Good News Friday: 11/03/23 ....
November 03, 2023
Dear Patriots,
There are glimmers here and there that God is listening. Be on the look out for the unexpected miracles.
Try to recognize them when they happen.
1- It is shocking that Democrats were found to be cheating in an election AND held accountable, isn't it?
Connecticut Judge Throws Out Election Results and Orders New Primary After "Shocking" Evidence of Democrat Ballot Fraud
QUOTE: In Bridgeport, Connecticut, State Judge William Clark has thrown out the results of the September Democrat primary election and ordered a new primary to be scheduled and conducted. The issue was ballot harvesting and ballot fraud – both violations of state law.
The Judge reviewed CCTV footage showing Wanda Geter-Pataky, vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee and operations specialist for the city, and Eneida Martinez, a former City Council member, working to support the party approved candidate. Both Ms Geter-Pataky and Ms Martinez participated in absentee ballot fraud, ballot harvesting and ballot stuffing at drop boxes. Both women invoked the Fifth Amendment when confronted as witnesses by the judge.
The judge ruled on Wednesday to overturn the city's Democratic primary election, initially won by incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim, following claims of absentee ballot fraud by his opponent, John Gomes.
After two weeks of evidentiary hearings for Gomes's absentee ballot fraud lawsuit, Judge William Clark ordered a new Democratic primary based on 180 pieces of evidence presented by Gomes's legal counsel.
In the 37-page ruling, Clark said the video footage presented by Bill Bloss – Gomes's attorney – was particularly alarming. "Mr. Ganim was also correct to be 'shocked' at what he saw on the video clips in evidence that were shown to him while he was on the witness stand," Clark wrote. "The videos are shocking to the court and should be shocking to all the parties.
2- Every single battle won in the fight for clean and fair elections is a good thing.
The Capitolist
Court tosses challenge to Florida's strict voter signature law
QUOTE: A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a newer Florida voter registration signature law, marking a significant development in ongoing debates over voter access versus election and ballot security. The case called into question whether the state's strict requirements for voter registration signatures are in compliance with federal laws that require lenience from states to prevent the use of "immaterial errors or omissions" to deny the right to vote. The ruling could have broader implications for voting rights and access, as it sets a precedent that upholds stringent voter registration requirements.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor concluded that progressive voting rights groups, including the ACLU, failed to show that Florida's requirement for an "original signature" or a "digital signature transmitted by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles" was "immaterial" for voter registration. The plaintiffs had argued that the form of the signature wasn't important—because whether original or otherwise—did not give election officials any insight into whether the applicant met the statutory qualifications to vote, which include age, citizenship, and residence.
The judge, however, found that argument lacking. He noted that physically signing a voter registration form carries a "solemn weight" that simply submitting an electronic image of one's signature does not necessarily hold. He also mentioned that the acceptance of electronic signatures in certain circumstances does not make a so-called "wet signature" (i.e. pen and ink) requirement immaterial.
3- When it comes to the border we appreciate a good old "stinging rebuke".
Texas scores major win as judge issues order blocking Biden from destroying state's border fence
QUOTE: A federal judge issued an extraordinary temporary restraining order Monday barring the Biden administration from destroying or tampering with a temporary concertina wire fence installed by Texas to protect its border with Mexico.
Chief U.S. District Judge Alia Moses, in Del Rio, ruled Texas had a likelihood of prevailing it its lawsuit and would suffer significant harm if federal officials were allowed to keep dismantling the fence.
The decision dealt a stinging rebuke to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and a win for states seeking to enforce border security on their own in the absence of help from the federal government. More than 10 million immigrants have illegally entered the United States under President Joe Biden's policies, federal data shows.
4- Big Pharma and their paid mouthpieces all over the world continue to push the untested, ineffective, murderous injection. Thank God people are realizing the truth.
Only 3.5% of Americans opted to get latest Covid shot: CDC
QUOTE: The lack of demand for the new vaccine has pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer recording losses.
New data from the Centers for Disease Control has revealed that just 3.5 percent of Americans opted to receive the latest Covid booster shot despite the Biden administration urging Americans 60 years of age and older, as well as those who are immunocompromised, to vaccinate themselves against a "tripledemic" of the latest Covid strain, the flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
The lack of demand for the new vaccine has pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer recording losses, with much of its stock having to be thrown out.
