Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
From January 12, 2015
Now, let’s see… Muslim jihad monsters are going around killing people, and after what they did in France last week, no one feels safe. So, how are European governments going to protect their people from being murdered?
Over in Britain, the Conservative Party has a swell idea. They plan to protect Brits from murderous Muslims by making it against the law to criticize murderous Muslims… and, for good measure, making it illegal to say anything against sodomite parodies of marriage ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11202290/Sharia-law-or-gay-marriage-critics-would-be-branded-extremists-under-Tory-plans-atheists-and-Christians-warn.html ).
The proposed new hate speech law is so broad, so draconian, that Christians and atheists have finally found something they can agree on: This law must not be enacted.
Yes, I said Conservative. As in somewhere to the left of Sheila Jackson Lee, only not quite as lucid. Home Secretary Theresa May explained plans for “Extremism Disruption Orders” by which a judge could ban “extremists”–that is, anyone opposed to Sharia “law” or homosexual pseudomarriage–from broadcasting, public protest, “or even posting messages on Facebook or Twitter without permission.”
Permission? “Oh, Mr. Government, can I pretty please express my own opinions on my own Facebook page?” “No, you miserable extremist. Your opinions are not nice, and must not be heard.” While they’re at it, why don’t they ban diary entries, too?
Says the Chancellor, George Osborne, Conservatives are fixing to “eliminate extremism in all its forms,” and–get this–curtail the activities of those who “spread hate but do not break laws.” What? You don’t have to break any laws, to have your freedom taken away? If you can wind up being punished without having broken any law, then your society is lawless.
What does the Conservative Party think it’s conserving? Don’t these people know they sound like Bill Ayers? In fact, they sound like those nuts in the Canadian “human rights” commissions who propose to ban “hate” altogether. Would we still be human if we could not hate? Meanwhile, to our British cousins, I’m sorry to say… This idiotic and insane proposal won’t protect you. And if you’ve got any sense, you’ll boot out the politicians who proposed it.
From July 19, 2017
“I enjoy being a girl…”
Everything leftids believe is based on some kind of delusion. The government creates wealth. You can raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour with no adverse effect on business.
And of course, if you say you’re a girl, that makes you a girl. Whatever you say you are, you are. And only a Biggit says otherwise.
And so, at Cromwell High School in Connecticut, a 15-year-old boy with a mustache has gone out for girls’ track–because the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference says you are whatever you say you are–and has already come in first in a girls’ track meet (http://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/transgender-lunacy). Ain’t that grand? And because he’s a freshman, he can look forward to four full years of filling his shelf with girls’ track trophies. Well, at least until bigger and stronger boys with full beards say they’re girls, too, and knock him out of the catbird seat.
The girl who trained so hard to come in second in the meet, and win nothing, said, “I can’t really say what I want to say…” Yer darn tootin’ you can’t! The Human Rights Commission might be listening. You know what they do to those who utter hat speach.
Hey! what happens when it’s time to give out girls’ athletic scholarships? Can boys scarf those up, too?
And what happens when the workplace catches on, and men start declaring themselves women so they can get raises and promotions that would otherwise go to…ahem!…real women?
You can’t follow crazy thoughts and not end up in crazy places.
From December 6, 2014
One of the great things about the Internet is that you can watch TV shows that you missed the first time around.
And so we find ourselves watching House, a series that ran for eight seasons (2004-2012) and 177 episodes, winning cartloads of awards and consistently posting high ratings.
Okay, it’s a doctor show. Like Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey, from my youth. But this one is different because it’s focused on the title character, Dr. Greg House, medical genius, master diagnostician, and total pain in the butt, played by Hugh Laurie. You’d never guess he was an Englishman. If his face looks familiar, you probably saw him a while ago in some episodes of Blackadder.
