Erlene requested this one, A Moment of Time, by Carroll Roberson. And if anybody out there wants any more hymns today, well, here we are.
I need to break away from the nooze for a few moments. I think I need to pray.
Year: 2019
‘Black Press Only’
Imagine a public meeting to discuss the upcoming mayoral election in a major city–a meeting open to “white press only,” white as in caucasian, no blacks allowed.
Can you even imagine the growling and howling and gnashing of teeth? Oh, man! End o’ the world!
But this is exactly what they did, a few days ago, in Savannah, Georgia (https://www.onlineathens.com/nationworld/20190328/only-black-reporters-allowed-in-georgia-mayoral-race-event). The sign on the door said “Black press only,” and no white reporters were allowed inside to cover the meeting.
The current mayor and several other city officials attended this blacks-only-all-other-races-keep-out-this-means-you event. Hmm… If a white mayor attended a whites-only event, think the whole nooze media would be after his scalp? There’d be leftids rolling on the sidewalk, screaming.
Go ahead–explain why these jerks in Savannah aren’t racists. I triple-dog dare you.
‘Some Books for You to Avoid’ (2015)
These books were simply awful in 2015, and they haven’t gotten any better since.
A man named Theo Dropsy, out in Bad Axe, Michigan, actually broke both his legs, trying to read all the books on this list. And it is said in central Turkmenistan that these books have the power to shrivel crops in the ground.
But if you insist on reading any of them, on your head be it.
‘Shall We Gather at the River?’
In the absence of any hymn requests from readers, I’m forced to fall back on my favorites–like Shall We Gather At the River?, performed by Nathan and Lyle, with family and friends, in Denton County, Texas.
You’re never too young and never too old to come before the Lord with song.
Snuggling Dog and Bunny
I’m sure I’ve heard it said somewhere that dogs eat rabbits and rabbits run away from dogs. But I don’t think these two have heard it. All right, it’s obvious the poor dog wants to take a nap, he doesn’t feel like chasing anything. But does he have to let the bunny snuggle him all over? You’d think the bunny loves the dog. And maybe he does.
‘Public Schools’ “Social Justice Education” Cloaks Marxist Teaching’
It’s not just a scary movie
Chalcedon’s editors re-ran this article today: “Although written 12 years ago, this piece by Lee Duigon lays out what has been in progress for a long time.”
Far Left Crazy has had twelve years, since I wrote this, to continue their work of turning America’s public schools into left-wing indoctrination mills, complete with “teachers’ collectives,” ideologically-saturated lesson plans, and “social justice academies” within the schools. And students at more than a few teachers’ colleges have to prove they’re on board the socialist express if they want to get certified.
Our whole country should be certified, for putting up with this. And paying for it!
I hardly dare speculate as to how far this folly was advanced during the eight years Obama & Co. owned the government.
Nothing has done our country more harm than its public education system.
Get your kids out now.
Coming Soon: Head Transplants?
How many times have you heard someone complain, “I’ve got no head for business”? Ah! But what if that person could have a great CEO’s head transplanted onto his body? Problem solved!
Somewhere in the wilds of Manchuria, a headline-happy Italian surgeon and his Chinese colleagues are working to develop new surgical procedures which could, they say, make human head transplants possible (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/03/27/italian-chinese-surgeons-cite-spinal-cord-repair-head-transplant-canavero-xiaoping/3287179002/).
In fairness, what they say they’re working on–note I did not say “actually working on”–is repairing broken or damaged spinal cords, something which medical science has not yet been able to achieve. To be able to repair spinal cord injuries would be truly wonderful, worthy of high praise.
Head transplants, not so much.
In The Master Mind of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote of a brilliant Martian scientist who transplanted the brains of rich, powerful people who were getting old into the bodies of young, healthy, good-looking people. This was routinely abused and John Carter had to make him stop.
Imagine! By the miracle of head transplant surgery, you could have Nancy Pelosi running the House of Representatives for the next 300 years. Just keep transplanting her head on young bodies. Supermodel bodies, if you like. Break out the bikini. [Oops–did I forget to hand out barf bags before I wrote that? Sorry!]
Oh, well–who knows what goes on in China? As Plato once said, when he’d heard stories of the kraken, “Perhaps the stories are not true.”
When They Break Down Your Door in the Middle of the Night
“Hi! We’re from the government, and we’re here to help you!”
Once upon a time, things like this didn’t happen in America.
A family in Chandler, Arizona, was in bed, sleeping, when shortly after 1 a.m., police broke down their door, yelled and pointed guns at them, and took away the children (https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/27/sick-2-year-old-swat-team-dcs-parents). The state government’s Dept. of Child Safety (!?!) still has custody of the three children, in separate foster homes, and the family will not be allowed to come back together until some judge is in a good mood.
What was the crime that elicited this–shall we say “vigorous”?–response from Herod’s men?
The toddler had a fever. The mother took him to the doctor. While they were waiting to see the doctor, the fever broke, the child’s temperature went down, and he felt well enough to laugh and play.
Take him to the hospital anyhow, the doctor said: he ain’t been vaccinated against meningitis. Finally, to placate the doctor, the mother said yeah, sure; and took her child home. But the doctor called the hospital to tell them his patients were on their way, and when they didn’t show up, the hospital called the doctor and he called Big Brother.
They broke down the door in the middle of the night. Somehow the song “Back in the USSR” comes to mind.
Is this what people become cops for? So they can terrorize sleeping children?
The state even asked the judge to bar the press from reporting on the case–might stir up the peasants, don’t you know.
I mean, really, what is this–England?
‘A Nation of Suckers’ (2016)
When I wrote this a few years ago, I had not yet observed that the Pew Poll is all over the map when it comes to religious issues. So of course it sounded really bad: “49% of people who have left the church no longer believe in God or miracles.”
Which is another way of saying 51% still do.
But God is not running for office. He is still God whether we believe in him or not.
And believing in “science,” or government, or the innate goodness of human beings–well, heck, I’ve got a really nice bridge to sell you…
My Newswithviews Column, March 28 (‘Freedom–An Endangered Species’)
It’s so much more scientific to control people rather than letting them run free. C’mon–free-range human beings? Can’t be allowed!
For sure, Britain is farther down this road than we are. But Democrats drool with envy when they see some of the speech-restricting laws that Britain’s got. Oh! Wouldn’t it be just so gratifying, to force people to say things they know are total lies, and throw them into prison if they won’t!
Why do police enforce those laws? Beats me. You’d think they’d be ashamed.