Requested by Erlene, this is an old one, written by Martin Luther in 1534. The melody came in 1539: Luther is believed to have composed that, too.
Sung by the Lutheran Quartet, From Heaven Above to Earth I Come. Unexpectedly beautiful.
Year: 2020
The Transgender Industry
These went extinct because they couldn’t help it. What’s our excuse?
Why are so many evil people in this evil age pushing “transgender” as if their lives depended on it? After all (it should hardly be necessary to say this), if everyone went transgender, the entire human species would go extinct.
The depth of this perverse movement has not yet been measured, but there is one aspect of it that’s at least visible: There is now a “transgender industry” consisting of thousands of people making a living off this bizarre cultural movement.
They’ve been helped by so-called medical societies that have been fronting for “transgender,” such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/31/medical-societies-provide-cover-for-transgender-industrys-propaganda/). Years ago, the AAP got away with supporting “gay” adoptions. And the Endocrine Society has a vested interest in puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.
The AAP, with some 65,000 members, sounds like it represents all the pediatricians in America. For one thing, it doesn’t. For another, AAP policy is decided by a voting board of a dozen “directors,” with no input from the general membership. The dozen policy-makers have been allied with Organized Sodomy for around 20 years.
And then there are the uncounted counselors, diversity directors, public school teachers, publishers, noozies, and academics feeding at the transgender trough. The speed with which this industry has sprung up is alarming. It certainly goes to show we have to be quicker off the mark in defending our culture. In no time at all, the satanic enterprise that is the Left can invent a new “lifestyle” and set up a powerful establishment to defend it and promote it… while normal people are still trying to find words for it, still trying to believe their eyes.
God’s judgment on this age will be severe.
My Newswithviews Column, Jan. 2 (‘Teacher Unions vs. Teachers’)
You would think teacher unions would defend classroom teachers against legislative measures that would make their jobs impossible. But you’d be wrong.
That’s because Job One for the teacher unions is to crank out a whole generation of ignorant leftists. There is no Job Two.
The continued viability of the Democrat Party depends on “public education.”
Kill off public education, and the Far Left Crazy dies.
‘The Lost River of Eden’ (2015)
The Bible preserves knowledge of ancient things that would otherwise be lost–such as this ancient river that once flowed across Arabia, but whose course can now be detected only by satellite photography.
At the very latest, scientists say, this river stopped flowing around 2,000 B.C.–if not much sooner. Yet there it is in the Book of Genesis.
Maybe the Bible scribes had satellite photos of it?
‘Gloria in Excelsis Deo’
Well, no one has requested a hymn for today, so I had to go out and find one.
This is Gloria in Excelsis Deo, by the students at Fountainview Academy–and what do you think of that snowscape?
One Bag, Two Cats
People think it’s so easy to find a serviceable cat video! It’s not. We don’t want situations which some human obviously set up just so he could be on Youtube. When it comes to cat videos, humans should neither be seen nor heard. You don’t see a cat horning in on the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. Although that might improve it.
Anyway, here are two cats and only one can fit inside the paper bag. Sounds like the plot of a not very successful movie. Probably with Kevin Costner. Enjoy.
Happy New Year “2020”
A New Year’s message from Dawn’s blog, Drawing Closer to Christ. We are not alone!
Our New Year’s Day
Well, here we are again, first day of another year. We’ve got rack of lamb for dinner; and, as is our custom, we’ll watch The Time Machine this afternoon, the 1960 movie starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux.
Don’t get me wrong: the theology of this movie is totally off-base. A 19th-century inventor creates a time machine and travels some 800,000 years into the future. There he finds the human race split into two separate but unequal offshoots. The hideous Morlocks provide the childlike Eloi with everything they need–can you say “Universal Basic Income”?–and then… eat them. Both races have been debased by the evil system they’ve devised. Sound familiar?
The thing that makes this movie work is the fantastic sets, and special effects, by George Pal, altogether believable. You have to take the story with a boxcar-load of grains of salt, but the sets are awesome. I used to dream of finding Morlock-holes in Edgar woods. I’m rather glad I didn’t.
Anyway, this is one of those movies that totally succeeds in providing 90 minutes’ worth of pure escape.
Just don’t take it seriously. The only thing serious about it is its errors. But we’re hip to those, so we enjoy it.
Warning: Breakers Ahead
Democrats want their socialist, globalist, climate cult dictatorship and will do almost anything to get it: so 2020 is going to be a brutal year and we’d better be ready for it.
As we have abundantly and distressingly learned since 2016, there really is a Deep State, it does not believe that the American people ought to be allowed to choose the president, its interests diverge from the general good and guess which one they favor, and the only dirty trick they didn’t try in that election was assassination itself.
They manufactured phony “evidence,” paid for by the Clinton campaign, they used it to deceive a court and obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, bragged about a “coup” they intended to stage, harnessed the power of a monolithic and totally political nooze media, and have spent every day since Election Day of 2016 trying to overturn the results of that election. They haven’t stopped yet. They haven’t even paused.
They will destroy our republic, if that’s the only path they see to power. They don’t much like living in a republic anyway, unless it’s a soviet socialist republic.
It used to be just flashy rhetoric to liken Democrats to communists.
It isn’t anymore.
The Lord Our God defend us.
Now They Want to Abolish the Police
Who needs police? We’ve got street gangs!
Again I ask: Do leftists actually believe the crazy s*** they say, or do they only say it because they think you’ll believe it?
The latest left-wing lunacy, now picking up steam in academic journals and among “progressive” politicians in cities ruled by Democrats, is the cry to abolish police (https://www.city-journal.org/abolish-police-call-to-action). Yup–get rid of all the cops. This is especially popular with nut-job politicians in Seattle–called “Free-attle” by criminals, because it’s such easy pickings there–and the killing fields of Chicago. I wonder how long it would take to depopulate Chicago, once you remove the police.
We have to do this, these geniuses say, because having police is sorta kinda like having slavery.
Besides, they say, we don’t need cops! According to some head case at The Nation, simply replace your police forces with “full social, economic, and political equality.” Damn, why didn’t I think of that? All ya gotta do is abolish poverty, sez The Nation, and people will just stop doing bad things. We all know rich people never do bad things.
What makes these wackos think they can get people to believe them? Do they have that much faith in colleges and public schools?
And once again we see the racism of the Left: “minorities” are totally incapable of behaving like civilized human beings, so they shouldn’t be expected to.
The Left needs to be utterly defeated in this year’s elections. We are in the most grave danger if they aren’t.