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by | August 15, 2025 · 1:39 pm

Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven

DAILY PRAYER: Mary, Mother of Mercy, intercede for us, your children. Keep us under your protection, safe from all harm, healthy in mind, body, and spirit. Under your watchful care, may we avoid the pitfalls of prejudice, ingratitude, injustice, and violence. And may we be always worthy of the promises of Christ. Amen.

AI: When Mama Buzz first opened yesterday’s “Bits & Bytes” on her phone, the prayer showed up with a transparent background. She highlighted it, intending to make it visible so she could read it. Somehow, this triggered an AI to add what I’ve shown above. Wonderful thoughts, all of them, even if they did utterly miss the point I was trying to make by combining the prayer with that graphic. But I guess the Holy Spirit wanted us to see it, because when Mama reloaded, the prayer formatted correctly.

HANNITY: [4:35] – “No one is above the law!”

SOCIAL SECURITY: Our COLA for 2026 is projected to be +2.7 percent.

STILL WINNING: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Aug. 13 that the Trump administration may cut billions of dollars in foreign aid funds that Congress previously approved. This victory allows Trump to continue to wind down USAID.

TURLEY: [14:55] – “No one is above the law!”

VAXXXINE: Eight studies now show that, far from reducing or preventing infection, the COVID-19 mRNA serum actually promotes it.

  1. June 2, 2022: “Duration of mRNA vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 subvariants in Qatar” @ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30895-3
  2. August 3, 2022: “Rate of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection During an Omicron Wave in Iceland” @ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794886
  3. April 19, 2023: “Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine” @ https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/6/ofad209/7131292
  4. December 5, 2024: “Protection From COVID-19 Vaccination and Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children Aged 6 Months–4 Years United States, September 2022–April 2023” @ https://academic.oup.com/jpids/article-abstract/14/1/piae121/7917119
  5. December 13, 2024: “Behavioral and Health Outcomes of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: A Case-Control Study in Japanese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises” @ https://www.cureus.com/articles/313843-behavioral-and-health-outcomes-of-mrna-covid-19-vaccination-a-case-control-study-in-japanese-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises
  6. February 4, 2025: “Effectiveness of the 2023-to-2024 XBB.1.5 COVID-19 Vaccines Over Long-Term Follow-up: A Target Trial Emulation” @ https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-24-01015
  7. April 2025: “Post-vaccination IgG4 and IgG2 class switch associates with increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections” @ https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(25)00067-2/fulltext#fig0005
  8. August 9, 2025: “Association of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination status with risk of influenza-like illness and loss of workdays in healthcare workers” @ https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-01046-8

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gXU4MBMWwkg to see Becorns discover glowing love balloons. 🙂

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gpsb9pQxxVM for some us husbands vs. wives fun.

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by | May 6, 2025 · 11:12 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Keep us mindful in a special way today that You are always in charge. And thank you that, while we may not always appear to win, we definitely will win in the end! In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

BORDER: Difference being … our right to own and bear weapons and the federal government’s obligation to protect our border are both in the Constitution. So they’re the ones fomenting insurrection.

CLIMATE HOAX: Climate activists said global warming would melt the ice caps and flood us all out of our homes. Twelve years ago, they told us the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free within the four years. A new study shows that, between 2021 and 2023, the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) gained mass at a rate of 108 gigatons per year. Oops.

COVID: “The real name for ‘gain of function’ is ‘death maximization.'” ~ Elon Musk

“In 2014, after 3 of Fauci’s bugs escaped, 300 scientists asked Obama to shut him down. Obama declared a moratorium—but Fauci moved the experiments offshore, mainly to the Wuhan lab. Now our own government—CIA, FBI, State, DOE—all say those experiments likely sparked the COVID pandemic. And it all started as bioweapons research in 1947. President Trump just moved to shut it down—for good.” ~HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

CLICK https://x.com/thackerpd/status/1919498221698605487 [1:01] to watch Trump sign his Executive Order to end federal funding for gain-of-function virus research which many now believe caused the COVID pandemic.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0-_DqFMD6qs to hear Sen. Kennedy comment on the Left’s DOGE-rage.

EDUCATION: CLICK https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1919569106644107696 [2:34] to hear Larry Kudlow and EdSec McMahon discuss Trump’s fight with Harvard. She says something about Harvard not getting grants until they comply. I don’t understand why any private college is getting federal money period. When my kids were in parochial school, we were grudgingly allowed bus rides and $35/kid toward textbooks.

GROUPTHINK: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/itoUnYYXXEU to hear a simple explanation for why some Democrats behave like they are members of a cult.

MEDIA: Notice how they’re not talking about eggs any more? If they actually cared about Americans, they’d be celebrating that low-income people can afford them again. But they don’t. They only care about scoring political points for Democrats.

PSA: [2:34] – Very useful trick.

TARIFFS: “American manufacturers are seeing a surge in demand as President Donald Trump’s tariffs force companies to reconsider doing business in China.” “Workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy.” Read more at the links.

