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by | February 8, 2025 · 12:36 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask today for the graces we need to fully commit to following You regardless of how hostile the culture may be. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: [18:31] – Tom Homan got to give a strong message to ABC viewers who can’t seem to understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VACkE29d-Qs to see Melania shut down MSNBC’s attempt to score a gotcha.

DOGE: People who are worried about Elon Musk having access to the Social Security numbers we have given to our banks, employers, car loan companies, mortgage holders, insurance providers, credit card companies, and the IRS. FYI, guys … Elon Musk doesn’t need your money.

JUDICIAL ACTIVISTS: On Thursday Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly decided she was the true elected leader of the United States and she blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing “any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service.”

Judge Kollar-Kotelly is the same vile leftist who sentence 75-year-old Paulette Harlow to two years in jail for her part in temporarily blockading the entrance to a late-term abortion clinic. When Paulette’s husband, John, begged the judge to reconsider, citing his wife’s health problems that made him fear that she might die in prison, the judge sneered and told him no because, according to her, 75-year-old Paulette’s protest had been “violent.” Harlow suffers from debilitating diabetes, Hashimoto’s disease, and severe back pain requiring the use of a wheelchair. To add insult to injury, Kollar-Kotelly forbade Harlow, a devout Catholic, from attending Mass while she was under house arrest awaiting trial.

Last week, other judicial activists told police to stand down and allowed hundreds of anti-ICE protesters to walk away scott free during and after they used their bodies to block traffic on a major LA freeway for hours.

MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1887892486003245297 [:48] to hear SecDef Pete promise to ensure that “at a bare minimum, by the end of four years, the Pentagon passes a clean audit.” S’funny how the Pentagon audience doesn’t seem too enthused this this idea.

PLASTIC STRAWS: Trump promised to end Biden’s ban on plastic straws in federal facilities.

POTUS: In 2021, Biden revoked Trump’s access to intelligence briefings, an entitlement that most former presidents enjoyed. Trump just returned the favor.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: The percentage of Americans who believe athletes should only play on teams that match their birth gender increased from 62% in 2021 to 69% in 2023 to 79% in 2025.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nOvU0v2zqvM to see a beautiful Becorn photo in the making.

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by | February 7, 2025 · 11:00 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask today for the graces we need to discern which battles are from You and which are not. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BONDI: Immediately after being sworn in, our new Attorney General froze all DOJ funds going to sanctuary cities and launched investigations aimed at prosecuting the offenders. On Thursday, she filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and Cook County, saying their sanctuary city laws obstruct President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies.

Trump has also put Bondi in charge of a task force which will include the heads of at least 15 federal entities, including the departments of State, Treasury, Defense, Labor, and Health and Human Services.

“The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ—which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI, terrible—and other agencies,” Trump said. He said that the group will “work to fully prosecute” violence and vandalism against Christians and “move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”

BORDER: Border czar Tom Homan says they have found the individual responsible for wasting his agents’ time in Colorado this week. A raid on those apartment buildings that Tren de Aragua (TDA) was leaked the previous week, so was postponed to this week, but when they got there, TDA was gone. Homan says there will be consequences.

BUH BYE: USAID programs we’re turning the page on …

Taxpayer moneys being spent on senseless mutilation of animals. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said, “The Biden-Harris administration spent $2.5 million … to study the fertility of transgender mice.”

Taxpayer moneys being spent on killing babies. USAID spent $607 million promoting, funding, or conducting abortions in foreign countries.

Taxpayer moneys being spent promoting LGBTQ and DEI. I can’t help wondering how far the $70,000 they spent on producing a DEI musical in Ireland could have gone to help hurricane victims who are still living in tents.

BUY OUT: A federal judge extended Trump’s offer deadline until Monday, so federal workers unaccustomed to actually getting out of bed and doing something will have another weekend to decide if they want to take advantage of six more months of getting paid to do nothing. At last count, more than 40,000 workers had accepted the generous resignation package.

