My neighbors would think I was making fun of them if I bowed down and knelt to them. P.S.: The puppies protect us from the censors.
When I wrote this it looked like the end for sane and decent people. Thank God there has been some pushback since then.
This is America, and nobody kneels to anybody else! If that’s what we wanted, we could’ve just stayed part of England.
This is a republic, and we will not give it up.
As John Paul Jones said, “I have not yet begun to fight.”
A good old 19th-century hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves: I used to love singing it in Sunday school, even though I wasn’t quite sure what a “sheave” was.
Sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford–can’t ask for better than that.
Ai-ya! I just had chicken thighs for supper and now I feel guilty! I mean, really–the bird comes when he’s called, and he hops up onto your lap… and you’re gonna eat him? Uh-uh, no way, kimosabe. I probably shouldn’t even watch these cozy chicken videos.
Man, we are between a rock and a hard place!
We want to name our public schools after famous people; but now Reuters tells us that scads of today’s most important people had ancestors who owned slaves! Every living president–including Obama!
And if they didn’t own slaves–well, they were still bad! That’s why California wants to rename so many of its public schools. It’s how they “confront and interrupt racism.”
(Who was that asking for a barf bag? You’ll find them in a box by the door.)
Ah–but take a closer look!
Who’s the only living president who has no slave owners in his family tree? Whose ancestors did not rob Native Americans of their land? Who’s the only living president who’s fit to have a public building named after him?
Donald J. Trump–that’s who!
We solve the problem by renaming every public school for Donald Trump. What could be easier? Throw in a few libraries, too.
Who said this was hard?
Kit Carson, circa 1850–boo! hiss!
*Sigh* When will Far Left Crazy decide they’ve lopped off enough of our history? And what will be left of it by then?
Now they want to rename three public schools in Sacramento because the three historical figures they were named for… well, they’re white men, ya see, and the things they stood for in the early 19th century, they’re not the things we stand for today (https://californiaglobe.com/articles/ignorant-cancel-culture-comes-for-3-sacramento-city-schools/).
California was never a state where slavery was allowed, although that doesn’t stop Democrats from demanding astronomical “reparations” paid to people who have not been slaves. BUT! White folks took the Native Americans’ land! Folks like John Sutter, whose discovery of gold started the Gold Rush; Peter Burnett, the first governor of California, whose sin was not being Gavin Newsom; and Kit Carson, famous as a cavalry scout and explorer. ALL THREE MUST BE ERASED! CAST INTO THE OUTER DARKNESS! Because…
The naming of schools “must align with the District’s mission and vision.” Yeah? What’s that? Silly! Of course it’s their “commitment to confront and interrupt racism.” Who cares if they never learn to read? Math, shmath! We’re here to confront racism!”
By stirring up more racism. By fomenting racial fear and hatred.
That’s their mission. That’s their vision.
No one worth a damn would even want one of those schools named after him.
Do liberals want to re-fight the Civil War?
Oh, wow! According to research by Reuters, every living U.S. president (with the sole exception of Donald Trump [wailing and gnashing of teeth]) has ancestors who owned slaves (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20President%20Joe%20Biden,America%20after%20slavery%20was%20abolished.). Indeed, forsooth, “over 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery.”
Uh-huh. Ooh! That means Nancy Mace’s great-great-great grandparents had slaves!
And what is Congresswoman Mace supposed to do about it? (Hint: Give Democrats every single thing they want and agree to be bullied by select cherished minorities. That’ll work until they demand more.)
President Donald Trump is out of the picture because his family didn’t come to America until after slavery was abolished and the Civil War was over. Lucky them. My great-great-great uncle came over just in time to get drafted off the boat and packed off to Chancellorsville… where he sustained a serious head wound which kept him out of Gettysburg: the battle in which his unit was wiped out.
So we ask again: what the devil are we supposed to do about what other people did 150 years ago? Just bow down and let it be used against us?
Come on, Reuters, spit it out–what are we supposed to do?
I say to hell with it.
I don’t know whose flag that is up there, so I’m not saluting it.
I have learned not to believe anything that comes out of Union Theological Seminary. Like this, for instance:
They seem to be advocating for a Christ-free Christianity. I wonder if they got the idea from Michelle Obama, who advocated for Smores without the chocolate and marshmallow. Roof- and wall-less houses also spring to mind.
A hymn request to start the day–O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing, another classic by Charles Wesley, performed by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
Shout-out to my Sunday school teacher: Yo, Mr. Robinson! This is what you were teaching us, isn’t it? See–I do remember!
Does anybody still play Chutes & Ladders? Well, these pugs do–and not on any game board, either.
P.S.–I am experiencing technical difficulties with the %$#$$& computer and it has made me cranky. Yeah, yeah, Artificial Intelligence, that’s the ticket! Fanabla.
I’m happy to report we have a hymn request from Erlene. She must be feeling better: and a lot of prayers went into that, didn’t they?
I Surrender All to Jesus, by Carroll Roberson–this one’s for you, Erlene.