EVERYDAY HEROES: “I was at Walmart tonight & I saw this man w/ a cart full of stuffed animals. When I asked him why, my heart became full. He told me that every year he dresses up as Santa & walks the halls of the children’s ER & delivers one to each child.”
FRANCE: Authorities say it took just seven minutes for thieves to climb that ladder, steal priceless jewels from the Louvre Museum, and flee on motor scooters. Last month, thieves broke into the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and made off with samples of raw gold worth about $700,000.
LEGO: MRIs, which don’t involve radiation, are often used in pediatric care – but with the bright light, loud noises and requirement to stay still, the machines often frighten children and introduce the need for sedation. Lego donates these custom MRI sets to hospitals around the world to help children know what to expect. The miniature MRI machine table moves back and forth, mimicking a real procedure. Healthcare professionals say that playing with the model helps to reduce anxiety and, in about half the cases, eliminate the need for sedation.
SCIENCE: CLICK https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1979947902291390742 which a fellow passenger filmed in the economy section of a commercial flight where Trump officials, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Cheryl Hines, were on board.
UN: In 2024, the United Nations decided to give itself the power to tax the world. This past week, it tried to act on that with a “carbon tax” on all shipping vessels. President Trump announced that any nation that helped pass or tried to enforce this ridiculous global tax would find itself in a world of hurt. Within two days, all the “yes” votes went away.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Shower Your graces on the good-hearted but deluded liberals who hate our nation and our president. Grant them whatever they need to see, hear, and understand the truth. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
NATE FRIEDMAN: This citizen journalist and podcaster has been busy exposing the big money driving these leftist protests. [26:48] – Comment: “That lady with the guillotine sign apparently only learned about the beginning of the French Revolution and never got to the part where it led to Napoleon declaring himself emperor.”
THE PAY RAN OUT: On October 18, 2025, No Kings protests in several major U.S. Cities dispersed precisely or shortly after 1:00 pm. – Comment: “Totally normal and definitely not astroturfed.”
Comment: “Nancy Pelosi has been in Congress for 38 years. She has accumulated a net worth of $400 million on a $174,000 per year salary. Her stock portfolio grew by 720% in 10 years. But No Kings, right?!”
SOURCES:
Collected from Facebook, YouTube, Grok, and X. N.b., the comments are not necessarily on the same threads with the video clips. I collected a lot of stuff, then composed this blog afterwards.
EVERYDAY HEROES: A fourth grade teacher spent her free time painting traffic bollards outside her elementary school to look like giant pencils. They are such a huge hit that the school district asked her to do yellow and green ones outside the middle school.
JAMES: [7:40] – On October 9, 2025, a federal grand jury indicted Letitia James on bank fraud and false statements charges related to a Norfolk, Virginia property she purchased in August 2020. The indictment alleges James made different representations about the same property to different entities — all under penalty of perjury or with binding legal consequences.
On August 17, 2020, James signed a Second Home Rider declaring, under penalty of perjury, that she and she alone would occupy the Norfolk, Virginia property.
On her 2020 to 2024 IRS, she listed the Norfolk, Virginia property as “rental real estate“ with “zero personal use days” and reported income from rent, minus expenses.
On her NY State disclosure forms, she called it “investment” property.
In 2020, she applied for insurance on the Norfolk, Virginia property, declaring it “owner-occupied non-seasonal use.“
Meanwhile, Letitia James has been the New York Attorney General since January 1, 2019. The New York Attorney General is required to maintain residency within the state. If the officeholder removes his/her residence from the required territorial limits, the office becomes vacant.
NO KINGS: Roughly 2,500 “No Kings” protests were held across the nation on Saturday as leftist ignoramuses gathered to protest what they view as President Trump’s authoritarian policies.
GRAMMY NOTES: Remember when Republican thugs locked Democrat poll watchers out of election sites so they could add millions of false ballots to their side? Oh wait …
Remember when King Trump closed your church, stopped you from visiting loved ones in hospitals and nursing homes, fired you if you refused an injection of an experimental drug, and fined you for not being able to afford health insurance? Oh wait …
Remember when the authoritarian Republican Party skipped the primary and installed a candidate hand-picked by a secret cadre of elites? Oh wait …
Remember when Congress voted to close the government and King Trump had them all executed and replaced with toadies? Oh wait …
ANTIFA: On July 4, an Antifa cell attacked an ICE facility in Texas, injuring an officer. The ten members have now been charged. The two in the photo above are Zachary Evetts abd a transgender man named Cameron Arnold (who goes by Autumn Hill). They are charged with providing material to support terrorism, attempted murder of a federal and assisting officer, and discharging firearms during attempted murders.
