This old Burgundian carol, Pat-a-Pan, is one of my favorites; and I especially like this unusual performance of it by the Zamar Student Choir at Harrisburg Baptist Church in the Northern Mississippi Choir Festival.
Did I mention that you can enter the Christmas Carol Contest as often as you like? It sort of dried up yesterday. I’ll have to have a word with Byron.
If you can get past the little baby hiding from the dog by wearing someone’s shirt over his head while he crawls around and giggles, you’ll find some more cute clips waiting for you. Hey, what is it about dogs that makes human babies laugh so hard? If babies could only tell us what they’re thinking–!
Here’s my review of David Horowitz’s grim little book.
Our greatest weakness in this cultural and political war is complacency. We have lives to live, work to do, families to raise, and we go about our business while Far Left Crazy eats away the foundations of our country. No one knows this better than David Horowitz. His book is both an analysis and a warning. We really ought to heed it.
Leftists are dead serious about turning America into something we would never recognize as America. It’s not something we can safely ignore. We see it every day in the news. And they’re not going to stop. They have to be defeated. Mr. Horowitz doesn’t tell us how to do that. It’s something we’ll have to discover for ourselves.
I’m convinced we have to start by breaking down a massive public education establishment whose chief purpose seems to be to crank out more leftists and dumb down everyone they can’t use to make a revolution. We should have started sooner.
Let’s not leave it until it’s too late.
This is the antidote to all the poison we have to swallow as news. This is the light the darkness can’t put out. This is our defender and our King. This is Jesus Christ.
Requested by Jeremy, Angels from the Realms of Glory–performed with gusto galore by The Piano Guys and the Tabernacle Choir.
Beware the eye behind the eye!
When they’re not busy trying to overturn the 2016 election, the FBI occasionally likes to try its hand at protecting us from other criminals.
So the FBI is warning consumers that the shiny new “smart TV” they buy will very likely wind up spying on them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF5heG1pi90). Well, we’ve told you to steer clear of anything that’s pitched to you as “smart,” haven’t we?
According to the FBI, TV manufacturers and app developers can use built-in cameras to spy on consumers. Why would they want to do that? Probably so they can sell information about you to advertisers. Hackers can also get into the system and use your TV to spy on you. And they’ll do worse than sell you to advertisers.
Says the FBI,. “At the low end of the risk spectrum, they can change channels, play with the volume, and show your kids inappropriate videos. In a worst-case scenario, they can turn on your bedroom’s TV camera and microphone and silently cyberstalk you.”
Among suggested means of protecting yourself is to stick a piece of black tape over the camera eye. I do like those low-tech solutions to hi-tech problems.
Ultimately, just because it’s the kind of thing that always happens, this technology will be used by power-hungry sharks in government to find out whether you’ve been naughty or nice. It’ll be very helpful to them in carrying out a “fundamental transformation” of America.
A small price to pay for Entertainment, though…
The lesson we should be learning from this is that The Swamp is everywhere.
(http://newswithviews.com/how-chick-fil-a-went-sour/)
The action we should be taking is to stop the creation of Swamp creatures by defunding the colleges and getting government–and teachers’ unions!–out of education altogether.
Because The Swamp is wrecking our country.
Don’t you just love it when liberals who don’t believe a single word of the Bible is true, try to win an argument by citing the Bible as their authority?
They tell us that there is no God, and mock us and despise us for believing in Him, and at the same time tell us we should do what they say that God says–which they have, as is their invariable custom, snapped as the twig of a single verse off the tree of meaning.
We have permitted much harm to be done to our culture by listening to them.
Nat King Cole, a national treasure, sings Away in a Manger. This is what I call the American melody that goes with the hymn.
This was the first Christmas hymn I ever learned. When I hear it, I think of the “primary” class at Sunday school–nowadays it would be called “day care”–and this little book they gave us, one Christmas. On the front cover was a picture of the Holy Family in the manger: and how well I remember the sweet smile on the baby’s face!
I will never forget it.
The dumbest thing cats do–otherwise intelligent animals–is to get themselves stuck in plastic bags. I’ll never forget the night my poor Missy got herself involved with a plastic bag. I had a hard time catching her to take it off. She really was terrified; but some of the cats in these videos seem more like they’re playing.
Cats get stuck in plastic bags, and humans take out student loans.
It’s so hard to learn from morons!
Motivated by a weird belief that everybody–everybody!–ought to go to college, America’s colleges and universities continue to dumb down the curriculum.
Like, dropping math requirements, says a honcho at Michigan State, will result in “more successful graduation outcomes” (https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/03/detroit-valedictorian-math-msu/). The kids won’t learn anything, but the colleges will look better.
The Daily Caller has reported on the plight of a high school valedictorian from Detroit now “struggling with low-level math” at Michigan State. In high school she got all A’s. Now she’s up against it, academically.
Meanwhile, the California State University system may do away with the SAT and ACT tests as admissions requirements–because those tests, they say, promote “inequity in student populations.” Honk if you can figure out what that means.
Michigan State dropped algebra in 2016, while Wayne State went them one better by dropping general math altogether.
And another wizard of education has proclaimed that requiring right answers, and expecting students to do their assigned homework, is–you guessed it!–“prejudiced.”
But look, there’s a very simple solution to this problem.
Let every high school student who wants to go to college send his chosen college a check for the tuition. When the check clears, the student is automatically accepted; and when the next mail comes, voila!–a college degree. This will save an immense amount of time and space, not to mention the frustration of flunking out.
Of course you’ll still be able to go to a university, if you’ve been looking forward to parties, game day, sex with people you hardly know, etc. To accommodate these students, it will probably be necessary to drop all academic requirements, the whole batch of ’em, just collect tuition and fees for four or five years, and then hand out the diplomas: everybody gets one, so that’ll be that for “inequity.” With a graduation rate of 100%, college administrators can hold up their heads in pride.
That’s where we’re obviously headed, whether the colleges adopt this plan or not. The only question is how long it will take to get there.