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by | January 4, 2025 · 9:13 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please help us all to strive for eternal life with You! In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

119thCONGRESS: The members of the 119th Congress took their oaths of office yesterday. CLICK https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1875241394329239895 [:13] to hear VP Kamala Harris screw up the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mike Johnson was re-elected as Speaker of the House on the first ballot, with every Republican except Thomas Massie voting for him and every Democrat voting for Hakeem Jeffries. CLICK https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1875273293814755391 [:05] to hear Jeffries declare the Democrats’ commitment to “fart hard for the freedom to vote.”

On January 6, the House and Senate will hold a joint session to count electoral votes and certify the 2024 United States presidential election. Pray with us that it will go smoothly.

BOOTYJUDGE: On December 31, Biden’s Secretary of Transportation tweeted, “I’m confident that a century from now, future Americans will look back on the work we’ve done—much as we look at the Hoover Dam—and see how the Biden-Harris Administration’s “Big Deal” for infrastructure made big things possible.”

This is the man who was handed 7.5 billion dollars to build EV charging stations and only got seven (7 … as in six plus one) built.

CATHOLIC: To all those who claim the Catholic Church is only pro-birth, not pro-life, your argument doesn’t wash.

FAUXTUS: In one of his (many) FUs to the American people, Joe Biden is awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to Hillary Clinton and George Soros and 16 other people, half of whom aren’t even American citizens.

NEW YORK: New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has ordered soon-to-be-POTUS Donald Trump to appear either in person or virtually for sentencing on Jan. 10. CLICK https://x.com/ABCNewsLive/status/1875289736278851731 [1:18] for a news report.

Trump Communications Director Steven Cheung responded to Merchan’s order by calling it “a direct violation of the Supreme Court’s Immunity decision and other longstanding jurisprudence” and that “President Trump will continue fighting against these hoaxes until they are dead.”

USA: [4:11] – “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

GRAMMY NOTES: My cousin-in-law sent me a photo of how she is using the Christmas card I made for her. I can’t imagine a higher honor! <3<3<3

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by | January 2, 2025 · 10:55 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please grant each of us all the graces we need to grow in virtue and holiness every moment of every day. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

ACCIDENTAL: Three women were killed and about two dozen people were injured at a Honolulu home when a cache of illegal fireworks went off prematurely at a large New Year’s Eve party. At the last count, three are dead and more than two dozen wounded.

BABYLON BEE: [3:47] – Excellent parody.

EXORCIST: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e4iK45q2r4c to hear Msgr. Stephen Rossetti talk about how unbelievably ugly and evil demons are.

LAST VEGAS: It looks like the New Year’s explosion outside Trump Tower may have been a terror attack gone wrong. CLICK https://x.com/Acyn/status/1874610174637547910 [:41] to see why the blast only killed one (the driver) and injured seven.

NEW ORLEANS: [:58] – The death count has risen to 15. The FBI says the driver of the vehicle that deliberately plowed into New Year celebrators was Shamsud-Din Jabbar (42), a U.S. citizen who lived in Texas and had an ISIS flag on his vehicle. The FBI is working to determine if he had any affiliations with terrorist organizations.

The Sugar Bowl game between Georgia and Notre Dame has been postponed until Thursday.

PAKISTANI GROOMING GANGS: I read enough of the article at the link below to know that, as a survivor of sexual assault, it would not be healthy for me to read further or report on this.

PSA: Idea for those whose kids haven’t started back to school yet.

UK: Nearly two-thirds of the imprisoned males who identify as female have been convicted of sexual offenses. Of the males who identify as male, only 17% have been convicted of sexual offenses.

Thankfully, in the UK, the majority of trannies with male genitalia or who have been convicted of a violent or sexual offense are not housed in the women’s prisons.

WIKIPEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1873989278461751769 [1:40] to hear one of the co-founders explain how Wikipedia went from striving for neutrality to being another arm of the Democrat Media Machine.

Just so y’all know, I do use Wikipedia for basic facts – e.g., birth and death dates – mainly because it is the fastest way to get that information. But I haven’t used Wikipedia for anything political in many years. Ditto Snopes.

