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ANTI-CHRISTIAN: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/heatherakiernan/videos/1215078122966121/ [:20]. ::smh::

BARBER SHOP: Interesting! [5:04]

BORDER: In the middle of the DNC (when all news media is focused on the convention), the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security released a report admitting that nearly 300,000 smuggled children are now missing — likely sold into sex and labor trafficking. That’s roughly the population of Pittsburgh.

CLIMATE CHANGE: A paper entitled “Net Zero Averted Temperature Increase” was published in CO2 Coalition in June. In it, the authors report that “eliminating U.S. CO2 emissions by the year 2050 would avoid a temperature increase of 0.0084 degrees Celsius.” On the Fahrenheit scale, the value of averted warming is 0.015° F.

N.b., The smallest temperature change humans can detect without a thermometer is 0.02° C, but this is only for pulses applied to the most sensitive part of the body and altered over short periods of time. If temperature changes are slowed down to .05° C per minute, a person can be unaware of the change until it hits 4-5° C.

So, you do the math. Will a temperature change of .0084° C over a span of 26 years cause global catastrophe?

DEATH CULT: Sickening. [4:28].

DEMS’ BIG WALL: In the first two days of the convention, there have been at least two breaches of their border wall. So they’ve added two more layers to it. These would be the very same Democrats that have spent 3.5 years leaving our southern border wide open. CLICK https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1825907599109165098 [:38] to see news report.

FIX IT CAMPAIGN: Bernie Sanders admitted most Americans “live paycheck to paycheck” and said “too many of our fellow Americans are struggling every day to just get by, to put food on the table, to pay the rents, and to get the healthcare they need.” CLICK https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1826092714128986393 [:12] to hear the crowd chant, “Do something!” Do they realize who has been in charge for the past 3½ years?

JOBS: Once a year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reviews its jobs reports and published revised, more accurate numbers. The latest revision, covering April 2023 to March 2024, reduced the number of new jobs by 818,000, or 30 percent of the total. That’s a heckabig margin of error!

SHROUD of TURIN: A new scientific study using wide angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) to measure the age of the flax has proven that it matches other linens from Israel that are known to date back to the first century.

SWAN SONG: Dems tried to get a “We love Joe” chant started. It was pathetic. CLICK https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1825739554529128887 [:03] to see Pelosi’s contribution. Yoiks!

STOLEN VALOR: The Dems are making a big deal about the handful of years that Tim Walz was an assistant coach for the Mankato West high school football team. After a string of losses, the team won the state championship in 1999. The head coach’s name was Rick Sutton. The Dems, the media, Walz himself, and some of his former suck-up players are saying Walz was the reason they won. Not Sutton. Not any extraordinary talent that happened to replace previous lesser players who had been graduated.

This is not a new meme for Walz. After being elected to the U.S. House in 2006, he said he was “absolutely convinced” his success at the polls was “because [I] won that state championship” in 1999.

I guess the takeaway from this is … if you’re worried Kamala won’t do a good job, you can rest assured Coach Walz will make sure their administration wins every game. Or something.

WEAPONIZE: CLICK https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1825696662695694443 [:18] to hear what Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow said during her DNC speech. What she really meant was, “If Trump gets elected, he could do to us what we’ve been doing to him!

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BOEING: [3:18] – Not just another mishap, but one that has happened four times before.

CANCER: A study entitled “Differences in cancer rates among adults born between 1920 and 1990 in the USA: an analysis of population-based cancer registry data” was recently published in The Lancet. In it, researchers report comparing incidence data for 34 types of cancer and mortality data for 25 types of cancer, then calculated ratios based on birth dates, separated by 5 year intervals, from 1920 to 1990.

They found that the incidence for 17 types of cancer were two-to-three times higher in the 1990 birth cohort than in the 1955 birth cohort, including 9 that had been on the decline. Some researchers point to lifestyle, poverty and environmental factors as potential causes for the uptick in cancers, while others suggest the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may be to blame for the rise in “turbo cancers.”

CATHOLIC NEWS UPDATE: This is a good episode. [10:03] – She covers accusations that the FBI is covering up something about the Trump assassination attempt; the Trump-Musk chat; PP offering free abortions and vasectomies for conventioneers; a Brazil Supreme Court judge threatening jail time; faux female Imane Khelif suing Elon Musk for call him a man; the WHO’s new attempt to frighten us into compliance; and SCOTUS’ rejection of Biden’s attempt to rewrite Title IX.

