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by | January 21, 2025 · 1:55 pm

Day One

President Trump signed a flurry of Executive Orders yesterday. Promises made. Promises kept.

Clarifying The Military’s Role In Protecting The Territorial Integrity Of The United States

Declaring A National Emergency At The Southern Border Of The United States

Guaranteeing The States Protection Against Invasion

Protecting The American People Against Invasion

Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship

Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program

Securing Our Borders

Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis

Establishing And Implementing The President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency”

Declaring a National Energy Emergency

Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects

Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential

Unleashing American Energy

Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing

Flying The Flag Of The United States At Full-Staff On Inauguration Day

Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021

Hiring Freeze

Holding Former Government Officials Accountable For Election Interference And Improper Disclosure Of Sensitive Governmental Information

Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions

Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel


Organization of the National Security Council and Subcommittees

President Trump Announces Cabinet and Cabinet Level Appointments

President Trump Announces Acting Cabinet and Cabinet-Level Positions

President Trump Announces Sub-Cabinet Appointments

President Trump Designates Chairmen and Acting Chairmen

Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture

Reforming The Federal Hiring Process And Restoring Merit To Government Service

Regulatory Freeze Pending Review

Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives

Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce

Return to In-Person Work

America First Policy Directive To The Secretary Of State

America First Trade Policy

Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal (Global Tax Deal)

Protecting The United States From Foreign Terrorists And Other National Security And Public Safety Threats

Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements

Reevaluating And Realigning United States Foreign Aid

Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization

Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok

Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government

Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Government

Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California

Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship

Restoring The Death Penalty And Protecting Public Safety

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by | January 19, 2025 · 1:29 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: God, we ask for your blessing on the emotional and spiritual connections in our families. We ask for your help in building the trust and mutual respect that are integral to love and commitment. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

FAUXTUS: [6:47] – Old puddin’ brain recently told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, “Red states really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy, the way they handle manufacturing and the way they handle supply chains.”

Labor Department data shows that, on average, Republican-led states have recovered 143% of the jobs lost during the pandemic vs. just 118% in Democrat-run states.

Meanwhile, Moody’s Analytics, which uses 13 metrics, including the value of goods and services produced, employment, retail sales and new-home listings, to assess each state’s economic health shows 11 of top 15 are red vs. 8 of the bottom 10 which are blue.

FEDERAL RESERVE: in December 2020, the U.S. Federal Reserve joined the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). On Friday, the Federal Reserve announced its withdrawal from the 143-member coalition saying, “The work of the NGFS has increasingly broadened in scope, covering a wider range of issues that are outside of the Board’s statutory mandate.”

HOMELAND SECURITY: During Kristi Noem’s first confirmation hearing, she addressed border security, FEMA, terrorism, cyber security, and the Secret Service.

J6: Trump surprised Dan Bongino’s listeners by phoning in. CLICK https://rumble.com/v6a57kd-massive-trump-tells-bongino-hes-about-to-blow-the-lid-off-jan-6-cover-ups.html [:51] to hear him pledge to blow the lid off the whole ugly thing.

OHIO: Gov. DeWine (left) has named his Lieutenant Governor, Jon Husted (right), as his choice to fill Vance’s U.S. Senate seat. Husted will occupy Vance’s Senate seat until a special election is held in November 2026 to decide who will serve the rest of Vance’s term, which ends in 2028. The winner of the 2026 special election will have to run again in 2028 for a new six-year term.

S&G: The “non-binary” town councilor of Worcester, Massachusetts announced his/her/their/its intention to take an unsanctioned, month-long, paid “mental health” leave of absence. During a Zoom call last week, Thu Ngyuen, who was wearing a Keffiyeh, said, “For the record, I will not be taking on the responsibility of proving my experience of transphobia and the discrimination and toxicity of council culture.”

WHITE HOUSE: [13:31] – They will have just six hours to move the Bidens out and the Trumps in.

WILDLIFE: In what appears to be yet another leftie boondoggle, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) wants to spend more than a billion dollars of our money hiring hunters to slaughter hundreds of thousands of barred owls. The idea is to protect the northern spotted owls, which apparently occupies the same niche in the environment, from possible extinction. Critics who say the plan is ridiculous have asked DOGE to get it slaughtered.