DEMOCRATS: David Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, tried to obstruct an executive order from his boss. It didn’t go well. He’s out of a job now. DOGE exposed the man as having allowed more than $1 billion in federal payments to fraudulent entities. One wonders how long before our new AG brings charges. The Trump administration has made it clear: there will be no tolerance for insubordination, corruption, or rogue officials who undermine the law.

DEI: If this doesn’t show you what a grift this has been, I don’t know what would. For those worried about what these people will do now, I hear there are soon to be numerous openings in agriculture and estate maintenance.

DISNEY: In the first quarter of its FY2025 earnings report, Disney streaming reported having lost 700,000 subscribers.

DOGE: CLICK https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887871388528107917 [16:25] to hear one of my favorite politicians ever talk about how absurd Musk’s critics are. “Spending porn.” “What the hell happened to all the money.” Let us also not forget that the people who are screaming about DOGE auditing them are the same people who hired and armed 87,000 IRS agents to audit us.

PEACE through STRENGTH: The Trump Doctrine.

S&G: I skimmed the article linked below … can’t even ::smh::

TRUMP: [5:49] – He’s a sweet guy. And, isn’t it refreshing to see a POTUS interact with young girls without committing inappropriate personal contact?

USAID: President Donald Trump’s administration has transferred control over all USAID programs to the State Department. After evaluating what the more than 10,000 USAID employees have been doing with U.S. taxpayers’ money, they’ve reportedly decided they only need 294 of these people. The rest are getting canned in what may be the largest layoff in history. If they’re smart, they’ll sign up quick for the six months severance package before they get their pink slips.

GRAMMY NOTES: I fixed my parents’ annoying cricket-in-the-house problem by changing the battery in their smoke detector.

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by | February 6, 2025 · 11:38 am

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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.”

BORDERS: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1887135589331247373 [:39] to see video of Mexican national guard troops arriving at their northern border as promised.

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.

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by | February 5, 2025 · 1:21 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, we ask you today to help women to choose life for the unborn children you have entrusted to them. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

BORDER: The border issue just hit close to home. – Tompkins County Sheriff Derek Osborne, a Democrat, ignored a federal arrest warrant and released Jesus Romero-Hernandez (27) into the Ithaca community. Romero-Hernandez has been removed from the U.S. six times and was most recently in Osborne’s court pleading guilty to assault.

The Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office claims they notified ICE when the illegal was going to be released and, allegedly, “had every opportunity to come to the jail to obtain the individual in question without any need for a pursuit or other incident.” According to lawyers interviewed by Fox, the federal warrant obligated them to hold him until ICE arrived and took custody.

In other stupid news that affects me and mine … more than 100 anti-ICE protesters who blocked traffic on both sides of a major freeway in LA were released without consequences. No charges. No jail time.

CONFIRMATIONS: The Senate 54-46 to confirm former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted 9-8 to approve former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as the next director of national intelligence. Gabbard’s nomination will now head to the Senate floor for a full vote.

Remember back in October when billionaire and Dem shill, Mark Cuban, appeared on The View and said, “You never see [Trump] around strong, intelligent women, ever. It’s very simple; they’re intimidating to him. … He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.” Bwahahaha!!!

FBI: [3:25] – For four years, Biden’s Weapon of Trump Destruction had 5,000 of its 13,000 agents working on the J6 investigation. How many real criminals were not apprehended because they were so busy tracking down peaceful protesters?

In other stupid news, The Women’s March has announced they will henceforth hold a moment of silence each week at 12:53pm on Wednesday “to reflect, meditate, or simply bear witness … the moment January 6th rioters first crossed the barricades.”

FEDERAL BLOAT: More than 20,000 federal workers have accepted President Donald Trump’s buyout offer so far, but the number is growing rapidly. They expect it to spike 24 to 48 hours before the Feb. 6 deadline.

To Lefties tempted to complain about unemployed federal workers … cry me a river! When FAUXTUS was destroying jobs, you told coal miners they should learn to code.

GITMO: Planes loaded with illegals are flying the Guantanamo Bay naval facility in Cuba.

