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Friday, August 30, 2024

Senators up for re-election in their states who voted AGAINST the "Right to IVF" Act

Barrasso, John

Blackburn, Marsha

Cramer, Kevin

Cruz, Ted (Raphael)

Fischer, Deb

Hawley, Josh

Ricketts, Pete

Scott, Rick

Wicker, Roger

UPDATE

Sept. 2023 One Trump-supporting

senator (Tom Cotton) supports IVF

while another (Lindsay Graham)

he will not support such funding

that Trump has advocated

Stop playing their Music -- at your MAGA Rallies

additional groups =

White Stripes

Blondie 

Sheryl Crow 

Green Day 

Lionel Richie 

Elvis Costello 

Rosanne Cash 

30 major musicians / composers

ABBA

Adele

Ariana Grande

Beach Boys

Beyonce'

Black Eyed Peas

David Bowie

Celine Dion

Cher

John Fogerty

Foo Fighters

Billy Joel

Elton John

The Killers

Lorde

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Miley Cyrus\

Nickelback

Stevie Nicks

Katy Perry

estate of Tom Petty

Pink

Prince

Queen / Rage Against the Machine

R.E.M./ Rihanna

Kenny Rogers

Rolling Stones

Simon & Garfunkel



Thursday, August 29, 2024

Harris-Walz interview with CNN

Interviewer Dana Bash

tonight

August 29, 2024

9:00 p.m. Eastern

exclusive on CNN

Michigan & Wisconsin Presidential Ballots

Once nominated,

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

will remain Nov. 5 on

the Ballot.  He is

the named nominee

of the Natural Law PARTY.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Indictment: The People versus Donald John trump

Tuesday Aug. 27, 2024

POLITICO.com/news/2024/08/27/read-trump-indictment-00176509

The new indictment by Sp. DOJ Prosecutor Jack Smith

removes some specific allegations but contains the same

FOUR Charges of 

election interference

to subvert the 2020 election 

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Niles, MI Second Street downtown (between Main & Sycamore streets)

"Dining Experience" plan closes one section of Second Street

PERMANENTLY for pedestrian traffic only and

to permit a dining and beverage-permitted area from 

nearby restaurants / taverns.  as REPORTED

by ABC57 news dot-com

Monday, August 26, 2024

Excessive Heat WARNING - Tuesday Aug. 27, 2024

National Weather Service issued a weather alert

Tuesday 8/27/24

from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. Eastern

Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values

around or greater than 105 degrees F.

S. Berrien County, Michigan (including Niles, MI)

National Dog Day

August 26, 2024

is #NationalDogDay

posted today at 

#Presidential Trivia (Twitter social media)

@triviapotus 

Montezuma Canyon

#DJT (predecessor to Biden) -- attempted to claim he had erected

the Rolls-Royce of walls Thursday 8/22 [the final day of the Dem.

National Political Convention, nominating VP Harris as the

official challenger for the Nov. 5, 2024 Presidential Ballot]

ACTUALLY

he was posing for press photos by a section erected during

the Obama-Biden administration with piles of extra fence

material nearby rusting procured during the Trump-Pence

administration but never erected (Washington Post.com) 

This highlights one of very

many unkept promises of the

PREDECESSOR who struggles

to find his way following a 

change of opponents for POTUS 47

win.

Excessive Heat Watch: Monday - Tuesday

August 26 - 27, 2024

Highs to reach mid- to upper-90s

Heat Index to soar above 100s --

Record readings possible both days;

watch ends 9 p.m. on 8/27/2024

Sunday, August 25, 2024

Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) -- this fall, Oct. 2024

Jewish new year begins

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 2024

and continues until Friday

10/4/24

26.2 million watched

Thursday night on most News / Main TV Networks

Nielsen gauged that

26.2 million viewers watched

VP Kamala Harris deliver her

acceptance speech (40 minutes)

for Democratic Political Party's

nomination to POTUS.