GRAMMY NOTES: One fall, we tossed our old pumpkins on to our open compost heap and had a bonanza of pumpkins the following year. We had recently bought our first video camera … a big ol’ clunky VHS thing that weighed a ton, but was state of the art at the time. One of my kids (who later went to film school) used it to stage a very funny video about her troll dolls being eaten by giant plants. LOL

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by | December 31, 2024 · 9:44 am

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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”

FAUXTUS: January 20th, here we come!! CLICK https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1873747972485431542 [2:46] and never, Never, NEVER forget the lies!

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.

RIP: Former President Jimmy Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday. He was 100 years old.

GRAMMY NOTES: When I was pregnant, people would ask if I wanted a boy or a girl. I always said, “I’m really hoping it’s not a puppy or a kitten.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/558142173468634 to see a fish with a transparent head.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VVyZT7vR5Q0 to see the best kind of new mom visitor.

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by | December 29, 2024 · 10:59 am

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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.”

HYPOCRITES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HeO31hyCB_E and marvel at all the college students who were stumped by their double standards. CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1873022846785736971 for an oldie, but goodie.

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::

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by | December 28, 2024 · 10:47 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Lord, let us never become so discouraged by our failures that we stop coming back to You for forgiveness and a fresh start. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

BORDER: Remember when Biden took office and halted construction of border wall that was already paid for? He left piles and piles of expensive border wall units sitting around, then put them up for auction for pennies on the dollar. Lone Star State Attorney General Ken Paxton sued to block the sales and won.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND: A whistle blowing vicar says Anglican priests throughout England were urged to modify “problematic” Advent hymns and Christmas carols that might be possibly offensive to non-Christian. One example of offense was affirming that Jesus Christ is the true Messiah. Why am I not surprised to learn that, over the past decade, more than 400 Anglican churches in Britain have shut down due to a lack of attendance and support from the local community?

COVID-19: The Wall Street Journal has done some actual journalism, revealing what those of us who were paying attention knew early in 2020. That is, that the virus was engineered in and escaped from the Wuhan lab in China.

The WSJ further revealed that three scientists from the National Center for Medical Intelligence – John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien – reported this fact to the FBI and were told to shut up about it.

It might be news to the WSJ’s readers that all information about the lab leak origin was omitted from presidential briefings. But it wasn’t surprising to those of us who were paying attention. Real journalists told us years ago that the research funding had Tony Fauci’s sticky fingers all over it.

FAUXTUS: That’s about 52 years worth of vacation days for your average American. And when Slow Joe was in the office, he rarely worked a full day and never worked overtime.

GALLUP: The number of Americans who are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. has dropped to 19%. I‘m wondering if the 20% who are not satisfied with our direction, yet approve of Biden performance are mad about Trump’s win.

GEORGIA: A judge in Georgia has issued a ruling forcing Fani Willis to testify under oath before the State Senate to answer for the crimes she committed in the Trump “lawfare” case.

MASCULINITY: “I say embrace masculinity. We need more and more boys to grow up to be strong fathers.” – Kevin Sorbo. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k24wFad9IB8 to see one guy who has the good dad thing nailed. We have a similarly good dad here at Casa Hyphen where, years ago, a certain member of the tribe lost her door privileges for a time.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: I’ve heard this used to be a respectable magazine.

SINSICK: William (34) and Zachary (36) Zulock both pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, sexual exploitation of their two adopted sons. The gay couple, who lived in Atlanta, have each been sentenced to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole. DA Randy McGinley said, “These two Defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else.”

GRAMMY NOTES: I want to share my friend Hans’ first podcast @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA325997PgM. He recently retired (again) and, Hans being Hans, came up with yet another new thing to keep him busy. We’ve been friends since high school where we shared the school’s morning announcement duties for “WIHS.” Since then, Hans has managed a radio station, owned and operated an ambulance business, trained and used bloodhounds for search and rescue operations, taught me to rappel, became a forest ranger, met and married the love of his life with whom he adopted and raised 4 kids, supported her through becoming a Lutheran pastor, wrote and published a popular series of Christian science-fantasy novels (see “The Gewellyn Chronicles” by Hans Erdman at Amazon) while his beloved was undergoing cancer treatment, retired from the forest service and started a new career in security at a local college, engaged in a number of bicycle mission trips, and served as a bicycling EMT at numerous sporting events. Phew!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6jJ0O8Mhnxs to see Ada get her portrait done. This is the start of a new series for SHORTS. Mama Buzz discovered this wonderful You Tube channel by a guy who does street portraiture with total strangers. He makes these people look so beautiful that I just want to cry.

