AMERICAN HISTORY: On October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire started. Over the next four days, it killed about 300 people and destroyed more than 4 square miles of buildings.
CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdM9OG6Jgr_/?stkn=bWQyZTlqYXgwY2lq to hear a cradle Catholic take on the workers in the vineyard parables. I’ve often thought about the difference in that parable, not in the end wage, but rather in the experience of the various workers during the day. Yes, the early morning hires worked all day, but they also knew all day they would have money for their families. Those hired later had hours of anxiety and, for the latest ones, maybe despair that this night, their children would go to bed hungry.
DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards at all.
IMMIGRATION: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed denaturalization cases against 40 individuals accused of various crimes, including child pornography, drug offenses, sodomy against a special needs man, child sexual abuse, identity theft, voluntary manslaughter, and espionage for China.
MILITARY: In 2009, Nidal Hasan, an Army officer stationed at Fort Hood went to his desk, bowed his head for several seconds, then shouted “Allahu Akbar! ” and began spraying “bullets at soldiers in a fanlike motion” before taking aim at individual soldiers. He killed 13 and wounded 32. The Obama administration labeled the attack “workplace violence,” because they didn’t want to admit it was an Islamic terror attack. President Trump has just approved Hasan’s execution by Army firing squad.
- https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2107260436299043251
- https://notthebee.com/article/trump-approves-firing-squad-for-muslim-us-army-officer-who-murdered-13-people-at-fort-hood
OH CANADA: The bad news is that Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program approved a woman’s request to die, because she was upset that she could no longer cook for her family. The good news is that, with counseling, she came to understand that her family valued who she was, not what she did for them, and revoked her request.
In 2021, the Canadian government removed the “reasonably foreseeable death” requirement. MAID deaths now account for around 5% of all deaths in Canada.
PLANET FITNESS: On Oct. 1, Laquan Holland (40) was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting two women inside a Planet Fitness women’s locker room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Holland entered the women’s locker room where he sexually assaulted a woman and prevented her from leaving the area. He then attacked a second woman who attempted to intervene.
Planet Fitness, which advertises itself as a “judgment-free zone”, has a policy of allowing male members to enter women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and showers, supposedly “based on their self-reported gender identity.” There’s no indication that Holland even pretended to be a woman. He has, however, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of child rape and one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. Planet Fitness says it has canceled Holland’s membership and is working with police.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE: St. John Bosco, also known as Don Bosco, was a19th century Italian Catholic priest and founder of the Salesian orders of priests, sisters, and lay people. He is known for his success ministering to youths, particularly boys. In his biography, it says he had a dream in which a tall dark figure with horns appears holding a magic lantern. Through it, boys were shown all kinds of tempting scenes which entertained them so intensely that it distracted them from Holy Communion.
- https://www.facebook.com/JustDailyLOLs/posts/pfbid0f2unCHAq2cmZfMEy895brWHtvN8Hs8gw7Cg39nZRiDESsNHeDkT2qPyHdrJKU7Kvl
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bosco
TRANS: Zion Teasley (25) has pleaded guilty to stabbing Lauren Heike (29) to death and will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Before the murder, Teasley wrote in his diary that he was battling with his gender identity. He told authorities that he killed Heike because he was jealous of her beauty.
TREASURY: The Treasury Department has saved We The Taxpayers $175 million by not sending money to dead people.
GRAMMY NOTES: In 1972, I was privileged to journey behind the Iron Curtain with a high school tour group. We visited Helsinki first, then crossed into the USSR to visit Leningrad and Moscow. Our Russian tour guide was a young mother who told us she wanted to care of her 3 yo daughter herself, but that the government didn’t allow that. She had to work. AND she was given only two choices of jobs. She took tour guide as the less onerous of her options.
