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Juju's avatar
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I can attest it was beautiful to watch. Gorgeous light displays and videos. I turned it on early before dinner just to get a feel for it and know how it looked. I stayed glued to my TV until 1:30 am!!! I am now a UFC fan. A 60 year old woman fell in love with an almost bare hand, totally bare feet, contact sport. It’s not at all like I thought it was, or anything like the others. The goal is not to pummel your opponent to be unrecognizable the way boxing sometimes is, which I can’t watch. It’s more tactical, skills based, self-control is so necessary - and the respect for your opponent and the rules of the sport were encouraging. I told my husband “you could say this is the fencing of hand to hand combat.” I loved the stories of each fighter before each match. They did such a good job giving you reasons to be interested in both fighters facing off.

I lost my breath on the Air Force flyover timed with the end of the anthem. The military choir was phenomenal all night.

Every single minute, every inch of the setup, meticulous to perfection. Patriotism was exploding.

Aging old woman signing off on her report … 😆

EDIT: the finale for anyone who didn’t get to watch it

https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/2066483702754848806/video/1?s=46

Valerie's avatar

I love this commentary, Juju!

Beckadee's avatar

The perfect timing when singing the national anthem- Land of the Free, when the 10 jets of the USAF Thunderbirds and US Navy Blue Angels flew over, was perfect!

Joze's avatar

I don't care for petty grammar police or those correcting petty details but - I LOVE 12 Jets - so please consider this LIKING you post and just up'ing it by the actual 12; count'em again! 😘

Beckadee's avatar

Cool! Even better.

Graphite's avatar

Haha 😁 well so there are... I had to go back to the photo and count 🤣🇨🇦

Oma's avatar

Loved your Report!! Thank you 😁

Alan Devincentis's avatar

Well done, ma’am. 60 is still a kid.

Dr Linda's avatar

Thanks for this from another aging old Woman.

Free in Florida's avatar

Dr. Linda, I daresay that few people on this site are “old” and particularly not you! They’re older but not old! Old is a state of mind and this crew rocks! 🇺🇸😊🇺🇸

Sue Rosenthal's avatar

Right!?! You can't get wiser if you don't get older 😍

Steenroid's avatar

“How old would you be if you didn’t

know how old you was”. SP.

Juju's avatar

29. Until I pass a mirror and jump in shock at the incompatibility with how I feel. 🤣

Free in Florida's avatar

Just don’t look too hard at the mirror! We have coping mechanisms! 😊

AND aren’t most of us thankful to be able to feel better than our ages?! What a blessing.

Paula Kroll's avatar

I will be 78 in 2 weeks. I feel like 50! Still active, healthy and slender. I ride my horse in dressage lessons, do barn work, garden. The main thing I try to avoid is looking in the mirror.

Free in Florida's avatar

❤️ Paula, this is what happens when we are relatively fortunate health wise with things we can’t control, think positively, eat right and stay active!

Dr Linda's avatar

Right!! My image is about 40.

Steenroid's avatar

Me too. We should get together and tell more lies.

Graphite's avatar

Or hear hear... 🤣 - love you Laura 😁

Free in Florida's avatar

Unless she meant - Here. Here. Look over here. I feel younger than I actually am. 😂 ❤️😊

Laura Kasner's avatar

I think hear hear is the correct response 🤣🤣🤣. 🥰😘❤️🙏🏻

Hawk's avatar

Thanks Juju. This is wonderful!

Sunnydaze's avatar

I thought the one guy, after he won, said “Michelle Obama is a man” was funny. It didn’t sound like people cheered much. So I’m not sure based on tv volume if it landed or not. But it was funny he stuck that in there.

Juju's avatar

It was funny in the way we laugh when someone faceplants a bully into the mud and everyone looking on knows he deserved it, but are too conflicted to laugh or clap. Obama literally committed treason and divided this country in horrific ways, and is STILL doing so from the shadows, and he tried to destroy the one man (and his entire family) that stood in his way with evil lies, putting a target on their backs the rest of their lives. He deserves far worse than what this fighter said. Still, I prefer we continue to focus on our patriotism when on a stage like that, and leave the digs for social media.

RunningLogic's avatar

Agree with your assessment. Kind of an odd moment to say that, and I personally don’t like to indulge in that sort of insult. But after all of the horrible things the left has said about Melania, I can’t manage to muster up much indignation for anything that is said against *their* idols. Especially one who has complained bitterly about this country and her experience as FLOTUS.

Chi Zilla's avatar

It wasn't a mere insult, it was the truth!

RunningLogic's avatar

Well, perceived insult, if you prefer.

