Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
You want to take cats to the vet? First you’ve gotta find ’em, then you’ve gotta catch ’em, and they you have to get them into the carrier somehow. And there’s more fun in store, once you get there.
Our cat Peep goes into a 24-hour hissy fit whenever she or her sister has to visit the vet. Mad at the world. But she’s worse while she’s there. We were shocked when they told us they had to wear protective gear when ministering to her. Underneath that quiet, sweet exterior… red-hot magma.
As the COVID-19 panic goes on and on and on, one question remains to which I’ve never heard an answer.
What is so uniquely deadly about this disease that it justified the unprecedented step of shutting down our national economy and forcing everybody into face masks?
Okay, we started out with computer models, now known to be chock-full of errors, that predicted that at least 2 million of us were going to die. When that turned out to be untrue, our leaders continued the policies based on those models. Here we are, carrying on like this was the Black Death revisited–and it’s not true. So why are we still wearing masks? Why are we still counting it as a COVID-19 death if a window-washer falls off his scaffold and goes splat on the sidewalk?
And why are we using the virus as a reason to debauch our national elections with problematic, and very likely dishonest, mail-in voting? Are we going to do this, from now on, whenever a new strain of flu comes along?
This must never happen again; and governors and mayors who used COVID-19 as an excuse to behave like Third World dictators must be held to account.
(Thanks to Susan for the news tip)
We deliver elections, too!
Let’s shake the cornucopia of bad and discouraging nooze and see which rotten apple falls out first. Ah, here we go! 28 million reasons why we should not have mail-in voting.
Cal Thomas: Did You Know 28 Million Mail-In Ballots Have Gone Missing?
Cal Thomas, writing in the Western Journal, says he voted by mail twice–because the Post Office couldn’t find his first ballot and so sent him another one… and of course the first ballot showed up after the second was received. “Multiply my experience by 100 million… and the problem should be obvious,” he said. Better make that “screaming obvious.”
In Nevada alone, almost a quarter million mail-in ballots had to be thrown out because they had an incorrect address. The Post Office reports that 28 million, nationally, have gone astray during the past decade. 28 million.
And we’re not even talking purposeful fraud. Mail-in voting gets down on its knees and begs for fraud. Democrats will be only too happy to oblige.
Look, if it’s too much trouble to go down to the polls and vote in person, then don’t vote. Too many people vote in our elections, anyway.
It’s not that hard to wreck a country. It’s been done a great many times in history. It’s being done now, to ours. By liberals.
Don’t let them do it.
G’day, seekers of truth! Byron the Quokka here, with a bedraggled comment contest that’s had to contend with five weeks of computer problems. We were shooting for 64,000, we now have 63,654, so that leaves 346 comments to go, according to my abacus.
But now the repairs have been made, the blog refurbished, and I’d like to ask you something: should we stick with the goal of 64,000 comments, or move the goalpost back to 65,000, to give us more time to have fun with it without being distracted by on-and-off internet access and all the rest of that mess? What do you prefer, dear readers?
Although nobody new signed up in July, we now have 1,600 followers here. I wonder if we’ll ever get up to 2,000.
Whew! It’ll be nice to get back to setting up Quokka University. We’re still trying to decide what kind of leaves and twigs to serve in the cafeteria.
From now on, Syracuse University is going to punish you for being present whenever, wherever, an “act of hate” is committed: the bystander will be as guilty as the person who actually does the deed.
Disregarding the question that immediately presents itself in 10-foot-tall flaming orange neon letters, “Then who the devil wants to go to Syracuse?”, we come to the next question: what exactly is an “act of hate”?
What–are the creators and enforcers of these policies entirely free from hate? They hate the haters, don’t they? So what would they consider an act of hate, to be punished by university authorities?
How about wearing a MAGA hat, or a “Re-elect President Trump” button? Would those be “acts of hate”? We know, don’t we, that hardly anyone anymore dares express a non-left-wing opinion on any subject. But suppose you said or did something that exposed you as a pro-lifer. Would you be deemed guilty of “hate”?
What would happen if you said, “White people are to blame for every single thing that’s wrong in the world, and they ought to be killed off”? Think you could say that without the U getting all bent out of shape? But of course you could! College professors everywhere say things like that every day.
Syracuse is going to install “new methods” of surveillance in the dorms and elsewhere. If you happen to be standing somewhere in the student lounge when An Act Of Hate is committed, and the spy-cam spots you–well, again, why did you want to go there in the first place?
Now, could we establish this new legal doctrine outside the fascist bell jar of the university? Like, all the customers who were in the bank when it got robbed, they’re also guilty? No doubt this would appeal to Democrats: they’d throw everyone in jail except the robber. But wouldn’t the whole thing be just blatantly unconstitutional?
We are dealing with head cases who think it makes them righteous, virtuous, to hate hate. The fact that we let head cases take over our schools and universities speaks very poorly of our judgment.
Let’s see if Syracuse’s “bystander guilt” formula spreads to other colleges.
You’re paying how much to go there? You couldn’t find anything else to do with all that money?
Honk if you agree there must be no more public money for the universities. Shouldn’t be any more of your money, either.
Five years ago–God help us, this nonsense has been going on for five years, and we haven’t stopped it?–Mr. Dice went out with his videocam and microphone to record babbling idiocy by liberals.
If nothing else, this testifies to the sheer toxicity of our public education system. Or, as one schoolboy put it to me once, “My teacher says that communism has a lot of good ideas!”
Is it a “privilege” to be blamed for everything? To be expected to pay for everything?
But liberals have always been very, very good at using “Divide and Rule.”
Several of you put this one on your list of favorite hymns, and I’m happy to post it today–Holy, Holy, Holy. I wish I could tell you who was singing it–beautiful, clear harmony–but that information isn’t given.
The symbol on the screen is an ancient Christian symbol, the “Chi Rho”–the first two letters of “Christos,” in the Greek alphabet.
Please excuse the technical jargon in the headline. I can’t help it.
Jill thinks she has solved the problem of squished-off-to-one side displays on your whatsit phones, but she can’t be sure unless you check and tell us how it’s going. I don’t even have the vocabulary to frame the question right, so I hope those of you who’ve had an awkward time getting my blog to display on your phone screen will exercise a degree of clairvoyance. I mean, look at the illustration I chose–what does that have to do with anything?
So… does your screen look okay now, or is still all mashed off to one side, with just one or two words per line?
We are sure we can fix this problem.
These two bulldogs don’t like what they’re seeing on TV. I recognize that movie: John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing. All about something very nasty from outer space. One of the dogs seeks to relieve the tension by leaving the room and coming back with his tennis ball. It didn’t work.
I wonder who decides what these dogs get to watch. They might be better off with Gilligan’s Island reruns. Do you know anyone who overreacts to those?
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