In contrast from July 2024,

25.4 million watched as #DJT delivered

his 3rd acceptance speech (92 min.) to be the GOP nominee

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Motto of #DJT #JD Vance campaign

Ask not what your country can

do for you, 

ask what you can do for me/us -

MAGA nominees for POTUS & VP

Back to School Supplies Give-Away, Plym Park today

Sat. 24 August 24

Ahead of Monday's First day of School in Niles / Brandywine

a local business Primitiv 

from 2 - 4 p.m. at North Niles, MI 49120 neighborhood

PLYM PARK

there will be family activities [ tug-of-war,

water balloon toss, Cornhole, basketball ].

Free Snacks, haircuts for students

SCHOOL SUPPLY Give-away and a raffle.

primitiv, Niles, MI was founded by former

Detroit Lions teammates ROB SIMS, Calvin Johnson, Jr.

National Waffle Day

Deals at WAFFLE HOUSE today

August 24, 2024

Friday, August 23, 2024

When is VP Birthday?

When is KAMALA HARRIS'

birthday?

Oct. 20, 1964

This year she will be 60

Chauffeur

First word for the toddler

#DJT

-- NYTimes.com/2024/08/23/

opinion/kamala-harris-speech.html

Best feline line/zinger

Speaker at the DNC (Democratic Political Party

National Convention, Chicago, IL) Aug. 22, 2024

was Oprah Winfrey:

When a house is on fire, we do not ask

about the homeowner's race or religion. 

We do not wonder who their partner is 

or how they voted. No. We just try 

to do the best to save them. 

And if the place happens to belong 

to a childless Cat lady -- we try to get the cat out too. 

Thursday, August 22, 2024

STRONGMEN (chapter 3) author Ruth Ben-Ghiat

 That's some weird s/h/*/t

former POTUS George W. Bush said

of the 2017 Inaugural Address #DJT

delivered on Jan. 20.  It cast America

as a desolate place of 

"rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones

across the landscape of our nation. . .its wealth,

strength, and confidence" gone until #DJT

advocate for AMERICA FIRST entered the

scene.  .  .The crisis rhetoric and positioning

of the male leader as savior also followed

a formula used by every strongman from 

Mussolini onward.

What Bush saw as strange in the context of 

American democracy was normal in the

authoritarian tradition.   So was the tactic

of leaving your audience uneasy and uncertain

of what you will do next. . .#DJT intoned:

"Now arrives the hour of action" (page 58)

Antisemitic Tropes

#DJT

highlighted Gov. Josh Shapiro

D-PA

and his Jewish (Orthodox) faith and accused him of 'doing nothing for Israel'.  #DJT also evaluated himself brazenly as 'the best friend for Israel, having done more for Israel than any President, not even close. . .Shapiro has done nothing'

in rebuttal, the PA Governor 

said #DJT is going to 

continue to be the 

hateful, divisive person 

that he's been in this 

campaign. . .Given his track record, it's clear he's 

setting himself up for 

another defeat. 

Who is Pink?

Real name is Alecia Moore

She will perform for delegates-representatives at the DNC (Democratic

Political National Convention) at the United Center, Chicago

ahead of the acceptance speech by VP Kamala Harris tonight.

approx. 10 p.m. local time

Kinzinger, Adam (to give speech) August 22, 2024

The retired U.S. Congressman from E. IL will

address delegates at the Democratic Political Party

Convention at the United Center, Chicago tonight;

he will endorse the ticket of Harris-Walz, saying

Trump poses a direct

threat to every fundamental

value. Kingzinger was one of 10

Congressional Republicans to

impeach #DJT on charges of

inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 attack

on the U.S. Capitol, D.C.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Barth's "System"

Karl Barth (Preface to the 2nd edition of The Epistle to the Romans)

If I have a system,

it is limited to a recognition of what

Kierkegaard called the "infinite

qualitative distinction" between

Time and Eternity,

AND to my regarding this as

possessing negative as well as

positive significance: God is in

heaven, and thou art on earth. . .

When I am faced by such a document

as the Epistle of Paul to the Romans,

I embark on its interpretation on the

assumption that he is confronted with

the same unmistakable & unmeasurable

significant of that relation as 

I myself am confronted with, 

and that it is this situation which 

moulds his thought & its expression.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

(late 18th Century) -- famous saying-proverb

If God held all truth

in his right hand

and in his left the

never-ending struggle

for truth -- with the

proviso that I would

always and eternally

err -- and said to me,

"CHOOSE!" I would fall

before his left hand

with humility and say,

"Father, give!

