DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Teach us new ways to thank You! Amen.
2A: [13:58] – More than 10 million Americans who were convicted of non-violent felonies have zero right to own a fire arm. The Trump administration is moving to change that.
AUTISM: A new report from the CDC says autism rates among children in America have continued to rise at an alarming rate. They are currently at 1 in 31, significantly up from two years ago and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children born in 1992. It’s worse in boys, who are at 1 in 20.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that autism is a preventable disease caused by environmental factors, with possibilities including mold, air, medicines, and the increase in the average age of parents. He says nobody has really looked at these factors, but they will be launching studies soon.
BIG PHARMA: In a bid to limit industry influence, the FDA is removing pharmaceutical company representatives from advisory committees. Noting that the FDA has “a history of being influenced unduly by corporate interests,” Dr. Marty Makary, the FDA’s new commissioner, said. “Industry employees are welcome to attend FDA advisory committee meetings, along with the rest of the American public, but having industry employees serve as official members of FDA advisory committee members represents a cozy relationship that is concerning to many Americans.” No kidding! And well done!
BORDER: As of April 14, more than 1,000 international students at over 170 colleges and universities have had their student visas revoked by the State Department.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We bring our struggles and temptations to You today. Help us to bear all that we find dark and difficult and assure us that our victories will show the world Your glory. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
AOC: During a 90 minute rant on Instagram, the former bartender called Elon Musk “the most unintelligent billionaire I have ever met.” Charlie Kirk retorted, “AOC calling Elon Musk ‘unintelligent’ might actually be the dumbest thing she has ever said, which is really saying something.”
COMPREHENSION: CLICK https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1886936057414914172 [:39] to hear a clip from a recent Trump presser. I caught “have any plan to change” but not much else. I love my Russian immigrant dentist, but dang, add the mask to the accent and even “open wider” can be hard for me to decipher. That being said, I also struggle with understanding native English speakers from many areas of the world, including the U.S., including the former resident of the Oval Office.
CONFIRMATION: Swearing in of our new Attorney General Pam Bondi. [2:08] – Pam looks so much like her mom. 🙂
COVID-19: Argentina’s President Javier Milei has joined Trump in pulling his nation out of the WHO, calling the lockdowns promoted by the agency an economic “catastrophe” and “a crime against humanity.” “We Argentinians will not allow an international organization to intervene in our sovereignty, much less in our health,” he added.
DOGE: The ‘Outnumbered’ panelists discuss the Department of Government Efficiency’s decision to slim down the government and overhaul USAID. [9:35] – This is really worth watching.
CLICK https://x.com/BonillaJL/status/1886990843141075353 [2:00] to see CNN snicker at Schumer, Maxine, and other Dem idjits chanting in the streets. Look at the expression on the black guy’s face as the white gal says Elon Musk’s DOGE was possibly the smartest thing any president has ever done.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a meeting titled “Rightsizing Government.” According to Newsmax, Ranking Democrat, Gerry Connolly, D-Va., railed against Elon Musk and moved to subpoena him to appear before the committee. The committee voted no.
LIFE: Whose body? Whose choice? – The unborn child of a Louisiana teen-ager was murdered in secret by its grandmother who disagreed with her daughter’s choice to give birth and keep her baby. The woman has been charged with violating a state law against coercion. The New York doctor who sold her the abortion pills by mail has also been charged, but NY Gov. Hochul is refusing to sign Louisiana’s extradition request. Despite the fact that the teen nearly died and that her wanted child did die, Hochul insists that abortion is health care.
Hochul also doesn’t give a toot about Louisiana’s right to regulate what is and is not shipped out of her state, which annoys the heck out of me. In 2023, Gov. Hochul signed a law restricting a whole host of dietary supplements to “adults only.” I have tried to order green tea and psyllium husk powder from Vitacost only to learn at check-out that I would have to pay nearly $10 extra to sign for them in person. The law is alleged to be about protecting minors from engaging in unsafe weight loss and/or body building regimes, which is more than a tad ironic. Why are New York Democrats so anal about protecting kids only after they’re born? And why do they simultaneously protect the illegals who rape and murder them?
