Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
I just read a story about 3 men convicted in California of insurance fraud. This fraud was perpetrated by having someone dressed in a bear suit (honest) attacking luxury cars and damaging them. Then the others (don’t know if they all took part in the costume part) filed claims of damage (by the ersatz bear) for huge sums of money. They got caught. Gee I wonder why? That bear suit would not have fooled anybody.
When I went to the convenience store today the owner was being very stern with some guy because she (the owner) allowed him to use her microwave to warm up his food (which he had not purchased there–she just let him use it as a courtesy) and left the microwave a total 
mess. That’s a really nice way to pay back someone who is extending you a courtesy.
Are people just getting dumber? More careless? Totally selfish?
Sure beats me.
Catch you tomorrow.
God bless everybody.
Patty
From May 12, 2015
Want to kill your culture dead? Simply set up a lot more colleges and universities than the country will ever need, staff them with insane liberal wackos, and, at great cost, fill them with millions of not-very-bright students with no particular bent for scholarship.
And just to make sure the stake goes through the heart, partner the colleges with labor unions.
F’rinstance: Student employees at the University of Washington are preparing to vote on “whether hurting someone’s feelings should be ‘grievable’ under their union’s contract with the school” ( http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/22415/ ). The union representing teaching assistants, administrative aides, and other college gofers who have never once set foot inside an auto factory is the United Auto Workers.
The key sticking point in the negotiations is whether these tender souls must be protected from any word, thought, or deed that might possibly offend them. The union wants this stuff to be “grievable”–meaning that if you’re one of these fragile flowers and your feelings get hurt, the school has to give you money and punish the ogre who bruised your feelings.
The goal is to root out “microaggression.”
Huh? What in the world is that? Well, it’s “unconscious bias,” or “unintended discrimination” which, even if the enemy of the human race has no awareness that he is being exclusive or homophobic or racist or whatevuh, “has the same effect as conscious, intended discrimination.”
This is the coming thing, a spokeswoman for the UAW said–“the next level of discourse in this country around racism, sexism, and homophobia.” It’ll make the campus “more inclusive,” too, whatever that means.
I grew up in a UAW household. I can’t imagine what has happened to that union.
Because all of the offenses of “microaggression” are done unconsciously, and without intent, virtually any human interaction may be seen as including some form of microaggression. Our cherished minorities can go on witch hunts all day long, guaranteed to bag somebody.
You won’t even know you’ve committed an offense until they bust you for it. Anything you say, anything you do–absolutely anything–might cost you your job, or whatever other penalty they make up as they go along.
How will you prepare for this next level of discourse?
From May 23, 2020
G’day! Byron the Quokka here–and that’s the great Alvin Kasavubu’s blue bike in the background. I am jumping for joy because I found it!
Mr. Kasavubu very kindly agreed to be our first celebrity lecturer here at Quokka University. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on how to keep frogs from jumping off your head once you put them up there, and we were all very excited to have him.
Well, he showed up on his bicycle; and imagine our dismay when his bike went missing! I hope nobody thinks any of us quokkas tried to steal it. After all, our feet can’t reach the pedals. Anyway, poor Mr. Kasavubu, when he’d finished his lecture and wanted to go home, couldn’t find his bike. Was he ever upset! And we all had to go looking for it.
Happily, it wasn’t stolen, after all: somebody just moved it. We suspect wombats. They can’t resist a bit of joy-riding. If we ever find out who actually moved the bike, we’ll have to put them on academic probation. If we can figure out how to do that.
But at least we had the lecture, and a very interesting lecture it was!
We are well on our way to creating one of the world’s great universities.
Well, today I determined I would get out for my walk. Which I did.
Oddly enough, I did not get that post lunch fatigue. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but we’ll see. If walking eliminates that, I will definitely go for it.
I intend to walk every day, using the step counter as I am desperately in need of exercise.
Then, I took the afternoon off and watched a movie. This is something I never do, but today felt like I needed a change of pace. The movie was a documentary about Karen Carpenter. (Not the one made by her brother which had an actress playing her and which I imagine had been heavily whitewashed.) It was sad that such a decent-seeming person died so young. This was a real documentary, featuring interviews with people who knew and worked with her. Carol Burnett, Olivia Newton-John, and many musicians and record-business people. She not only had a marvelous voice, but was one terrific drummer.
It was something different 
at any rate.
See you tomorrow.
God bless everybody.
Patty
Parints thay shood “jist” Shut UP!!!!!!
I reeded this “here” big long Artacle today!
(And thay say I “caint” reed!!!)
Fynely a juj says Its OK! fore Boyz to “use” Girls bath roombs!! ITS ABUOUT TYME!!!!!!
Butt then thay “tern aruound” and say we caint Forsse teetchers and prinsipples to use “Prefurd Pronowns”wen thay Tawk!!! Well watt kynde “Of” eddication IS That??? And nhow themb Fashists thay “want To” stopp “the” skools fromb giving kids a Bortion weather thayr Parints lyke It “or” NOT!!!! If That’s Eddication, then I’M a Axolotl!!!!!!!
Parints thay shood jist Butt Out “of” thare Kidz lyves!!!! PAY YORE SKOOL TACKS AND JIST SHUT UPP ABUOUT IT!!!!!! If I whant a Bortion, Isle get “my Secks” chainged and get Preganint and have a Bortion!!!!!! Becose the Skool whil Pay “for It!”!”!
Parints thay “are alyaws” intorfearing whith Pubic Eddication, thay shood awl Be throwed In Jail!!!!!