The Pure Truth is for

You alone."

Kurt Tucholsky

 Nothing is more difficult

and nothing requires more

character than to find

oneself in opposition

to one's time and to say

LOUDLY: "No!"

Barack & Michelle Obama

to speak tonight at the Democratic Political

Party convention -- both call Chicago their

home (South Side) ; the Presidential Library

is being built near the Univ. of Chicago campus

Also nearby on Adams Street is where Michelle

(Robinson) Obama graduated High School:

Whitney Young H.S., Chicago

AUGUST 20, 2024 (Tuesday)

18,000 seat arena - FiServ Forum, Milwaukee, WI

Tonight -- VP Kamala Harris will hold a

campaign Rally while the Democratic

Political Party is underway at the site of 

last month's GOP - MAGA rally that 

nominated #DJT and #JDV as President-nominee

and VP-Nominee.  The choice in venue is the

latest aggressive move by Candidate for POTUS

Harris to needle the Predecessor to #Biden

about his "rally size" obsessions.

nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/politics/harris-trump-rally-

milwaukee-fiserv.html

George Santos - pleads guilty (Aug. 19, 2024) - sentencing to follow

Charges:

Wire Fraud

Aggravated Identity Theft 

Central Islip, NY court 

Minimum sentencing requires 2 years in fed. prison,

restitution of $373,000

Karamehmedovic -- new ABC News president

August 20, 2024

the next ABC News President is

veteran producer

Almin

Karamehmedovic

(source: Washington Post.com ) 

update: Sept. 8, 2024

this President is also 'in the loop'

for the Tuesday Sept. 10, 2024, 9 p.m.

ABC Presidential Debate at Constitution

Hall, Philadelphia, PA -- no audience present

Moderators are David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Monday, August 19, 2024

Freedom -- song by Beyonce'

Freedom

Freedom

I can't move

Freedom, cut me loose

Singin', freedom

Freedom

Where are you?

'Cause I need freedom, too

I break chains all by myself

Won't let my freedom rot in hell

Hey! I'ma keep running

'Cause a winner don't quit on

themselves!

Something More Than Free - 2015 song highlighted in Chicago Convention 2024

Jason Isbell, rock/Americana musician

sang during Day 1 of the Political Convention

of the Democratic Party in Chicago, IL

James Taylor -- legendary singer-folk performer

WAS BUMPED -- (maybe will be invited back

later this WEEK !)

Will perform at the Chicago 2024

Democratic Political Party

CONVENTION tonight

August 19, 2024

Kelly (Trump CHIEF of STAFF for longest period) - refutes Medal of Honor "double-down"

Trump continues today -- Monday 19 August 2024 --

to stand by his preference for Presidential Medal of

Freedom winners like Miriam Adelson who are so

"Beautiful" over military winners (some posthumously)

of the longstanding "MEDAL of HONOR"

CNN interviewed John Kelly (retired General) and he

said the two medals are NOT equivalent or comparable.

The Military "Medal of Honor" is for service like at

Normandy Beaches, Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima. . .

any civilian winner has not taken the oath to protect

the Constitution and even die trying. . .No, the medals

stand APART

cnn.com/news

Blue Super Moon - not until 2037

The term 

SUPERMOON

coined by Richard Noelle in 1979

refers to the moment when a full moon

passes closest to the earth (APOGEE)

Supermoons can appear 30% brighter

than the average moon.

The best time to see it is whenever it is

virtually dark.

According to NASA the next one will be

January 2037 !

Medal of Honor is "less than" Presidential Medal of Freedom? #DJT says YES

The military service recognition MEDAL OF HONOR

is apparently less valued and talked positively about

by non-military service POTUS #DJT; he has said

in tribute to his mega-donor Miriam #Adelson, casino

heir after her husband Sheldon's demise,

"The Presidential Medal of Freedom I gave to this

beautiful woman is the greatest honor America has to

give" (August 2024)

Saturday, August 17, 2024

Today Aug.17

 Visits = 545.   Yesterday = 727.  Month of August to date 9103

Apophis asteroid

Will approach earth in 2029 but is thought to avoid path collision or near impact.   Www.usatoday.com online article

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Beginning of the Academic Semester

Univ. of Notre Dame; St. Mary's College; Holy Cross College 

Notre Dame, IN

all begin on Tuesday, August 27, 2024

NBC

Which nights will NBC (the peacock channel)

switch to POLITICAL CONVENTION

coverage?

