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CROCHET: Little chihuahua … cuz you needed to see this. 🙂

ILLINOIS: The Chicago Teachers Union has been at the forefront of the “Hell No, We Won’t Go Back to Work” movement that is keeping kids struggling in (or abandoning) virtual classrooms.

Meanwhile, a member of the CTU’s executive board … who claims it is unsafe for teachers to return to the classroom … flew to Puerto Rico for a nice vacay in the sun.

NEW YORK: My sucky state legislators are considering making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory. CLICK https://rumble.com/vcdec9-proposed-bill-would-make-vaccine-mandatory.html [4:15] to hear an OAN news report on this and another, even scarier proposed legislation.

OHIO: Gov. Mike DeWine, R-OH, signed the Unborn Child Dignity Act into law. In Ohio, the bodies of children who are aborted must be cremated or buried, not dumped out with the bloody gauze and other medical trash.

No longer will the tiny bodies of babies whose lives have been tragically taken by abortion be treated like trash.” – Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life

OREGON: Portland – Law enforcement officers had to be pulled from answering emergency calls to go to yet another riot on New Year’s Eve.

Members of a large crowd smashed windows, set fires, and threw rocks, bricks, frozen water bottles, Molotov cocktails and large fireworks at police. Some officers were also targeted by paint balloons that may have been laced with a caustic substance as it caused burning to the skin.

The Mayor Ted Wheeler said at a press briefing on Friday that his “good faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists” and that he is committed to bringing “the criminal destruction and violence to an end.

This crap has been going on since MAY … but NOW he’s fed up? Hmm …

OREGON: Sandy – At least one Oregonian is standing up to Governor Jackboot Kate’s lockdown orders. Mayor Stan Pulliam of Sandy, Oregon, is encouraging the residents of his town to to socially distance and wear masks, but to open businesses at reduced capacities.

Pulliam noted that the governor has provided no scientific evidence to support strict lockdowns and that it’s hypocritical to label big-box stores “essential”, while forcing locally-owned businesses to lock down indefinitely.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Gov. Kristi Noem has refused to destroy its economy in the name of fighting the coronavirus. And its economy is now among the strongest in the country, with unemployment at 3.5%, increasing tax revenues, and a FY2020 budget surplus.

The national unemployment rate is 6.7% and, in states like New York and California that have relied heavily on lockdowns, it’s over 8%. Meanwhile, people are fleeing statese like New York and California, while the housing market in South Dakota is booming.

VENEZUELA: You know what they say … “You can vote your way into socialism, but you’ll have to shoot your way out.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Yesterday, we had that lovely, soft kind of snow fall that looks like angels are sifting confectioner’s sugar on the world. The sun isn’t out yet today, so it is still all fluffy and beautiful, lining each twig and piled on each fence post.

Watching this four minute video could save you $100s some day.

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CALIFORNIA: California has an estimated 150,000 homeless people, the most in the U.S. In Los Angeles County, the number jumped 14.2% over the past year (now more than 66,400).

COVID-19: The Los Angeles Times reports that between 20% and 50% of frontline health workers have refused the vaccine.

I saw the following on FB. It was reportedly written by a nurse who has refused the vaccine: “Every time you see someone posting their virtue signaling band-aided up arms on Insta demanding everyone do the same, just remember we do have a responsibility. A responsibility to control only ourselves, to weigh all the pros and cons of any medical procedure, to use critical thinking to look at trials and science and decide what is best for our own circumstances.”

DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/RantNationBlazeTV/videos/250906983233879 [3:45] to hear an epic take down by Kayleigh McEnany.

FDA: When hand sanitizer was in critically short supply, more than 800 distilleries stepped up to manufacture the product. Now they are being punished for helping out.

Under the mis-named CARES Act, manufacturers of over-the-counter drugs have to pay a fee to help fund the FDA’s regulatory activities. When distilleries started making hand sanitizer, they unknowingly stepped into this category and have recently been assess fines of $14,060 each.

The money is due on February 11. I sincerely hope POTUS Trump overturns it.

NEWT GINGRICH: [2:15] – “I’ve been active in this since 1958; that’s 62 years. I’m the angriest I have been in that entire six decades. You have a group of corrupt people who have absolute contempt for the American people, who believe that we’re so spineless, so cowardly, so unwilling to stand up for ourselves that they can steal the presidency, and we’ll wring our hands, bring in a few lawyers, and do nothing.

“My hope is that President Trump will lead the millions of Americans who understand exactly what’s going on: [that] the Philadelphia machine is corrupt, that the Atlanta machine is corrupt, the machine in Detroit is corrupt, and they’re trying to steal the presidency, and we should not allow them to do that.

“First of all, we should lock up the people who are breaking the law. You stop someone from being an observer –- you just broke federal law. You hide and put up paper so nobody can see what you’re doing –- you just broke federal law. You bring in ballots that aren’t real –- you just broke federal law.