Paula Kroll's avatar

Her "victimhood" is an insult to America. She has no class.

Sunnydaze's avatar

Agreed! It was an odd place to say that - that’s why I didn’t think it landed with the crowd either. Absolutely they deserve way more for their treasonous criminality.

MattD's avatar

Juju is JUiced this AM.. I love love love it!

Leo Woman's avatar

Mauricio Ruffy's marriage proposal after his win was pretty cool!

Jeanne Schwass's avatar

Me, too! We're in California so didn't have to stay up as late, but it was my first MMA fight and I loved it. I did feel badly for Topuria because of his injuries. My husband and I prayed for healing; especially his eye, because he couldn't see out of it. I'm glad the corner reef called the fight finally.

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Yeah that was disturbing to see. The American fighter didn’t want to keep hitting him. He wanted it called in the 3rd round not because he wanted a faster win but because he cared about his opponent. A punch can cut one’s face, but a punch to a cut does far more damage. You could see his hesitation and how he tried to aim for other spots with the hits he had to get in during the 4th round. The relief was palpable in both his body language and the crowd when it was called. The other guy was a true warrior though, which is why he wanted to keep going. Unwise since he couldn’t see out his right eye for a bit at the end of R3.

But that’s why I respected this sport. I’ve seen many a boxer that had to be pulled off a man injured like that, and were in a crazy place. These fighters are not like that and I pray they never evolve to such animalistic behaviors.

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Juju, did you see this photo from last night on X? Amazing. https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/2066358315613929873

Juju's avatar
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Yes! And someone got the whole lightning captured, and when you turn the image on its side the lightning strike makes an outline of Trump’s profile, hair fluff and all!

https://x.com/goatboy__/status/2066363806230417505?s=46

Goosebumps

Barbls's avatar

Fantastic!!!

John of Oregon Fame's avatar

Juju, I was impressed with the fighters after the match, hugging each other as comrads and out of respect for eavh other.

Juju's avatar

Really! Like if someone asked “how can we make the art of fighting a respectable, contact sport?” What would that look like? They would create the UFC.

phlyme's avatar

So sorry I missed it. Hope to see bits of it today on the news.

AJF's avatar

Thank you Juju! Greatly enjoyed your commentary🤗

Juju's avatar

Oh. My. !!!!!! GOOSEBUMPS!

That is my new favorite rendition. Who will be the first sports team to highlight this band at the start of a game? Two years ago they would have been canceled.

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

Wow. Fantastic!

Thanks SD Scott.

Donna's avatar

My feelings exactly Juju! I never watched a UFC fight but felt compelled to witness what our great president wanted for his birthday! It was spectacular!! The flyover made tears flow in overwhelming joy and pride in our country and in the fact that so much good happened against all odds. I smiled a little knowing how furious all of it made the anti MAGA crowd but then I didn’t really care. It was just fantastic!

JCrutcher's avatar

Thank you Juju for this inspiring commentary.

Juju's avatar

Awww, happy to provide! I only wish I had written a well thought out summary late last night in preparation. There was so much more to point out. It would have been more eloquent than my bursting-with-joy dump above. 😆 But we are in the raw era now - our souls are speaking reflexively.

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”

— Jesus, Matthew 7:7-11 NAS95

✝️✝️✝️

RunningLogic's avatar

Just had Isaiah 35:4 in my devotional the other day and thought it was a good one for C&C:

“Say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”

RJ Rambler's avatar

I needed to see this. Thanks.

RunningLogic's avatar

You’re welcome and I’m glad! Just felt a pull to share after reading that, and clearly the Lord’s guiding hand was involved! 🙏

Carol Brizzolara's avatar

I needed a reminder of this one today! Thank you for sharing!

RunningLogic's avatar

My pleasure, glad it was the right thing to read at the right time! Praise the Lord for His timing and guidance! 🙏

Bard Joseph's avatar

"The American people do not concede the right of any foreign group in the United States, or government abroad, to demand a participation in our possessions, tangible or intangible, or to dictate the character of our legislation." 68th Congress, 1921

Bard Joseph's avatar

Gen Z wrestling too against genocide.

Stanford graduates walk out during Google CEO’s commencement speech https://share.google/5AZ9FfrplTLQvS1Kt

Julie's avatar
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James 1:17

Every good and perfect hide is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or shadow of turning

🙏🏼 Thanks be to God for His blessings❤️

CStone's avatar

‘Gift’ , not hide’, right?

