Month: February 2021

‘The World Happiness Council… No Joke’ (2018)

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This monstrosity was officially launched at a World Government Forum held in Qatar–believe me, those sheiks in Qatar are happy all the time–three years ago.

Government’s job, they declare, is to make you…. happy.

The World Happiness Council… No Joke

They skated over the fact that different things make different people happy. Things that make some people happy make others very sad. Like, a liberal is never so happy as when his country is losing a war.

So how are these Global Government willies going to make everybody happy?

Pray the Lord we never find out.

By Request, ‘Blessed Are Those Who’ve Never Seen’

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This hymn by Carroll Roberson is based on Scripture: the story of Thomas’ doubt of Christ’s resurrection, told in John 20:26-29.

Requested by Erlene.

The Dog Won’t Risk It

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Why is the dog afraid of the laundry basket? Actually, there are two dogs in this video: the other one is not afraid of a laundry basket. So why one and not the other?

Your answer will count toward half your grade for this marking period.

We Gave Ourselves a Fantod

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I’m sitting at the table the other night, finishing my supper, facing our living room window. It’s a winter night and the wind has sprung up.

And outside–! Out there, someone is bobbing around, trying to look into our apartment. Holy cow. I mean, that can’t be good! World’s full of crazies, isn’t it?

But then I figured out what it was that I was looking at, and I called my wife over so she could sit in my chair and see what I saw. She saw it, all right.

We have a plastic jack-o’-lantern hanging from a tree outside, and the wind combined with a trick of the light made it look like some stalker in a hoodie. Maybe we’ve heard too many stories about that.

It’s always nice when a sharp little scare turns out to be some silly thing that can’t possibly do you any harm.

Wish the nooze was like that.

Tyranny without Government

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Bank of America employees march in a “pride” parade. They’d better, if they want to keep their jobs.

There are many things that the Constitution doesn’t let the government do to us. So the great discovery in the 21st century is… the bad guys don’t need the government to bully you! Not when they can get Big Business and Big Tech to do it for them.

Take Mass Resistance, for instance–a pro-family organization dedicated to resisting the homosexual movement. According to the Constitution [break for sardonic laughter] we have a right to oppose political programs with which we disagree: so the government, unless they’re in a mood to get creative, can’t openly punish you for doing so.

But they don’t have to! Mass Resistance’s bank, after a nod from Organized Sodomy, shut down their credit card processing. No one allowed to do business unless they’re LGBT-approved! The lights almost went out for Mass Resistance before they found another bank that let them in.

But see, this is where we are in America today–crouching behind the shield of “It’s our private business!”, big corporations hop into bed with Far Left Crazy and create–trumpet fanfare, please!–the Cancel Culture! Government doesn’t need to ship you to the gulag: “private business” will shut you out of civil life. Somehow you can’t use that excuse to keep people out of your country club; but now you can use it to get them kicked out of their jobs.

And the government stands with its hands in its pockets, whistling “Barnacle Bill” while all its critics and dissidents are crushed by “private business.”

We’re losing our freedom almost faster than I can write about it.

All that stuff about how great it would be if we didn’t have to be “under God”–well, that was just a bunch of stuff, wasn’t it?

 

How God Dealt with the King of Assyria

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In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib the king of Assyria invaded Judah with his army–an army that had conquered everyone who had ever dared to stand against it. The history is told in the Bible, in three places–2 Kings 18 and 19, 2 Chronicles 32, and Isaiah 36 and 37.

God said He would fight for Jerusalem and send the Assyrians back the way they came. As for the army,

“And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand (185,000): and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses” (2 Kings 19:35). And after Sennacherib returned to Assyria, two of his sons assassinated him.

But before the smiting, Sennacherib sent one of his servants to Jerusalem to demand its surrender–and to mock Hezekiah for trusting in God. This fool, Rabshakeh, equated God Almighty with the imaginary little false gods of the pagan cities and nations, which could not protect their people from Assyria.

Today the Far Left has seized control of our government and many of our business and social institutions, and is demanding the surrender of the rest. They, like Sennacherib and his servants, are convinced that God cannot deliver His people out of their hands.

They would be very well-advised to repent, to turn from their evil ways, and humble themselves before the Lord. But don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen. These are The Smartest People In The World: they don’t humble themselves for anybody. Nor will they repent.

Reputable Bible Scholars Inc. assure us that the destruction of Sennacherib’s army never happened, Jewish scribes just made it up, we can be sure of that because the Assyrians never put up a monument to their catastrophe in Judah… blah-blah-blah. Sweet are the words of fools in the ears of other fools.

 

My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 18 (‘Hungary, 1956: Freedom or Death’)

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Spitting on Stalin: Hungary, 1956

All over the world, people have risked death, exposed themselves to danger and to hardship–to be free. Most of them wanted to be free from so-called “socialist” governments. No one talks about the Iron Curtain anymore, but in 1956 it was a real thing. And the people of Hungary put their lives on the line to get rid of it. But the Soviet Union intervened to crush them.

Hungary, 1956: Freedom or Death

A few years later it was refugees from Cuba, risking their lives to escape from communism and come to America. Because freedom is that much better than socialism! And worth risking everything, to get it.

What would those people make of us today, passionately flirting with socialism, shrugging our shoulders as the whole Democrat Party cruises down the Far Left speedway, on fire to “fundamentally transform” our country into a Third World hell-hole?

And once they do it to us, there’ll no noplace left to go.

‘Wacko Feminist Wants to “Put All Men in Camps”‘ (2015)

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How could this have possibly failed to catch on? Well, it was competing with “gender” for center state, and then along came COVID. I mean, no one can juggle all the Far Left Crazy schemes without dropping a few of them.

Wacko Feminist Wants to ‘Put All Men in Camps’

I find it a useful rule of thumb, when encountering any New & Exciting Great Idea, to ask “What would happen if everybody did it?” If the answer to that question is either “We lose our liberty” or “We go extinct,” this this is a stupid Great Idea and ought to be rejected.

 

‘Leaning on the Everlasting Arms’

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No studio: just somebody’s living room. No electronics. Nothing special in the way of acoustics. No instrumental back-up, not even a piano. But oh! how beautifully this hymn is sung!

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, sung by the Gordon Quartet–is this a blessing, or what?

Norbert Strikes Back

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For those of you who insist on something fuzzy in a critter video, turn we unto Norbert, all three pounds of him. I don’t know what he strikes back against, but I’m sure he’s taken care of it by now.

I don’t know about you, but this little guy never fails to make me smile.