MEDIA: The FCC has released the unedited version of the Kamala Harris interview that CBS edited to make her sound less awful. The part they clipped is between the / marks. “Right now, we are supporting Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russia’s unprovoked aggression, / and doing what we can to continue to build and strengthen the alliance around the support for Ukraine’s right to be an independent nation, free from having its borders forcefully taken by Russia. And we are going to continue to work closely with our NATO allies to continue to reinforce America’s alliance in the context of NATO. /”
USAID: As of Friday, nearly all of the 10,000 workers at USAID will be on leave, with only a small subset of “designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs” exempt. Those posted abroad will be expected to return to the United States within 30 days.
VACCINES: In 1986, President Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act into law. Calling vaccines “unavoidably unsafe,” the law protects manufacturers from financial liability. The law was in tended to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims. In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled that the law protects manufacturers from being sued for defects in vaccine design. Twenty-one medical groups, including the American Medical Association (AMA), agree that vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe.” Meanwhile, the mantra “vaccines are safe” is used to justify mandates that, in some cases, violate individual religious beliefs and medical objections.
The #1 thing that pisses me off about vaccine debates is that too many people are “all or nothing” about it. My youngest was injured by the pertussis vaccine in 1985. It was later shown to be too dangerous and has been modified to make it safer. Fortunately, I had an excellent doctor who took a smart approach to vaccinations. His method was to individually evaluate each child’s medical history, each vaccine’s safety record, and each disease before deciding on a vaccine regimen. He considered how treatable each disease was, what its potential risks might be if contracted, and what the likelihood was that the children would come into contact with it. Then, with the vaccines we decided to give them, he was cautious about administering them so we could evaluate how each child responded to each vaccine.
WOMEN’S SPORTS: Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order designed to protect female athletes. He called it “the latest in a sweeping effort to reclaim our culture and our laws from the radical left crusade against biological reality.” The order bans K–12 schools and universities that receive federal funding from allowing biological males to use female facilities or participate in female sports.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, May Your word be always on our minds and lips and in our ears and hearts. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
APPLES: The apple became associated with the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge in the story of Adam and Eve primarily because the Latin Vulgate Bible uses the word “malum” for “evil.” Since the word for apple is spelled the same way (though pronounced differently), in the Middle Ages depicted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge as an apple. The Bible itself does not specify any particular fruit.
BORDER: “Look, if I offend anybody today, I don’t care. Some in the media say I’m offensive. I’m okay with that because I get to their minds rent-free. That’s kind of cool.” [14:10] – If you prefer to read, there is a transcript of his speech at the link below.
CIVILITY: CLICK https://x.com/w_terrence/status/1873909023336259778 [2:45] to see the latest Don Lemon f-bombed melt down. He calls Trump supporters stupid and dumb, but I notice he only knows one adjective.
From the comments: “I’m a social psychologist. One of the things we study is cults + indoctrination and brainwashing. The Democrats are the cult. They don’t dare disagree with anything promoted by their leadership, no matter how destructive or nonsensical (e.g. humans cannot change sex). Projection here.” – Dr. Dina McMillan
CORRUPT CONGRESS CRITTERS: This is one of those things I can’t digest for you, because it makes me so MAD, I can’t even type straight. Read it at the risk of your blood pressure rising to dangerous levels. “A RealClearInvestigations analysis found that Pelosi’s profits spiked from a variety of holdings that won significant government rescue funds – which amounted to $28 million, a total more than previously known. … Pelosi is hardly alone among lawmakers whose businesses reaped awards from pandemic-era financial programs designed for small businesses.”
DEMOCRAT FEAR MONGERING: According to the right-leaning Newsmax, “The CDC said that a sporadic case of severe H5N1 bird flu illness in a person is not unexpected as has previously been experienced in other countries during 2024 and prior years, including in cases that led to death. The agency said its assessment of risk to the public remains low.”
As per usual, the left-stream media is ignoring the science.
CBS News – “Why the latest bird flu case has experts worried about a potential pandemic”
CNN – “How America lost control of the bird flu”
NBC News – “Key warning signs about bird flu are all going in the wrong”
Newsweek – “Bird flu update: CDC says it’s searching for these pandemic red flags.”
