by | August 18, 2025 · 9:54 am

The Counterfeit Catholic Church

Everyone acts like Islam “came out of nowhere” in the 7th century. It didn’t. It was built by lifting Catholic ideas, stripping them down, and repackaging them as “new revelation.” Let’s expose a few.

The Angel Gabriel

Appears to Mary in Luke 1. He brings the Word that becomes flesh. That’s Catholic revelation.

600 years later, “Gabriel” appears to Muhammad in a cave. But this time? No Incarnation. Just dictation. Sound familiar?

The Virgin Mary

Catholics had venerated Mary as Mother of God for centuries. Ephesus (431 AD) settled it: Theotokos.

Islam? Mary gets lifted wholesale into the Qur’an… but Christ’s divinity is stripped out. It’s like stealing the frame and burning the painting.

The Eucharist

From the start, the Church celebrated the Body & Blood of Christ at the altar. “Unless you eat, you have no life in you.”- John 6

Islam? Denies it, but keeps the “ritual meal” vibe in Ramadan’s breaking of the fast. A hollow echo.

Monasticism & Prayer

By the 4th century, Catholic monks prayed fixed hours daily. The Divine Office. Bells. Prostrations.

Islam? Five daily prayers facing a holy city. Prostrations. Ritual words. Copied—minus Christ.

Pilgrimage

Christians had pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulchre, martyrs’ shrines. Long before Muhammad.

Islam? Hijacks the practice, re-centers it on Mecca, strips it of the Cross.

Scripture & Authority

The Church had the canon of Scripture locked down by the 4th century. Magisterium safeguarded it.

Islam? Claims a “book from heaven” with no witnesses, no councils, no continuity. Just one man’s word.

The irony?

  • Islam denies the very truths it borrows.
  • Loves Mary, but denies her Son is God.
  • Honors Jesus, but calls Him a prophet, not a Savior.
  • Copies prayer, pilgrimage, fasting—while rejecting the Cross that gives them meaning.

Islam is not an “independent revelation.” It’s a remix of Catholic truths— distorted, stripped of Christ, and repackaged as “submission.”

The Catholic Church: ✝️ The blueprint.

Islam: ☪️ The counterfeit.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth: If you admire Islam’s discipline, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage — You’re admiring Catholic practices Islam stole.

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Original was posted by Totus Catholica @ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxlXtvd9_PyoyCS2pbrBRGxZXmgdCbUUb3

Graphics and slight edits added by CtH.

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by | August 17, 2025 · 2:49 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please grant us the graces we need to stop having imaginary arguments with these people and to pray for them instead. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

2020: Years ago, I heard a prophet say God told him He had allowed the Biden cheat, because He had a bigger plan. We are seeing the fulfillment now.

BORDER: The photo above shows firefighters trying to extricate the vehicle in which a family of three violently perished. God help the loved one(s) who had to identify the mangled remains. :-(“`

CLICK https://x.com/boneheadtruckrs/status/1956361253724602398 [:27] to see dash cam footage of how the “undocumented immigrant” behind the wheel decided to make a U-turn from the right hand lane on a divided highway … right next to a “No U Turns” sign. We can thank the libtards of California for handing the jackass at the wheel a Commercial Driver’s License.

EVERYDAY HEROES: There are two busts of William Walker, one in Winchester Cathedral and the other in the gardens there. Construction of Winchester Cathedral was begun in 1079 and completed in 1532. Over time, the foundation eroded until, by the summer of 1905, it was near to collapsing. Huge cracks had appeared in the walls, some of them large enough for a small child to crawl into, the walls were bulging and leaning, and stone fell from the walls. Between 1906 and 1911, William Walker worked six hours a day, under the structure, in pitch dark water up to 20 feet deep, shoring up the entire foundation with concrete. When he was finished, King George V presented him with a silver rose bowl to thank him for saving the famous church. This was not the first time Walker had met the monarch; when then-Prince George was a naval cadet, Walker had been his diving instructor.

GERRYMANDERING: Drawing the boundaries of electoral districts in a way that gives an advantage to political party or ethnic group. The term originated in 1812 when Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry oversaw a redistricting effort in Massachusetts that would favor the Democratic Party.

FYI: The Republican Party was not founded until 1854 when anti-slavery activists, including Abraham Lincoln, sought to abolish slavery, which was supported by the Democrats.

Now that you know the practice of gerrymandering was invented by Democrats and named by a political cartoonist in 1812, you can understand the political cartoon below, which was published earlier this month.

