Requested by Susan, When the Roll is Called Up Yonder, a new hymn video by Simon Khorolskiy.
Traditional American gospel song, Country & Western Style, the whole thing sung in Russian, by Russians–a weird formula, but it works, it works.
Month: June 2021
Baby & Cat Utopia
What a cute baby! And what a handsome cat–who, for once in his life, is bigger than the human who wants to pet him. Something tells me that these two don’t yet know each other well. But they’ll get there.
BREAKING NEWS: Mervyn Puncho has been sighted in someone’s back yard. Whose, we are not yet told.
Are We in North Korea?
Throughout the ten-year history of this blog, we’ve picked up a couple of new followers every week. That’s how we wound up with 1,700 of them.
But in the past several weeks, no new followers at all. Not even one.
What happens if you try to follow me? Do they tell you they’ve made the connection for you–only it doesn’t show up at my end? Is Big Tech trying to cut off our communication with each other? Go ahead, tell me that would astonish you.
It’s like we just woke up in North Korea.
I wish a few of you would help me in an experiment. Just click whatever you need to click to follow this blog, and let’s see what happens. And please tell me if you’ve tried. If I hear from five new followers, but my follower stats remain totally unchanged, I’ll know something’s fishy.
Note: There is a “Following” button in the lower right-hand corner of this page.
I don’t think they’re letting us follow each other’s blogs.
Let’s try to find out.
City Drops ‘Difficult Citizens’ List
Some citizens really are “difficult,” though…
The Palm Coast, Florida, City Council has voted unanimously to do away with a secret list of “difficult citizens,” just a few days after the public learned of its existence (https://www.palmcoastobserver.com/article/city-watch-palm-coast-to-stop-using-secret-list-of-difficult-citizens).
All four council members said they didn’t know about the list, and blamed the previous administration for it. But its purpose, said officials, was “to protect city workers” from citizens who might harass them or even attack them.
If your name wound up on the list, you weren’t informed and there was no way you could get it removed.
Okay–tell me the police in lots of towns and small cities don’t have a list of “Oh, him!” and “Oh, her!” If it isn’t written down, it’s in the cops’ minds–it would have to be.
We wonder about those unspecified “city workers,” though. Are they the ones who hassle you if you have a Trump sign on your lawn? The ones who decide your house needs to be painted a different color? Little tinpot tyrants who throw their weight around. Yeah, some normal people are bound to lose their tempers.
Those questions haven’t been answered. They found out about the list and got rid of it, end of story.
But the cops probably know who the real trouble-makers are.
My Newswithviews Column, June 3 (‘Three Abominations–Shall We Try for Four?’)
Bad enough I have to write about this stuff. I won’t show pictures of it! Have a nice grey tree frog instead.
What if everybody does it?
What if everybody aborts their babies, practices “gay marriage,” and gets their kids to be “transgender”?
By and by, nobody left.
In That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis argued that Satan’s end goal was the erasure of all life from the earth. Did he get that right!
But King Solomon beat him to it: “All they that hate me love death” (Proverbs 8:36)
‘Entering the Danger Zone’ (2016)
One of the weirdest and most unsettling things about our Free & Independent Nooze Media Inc. is the way it just wipes the pieces off the board and expects us to forget that they were ever there. Like, all of a sudden, spoil-sport Republicans invented this thing called Questioning the Election and aren’t they just awful–!
Back up to the 2016 election.
From the moment it became clear that Crooked Hillary wasn’t going to be president, after all, every Far Left rotter in the country went full-throttle trying to get Donald Trump kicked out of office–before he was even inaugurated! And they kept it up every hour of every day for the whole four years of his term–longest-running tantrum in all of recorded history.
Well, sunshine, we don’t forget. And we don’t believe you anymore, so why don’t you just take a long walk off a short pier?
‘Light of the World’
I can’t think of a hymn I love more than this one–Light of the World, by Charles Wesley, performed the old-fashioned way by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
It’s raining here again: no working on my book today. Maybe while I rest, a title will come to me. I have to wait for the Lord to give me one.
When Your Dog Argues About the Menu
Those French bulldogs are cute, but this one’s a bit demanding. It seems Aristotle was right when he said you should never discuss the menu with your dog, you’ll only get into an argument about it. Note the cat’s unsuccessful attempt to mediate. Cats just aren’t very good at things like that.
Another Ballot Audit On the Way?
The Pennsylvania legislature has sent a delegation to Arizona to discuss election integrity and to learn how to replicate Arizona’s ballot audit (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/happening-now-pennsylvania-legislative-delegation-sits-arizona-lawmakers-discuss-election-integrity-replicating-audit/).
What does this mean? Will Pennsylvania hold an audit, too? Sources say the Arizona audit, involving more than 2 million ballots in Maricopa County, is more than halfway finished by now.
We’ve got questions. If audits show that “the Biden vote” in several key states was a fraud, what happens then? Do we do the election over? Or do we just sit there and let a bunch of crooks rape our country for the next three and a half years?
And if the audits show the vote was legit–can we believe that, after all the contortions by the Democrats to stop the audits? To say nothing of federal judges’, and the Supreme Court’s, refusals even to look at any claims of fraud. Can we believe the audits weren’t just a whitewash, after all? See no evil, hear no evil…
And one way or another, there’ll be more riots, won’t there? And what will The Regime do about those? Just let them go on and on? Like, until our cities turn into burned-out ruins?
We have serious problems to solve, and Democrats don’t want them solved–ever.
Wanna Buy an Invisible Sculpture?
Speaking of satire, this isn’t one. I know it sounds like a satire, but it isn’t. It also sounds like it could be one of those tongue-in-cheek bite-sized science fiction stories Isaac Asimov used to write, but it isn’t one of those, either.
It’s real.
Let this quote suffice: “Salvatore Garau has sold his latest invisible sculpture” (https://wamu.org/story/21/06/01/italian-artist-sells-invisible-sculpture-for-real-money/). For $18,000. Not make-believe money. The buyer gets a certificate.
Of what? Idiocy?
Paying $18,000 literally for nothing. Once upon a time, this would have been called a sin: incontinence. Having more money than is good for you and not knowing what to do with it–so you waste it. Squander it.
I think it’s probably still a sin; and probably carries its own punishment, too.