PBS – “How America lost control of the bird flu and raised the risk of another pandemic”
Today – “Will Bird Flu Lead to a Pandemic or Lockdown? Experts Weigh In”
USA Today – “First severe bird flu case in US raises alarm on pandemic”
GOOD RIDDANCE: The Global Engagement Center (GEC) was founded in 2016 as a result of an Obama executive order aimed at controlling terrorism. The office, housed within the State Department, was mandated to work only overseas; it didn’t. Instead, it became the Democrats’ enabler of speech suppression in the United States. This month, the GEC lost its congressional funding. As Gwen Walz would say, “Buh, bye! It’s time to turn the page.”
OBAMACARE: In 2013, before the so-called “Affordable Care Act” regulations kicked in, insurers denied roughly 1.5% of claims. But under ACA rules, average denials are at nearly 15% with some insurers denying a third or more of claims. As with most Democrat legislation, the title tells you the opposite of how the law will actually affect us.
DAILY PRAYER: Holy Family of Nazareth, please grant that our families will be places of communion and prayer, authentic schools of the Gospel and small domestic churches. Make us more mindful of the sacredness and inviolability of the family, and its beauty in God’s plan. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, graciously hear our prayer. Amen.
BIRD FLU: Last March, bird flu was found in a baby goat living on a farm where an outbreak had recently been detected in poultry. This was the first confirmed case of the virus jumping from birds to mammals on a U.S. farm. Thankfully, research to date has shown mammals don’t spread the virus to others.
By April, bird flu had spread to Texas and infected a cattle farmer, marking only the second time a human in the U.S. has contracted the disease. Fortunately, he suffered nothing worse than eye inflammation (conjunctivitis).
By December, bird flu had spread to 16 states, with more cattle farmers catching the bug. Five zoo animals died from bird flu outside Phoenix, one animal died at a zoo in Seattle, and California’s Gov. Newsom had declared a state emergency.
In a Washington state wildlife sanctuary, 20 big cats tragically died. The sanctuary said that big cats “are particularly vulnerable to this virus, which can cause subtle initial symptoms but progress rapidly, often resulting in death within 24 hours due to pneumonia-like conditions.”
GRAMMY NOTES: My new goal is to get my blog written and posted before noon. I got up at 10:30 this morning and I’m reading jokes and memes on Facebook. ::yawn::
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Jesus, help us to simplify our activities and traditions so we can focus our celebration on Your birth. Thank You for being the Prince of Peace! Amen.
CALIFORNICATION: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1869539589045858596 [2:42] to hear San Francisco’s Weight Czar Virgie Tovar (author of “You Have the Right to Remain Fat”) explain what Cake Related Fatphobic Incidents (CRFI) are and why we should stop them.
Not The Bee writes, “Yes, San Fran has gone beyond the standard leftist utopia of poop on the streets, homeless encampments on every corner and drug needles in every direction, and has decided to spend taxpayer funds on a fat woman to advise them on … ‘weight stigma and weight neutrality’ so that residents don’t feel guilty when ‘moralizing impulses’ tell them to stop eating.”
Tovar is employed by the HEALTH department. Obesity increases risk of developing the following: Type 2 diabetes; High blood pressure; Heart disease; Stroke; Metabolic syndrome; Fatty liver diseases; Some cancers; Breathing problems; Osteoarthritis; Gout; Diseases of the gallbladder and pancreas; Kidney disease; Pregnancy problems; Fertility problems; Sexual function problems; and Mental health problems.
FAUXTUS: [1:46] – It’s his last chance to pad those secret bank accounts in the Caymans.
J6: The report by the House Oversight Committee shows that the gallows structure the Left used to fuel outrage against Trump and his followers was probably a federal plant. The United States Capitol Police guidelines prohibit the construction of temporary structures on Capitol grounds. They made no effort to investigate it, turning a blind eye while the thing was being built, for the entire 26 hours it was in place, and while it and all its materials were destroyed.
PSA: Don’t handle bat poop. Or pigeon poop for that matter. Both are known carriers to vicious bacterial and fungal infections. Two guys who decided to use bat poop on their marijuana plants are now dead. So, maybe also don’t smoke either. If you need to clean up bat or bird poop, the second link has safety instructions.