GRAMMY NOTES: A close friend Mama’s was born with cerebral palsy and has always walked with a limp because one leg was shorter than the other. Her pain has been worse than usual lately and she has needed her walker constantly. Last night, she went to a healing and deliverance service at a Catholic Church near where they live and received personal prayer with a priest who has a special ministry in this area. One thing he prayed for was leg lengthening and they saw it happen. She hasn’t limped or needed her walker since!

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by | January 17, 2025 · 1:50 pm

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CALIFORNICATION: California’s Air Resources Board has officially withdrawn its attempt to force trucks to transition from diesel to zero-emission.

CNN: In 2022, Jake Tapper branded plaintiff Zachary Young guilty of exploiting desperate Afghans during the U.S. military withdrawal in 2021. Early today, a Florida jury found CNN liable for defaming the Navy veteran and ordered CNN to pay $5 million in damages. There will be a second phase of the trial to decide if that number should be even higher.

FAUXTUS: Biden has announced that he has ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), something the U.S. archivist and U.S. deputy archivist have both said recently he couldn’t do.

Back in the 1970s, when passing the ERA was a hot topic, Congress set June 30, 1982 as the deadline for getting three-fourths of the states to ratify it. Right wingers concerned about its impact on abortion, on women being drafted, and on legally removing the distinctions of mother and father in the nuclear family were able to prevent proponents from achieving their goal.

In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to “ratify” the amendment, long past the deadline and after multiple states had rescinded their ratifications. Slow Joe said never mind to all that. HE is going to make it the “law of the land.” We shall see.

In other ridiculous lame duck acts, Biden pardoned 2,500 more felons and forgave $4.5 billion in student loans.

GEORGIA: [:51] – The New Georgia Project (NGP) is a non-profit founded by Stacey Abrams to engage in voter registration. In 2018, NGP spent $3.2 million to support Abrams’ failed bid for state governor. The state’s campaign ethics commission just slapped a $300,000 fine on them for violating campaign finance law.

GOD MADE THIS: “In the heart of Antarctica, nature creates an incredible sight: a red waterfall cascading through the perennial ice of the Taylor Glacier. This phenomenon, known as Blood Falls, is even more fascinating than it seems. Its intense color is not only due to oxidized iron but also to tiny iron-rich spheres created by tiny bacteria living in a salt lake hidden beneath a glacier. When this water reaches the surface and encounters oxygen, it takes on such an intense red hue that it seems unreal in the Antarctic landscape. The waterfall continues to flow even at sub-zero temperatures.” – Nature Wilderness Facebook page

FLORIDA: [21:27] – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press conference to announce his choice of his state’s Attorney General, Ashley Moody, to fill Marco Rugio’s Senate seat. Her bio is astonishing.

INAUGURATION: An arctic cold front will hit on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, so the ceremony has been moved indoors. I’m guessing this might be God’s way of discouraging leftie demonstrations of “tolerance.”

MIRACLE: The Eucharistic tabernacle at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Pacific Palisades, Calif., was found completely untouched after the church burned to the ground in the Los Angeles wildfires. Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Bryan Nassour said the Blessed Sacrament was intact inside the 300-pound tabernacle. The firefighters also found undamaged vials of holy oil. “Talk to any firefighter,” he told Angelus News. “In any religious building what usually survives is the cross and certain specific items that are highly religious, unless they’ve been specifically set on fire.”

WHITE HOUSE PRESS ROOM: Ordinarily, the front row of seats is reserved for the “major” (aka, “legacy”) media outlets, including ABC, CBS, NBC, AP, Reuters, and CNN. Rumors are afloat that Trump aides are thinking of mixing things up to give other, less biased media organizations a shot.

The White House Correspondent’s Association (WHCA) is responsible for the briefing room seating chart. To take that duty away from the WHCA is akin to a declaration of war on the legacy press … which may be exactly what Trump’s media team is looking for.

