Bits & Bytes

2024: Trump and Biden have agreed to a debate which will take place on June 27 on CNN. No audience will be present. CLICK https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1790731907379921332 [:14] to watch Biden’s fourteen second challenge video. Live debate? Puh-leeze. He couldn’t get through a fourteen second speech in one take. There are five jump cuts! Now, CLICK https://twitter.com/Travis_4_Trump/status/1790825591844839502 [1:02] to see Trump’s response.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/biden-and-trump-to-meet-in-atlanta-debate-in-june-5650480
• https://notthebee.com/article/the-first-trump-biden-debate-is-the-end-of-june-on-cnn-and-biden-2024s-comms-director-demands-it-be-in-studio-with-no-audience

END TIMES: [51:19] – Catholic theologian and apologist Daniel O’Connor discusses why he believes the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is coming soon. This will be the time when the Our Father will come true: “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.”

SLOVAKIA: CLICK https://twitter.com/SaiKate108/status/1751552779045552521 [4:09] to hear Slovakia’s Populist Prime Minister, Robert Fico, in January when he announced an inquiry into injuries and excess deaths among those who got the ‘rona jab. On Wednesday, he was shot multiple times by a member of Slovakia’s Progressive Party and is in the hospital fighting for his life.

• https://apnews.com/article/slovakia-prime-minister-shooting-robert-fico-handlova-bdaaf0bba01035a700145a67d871a482
• https://news.online.ua/en/a-famous-slovak-writer-made-assassination-attempt-on-pm-fico-media-reports-878509/
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/slovak-prime-minister-robert-fico-shot-in-life-threatening-condition-5650453

TRUMP: Bill Maher says Stormy Daniels is a “bad witness” because she lied during her testimony in the current Trump trial. And here was me thinking that someone who has been selling her body for years can’t really be trusted to tell the truth about much of anything. But maybe that’s just me.

Maher reported that, on the stand, Daniels testimony was a litany of Me Too buzz words. Among other things, she said Trump “was bigger and blocking the way. … There was an imbalance of power for sure. … My hands were shaking so hard.”

But in 2018, when Maher interviewed her about the same incident, she insisted she was “not a Me Too case. I wasn’t assaulted. I wasn’t attacked, or raped, or coerced or blackmailed [by Trump]…. They tried to shove me in the Me Too box to further their own agenda. And first of all, I didn’t want to be part of that because it’s not the truth and I’m not a victim in that regard.“

• https://bongino.com/not-a-reliable-witness-bill-maher-catches-stormy-daniels-in-a-lie-on-the-stand
• https://notthebee.com/article/i-put-together-10-random-things-to-make-you-laugh-because-the-news-cycle-is-slow-and-wednesdays-are-the-slowest

UK: [8:18] – When I saw this, I immediately thought it was a gag and googled. Not a gag. Incredible. And whoa to that Baphomet thing. Yoiks.

• Read what some art expert said about it @ https://www.kamumedya.com/new-king-charles-portrait-decoded-by-art-expert-who-reveals-hidden-meanings-532248.html
• Read what Not The Bee had to say @ https://notthebee.com/article/king-charles-first-official-portrait-was-unveiled-and-people-have-thoughts
• See the meme-makers’ commentary @ https://pleated-jeans.com/2024/05/15/funniest-memes-reactions-king-charles-royal-portrait/
• Understand the references to tampons at the second link @ https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-crown-revisits-tampongate-when-king-charles-really-did-say-all-that-to-camilla

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X3NI4jHmWaw for another good one from Nick Freitas.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5pjp2QMdn7Y for an awesome dad.

Goobers

I got this in email from my youngest today: “Hey! Question for you. The boys are really good at doing tasks when we tell them to, but this summer, I’d like to establish a chore system and I’m considering some sort of payment system. How did Goobers work?”

My response: Daddy came up with a theory he called Sieve Parenting that I thought made a lot of sense. From conception until sometime around six months when you were self-aware enough to begin learning manners and discipline, the parental reality sieve had the smallest holes we could manage. But as you grew, it was our job to slowly make the holes bigger and bigger so that, by your 18th birthdays, you were ready for the freedoms and responsibilities that come with being legal adults.

When you’re in it, day to day, parenting feels like forever, but really, eighteen years is not much time to move a helpless infant to the point where s/he can handle being allowed to get married, vote, borrow money, rent an apartment, buy a car, and go get shot at in some country you never heard of before. So, to ensure we slowly opened the sieve holes, every three to six months or so, we’d re-assess each of you and choose a new responsibility and freedom to acknowledge maturation. 