“I am sick and tired of corrupt left-wing Democrats who believe that we are too timid and too easy to intimidate, and therefore they’ll just go out and steal it. … You are watching an effort to steal the presidency of the United States, and this is not about Donald Trump. This is about the American people, [who] have the right, in an honest election, with honest, legitimate ballots, to pick their leader.

Or are we now just sheep, to be dominated by the high-tech businesses, the news media, and the various political machines?… This is a crisis in the American system, comparable to Washington on Christmas Eve or comparable to Lincoln at Gettysburg. This is a genuine, deep crisis of our survival.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: “We are a proud abortion provider,” says Alexis McGill Johnson, the new president of Planned Parenthood. She is tossing out the old “stigmatizing” paradigm whereby the abortion giant downplayed its role as the leader in the baby murder industry.

ROSE BOWL: For the first time since 1942, the Rose Bowl was not played in Pasadena, California. Organizers cited the rising number of cases of COVID-19 in Southern California and the state’s refusal to grant any exceptions to its ban on guests. The College Football Playoff semifinal was held on Jan. 1 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

SATIRE: I’m shpeaker of the Houshe” by Sarah Gonzales [3:17]

GRAMMY NOTES: I just got my wrist slapped on FB for noting that the House’s proposed rules to de-genderize every title, pronoun, etc. is confusing, because people who transition seem to insist loudly on being called by the genderized terms of their new identity. FB said that was hateful and unacceptable and I better, by gum, never do anything like that again or else! Satan has taken the most twisted absurdities and elevated them to the level of sacred, while delegating everything that is truly sacred to the level of hate speech.

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2020: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/whitehousebrief/videos/990482594694302 [4:51] to hear Trump talk about all the horrible things he did to screw up America in 2020.

CYBER BULLY: For four years, a boy kept a three-second video of a young girl saying the N word, just so he could post it online when it do the most damage to her life. Namely, after she was accepted to her dream college. She was immediately kicked off the cheer team and her dream school pressured her to withdraw, which she eventually did. She is now attending a community college online.

The vicious brat preened to the New York Slime about how satisfied he felt about teaching her “a lesson.” The Bible says when you have a problem with someone, you should go to him/her privately.

The girl says, “It honestly disgusts me that those words would come out of my mouth. How can you convince somebody that has never met you and the only thing they’ve ever seen of you is that three-second clip? At the time, I didn’t understand the severity of the word, or the history and context behind it because I was so young,” she said, noting that the N-word is commonly used in “all the songs we listened to, and I’m not using that as an excuse.”

DIVORCE: Finally, some GOOD news from 2020. The divorce rate hit a 50 year low, only 14.9 per 1,000.

GEORGIA: [10:07] – A poll observer in Cobb County, Georgia, testified to a state Senate subcommittee that her review of hundreds of military ballots displayed very disturbing characteristics, but when she challenged them, she was told her concerns were irrelevant. “It makes me sick.” She also notes that the vaunted perfect signature check was done with no observers present.

CLICK https://twitter.com/rothbard1776/status/1344374207979913216?s=12 [2:11] to see another piece of the testimony showing evidence that votes were removed and/or flipped from Trump to Biden.

HANNITY: I just saw this on the sidebar at YouTube. I really fight to maintain hope and avoid cynicism, but dayum.

ROBOTS: [2:54] – I am TOTALLY blown away! We’ve seen this kind of stuff on movies for years, but we all knew they were CGI. These robots are REAL.

SOCIALISM: Have any of the Big Govt Socialists even noticed that Trump has been POTUS for 4 years and that in all that time, as they have shrieked about he was supposedly “Literally Hitler”, he NEVER exceeded his Constitutional authority? They’re all either complicit in the evil or too dumb to understand it.

SWEDEN: “Do as I say, not as I do” is the motto of leftist politicians across the globe. The latest example is Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven who was seen visiting a crowded shopping mall without a mask shortly after instructing Swedes to avoid crowded places and “refrain from spending time in indoor environments such as shops, shopping centers.

UK: The NHS has asked retired doctors to help with the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out … but their ridiculous requirements makes me suspect hardly any will even bother to apply. Applicants are required to produce 20 pieces of evidence with the application.

Some of the requirements make sense, like “Introduction to Anaphylaxis.” But the NHS also requires certificates showing the individual has completed courses in Conflict Resolution; Equality, Diversity, and Human Rights; Fire Safety; and Preventing Radicalisation.

GRAMMY NOTES: My dd sent this saying this is how her youngest behaves. The Mother’s Curse is alive and well! ::snork::

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/thedodosite/videos/766426607286605 [5:19] to see another heartwarming rescue of a dog who didn’t know what love was. As I’ve said before, I post these because they are like little parables of how God desires to rescue us, if only we will let Him.

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2020: Jovan Pulitzer’s testimony before the Georgia state senate is worth your time [13:43] – Among other things, he explains how Georgia printed two different kinds of ballots, one (blue) sent to predominantly Democrat areas and the other (red) send to predominantly Republican areas.

