by | September 9, 2024 · 10:52 am

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BORDER: CLICK https://x.com/captivedreamer7/status/1832265609905672235 [1:29] to hear an elderly citizen tell her Ohio town council why she and her husband plan to leave after 45 years. It’s heartbreaking.

CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1832187356763365411 [1:59] to hear an Alabama town council vote to adjourn rather than listen to a citizen’s complaints about illegals.

CLICK https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1811821279038587238 [1:23] to hear how Springfield, Ohio, a town with a population of 58,082, is being overwhelmed by the 20,000+ Haitian illegals that the Biden regime brought in.

CLICK https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831710484564697524 [1:37] to hear how an illegal in Louisiana has been arrested for kidnapping and raping a 13-year-old girl.

BOUNDARIES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j0St7KfsXEY to hear about what God’s plan has for us with regard to toxic relationships. It’s pertinent not only in our personal relationships, but in politics.

CATHOLIC: “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” – Matthew 16:18

HARRIS OWNS THIS: Corporate bankruptcies in July were higher than any month during COVID!

LIFE: Women are being encouraged (and agreeing) to delay childbearing indefinitely by having their eggs harvested and frozen for future use via IVF. Some companies even pay for the procedure so female employees will work longer. Apart from all the morality issues, there are a few economic problems with this trend. One is the cryobank rental fees which, in the U.S. are usually more than $1,000 a year. Another is that when a woman finally decides to try to become pregnant, the thawing and implantation process usually costs about $11,500. Third, women under 38 have between a 2% and 12% chance of a healthy frozen egg resulting in a healthy baby. And finally, many women are delaying past the age of 38.

LOVE LIFE: Just saw this on Facebook. Praise Jesus!!

RFK Jr: On Friday, appeals courts in North Carolina and Michigan ruled their states agreed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must be allowed to have his named removed from the presidential ballots.

WALZ: Some so-called “political experts” say Harris chose Time Walz because “they saw him as a man’s man … who could connect with these very alienated male voters.” Tim Walz’s own brother says he is voting for Trump.

GRAMMY NOTES: I got a grasp of this truth when my toddler fell and her first response to her pain was to run into my arms.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3U1pZ5gM5r4 for more R*CKST*R.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UP0wr4VHi40 for a heart warmer.

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by | September 8, 2024 · 2:49 pm

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ATHEISM: From Facebook (author unknown) – “I want to mention something about the spirituality debate in America right now. You don’t believe in God? That’s your choice, I’m not one to judge, because I’m not the judge. Why is it so important for some to mock those of us that do? If we’re wrong, what have we lost when we die? Nothing! How does our believing in Jesus bring any harm? You think it makes me stupid? Gullible? Fine. How does that affect you? I would rather live my life believing in God and serving Him, and find out I was right, than not believing in Him and not serve Him, and find out I was wrong.”

BORDER: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kIfr4NhPUc8 to see Kamala say, “The border is secure” and “I’m going to fix the border.”

IRELAND: [5:46] – A high school teacher was arrested for refusing to affirm transgender treatments for minors.

NYC: [12:27] – A terror threat scheduled for October 7 has been foiled.

SHE IS THE VICE PRESIDENT: [1:33] – She owns it all.

WAKE UP, WOKE PEOPLE: [9:02] – CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5JSM9rUX8_A to see Trump handle an ill-informed journalist. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cBjoPngzJak to see Larry Elder do it.

WALZ: [3:19] – Mike Huckabee is good in this clip.

WORST CONVENTION IN HISTORY: [6:51] – Alan Dershowitz, one of the country’s most well-known Democrats, explains how the scene at the Democratic National Convention has finally caused him to leave the political party he has been a part of for his entire life.

GRAMMY NOTES: I’m trying to figure out what hobbyists they polled cuz I have and have had a LOT of hobbies and … ::ahem:: … let’s just say there has always been a fair amount of “it’s cheaper than therapy” going on at budget time!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AlX5SsP_wkg for a cat funny.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IRgnDt4C8V8 to see an ad that is actually funny. I can’t remember the last time I saw one!

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by | September 7, 2024 · 1:50 pm

Comparing Inaugural Speeches

The origin of these graphs is linked below. I don’t have any particular opinions or comments. I just thought the data was interesting, so make of it what you will.

