Deanna Krenek

Catholic, Pro-Life, Administrative Manager, Writer, Parochial Flowerchild, Lover of Visual and Performance Arts

[Deanna Krenek @DMKrenek]

The reason for the season

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

St. Augustine of Hippo

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Funny how it only works one way right?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Why is it only pushed in the West?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In a trial of 120 healthy adults, two everyday sweeteners hurt their blood sugar control in just two weeks: sucralose and saccharin. Stevia was not one of them. The cane sugar people recommend instead spikes your blood sugar fast.

That study ran in 2022 at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Researchers found 120 people who never used sweeteners, split them into groups, and gave each group one sweetener for two weeks. All four changed the gut bacteria. But only sucralose and saccharin threw off the way the body handles blood sugar. Stevia did not, and neither did aspartame.

Cane sugar does the obvious thing instead. It is pure sugar, so it pushes your blood sugar up fast, at about 16 calories a teaspoon, in a country already eating roughly 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day. Stevia is 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar, adds no calories, and barely moves your blood sugar, because your body cannot use it for fuel.

On blood sugar, stevia is the calmer pick. What is left to complain about is the taste, and that has a precise cause. Your tongue has one sweet sensor and 25 bitter ones. The molecule that makes stevia sweet, rebaudioside A, hits the sweet sensor and two of the bitter ones at the same time. A lab in Munich worked this out in 2012 by running stevia past all 25 bitter sensors one by one. Two lit up.

How hard that bitter hit lands is partly down to your genes. Researchers in Italy found that one small change in those two bitter-sensor genes shapes whether you taste the bitterness loud and clear or barely notice it. The person next to you sipping a stevia drink might not taste what you taste at all.

The chemistry even has a fix. The more sugar units the molecule carries, the sweeter and less bitter it gets. A newer version called rebaudioside D adds an extra one and tastes much cleaner, which is why the better drinks switched to it. The cheap stuff still uses the old bitter one.

So the taste gripe is fair, and there is a clear reason for it sitting on your tongue. But swapping in cane sugar fixes the flavor and hands back the one thing stevia was there to avoid: a fast spike in your blood sugar.

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

Sending ballots in the mail to people who moved out of California years ago is corrupt.

Sending ballots in the mail to people who didn’t request one is corrupt.

Sending ballots in the mail to every address someone has lived in for the past 10 years is corrupt.

Letting activists sign up mentally unstable people for a ballot by using phony addresses is corrupt.

Not letting third party law enforcement officials check the voter rolls is corrupt.

Letting one political party control the entire process for decades leads to corruption.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Sounds of the fountains in Lafayette Park flowing again: Postcard Edition 💧

Thank you, President Trump!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I'm sorry, but I need to say something...

Didn't Trump designate ANTIFA a terrorist orginization?

Why aren't we treating these people like terrorists?

They ALL should be in prison...

…so why are they allowed to terrorize conservatives like this?!!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Bill O’Reilly says that E. Jean Carroll must be criminally prosecuted

It turns out she wasn’t paid a little bit to lie about Donald Trump and target him, she was paid a lot. $7 MILLION in funding for her lawsuits against Trump

“The E. Jean Carroll fraud should be prosecuted. That is the most outrageous story — It's so outrageous that the woman testifies in a deposition under oath that nobody is helping her, no lawyer is helping her, no pro bono, and then we find out she got $7 million”

The lawyer was connected to Jeffrey Epstein and is a Democrat donor

I’ll break down what happened

Carroll’s lawyers Kaplan Hecker & Fink received $7 million from a nonprofit tied to billionaire Reid Hoffman. He is a LinkedIn co-founder and major Democratic donor and tied to Epstein

In a 2022 deposition, Carroll testified under oath that no one was helping her financially with legal fees. She said no pro bono, no outside funding

She lied, like they all always do

If we don’t have accountability in America then why are any of us following any laws and paying taxes

[Cherry Pop Patriot @RoyalCherrylite]

Texas-sized justice better be coming for these clowns disrupting Erika Kirk and TPUSA’s Women’s Leadership Summit. Masked agitators shoving cops, resisting, and turning a conservative event into chaos?

SAPD, lock ‘em up on every charge that sticks. The assault on officers, disorderly, resisting. No more tolerating this garbage. Protect our women leaders and free speech. Texas doesn’t play.
#BackTheBlue #TPUSA

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

California Sheriff says their elections are being RIGGED!

Your vote in California is being STOLEN by illegals, and they're not even hiding it anymore.