The red ones were deliberately designed to cause the Dominion machines to reject those ballots and send them to the adjudicator, who can change the votes. Pulitzer says he can check 500,000 physical ballots in 2 hours.

Are we still a country where your vote matters? … The fact is the paper. Verify the paper. … Our country was founded on a piece of paper. Our laws and our word came down to us on paper. And all of a sudden we’re going to hide the paper and we don’t get to look at it. Unacceptable.”

2021: Joe Biden isn’t competent to serve as POTUS. Before their debate. Trump was going to three and four campaign stops a day, while Biden “prepared” by resting at his house for 4 days. Biden did manage to get through most of the 90 minute debate, but he was fluffing lines and losing his thoughts at the end.

I’ve always assumed the corruptocrats who are behind the Dumbocrats, the puppet masters who issue the daily talking points the MSM parrots and who pull the strings of stupid, greedy people in power (like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, etc.) set this up.

They never ever wanted Bernie Sanders; he’s a commie, but he seems to be genuine about it. Puppet masters do not want someone with integrity and a backbone! But Biden is like Hillary and Barack before him in being a total sell out. Ditto Kamala who slept her way into her first big job and didn’t even get to the first primary in her bid for the White House.

If Biden becomes POTUS, I think he’ll be told to retire or they’ll fake a stroke or something. Maybe break his foot again. Then, Harris will take over … amid all kinds of “First Black AND First Female President” hoopla … and appoint the VP she’s told to appoint.

Not long after that, the United States of America (with its 23 TRILLION dollar debt … a chunk of which belongs to China) will go bankrupt and become a colony of China. Prosperity will be a thing of the past, as will all our freedoms. Churches will close; abortion clinics will open; and posting anti-government content on the internet will be punishable by jail time.

We don’t keep any money in the bank cuz, when Greece went bust, the government emptied out everyone’s bank accounts. I mean … not that we have oodles of money, but mostly, I’m using the extra to buy survival food packets. It hardly seems “out there” to think we could have a major disruption in our food supply after what happened when they declared a lockdown! Maybe this year, I’ll spring for a solar-powered battery that can recharge phones etc. I need my e-books!

Mostly, however, I focus my preparation on storing up treasure where thieves cannot steal and hope that the Warning and the Rapture will come before the worst begins and that me and mine will be ready to go.

CHINA: The ChiComs wine and dine members of the corporate media to help insure favorable coverage for China. The outlets include ABC News, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, AFP, TIME magazine, LA Times, The Hill, and The Atlantic.

CLASS ACTION SUIT: Some jackass trying to make a buck has actually filed a class action lawsuit against the makers of King’s Hawaiian rolls, claiming the label constitutes fraudulent marketing because he thinks it says the rolls were made in Hawaii, while on the back, it says they were made in Torrance, California.

If you too are a jackass who has (or has not? Who is to know?) purchased King’s Hawaiian rolls, only to have your carb experience totally ruined by the knowledge that they were made in California, you can go to the link below and add your name to the lawsuit. IMO, the case should be thrown out before it even starts, but there’s probably some butthead of a judge who enjoys destroying companies and the jobs they create.

FLORIDA: [:37] – You go, Governor Ron!

KWANZAA: Today is the last day of this seven-day holiday celebrating African heritage. Each day is dedicated to a specific principle and marked by the lighting a new candle on the kinara, a seven-branched candelabra.

Where Christmas celebrates peace on Earth and good will toward all men, Kwanzaa celebrates individualism and race. For example, day five is about restoring “our people to their traditional greatness”, while day six calls each individual of African heritage “to believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.”

Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by Ronald McKinley Everett (born: July 14, 1941 in Maryland) who changed his name first to Ron Karenga, then to Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga. Five years later, Karenga was convicted of felony assault and false imprisonment. He was paroled in 1975 and still claims he was innocent of the charges and was actually a political prisoner.

One of the witnesses in the trial testified that Karenga and some other men stripped her and another woman, then whipped them with an electrical cord and beat them with a baton and toasters. She also testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in the other woman’s mouth and placed against her face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga’s estranged wife, Brenda Lorraine Karenga, testified that she sat on the other woman’s stomach while one of the men forced detergent and a running hose into her mouth.

Karenga has been awarded two doctorates, one in Political Science in 1976 and one in Social Ethics in 1994. He chairs the Africana Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach, and is the author of several books.

MITCH: Because China has sent him his marching orders.

NEW YORK STATE: On Dec. 28, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals sided 3-0 with the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, and the Orthodox Jewish group Agudath Israel in their lawsuit against Gov. Cuomo’s limitations on worshipers.

In the court’s ruling, Circuit Judge Michael Park said, “no public interest is served by maintaining an unconstitutional policy.” This is Cuomo’s third court loss on this issue.

