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EDUCATION: The Education Department has approved a plan to cut federal loans to college programs that result in low-earning jobs. It makes sense to me. If taxpayers are expected to foot the bill for these loans, then people who will become taxpayers should be the ones who get them.

In other news, the DOE has codified Title IX to exclude biological males.

FRAUD: The Justice Department has charged 17 people of fraudulently collecting more than $1.3 million in Social Security benefits. One of them, a Chicago woman, stuffed her dead mother in a freezer for two years, so she could go on using the woman’s Social Security benefits.

IRAN: Nick Freitas writes, “Modern political discourse feels a lot like warning someone about a lion that is going to eat them, only to have them reply ‘Oh so you have a problem with lions?’ ‘Do lions “scare” you because they’re different?’ ‘Are you threatened by the lion because it doesn’t look like you?’

“Then the lion eats them and you get blamed for not doing enough to prevent the kind of society where lions eat people.”

MEDIA: The Left Stream Media has been trying to promote its “America is RAAAcist” agenda with the story of Tasia Fortune (29), a Black woman who was murdered in Jackson, Mississippi. NBC reported, “Fortune was Black, and the discovery of her hanging body stoked fear because the scene recalled actual lynchings in the Southern state, which has a long history of racial violence.”

Too bad for them. It turns out the scene was staged and the three men who (probably) killed Fortune are Blacker than she was.

STUPID PEOPLE: A “fetus” is “the unborn young of a viviparous vertebrate having a basic structural resemblance to the adult animal.”

“Viviparous” means “gives birth to living offspring that develop within the mother’s body.”

A “species” is “a group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are usually capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.”

VAXXX: Dr. James P. Miller testified under oath to senate leaders at a roundtable entitled “COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People,” that was held by Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI). He was a trauma surgeon at the Washington hospital that treated the first diagnosed COVID-19 patient in the United States.

He said that the head of infectious disease at his hospital had privately admitted he was working with state government to restrict the civil rights of unvaccinated Americans. This included “their ability to drive and therefore work, by making their driver’s license renewal contingent on their COVID vaccine status.” In a sworn attestation Miller previously filed for criminal investigations, he identified the infectious diseases doctor as Dr. George Diaz.

Diaz was also an early champion of remdesivir. Miller said of the drug that “any physician honestly reviewing the real-world data at that time could have recognized early that remdesivir caused more harm than good.”

He also testified, “I observed messaging by the hospital that falsely inflated COVID infections and deaths, contributing to public fear and generating misleading headlines. In my experience, we never faced shortages of equipment or staff. I witnessed nurses being sent home because there were not enough patients, while headlines about our hospital were simultaneously running, stating that we were overwhelmed by COVID patients.

“I further observed that mask and PPE protocols initiated during COVID lacked scientific basis and did not medically work, but the mask and PPE protocols did dehumanize patients and staff.

“I witnessed patients who died from trauma and other causes being reported as COVID-19 deaths on their death certificates. I watched previously compassionate and devoted doctors and nurses become cruel and ambivalent about the well-being of patients as the COVID experience evolved.’

Miller opened a free clinic to treat those denied care and “observed that many of the alternative treatments that were censored by medical societies, pharmacists, social media, the press, and established health agencies were highly effective. Treatments including ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, zinc, quercetin, and just physical exercise were highly effective at treating COVID.

“When I advocated for patient care rather than harmful protocols and spoke against the fraud, I was targeted for removal through baseless disciplinary actions, with a stated goal of taking away my medical license and ability to ever practice medicine again.

“I endured countless unfounded disciplinary hearings, show trials, and sham peer review procedures, which included the threat of me being arrested. This was all in retaliation for me speaking out.

“I defeated every attack. I remained in good standing, and I told the truth.

“I witnessed physicians and nurses who observed the harms done by the COVID protocols either remain silent or be forced out of our community.

“The public health officials, hospital leaders, and physicians who implemented these treatments and protocols should be held accountable. The data were available, and the harms were obvious.”

GRAMMY NOTES: One of my daughters sent me this screenshot from a text convo she had with a gal she’s been besties with since grade school saying, “is it too late to apologize and tell your mother she was right? I should have been better and done my chores without being asked or reminded or being snotty???” I assured her that it is NEVER too late to tell your mother she was right. About anything!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1086223220510035 to watch a diabetic alert dog do his thing in an amazing way.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IFZsr8icHfM to enjoy a few parenting moments that did not happen to you.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, As we rush through the countdown days until Christmas Eve, we ask that you help us keep our minds and hearts fixed on You. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

CATHOLIC: [2:39] – I saw a documentary once about these small shrines. The custom began in Europe and was brought to the states where Catholic immigrants built them in their often-tiny front yards.

CONNECTICUT: Rep. Rosa DeLauro has been representing the third district (New Haven) for 23 years. Despite being 81 years old, she was just elected for yet another term. She is the Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee. The banner on her government web page shows her with a teacher and some little kids; everybody is masked. Her net worth is $30 million.