CHICOMS: For many years, my brother (an expert in international hotel and tourism) hosted student groups from China for 2 week summer classes at Cornell. They always wanted to see our stores.

He would take them to one after another, but they didn’t believe they were stores where ordinary Americans (who they had been told since childhood were all poor and oppressed by their evil capitalist government). Surely, these were stores only for the elites!

So he would say, “We’ll have the bus just drive around. YOU point out any stores you like and we’ll go to them.”

They could NOT get over how jam-packed with STUFF and FOODS our stores are. Or how low the prices were. Imagine a grocery store where every kind of produce is not only fresh, but literally PILED high.

My brother lived in Beijing for a year. He said he had to stand in multiple long lines to get ingredients for an omelet. One line for eggs, another for green peppers, another for onions. And no guarantee when you got to the front there would be any left to buy.

He said every summer was the same … the biggest problem they had when the groups were packing to go home was getting all the things they’d bought on to the plane. He described folded lawn chairs bungee corded to blankets as an example … things they couldn’t get at all or not at prices they could afford.

ISRAEL: On Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorists crossed the border into Israel, killing 1,200 and taking 251 Israelis as hostages. About 100 hostages were freed by Hamas during a brief ceasefire in late November last year and several others have been rescued by the IDF. One hundred and nine are still in captivity.

SHEPHERDS FOR SALE: [32:34] – Andrew Klavan interviews Megan Basham, author of a book that hit #5 on Amazon’s best seller list this week. It seems that my church is not the only one that Satan and his goons have been infiltrating.

GRAMMY NOTES: I am so grateful my kids went to school with farmers’ kids. They thought it was great that they just had normal around-the-house chores and didn’t have to get up at dawn every single day to milk the cows.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9Pvcz8KkKiY to see a swimmer training in a way I’ve never seen before.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E3vdbKQH96k and grab a tissue. ❤

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Campaign Update

BIDENOMICS: CLICK https://rumble.com/v5bk0ul-trump-campaign-drops-saveage-ad-using-kamalas-own-words-against-her.html [:30] to see a doozy of a new ad from the Trump campaign.

CHINAMAN WALZ: On August 16, 2024, Chairman James Comer, announced the House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into Minnesota Governor Timothy Walz’s longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party entities and officials.

Mr. Walz has visited China 30 times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders.

Comer noted in his letter that the investigation is thoroughly justified given that the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force “investigates exactly the kind of activity that has since come to light about Governor Walz.”   

GEORGE FLOYD RIOTS: In May of 2020, a drug-addicted felon with untreated high blood pressure died while in Minneapolis, Minnesota, police custody. From what I’ve read, the man was dying before the cops got there, but the Left fanned the flames of their “cops are racist murderers” narrative and inspired massive riots across the country.

They were especially bad in Minneapolis, whose governor, Tim Walz, is now running for Vice President. His actions during that summer are now under new scrutiny. He has been accused of delaying the deployment of the National Guard, of failing to coordinate with police, and of allowing his then-19-year-old daughter, Hope, access to confidential information about law enforcement’s plans — which she then tried to share with the protesters.

Walz’s wife, Gwen, once reported that she kept the windows open as long as she could so she could smell the burning tires. “I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening,” she added.

Walz’s opponent, J.D. Vance, said, “The closest Tim Walz has ever come to combat, even though he says he carried a weapon of war, is when he let rioters burn Minneapolis to the ground a few years ago.”

GEORGIA: The Georgia Election Board has voted to require election workers to compare the total number of ballots cast with the total number of unique voter ID numbers in the system. If discrepancies are found in any precinct, the counties are required to withhold certification of the election results until the suspected fraud is fully investigated and resolved.

HYPOCRISY: The Biden-Harris administration is opposed to “burdensome” and “unnecessary” ID checks for voters and migrants … but not for people who want to get past the security perimeter around the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Those people have to have photo ID. Chicagoans who live in the “areas around the United Center and McCormick Place” where roads are closed for the convention “will still be able to go in and out of their homes” but they are only “allowed guests as long as those guests have photo ID.” Clearly, their personal security matters to them. Ours? Not so much.