NOLA: New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie, have been charged with a combined 18 felony counts related to their adulterous affair. Cantrell, whose term as mayor will end in January, has been canoodling with Vappie for four years, using tax money to finance their hanky panky and more tax money to hide it from their spouses, his employers, and her voters.

RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX: Susan Miller worked for the CIA for 39 years, rounding out her career as the CIA’s Chief of Counterintelligence. Since Trump DNI Tulsi Gabbard released documents showing the evidence behind the Russia! Russia! Russia! witchhunt was fabricated by Democrats, Miller has been making the leftist media rounds to declare, “The director of national intelligence and the White House are lying, again.”

The Pentagon has reportedly revoked her security clearance. FYI: Security clearances are not automatically revoked when a federal official leaves his/her post. Unless there is a specific reason, such as a security risk or lack of need, they often retain clearances for administrative convenience and/or to provide continuity of expertise to those who replace them.

USPS: For decades, letter carriers waited for residents to answer their signal; if no one was home, they took the mail back to the post office and tried again the next day. Some letter carriers used wooden, dumbbell-shaped door knockers on their rounds. Studies in the early twentieth century showed that carriers spent an average of two hours daily waiting at the doorstep. To save work hours, the Post Office Department required residents to install mailboxes or letter slots in 1916.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1031351712217346 to see a very fun tap dance routine from 1981.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=779157107797000 to see Trump show Putin who he’s dealing with.

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by | August 16, 2025 · 4:10 pm

Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask Your continued blessings on this good man. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

1A: [6:23] – The fight to protect our First Amendment rights continues. In 2018, during the first Trump administration, rules were created allowing employers with religious and/or moral objections to opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to cover abortion and contraceptives. On August 13, Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania declared these rules to be arbitrary and capricious, and in violation of federal law.

Mark Rienzi, president of Becket, a nonprofit, public interest legal institute said,“The Little Sisters [of the Poor] might need yet another trip to the Supreme Court to end what has now been more than a dozen years of litigation over the same issue. We will fight as far as we need to fight to protect the Little Sisters’ right to care for the elderly in peace.”

The Little Sisters of the Poor was established in France in 1839 by Saint Jeanne Jugan to care for the elderly poor. There are currently about 2,372 sisters working in 31 countries on five continents.

ASTROTURF: CLICK https://x.com/Simone_DeAlba/status/1956783419041485091 [:22] to see a clip of an anti-Trump rally in D.C. There is nothing organic about these protests in D.C. the National Guard coming in to help police crack down on rampant crime. They’re being funded by far left, dark money that originates with Frankfurters like George Soros.

DISTRICT of COLUMBIA: [2:23] – On Wednesday, residents of the homeless encampment between the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Memorial were notified they had to move. Volunteers helped gather belongings and the city made shelter and storage options available. On Thursday, city crews cleared out everything that was left behind.

EPSTEIN: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1955757439653175522 [:41] to hear the “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” Hunter Biden made that have Melania threatening to sue.

LET’S GO, BRANDON: CLICK https://x.com/thecjpearson/status/1955685502562230298 [:26] to hear Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson say, “Donald Trump has always been intimidated by the intellectual prowess of black men.”

SOUTH CAROLINA: William Mullins McLeod, Jr. (53) just announced he is running for the Democratic nomination for governor. So far, he is the only Democrat to enter the race. Incredibly, just three short months ago, McLeod was found walking outside, in his underwear and screaming incoherently. CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1956012845319016767 [4:07] to see video footage of McLeod after his arrest. He was later charged with public disorderly conduct and released on a personal recognizance bond.

GRAMMY NOTES: The Catholic Church does not have a doctrine about the Rapture, but Jesus Himself told us it will happen.

Matthew 24: “30 Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth[will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. … 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.”

I have been told this refers to Final Judgment, but it doesn’t fit. Matthew 25: “31 When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.” In the first, angels go out and gather the elect; in the second, all the nations are gathered.

I believe that, as Jesus’s Resurrection was our model for those who have died in Christ before the Rapture and will rise in their glorified bodies, while Mary’s Assumption was our model for the rapture of those who will still be alive and will be changed. 1 Cor 15: “52 In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.”

I also believe that when the Raptured gather, the Protestants will be saying, “We were RIGHT about the Rapture.” And the Catholics will high five and say, “Yes! And Mary was the first!“

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZHWxz-mZXPw for a heartwarming true story about a cop.

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by | August 16, 2025 · 3:26 pm

Real D.C.

