Month: February 2017

How Do Flies Live Through Winter?

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Hi, Mr. Nature here, to shed a little light on something that may have perplexed you. I know it’s often puzzled me.

It’s winter, one freezing cold day after another–and then an unseasonably warm day comes along, and before you know it, there are houseflies buzzing around outside. How can that be? Where do they come from? ( https://www.abchomeandcommercial.com/blog/where-do-flies-go-during-winter/ )

Most flies have a lifespan measured in days, seven to ten. So the fly you see in February hasn’t been hiding out since Thanksgiving. But they do lay eggs before they die, and some of these eggs can hatch in the winter, if given the chance. And fly larvae may emerge from cocoons. Thing is, there are so freakin’ many flies, and they lay so freakin’ many eggs, that a few of them are bound to survive no matter how long and harsh the winter is.

Chances are that the adult flies you see outside on a warm day in January or February have been… well, hanging out somewhere in your house. Your home is heated, and insects who can get in have a decent chance of making it through a cold snap. And they do get in! Even if it’s just a tiny gap in your aluminum siding, to a bug it’s shelter from the cold.

I have to keep reminding myself that God would not have created flies if they didn’t somehow serve His purpose. In this case it’s kind of hard to know His purpose; but whatever that purpose may be, you can be sure He hasn’t forgotten it.

I Has had a Dreem

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I ate me a peace of a swetter last nihgt and it “must of had” like Carpet Cleener on it or somthing becose it Gived me a wiled Dream!

I drempt Pressidint Obamma he come “back” and made A Revilution and got rid “of” Donold trump and al them biggits and Haters witch suported “him” and than Obamma he turnt “into” a god! and he made Hillery the Pressidint insted of Trump and so she Lived “in the” Wite House And gess waht? I was her Boy Freind!!! and Bil Clintin he dint Mind becose he “had” a lott of Girl Freinds!

Yes! Wow!! i was Hillery’s Boy Freind now and i got To sleap “on” the Flore rihght by her Bed! and than She sayed “Mothy” (That was Her pet “naime” for Me( come “on Up hear a Minnet” and I thinked O Man this It Is goin to be Grate! and yiu know Waht she done then??? She gived Me a Indain Burn!!! Oboy that hurt!!!

And i sayed “how Come yiu” gived Me a Indain Burn and she sayed Becose I Can!! “I wil give This hole stinkin countrie a big fat Indain Burn and yiu wil here Them howell!! And then she strated Lauhghing and she Lauhghed so Loud it waked me up and thare i was freezing and my Moth Antenners thay Had Ice in them Rihght thare in My prefesser’s Tool shed! my Teeths thay wore Chatterin “so” bad i culdnt hardly “talk” but he Wuldnt give me No more blankits becose he sayed Its Globbal Warming “and whye” shuld he waist anether Blankit?

Wel i sayed Gee but I am awffle Cold! and he “sayed” Yiu be carful Waht yiu say or I “wil have yiu up on” charges of Climbit Change Denile and yiu dont “want” evry One to think yuo are a Racist do yiu??” Wel I gess that reely Shut me up!!!

I tell yiu this eddication It is reely Hard some times!!!

 

Berkeley Blames Riots on College Republicans

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Well, the riots are over, they’re sweeping up the ashes… and the administration at U. Cal/Berkeley is saying the Berkeley College Republicans have a “moral responsibility” for the riots because they foolishly exercised their “right” to hear a conservative speaker ( http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/02/02/uc-berkeley-milo-administration-shares-blame-anti-free-speech-riot/ ).

Yup, it’s all their fault for inviting Milo Whatsisname to speak on campus. Not the rioters’ fault. Not the fault of whoever told the police to stand down and not arrest the rioters. Not the fault of the collidge administration for encouraging and applauding left-wing thuggery. Not the faculty for teaching their students to be close-minded, violence-prone idiots. Not the students, for listening to all that guff.

It was the college Republicans’ fault for inviting Milo to give a speech.

Now, that man is not my idea of a conservative. I can’t imagine what he proposes to conserve. As an unrepentant sodomite, he is  primarily a culture-killer–part of the problem, not part of the solution.

So… because he’s not my cup of tea, I should be allowed to go out and slash my neighbor’s tires as a form of “protest”?

President Trump has called the Berkeley rioters “professional anarchists,” and mentioned the possibility of cutting off federal funds to universities that don’t allow free speech.

Well, heck, what is anybody waiting for? Do it now! Cut off all their federal funding, to all of them. Starve this corrupt university system to death! What is America supposed to do with 10,000 people who have master’s degrees in Gender Studies, anyway?

Bring back the jobs, and cut the universities back down to size. All of these people should have been working and earning money rather than sitting in classrooms and piling up debt.

Cut the funding. Starve the beast.

‘Hymn of Glory’

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I know nothing about this Hymn of Glory: only that I happened upon it while looking for a hymn to post today, and liked it very much. It does strike just the right tone, don’t you think?

Unusually Cute Pets

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Hey, what are those roly-poly little white dogs with the blue tongues? I thought only skinks had blue tongues.

Actually, all the animals in this video are kind of roly-poly, and some of the cats are quite tumbly. The management takes no responsibility for that.

