by | November 6, 2020 · 9:21 pm

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2020: We aren’t done. This is not a political or legal fight. It’s a SPIRITUAL one. We only get one vote each, but we can say as many prayers as we want! And we have JESUS on our side, so hit your knees, Patriots!

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/aklavan/videos/1102880920232694 [16:44] to hear Trump’s presser about the results so far. His main theme = “It doesn’t matter who wins, as long as it is the people who decided it, not cheaters stealing it.” Reporters = “Are you being a sore loser?”

Lord Jesus, This is YOUR nation. Save us from Satan’s force on the Left who lie, cheat, steal, destroy, and even kill to get power away from Americans who love You. Amen.

ABORTION: Planned Parenthood has dropped its court challenge of three pro-woman Arizona laws, including a 24-hour waiting period that ensures women are not rushed into an abortion, a requirement that abortions be performed by licensed physicians and another requiring that abortion drugs be provided during an in-person visit rather than through telemedicine. PP didn’t give a reason, but some of its own lawyers admitted that courts have upheld similar pro-life laws in the past, so it’s likely they decided not to waste time and money on a lost cause.

ARIZONA: On Thursday afternoon, Maricopa County absentee ballot counting had reduced Biden’s lead, but it’s gonna be a squeaker. PRAYERS!!!

NEVADA: This is one of the states that decided to mail ballots to all registered voters this year. Before the primaries in Clark County, Nevada, which covers the Las Vegas metro area, more than 223,000 mail ballots bounced due to old or wrong addresses.

PILF, a right-leaning election watchdog, also found that some Nevada voters registered at commercial addresses, which the state doesn’t allow. When a PILF investigator visited some of the addresses, he found no sign of the voters actually living there. One address was an empty lot.

And now at least one voter says she went to the ballot, but was not allowed to vote, because she was down as having already voted. But she says she hadn’t.

The Trump campaign is suing, alleging that votes were cast for both the deceased and non-residents in Nevada and that the campaign wasn’t allowed to inspect the ballot verification.

Adam Laxalt, former Nevada Attorney General and co-chairman of Trump’s campaign in Nevada says, “We were told that signatures would save us from all fraud. But to date, we still have not been able to observe these signatures or meaningfully challenge a single mail-in ballot out of hundreds of thousands of casts. We firmly believe that there are many voters in this group of mail-in people that are not proper voters.”

NORTH CAROLINA: Final election results from North Carolina won’t be available for another week because the state has decided that ballots postmarked by Election Day can be counted, provided they’re received by election officials by Nov. 12. This decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.

OREGON: Portland – Rioting has been going on in Portland for six months. During all that time, the state’s Democratic Governor Kate Brown refused to allow the National Guard to come in. The protesters have been arrested again and again, only to walk free because the Progressive District Attorney refuses to prosecute them.

The day after the election, Antifa organized a “March of Terror”, during which they vandalized businesses, smashed windows, and desecrated a Catholic church. The governor called in the National Guard for the first time.

PENNSYLVANIA: After a Pennsylvania court denied Republicans a right to watch ballot counts, the state’s appellate court overturned the ruling. Effective immediately, “all candidates, watchers, or candidate representatives be permitted to be present for the canvassing process … and be permitted to observe all aspects of the canvassing process within 6 feet.”

Republicans in Philadelphia say the Democrats are still cheating. Trump campaign associate Pam Bondi told reporters outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Thursday afternoon that the election officials inside have moved the barricade within 6 feet of the counting area, as required by the judge’s order.

Then they moved all the counting machines to the back of the building where they cannot be seen!

“They are still not in compliance,” Bondi said. “It’s unbelievable what they are trying to do to our votes that have been legally cast. They will not let us see anything. Now, we’re going to take further remedy to fix this.”

If they had nothing to hide, then they wouldn’t be doing this!

PENNSYLVANIA: The Supreme Court has ordered Pennsylvania Democrats to respond by Thursday evening in a case challenging the state’s three-day extension for counting mail-in ballots.

The extension was mandated by the state’s Democratic Party and Secretary of State, despite that the state legislature setting the deadline as Election Day.

The lawsuit takes issue with a state Supreme Court ruling that postmarked ballots be presumed to have been mailed before Nov. 3, even if not clearly postmarked to that effect.

