by | August 27, 2025 · 7:36 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We bind, rebuke, and renounce every block to prayer. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BOLTON: CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1959774017298239827 [:44] to hear then-and-now reports on home raids by ABC.

CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1959675906924183976 [:33] for more of the same from CNN.

CLICK https://x.com/KurtSchemers/status/1959790672074154346 [2:18] to hear a small sampling of how the Fake News Media slandered Trump again and again and again.

CANADA: A gay pride parade in Ottawa had to be canceled after pro-Palestine protesters blocked the route.

D.C.: I think “Defund the Police” was a leftie ploy to eventually nationalize and militarize local law enforcement. Their problem now is not with either of those things. It’s with the infuriating fact that THEY are not in charge of it. [8:47] – CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1959748021757030785 [:30] to see the Sig Sauers National Guard troops were issued on Sunday. On Monday, Trump ended cashless bail for suspects arrested in the capital. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Monday that there have been a total of 1,007 arrests and 111 guns taken off the streets.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rV-TIpy2J2M to hear a law enforcement specialist explain why Trump’s surge is a good thing.

From January 1, 2025, through August 11, 2025, there were a total of 101 homicides in D.C., yielding a murder rate of 0.45 homicides per day. There have been zero homicides since the National Guard arrived on August 12. Liberals are yammering that the homicide rate was “trending down” so they didn’t need the National Guard. Tell that to the seven or so people who are not dead right now.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q_vwarGJW_o and ask your favorite liberal this question.

DNC: CLICK https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1960043219879916008 [:23] and https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1960044454456316095 [:40] to hear clips from the Democratic National Convention speech that failed VP candidate, Tim Walz, gave. Love, joy, kindness? Hmmmm … more like sour grapes.

EVs: Between 2022 and 2024, the Biden administration awarded $159 million to Quebec-based Lion Electric to manufacture 435 school buses. The company has declared bankruptcy and will not be able to provide servicing to the electric school buses it built.

FLAG BURNING: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1959997417304318072 [3:45] to see Trump sign an executive order directing the DOJ to pursue one year in prison for those who burn American flags for the purpose of inciting imminent lawless action.

In 1969, Brandenburg v. Ohio ruled that speech that directly incites illegal activity and is likely to produce it immediately is not protected by the First Amendment. Trump’s order merely encourages the DOJ to investigate flag burnings and apply the law where appropriate.

CLICK https://x.com/sabback/status/1960020393814823197 [:21] to hear then-Senator Hillary Clinton support having Congress pass a law criminalizing flag burning and desecration itself, not just where it was intended to incite lawless action.

NEW YORK SUCKS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ri-ULtjO86A to hear a New York billionaire explain how Mamdani will bankrupt the city if he wins.

PSA: [1:57] – I suspect this can be applied to many areas of life. I’m reminded of when my brother urged his wife to get a job. She did and their bottom line increased. But their quality of life decreased, because she no longer had time to cook the amazing meals my brother had so enjoyed.

TDS: [7:53] – The stupidity at the beginning of the story is not as interesting as the bulk of the broadcast, which talks about Melania’s new project.

U.K.: The rate of sex crimes has increased greatly on the British Isles. From 2021 to 2024, the rate of sexual offense convictions of British nationals rose by 39.3%, while the rate for foreign nationals rose by 62%. Other crimes show a similar pattern.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P6mQK8WYd9E for maximum cuteness.

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by | August 26, 2025 · 7:28 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to see our sins as You see them. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BOLTON: [17:59] – Mark Levin gives his take on the raid of John Bolton’s home.

CATHOLIC: The Chicago White Sox honored Pope Leo XIV by commemorating the seat where then-Father Robert Prevost sat during the 2005 World Series.

DOGE: Last week, agencies terminated 163 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers $647 million. Included was a $35 million USAID contract to “acquire contractor support to establish and manage a flexible, quick response mechanism supporting activities that will support democracy and stability in El Salvador.”

HISTORY: Dearest had to drink goat milk. But he did not have to use the actual goat. 🙂

INTELLIGENT DESIGN: Flatfish start out symmetrical like other fish, but during development, one eye migrates to the other side of the body. They lie flat on the seafloor with both eyes facing up. They could not have evolved, because the intermediate forms have no survival value. Plus, they have been found fossilized in layers with many other varieties of fish.