On a personal note, I dated a guy once who had had the chance to attend a presser in this room. He was stuffed into the back, standing beside the big equipment. His main comments were that the room was a lot smaller than it looks on television and that the noise from the cameras in the back was so loud that, from where he was, it was hard to hear anything.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: CLICK https://rumble.com/v69nc3s-reporter-attempts-gotcha-bible-question-on-mike-johnson-gets-rekt.html?e9s=src_v1_upp to hear House Speaker Johnson give a beautiful answer to a loaded question.

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by | January 17, 2025 · 10:02 am

Clowns

[:50] – The song, “Send in the Clowns,” ends with the line, “They’re already here.” Indeed.

One of the most clownish questions at Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth was spewed by Democrat Sen. Jack Reed, who wanted Pete to explain what a “jagoff” is.

Hegseth: “I don’t think I need to.”

Reed: “Why not?”

Hegseth: “Because the men and women watching understand.”

Reed: “Well, perhaps some of my colleagues don’t understand.”

Hegseth: “It would be a JAG officer who puts his or her own priorities in front of the war fighters. Their promotions, their medals in front of having the backs of those that are making the tough calls on the front lines.”

According to entomologists, “jag-off” has its roots in Pittsburgh, where it means “a person who is a jerk, stupid or inept.” The similar sounding term – “jack off” (aka, “jerk off “) – has its roots elsewhere and usually refers to someone who masturbates excessively. At least in Pittsburgh, “jag-off” does not have the obscene connotation that “jack off” and “jerk off” have.

I couldn’t say for sure whether or not the men and women of the U.S. military use the terms interchangeably or not. But I’m guessing perhaps not. I’m also guessing Reed knows this and was trying to make Hegseth uncomfortable.

M.D. Kittle at The Federalist summarized perfectly. “The moment perfectly encapsulated what the Democrat Party is in 2025, a year before America’s 250th birthday: Out of touch, out of power, out of their heads. A bunch of jagoffs.”

DITTO the legacy media. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-NP6H2pVlo to hear Pete Hegseth, a Fox News anchor himself, speak to that point.

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by | January 16, 2025 · 10:51 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask you to keep Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and their families safe. Please grant us an uneventful inauguration day and a smooth transition with no drama or hijinks marring the confirmations of his nominees. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

ATTORNEY GENERAL: [12:49] – Megyn Kelly and Victor Davis Hanson discuss the first confirmation hearing for Trump’s nominee, Pam Bondi.

EDUCATION: The latest Becket Fund Religious Freedom Index found 77% of Americans believe parents should be able to opt their children out of curriculum violating their religious beliefs. This is up 3 points from last year.

EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE: President-elect Donald Trump has unveiled plans to create the External Revenue Service (ERS), a new agency modeled after the IRS but aimed at collecting tariffs, duties, and revenues from foreign trade partners.

HEALTH: Following a comprehensive review of scientific studies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked the use of Red No. 3 in food products and ingested pharmaceuticals. Companies that use the dye in food and ingested drugs have until Jan. 15, 2027, and Jan. 18, 2028, respectively, to reformulate their products. Consumers are advised to check product labels and avoid those containing Red No. 3, which may also be listed as E127 or erythrosine.

MIDDLE EAST: Biden’s own state department said that Trump’s team was “absolutely critical” in getting the Hamas-Israel cease fire agreement “over the line.” One hour later, Joe Biden took credit for the whole thing.

PERVERT: Award-winning Washington Post cartoonist, Darrin Bell, has been arrested for possession of child abuse pornography. Investigators found 134 videos of child pornography linked to an account he owned and controlled. Bell has routinely depicted Trump and other Republicans as sexual predators and perverts.

POPE FRANCIS: I think I’ll give Jorge’s new memoir a miss. Reviewers say it includes condemnation of young Catholics who are devoted to the Latin Mass, as well as approval for transgender individuals to receive baptism and be godparents and for homosexuals to continue in the homosexual lifestyle because God “loves them as they are.”

SHAMEFUL: Michelle Obama skipped Carter’s funeral and is not planning to attend Trump’s inauguration. The word is that she is on an “extended vacation in Hawaii.” In other bitchy-Democrat-female news, Kamala Harris has reportedly denied Usha Vance access to the VP residence to plan her family’s move.

