DAILY PRAYER: Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen.
AI: Helpful advice for discerning what is real. [2:40] – I actually dismissed the bunnies as AI the first time I saw them, but only because we get to watch real bunnies in our back yard regularly. Only one and sometimes two come in the evening, before dark, to roll around in our sand pit and eat the clover etc. in our never-sprayed lawn. They tend to stay near the bushes and stop what they’re doing often to check their surroundings, because they’re prey. The idea that a whole herd of them would cavort, together, and after dark seemed absurd.
BOASBERG: [8:02] – The August 8, 2025 mandamus order issued against Judge James E. Boasberg by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated his criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration.
KAMALA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7o8zH2yC_Wk to hear Teamsters’ boss, Sean O’Brien, tell Tucker Carlson how Kamala Harris treated union members. There is a longer clip embedded at the Daily Mail link below.
WAR ON DRUGS: [28:49] – Fentanyl is an extremely potent synthetic opioid similar to morphine, but more powerful. It is a prescription drug but is also manufactured illegally and is sometimes mixed with other illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine, often without the user’s knowledge. The potency of fentanyl makes it very addictive and puts users at a high risk for overdose.
Illegally manufactured fentanyl has become more prevalent in the United States in recent years, leading to a huge increase in drug overdose deaths. Fentanyl overdoses are now the driving force behind the opioid epidemic, accounting for the majority of overdose deaths in the United States. In 2023, around 72,776 people in the United States died from a drug overdose that involved fentanyl.
Join me on the spooky journey my scrapbook paper has taken through space and time. The tale begins on Saturday, August 2, 2025, when I ordered 13 sheets of 12”x12” scrapbook paper.
The website, Scrapbook.com, which is located in Gilbert, Arizona, processed the order and sent me a confirmation email. On Monday morning, the human staff fulfilled the order and sent me a tracking number. On Monday afternoon, the Gilbert post office logged my package in, so … so far, so good.
From here, my package took its first detour through the Twilight Zone, making the trip from Gilbert to Phoenix in minus one hour and fifteen minutes. Gilbert is 20 miles from Phoenix and they are, in fact, in the same time zone.
Twilight Zone Detour #2. My package departed from the Phoenix, AZ Distribution Center (a major hub in the western U.S.) in a timely fashion, then traveled east for two days, passing through two unnamed sorting centers, only to inexplicably arrive at Warrendale, PA, Distribution Center. Warrendale is a key hub for Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. My hub is in Syracuse, NY.
Oh happy day! Somebody in Warrendale tossed my highly anticipated scrapbook papers on to the correct conveyor belt and it finally arrived in Syracuse on Thursday morning! Usually, this means it will be in my mail box the next day!
But nooooo … the Twilight Zone isn’t done with me yet. In the wee hours of Friday morning, my little package was marked as “in transit” to the next facility … two hours before it left Syracuse!
It was next logged in at the Cortland, NY, post office, having apparently traveled there at Warp 2, since just the driving time from Syracuse to Cortland is about 40 minutes. Don’t they have to scan packages before they’re loaded and depart and then again after they arrive and are unloaded?
Cortland is not a distribution center, but rather the primary facility for mail delivery to Cortland addresses. I do not live in Cortland, but hey ho, somebody notices and, an hour later, my scrapbook paper arrives at my very own Dryden Post Office! Hurrah! … Oh wait … two minutes later, it is “processing” at the HOMER post office. Maybe I should have ordered 12 pieces of scrapbook paper. Or 14. Anything but 13!
Having never been logged out of or marked as “in transit” between Cortland, then Dryden, then Homer, my package enters its next trip through the Twilight Zone, appearing 26 hours later at the Northwest Rochester NY Distribution Center. Rochester handles mail for Western New York. My distribution center is Syracuse, guys. Syracuse. Not Rochester. Not Warrendale flipping Pennsylvania. SYRACUSE. Sigh.
As I write this (10:03 am, Sunday, August 10), the tracking page tells me my scrapbook papers are back in Syracuse again, after yet another rapid early morning transit time. Grok says the route via New York State Thruway (I-90 East) is approximately 80-90 miles and typically takes about 1.5 to 2 hours under normal conditions. Grok also says that, as I suspected, scanning happens before packages are loaded and after they are unloaded … not when trucks actually depart or arrive.