COMEDY BREAK: [3:43] – Outstanding parody of “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen!
EVERYDAY HEROES: Rescue teams worked tirelessly to free Astro, and with the help of a tractor and harness, they managed to pull him out just minutes before the tide would have submerged him completely.
MEDIA: Court documents allege that Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi was an operative for a paramilitary group in Gaza that fought alongside Hamas during the deadly invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. He gained entry to the United States through Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Sept. 12, 2024 where he lied on his visa application.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Make us wise as serpents in our ability to see the dangers facing our great nation and grant us the graces we need to respond to them in Your will. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
PROPAGANDA: The latest left-wing talking point is that “anarchy” is like Mom’s Apple Pie. Example from today’s X thread about the Antifa charges reported above: “They’re anything but anarchists. Anarchy comes from Latin: an archia. In English: Without rulers. It doesn’t mean chaos, rioting or violence. Language matters and linguistic corruption is a form of subversion.”
I googled “anarchy definition” and got back this.
Absence of any form of political authority.
Political disorder and confusion.
Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose.
SOCIAL SECURITY: Our monthly checks are protected and will continue to arrive. However, the shutdown is slowing or stopping other services provided by the Social Security Administration (SSA), such as in-person services, claims processing, and appeals.
GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz shared this about a woman she knows. “She was telling us how she gets migraines and when she started offering them up in prayer, she also tries to hold off on taking anything for the pain because she wants to have more to offer up. And later she told me she had realized she had often been critical of Pope Francis but rarely remembered to pray for him. So now, she decided anything related to her head, she offers up for the head of our Church and since she started doing that, she actually gets excited when she feels a migraine coming in! Talking about joyful suffering! I am so inspired!” (P.S., the photo above is not a Mascot. It’s from the internet.)
DAILY PRAYER: Bless us, O Lord, and all the gifts we receive from Your bounty! In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BEAUTY BREAK: [3:18] – Nisha is an inspiration.
BOLTON: On October 16, John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser during the president’s first term, was indicted on 18 counts under the Espionage Act. Federal prosecutors allege that between April 9, 2018 and August 22, 2025, Bolton shared more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level — with two unauthorized individuals.
CLICK https://x.com/alx/status/1978970564107657261 [:25] to hear Bolton say that Trump possibly having mishandled classified information was “a very serious crime.” Now that he’s been indicted on the same charges, he’s saying, “I have become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies.” The old Democrat two step: Rules for thee but not for me.
CALIFORNICATION: California is the only state that has refused to require commercial truck drivers speak English. CLICK https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1978595805603774732 [1:15] to hear SecTrans Duffy explain that this is a long-standing rule that wasn’t being enforced. Trump has ordered that $40 million in state aid be withheld from California until they get on board. If Newsom is so concerned about his people being able to drive trucks, he should sponsor a massive ESL program to get them up to speed.
CHARLIE KIRK: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LqGVsdq-KWw [1:20] to hear him talk about male vs. female. I believe there is a similar gender breakdown in single vs. multitasking.
COMEDY BREAK: [2:33] – “Projecting LOL.”
DEMOCRATS: Republicans put forward a stand-alone bill to ensure military pay during the shutdown. The only Senate Democrats to cross the aisle to vote with the GOP were Sens. John Fetterman (PA), Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH).
EDUCATION: [3:43] – This UNC-Asheville student joined both College Democrats and Turning Point USA.
EVERYDAY HEROES: “This woman, Kaylen, at Sports Clips in Charleston did more for my heart than she will probably ever realize. Haircuts with Isaiah are no small feat. He hates having anything near his ears, the sound of clippers sends him into a tailspin…this evening was no different. I was ready to give up, but she wasn’t. She sat on the floor with my baby in her lap, and she cut his hair. They talked about Dory and Christmas, and she even let him spray her with her water bottle. Autism can be so very, very hard, but people like this make our days just a little easier.” Credit: Jennifer McCafferty
ICE: During a three-day operation in September along Interstate 40 in Oklahoma, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained 120 illegal immigrants for immigration-related offenses. At least 91 of them held a commercial driver’s license (CDL*)and were operating a commercial motor vehicle.