I remember when your eldest sister started 1st grade, she had to remember her own lunch and got to read for an extra 30 minutes after bedtime. When she forgot her lunch, she had to go hungry until she got home from school. She didn’t forget again. Later, in high school, one of her responsibilities was to catch the school bus in the morning; I still remember her rage stomping down the street in the pouring rain, because we wouldn’t drive her to school. She didn’t miss the bus again. Remembering homework was a responsibility given out early as well. One time, your middle sister forgot an assignment and didn’t want to get docked a grade to turn it in a day late. Daddy told her he wanted 17 Goobers to drive it to school; she paid.

Part of being an adult is taking care of your own stuff and spaces, doing your fair share taking care of your community stuff and spaces, and learning the relationship between work and money. Since we didn’t have any actual money to spare, we printed up Goobers and let you do extra chores to earn them. They could then be used to purchase privileges of various kinds from us and from one another. We divided up the chores by things you should do for yourself, things you should do for the benefit of the community, and things that go above and beyond. The classifications depended on age, as did the definitions of what kinds of privileges could be purchased.

I did an inventory of all the things an adult living alone needs to deal with. One was buying and maintaining a wardrobe. So we spent one summer learning to sew and I made you all learn how to do your own laundry as soon as you could reach the buttons and measure out detergent. Other personal chores I required, but didn’t pay for were homework, grades, music practice (if you were taking lessons), typing tutor time (daily until you could test at 35 words per minute without looking at the keys), writing thank you notes, and Scripture, prayer and personal journaling time.

I also didn’t pay for routine community space maintenance … taking turns at setting the table, doing dishes, vacuuming, mopping, taking out trash or compost, bathrooms. But there were always little things that we considered our jobs that we paid Goobers to have help with. I can’t remember specifics, but probably stuff like weeding, peeling garlic, etc.

What could be traded or purchased with Goobers could be as variable as we wanted, depending on what you each needed to learn at any given time. They were worth $1 each; as I recall, you mostly used them to pay me to buy things you wanted at the store. But you also had to pay for rides to non-family activities. A trip to the mall for you and your friends was expensive … which is why you all learned the beauty of Public Transit.

That’s all I can think of. I hope this helped. 🙂 Love, Mom

Bits & Bytes

BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT: [8:02] – Denise and Stefan are marvelous!

DEMOCRAT LIES: Pelosi totally ignores the pandemic in her bid to make Bidenomics look like a success. [:56] – Below are (a) the graph the White House is putting out to support their campaign gaslighting and (b) my focus on reality.

DESTROYING AMERICA: The interest payments on the nation’s debt has now exceeded the amount spent on both defense and Medicare.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/goldman-ceo-issues-warning-as-interest-costs-on-americas-ballooning-debt-exceed-spending-on-defence-medicare-5649315
• https://notthebee.com/article/report-foreign-born-us-population-jut-hit-a-record-high-in-march-of-this-year-reaching-156-or-more-than-50-million-people

END TIMES PROPHESY: Jonathan Cahn reveals the dark secret behind the protests and how it all ties into biblical prophecy. [42:26] – It’s long, but well worth your time. Interesting isn’t it how Barack Obama got his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science at Columbia and his J.D. at Harvard?

• https://www.biography.com/political-figures/barack-obama#education

MINNESOTA: Minnesota just unveiled their new state flag. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the West. Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) is from Puntland, Somalia.

• https://notthebee.com/article/minnesotas-new-state-flag-is-here-and-its-as-ugly-as-you-thought-itd-be

GRAMMY NOTES: We had two sets of dining out rules which were dictated by the napkins. If they were paper, then yes, you can ask for a quarter to go play the video game. If they were cloth, then no, you have to stay at the table, sit up straight, and participate in the conversation even if you’re nearly comatose with boredom.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/410324861888783 for some very creative photography.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H47yt_n4-aY for some classic Nick Freitas LOL!!

Bits & Bytes

AWESOME: [8:43] – This girl reminds me of my #2 … who is now a Lieutenant Colonel. 🙂 ❤

CAR SEATS: Comment on this video – “I’m a paramedic. I’ve been on that call where the children were not buckled in safely and the car they were in got into an accident. It wasn’t pretty. Please, for everyone out there who reads this, I don’t want to go on that call ever again. Buckle your kids in safely. If the cost to remember that lesson is a ticket, it’s a small price to pay.”