According to the CDC, just 7 percent of adults and 2 percent of children in the United States got inoculated against the recent strains of Covid, a stark decrease from the initial vaccine rollout.
Polling shows that those numbers aren't likely to get much higher in the coming months and years, with 40 percent of Americans saying they probably or definitely won't get another Covid shot, and a similar percentage saying the same when asked whether they will vaccinate their children.
5- Hope that deal with Dana White and the UFC starts paying off soon for old Bud since they share "core values".
Bud Light Encounters Major New Sales Blow
QUOTE: An earnings report paints a grim picture for Bud Light in the United States.
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the parent company of Bud Light, said on Oct. 31 that the company's U.S. revenue for the third quarter fell 13.5 percent in a sign that Bud Light's promotion with a transgender influencer continues to weigh on sales.
"Revenue declined by 13.5 percent with revenue per [hectoliter] increasing by 4.9 percent driven by revenue management initiatives," the brewing giant said in a statement. It also noted a 17.6 percent decline in sales to wholesalers and a decline of 16.6 percent for sales-to-retailers. "Approximately two-thirds of this decrease attributable to market share performance and the remainder from productivity loss, increased sales and marketing investments, and support measures for our wholesaler partners," the company said.
It marks the second quarter where the Bud Light backlash has affected U.S. sales in the United States. Anheuser-Busch InBev also said in August that its U.S. division had recorded a drop in profit amid the response, which toppled Bud Light from its position as America's best-selling beer for more than two decades. U.S. dollar sales of Bud Light were down 29 percent in the four weeks ended Oct. 21 compared to the year-ago period, according to Nielsen data compiled by Bump Williams Consulting, the AP reported. Sales are down nearly 19 percent for the year to date.
Last week, Anheuser-Busch announced a new "multiyear marketing partnership" with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed-martial arts promotion, meaning that Bud Light will return as the official partner of the brand. More than a decade ago, the UFC and Bud Light were partners. "I'm proud to announce we are back in business together," UFC CEO Dana White said in a statement. "There are many reasons why I chose to go with Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light, most importantly because I feel we are very aligned when it comes to our core values and what the UFC brand stands for."
6- Praise God that more and more children are out of the horror of the public school system that continues to spiral into evil.
Note that this information does not include a lot of places due to the families not required to report to anyone what they are doing.
Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education
QUOTE: A district-by-district look at home schooling's explosive growth, which a Post analysis finds has far outpaced the rate at private and public schools.
Home schooling has become — by a wide margin — America's fastest-growing form of education, as families from Upper Manhattan to Eastern Kentucky embrace a largely unregulated practice once confined to the ideological fringe, a Washington Post analysis shows.
The analysis — based on data The Post collected for thousands of school districts across the country — reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the onset of the pandemic has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions that most families would return to schools that have dispensed with mask mandates and other covid-19 restrictions.
The growth demonstrates home schooling's arrival as a mainstay of the American educational system, with its impact — on society, on public schools and, above all, on hundreds of thousands of children now learning outside a conventional academic setting — only beginning to be felt.
Obtaining accurate information about the home-schooling population in the United States is challenging. In 11 states, including Texas, Michigan, Connecticut and Illinois, officials do not require notification when families decide to educate their children at home or monitor how those students are faring. Seven additional states have unreliable tallies of home-schooled kids, The Post found.
7- The veil is being lifted from the eyes of many. The truth can not be ignored.
Hundreds of Columbia professors sign new letter saying they're 'appalled' and 'horrified' about campus antisemitism
QUOTE: More than 200 faculty members at Columbia University said Tuesday they were "appalled by the spate of antisemitic incidents" on the Manhattan campus, a day after scores of their colleagues signed a letter defending students who supported Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 terror attack.
The new letter came after Jewish students rallied on campus to blast the administration's "inaction" on what they called an "unsafe" atmosphere in the weeks since the attack, due to at least one attack on an Israeli student, death threats and rampant hate speech and vandalism.