WIND: Wyoming is concerned about the amount of landfill space old wind turbines are taking up. Wyoming House bill 89 proposes they be buried in the holes from which coal has been mined.

GRAMMY NOTES: Bwahahaha!! [1:48] – I dated a guy once (a looong time ago) who lived on a cul de sac. During one blizzardy day when everyone had to stay home from school, the neighbor kids built a big pile of snow in their practically private roadway and invited him to try to take it out with his jeep. He zoomed through it, then went back inside to warm up while they built it again, only bigger. Again, he came out and drove right through it. The third time was not a charm. He ended up having to buy a new radiator for his vehicle.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_AEmLziNw1E to see a genius advertising idea!

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by | January 15, 2025 · 8:30 am

Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense

I will be very relieved to have this warrior leading my warriors.

[11:01] – Pete Hegseth, Trump’s secretary of defense nominee, read his opening statement before Senate lawmakers, unveiling his top priorities if confirmed on Capitol Hill. “[Trump], like me, wants a Pentagon laser-focused on lethality, meritocracy, warfighting, accountability, and readiness. We will remain patriotically apolitical and stridently constitutional.”

[5:48] – I had no interest in actually watching the Democrat senators. Thankfully, Megyn Kelly endured the torture so I wouldn’t have to. CLICK https://x.com/TheOnlyDSC/status/1879242577804976257 [:11] to see a blessedly brief montage of the Democrat hags embarrass women everywhere.

More commentary and clips at the links below.

[7:27] – Senator Mullin’s snarky responses to Democrats’ accusations that Hegseth is a drunken sexual predator were priceless. During Dem rants, Hegseth noted the alcoholism accusations were anonymous and unproven, while the 2017 sex incident had been consensual. He further noted that law enforcement investigators entirely cleared him of wrongdoing.

[7:10] – Two good questions from Senator Tuberville. Two excellent answers by Hegseth.

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) has decided to formally support Hegseth’s nomination. “After four years of weakness in the White House, Americans deserve a strong Secretary of Defense.” Democrat John Fetterman (PA) has also indicated he’s likely to vote yes. With the 119th U.S. Senate sitting 47 Dems and 52 GOPs, Trump’s nominees need every vote they can get. FYI: Vance’s seat is currently empty. Until Jan 20, Harris will preside any tie breakers.

VAXXXINE: The Department of Defense rescinded the COVID-19 vaccination requirement in 2023, but Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has refused to reinstate the 3,400 some troops who were pushed out of service for refusing it. Hegseth vowed to not only reinstate them, but also “they will receive an apology, back pay, and rank that they lost because they were forced out due to an experimental vaccine.”

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by | January 12, 2025 · 11:14 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We pray today for all the victims of the California fires and thank you for the witness of this beautiful family whose faith and joy in You have allowed them to stand on the ashes of their worldly possession and sing Your praise! Amen. Alleluia!

ABC NEWS: CLICK https://x.com/JackOsbourne/status/1877151676630434100 [:15] to see how David Muir, host of “World News Tonight”, used clothespins to cinch in the waist of his fake fireman’s jacket so he could look more buff as he reported on the deaths and devastation in California.

CALI-FIRES: [13:48] – “Everyone saw this coming.” Don’t tell me Democrat policies aren’t deliberate. I think it’s ironic that this staunch Republican is demanding they get exactly what they’ve been aiming for – i.e., FEDERAL TAKEOVER and MARTIAL LAW … two important steps on the road to the one world government prophesied in Revelation.

CLICK https://x.com/jacobkschneider/status/1877458305599053852 [1:45] to hear how the Democrat California governor responds to a citizen.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6pDTedR6PM0 to hear how dumb the Democrat LA mayor is.

DOJ: For two years, Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed to Special Counsel, Jack Smith, has investigated Trump in two separate cases—one charging him with election-related crimes and another accusing him of illegally retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home after he concluded his first term at the White House. As soon as Trump won, both cases were dropped. Trump said he would be firing Smith, who has saved him the trouble by resigning.