SOURCE (I thought it was boring):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMUJnwqdc1I

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by | September 7, 2024 · 10:05 am

Let Them Go

Are you familiar with the “Let Them” theory?

I’ll tell you the more I grow the more I am okay with accepting the “Let Them” in my own life and relationships. Even family can mistreat and disrespect you.

This is something that took me a very long time to learn. I used to tolerate a lot because I didn’t want to lose people. I learned the hard way if they were really my people they would never treat me like that. Don’t make the mistake of being so understanding and forgiving that you overlook the fact that you’re being repeatedly disrespected.

Let them be upset.

Let them judge you.

Let them misunderstand you.

Let them gossip about you,

Let them ignore you.

Let them be “right.”

Let them doubt you.

Let them not like you.

Let them not speak to you.

Let them run your name in the ground.

Let them make you out to be the villain.

Whatever it is that people want to say about you, let them!

Kindly step aside and LET THEM.

The hard truth is they know how much they are hurting you. They just simply don’t care. They did it knowing it could cause them to lose you. They did it anyway. People that love you care about how they make you feel.

So let them go.

There will be people that would rather lose you than be honest about what they’ve done to you. Let them go.

The lack of respect was the closure.

The lack of apology was the closure.

The lack of care was the closure.

The lack of accountability was the closure.

The lack of honestly was the closure.

Let them go.

Make the decision to no longer sit at tables where you might be the topic when you get up.

Let them go.

You can still be kind. You can even still love them deeply. But do it from the distance they created in their words and actions. Access to you is a privilege they have proven they can’t be trusted with.

Let them go.

You don’t need to tell your side of the story. God already knows. Let God fight the battle for you.

Let them go.

It’s taken me a long time to get here. Sleepless nights, countless tears, managing a range of emotions filled with anger, disappointment, confusion and deep hurt. Lots of self reflection, self preservation, deep prayer and seeking wisdom from those much wiser than me.

If you are struggling with this please know you are not alone. We will never understand why hurt people hurt people. But we can do the hard work to grow ourselves. Because healed people do in fact heal people.

Don’t you dare let them steal your joy.

Don’t you dare let them steal your light.

Don’t you dare let them steal your peace.

You are in control of that.

Hold tight to what you can control and release your grip on what you can’t control.

Let them go.

[Author unknown … at least by me.]

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by | September 6, 2024 · 11:10 am

Bits & Bytes

BIDEN-HARRIS ECONOMY: In July, U.S. job openings dropped to their lowest level since January 2021. You remember January 2021, right? When the country was shut down to “stop COVID”?

CIVIL RIGHTS: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1831674423046287442 [:44] to see Kamala Harris agree that we should have separate laws for black people. And here’s me thinking the whole civil rights movement that the Dems take credit for was about ignoring the color of a person’s skin.

GEORGIA: This news story covers the decision to charge the shooter’s father with murder. They also talk about Hunter Biden’s guilty pleas to all charges. [6:03] – Four people are dead and 9 injured following a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Sept. 4, The 14-year-old suspect is in custody.

The dead include two 14-year-old students and two teachers. The hospital says they do not expect any fatalities among the injured.

HUNTER: In court yesterday, he entered an “Alford plea”, meaning he maintains his innocence, but acknowledges that the evidence will certainly lead to a guilty verdict.

IRAN: It’s not clear if the problem was the reply itself or the fact that the reply got more likes than Khamenei’s original tweet.

NUTRITION: A paper entitled “Global estimation of dietary micronutrient inadequacies: a modelling analysis” was published in The Lancet on August 29, 2024. Its authors say more than half the world’s population is deficient in micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals.

RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA?? – An exclusive report from CNN says the Biden administration will accuse Moscow of using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation.

CLICK https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1831671640930853100 [1:09] to hear Vladimir Putin say he supported Biden, but now supports Harris for president. He likes her laugh. He also thinks she will impose fewer sanctions on Russia.

TRUMP: Trump says he will eliminate 10 old regulations for every new regulation and create a Government Efficiency Commission to conduct a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and make recommendations for drastic reforms.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/asN08puC5sE for a funny.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gHoow1e03h8 for a heart warmer.

