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by | May 7, 2025 · 10:09 am

Today is my birthday!

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please give us the graces we need to make the “don’t care” part really true. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BIG STICK: [19:42] – CLICK https://x.com/ABC/status/1919792210318340216 [1: 20] to hear Trump announce that the Houthis “don’t want to fight any more.” “We will stop the bombings. They have capitulated, but more importantly, we will take their word. They say they will not be blowing up ships any more.”

According to Julien Miquel (YouTube), the correct English pronunciation for “Houthis” is HOO – theez (hard “th” as in bath).

BORDER: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JJQg92hXeqE to hear a wonderful message from an immigrant from Brazil.

CATHOLIC: The conclave opens today. Please continue to pray with us that God’s perfect will be made manifest in their choice of our next pope.

DOGE: A National Science Foundation grant for more than $800,000 has been canceled. The money was being used to train college science and math education majors how to promote “social justice” and “cultural responsiveness” in their classrooms.

Another $8.4 million has been saved by canceling three DEI training programs.

A further $198 million was saved by terminating 148 wasteful contracts, including one at HHS for “potency monitoring of confiscated marijuana samples.”

HORSE HISTORY: Every horse that ran in the Kentucky Derby is a direct descendant of Secretariat, who won the 1973 Belmont Stakes by an incredible 31 lengths.

HYPOCRITES: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1363860088066886 [:54] to hear Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden support work requirements for welfare recipients.

INDIA vs. PAKISTAN: In April, 26 male tourists were killed in a terrorist attack in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Early today, India responded with airstrikes against terrorists in Pakistan-controlled territory.

MEDIA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U5wMAYX0PEs to hear yet another montage of sound-alike legacy news reports.

REAL ID: Starting today, you must have a REAL ID or a compliant document before boarding a domestic flight. Usually, a REAL ID takes the form of a driver’s license or a non-driver photo ID card issued by a state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) or equivalent. States may issue such documents even if they are not REAL IDs. If your document is also a REAL ID, this is indicated by the presence of a black or gold star in the top corner of the plastic card.

At present, every state, the District of Columbia, and federal territory issues driver’s licenses and non-driver ID cards that are REAL IDs. Some also issue non-REAL ID cards to citizens and residents. These non-REAL ID cards are often cheaper to obtain and do not require as many supporting documents, making them attractive to individuals who merely want a license or ID for everyday purposes. They are also regularly issued to illegal immigrants by some states.

Usually, these non-REAL ID documents will have a notation that reads “Not Valid for Federal Purposes” or an equivalent and will not bear the required black or gold star.

REPARATIONS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1gg_G9Gd0Pw to hear a black supremacist tell us why he “deserves” a million dollars. The way I understand it, President Lincoln gave his ancestor who was actually a slave 40 acres and a mule. Why does anyone owe this joker, who was never a slave, anything?!

SCOTUS: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can move forward with a ban on transgender military service members for now, lifting a lower court injunction against the policy after a judge ruled it was an “unsupported, dramatic and facially unfair exclusionary policy.”

The court did not explain its decision other than to say the order would expire if the justices ultimately take up the case on the merits and issue a ruling striking it down. Litigation continues in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

TRANS: CLICK https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1919930354359472325 [:59] and https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1919993052619321836 [2:32] and https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1919584968570720291 [:40] to see clips from protests outside a Riley Gaines speaking engagement at University of Washington.

CLICK https://x.com/JanJekielek/status/1919902323842626018 [4:05] to hear US Asst. AG Harmeet K. Dhillon talk about what the DOJ is doing to fight gender transition procedures for minors.

GRAMMY NOTES: I’m gonna have a good time!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b1axGwIbk1A to hear Bunny ponder the passage of time.

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by | May 3, 2025 · 10:48 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to trust that, even where You allow us to make sinful choices, You are simultaneously working all things “for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28) In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: Trump has created a second military zone along our southern border, a 63-mile stretch that runs east from the Texas-New Mexico state line in El Paso they’re calling the “Texas National Defense Area.”

ECONOMICS: It’s an odd take, them bitching that he is enriching his friends when one of his closest buddies, Elon Musk, is not only working at DOGE for free, but also losing $$ big time as the Left’s attacks on Tesla damage sales and stock prices.