CLICK https://x.com/HSajwanization/status/1870019393150751098 [:40] to hear her rant about “President Musk” having any influence in the pork-laden CR. My favorite comment on the clip: “Who can expect people to take you seriously when you present yourself in this manner. A member of Congress. Seriously?” – Carol Tisdale

EDUCATION: Lame duck Biden has thrown in the towel on student loan forgiveness and on forcing schools to accept mtf trannies on girls’ teams. And an Ohio school district has lost an English teacher’s pronouns lawsuit. Two years ago, Jackson Memorial Middle School fired English teacher Vivian Geraghty for choosing her Christian faith and proper English over affirming two trans students. The district will be coughing up a $450,000 settlement.

FAUXTUS: [4:01] – Last Thursday, The Wall Street Journal published a piece called, “How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge.” It was obvious to the 2020 campaign that Joe Biden was unfit for the office.

JOBS: Under the Biden administration, good jobs reports have gotten headlines, but when the numbers were later revised downward, the media mostly ignored it. In 2022, Biden’s Bureau of Labor Statistics overstated job creation by more than 1 million. In 2023, revised employment growth down by 443,000 jobs, which was over 40% of payroll growth. This year, the Biden administration puffed up their initial job growth numbers by 3 million.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Somebody has twice beheaded the goat god statue the Satanic Temple put up in front of the New Hampshire State Capitol. It has been repaired again. I’m personally opposed to using vandalism to fight spiritual wars. It would be far more effective to do binding prayers and pray the rosary.

PRIORITIES: ::smh::

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8p19diXLmzM for a wonderful R*CKST*R.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b-eJkKmVNpk to see a short from Portrait Geek.

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2024: CLICK https://rumble.com/v5rchr2-donald-trump-just-released-his-most-epic-hype-video-yet.html [1:13] to just bask in the feel good.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5ZpM36QfC3s and listen well. You will not feel the same way about Mass ever again … unless you already knew this, which I did not.

DEI: This crap should DIE. – Georgetown Law denied a student’s request to delay or take her exam at home, due to the fact that her newborn was only a few days old. The school told her that would not be possible, because it would be inequitable to all the other non-birthing students in her class. Instead, they suggested the new mother bring her days-old child to campus to take the exam with more time, so she could pause to breastfeed during the exam. They told her, “Motherhood is not for the Faint of Heart.” This is a violation of Title IX, something you might think that a LAW SCHOOL would know. When outraged students pushed back, the school relented. What a clown show. I can’t help wondering how many abortions the people who refused to accommodate this student have had or financed. Cuz, dayum, that is a lot of hate!

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/459756023396580 to hear what Allen West said about motherhood. ❤

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_a08snTJqMc to hear what Joe Rogan said about motherhood. LOL (Warning: It’s crude!)

FLUORIDE: Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo issued new guidance on Nov. 22, advising against the long-standing practice of adding fluoride to the public drinking water supply.

“Adding fluoride to water increases the risk of neuropsychiatric disease in children and reduces their IQ,” Ladapo said in a post on X. “We can strengthen teeth without consuming this neurotoxin.”

I am grateful my community nixed the idea. I remembering writing a letter to the editor pointing out that the vast majority of the water we use is for washing and flushing, not drinking and that kids who are seeing pediatricians regularly are offered fluoride supplements if the parents want them. Moreover, the poor kids who do not get such care are also the ones least likely to drink water; however, they are the most likely to be taken to the county’s free vaccine clinics. I suggested it would be more cost effective to use a tiny fraction of the proposed fluoridation money to provide free fluoride drops at those clinics. Our dentist was also vehemently opposed, pointing out that fluoride is commonly used as a rat poison. They dropped the plan.

JAGUAR: CLICK https://x.com/Jaguar/status/1858800846646948155 [:30] to see Jaguar’s new ad. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1588453321878128 to hear Nick Freitas’ hilarious comment on it.

LAW: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1LKwxMeE8rY to hear your rights re: police demanding to come into your home. I don’t understand where the FBI got off storming Mar-a-Lago and refusing to show Trump’s lawyer the warrant.

SEC AG: Trump has chosen Brooke Rollins to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in his administration.

“Brooke’s commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns is second to none. As our next Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke will spearhead the effort to protect American Farmers, who are truly the backbone of our Country.”

Rollins grew up in a farming family in Glen Rose, Texas. She participated in Future Farmers of America and 4H. She studied agriculture development at Texas A&M University and worked in the first Trump administration, then went on to become the president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute.

THE VIEW: CLICK https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1859994465051492674 [:32] to see Sonny Hostin eat crow for the second and third times last week. N.b., Joy Behar interrupts the legal note to make more baseless and defamatory attacks. ::smh::

In 2022, Newsbusters reported the “harpies on The Spew” (not my line, but too good not to steal) were forced to issue three dozen such notes over that one year. Hostin responded on air to the report, saying that legal notes are not an admission of error, but insulation from legal liability.

Speaking of legal liability, CLICK https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1526980042005352449 [1:04] to hear what she did to her boyfriend. One must wonder why he subsequently married her.

GRAMMY NOTES: I have found a way to embrace the dark parts of my life. The best hero stories are the ones with the worst villains. And in painting, you can only show bright light by including dark shadows. (Painting by moi.)

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0hey066PDQw for a giggle.

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