The X account https://x.com/washprobs posted the tweet above and got blasted with so much reality that the owner shut down replies by anyone who hadn’t been pre-approved. I’ve included examples below.

“The way flashers are released with no charges after multiple offenses. That’s really inspiring to other flashers.”

“The homeless camps actually make it more beautiful. I love bringing my kids around drug addicted, mentally ill people.”

“I love when I get inside my apartment and lock my door so I am not accosted by criminals or worried about getting mugged or shot. How about that?”

“I was called into court to give a statement about a man who’d exposed himself to me on the metro. He had over 200 charges to date. Court was delayed 4 hours for him to ‘calm down’ after calling the judge the c-word. Once he had, she dismissed the new charges and let him go.”

“I’ve been held up at gunpoint, had my car broken into 3 times, and had my bike stolen. My credit card has been skimmed too many times to count and I can’t send my kids to public school here because they’re a joke.”

“The only time I have ever seen a firefight outside of Baghdad is on the green line in Washington, DC. With my wife. Who was pregnant.”

“It was really cool when a guy headbutted me on the metro after I asked him to stop blasting music through his phone speakers. And then there was the time a bum spat on me for no reason.”

“My car was broken into. One friend had a car stolen from in front of his place, another was carjacked at gun point. I’ve had to assist someone who was shot while I was just trying to drunkenly make my way home from a bar. Fuck you. Thank god for the new enforcement.”

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by | August 15, 2025 · 1:39 pm

Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven

DAILY PRAYER: Mary, Mother of Mercy, intercede for us, your children. Keep us under your protection, safe from all harm, healthy in mind, body, and spirit. Under your watchful care, may we avoid the pitfalls of prejudice, ingratitude, injustice, and violence. And may we be always worthy of the promises of Christ. Amen.

AI: When Mama Buzz first opened yesterday’s “Bits & Bytes” on her phone, the prayer showed up with a transparent background. She highlighted it, intending to make it visible so she could read it. Somehow, this triggered an AI to add what I’ve shown above. Wonderful thoughts, all of them, even if they did utterly miss the point I was trying to make by combining the prayer with that graphic. But I guess the Holy Spirit wanted us to see it, because when Mama reloaded, the prayer formatted correctly.

HANNITY: [4:35] – “No one is above the law!”

SOCIAL SECURITY: Our COLA for 2026 is projected to be +2.7 percent.

STILL WINNING: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Aug. 13 that the Trump administration may cut billions of dollars in foreign aid funds that Congress previously approved. This victory allows Trump to continue to wind down USAID.

TURLEY: [14:55] – “No one is above the law!”

VAXXXINE: Eight studies now show that, far from reducing or preventing infection, the COVID-19 mRNA serum actually promotes it.

  1. June 2, 2022: “Duration of mRNA vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 subvariants in Qatar” @ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30895-3
  2. August 3, 2022: “Rate of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection During an Omicron Wave in Iceland” @ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794886
  3. April 19, 2023: “Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine” @ https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/6/ofad209/7131292
  4. December 5, 2024: “Protection From COVID-19 Vaccination and Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children Aged 6 Months–4 Years United States, September 2022–April 2023” @ https://academic.oup.com/jpids/article-abstract/14/1/piae121/7917119
  5. December 13, 2024: “Behavioral and Health Outcomes of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: A Case-Control Study in Japanese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises” @ https://www.cureus.com/articles/313843-behavioral-and-health-outcomes-of-mrna-covid-19-vaccination-a-case-control-study-in-japanese-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises
  6. February 4, 2025: “Effectiveness of the 2023-to-2024 XBB.1.5 COVID-19 Vaccines Over Long-Term Follow-up: A Target Trial Emulation” @ https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-24-01015
  7. April 2025: “Post-vaccination IgG4 and IgG2 class switch associates with increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections” @ https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(25)00067-2/fulltext#fig0005
  8. August 9, 2025: “Association of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination status with risk of influenza-like illness and loss of workdays in healthcare workers” @ https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-01046-8

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gXU4MBMWwkg to see Becorns discover glowing love balloons. 🙂

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gpsb9pQxxVM for some us husbands vs. wives fun.

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by | August 14, 2025 · 7:13 am

Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Remind us always that You love us so much more than we loved our babies who did nothing but eat, sleep, cry, spit up, pee, and poop. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Trump’s policies have netted an overall drop of 2.2 million in the nation’s foreign-born population.