Why focus on this character? Because he’s so weird. He won’t obey hospital rules, he doesn’t like anybody, he will freely insult anyone at any time, he’s addicted to pain pills, and he’s brilliant. The show’s creators patterned him on Sherlock Holmes: and if you see a similar quirkiness in Laurie’s Dr. House and Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes, it’s probably intentional.
Now my wife finds this show richly entertaining because she’s into medical stuff. I’m not. In fact, I don’t even like to think about hospitals and such. Sometimes it seems there are more diseases than there are people, each of ’em just itching to get a crack at you. And when House and his colleagues get to yakking about what’s wrong with the patient, my eyes kind of glaze over. They might as well be talking backwards. Meanwhile my wife is enthusiastically nominating all sorts of diseases that I never heard of as candidates for whatever’s threatening the patient with a quick demise. It’s not unlike watching a football game with an avid and very knowledgeable fan who keeps predicting what play will be called in the huddle and what the defense will try to do about it.
I can’t get into the disease part of the show. But the performances are top-of-the-line and the characters are compelling. Every now and then a patient’s loved one has more than he can take and punches House in the nose. I’m surprised his underlings have never tried to poison him, or at least drained the brake fluid from his car. It makes you wonder why no one ever belted Sherlock Holmes.
Meanwhile, amazon has most of my books for sale with serious discounts. Surprised you with that, didn’t I? Just the kind of nervy thing that House might do. But it’s true–big discounts on the paperbacks, just in time for Christmas.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, just click “Books” and see covers, blurbs, and sample chapters. They’ll speak for themselves.
Go figure. Today was absolutely great–warm, sunny and beautiful.
So why was I exhausted all day?
Right from the morning, when I have my morning energy burst–right through the whole day–I could not get it together. Everything just seemed to be hard to do because I was so very tired. I mean falling-asleep tired.
It seemed like every thing I wanted to post was a no-go. It gets really annoying when you watch a whole video (to check the content and make sure it is suitable) go to post it and are told it is not available for sharing. Then why, pray tell do you show a sharing button?
Maybe it got too warm, too quickly, or maybe it’s a delayed reaction to Daylight Saving Time, I dunno.
I just checked the temperature in here and it is 81. No wonder I am tired.
Duh.
All I know right now is that I want to have my supper and have an early night. Things should be better tomorrow.
Hope all is well with everyone.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
The sound is not too good on this, but it is interesting. Happy for the moose!
From July 30, 2014
Do you still have trouble believing that public education is a snare and a delusion, and has been from the beginning? Are you still cool with having your children educated by these people?
Here is what was actually said 41 years ago by Professor Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry, Harvard. He made this statement at a Childhood International Education Seminar in Denver (source, http://www.aim.org/wls/author/chester-m-pierce/ ).
Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well–by creating the international child of the future.
“The international child of the future”–what in the devil’s umbrella stand is that? And “belief in a supernatural being”, to wit, God, is to be “mentally ill”?
Speaking only for myself, I hadn’t yet learned about the Founding Fathers when I was five, except to hear about George Washington and the cherry tree, nor had my mother and father troubled to imbue me with any feeling toward “our elected officials,” although I probably could recognize President Eisenhower when I saw him on TV. So what was this fat-head of a Chester Pierce gabbling about?
Well, he did want to get rid of “the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity,” didn’t he?
OK–all of you who still believe in public schooling for your children: tell me which of Professor Pierce’s comments are now out of date. Tell me which of his words has been discarded by the public education establishment.
And I’ll tell you something. If Professor Pierce were to address a National Education Assn. convention today, and give the same speech he gave in 1973, using the same words, he would receive a standing ovation.
And by the way, folks: if the education experts think your children come to them “mentally ill,” what do you suppose they think of you as parents?
From August 18, 2016
Hey, remember this commercial? All about cowboys herding cats instead of cattle. Generally I don’t pay any attention at all to Super Bowl commercials, but this one was really funny, and famous, too. Notice the cowboy carefully rolling cat hairs off his shirt!