Tune in again next time to find out what happens! Will my little package of scrapbook papers take yet another trip through the Twilight Zone? Or will it arrive on Monday in my mail box? Will it be mangled from too much handling? Will the paper patterns be distorted by time travel? Can I endure the suspense?
UPDATE: My package arrived!
The USPS beat up the box, but thanks to Scrapbook.com’s excellent packaging, the papers inside are in perfect condition. ❤
Come, Holy Spirit. Replace the fear within us with holy faith. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
AI: CLICK https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1952543179699609888 [:25] to see former CNN host Jim Acosta “interview” an AI gravatar of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver. The AI was actually created by Oliver’s parents who, last year, had their AI dead son call members of Congress to demand they ban guns. Is it just me or is this way beyond creepy?
BIDEN: [4:29] – Anita Dunn, former senior adviser to Biden for communications, says Biden’s inner circle believed allowing him to take a cognitive test offered no political benefit. Duh. They keep talking about “cognitive decline.” From what I heard, Biden’s cancer is slow to progress, so likely he has had it for as much as ten years. Moreover, the drug(s) used to treat it are known to cause clumsiness and mental confusion, both of which we saw during the 2020 campaign. My feeling is that the cover-up began as soon as he was diagnosed, whenever that was.
DEMOCRATS: According to the NY Post, “people with direct knowledge of the matter” say the Biden administration’s banking regulators and the Federal Reserve pressured JPMorgan and Bank of America to debank President Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol Hill melee.
Back in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that Biden administration officials would demand Facebook remove certain content and, when Facebook refused, would “call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse.“
FRANKFURTERS IN AMERICA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1292604115558224 to hear Dr. Ben Carson give examples of how the ideas developed at the Frankfurt School in the 1930s had made major inroads into American culture by the 1960s.
HEALTH: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHbBESSdFvc to hear how many millions have been defrauding us to get free health care. In better news, twelve states now ban the use of SNAP (food stamps) to buy junk food. They include Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas , Utah, and West Virginia.
TRUMP-ONOMICS: [7:46] – Key takeaways from the video:
During the last two years of the Biden administration, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) overestimated new job creation by 1.5 million jobs. Political con job or incompetence?
From January to June, 2025, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $1,174.
During Trump’s first term, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $6,400.
During Biden’s first term, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $551.
When Trump’s and Biden’s first term income numbers are broken down by income level, every income group did better under Trump, while under Biden, only the rich got richer; everyone else got poorer.
Also, I asked Grok about the document and dark blue curtains on the wall. You can read about it at the Irish Star link below.
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill cut off taxpayer funding for just one year. It’s already started shutting down. The shutdown will not immediately end PBS or NPR’s national programming, as both have alternative funding sources and have pledged to continue. We shall see how that works out.
SQUATTERS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1080990427440645 to see farmers spray manure to remove squatters from their fields. This is likely from one of two locations in France from last month, after farmers got no support from law enforcement for their rights to use their land to grow food.
TEXAS: The Democrats’ silly soap opera continues. I have zero sympathy for their “cause.” Anybody else would’ve been FIRED by now!
TRANSPORTATION: Remember when Mayor Pete was Biden’s guy? Remember how he refused to upgrade air traffic control systems? Remember how he spent million$ on EV stations that have yet to be built? Remember how he pretended he rode his bike to work, then switched to an SUV as soon as the reporters left? Let’s see how Trump’s guy is doing …
So many of the stories at Not the Bee today highlight the success of Frankfurt School’s agenda that I decided to make them a separate post.
Earlier this week, police identified and arrested the man who stabbed a Montana husband and wife who were hiking with their daughters on an Arkansas trail. The perp is a school teacher who apparently had no motive for the crime.
CLICK https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1951599974862426229 [:40] to see a clip of an emaciated, tattooed, black, lesbian female sing the part of Jesus Christ while wearing a zombie costume. @MartyMcflizy commented, “Post a jeans commercial and all hell breaks loose. Blatantly mock an entire religion and it’s completely fine.”
A Christian was gunned down in front of his wife and child outside Pursuit Seattle Church. In May, after the same church was attacked by dozens of Antifa and Trantifa activists, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell released a statement basically saying the “extreme right” Christians were asking for it.
One of the goals of the Frankfurters was to destroy marriage and family. Their infiltration of American education was obvious by the 1960s. You can easily see here how successful their efforts have been.
