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Why I Don’t Believe in Global Warming

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I was reading a piece yesterday in which the writer complained that Fox News had tricked a lot of people into being climate change deniers. This is boilerplate liberal bushwa. Like, if it wasn’t for Fox News messing with our minds, we’d just naturally be clamoring for Agenda 21, a carbon tax, Common Core, Obamacare, sodomite pseudomarriage, and all the rest. It can’t possibly be their wicked and idiotic ideas that are turning us off, so it must be Fox News.

Well, I don’t have television, I consider Fox News lukewarm and spineless when it comes to opposing statism, and I have other reasons for not buying into Global Warming. To wit:

1. I am freezing my kiester off. The whole country’s in the icebox. I look out my window and it’s snowing sideways. This is not caused by things getting warmer.

2. Global Warming is pushed by Democrats, and the truth is not in them. If a Democrat inadvertently tells the truth about anything, he has a blood pressure surge, foams at the mouth, and requires medical attention.

3. The agenda of the Warmists is flagrantly obvious. “Give us unheard-of powers over every aspect of your lives, pay colossally high taxes to us, obey us in everything–and we’ll save you from the Global Warming.” Yeah, yeah.

4. I am still freezing my kiester off.

5. If it’s really such a terrible crisis, then how come all the big, important GW alarmists are living in gigantic mansions, riding around in stretch limos, and zipping off to Davos in their private jets at the drop of a hat? Talk about a carbon footprint! If hypocrisy was bricks, these guys would be the Great Wall of China.

6. “Climate Change Scientists” and their auxiliaries have been caught lying and cheating so often, it becomes obvious that lying and cheating are their regular stock in trade.

7. Instead of openly debating the issue, they rely on name-calling, threats, intimidation, and scare tactics. This is not how honest men behave. This is how liars and cheaters behave when they’re afraid of getting found out.

8. I am freezing my kiester off.

9. Some of these mountebanks have admitted that they have exaggerated and told fibs in order to “emotionalize the issue” so that the public would listen to them and do as they say. Where I come from, that’s called lying.

10. There is nothing we can do on earth to nullify the action or inaction of the sun. If there is Global Warming, then the sun is doing it and it’s mere bullying and deception for our glorious leaders to tell us that they can put a stop to it by taking away our light bulbs and air conditioning.

I could go on, but it’s too cold to write any more.

Slimy Politician’s Snow Job

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Here in New Jersey today, we have six inches of snow on the ground and the temperature is only in the teens. You should have seen the panic in the supermarket yesterday. A guy in front of me in the checkout line was buying a hundred  batteries. Was he getting ready for a winter snowstorm or the end of the world?

Meanwhile, in sunny Viet Nam, our country’s sleazy and disreputable Secretary of State–this was on the front page of The New York Times this morning–is yapping inanely about how we’ve just gotta have a global “climate change” treaty, otherwise Global Warming’s gonna fry us all, gimme your money, gimme your freedoms, and so on.

Hmm, lemme see now… It gets hot in the summer, and then it gets cold in the winter… And as we speak, a whole shipful of Global Warming alarmists from Australia is frozen into the ice around Antarctica, and there’s no icebreaker big enough to get through and rescue them. The passengers can be lifted off by helicopter, but it looks like the ice is going to eat their ship.

The Useful Idiot Nooze Media neglects to mention that practically every Global Warming/Green Party pinhead in Australia was on that ship to study the Global Warming-caused melting of the Antarctic ice pack. Well, who you gonna believe–your lying eyes and the frozen sea all around you, or your ideology?

Global Warming is too good a gig for Big Government, and they’ll never give it up–never, not if Hell itself freezes over. Saving The Planet gives them license to do anything they please.

May the Lord smite them and erase their works.

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

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Home of the Magna Carta and the English Common Law, the United Kingdom nowadays comes out with one outrage against liberty after another. For instance:

The headmistress of a Staffordshire public school recently threatened parents: if their children did not participate in a field trip “to explore Islam,” kids as young as 8 years old would be perpetually punished. The exact quote from Headmistress Lynn Small’s letter to parents:

“Refusal to allow your child to attend this trip will result in a Racial Discrimination note being attached to your child’s education record, which will remain on their file throughout their career.” ( http://godfatherpolitics.com/13380/students-labeled-racist-years-dont-go-islamic-field-trip/ )

Littleton Green Community School is operated by the county of Staffordshire.

Ms. Small further warned parents that she would make “a thorough and detailed investigation” into any student who was absent on the day of the field trip.

Despite public outrage and terrible publicity, this little tin fascist has not been fired from her post. In fact, the kids still have to go on the field trip, or else. Why?

Because it’s “part of the National Religious Education Curriculum together with the multicultural society in which we live, [and] it is a statutory requirement for Primary School aged children to experience and learn about different cultures,” babbled Ms. Small.

Why do we care what happens in England?

Because the tin fascists who subject America’s schools to Common Core absolutely cannot wait to do things just like this!

I promise you, pilgrims, it’s coming right at you.

Get your kids out of public education. Now.

