by | August 15, 2025 · 1:39 pm

Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SHORTS:

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

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

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by | August 14, 2025 · 7:13 am

Bits & Bytes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There’s a television news clip at the link.

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

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

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

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

::smh::

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

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

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

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

SHORTS:

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

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

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by | August 13, 2025 · 8:17 am

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SHORTS:

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

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

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by | August 12, 2025 · 12:21 pm

Bits & Bytes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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by | August 11, 2025 · 3:03 pm

Bits & Bytes

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

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

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

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

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by | August 11, 2025 · 8:22 am

Third Anniversary of the Mar-a-Lago Raid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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by | August 10, 2025 · 5:11 pm

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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.

SAVOR THE MEMORIES: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1087646812912814 and https://www.facebook.com/reel/1526822561619361. Hat tip to my cousin who shared these with me and, hey there, girl! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

VIRGINIA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TWfZ1N7r7sY to hear Nick Freitas sum up the situation.

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.

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by | August 10, 2025 · 9:21 am

Twilight Zone Postal Service with UPDATE

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. ❤

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by | August 9, 2025 · 11:31 am

A Meditation on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary

Joseph never slept with Mary.

Not before Jesus.

Not after Jesus.

Not ever.

And the reason why?

It’s not what you think.

Let’s talk about the forgotten Jewish custom that flips this whole story upside down.

Imagine this:

A man marries a woman and chooses never to touch her.

Not because he’s weak.

Not because he’s cold.

But because he knows who she is.

Joseph didn’t “hold back.”

He bowed before the Ark of God.

Yes. I said it.

Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant.

Just like the Ark in 2 Samuel 6, her body carried the Divine Presence.

And just like the old Ark, her body was untouchable – not out of legalism, but out of awe.

In Luke 1:34, Mary tells the angel,

“How can this be since I do not know man?”

She’s already betrothed.

Why say that?

Because she had already made a vow of virginity.

A Jewish custom not many know existed.

Yes, consecrated virginity within marriage.

Joseph was a devout Jew.

A “just man” (Matthew 1:19).

That doesn’t mean confused. It means reverent.

He didn’t reject Mary out of suspicion.

He stepped back because he knew:

“This woman belongs to God.”

This wasn’t repression.

This was radical holiness.

Joseph wasn’t less of a man.

He was more.

He understood something most of us miss:

You don’t claim what God has consecrated.

You protect it.

And let me make this blunt:

Mary’s womb wasn’t just a vessel.

It was the Holy of Holies.

Joseph was no ordinary husband.

He was the guardian of the untouchable, the silent protector of God’s dwelling place.

You might think that’s weird.

But weird to us doesn’t mean wrong.

Joseph and Mary’s marriage wasn’t a loophole in the law.

It was a sign of heaven itself.

A love that gives, not takes.

Modern minds are scandalized by virginity.

Ancient minds were scandalized by touching the sacred.

Joseph’s silence speaks louder than our discomfort.

He teaches us this:

Some things are too holy to claim.

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by | August 9, 2025 · 9:22 am

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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.

BORDER: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WdZDnnM6kEk to hear Clinton, Biden, Clinton, and Obama sound just like Trump.

DEMOCRACY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHbBESSdFvc for a quick primer into why we pledge allegiance to “the Republic” NOT “the Democracy.”

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.“

FORTY ONE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mGbo-YdsPeM for a very uplifting message about perseverance.

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.

TEXAS: How long could you go without showing up at work before they would simply replace you?


TRUMP-ONOMICS: [7:46] – Key takeaways from the video:

  1. 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?
  2. From January to June, 2025, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $1,174.
  3. During Trump’s first term, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $6,400.
  4. During Biden’s first term, the average median household income (adjusted for inflation) increased by $551.
  5. 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.

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