In other news, ICE is running a recruitment drive, funded by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4 by President Donald Trump. So far, more than 100,000 Americans have applied.

CONNECTICUT: In June, Democrat State Rep. Raghib Allie-Brennan was charged with shoplifting at a Target. He’s just been charged with not only committing the same crime, but doing it at the same location.

CREATION: Owls have offset ears; one is higher than the other, allowing them to triangulate sound in three dimensions. This anatomical feature gives them pinpoint accuracy in finding prey even under snow. Such asymmetry only works when both the ear placement and the brain’s sound processing are fully coordinated. A half-formed system wouldn’t offer any survival advantage, which means they were designed as a complete unit from the beginning.

DOGE: The Fourth Circuit Court handed Trump another win by removing a block imposed by a lower court that had been preventing DOGE from accessing data within various federal departments.

EVERYDAY HEROES: Two firefighters arrived at an accident scene to find everyone safe—but one little girl still trembling with fear. She clutched bottles of bright nail polish, her eyes wide.

Instead of talking about the crash, they knelt down, asked about her colors, and invited her to paint their nails. Her smile bloomed, the fear faded, and for a few precious minutes, the flashing lights and sirens disappeared.

When they left, their nails were far from regulation—but they were painted in the perfect shade of comfort and kindness. Sometimes, the greatest rescue is simply helping someone feel safe again.

There’s a television news clip at the link.

FRANKFURT SCHOOL SUCCESS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J44ttkYa5wo to hear how “Baby, it’s cold outside” was canceled by the left, while “WAP” was played over and over.

WAP won the American Music Awards (2020): Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song; BET Awards (2021): Video of the Year and Best Collaboration; BET Hip Hop Awards (2021): Song of the Year, Best Hip Hop Video, and Best Collaboration.

WAP was also nominated for iHeartRadio Music Awards (2021): Best Music Video, Favorite Music Video Choreography; MTV Video Music Awards (2021): Video of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Hip Hop, Best Collaboration, Song of Summer; and Gold Derby Awards (2021): Best Music Video.

Cardi B said of her lyrics’ reputation for being “freaky and nasty” – “I grew up listening to freaky-ass rappers and I feel like this is very mild compared to them. … When WAP came out, the people that were critizing it the most and saying it was nasty and freaky weren’t even religious people. It was mainly republicans. Big republicans, not senates, it was literally the motherfuckers that got blue checks on Twitter, the big influencers. And I think it was because I used to endorse Bernie and then Joe Biden.”

::smh::

JASMINE CROCKETT: [13:40] – Benny Johnson exposed Jasmine Crockett as an even bigger elitist fraud than AOC or Bernie Sanders.

PENNSYLVANIA: [14:10] – Moving strongly from blue to purple to red.

RUSSIAN COLLUSION HOAX: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1955587369572409831 [3:42] to hear John Solomon of Just The News give a brief summary of what he reports in the article in “Comey’s media mole told FBI he shaped Russia narrative, needed ‘discount’ to deny leaking intel” which is linked below.

TRANS: More than 20 clinics have stopped gender-related treatments for minors.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1259696805856386 and watch Wyatt’s ears turn red. ❤

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B0_0gSf0bqE and LOL.

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by | August 13, 2025 · 8:17 am

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BETO: Texas AG Paxton has filed a motion for contempt against O’Rourke after he ignored a court ordered to stop supporting runaway Democrat legislators.

CLICK https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1954319711199760881 [:49] to hear him tell supporters, “Fuck the rules! We are going to win whatever it takes.” Somebody should tell him that Democrat states are already as gerrymandered as they can get.

CHINA: [1:50] – With unemployment among young workers up to 14% and a social stigma against being unemployed, some are actually paying to have pretend jobs. This begs the question … if they’re out of work, how can they afford to pay for pretend jobs?

CLIMATE: It’s 6:30 pm. It’s still 86 flipping degrees outside. Thank You, God, for air conditioning!

COLORADO: A man who attempted to abduct a child near an elementary school has been found incompetent to stand trial. His sister says he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder when he was 16 and has been in and out of jail for more than a decade. Everybody seems to agree the community is unsafe with him roaming the streets and that he belongs in a secure mental health facility, but libtard Colorado’s laws require judges to keep releasing him.

DEMOCRATS: Remember all the shrieking when Hillary won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote? You’d have thought from all their talk of “democracy “ that they really believe that the will of the people as reflected in the total popular vote should actually decide things. They don’t actually mean it.

