this abroad — use a crisis to secure & advance their power. And I know the horrors that come next if we don’t stop them: Dissenters will be purged. Slowly at first. Then quickly. And by all means necessary.

My bottom line message to @JoeBiden is simple: Do not force me and millions of others to take a vaccine that science says we do not need — and may cause grave injury. We have natural immunity. If you insist, however, understand this: We will #resist.

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Vax Mandate Response

If your employer tries to force you to accept the COVID jab, you could try sending this letter.

I write with regard to the matter of potential covid vaccine and my desire to be fully informed and appraised of ALL facts before going ahead.

I’d be most grateful if you could please provide the following information, in accordance with statutory legal requirements:

1. Can you please advise me of the approved legal status of any vaccine and if it is experimental?

2. Can you please provide details and assurances that the vaccine has been fully, independently and rigorously tested against control groups and the subsequent outcomes of those tests?

3. Can you please advise of the full list of contents of the vaccine I am to receive and if any are toxic to the body?

4. Can you please fully advise of all the adverse reactions associated with this vaccine since it’s introduction?

5. Can you please confirm that the vaccine you are advocating is NOT ‘experimental mRNA gene altering therapy’?

6. Can you please confirm that I will not be under any duress from yourselves as my employers, in compliance with the Nuremberg Code?

7. Can you please advise me of the likely risk of fatality, should I be unfortunate to contract Covid 19 and the likelihood of recovery?

Once I have received the above information in full and I am satisfied that there is NO threat to my health, I will be happy to accept your offer to receive the treatment, but with certain conditions – namely that:

1. You confirm that I will suffer no harm.

2. Following acceptance of this, the offer must be signed by a fully qualified doctor who will take full legal and financial responsibility for any injuries occurring to myself, and/or from any interactions by authorized personnel regarding these procedures.

3. In the event that I should have to decline the offer of vaccination, please confirm that it will not compromise my position and that I will not suffer prejudice and discrimination as a result.

CtH: I saw this on Facebook and have no idea how well it works. However, I have heard of multiple cases where a school district was convinced to back off on limiting religious speech when presented with the case law supporting it. Turns out, they weren’t against religious speech at all; they were just scared to death of the ACLU.

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