EDUCATION: In other news, Trump has signed an executive order ending federal funding of the allegedly educational, but mostly left-biased NPR and PBS.

HARRIS: On Thursday, nominations were announced for the 46th News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Among them was an “Outstanding Editing” nod to the interview “60 Minutes” did with Kamala Harris during the campaign.

In case you’ve forgotten, this was the interview during which CBS chose to edit out a terrible “word salad” answer Harris had given and substitute a more coherent one she had given to a different question. This would also be the interview that has Trump suing CBS News and the one that inspired the show’s executive producer to quit.

Speaking of Kamala speaking … I don’t want to listen to her, but if you do, there are clips of her recent speech @ https://notthebee.com/article/kamala-harris-is-still-most-definitely-kamala-harris.

MEDIA: The Left have always hated the military and Fox News, so Pete has a natural advantage over two guys they used to lurve.

SLIPPERY SLOPE: Satan hates marriage and family, so the assault continues. A recent court ruling in Quebec has granted multi-parental families in the province the same legal rights as any other unit.

SMH: The Atlantic just published this article about how Hitler liked tariffs too.

WHITE HOUSE WIRE: The media refuses to cover them honestly, so they’re doing it themselves.

GRAMMY NOTES: Plus there’s the whole problem with “the world” being temporal, so any comfort you might get by selling your soul will end up earning you an eternity of torment.

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by | April 22, 2025 · 8:12 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to seek You and only You. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: Too bad they didn’t give a toot about the due process rights of J-6 American citizens incarcerated in their own back yard.

EASTER at WHITE HOUSE: It shows how gracious Trump is that he is honoring Pope Francis, despite the harsh criticisms the pontiff heaped on him. [3:12] – CLICK https://x.com/abigailmarone/status/1516087183731535874 [:16] to see 2022, when a giant bunny had to remind Biden the Bewildered where he was supposed to be. CLICK https://x.com/MargoMartin47/status/1914344862683476252 [:20] to see 2025, when Trump had fun coloring with the kids.

EDUCATION: Today, 42.7 million borrowers owe more than $1.6 trillion in taxpayer-funded college loans. Only 38% are up-to-date with their repayments. Biden tried to buy votes by refusing to collect on those loans, despite Congress demanding he do so. That ends on May 5, 2025. “American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies.” ~ Education Secretary Linda McMahon

FAUXTUS: Biden’s X account tweeted out this weird family photo to “wish everyone celebrating today a peaceful and joyful Easter.” Joe was photoshopped in.

MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1914021246053785862 [:39] to see how our troops are helping protect our southern border.

PROMISES MADE. PROMISES NOT KEPT: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/653329377513501 to hear 2008 candidate Obama decry the five million illegals Bush let in and the Americans who employ them for substandard wages. President Obama had a trifecta in Congress when he took office; he and the Democrat majority did exactly NOTHING to fix either problem.

PROPHECY: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1913772858339131400 [5:05] to hear Lefties pontificating on the absurdity of Donald Trump ever becoming POTUS. Clearly, Hillary believed it.

VALUES: The Dems’ X account posted that we should be outraged because, while real Americans were being forced to paint potatoes for Easter, the White House was using $30,000 worth of eggs for its annual Easter roll.

Meanwhile, in the comments –

  1. The eggs for the White House Easter Egg Roll in 2025 were donated by the American Egg Board, on behalf of America’s egg farmers, continuing a nearly 50-year tradition of supplying approximately 30,000 eggs for the event. The event used small and medium-sized eggs which are not typically sold in retail to avoid straining the commercial egg supply.
  2. They cited the New York Times as a source [included spit take GIF].
  3. I’ll take, “Things that never happened” for 600, Alex.
  4. Of all the things that didn’t happen, that didn’t happen the most.
  5. Is this a comedy channel? [CTB notes: It’s the official Democrat Party X account.]
  6. FYI: Dem approval rate is at 21%.
  7. No one, not one single human being on this planet, was dyeing potatoes for Easter.
  8. You can get 5 dozen eggs at @SamsClub for $15 which is hugely less expensive than sending a senator to El Salvador for tacos and a margarita.
  9. When Biden left office I was paying $5.89 a dozen.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_k5fjUKBo2I to see another on-the-street portrait. I absolutely love this channel.