Meet Reverend Roger Haenke (60). Haenke was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on June 1, 1991. After several years in parish ministry, he quit to get a B.S. in Nursing, after which he worked as pediatric nurse, then as an administrator, nursing director, and nursing instructor until he retired. In 2017, he married Cliff Berkowitz and was received as an Episcopal priest in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. He is now rector at St. John’s in Chula Vista, California, where he enjoys hooking up with 14- and 15-year-old boys on the on the gay dating app, Grindr. On August 1, 2025, the group People v. Preds outed him. The church has put him on suspension and the matter is reportedly under investigation by law enforcement.
This gigantic statue of the Hindu god Ram was recently erected in Mississauga, Canada. As of 2021, there were 828,000 Hindus in Canada.
Last month, Theory and Society published a study entitled “Lying Increases Trust in Science.”
After HHS Sec Kennedy revealed that hospitals have been harvesting organs from people who aren’t actually dead, The New York Slime published a guest essay by three doctors bemoaning the shortage of organs. Their solution is to redefine what “death” means.
CLICK https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1952738682470895669 [1:34] to hear a history teacher explain why the way the Quechua practiced child sacrifice wasn’t all that bad, so stop being so judgy, Westerners with silly Judaeo-Christian values.
CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1951123729733525648 [:37] to see a clip of the oh-so-serious funeral for chickens at Trader Joe’s. One commenter noted, “They can hold a funeral in the meat aisle, but pro-life advocates can’t hold up signs of dead babies in front of Planned Parenthood? SMH.” Really. Personally, I think Purdue honored their lives by giving them lives. Chickens can’t live in the wild.
As of September 1, law-abiding citizens of Victoria, Australia, who do not have a government-approved permit to own a machete for farm work will be subject to a 2 year prison sentence and/or fine of $47,000. Australia banned guns; now they’re taking the knives. Welcome to the Brave New World where only the government and criminals (if they’re not even the same people) have the right to protect themselves from the government and criminals.
CLICK https://x.com/RGreggKeller/status/1951636282909638821 [1:52] to see Gregg Keller get kicked out of a St. Louis stadium for wearing a MAGA hat. According to the security guards, political paraphernalia are strictly prohibited. Meanwhile, “pride” and “trans” flags are flying, unmolested. In a later tweet, Keller says the DOJ is looking into it.
In St. Paul, Minnesota, a Somali immigrant abducted a 12-year-old girl who was playing in her backyard, shoved her into his car, and raped her. The liberal judge gave him the lightest possible sentence because he is allegedly “devoted family man … starting over in a new culture.” @MagaMattforever correctly notes they’re basically admitting that raping young girls is a normal and expected behavior among Muslim men in Somalia.
So far as I know, the Frankfurters didn’t specifically mention promoting culinary abominations, but I’m in favor of blaming them for this gag-inducing idea. Recipe: Acai sorbet, apple juice, strawberries, raspberries, Heinz Simply Ketchup, and ice.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please grant each of us a deep and abiding love for prayer, both private and communal. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BLACK DEATH: [8:04] – Learn how scientists discovered the original source of the deadly bacterium and how it made its way to Europe in the Middle Ages.
D.C.: [10:06] – This is exactly what the Frankfurt School wanted.
FEMINISM AGAINST PROGRESS: The link is cued up to begin at the speech itself, so you don’t have to sit through introductions etc. [1:28:25] – Mary Harrington, author of Feminism Against Progress, describes herself as a “reactionary feminist.” She argues that the pursuit of progress has, in many ways, undermined the well-being of the majority of women, creating new forms of dependence and inequality.
This talk is long, but worth your time. (If you prefer to read, click the transcript button below the video.) As I listen to it, I am struck by how much of what she describes is what the Frankfurt School promoted. And she does it standing in front of a supremely chaotic and ugly mural, something the Frankfurters would be applauding … if they weren’t all (likely) burning in Hell.
Her summary line is this: “As we stare down the monster of money and technology and ‘no truth, only power,’ Christian theology really is the only place left to stand. … There’s no other body of thought that can make the case for human nature as creatures of both flesh and spirit, capable of directing our purpose beyond the mere pursuit of food, sex, money, and status power.”
MEDIA: [4:35] – “It’s like trying to understand nature by going to the zoo.”
Gov. Newsom just tried to claim that Republicans were the true gerrymanderers by listing 12 states with no Democrat seats.