PROJECT VERITAS: In an earlier Bits & Bytes, I posted a Project Veritas undercover video showing a woman in San Antonio working as a “ballot chaser.” As I recall, she admitted to committing at least 3 felonies hundreds of times on behalf of a Democrat candidate. (Gee, why is it always Democrats who have to cheat to win?)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says his election fraud unit is investigating. “What’s shown in the video is shocking and should alarm all Texans who care about election integrity. We are aggressively investigating the serious allegations and potential crimes that Project Veritas’s documentary audio and video recordings shed light on today.”

SHARPIES: A lot of voters were upset by FAKE NEWS regarding the use of Sharpies on ballots. They were provided with the pens at voting centers, but heard later that the bleed through to the reverse side would invalidate their ballots.

I heard this yesterday and was a teensy bit concerned, because I had used my President Trump Sharpie (his signature is on the side in gold) for my Absentee Ballot. But it didn’t make sense to me that the back of the ballot would matter. Since when do scanners look at the BACK of anything?

So I asked Dearest, who works the polls here in New York. He says he’s pretty sure there’s no up or down for these scanners. You can feed your ballot in either way. In that case, marks on the back are concerning. But it also makes sense of the Maricopa County Board of Elections statement that “the offset columns on ballots ensure that any bleed-through will not impact your vote.” IOW, the scanner isn’t going to see bleed through marks, because they won’t line up with the columns they’re programmed to scan.

As for Sharpies being provided at polling places, Maricopa says the pens “are recommended by the manufacturer of the new vote tabulation equipment because they provide the fastest-drying ink.” That makes sense also. Wet ink on a ballot will glop up the scanner, which would be bad.

VOTING: In Mexico, they instituted a voter ID system that is far, far beyond what Democrats tell us is a racist attempt to suppress the vote. They have to go to the election office with proof of citizenship, register, and have their face photographed and thumb printed. Two weeks later, they have to go back to pick up the card in person. After they put this system into place, voter participation increased 15%, because Mexicans finally felt like their votes were being fairly counted.

WISCONSIN: Trump was leading, then suddenly a surprise ballot dump of all Biden votes came in.

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by | November 6, 2020 · 7:53 am

A ballad of political unity

From The Babylon Bee.

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by | November 5, 2020 · 3:05 pm

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It is tempting to succumb to fear and depression over the election mess. But that is SATAN talking!
We only get one vote each, but we can PRAY as much as we want. And we have JESUS on our side, so hit your knees, Patriots!

2020: The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia. The new filings join existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada.

BIDEN CORRUPTION: The Biden Cancer Initiative (BCI) is one of several non-profits former Vice President Biden created following his tenure in the White House. Despite it’s noble-sounding mandate, financial records show it is little more than a money laundering operation.

Tax forms from 2017 and 2018 show it raised and spent $4.8 million over its two years in operation. Slightly more than $3 million of that amount went to salaries, compensation, and benefits, while $1.7 million went to other expenses and $740,000 went into conferences, conventions, and meetings.

It did not cut a single grant to any other group or foundation … not for cancer research … not to help families devastated by the disease … not even to one of those Make A Wish groups that give dying kids the thing they want most before they go.

Nope. It ALL went into their own pockets or else into providing perks for themselves. Joe Biden’s son Beau DIED of cancer. Somehow that makes it seem even worse than it would otherwise.

NOTE: The All Seeing Algorithms wouldn’t let me post this at Facebook with the URLs to the sources (below). Said it was spam. So maybe it is. Or maybe it is just one more story the Left is squashing.

CALIFORNIA: Bossy Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has been dethroned by a Superior Court judge who reminded him on Monday that he’s not a king, but a servant of the people – people who elected a legislature to make laws. He is been permanently barred from issuing further unconstitutional orders.

COVID-19: Democrats have been vehement about the need for a national mask mandate and claim Trump’s failure to enforce such a thing has led to countless deaths. They claim the SCIENCE backs up their assertions, but they are lying. Multiple studies show that face coverings provide little to no benefit.

For example, a study published in the highly respected New England Journal of Medicine concluded that “Wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”

Furthermore, the graphs shown above demonstrate that mask mandates, even in highly compliant populations, are ineffective at controlling the spread of respiratory disease. Similar graphs from U.S. states appear at The Federalist link below.