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: Dem “solutions” are only about passing more gun control laws. But the latest school shooter violated two existing gun laws. And, oh yeah, she murdered people, which is also illegal. Click the first link below to read about what was probably the primary reason for this young woman to choose murder and suicide over a productive life. At the second link, Andy Ngo reports on her manifesto.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us think always about the fact that, even after the employees put You through literal torture, You did not say, “You’re fired” but instead, “Forgive them.” Amen.
FAUXTUS: [5:09] – Other sniffy pardons went a Massachusetts woman who was convicted for leading a large-scale and very profitable criminal enterprise trafficking fentanyl and an Illinois comptroller who stole $54 million to finance a lavish lifestyle.
GUNS: Poland has begun requiring firearms education at all primary and secondary schools. The kids use ball guns, air guns, replicas of small arms, and virtual or shooting guns with lasers to practice.
J6: CLICK https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1868399298481656048 [2:51] to hear “sports commentator and semi-reasonable lib” Stephen A. Smith spew his frustration over the left’s perfidy. “I’m really, really sick and tired of every time I turn around finding something else that the Democrats have lied about, or downplayed, or misrepresented along the way.” Clearly, he has not yet taken the red pill, because at the end, he says, “They’ve actually made Donald Trump look like he was right.” Not “look like” … was.
MURDER: Riley Gaines tweeted, “I haven’t seen a single Democrat call for gun restrictions following the murder of Brian Thompson…. It’s almost as if preventing senseless deaths was never the primary focus.”
SUCK UPS: Trump’s inaugural fund received $1 million each from Mark Zuckerberg (Meta, Facebook) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon, Washington Post). Not The Bee says, “Translation: They’re bending the knee and playing nice in hopes that Trump doesn’t turn the tables on them after their years of kissing the ring of power in the deep state.”
S&G: In February of this year, the UK’s National Health Service promoted the idea that breast milk produced by mtf trannies is as nourishing for babies as that produced by women who have given birth. Last week, the NHS admitted that the drug-induced secretions that mtf trannies’ moobs can produce are not milk. I saw news reports from 2023 that the CDC was recommending mtf chest feeding, but when I looked for it at the CDC website today, I couldn’t find it.
VIRGINIA: Three teachers in Harrisonburg, Virginia, have won their court case against their district requiring them to use ask for and/or use students’ preferred names and pronouns.
AUSTRALIA: [4:37] – A new ruling has barred this champion runner from competing in the Paralympics.
CATHOLIC: [4:32] – I like what he says about not needing to have any emotional experience or aha from the readings or homily, cuz sometimes I just don’t. It’s good to know it’s enough that we were there participating and being present to the Lord.
GIFT FROM GOD: The preacher who revealed this says there are two things that are required of us during this reprieve from the time of destruction – to pray for Trump to be humble and follow God so that the time of reprieve will be fulfilled, and to pray for the souls of all those who have not yet given their lives to Jesus Christ.
HEALTH: Some time ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) allocated nearly $10 million of taxpayers’ money to fund several projects, one of which was a study led by Dr. Joanna Olson-Kennedy, who works as the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
The study provided puberty blockers to 95 children with an average age of less than 11.5 years who suffered from gender dysphoria. Their plan was to analyze whether these drugs improved the mental health of the children. To their dismay, the found the drugs did nothing to help these kids, so the NIH decided not to publish the tax-funded study lest it be “weaponized” by critics and lawmakers who want to prohibit doctors from prescribing these drugs to children.
A subcommittee in the House of Representatives has launched an inquiry.
REGULATIONS: One of the things Trump did when he was 45 was cut a yuge number of wasteful regulations. He’s promised that, as 47, he will step up the fight against government red tape.
GRAMMY NOTES: My parents didn’t believe in allowances for doing nothing. It was more like, “If you do not work, you will not eat.” I remember shining my brothers’ shoes before Mass on Sundays for ten cents a pair when I was in grade school.
CNN: With post-election ratings plummeting, CNN is planning to axe some of its high-paid staff. Sounds like a plan, especially given that some, like Anderson Cooper, make as much as $20 million per year! As Gwen Walz said, “Buh-bye! Time to turn the page!”