SWAN SONG: Biden’s speech on Monday night at the Democratic National Convention was due to start at 9:50 p.m. Central. However, his warm-up speakers, including Hillary Clinton and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), yapped on so long that Joe’s speech got pushed out of prime time. It was well after midnight on the East Coast when he wrapped up. So, it was kinda like his campaign for a second term.

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ABORTION: CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1825249879133700145 [:21] to hear Kamala state, unequivocally, that as POTUS, she would send her DOJ goons to try and block pro-life states from protecting unborn lives. That, right there, is the very definition of fascism … “a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition.

CATHOLIC: At night, when everyone in the world goes to bed, three thousand monks on Mount Athos and several thousands of other congregations around the world wake up to begin their night prayer for the whole world. So any time you have trouble sleeping, remember to join them. Your prayer will be powerful.

COMMIE-MALA: CLICK https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1824648576741360111 [:18] to hear her brag about having the power and the will to steal patent rights from individual citizens so government can control the products.

DEM CONVENTION: [1:49] – A number of businesses in the city’s business district have covered windows and doors with plywood in the event that Dems’ “mostly peaceful protests” get violent. Gov. Pritzker has also activated hundreds of armed National Guard troops to protect Democrat officials from their own fractured factions.

CLICK https://x.com/sav_says_/status/1825335215717327278 [:10] to see police out in force.

CLICK https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1825335616566931746 [:22] to see some of the people calling us weird proudly parade while dressed as abortion pills.

CLICK https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1825361473117274188 [:20] to hear their chant.

CLICK https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1825361473117274188 [:20] for more abortion chanting, plus gay flags and cops.

CLICK https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1825318398600872010 [:38] for a different chant, more flats and cops.

Hmm … I wonder why the Republican convention didn’t require plywood and guns.

DUMBEST: Ian Haworth writes, “There are no gay rights, women’s rights, or transgender rights in any Palestinian territory. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find any of these rights in any Muslim country. They’re easy to find in Israel, of course, but who cares because … Jews.

CLICK https://x.com/TheTonus/status/1825300853625954350 [1:03] to hear pro-aborts in Chicago insist that “reproductive justice means Palestinian liberation.”

Has anyone told these morons that Muslims oppose birth control and abortion a lot more strenuously than Christians do? Have they noticed at all that, on October 7, Palestinians cut off breasts, raped women and girls before murdering them, paraded naked women around like trophies, and took sex slaves back to Gaza? Do they realize that they throw homosexuals off the tops of tall buildings?

MAGA: Kammy’s in-the-tank media are drooling about how “joyful” her campaign is. I’ll tell you what we have is belly laughs, cuz dang this man is funny! CLICK https://x.com/WojPawelczyk/status/1824773336204747026 to see his latest.

PHILATELY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ClbPWVxUzJM to hear why this U.S. postage stamp is unique. I have the stamp in my collection; it’s beautiful, but now I want the FDC too!! (First Day Cover)

UK: Thank God the Founders of our country gave us the First Amendment. [9:25] – Keep in mind that “tolerance” is not a Christian virtue.

GRAMMY NOTES: The organist at the “orphan” mass (no choir or cantor) told me she loved it when I attended and would I please sit in the back and sing louder? “I call you my shill. When you’re out there, everyone sings better and louder.” It probably helped that I had had voice lessons and sung solos in the past, so could not only sing loudly, but also hit all the right notes. LOL

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6NOrXjSI9Nw for some fun dad time.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XW4oGZiwBpU for a bit of wisdom and a lot of cool LEGOs.

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Grammy Remembers

Mama Buzz sent me a photo of their new geography book.

I wrote back: “Tell the kids I stood in front of the building on the cover (St. Basils in Moscow). It left me breathless. It is SO beautiful in real life!!”

Mama responded with a request for dates and details for Bunny, who loves to know that stuff. My reply got a bit long, but also interesting, so I thought I’d share it with all y’all. 🙂

I went to Europe when I was 11 with Uncle Tom and Mither, which was my first time behind the Iron Curtain. We went to Budapest, Hungary. My second trip was to the U.S.S.R. with a high school sponsored tour in April of 1972. I was not quite 18 years old. We visited Helsinki, Leningrad, and Moscow.

I was a senior in high school and it was spring break. We were in Helsinki for Western Easter, which was on April 2. Then we were in Moscow for Orthodox Easter, which was April 9. THE most amazing thing happened on that last night in Moscow. Our hotel, Metropol, was and is very close to Red Square.