HIGHER EDUCATION: CLICK https://fb.watch/1xBDU-TGGk/ [9:04] to hear Gina’s story of discovering truth and reclaiming her freedom. This is excellent! “Higher education kind of destroyed me.” Gina Florio graduated Harvard University as an angry atheist taught to hate America. So much so that she abandoned her birth country for Australia. When a freak accident sent her back to the U.S., a video by Candace Owens, then others by Dave Rubin and PragerU, opened her eyes to the lies she had been believing all of those terrible years.

MEDIA MALPRACTICE: Dan Bongino played a wonderful media slime montage on his Nov 3d show. It starts at about 60 minutes. After that, he has a supercut from election night in 2016. ::snork:: He broadcasts on Rumble now, which doesn’t embed here, but it plays well at this link.

NEW YORK: Our gracious master, His Lordship King Cuomo, hath decreed that people who visit New York will have to quarantine for three days and then prove they are negative for COVID-19 before they are “free to go about their business.”

NEW YORK SLIME: According to the Constitution, the media has no role in calling elections. The actual process is described in this article.

PATRIOTIC EDUCATION: President Trump signed as Executive Order to put the true history of our founding back into school curricula. Of course, if he loses, Biden (or more likely Kamala) will ignore it.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: On Wednesday, SCOTUS heard oral arguments in the first religious liberty case since ACB’s confirmation. The case involves the city of Philadelphia ending a contract with Catholic Social Services, because the religion-based adoption agency does not place children with same-sex couples. The city claims this is a violation of its anti-discrimination rule. CSS says it’s sincere religious expression and thus protected under the Constitution.

THE NETHERLANDS: As if 2020 hasn’t been weird enough already …

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by | November 4, 2020 · 9:38 pm

The Day After

KEEP PRAYING: We cast our votes, but we are NOT DONE. This is not a political or a legal battle. This is a SPIRITUAL battle and we have ALL the authority and ALL the power we need in Jesus Christ through PRAYER. We all need to pull up our socks, get on our knees, and FIGHT for what we know is right.

OVERVIEW

CONGRESS: No big change here – We lost two seats in the Senate, but picked up one and may pick up another, so a net of 52 or 53 GOP seats.

In the House, we outperformed polls predicting Dems would pick up 15 seat. Instead, they lost five seats, including several we had lost in 2018. Sadly, the Democrats still have the majority and thus two more years to be utterly annoying. But there is hope for 2022.

ELECTION INTEGRITY: President Donald Trump said early Wednesday morning he is prepared to contest the election results all the way to the Supreme Court. “We don’t want them to find any ballots at 4:00 a.m. in the morning and add them to the list, okay?” he said.

“As befits the already awful year of Our Lord, 2020, the presidential election is going to come down to a nasty street fight of lawyers, public relations spin, and positioning involving four states. Donald Trump has won all four, and now he must successfully defend all four wins from the very mail-in shenanigans he (and all of us) predicted would happen months ago. This is flesh and blood people versus theoretical pieces of mail. The people must win this.” – C. Edmund Wright

IDENTITY POLITICS: The president the Left continually calls a vile racist, worse than Hitler or Osama bin Laden, has succeeded in finally making the GOP a party of racial diversity.

According to exit polls, Trump improved his national performance among black voters from 8% of the total to 12%, which I find rather disappointing. His approval ratings were much higher.

Among Asian American voters, he increased his share from 27% to 31%.

Among Hispanic voters, he increased his share from 28% to 32%. The most Hispanic county in the U.S. – Starr County, Texas – swung 55 points from D to R. In 2016, they voted Hillary 79% vs Trump 17%. Today, with 98% of the vote counted, Biden has a slim 5 point lead.

POLLING: After blowing yet another big election, GOP Pollster Frank Luntz says, “The polling profession is done.” Except for maybe Trafalgar.

PRESIDENTIAL TIE: A tie would send the election to the House of Representatives, but not for a simple vote. Each state would have one vote. Democrats have a majority of seats, but Republicans control 26 states. The only state with a divided delegation is Pennsylvania, consisting of nine Democrats and nine Republicans. The whole thing could boil down to which of those representatives decides to switch sides. If the House cannot make a determination, there’s a procedure, but it’s complicated and unlikely so meh.

PRO-LIFE: The Susan B. Anthony List, a leading pro-life organization, invested $52 million into supporting pro-life candidates and it paid off bigly.