This list is totally bogus. These are all low-population, deep red states whose 30 total seats are only 7% of the entire House.
Gerrymandering is literally impossible in these states, because their borders are the districts’ borders. As for the rest of the states Newsom named, do you see how any of them could be gerrymandered to give Democrats even one seat?
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us all become “old ladies” who hold up the world in prayer. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AOC: The Ethics Committee has fined AOC $3,000 for listing her partner/fiancé as her “spouse” on some documents so as to obtain certain benefits, while listing him as her “partner” on others so as to protect him from financial disclosure laws. Hmm … I wonder if those pesky financial disclosure laws are the reason for their absurdly long engagement.
They had been living together for years before Riley Roberts finally put a rock on AOC’s ring finger in April 2022. She stopped wearing said rock about 18 months later and there has been no talk of a wedding date ever since. As Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon noted, by not being legally married to AOC, Roberts “has been exempt from publicly disclosing his assets, stock trades, and his places of employment as a part of Ocasio-Cortez’s annual financial disclosure reports.”
BABYLON BEE: “How is that even possible?!” one Secret Service agent was heard gasping. “I’ve heard stories about how President Trump can do things no other mortal man can do, but I don’t know if I really believed it… until now. He just… walked. On a moderately sloped roof. Just like it was nothing. We couldn’t believe our eyes.”
CALIFORNICATION: In the 2024 presidential election, Trump won 38.3% of the votes in California. Yet, because of racial minority bias in districting, only 17% of Cali’s congressional representatives are Republicans.
In response to Texas Gov. Abbott’s proposal to redistrict his state in a way that would likely flip five D to R, California’s Gov. Newsom wants to gerrymander his state’s districts in a way that would likely flip five of those R seats to D.
Newsom’s plan faces considerable opposition, since it would require bypassing California’s independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which was established by voters in 2008 and 2010. Initially, this commission flipped seats in favor of Democrats, likely by replacing political bias with a minority racial bias. But SCOTUS is very likely going to declare racial minority biasing in congressional districting unconstitutional.
JEANS ARE NOT GENES: Click the link below to read about how historians have uncovered a blue jeans ad featuring Adolf Hitler from 1942. “Hitler has good jeans,” declared the newly-unearthed advertisement, a clarion call for the violent establishment of a dominant Aryan race.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CfVoFPCsvMo to hear how Nick Freitas solved his issues with American Eagle. I think he totally gets it. American Eagle is just using sex to make money … something entrepreneurs have been doing since long before Jesus was a baby.
MASSACHUSETTS: CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1952702047670685989 [3:09] to hear how the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, which trains more than 20,000 police officers across the commonwealth, uses the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Map in its training materials. Moms for Liberty, which advocates against left-wing politics being pushed in schools, is listed along side ANTIFA and a host of KKK groups.
In 2024, the SPLC documented 1,371 hate and antigovernment extremist groups, including 595 hate groups and 835 antigovernment groups. At one time, Dr. Ben Carson was listed on the map, which should tell you all you need to know about where on the political spectrum SPLC sits.
RUSSIAGATE: AG Bondi has ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury regarding allegations of misconduct in the 2016 Russia! Russia! Russia! Collusion hoax. The grand jury will hear the evidence and consider criminal charges against former Obama administration officials.
WOMEN’S SPORTS: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is updating visa policies to prevent trans athletes from coming here to steal trophies from real women.
GRAMMY NOTES: I love Catholic culture! 🙂 Mama Buzz just emailed this to me – “[Bootz] has had head and body aches lately too (he’s definitely been growing) and it’s been a good opportunity to remind him to offer it up in prayer. I told him that it might not go away but it can have a purpose and knowing that helps me sometimes to just be able to deal with it. Also I told him that sometimes mine start with a whine about my pain, but then I’m like, “Okay, fine,” and I remember to offer it up, lol!”
The current political divide is not Donald Trump’s fault; indeed, he only ran for president because of the dangers he saw it posed to our nation’s survival. In some ways, the roots of this issue actually go back to the Garden of Eden. But more recently, we can trace them to specific people and ideas. Below is a brief run down of what I have learned over the years. I’m sure there’s more and would welcome anyone who can add to our knowledge and wisdom on this (and any other) topic.
