Month: February 2017

‘Praise Him, Praise Him, Jesus My Savior’

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Fanny Crosby was blind almost from birth, and during her lifetime composed some 1,000 hymns, many of which are still loved and sung today. Toward the end of her life, she was asked what she would most like to see, if she could have her sight restored. She surprised the questioner by saying she’d just as soon not have it restored while she lived, because the first thing she wished to see would be the face of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven. Was this woman a hero of the faith, or what?

Fanny composed Praise Him, Praise Him, Jesus My Savior in 1869.

Update: They’ve Still Got the Kids

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Supposedly the Buffalo city council was to meet today to “address” the case of a homeschooling mother who was arrested, and her two small children taken away from her, for alleged “educational neglect”–even though she jumped through all the hoops required by law before you’re allowed to homeschool in Buffalo.

All we’ve learned today is that one of the councilmen called the situation “unacceptable” and added that the children ought to be returned to their mother right away ( http://www.wkbw.com/news/wingo-calls-homeschooling-arrest-unacceptable ).

This mess was easily avoidable. Someone at City Hall forgot to pass on the homeschooling papers to the Board of Education; and so school officials, responding to the children’s’ unexplained absence from school, called in Child Protective Services.

No one bothered to discover the facts of the case before acting on it. A few minutes on the phone with the right person at City Hall, and the whole thing would have been straightened out right then and there. But no! Grab the kids and put ’em in foster care!

This illustrates a general principle of modern life: the more power you give to government at any level, the more you’ll regret it.

Somebody needs to be fired for this, and the city ought to compensate the family for its trouble.

And in the long run, public education must be abolished. It has long outlived its usefulness.

Does Your Cat Do This?

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I’ve seen this in several cat videos–silly cat tumbling down the stairs on purpose. I’ve never had a cat that did that. I think one of my cousins does it from time to time, but she has a very wide staircase in her home. I’m much too big to tumble down my stairs here, and I think it would alarm my cats if I tried.

Your Progressive Right to Punch Anyone Who Isn’t on Your Side

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Aren’t you glad there’s no more Loretta Lynch running the Dept. of Justice?

A liberal lecturer at Cal State Fullerton recently decided he didn’t like seeing Republican students protesting on campus, and charged into the crowd and started punching one of them ( http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/08/college-republican-makes-citizen-arrest-fullerton-professor-assaults-student/ ). Someone made a citizen’s arrest, and now we can wait and see if the non-tenured anthropology prof gets some jail time–or at least gets fired.

The event was a bigger protest by “Students for Justice in Palestine.” I would someday like to ask one of these leftids what he means by “justice.” I’m sure the answer would surprise me.

America has had eight years of top-down lawlessness, with President *Batteries Not Included as its chief cheerleader and Ms. Lynch to make sure no lib is ever punished for attacking people or destroying property. Naturally, the prof got caught up in the heat of the moment and behaved as if that pair were still in office.

It would be a refreshing change to see high-profile lawbreakers actually get punished. I wonder how long it would take them to understand that this was really happening.

Whoo-Hoo, It’s Snowing!

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So yesterday it was almost 60 degrees, and today it’s in the 20s and snowing like mad: welcome to February. And oh, that wind!

I’ve just finished clearing our cars so we can use them tomorrow. It’s funny–no matter how old I get, I’ll never forget the unexpected joy of waking up on a snowy morning to learn that there’ll be no school today! How can I not love snow? Sledding, snowball fights, snowmen and snow-forts–who in his right mind would rather be sitting in a classroom?

And now, I think, it’s time for a cigar…

The Weird, Weird West

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The city of Seattle has divested $3 billion worth of business with Wells Fargo as a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline ( http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/02/08/business/business-breaking/seattle-splits-from-wells-fargo-over-dakota-access-pipeline/ ).

Complete with “activists” banging on tom-toms and wearing Native American costumes and Chinese hats, the city council meeting turned into quite a show.

Leading the attack on Wells Fargo was council member Kshama Sawant, the only non-Democrat on the council. She belongs to the Socialist Alternative Party–and if you can explain the difference between that and the Democrat Party, go to the head of the class. Anyhow, the vote was unanimous, the activists whooped it up with tom-toms, and Kshama Sawant foretold it would be the start of “a grassroots socialist revolution” from sea to shining sea, blah-blah.

Oh, yeah–what we all want is a grassroots socialist revolution. They make for such exciting reading in history! The firing squads, the lynchings, the purge trials, and everybody but the socialist tinpot rulers plunged into deepest poverty–it’s always the same pattern. Of course, we could always just move to Venezuela; but it would be so much more fun to impose this on Americans.

Is it possible that some of these people in Seattle are unaware that there is more to America than just a few big cities full of leftists? Let’s see… San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Seattle–that’s pretty much the whole country, right?

Yo, California! When you secede, take Washington with you.

By Request, ‘Sometimes Alleluia

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Our sister Linda Sorci has requested this hymn–Sometimes Alleluia, sung by Chuck Girard–and along with it, let’s keep praying for her: because Our Lord Jesus Christ at various times taught us to be persistent in our prayers, and because Linda and her husband Michael need our prayers right now.

O Lord Our God, deliver your servants out of trouble! In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Prayer Request: Linda

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Our sister Linda Sorci’s husband, Michael, already battling cancer, has developed unrelated complications and she has asked for our prayers.

O Lord Our God, deliver your servants, Linda and Michael, out of trouble, out of sickness. Hear our prayers, O Father, and speedily help them! In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Well, Dog My Cats Again

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You want to know why I post cat videos? Go back and read the last three news posts, and then you tell me.

Anyway, we’ve got a big snowstorm in tomorrow’s weather forecast, so I thought I’d post this so our two little furry girls can see what they’ll be missing.

First laugh I’ve had all day!

And Now… ‘Shout Your Abortion’

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Planned Parenthood, along with “artists and comedians” and other moral imbeciles, has launched its “Shout Your Abortion” Tour. ( http://www.dailywire.com/news/2709/well-known-women-brag-about-abortions-planned-amanda-prestigiacomo )

Planned Parenthood urges women to “brag about your abortion.” Well, sure, why not? All sorts of people now brag about their wickedness. And hey, like Planned Parenthood says, not-yet-born babies are just “clumps of cells.”

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin…

I don’t believe I need to comment on this news story. It speaks for itself.