*A CDL allows a driver to operate a large, hazardous, or heavy motor vehicle for business purposes, including tractor trailers, tank trucks, and buses.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, We ask that truth be uncovered and justice be accomplished in all cases before every court in the land. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SMITH: On October 16, a group of GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking her office to refer former special counsel Jack Smith to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for alleged misconduct and possible disbarment. Their complaint centers on Smith having engaged in a “weaponized witch hunt” during which the Biden DOJ subpoenad their cell phone records.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE: The monastery where St. Carlo Acutis received his First Holy Communion in 1998 was almost completely destroyed by fire on October 11. The 21 cloistered nuns who live in the 17th century facility outside Milan escaped without harm and were able to save some paintings and a relic of the saint. The cause of the blaze is unknown.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GPudzpjUz9I to hear what happened to a kid who put laxatives in his cupcake. When I was a kid, a friend’s son had his lunch stolen from his locker. This was before meds were stored with the school nurse, so his epilepsy pills were in the bag. During the discussion, my sibs said lunch theft from lockers was not uncommon in the high school. My father opined that he’d make a dog doo sandwich and put that in his locker.
WOMEN’S SPORTS: After three years of courtroom battles, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is finally doing the right thing and stripping “Lia” Thomas of all of his swimming medals.
Esemplastic and eclectic both relate to the idea of combining or synthesizing elements, but they differ significantly in their meaning and usage.
The key difference is that esemplastic refers to an imaginative or creative combining of diverse elements into a unified whole, whereas eclectic describe a mix-and-match approach that doesn’t necessarily produce a single whole.
A chef with an esemplastic approach might blend ingredients from different cuisines to create a novel, unified dish with a distinct flavor. E.g., Italian pizza with Hawaiian pineapple and Canadian bacon.
A chef with an eclectic approach might serve a menu with dishes from various cuisines side by side, each retaining its distinct style. E.g., Japanese sushi rolls with Mediterranean cucumber feta salad.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Angels of God, our guardians dear, to whom God’s love commits us here, ever this day be at our sides, to light and guard, to rule and guide. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
COMEDY BREAK: “This is a very nerdy sketch.” [2:25] – Enjoy!
EVERYDAY HEROES: When an 81-year-old woman with dementia went missing, five officers and a K9 searched for nearly an hour. When an officer found her, she thought he was out for a walk too. So he took her hand and they walked together, laughing and talking about life until she was returned home safely.
KAMALA: CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1978449782101229937 [:23] to hear her say, “Some people have said I was the most qualified candidate ever to run for president.” Best comment: “The voices in Kamala’s head can’t be reached for comment.”
NICU: The idea of giving preemies crocheted octopus toys started in Denmark and has spread worldwide. The tentacles mimic the feel of the umbilical cord, which babies grasped in the womb. Those preemies who grasp octopus tentacles are less likely to tug at vital NICU lines or tubes.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Prosper the works of our hands and grant our nation financial stability and abundance. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SHUTDOWN: [27:19] – On Thursday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other House Republicans delivered remarks.
GRAMMY NOTES: Mama reports that Bootz was “getting really bothered anytime he heard our Lord’s name taken in vain, whether in person or in tv. So I encouraged him to turn it into a prayer. And he had the idea of praying for that person! Anyway, we were watching something today and I noticed him doing the Sign of the Cross, bowing his head in silent prayer and then a minute later another Sign of the Cross after each of the couple times we heard someone take our Lord’s name in vain. Typing this out, I am remembering what he said about praying for that person. I usually say a silent ‘How great Thou art’ or something similar. Gotta remember to pray for the blasphemer!” Yup. Me too.
I asked Grok, “What would it take for women in the USA to lose the right to vote?” The extensive answer is below.
