Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
From September 9, 2022
You do know, I hope, that “democratic republic” is a euphemism for an authoritarian socialist regime. Like “people’s republic” means “communist.”
And you’ve surely heard the mantra, “Socialism really works if you only give it a chance!”
The Democratic Republic of Congo built a foot bridge over a stream recently, and regime officials gathered there for the ribbon-cutting ceremony (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/07/drc-officials-bridge-collapses-ceremony).
The bridge collapsed in the middle of the ceremony, as government officials scramble to escape a ducking while “spectators shout in apparent glee.”
This bridge ought to be adopted as a symbol of socialism. It says it all. Imagine the spectators’ joy when they thought the tyrants would be drowned, right before their eyes. Okay, it was hardly the Golden Gate or the Tappan Zee Bridge–but that’s the point. Socialism can’t even give you a footbridge that’ll last a week before collapsing.
I wonder if DR Congo will put this image on a postage stamp.
From September 24, 2016
Do you have to be moral, to be a “moral philosophy professor”? Nah.
One of these intellectual ginks at Johns Hopkins University has written a book in which he declares we gotta fight Climate Change by having way fewer babies ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-23/want-to-slow-climate-change-stop-having-babies-bioethicist-travis-rieder-says ). Yup: too many people on the Plaaaanet, poor ol’ Gaia, blah-blah-blah.
Government–and interllecturals–he reluctantly concludes, will find it necessary “to pressure families” to stop making babies: because modern people just will not “give up their toys” and scale themselves back to an 11th-century lifestyle. By “toys” he means things like refrigerators and air conditioning.
Yo, sunshine! Which of those toys have you given up?
He does not deal with the colossal amount of evidence that “climate scientists” and government agencies are lying, lying, lying about all this. Instead, he brands his critics, and anyone else who won’t agree with him, as “the far-right hate machine.”
The wisdom of God speaks truly: “All they that hate me love death” (Proverbs 8:36).
P.S.–Yes, I know I complain all the time about the noise and crowding in this part of New Jersey. But not being a liberal, I do not demand that my emotional reactions to my particular circumstances be made the basis of public policy affecting everyone.
And now we’re under a tornado watch until 7 tonight.
For some reason, I was totally paralyzed today–couldn’t do a thing.
The weather, as usual, was no help. Gray, very overcast, and unseasonably warm. It’s funny, but looking back on some of Lee’s posts, I can see he complained quite a bit about the weather. Now I don’t feel so bad, he did it too.
Many of the things I wanted to post today were not able to be shared.
Just general frustration, which, when coupled with my non-existent energy made for a lousy day.
As the old New Jersey saying goes “I shouldda stood in bed.”
Well, at least I was able to get lamb chops for supper.
All is not lost.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
From December 19, 2024
Do you still think universities should NOT be defunded? Think again.
The University of Minnesota has been trying to get children to play with “transgender dolls” (https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects/mygender-dolls)–to “use the My Gender Dolls at home during telehealth [sic] sessions. Yes, they started this during the COVID panic.
Yowsah, yowsah. Children will “select [sic] bodies, genitals, clothes…” Yeah–sort of a swamp-a-thon. Don’t like your gender? Just trade with someone else!
What evil motivates this foolishness? Why is it so common among our “educators.”? What is the goal–other than the extinction of the human race? What does this stuff do for the academic pinheads who promote it?
[Note to readers: I can’t seem to get both text and picture posted on the same page. I think it’s chemo brain at work (you should see all the typos!).
From July 14, 2013
Looking for something to take your mind off bad news? Not that you’re going to ignore it, but if you’re like me, you need a break sometimes. Well, here’s a classic film that just might do the trick.
For pure inane tomfoolery, you can’t beat Beat the Devil (1954). Starring Humphrey Bogart, with Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre, and Robert Morley, directed by John Huston, with a screenplay by Huston and Truman Capote, this film is living pr0of that it takes a lot of talent to create something truly ridiculous. Which, by the way, Huston and Capote were trying to do on purpose. Which is one reason (besides losing a lot of money on the deal) Bogart disliked the finished product and called it “phony.”
But it’s the army of goofy characters in the background, actors you never heard of, who turn this movie into a triumph. Whether it’s the enormously fat, self-important chauffeur, or the drunken, apoplectic sea-captain, or the bewildered bartender, these bit-players are riotously funny. As great as the regular cast is, the nobodies practically steal the show. They are most emphatically not phony.
A good laugh is medicine. And boy, if you don’t need a laugh these days, you’ll never need one. If it was Robert Morley and Peter Lorre trying to steal our country out from under us, we wouldn’t have so much to worry about.
I’m not going to bother with the plot of Beat the Devil because it’s really not important to your enjoyment of the movie. Just sit back and enjoy the daft thing. It’ll do you good.