In the early 1990s, Michael Minnicino wrote an article entitled The Frankfurt School and “Political Correctness” (link below) in which he traced the roots of what he called “the new Dark Age.” He wrote that our current state was “consciously fostered and organized.” He posited that “either we create a Renaissance—a rebirth of the fundamental principles upon which civilization originated—or, our civilization dies.”
Minnicino identified the “single, most important organizational component of this conspiracy” as having been a Communist thinktank known as the Frankfurt School whose members were desperately disappointed that the glorious Bolshevik Revolution in Russia had not inspired the proletariat of other European countries to rise up and overthrow their own governments.
One of the members – Georg Lukacs (photo above) – wrote, “Who will save us from Western civilization?” A hundred years ago, Lukacs promoted sex education in the schools, easy access to contraception, and loose divorce laws. So did Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. So do the majority of the leaders and members of today’s Democratic Party.
Lukacs believed that what kept the West from embracing Communism was their Judeo-Christian belief in the uniqueness and sacredness of the individual and in the possibility of enjoying an unmediated relationship with the Divine. From Lukascz’ (and Satan’s) point of view, no society infused with such beliefs could ever “reach the state of hopelessness and alienation which Lukacs recognized as the necessary prerequisite for socialist revolution.”
Lukacs and the other denizens of the Frankfurt School sought to identify the means by which the Judaeo-Christian cultural matrix could be replaced with a demonic world view. They sought cultural forms that would alienate people from truth and goodness. In modern art, literature, and music, they promoted ugliness, pessimism, and discord. Brecht, for example attempted to write his plays so as to make the audience leave the theater demoralized and aimlessly angry.
The Frankfurt School saw the new technologies of radio, film, and recorded music as golden opportunities to exert control over society’s cultural matrix. They sought to do this, in part, by substituting art with entertainment. In 1937, the Rockefeller Foundation (a supporter of the Frankfurt School) began funding research into the social effects of new forms of mass media, particularly radio, basing its headquarters at Princeton University. The director of the “Radio Project” was a Marxist named Paul Lazersfeld.
Under Lazersfeld was Frank Stanton, who one day would become president of the CBS News Division, and ultimately president of CBS. Stanton also became Chairman of the Board of the RAND Corporation and a member of President Lyndon Johnson’s “kitchen cabinet.” Another member of the Rockefeller Foundations’ radio research was Herta Herzog, who married Lazersfeld and became the first director of research for the Voice of America, which functioned from 1942 until Trump shut them down in March of this year.
The efforts of the Radio Project conspirators to manipulate the population spawned the modern pseudoscience of public opinion polling. Another member of the Radio Project was Hazel Gaudet, who became one of the nation’s leading political pollsters. In 1966, Gaudet organized the first meetings of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Nevada in her own living room. In 1970, she was elected Nevada’s representative on ACLU’s national board.
The major pollsters of today—A.C. Neilsen, George Gallup, Elmo Roper—started in the mid-1930’s and, by 1936, had become sufficiently widespread to justify a trade association, the American Academy of Public Opinion Research, which was located at Princeton and headed by Paul Lazersfeld. In 1940, the Office of Radio Research was turned into the Bureau of Applied Social Research, a division of Columbia University, also headed by Paul Lazersfeld. In fact, the entire development of television and advertising in the 1950’s and 1960’s was pioneered by men and women who were trained in the Frankfurt School’s techniques of mass alienation. Their techniques would eventually control American political campaigning.
The Frankfurt School also made major inroads in American academia. In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of baby boomers were exposed to the Frankfurt School’s poison, either directly or indirectly, when they attended college. It is no coincidence that this is also when student rebellions, widespread drug use, and the sexual revolution began.
By the 1990s, the ideas hatched at the Frankfurt School dominated the universities where students were taught to replace reason with political correctness. More recently, the cancel culture’s tolerance for all things left and intolerance for all things right have permeated our entire society. It is worth noting that Saul Alinsky and his protegé, Barack Obama, are both acolytes of the Frankfurt School.
Thirty-three years ago, Minnicino wrote that our only way out was “to discard the evil, and inhuman, and just plain stupid, and to go back, hundreds or thousands of years, to the ideas which allow humanity to grow in freedom and goodness.” I think it is clear that we are not embroiled in some new and different socio-political battle; rather, we are in the midst of what is likely the end of the ages old spiritual battle that began in the Garden of Eden. Obviously, the only way out is found in the Bible.
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