Monday August 19, 10 p.m. (Democratic

convention, Chicago, IL)

Tuesday 8/20; Wed. 8/21; Thursday 8/22

2024

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Happy Left-Handers Day!

annually observed on

August 13 

MN 5th District (Congressional Dist.) Primary [ Democratic pol. party race]

Will a highly recognizable Progressive - Far Left

candidate win her contested Party for the Nov. 

General Ballot placement as a Democratic

Congresswoman today in MINNESOTA?

Ilhan Omar

faces a moderate

D. opponent

UPDATE: and won

that primary in 5th 

District (MN)

Off by 58.9 million estimated viewers-listeners

The highly vaunted Trump - Musk

conversation actually had 1.1 million

subscribers online heeding / monitoring

the two "grumpy old men" soothing each

others egos . . .

NOT 60 million as #DJT claimed early on

Ernesto

Fifth named Tropical Storm

this Hurricane Season (June 1 - Nov. 30)

for 2024

Monday, August 12, 2024

California Earthquake - 8/12/2024

Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake shakes

Los Angeles,

California

Monday 8/12/24

1933 Lectures on Christology

D. Bonhoeffer -- from #Christ the #Center

(quote / translation in Charles Marsh's

STRANGE GLORY : biography

If we speak of Jesus Christ

as God, we may not say of

him that he is representative

of an idea of an idea of God,

which possesses the

characteristics of omniscience

or omnipotence (there is no

such thing as this ethereal/divine

nature); rather we must speak

of his weakness, his manger,

his cross.  This man is no abstract

God" page 154

Saturday, August 10, 2024

S'Mores Day

Saturday was 

National S'Mores Day

August 10, 2024

to make a S'More

you need Graham

Crackers, Choc. pieces,

Melted Marshmallow

s'crunched together

Friday, August 9, 2024

National Book Lovers' Day

August 9, 2024 (annually)

see NYPL.org

New York Public Library

Willie Brown (former mayor of San Francisco) mistaken for Nate Holden (now age 95)

#DJT told reporters Thursday at Mar-A-Lago, Florida

that he 

knew Willie Brown well.  

In fact,I went down in a helicopter 

with him.  We thought maybe 

it was the end.  We were in a 

helicopter going to a certain

location together, and there 

was an emergency landing."  

When interviewed Friday, 

Mr. Brown stated that 

Trump's account was 

obviously wrong.  

I've never been in a helicopter 

with him in my life. 

www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/politics/trump-helicopter-story-willie-brown/index.html

[ a spokesman for former Gov. Jerry Brown told the NY TIMES that he

toured wildfire damage with #DJT in a helicopter; there was no emergency landing

and there was no mention of Kamala #Harris ]

FURTHER UPDATE

account of Nate Holden of NEW JERSEY -- Trump tells story

about person of color going "white" in the face -- actually

he lost color and went ashen / colorless . . .

nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-helicopter-crash-willie-brown.html

Lawrence, Michigan "Friends of the Library" annual used book sale

Thousands of books 90% new, donated

at Lawrence (MI) Town Hall

during Ox Roast Labor Day Festival

Saturday Aug. 31, 2024 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Sunday Sept. 1, 2024 Noon - 5 p.m.

Labor Day Monday 9/2 hours: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

122 W. St. Joseph Street

phone # 269-674-3200

U.S. 12 Heritage Trail (Detroit to New Buffalo, MICHIGAN)

U.S. 12 Rummage Sales on Highway locations as well

as homes / parking lots

Friday August 9

Saturday August 10

Sunday August 11

Thursday, August 8, 2024

ABC News -- a prime-time Presidential Candidates Debate - Sept. 10, 2024

September 10, 2024

according to ABC News spokespersons

Exclusive to that network

9 - 10:30 p.m.

Candidates will stand entire duration

2 moderators : David Muir &

Linsey Davis.

UPDATE (Sept. 5, 2024)

Yes, Trump did not decline to debate Harris

as he declined debating DeSantis, Haley, Christie,

Hutchinson (his GOP Primary opponents) during

2023 up to the Iowa "Caucus" January 2024.