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Time to block Running Burning Man ... let him stew alone

Juju's avatar

Huh I must have already as I don’t see any posts here by him. lol

Cookie Dee's avatar

Janice this was the same verse I read this morning in your wonderful “My Jesus” book only in Luke 11:9-10 I think the Lord is trying to tell me something about be more mindful in prayer. Love when He does this

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

I actually had it saved early Saturday morning, but I slept through Jeff’s posting. So how about that timing!

Cookie Dee's avatar

The Good Hand of God on my life.

Carol Brizzolara's avatar

Always a favorite, Janice, both your daily posts and this verse! Thank you for sharing! I just want you to know that God uses your shared verses to bring people to mind: me, loved ones, coworkers, neighbors, etc. and I pray for them/myself based off your posts each day! You are making a difference with your daily verse ministry here! Thank you!😘

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

Thank you for telling me that, Carol. To God be the glory!

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

Since yesterday was Flag Day, and to add to all the beautiful patriotism, I reshare this poem I prayerfully wrote on Election Day 2024 before the vote was finalized.

Dear Old Flag

Breathe easy, dear old flag

Your stars and stripes remain

To shine the light of freedom

Across the USA.

You’re rescued from the ashes

By those who take a stand;

Wave freely, dear old flag

Across our blessed land.

You’re proof to nations around the globe

That mankind can be free;

So wave forever, dear old flag,

And shine from sea to sea.

— Janice Powell 2024

For an image version, see my Substack notes.

SD Scott's avatar

If God’s gifts seem elusive, even after long seeking, consider whether there may be curses attending one’s bloodline. As in Deuteronomy 28. This is powerful teaching which I have found life changing:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XSe511sisNM&t=2s&pp=2AECkAIB0gcJCdQKAYcqIYzv

Kaycee's avatar

Poor Michelle's Tahoe, always being bet upon!!!!!

Jeff, I hope you are right about Iran and that the President is always five steps ahead without any leaks. However, Iran has a track record of never honoring any agreements. I wonder what the outcome will be if they renege again.

And Happy Birthday President Trump!!!

CStone's avatar

Run, burning man. No one here is interested in what you say or think.

Running Burning Man's avatar

But you fools always read and react! Nice to live in your otherwise empty heads.

CStone's avatar

Awwww……..you Muslims are just way too smart for me.

Sharon Trodler's avatar

WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!! The only thing I could add is that Luck isn’t involved at all. I give all credit to God as He restores our beaten up nation to the glory He destined for her.

Thanks for this “maganificent” blog today. It made my day and is starting my week with a bang. God bless you, Jeff, President Trump and good ole USA!!!

Lori's avatar

Agree. So many of us praying for our country and I truly believe all of this is divine intervention.

RunningLogic's avatar

I love “maganificent” btw!! 😁

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

I'm waiting for a remake of The Maganificent Seven.

Jpeach's avatar

America is God’s gift to Humanity. There are evil forces who hate Humanity, both foreign and domestic. This weekend God smiled, as America is defeating its foes, led by 80 years young, Donald J. Trump.

Lisa Runquist's avatar

Moses was 80 when he started his mission. ;-)

Bard Joseph's avatar

Sounds anti semantic.

Janet's avatar

You had a good start this morning, bard. But then you crashed and burned. Must have woke up and poked your shitstirrer, makes no sense, button. My grandson has better comebacks.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Evil forces that hate humanity?

Stanford graduating class agreed, not marching for those forces anymore.

Stanford graduates walk out during Google CEO’s commencement speech https://share.google/5AZ9FfrplTLQvS1Kt

Joze's avatar

That looks like a "Palestinian Walkout", they should all have any degrees revoked; as their stupidity is an embarrassment to any allegation the institution provided them ANY education... But then we must recall that there is something bad in the water at Stanford these days? Stanford has also recently been the home/Alma Mater of:

Rachel Maddow

Corey Booker

Chelsea Clinton

Eileen Gu's Mother...

Eileen Gu still enrolled there last I heard; While she skis for Communist China.

Reid Hoffman - you know ActBlu'ish Linked-In founder Reid Hoffman and his funding of E.Jean Carroll's bogus lawsuits only enabled by N.Y. changing statute of limitations laws in one of the pre-eminent examples of Lawfare.

Barbara Fried - The Most egregious ActBlu'ish example of the cradle from which Son Sam Bankman-Fried (founder of Billion Dollar fraud FTX) was raised by prime examples of "Legal Integrity": Stanford Legal Scholar and Psychologist Father Joseph Bankman and Act Blu'ish founder of "Mind The Gap", another Stanford "Lawyer" and Mother of the Son of Sam... Barbara Fried.