CATHOLIC: On Saturday, sixty children and their families were celebrating the Mass during which the kids would each receive their First Holy Communion. A teen, about 16 yo and dressed in black, attempted to enter with a rifle. He was stopped by parishioners, who took him outside and called police.

A parishioner approached the celebrant and whispered to him what was going on. As police searched the church, Father DuPré asked everyone to sit and pray the Hail Mary with him as police searched the church for possible further threats. There were no injuries, the children were able to receive Jesus in Holy Eucharist, and the young man is in custody.

Sadly, the church will now have uniformed law enforcement officers outside its masses, something I expect will become more and more common in coming days … until we are forced to worship in secret.

• https://notthebee.com/article/whoa-a-teenager-with-a-rifle-tried-to-shoot-up-a-catholic-church-in-louisiana-but-was-stopped-by-parishioners
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parishioners-louisiana-stopped-teen-rifle-church-childrens-mass-rcna151925

FAITH: I could tell you absolutely everything I know about my daughter, but you would still only know OF her. You could legitimately wonder if she’s real and assume she’s got nothing to do with your life. But if you met her and fell in love with her and married her, then you would know she’s real and that she is the most important person in your life. So … do I believe in God? Nope. I KNOW Him and LOVE Him and want nothing more than to be with Him forever and ever.

NORTH CAROLINA: The University of North Carolina’s board of trustees has voted unanimously to abolish the university’s DEI department and transfer all funds to the campus police. Good for them! DEI doesn’t stand for Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. It stands for Divisiveness, Exclusion, and Indoctrination.

• https://notthebee.com/article/winning-the-university-of-north-carolina-board-just-unanimously-voted-to-abolish-dei-departments-divert-funding-to-campus-police

PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT: NY prosecutors have submitted phone call records into evidence to bolster their case that Trump falsified business records to conceal payments allegedly made to Stormy Daniels to keep her lying trap shut. On Friday, a paralegal from Manhattan AG Alvin Bragg’s office testified that the office had deleted some of these records, calling the integrity of the so-called evidence into question.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/alvin-braggs-office-deleted-evidence-of-phone-calls-between-michael-cohen-and-stormy-daniels-lawyer-5648208

QUINT-ESSENTIAL MOTHER’S DAY: The Povolo quints, born in 2002, were graduated on Mother’s Day from Montclair State University near their home in New Jersey. Four years ago, Montclair offered the family five tuition-free scholarships for the quints. Going to Montclair not only saved their parents a fortune, but also helped them all stay in touch, while still pursuing their own majors and friendships. They received bachelor’s degrees in Biochemistry (Victoria), English (Ashley), Political Science (Ludovico, aka “Vico”), Business Administration (Marcus), and Nutrition and Food Science (Michael).

• https://notthebee.com/article/new-jersey-quintuplets-set-to-graduate-from-the-same-university-on-the-same-day
• https://www.aol.com/povolo-quintuplets-graduate-msu-monday-012505781.html

WORKING DOGS: [2:14] – I love this!

GRAMMY NOTES: 100% TRUE.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3iCsCr698Z4 for a good one from R*CKST*R.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/INXNnPBjffc and watch to the end. LOL

Happy Mother’s Day!

Bits & Bytes

ARCHITECTURE: They call it “Brutalism” for a reason.

BELGIUM: Pride. Greed. Wrath. Envy. Lust. Gluttony. Sloth. – Are there any we haven’t legislated approval for yet?

• https://notthebee.com/article/belgium-labor-law-will-provide-health-insurance-pensions-maternity-leave-to-prostitutes-in-world-first
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/08/belgium-sex-workers-employment-contracts-pensions-maternity/

CATHOLIC: “It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But as a home for Jesus Himself in the Blessed Sacrament.” ~ Allen R. Hunt, Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church

CLIMATE HOAX: CLICK https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1788890364427829368 [:55] to see what two elderly morons did in the alleged name of Jesus Christ to “Just Stop Oil.” It beats me what the Magna Carta has to do with climate change, real or imagined.

• https://notthebee.com/article/watch-these-two-just-stop-oil-environmentalist-wacko-grannies-try-to-break-the-glass-case-over-the-magna-carta

EDUCATION: In California, teens who were expelled from their private high school for posting a photo of themselves undergoing acne treatment have been awarded $1 million plus reimbursement of tuitions paid.

