War, you say? You’d better believe it’s war. Satan means to devour us, and he’s got his slaves working day and night to bring it about.
This is a psalm sing at Christ Church: we plead for it to be heard in Heaven.
Year: 2024
Groundhogs at Play
A nice home under someone’s porch, soft green grass, and sunshine–what groundhog could ask for more? Here’s a mother with two babies. They don’t seem at all camera shy, do they?
Lincoln Statue Melts–A Sign?
Melting away: wax statue of Lincoln
The Roman historian Livy was big on prodigies and other unusual events, which he interpreted as cryptic messages from Heaven. He’d have a field day with this one.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0xxjn07d6qo
A wax (really?) statue of President Abraham Lincoln has melted in the heat of a Washington, D.C., summer. Well, a good bit of it, at least.
Is the spirit of Lincoln trying to tell us something? I very much doubt the message, if there is one, is “Keep up the good work, you’re doin’ great!”
And just in time for the presidential debate, too! Is Lincoln unhappy with the state of our republic? If so, he has a lot of company. Can you imagine some of the huckleberries we have today serving as president during the Civil War? Both sides would have lost.
Again, now seems like a good time for some serious national soul-searching.
Before anything else melts.
‘Memory Lane’ Contest, Day 3
In a bid to keep sanity, we bring you Day 3 of our Memory Lane Contest. Post your memories here. Two weeks later, someone wins a prize. It could be you!
Meanwhile, here’s this…
These water-powered rockets were big, big, big! on TV when I was a boy. Oh, how I wanted one! As you can see, they’re still around. I finally got one when I was in my forties… and it didn’t work! Grrr! Didn’t even sort of work. It just went “Pssht!” and fell off the launcher. Every time.
And now for some of your memories!
A Tragicomedy Waiting to Happen
If there ever was a sign of these our times, this canoe tried cross-wise atop a car is it.
Cowboystatedaily.com posted this picture. I wouldn’t have thought anybody living west of the Appalachians would’ve perpetrated a howler like this.
Uh, dude… How fast do you think you can go before wind resistance blows your canoe to kingdom come?
(Holy cow! He’s about to take this potential calamity onto the highway–?)
Granted, it’s not the easiest thing in the world, to tie a canoe to the roof of your car. But it’s not rocket science, either.
I dunno. Maybe it’s an oracle. Maybe we’d better do some soul-searching.
‘Oops! Big-Deal Noozie Loses 75% of His Audience’ (2021)
If you managed a department store and sales were down 75%, how long do you think they’d keep you?
Three years ago, CNN’s Jake Tapper, alleged newsman, lost 75% (!) of his viewing audience.
Tomorrow he gets to moderate a presidential debate.
How is this guy still working?
There is something hugely fishy about that debate. Donald Trump will be walking into a snake-pit. And I don’t know how they’ll stage-manage Biden, who has lately shown a propensity for forgetting why he’s there and just wandering off in a daze. Are there drugs that can make him act normal for an hour or two?
And then there’ll be questions like “How does it feel to be a convicted felon?” and “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” We know TV noozies. TV news is to journalism as Spam is to haute cuisine.
Has the Lord our God written us off, or will He save us at the last minute?
Pray for America.
By Request, ‘The Ball Game’
Andrea emailed this song to us, and it really hit the spot–Sister Wynona Carr sings The Ball Game, vintage 1952.
Listen to the lyrics. This is a sweet worship song, and lots of fun to boot. Thanks, Andrea.
Dogs and Bunnies Play Together
In a state of nature, the interactions in this video would be unthinkable. But this is domestication: dogs and bunnies can play with each other.
Think about it! The only creatures that domestication doesn’t tame… are humans.
The Devil and Donald Trump
On Thursday we will see the first presidential debate between Donald Trump, former president, and a man named Biden. The debate will be (ahem!) moderated by two notoriously anti-Trump characters from CNN–Jake Tapper, who has survived losing some 50% of his audience, and one Dana Bash.
Why does this wing-ding remind me of The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet?
In that story, the Devil comes to claim the soul of Jabez Stone; but Stone’s neighbor, Daniel Webster, undertakes to defend him. The Devil agrees to a trial, provided he gets to pick the jury. Webster has to allow it; and the Devil picks a dozen dyed-in-the-wool villains from American history. Today’s readers won’t recognize the names, but they were all still infamous a hundred years ago.
You’d think it’d be a kangaroo court, but Webster is equal to the challenge. He appeals to a common humanity that even these villains recognize; and lo and behold, a “Not Guilty” verdict. Jabez’s soul is saved.
Dare I suggest that even Jabez Stone got a better deal than President Trump is likely to get this week?
There’s something deeply but as yet indefinably fishy about this “debate.” Biden’s cognitive problems are widely recognized. I find it hard to understand why Mr. Trump agreed to participate. He must know he’s walking into a game with a stacked deck–like Alan Ladd in Shane. Only he won’t have Ladd’s screenwriters to help him through it.
And what can we do but pray for him? America needs Donald Trump back in the White House. This is Hercules flushing out the Augean stables: supposedly an impossible task, but he accomplished it regardless.
May the Lord our God defend us.
Make a Speech–and They’ll Make You Disappear
Tommy Robinson, a free speech activist who’s raised cain in his home country, Britain, has been arrested for giving a speech… in Canada (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/british-activist-tommy-robinson-arrested-canada-undercover-police/).
It’s rather a scary scenario. Visiting Canada, Robinson gave a speech about government overreach and censorship. Some hundred and fifty people were his audience.
When he finished the speech and sought to leave, Robinson was arrested by ten undercover police officers. [I didn’t know Canada had a KGB. Did you?] The organizers of the speech were unable to find out where the cops had taken Robinson; nor did they know what he was being charged with. No one answered any questions.
He might have never been seen again. How about that?
As it happened, he was released shortly afterward without a word of explanation by the police or by the government. We’ll have to hear what he has to say about this experience. He’s no stranger to being arrested; but I think this is the first time he’s been arrested in Canada.
They want their global government, they want power over all, and they want it now.
Update: The video reveals that Robinson was arrested for “immigration offenses.”
Hard to imagine anyone perpetrating “immigration offenses” worse than our Far Left governments’.