MIDTERMS: [8:23] – Dr. Steve Turley explains the redistricting war that could possibly give Trump a strong majority in the House for his last two years.

MINNESOTA: “Chicken Jockey”, a ten year old skater from Minnesota, went viral after her adorable performance in the Open Inflatables Final competition at the 2025 National Showcase, August 2, 2025, in Rochester, MI. She came in third.

GRAMMY NOTES: Prayers please for my daughter and her family. They lost a dear friend over the weekend and are grieving.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x8r1tTIgsO0 for a good feelz.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s7R7P3VztQ0 for another one.

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by | August 25, 2025 · 8:41 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to not make messes for You to clean up. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

AI: Yesterday, Grok told me Orlando’s rainbow crosswalk had not been repainted in years.

BORDER: Remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the MS-13 gang banger who has been the poster boy for Democrats’ opposition to Trump’s deportation efforts?

The Laughing Stock Media continue to report that he was “mistakenly” deported to El Salvador, which is his home country. As a known gang member, El Salvador locked him up and the Dems sent emissaries to El Savador so they could take photos of themselves for fund raising.

El Salvador sent him back to face federal human smuggling charges and, on Friday, he was released to home detention while he awaits trial.

But wait …the United States had made a deal with Uganda to take deportees who, like Abrego Gardia, don’t want to return to their home countries or whose home countries refuse to take them. Uganda prefers they not be violent criminals. Since Dems insist Abrego Garcia isn’t a human trafficking, woman beating scumbag who works for MS-13, he could go to Uganda. Right?

CANADA: Starting next month, Canada will drop its silly retaliatory tariffs and do what Trump said, which is fairly match our tariffs.

CATHOLIC: In 662, Maximus was convicted of heresy for teaching that Jesus possessed both a human and a divine will, a position rejected by then-Emperor Constans. He had his tongue cut out and his right hand cut off, so that he could no longer speak or write about his opposition to the imperial theology. He died soon after. Eighteen years later, the Sixth Ecumenical Council declared that Christ possessed both a human and a divine will and Maximus was posthumously declared innocent.

DRAINING THE SWAMP: [6:41] – Sending kids to war to make money is so evil. ::smh::

EDUCATION: Loudon County is at it again. The uber woke North Virginia school district investigated three high school boys for complaining about a girl using their locker room, then let the Muslim boy off the hook, while punishing the other two, who are Christians. Jason Miyares, Virginia’s Republican attorney general, has announced an investigation into the school district over the incident. The Founding Freedoms Law Center is representing the two boys.

HOUSING: I’ve been watching a YouTube of proud tiny home owners bragging their weensy little $200K house was such a bargain. I mean … seriously?!

We paid $42,000 for our little ranchburger back in 1984. Granted, it was a nothing special starter home, but it was sturdy, everything worked properly, and it was/is in a great neighborhood. It had 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, and a partially finished full basement. IOW, much larger than anything that qualifies as a tiny house. At 210.8% inflation, a house like ours should cost about $130,000. But according to the map above, the average home in New York currently costs $482,700, which suggests even a starter home is going for waaaay more than $130K.

I plugged the NYS average income ($86K) into the mortgage calculator linked below. It says someone with that income should be able to comfortably afford a house costing up to $287,739. Wow. No wonder so many young people and retirees are opting for tiny homes!

WOKE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pCRjscIFnI4 to hear Nick Freitas comment on the neo-Nazi going to a female prison.

GRAMMY NOTES: Why should kids learn handicrafts? [9:56] – Her comments about students lacking hand dexterity reminds me of two things. I remember video games being lauded as being useful for training eye-hand coordination. It appears they are not. I also remember hearing that Japanese kids who learn early to eat with chopsticks and do origami have unusually good hand dexterity.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yoT5wKPPT8I and grab a tissue. :-)“

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GI8nYdr5tuc to see an example of Trump’s quiet generosity.