In Virginia, a school district has voted to restore the Confederate names to a number of their schools that were renamed in the insanity of 2020. Part of the agreement is that tax monies will not be used to pay for the changes, just private donations from people who care enough to see it happen.

In Canada, allegations of atrocities were made against old Catholic mission schools. Over 80 churches in Canada burned because of them and the government forked out $8 million to dig up what were purported to be mass graves. No human remains were found and, oh wait, “There has been no public disclosure of how the funds were utilized.”

Also in Canada, two Catholic brothers were suspended from their public school for wearing shirts saying there are only two genders, which is Catholic doctrine. When they were told to remove the shirts or face expulsion, they said they were expressing their beliefs in the same way the many LGBT posters at the school were expressing opposing beliefs. The school decided to suspend rather than expel. When they returned to school, a bunch of the teachers marked the occasion by dressing up in alphabet cult attire. However, the boys received a ton of support from their peers who are sick to death of the queer/trans crap being shoved down their throats.

• https://notthebee.com/article/teens-awarded-one-million-dollars-after-being-forced-out-of-catholic-school-over-hoax-blackface-accusations
• https://notthebee.com/article/virginia-school-board-votes-to-restore-confederate-names-to-schools-that-were-hastily-changed-during-the-2020-blm-riots
• https://notthebee.com/article/the-canadian-government-spent-8-million-looking-for-a-mass-grave-at-an-old-catholic-school-can-you-guess-what-they-found
• https://notthebee.com/article/these-kids-were-suspended-from-a-canadian-middle-school-for-wearing-shirts-reading-there-are-only-two-genders-and-when-they-returned-to-school-a-bunch-of-teachers-were-wearing-gay-pride-attir

LIFE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/inmhA_smUN8 to hear a moving tribute to Baby Clementine.

WOKE JESUS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/735058418832471 to hear the Gospel According to Woke Jesus.

GRAMMY NOTES: I was talking with my daughter while she was commuting to pick up her kid. She said she had to hang up, because she didn’t dare mess up the pickup line. I told her, as a former bus driver, I was 100% in favor of parents obeying all the pickup line rules!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2JRMvxtWZwc for another good one from Nick Freitas.

Bits & Bytes

2024: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zEkY4JAkdwI to hear how Biden was treated by his homies in Scranton, PA.

In other news, independent presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said in a new interview that women should be allowed to decide on having an abortion even if the baby is full-term.

• https://www.newsmax.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-abortion-nicole-shanahan/2024/05/09/id/1164161/

BORDER: In case you hadn’t already figured out why Democrats are allowing millions of illegal immigrants to flood into the U.S.

• https://notthebee.com/article/-every-single-democrat-in-the-house-just-voted-to-give-illegal-immigrants-representation-in-congress

PERSONALITY TEST: The Four Animals Personality Tool is much faster and infinitely easier to use than the old Myers-Briggs stuff. Even better, it can be used by all ages. Our daughter has developed and utilized curricula to teach this material to all ages, from K-garten to adults. She encouraged us to take the survey, then helped us understand how to use our scores to improve our marriage. It was very enlightening. If you’re interested, CLICK https://www.focusonthefamily.com/marriage/4-animals-personality-test/.

TRUMP: [8:34] – In “Losing the Lawfare Bet,” Laura Ingraham’s gives an update on the Dem’s legal attacks on The Donald. It is worth a listen.

GRAMMY NOTES: When I saw this on my monitor, I just had to take a screenshot.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1584797622063789 to hear about the Christian basketball team that cheated.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/If_2kSBfpo0 for a great talking-button-dog clip.

Bits & Bytes

BOEING: Yet another one of their planes has catastrophically malfunctioned. CLICK https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1788216537716793433 [1:40] to see how the pilot saved the day.

• https://notthebee.com/article/watch-boeing-767-cargo-plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-wheels-fall-off

CANCER: Scientists report a promising new treatment. They pulverized rice bran (the outer layer of brown rice) and injected into mice. The rice bran “nanoparticles” are half the size of typical bacteria and easily absorbed by cells. The cancer cells died with no noticeable side effects!

• https://jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12951-024-02381-z

POWER GRAB: The DoD has sent Congress a proposal that would allow them, a federal department, to hijack personnel from National Guard units. All 50 governors have said, “Hell no!” The National Guards belong to the states, not the feds.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/50-governors-oppose-federal-plan-to-move-national-guard-units-power-grab-5645513

TRANS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/989446479408208 to hear Joe Rogan ask a very important question.