HYPOCRISY: Remember when Ron DeSantis sent 50 illegals to the island? Remember how, after making a big show of feeding them and housing them for one night, they demanded and got the U.S. military to remove them all to someplace that wasn’t Martha’s Vineyard? Well, they’re back to virtue signaling.

The Martha’s Vineyard Times reports they stood out in the cold for two hours, holding anti-ICE signs. One of them told reporters, “We have to protect these people because they are part of the workforce of the Vineyard.” Translation: I’m too cheap to pay an American a decent wage to clean my toilets.

MIDDLE EAST: After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump said the United States could take over the Gaza Strip, relocate everybody, and use the land to build a Riviera style resort. N.b., Babylon Bee is reporting it as “will.” CLICK

https://x.com/Osint613/status/1884202978225324205 [:17] to see recent video footage of what Trump called a “demolition site.”

“We’ll own it, and will be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. We’ll level the site and get rid of all the destroyed buildings. Just level it out and create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. [You] just can’t go back [to how it was]. If you go back, it’s going to end up the same way it has for a hundred years,” Trump said.

CLICK https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/trump-and-netanyahu-hold-joint-news-conference-5804137 [1:46:44] if you want to see the Trump-Netanyahu press conference.

MILITARY: In January 2025, the Army hit its best recruiting number in 15 YEARS. America’s youth want to serve under the strong, bold “America First” leadership of President Donald Trump.

SUPERHERO: [2:21] – On Friday, January 31, 2025, a plane crashed in Philadelphia. Andre “Trey” Howard III (10) threw his body over his four-year-old sister, successfully protecting her from flying debris. A piece of shrapnel hit him in the head, causing serious injuries. When he woke up from brain surgery, his first question was, “Daddy, did I save my sister?” Andre faces a long road back to health. The family’s GoFundMe goal (link below) was nearly met after just two days.

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by | February 4, 2025 · 11:27 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Fill us with Your spirit of truth so that we may discern rightly when to say, “Yes, Lord”, and when to say “Get behind me, Satan.” In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

CANADA: Trudeau’s temper tantrum cooled quickly. Like Mexico’s president, he has agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border in exchange for a one month pause in Trump’s tariffs. Canada has also agreed to appoint a “fentanyl czar,” invest $139 million (C$200 million) in intelligence operations targeting fentanyl, designate cartels as terrorist organizations, and establish a partnership with the U.S. Joint Strike Force to fight fentanyl trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering.

FAFO: CLICK https://x.com/injurypics/status/1886655992433156127 [1:50] to see a video shot yesterday outside the White House. It took less than a minute for cops to put this idiot on the ground.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Bobby has passed the first hurdle, with the Senate Finance Committee having voted 14-13 in favor of his confirmation. Now, he goes to the full Senate. I wonder if Bernie Sanders will bring up those onesies again …

LANDFILLHARMONIC: [3:31] – Wow!

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order directing the Treasury and Commerce Departments to submit a plan for creating a sovereign wealth fund within 90 days. The plan should include recommendations on “funding mechanisms, investment strategies, fund structure, and a governance model.”

A sovereign wealth fund would allow the United States government to invest money in real financial assets to build wealth the same way you can in your own private investments. Multiple US States have similar plans, along with dozens of countries including China, Russia, UAE, Norway, Italy, and Mexico.

Commodore Vanderbilt at Not The Bee explains, “This is an enormous change in how tax money (especially tariffs) are spent in the United States. Right now, the government forces its own citizens, on penalty of jail, to pay a significant portion of their income so that the government can spend it. The government then spends the money on wild projects in foreign countries that enrich politicians … while driving up the national debt annually.

“This order shifts everything from that Sheriff-of-Nottingham model to one that gets money from imports and then invests that money so it can strategically fund projects in the national interest. Americans will still pay taxes in the form of higher prices at the store, but the federal government’s revenue will be based on trade and invested for future use.”

USAID: Elon Musk said DOGE focused on USAID, because it was the government agency most disobedient to Trump’s executive orders. USAID only exists because of an executive order.

