Year: 2020

A New and Slimy Scam

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So my wife picks up the phone this morning and hears a solemn, dreary female voice intone, “This call is from Social Security Administration–” Here Patty hung up.

Note the absence of the “the.” Not the Social Security Administration. Like, maybe there’s more than one?

I wonder what the pitch would have been. Were they angling for confidential information–so helpful in any enterprise involving identity theft–or would they try to sell us something? Maybe sign us up for a time share at Chernobyl.

We probably get half a dozen of these calls a day, and sometimes more. Law enforcement seems unable to stem the tide. The telephone has become a burglary tool–or are they just into pure harassment?

Boy, there are a lot of creeps out there.

I Don’t Have My Ballot

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States where you can vote by mail in November 2020 election: map - Business Insider

Here in the Democrat dystopia of New Jersey, where brainless white liberals decorate their lawns with Black Lives Matter signs, our wretch of a governor decreed Universal Vote By Mail for this year’s national elections. As soon as they realized he didn’t have the authority to do that, the legislature hastened to enact the measure.

So we’re all supposed to get these ballots to fill out and mail in before Election Day.

Only I don’t have one.

Yeah, sure, most people have theirs by now. But I don’t. And when I phone the county board of elections to ask for a ballot, all I get is a robot that tells me that due to the high volume of incoming calls, they aren’t going to answer any calls.

As everyone who isn’t totally delusional knows, Democrats don’t have a hope of winning unless they can subvert the electoral process itself. “Vote by Mail,” an open invitation to fraud and a free pass to postal carelessness, is part of that. They’ll see how many votes their guy needs to win, after Election Day is over–and, as if by magic, those votes will appear.

They will gladly destroy our republic, if that’s what it takes to get them back into power. Do you think Keith Olbermann is kidding about wanting to prosecute Donald Trump’s supporters? Do you think they’re kidding about making “climate change denial” a criminal offense? And meanwhile, while they’re waiting for the White House, they’re letting dangerous criminals out of jail and giving rioters the high sign in every city they control.

If they win, we lose. We lose our country.

They are the enemy, and they must be defeated.

(P.S.–I finally got through to the county clerk’s office, and they said they’d send me a ballot today. What happened to the ballot they say they already sent me is anybody’s guess.)

Thanks for the Encouragement

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To all of you who wrote in yesterday to tell me that you liked His Mercy Endureth Forever, a great big thank you!

I’m actually back to being eager to work on Bell Mountain No. 14, Behold! I can’t do it today because it’s cold and rainy. Somehow I can no longer write fiction indoors. Maybe it’s from being ceaselessly pelted by nuisance phone calls all day. Bear in mind I’m trying to write about a world that exists only in my mind and trying to make it exist in the reader’s mind, too. It’s not as easy as it sounds.

I’m still waiting to find out what it is that my characters are going to behold. I could always change the title, I suppose; but I like to go with the first thing that comes into my head, in case it came from God. And having a title up there from the get-go gives me something to shoot for.

So when the rain stops I’ll be back out there, trying to finish telling the story before it’s so cold that the ink won’t flow from my pen. Yes, that actually happens. Try it sometime. Besides, when it gets under 50 degrees, that’s a distraction.

‘How Not to Write Dialogue’ (2014)

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Trying to figure out how she got in without opening the door…

Fantasy probably features more misbegotten dialogue than any other genre of fiction. Maybe the hard-boiled private eye comes a close second. Or a fantasy about a hard-boiled private eye.

How Not to Write Dialogue

Suddenly the idea of a fantasy about a hard-boiled private eye is starting to look pretty good to me. I’ll betcha Anthony Boucher or Henry Kuttner could’ve done it standing on his head. “The dame came through my office door in a rustle of that fancy crinoline stuff like you see in the movies. Real class. But she didn’t open the door to come on…”

I mean, as long as we’re going to be writing bad fiction, it might as well be funny!

‘Break Thou the Bread of Life’ (Fountainview)

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I’m always happy when a hymn by Fountainview Academy comes up on the list–these kids can really sing! they can make music without musical instruments, in the service of the Lord. Can’t beat that. So here they are with Break Thou the Bread of Life.

Undercover Cats

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Sheets and blankets–what else does a cat need for a good time? Our cat Buster used to revel in the humorous possibilities of bedclothes: always fun to watch him sliding around under there.