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by | April 18, 2025 · 9:28 am

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BORDER: The Tennessee Star has revealed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the suspected M-13 gang member the Democrats want returned to the U.S., was stopped driving without a license in 2022. Despite the fact that the Tennessee Highway Patrol suspected him of trafficking the seven people inside the vehicle and that the man was on a terrorist watch list, Biden’s FBI ordered them to release him.

The one thing that is puzzling me about the Abrego Garcia case is conflicting report about his status in the country. The Alien Enemies Act requires “aliens to be duly apprehended and convened before such court, judge or justice; and after a full examination and hearing on such complaint and sufficient cause therefor appearing” etc. etc. Lots of the news reports say he was never given his day in court; the White House says he was.

GOOD DOG: Two-year old Boden Allen wandered out into the Arizona wilderness about 100 miles south of the Grand Canyon. A massive manhunt ensued with 40 rescuers, including Department of Public Safety rangers and a DPS helicopter. The teams spotted at least two mountain lions in the area. Thanks to a ranch dog named Buford, Boden was found, safe and in good health. The little boy had walked seven miles from his home and spent the night under a tree. CLICK https://x.com/LindseyRagas/status/1912686591354806620 [2:14] to hear the news report.

LAWFARE: [13:48] – Activist Democrat and New York Attorney General Letitia James is in a world of trouble. CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1912569749198045646 [:57] to hear James rant about the suit against her like she’s Rosa Parks, not a flaming hypocrite.

In other news … while researching this post, I stumbled over the fact that Letitia James’ current net worth is approximately $17 Million. Her NY AG job pays $165,000; this appears to be the highest paying job she has ever held.

LIVE: Comment by Viana Santoni-Oliver- I remember being in a grocery store after the Floyd riots when I witnessed 2 Black men, being gentlemen, telling a White woman to proceed ahead of them. She said no and then said “Black lives matter.” The second Black man loudly said, “All lives matter.” She was taken aback, to say the least.

MEDIA: Mainstream media outlets devoted a staggering 62 times more coverage to Trump tariffs than to the latest job report.

In other news, President Donald Trump will not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 26.

MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/DODResponse/status/1912647385173446906 [:35] to see a new military recruiting ad. I ♥️ it.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/RutaUlcinaite/status/1912317589272866950 [:57] to see more than 300 citizens of Chelsea, Michigan, help a local bookstore move 9,100 books from its old to its new location just 400 feet away. ♥️

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by | April 17, 2025 · 7:04 am

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BORDER: Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (photo) has been in the news a lot lately. Here is a summary of the situation – In 2011, Abrego Garcia entered the U.S. illegally, allegedly to escape gang threats in his home country of El Salvador. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him “withholding of removal” status, based on the alleged gang threat. This status allowed him to live and work legally in the United States. He married a U.S. citizen and has had children with her.

On March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act as an MS-13 gang member, which is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. He was subsequently imprisoned without trial in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, despite never having been charged with or convicted of a crime in either country.

Despite the Democrat media machine ginning up massive support for this man, the Trump administration has held firmly to its claim that he is a high level leader in MS-13 who has facilitated human trafficking. In addition, his wife took out a restraining order following a beating by her husband; she now says they are working things out and she wants him back.

On April 10, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Abrego Garcia’s removal to El Salvador was illegal and ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return. The administration said they would meet this obligation by providing a plane and admitting him into the U.S. if El Salvador chooses to release him. But President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador says he will not “smuggle a terrorist into the United States.”

On April 16, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) went to El Salvador to see Abrego Garcia. Van Hollen, who voted against The Laken Riley Act, was told he didn’t give the prison enough notice to see the prisoner.

Also on April 16, the Trump administration released their evidence that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 in good standing.

HAIKU APPRECIATION DAY: Yes, there really is such a thing. And, ta da! It’s today! Glass ballerina is my favorite of the haikus I have composed. I also googled Facebook and found some haiku groups. This posting by Linda Rivas Bole caught my attention –

the wind blows so hard

it helps with pollination

we will have flowers

MILITARY: In late March, the Pentagon began investigating leaks of national security information that was only available to a handful of high level personnel. On Tuesday, Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick were escorted out of the Pentagon by security.

