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.

Australia’s Mystery Cats (Big and Scary) REPRINT

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From February 18, 2013

In recent years, more and more Australians have been seeing big black cats prowling around the countryside. Many amateur videos of these creatures have been posted on the Internet.  Thing is, big cats are not native to Australia.

The cats are usually identified as black panthers–that is, leopards born black. That’s what a black panther is. Theories abound. They escaped from zoos or circuses. Men released them from U.S. warships during WWII. People are getting scared: supposedly the cats have killed cattle, horses, sheep, and other large prey. So far the Australian state and federal governments have declined to take any action.

There are a few problems with the leopard theory. 1) Leopards habitually stash their prey in trees instead of trying to eat it all at once. These Australian cats never haul their kill into a tree. 2) Black leopards are rare, but all the Australian cats seen so far are black. How come no one has seen any ordinary leopards? 3) Leopards in Africa and Asia get used to living near human habitation and often attack people. The Australian cats haven’t attacked anyone… yet. 4) A few of the witnesses, including some who managed to film a cat, have said they thought there was something not quite right about it. I have seen some of those videos online, and I concur: especially from a distance, there seems to be something funny about these cats, especially the head.  5) Very oddly indeed, no one has yet shot or trapped one of these cats. That would certainly settle the controversy, if we had an actual specimen to examine. People are always bagging leopards, but not one of these mystery cats has yet been killed or captured.

I wonder, just wonder, if they’re not leopards at all–or not even cats.

Could Thylacoleo be making a comeback? Thylacoleo, the “marsupial lion,” a nasty-looking, cat-like predator, supposedly went extinct during prehistoric times.

But did it? Did it really? I can’t help wondering.

 

 

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

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Really Busy Day Today

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Today I had a few errands to run.

The new government of this borough has really succeeded in making the traffic here unbearable.  It’s a small town with far too many cars.  They just keep packing people in. Lee had run into the new mayor a few years ago, and he (the mayor) was thrilled that the town was packed .  He said “On Sunday you could have rolled a bowling ball down Main Street”  to which Lee replied  “That’s the way we liked it.”  My honey sure was no diplomat.

I only needed to go to the bank, Whole Foods, and the Post Office.

It took me forever.

It also got blazingly hot here–very unseasonable.  They said it was 85, but it felt a lot hotter.  And of course, as soon as you leave the car to go into someplace,the car heats right up again.

I did put up that interview with Rudy Giuliani because I really like him.  He was  a  marvelous mayor, who loves that town and his lungs  are now very compromised because of all the time he spent at Ground Zero.

I remember another incident about that time.  A group of political figures were assembled somewhere in New York.  Everyone was in shock over the attack, and Ed Koch was in tears.  Hillary Clinton actually said  “Ed, why are you crying?”   Democrat or not, Ed Koch loved New York City.  And Hillary showed what a dunderhead she was.

It is now time for me to start my supper and go back to watching ER which I had never seen before.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

America’s Mayor

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I have always liked Rudi Giuliani.  He cleaned up New York City after years of Democrat misrule.  Manhattan had become horrible.  He did a monumental job of making New York City what it had been.  It was cleaned up, fixed up, and made into a place you would want to visit.  His medical condition now is exacerbated because of all the time he spent at the site of the  World Trade Center right after the bombings.  I truly wish him a speedy recover.

Our Gangster Government REPRINT

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From April 12, 2014

I don’t know all the ins and outs of this mess in Nevada, but I do know what force and intimidation look like, and I certainly know hypocrisy when I see it.

The government claims the rancher’s cattle are trespassing onto federally- owned land. Why does this make me think of claims that Polish troops violated Germany’s border in 1939? But just for the sake of argument, let’s say it’s so: the cattle are grazing where they shouldn’t. As unlikely as it is that the feds are telling the truth, let’s just say they are.

In that case… who are they to insist that citizens be law-abiding? We have a mystery man occupying the White House, who openly boasts that he will not execute laws that he doesn’t like. We have a US Attorney General who advises state attorneys general not to enforce the law, whose management of his office over five years has been unrivaled for lawlessness and scandal.

An administration more lawless than this one can scarcely be imagined.

And so we see videos of fat, hulking government goons with attack dogs and tasers, standing against angry citizens who have had just about enough. They seize a rancher’s cattle, destroying a family livelihood that has been on the same land for well over a century.

And they set up a little-bitty “free speech zone” where, supposedly, you can say what’s on your mind without fear of being beaten up by “law enforcement officers” or subjected to a lifetime audit by the IRS.

Remember when there was only one free speech zone in this country, and it was called America?

I won’t even discuss the reports that the reason Nevada’s US Senator, the loathsome Harry Reid, won’t protect the people of Nevada is because he’s arranged to transfer the land to a Red Chinese company that intends to set up a “solar farm” there. I mean, really–who ever heard of a senator protecting the people who elected him?

Waco, Ruby Ridge… Would you be surprised if the goons shot somebody today in Nevada?

At what point, if ever, is this administration to be brought to heel?

 

 

The Three Little Foxes

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Praying to Another Idiot REPRINT

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From September 4, 2014

Liberals ought to just stay away from religion. It doesn’t come naturally to them; and when they try to imitate religious practice, the results are often grotesque. Like, for instance, this:

A socialist in Venezuela has composed a prayer to the country’s dead dictator, Hugo Chavez. You read that right: a prayer. She has recited it in public. Let me quote it.

Our Chavez who art in heaven, the earth, the sea and we delegates, Hallowed be your name. May your legacy come to us so we can spread it to people here and elsewhere. Give us your light to guide us every day. Lead us not into the temptation of capitalism, deliver us from the evil of the oligarchy, like the crime of contraband, because ours is the homeland, the peace and life forever and ever. Viva Chavez! (http://news.yahoo.com/venezuelan-socialist-party-swaps-god-chavez-prayer-202222347.html )

She recited this blasphemy in front of a banner painted with the likeness of the dictator. I hope the link works, because you gotta see this. Remember, the artist who painted it was trying to make Hugo Chavez look good: probably his life depended on it.

Take a good look at that image. Would you even think about buying a used car from that man? Is it possible to imagine a more unworthy object of veneration than this fat, coarse, squat, toad-faced little tyrant?

Well, okay–here in America we’ve got Democrats and university professors and the nooze media who have on various occasions likened a nasty little commie to a god, while at their national convention, on world-wide TV, they loudly booed the real God’s name. So we don’t have to go back to ancient Rome, or down to Venezuela, to find idiots worshiping one of their fellow idiots as a deity.

Again we see that G.K. Chesterton was right: when a man ceases to believe in God, he doesn’t just believe in nothing; he’ll believe in anything.

Even Hugo Chavez and that other commie.

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior

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Quiet Day Today

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Today was really quiet as I was sort of recuperating from the stressy weekend.  First the prescription hassle, then yesterday the computer problem.  Thankfully, they are over and done with.

Tomorrow I have a number of errands to run, but that is actually a good thing for me to do.

May will be a difficult month for me as Lee’s birthday is the 9th, which will unleash a flood of memories of birthdays past.  We always did certain things for his birthday, over the course of a few days.  One of the things I did up until a few years ago was make him a Pod-cake.  I would get two undecorated cake layers at our old supermarket bakery department, and make my own frosting (which he loved).  The odd name is because his nickname for me was Pod.

Just had to get up and answer the phone (another nuisance call).

Those people never stop.

Well, that’s it for now.

God bless everybody

Patty