Year: 2020

‘Unclean! Unclean!’

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Medieval lepers–‘Unclean, unclean!’

I went out to the sidewalk this morning to bring in my garbage cans, and encountered one of my neighbors standing nearby, face mask and all. When she saw me coming, she took a rather dramatic detour onto the lawn. I like this person and wished her a happy New Year anyway, but I can’t say I enjoyed being shunned as a leper.

Is this going to go on indefinitely? Is it going to get worse? When do we get to see each other’s faces again?

King COVID, which has a mortality rate of less than 1 percent except for certain particularly vulnerable groups of people, is warping our society. Democrats intend for it to do just that–because it’s so much easier to rule people when you keep them too scared to get together.

Meanwhile, suddenly people seem to have stopped dying of the flu. But we know that some of our “authorities” habitually ascribe all deaths to COVID. Rope breaks and window washer falls 20 stories to his death–and they say COVID killed him. You know the drill.

It’s not good for us to shun each other.

And what kind of fool doesn’t know that?

Clashing Contests–and Bigger, Better Prizes

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Somebody–I think it was either Clyde Beatty or Amenhotep II–once said you ruin contests if you have too many of them. But sometimes it can’t be helped. Our Second Annual Christmas Carol Contest is down to its last few drops, and there really ought to be a contest–about now!–to commemorate Comment No. 70,000 posted on this site.

Byron the Quokka has pressured me to offer bigger and better prizes. Well, all right. How about this for a prize–?

USS New Jersey (BB-62) - Wikipedia

The Battleship New Jersey!

After all, the Navy isn’t using it anymore, they’ve turned it into a museum and surely wouldn’t notice if you or some other reader won it in a contest. I mean, who wants an autographed book by me, when they could have a genuine battleship instead?

And if that isn’t enough to jazz up a comment contest, here’s a prize that should really pack ’em in!

Slovenia Map and Satellite Image

The country of Slovenia!

Nestled in between Italy and Croatia, with Austria and Hungary peering over its shoulders, Slovenia makes an ideal vacation destination. And it can be yours! All you have to do is post the 70 thousandth comment to this blog. P.S.–If you win, they’d rather you didn’t change the country’s name or try to move it to a location closer to home.

Well! I guess I’ve shown Byron who can think big around here! He wants to give out a bicycle for a prize. Well, Slovenia is full of bicycles!

Let the contest begin: we need just under 2,000 comments to finish.

Cuomo: Drug Addicts a ‘Priority’ for Vaccine

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Caligula of Albany | Farming Pathogens

He’d’ve made a great silent movie villain.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo–who caused thousands of nursing home patients to die when he insisted on housing COVID-19 patients in the nursing homes–has come out with another idea guaranteed to raise a stink.

The governor, who once said “America was never that great,” wants to give the COVID vaccine to drug addicts ahead of home-bound senior citizens, some of whom have been cooped up for the better part of a year (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stefanik-calls-cuomo-absolute-disgrace-for-prioritizing-drug-addicts-for-coronavirus-vaccine).

In fairness to Cuomo, who is never fair, he was talking about drug addicts undergoing treatment for their addiction at treatment centers which tend to be crowded, increasing the risk of a COVID outbreak. We would like to think Cuomo is being compassionate. We would also like to think that beer reverses aging.

New York is expecting to receive 260,000 doses of the new vaccines and has to decide who gets it first. It seems recovering drug addicts are high on the list.

We can hardly wait until Cuomo jumps convicted felons ahead of the elderly. You know he’s going to do it. Showing favor to criminals is deeply ingrained in Democrat DNA.

‘The Anti-Bible Magic Trick’ (2016)

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We’ve all run into this exercise in double-think: A. There is no God; and B. I hate Him.

‘The Anti-Bible Magic Trick’ (2015)

Or its corollary: A. The Bible is totally fiction and nothing in it ever really happened. B. I hate God for wiping out the Canaanites!

Of course the purpose of all this posturing is to gain control over other people’s lives. Leftists want to be as gods.

And they demand a lot more from us than the real God ever does.

By Request, ‘The Coventry Carol’

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As the carol contest winds down–where is everybody this morning?–we still have plenty of carols to play for you.

Requested by “Thewhiterabbit”: The Coventry Carol comes down to us from 16th-century England. Sung by the Columbine Chorale, this original melody was first published in 1591, although it does go back some years farther than that. The lyrics are in the form of a lullaby for the children who would be killed by Herod in Matthew Chapter 2.

Birds & Babes

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How do these birds know not to take a chunk out of a baby? And how do the babies know not to squeeze or swat at the bird? There seems to be some kind of understanding here… which I don’t understand.