For women in the USA to lose the right to vote, a constitutional amendment would be required to repeal or modify the 19th Amendment, which grants women suffrage. This process is deliberately difficult and involves the following steps:
Proposal: A constitutional amendment must be proposed either by a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures (34 out of 50 states). The convention method has never been used.
Ratification: The proposed amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states (38 out of 50), either through state legislatures or state ratifying conventions, as specified by Congress.
Key Considerations:
Legal and Political Barriers: The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, is entrenched in U.S. law. Any attempt to repeal it would face significant opposition, as voting rights are a cornerstone of democratic principles. Courts, including the Supreme Court, would likely scrutinize any legislation or actions restricting voting rights under existing constitutional protections, such as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Practical Challenges: Public opinion strongly supports universal suffrage. Mobilizing the required supermajorities in Congress or among states to propose and ratify such a change would be nearly impossible given current political and cultural norms. Women make up roughly half the electorate, and their voting power would influence lawmakers against supporting such a measure.
Historical Precedent: No constitutional amendment granting rights has ever been repealed. The closest example is the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition (18th Amendment), but that addressed a policy issue, not a fundamental right.
Hypothetical Scenarios:
Extreme Political Shift: A drastic change in political ideology, such as the rise of an authoritarian regime or a supermajority of lawmakers opposed to women’s suffrage, would be necessary. This would require a level of political upheaval unprecedented in modern U.S. history.
State-Level Restrictions: States could attempt to restrict voting access through laws (e.g., voter ID requirements, felony disenfranchisement, or gerrymandering), but these would not explicitly target women’s right to vote and would likely face legal challenges under federal law, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Judicial Overreach: A Supreme Court ruling reinterpreting the 19th Amendment in a way that undermines its protections could theoretically occur, but this is highly unlikely given precedent and the amendment’s clear language.
Conclusion: Repealing women’s right to vote would require an extraordinary and improbable combination of legislative, judicial, and societal changes. It would face massive resistance, legal challenges, and public backlash, making it effectively unattainable under current conditions.
BORDER: After Trump’s executive actions stranded ~270,000 migrants in Mexico, Mexican police and National Guard units adopted aggressive tactics that exceed ICE’s typical operational style in reported use of force and speed of removals. CLICK https://x.com/amuse/status/1978327051531645128 to see some clips. Best comment: “Why is coming to America always the goal? Have they not realized we are racist, fascist, authoritarian, white supremacist, sexist, bigots, and Islamophobic? Did I forget anything?”
CATHOLIC: On Friday, Oct. 10, a man whose identity has not been revealed was arrested by security guards after he climbed onto the Altar of the Confession, located under Bernini’s baldachin, and urinated on it while tourists looked on in astonishment. In February of this year, a man severely damaged part of the main altar, breaking several candelabras. In June 2023, an individual of Polish origin stripped naked in the same place.
CHARLIE KIRK: On October 14 – Charlie’s birthday – President Trump honored him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also signed a presidential proclamation declaring October 14 the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk.
DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1978182511839543653 [1:02] to hear three top Democrats bitch that Trump is on a revenge tour and warn that when they retake power, they’re going to go on a revenge tour.
EVERYDAY HEROES: [6:38] – Eighteen-year-old Leah Barcus, a Regent University student from Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the creator of a unique and beautiful ministry called “Joy Dolls.” Used American Girl dolls arrive by donation, auction or private sale, then are lovingly restored, dressed, tagged, boxed and gifted to children in distress. N.b., American Girl dolls currently cost $135 new. Outfits with shoes and accessories are $32 each.
MEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/billmaher/status/1978140100614881421 to hear Bill Maher out the Leftist media for calling Gaza a “genocide” while totally ignoring what’s going on in Nigeria. The religious targeting is well-documented.
OBAMA: CLICK https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1977871466214375694 to see the man who tried to frame President Trump for treason say he doesn’t want Trump to prosecute him and his cronies. Lara Logan comments, “Wow. The swagger is gone. You are looking at a man in the grip fear. Regardless of what we think, he knows what he has done.” Yep. Note the body language. Crossed arms and crossed legs, which often indicate defensiveness or discomfort in a conversation.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please bless the Republican Party with the graces needed to protect and defend the Constitution, while resisting the lures of power. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SCOFFLAW: NY Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted for mortgage fraud for having claimed a house in Virginia as her primary residence for the purposes of obtaining a more favorable loan. In June 2025, a relative of James named Nakia Thompson (left) testified before a federal grand jury that she has occupied the property for years with her three children, that she neither pays rent nor contributes to maintenance and that James visits several times a year.