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by | September 5, 2024 · 10:36 am

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BORDER: Seventy-five percent of recent arrests in Midtown Manhattan for assault, burglaries, and domestic violence are illegal aliens. Thanks to the city’s sanctuary laws, the cops can’t coordinate with ICE and the criminals know it. They laugh as they’re being taken in, because they know they’ll be back on the street again within hours.

CLICK https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1830892412274704852 [:57] to hear a Chicago police 911 dispatcher contact CPD about multiple calls regarding 32 “migrants” (illegal Venezuelans) “trespassing in the building, they are showing guns in the courtyard and they have motorcycles in the courtyard as well, all stairwells are filled.” Timestamps on the calls show two hours between the first 911 call for help and the arrival of the first police car, by which time, there were no “migrants”, guns or motorcycles at the scene.

In Colorado, an illegal alien from Mexico killed one man and seriously injured another when he veered off Highway 285 near Conifer, CO. At the time, the man – who has an atrocious driving record and has been deported sixteen times – was driving a semi for a California-based trucking company. The truck was loaded with pipe and angle iron when he caused the accident and dumped his load on top of five cars. Although he was arrested for vehicular homicide, the DA refused to charge him with more than misdemeanor traffic violations. He’s been sentenced to one year in prison.

CHICOMS: Linda Sun (a former deputy chief of staff to NY Gov. Kathy Hochul) and her husband, Christopher Hu, have been arrested by the FBI and charges with espionage.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1830961419925237815 [:41] to hear how Amazon is helping Democrats try to steal yet another election.

QUEERS FOR PALESTINE: [5:18] – The Ayatollah of Iran is not a fan.

TENNESSEE: It’s been a year and a half since Hale (28) invaded Covenant School and murdered three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members before she was killed by MNPD officers.

On Tuesday, Tennessee Star released 90 pages of writings left behind by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale. The pages can be downloaded @ https://tennesseestar.com/covenant-school-shooting-investigation/. A “Tennessee Star” watermark has been added to the unredacted photos so that readers can be assured of their authenticity.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/537429718753552 for a heart warmer.

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by | September 3, 2024 · 8:40 am

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2024: I have been very disappointed with pro-lifers who are threatening to not vote because Trump isn’t opposed to IVF. The RCC teaches we should always vote and that, where none of the candidates are fully in union with Catholic teaching, we should choose the one who is the closest. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/825995036380148 to hear what Frank Pavone says about it. Remember: He is the founder of Priests for Life who was defrocked for refusing to abandon the ministry God gave him. You’d be hard pressed to find any pro-lifer who has given more to the cause and he is saying, “Vote for Trump!”

BORDER: Lowell, Indiana (pop 11,000) is not the kind of place you’d expect would have problems with violent illegals. I guess there are so damn many of them these days that they have had to spread out. On Saturday, one of them randomly stabbed a 14-year-old girl who was watching her brother’s baseball game.

MEDIA: “It’s no surprise, then, that liberals charge Trump with being a menace to the Constitution. But his presidency and the prospect of his re-election have also generated another, very different, argument: that Trump owes his political ascent to the Constitution, making him a beneficiary of a document that is essentially antidemocratic and, in this day and age, increasingly dysfunctional.”

If I recall my American history lessons correctly, the Founders established a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy, because they had learned from the Greeks that pure democracy – i.e., rule by simple majorities – led to rule by mobs.

RACISM: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZVlHL3lhax0 to hear a liberal college student get silenced by one fact.

WALZ: CLICK https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1830314793867035002 [1:45] to see what Tampon Tim did when he was asked about the six dead hostages. So typical of the former Sergeant Major who, after getting paid to play war games for 24 years, abandoned his troops the minute he heard they would going to go fight in an actual war. Kommie Kammie thinks he should be one heartbeat away from the Commander-in-Chief’s chair? I. Don’t. Think. So.

GRAMMY NOTES: My dd overheard me say a particular piece of art was one of the best things I’d ever made. She gasped and said, “I thought I was!” I told her, “I didn’t make you. God did.” She she nodded and said, “Oh, right.“

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jR4xKhi9z10 to see a vault so perfect that one of the judges couldn’t even believe it.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-O79z0rBh_c to see a truly amazing performance.

