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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for the experiences and moments that have shaped me. Help me to learn from my mistakes and to grow in wisdom and understanding. Let me see Your hand at work in my life so I will be better able to trust in Your plan for my future. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

AIR TRAVEL: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tnpjwJ3hcfY to learn something maybe you did not know either.

CATHOLIC: This year, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception will be celebrated on Monday, December 9, rather than December 8 which falls on the Second Sunday of Advent. This feast is a holy day of obligation, meaning Catholics are required to attend Mass on Sunday and Monday this week.

DEI: The University of Michigan has announced that it will no longer require diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements for faculty hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions.

DOGE: In October, a Senate report revealed that only 6% of the government’s workers are showing up in person every day. The report added that this has caused an increase of people slacking on the job, including bureaucrats being “found in a bubble bath, on the golf course, running their own business, and even getting busted doing crime while on taxpayers’ time.” The report further noted that this has resulted in “service backlogs and delays, unanswered phone calls and emails, and no-show appointments.” Meanwhile, taxpayers are spending nearly $16 billion a year on empty office buildings.

MELANIA: [14:34] – She gave Fox News her first post-election interview.

OBAMA: CLICK https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1865209518742999117 [2:58 ] to hear BHO project his disappointment at the failure of the Democrats to “lock in a permanent grip on power.”

PRAYERS NEEDED: Phil Robertson has been suffering from a disorder that leaves him barely able to walk from place to place in his home without shouting from the pain. In addition, he has entered the early stages of Alzheimer’s.

PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS: [10:43] – Civics Review gives a history lesson on this odd constitutional power the framers gave to POTUS and strongly suggests Biden’s pardon of his biological son goes beyond what those men felt was appropriate.

TRANS: A doctor celebrated as “America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine” is being sued for medical negligence by Kaya Clementine Breen. Included in the suit are the therapist she referred Breen to, the surgeon who removed Breen’s breasts, and other medical professionals involved in rushing Breen through procedures that have deeply and negatively impacted her future. 

The suit notes that, in addition to confusion about her gender, Breen presented with “anxiety, depression, autism, undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), potential bipolarism, … psychosis (including audio and visual hallucinations), panic attacks, and paranoia. Her family also has a lengthy history of mental health issues. She needed psychotherapy to evaluate, assess, and treat her complex co-morbid mental health symptoms.”

She didn’t get these things. “Instead, she was fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging puberty blockers (age 12), cross-sex hormones (age 13), and [a double mastectomy] (age 14).” 

VAXXX: Remember when the FDA claimed it would need up to 75 years to process and release the documents they used to give emergency authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine? Well, Judge Mark Pittman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas said, and I paraphrase, “Screw that. You’ve got til June 30, 2025.”

The FDA claimed it could not possibly have found the time to photocopy or copy/paste these files on to a hard drive at a rate of more than 500 pages per month. So how the hell did they manage to digest all the data they contain in the few short weeks they had them before issuing the Emergency Use Authorization that resulted in people being mandated/coerced/shamed into injecting them into their bodies or fired/jailed/ostracized for refusing them?!

GRAMMY NOTES: I really enjoyed this drawing exercise from https://www.lanagloschatart.com/products/communities/thecolorclub/home. The challenge was to use only one red, one yellow, and one blue colored pencil. BTW, the paper is taped to the smooth back side of a glass cutting board that I evicted from my kitchen, because it dulled my knives. It’s a very handy drawing board and sometimes I like to use the pebbly side for the texture.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/605875555207325 for a magical moment from BGT. Their technical skill and attention to their director is just amazing.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1598735450854167 to see some more young people who clearly worked very hard!

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BLACK FRIDAY: “U.S. shoppers used their mobile phones, laptops, desktops and other devices to make roughly $10.8 billion in purchases online on Black Friday.” I did my bit! So glad to save BIG on gifts for our church’s Christmas tree tag kids. I was able to afford much better stuff. ❤

EXTREMISM: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/936808417909975 to hear John Cleese explain the appeal of extremism.

FBI: Trump has chosen Kash Patel to direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Patel, who served as chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense during Trump’s first term in office and played a key role in revealing the Russian collusion hoax. He has been critical of the way the FBI operates and says he wants to relocate the bureau’s headquarters to somewhere to outside the Beltway.