NEW YORK CITY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vcajxb-this-happened-in-broad-daylight-in-bill-de-blasios-nyc.html [:14] to see what Bill de Blasio’s city has become.

OREGON: An Oregon salon owner has filed a $100,000 lawsuit against Gov. Kate Brown for damages she sustained due to extended closures, excessive fines, and other jackboot moves, including threatening to have CPS take her kids.

CLICK https://video.foxnews.com/v/6218721972001 [4:35] to see her on Fox News.

PERKINS COIE: They also have offices in Anchorage, Austin, Bellevue, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Madison, New York, Palo Alto, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Taipei, and Washington, D.C.

In addition, they have a special division based in Beijing and Shenzhen that is dedicated to protecting the non-patent intellectual property rights of their clients in the People’s Republic of China.

GRAMMY NOTES: This would backfire on me. When we were newlyweds, my husband loaded up his pickup truck to the brim with stuff to take to the dumps. He came back with even MORE stuff than he took. I did not understand before I married a New Englander that their dumps are part barbershop-like social gathering places and part Goodwill “take a penny leave a penny” places.

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Finally. It’s over.

BIDEN/HARRIS: I’m posting the following clips for those of you who haven’t managed to poke yourself in the eye with a fork yet today.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/whitehousebrief/videos/393454038747113 [6:42] (or not … I couldn’t take more than 2 min) to hear Biden thank everyone, but Trump, for the great effort to get the vaccination effort to where it is. But, of course, any shortfalls are all entirely the fault of Lazy Evil Orange Man. Meanwhile, the Politico and New York Post links below remind us what a mess then-VP Biden made when he was put in charge of the swine flu epidemic.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/whitehousebrief/videos/218575866481264 [3:08] (or not … I vote not) to see Kamala get vaccinated and tell everyone one else to do so too. In October, she said, “If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it, absolutely. But if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, I’m not taking it.”

CLICK https://rumble.com/vca0uf-msnbc-contributor-rages-over-president-trumps-operation-warp-speed.html [2:01] (or not) to hear an MSNBC “news” anchor slam Trump, then pander to Biden. Same ol’, same ol’.

I know we’re supposed to “love the sinner, hate the sin.” But I confess to finding it nearly impossible to see anything but the sin in these vile people. Clearly, we can only do it with God’s grace, something for which I hope we all pray for daily.

CALIFORNIA: If it weren’t for California, our nationwide numbers would be going down.

Democrat (we trust the science) Gov. Newsom says he wants the lockdown to continue for at least three more weeks.

I wonder how many signatures the Recall Newsom effort has so far. Two weeks ago, they were more than half way to the 1.5 million signatures needed to get on the ballot.

CHINA: A Chinese court has sentenced a citizen journalist to four years in prison for her reports on COVID-19 in Wuhan. She was convicted on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

I’m pretty sure that’s 1984 Newspeak for “fact checked for lacking context.”

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: Yet another Democrat has been outed as a fake minority. After a near-decade-long grift in pretending to be uninterested in fame while leveraging her marriage to a celebrity to get famous herself, Alec Baldwin’s current wife has admitted she is not actually an immigrant from Spain. She’s a white girl from Massachusetts.

DOJ vs. ZOOM: CLICK https://rumble.com/vc9gpd-doj-investigating-zoom-over-allegedly-sharing-u.s.-user-data-with-the-chine.html [3:40] to hear some scary news about China’s encroachment into our national sovereignty.

Why am I shocked to learn that Zoom’s CEO is Chinese? ::smh:: If Cho Biden becomes POTUS, the United States of America is done. Finished. How do you say “kaput” in Mandarin?

EDUCATION: If you’re educated, you recognize that ANTIFA is not fighting fascism.

GALLUP: Tell us again how Joe Biden somehow won millions more legal votes than Trump OR Obama …

GEORGIA: In a move stinking of zero integrity, a federal judge has blocked two Georgia counties from purging ineligible voters from their rolls in the run-up to the January Senate runoff election.

The judge, Leslie Abrams Gardner, is sister to spurned Georgia gubernatorial candidate and Democrat loudmouth Stacey Abrams. Gardner ignored calls to recuse herself from the case.

As a result of her vile abuse of power, 4,150 outdated voter registrations will be accepted as valid in the runoff election, despite the individuals having submitted change of address documentation with the Postal Service.

MARK LEVIN: Saying what we’re all thinking … “The only involvement Biden has had with these vaccines is to receive his dose before the rest of us. His press missives are cheap and pathetic, attention-seeking self-promotion about how he will nationalize industries to speed up production (actually, that would cause enormous dislocation and slowdowns); how he will speed up the process to ensure all Americans are vaccinated soon (this, from the guy who spent months insisting we were moving too fast). …

The fact is, President Trump made all of this possible, he has saved millions of lives in the U.S. and worldwide when this is said and done; and when it counted, Biden was wearing a mask, hiding in his basement, shooting spitballs at the president, and looking and sounding stupid all the time. That’s who the test-cheating, plagiarizing, lying, low-IQ, self-promoting Joe Biden is and will always be.”