CLICK https://rumble.com/v6gm7rs-trump-press-sec-walks-right-up-to-media-and-drops-a-bomb-on-usaid.html [:50] to hear Trump press secretary read some of the crap this agency has been spending our money on. Under President Joe Biden’s administration, the organization spent tens of millions to promote abortion in Africa.

SecState Marco Rubio is now acting head of USAID. He promises a program-by-program review of which projects make “America safer, stronger, or more prosperous.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Except for hugs!

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by | February 2, 2025 · 10:05 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to remember to be kind and patient with the people who annoy us and to see all the beauty we too often pass by. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS: [9:34] – FAA air traffic controllers get trained at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma. OK’s Senator Mullin said classes have only been 70% to 80% full, not for a lack of applicants, but because they had to turn away people who didn’t fill their mandated DEI slots. That should no longer be a problem, now that Trump has abolished DEI in all federal agencies.

ANTI-SEMITISM: On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to identify “all civil and criminal authorities” available to combat antisemitism. In particular, the order calls for the deportation of resident aliens — including students with visas — who broke laws as part of anti-Israel protests following the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks that sparked the invasion of Gaza.

BOBBY vs BERNIE: CLICK https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1885031674380955708 [2:28] to see another exchange from RFK Jr’s confirmation hearing.

CLUELESS: [7:40] – Every single candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee responded with an eager YES to the idea that “racism and misogyny” played a role in Kamala Harris’ loss.

They elected Ken Martin, the longtime leader of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), as chair, and anti-gun activist, David Hogg, as vice chair. In his victory speech, Martin pledged to prioritize working-class voters, bolster Democratic infrastructure, unify the party, and oppose Trump and his agenda. It’s not clear to me how they can prioritize working-class voters while simultaneously opposing Trump and his agenda.

Hogg claims he can bring back the youth vote; in his speech, he said, “I don’t just tweet; I don’t just talk the talk. I also walk the talk and I knock the knock.” CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1885907309462790376 [:56] to hear a Chinese immigrant destroy Hogg’s famed anti-gun stance in under one minute.

COME TO WORK or RESIGN: Ninety-four percent of federal workers refused to return to work after the pandemic. DOGE had all their passwords changed so they can no longer work from home.

DEMO-PERVS: Another party official has been arrested and charged with possessing child porn and child sex abuse material. Matthew Inman, who served as Orange County’s Democratic Party treasurer and president of the Rainbow Democrats, began talking online with an undercover law enforcement officer posing as the father of a 9-year-old boy. Inman expressed interest in meeting and sexually assaulting the purported child. He also sent CSAM videos to the undercover officer. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

DOGE: Elon Musk tweeted, “Reducing the federal deficit from $2T to $1T in FY2026 requires cutting an average of ~$4B/day in projected 2026 spending from now to Sept 30. That would still result in a ~$1T deficit, but economic growth should be able to match that number, which would mean no inflation in 2026. Super big deal.”

FBI: This photograph was taken this week the FBI Academy in Quantico.

HIERARCHY OF LOVE: CLICK https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1884795801739710691 [1:04] to hear VPOTUS flip the script on the Left. Thomas Aquinas called this the “Order of Charity.”

ISLAM: CLICK https://rumble.com/v6eliod-ex-muslim-reveals-why-he-left-muhammad-to-follow-jesus-christ.html [:49] to hear why this Muslim left to follow Jesus. CLICK the links below to read about the latest spate of Muslim “peace.”

PENTAGON: SecDef Hegseth also announced that Military Departments will no longer use official resources for celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months. Thank God … no PRIDE month for the military!!

PRONOUNS: Federal employees were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures and other communications before 5 pm yesterday.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VM13POYtw_Q for a ::snort::

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by | February 1, 2025 · 9:16 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We come to You today asking for extra graces to rebuke, renounce, and reject the constant calls to consumerism with which our culture bombards us. Keep our eyes on You, not on our stuff! In Jesus’ Holy Name, we pray. Amen.

AIR: Yesterday, The New York Times reported that the air control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was grossly understaffed at the time of the deadly helicopter-airplane crash. The FAA and the controllers’ union call for 30 staff in that tower; there were 19.