“The surge of victorious pro-life women candidates in the U.S. House is a stunning blow to Nancy Pelosi and her pro-abortion agenda,” Susan B. Anthony List president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said. “So far, we have more than doubled the number of pro-life women in the House, with more races to be called. Seven pro-life women candidates flipped pro-abortion Democrat-held seats.”

In Texas-21, Wendy “Abortion Barbie” Davis failed to win back her place on the hill by challenging Rep. Chip (100% Pro-Life Voting Record!). Davis is a radical pro-abort who favors late-term abortions on viable unborn babies and opposes informed consent measures as well as legislation to protect women from shoddy abortion facilities that cannot meet basic health and safety standards.

THE OUTLOOK: If Trump wins, he can continue his gains in foreign policy, go after Big Tech, drain the swamp in the Intelligence Community, and see to it the DOJ pursues the corruption revealed on Hunter’s laptop.

If Biden wins, he will have no popular mandate, no Senate, and no help from the Supreme Court to pass the Prog’s wish list of huge tax increases, big changes in health care, and Green New Deal nightmare. However, he (or more likely Harris) administration would have the freedom to undo some of President Trump’s accomplishments in foreign policy.

“That’s the genius of the American political system. To make big changes you need either a big majority or a small majority for a very long time, and the Democrats have neither.” – David Goldman

THE SQUAD: Yuck. All four of them won re-election.

THE STATES

ARIZONA: Some of the networks called Arizona for Biden, but have now retracted those statements. There are at least 900,000 votes outstanding that haven’t been counted. About half of these are in Maricopa County, which they say it’s breaking significantly toward Trump 2-1.

This doesn’t mean a Trump win, but it’s enough to make the difference. The Trump campaign believes that Trump will ultimately eke out a victory in Arizona by 30,000 votes. Data Orbital, a data analytics and survey research firm based in Arizona’s capital, agrees.

CALIFORNIA: In better news, Golden Staters voted down Proposition 16, which would have reinstated affirmative action.

FLORIDA: Trump not only won his new home state by a lot. In 2016, he won by just over 110,000 votes statewide. This time he has more than 350,000 votes over Biden.

Sadly, Florida Amendment 2 passed with 61% of the vote, meaning the state’s minimum wage will go up to $15 by 2026.

In better news, District 19 elected Byron Donalds to Congress. He is a conservative, pro-life, anti-socialist American who also happens to be Black.

GEORGIA: As of midnight, Trump was up more than 101,000. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) says he wants every legal vote counted by the end of today. Fulton County’s absentee ballot count may be delayed due to a burst water pipe. They say that none of the ballots were harmed, but I’m guessing they have to be dry before they can be scanned.

KENTUCKY: Democrats spent 88 million dollars trying to unseat Mitch McConnell. The race was called early for McConnell and he won by nearly 20 points.

LOUISIANA: Amendment 1 passed with 65% of the vote. It adds the following language to the Louisiana Constitution: “To protect human life, nothing in this constitution shall be construed to protect a right to abortion or the tax payer funding of abortion.”

MICHIGAN: CLICK https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1324174186366074880 [2:20] to hear a whistleblowing postal workers telling James O’Keefe that his boss told them to hand-stamp late ballots with yesterday’s date.

The campaign of President Donald trump has filed a lawsuit in the state of Michigan after it says election officials there prevented its officials from observing the vote counting process. The campaign wants to ensure the integrity of the vote tabulation in the key battleground state that is one of several that will determine the outcome of the election.

NEVADA: They sent every registered voter a ballot and have counted all in person early votes, all in person Election Day votes, and all mail ballots through Nov. 2. At the moment, Biden is up by about 7,500 votes. Hillary Clinton won Nevada’s six electoral votes in 2016 by over 27,000 votes. Nevada still has to count mail ballots received on Election Day, provisional ballots, and mail ballots that will be received over the next week.

OREGON: Portland – What an embarrassment this city is … their mayoral choices were the dope they’ve had who managed to keep the rioting going for months when other cities had shut it down in days OR an Antifa Maoist. Sheesh. (They picked the dope.)

Speaking of dopes … Oregonians voted to decriminalize possession of small, “non-commercial” amounts of drugs like heroin, methamphetamines and cocaine.

PENNSYLVANIA: As of early Wednesday, Trump had amassed a lead of more than 600,000 votes in the Keystone State. But there are still a large number of outstanding absentee and vote-by-mail ballots that have yet to be counted. Pennsylvania plans to count all mail-in ballots that arrive by Nov 6, even if there is no clear postmark showing it was mailed on time and even if the signature on the ballot does not match voter roll.