While the faculty members agree "there should be robust debate about complex and difficult issues" concerning the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, they say "there is no excuse for Hamas's barbaric attack on Israeli civilians."
"We are horrified that anyone would celebrate these monstrous attacks or, as some members of the Columbia faculty have done in a recent letter, try to 'recontextualize' them as a 'salvo,' as the 'exercise of a right to resist' occupation, or as 'military action,'" the letter reads.The new missive is signed by many highly distinguished professors and notable academics from around the world.
8- A united front from all political points of view has demanded the protection of free speech.
'We Stand for Your Right to Ask Questions': 138 Luminaries Call on Government, Tech Firms to Protect Free Speech
QUOTE: A group of 138 journalists, academics, technologists, celebrities, authors, activists, public intellectuals and thought leaders this month signed a declaration calling on the government, tech companies and the public to protect free speech and open discourse.
Prominent signatories include WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whistleblower Edward Snowden, actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins, filmmaker Oliver Stone, journalist Glenn Greenwald, psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, comedian John Cleese, biologist Richard Dawkins, DPhil, DSc, Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D., and Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker, Ph.D.
The authors of the Westminster Declaration, which warns of "increasing international censorship that threatens to erode centuries-old democratic norms," wrote: "Coming from the left, right, and centre, we are united by our commitment to universal human rights and freedom of speech, and we are all deeply concerned about attempts to label protected speech as 'misinformation,' 'disinformation,' and other ill-defined terms."
Also among the signatories were people who publicly criticized official COVID-19 counternarratives, including Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and Dr. Robert Malone, pioneer and expert in mRNA and DNA vaccines and therapies.
Other signatories include journalists connected to the release of the "Twitter Files," such as Lee Fang, Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss and David Zweig.
Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of The Solari Report and former U.S. assistant secretary of housing and urban development, also signed the declaration. She told The Defender the declaration "communicates the widespread commitment to free speech of journalists and publishers around the world and the covenant we share to protect and support transparency."
9- A Soros DA is a victim of crime and the police never showed up when she called. You know what they say about karma.
Soft-On-Crime, Soros-Backed DA Robbed in Car Raid.
QUOTE: Pamela Price, the George Soros-backed Alameda County District Attorney (DA), had her laptop stolen during a car burglary outside an Oakland family justice center on Friday. The Oakland Police Department (OPD) confirmed that "multiple individuals" broke into Price's $90,000 SUV by smashing a window shortly after her bodyguard parked the vehicle outside the justice center. Several items were stolen in the raid. Price was then forced to wait roughly an hour for police to arrive before giving up and registering the incident online, reports suggest.
Price, who accepted a $130,000 donation from Soros in her failed attempt to become DA in 2018, promised to offer so-called "justice transformation" to her county's residents before being elected DA in 2022.
She has since faced relentless criticism for her soft-on-crime policies, which have caused crime in her jurisdiction to skyrocket over recent months. In 2023, all violent crime has increased by 21 percent in Alameda County compared to last year, with motor vehicle theft increasing by 51 percent, burglary by 39 percent, armed robbery by 38 percent, and shootings by six percent.
Tensions between residents and Price reached breaking point during a community meeting earlier this year in which she was condemned for her "failed leadership" as well as "unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life threatening serious crimes."
Price is the second Soros-backed DA to experience the effects of their own soft-on-crime policies after Louisiana District DA Jason Williams was carjacked earlier this month.
10- If you love books and history this is a great read. It is currently free on Audible. It is an interesting history lesson you may not have known about.
When Books Went to War
The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks for troops to carry in their pockets and their rucksacks in every theater of war.
11- We end on a humorous note from the great satire site The Babylon Bee.
God Rewards Only Team That Doesn't Have A Pride Night With World Series Win
QUOTE: The Lord has granted a World Series championship to the Texas Rangers, the one and only Major League Baseball team to not host a Pride Night.
After over fifty years of championship futility, the Texas Rangers finally captured the World Series title in the same year the team became the final Major League holdout on hosting Pride Night. Despite mounting pressure as the remaining 29 MLB teams honored satanic drag queens, the Texas Rangers held firm. Now, after being counted out as a playoff afterthought, the Rangers are hoisting the championship trophy.
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