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CATHOLIC: This polyglot padre can hear confessions in six different languages!

CHICOMS: When my brother lived in Beijing in 1985-1986, he said the government had menstrual monitors who kept track of every women’s cycle. If a woman who had no permit to conceive was late to menstruate, she got sent off for a suction abortion.

The resulting population decline resulted in the dictatorial government changing its one child per couple rule to two children. Now I think they’re at three. But the citizens who are currently in their childbearing years grew up in a world where no one they knew had a sibling or more than one or two aunts, uncles, or cousins.

In short, they’re finding it distasteful to have more than one child. But you can’t keep halving the population every 20-30 years and expect to maintain the level of development your culture has achieved. So the idiot dictator now has people calling women to find out if they are pregnant yet and, if not, when are they going to get a round tuit.

COVID CRIMES: A newly released book called The Pfizer Papers reveals that Pfizer’s own documents prove the Big Pharma company and the FDA knew by November 2020 that the mRNA ‘rona vaccine was neither safe nor effective.

In other medical crime news, six former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who were fired for refusing the jab have won a group settlement of $7.8 million. The federal jury determined that BART had failed to prove that it suffered an undue hardship by denying accommodations to the ex-employees in the case.

INDULGENCES: [9:49] – I just downloaded an English translation of Martin Luther’s “95 Theses.” At the time he did this, he was a faithful Catholic priest who was merely looking to get certain individuals to stop the sinful practice of selling indulgences.

Caveat: The Catholic Church does not now nor has it ever approved the sale of indulgences. This is to be distinguished from the undeniable fact that individual Catholics (perhaps the best known of them being the German Dominican Johann Tetzel [1465-1519]) did sell indulgences – but in doing so they acted contrary to explicit Church regulations. This practice is utterly opposed to the Catholic Church’s teaching on indulgences, and it cannot be regarded as a teaching or practice of the Church.

All of Luther’s 95 Theses deal with this one issue. A number of them also show great respect for the papacy, making it clear that Luther was not – at that time – splitting from or spitting on the Catholic Church. That only came later, after certain German princes decided he was a useful idiot (sorry, my words) that they could exploit for political gain.

I want to recommend reading them to you. Some of them sound exactly like the Christians who nowadays rightly condemn so-called Christians who “do not distribute them* freely but only gather them.” [Thesis #57]

*Them: Luther was referring to those who sold indulgences. I think we can easily see in that “them” the type of glitzy televangelists and mega church pastors who regularly call out to Christians to “give to Jesus and you will be blessed” … then spend the money on mansions and private jets, etc.

MINIATURE LIFE: Wonderful artist here! If you’re interested in just the art work, the 2024 calendar is on sale at Amazon for $12. Next year’s is $27. There is also a small desktop one for $7. Go to Amazon and put MINIATURE LIFE CALENDAR in the search box.

PSA: On September 2, Not The Bee reported that some banks’ ATMs have developed a “glitch” whereby you can withdraw funds before the bank has had a chance to verify your check deposit is legit. One guy deposited a fraudulent “check” for $335,000, then withdrew $290,940 before … oops … getting caught. Being allowed to withdraw funds immediately isn’t a glitch. It’s a privilege. The banks in question are filing charges and the criminals are being arrested.

SCOTUS: Woohoo!! The Supremes have ruled 6-3 in favor of allowing the State of Virginia to purge resident illegals from their voter rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 election!! The three liberals (you can guess which ones they are) didn’t bother to explain their legal justification for siding with the Biden/Harris administration’s efforts to allow non-citizens to vote.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/um0CLs7ANk8 to hear Nick Freitas explain the correct way to get C-seeds. LOLOLOL

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ABORTION: Harris supports passing federal legislation mandating abortion on demand for all states. She also opposes allowing religious exemptions. She says these positions are “non-negotiable.”

Trump supports keeping the right to abortion legislation at the state level where voters have more control over what happens in their communities.

CALIFORNICATION: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FJREM9WTZ5Y to hear how whacked the far left is.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1849600195379564915 to see a new Trump ad. Democrats have been in charge for 12 of the past 16 years. We can’t afford four more years of their irresponsible leadership!

ECONOMY: Harris says she intends to bring down the price of groceries by “dealing with price gouging.” N.b., there is no evidence that anyone in the food chain is price gouging; the issue certainly has nothing to do with the cost of food skyrocketing across the board.

On housing, she says she plans to create incentives for construction companies to build millions of new homes and housing units and to provide first-time homeowners a down payment of $25,000. She does not explain what those incentives would be or how she would pay for even more government giveaways. She also ignores the true drivers of our housing shortage, which are inflation, too many government regulations, and millions of new and illegal residents competing for existing housing.

On wages not keeping up with the cost of living, Harris says she favors a national minimum wage of at least $15 per hour. She does not address the historical fact that increases in minimum wage have always increased the cost of living for all, which severely harms the poorest and the disabled and elderly who live on fixed incomes. She also ignores the fact that where higher minimum wages have been installed, massive numbers of starter jobs have disappeared as businesses with slim profit margins were forced to close. She also does not seem to care that many of the people who need starter jobs are unable to find them because illegals are willing (or forced) to work for less under the table.

WASHINGTON POST: [7:42] – “Kamala, who do you have when you’ve lost the Washington Post?” – Kayleigh McEnany

WHO IS WITH GOD: Last week, at a rally at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where Kamala Harris was pronouncing her 100% for abortion on demand, two Christian students shouted “Christ is King!” As they were escorted out of the rally, they were heckled, cursed at, and pushed by other attendees. When Harris she added her own mocking, “You’re at the wrong rally!”, her pro-abortion fans laughed and clapped.

On Sunday, at a rally in Wisconsin, an attendee shouted “Christ is King!” J.D. Vance responded, “That’s right. Jesus is King!

Harris claims she will be a “unifying” president, a president for all Americans. That’s hard to figure, seeing as 70.6% of Americans identify as Christian and 35% believe abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.

WOKE: My art brain can’t stop overthinking this meme! The words appear to have been added by someone other than the artist who did the painting. I can’t help wondering what the artist was actually thinking about. The sun is shining in the bowl; the shadow it casts suggests the water in the bowl is nice and warm, while the water outside is cold and darker. Also, the fish in the bowl is well fed, while the one in the shadow is thin and has stripes; stripes on fish can be a sign of stress. Minus the text, I see a Christian metaphor where the fish who chose Christ is in the bowl and is trying to tell the outside fish that the glass bowl (i.e., God’s law) only appears to be a cage to outsiders. Once you’re on the inside, you learn that, like the stable where Jesus was born, the inside is bigger than the outside.

GRAMMY NOTES: Happy birthday, Bunny!! (Oy, vey, she’s a teenager already!)

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hl9ALvyheVs for a feel good moment.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XMhGh2Yn50w for LOLz.

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