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Do We Want to be Treated as Toddlers? REPRINT

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From several years ago

I looked out the window this morning and there’s my next-door neighbor, just her and her dog, sitting outside at her picnic table… with the mask on. In case King COVID busts down her fence and grabs her.

Can it possibly be true that significant numbers of Americans want to go back to face masks, lockdowns, and “mandate” after mandate–anything, anything, we’ll obey, we’ll be good little sheeple… if only the government takes care of us!

Oh, who needs “freedom”? It’s overrated! Real freedom is loving Big Brother and doing what he tells you. Real freedom is finally understanding you’re nothing but an overgrown toddler in desperate need of supervision.

And it’s even worse in other countries! In New South Wales, Australia, they’re telling people they have to stop talking to teach other until the government says it’s OK. And every Democrat in America is pounding the table for “vaccine passports” which you’ll have to produce every time you want to go anywhere or do anything. “May ve see your papers, Meinherr?” And we’re back in East Germany, 1961. It sure as hell ain’t America.

How long before they start the Hunger Games?

Lord, hear our prayers! We are sinners, but we are also your people, who put our trust in Jesus Christ the King. For the glory of your great name’s sake, deliver us out of the hands of wicked and ungodly persons, avenge their crimes against us, and overthrow their wicked and ungodly schemes–that the world might see the power of your hand; that the world might know that you are God. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Rowan Atkinson on free speech.

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This has been around for awhile.  It is worth watching because what he says is absolute truth.  He has spoken about the death of comedy, because of censorship, and the fear of offense over the most minor of issues.

Has My Temper Got the Better of Me? REPRINT

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Amazon.com: It Came from Outer Space [VHS]: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes, Dick Pinner, Robert Carson, Ned Davenport, Budd Buster, William Pullen, Virginia Mullen, Kermit

From June 6, 2021

Somebody on my chess forum has told me I ought to throttle back on the name-calling.

For some reason it made me think of a bit in a 1953 sci-fi classic, It Came from Outer Space. Things have been getting very gnarly, and the sheriff is just about ready to erupt. And he says, “Did you know… more people are murdered at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature. I read an article once–lower temperatures, people are easy-going. Over 92, it’s too hot to move. But just 92, people get irritable!”

Well, what can I say? I get irritable. Especially when it’s day after day with white liberal useful idiots squawking about how much they hate white people and how bad all white people are, yatta-yatta. It’s my job to check the news each day, but there’s only so much of this Woke Democrat horse-schiff I can take.

I think it’s important and valuable to mock the Far Left self-anointed oracles who presume to lecture us. They believe their own hype and it drives them crazy when they’re laughed at. If there’s anybody out there who’s fooled by the Left’s pretense to superior intelligence, we owe it to them to set them free from that deception.

We are not up against criminal geniuses like Prof. Moriarty or Dr. Fu Manchu, super-villains, might as well surrender, etc. True, there are a few sharp knives in that drawer; but it’s a very big drawer. For the most part, we’re up against poops and twaddlers who haven’t even a suspicion of just how stupid they are.

And, and, and! We are up against spiritual wickedness in high places. See St. Paul’s warning in Ephesians 6: 10-20. Earnest prayer is called for.

I’m not trying to say it’s a good thing for me to lose my temper when dealing with Satan’s sock puppets. But “winsome” just looks phony when I try it, and besides, it’s wasted on them.

I remember when people used to dress up to fly… boy, have times changed!

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Years ago, flying was not as common, and it was considered a very glamorous way to travel.  Times have changed (and as usual, not for the better).  This gal decided that clothing was optional and caused quite a stir on the plane.

Our culture coarsens a little bit more every day. Sad.

What’ll We Do With Millenials? REPRINT

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From January 16, 2017Image result for images of useless college students

We have a gigantic social problem looming over our country.

What are we to do with millenials?

Recent college graduates, tens of thousands of them, with their whole lives yet to live–can’t hold jobs, can’t tolerate even the most trivial adversity, saturated with an ideology that is opposed to everything America stands for, unable to relate to people as individuals but only as representatives of this or that group, guaranteed and certified 100% useless–what in the world are we supposed to do with them?

Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy the company of teens and tweens, provided they haven’t been turned upside-down and inside-out by our culture and our schools. I wish I had more of you guys visiting this blog, to pep it up a little.

No, I’m talking about young people with degrees in Gender Studies and Social Justice, burdened by a load of student debt, who go stampeding for the Play-Doh and the Safe Space at the first little hitch in life that comes along, who want a participation trophy just for breathing. You can’t talk to them without triggering a trauma. And if you can imagine them trying to bring up children of their own, you have a more vivid imagination than I do.

So what are we supposed to do with them? They won’t be able to support themselves. Imagine hiring Joe Collidge to do anything more complex than sweep the floor.

I wish I knew the answer to that question.

