Ah, here it is! The real Oy, Rodney cover. It somehow slipped behind Ms. Crepuscular’s lizard cage that has no lizards in it.
But for the time being, Masonori Murakami can stay where he is.
Year: 2020
‘The Son of God Goes Forth to War’
In case anyone out there is wondering where we’re coming from…
We proclaim the lordship and crown rights of Jesus Christ the Son of God, our Savior and our King, who alone has the right to rule His Father’s creation. All who rule, but not under God, are nothing but usurpers. The Lord has only set them up, for a little while, to cast them down.
We proclaim Christ’s Kingdom now and forever, world without end, Amen.
Norbert Conquers the Wrapping Paper
Not to go overboard with Norbert; but a great big killer bird tells me a lot of us need cheering up, and I know I do, so here it is–Norbert’s showdown, Norbert’s steel cage match, Norbert’s mano-a-mano with leftover wrapping paper. Three pounds of fuzzy fury. Konjadinga!
Losing Heart
I’ve been hearing from people, privately, who are too distraught to comment here, in public.
Their burden is: we’re licked, our country is over, our republic is lost, they stole the election and now they’ll do anything and everything they please to turn America into a third-world basket case.
But we do have public comments to that effect, too.
So what’s the story? Is America really over? We are asked to believe that 80 million of us voted to put a corrupt, senile old monkey in the White House. Who believes that? We’re asked to believe that 80 million of us voted to endorse riots, flood the country with illegal aliens, raise taxes, arm Iran with nuclear weapons, stage a perpetual face mask jihad, and take our marching orders from the Chinese Communist Party. Who believes that?
And the persons to whom we would normally turn for succor, the institutions in which we have for so long put our trust, they stop their ears against us and blindfold themselves against the mountains-high collection of evidence proving that the election was a fraud. The Supreme Court doesn’t want to hear it. The three, uh, “justices” we fought for, they are deaf to us. They don’t want to overturn a fraudulent election because “then there’ll be riots.” The hand that rocks the riot rules the world.
What are we supposed to do? “Oh, well, that’s that, that’s how things are, freedom was nice while it lasted, poverty and intimidation, that’s the new normal, just grin and bear it…”
Is this the same nation that wouldn’t let King George have a stamp tax?
The Democrat Party who did this to us, who perverted our election, is an enemy blinded by hubris. At the moment what they have going for them is shock and awe: no crime like this has ever been committed against us before.
We have to shake off all that shock and awe. Imagine you’re giving a house party and some guest, without warning, suddenly shouts a curse at the top of his lungs and smashes your lamp to the floor. For some moments everybody’s going to stand there staring at him. But eventually the people will rally and either chuck him out of there or call the police to take him away.
So, no, we don’t just say “that’s how things are” and let the monkey be inaugurated. We need to voice our displeasure. We need to scare these people. We need to recapture the American spirit that Admiral Yamamoto feared after he launched the attack on Pearl Harbor, and said, “We have wakened a slumbering giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
We want our republic back.
Shake off the cobwebs and get to work.
‘How They Take Away Our Rights’ (2017)
What part of “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” do tinhorn tyrants in government not understand?
Well, all of it. Show a liberal copy of the Declaration of Independence, and he’ll shriek, levitate, and his head will spin 360 degrees.
So governments have been developing a new doctrine, claiming for themselves the authority to “balance rights” against each other, deciding winners and losers. Government will decide whose rights matter on any given day. Like, yesterday we had free speech and today we don’t, because today someone else’s rights are more important than ours.
They do not intend for us to be free and will go to almost any lengths to enslave us. Don’t ask me why. It’s one of those Original Sin things. May God deliver us out of their hands.
‘Gesu Bambino’ (Pavarotti)
Gee, no one entered this one in the carol contest! Maybe if I post it, the contest will heat up today. There’s always a slowdown after Christmas.
Without further ado: Gesu Bambino, sung by Luciano Pavarotti.
