Year: 2024

‘Two Big Changes in America’ (My Newswithviews Column, May 9)

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Your great universities at work! They all turned out for Palestine.

Yes, I do understand that this list could have been expanded indefinitely, we’ve suffered lots and lots of changes, imposed on us by idiots who hate us. But these are two of the very biggest.

Two Big Changes in America

The Democrat Party gets transformed into Far Left Crazy, and at least half the Party falls madly in love with Hamas et al. These changes happened right in front of us–and yet I can’t explain how they happened.

How a nation of normal, decent, and sane people can wind up being ruled over by a pack of rabid socialists… It’s a mystery to me.

‘You Think You’ve Heard Everything…’ (2020)

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All this and Al Sharpton, too? Wow!

Extravagant praise of SloJo Biden–does it get any dafter than that? Check out some of those quotes. And we let them grab our country???

You Think You’ve Heard Everything…

Thanks to Democrats and their insane and wicked policies, America is in deep, deep trouble; and the rest of the world is just as badly off, if not worse.

God defend us, this year may indeed be America’s last chance to avoid plunging into the maelstrom.

By Request, ‘I Surrender All’

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Requested by Erlene–I Surrender All, by Carroll Roberson.

*Sigh! Physical therapy, grocery shopping… it’s supposed to be my birthday. Well, I feel like I’m getting older fast….

Kitty Come Home?

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I do wish I knew where this was filmed.  Reminds me of Fangorn.

So you call your cat and what do you get? A couple of deer and a platoon of wild turkeys. And what is that grey-green stuff draped all over the slope, the rocks, and dead wood?

Whose Name Is It, Anyway?

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[Note: Four pages of my book written today, hoorah! Off to a good start.]

What happens if your hubby is a billionaire, and you, through marriage, now have the same name as someone else on Instagram–and you want to use that name? (John Smith, Jim Johnson, call your offices!)

Katherine Asplundh’s husband owns a huge tree service. You’ve probably seen those Asplundh tree-grinders around town; surely you’ve heard them at work, they’re very loud.

Well, Katherine wants to go on Instagram but Kate Asplundh, no relation, is already there. No problema–just offer to buy Kate’s user name. Except Kate says that Instagram will ban her if she sells her name, so it’s thanks, but no thanks.

At this point Katherine gets nasty (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13394253/Billionaires-glamorous-new-wife-goes-viral-trying-bully-woman-shares-new-surname-selling-Instagram-handle-just-days-tying-knot-entitled-messages-make-furious.html). Maybe she can bully Kate into giving up her name: worth a try, at least.

What is this–an Upstairs, Downstairs episode? Lady, Kate was there first. This is America, you can’t just force her to give up her user name to you.

Our country is special. At least, it was meant to be. Money can’t buy everything.  It can’t buy your name if you don’t want to sell.

How long can we keep it that way?

Democrat Governor: Black Kids Don’t Know What a Computer Is

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Who’s she going to insult this time? She does naturally what Don Rickles had to work at.

Boy, do Democrats ever take their voter base for granted!

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, at a weekend business conference in California: “Black kids in the Bronx don’t know what a computer is” (https://apnews.com/article/hochul-black-kids-bronx-computer-comment-e0c3c69b1ebf9639d8f9e402096f8446). “They don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is.”

Amid the inevitable backlash, “I misspoke,” she said. She went on to blather about using Artificial Intelligence “to address social inequality.” How about using it to address her head-in-the-clouds elitism?

You support these Democrats year-in, year-out–well, could that be the reason they think you’re too dumb to know what a computer is? Really, it’s astounding, what they get away with. Watch American Jews vote Democrat even as the Party tries to curry favor with Hamas.

Is there anyone these Democrats respect? Is there even one bloc of voters that is not expendable? Is there a limit to how much they can insult people before theyblack lose their votes?

Betcha the answer is “no” to all three.

Blue Whales Coming Back… Or Not?

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Can’t give it up, can we?

Remember, back in the Seventies, how close the world’s great whales were to extinction? Remember that? The whaling industry seemed intent on wiping out whales. International conservation efforts had to be founded and funded–in a hurry. By 1998 there were only 2,000 blue whales left alive.

After several years’ study (2006-2021), Australian scientists report that blue whales seem to be recovering. There seems to be reason for rejoicing: the conservation crusade had succeeded (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/06/im-a-blue-whale-im-here-researchers-listen-with-delight-to-songs-that-hint-at-antarctic-resurgence#:~:text=New%20research%20suggests%20the%20population,Southern%20Ocean%20with%20growing%20regularity.).

However–!

Japan has just launched a new “whaling mother ship” to kill and process whales at sea (https://maritime-executive.com/article/japan-s-new-whaling-ship-raises-concerns-for-conservationists#:~:text=Japanese%20whaling%20industry%20has%20gained,based%20seafood%20company%20Kyodo%20Senpaku.). Yes, Japan is still whaling. They want their people eating whale meat. Or something like that.

The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on earth. Once upon a time we humans almost wiped it out.

Now we’re going to try again?

I would hate to have to plead that case before God the Creator.

 

‘They’re Banning “Gatsby” Again’ (2020)

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(The cars were pretty cool, though–eh?)

Given what they’ve already got in the school library, is there any book too dirty for today’s school boards to embrace?

Oh, yeah–The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A great work of American literature. And yet “educators” for whom morality is an unexplored continent keep banning it.

They’re Banning ‘Gatsby’ Again

I give up. I simply can’t think of a single reason to continue what we call “public education.”

‘Faith of Our Fathers’

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It’s been a long time since I last posted this hymn: Faith of Our Fathers, a Sunday school staple. Good Lord, we even sang it in high school, in assembly! Try getting that done now…

Sung here by students at Fountainview Academy.

They Panicked Because…?

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So here we have one grown man and two grown women totally freaking out over a spider in their house. You do wonder about some people’s relationship with nature. I was afraid of spiders, as a boy; but even I never carried on like this.