DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, help us all to humbly ask You each day where we have hurt others through our thoughts, words, and deeds. Also show us where we failed to be “Jesus with skin on” and failed to help through our silence and inaction. And, Lord, after You show us, grant us the graces we need to repent and do better tomorrow. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
ARGENTINA: After more than a century of out-of-control spending, President Javier Milei’s major governmental cuts have resulted in a surplus. “The deficit was the root of all our evils—without it, there’s no debt, no emission, no inflation.” January 20 can not come soon enough.
- https://notthebee.com/article/javier-milei-announces-argentinas-first-budget-surplus-in-123-years
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei
ANTI-SEMITISM: It’s not the first time something like this has happened to Acker. In May, an extremist showed up to his home at 4:40 a.m. and hung a note with a list of demands. Then, a few weeks later, four anti-Israel extremists vandalized Acker’s law firm office with anti-Israel messages. Acker says he will not back down. “Divestment [from Israel] is not something any one of us is considering.”
BUTLER: A House task force has determined that the near-fatal attempt on President-elect Donald Trump’s life at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally was enabled by “preexisting conditions and leadership failures.” within the U.S. Secret Service. The task force also noted that the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, Department of Justice, FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) all failed to provide full cooperation with the inquiry. It’s past time to take out the trash.
CNN: A judge has ruled that Zachary Young’s defamation lawsuit may continue. During the disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, Young, a U.S. Navy veteran, helped facilitate evacuations. Reporting on his efforts, CNN’s Jake Tapper claimed Young “was ‘exploiting’ ‘desperate Afghans’ on a ‘black market.‘”
Young says he used “his unique skillset and relationships to assist U.S. corporations and charities that wanted to safely and swiftly extract certain persons from Afghanistan.” He never took a single penny from any Afghan and everything he did was legal.
Judge Henry noted that CNN’s Alex Marquardt had already pitched his story before even talking to Young using what Henry described as “explosive” terms like “price gouging,” “extortion,” “shadowy black market,” and “fraud,” to preemptively malign Young. Agreeing that Young “did not do anything criminal or illegal”, the judge is allowing his suit seeking punitive damages to go to trial.
In other news, CNN finished No. 17 among cable stations during primetime last week. Despite breaking news that included the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the ensuing manhunt for his killer, more of Trump’s Cabinet picks, and a rebel alliance taking over Syria … the Cable News Network’s viewership was smaller than the Food Network, the History channel, HGTV, and even MSNBC.
And in even other news, a new CNN poll shows a majority of Americans support Trump and his transition moves. CLICK https://x.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1866930422212329956 [:44] to see the report.
- https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/10/cnns-reckless-smear-tactics-could-cost-them-big-after-latest-court-ruling/
- https://notthebee.com/article/cnn-loses-in-primetime-ratings-to-the-food-network
- https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-loses-food-network-networks-primetime-viewership-languishes
- https://notthebee.com/article/cnn-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-in-support-of-trumps-transition-moves
DOJ: The DOJ’s Inspector General issued a new report in which he reveals that the Department of Justice spied on Kash Patel as well as two House members who were working on the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee. The report says the DOJ also asked the courts to help hide their actions. Little wonder the swampers are panicked about Patel taking charge of the FBI.
In other news, the FBI’s current director, Christopher Wray, has announced he will be resigning as of Inauguration Day.
- https://thepostmillennial.com/doj-officials-spied-on-kash-patel-others-in-congress-asked-federal-courts-to-help-hide-actions-report
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fbi-director-christopher-wray-to-step-down-paving-way-for-patel-5774738
GOOGLE AD: CLICK https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1866831055619232211 [:24] to see yet another reason to switch to Duck Duck Go.
- https://www.novabach.com/what-is-an-ankle-monitor/
- https://notthebee.com/article/google-just-dropped-this-christmas-ad
NYSE: Trump became the first president since Ronald Reagan to ring the New York Stock Exchange bell. CLICK https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1867216539713212823 [:34] to see him there, flanked by his family and political allies, with photos of his face on TIME on the wall behind him. The photo above is courtesy of a relative of a relative who was there.
SAN DIEGO: In a 3-1 vote, the County Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution declaring San Diego County a “super sanctuary” for illegal aliens. CLICK https://x.com/jim_desmond/status/1866611711022862592 [3:15] to hear details from the one guy who voted No. Check out the chick to his right who does not want to listen to him. One commenter noted this is merely a resolution and that the county sheriff plans to ignore it.
TRUMP: President-elect Trump has been named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year. He also had that honor in 2016. Wokies are shrieking as per usual.
UK: The Brits have joined the smart nations in banning puberty blockers for minors with gender dysphoria, because they pose “an unacceptable safety risk.” Sadly, in the U.S., a number of courts have blocked state legislation aimed at protecting minors from the trans mind virus. Please pray with me that the U.S. Supreme Court will side with sanity in United States v. Skrmetti.
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/11/puberty-blockers-to-be-banned-indefinitely-for-under-18s-across-uk
- https://notthebee.com/article/uk-bans-puberty-blockers-for-everyone-under-18
- https://notthebee.com/article/the-us-supreme-court-ruling-cannot-come-fast-enough
- https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-skrmetti/
USPS: CLICK https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1866612617131049181 [:51] to see the current Postmaster General behave like a toddler at a congressional oversight hearing. Under his leadership, the USPS lost $10 billion in 2024.
- https://notthebee.com/article/us-postmaster-general-covers-his-ears-in-protest-as-ga-rep-rich-mccormick-blasts-him-for-giving-himself-an-a-grade-for-running-usps
- https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-usps-must-achieve-financial-self-sufficiency-and-improve-service-for-all-americans/
GRAMMY NOTES: I always wished we could put our gifts under the Nativity scene. This one would actually work!!
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1665942727613769 for a lovely doll house tour. 🙂
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