MICHIGAN: [25:54] – An interview with one of the forensic analysts who examined the election machines in Antrim County, Michigan. The audit found that one of the servers was reporting tabulation results to CHINA. It also found evidence that ballots had been altered.

MILITARY: CLICK https://twitter.com/OutFrontCNN/status/1343732538230104066 [4:13] (or not … I quit after Vindman got introduced GAG) to hear CNN whine about how Orange Man Bad is trying to deny Our Bravo Men and Women their PAYCHECKS and drag old Alex the Liar Vindman out of obscurity to whine about how the military didn’t AFFIRM HIS FEELINGS after his traitorous testimony. Tweet comments were along the lines of “POS.“ I screen grabbed the kindest of them.

NASHVILLE: [12:51] – Body cam footage from police officer Michael Sipos, who was at the scene on the day of the explosion in the city that involved an RV. The explosion is at 3:54.

At the link is speculation with evidence suggesting the RV was not the source (or at least main source) of the blast, but rather a cover for explosives set inside the AT&T building itself.

It seems clear the AT&T data center was the target of this attack. It seems whoever attacked the data center WANTED to disrupt communications in the US. They also WANTED to do something to the NSA telephone recording and data collection abilities.

NEW YORK POST: There goes another news source I could trust – First, Rupert Murdoch sold his entertainment empire to politically correct Disney, which kowtows to Red China. Then, he turned the Wall Street Journal against the principles of Vermont C. Royster and his successor as editor, Robert Bartley. Then, he had Fox News capitulate.

Today, he surrendered his final voice of conservatism, the New York Post. As America fights to stop the steal of the 2020 presidential election, Murdoch ordered his Post to declare in an editorial, “Give it up, Mr. President — for your sake and the nation’s.” His front page featured the president with the all caps headline: STOP THE INSANITY.

TIKI BARS: CLICK https://rumble.com/vca109-mark-steyn-lampoons-bonkers-new-york-times-story-upset-about-tiki-bars.html [2:33] to hear Mark Steyn lampoon the New York Slime.

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VIDEO: [5:18] – In 1973, the Blessed Virgin Mary spoke to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa, a deaf convert from Buddhism, at her convent in Akita, Japan. As with all genuine Marian apparitions, Our Lady’s message was to make reparation for sin through prayer, penance and sacrifice. The statue was reported to have shed tears for 101 occasions which was witnessed by thousands of people. Sr. Agnes’ deafness was cured. She also received a stigmata in her hand and the same wound was later found in the hand of the wooden statue of our Lady in the convent.

VIDEO [1:18:32] – This May 2020 discussion is long, but very good and very well worth your time. He covers the material below, but goes into a lot of detail about how the Roman Catholic Church approaches investigations into events like this. If you’re not familiar with that process and wonder where Catholics get off believing Mary has appeared and given messages, I encourage you to listen.

After two investigations, Sr. Agnes’ bishop was still unsure if the events were miracles from God or natural/paranormal events. He was acquainted with Sr. Agnes and did not believe the events were due to mental illness or demonic influences. He said he needed to see some miracles before he could declare Our Lady of Akita worthy of veneration. Sr. Agnes’ total healing from deafness was one of these.

Teresa Chun Sun Ho was comatose and dying when she received a vision of Our Lady of Akita. Then, she woke up, completely cured. Even untrained eyes can see the astonishing difference in her brain x-rays.

In 1984, Bishop John Shojiro Ito of Niigata, Japan, in consultation with the Holy See, wrote a pastoral letter in which he recognized as being authentically of the Mother of God.

In 1988, the Vatican’s Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith approved the Akita events as “reliable and worthy of belief.” This man was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.

Sr. Agnes received three messages from Our Lady. The first, on June 6, 1973, was a call for prayer and sacrifice for the glory of the Father and salvation of souls. The second, on August 3, 1973, was for prayer, penance and courageous sacrifices to soften the Father’s anger.

The third message on October 13, 1973, the 100th anniversary of the final vision and Miracle of the Sun at Fatima was as follows:

As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead.

The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests.

The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.

The demon will rage especially against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them.”

In the Jimmy Akin video, he makes a case for his belief that the events of the third message (and Fatima) occurred in the second half of the 20th century and that the “terrible punishment” (nuclear war?) was averted by our prayers.

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ART: The main difference between this and the Vatican Nativity is that this is very successful at being a tongue-in-cheek meme while the Vatican Nativity is a total failure at being an uplifting and inspirational piece of major religious art.

CAPITALISM: Newly elected Democratic Congressman Jamaal Bowman said in an interview with The Root, “I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.”

COVID-19: CLICK https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/coronavirus-death-certificates-minnesota-inflated [17:25] to watch the video State Rep. Mary Franson and state Sen. Scott Jensen (M.D.) made about the false inflation of coronavirus deaths.