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by | September 2, 2024 · 4:03 pm

Democrat Lies

STOLEN “FRIES WITH THAT”: [4:36] – Are these people even capable of telling the truth? Like … ever?

STOLEN MILITARY VALOR: [14:22] – Military veterans explain how far short Tim Walz’s career fell from the “retired command sergeant major” rank he has claimed for years.

It reminds me of Jill Biden insisting on being called “Doctor” Biden when her actual degree is a piddly Doctor of Education. The EdD (or Ded) is “something of a joke in the academic world.” It is nowhere near as rigorous as even a PhD in Education … never mind a PhD in something actually hard, like Physics.

I used to do a lot of typing back in the olden days before everyone had a personal computer. One of the three doctoral dissertations I typed was in Physics. The author had spent seven years doing the original research for it. I understood most of the first paragraph. Everything after that went way over my head. And, at my tenth high school reunion, I had dinner with former classmate, Ursi Gibson, who told me she had finished her PhD in Physics that afternoon.

At https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/community/faculty/ursula-j-gibson#, her “Research Interests” are listed as “Electromagnetic properties of nanoscale materials; materials science; properties of periodic structures in reduced dimensions and small length scales; Langmuir-Blodgett and vapor deposition of optical coatings; protein crystal growth; nanoparticle and nanowire growth.”

By comparison, Jill Biden’s “doctoral” joke of a “dissertation”, which is called “Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students’ Needs” apparently contains nothing approaching real scholarship. The author linked below says that, “to call [it] thin gruel is an insult to gruel.” I didn’t read the whole paper cuz it would have cost money and I can’t care. But according to the author linked below, the sum total of her recommendations for improving student retention is to build a student center and increase counseling and mentoring services. She presents zero evidence that either could or would be effective.

If you care to read two truly scathing reviews (by the same guy), click the links. Just one acidic paragraph reads, “Jill Biden’s dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge. It is not a demonstration of expertise in its specific topic or its broad field. It is a gasping, wheezing, frail little Disney forest creature that begs you to notice the effort it makes to be the thing it is imitating while failing so pathetically that any witnesses to its ineptitude must feel compelled, out of manners alone, to drag it to the nearest podium and give it a participation trophy. Which is more or less what an Ed.D. is. It’s a degree that only deeply unimpressive people feel confers the honorific of ‘Doctor.’”

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by | September 2, 2024 · 9:58 am

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2024: CLICK https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1829677817170444702 [:57] to see the ad Trump/Vance put out following Harris’ dreadful interview on CNN. – “My values have not changed” means she still supports open borders, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, banning fracking, defunding the police, cashless bail, eliminating private medical insurance, and the Green New Deal.

BIDEN AND HARRIS: Remember this … Biden would still be “perfectly healthy” and “at the top of his game” if they thought he could win.

March 2021: “President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he has appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead efforts to stem migration across the U.S.-Mexico border”

April 2021: Vice President Kamala Harris says, “[President Biden] and I are in almost every meeting together, have made almost every decision together.”

DAMNING HARRIS: CLICK https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1829540955877499333 [:24] to hear a woman of mixed race damn Harris for doing nothing more than “giggling and having a ‘girl moment’ on the stage.”

KAMALA: [11:03] – “The news that is filtering through from the [Harris] campaign headquarters is that it is just full of confusion, there are competing priorities. You have people from her old loyalists, disastrous 2019 campaign, you have the Biden campaign loyalists, and then you have this new Obama team coming in, the old Obama ‘22 crew. [They] have completely different priorities. The real problem is [she] cannot make up her mind.”

MILITARY: [5:36] – Gold Star families defending former President Trump for attending a memorial for fallen service members after Vice President Harris’ criticism. “They’ve never said their names.” As I recall, Biden looked at his watch repeatedly as their bodies were unloaded.

MINNESOTA: Before the convention, this poll showed North Star Staters favored the Dem ticket by 10 points (50% to 40%). The post convention poll shows their lead cut in half (48% to 43%)!

PARALYMPICS: [6:11] – I’ve never seen the backstroke event before. Wow!

SWING STATES: Today’s polling pictures at Polymarket are wildly different from Real Clear Politics’ combined totals. N.b., RCP doesn’t include Polymarket’s numbers.