A lawsuit filed by nearly 1,000 individuals who went to school to become air traffic controllers says they met the requirements for become air traffic controllers, but that they were bounced from the program for being too white.

Way back on June 3, 2015, The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled “The Obama administration forces the Federal Aviation Administration to move away from merit-based hiring criteria.”

Twenty-freaking-FIFTEEN! It’s a wonder more people have not died!

I suggest you give the article a pass if you have high blood pressure. I read part of it and had to stop.

BOOTYJUDGE: Under Mayor Pete, the Department of Transportation extended its DEI/Affirmative Action push skin color and sexual perversions to include actively recruiting and hiring disabled people with hearing and/or vision impairment, missing extremities, partial to complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism. According to Pete et al., “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”

CONFIRMATION HEARINGS: It astonishes me the stupid things Democrat senators have used their precious minutes for during these hearings. I suspect they engage in bugged-eyed yelling to hide from their low-IQ voters that their questions actually have little to no substance.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsKrv_EnMg to hear a good exchange between RFK Jr and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

DEMOCRATS: Oy.

DEPRAVITY: Some people will do anything for clicks. Thankfully, police acted quickly to arrest a Georgia healthcare worker who posted disgusting videos of herself twerking over a disabled man’s head. She has been charged with one count of exploitation of a disabled person. You can see the video at the link. I suggest you don’t.

EDUCATION: There are many kinds of intelligence. I was born across the street from an Ivy League university and have lived my entire 70 years within spitting distance of it and multiple other colleges. The main shortcoming I have noticed in the highly educated is a lack of common sense.

LIFE: [14:58] – Kayleigh McEnany interviewed some of the anti-abortion activists who were imprisoned for peaceful protests at abortion clinics.

S&G: Trump has signed an executive order promising to prosecute teachers and schools that facilitate, affirm, and/or reinforce gender confusion in minors.

SAY NO TO PRIDE MONTH: Pride is not merely one of the seven. It is the queen. St. Gregory the Great warns us: “For when pride, the queen of sins, has fully possessed a conquered heart, she surrenders it immediately to seven principal sins, as if to some of her generals, to lay it waste” (Moralia 87). The other six deadly sins – greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth – are all offshoots of pride’s “poisonous root.”

TARIFFS: Yesterday, Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China that begin today. China manufactures fentanyl and Mexico and Canada are doing nothing to stop it from flowing across our mutual borders where it kills Americans every year. Trump said, “We’re not looking for a concession. We’ll just see what happens.”

VANCE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OgWrtsJ6JEU to meet the family pooch.

ZUCK: He caved to pressure from the Biden White House and now he’s paying the price. Meta has agreed to settle Trump’s lawsuit over suspending his social media accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, will pay $22 million to a fund for Trump’s presidential library and an addition $3 million toward covering legal expenses and compensating additional plaintiffs involved with the case.

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by | January 31, 2025 · 12:04 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask you today for the graces we need to let You shine through us. May we be Jesus with skin on to those who do not know You. In His Holy Name, we pray. Amen.

AI: [2:51] – The image of the beast?

BORDER: Since Trump took office, Border Patrol agents’ encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border have dropped by 92.9%. In the last 19 days of the Biden administration, they averaged 2,087 daily encounters. In the first week of President Trump’s administration, that number was just 148.

CONFIRMATION HEARINGS: An interesting compare and contrast –

CLICK https://rumble.com/v4vtbab-senator-kennedy-absolutely-destroys-fdic-chairman-martin-gruenberg.html [6:48] to watch a clip from May 15-16, 2024, as Sen. Kennedy quietly and persistently challenged the fitness of FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg with damning fact after damning fact.

CLICK https://rumble.com/v6eq8p7-rfk-jr.-makes-sen.-elizabeth-warren-melt-down-at-hearing-no-i-am-not.html [:27] to hear Sen. Warren yell at RFK Jr. for refusing to make an absurd promise. FYI: She was trying to equate suing a company after serving in government with accepting a lucrative position with one after serving in government. As Sen. Kennedy would say, “She’s so dumb, she loses her place in the middle of sex.”