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by | August 24, 2025 · 10:25 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Awaken our minds and hearts to the reality of all sin and bring us to a place of true humility and repentance. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

CATHOLIC: [17:18] – This is a very interesting story.

D.C.: CLICK https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1958648554525786596 [:41] to hear Trump address the troops in the capital. He then dined with them on the burgers he’d brought that had been cooked by White House chefs and pizzas from a local restaurant.

EPSTEIN: Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, had a heart-to-heart with the Department of Justice, during which she said she never saw President Donald Trump act inappropriately.

“I think they were friendly, like people are in social settings. I don’t — I don’t think they were close friends, or I certainly never witnessed the President in any of — I don’t recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance.

“I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”

When pressed if Maxwell had ever heard rumors or witnessed Trump do anything inappropriate with “masseuses or with anybody in your world,” she responded, “Absolutely never, in any context.”

FLORIDA: DeSantis’ administration has declared that roadway markings are for safety purposes only, not political statements. Hence, Orlando’s Pulse Memorial Crosswalk was painted over to remove the rainbow pride colors that were installed in 2019 near the Pulse nightclub site to commemorate the 2016 shooting. On August 21, 2025, hundreds gathered at the site for rallies, with chants of “Bring back the rainbow!” and signs protesting state overreach. Some people colored in the rainbow stripes with chalk.

HYPOCRITES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2RY8SFEyNrI to hear Nick Freitas reveal yet another instance in a very loooooooooooong line.

NEWSCUM: [1:19] – CLICK https://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1959023264887709926 [:26] to see a fabulous, multi-message billboard.

THE MEDIUM IS NOT THE MESSAGE: In 1964, Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan published a book called The Medium is the Message in which he posited that the communication medium was more important than the message it carried. Democrats still believe this ridiculous theory.

A center-left think tank known as Third Way has sent out a list of 45 words and phrases they want Democrats to stop using. The piece (top link below) is worth reading, if only so you can appreciate how totally clueless the opposition is. For example, every item on the blacklist was invented by lefty Democrats to try and communicate their values. Now they’re saying they need to stop using them, so they can better communicate their values.

This all reminds me of something my Communication Arts professor at Cornell said once. He was talking about marriage counselors telling couples in trouble that they aren’t communicating. “They’re communicating just fine. It’s what they’re communicating that is the problem.”

TDS: CLICK https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1958682516484682119 [:41] to hear failed politician Stacey Abrams say, “If it is true that [Trump] is a grand ayatollah, that mystical power extends and can be – he can anoint his prophets and he can remain in power even if he doesn’t hold the title of president.”

Uhhhhhhhh … project much, Stacey? It was the Dems who declared Barack Hussein an “enlighted being” and constantly presented him with a haloed head and in Jesus-like poses. It was Obama himself who said he wanted a third term where he had a pliant puppet in the Oval Office doing his will for him. It was Democrats who cheated cancer-drug-befuddled Joe Biden into said office where “he” could maximize Obama’s America-killing agenda for four more years.

GRAMMY NOTES: Ha ha ha … but wait … how did a dog that smart get lost in the first place, she asks, unable to stop herself from over-thinking dumb jokes.

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by | August 23, 2025 · 8:20 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Confuse every enemy attack and send it back to sender. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BIDEN: [5:27] – Did you ever notice how often KJP et al. spoke of “the president” or “this president” with such sincerity? It makes me wonder if they were really talking to Obama and genuinely believed he was THE president.

BOLTON: [8:01] – On August 22, 2025, at about 7 a.m., FBI agents raided John Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Maryland. The word on the street is they had a warrant to search for classified documents. The Epoch Times said, “The FBI did not provide a substantive reply in response to an inquiry”, but noted FBI Director Kash Patel had posted on X, “NO ONE is above the law … @FBI agents on mission” and that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, had shared this, writing, “Public corruption will not be tolerated.” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X, “America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.”

CALIFORNICATION: In the 2024 presidential election, nearly 40% of California voters chose Trump; fewer than 20% of California’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are filled by Republicans. But never mind all that! Democrats rule California and they want more! On August 21, Gov. Newsom on Aug. 21 signed a legislative package to put a measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would redraw the state’s congressional map to redraw the boundaries for five of those nine seats, to give each of them a greater share of Democrat voters.