The Terms follow the "Mics-off" ruling of the

June 27, 2024 debate Tr*mp had with POTUS 46

and the D.C. studios of ABC News will be the

place for just 2 debaters and 2 moderators.

See further www.abcnews.go.com/

Presidential Debates - one party's nominee claim they are on

ABC -- Sept. 10, primetime 

Fox News

CBS (vice-presidential picks)

Texas RANGERS MLB Team

President Biden will welcome to the White House the 

WORLD SERIES Champions

today at 4 p.m.

Live coverage at C-Span dot-org / Video

C-Span Press Conference (Predecessor DJT)

 2 p.m.

coverage LIVE at C-Span dot-org

Location: Mar-A-Lago Golf Course and members-only

private clubhouse

Florida

The former POTUS, convicted felon, twice-impeached

will answer reporters' questions at Palm Springs, FL

Kwame Anthony Appiah -- recipient of the Kluge Prize 2024

NYTimes.com/2024/08/08/arts/kwame-anthony-appiah-kluge-humanities-prize.html

today August 8 2024

the NYU philosopher strives to integrate philosophy

into Life issues! 

He is a professor of philosophy and law.

EF-2 Tornado

Lewis Lake (Marcellus, MI)

significant tree damage

one barn

one house roof received major damage

minor damage to a warehouse

St. Joseph County MICHIGAN near

Three Rivers, MI

Tuesday morning 8/6/2024 

8:19 a.m. until 8:33 a.m.

Details at M-Live dot-com

mlive.com/weather/2024/08/ef-2-tornado-confirmed-in-michigan-

winds-pegged-at-115-mph.html

Michiana Renaissance Fest (August 2024)

St. Joseph COUNTY Indiana Fairgrounds

Aug. 24 - 25 (Sat. - Sunday) 2024

10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time

Tickets Age 13 and up = $15

Military with I.D. - Free

Senior = $12

Child Age 6 - 12 = $7

Ages 5 and under = FREE

Four different re-enactment areas are

Medieval/Renaissance

Golden Age of Piracy

Time of the Vikings 

Fairytale Storyland

www.michianarenfest.com

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

5 Berrien County (MI) Beaches are closed today 8/7

. . .due to high levels of

bacteria -- ABC57.com

tonight's news report with 

Journalist Annie Kate

(Mishawaka, IN)

Jean Klock Park

Rocky Gap

Weko Beach

Warren Dunes

Union Pier

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Trump's felony conviction

Gag order has also remained in place until the Sept. 18 sentencing

for his crime of falsifying business

records to cover up a $130,000

payment to Stormy Daniels

with whom he had a sexual

tryst years before while

Melania was caring for

baby Barron Trump.

Trump sentencing (Sept. 18) -- SCOTUS cannot stop NY State Judge

The Hill article clarifies

that Convicted Felon #DJT will be sentenced after

the NY Jury found him guilty of fraud and bookkeeping

illegalities -- despite #Alito and #Thomas stating that they

would have ruled differently.

September 18, 2024

several weeks before the

November Presidential election.

Letter to Elizabeth Z. (DBW volume 12)

Translated by Craig L. Nessam (WHO IS CHRIST FOR US?

Fortress Press, 2002, ISBN : 0-8006-3480-2

A letter from Bonhoeffer to

Elizabeth Zinn, 1936 :

I bury myself in work in a very unchristian and

immodest way.  A crazed ambition, which some

have noticed about me, makes life difficult. . .

Then something else happened, something

that up to this day has changed and rearranged

my life. I came to the first time to the Bible. . 

I had already often preached; I had already seen

much of the church, even spoken and written

about it -- and still I had never become 

a Christian, but instead was very furiously 

and unrestrainedly my own Lord . . . 

Also I had never prayed, or only very little.  

I was with utter abandonment 

entirely content with myself.  

The BIBLE has liberated me from that, 

and especially the Sermon on the Mount.  

Since that time everything

has become different.

[page 62 of Nessan's WHO IS CHRIST

FOR US TODAY ]

Severe Thunderstorm Warning (until 8 a.m.)