The state’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro (who called the state for Biden BEFORE Election Day!) is currently trailing Republican candidate Heather Heidelbaugh by several points. Shapiro took the Little Sisters of the Poor to court to force them to provide abortion pills in their health care coverage.

TEXAS: Dan Crenshaw kept his second district seat, so we will get two more years of his excellent commentary and snark.

On Sunday morning, Biden tweeted, “I promise you this: I’ll end Donald Trump’s chaos and end this crisis.”

Crenshaw replied, “Trump’s chaos? Last I checked, businesses weren’t boarding up their windows because they were afraid of Trump supporters.”

VIRGINIA: In six rural Virginia counties, voters chose to keep their Confederate statues.

WASHINGTON: Nearly 60% of voters in Washington State have approved a “comprehensive sex education” for public schools. The curriculum starts in kindergarten and continues through high school. The Catholic bishops of Washington had opposed the measure, saying it “does not adequately address complex moral issues tied to human sexuality.”

WISCONSIN: With 97 percent of estimated votes reported, Biden is up by more than 20,000, which is well within the threshold for a recount. Trump’s campaign said they will request an immediate recount. His campaign manager said, “There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results.”

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by | November 4, 2020 · 1:41 pm

This is heartbreaking

When I stopped doing a daily post on Dec. 31, 2018 it was because I was tired of seeing our president being trashed daily by the crooked media while democrats committed all manner of atrocities, none of which they will ever be made to account for. I grew up in a time when good prevailed and evil was punished. That is not the case anymore.

The Covid 19 hysteria was seized on by democrats to push mail in balloting, as a means to inject millions of fraudulent votes to literally steal this nations sovereignty. We are seeing it happen right before our eyes. With Trump well ahead in many battleground states they suddenly stopped counting. Then hundreds of thousands of mail in ballots are dumped, every last one a Biden vote, which is a statistical impossibility.

Trump is a natural fighter and will battle this out in the Supreme Court but it is doubtful he can overturn the blatant theft that is taking place. He anticipated what was going to happen and that’s why he pushed for ACB to be appointed before this hijacking took place. He’s the only one since Reagan who had the courage to stand up to these bullies.

I’m 70 years old and not in the best of health. I was praying for a Trump win, since my chances of surviving until 2025 are not very good. If the democrats get away with this, all the sacrifices of those who came before; all the blood that was shed and treasure spent to keep us the richest and most powerful nation in history will be for nothing.

We are to believe that a 78 year old career politician, his brain wracked with dementia can hide in his basement for the entire campaign and emerge victorious. This a travesty. It will be Harris, Bernie and the squad calling the shots. The stock market will nosedive, the border wall will come down, the energy sector will be decimated and we’ll be ordered to wear masks for years.

It seems I will be doomed tp live my last days under the tender mercies of Communism. my grandchildren will be made to suffer the consequences of this democrat treachery. They deserve so much better.

And it breaks my heart.

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by | November 3, 2020 · 5:20 pm

Election Day!

BLACK VOTERS: Last week, Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) said, “For those black young men who think somehow they can align themselves with Trump, not only are they terrible mistaken, any of them showing their face, I will never, ever forgive them for undermining the possibility to help their own people and their own communities.”

Like Don Lemon, she has given zero thought to actually listening to these people she so despises. “It just hurts me so bad to see blacks talking about supporting Trump. I don’t know why they would be doing it. I don’t know why it is on their minds.”

CNN: On yesterday’s edition of Cuomo PrimeTime, CNN’s Chris Cuomo introduced his guest, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, with, “Few people are more respected for how they think and how they communicate than our next guest. And he says something pretty scary. That this could be the last week of America as we know it.”

Friedman informed viewers that the GOP was “a giant political brothel that basically rents itself out to the night to whoever will energize its base.” His list of whores that entertained the Johns (aka the average Republican voter) over the years included Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and Trump. “And unfortunately, for the last four years, the red light as always been on.”

Cuomo suggested it was not fair to place all the blame on Trump, because GOP voters suck big time. “We have never seen Republicans swallow the kind of manure that they have with a big smile on their face for the last few years.”

FOREIGN INTERFERENCE: Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf says, “We have no indications that a foreign actor has succeeded in compromising or manipulating any votes in this election.”