VAXXX: A study entitled “Effectiveness of the 2023-2024 Formulation of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 mRNA Vaccine against the JN.1 Variant” was published on April 29, 2024 in medRxiv. In it, researchers report that people who received more than one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to contract COVID-19.

The risk of contracting COVID-19 was 1.5 times higher for those who received two doses, 1.95 times higher for those who received three doses, and 2.5 times higher for those who received more than three doses, the researchers found. The higher risk was compared to people who received zero or one dose of a vaccine.

“The exact reason for this finding is not clear. It is possible that this may be related to the fact that vaccine-induced immunity is weaker and less durable than natural immunity. So, although somewhat protective in the short term, vaccination may increase risk of future infection.”

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/people-with-more-covid-vaccine-doses-more-likely-to-contract-covid-study-5642438
• https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.27.24306378v1.full.pdf

GRAMMY NOTES: People often say a true friend is one who sticks with you in bad times. But I have found some people only like to be friends with those who are needy. Once you’re back on your feet, they’re done with you. It’s sad, but I think they need to be the superior person, the Good Helper, and can’t handle truly equal relationships.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Card painted by by Tammie Frescia and used with her permission. ❤

GRAMMY NOTES: See you tomorrow!

Bits & Bytes

CHICAGO: There may be no place where the vicious philosophies underpinning the Democrat Party are as obvious as the Windy City, which has been dominated by Dem politicians since forever.

The Chicago Public Schools spend more than $21,000 per student – far above the national average of $14,347. Yet only 21% of the city’s eighth graders can read at an eight grade level. Despite being abject failures at educating their largely Black population, the all-Democrat Chicago Teachers Union wants a $50 billion four-year contract, plus free abortions, various services for illegals, and LGBTQ training.

None of this will do diddly squat to help poor Blacks to get off the new Democrat plantations … ghettos and jails. But I suspect that is the whole point.

• https://notthebee.com/article/chicago-teachers-unions-50-billion-in-demands-includes-pay-hikes-abortions-services-for-migrants-and–lgbtq-training
• https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-demands-negotiations-abortions-migrants

HYPOCRITE: Brooklyn State Senator Kevin Parker worked with fellow Democrats to pass the Adult Survivors Act in 2022 that allows victims of sexual crimes to sue alleged perpetrators years after the criminal statute of limitations had expired. The new law allowed writer E. Jean Carroll to successfully sue former President Donald Trump over something that she alleges he did more than 30 years ago. But now that Parker himself has been accused and sued, he’s yelling that the Adult Survivors Act is unconstitutional.

• https://notthebee.com/article/ny-senator-who-helped-pass-sexual-assault-law-meant-to-get-trump-is-now-saying-the-law-is-unconstitutional–because-hes-now-been-accused
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/nyc-pol-says-law-allowing-rape-suit-against-him-was-unconstitutional-even-though-he-voted-for-the-legislation/ar-BB1lRuZ6

JAB INJURIES: Former CNN host Chris Cuomo says he is suffering from a COVID vaxxxine injury. “We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, AKA side effects, but nobody’s really talking about it because they’re too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away. But the problem is people like Shaun—and me—and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their bloodwork and their lives and their feelings—you know, physically—are not going away.” Only 0.3% of ‘rona jab injury claims have been compensated by the U.S. program.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/ex-cnn-host-chris-cuomo-reveals-covid-vaccine-injury-im-sick-myself-5644109

LEFT: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller, Pritzker, etc. are funding pro-Palestinian protests. These are the global elites behind the drive for depopulation and a one-world government and the people behind every single movement that has turned our nation upside down. They also fund Democrats, including Dementia Joe and, most likely, also tell them what to vote for.

• https://notthebee.com/article/politico-investigated-the-funding-behind-anti-israel-protests-on-campus-and-surprise-theyre-the-same-people-who-are-funding-the-biden-campaign
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pro-palestianian-protesters-are-backed-by-a-surprising-source-bidens-biggest-donors/ar-BB1lR484

VAXXX: A peer-reviewed study entitled “New-onset psychosis following COVID-19 vaccination: a systematic review” was published in Frontiers in Psychiatry journal on April 12, 2024. Reviewers report finding cases in the literature reporting 24 cases of new-onset psychosis symptoms within 7 days post-vaccination. The patients tended to be young, with the majority having no prior history of somatic illness or comorbidities.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/systematic-review-reveals-many-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-experienced-new-onset-psychosis-5643639
• https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1360338/full

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xv74SWptOE4 for a giggle.