While it may be commendable of James to provide housing to her needy relatives, it should be pointed out that, as an attorney, Letitia James took an oath to uphold the law. Nakia Thompson (36) has a long history of criminal violations, including burglary, grand larceny, possession of burglary tools, and child endangerment-related traffic offenses.
Because she is wanted in North Carolina for parole violations, AG Letitia “No one is above the law” James has been harboring a wanted fugitive. N.b., while this accusation has not been proven in court, it has been substantiated by court documents, probation records, and grand jury testimony.
SHUTDOWN: Dems keep yapping that their no vote on the CR is all about health insurance subsidies. They never mention the rest of the $1.5 trillion in spending they packed into their demands. CLICK https://x.com/theblaze/status/1978118352116588637 [:55] to hear just a few line items.
Best comment: “How is it even legal to give away money when we are so far in debt? No foreign aid until our debts are paid off.” ITA. Until we are debt-free, every dime morally belongs to our creditors.
TRANS: Non-conforming sexual identifications peaked in 2023 and have dropped sharply since, along with depression and anxiety. Self-identified heterosexuality has increased.
GRAMMY NOTES: My favorite comment on the video is “Today, we’re watching this on our phones.” [9:50] – I was born the year this was made. Dearest remembers when his home phone was on a party line with an operator. I am younger than he is and I grew up in a bigger town, so my oldest telephone memory was when our four digit phone number was changed to seven digits … right after my father had bought a case of matchbooks printed with his business name and our now-defunct four digit number. We finally used up the last of those matches around the time I graduated from high school. My siblings were like, “What do you meanthere’s nomatches?! There’s always matches!” LOL
EVERYDAY HEROES: When a regular customer failed to turn up for his daily lunch, the staff at the Shrimp Basket restaurant in Pensacola, Florida, tried to phone him. Getting no answer, one of the cooks went to his house. The elderly man had fallen and was unable to get up again. Because somebody cared, he is in the hospital, recovering.
GRETA THUNBERG: Quoth the Raven asks, “When protest becomes indistinguishable from performance, what’s the real priority — the cause, or the spotlight?”
“Thunberg’s activism depends on saying everything as loudly and as often as possible — with maximum camera coverage. … [But] Greta has never risked more than her comfort. She has not sacrificed her safety, her health, or her future. Instead, she has repeatedly placed herself in situations designed to look dangerous enough to inspire sympathy, but not dangerous enough to demand irreversible cost. The result is a kind of protest theater: gripping to watch, but ultimately more about the performer than the issue.”
LIFE: Trump has shut down the Office of Population Affairs (OPA), a division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that manages public health programs related to family planning, reproductive health, and adolescent services. IOW, the office that promotes early childhood sex education, LGBTQ+ activism, and abortion.
MEDIA: Note how the tone of the headlines has been modified to appeal to the political majority in the area where the paper will be marketed.
MEDICARE: Our plan is being discontinued, so I’ve begun researching to find the best replacement in time for open enrollment. I saw an ad on Facebook for Medicare School (link below). I’m sharing this because it has 4.9 out of 5 stars at Trust Pilot. The AI summary of customer reviews says:
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OBAMA: [5:54] – CLICK https://x.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1977798112275014017 [2:33] to see progress on his Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago, which is expected to open next year. “Decades and decades of wrong-headed thinking” will be memorialized in this hideous eyesore. It reminds me of the home of IT in “A Wrinkle in Time”, which was described as a large, rectangular building “of a greenish marble-like material. It had no windows, no doors, only a blank wall with a small circular opening high up, just under the roof.”
PEACE in the MIDDLE EAST: [10:33] – History.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, We thank You for the privilege of living in the best nation in the world. Grant us courage and wisdom to choose leaders who are humble and righteous. May all our leaders prioritize justice, truth, and peace. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
GRAMMY NOTES: One time, when we were in New York and our military kids were stationed in Alaska, Maryland, and Texas, we exchanged photos showing it was snowing in all four places.
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