It is said that the first Studebaker automobile was inspired by cats playing with bedsheets. Sorry, but after a day of nooze, my brain is a little fried.

Olbermann: Trump Supporters Must Be ‘Prosecuted and Convicted’

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More than just a little crazy

It just gets worse and worse. The Democrat Party doesn’t need a psychiatrist. It needs an exorcist.

Dig this quote from TV lefty Keith Olbermann: “Trump can and must be expunged. His enablers… the Mike Lee’s, the William Barr’s, and the Sean Hannity’s and the Mike Pences… and the Amy Coney Barrett’s must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society” (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/10/09/keith_olbermann_terrorist_trump_and_his_enablers_and_supporters_must_be_removed_from_our_society.html).

Do you think we can still afford to lose this election? Do you think our republic can survive with crazies like this in power?

Prosecuted for what? Convicted for what? Yeahbut, yeahbut, that’s law, dude! We aren’t going to do law anymore! Prosecute ’em for being… whatever! And remove them from society! Uh, for what? Shut up, he explained.

Unlike you or me, Olbermann can get in front of a TV camera and sell this schiff to millions of people at a time (if they can find some way to get millions of people to watch it). He wouldn’t have that forum if the bad guys weren’t using him to test the waters. Has the time come yet to jail everyone who votes for Trump? Stalinism, American-style–are we there yet?

These people must be totally defeated. God help us if we don’t.

’60 Minutes’ Worth of Fake Nooze

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Democrat shills, one and all

(Thanks to Erlene for the nooze tip)

“Journalism.” It makes me sick.

The once-influential 60 Minutes this weekend spewed forth an hour-long contribution in kind to Joe Biden’s Democrats, denouncing President Donald Trump for all they were worth (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-lincoln-project-republican-strategists-super-pac-trump-60-minutes-2020-10-11/). Which isn’t very much.

Yes, these five “lifelong Republicans” have endorsed Gibbering Joe and rallied to the cause of elitist globalism. They don’t care if they help Democrats back into power so they can finish their “fundamental transformation” of America into a socialist hell-hole. They have endorsed the Riot Party. The “Everything is Racist” Party. They don’t care what the Democrats actually stand for. All they care about is destroying Donald Trump.

How is this not an in-kind campaign contribution? How much would the Biden campaign have had to pay for this if it were an ad, instead of an ad disguised as a nooze show?

Democrats are threatening to do to our country what Hitler and Tojo couldn’t do with all their fleets and armies. Our constitutional republic is at risk. Because these people will tear it down. And these phony “Republicans” are in bed with Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

It’s disgusting.

God help us if we lose this election. If we do, we lose our country.images

Does Anybody Like This Book?

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His Mercy Endureth Forever (Bell Mountain Book 12) by [Lee Duigon]

A guy can go to his friends when he needs encouragement–right? And some of you out there really are my friends.

Bell Mountain No. 12, His Mercy Endureth Forever, is, like, totally bombing. Hardly anyone is buying it. And except for Ina’s review on amazon’s UK page, the few reviews I’ve got are along the lines of “Why don’t you stop writing this stuff already?” Yeesh. Is it really that bad?

Oh, but a writer ought to have more confidence! Yeah? I don’t know about others, but every time I go out there with a new book, it’s like the very first time all over again. You expect to get booed off the stage.

Edgar Rice Burroughs got sick of writing Tarzan, and Agatha Christie got sick of writing Hercule Poirot. But they kept writing those series because the readers kept wanting more. I’m not sick of my series, I’m attached to the characters–but my confidence has been shaken.

So tell me, if you can–does anybody like this book?

 

King David’s Mother

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The question just popped into my head yesterday: “Who was King David’s mother?” The Bible doesn’t tell us her name. And that’s odd, because we are given the names of many kings’ mothers, none of whom was as important as David.

According to a tradition in the Talmud, her name was Nitzevet, daughter of Adael (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitzevet). But the Bible does make mention of her: in Psalm 86:16; and then in 1 Samuel 22: 3-4, David asks the king of Moab to provide sanctuary for his father and his mother.

Why are we not told more about her? I’m sure there are things that were left out of the Bible because they were so well known, at the time, that it wasn’t necessary to discuss them. Still, the mother of King David–well, as my friend Pastor Mark once said, the Bible tells us everything we need to know, but it doesn’t tell us everything we might want to know.