GOOGLE: [1:30] – But Google doesn’t discriminate. Just ask them!

PENNSYLVANIA: The Attorney General of the Keystone States informed us all that Biden has already won, but just in case, they’re not going to call the state until after in case the stupid voters pick Trump.

Meanwhile, reports are coming out of Philadelphia of Democrat poll watchers attempting to bar Republican poll watchers from entering. Also Democrats handing out campaign literature to people waiting in line to vote AND campaigning inside polling stations. Both are illegal.

RIOTS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/100012057311602/videos/1011489825929585/ [1:56] to see an excellent Trump ad about the riots. Why would you vote for the people who want to burn down your house and steal your stuff?

SOCIALISM: CLICK https://twitter.com/i/status/1323668906439966720 [:59] to learn how to be a good mother to your Biden supporting off-spring.

TDS: What is wrong with this woman that she can’t see the difference between joyful Trump supporters driving around, honking their horns, and Muslim terrorists moving troops to a new location to continue destroying churches and cultural treasures, raping women and children, and slaughtering anyone who disagrees with their particular brand of Islam?

VOTER SUPPRESSION: “Democrats were post-Civil War pioneers championing voter suppression. Think of lynching, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and poll taxes to frustrate likely Republican Party voters. The Democratic Party including President Woodrow Wilson opposed the Woman’s Franchise Amendment to hold its southern base.” – Bruce Fein

GRAMMY NOTES: Our Texas grandson cast his ballot in school (graphic). Dearest is working an 18 hour shift at the polling station in my old elementary school today. And Mama Buzz write, “[Papa Buzz] and I went to early voting. Such a positive energy at the polling station and they announced every time there was a first time voter and we all clapped and cheered! I had been feeling nervous about running into angry crazy people, but prayed God would have us go to a polling station that was safe … prayers answered and then some!”

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by | November 3, 2020 · 1:34 pm

The Sacramental Side of Voting

I joined the FB Walk Away group a few months ago. I just saw yet another in a long line of posts by someone who had never cared enough to vote before this year. I’m glad they’re finally wised up, but maybe that kind of apathy is why things got so bad in this country!

I am so thankful to my family for teaching me that voting is a sacred honor. I was privileged to travel behind the Iron Curtain twice before I turned 18. Ever after our trip to Budapest in 1965, my mother went to Mass on July 4, said it was her new Holy Day of Obligation.

In 1967, my eldest brother was nearly killed by a sniper in Vietnam, so I have long known the blood price paid for my right to vote.

Also, I miss the old voting machines … going into the booth and pushing that heavy handle over to close the curtains with a loud THUNK. Clicking down the levers, then pushing and THUNKing again to register my vote and open the curtains.

The process felt sacramental … shades of my Catholic experiences in the confessional booth.

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by | November 2, 2020 · 10:34 pm

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2020: President Donald Trump says he won’t declare victory in the 2020 election if it appears he’s ahead late on Nov. 3, although he signaled that he and his lawyers will be prepared to file legal challenges if there are signs of fraud.

2020: If Trump is a racist, he’s really bad at it.

2020: Texas state director for the Joe Biden campaign Rebecca Acuña told attendees at a Biden rally, “When future generations they ask us, and they’re gonna ask us, what it was like to elect the first woman of color as vice president of the United States, and we will say, ‘Yes, I was there. I stood up, and I was counted.’ Without further delay, I am so honored to introduce the next president of the United States of American.”

ABORTION: [1:08] – “Catholic Joe Biden … for his entire political career has been a hypocrite. … Trump is not a Catholic, but politically he is more Catholic than Biden.”

CLICK https://twitter.com/OwenBrennan/status/1322952074540183552 [1:00] to see a potent campaign ad for life.

ARIZONA: Pima County had a 90 mile long Trump caravan!

CALIFORNIA: Wow! These people literally put their livelihoods and security at risk to show up at this thing.

COVID-19: The Committee for a Responsible Budget calculates that Biden’s coronavirus plan costs nearly five times what Trump’s plan does.

DAN BONGINO: He says that this past week-end he received his fifth phone call from a close Trump family member … not to ask for campaign donations or invite him to a rally. In fact, the calls weren’t about anything to do with the election, which is TOMORROW. They were all personal calls, asking him how he’s doing. (He was diagnosed recently with lymphoma.)

