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.

‘UK School Threatens to Brand 8-Year-Olds as Racists’ (2013)

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“You dirty little racists, you!”

The more I think about these news stories I’ve posted over the year, the more I begin to realize R.J. Rushdoony was right–Far Left Crazy, secular humanism, really is destroying itself. Like f’rinstance:

UK School Threatens to Brand 8-Year-Olds as Racists

All the “progressive” things they do are progress only to the pit. Go ahead, tell me how it benefits anyone to have a “racist” label slapped on an 8-year-old kid, by some damnfool of a schoolmarm, that’ll follow him wherever he goes–just because his mommy didn’t send him on a field trip.

Nothing these people “achieve” benefits society. Unless you think live birth abortion and “gay marriage” are benefits. But if you do… well, you’re one of them.

‘All Glory Be to Christ’

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Usually I post this around Christmastime, but it was in my mind all yesterday afternoon, and I like to heed such promptings–All Glory Be to Christ, performed by King’s Kaleidoscope. Simple, but I find it very moving. Full of Scriptural echoes.

Cats Make Babies Laugh

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What is it about cats that human babies find so hilarious? Babies’ minds are sealed books to us. By the time they’re old enough to talk, they can’t remember what they might have had to talk about when they were infants. I would love to know what goes on inside the mind of a little baby. Or the mind of a cat, for that matter.

Can it be that cats and babies understand each other?

‘Determining the New Direction of History’

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(This Chalcedon editorial appeared Sept. 7, 2019.)

One of R.J. Rushdoony’s more controversial assertions was that humanism is busy killing itself, and slated for extinction. He then went on to ask what that requires us, as subjects of the Kingdom of God, to do. That question’s still here, right in front of us.

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/determining-the-new-direction-of-history

Because they’re running wild, heaping up wealth and power, and generally trashing our whole civilization, it’s easy to wind up thinking Christ’s enemies are winning. But everything they, er, “achieve” hurts them even more than it hurts us. Homosexual parodies of marriage, transgenderism, and, only lately, a dalliance with the prospect of wholesale cannibalism–these are not winning game plans. They think they’re on the path to creating a global government. But all they’re creating is chaos–and in the end, they’ll choke on it.

Yes, they look like Goliath, and they scare us. But remember what happened to Goliath.

Special Treat: ‘Leaning on the Everlasting Arms’

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Erlene happened to mention this hymn in one of her comments today, and I thought I’d post it before running out the door to take Robbie to the vet.

Sit back and enjoy this gorgeous rendition, by the Gordon Quartet, of this classic hymn, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.

DNC Resolution: Christians are the Bad Guys

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Lest we forget

Taking a leaf from the California legislature, the space aliens who run the Democrat National Committee have passed a resolution to make The Party “more inclusive” to “non-believers”–and blaming Christians and Christianity for everything that’s wrong with the racist, sexist hell-hole that Democrats call America (https://stream.org/democratic-party-resolution-against-christianity/?fbclid=IwAR3DgtoLi-nl33lk_7YPXGV8hVnpIc2RJF0_wdBqg1UlTRcm7Djw9UkhG0I).

The resolution babbles about Christians’ “misplaced claims of ‘religious liberty’ to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women, and ethnic and religious/nonreligious minorities.” Our victims are predominantly men, women, and children…

[Note: Yes, I know the resolution manages to dance around the words “Christians” and “Christianity.” Really, now–who else do you think they’re talking about?]

Note how they put “religious liberty” in quotes, to emphasize that there’s really no such thing, it’s just this imaginary thing that Christians think is in the Constitution.

As for being “more inclusive” to non-believers: walk into a DNC dum-dum with a petition to limit abortio, and see how inclusive they are.

Incredible as it may seem, there are still Christians who vote for Democrats and who will vote for them next year. Do they have to start rounding us up and putting us in camps before these other “Christians” notice anything amiss?

Our country’s founders–Democrats hate them, too–thought religious liberty so crucial and important, they guaranteed it in the First Amendment to the Constitution. They enshrined it there. And in the Declaration of Independence, declared that our liberties are “endowed by our Creator,” not doled out by government when it’s in a good mood, to be snatched away again the next day.

God pity us if we’re ever so insane as ever to give Democrats power in our country, ever again. This must never, ever happen again.

Byron Presents: Bell Mountain Trivia Question No. 14

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G’day, mates! Byron the Quokka here: and Lee had to take the cat to the vet for her checkup, so he left me in charge. It’s a big responsibility!

But first things first: the Bell Mountain trivia contest, Question No. 14. Remember, I warned you the questions’d get harder as we moved toward No. 20. But first, No. 14:

Where did Barseen and Uncle Shesh come from?

Oh! And that SUV parked behind me–I’m trying to get Lee to make that the prize for winning this contest.

But he won’t listen to me unless he comes home and finds I got this blog a ton of views while he was out. Oi! Tell your friends about it! Let’s make this a blog day to remember–it’ll look great on my resume.

‘I’m Not Writing Anything Today’ (2013)

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Just like the one Grandma had

This piece properly belongs with the Thanksgiving season; but I had a desire to pay a little tribute to my grandma, my mother’s mother.

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I was only eleven when she died. Hers was the first funeral I ever went to. She went to bed one night and quietly passed away: no doctors, no hospital, no fuss. She’d raised six daughters in her time, plucked innumerable chickens (they had a chicken coop in the back yard: no one in this town has chickens today), and canned everything that Grandpa grew.

One of my earliest memories is sitting on her lap, fascinated, while she showed me how her sewing machine worked.

Yes, I still miss her.

‘Face to Face with Christ, My Saviour’

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This is another 19th-century hymn I hadn’t heard before–Face to Face with Christ, My Saviour. Sung a capella by the Altar of Praise Chorale. Background sets by God the Father.

Dogs Who Chase Bubbles

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Do you chase bubbles? No? Well, dogs do–and look at all the fun they have. Maybe they’ve got something there. And babies, by the way, find this one of the funniest shows on earth.

It is said that Julius Caesar used to chase bubbles until someone convinced him not to.