Heavy rain and lightning

Severe Storms for these MI counties

Van Buren & Allegan

until 8 a.m. Tuesday Aug. 6

Monday, August 5, 2024

Bon Iver: who is in this Eau Claire, WI Indy folk band?

According to news article in THE HILL.com

the Indy folk band will open for Candidate

for President Kamala Harris and her yet-to-be

named VP in a rally at Eau Claire, WI

Wed. August 7, 2024

Lead Singer Justin Vernon has sung at

rallies for Progressive and Independent

candidates such as Bernie Sanders (VT) and 

Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts).

Harris will hit 7 states in 5 days after the VP

announcement and her GOP rival DJT has

one event in Montana planned [rally for GOP

Senate candidate Tim Sheehy ]

Church and Jewish Question (1933) - D. Bonhoeffer essay / radio talk

FROM WHO IS CHRIST FOR US? D. Bonhoeffer

translated and edited by Craig Nessam from Vol. 12

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works:

It is not the church but the state that creates

and changes the law.  Too much law and order

is juxtaposed against too little law and order.

This means that the state has so extended

its authority that it steals from the Christian

proclamation and Christian faith its own

right.  The church must resist this presumption

by the governmental order exactly because of its

better understanding of the state and the limits

of State actions.  The state that endangers Christian

proclamation denies itself.  This indicates

a threefold possibility for ecclesial action over

against the state.  

First, there is the questioning of the state about

whether the character of its action is legitimate,

that is, to call the state to responsibility.  

Second, there is service to the victims of

state action.  The church is obligated uncondi-

tionally to the victims in every civil order,

even when they do not belong to the Christian

congregation. . .The third possibility consists

of this, not only to tend to the victims under

the wheel, but to stick a rod in the spokes of

the wheel itself.  Such action would be 

inherently political action by the church and

is only then possible and requisite when the 

church sees that the state has failed in its

function of creating law and order.

Poem by Rose Auslaender

Included in WHO IS CHRIST FOR US? 

Bonhoeffer - related writings / lecture excerpts

We live

Word by word 

Tell me 

You dearest 

Friend 

of mine named 

Thou.

page 47 Who is Christ for us? Dietrich Bonhoeffer

transl. & edited by Craig Nessam 

Letter from Tegel Prison (Excerpt) - Bonhoeffer (transl. Craig Nessan)

(From WHO IS CHRIST FOR US? Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

writings / lecture excerpts, pages 40-41, Publisher

FORTRESS, 2002)

What inexorably moves me is the question:

what Christianity is or who Christ really 

is for us today.  The time when one

could express this to others through

words -- be they theological or pious

words -- is gone.  Likewise gone is the time

of inwardness and of the conscience;

that means in general the time of

religion.  We are entering into a fully

religionless time.  People, such as they

once were, can simply no longer be

religious. . .How can Christ also become

the Lord of the religionless?. . .What do

the church, congregation, preaching,

liturgy, or the Christian life mean in

a religionless world?. . .How do we

speak "secularly" about God?  How

can we be religionless/secularized

Christians?  How can we be ek-klesia

[Greek for called out ones] those

who are called out, without under-

standing ourselves religiously as

the privileged ones, but rather as 

those who belong entirely to the

world?  Christ then becomes no

longer the object of religion

but something entirely different,

truly the LORD of the world.

Bonhoeffer wrote these

paragraphs while imprisoned

1944.

Sunday, August 4, 2024

JD Vance article -- New Yorker on his radical religion

For Patrick Deneen (Prof. of Pol.Science at Univ. Notre Dame, IN):

Post-Liberalism 

involves elevating

leaders "who are part

of the elite but see 

themselves as class traitors

ready to act as stewards &

caretakers of the common

good --- and to enact

their views on abortion,

marriage & divorce, 

euthanasia, the free

exercise of religion,

and other issues

without the constraints

of LEGAL PRECEDENCE or 

THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

7/24/2024 article in THE NEW YORKER by Paul Elie

newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/j-d-vances-radical-religion

#NationalChocolateChipCookie Day

August 4, 2024

Enjoy #ChocolateChipCookies

with milk today!

After his 100th Birthday (Oct. 1, 2024)

POTUS 39 plans to vote later this fall for

VP Kamala Harris when she and running-mate-to-be named

are on the GA Ballot this November.