FLORIDA: Broward County – Somebody from Columbia, South Carolina, mailed more than 50 new Democrat voter registrations to the Broward Election Office. Nineteen were in the same handwriting. Most of the individuals named in the applications were deceased. Staff turned them over to the Broward State Attorney’s Office which is investigating.

HUMAN RIGHTS: CLICK https://fb.watch/1txi_1Fiqj/ [1:20] to learn how human rights magically occur after a fetus who has no value pops out of the birth canal, fully human and with rights and value.

HUNTER: Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop is a national security nightmare. In addition to all the evidence of drug and sex addition and massive corruption, it contained phone numbers for the Clintons, Secret Service officers and most of the Obama cabinet all secured by the “super secure” (NOT EVEN CLOSE) password “Hunter02.”

MINNESOTA: Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison warned that Trump has a real shot at winning the state, which has been rocked by riots, protests, and unrest since the spring.

MISSISSIPPI: On Monday, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the Simpson County School District for prohibiting third-grader Lydia Booth from wearing a face mask with the message “Jesus Loves Me” on it.

The ADF maintains that school officials cannot suspend the First Amendment or arbitrarily pick and choose the messages that students can or can’t express. Other students within the school district have freely worn masks with the logos of local sports teams or even the words ‘Black Lives Matter.’

Lydia’s mother communicated repeatedly with school officials before choosing to go to court. She pointed out to them that the school handbook had no policy limiting her daughter’s religious expression, and that it, in fact, protects her speech under adopted policies that are consistent with the Mississippi Student Religious Freedom Act and the First Amendment.

The school district’s ban on religious messages on face masks were not invented until after Lydia wore her mask to school in October. They have promised to subject Lydia to escalating discipline, up to and including suspension, if she violates their ban.

MISSOURI: Oak Grove – A joint human trafficking operation conducted by the Oak Grove Police Department, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office Human Trafficking Task Force and Missouri State Highway Patrol rescued 10 women and three children on Oct. 23. The investigation also resulted in the arrest of five men.

OREGON: Portland – On Saturday night and Sunday morning, the apparently endless rioting continued. A group of about 150 people began a “march” that devolved into smashing store windows.

PENNSYLVANIA: They’re saying that the keystone state could literally be the keystone to the 2020 presidential election. And Democrats are worried for a number of reasons that their supposed lead isn’t going to hold.

There are signs that the Democrat base isn’t going to turn out and that there could be a Trump voter surge in rural areas. Also the rioting in Blue Philadelphia happened during early voting, which may have inhibited voters as well as made Biden look weak on crime and hostile to police (which he is).

Finally, oil and gas is very important to the economy of Pennsylvania. Trump has brought back a lot of jobs for Pennsylvania energy, while has promised to continue with Obama’s anti-fossil fuel agenda.

TDS: On Friday, Sam Harris reiterated during his podcast that he prefers Osama bin Laden to Trump, finding him “far more understandable to me and far less reprehensible, personally, psychologically.” Last February, he said much the same thing. “I find Trump more despicable than I found Osama bin Laden… With Osama bin Laden, it’s just obvious to me that he could have been a mensch in some sense, right? He’s making serious sacrifices for ideas that he deeply believes in. He’s committed to a cause greater than himself.”

Yesterday, late night television host Stephen Colbert declared, “You’d have to be a f***ing idiot to vote for Trump.”

And today, psychologist Dr. Bandy Lee, who is a contributor on CNN and MSNBC, published a tweet storm today claiming that President Donald Trump was worse than Adolf Hitler in a whole slew of ways. Her tweets prompted a lot of push back, so she “blocked a lot of Trump supporters” so as to “allow for thoughtful discussion here.” Despite having never examined the president personally, Dr. Lee has long claimed that he is mentally ill.

TEXAS: Houston – On Saturday, the Biden campaign canceled several events in Texas because cars and trucks flaunting Trump flags, signs, and stickers kept following the Biden campaign bus from stop to stop. They said these entirely peaceful (if amusingly annoying) Trumpers were putting the campaign staff, surrogates, supporters, and others “in harm’s way.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz wrote that one thing she did with the kids for Halloween was talk “about how Satan tried to twist All Hallow’s Eve but we get to say NO! and claim it for God and we get to stick it to Satan by infusing Halloween with JOY and LOVE for our neighbors :D.”

