Month: December 2019

Memory Lane: the Sears Christmas Catalogue

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Another dreary, grey, rainy day–and me without a Sears catalogue.

One of my coziest childhood memories is cuddling up on the sitting room couch with the Sears Christmas catalogue: and there’s no school, because it’s snowing like mad outside.

I felt like Howard Carter peering into Tutankhamen’s tomb, who answered, when asked what he could see, “Things! Wonderful things!” Bikes and pogo sticks. Toy guns and real guns (not much chance of me getting one of those!). Erector sets and plastic models.

But for me the ultimate treasure was the play sets. Like this farm set.

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I wasn’t much for army men, but oh!–all those cool animals in the farm set. And my Grammy gave it to me for Christmas that year. I still have some of those animals. When I see them, I remember her. And her Christmas tree, every year in the same corner of her living room. I still have a few of her ornaments, too, including the elf who winds up on our tree every year.

Yeah, I know it doesn’t count as holy–unless family, and love, and delight are holy, too. Gifts of God, who is the source of every good gift we’ll ever know.

P.S.–And get a load of those prices! The whole 100-piece farm set for $4.99. I can’t imagine what a toy like that would cost today.

By Request, ‘Wise Men Follow Him’

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Requested by Erlene, Wise Men Follow Him, by Carroll Roberson. We seem to be on the subject of the Wise Men today. Well, why not? But Matthew does say they found the baby Jesus and His family in “the house”–they weren’t in the manger anymore, by then.

Byron says… Image result for images of quokka

We have a new leader in our Christmas carol contest–40 views! That’ll be tough to beat, but we’re here to let you try.

Preventive Impeachment?

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“When shall we three meet again?” (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1)

We now have the House Judiciary Committee Report on why President Donald Trump just has to be impeached. The purpose of this move, says the report, is “not to inflict punishment for past wrongdoing–” eh?–“but rather to save the Nation from misconduct that endangers democracy–” what?–“and the rule of law” (https://townhall.com/columnists/jennaellis/2019/12/09/house-judiciary-report-bombshell-dems-trying-to-change-the-constitution-n2557690). LOL for that last bit.

To translate Dem-speak into plain English: they can’t “inflict punishment for past wrongdoing,” because there’s no past wrongdoing to punish; so what they’re gonna do is inflict punishment for any wrongdoing that the president might do, sometime in the future.

Is it necessary to point out that our system of governing ourselves is not “democracy,” but a republic? The terms are not interchangeable! To speak of the United States as a “democracy” has only two purposes: to bamboozle a poorly-educated audience, or to display the speaker’s own ignorance. Or both.

The formal Articles of Impeachment, proposed by rabidly partisan Democrats, are: 1) “obstruction of Congress” (breaking a law that does not exist) and 2) “abuse of power,” which, in a Republican president, can mean something as simple as being elected in the first place.

And after calling us every low-down name in the book–racists, haters, biggits, stupid hicks, deplorables, xenophobes, etc.–Democrats expect us to rally ’round their flag and overthrow the president that we elected to pull the Deep State monkey off our backs. “Oh, we see the light now! We are so happy that every schmendrick that we send to Capitol Hill comes home a millionaire! We are so happy that Bernie Sanders owns four houses! And that Joe Biden’s son was earning more than $50,000 a month for a no-show job in a foreign country! No more Trump! We can’t wait to get back to business as usual! That’s going to be just so great when you repeal our tax cuts and shower the money on illegal aliens! What a pity that we have to wait for it!”

The day the Democrat Party is put out of business forever, the very sidewalks of America will break out in rejoicing.

My Favorite ‘We Three Kings’

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All right, Joshua, you talked me into it… This is my favorite rendition of We Three Kings, sung with gusto by actors Hugh Jackman, David Hobson, and Peter Cousen. I think this was originally part of an Australian TV Christmas special. My eyes tear up when I hear it–but those are tears of joy. What hath God wrought!