Their team reviewed 2,800 “death certificate data points” and found that about 800 of them did not have the virus as the underlying cause of death.

I have other examples where COVID isn’t the underlying cause of death, where we have a fall. Another example is we have a freshwater drowning. We have dementia. We have a stroke and multiorgan failure,” Franson said in the video.

She added that in one case, a person who was ejected from a car was “counted as a COVID death” because the virus was in his system.

GUNS: After taking a breather in the early years of the Donald Trump presidency, gun sales set a record this year. And it was marked by a sharp rise in first time gun buyers. There are now five million new gun owners, likely the largest surge in gun ownership in U.S. history.

ICE: The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency deported more than 185,000 illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2020 including more than 4,200 gang members.

I expect they’ll all turn around and come back if Biden gets installed.

MASSACHUSETTS: Gov. Charlie Baker is a pro-abortion Republican, but some things go too far even for him. He just vetoed a radical pro-abortion bill that sought to allow unborn babies to be aborted for basically any reason right up to birth, end parental consent for young girls seeking abortions, weaken the state’s anti-infanticide law, and allow non-doctors to abort unborn babies.

MCS: Multiple Chemical Sensitivities is a very real and often devastating disease. I know. I’ve had it for decades. Everything in the graphic falls under “Story of My Life.” I recently had to go to Motor Vehicles to get a photo ID non-driver’s license. The door monitor wanted Dearest to sit in the car, but I said, “I’m disabled. I need him.”

Since I can walk and talk BEFORE I get exposed to fragrances and other nasties that the rest of you barely notice, he rolled his eyes. I told him, “It’s an autoimmune disease. It doesn’t show.” I didn’t notice him on our way out, but I was kinda hoping he noticed me, cuz I was no longer walking or talking.

And I really had needed my main man, not just to get me out of the building and back to the car, but to finish up the transaction for me. I got trashed so fast that I couldn’t swipe my credit card or punch in my PIN or gather up all the paperwork and put my coat back on.

MEDIA MALPRACTICE: During the Sunday 11 am news hour, Fox featured the Naville press conference featuring the heroic police officers who evacuated people ahead of the Christmas bombing.

CNN featured five of their reporters bitching about how badly Trump has treated them.

NASHVILLE: The Nashville bomber has been identified as Anthony Quinn Warner. His DNA has been found at the site. A neighbor said, “If he did have any political beliefs he kept, that was something he kept to himself.”

Authorities say they don’t know what motivated him, but that his attempts to clear the area of people beforehand suggest his target may have been the AT&T building.

PORKULUS: On Sunday night, President Trump signed a $2.3 trillion federal spending and COVID relief bill, averting a government shutdown and ensuring millions of Americans continue to get unemployment benefits.

Despite his misgivings about wasteful spending and low stimulus payments in the bill, Trump said he signed the legislation because “I have an obligation to protect the people of our country“ from further economic devastation. He said, however, “more money is coming” as Congress votes this week on larger checks.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/Roxanne.Bloomer.Manbeck/posts/10224773309138981 [8:06] to hear Dan Bongino talk about it.

RESIST: From Steven Straub at The Federalist Papers – “If you think for one minute we Trump supporters are going to forget what has happened over the past five years you have to be completely out of your mind.

“For the last five years those of us who have supported President Trump have been, at various times, called deplorables, chumps, racists, white supremacists, Russian stooges, misogynists, homophobes, Islamaphobes, anti-Semites and the list goes on, and on.

“We have heard the media lie through their teeth about President Trump, his administration and Trump supporters day after day, night after night for the past five years.

“We have watched for years as our President was first called a racist, a misogynist, a white supremacist, a Russian plant and then back to white supremacist again. We then watched as our President was impeached for the most bogus reason possible, and even worse, for what Joe Biden and his son are actually guilty of.

“If those things were not bad enough, many of us have been literally physically attacked just for wearing a MAGA hat, or showing our support for the President.

“So if those celebrating what they believe is a Biden victory think we are now going to forget about what has happened over the past 5 years they are sadly mistaken.

“We are going to fight back with everything we have. The silent majority is going to be silent no longer.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Dearest was yelling about the dog’s parka, which had apparently grown legs and moved to some other county. I got sick of his drama and told him to pray about it. Next thing … “Oh wow! It’s right here next to our parkas.” God give me patience!

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BLUE BLOODS: It’s our favorite show – Donnie Wahlberg who plays Danny tweeted, “I found out that my TV Dad #TomSelleck has generously accepted the #2020TipChallenge at Elios Upper East Side! Love ya dad. I didn’t start it but I’m proud to be part of it. To those who gave even the smallest extra amount this year — THANK YOU.”