CLICK https://rumble.com/v6es89g-sanders-anti-onesie-bernie-demands-that-rfk-condemn-anti-vax-baby-onesie.html [1:47] to hear Sen. Sanders yell and get all wide-eyed about the message on a baby’s onesie that an organization RKF Jr. founded sells. RKF Jr. no longer has any connection to the organization.

CORRUPTOCRAT: Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for selling out his office for gold bars and other bribes.

EDUCATION: Comparing the 2024 NAEP Reading and Mathematics Assessments at Grades 4 and 8 with those from the latest pre-pandemic test results showed average scores in fourth grade reading were five points lower, while those for eighth grade reading were five points lower. Similarly, average scores in fourth grade math were three points lower, while for eighth grade, they were eight points lower.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that mandated the defunding of any K-12 school that teaches radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. Maybe, if CRT and DEI and LGBTQ are removed from the school day, teachers will have time to focus on reading and math again.

HAITI: Haiti’s de facto President Leslie Voltaire once assured us that the Haitian “migrants” pouring over our border were “their best.” Now that Trump is rounding them up and planning to return them, Voltaire says that taking back their alleged “best” would be “catastrophic” for his nation, to the point where he’s already asking for help from other countries … which confirms what Trump has been saying all along.

HAMAS: I don’t know why anyone defends this vile group. CLICK https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1884950364639642100/video/1 [:41] to see what hostage Gadi Moses (80) had to endure during his last moments as a hostage in Gaza. Moses reportedly collapsed after this was filmed. Because of these spectacles, Israel has halted its release of convicted Hamas terrorists.

KASH PATEL: It is enlightening to compare Sen. Josh Hawley’s questions (R-MO) [8:46] with Sen. Adam Schiff’s questions (D-CA). CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1884991236890599799 [:22] to hear Patel tell Sen. Durbin he’s an idiot. Does Durbin demand a background check before agreeing to have his picture taken with someone?

GANGSTA: Whoa. It’s not 2017 any more!

RFK Jr: [5:29] – Personally, I think Rand Paul’s opinions about science count more than those of his career politician colleagues. He not only is a licensed medical doctor, but also the last I heard he still practices medicine when he’s on vacation from Congress.

VIRGINIA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G9-56eWIrgI to hear Nick Freitas on his Defend the Guard Act.

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DAILY PRAYER: Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that any one who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins my Mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful; O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.

AIR: Last night, a passenger plane carrying 64 people and a military helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) in Washington, D.C. They have recovered 27 bodies so far and do not believe anyone survived.

BORDER: POTUS is directing the Pentagon to prepare a facility at Guantanamo Bay to house up to 30,000 illegal thugs. “Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back. … [Guantanamo’s] a tough place to get out of.”

CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1884361014466253059 [2:35] to hear a Trump official take a leftie jerknalist to the shed for a whupping.

CALI WATER: As the LA fires burned, Trump accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom of refusing to sign legislation that would have “allowed millions of gallons of water … to flow daily” into areas of California including its southern parts. Less than 72 hours after Trump stepped, the flow of fresh water from norther CA to southern has more than doubled.

CATHOLIC: Catholic Charities has been active in promoting Biden’s open border agenda. But Catholic social teaching asserts that: 

  1. The civil authority’s primary duty is to the common good of its own people, who form the “household of the nation.” 
  2. Hospitality towards migrants must be guided by prudence and ordered to justice, not by abstract ideals divorced from reality. 
  3. Unchecked immigration can undermine civil society, exploit both native workers and migrants, and serve the interests of global capitalism at the expense of the common good. 

CONFIRMATION HEARING: Yesterday, Bobby appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance. The Big Pharma politicians were easy to spot.

CLICK https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1884626268387217756 [1:04] to hear a Democrat ask a dishonest question. CLICK https://truthsocial.com/@OAN/posts/113913646413958829 [:47] to hear another Democrat ask another unserious question.