Reminders if needed:

https://nypost.com/2023/09/22/sbfs-mom-pressured-son-to-break-campaign-finance-law/

https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/mind-the-gap/

barbara ford's avatar

thank you, Jeff, for being consistently positive!

Peter GL's avatar

Say what you want about Trump, even those with TDS should agree that he is one for showmanship

CStone's avatar

And he is the Best President EVER.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

By far one of the best. Up there with Elon Musk, who also recently became "worlds first" trillionare. Showmanship will take you places: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-great-spacex-deception

Bard Joseph's avatar

Like the shooting in Butler, Pa.

Cant stage better than that.

CL Shoemake's avatar

Yeah, that local fireman that was shot & killed. 😭 Was that “showmanship”? It’s one thing to have an opinion, but to claim a “show “ where an innocent first responder was killed?? I pray I somehow misunderstood your comment.

Francoise Johnson's avatar

You are spinning a very fake and very sinister conspiracy theory. Besides scratching your itchy TDS, what are you trying to accomplish?

Tarring a MAGA president and his team as co-conspirators capable of wounding and murdering bystanders for the sake of a stolen valor PR moment?

And, if given the chance, I expect you would try to fit Israel in your narrative. As in “the Mossad did it to get Trump elected so he would fight a forever war on behalf of Israel.”

But the truth is that disregard for human life and “the ends justify the means” ethos characterize not MAGA, but communists, fascists, progressives and Jihaddists.

Precisely the coalition arrayed against our American freedom. Thus 2 things can be drawn from your allegation:

1- you’re projecting and

2- you’re a traitor, if you’re American.

Johnny-O's avatar

If you were POTUS and were nearly killed, would you keep your same security team as Trump did? Would you allow a phony investigation into the shooting?

Bard Joseph's avatar

All victims of the crime scene as well as the alleged assassin whose body was cremated.

https://youtu.be/rq2QFvWFUC0?si=lt6jAt9iJQkJO79r

PapayaSF's avatar

You seriously believe that Trump hired a rando to nick his ear with a bullet for sympathy? Not even Annie Oakley would have been willing to make that shot at a moving target.

Carrie's avatar

Hubs and I went to dinner at a local family restaurant last night. They were playing the UFC fights in the bar. Super cool to watch, the showmanship, the honoring of medal of honor recipients and military, musical performances. The patriotism. I see why these fights are so popular.

Bard Joseph's avatar

No mention of the servicemen dead in Iran War.

Sad.

Their families are wrestling for the truth.

WTPuck's avatar

I think you mean the families of the victims of the Afghanistan surrender.

Bard Joseph's avatar

All unprovoked wars of the uniparty.

PapayaSF's avatar

Iran has been provoking us and lots of other countries since 1979.

Bard Joseph's avatar

1979 is an old script.

More details.

How were you provoked?

PapayaSF's avatar

“Death to America,” terror attacks, assassination attempts, that sort of thing.

RJ Rambler's avatar

I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.

CK's avatar

The UFC event was pretty cool. The best part was when Josh Hokit said in his post match interview “Michelle Obama is a man!!!” and walked out of the octagon. A great laugh out loud moment.

Johnny-O's avatar

Sounds like a crumbling empire becoming a banana republic.

CK's avatar

You’re not wrong. My wife and I were talking about the whole bread and circuses thing this weekend. It’s a little frustrating to see this army of Dutch fans dressed in orange in the US for the World Cup. They cheer on the soccer team while invaders are raping and killing their women back home and vacuuming up welfare and benefits paid for by the Dutch people.

Bard Joseph's avatar

That's an insult to banana republics.

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

I happen to like crumbling banana over my empire republic.

Herodotus II's avatar

Yumm. Toppings on a Johnny-0 Sundae...

shayne's avatar

Yeah, it sure was. 🤣

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Best 'Childism' of the day:

"Blue Sky droppings"

FLGenX's avatar

Yes!! LOL!!! 😂

RunningLogic's avatar

Right??!! 🤣🤣🤣

Kris in Ohio's avatar

I hope these providential events will turn around the hearts of the men and women of this nation!!

In God we trust!!! 🙏🇺🇸

FLGenX's avatar

Me too Kris. I’m praying. Meanwhile I may have to walk away from a family member who was gleefully texting me from DC hoping for rain on the event. The bitterness and hatred is exhausting me and I may need to just walk away. I’ll pray harder.