According to his son Chip, Jimmy Carter is well aware

of the close 2020 match-up between then-incumbent Trump

and POTUS 46 (Biden).  According to grandson Jason

Carter, Pres. Carter hope to survive to the November

balloting date.

UPDATE (Sept. 5, 2024) -- POTUS 39 will have a 

Celebration in Song on Sept. 17, 2024 in Atlanta, GA

a benefit supporting the @CarterCenter (Emory Univ.)

further music guests and well-wishers now include

India.arie, the B-52's, Eric Church, D-Nice, Drive-By

Truckers, Maren Morris, BeBe Winans, Carlene Carter

Renee Zellweger, Sean Penn, Grouplove, Atlanta Symphony

Orchestra Chamber Chorus

Gold Medal 2024 - Paris Games

The Olympic gold medalist for the

2024 Olympic Tennis Men's Singles

is

Novak Djokovic

of Serbia; the silver

Medal went to Carlos

Alcaraz of Spain.

Will there be a Second Presidential Debate on Sept. 10?

OR. . .

will Candidate DJT (predecessor) be a no-show against

Former Prosecutor & President of the Senate for POTUS

Joe Biden ?  ?  ?

His advisers may try to walk back his "claim" of

"ANYPLACE"  "ANYTIME"

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Election Subversion Trial (The United States versus Don J. Trump)

The predecessor 45's federal

Election Subversion Trial

charges

returned Friday August 2, 2024 to his Trial Judge

U.S. District Judge

Tanya Chutken, D.C.

The judge could tee up

an evidentiary trial

as she mulls how to 

apply the SCOTUS new

immunity test for Chief

Executives'actions (official

or non-official) 

to the specifics of the 

GOP Nominee's indictment.

thehill.com/regulation/

courtbattles/4808108 et cetera

Thursday, August 1, 2024

Prayer for Prisoners

DBW (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works) translated from Vol 8

1943

Lord Jesus Christ,

You were poor and needy,

As captive and abandoned as I,

You know every need of human beings,

You abide by me.

When no human being stands by me,

You forget me not and you seek me out,

You desire that I know You

and draw me to Yourself.

Lord, I hear Your call and follow.

Help me!

translated by Craig Nessan

(FORTRESS Press, 1993)

WHO IS CHRIST FOR US?

page 68

National Poll Worker Recruitment Day

August 1, 2024

naco.org/news/august-1-2024-national-poll-recruitment-day

Mass Deportation of immigrants

In a campaign address (July 8, 2024)

JD Vance called for forced mass deportations of

immigrants without legal status, a promise also

present in the GOP Political Party adopted 7/2024.

WHEREAS

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called

for a pathway to legal status and citizenship for the

approximately 11 million immigrants who live in the

U.S. without legal authorization,

emphasizing the obligation in the CATHOLIC

CATECHISM to "welcome the foreigner"

www.americamagazine.org/2024/07/16/

five-faith-facts-jd-vance-trump-VP-248368

Catholic Integralism (and most famous Convert in 2024)

from AMERICA magazine dot-com article

Vance is tied to an ideology known as 

Catholic Integralism

an intellectual movement that,

experts say,

prefers a "soft power" approach

to exerting Christian influence over society.

Thinkers in the movement herald the importance

of a "Christian strategic adviser" to people in power.

. . .Integralists once viewed Trump as a figure 

similar to Constantine the Great, the Roman

emperor who converted to Christianity. . .

Vance, for his part, spoke at a 2022 gathering

at Steubenville, OH Franciscan University that

was widely associated with Integralism and

"New right politics".  Vance has yet to answer

questions regarding his own thoughts on

Catholic integralism

Full Super Moon this month (August 19)

August 19, 2024

reaching peak illumination at

2:26 p.m. Eastern Time

the Full Sturgeon Moon

will be this month's

FULL MOON.

www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-august

Northern IN Public schools 1st day - 2024-2025 year

 August 15 (all teachers report day before)

whereas

all Students have 1st day

in NILES (Michigan) Community

Schools on August 26 (1/2 day

for K - 8th grade); Labor Day

weekend (Friday 8/30 and 

Monday 9/2 will be NO SCHOOL for students)

August 2024

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