FLORIDA: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1958583144636195231 [1:24] to see Harjinder Singh, the illegal trucker who killed 3 people on August 13, get extradited from California. Florida did not issue an arrest warrant until August 15. Singh flew from Florida to California on the 14th and was apprehended by U.S. Marshals on August 16 without incident. He agreed to be transferred back to Florida to face charges. CLICK https://x.com/SplitMethod/status/1958628510169538841 [:22] to see video filmed by someone who drove by the accident Singh caused.

MAHA: [13:49] – Bobby Kennedy is not planning to run for president. He wants to put his efforts into fixing the vaccine court.

MEDIA: [3:23] – The White House Bureau Chief for the Washington Post reveals their agenda is not informing voters. Donald Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization (which includes Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen) from 1996 to 2015.

PARTY DEMOGRAPHICS: Between the 2020 and 2024 elections, in the 30 states (and D.C.) that allow voter registrations by party, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters while Republicans gained about 2.4 million.

CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1958191652243198082 [1:18] to hear what Joe Scarborough’s guest, Molly Jong-Fast, says is the reason. As Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

PEACE TALKS: I remember when Democrats cheered because Obama said he would talk to ANY world leader without preconditions. But Trump talks to Putin and they yell, “Russia is our enemy!! How DARE he talk to Putin?!“

RUSSIA vs UKRAINE: Not long after Putin met with Trump in Alaska, the Russian army launched one of its largest overnight strikes since the war began. More than six hundred drones, ballistic and cruise missiles landed on Ukraine, killing one, injuring dozens and destroying an American-owned electronics company less than an hour from two NATO borders.

SCOTUS: The Supremes voted 5–4 on Aug. 21 to allow the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The Trump administration argued that National Institutes of Health grants conflict with the president’s policy goals.

TRANS: OMG interview with Vanessa Savidge [1:34:20] – Vanessa Sivadge thought she’d found her dream job as a pediatric nurse at the nation’s top children’s hospital. Instead, she says she watched doctors steer healthy kids into gender transitions, prescribing powerful drugs, billing taxpayers, and hiding it from the public.

Out of her concern for the kids, she spoke anonymously in 2023 with journalist Christopher Rufo about the hospital having publicly claimed to have shut down the transgender medicine program, yet said it was continuing. Approximately two months after that interview, two FBI agents, Paul Nixon and David McBride, came to her home, identifying her as a “person of interest” in an investigation related to a whistleblower who had exposed the program, alleging a violation of federal privacy laws (HIPAA).

She claimed the agents intimidated her, stating they would “make life difficult” for her if she was protecting the leaker and suggested she was “not safe” at work, implying someone at her workplace had given her name to the FBI. Doorbell camera footage shared by Rufo captured the agents at her door, asking to speak with her about “some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately.”

I am gobsmacked that those two FBI agents showed up on official business wearing jeans and casual shirts.

GRAMMY NOTES: Aidan Perry, a young Florida man, survived being shot in the chest because a cross pendant his dad gave him last Christmas deflected the bullet. [4:35] – When my brother was in Vietnam, he was shot in the torso by a sniper. The bullet did massive damage, his recovery was long, and he has had some lifelong health issues as a result. But what the bullet did not do was kill him. The surgeon who removed the bullet said that, based on its trajectory, it should have gone straight through his heart. The surgeon said it had not hit anything that could have deflected it. It just altered course inside my brother’s chest and went around his heart!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o9ikQJVBSHQ to see what actors eating “raw meat” are really ingesting.

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by | August 22, 2025 · 8:28 am

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CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RbNzb-XQzA8 to hear what “transforming union with God” is. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/68Gz7kiyROA for another kind of related thing.

COSTCO: Costco Wholesale Corp. has decided not to dispense the abortion pill mifepristone at its more than 500 pharmacy locations.

LIFE: Rose Docherty (75) was arrested in February for holding a sign offering conversation while standing within 200 feet of a hospital in Scotland that commits abortions. Thank God, the charges against her have all been dropped.