FAUXTUS: CLICK https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1877857173046440257 to hear the delusional old man say, “I think Kamala could have beaten Trump.”

S&G: A federal court has vacated the Biden admin’s radical Title IX rule that sought to elevate trans wants over women’s rights in female locker rooms and showers.

SHAMEFUL: Noesis tweeted, “Their woke ideology is far more important than the lives of their fellow citizens.” Sen. John Fetterman said, “[This] is why we lost.”

Thankfully, the vote received the 60 necessary to move the Laken Riley Act to the floor where it is expected to pass sometime next week.

SLEEP: A recently published study reports that sleep—particularly rapid eye movement (REM) sleep—plays in managing emotional memories. IOW, the unwanted memories that disrupt sleep for those suffering from as depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder leave sufferers less able to regulate said unwanted memories. The study noted that “well-rested individuals could override retrieval operations and reduce the emergence of intrusive memory content [while] sleep-deprived individuals failed to suppress the target memories effectively, which remained intrusive over time.” This finding may offer insights into more effective treatments that help sufferers rest and forget.

THANK THE FOUNDERS: The UK does not have the constitutional protections we enjoy courtesy of our First and Second Amendments.

TOBACCO BAN: [5:11] – “Biden’s ban is a gift with a bow and balloons to organized crime cartels with it, whether it’s cartels, Chinese organized crime, or Russian mafia. It’s going to keep America smoking, and it’s going to make the streets more violent,” Rich Marianos, former assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the current chair of the Tobacco Law Enforcement Network,

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Awp7KzhmGvY to watch an Aussie try American biscuits and gravy for the first time.

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by | January 11, 2025 · 1:12 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Lord, We come before You, repenting of and asking Your forgiveness for the times we have spoken out of turn. Grant each of us the graces we need to weigh our words on Your scale before choosing when and what we say. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

CALI-FIRES: This is one of those things that I find too distressing to report on in detail. Here’s a brief summary for those of you who, like Dearest, did not know Los Angeles County has been burning out of control.

Low humidity and winds gusting up to 100 miles per hour caused fires to ignite and spread out of control within minutes.

Fire fighting resources throughout the county are spread thin and, due to California’s obsession with protecting tiny fishes, the hydrants are dry.

Thousands of structures and tens of thousands of acres have been burned to the ground. More than 100,000 people are under evacuation orders. Five people have been reported killed so far.

Air quality is bad; schools and roads are closed.

Biden and Newsom both opposed forest management projects, like controlled burns, claiming they were bad for wildlife and the environment.

Trump has been criticizing California’s forest management practices for years, saying they were going to pay heavily for it when massive fires broke out in populated areas.

Los Angeles has faced firefighter shortages for several years while the Biden administration has also overseen a drop in federal firefighters.

Far-left Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ignored warnings about wildfire conditions before traveling to Ghana, then remained there for days after the fires broke out. What business could the mayor of a U.S. city possibly have in Africa?!

In 2021, LA Mayor Bass lambasted Ted Cruz for taking his wife and daughters to Cancun to escape a 2021 storm and energy crisis in Texas.

Mayor Bass also slashed the Los Angeles Fire Department’s FY 2024-2025 budget by $17.6 million.

In 2022, the Los Angeles County Fire Department shipped fire fighting equipment to Ukraine.

While standing beside California Governor Gavin Newsom at a presser about the fires, Still Kinda President Joe Biden announced, “The good news is, I’m a great-grandfather as of today.” He then refused to answer questions from reporters and left.

CLICK https://rumble.com/v676xuy-how-californias-ultimate-failure-is-destroying-citizens.html [6:49] to hear Dan Bongino rant about why so many people who have lost everything will get nothing from insurance, because California’s far left government regulated insurance companies out of the market.

LAWFARE: [9:35] – On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s request to halt proceedings in his New York business records case. On Friday, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan gave President-elect Donald Trump an unconditional discharge in his sentencing in his hush money case. It’s a largely symbolic sentence that means that Trump does not face any penalties beyond having a conviction entered in his legal record. IOW, the lefties can go on saying he is a felon. They’ll ignore the fact that, if what he did is an actual crime, then most politicians and celebrities would be felons as well.