UK: The British Supreme Court just ruled on a case about whether a trans-identifying man with a “gender recognition certificate” that legally recognizes him as female is protected from discrimination as a woman under the 2010 Equality Act. The court said no; the legal definition of “woman” is based on biology and does not include trans-identifying men who say they are women. In response to the ruling, the British government said it supports “single-sex spaces.”

GRAMMY NOTES: [13:30] – The Ghost Army is an art history nerd’s catnip.

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by | April 12, 2025 · 2:50 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear God, Please protect this man. Keep him safe from those seeking to destroy him. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

2A: On Monday, the DOJ announced it will be repealing a “zero tolerance” policy that has allowed anti-gun zealots to put thousands of gun sellers out of business over paperwork errors.

CHINA: Trump is pausing his reciprocal tariffs (charging other nations what they charge us) for 90 days to allow 75 nations to negotiate with us. A baseline 10% tariff will stay in place. Instead of negotiating, China raised its tariffs on U.S. imports to 104%, so Trump hiked our tariffs on Chinese imports to 145%. Amazon has stopped restocking products from China.

DOD: CLICK https://x.com/DOGE/status/1910473817140371875 [3:06] to hear SecDef Hegseth list canceled, unnecessary DoD contracts saving We The Taxpayers FIVE POINT ONE BILLION with a B DOLLARS!

ECONOMY: Inflation has dropped to a 4-year low.

MAKE SHOWERS GREAT AGAIN: CLICK https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1910063390145335674 [3:21] to see Trump undo Obama’s and Biden’s water pressure rules.

MEDIA: The Trump White House press office is refusing to respond to emailed questions from reporters who display their pronouns in their email signatures, saying they deny “biological reality” and can’t be trusted to write honest stories.

RAAACISM: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1909989932774674448 [:48] to hear über racist and The View hostess, Sonny Hoskins, say that voter ID laws are about suppressing minority voting. CLICK https://x.com/floridanow1/status/1910005097284665545 [2:43] to hear what actual Black people in Harlem have to say.

SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: CLICK https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909803276528501103 to hear him give his opinion of the Dem’s new leader.

TARIFFS: According to Rasmussen Reports, the percent of voters who say the country is on the right track has inched upward. It was 44% on March 18th. It had increased to 45% by April 7th.

CLICK https://x.com/jayroo69/status/1909995847732834467 [1:49] to hear “Trump” sing the Animaniac’s “Nations of the World” song!!

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: DOGE says that, since 2020, more than $100 million in benefits have been paid out to people who are too old to be alive, too young to be eligible, or haven’t been born yet.

  1. 24,500 individuals over 115 years old claimed $59 Million in benefits.
  2. 28,000 people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254 Million in benefits.
  3. 9,700 people with birth dates over 15 years in the future had claimed $69 Million in benefits. In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 had claimed $41,000 in benefits.

WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM: Listen to the report to hear what “educators” in deep blue Baltimore did to a student who had a question [4:52]. Meanwhile in deep red Florida, a teacher at one of the Brevard Public Schools has been fired for using a student’s preferred name without the consent of the student’s parents.

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by | April 7, 2025 · 8:48 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask today for an extra dose of courage. Whatever challenges we face, keep us strong in faith, trusting in Your power and Your love to carry us through. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: The Supreme Court has lifted a court order blocking President Trump from deporting Venezuelans under rarely used 1798 wartime law.

DOGE: The US African Development Foundation has terminated $51 million in grants, including: $229,296 for marketing 100% organic shea butter in Burkina Faso; $84,059 for a business incubator for spa & wellness entrepreneurs in Nigeria; $239,738 for marketing pineapple juice in Benin; $246,217 for mango drying facilities in the Ivory Coast; $99,566 to increase yogurt production in Uganda; $48,406 for a WhatsApp marketing chatbot in Kenya; and $50,000 to train farmers to grow dragonfruit in Senegal.

I saw some comments about these being worthy causes. The problem is that, when you’re in debt, your extra money belongs to your creditors. It is not yours to give away, regardless of how worthy the cause. The USA is trillions of dollars in debt.

HE AIN’T WRONG: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ruhX2v31ufI and say “Amen!”

IGNORANCE: CLICK https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1908891272435408961 [2:30] to hear what “Trump is a fascist” protesters had to say.

