Year: 2023

Our Refrigerator: The Saga Continues

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I am plotzing, big-time. I don’t have the strength to hold a mirror under Patty’s nose, but she’s still groaning so that’s a good sign.

The delivery men came with the new refrigerator. Ta-dah! They can’t take the old one out and put the new one in until a certified plumber disconnects the stove and moves it out of the way. Sorry, folks, no can do.So we got our landlord involved, and together we made all the arrangements for… Tuesday.

Meanwhile, we received our mini-fridge. We have to put it in the living room. It takes up a lot more space than it provides–no, Mr. Styrofoam Cooler, you can’t step down yet. And there’s something about you can’t plug it in unless it has its very own outlet. There is no such thing available here. I was hoping we could manage this with a long extension cord. Dream on.

So I have to go out and buy more bags of ice for the coolers, and it’s hotter than hell out there, and I still have all this packing material to get rid of.

We would appreciate more prayers.

Oh, for a very tall iced tea!

Your Own Private Air Force

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A business owner from Absecon, New Jersey is facing criminal mischief charges after allegedly using a drone to drop green dye into neighborhood pools.

Doesn’t exactly invite one to dive in, does it?

A New Jersey man has been charged with criminal mischief for using a drone to dye the water in a motel’s swimming pool (https://abc7chicago.com/swimming-pool-pools-drone-faa/13743574/). The dye turned the water a bright neon green. This happened about a dozen times and cost the motel thousands of dollars to drain and re-fill the pool.

Police say he also did it to a neighbor in a private home.

WHY did he do it? Well, police aren’t sayin’ and neither is his lawyer. The FAA got involved, but they’re not sayin’, either.

People are definitely getting weirder. I mean, this was one hellacious prank for an adult human being to pull, over and over again. Maybe a couple of badly-behaved seventh-graders might think it was a cool thing to do. But we are supposed to grow out of that.

There seem to be a lot of stories in the news like this one. What’s going on? Have we debased our popular culture to the point where now it’s debasing us back?

Pushback! In Mexico

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Thousands of parents set fire to "Marxist" textbooks in Mexico

A few days ago, thousands of Mexican parents got together to burn “educational materials” that they said featured “Marxist indoctrination” and the usual sex sales pitch (https://civilek.info/en/2023/09/08/thousands-of-youths-set-marxist-textbooks-on-fire-in-mexico/). Objectors said they did not want “the virus of communism” to infect Mexico.

(Pssst! Hey, U.S.! Hey, Canada! This is how it’s done! You don’t have to let them turn your kids into perverted little commies.)

The materials–which have also been described as full of basic errors and misspellings, poor grammar, and sloppy thinking–come from the federal Dept. of Education. It is believed the project is the work of “a former Venezuelan government official” (guess he was taking his act on the road) who had somehow wormed his way into Mexico’s government.

Governors of several Mexican states have declared that they will not allow these materials to be distributed in their states. And there is a petition against these materials that has been signed by 112,000 citizens so far.

It’s government’s move. Will they listen to the people, and back off; or will they just double down on transgender and communism?

I hope the world is watching this.

‘School “Investigates” 5-Year-Old Girl for Thought Crime’ (2017)

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We’re gonna need a bigger Hell.

Why do we put up with stuff like this? Here it is, six years after this outrage, and they’re still doing it to us–and sicking the FBI/KGB on us if we object.

School ‘Investigates’ 5-Year-Old Girl for Thought Crime

Once upon a time a grown man or woman in a responsible position would have been ashamed to “investigate” a five-year-old. What kind of weirdo does this?

The kind that densely popular our public schools and are trying to transform our children into sexually debauched Far Left wackos like themselves.

Encore: ‘We Are Not Alone’

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“Sing louder!” the lady said. Well, all right. This was the first hymn to pop into my head this morning–and the first to come up on YouTube. We Are Not Alone–coming to us from southern India. Excuse me for posting it again: I think I need it.

Tappin’ with Tapirs

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I always thought these were really cool animals–tapirs. Related to horses and rhinos, there’s really nothing else quite like them. I wanted one for a pet when I was six years old. These are South American tapirs. The ones in Malaysia are two-tone, black and white.

Prayer Request: Us (Again)

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Now it seems the new refrigerator we bought yesterday is not going to fit into our kitchen, it’ll be too big. All because of one more measurement that we forgot to take. Meanwhile, it’s hot, hot, hot out here.

Now we don’t know if there’s even such a thing as a refrigerator that’ll fit in here. We keep buying bags of ice for the cooler, but that’s hardly adequate. Patty is knocking herself out, trying to find a solution to the problem, while I do all the driving and try to keep doing the work for which I’m paid. If I worked in an office I could hardly just stay home until we’ve got this licked. Who knows how long that’ll take?

And the garage guy says it’ll be still some weeks (!) before they finish putting a new transmission into Patty’s car.

All in all, we need your prayers. Please, Lord, see us through this mess! First the computer, then the car, now the refrigerator–we’re getting the stuffing kicked out of us. Please, Father, help us! In Jesus’ name, Amen.

A Touch of Bible… in a Cop Show

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We’ve been watching A Touch of Frost, a popular British police drama available on line. You might ask, “What can you learn from a cop show?” Well, more than you might expect.

I have never seen another show that more conscientiously explores the effects of crime on innocent family members, neighborhoods, and others who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Law-breaking leaves destruction in its path–and that’s only man’s laws we’re talking about. What happens when we break God’s laws?

Nothing good.

Theft and con games destroy trust. Adultery destroys families. Murder destroys lives. And people who’ve done nothing wrong become collateral damage. You could weep for them. And for the police who have to try to pick up the pieces and prevent any further damage.

One immediately thinks of the crime waves sweeping our own country’s major cities nowadays, which seems to get worse by the day. What are these cities going to turn into, if it doesn’t stop?

Let’s pray we don’t find out.

Walking outside of God’s laws brought us to this crisis. It will not bring us out of it.

Sing Louder! (My Newswithviews Column, Sept. 7)

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Yes, it’s coming, just in time for the 2024 elections–the next COVID pandemic, brought to you by the Democrat Party and the World Economic Forum. And while we’re waiting for the lockdown, we can watch the teachers’ unions groom our children for “gender reassignment.”

What to do, what to do?

Sing Louder!

We are so close to losing our freedom–having it snatched away from us, while we kid ourselves into thinking we can vote our way out of this.

“I will not comply.” This has to be our watchword.

And our hope must be in God. Evil empires rise in every generation. God makes sure they fall. No one else can do that.

WARNING: They are not going to stop until they have America firmly under their communist boot-heels.

‘They Still Like Communism’ (2017)

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Democrat nostalgia: the gulags of the Soviet Union

As they lick their chops and rub their hands together, preparing for the next Plandemic, just in time for the 2024 elections, could the rest of us please remember that these–these liberals, globalists, Democrats–are communists in all but name: and they mean for us to have a communist future.

They Still Like Communism

They’ll never change. The New York Times will never change. Democrat Senators will never change. The day they can impose a Red China-style “social credit system” on Americans… will be their Fourth of July. And Christmas… all rolled into one.