Some of them got really nasty. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, said, “Mr. Kennedy has embraced conspiracy theories, quacks, charlatans, especially when it comes to the safety and efficacy of vaccines. It has been lucrative for him, put him on the verge of immense power.”

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) asked, “When was it that you decided to sell out the values you’ve had your whole life in order to be given power by President Trump?”

Kennedy will appear at another hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions today, but only Finance gets to vote on whether to advance him to a full Senate floor vote.

LAKEN RILEY ACT: POTUS signed this GOP-led bill into law, his first legislation since taking office Jan. 20.

SELLING BABY BODY PARTS: As I’ve reported many times before, David Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress famously exposed Planned Parenthood’s illegal trade in human organs. CLICK https://x.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1872835273647898720 [:18] to see one clip.

Daleiden also exposed that PP was not reporting rapes, as law requires. Rather than go after the perpetrators, then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed charges against Daleiden and his colleagues.

FINALLY, after a decade, California has dropped the case!

GRAMMY NOTES: Oy vey … this takes me back! I had those buffalo sandals and too short skirts! And Dearest’s photos from that era look a lot like that guy on the left.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please show us our sins as You see them. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

BORDER: Unlike her predecessor, Trump’s Homeland Secretary had her boots on the ground.

In other news, two Colombian military planes picked up 200 illegals and took them home. And now, CLICK https://x.com/Tr00peRR/status/1884259058632516056 [1:51] to listen to Tom Homan show us how to handle hostile jerknalists.

BUDGET: In its efforts to be good stewards of our money, the Trump administration has frozen all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance until they can be assessed. These do NOT include Medicare or Social Security benefits. A federal judge ordered the administration to refrain from blocking “open awards,” or funds that had been slated for disbursement, until at least Feb. 3, so the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent out memos rescinding the freeze order.

CONFIRMED: [6:48] – Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy has been confirmed to replace Mayor Pete as Secretary of Transportation.

DRONES: As promised, Trump has looked into the spate of mystery drones first seen over New Jersey late last year. Most were authorized to be flown by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for research and various other reasons. The rest were flown by hobbyists, recreational, and private individuals that enjoy flying drones. The latter increased due to curiosity. “This was not the enemy.”

EFF YOU: A week before he left office, Slow Joe extended his welcome to 800,000 “refugees” (including gang members). Today, Trump rescinded it.

LAWFARE: Trump’s Acting Attorney General has fired more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team prosecuting President Donald Trump. This was about draining the swamp, not getting revenge.

LEAVE PLEASE: In his effort to reduce our bloated federal government, Trump is offering resignation incentives to nearly all federal employees. If they resign before Feb. 6, they can continue to get a paycheck until September.

LEFTY LOONIES: [11:32] – Actually, nothing about the illegal aliens Homan is rounding up are her people. Selena Gomez was born in the U.S. to a U.S. citizen of Italian descent and a legal immigrant from Mexico. She had limited contact with her father and does not speak Spanish. One supposes she is also not a murderer, rapist, or child molester. And I’m pretty sure none of the thugs being rounded up are wealthy celebrities.

MILITARY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1cF5YMmK5So to see a command board being updated.

PROTECTING CHILDREN: Trump has signed an executive order ending Biden-era funding for so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for individuals under 19 years old. We will no longer “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ’transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

STATE DEPT: On Sunday, SecState Rubio paused all U.S. foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for review. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavit announced two programs to cut immediately. One is the $37 million we were about to be sent to the WHO; it’s not needed since Trump’s executive order broke ties with them. The other is the $50 million taxpayer dollars we’ve spent on condoms for Gaza via Planned Parenthood, scores of which were used to create IED-carrying balloons that winds carried into southern Israel.

WHITE HOUSE PRESS ROOM: In light of the public’s vastly decreased trust in and use of legacy media, the Trump administration will be allowing independent journalists and content creators to apply for press passes to media events. In addition, a seat previously reserved for the press secretary’s staff will now be used to seat new journalists who may have never been inside the historic James Brady briefing room.

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