MAHA: A new study entitled “Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season” presents evidence that the 2024–2025 flu shot had 27% negative efficacy among healthy, working-age adults. Translation: People who got the shot were more likely to get the flu.

TARIFFS: Trump asked us to “hang tough” through a difficult-but-necessary adjustment period. He promises the outcome will be a historic economic revolution.

The European Union says they’re ready to negotiate with the United States, says they’ve offered zero for zero tariffs. “Europe is always ready for a good deal,” said European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.

VICTIMHOOD: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/3664780093668266 to hear about a study that speaks directly to the Left’s perpetual expectations.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: This year’s Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series Event 2 ended with a bang as the final game came down to “Harriet” Haynes and “Lucy” Smith, who are both dudes.

GRAMMY NOTES: [6:09] – Six minutes of good thoughts about “someday” clutter.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h4Thi5Havwc to see a super cute “sports” upset.

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by | April 6, 2025 · 6:51 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask you for the wisdom to know what You want us to say, the courage to speak when what You want said may be unpopular, and the serenity to keep our pie holes shut when now is not Your time. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

ELECTION INTEGRITY: Thanks to years of work by Judicial Watch, more than five million ineligible voter registrations have been removed from the rolls in California, Colorado, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Other voter roll clean-up lawsuits by Judicial Watch continue in Illinois, Oregon, and California.

FIGHT: [9:10] – “Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form—the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness. At every turn, the combatants went for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own.”

IGNORANCE: Grandpa is rolling in his grave that his offspring think Trump is a fascist. Grandpa also knew how to spell “fascist.” But hey, kudos for the cute reference to Harry Potter.

J6 COMMITTEE: Biden gave them all a presidential pardon. If they did everything right, why did they need to be pardoned?

JOBS: During Biden’s years, the jobs reports were consistently lower than the predictions. Then, later on, they had to revise their reported numbers down even more, because they had inflated the reports. The opposite is now true. The newest March jobs report exceeded expectations by more than 50%. And they didn’t even need to fudge the numbers to do it.

SCOTUS: The Supremes have granted Trump permission to continue withholding $250 million in Department of Education grants that would fund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

GRAMMY NOTES: My heart breaks for this little one. My mother couldn’t get 3 seats together on a flight, so decided I (age 11) should sit alone with a stranger while she enjoyed the company of her favorite child (age 21). The stranger spilled boiling hot coffee on me and said nothing except to demand a refill from the attendant. I am 70 now and this memory still hurts. I can’t imagine how this little girl felt, riding all alone in the BAGGAGE CAR! I can only hope she had a kind attendant like the one who put cold water on my burned leg and helped me feel better.

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by | April 4, 2025 · 11:42 pm

This week at DOGE

DOGE: The savings live tracker is a very welcome change from the anxiety-inducing Debt Clock!

MARCH 28, 2025: Over the last 3 days, agencies terminated 121 wasteful contracts saving We The Taxpayers $156 million. These included a $1.6 Million DEI contract for “strategies for implementing ‘social emotional’ learning” and a $143,000 DOT contract for “social media support services.”

MARCH 31, 2025: A 2023 IG report (title page above) pointed out that nearly $5 Billion in COVID era funds remained unused. Nobody did anything about it. DOGE recently recovered $1.4 Billion and it to the Treasury general account. The team is moving urgently to get the rest.

MARCH 31, 2025: Today, agencies canceled 109 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers $420 million. One of these was a $2.7 Million Commerce Department contract for “marketing consulting services outreach and engagement support services.”

EPA: CLICK https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1906776086412767560 [2:10] to hear how much money the Biden administration wasted on one extraordinarily stupid project. CLICK the Wikipedia link below to read about the man the museum lionized.

USIP: Each year, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) receives $55 Million in congressional (taxpayer) funds. According to DOGE, they would sweep millions of this money into a private endowment over which there was no congressional oversight). Trump vowed to dismantle the agency and sent DOGE in. A private accountant to whom USIP had paid $2,232,500 attempted to delete over 1 Terabyte of accounting data after DOGE entered the building. DOGE has recovered the data which allowed them to learn how much waste and fraud they wanted to hide. Among these was $13 Million spent on private events and travel.

SOCIAL SECURITY: DOGE has been cleaning out the data base. The graphic shows the people over 120 years who had been correctly marked as deceased as of March 31. Two million more to go.