Pro-aborts want to silence sidewalk counselors, because they offer women alternatives. Pro-aborts do not care that more than half of the women who have had abortions report that they were coerced into killing their babies.

NEWSCUM: Lately, Gavin’s X account has featured Trump-mimicking, all-caps posts like the one above. These are reportedly written by a small team from his press office, though the governor says he is actively involved.

CLICK https://x.com/drefanzor/status/1957924194878124442 and giggle.

FYI: Dana Perino was George W. Bush’s Press Secretary from September 14, 2007, to January 20, 2009 and is now a regular political commentator on Fox News.

NEW YUCK: The absurd, half-a-billion dollar penalty Trump received as a result of the kangaroo court case spear-headed by Attorney General Letitia James has been ruled unconstitutional.

PSA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uttpSnvR_X4 for some really easy tricks to make your stuff a lot harder to steal.

ROSE GARDEN: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1957897812009709735 [:30] to hear what Trump had playing when he showed off the white stone pavers that were installed to replace the grass that was a safety hazard, particularly for women in high heels. The project was overseen by the National Park Service and funded by the Trust for the National Mall and private donors. The rose bushes and floral borders were not changed.

THE VIEW: Co-host Ana Navarro called First Lady Melania Trump’s letter to Putin performative hypocrisy during a 3-minute Instagram video rant. If Jill Biden had done it, Navarro would’ve been squeeing about how gracious and First Lady-like it was.

WOKE: The Smithsonian often promotes overt left-wing ideology and historical spin. Last week, the Trump administration began moving to weed it out.

Graphic: A sign from a Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibit that presented circuses as a means to promote colonialism.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tx-F05SdUL0 to see one of the projects MJD Pressure Washing was able to do for free for an elderly homeowner, because their YouTube channel earns money. ❤

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ssvg2HL_F0k for a really heartwarming short by Dude Dad.

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by | August 21, 2025 · 9:37 am

Fake News Hoax List: Part 4

BORDER AGENTS WHIPPING ILLEGALS HOAX: In September 2021, U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback were falsely accused of whipping Haitian migrants attempting to cross the border illegally. The twirling rein maneuver is used to either guide the horse or to deter humans from approaching the horse. It is not use to whip people. After a months-long investigation, four agents were disciplined for minor infractions, but no criminal charges were filed.

NASCAR NOOSE HOAX: On June 21, 2020, a member of Wallace’s Richard Petty Motorsports team discovered a garage door pull rope tied into what they identified as a noose in garage stall number 4 at Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama.

Because the garage stall was assigned to NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, the only full-time Black driver in NASCAR’s Cup Series, the “noose” was turned into a big deal. The FBI was notified and 15 agents were dispatched to investigate. It turned out, the “noose” had been there since long before the stall had been assigned to Wallace. It was nothing more than a pull down loop for the garage door.

Of all the hundreds of garage doors at the speedway, it was the only one tied with a noose-style slip knot or running bowline, no doubt because that type of knot is prone to slipping or over-tightening. For pulling something, the bowline knot or figure-eight loop are better choices.

GEORGIA JIM CROW 2.0 HOAX: In 2021, Georgia passed an election reform law (SB 202) that Democrats insisted was racist. President Biden said the law “makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.” Stacey Abrams, a Georgia activist and gubernatorial wannabe called it “Jim Crow in a suit and tie.”

The racism claim was based on the law replacing signature matching system for absentee ballots with an ID number such as a driver’s license number, Social Security number, or free state voter ID number. The approximately 9,000 Georgia voters who don’t have one of these identifications can use a bank statement, utility bill, or alternative ID.

Personally, I think it’s racist to assume that only people of color are incapable of obtaining even one of those six forms of identification. Oh … and also … Jim Crow laws were passed by Democrats.

“A nationwide economic depression following the Panic of 1873 led to major Democratic gains across the nation. White Democrats calling themselves ‘Redeemers regained control of the South state-by-state, often using fraud and violence to control elections. …

“The end of Reconstruction was a staggered process, with Republican control ending at different times in different states. It was the Compromise of 1877, however, that finally ended all military intervention in Southern politics and Republican control of state governments in the South. This began the Jim Crow Era.”

