If you think alligators give people a hard time in Florida, check out this couple in Zimbabwe, chased out of their backyard swimming pool by a crocodile. The man jumps out of the pool, leaving the woman to frolic with the crocodile. Quickly thinking better of it, he runs around the pool to shoo the croc from the woman, who is then able to escape unbitten.
Does this croc have an attitude, or what?
It could’ve turned out a lot worse.
The Katzenjammer Kids, at the hands of various artists and writers, were in newspapers and comic books for 109 years, starting in 1897, until 2006; and they’re still available in reprints.
They were in the Sunday color comics in my Grammy’s paper (but not ours), and I always looked forward to seeing what Hans and Fritz would get up to next. Looking back on it now, I wonder why they were so popular. Really, they weren’t nice at all–in fact, a couple of delinquents. Did they resonate with our sin nature, with some darkness in our souls? I can’t imagine trying to baby-sit for them: you might not live to tell about it.
Then again, perhaps they served a useful purpose, after all–an opportunity to let off steam without doing any harm. Hey, I watch the Three Stooges. That doesn’t mean I go around poking people in the eye and pulling chandeliers down from anybody’s ceiling. It means I laugh when they do it, because it’s so ridiculous. Maybe not as ridiculous as Okashii-yo-Cortez, but certainly more harmless.
I don’t know what I’d give to be at Grammy’s house again, reading the comics in her Sunday paper.
I had no sooner posted my old satire from 2015, about morons trying to ban Bible-reading in church, when this story came in via Worldnetdaily:
Christians have had to sue the Evergreens at–at!–Smith Run retirement center–cute name, ain’t it?–for religious discrimination against a retired pastor and his wife who had been hosting non-denominational Bible study sessions in their own apartment. That was after they got kicked out of the common area.
On top of that, they’ve been threatened with eviction and the “at” owners have refused to renew their lease. Some retirement, eh?
Oh–and while all this goes on, “a small group” of, er, residents has assaulted the Christians both verbally and physically. But you don’t see the management threatening to kick them out, do you?
The lawsuit alleges (ya think?) that the “at” owners violated the federal Fair Housing Act by discriminating against the pastor and his wife on religious grounds. Which of course is what they have done.
The Supreme Court recently smacked down the state of Colorado for its overt hostility to Christians. No, not the whole state–just the government. Because somehow aggressive atheism has become the official religion of certain states and their governments. But you don’t see the ACLU complaining about that, do you?
Let us pray for the complete success of this lawsuit. We are Christians and this is still our country.
Shame and shame on us if we lose it.
This was pure satire when I wrote it, four years ago. But every day it shambles just a little closer to reality.
Fair warning: a Congress capable of passing the so-called “Equality Act” is capable of banning Bible-reading.
Next time a Democrat wins the White House, watch out. They will try to erase religious liberty.
Still my favorite rendition of this hymn–Revive Us Again, performed by Nathan and Lyle.
I once stood still and whistled this to a pair of deer, some ten feet away: and they stayed.
They knew this country needs revival. Even the deer know that.
It seems most of these cats don’t know what to make of puppies. And of course the puppies want to play, because that’s what puppies do. Sometimes they can hit it off right from the start, but most of the time, for the cat, it takes some getting used to.
And there’s a puppy in this video who’s gotta be part-hamster, because he’s no bigger than a hamster. He confuses two cats at once.
This is the first judo throw I ever learned, O-Goshi. This irresistible name means “Major Hip Throw.” I learned it from a book, “Combat Judo” by Claude St. Denis. That summer, it launched me and my friends on a judo kick.
Wouldn’t you know it? The very first time I tried to use judo in a friendly wrestling match, I pulled off an O-Goshi–and it never, ever happened again, in several hundred judo matches. I guess that’s because everybody knows this throw and they’d be embarrassed to fall victim to it.
I have a feeling that despite an interval of several decades, I could still do this throw. Can’t say that for a lot of the others. But learning O-Goshi is like learning how to ride a bicycle. Once you learn, you never forget.
Okay! It’s a beautiful, mild, sunny spring day. And that means it’s time for… LEAF BLOWERS!!!
Yes, shatter the peace of your neighborhood, drown out the bird song, blow rodent feces all over the place! Braaaaap! Whommmmp! What? There’s someone trying to think? Well, lemme at him! Braaaaap! Whommmmmp!
And we’ve also got fat guys on riding mowers “landscaping” yards the size of postage stamps, and guys with really noisy air compressors so they can power-wash their driveways.
Are we in Mordor?
There really must be something wrong with us.
This is among my very earliest memories: my father carrying me in his arms, rocking me, and singing this to me: You Are My Sunshine. And if I tried to sing it now, wit you well, it would make me cry. I dassn’t even play it on my harmonica.
I had these fantods, see, of undefined scary things assembling outside my bedroom window and whispering evilly among themselves, just waiting for me to fall asleep so they could come in and get me. So Daddy had to come and calm me down, which of course he always did.
I hope he knows how much I miss him.
And now I have to stop, because it’s getting to me.
This is one of those stories that never gets followed up: I don’t know how it turned out.
German Gov’t to People: ‘Defend Yourselves’ ; People to Gov’t: ‘With What?’
It reminds me of the Roman Emperor Honorius pulling the legions out of Britain and telling the citizens, “Look to your own defenses.” At least he didn’t have to say, “While we stay here and just sit around playing Old Maid while the barbarians eat you alive.”
A government that won’t defend its citizens has no reason for existing.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking–about Democrats and border security?