It was our last night and some of us girls decided to take one last stroll around Red Square before bed to see St. Basil’s lit up at night. Sadly, the interior was under renovation in 1972, so we never got to see any of the inside.

We made a loop from the gate down to the cathedral, then back to the gate. That whole dark gray area on the satellite photo is paved. It is surrounded by buildings and walls except at the two ends.

We went past Lenin’s tomb, which is even creepier at night than it is during the day!

We went past GUM (goom) department store, which is absolutely ginormous! Somewhere in the middle of Red Square, two Russian guys used signs to invite us to come home with them to “sleep.” Yeah, no thanks!

As we were walking out of Red Square and back to the Metropol, we looked across the park to the left and saw that the windows of a  multi-story building were lit up with a perfect Sign of the Cross! It could not have been an accident. I have often wondered if whoever did that got in trouble for celebrating Easter right across from Red Square, which was basically a monument to godless Communism!

P.S. Under the Soviet government, St. Basil’s was used as a museum. Religious services were not permitted until 1991 when the Soviet Union fell.

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BIDEN-HARRIS: Former Biden domestic policy adviser Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on Tuesday. She said, “Kamala Harris has been an integral architect and executor of the policies of the Biden-Harris administration.”

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mtY-WrBODbU to hear a quick and simple explanation from the Bible for why the Catholic Church honors Mary as Queen of Heaven. The article at the link below goes into a lot more detail.

END TIMES: Sorry, but no. Just as Jesus’ Resurrection into a glorified body is our model for what will happen to the dead in Christ when the trumpet sounds, so the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, perfected body and soul, is our model for what will happen to those who are still alive.

See Matthew 24. Jesus Himself taught that He will come in the clouds and his angels will gather His elect. “One will be taken, another will be left.

This is not the same End Time event as Final Judgment, when all will be called before the throne and He will separate them, sheep and goats.

The Rapture will happen. The problem some have is with being obsessed with when it will happen. We should be living every day as if it is our last.

LAUGHING STOCK MEDIA: On Monday, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins appeared on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. At one point, Colbert prefaced a question with, “I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is.” He was stunned when the audience laughed and said, “No, CNN makes a—” while Collins asked, “Is that supposed to be a laugh line?” Colbert responded, “It wasn’t supposed to be, but I guess it is.

TATTOOS: If human beings grow new skin every month, how is it that tattoos aren’t erased? CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TTMY_94Bvq0 for the answer … and for something about tattoos that I found to be seriously gross.

WAIT, WUT? Physicians have no right or need to know our political leanings, so beware if yours asks. – A female physician who lives in the northwest told a colleague that she often deliberately misdiagnoses right-wingers, then gives them the wrong treatment. Also, there is an activist group called Vote-ER that is headed up by a Harris fan. The docs who belong not only ask patients about political leanings, but even have a special app to help illegal aliens register to vote.

GRAMMY NOTES: [16:25] – I have a mini guillotine cutter that I use all the time. It had a spot where it tended to bend, rather than cut. I watched this video and was able to fix the bad spot with a metal nail file! Saved me $$. Then I put the sharpeners she recommends in my Amazon cart, cuz my big guillotine is dull. Replacing it would cost a LOT more than those files will.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1sdxm_roMl0 for a beautiful story.

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HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT: If you want to work (not volunteer) for her campaign, you must have the jab.

KAMALA DEVILLE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h_37mioBegg to hear some sense.

PRICE CONTROLS: CLICK https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1824839155467145340 [:50] to hear Trump’s new ad about Kamala’s commie plan.

S&G: On the other hand, by the standards of Woke Culture, a person who suffer from ranidaphobia is a member of a tiny minority of the population with Special Needs and, by that token, needs to be deferred to by having all frogs and toads – living, graphic, costumed, and imaginary – removed. In fact, don’t even SAY the words!

SCOTUS: In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS has struck down the Biden-Harris administration’s rewrite of Title IX, which would have compelled states to allow men into women’s sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, and dorms.

WALZ: As Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz spent almost $2 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds without the approval of the state legislature. Some of the money went to one organization that provides abortion doulas (women who accompany other women through abortion procedures) and another “queer, trans, disabled, BIPOC lead organization” that drives women to and from abortions, trains abortion doulas, and offers resources on “chest and breast feeding.