TRUMP TRIED TO COMMANDEER CAR HOAX: Cassidy Hutchinson, assistant to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, was the January 6 Committee’s star witness.

During her testimony, she claimed that Tony Ornato, the White House deputy chief of staff, had told her that, during the January 6 riot, President Trump became borderline violent when his lead Secret Service agent, Bobby Engel, said they were returning to the White House. Hutchinson claimed Ornato told her that Trump had tried to grab the steering wheel saying something to the effect of, “I’m the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now.”

The year after her testimony, Simon & Schuster published a memoir by Hutchinson entitled Enough for which Hutchinson raked in somewhere between several hundreds of thousands to possible a million dollars.

Tony Ornato, Bobby Engel, and the driver all said Hutchinson had lied under oath.

SOURCES

  • The Bluebird of Bitterness – aka, Bob, aka, my best researcher – sent me this link @ https://scifiwright.com/2024/02/hoax-list/. It’s just a long list of the Breitbart links that I am explicating and illustrating for you, bit by bit. I included some additional links, but most of what I’ve used is from asking Grok for a rundown on each of the hoaxes.

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by | August 21, 2025 · 8:19 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to fully appreciate the graces we have. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FKt45a3NHOk to hear Marco Rubio reveal an outrageous fact.

CALIFORNICATION: Marcus Lemonis, chairman of Bed Bath & Beyond, says the company will not be operating in the No-Longer-Golden State. “This decision isn’t about politics—it’s about reality. California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America. It’s a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers.”

D.C.: Jeanine Pirro announced the feds will no longer be prosecuting legal gun owners who carry weapons in D.C. for personal protection.

NATIONAL SECURITY: On August 20, the FBI announced that Russian hackers tied to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB*) have been breaching critical infrastructure computer systems in the United States. The hackers have been targeting two key weaknesses in older or unsecured network devices.

*The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union’s KGB.

OHIO: [2:55] – Ninety-two school districts now have armed school staff.

PARTY OF PERVERSION: ‘Outnumbered’ discusses a Senate report finding 11,500 migrant children placed with unvetted adults. One address had 42 kids.

The Biden administration established a hotline intended for unaccompanied migrant children to get help if their host families or sponsors turned out to be creeps. But it was apparently all for show. Nobody actually did anything, despite the approximately 65,000 calls for help that the hotline received between August 2023 and January 2025. Once the Trump administration took office, efforts were made to review all of the calls. In at least one case, the sponsor was arrested.

CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1954694226597310852 [:35] to see a short report about a Democrat “sanctuary” jurisdiction that refused to turn a child sex predator over to ICE, preferring to let him walk free.

PEACE PRESIDENT: During his first six months in office, President Trump has brokered peace in Armenia-Azerbaijan, Cambodia-Thailand, the DRC-Rwanda, Ethiopia-Egypt, and India-Pakistan.

TEXAS: As soon as the Democrat babies came back to work, the Texas House passed a newly drawn congressional map 88-52. The likely outcome of the change is for Republicans to win five extra seats in the U.S. House. It may also save us from having to listen to Jasmine Crockett, whose home is now in a district already represented by a Democrat and the majority of whose former district is now majority Republican.

GRAMMY NOTES: Buzz (who isn’t “Lil” any more!) built a color mixing conductivity device from a kit and will be doing experiments with it to understand how mixing colors with light is different from mixing colors with pigments. The right hand photo shows the device with red, green, and blue all on at the same time. With pigments, that would make a muddy brown; with lights, it makes white.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x23aMkXlD44 to hear from one really smart mama who thinks outside the box.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EPCrGPgbYSQ to see a glass blower make a pumpkin.

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by | August 20, 2025 · 9:32 am

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CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/krVMNVrYc7o and https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YlvFh4ep6WM.

DAILY PRAYER: We praise You and we thank You for being the living God who loves us so much, You came here and proved Yourself to us when we didn’t deserve a thing. Amen! Alleluia!!

AIR: CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1957446167781953773 to see the dramatic and safe landing the pilot of a Piper Cherokee made on to an Australian golf course after the craft lost power in mid-air. One passenger suffered only minor facial injuries.