MILITARY: “There is no doubt that women can serve in the military and make great contributions to success on the battlefield.  This does not mean that it is a good idea to put them into combat arms units, where they would be required to go face to face with the enemy and ultimately be capable of fighting hand to hand and coming out alive. There is no second place in combat.” – Larry Keifesh

I am very proud of my daughters’ military service. I am very glad neither of them ever had to fire their weapons at another human being.

GRAMMY NOTES: Bon voyage to Army Prince and the three Texas grands who fly today to join #2 for her 3 year deployment abroad. Big adventures ahead!

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ELON’S FAVORITE MEME: New research shows what we’ve all experienced. CLICK https://x.com/_alice_evans/status/1857307840248947196 and https://x.com/_alice_evans/status/1857307842753044868 to see the graphs.

THE VIEW: [5:50] – Whoopi Goldberg blasted a specific bakery for allegedly refusing to make their signature cupcakes for her birthday. The bakery in question told the person making the order that their aged boiler was on the fritz and they couldn’t make any promises. To make this story even worse, the baker was able to get the boiler fixed in time to make the cupcakes … the same cupcakes that Goldberg was showing off as she blasted the bakery for supposedly having lied. So rather than give the bakery a pat on the back for coming through despite mechanical difficulties, she slandered them! ::smh::

In other news, I’ve heard two lawyers say the bakery has grounds to sue Goldberg. I’m thinking they might want to send her some complimentary cupcakes, cuz their business is apparently booming … lines down the block, sold out early. ❤

WOMEN’S SPORTS: [13:55] – If you prefer to read rather than listen to Megyn Kelly, Legal Insurrection @ https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/court-connecticut-high-school-females-discrimination-case-over-males-in-girls-sports-can-move-forward/ goes over the history of the case. After more than five years, these young women have finally earned a right to have their case heard.

GRAMMY NOTES: I am #5 of 6. When #2 was in college, he took a psychology class in which they had a lecture about the personalities of kids as related to their birth order and gender. He said it was like they had been peeping in our living room window. But the prof only went up to #4, so he asked, “What about after 4?” “There aren’t enough families that big to study and make generalizations like this, but we think it might repeat, beginning with #5 being a new #1 and so on.” We looked at each other and nodded, “Yup. Looking in our living room window.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZICsfY-GN2g to see a service dog go shopping.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rulE3ZyZiOU to see a deaf girl try out caption glasses.

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2024: Put your mug down and swallow so you don’t spit take on your computer. CLICK https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1855651960633925756 [:50] to hear a former Kamala Harris Communications Director say, “Joe Biden has been amazing but he should fulfill one last promise – to be transitional. Biden should resign and make Kamala Harris the first woman president. It’d turn tables on Trump, keep Kamala from presiding over Jan 6 make it easier for next woman to run.” – Jamal Simmons

HAVE YOU SEEN THEM: Popular vote totals for the last five presidential elections –

But remember, people. Thou Shalt Not Question Joe’s Historic Vote Total!

KAM-ECONOMY: It seems like ending a campaign in debt and stiffing vendors and staff is SOP for Democrats.

MAGA: [13:46] – Wow! It’s almost like he’s already president! USA! USA! USA!

MIDDLE EAST: “In recent days, I have spoken three times with US President-elect Donald Trump. These were very good and important talks designed to further enhance the steadfast bond between Israel and the US. We see eye-to-eye on the Iranian threat in all its aspects, and on the dangers they reflect. We also see the great opportunities facing Israel, in the area of peace and its expansion, and in other areas.” – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

TRANSITION: “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner.” – Trump on Truth Social

He reminded Republicans that last time confirmations were stalled for two or more years and “we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!”

He also wrote that should not confirm any judges before his inauguration “because the Democrats are looking to ram through their Judges as the Republicans fight over Leadership. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.”

WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM: From X – “The unhinged Left: I hope every republican woman gets PREGNANT with a BABY she has to raise. All of my conservative female friends: omg me too I love babies”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GdudCgRTssQ for funny cat clips.

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