Month: June 2020

Quokka University: More Progress!

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G’day, Byron the Quokka here. And hooray, hooray for the month of June, Quokka U. will be open soon!

I can hardly believe our good fortune! Late yesterday we received a $12 (!) grant from one of our most beloved celebrities, the immortal Helen Schnitzelbonk of Pie-Eye Nebraska, USA–Helen Schnitzelbonk, who won the hearts of quokkas everywhere with her death-defying ascent–by pogo stick, mind you!–of Mt. Cornucopeia… while it was erupting. True, it was a rather small eruption; but Helen didn’t know that at the time.

Twelve dollars! Think what we can do with that. Of course, it’s twelve dollars in American money, I don’t know what that comes out to in real money, but it’s still more than we had in our whole treasury two days ago. My vote is, we buy a bicycle with it.

So now we are shooting for a September opening of our first semester and trying to beautify our campus here on Rottnest Island (kangaroos leave things lying around that no one should see). I think by then we’ll have two more woven grass dorms finished–and I hope we’ll have selected a mascot by then.

And for now, in the words of our university’s classic Latin motto, “Ipso loquitur mannimota!”

When Your Republic Fails

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This is what you get when your republic fails. Lunatics who think they’re gods, absolutely drunk with power and insatiable for more. Most of them go on to be mass murderers. Who’s to stop them?

This is John Hurt in his unforgettable role as Caligula, the crazy-as-a-bedbug Roman emperor who thought he was a god. From the BBC’s award-winning series, I, Claudius.

Again, learn it well: This is what you get when your republic fails.

Nostalgic for… the Old Cold War?

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This was one of the more indelible images from my childhood: Nikita Khrushchev, head honcho of the Soviet Union, banging his shoe on his desk at a United Nations meeting and saying things like “We will bury you” and “Your grandchildren will live under communism!” At that time we all understood that “communism” meant labor camps, the secret police breaking down your door in the middle of the night, “teachers” encouraging your kids to snitch on you–

Hey, wait a minute! Maybe old Nikita could foretell the future, after all.

But at least you knew exactly where he was coming from, and he wasn’t going to scare President Eisenhower–and besides, we all knew that Mrs. Khrushchev, Nina, would never let Nikita start World War III. However rambunctious her husband might get, Nina simply wasn’t going to let really bad things happen.

Nina Khrushchev – Yousuf Karsh

As I recall it, Nina Khrushchev was very popular with the American people. Surely Nikita got an earful for starting the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Oh, holy cow–am I waxing nostalgic for Nikita Khrushchev? I guess that’s a measure of how bad things are today.

The kingdoms of this world are the alternative to the Kingdom of Heaven: one damned crisis after another. See Matthew 24.

‘A Lesson in Wastefulness’ (2014)

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Purposely wasting food shows a lack of thankfulness to God. So it fits right in with the rot they teach in public schools.

A Lesson in Wastefulness

I pray that one of the results of the Chinese Communist Death Virus will be millions of new homeschooling families. Public “education” is run by Far Left crazies who teach your kids to be socialists and perverts. I know a lot of you don’t want to believe that, but it’s true.

By Request, ‘His Eye Is on the Sparrow’

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We have a hymn request from Susan–His Eye Is on the Sparrow, by Her Heart Sings/Sounds Like Reign. I somehow missed it in the email during the day.

Anyway, we do take hymn requests, the hymn shop’s open to everyone; so if you have a hymn you’d like to share, just leave a comment anywhere.

Cuddly Cats & Dogs

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Time for some cuddlies! (It’s OK for me to say that because I know judo.)

Domestication has done wonderful things with animals. Because cats and dogs and other critters are so intelligent, they can adapt to unusual circumstances–like living with people in a house–and learn whole repertoires of behavior that you’d never see in the wild.

I’m afraid you can’t say this for your pet newts; but they have other virtues.

We has Got To Sware!!

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The Invisible Butterfly

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Jambo! Mr. Nature here; and today our safari takes us to South and Central America in search of the invisible–well, almost invisible–glasswing butterfly. I’d never heard of them until today. But God’s Creation is so vast, no one will ever know the whole length and breadth of it.

These butterflies have transparent wings, which help them elude predators. Even the caterpillars are partially transparent. We do see color around the edges of the wings; but hey, if it didn’t work, the glasswings wouldn’t be here.

Transparency turns up in other animals, too. I used to go to our local pet store and watch in fascination the “glass catfish” swimming back and forth. Their skin and muscles are transparent and you can see their bones.

As Rev. D. James Kennedy used to say, “Ain’t chance grand?”

By Request, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’

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Phoebe requested this, and it’s much appreciated–Onward, Christian Soldiers, performed by the students at Fountainview Academy. Turn up the volume! The devil just positively hates this hymn! And so do all his little playmates here on earth.

I Have Bummed Myself Out

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They haven’t yet succeeded in corrupting the stars of heaven.

I should be writing nooze just now, but in scanning items to find some I ought to mention here, I succeeded only in flattening my own morale.

Is America really going to be taken over by the same socialist wackos who’ve turned our cities into manure heaps? Are the worst people in the country really going to get voted into power this November? Can it be that none of the bad guys who plotted to overthrow our president is going spend so much as five minutes in jail?

Are we going to wind up with beheadings in the streets?

We have prayed, and will pray, that God will intervene to spare us this: that He will tread down His enemies so that they can’t rise up again. We have prayed that He will equip us for service to Christ’s Kingdom.

But that is an awfully high mountain up in front of us, cloaked in black clouds.

If we believed the nooze, we’d think we were licked already.

But never, never, never, never give in. Never.