TDS: The rant above is exactly why he does this stuff. While he’s busy fixing America, loony lefties are wasting time TDSing about pranks. And, We the People are not clapping along; we’re laughing along. Except about the pope pics. I found them distasteful. But since I’m not a lunatic, I just scrolled and got on with my day.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ik1CaXUUr4E for a supercute R*CKST*R.

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by | November 29, 2024 · 8:18 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Lord, please give me all the physical, emotional, and mental strength I will need to persevere through today’s difficulties. And grant me too the spiritual strength I will need to trust in Your power, goodness, and love. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

BORDER: [8:03] – Within days of Trump telling Mexico to protect our southern border or else, the Mexican president assured him that migrant caravans are no longer heading our way. I heard a news anchor refer to him as “the president” … cuz he kinda already is.

BOSTON: On November 18, Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu announced her sanctuary city will not cooperate with the looming mass deportation operation from the incoming Trump administration. On November 19, Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, pointed out that it’s a felony to harbor illegal aliens and that he’d be happy to arrest her and anybody else who hinders ICE. On November 20, Mayo Wu said, “My comments have never been directed towards the federal government or anyone except for our own community members.” Point. Set. Match.

Tom Homan’s strong statements represent more of Trump’s “peace through strength” at work. Homan has the perfect temperament for this battle.

DEATH THREATS: [6:08] – The FBI says it is aware of swatting incidents and bomb threats targeting Trump nominees and appointees. “We are working with our law enforcement partners,” the FBI’s statement said. “We take all potential threats seriously, and as always, encourage members of the public to immediately report anything they consider suspicious to law enforcement.”

FAUCI: Since Tony Fauci retired, taxpayers have shelled out millions providing U.S. marshals to guard him, a private chauffeur to tote him here and there, law enforcement equipment, and more. His salary and pension were and continue to be upwards of $400,000 per year. (What happened to retiring at half pay?) The worst of it all is that not only is his net worth $12.5 million, but also that it increased by a whopping $5 million between the years 2019 and 2021. You remember those years, right? When the rest of us were locked in our homes, anxiously watching our savings and pantries empty out? Tony Fauci is a private citizen. Let him pay his own bills.

IRS: They want Congress to write them a $20 billion check. Vivek Ramaswamy tweeted: “Thousands of IRS employees & contractors literally *aren’t paying their own taxes.* @SenJoniErnst audited the IRS & found they owed nearly $50 million. The government-wide number of employee unpaid taxes is over $1.5 billion. The hypocrisy is insane.”

MENTAL HEALTH: TDS [3:46] – A practicing therapist has an interesting article at American Mind (linked below). An excerpt to whet your appetite: “I speak from some experience, having spent multiple hours per day over the past few weeks hearing from clients about the damage inflicted upon their psyches ‘by the Trump win.’ This is their account of things. My own opinion, however, is that someone has subjected these kids to psychic trauma. But it wasn’t Donald Trump. …

“Of course, we will laugh at the libs of TikTok shaving their heads and screaming in their cars. … But we should not laugh at those who break their sobriety, or plunge into isolation because of the Trump victory. They are truly sick, and ideological bad actors have preyed off their desperation for personal clout, terrorizing them with confected fears and then discarding them to suffer the psychological consequences.

“There’s a mental health crisis in this country—on this we can all agree. But the peddlers of Trump Derangement Syndrome don’t seem to care that their cynical, apocalyptic politics bear no small part of the blame.”

MISSION: Cal Zastrow spent Thanksgiving in prison as part of a six-month prison sentence over a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021. He was convicted by the Biden DOJ earlier this year for violating the FACE Act by praying, singing hymns, and sitting in front of the door to the entrance of an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. He says he is “on a big mission trip here,” keeping busy praying, reading his Bible, and teaching his fellow inmates about Christianity. “This prison holds almost 2,300 men and their need to hear about Jesus, their need for that is greater than my need for liberty. And so I’m here on a DOJ-sponsored mission trip.”

THANKSGIVING: This is what Dearest and I prayed for on Wednesday night. ❤

TOLERANCE: CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1861174417679593753 to see what one of the disappointed wokies cooked up for her MAGA relatives. These people need prayer.

VATICAN MAIL: [6:30] – This is really interesting! I have some wonderful Vatican stamps in my collection. 🙂

VAXXXINES: CLICK https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1861189891985678696 [12:15] to hear an undercover video of an NIH division head admit that the ‘rona jabs weren’t properly tested and probably aren’t safe, that he personally doesn’t get the jab, that ‘rona mandate requirements were based on fake science, and that Fauci and NAIAD probably funded the Wuhan research. He seems like a good-hearted guy. I feel for people like him who work for corruptocrats.

GRAMMY NOTES: My doctor has ordered vocal rest. I am learning things about myself. Like, that I talk to myself (a lot). Also that I don’t actually need to say every single thing that pops into my head.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HhVIo9PeEWE and say “Amen!”

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/epbq4rem3uQ for pumpkin pie LEGO style.

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