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For only the second time in their 41-year marriage, Calvin and Trish Zastrow will be spending Thanksgiving apart. The first time was due to travel — this time it’s because Cal is serving a six-month prison sentence over a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021. Zastrow was convicted earlier this year on FACE Act-related charges brought by the Biden administration after he prayed, sang hymns, and sat in front of the door to the entrance of an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Calling from the Federal Correctional Institute Thomson in Illinois this week, Zastrow told The Daily Wire he was doing “absolutely fantastic.” “I’m all on fire for Jesus,” he said. “I’m doing absolutely great, I’m on a big mission trip here.” Over one month into his prison sentence, Zastrow said he has kept busy praying, reading his Bible, and teaching his fellow inmates about Christianity. “There’s a whole lot of prodigals who are wallowing in pig mud, but they want to come back to Jesus, and so I’m here as a missionary to pull them out of that and help them get back on the Jesus road,” he said. He said his friends and family have sent him over 50 books, mostly about Christian missionaries, and he has turned his cell into a sort of library. Zastrow said he’s been giving away a lot of copies in English and Spanish of the book “Tortured for Christ,” which is about Richard Wurmbrand, a pastor who spent years in a communist prison in Romania. In a low-security section of the prison, Zastrow said he has seen few fights but has met a broad diversity of prisoners — from men convicted over January 6 to recruiters for ISIS and the Taliban. He said that many of the January 6 prisoners are optimistic that they will get pardoned once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. He also referenced the discussion that Trump may pardon him, as the president-elect previously indicated that he would look at the cases of pro-lifers targeted by the Biden administration. “I’m not getting my hopes up too high,” he said. “Plus I’m busy here. I’m busy. This prison holds almost 2,300 men and their need to hear about Jesus, their need for that is greater than my need for liberty. And so I’m here on a DOJ-sponsored mission trip.” He said that most of the guards in the prison were unpleasant and would frequently “bark” and “scream” at the prisoners. “They can’t touch my joy, they can’t touch my soul, they can’t touch my attitude,” he said. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Meanwhile, he said he has been able to call his wife pretty much every day so far. “We are very proud of our Cal,” Trish told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. “He’s in there ministering every day. He’s doing well. He isn’t backing down from things.” Trish was able to visit her husband earlier this month, saying she was able to spend about four hours talking to him. Still, she said it has been tough to be away from him. “We miss him around here,” she said, noting that they had a new grandson born on November 1. “I didn’t get to share it with Cal, he’s such a great grandpa.” Zastrow gets 500 minutes a month to call people in 15-minute increments. Trish said her daughter put a special ringtone on her phone so she knows whenever he calls. “One of the hardest things is I can’t just call and talk to him whenever I want,” she said. “I don’t want to ever miss a call.” Zastrow is scheduled to be released from prison on April 8, but may be able to qualify for a few days of early release if he takes some classes. His family is eager to see him back, but say they are grateful for the opportunity he’s been given to share his faith. “I feel very privileged to be his wife and I’m very proud of him for standing,” she said. “I’m excited to see what God does with all this.”

You can see all kinds of amazing animals on a safari, but not without your glasses. One woman learned this lesson the hard way when she brought her sunglasses on a wildlife tour instead of her prescription eyewear! This could have been a waste of a day, but Tanya Hennessy had a better idea. She turned her situation into a hilarious skit on social media! In her video, Tanya excitedly pointed out “animals” to her guide, Jeff. However, it turns out that she couldn’t properly identify anything on this safari without her glasses. Jeff had to inform her, in increasingly unimpressed tones, these “animals” were actually rocks. After a couple of these fails, though, there was a plot twist! @tanyahennessy When you on safari and forget your prescription glasses… also jeff is a comedian I swear! ♬ original sound – Tanya Hennessy “Is that a giraffe?” Tanya asked. “That’s a rock,” said Jeff. “That’s a rhino!” Tanya exclaimed. “It’s a rock,” Jeff replied. After being deceived by her own eyes so many times while trying to see without her glasses, Tanya decided to avoid further disappointment on the safari. The next time she saw some figures in the distance, she immediately assumed they were more rocks. However, she was mistaken once again! “It’s not a rock, it’s two lions,” Jeff informed her. Tanya shared some footage of the two animals, who were, indeed, a pair of lions lazing around on the ground. She and Jeff had a hearty laugh over the misidentification! Screengrab from TikTok Commenters loved this silly video, especially Jeff’s deadpan delivery. “Jeff is the GOAT,” one person wrote. Another added, “Jeff is bringing main character energy.” A third person jokingly suggested that this safari guide could have actually saved himself some trouble by taking advantage of the fact that Tanya was without her glasses. “Honestly though, Jeff really just needed to find a couple more rocks and drive in a big, wonky circle and you would have had the BEST safari of your life,” they said. While this would have been funny, we’re sure our beloved Jeff would never do something so deceitful! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Pure Hilarity: When You Go On Safari But You Forgot To Wear Your Glasses appeared first on InspireMore.