COVID-19: On July 26, 2020, the CDC issued an official plan entitled “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.” It presented the CDC’s plan for “implementing the shielding approach in humanitarian settings as outlined in guidance documents focused on camps, displaced populations and low-resource settings. “
The document describes how they wanted to herd people who were deemed at high risk for severe disease were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be denied the right to legal appeals or legal counsel. They would be banned from worshiping. However, there was a plan to prevent suicides, just in case you thought they were going all fascist on you.
Understand that “shielding” is code for “herding people into concentration camps where we can control them.” Right at the beginning of the document, the CDC admits their plan had never been tried. IOW, nobody knew if it would do anything to save lives.
Also, recall that the governments of Australia and Canada actually did this. Of course, those countries don’t have the Second Amendment, which may be why the CDC wasn’t able to implement something similar here. The document was removed from the CDC website about March 26, 2023, but is still available at the archive link below.
DOGE: Posted by Musk on Nov 12 – “All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency. Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know! We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining.”
SUGGESTIONS already posted: Payments to dead people. Money for Pakistani gender studies. Boosting Egyptian tourism. Make up classes for trans people in the Middle East. The 501c4 loop hole for foreign aid. Funding universities that are sitting on billions of dollars of endowments. NPR. Free college for illegals. Watching squirrels fornicate. Maintaining empty buildings.
Also, “take digital copies of all agency annual audit reports, feed them into a Retrieval Augmented Generation AI application (RAG), and query for patterns indicating fraud, waste, and abuse. The output could be refined and prioritized for further examination and action” and “look at Rand Paul’s reports.”
My favorite: “Stop funding anything that is not in the Constitution.”
FBI: [6:35] – Another day, another raid.
HHS: Yesterday, Biden’s Department of Health and Services for Sexual Deviants celebrated “Transgender Awareness Week” which runs from Nov. 13 to 19, should not be confused with “Trans Day of Remembrance” (November 20). Cuz, yeah, we all need to have that shoved down our throats again, since “Trans Day of Visibility” (March 31), “Day of Silence” (for trans students on April 12), “International Day Against Transphobia” (May 17), “Harvey Milk Day” (May 22), “Pride Month” (June), “LGBTQ+ History Month“ (October), and “International Pronoun Day“ (October 16) were clearly not enough.
Also yesterday, Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”
In other news, some FDA employees are threatening to quit if Kennedy gets confirmed. Good. It’ll save him having to fire them.
CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1857173898531389878 [5:49] to hear RFK Jr. talk about how badly our health has deteriorated since the early 1990s, in large part because the government works hand-in-hand with big food corporations to poison processed foods. I was interested to hear what he had to say about Yellow Dye #5. Way back in the early 1990s, my hairdresser was telling me about this terrible rash he had developed. When he went to a dermatologist, she quickly identified this food coloring as the culprit. He had made a huge pot of chicken stock and added Yellow Dye #5 to make it look more yummy. He had been using this big batch of stock repeatedly in his meals, which he cooked from scratch and assumed were healthy for him. I don’t bake, but occasionally will get a slice of birthday cake or something handed to me. I always scrape off any dyed frosting and, if the inside is a funky color, just give it a pass altogether.
IGNORANCE: In this day and age, I think it is inexcusable to be this dumb. “Claire” clearly wasn’t already familiar with the Jerusalem Cross, but all she had to do was google. I tried “5 cross tattoo” and got multiple hits for it. I also tried “swastika” and found it is not among the choices.
TENNESSEE: The violent Venezuelan street gang, Tren de Aragua (TDA) that has taken over entire apartment buildings is now operating in every major city in Tennessee. Tennessee is a red state that is nowhere near the southern border.
TOLERANCE: Two of the white women who can’t stand the majority of Americans have joined the ranks of the unemployed following backlash for hate-filled rants they posted.
TRANS: Last year, Russia banned gender-transition medical procedures and its Supreme Court declared the LGBTQ+ ‘movement’ to be extremist. Now, the government is thinking about banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. Americans have been banned from adopting Russian babies for over a decade. Most of the countries that would be banned if this new rule passes are in Europe, plus Australia, Argentina, and Canada.
GRAMMY NOTES: A Big Happy Birthday to Mama Buzz, the baby who made me a mom, the bride who made me a mom-in-law, and the mama who made me a grandma! I love you!!