Norbert’s Home Movies
Well, I think they’re Norbert’s home movies. I’m not sure I understand what’s going on here. But it’s Norbert, and how wrong can you be if you post a Norbert video?
It will be noticed that he sometimes barks at his dog food. It’s important to keep your food from getting ideas of its own.
Breakers Ahead–Look Sharp
The Gracchi brothers
It must never be forgotten, and never accepted, that Democrats employed massive fraud to win the 2020 election, the greatest crime ever committed against the United States. Because of it, we are entering a very dangerous period in our history.
The only right outcome is for the Democrat Party to go out of business. After this, who but a fool or a fanatic would trust them? But their departure will leave a vacuum that, one way or another, must be filled.
Another likely outcome, which to me seems difficult to avoid, would be a split in the Republican Party, populists vs. elitists, with the elitists picking up a major portion of former Democrats. It was this very split that ultimately destroyed the Roman republic. At one point, the plebs were so angry that they deserted the city and refused to come back until the Senate conceded their rights.
But the tension between the two classes remained, and late in the Second Century B.C. boiled over. From 133 to 121 B.C. the Gracchi brothers, radical tribunes, strove against the Senate to reform the state and its economy. The Gracchi went too far, too fast, and the Senate had them assassinated. It was all downhill from there, until Julius Caesar in the First Century B.C. finally put an end to the republic except in name only.
We must not let that happen here.
One thing we have going for us, that the Roman republic didn’t have, is a written Constitution. Their constitution, to which all paid lip service, was always a work in progress, never finalized. It proved unable to defend itself. We have a written Constitution to defend. We will at least know what we’re fighting for.
Even more importantly, we have our prayers, we have a God who is righteous, just, and all-powerful to whom we can pray. We can hope in His mercy and His grace. If it pleases Him to save us, then we will be saved. But as it was our sins, our sloth, and our folly that landed us in all this trouble in the first place, we have some serious repenting to do.
If we want our republic, our freedom, our stability, and our prosperity to continue, we will have to be exceedingly careful for a long time to come.
May God uphold and guide us.
Lost! Missing! National Emergency!
LOST: 80 million Biden voters
LAST SEEN seeping out of Dominion voting machines
Police, private detectives, bloodhound handlers, and psychics have mobilized in a nationwide effort to find any trace of some 80 million Americans who supposedly elected China Joe president.
So far… nothing.
“We were told there were over a million Biden votes cast in our county,” said Sheriff Diogenes Smith of Atlantis County, Pennsylvania, “which was a pretty neat trick, considering we have only a little under 300,000 registered voters. But now we can’t find but a dozen or two. They had a Biden rally yesterday in some guy’s driveway and only two people came. Where did they all go?”
Noted psychic Ernest Fapp has postulated that the 80 million Biden voters never, in fact, existed.
“Trust me,” he said, “if there had really been that many of them, they would’ve left some psychic residue in spiritual space. You know–like all the litter that gets left behind wherever you have lefties ‘demonstrating.’ ”
But another psychic disagrees. “Of course they’re real!” said Islas Malvinas. “But they are not of this earth! After the election they all went back to from where they came. That’s why you can’t find them.”
So far only twelve actual American citizens have admitted voting for Biden. “One more,” said Democrat activist Allie Screwtape, “and we’ll have a coven!”
Anniversary: Our First Date, 1976
I think that’s a reproduction of The Islanders menu, printed in the print shop at the good old Bayshore Independent, where Patty and I were working in 1976. I was managing editor, she was the bookkeeper. And The Islanders was a slam-bang great restaurant–I had my first Chinese food there, when it opened–which made it a natural destination for our first date.
And we’ve been together ever since.
After The Islanders we went to the movies (Voyage of the Damned–not exactly a knee-slapper) and then to Sam’s Bar & Grill for a nightcap. It was more an old-fashioned tavern than a bar and grill.
All those things are gone by now… except us. I don’t like to think of how our lives would’ve turned out if we hadn’t met: glory and praise to God, who has blessed us with each other.