Year: 2024

My Grey Tree Frog Is… Green?

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There’s all sorts of nooze out there that I could write about, but let’s usher in the weekend with a sanity break, courtesy of God’s creative power.

The grey tree frog isn’t always grey. Sometimes he’s green. These frogs can change color, like chameleons.

I had grey tree frogs once. They tamed in a hurry and used to perch on my finger, like a parakeet, and snap up mealworms from my other hand. They also liked to sing all night, which really bothered my housemates… so I had to let my frogs go. *Sigh* They were good little guys, and I enjoyed their company. Certainly I miss them more than I miss those grumpy housemates.

Heer”s Haow Jobydin Winns The De-Bait!!!

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So! It “is” verry impotent foar Pressadint Jobydin To winn the Big De-Bait whith Darnold Trumpt and then putt Trumpt “in” Jale!!!!!

Well heer Is “my” idear!!! Have the De-Bait on The Vew!!!!! This heer, it is jeaniust!!!!!! Thoze wimmin On “”The Vew” thay whil eet Trumpt alyve!!! I mene Hey, Wuppy Goldbrog she whil assolootly Clobber himb!!!! And then cumbs Jale–foar The “rest” “of” his stopid Lyfe!!!!!

Havvin it on “CNN”, that is jist “a” Dumb Idear bekawse Noboddy Whaches It!!! Of corse, Trumpt he shoodnit “be” aloud to Rhun aginst “The Pressadint” anywhey, IT IS TREEZIN!!!!!!!  and aslo Racist!!  I wach The Vew awl “the tyme” and It is grate!!! In facked,, waching It shood Be Mandertory!!!!!! The Guvvermint thay shood “taik Yore TV” awhay iff yiu doughnt Wach It!!! So we rote Up a lettre frumb The Stodint Soviet to get themb to has the De-Bait “on” The Vew!!!

And then woodntcha Know It, this biggit he cumbs alawng and says “Yiu peeple yiu are awl Stoopid,, De-Bait it meens wen yiu taik “the Wurm” offf “the” Hoock”!”!” Well that thare was Hat Speach so we beet himb Up!!!! We doughnt alauow No Hait heer “at” Collidge!!!

I thinck I “can” sayfly Say “that evvry Thing” I know,, I lurnt it frumb The Vew!!!!!!!

 

Is Gov. Newsom Quite All There?

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Billions of dollars to help California's homeless population ...

Sure looks like they’re solving it, don’t it?

Needles, feces, prone bodies lying on the sidewalk, clusters of tents–and Gov. Gavin Newsome calls his state of California “a national model” for solving homelessness (https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/state/newsom-touts-california-as-national-model-on-homelessness/article_358f0ff8-9f4c-5ee9-a6af-48ec133d5517.html#:~:text=(The%20Center%20Square)%20%2D%20California,the%20largest%20in%20the%20nation.).

Solve it?

Yeah. Spend lots and lots of money. Spend $31 billion to set up a program.

In 2023 California’s homeless population was (they say) 181,599. How you acquire confidence in those figures is a mystery to me.

In recent years we have wound up being governed by persons who say things that call into question their basic sanity. Who in his right mind would want his state to model itself after California?

(Meanwhile the cafone in New York wants to hire illegal aliens, now known as “migrants,” to be lifeguards… because “they’re excellent swimmers.” Proved it by swimming across the Rio Grande to come here illegally.)

Then there’s Minnesota.

How did all these loonies make it to the top of the pyramid?

More to the point… how the dickens do we get rid of them?

‘Not-So-Fond Memory: The Flatline Church’ (2017)

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Seminarians say the darnedest things. Here’s one who wanted to sound like Henry Kissinger.

Not-so-Fond Memory: The Flatline Church

These are supposedly “theologians.” They don’t believe the Bible is the Word of God. Maybe a lot of them don’t believe in God. Seems a funny line of work for an unbeliever. But it sure seems like there’s a lot of this going on in our seminaries.