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First Amendment Case

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Bits & Bytes

ABORTION: Both movements are/were driven by unwavering commitment to the principle that ALL human beings are made in the image of God and are equally precious and deserving of equal protection under the law.

CHILD SACRIFICE: CLICK https://fb.watch/1txaAmFNhf/ [2:32] to see a powerful video about the history of child sacrifice.

DISNEY ANIMATRONICS: [1:00] – This skinless robot’s human-like gaze is so creepy!

DON LEMON: Liberal Diversity = “I can’t listen to you, because your ideas are stupid and your values are absurd. You must listen to me, because I’m right about everything. Until you admit you’re wrong and I’m right, I cannot be associated with you.”

I’m kinda wondering what he thinks “state tv” is. I only get to hear my stupid ideas and absurd values promoted on what amounts to the off-off-Broadway versions of print, broadcast, cable, and internet news sites.

FRANCE: Lyon – On Oct 31, a Greek Orthodox priest was shot twice in the abdomen while closing the doors of The Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Lyon, France. According to several other reports, the suspect is “on the run” and allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” after shooting the priest.

HUNTER: [26:41] – Hunter Biden’s business associates viewed him as a pipeline to the Obama-Biden administration.

MEXICO: Worth watching [4:21] – The history of the socialist revolution in Mexico can happen here.

PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia – Rioters burned a Vietnamese Baptist Church because Black Lives Matter. Or something.

Pastor Philip Pham said, “I have no idea why they attacked our church. They burned it from the roof. They threw flammable chemicals on the roof and [flames] burned through the roof” and down through the rest of the building. He said the facility is a “total loss.”

POLAND: 98:220 – Last week, the constitutional tribunal banned so-called eugenic abortions (the killing of unborn babies with disabilities). Ever since, pro-abortion protesters in Poland have been violently attacking priests, churches, and monuments

The pro-abortion, anti-Catholic rallies are explicitly militant in nature, featuring obscene chants and signs declaring, “This is war.” The symbol of the pro-abortion protests is a lightning flash, something some of their critics have described as satanic, because Jesus said, “I saw Satan falling from heaven like lightning.”

SEAL TEAM 6: The elite Special Forces unit rescued 27-year-old American Philip Walton, who was kidnapped in Niger earlier this week.

Niger, like much of West Africa’s Sahel region, faces a deepening security crisis as groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIS carry out attacks on the army and civilians.

TWITTER: Twitter’s war on the New York Post has ended with a score of Twitter 0, Post 1. Twitter blocked the Posts’s account from Oct 14-30, demanding the paper remove six tweets about Hunter Biden. The newspaper giant refused and slammed Twitter day after day in print.

Twitter backed down, claiming they had changed their policy about “hacked” materials. Except the materials were NOT hacked. Neither Hunter Biden or anyone else has ever claimed it was.

Hacking refers to gaining unauthorized access to technology. But the laptop and the materials on it became the legal property of the computer repairman when Hunter failed to pick it up and pay for the repair. Hunter signed a document agreeing to that and ignored the repairman’s attempts to contact him.

The repairman shared the material on the laptop with Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who gave the Post access to it. So, not hacked.

UK: The politician responsible for the UK police force in the West Midlands area says, “If we think there’s large groups of people gathering where they shouldn’t be, then police will have to intervene. If, again, there’s flagrant breaking of the rules, then the police would have to enforce.”

Jamieson then referred to the Christmas period, saying “it’s not the police’s job to stop people enjoying their Christmas. However, we are there to enforce the rules that the government makes, and if the government makes those rules then the government has to explain that to the public.”

IOW, it absolutely is the police’s job to stop people enjoying their Christmas.

WHISTLEBLOWER: [19:53] – Bradley Birkenfeld details as well what he believes was a special interest cover-up at the hands of the Obama administration and key U.S. officials.

GRAMMY NOTES: We live on a dead end street in a small development. A neighbor didn’t want to take her kids house to house, because of the coronavirus. But she didn’t want them to miss out on Halloween either. So she made up flyers for every house, inviting us all to celebrate at the ends of our driveways from 5:00 to 5:30.

It was so fun! We got to meet a bunch of new neighbors and enjoy the little ones and make them feel special taking their pictures. One lady said, “I wasn’t going to decorate, but when I got the flyer, I decided to put out everything I had!” LOL I hope it becomes an annual tradition. I really do.

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