EPSTEIN: Poor, sad Dems … they did so hope that MAGA-ites frustrated with the Trump administration over the lack of prosecutions. After ignoring Epstein for all the Biden years, they hammered it last month (CNN: 2,220 mentions; MSNBC: 2,871 mentions).

CLICK https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/politics/video/epstein-trump-files-google-searches-enten-digvid [2:31] to see Harry Enten on July 13. Then CLICK https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1954915338266775687 [2:31] to see August 11. I don’t know who the blonde in white is, but her obvious disappointment with the story’s nothingburger-ness is delightful.

Oh wait … schaadenfreude is a sin. I’d scratch “delightful” and substitute something holier … but I try to never lie to you and the truth is … I can’t stop giggling.

GERRYMANDERING: [7:20] to hear Gov. Abbott and Fox News talk about the issue.

GROK: X briefly suspended Grok’s account on Monday. I guess I’m not the only one who is annoyed with he/she/it. ::snork::

KILL HITLER: [4:35] – Possibly one of Babylon Bee’s best videos to date.

SCHUMER: CLICK https://x.com/BlueATLGeorgia/status/1954792057723105433 [6:48] to hear all about the Baileys, the imaginary middle class family that Chuck invented.

GRAMMY NOTES: My package arrived! The USPS beat up the box, but thanks to Scrapbook.com’s excellent packaging, the papers inside are in perfect condition. ❤

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H3lCRp6wkqo for a Babylon Bee short.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XAQlQweiPc8 to hear Ronald Reagan tell a joke.

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by | August 12, 2025 · 12:21 pm

Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for the divine protection You provided the pilot and passengers of this plane who all escaped the crash without suffering serious harm. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

CENSUS: Our next census is coming up in 2030 and it’s time for the government to start designing it. Trump has ordered that the next one be highly accurate and not count illegals.

D.C.: CLICK https://x.com/theblaze/status/1954917082652348548 to hear Trump announce he has ordered National Guard troops to become force multipliers on the ground to assist the overwhelmed DC Police Force.

CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1954985421173297298 to hear what the president of the DC Police Union said about it.

J6: On August 11, 2025, Nancy Pelosi tweeted, “Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake. Now, he’s activating the DC Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education and immigration — just to name a few blunders.”

Stephen Sund, who was Chief of Capitol Police that fateful day, replied, “Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people. On January 3, I requested National Guard assistance, but your Sergeant at Arms denied it. Under federal law (2 U.S.C. §1970), I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. That same day, Carol Corbin at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority. On January 6, while the Capitol was under attack and despite my repeated calls, your Sergeant at Arms again denied my urgent requests for over 70 agonizing minutes, ‘running it up the chain’ for your approval. When I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with concertina wire and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops.”

MEDIA: When a reporter asked Trump if he would build a “big, beautiful briefing room,” Trump dismissed the idea, joking he had no interest in making life more comfortable for the media.

MILITARY: “We don’t fight because we hate what’s in front of us. We fight because we love what’s behind us.” [3:00] – The Defense Department says, “The media’s narrative that the female recruitment numbers have either fallen or stayed the same under Secretary Hegseth and President Trump is 100% Fake News.” Under Biden, the total number of female military recruits at this point in the fiscal year was 16,725. Under Trump, it’s 23,985.

SCHIFF: FBI Director Kash Patel has released bombshell documents to Congress showing that Shifty Schiff approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal. In addition, when concerned individuals told DOJ officials the evidence, they did nothing.

TEXAS: State Dem legislators continue to refuse to come to work. Gov. Abbott says their behavior is absurd, since he is “authorized to call a special session every 30 days. It lasts 30 days. And as soon as this one is over, I’m gonna call another one, then another one, then another, then another one.”

VAXXX: Trump has ordered all federal agencies to eliminate any record of a federal employeeʼs COVID-19 vaccination status, prior noncompliance with vaccine mandates, or requests for exemptions from such mandates. In other news, a new poll shows a majority of Americans do not intend to get the COVID-19 vaccine this fall and that less than half trust the government to ensure vaccine safety.

YMCA: DEFINITELY CLICK https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1954694252308660255 to enjoy an Israeli dance couple dressed as Donald and Melania absolutely kill it with “YMCA.” It’s a fabulous routine that brought back sweet memories. That was the most popular song being played at the disco where Dearest and I had our first date. ❤

GRAMMY NOTES: Grok and I are taking a break. He/she/it just told me that AP, ABC News, and NPR are “reputable” news sources. ::smh::

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by | August 11, 2025 · 3:03 pm

Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Remind us please what that first thing You said was and grant us the graces to get it right the next time. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: SHOUT OUT to Pistol Pete who is 75 years young today!