META: Joe Rogan interviewed Meta CEO founder Mark Zuckerberg on his podcast. Zuckerberg said the Biden White House pressured his company to censor posts on Meta’s social media platforms. For example, during the ‘rona vaxxx roll-out, he said, “They pushed us super hard to take down things that, honestly, were true.”

Initially, they pushed back, then the administration got nasty. “People from the Biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse. … Then, like, all these different agencies and branches of government basically just, like, started investigating and coming after our company. It was brutal. It was brutal.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qIW9tM4PYtM to see “My tortoises favorite things.”

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iS4nT5HktX0 for the first ever “First Responder Haunted House.” LOL ::snort::

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by | January 8, 2025 · 9:33 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Ave Maria, gratia plena. Dominus tecum benedicta tu in mulieri­bus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

CALIFORNIA: A fast-moving wildfire erupted in the Southern California coastal city of Pacific Palisades, about 20 miles west of Los Angeles, destroying homes in one of the nation’s wealthiest communities and forcing 30,000 residents to evacuate.

Comments on X: “Due to environmental laws, California doesn’t remove dead brush and trees so places like this become a massive fire hazard waiting to go up in flames.” Also, “Even worse, the Los Angeles fire hydrants are OUT OF WATER because the county REFUSED to refill reservoirs. Also, the Mayor did ZERO prep despite the advanced warning of winds and fire risk. This is EXACTLY what happened on Maui!”

CLIMATE HOAX: [1:14] – Carbon is the stuff of life. Before mankind started digging up fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, almost all of the available carbon on the planet had been used and buried. The planet was literally on the brink of starving to death for a lack of carbon. Far from harming the planet, our fossil fuel use has given Earth a new lease on life.

Naturally, the Green New Deal “Save the Planet” morons thought it was essential to spend $281,000,000 of our tax dollars to capture and permanently store the carbon dioxide being emitted by a plant that turns corn into ethanol. Thankfully, for the good of the planet, the moronic project only managed to capture 10% to 12% of the plant’s output. Not so thankfully, they wasted $281 million dollars!

DEI: Meet the Fire Chief who did not refill Los Angeles County’s reservoirs. LA’s first lesbian Fire Chief’s says that her #1 priority is “creating, supporting, and promoting … diversity, inclusion, and equity.”

EXORCIST: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OWG3NXFPfds to learn something new about both Lucifer and Mary.

GOOD DADS: CLICK https://x.com/thriving__kids/status/1876010194087661613 [1:09] to see another guy who is raising his boys right.

LAKEN RILEY: The newly seated House of Representatives passed its first bill, The Laken Riley Act, with bipartisan support. Zero Republicans opposed. The act proposes that feds be required to detain illegal immigrants found guilty of theft-related crimes. It also would allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their citizens because of illegal immigration. The bill is named after a nursing student who was killed by an illegal immigrant while jogging on the University of Georgia’s campus.

MASCOTS: Bootz cried when he heard Daisey had died. He said he wished he could see her one more time. So Mama got out their photo albums so they could remember the fun times they had with her. Then, Mama made a page in her journal. I thought the lady in the photo was her until I zoomed in and realized it was me. We look a lot alike! 🙂

NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Colleen Shogan, the current Archivist of the United States, once wrote that anti-intellectual Republican presidents won because their stupid rhetoric allowed them to connect with the stupid American people. [7:58] – Trump has announced he will be firing Colleen Shogan who famously weaponized the National Archives against him. According to whistleblowers, she has a history of abusive, retaliatory, and partisan conduct in the work place. Cuz, tolerance!

NEW YORK: An appeals court in New York has rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to halt proceedings in his business records case, which is scheduled for sentencing on Jan. 10. Trump has asked SCOTUS to rule, citing presidential immunity concerns and potential harm to the institution of the presidency.