What’ll they do if we don’t need them anymore?

‘To God Be the Glory’

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I haven’t posted this one in a while–one of a couple thousand hymns Fanny Crosby wrote. To God Be the Glory, with God’s own trees and sky for a stage set.

What’s your favorite Fanny Crosby hymn?

Watchin’ the Tide Roll In

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Actually, I don’t know what this dog is watching. But I do know that many pets enjoy gazing out the window. My iguana would watch it snow for hours. I wonder what he thought of it.

This dog, meanwhile, is not about to share his ringside seat…

Acme False Facts, Inc.: Response

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Reports of a “flood of fake science” leading to “thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenues” has prompted a response from Acme False Facts Inc.

“Politically ambitious ‘real scientists’ are trying to horn in on our business!” declares Acme CEO Jerry Bilt. “We have spent years, at Acme, building up an inventory of authentic false facts. Our false facts have helped untold thousands of customers to enhance their peer group prestige.”

Mr. Bilt has urged potential customers to drive real scientists out of the market by collecting new sets of Acme False Facts. Here are a few samples from Acme’s I Big Department Collection.

*Hittite ne’er-do-wells sank the battleship Maine.

*In 1703, retired horseshoe salesman Paddy McQuokka wrote the Declaration of Independence but couldn’t get it published.

*Genghis Khan was ticklish!

*Baseball was invented by the Smothers Brothers.

*In Fugu Falls, Oklahoma, a woman named Katie survived being stuck head-downwards in her lawyer’s chimney for three months. The lawyer thought her cries for help were “just wind.”

“Armed with genuine authentic Acme False Facts,” said Mr. Bilt, “any simpleton can acquire a reputation for possessing truly erudite knowledge. Just puff our your chest and repeat a False Fact with pure conviction, and you’ve got stature!”

Coming soon: Acme False Facts Climate Change Set.

‘Flood of Fake Science’ (Oh, No!)

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It's Alive!

Dr. Frankenstein: “It’s alive! It’s alive!” Sez you, champ.

Dig this: “Flood of fake science forces multiple journal closures” (https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/15/1449205/flood-of-fake-science-forces-multiple-journal-closures).

Toldja!

Some 11,000 scientific papers have been “compromised,” a study by Schutt reports. This has led to “thousand of retractions (!) and millions of dollars in lost revenues.” In 2022 alone we saw “the discovery of nearly 500 fraudulent papers.” Yeesh!

Like I say, science plus politics equals politics.

So whose “science” do we believe, these days? Nobody’s? Are they all on the take for dirty money? I daresay I don’t know! But the Schutt report is alarming, to say the least. The Experts keep telling us to “follow the science.” Follow it where? Are we to base public policy on a lot of flim-flam?

Looks like it, doesn’t it?

‘It’s Getting Too Crazy’ (My Newswithviews Column, May 16)

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Hint: She’s not collecting for the Heart Fund.

Have you ever been overwhelmed by the nooze? If not, try covering it for a while.

It’s Getting Too Crazy

I mean, really–how did we wind up getting governed, ruled, dominated, and pushed around by idiots, thieves, and oughtta-be mental patients? Look at our… um… “president.” And there are senators and governors worse off than he.

And remember the days when everybody knew better than to bother a mother bear with cubs? Well, that seems to have joined The Secrets Of The Distant Past.

How did Gavin Newsom avoid making it into this column? He didn’t take a vow of silence, did he?

‘Toward a Content-Free Church’ (2018)

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A few years ago someone sent us an information packet from one of America’s biggest megachurches–Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church.

Toward a Content-Free Church

Churches are like blogs: the operators want to draw people in. It’s only natural. But it can reach a point where churches underplay the Christianity just to keep the membership growing. Don’t tell ’em anything they don’t want to hear! If they don’t have the truth, don’t preach it!

Didn’t the Apostles have to deal with that, so long ago? See Revelation 2:20 for “that Jezebel” who corrupted the church of Thyatira.