APRIL 2, 2025: Today, agencies terminated 80 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers another $139.1 Million. One of these was $2.1 Million State Department management consulting contract for a “senior advisor” in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VETERAN AFFAIRS: Until recently, the VA was paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being performed by one internal VA software engineer who needs about ten hours per week to keep the website up-to-date.

APRIL 2, 2025: Today, agencies cancelled 47 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers another $30.2 million. One of these was a $3.4 million State Department management consulting contract for “aviation advisors” in Kenya.

LABOR DEPARTMENT: On April 3, Acting Secretary Sonderling announced the cancellation of wasteful DEI contracts that will save We the Taxpayers $15 million. Among these were:

  1. $6.7 Million for the California State Library to “enhance equitable library programs”;
  2. $1.5 Million for the Connecticut State Library system to “integrate social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion” into their daily work;
  3. $400,000 for the University of Tennessee to study “LGBTQ+ library users’ metadata”;
  4. $265,000 for Queens College in New York to research “why BIPOC teens” read Japanese comic books;
  5. $250, 000 to erect “LGBTQ+ historical markers” across Ohio;
  6. $140,000 for the University of South Carolina to create “safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals” in libraries; and,
  7. $105,000 to California Association of Museums to address “systemic racism” in museums.

APRIL 4, 2025: The DOGE IT team just saved We the Taxpayers $1 million per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent, modern digital records.

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by | March 7, 2025 · 11:15 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Lorelai is a relative of a relative. I’ll keep you posted as much as possible about her progress.

AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE: It’s too often true that the name Democrats give their bills tell us the opposite of what its provisions do if they are made into law. According to a new report by CBS News, “Health care is so expensive that 31 million U.S. adults, or 12%, had to borrow a total of $74 billion last year to obtain medical care, new data shows. That includes people with health insurance, making such numbers even more troubling.”

AIR: There are reasons why air crews should not be DEI’d by gender. Pilots should be predominantly male, because they are better at spatial awareness and single-mindedness; flight attendants should be predominantly female, because we are better at nurturing and multi-tasking.

AL GREEN: The House voted 224-198 to censure Texas Rep. Al Green for disrupting President Trump’s address to Congress by yelling and angrily shaking his cane. Security guards had to forcibly remove Green and 10 Democrats rightfully joined Republicans in the vote to censure.

But then the corrupt Democrats decided to sing “We Shall Overcome” to show their support for Green’s bad behavior. That song is about overcoming violence via peaceful protest. The second verse says, “We’ll walk hand in hand.” The third verse says, “We will live in peace.”

Breitbart says 80% of speech viewers polled also disapproved of his behavior. The Dems’ own John Fetterman (PA) called his colleagues put on “a sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance” that only made “Trump look more presidential and restrained.”

CATHOLIC: ❤ this!

DEMS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2054254008329453 for a quick explanation of why these same people are so very angry at Elon Musk.

MILITARY: I’m glad they caught these turds … but very sad they were my kids’ fellow soldiers!

SECRET SERVICE: I checked. This is true.

SHAMEFUL: “Democrats are so angry with Trump, you’d think he showered with his daughter and laundered money with his crackhead son.” – Mila Joy on X

TENNESSEE: Congressman Steve Cohen (D) has been representing the 9th district since 2007. The district has voted Democratic in every congressional race since 1974.

CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1897885928133144883 [:14] to hear his answer to “Why should men be in women’s sports?”

CLICK https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/1894192287216754689 [:33] to hear him say Trump is peeing on America.

TRANS: A new study published in the Oxford Academic Journal of Sexual Medicine shows that individuals suffering from gender dysphoria who received so-called gender affirming surgery suffered significantly higher rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use afterwards than those who did not receive such surgery.

UKRAINE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/744803567615249 to hear how Zelenskyy is using the Communist’s playbook to squelch democracy.

GRAMMY NOTES: Forty-five years married … we think of our union as a 3-legged stool. He’s one leg; I’m another; God is the third. To keep it balanced and strong, we need to keep things balanced and equal. What Father says about self-sacrifice is, in our model, just God’s leg getting its fair share.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bm6kMsljmxE to hear about Sylvester’s career.

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