COVID-19: The Daily Mail reported, “Hospitals in Southern California are so overrun by COVID-19 cases that doctors are running low on supplies of oxygen, infected patients are forced to wait eight hours in ambulances before they can enter an emergency room, and intensive care units are fully booked with no more beds available.

Under Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, California has imposed the most draconian restrictions on American life since the days of King George III. He has closed churches and destroyed thousands of businesses. And it all failed.

Meanwhile, in places that never closed (like Sweden) or that opened up early (like Florida and Texas), life is mostly back to normal. Don Surber reminds us,

We fought an American revolution amid a smallpox epidemic that killed one-third of those infected. The story of Valley Forge was the American army holing up for the winter to acquire herd immunity. There were no alternatives.

The cost was very high. The death toll was enormous. Indeed, for every soldier killed in battle, 3 died from disease. But they soldiered on.

This virus kills 1 in 1,000 people infected.

It is well past time to soldier on, America.”

CLIMATE HUSTLE: Just what we needed right before Christmas … a story about a church that is NOT teaching Scripture.

I recently watched Climate Hustle 1 and 2. If you only want to watch one, I think 2 is better. This infiltration of the churches is discussed in 2.

As a Catholic, I was and am thoroughly dismayed that Pope Francis signed on to it. I heard that, while he was working on his encyclical, so-called “skeptics/deniers” attempted to see him. He refused.

IMO, his refusal to even LISTEN to the opposition eliminated his authority to tell me what’s true and I don’t care how many Cardinals stuck a crown his head.

COMMON SENSE: Dec 23, 2020 video by Rudy Giuliani [37:45] – He talks about the meaning of Christmas to Christians, to the United States, and to the current fight against election fraud.

He also talks about how NONE of the courts have look at any of the evidence of listened to a single witness. They’re just tossing cases on bs procedural grounds.

So far as I can see, corrupt and/or frightened judges have decided that NOBODY has “standing” to object to this election! Not the candidate who was cheated. Not the voters who were cheated. Not the states whose majority in the Senate is at risk.

FAUCI: What a fraud! – Dr. Fauci has been gradually moving the goal post about how many Americans would need to be vaccinated before we achieve herd immunity. First, he said 60-70 percent. Then, he said 70-75 percent. Then, it went up to 75 to 80-plus percent. And most recently, he said it had to be “close to 90 percent.”

Dr. Fauci blithely explained that polling, rather than science, informed his public pronouncements. “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent. Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85. … We really don’t know what the real number is.”

FLEEING CALIFORNIA: The Daily Wire, the conservative media outlet founded by Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, and Caleb Robinson, announced plans to move its headquarters from Los Angeles to Nashville.

HOPE: The Catholic Catechism says that Hope is one of the Theological Virtues which “are infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them capable of acting as his children and of meriting eternal life.

I believe that God always answers prayer and that while He may say “No” or “Not yet” to prayers for worldly gifts, he always answers “Yes” when asked for an increase in any virtue. Of course, our cooperation in His graces will magnify their action in us, just like practicing and studying magnify the action of the teachers who share their knowledge with us.

ISRAEL: Researchers from Tel Aviv University have proven that it can be killed in half a minute using LED-UV lights emitting a specific range of wavelengths.

Also, an Israeli fabric maker has developed an anti-viral mask coated in zinc oxide nanoparticles that destroy bacteria, fungi and viruses. Testing has shown that the Wuhan coronavirus is neutralized within 30 minutes and that the masks retain their protective properties throughout 55 wash cycles.

Sadly, customer reviews are not over the top, with complaints about mask sizes running small with women needing the men’s size, which means my big-faced hubby couldn’t wear one at all. Also, some complaints about poorly made masks falling apart and metal nose strips poking through.

They are also really expensive. You can order them from https://sonoviatech.com/product/large-sonomask-antiviral-reusable-adjustable-with-nose-wire/ for $45 each or go to Amazon where Sonovia is selling the same thing for $69 to which you can apply a $24 coupon that brings the price down to $45. Such a deal!

If I could get the material for DIY, I’d consider it, because Dearest goes out a lot and I’d prefer he and I didn’t get the plague.

LEFT vs. RIGHT: John Rivers writes, “Look, I’m not a political guy. Republican, Democrat, what’s the difference? On the one hand, you got the Republicans, who are mostly solid family men and loving mothers who work together to provide for their children and on the other hand, you got the Democrats, who are mostly communists and child molesters but, hey, who am I to judge?

MICHIGAN: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) is pursuing legal sanctions against lawyers who questioned the outcome of the November election.

Nessel, who has defended Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), said this week she is going to go after the attorneys who filed lawsuits alleging that some people voted illegally and that votes were also manipulated by Dominion Voting Systems.

MILITARY: Previously Navy Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt served as the Lincoln’s executive officer — another first for a woman — from 2016-2019. After leaving the Lincoln, Bauernschmidt served as the commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock USS San Diego, a command she left in October.

I am incredibly honored and humbled to be selected,” Bauernschmidt said in a statement. “I love leading sailors and I take that responsibility extremely seriously.”