‘Except the Lord Build the House…’

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In the course of my work for The Chalcedon Foundation, I’m reading a book about income inequality, the resulting lack of social mobility, and what to do about it. I can see that a great deal of hard work and research went into the writing of this book; and I can also see that what drives it is 100% pure worldly wisdom, devoid of any reference to God and showing no attempt at all to know His will.

Psalm 127 springs immediately to mind: Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it (v. 1).

This is one of the most profound verses in the Bible; and so, naturally, it’s also among the most ignored.

I plead guilty. When I sit down to work on one of my novels, I always pray for God’s guidance before I write a word. Well and good. But then I don’t even think of doing the same whenever I prepare to write a blog post or a column, to say nothing of more mundane tasks. It may be that it’s not really necessary to ask God for His guidance when I  wash the supper dishes–but what could it hurt? Meanwhile, it came to me today that I really ought to ask Him for His help in all my writing, not just the books: so I will do that, because I hope that all my writing is in His service. Even when I’m writing something just to get a laugh, because God blesses wholesome laughter.

We have been collecting and applying worldly wisdom all the time. We invent all sorts of jimcracks and procedures, and then never find the best way to use them. We heap up knowledge, yet grow no wiser. And so we in general, and the author I’m reading in particular, will not only fail to come up with the definitive answer to the problem we’re addressing, but we won’t even understand the nature of the problem–even if we think we do.

Wisdom sought apart from God will only take us so far, and never to where we need to go. For all our inventions, for all our worldly wisdom, the smartest people in the world just can’t get done any of those things they say they’re trying to do. And to make matters worse, a great deal of this wisdom is only foolishness. I think that explains, entirely, the condition of our universities.

There are an awful lot of houses getting built without the Lord’s advice–and an awful lot of houses falling down.

Everywhere you look.

 

Starve the Beast!

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President Donald Trump (I do enjoy typing that!) this morning posted a Twitter message threatening to cut off federal funds to the University of California/Berkeley because of student rioting ( http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/02/donald-trump-threatens-cancel-federal-funds-berkeley-riots-shut-milo-event/ ).

See, Berkeley was going to have a conservative speaker, one Milo Yiannopoulos, so the “students” had to riot and create a tumult so that the speech would have to be canceled on account of inability to ensure security. Hard to do that when everybody’s rioting.

To demonstrate their tolerance, their good will, and their acute reasoning, the students burned ATM machines, broke bank windows, beat people up, and set fires on and around the campus. This I love: they even torched and looted a Starbuck’s! Oops–it seems being a big fat prating liberal won’t protect you from other liberals.

This is our chance–and it won’t come again!–to starve leftism right there in its nest. The university is the nest where leftist vermin hatches. This is the training ground, the propaganda center, where otherwise normal young people are turned into raving idiots.

There is no reason whatsoever for 17 to 20 million Americans to be enrolled in assorted colleges and universities. It’s bad for the country, bad for the students  who have enormous debts to pay off but have been taught nothing but how to be nincompoops, and good only for the academics themselves, who get to suck America’s blood, and a really nice pension at the end.

Now is the time to cut America’s overgrown, over-funded university system down to size–not with a scalpel, but an axe.

Posterity will thank us for it.

‘Victory in Jesus’

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This hymn, Victory in Jesus, is from 1939, and here enjoys a spirited rendition by the choir and congregation at The Church of God. I’d never heard it until this morning.

NOTE: I am requesting your requests! I’ve taken on the duty to post at least one hymn here every day, and I’d have a much easier time of it if more of you would request hymns. At the very least, I’d be repeating myself less often. So many of you have never asked! Come on, now, don’t be shy–make a joyful noise unto the Lord.

UK Doctors Forbidden to Call Mothers ‘Mothers’

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All right–this has gone quite far enough, and it has to stop.

The British Medical Assn. has decreed that physicians in the UK stop using the word “mother” to denote a mother, and no longer to use the term “expectant mothers,” but to say “pregnant people” instead ( http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/29/doctors-told-term-mothers-offends-trans/ ). These barbarities are to be inflicted on the English language so as to avoid giving offense to intensely disturbed individuals who call themselves “transgender.”

In a stupid pamphlet about “inclusive language in the workplace,” the BMA explained that ordinary words in use since time began are now unacceptable because they might “exclude” some “transgender man”–in plain English, a woman with a highly addled psychology–who might become pregnant and then feel bad because “he” can’t be a mother…

Just stop it.

This business comes straight from Satan’s bag of tricks and smells of fire and brimstone. “Male and female created He them” (Genesis 1:27) really throws the PC crowd: God’s created order deeply offends them.

If physicians in the United Kingdom had any self-respect, they would ignore the BMA and make a point of going out of their way to use the forbidden language as often as possible, even if they had to phone BMA bigwigs in the middle of the night just to say “mother-mother-mother-mother-mother!”

Defy political correctness!

Donald Trump has proved it can be done.

An Off-the-Wall Cat

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By “off the wall,” I mean literally.

Our cat Buster used to jump as high as he could and launch himself off the wall as far as he could go. I wish I had that on video. This seems like a worthwhile thing for human beings to try. Just watch the cat, and do the same.