‘My Spam’ (2012)

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Back when I knew even less about blogging than I do today, WordPress had to work overtime to protect me from being inundated by “spam.” Really, look at all the parasites who’ll use your space for free advertising, if they can.

My Spam

Even so, there is one cryptic message, received seven years ago, that still puzzles me. A short and simple message: “I think I’m pregnant.”

Why tell me?

By Request, ‘We Three Kings’

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Requested by Joshua, We Three Kings, sung by Ernie Haase and Signature Sound. I have a favorite version of this carol, but I’ll wait a bit to see if someone else asks for it.

Keep those carols coming! This world needs Christmas!

Snow Cats

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Our cat Henry used to blame me if it snowed. He didn’t like to get his paws wet or cold. He’d give me a really dirty look if it happened.

But not the cats in these videos! They’re having a blast.

It is said that President Grant had cats that used to make snowmen. Said by whom, I don’t recall.

Texas ‘Gender Case’: Developing

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Father and son–but for how long?

This is getting complicated, and increasingly difficult to understand.

The Texas judge who presided over a case in October that supposedly gave a 7-year-old boy’s stepmother the green light to have the boy “transitioned” into a fake “girl”–by means of drugs, hormones, and eventual surgical mutilation, and with the boy’s father ordered to go along with this and “affirm” it, or else–well, that judge, Kim Cooks, has been ordered to recuse herself from further hearings (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-judge-who-ruled-on-7-yr-olds-gender-transition-taken-off-case).

Last month Judge Cooks turned around and awarded the father “joint managing conservatorship” with equal decision-making authority. The stepmother requested the recusal after seeing some of Judge Cooks’ Facebook posts. We have not seen them. Both parents are under a gag order, so that makes it rather hard to see what’s going on here.

A new judge will preside over subsequent hearings.

It seemed to be a done deal until the governor and state attorney general of Texas stepped in to block it.

The “mother” in the case is actually the stepmother, no blood relation to the boy and his twin brother. Shades of the Brothers Grimm. But they never thought of anything quite so monstrous as this.

We pray that the state of Texas will not allow this profoundly evil travesty to be carried out.

By Request, ‘Joy to the World’

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Requested by Lydia, Joy to the World–sung by a children’s choir somewhere: I don’t know who they are, but they make a lovely sound.

Thing is, we need these carols, and we need Christmas! May God the Father bless this Christmas season of 2019, and give it power to work in every day of 2020.

Good News from Brazil!

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Three cheers for the president of Brazil!

(Thanks to Susan for the news tip)

We don’t have to be governed by the Far Left Crazy. Our schools don’t have to be devoted to preaching transgenderism. And we don’t have to pour tanker-loads of public money into our so-called universities.

Jairo Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, is blazing a trail out of this “education” wilderness, and he deserves a standing ovation for it (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/brazils-new-president-to-eliminate-transgender-pro-gay-ideology-from-school). The news link is from February, so somehow our own free and independent press didn’t pick up on it.

Bolsonaro ran in 2018 on a promise to reform, big-time, Brazil’s public education system–to clear out all “that Marxist rubbish,” he said, and “go into the Ministry of Education with a flamethrower.” His Ministry of Education has eliminated its “Diversity Department”–don’t even ask what that was–and his Minister of Education has vowed to fight the “crazy globalist wave.”

Since then, President Bolsonaro has also launched a program to privatize Brazil’s universities and get government out of education altogether–while fighting “LGBT collusion with state-sponsored education.” Gee, does that sound familiar?

During the 1990s Brazil’s whole education system was dominated by a communist kook and globalist darling who promoted “critical pedagogy”–a euphemism for day-in, day-out left-wing indoctrination of students at every level, every grade. President Bolsonaro was elected to put a stop to this.

As might be expected, he and his policies all year long have been the target of daily protests and tantrums by the usual suspects, “students” and “teachers.” He is not listening to them.

Thank you, President Bolsonaro, for showing the whole world how it’s done!