Update: Shortly after this story broke, Head Teacher Small apologized for “inaccuracies” in her warning letter and asked parents to disregard it. “Inaccuracies”–well, that’s one way of putting it. But it seems the public uproar over her PC tantrum has convinced her not to brand as racists any children who don’t make the field trip.

But she still isn’t fired, and it’s still possible for some idiot schoolmarm to give a child a permanent “racist” label for whatever stupid reason she pleases.

 

Runaway Science

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Even in these days of the colossal Global Warming Hoax (“Hide the decline!”), we are still offered Science as the last word in authority and truth. Even the Bible can only be true to the degree to which it conforms to Science.

But it’s instructive to see what Science gets up to when it’s feeling frisky.

In 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright identified a new mental disorder, drapetomania. In a paper read before the Medical Association of Louisiana, Dr. Cartwright, man of science, identified drapetomania as psychological quirk that made “Negroes” try to run away from slavery. If they were mentally healthy, you see, they would be satisfied to remain slaves all their lives. It was only mental illness that would make them aspire to freedom.

As a preventive measure, Dr. Cartwright recommended harsh whippings. As a cure, he recommended cutting off the runaway slave’s big toes.

If he were around today, he would be writing about homophobia, transphobia, or some other imaginary problem.

God is not a man, that He should lie (Numbers 23:19). But scientists are men, and some of them lie like rugs (“Hide the decline!”). And some of them are just plain loopy.

 

Writing with Jurassic Ink

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There’s so much going on, it’d drive you crazy to try to keep track of it. If I tried to write about it all, I’d go into a decline. I mean, just look at our poor country. You could just sit down and cry.

Hmm… A wasp just landed on my hand and didn’t sting me. I find that encouraging.

So how about this for news today? From the fossil of an extinct squid which they believed to be 150 million years old, scientists in England have extracted black ink and used it to draw a picture of the living animal. ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5794280/Scientists-draw-squid-using-its-150-million-year-old-fossilised-ink.html ) How does that grab you?

All right, the ink wasn’t just sloshing around in liquid form. But all they had to do was add some ammonia solution to the contents of the squid’s ink sac, and, as they say in England, bob’s your uncle.

Now, how can it be that this ink is still useable after 150 million years? It’d make a great Bic commercial–“Still good after 150 million years!” Is our understanding of fossilization all wrong? Are we way off base in our estimation of the age of the fossils? Is today’s “science” overdue to be re-labeled “quaint beliefs of yesteryear”?

And we get this just two days after the news about Triassic flowers! [See “Another Black Eye for Evolution,” Oct. 16] What a horrible week for Darwinism! It could hardly be worse if they’d found a Bronze Age arrowhead in the skull of a tyrannosaur.

In the battle between Scientific Dogma and Scientific Discovery, Mr. Darwin is backed into a corner and getting pounded into jelly.

Someone ought to stop the fight.

Raising Children to be Animals

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As reported recently in The Huffington Post ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-lynch/an-open-letter-to-the-parents-of-the-stephentown-300_b_3983962.html? ) , some 300 teens in Stephentown, NY, celebrated Labor Day by breaking into someone’s house and having a “party.”

In addition to just plain vandalism and theft, along with a lot of drugs and alcohol, these fine young people also peed and pooed all over the house. Just like monkeys. And to make sure all their little friends knew about their exploit, a lot of them bragged about it on the social media, complete with video. Hint to publicly-schooled young geniuses: if you’re going to do a crime, posting video of it on Twitter is a real good way to get caught.

The owner of the house, a former NFL player, was able to identify the animals because they publicized their own names and pictures. He set up a website, http://www.helpmesave300.com , where he named all the kids and said he wouldn’t have them arrested. That was his first mistake.

He offered the animals the opportunity to return to his house and put things right.

So naturally the parents of the animals threatened to firebomb his house. According to a Sept. 19 article in The New York Daily News, they have also threatened to sue him (!) for publicly identifying their kids. Hint to idiot parents: your offspring already identified themselves on Twitter and Facebook.

The owner estimates that the animals did $20,000 worth of damage to his home, according to the Daily News.

Once upon a time, the shame of having raised a child that could do a thing like this would have been too much to bear. The parents, rather than live as outcasts with everyone in town whispering behind their backs, would have moved. As for what kind of punishment would have been administered to the “child”–

Well, hey, when I was a kid, nothing like this ever happened. We all knew that no form of punishment our parents had ever handed out before would be adequate for such a gross offense as this. Mine, I think, would have imposed the death penalty. So we didn’t do such things!

But they do ’em now. And what does that say about their parents?

P.S.: The link above doesn’t seem to work. The HuffPo article cited is by Kelly Lynch, Sept. 24, “An Open Letter to the Parents of the Stephentown 300.”

Review of Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur

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Does King Arthur Matter Anymore?

Thoughts on The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien

Edited by Christopher Tolkien

(Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)

For a thousand years, the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, after the Bible, was the story of Western civilization. Before the invention of the printing press, these tales were translated into English, Welsh, French, German, Spanish, Icelandic, Italian, and Russian, and hand-copied into books all over Europe. The first book printed in English was Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur (“The Death of Arthur”) in 1485.

