Joshua requested this much-needed break from stupid and unedifying nooze–Faith of Our Fathers, sung by the kids from Fountainview Academy on their visit to Italy. This was one of the first grown-ups’ hymns they taught us in our Sunday school, way back when.
Gettin’ a little hard to find stuff that ain’t corrupt…
They already get scholarships and free tuition, they’re immune to flunking out academically, and they have the added fun of being able to pose as “students.” But that isn’t enough for the state of California.
The Assembly has passed, by a 66-0 vote (!), a bill called “Fair Pay to Play,” which would allow college athletes to hire agents and make money from endorsements (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/california-assembly-passes-legislation-to-pay-college-athletes/ar-AAH3QvF). A final vote in the Senate is scheduled for tomorrow. The NCAA has warned that this is likely to jeopardize the amateur status of California’s college athletes and render California schools ineligible to compete for NCAA national championships.
Aw, so what? Those racists at the NCAA just hate education.
Oh, well–it’s more honest than that whole pretense of “student-athletes.” But what about “higher education” is honest anymore?
Meanwhile, back in the real world, “pay to play” denotes corrupt politicians selling public policy in return for campaign contributions and other goodies. That’s one thing that’s still less dishonest than college sports. But only just barely.
Anyone who still doubts that the Democrat Party is the Anti-Christian Party is simply not paying attention. I don’t know how much clearer they can make it to you, than this.
These are the people whose god is their own bellies, who worship the brute power of the state and unceasingly grab for more of it, and who hate and fear anyone who isn’t them. They hate their own country–our country!–and want to “transform” it into something else.
I don’t believe our republic can survive another Democrat presidency.
Let’s play it safe, and just not have one. Ever.
Was it really only eight years? It felt a lot longer than that!
People have short memories. How many have forgotten how truly awful the Obama presidency was?
It was a festival of lawlessness. It was a celebration of all things perverse, insane, and wrong. We are blessed that our republic somehow managed to survive. But enough harm was done so that the next Democrat regime might finish us.
Use the power of the IRS to punish citizens for their politics? Oh, yeah!
But don’t let them catch you holding any bake sales…
A little high church to start the day–O Thou Who Camest from Above, sung by the Rochester Cathedral Choir.
If you’re new here–I take hymn requests, the hymn shop’s open to all, all the time. If you have a favorite hymn you’d like to share, just say so in a comment anywhere on the blog.
This is why you don’t want to give your cat one of those paper bags with handles. They always manage to get stuck in the handles and it freaks them out.
Astounding False Fact: A certain famous polar explorer was almost killed when he got stuck in a paper bag left lying on the igloo floor by a careless Inuit.
Wow! A new poll reports 95 percent of American adults are “troubled” by the state of our nooze media today, and 67 percent expect “journalistic ethics” (LOL) to sink even lower in 2020 (https://www.thewrap.com/fake-news-fears-95-of-americans-troubled-by-current-state-of-media-poll-finds/).
The poll of 1,010 adults was taken by a “boutique PR agency,” whatever that is, called Bospar.
Are you surprised by this finding? Well, we’ve just been talking about how our whole nooze media in 2001 erased the news about all those people who danced in celebration, on rooftops and in streets, as the Twin Towers went down. It was an incredible feat of mendacity, to make that story go away. Before a year was out, you couldn’t find it anywhere. And for years afterward, nooze outlets denied they’d ever had video of those celebrations and nothing at all about it in their archives.
Never mind that millions of us saw it on live TV! To say nothing of eyewitnesses.
Next year you can be sure our free and independent media will be doing absolutely everything they can to put some Democrat wacko in the White House. They will lie, cheat, and steal to do it.
It would be good for us to rise to the occasion and not let them do it.
If telling the truth is hateful, then I guess I’m headed for trouble. But this is September 11: eighteen years ago today, Arab terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center.
And they danced in the streets of Paterson, NJ, to celebrate.
Mark Simone on WOR Radio, New York, is telling the truth about that. Check out this video from his website:
All these years, know-it-all liberals and government liars have been telling us, “No, that never happened! No Muslims danced for joy when the WTC went down!” We saw it on TV, and I knew someone who was there and saw it with his own eyes, right in front of him–but the big shots kept telling us we never saw what we saw.
Millions of people saw this! But somebody’s damage control quickly went into effect, no one ran the video anymore, investigators clammed up about it–and we were told it never happened, we must’ve imagined it.
Thank you, Mark Simone, for setting the record straight.
As if this job weren’t hazardous enough…
So there’s a fire and you call the Fire Dept. to come and put it out. Only you’re in France, not here; and when the fire-fighters come, the bad guys attack them with rocks and Molotov cocktails (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/11/french-firefighters-use-police-escort-molotov-cocktail-attack/).
It’s gotten so bad, some of the French emergency services have had to make a “series of videos calling on the public… not to attack them.” Apparently the M.O. is to set some garbage on fire and then ambush the fire-fighters when they come to put it out.
Uh… okay: so who’s doing this?
We are not told! All we’re told us that this involves fires in “sensitive areas,” whatever those are. I don’t see the point of news reporting whose main purpose is to keep the readers from finding out what’s happening; I guess I’m old-fashioned that way.
The perpetrator of this dramatically uninformative news store is one Chris Tomlinson with Breitbart. If he’s made any effort to find out who’s bushwhacking the firemen and rescue squads, he hasn’t mentioned it. So we don’t know who’s doing this, any more than we know what constitutes a “sensitive area” where it isn’t safe for fire trucks or ambulances to go.
What kind of government permits this sort of thing to go on? Why isn’t the government of France finding and stopping the people who are doing this? (Hint: Because the government of France is full of liberals and no right-thinking liberal government would ever lift a finger to protect its own people.)
And what kind of nooze reporting is this? We don’t even get a speculation as to who’s attacking the firemen? No description of those “sensitive areas”? I mean, yeah, sure, we can guess–and probably guess pretty accurately, too.
Meanwhile, any government that can’t or won’t protect its own people has no reason for existing.
Oi! Where is everybody this morning?
Byron the Quokka here, mates–and I just stopped by to give you a friendly reminder, which is this.
The current ongoing comment contest is heading towards 50,000 comments on this blog, a major dinkum milestone, and there’ll be a special prize for the winner. We won’t tell you what the prize is until we’ve reached 49,000 comments–because we want to see the fur fly, once readers realize what a fantastic prize this is. We’re just a few hundred comments away from that.
Now I’m supposed to be running this thing, and it makes me look bad when there’s only one comment up so far today. A duck-billed platypus could do better than that!