The Temptation of… Me

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I’ve been losing a thousand blog views a month for three months in a row, and I don’t know why. It’s maddening.

Ah! But a friendly liberal popped in last night to tell me what I need to do!

See, I’ve got these “archaic politics,” and that’s what’s chased away a thousand readers a month. My politics were just the same last year, when I had those viewers, but now it seems they’re turning people off, big-time.

So all I’ve got to do is… drop the politics! What could be simpler? Go along to get along! And the readers will come flocking back. Heck, they’re only here for the cat videos and the odd joke or two. I should probably post recipes, too. Just get rid of all this stuff about chopping government down to size, exposing our elite massas as fat-heads and crooks, trying to rally people to end the Democrat Party before it ends America–get rid of all that, and the big numbers will be back before you know it.

And I will have sold out. Utterly failed in my duty.

I think it’s better to be a museum piece and be right, than to be totally with it and be totally wrong. Today as never before, the United States as a Christian country, as a constitutional republic, is in mortal danger. If America ever needed defending, she needs it now. If she ever needed God’s protection, she needs it now. Because wicked and ungodly persons and organizations are doing everything they can to take her down… and “fundamentally transform” her into a Third World basket case–so they can rule us for their own benefit, and torture us for their amusement.

The defense of a free and God-fearing America is incumbent on every one of us who has enjoyed her blessings. I am convinced that any successful defense must entail the destruction of the Democrat Party.

So, yeah, you bet I’d like to get those viewer numbers back; but not at the price of deserting my post.

 

‘The All-Devouring Federal Government’ (2014)

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Jambo, here I am, comin’ atcha with another totally archaic and outmoded notion–

Maybe the government shouldn’t spy on us so they can micromanage our lives for us! Maybe they shouldn’t be allowed even to consider doing things like this–

The All-Devouring Federal Government

Woo-hoo, that’s old-fashioned! Imagine–limiting the power of government! How the dickens are they supposed to create utopia if we tie their hands behind them? Really, who knows better what you should be eating, day to day–you, or some faceless bureaucrat hooked up to an algorithm? Can we get modern here?

 

‘The Via Dolorosa’

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As Americans we have not grown up in a place where outrageous cruelty, publicly carried out by the state, is an everyday occurance. But in the Roman world of the First Century, it was. And Our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified. Not for any wrong He ever did, but for our sins.

The Via Dolorosa, sung by Sandi Patti, memorializes this. I don’t find it an easy thing to contemplate. I pray I never do. Better to be in awe of it than to take it for granted.

Compressed Cats

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Why do they do it? Why do cats like to squeeze themselves into absurdly small spaces?

I mean, c’mon–do you ever try to squeeze yourself into your sock drawer? Actually, in junior high I once saw a kid squish himself into a gym locker and then he couldn’t get out. You don’t see that every day.

Where Have All the Readers Gone?

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I’ve looked at the numbers. Yeesh. I have lost a thousand views a month (compared with the same months in 2019) for three months in a row–July, August, and September. We are goin’ backwards fast.

I am totally mystified as to the cause of this. It’s discouraging. Is it that widening circle of ennui that “Unknowable” talks about? But I haven’t heard from any other bloggers who’ve experienced this, so I have no basis for comparison. But I can see that a lot of things aren’t working as they used to. Lots of people, too.

I wonder how far backward I’ll have to go before this blog can grow again.

P.S.–An Intriguing Question: Remember those sand bags that they used to cut loose from balloons, to lighten the balloon and make it go higher? Well, what happened to those bags after they were cut loose? I mean, one bag full of sand could do some serious damage to a roof, or a car, or some exceedingly unlucky person.

Is it too late to Issue A Mandate on it?

Breakthrough!

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Even as Ellayne and Jack broke through into the cellar beneath the cellar of the Old Temple, to find what had long been lost, yesterday I broke through the fog surrounding my new book, Behold! In fact, I received this breakthrough very shortly after writing a post about still needing one.

Ask and it shall be given. Seek and ye shall find.

I now know something that Ysbott the Snake, the villain in this story, doesn’t know. And it’s a big something, too. Something that will lead me toward the climax of the story (unless it is the climax: we’ll see). Man, it would drive him plumb crazy, if he knew what I now know!

I have always relied on the Lord to give me the story that He wants me to tell; and in 13 books so far He hasn’t let me down.

But the sun is shining–I’ve got to get out there and write!

The Mystery of the Sealed Executive Order

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Blue State Governor Harriet Howlermonkey has consigned a sealed executive order to a safe deposit box, not to be opened until Oct. 1, 2120–one hundred years from now (www.ohcomeonnow.com).

Why not just open it after the governor’s term expires?

“We can’t even get a peek!” said Assembly Speaker Jack Innabox. “There’s another executive order forbidding us to peek, and we have to obey any executive order by the governor.

“We’ll just have to wait a hundred years, and then whoever’s around will have to do whatever the sealed order says.”

But what does the order say? Speculation abounds: everybody’s guessing. The staff at Eyewitless News lists the top five guesses:

*All non-citizens are now citizens, and all citizens are now non-citizens.

*No one in the state is allowed to sleep past 5 a.m.

*Face masks must be worn while you sleep, and social workers will come into your bedroom and check, every half hour.

*If you’re not in government, it will be against the law for you to have any kind of electricity. Even static electricity.

*Sandwiches must now be made with the bread inside and the contents outside.

“All we know,” said Innabox, “is that an order is an order and it must be obeyed!”

By Special Request, ‘It Is Well with My Soul’ (3 Tenors)

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Susan has been a bit under the weather this week, so I hope that hearing this hymn that she requested will be a comfort to her–It Is Well with My Soul, sung by the Three Tenors: Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras. Wow! And I do mean sung!

My Newswithviews Column, Oct. 1 (‘They’ve Just Got to Control Us’)

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What a role model for our time!

Someday our posterity, presuming we have won, will wonder why we didn’t kick up more of a fuss when utopian liberal tyrants took away our freedoms. What could we possibly say to defend ourselves?

They’ve Just Got to Control Us

Ooh-ooh, there’s germs in the environment! Face masks forever! No more public gatherings, except for riots–riots are always permitted.

The future is going to ask us, “You let yourselves by tyrannized by those morons–because of a germ?” And I don’t know how we’d answer that.

‘College Isn’t Day Care, Prez Sez’ (2015)

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Oh, get a life!

Remember this? Some needlehead complained when the “faith, hope, and charity” chapter, Chapter 13 of I Corinthians–one of the loveliest chapters in the Bible, by the way–was read in chapel!

College Isn’t Day Care, Prez Sez

 

Yowsah. This was threatening, this was triggering, what did they mean, trotting out the Bible in the chapel? And the college president blew a gasket.

It was only 2015 and the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan was already sick to death of pampered snowflakes whining and whimpering about other people’s religious beliefs. Crikey, he should see it now.

Special Election Season Message: Shatter the Democrats in this election, take away their power–and then we can really get down to the business of carting out all this Far Left Crazy junk and getting rid of it. And the stupid colleges and looniversities ought to be the first to go.