Death Ground

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Zulu (1964) | film freedonia

For those feeling hopeless and defeated after seeing Democrats steal this year’s presidential election–hey, it could be worse.

In 1879 some 150 British and colonial troops stationed at Rorke’s Drift, where they were expected to be out of harm’s way, were attacked by at least 3,000 (and possibly as many as 4,000) Zulu warriors. What could be more hopeless than that? What could they do?

The ancient Chinese sage Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, said it best:

“On death ground… fight.”

So that’s what they did, all afternoon, all night. And the next day, what was left of the Zulu host retreated, their purpose unachieved. The handful of men at Rorke’s Drift had lived through an inescapable danger. By not giving up. It was simple: there was nothing for them to do but fight. As hard as they could, for as long as they could. And most of them survived it.

The battle of Rorke’s Drift was the subject of a 1964 movie, Zulu, featuring Michael Caine’s film debut. Most war movies exaggerate the history, but Zulu understates it–because the true story of the fight was just too hard to believe. Caine’s character, for instance, Lt. Gonville Bromhead, was actually stone deaf: he’d been placed at Rorke’s Drift to keep him out of the way. His disability didn’t stop him from winning a Victoria Cross for his role in the battle.

As daunting, even terrifying, as our country’s current crisis is, people throughout history have been through worse. Sometimes they even triumph against impossible odds.

But they don’t do it by losing heart and giving up.

More Evidence of Election Fraud

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A committee of 17 Pennsylvania legislators, chaired by a certified public accountant, has found some 200,000 more “votes counted” than votes actually cast–and all 200,000 of those phony votes went to China Joe Biden (https://wjactv.com/news/local/pa-republican-lawmakers-analysis-finds-presidential-election-numbers-dont-add-up).

There were 6.9 million “votes counted”–out of only 6.7 million actual votes cast. The legislators said they couldn’t understand how the governor and secretary of state could “possibly” have certified the election results.

And so the evidence of fraud in our presidential election of 2020 continues to mount, and it’s already as high as the sky.

And we’re supposed to accept it? That’s the way the cookie crumbles?

God forbid.

President Donald Trump was re-elected by 75 million votes. The 80 million Biden votes was nothing but a lie.

Our republic has been stolen out from under us.

His Rats Can Play Monopoly!

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There’s a man in Xi Jin Ping City, California, who has taught his two pet rats to play Monopoly. They learned while they were waiting to vote for Joe Biden in our national election.

“Ozzie and Bozzie have gotten pretty good at this game,” says their owner, Charlie Honesty. “They can beat me almost half the time. But Bozzie has a thing about developing his property too fast, and Ozzie takes the Railroads a bit too seriously. A really smart player can skin them all the time.”

Mr. Honesty grew up on the same Indian reservation as Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “I learned a lot from her,” he recalls. “Her name was Loose Papoose back then. No one ever admitted to being her mother.”

Mr. Honesty has a goldfish who wants to go to Washington and help pass the Green New Deal. “It’s just a matter of getting her elected,” he says. “I know a lot of fictitious people who say they’d vote for her. A lot of illegal aliens, too. We all love to see a goldfish helping to shape public policy.”

His proudest moment came several weeks ago, when a lifelike cardboard facsimile of Gov. Gavin Newsom was left at his front door. Blushing shyly, he now admits, “I had him in my living room for three days before I realized that he wasn’t real! But it’s the thought that counts.”

Here the AP News story ends abruptly.

Surrender Monkeys

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Opinion | The Coronavirus Bailout Stalled. And It's Mitch McConnell's Fault. - The New York Times

Every day we get several dozen emails from Mitch McConnell and other grubs asking us to pour more of our own money into the Georgia U.S. Senate race.

This comes after McConnell and the rest of his gang have abandoned President Trump and endorsed China Joe Biden as his replacement, courtesy of a massively fraudulent election. Like, we can accept some election fraud, can’t we? Joe’s not so bad, even if he’s as crooked as a corkscrew and borderline gaga. How many times has McConnell had lunch with Biden over the years, and they both got up from the table laughing? At us, most likely.

We agree that if the Republicans can keep control of the Senate, much of what the Democrats have threatened to do to us becomes mostly idle chit-chat. Can’t raise taxes without the Senate. Can’t confirm judges without the Senate. So, yeah, we want the Senate saying “No!” to everything Biden might propose.

But you slimeballs shouldn’t have betrayed our president. We will hold you to account for that.

Our country needs to be rescued out of the hands of a corrupt, globalist ruling class. McConnell and Biden both belong to that class.

There are 75 million of us who voted to keep Donald Trump in the White House. That has to count for something. They can’t just laugh us off, can they?

There has to be a way for 75 million people to keep their country from being stolen out from under them.