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by | December 26, 2024 · 10:21 am

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DAILY PRAYER: O Lord, enlighten our hearts that evil desires are darkened and send down Thy grace to help us glorify Thee. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

DOGE: The Biden administration gave $2.5 million of our money to 24 schools to finance a 10-week long “intervention” designed to help LGBTQ-identifying youth “cope with the effects of minority stress.”

We’ve also been stuck with paying $53 million to maintain a super yacht we confiscated from a Russian oligarch, just in case it has to be given back.

MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/catturd2/status/1872029204818342380 [:20] for something that should have never happened. “My problem with it, is simple. When you are in the military you are there to do a job. Not put out for sex partners. This is demoralizing to troops.” – X commenter

PETER DOOCY: [4:21] – CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y3SZhV31W-c to hear another example of why I am really looking forward to January 20.

RACISM vs. GREENISM: I am always amused to see self-righteous activist lefties expose their insane hypocrisies. CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1868797312665100379 [2:04] to hear of the outrage in Loudon County over a teacher passing around cotton during a lesson the invention of the cotton gin. Now CLICK https://x.com/MichelleMaxwell/status/1872268679381131418 [1:07] to hear Billy Bob Thornton talk about how pervasive petroleum is in our culture. The RAAAACISM idjits in Loudon County should read the tags on their clothes. Cotton is the most common and least expensive natural fiber we have available to us. But, since it costs more than its usual substitute, polyester (which is primarily made from petroleum-derived chemicals), it is something of a luxury fiber.

TEXAS: CLICK https://x.com/Mericamemed/status/1871759376543084750 [:37] to see the awesome holiday greeting from the mayor of Garland. LOL!!

USA: [3:49] – Joe Biden signed a bill into law designating the bald eagle as our national bird. And here I thought the founders did that some time after telling Ben Franklin it was NOT going to be the turkey.

GRAMMY NOTES: Let it be known that, on Christmas Day of this year, I played what may be the BEST GAME OF SWEET SHUFFLE EVER!

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by | December 24, 2024 · 10:35 am

‘Twas the night before Christmas

CALIFORNICATION: In November, nearly 70% of California voters voted in favor of Proposition 36, which undid stupid stuff voters approved in 2014. The law took effect this month. CLICK https://rumble.com/v627aw8-its-a-felony-shoplifting-suspects-discuss-new-california-law-after-being-ca.html?e9s=src_v1_upp to see three young ladies casually go shoplifting at three stores, then express shock and dismay over the fact that what has been okay for the last ten years, is now a felony.

DEBT: Sen. Rand Paul has issued his tenth annual Festivus Report on Government Waste. Items featured include:

  1. $892 billion for the interest on our national debt.
  2. The Navy wants to spend $90 billion to build more versions of a failed ship design.
  3. $15.5 billion to push Americans toward electric vehicles they don’t want.
  4. $10 billion spent on maintaining, leasing, and furnishing almost entirely empty buildings.
  5. $700 million to help a failed trucking company delay bankruptcy.
  6. $20 million to promote fertilizer use in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil.
  7. $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim”, a new Sesame Street show in Iraq.
  8. $15 million to make the IRS more powerful.
  9. $12.4 million to torture cats. [See “Where’s PETA?!” below.]
  10. $12 million to build a Pickleball Complex in Las Vegas.
  11. $4.8 million went to social media influencers in the U.S. and abroad.
  12. $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil.
  13. $2.24 million to find out if cats can contract and transmit COVID-19.
  14. $2.1 million for border security in Paraguay.
  15. $2 million to study kids looking at Facebook ads about food.
  16. $873,584 to teach Jordanian film-makers how to do a better job.
  17. $720,479 on wetland conservation projects for ducks in Mexico.
  18. $500,000 to expand our Ethiopian embassy’s public relations campaign.
  19. $419,470 to determine that lonely rats seek cocaine more than happy rats.
  20. $365,000 to promote circuses in city parks.
  21. $345,434 to encourage kids to play soccer instead of build bombs.
  22. $330,000 to fund censorship of non-liberal and conservative media.
  23. $288,563 to ensure bird watching groups are diverse.
  24. $253,653 to Bosnia to fight “misinformation.”
  25. $123,066 to teach Kyrgyzstan youth how to go viral.
  26. $108,272 to upgrade a non-functioning hotel in the Caribbean.
  27. $32,596.12 to enhance Olympic breakdancing workshops and performances in Nigeria.
  28. $10,000 to the Bearded Ladies Cabaret for a show ice skates focused on climate change.