On a lark, a colorblind artist contacted Tom Cruise’s management team to see if the Top Gun star wanted to keep a portrait he had made of him. Wilf Elliott, who hails from the east England town of Clacton, is colorblind and has made charcoal drawings of celebrities like Gareth Bale, Zara Larsson, and Sam […] The post Colorblind Artist is Left ‘Starstruck’ After Tom Cruise Met Him to Receive His Portrait appeared first on Good News Network.

As families gather around their dining room tables this Thanksgiving, it’s regrettable that some seats won’t be taken because Trump Derangement Syndrome won’t permit its victims to break bread and count their blessings with relatives and friends who don’t share their irrational hatred of once and future President Donald Trump. The hilarious account Libs of TikTok is replete with videos of TDS sufferers continuing to hyperventilate about Trump’s imminent return to the White House and their unwillingness to give it a rest, even for two or three hours to share a traditional Thanksgiving holiday repast. They’ve essentially disowned family members and friends who committed the unforgivable sin of voting for Orange Man Bad. Perhaps those being shunned should be thankful those mentally addled relatives will spare them the grief. Donald Trump supporters exult at Muldoon’s Irish Pub in Newport Beach, California, on Nov. 5, when he was declared the winner of the presidential election. (Jeff Gritchen/Media News Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) With or without them, however, there’s much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. The following, in no particular order, are some things we should all give thanks for—and not just on Thanksgiving, but every day from now on and particularly beginning next Jan. 20: There will be no Cabinet post for Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer extraordinaire ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, who burned her Republican bridges by campaigning for and with Kamala Harris. Cheney will not be secretary of defense—or anything else—in a Harris administration, because there won’t be one. The American people dodged that electoral bullet because, thank God, Trump dodged a real one. Make-believe “Admiral” Richard Levine (who asks to be known as Rachel) won’t be reenlisting as assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services. Anyone on the Left who has been criticizing any of Trump’s Cabinet nominees doesn’t have a (turkey) leg to stand on if they aren’t repulsed every time they see Levine. Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg will be bicycling back to South Bend, Indiana. Tom Homan in January will replace Harris as the nation’s (real) border czar. In just the two weeks since being named to the post, Homan has already been to the border as many times (once) as Harris was in her first 3-1/2 years in office. (The outgoing vice president’s second visit to the border, on Sept. 27, which was nothing more than a campaign photo op, doesn’t count.) That means the end of open borders as we’ve known them the past nearly four years, and with it a much-needed  restoration of U.S. national sovereignty, where the American people—and not the Mexican cartels—get to decide who comes into our country. Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., won’t get to redefine masculinity. He also won’t get to cast tiebreaking votes as president of the Senate. Vice President-elect JD Vance will have that duty, but hopefully won’t need to do so, if the incoming Republican Senate majority can hold together. (cc: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska) Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in the upcoming 119th Congress will be demoted to minority leader after Democrats lost four Senate seats and with them the majority. The Democrats’ far-left legislative agenda is now on ice for at least the next four years, since even if they somehow were able to recapture control of both the House and Senate in the midterms in 2026, Trump would surely veto any extremist legislation they passed. Title IX will be restored to its original intent of fostering girls and women’s athletics and will be stripped of the Biden-Harris administration’s unseemly obsession with transgenderism, which the 1972 law’s sponsors never envisioned and would never support. DEI deservedly will be kicked to the curb across the federal government in the second Trump term. When Pete Hegseth takes over as secretary of defense, DEI will be dishonorably discharged from the Pentagon and the military, and there will be no more official Pride Month celebrations on military bases, much less drag queen events at their recreation centers. A gaggle of left-wing celebrities promised to leave the country if Trump won. It remains to be seen how many of them will actually make good on the promise (you can’t call something that positive a “threat”), but if they do, can we make them surrender their passports at the airport so they can never get back in? The long-overdue end of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s often-contrarian tenure as Senate Republican leader, during which he would all too often sell conservatives down the river at crucial moments, especially on bloated spending bills. Hopefully, the octogenarian Kentucky lawmaker’s replacement, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, won’t be just another go-along-to-get-along type. In what bodes well for consumers, Trump’s “drill, Baby, drill” policies should bring gas prices down to where they were before President Joe Biden and Harris took office on Jan. 20, 2021, with their anti-fossil fuel zealotry. That will have the salutary downstream effect of tamping down inflation, since energy is a key component of the price of almost everything else in the economy, including the manufacturing and transportation of food. And lastly, speaking of Thanksgiving dinners, we truly can be thankful we won’t be force-fed four years of Harris’ indigestible word salads. The post 13 Things We Should Be Thankful for This Postelection Thanksgiving appeared first on The Daily Signal.