Can I Make It to Midnight?

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Gone are those New Year’s Eves of yesteryear, where we used to run outside and bellow “Happy New Year!” at the top of our lungs, plus booze, fireworks, and the rest. Now I’ve got 45 minutes to go and I’d rather be in bed. Patty has already fallen asleep on the couch. Our cats are sleeping, too.

A prayer: O Lord our God, we are the sheep of your pasture, and we need our shepherd. Stay with us throughout the year 2020: equip us for your service, give us what we need to hang on. May the name of our Savior Jesus Christ be exalted, this year, in every corner of the earth. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Furthering Your Cats’ Education

Wishing only to expand their horizons, without subjecting them to college, I ran out and bought my cats one of these fidget spinners. It held their interest, mildly, for 15 minutes: my cats have black belts in blase. Now I’m the only one who bothers with it.

I do love the solemn, pensive expression on that grey-and-white cat’s face. Grey-and-white cats are very good at doing solemn.

False Facts, Series VI

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Happy New Year, everybody! Byron the Quokka here, with Series VI of Acme False Facts. Aunt Feezy gave me a set for Christmas–I’m afraid she thought the facts were real: us quokkas are trusting souls–and I can hardly wait to impress all the other quokkas with my new-found bogus knowledge!

Without further ado, here are my favorite False Facts, so far.

*Benjamin Franklin invented the cell phone in 1771, but lost interest in it when there was no one to call.

*In 1951 President Mickey Vernon attempted to appoint his horse, Shorty, to the United States Supreme Court. This led to the discovery that he wasn’t really the president, but the Senate confirmed the appointment anyway.

*Kansas City was originally in Japan, but relocated in 1869.

*Ancient astronauts discovered Play-Doh on Mars and brought it to earth in 502 B.C.

*A centipede named Nobody’s Fool won the Kentucky Derby in 1963, but his victory was disallowed because he used too many legs.

I could do this all day, but I won’t–I’ve got a Christmas carol contest to administer.

Remember! Stand up straight, shoulders back, look ’em in the eye, and speak with unshakeable confidence! And you’ll have a future in politics.

The Top Post of 2019

This was a record-setting year, here, with over 120,000 views. And the top view-getter was a Welsh hymn, Hyfrydol, by the Black Mountain Choir, with a total of 576 views.

The day I posted it, Feb. 26, was the all-time record-setter with 849 views, including 396 views just for Hyfrydol–just in one day! I wish I knew what it was that made Feb. 26’s blog such a hit with viewers: then I could do it on purpose. Be that as it may, it’s a gorgeous, glorious hymn, and one of my very chief favorites, even if I don’t understand a word of it. I don’t think you have to!

The most successful new prose post of the year was “Bell Mountain Movie Contest, Take Two,” with 234 views. The contest itself turned out to be a bust: a very few readers played enthusiastically, but everybody else just liked to read about it. At one point it was a contest entered only by half a dozen people.

WordPress used to do all the end-of-year wrap-ups for us, but hasn’t done so in several years. I’d love to know what were the most-viewed reader comments. There are always so many good ones, I’d never be able to guess.

Thank you to all of you who tuned in and made this blog grow! Can we grow it some more in 2020?

Biden: ‘We’re All Dead!’

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So this is the Democrat front-runner, the dithering doofus for whom millions of [plug in charitable word for “gavones”] are going to vote for president. Joe Biden.

At a rally in New Hampshire this weekend, Joe doddered his way back to the imaginary Climate Change Crisis and a person in the audience began to ask, “If we don’t stop using fossil fuels–”

“We’re all dead!” the candidate interrupted (http://xf.timebomb2000.com/xf/index.php?threads/biden-says-were-all-dead-if-dont-stop-using-fossil-fuels.565944/).

Again I ask, do leftists actually believe the s*** they say, or do they only say it because they think you will believe it? I mean, name a Climate Change big shot who doesn’t have a mansion, another mansion on the beach somewhere, a limo, and a private jet.

Does Biden even know or understand that the electricity he uses cannot be produced without burning some kind of fossil fuel? Where’s he gonna get a solar-powered private jet? But don’t hold your breath expecting any of these Far Left titans to give up even the most casual of their luxuries. All that giving up stuff is to be done by you, the undefended public.

Joe also said he’d go after oil company executives: “Put them in jail,” he said. “I’m not joking about this.”

Job One for 2020 is to keep all Democrats from gaining any kind of public office. Which is the bigger threat–their lunacy or their hypocrisy? Doesn’t really matter, does it?

Will the American people vote to disable their economy, abridge their own freedoms, and subject themselves to being governed by persons who despise them?

Democrats, noozies, and globalists intend to make it happen.

By Request, ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’

In case you hadn’t noticed, our Second Annual Christmas Carol Contest is still running, and will run till Jan. 6, next Monday. So if you haven’t entered a carol yet–well, why not?

So we have this hymn request from SlimJim, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. I hope you like this performance by Amy Grant.

‘Christian vs. Almost Christian Fantasy’ (2015)

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Maybe this year I’ll find some really great, current, Christian fantasy to review.

Christian vs. Almost Christian Fantasy

I have to be careful about going into the theology shop, because I’m not a theologian, I might break something.

But a demon-hunting hit squad? If that seems a familiar motif, it’s from a book called Pax Demonica about “a demon-hunting soccer mom.” I know, I know–but really, it wasn’t as bad as it sounds. But the theology was way, way off.

Is it really necessary to warn anyone that learning Christian doctrine from paperback novels is probably not a good idea?

‘All Glory Be to Christ’

You didn’t think I’d let New Year’s Eve pass without posting this, did you? All Glory Be to Christ: words by Dustin Kensrue, performed by Kings Kaleidoscope, to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne.”

May the glory of our Lord cover the earth as the water covers the sea.

Cats and Feathered Friends

That last video was very short, so here’s another one. Stay with it, and you’ll see something surprising–a cockatiel protecting a cat who’s having a nap.

The birds in these videos show absolutely no fear of the cats, so they must know, maybe from experience, that the cats won’t hurt them. They could, but they don’t. I call that intelligent animals successfully adapting to life in an environment designed by and for humans.

Trust me, they’re a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

A Daffy Dog

This is still one of my all-time favorite animal videos, probably because I haven’t got the foggiest idea of what’s going on in that dog’s mind. The cat is puzzled, too.  Is there a sage, somewhere out there, who can explain it?