GREENLAND: If Trump gets his way, the U.S. will be buying a yuge chunk of land. On Sunday, he said that U.S. control and ownership of Greenland is “an absolute necessity” for “national security and freedom throughout the world.”

On Monday, Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede replied, “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom.”

Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark but has wide-ranging autonomy. The United States has made previous offers to purchase Greenland, first in 1867 and again in 1946. I wouldn’t put money on this third bid failing, cuz, you know, Trump.

PARTY OF HYPOCRISY: CLICK https://rumble.com/v61wmrh-kamala-campaign-mega-fundraiser-calls-it-quits-like-leaving-a-cult.html?e9s=src_v1_upp [3:13] to see DNC National Finance Committee member Lindy Li explain why she has left the “shrinking tent” party. This is not an official #WalkAway video, but it could be.

She says, “They pretend to be so loving and caring and embracing of diversity but all of a sudden, when I dare to utter any criticisms of the goddess Kamala Harris, I get ostracized. Me, after having raised tens of millions of dollars for the party. … [L]eaving the Democratic Party or even questioning the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult. It’s terrifying. I don’t want to be a part of this craziness anymore.”

WHERE’S PETA?!: The White Coat Waste reports that the NIH has been using our money to finance the torture of cats, supposedly in the name of essential scientific progress.

In 2024, our National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $1.5 million on a study at the University of Pittsburgh that could potentially aid in the treatment of conditions like vertigo or helping us understand the effects of space travel on the human body. Four to six month old kittens are first tied down for hours or weeks until they stop resisting restraints. Then they have parts of their brains severed or removed, so they are still alive but devoid of any cognitive function. Some have holes drilled into their skulls to allow their sociopathic tormenters to lock their heads into place. Then, they are strapped to a hydraulic table that tilts and spins them in all directions for 8 to 12 hours or longer, all in a gruesome effort to induce severe motion sickness. Their eyes are subjected to bright, flashing lights and, if they fail to vomit, researchers inject copper sulfate directly into their stomachs.

Also in 2024, the Department of Defense (DOD) gave the sons and daughters of Josef Mengele at U Pitt to slice open the backs of male cats and insert electrodes into their spinal cords so they could shock them for up to ten minutes to stimulate penile erections. Then, they severed their spinal cords to paralyze their lower bodies and continued the shocks for another 10 minutes. In another experiment, the so-called scientists at Pitt shoved marbles up cat rectums, attached electrodes to their spinal cords, and shocked them until they pooped out the marbles. One particularly unfortunate cat had to endure 11 minutes of relentless shocks just to expel four marbles. The report includes close ups of the marbles as they emerged from the cats’ anuses. All in the name of “national security.”

SHORTS:

After all of the above, you need to CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/571209755624047 for a much-needed feel good video.

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by | December 23, 2024 · 10:33 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Heavenly Father, fill our hearts and minds with gratitude and awe for the magnitude of love that was made manifest in Jesus. In His precious Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER WALL: [4:30] – Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to break down how he’s stopping Biden’s attempt to sell border wall for scrap. And the mayor of New York sings a very different tune.

DENZEL WASHINGTON: Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington was baptized at a church in New York City over the weekend and officially received his ministry license — an event he revealed was prophesied 50 years ago by a woman in his mom’s beauty parlor who told him, “Boy, you are going to travel the world and preach to millions of people.”

END TIMES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mdB1pVSPvp8 for an important message from exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger.