NASHVILLE EXPLOSION: 12/25th presser [10:43] – Dawn on the second holiest day of the year. Authorities believe it was intentional. Pure evil. AND a testament to God’s glory that so far, only three people are known to have been injured. Police have found what they believe to be human remains in the vicinity, so that may change.

Interview with a survivor @ https://rumble.com/vc6sv5-nashville-explosion-the-most-incredible-explosion-ever.html [3:52]

On Saturday, the FBI’s Memphis SAC said, “There are a number of individuals that we’re looking at,” he added. “So, at this point, we’re not prepared to identify any single individual.” For the full 12/26 press briefing, CLICK https://www.theepochtimes.com/live-news-conference-on-investigation-of-nashville-vehicle-explosion_3633219.html.

NEW YORK: I’ve always thought of our congressman, Tom Reed, as one of the good guys. He was one of the first to formally support Trump’s candidacy, but it looks like he has sold out to the corruptocrats.

After siding with the corrupt Democrats on voter fraud, he’s now very upset with TRUMP for “blindsiding the GOP” by not supporting the horrible “covid relief” bill that would send borrowed money we can’t afford to failing blue states and FOREIGN NATIONS! I’m so disgusted.

OPERATION LEGEND: Worth watching [7:43] – Operation Legend, launched in July of this year, deployed agents from various federal agencies to assist local law enforcement in fighting violent crime.

The effort was named for LeGend Taliferro, a four-year-old who was killed by gunfire while sleeping in his bed in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Department of Justice says Operation Legend has resulted in over 6,000 arrests, removing violent criminals, domestic abusers, carjackers and drug traffickers from nine cities which were experiencing stubbornly high crime and took illegal firearms, illegal narcotics and illicit monies off the streets.

Of those 6,000 arrested, 1,500 have been charged with federal offenses, and 500 were charged with homicide.

PORKULUS: I can’t STAND how far in debt we are, but they keep voting for more and more! IMO, if a person is in debt, then any extra money they have belongs to their creditors. Debtors should do their charity by volunteering time and/or giving away stuff they don’t need anymore. But until those debts are cleared, they’ve got no right to donate money to charities, because it isn’t THEIRS. So why are we doing it as a nation?!

SEX EDUCATION: CLICK https://fb.watch/2DHP5grLKz/ [6:04] to see Glenn Beck’s update on Amy, the brave teacher in Oklahoma, who wrote a personal letter to nearly 90 parents of students in her class. She wanted to warn them about upcoming curriculum she felt could be dangerous to the students — lessons that were not about sex education, but about sex indoctrination. It’s inspiring, so don’t skip it!

SUCKY NEWS: I’m thinking it would be better for all of us to spend the time in prayer instead of reading and sharing all the details of how our once great nation is circling the drain.

TEXAS: Notice anything strange about these?

VICTORY: On Wednesday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Paul B. Wojtaszek has ruled that the state’s 25% capacity limit on businesses is unconstitutional. Video [2:04] report @ link below.

Senior Advisor to Governor Cuomo Rich Azzopardi said the lawsuit was based on “crackpot logic.”

GRAMMY NEWS: We did a lot of zooming for Christmas. It was SO fun to watch the grands open up our gifts in real time!

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ABORTION: LONG before there was more than one Christian church, it was defined doctrine that Jesus was fully human and fully divine from the moment of conception. He was like us in all things but sin. Ergo, we are all fully human from the first moment of conception. Abortion is murder.

BIDEN: Joe Biden, who had difficulty having anyone come to any of his events, is reportedly very upset that Twitter is wiping out all of Trump’s followers before turning over the @POTUS (33 million Trump followers) and @WhiteHouse (26 million Trump followers). Many Trump followers said it didn’t much matter, since they planned to unfollow anyway.

COVID-19: The CDC says that, as of Wednesday afternoon, 1,008,025 people in the U.S. have received a COVID-19 vaccination. More than 9.4 million doses have been shipped across the country.

The FDA investigating “about five” severe anaphylactic allergic reactions to the Pfizer vaccine. The reactions may have been triggered by  polyethylene glycol (PEG), a compound in both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CHD chairman and chief legal counsel, said: “As we told the FDA in September, studies show that one in seven Americans may unknowingly be at risk of experiencing an allergic reaction to PEG.”

“At the very least, everyone should be screened for anti-PEG antibodies before getting the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines,” Kennedy said. “It is unconscionable that instead, the FDA and CDC are encouraging people to go ahead and risk a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction and just assume that someone will be on hand to save them.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Bunny’s viola teacher has been having them pluck and learn the basics. She has been feeling a little lackluster about her lessons lately. Here was her reaction when her teacher told the kids to get out their bows. “YES!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!”

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Blessed Christmas to You and Yours

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/514936477/videos/10157945462566478/ [2:05]

Grab a tissue!

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