For a thousand years monks, bards, painters, novelists, composers, and historians have added to it, modernized it, and decorated it. I grew up hearing these stories from my mother, who had heard them from her father. I think it would be safe to say that practically everybody in the English-speaking world, years ago, had some acquaintance with King Arthur.

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Review of Secret Fire: The Spiritual Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien

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Secret Fire: The Spiritual Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien by Stratford Caldecott (Darton, Longman, & Todd Ltd., London, UK: 2003)

“He [Tolkien] created a body of work that is imbued with a profound wisdom-a wisdom that our civilization desperately needs-drawn very largely from the Catholic faith in which he was raised.”   Caldecott, p. 4

I was a sophomore in high school when the Tolkien craze hit America, back in the mid-1960s. I read The Lord of the Rings and fell into a passion to become a fantasy novelist. I had never imagined that such stories as this had ever been written. They set my brain on fire.

It took me some fifty years to achieve my dream, by God’s grace. I am a fantasy novelist, with real books in print, published by Chalcedon. I read the Bible every day, but every two years or so, I revisit Tolkien’s world of Middle-earth. His books have never lost their fascination for me. I dare to hope that God will bless my Bell Mountain novels and someday make them speak to their readers as Tolkien speaks to me.

Tolkien published only two novels in his lifetime, The Lord of the Rings and its predecessor, The Hobbit. What is it about these two books that has wrought so strongly upon my own imagination? And I’m not alone-their sales are in the many millions, worldwide.

This little book by Stratford Caldecott-director of the Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture, Oxford-has at least some of the answer to that question.

First You Have to See It

C. S. Lewis, author of the Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and many published meditations on Christian theology and themes, was one of Tolkien’s closest friends. Tolkien is widely credited with having converted Lewis, then an unbeliever, to the Christian faith (p. 11).

I didn’t read the Narnia books until much later in life; and when I did, their Christian message was, to me, quite obvious. Written for children, enjoyed by many adults, the Chronicles thinly disguise our Lord Jesus Christ as the great Lion, Aslan-who sang the world of Narnia into existence, died to save a sinner, and rose again from the dead to be revealed as the true king of all creation, forever. Some Christians do find these books unpalatable, pointing-as did Tolkien-to an overabundance of pagan influences. I can only answer that Lewis had a very long way to go, spiritually, before he was capable of writing Narnia. I’m sure he would have gone farther, had he lived longer.

But Tolkien’s message is not so obvious. In fact, his message has eluded many readers to whom The Lord of the Rings is just a slam-bang fantasy, nothing more. The Christianity which is the foundation of Middle-earth was not apparent to me until, frankly, other writers pointed it out to me. But now I can’t not see it!

If you haven’t seen it, either, Caldecott’s book will make it visible to you. He cites abundantly from Tolkien’s many published letters, in which Tolkien wrote candidly of his vision and his methods. For example, Tolkien wrote to a friend in 1953:

“The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion,’ to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism” (p. 50).

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An Archeological Enigma: Potbelly Hill

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In 1995, German archeologists made an eye-popping discovery in southern Turkey. At a site whose Turkish name means “Potbelly Hill,” scientists are digging up what they claim is the oldest temple in the world. You can see many pictures of it here.

How old is it? Scientists estimate it was built around 10,000 B.C. Some Creationists will object to that, but I’ve become agnostic about prehistoric dates. After all, God has not told us how long Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, or what He was doing with the rest of the planet during that time. Anyhow, 10,000 B.C. is only a guess, based on the style of the site’s monoliths and artwork.

Suffice it to say they’re convinced it’s really, really old—older than Stonehenge, older than Mesopotamia’s oldest cities, older than the pyramids of Egypt: way older than any of these.

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Feast Your Eyes On “The Last Banquet”

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I don’t know about you, but I need to take a break from politics: just a little breather before diving back into the mosh pit. In fact, I don’t even want to mention it today.

Instead, I prefer to announce the publication of my new book, The Last Banquet, the fourth book of my Bell Mountain series (see the little ad on the right-hand margin of this page)—hot off the press, available via amazon.com in either paperback or Kindle.

At least check out the dynamite cover by Kirk DouPonce: here’s a link so you can see it.

If you—or your children, ages 12 and up—like tales of heroes and villains, fantastic animals, exotic locations, miracles, battles, intrigues and treacheries, prophets and barbarians and even more eccentric characters: hey, here they are! And in contradistinction to such fare as “Harry Potter,” “Twilight,” “Game of Thrones,” or “Hunger Games,” these books are written from a Biblical perspective: which makes them rather unusual, as fantasy novels go.

The Bell Mountain books are about a nation that has, over a long time, grown deaf to God’s voice; and how God uses certain individuals to re-establish humanity’s relationship with Him. While the great lords and powerful clergymen remain imprisoned in their worldly wisdom, God speaks to children, old men, old women, slaves, and hermits, using the weak things of the world to overthrow things that are mighty.

But don’t be alarmed—it’s not a series of “religious” tracts. It’s adventure and wonder set in an imaginary world.

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