(Psst … in case you didn’t get it, the graphic is a Greatest Of All Time, aka GOAT, joke.)

BORDER: Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that President Trump has asked that the U.S.-Mexico border fence be painted black. The black paint is intended to absorb heat, making the wall hotter in the desert sun and harder to climb. I’m underwhelmed by what appears to be paint going on over rust. That isn’t going to last!

D.C.: CLICK https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1957875624304849345 to hear a resident say the National Guard makes him feel safer. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yB9dow3Ei8M to hear Nick Freitas to reveal the real reason lefties are mad.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2oULjI0zM-c to hear Ronald Reagan talk about the Democrat play book forty years ago. Nothing has changed!

HAMAS: CLICK https://x.com/JeremyKamali/status/1957811170791800928 to hear what kind of people Leftists are rooting for. The speaker, Ohad Ben Ami, is an Israeli man who was seized by Hamas on October 7, 2023. He spent approximately 491 days in captivity in Gaza where, he says, they were held “30 meters underground, in six meters of concrete and sand without air to breathe. We slept close together on a thin, damp, and wet mattress, with the same blanket that had been used as a sheet for over a year. … Insects in the tunnel would get into our noses, mouths, ears, and everywhere else possible.”

ILLINOIS: Gov. Pritzker just signed a bill into law opening student financial aid to all residents, regardless of immigration status.

NEBRASKA: ICE agents recently dismantled a massive sex and drug trafficking ring that was being run by violent illegals out of motels and eyebrow salons across the Omaha metro area. Twenty-seven victims, including 10 children under the age of 12, were rescued from cockroach-infested rooms, where they had been deprived of basic sanitation and subjected to sexual exploitation. Agents also confiscated more than half a million dollars in cash and illicit drugs.

Multiple illegal aliens of Indian nationality are in custody, having been charged with multiple federal offenses stemming from an alleged conspiracy to engage in labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and harboring of other undocumented non-citizens. All individuals taken into custody will remain detained pending judicial proceedings and subsequent removal. Their mugshots have not been released to the press.

PEACE: Trump met with Putin in Alaska and then Zelensky in the Oval Office. Zelensky (who actually wore a suit this time) has agreed to pursue a trilateral meeting to discuss ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine. Trump pledged to not send U.S. Troops into Ukraine.

RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX: Thirty-seven more current and former intelligence professionals have had their security clearances revoked for having “abusedthe public trust by politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization, and/or committing intentional egregious violations of tradecraft standards.”

DNI Gabbard’s statement also said, “Our Intelligence Community must be committed to upholding the values and principles enshrined in the US Constitution and maintain a laser-like focus on our mission of ensuring the safety, security and freedom of the American people.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Yes to all.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iV6yMP32i4Y and EW, plus ROFL!

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1072468447939922 and WOW!

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for saving me! Amen.

D.C.: Democrat leadership is on the wrong side of this one. [4:53] – Since the National Guard went to D.C., 48 homeless encampments have also been removed and 465 criminals have been arrested for parole violation, assault with a deadly weapon, assault on federal law enforcement officer, stabbing, robbery, attempted murder, and murder. At least one of those arrested is a member of MS-13.

EVERYDAY HERO: [2:03] – Very proactive 6-year-old!

HEALTH: Recreational water users should assume that Naegleria fowleri is present in warm freshwater across the United States. While infection remains very rare, cases recently have occurred in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, Iowa, Maryland. I’m guessing the uptick is due to the extremely hot weather we’ve been having. More people swimming in warmer than usual water.

MARRIAGE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i9PQty40N2Q to hear why Candace Cameron Bure stopped taking romance roles.

SCOTUS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QhzCL5x010w to hear about yet another win.

TAXES: A new economic analysis that estimates taxpayers will see an average $3,752 tax cut in 2026, due to provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

TEXAS: Democrats have finally come back to work. The vote on redistricting is due to happen tomorrow.

GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz sent this to me. The ladies chit chat about being moms to adults who are dating for the first 9:45. The meaty stuff about “What if I don’t like my body?” begins there and it’s well worth your time.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1954276658694983715 and grab a tissue.

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