  1. AZ: Poly/Trump +14 vs. RCP/Trump +0.5 < 11 electoral votes
  2. GA: Poly/Trump +16 vs. RCP/Trump +0.2 < 16 electoral votes
  3. NV: Poly/Trump +2 vs. RCP/Tied < 6 electoral votes
  4. NC: Poly/Trump +22 vs. RCP/Trump 0.6 < 16 electoral votes
  5. PA: Poly/Trump +2 vs. RCP/Harris 0.5 < 19 electoral votes
  6. WI: Poly/Harris +12 vs. RCP/Harris +1.4 < 10 electoral votes

270 to Win currently has:

  1. Harris/Walz’s “safe + likely + leans” electoral total @ 227, needing 43 to win. If we give WI to Harris/Walz, they are still 33 short.
  2. Trump/Vance’s “safe + likely + leans” electoral total @ 233, needing 37 to win. If we give AZ and GA to Trump/Vance, they are still 13 short.
  3. Nevada’s 6 electoral votes won’t make a difference.
  4. Unless we see some serious shifts in the leaners toward Dems, Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes would either still leave Harris/Walz short of their goal or put Trump way over the top.

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by | September 1, 2024 · 8:09 am

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AFGHANISTAN: Before we abandoned the country, one of my military kids observed Afghani women whose male relatives had all died fighting for Allah. In that area, the Taliban did not permit women to appear in public without a male relative. These women were literally left to starve to death in their homes.

The new Taliban is much more progressive. Adult woman are permitted to leave home “out of necessity”, but must be completely covered and not speak. Women also may not look directly at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and taxi drivers are forbidden to drive a woman who does not have a suitable male escort.

I guess if a woman is alone and needs food, she can walk to a local market and point at what she needs. But what about medical care? Females are forbidden education, so there clearly are no female doctors.

I saw a woman in a local JoAnn’s once. It was a hot day, so her husband was in a short sleeved shirt and their little girl was wearing a sun dress and sandals. The wife/mother was not only covered in a BLACK burqa with just eye slits … she was wearing black gloves! I watched her try to feel the fabric she liked with gloves on, then whisper to her husband how much he should purchase. I wanted to cry.

BORDER: Below is a quick list of recent crimes committed by people who came across the Border Czar’s you-know-what and settled in Democrat havens –

  1. Philadelphia, PA – The illegal from El Salvador who tried to kill 8 innocent Americans is a member of MS-13.
  2. Austin, TX – An illegal mowed down a woman pushing her baby in a stroller. The illegal, who has two prior driving infractions on her record, was arrested, charged with leaving the scene of an accident, and released.
  3. San Diego, CA – Groups of illegals attempted to hijack two different school buses loaded with students.
  4. Denver, CO – Gangs of illegals have taken over apartment complexes, driving residents out with their violence. CLICK https://x.com/vicentearenastv/status/1828912965023568356 [:45] to see the scene inside one of them shortly before a shoot-out began that left one person seriously injured and several vehicles damaged by bullets.

CLIMATE: “I have always believed and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.” – Candidate Harris, CNN interview, Aug. 29, 2024

INDEPENDENCE: CLICK https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/1829291690277966165 [1:53] to see a very funny ad from RFK Jr’s team. It’s especially funny given his opposition to Big Pharma! LOL

MILITARY: [3:56] – If you’re curious how the Slime Stream Media is covering Trump’s presence at the Arlington ceremony, put “trump arlington cemetery incident” into your search engine. It’s sickening.

PENNSYLVANIA: Bad news out of the key swing state … a Pennsylvania court has just ruled that undated absentee and mail-in ballots, and ballots with the wrong dates, will be counted this November. They know she can’t win for real.

STOLEN VALOR: Tim Walz sent Wes Moore, Maryland’s Democrat governor, on to cable TV to defend him from stolen valor accusations.

In 2006, Moore wrote on an application for a prestigious White House fellowship that he had been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his work with the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan. Apparently, someone had put him in for the award, but he never actually received it.

But never mind. He has been allowing himself to be repeatedly introduced as “a Bronze Star recipient” for the past 18 years. And now he got the job of defending Tim Walz from stolen valor accusations.

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