ZEN ADS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QNAaKIrfQBE to see some wonderful new Trump ads.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3xYz9k75OUE to see a brave dog determined to save Wilson. Remember Tom Hanks’ soccer ball? LOL

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cVY-1xiHhVM for a phenomenal moment in high school basketball!

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CASTING CALLS: Remember back in 2021 when VP Harris did this whacky chat about space with a bunch of kids? CLICK https://x.com/perma___ben/status/1446941618259570692 if not. The NY Post reported that the five youngsters in the video were child actors who auditioned for their roles.

Now CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fPdasdNRdXA to hear how Kamala is apparently again using a casting agency to round up people willing to pretend they support her. I googled “Casting Networks” and found their website. These emails are going to people who pay to get these kinds of tips about possible acting jobs.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Joiz5UJagcQ to see a short, inspiration video about the latest crop of American priests.

COPY CAT KAMMY: First no tax on tips. Then no tax on social security. Now this!

HAT TIP: [3:17] – Thanks to Mindful Webworker for sharing this one. 🙂

KAMALA-NOMICS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4M2CwhfC-rU to hear Dr. Phil explain how it’s getting worse. And/or CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1824525304641278172 to hear Kamala say the same thing … stay tuned for the ending! LOLOL

LIFE: Lefties are Seriously Upset that the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that Republicans can call an embryo or fetus “an unborn human being.” Imagine thinking you need a court to decide that people can say what everyone has always known.

GRAMMY NOTES: I truly LOVE being part of the Universal Roman Catholic Church!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tm1gHGAM7Pc for a wonderful game show clip.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Bov2iIUUjA for more Tom, the Seaworld Mime.

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INFLATION: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IRBfbfRgcEQ to hear Kamala tell us what she’s going to do to fix the problem she helped create.

HEALTH CARE: Kamala is claiming that now she opposes nationalized health care. [10:22] – You CAN’T trust what politicians say during a campaign. You must look at their past voting record. Remember McCain? He campaigned on eliminating Obamacare. He got re-elected, then cast the deciding vote to kill off Trump’s effort to get rid of Obamacare. As soon as the Dems won the vote, McCain and Schumer high fived each other. The next day, Obama called McCain to thank him. He claimed it was because it was a bad bill that would not have accomplished what it was supposed to.

Personally, I think the Dems have had the dirt on McCain’s traitorous actions when he was a Vietnamese POW and he couldn’t bear to have his legacy tarnished, even knowing he was going to die soon from his brain tumor. I often wonder if he didn’t believe in God or judgment or Hell. I’m guessing he’s discovered the hard way that his so-called legacy was not worth eternal damnation.

KAMALA’S PLATFORM: She hasn’t posted it, so here’s a guy who put it all very succinctly! CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5CeBozXfLoQ, unless you’re seriously offended by repeated F bombs.

OBJECTIVE REALITY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4is_L8jgNTo cuz, wow, this is good!

THEY ARE NOT LIKE US:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DsgjYF4iVSA.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mYc08EFcqmQ.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CT6zQ_SHq8s.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yfUpJ8NEbCg to see a few heartwarming moments in sports.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dt_rBuAwyzQ to see a horse who enjoys selfies.

GRAMMY NOTES: My apologies to Mindful for all the shorts! 😉

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Kindness of Strangers

Today I was asked if I am any good with phones by an elderly man as he was trying to open a picture message that his granddaughter had sent.

After putting Sienna in her pram, I took a look at his phone which was a really old Nokia. As he didn’t have a smart phone, I told him that he wouldn’t be able to view it.

He was gutted and went on to tell me that it was a photo of his granddaughter and her new baby who he hadn’t seen yet as they live in Buxton.

So I forwarded the message to my phone and eventually managed to open the picture.

He was so emotional seeing his great granddaughter for the first time and you could see his love for them both through his teary eyes.

The man insisted on giving me £20 to treat my daughter to a toy as a thank you for helping him which I insisted I didn’t want, but he was having none of it.

So I asked him to wait there and I went to boots and printed the photo for him and ended up buying a frame for it too.

When I returned with the framed photo, he was so happy, literally overwhelmed.

This just made my day to make someone so happy. ❤️ (via Serena Mansey)

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