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Too many TDS addled family and friends to count ... I am becoming increasingly invisible to them

Their doing ... not mine

FLGenX's avatar

Thank you. I know I’m not alone in this, it just makes me really sad. It’s just such a shame. Thank you for your words of comfort 🙏🏼

KBB's avatar

Check out this video I just saw on X about TDS. Terrific! (3:25)

https://x.com/ACTBrigitte/status/2066271035331149940/video/1

Janet's avatar

Best thing ever. I’m having a great day today. 🥰. The stars are aligning and I’m alive to see it all!!!!!

FLGenX's avatar

This is FANTASTIC!! 🤩 Oh thank you so much!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Lori's avatar

Remember, that is not your vibe so ignore them!

Quiltlady's avatar

That's how I feel - Invisible, whenever I am around extended Family.

Dena's avatar

You can do both - walk away for your peace of mind & continue to pray.

RunningLogic's avatar

It’s crazy how mean spirited they are! Plus I bet (but not Michelle’s Tahoe 😆) they have a “be kind” or “hate has no home here” sign on their lawn 🙄 Or a “Coexist” bumper sticker 🙄 It would never occur to me to text someone who I knew disagreed with me politically (or even whose views I wasn’t sure of) and make gleeful comments like that. It’s just so bizarre to me, how they act 😕

Karen Bandy's avatar

I was sitting next to a woman in the Seattle airport the other day. I said hello, where are you off to? Where are you from? Answer Clovis (extremely hot and probably red) Ca, to Victoria, rented a little house for the summer. Then she said she’ll keep her mouth shut and not tell the Canadians that she’s from the states like she did last year after Trump ‘ruined’ Canada with the tariffs, she doesn’t want to be blamed for him or to be associated with him.

I nodded and said, oh yes, that was a hard time for Canada, and then changed the subject. Completely neutral, right?

My thought was, why did she think I would automatically agree with her? Why the heck is ‘Trump’ almost one of the first words out of her mouth? Clovis, Victoria, Trump. Get a life lady, be thankful you can get out of the heat, and shut up while you’re at it.

FLGenX's avatar

It always surprises me that so many people think anyone will agree with them and their petty hatred. You’re right, it really is a bizarre phenomenon.

RunningLogic's avatar

Yes, this is so typical, they always bring it up at irrelevant moments and also expect everyone to agree 🙄

Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

Right? I have been tempted to knock on the door of houses that have that “hate has no home here”. Who are. The real haters

RunningLogic's avatar

Their “no hate” comes with an asterisk… 🙄

Alice Ball's avatar

Yes Running Logic, we all recognize this behavior bc they all do it & with the exact same attitude and complete lack of awareness while they do it. They assume everyone they talk to agrees with them.

FLGenX's avatar
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Exactly! We text all the time about sports, I don’t bring up politics, so he’s just goading me and being disrespectful.

AND YES, they have all the signs in their yard 🙄 😂

RunningLogic's avatar

Well maybe I *should* have bet Michelle’s Tahoe! 😁😆

Janet's avatar

Even my TDS sister doesn’t rub it in, but then she can’t see what’s really going on either so it’s wasted emotional turmoil. Sad.

Penny Lynn Michalko's avatar

God tells us not to associate closely with people like that who clearly are controlled by the evil one. Praying for God’s wisdom and blessings for you! ❤️🙏

SD Scott's avatar

Just pray that the sheer overwhelming goodness of God begins to bring life to their troubled hearts.

They need it!

Uncle Juan's avatar

Happy Monday C&C world!!!

NoVA mom's avatar

Happy sunny Monday! ☀️

RunningLogic's avatar

Beautiful sunny Monday here too!!

Dr Linda's avatar

Same, apparently not for long though. However, it’s fine.

Beautiful today

DesertDweller's avatar

Happy hot Monday from the low desert 🏜

Hopey's avatar

Way to capture all the winning and patriotism💪🇺🇸

Since Michelle fortunately hasn’t lost her Tahoe yet in spite of Jeff’s seemingly reckless betting addiction, she will hopefully enjoy long-lasting gas pain relief when filling it up 😂🏅

Martin Mehlberth's avatar

Thank you for another masterpiece Jeff Childers. God blessed all of us this weekend. Unless you subscribe to LibIdiot ideas, the 6-14-26 day of multiple triumphs is a Win-Win on so many different levels. God Bless America 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

RunningLogic's avatar

—“are going to knock your leg warmers off.”

🤣😁

Love this 80s throwback 😁

RochesterDon's avatar

God bless President Trump and his administration and God bless the USA. And God bless you Jeff Childers, a beacon of insight, positivity, humor and hope in a world sorely lacking.

Jeff Johnson's avatar

It's impossible for me NOT to be inspired by all of this! USA! USA! USA!