Byron’s TV Listings, Aug. 3 REPRINT

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TV Guide November 23, 1986 N. Alabama afternoon-evening

G’day, boys ‘n’ gulls! Byron the Quokka here, thanks to a mixed-up schedule. Violet Crepuscular has already sworn to get me with her pea-shooter. But like the feller said, “What, me worry?” and “Better late than never.”

Here are a few selections from this weekend’s potpourri of nooze (are you amazed that I could spell that? I am!).

Sunday (too late for Saturday)

11:22 a.m.   Ch. 64   MR. ICONIC–Pure culture rot, if you ask me

Follow Mr. Iconic down the road of Pure Cliche, just off the Meaningless Drivel Highway! This week: Learn how to say “they” and “them” when you’re talking about just one person. It drives people who care about English crazy!

3 p.m.  Ch. 06   BAG THE SCORPION!–Sports

It’s the national sport of Kaboodlestan, now being played all across Europe. Today: Spatrazzini Primos vs. Yorkshire Spads, winner take the whole bag of angry scorpions! Announcer: Yi Fang Chao. Ceremonial Chant: Charlie “Mulekicker” McCroy.

6:06 p.m.  Ch. 71   SELASSIE–Unnaturally smart dog (yawn!)

Selassie, great-great-grandpup of the original Lassie, has taught herself to be Lord High Mountebank of Ethiopia–and the Big Bopper (Jock Mahoney) doesn’t like it! All of these episodes were discovered in an old strongbox tucked away in a spooky corner of an old barn where the mountebanks used to play I Doubt It. This week: Selassie finds a caterpillar in her dog chow.

Well, folks, that’s a little taste of what’s in store for you today! I hope I can get home in time not to watch Mr. Iconic!

Quokka | National Geographic Kids

Maybe I can borrow that bike over yonder.

Byron the Quokka, signing off.

 

King Charles’ Guard Honors Dolly Parton — Clip

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This was really nice.   RIP  Dolly.

Byron the Quokka: News Flash! REPRINT

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Wow! Byron the Quokka here, with fabulous news! Quokka University has just acquired the exclusive rights to an exclusive TV series, Shakespeare For Persons Who Can’t Hardly Talk.

What’s wrong with Shakespeare? Half the time you don’t know what the heck he’s talking about; and the rest of the time, the plays are too blamed long!

Well, they’ve fixed that. For example, this new improved version of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. 

Romeo: Yo!

Juliet: Hey.

Romeo: Hey.

Juliet: That you?

Romeo: See ya. [Exit Romeo and Juliet]

See how much time and space that saves? Heck, when they do Macbeth, it’s only twenty minutes!

Catch ya later, dude!

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Is There a Life Coach in the House? REPRINT

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From March 27,  2018

We don’t have a donkey, but it’s not so hard to find an ass.

Today on my computer screen, heaven knows where it came from, was some kind of ad exhorting me to consult a Life Coach to get “attuned to your higher self.” Hey, how many selves have I got?

This is one of those shameful post-Christian things that people get into because they need a substitute for the true religion, Christianity. Oops! Looks like I’ve committed a microaggression there–speaking of my religion as if I believed it to be true. When everyone who’s hip and enlightened knows you’re not supposed to believe the things you believe in. A Life Coach could probably straighten you out.

Whole civilizations have arisen, flourished, and done great things without benefit of even a single Life Coach. I suspect the last twenty years or so contain all the Life Coaches that have ever been. And what we’ve got to show for that, I wouldn’t show to a dog.

Are We Losing Our Patience? REPRINT

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From  September 3, 2019

In a survey of 2,000 adults in Britain, the Bic company found that most people nowadays quickly run out of patience if forced to wait for something (https://www.studyfinds.org/hurry-up-modern-patience-thresholds-lower-than-ever-before-survey-finds/).

People reported themselves “frustrated” if a webpage takes 16 second to load, or a traffic signal takes 25 seconds to change–and only 22 seconds to start cursing their computer or TV “if a show or movie doesn’t immediately start streaming correctly.” Seventy-five percent of those surveyed blamed “digital technology” for their loss of patience.

I don’t have a lot of digital doodads, but I can certainly admit that my computer often drives me crazy. If computers were human employees, they’d be fired. If a computer can’t drive you up the wall, what can?

The survey didn’t get into this, but I think that chronic impatience, if it’s truly on the rise, has a lot to do with children being praised and rewarded for even the most minuscule achievements, given trophies just for showing up, given high school and college diplomas without having learned anything, and generally being hailed and lauded just for existing–and all the while being made to wait and wait and wait some more, being ignored, being treated as irritating nobodies instead of valued customers, etc. Workmen who show up late or not at all, inferior slop served up by our “entertainment” media as if we deserved nothing better, politicians calling us racists, self-proclaimed intellectuals calling us dopes–there’s a lot of insult out there, more than enough to go around. Selfishness seems to be winning out over good manners.

It’s what we get for permitting the coarsening of our culture.