COVID-19: [2:43] – “I’d be in Heaven HR on Day One!”

GRAMMY NOTES: I will be forever grateful to the FMG members (usually wives of drill sergeants) who kept us up-to-date with what our offspring were doing at boot camp. One of them literally stood in one spot during a run and took more than 300 photos to make sure every parent got to see their kid. It also helped me understand why my curvy daughter came home from Parris Island looking like a pencil. (She got them back. LOL) … P.S., sorry for the shortie today. Usually, I’d just skip when I’m having a rough day, but I didn’t want to miss Pete’s birthday. ❤

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by | August 11, 2025 · 8:22 am

Third Anniversary of the Mar-a-Lago Raid

The following was written by Senator Tom Cotton [R-Arkansas] and published the New York Post on August 7, 2025 (link below). I added the graphics.

It was on Aug. 8, 2022 that 30 FBI agents, armed and authorized to use deadly force, raided the home of then-former President Donald Trump — with the blessing of his successor, then-President Joe Biden.

The absurdly broad raid warrant covered “any government and/or Presidential Records” dated during the years of Trump’s presidency, and “containers/boxes . . . collectively stored” near classified documents.

According to the FBI raid affidavit, Trump possessed “Presidential records subject to record retention requirements” — an odd claim, given that presidents have an established right to designate records as “personal records.”

In fact, under the Presidential Records Act, only the president decides which records are presidential and which are personal. Odder still, one would expect a search warrant to be based on alleged violations of criminal law. But this one wasn’t, because the Presidential Records Act is a purely civil statute.

The FBI also claimed that Trump violated the Espionage Act because he refused to return classified documents after the National Archives demanded them. Yet the FBI had no evidence to support that Trump knew the boxes sent to his home contained classified information.

To get around this inconvenient fact, the Department of Justice tried to thread the needle by arguing Trump “caused” the boxes to be packed, attempting to make him appear just as guilty as if he knew their contents.

Attorney General Merrick Garland also ignored the only existing precedent, which involved President Ronald Reagan. After leaving office, Reagan kept classified material from his presidency in his home — and while the Justice Department was aware of this situation, it took no action. Since this precedent worked in Trump’s favor, the Biden DOJ conveniently ignored it.

Similarly, given the president’s unique position in our constitutional system, the Supreme Court has ruled that certain laws should not apply to a president unless that law explicitly specifies otherwise. The Espionage Act does not contain such language, but the DOJ ignored that inconvenient fact, too.

Ironically, while Biden’s administration was weaponizing criminal law against Trump, Biden himself was caught red-handed with more than 130 classified documents — that we know of — dating from his vice presidency and his tenure as a senator.

Biden kept these sensitive documents in his personal Washington, DC, office and all over his Wilmington, Del., home, some of them in file folders labeled with Biden’s own handwriting. No legal compulsion was sought in Biden’s case, even though Biden told his ghostwriter in 2017, “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” In other words, he confessed on tape.

Pundits defended the different handling of the two cases on the grounds that Biden cooperated with investigators, while Trump did not. But Biden “cooperated” with a rigged process, designed by his own administration. That process allowed Biden’s lawyers to sweep and search the crime scenes — after classified documents were discovered, and after a criminal case was opened — before any FBI searches took place. At one point, a Biden White House lawyer intervened in the chain of custody of a classified document, seizing it from the FBI because the then-president had not consented to the FBI’s possession.

This double standard is nothing short of breathtaking. Where Trump was charged for merely “causing” boxes to be packed, Biden was specifically not charged because he “did not move the files himself” and “depended on staffers.” With Trump, the Reagan precedent was ignored; with Biden, it was upheld due to “basic principles of notice and fairness.”

For Trump, the Supreme Court’s “express statement” doctrine, that certain laws should not apply to a president unless expressly stated, was ignored. For Biden, the DOJ applied this doctrine — historically extended to include vice presidents — and declined prosecution to avoid “significant separation of powers concerns.” Prosecutors charged Trump with 40 felonies — effectively life in prison. Prosecutors charged Biden with nothing.

Those now angrily denouncing Trump for enforcing US laws — laws he is duty-bound to enforce — fully supported forging the justice system into a guillotine to lop off Trump’s head. Because they don’t really care about law. And they don’t really care about justice. They only care about power. Regaining power — and retaining it.

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