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HEADLINE: America strikes back: F-16s conduct airstrikes against Iranian proxy forces in Syria in retaliation for more than a dozen rocket attacks that have injured 21 US troops since Hamas atrocities by Harriet Alexander 

• Can you give me a definition of ‘proxy force’?
• Would America be considered a ‘proxy force’ for Ukraine against Russia?
• The attacks against multiple U.S.-controlled sites in the region resulted in minor injuries to 21 U.S. service members, and the death of an American contractor, who died from a heart attack during one attack.
• ‘The United States does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iranian-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop,’ said Lloyd Austin, the Defense Secretary, in a statement announcing the Syrian strikes.
• The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq, and 900 more in neighboring Syria.
• Everyone knows we have to ‘fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here’. 
• We are sending weapons to Ukraine to lob into Russia so aren’t we doing the same thing?

HEADLINE: Slovakia’s new populist PM announces halt of military aid to Ukraine by News Wires 

HEADLINE: Slovakia Says It’s Halting Arms Deliveries to Ukraine by Andrew Higgins 

• That would make Slovakia the first among those countries that have sent weapons to Kyiv since the war broke out to say it would stop. Slovakia’s commercial defense contracts with Ukraine for Slovak-made artillery and other defense systems, however, are expected to continue.

AUDIO/VIDEO: Tucker Carlson w/ Bob Amsterdam on Ukraine persecuting Christians – A lot of what’s happening in the world seems like an attack on Christianity. The US government has effectively funded the killing of Christians in Syria. In Ukraine the government has banned an entire Christian denomination. 

• A new housing industry report shows that home affordability is plumbing staggering new lows, with the qualifying annual income for a median-priced home more than doubling from where it was in 2020 to a whopping $107,000. 
• Today a homebuyer today must earn $114,627 to afford the median-priced U.S. home.
• That’s the highest annual income needed to afford a home on record.
• The national median payment applied for by purchase applicants inched down from $2,170 in August to $2,155 in September. 
• In August, the typical U.S. home sold for around $420,000, while NAR data puts that figure at $413,500—roughly the same ballpark.
• Remember in the Stimmy Check days they told us this was all temporary?
• Now you can see what a disaster printing money and just giving it away will do to an economy.

Webinar on Healthcare and Carbon

• Global Healthcare is the 5th carbon emitter.
• The whole topic was they started using a different drug for anesthesia and the main drug was Desflurane which has been used for decades. 
• I was shown a graph of where they started vs where they are now.
• Did you harm the planet yesterday?
• Health Care Without Harm – Gary Cohen 
• 81% less meat served – 
• You speak for the planet, the reason you choose the planet is b/c the planet can’t actually say no…thanks I don’t need saving.
• Why did they create the ‘black community’? 
• Because it doesn’t actually exists. 
• The black community can’t say no.
• The black community can’t say yes either.
• Did the planet go to this Cohen guy and say “hey my seas are rising”?
• Apple ad with Mother Nature – remember they just came out with that one.
• Don’t disappoint Mother Nature?
• They can conceptualize Mother Nature but they can’t conceptualize Mother Mary?

2h15m

Economics as if Families Matter and Economics for Helen 

Commander John Sharp

• The 4 Causes
• The final cause – winning the award, when you say God did this, I didn’t, He gave me the gifts to do x,y,z.
• All Glory to God.
• It is possible to do.
• When man sins he is taking a perception of good and pursing it over the actual good.
• The rational creature doesn’t chase something that is bad for you.
• The smoker isn’t smoking to kill themselves, they are smoking b/c they enjoy it or they are addicted to it.
• Simple example: you drive to the grocery store to buy food for your family. 
• Neutral science – drop apple and the apple falls.
• Production – 
• You can sell commodity x for a fraction.
• Free exchange at all cost mentality – 
• If you ratify the Constitution you will run into this….
• Externally Congress at the Convention – gave Congress the authority if needed, to protect the American Industry.

2h52m

CJ Doyle

Catholic Action League

What happened in the Cathedral and what is not happening afterwards?

HEADLINE: Outrage as vandal snaps ARMS off statue of Jesus outside historic Boston cathedral: Suspect seen swinging from crucifix is arrested by Mackenzie Tatananni 

• Michael Patzelt, 37, of Attleboro, was arraigned Wednesday in Boston Municipal Court on a slew of charges including assault and malicious destruction of property.
• Prosecutors say the crucifix outside of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End sustained around $20,000 worth of damage.
• Patzelt has multiple convictions on his record, which spans two states. This includes a prior prison sentence for assaulting an ambulance driver.
• Issues of Church vandalism – the Archdiosese of Boston says they don’t want to prosecute b/c the person is obviously mentally ill.
• Well yes, you have to be mental to desecrate an image of Jesus Christ.
• At what point do we say enough is enough?
• How is it this institution won’t defend itself when it is attacked?
• They commit crimes, they committed violence…defend Our Lord!

HEADLINE: Texas cathedral vandalized, Sacred Heart of Jesus statue destroyed, suspect arrested by David Cross 

• Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in El Paso, Texas was vandalized Monday and the 90-year-old statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was destroyed.
• Neo-Pagan society and it isn’t open to the truth.
• Missionary City – 
• Boston College – if you graduated there you can be assured they support abortion.

Power Rankings on American Beer

Spotted Cow

Abita Boot 

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Shiner Bock 

AUDIO/VIDEO: Speaker Mike Johnson on what do I believe? – “Someone asked me today in the media, ‘People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.”