Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
From April 12, 2013
Do people commit mass murders, and other horrific crimes, simply because weapons are available?
If that were true, then “gun control” would work and Chicago would be the safest and most crime-free city in America.
Chances are you’ve never shot anyone, robbed a bank, or burned down someone’s home. Why not? Is it because there’s a policeman standing guard over you? Or do you just not do stuff like that because it’s wrong, because you have no desire to hurt or terrorize others–in short, because you’re a normal human being?
Let’s suppose the entire country is populated by individuals who are governed by a lust to kill. How many police would you need to keep them from loosing an orgy of murder? It would not be possible to maintain a police force large enough to control 300 million homicidal jerks.
While our idiot leaders in Washington diddle around with new gun laws that will do nothing except to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding, peaceful citizens–for some reason criminals habitually ignore laws–we have Hollywood cranking out one movie after another featuring death and dismemberment, bodies and body parts flying all over the screen; we have a whole “gangsta” subculture which collects “music” award for “songs” about raping and beating women, shooting cops, shooting rival gang members, etc.; and we have boys growing up spending how many hours a day absorbed in video games about massacres and generalized bloodletting. We have schools and “educators” teaching whole generations of children that Christianity is wrong and the great goal in life is to please oneself: the Marquis De Sade could hardly say it better. And the smartest people in the country are all pumped up to destroy marriage and the family.
We’re trashing our civilization six ways from Sunday, and the morons in the Senate think more “gun control” will save us?
Can they really, truly be that stupid?
I don’t know if I have written about Lee’s katana This is a very sharp lethal weapon. A sword. He purchased it from his judo sensei (teacher) a number of years ago. This is not a replica or a toy. Think of a 3 foot long razor blade and you have it about right. Lee had to work with the bokken (a wooden sword) for over six years before he was allowed to train with the katana . After Lee’s passing, one of my first worries was where to sell this item. You can’t do it on eBay. The school that he had attended had closed quite a while ago. I mean a number of years ago. I did contact a couple of judo schools, but they did not do sword work.
Yesterday, when I was going through Lee’s papers, I came upon a small slip of paper, quite yellowed and old, with a man’s name and telephone number on it. Also on the paper was a note saying the man was a sword student of Lee’s sensei. I really doubted that the number would be good, as I have run into a number of dead-ends with phone numbers–people are switching to cell phones–but I called it anyway. The number was live. I was ecstatic and left a message explaining the situation and giving him my number.
Mid morning today the phone rang and it was sensei himself. I never expected to hear from him, but evidently the man I called had called him and told him my story. Long story short–he (sensei) said he will do the legwork and ask around and he probably will be able to find me a buyer. He also said he would try to get me more than I paid for it.
I will never complain again about Lee saving everything.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
From May 18, 2019
We got a communication yesterday, unsolicited, from an alleged adult who says he’s “sick of rich old white men” running for president. We must note that he himself is a rich old white man.
Is it possible there are registered voters out there who really, truly think that skin color, sex, and age are important things to be considered, in choosing a president? I mean, does this guy even understand what a president is, and does? That “president” is a job–and that to do it well benefits the whole world, but to do it poorly can bring to large numbers of people hardship, frustration, loss, and even wounds and death.
As for being “rich,” let’s see… hmm… when was the last time an indigent was elected to high public office in America? [Riffles through history] Ooh-ooh–never! No poor homeless person has ever been elected to anything!
What we are hearing from, here, is a silly old ass who seems to think being “a woman of color” or something, or at least young and poverty-stricken, would by some weird alchemy make you a good president. It is a shame that he can vote. It can’t be a good thing to let utter chowderheads vote.
Heaven help us, if they ever again get to choose a president.
From July 25, 2012
Once in a blue moon, a Democrat accidentally tells the truth. Chicago Mayor Rahm “Never let a good crisis go to waste” Emmanuel recently slipped up when he said, “Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.”
He meant it, of course, as a slap at Chick-fil-A, whose owner has incurred the wrath of pwogwessives by supporting real marriage–a man and a woman–against same-sex pseudomarriage. For this thought crime, Democrat commissars of large cities like Chicago and Boston are determined to drive Chick-fil-A out of their cities. So now we know that man-and-woman marriage is not a Chicago value. Not that that should come as news to anyone.
Some of us crave fantasy because, quite simply, it’s better than reality. America’s leaders and their intellectual advisers are destroying her. It’s a sorry spectacle, and there seems to be very little we can do about it.
And so, from time to time, we sneak off to Narnia or Middle-Earth or (dare I say it?) Bell Mountain, and leave all those Chicago values behind. As a fantasy writer, I hope my creations provide my readers with a welcome respite from a world governed by Chicago values. And finally, if we can at least imagine a world in which Chicago values do not rule, then maybe we can find that elusive first step toward making the world we live in more like the one we can imagine.