FAUXTUS: On Monday, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 (of 40) prisoners on the federal government’s death row. These individuals, all convicted of murder, will now serve life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Among the clemency recipients was a man who raped and murdered 8- and 9-year-old girls, then strangled a female naval officer. Another forced a 12-year-old girl to watch him murder her mother before murdering her. Nine of them were originally convicted to life in prison for murders, but then were convicted to death after killing prison guards and/or fellow inmates.

Although Biden says he is opposed to the death penalty, he left three men on death row. They include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers; Robert Bowers, who killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine black Charleston churchgoers in 2015.

Yet he commuted the death row sentences of Iouri Mikhel, was convicted of murdering five Russian and Georgian immi­grants after kidnapping them for ransom; of Kaboni Savage, convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people, including four children as a Philadelphia drug dealer; and James Roane, Jr., who participated in the murder of 11 people as a drug dealer in Richmond, Va.

THE ROTTEN APPLE: Police have arrested the perp. They believe he did not know his victim. This is the tenth murder on a New York subway train this year.

The murder occurred on Sunday, December 22, 2024, at about 7:30 a.m. At 3:40 pm, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, with no reference to the horrific crime, inexplicably tweeted – “In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day. Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to support @NYPDnews and @MTA safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down, and ridership is going up.”

Two hours later, she tweeted that the suspect was in custody, then congratulated herself again on the excellent work being done by law enforcement on her watch. Comment: “Hey Kathy Hochul, You could’ve prevented today’s horror if you deported illegals instead of using tax dollars to give them free hotel rooms, cell phones, and debit cards. Today’s gruesome loss of life is your fault. You need to do like Cuomo and resign.”

TEXAS: The last time Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX-12) cast a vote in Congress was on July 24th, 2024. Since then, her constituents in Tarrant and Parker County have had zero representation. The Dallas Express got curious about where she was and did some digging. They found her living in an elder care facility. Do these people not have to even show up to keep collecting their six-figure pay checks?!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/29sAdcAjMJI for a demo re: the importance of having a father in the home.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bPMRclettIM to see another Good Dad moment.

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by | December 22, 2024 · 9:00 am

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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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by | December 19, 2024 · 10:10 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us all to focus on the central point of Christmas, which is to welcome Jesus into our hearts and lives. Making the holidays special is important, but it isn’t the reason for the season. Guide us in finding a good balance. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

2024: The Electoral College voted on Tuesday, formalizing President-elect Donald Trump’s 312 vote victory over Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226. A U.S. presidential candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win. Trump also won the popular vote with 77.2 million votes compared to Harris’ 75 million votes.

CONGRESS: On Wednesday, Trump, incoming administration nominees, and House Republicans succeeded in getting the House to scrap a 1,547-page, year-end, pork-loaded spending bill. Among other things, it would have given massive pay raises for Congress members, allowed them to avoid Obamacare, shield corrupt Jan. 6 House committee members like Liz Cheney from congressional subpoenas, and extend the life of a censorship agency within the State Department.

Noting that the giveaways were bribes to get Schumer and Biden to approve aid to farmers and disaster relief, Trump said, “Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF.”

FAUXTUS: A new Marquette poll likely cements Joe Biden’s status as least popular president ever. At the end of his first (and blessedly only ever) term, he scored a -32 (Approve: 34% minus Disapprove: 66%). By comparison, at the end of Trump’s first term, he scored a +6 (Approve: 53% minus Disapprove: 47%).

GEORGIA: This morning, the Georgia Court of Appeals found in favor of Donald Trump’s suit to disqualify the biased and corrupt Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the election-related criminal case against him and about a dozen codefendants.

J6: On Tuesday, House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight released a new report that concludes the events of J6 were preventable. It also outlines why Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney should be investigated for witness tampering while serving as Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee. Cheney was one of the two NeverTrump Republicans that Pelosi agreed to allow on her corrupt kangaroo committee.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: [1:23] – A new documentary tells the story of how a female athlete not only had her athletic career destroyed, but now faces lasting physical and cognitive challenges as a result of a single shot to the head courtesy of a man playing as a girl.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mjrWYscjU6g for another good one from Ariel.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gkil2n2GDgs for a sweet moment for Judge Caprio.

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