OH, CANADA! CLICK https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1876306722433990837 to see one group’s reaction to Trudeau’s retirement announcement. My Canadian cousin keeps sending me emails proclaiming her home U.S.’s 51st state. I’ve been pondering this and I think it could/would/should be ten states. Canada has ten provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.

OKLAHOMA: CLICK https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/1876601823886455242 [1:50] to hear how one state is returning education to its roots.

PSA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/61DEgV4U0ZU to hear about how much water weighs. I remember this being an issue when we decided to get a 90-gallon aquarium. You can’t put ginormous boxes of water just any old where!

S&G: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MY6H2nU0B7Q to hear a good dad stand up for his little girl’s right to privacy. We need more good dads in this country!

TRUMP: [1:12:2 5] – Yesterday, The Donald gave more press conference in one afternoon than Slow Joe did in all of his four years. No note cards. No scripted questions. CLICK https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1876678817084801471 [:44] to hear him answer just one of the many questions.

GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/34VrR59D2DQ for a wonderful message. I was raised by an avid sports lover, athlete, coach, referee, and Hall of Famer. He would have loved “I left it all on the field.” I hope I’m doing it!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YOfGB6Q40dc for a new R*CKST*R.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GoWfIYYdzkI and grab a tissue! ❤

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by | January 7, 2025 · 10:34 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for this reminder that You really get what we’re going through. Have mercy on us as we struggle with our humanity and keep on loving us into Your kingdom. Amen.

BACK THE BLUE: Or they will not back you.

FAUXTUS: Biden’s minders flipped a totally pointless bird at Trump supporters in his last days by signing an executive order banning offshore drilling in large areas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Trump will no doubt rescind the stupid thing in 13 days.

The NY Post reports the lame jerks also created a ban on new non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters, a move they are so proud of that they did not announce it. Dunno how the Post learned of it. And I don’t know if it’s as easy to undo as the drilling ban.

If these morons actually cared about the environment, they wouldn’t be wasting paper on this nonsense.

META: Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the United States. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.” The fact-checkers “have become too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S.”

Meta is switching to a community notes system, similar to Elon Musk-owned social media platform X. Community notes are based on feedback from users. Notes that receive a certain number of votes across people with different ideologies are displayed under posts.

NEW YORK: On Jan. 3, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s Jan. 3 decision to reject Trump’s request to dismiss the witch hunt New York Dems used to keep him sitting in a court room for weeks during campaign season. Instead, Merchan set Jan.10 for passing sentence. In his order, Merchan said he “a sentence of unconditional discharge appears to be the most viable solution to ensure finality and allow the Defendant to pursue his appellate options.”

As we learned with Hunter Biden’s pre-sentencing pardon, the felony convictions against Trump would become finalized with sentencing. On Jan. 10, Trump and his lawyers filed an appeal to stop the sentencing, hoping to trigger an automatic stay, or pause, in the proceedings.

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said. “The Supreme Court’s historic decision on Immunity, the state constitution of New York, and other established legal precedent mandate that this meritless hoax be immediately dismissed.” The alleged crimes all involve hush money payments that Trump made to shut up scandal mongers looking to make a quick buck.

NOKO: Fat Little Rocketman has banned all forms of sausage. People caught cooking or selling hotdogs could find themselves arrested for treason and sentenced to hard labor. Reports have also emerged from the hermit nation that people who get divorced face one to six months in labor camps for their “crimes” against the state.

TEBOW: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZfwTnlPt2TI to hear an extraordinary true story.

TURN THE PAGE: Fox News contributor Joe Concha discusses President Biden’s ‘lecture’ to reporters at a White House event and his decision to award Medals of Freedom to the likes of Hillary Clinton and George Soros. [3:13] – I must give credit to the Dems in Congress for confirming the 2024 electoral vote without unseemly drama. Kamala held up well, though I did think she looked like she might burst into tears at one point. I’m curious how many tranquilizers she needed to get through that lengthy and humiliating event.

GRAMMY NOTES: Thankfully, Daisey passed in her sleep during the night … in her own cozy bed and in her own time.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/geC3wkcC0TM to see a classic moment from The Dick Van Dyke Show.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-AeAof3Rodw to see a super cute dog moment.

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