Author: leeduigon(patty)

I have lived in Metuchen, NJ, all my life. I have been married to my wife Patricia since 1977. I am a former newspaper editor and reporter. I was also the owner-operator of my own small business for several years. I wrote various novels and short stories published during 1980s and 1990s. I am a long-time student of judo and Japanese swordsmanship (kenjutsu). I also play chess, basketball, and military and sports simulations.

A Window into Another World

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Charles R. Knight was always one of my favorite artists. He is best known for the paintings he executed for our country’s great museums–paintings that make prehistoric ages come alive.

This is one of his renditions of Uintatherium, a walking fortress that exists no more. Well, naturally I’m going to groove on the prehistoric animals. But lately it’s been another aspect of Knight’s paintings that has captured my imagination.

His backgrounds.

Look closely. Take your time. Ignore the creature and study the landscape. I don’t know about you, but I would just about swear that Knight’s prehistoric landscapes were real places that he’d visited.

I know about that. I dream of places that are only real when I dream them. In fact, that’s how Bell Mountain started.

I know nothing of Charles R. Knight’s religious beliefs. But I believe that if the Holy Spirit wants to use you, He will, regardless of what you believe. If we approach Knight’s possibly real, possibly imaginary places in the right frame of mind, the Spirit might touch us, too.

God created the world and all living things, and pronounced them good. If He has Uintatherium safely tucked away in some unguessed-at corner of His universe, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were in a place just like the one Knight painted.

And who would be more surprised to discover that than Charles Knight himself?

By Request, ‘Ten Thousand Reasons’

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Susan asked for this one, too, another clip from the Sing! Conference–Matt Redman, and Ten Thousand Reasons. Ten thousand reasons to bless the Lord, O my soul…

‘Chinese Government Demands Dalai Lama Reincarnate’ (2015)

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Communists are such control freaks, they want to control things that they don’t believe are real: like, for instance, reincarnation.

Chinese Communist Gov’t Demands Dalai Lama Reincarnate

As a Christian, I don’t believe in reincarnation, either; but I certainly wouldn’t bother to say to anyone, “You’d better reincarnate–or else!”

Or else what?

See, the Dalai Lama sort of hinted that he might not reincarnate after he dies, this time, and the Chicoms–not content with devouring his country, Tibet, and enslaving its people–are all bent out of shape over it. They say The Government ought to decide who gets reincarnated and who doesn’t.

This is why Western liberals admire them so much.

By Request, ‘Blessings’

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Requested by Susan, introduced by Joni Eareckson Tada, and performed by Laura Story: Blessings.

Joni was paralyzed in a swimming pool accident as a teenager in 1967, and has served the Lord in her ministry for decades.

Critter Parade

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Actually, there is no parade included in this video. It proved impossible to get the cats to remain in formation.

So all we have here is a little celebration of how fine a thing it is to have these animals in our lives–I can’t imagine what it’d be like without them.

Somewhere on Youtube there’s a video of someone’s pet clam. That’s another thing that’s kind of hard to imagine.

UK Noozie: Good Grammar is ‘Racist’

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Joe Collidge lives! He has pioneered spelling any word any old way you please, and making up grammar as he goes along–and now the data editor (whatever that is) of a major British newspaper agrees with him.

“Grammar snobs are patronizing, pretentious, and just plain wrong,” says this yo-yo at The Guardian. And “minorities” shouldn’t be expected to know grammar. (https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/melissa-mullins/2016/04/23/angry-brit-correcting-grammar-racist-classist-and-censorious)

So who, again, is “patronizing” and “pretentious”?

But let’s hear from Joe Collidge himself:

I has bin sayin This “all” “alonge” that gramer It “is” Racist!! and this hear jist gose “to” Proove it!!, “and” i kanow i aint not Rong “abote” it neether!!!

I wonder if Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell realizes he’s being a white supremacist by using proper grammar. Maybe they, as Minorities, shouldn’t be allowed to use it. After all, it’s a form of White Privilege, to be able to communicate clearly.

Or, as Constable Chumley would say, “Yair fithen me cransion, I forrit!”

Bell Mountain Trivia Question No. 15

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G’day! That’s me, Byron the Quokka, jumping across the shark-infested River of Doom to bring you Question No. 15 in our Bell Mountain trivia contest. Whew–got across unscathed! And here’s your question:

In what battle was Angel, King Ryons’ hawk, honored by the Hosa warriors?

Only five questions to go, and I’m afraid I’m gunner have to make ’em hard, from here on out. How fast can you read Bell Mountain books? Meanwhile, if you’re new here and you don’t know what I’m talking about, just go to the home page and click “Books.”

Well, I got across the River of Doom all right. Now comes the tricky part: getting back.

By Request, ‘Living Water’

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One of my favorite chapters in the Bible is John 4, in which Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at the well (“and he told me all things that ever I did!”) and tells her of the living water she can get from Him. This song is about that incident.

Requested by Erlene, Living Water by Carroll Roberson from his new album, Unchanging Love.

Censored Again!

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I didn’t know Facebook censored news. You know–those reports of things that have actually happened. But it seems they do, if it makes a Democrat look bad.

A few minutes ago I published a post about Hillary Clinton mocking America at a Venice art show. This is one of those things that really happened.

Facebook wouldn’t let me post it on our Facebook page because, they say, it was a “post that looks like spam.” I don’t see that all. Maybe some liberal out there can explain why no one should be allowed to know about this nooze. Go ahead; I dare you.

Wait’ll Facebook, Google, and the rest of Far Left Big Tech figure out they can help Democrats best by silencing every stupid or deranged statement that flops out of their mouths. We’ll never hear from them again.

OK, let’s see if the puppies can get me past the censor.

Hillary Mocks America

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The moment any Democrat sets foot on foreign soil, he or she disses America. It’s in their DNA; they can’t control it. I don’t mind that they travel a lot. I just mind that they come back.

The latest is Hillary Clinton, who’s been mocking America from the safety of Venice, Italy (https://tammybruce.com/2019/09/sad-story-hillary-sits-at-mock-resolute-desk-reading-her-emails-at-venice-art-exhibit.html). As part of some kind of art exhibit, she sits at a fake Resolute Desk in a fake Oval Office, reading her leaked e-mails–60,000 pages worth.

This supposedly demonstrates that there was nothing in any of her Secretary of State e-mails that was at all sensitive, secret, dangerous, or simply not to be revealed. Smirking, the most corrupt woman in the northern hemisphere riffles the stack of papers and says, “They’re just so boring!”

Oh–are they? If they are, then why did you go to such extraordinary lengths to delete them or destroy them? You even had some of your goons smashing hard drives with hammers. Plus it’s a felony, for which others have had to go to prison, to handle classified material negligently–to say nothing of with a total disregard for anything even suggestive of security.

Anyway, there she is in a foreign country, laughing at America and yukking it up over the way she’s gotten away with one crime after another. Haw, haw.

Can’t we find some lawful way to banish her?