Sheriff's investigators uncovered that people from PAKISTAN were voting in California elections. Multiple people living OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY were registered and casting ballots.

California's online voter registration system operates on an "honor system" where literally anyone in the world can register to vote by simply clicking a box saying they're not lying. No verification, no citizenship checks. Just click and you're registered.

Once you're in the system, you automatically get mailed a ballot for EVERY election!

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

Bill Maher SLAPS AROUND the artist that PULLED out of the Freedom 250 Concert: “They all pulled out. This is a question of what looks best for the Democrats because I don’t think that looks good. It looks like you are just what people say about you: you don’t really love America. It looks like you think that Trump is more important than the country itself.”

“Now it’s just a big MAGA rally… because they all pulled out.”

“Wouldn’t it have been better to play this gig?… Just celebrating America. Can’t we all just celebrate America itself and leave Trump out of it?”

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. Bombshell report confirms the groups behind the riots and agitators at Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ, pull in nearly $1 BILLION in annual revenue.
Nonprofits with sweet tax-exempt status are fueling the chaos.

A coordinated network of up to 100 orgs — including Indivisible (bankrolled by Chinese-linked billionaire Neville Singham), the ACLU, and others. Public social media blasts + secret Signal groups run by Marxists and pro-Palestine radicals.

SHUT IT ALL DOWN.

Taxpayers shouldn’t fund this madness.
What do you think? 👇
#BorderCrisis #DefundTheChaos #AmericaFirst

[Father V @father_rmv]

Father Ignatius Maternowski, a Conventual Franciscan priest and U.S. Army chaplain, is remembered as the only American military chaplain killed on D-Day, June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Born on March 28, 1912, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, to Polish-American parents, Maternowski grew up in a devout Catholic family. After graduating from Mater Dolorosa Parochial School in 1927 and St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, New York, in 1931, he joined the Franciscan Friars Conventual, professing his vows in 1932. He was ordained a priest in 1938 by Bishop Thomas O’Leary in Granby, Massachusetts, and served as a parish priest and preacher before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1942, motivated by a desire to minister to soldiers during World War II.

Assigned to the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, Maternowski volunteered as a paratrooper chaplain, earning the rank of captain. Known for his strength, faith, and intolerance for disrespect toward the Church, he was respected by his fellow soldiers. On the eve of D-Day, he celebrated Mass and offered general absolution to the paratroopers before parachuting into German-occupied Gueutteville, near Picauville, Normandy, in the early hours of June 6, 1944. Amid the chaos of a scattered drop and heavy fighting, Maternowski tended to wounded soldiers and glider crash victims, organizing a makeshift aid station in a local café-grocery store owned by the Thouroude family.

Recognizing the dire need for a protected medical facility, Maternowski undertook a courageous and risky mission. Unarmed, wearing his chaplain’s insignia and a Red Cross armband, he crossed enemy lines to negotiate with a German medical officer, seeking to establish the aid station as a noncombatant facility under the 1929 Geneva Convention. He successfully brought the officer to inspect the wounded, aiming to protect both soldiers and civilians. Tragically, as he returned to the American side, he was shot in the back by a German sniper and killed at age 32. His body lay on the road for three days until Allied forces recovered it. Maternowski was initially buried near Utah Beach, but in 1948, his remains were returned to Holyoke and laid to rest in Mater Dolorosa Cemetery in South Hadley, Massachusetts, with a gravestone inscribed, “There Is No Greater Love” (John 15:13).

Maternowski’s heroism is commemorated through a memorial in Gueutteville, a stained-glass window in La Petite Chapelle de Cauquigny, dedicated in 2021, and other tributes in Holyoke, Arlington National Cemetery, and London. His actions exemplified self-sacrifice, as he sought to protect the wounded and uphold human dignity in the face of war. The Franciscan Friars Conventual, in collaboration with the World War II Chaplains Memorial Foundation, have initiated early steps toward his canonization, recognizing his martyrdom and devotion.

[Sean Parnell @SeanParnellUSA]

He brought his children to Normandy — at his own expense — to honor the fallen of the Greatest Generation. Americans who gave everything to defeat tyranny & save the world.
Every parent should teach their kids what real sacrifice & courage look like. That’s how we keep freedom alive.
Proud to serve alongside a Secretary of War who leads by example, on & off the battlefield.

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

Mike Gallagher, the 8th most recognized talk radio personality, in the U.S.A., is heard by over 2.25 million listeners weekly. He compiled and wrote the following essay entitled, "Obama: It was You."

* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner - "I am one of you."
* It was you who on ABC News referenced - "My Muslim faith."
* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to rebuild foreign mosques.
* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict- "I will stand with the Muslims."
* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that - "I am a Muslim."
* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.
* It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning America and professing Marxism.
* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.
* It was you who purposefully omitted - "endowed by our Creator " - from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence.
* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Qur'an.
* It was you who traveled the Islamic world denigrating the United States Of America.
* It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.
* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House
* It was you who ordered Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ BEFORE you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have NEVER requested the mosques you have visited to adjust their decor.
* It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps.
* It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security.
* It was you who said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities.
* It was you who as an Illinois Senator was the ONLY individual who would speak in favor of infanticide.
* It was you who was the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the White House, and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the White House tree.
* It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.
* It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist.
* It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women throughout the Muslim culture, but yet, have submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.
* It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.
* It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas.
* It was you who ordered the United States Postal Service to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.
* It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community.
* It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country.
* It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan.
* It is you who departs for Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for NOT participating in seasonal White House religious events.
* It was you who was uncharacteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly America's strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood led slaughter of Egyptian Christians.
* It was you who appointed your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
It was you the whole time who ushered in this mess we are in!

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

June 6, 1944

[Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao @SECNAV]

The eyes of the world were upon them - and today, we honor their legacy as we live in the freedom secured by their noble sacrifice.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

June 6th, 1944.

The English Channel is angry and half the men in the landing craft are seasick. Diesel fumes mix with saltwater and vomit while rifles are checked for the fifth or sixth time by hands that need something to do. Nobody talks much anymore because the jokes have all been told and the bravado has finally burned away somewhere behind the English coast.

You are nineteen years old and carrying more weight than you’ve ever carried in your life. You don’t know it yet, but it’s the most weight you will EVER carry in this life. However long or short it may be.

Your rifle rests across your knees. Your life hangs from a few pounds of steel, wood, and training. Somewhere beyond the gray horizon sits a continent that has spent five years tearing itself apart, and in a few minutes you are going to step into the middle of it.

Across from you sits another kid. He can’t be much older than you. His jaw is clenched. His knuckles are white around his weapon. Neither of you says a word because there is nothing left to say.

Then your eyes drift toward his shoulder.

That red numeral catches your eye: “1”.

You’ve seen it a thousand times before. In barracks hallways, on training fields, in motor pools, and on long marches. It never meant much beyond belonging to the same outfit.

Now it means everything.

Because in a few minutes the world is going to ask something terrible of both of you, and there is comfort in knowing that whatever waits on that beach, neither of you will face it alone.

The historians will eventually reduce this day to arrows on maps and casualty figures. Politicians will give speeches. Journalists will write books. None of that exists inside the landing craft.

What exists is fear, and duty.

What exists is the understanding that courage was never the absence of fear. Courage was always charging into the maelstrom anyway.

The shoreline emerges through the smoke. You can see flashes now. You can hear the distant percussion of artillery. Men stop checking their equipment because there is no point anymore. Whatever mistakes were made are already made. Whatever prayers were going to be said have already been said.

The coxswain throttles down.

The boat grinds forward.

The ramp is about to drop.

Into the abyss.

Overlord.

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! JD Vance just WENT OFF after an elderly man DIED as part of a fraud scheme busted by the Trump admin

He was supposed to be getting health services. HE GOT ZERO.

"That man lived his final moments on this earth NEGLECTED while a FRAUDSTER got rich by providing services that he never actually provided!"

"Nothing, no services, no help, no check-ins, and the very man, the vulnerable elderly man that he was supposed to be protecting and looking after was reimbursed by the taxpayer in order to do exactly that, that man died."

"And one day before he died, after months of being neglected by the caretaker who was getting reimbursed by the American people, one day before he died, he submitted his final reimbursement for services he never provided for a man he never cared for."

"That's what we're trying to stop, ladies and gentlemen, that's what we have to fight back against. It's a shame that anything like that happens."

"But if it does happen, the only way to protect those people and the only way to protect the American taxpayer is to ensure that the fraudsters go to prison and that they stop this ridiculous scam on the American people."

[Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence]

No word from Black Lives Matter or Al Sharpton.

Not one demand for answers. Not one national outrage campaign. Not even people saying her name.

This is Margaret Swan, a great-grandmother who was stabbed to death 20 times in a random attack in the middle of the day on Atlanta’s public transit.

Her murder was the second horrific attack on MARTA in just one week.

I want answers from Atlanta. The number of assaults, robberies, and rapes on MARTA trains is more than three times the national average.