Poncing His Way to ‘Miss Universe’

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You didn’t think I was going to show this wretched man, did you? Here’s a nice cardinal instead.

Some guy named “Angela” Ponce, done up as a woman, is reportedly the odds-on favorite to win this year’s Miss Universe pageant (https://theblast.com/miss-universe-spain-transgender-gambling-angela-ponce/).

All right–who’s the satirist?

In British slang, “ponce” denotes “an effeminate man… milksop… namby-pamby.” And this guy’s name is “Ponce”?? Go ahead, pull the other one.

I have never watched a beauty pageant, and please don’t ask me what its purpose is, ’cause I don’t know. In light of current developments, I can’t even imagine what purpose it might serve.

All I know is, never in my life have I seen anything anywhere near as fanatical as the push for “transgender.”

Why? Why does anybody want this? In the absence of any obvious gain of wealth, power, or prestige, to me it looks like the impetus can only be Satanic. It is a revolt against God and His sovereignty over His creation: “Male and female created He them.” Only the devil can object to that–him, and the people he deludes.

Satan at the State House

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Would you buy a used car from these people?

If you don’t think we need extra-strength prayer at Christmas–to say nothing of the rest of the year–you need to take another look at the nooze. For instance:

This year they’re celebrating Christmas at the Illinois State House by setting up next to the Christmas tree a sculpture donated by the Chicago branch of The Temple of Satan–if that’s not a tautology (https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673422143/satanic-sculpture-installed-at-illinois-statehouse-just-in-time-for-the-holidays).

State officials say the First Amendment forces them to give equal time to Satan-worship–an interpretation of the Constitution that would have surely astounded its authors.

The sculpture is a black cube, out of which arises a hand holding an apple, with a snake wrapped around the forearm, and the motto, “Knowledge is the greatest gift.” Uh-uh–like the ungodly actually know anything. (“Whaddaya mean? We listen to NPR!”)

Meanwhile, the world now has something it’s been breathlessly waiting for–the first sex robot for women!

Do I want to link to that? Naaah….

‘Late Night TV, Circa 1958’ (2013)

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I can pronounce it now, but I still don’t understand it.

Now they’ve got 150-some channels instead of just three or four, and yet it doesn’t seem there’s half as much on as there used to be.

Oh, those old TV listings! Endless fascination for a 10-year-old who was packed off to bed at 8 o’clock.

https://leeduigon.com/2013/08/25/late-night-tv-circa-1958/

Well, this is a blog for sharing memories, isn’t it? I’d love to hear some of yours.

By Request, Encore, ‘The Little Drummer Boy’

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This has been a favorite for a lot of people, Bing Crosby and David Bowie together, singing The Little Drummer Boy with Peace on Earth–sort of a complicated arrangement, but these two were pros.

Requested by Marcia.

Disaster! Cats & Christmas Trees

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I am so happy to be able to say that none of our cats ever did this! Robbie and Peep love to curl up under the Christmas tree, they’ll stay there for hours. And occasionally they will be tempted by a low-hanging ornament. But diving into the tree, climbing it, pulling it down–no way.

Our tree did fall over, once–right on top of me, as I was lying on the floor, reading–but no cat was to blame for that. I don’t know what made it fall. So now we tie it to the banister so it can’t fall.

‘Civility,’ Eh?

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Stalin and Mao–dead, but their evil lives on after them.

Just askin’–how come it’s okay to be a communist, but not okay to be a Nazi?

If you’ve got a Che Guevara T-shirt and a little hat with a hammer and sickle on it, you can be an esteemed professor at any looniversity in America. You can even be a member of any Democrat presidential administration. Or a U.N. honcho.

But a Nazi–that’s radioactive. And here I must add my obligatory disclaimer that I don’t approve of Nazism.

A lot of people are singing the blues for a “divided America,” polarized, nasty, and characterized by a total lack of civility. We just can’t get together anymore.

Meanwhile, Democrats, the official political party of Far Left Crazy, respond to even the most token, ineffective opposition, and even to mere dissent, by calling everyone who isn’t them a “Nazi”–or white supremacist, Hater, Biggit, Racist, etc. They’ll go even farther than that: chasing Republicans out of restaurants, surrounding dissenters’ homes to terrorize their families, donning black masks and taking to the streets to attack persons and property. Typical Bolshevik antics.

Meanwhile, they demand that we extend “civility” to them: that we play nice, and listen respectfully as they shout down our speakers and publish our home addresses on Twitter.

We think the word “civility,” when they use it, is Dem-speak for surrender. “Civility” means we let them call us Nazis, let them run rough-shod over our social institutions, force us to subscribe to ideas we don’t believe, or else, and submit to being stifled whenever they please.

So I’m not interested in restoring “civility,” as Dems define it. True civility will never be restored until today’s home-grown communists are utterly defeated, once and for all. Until each and every one of their bizarre fundamental transformation projects is permanently buried under the ashes of defeat.

Then we can all play nice together.

UN Honcho: Human Race Doomed, Unless–

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I know, it reads like a satire. But I can’t help it if liberals say things that satirize themselves.

Today’s self-satire is provided by a Ms. Espinosa, president of the United Nations General Assembly: who, at a UN Climbit Change conference currently being held in Poland (I thought the Poles had more sense than that), warns us that the whole human race is “in danger of disappearing” if Climbit Change is “allowed to progress at its current rate” (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/03/u-n-official-issues-warning-mankind-in-danger-of-disappearing/).

Allowed? Did she just say “allowed”? Maybe we should’ve made the climate go stand in a corner.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. We’re all gonna die unless we give government fantastic new powers to interfere with our lives, blah-blah. In the words of Ms. Espinosa, “We require deep transformations of our economies and societies” to avoid total catastrophe. Who thinks those “deep transformations” would result in more freedom instead of less, and a higher standard of living?

With or without the UN’s permission, “climate” is always changing. That’s because the earth is a living planet in a complicated universe. The UN insists human activity is responsible for “climate change.” Uh, hey–could we get rid of that label? We have lots and lots of different climates scattered all over the world, That’s why Mongolia is not like Oregon. Could we stop talking about some global “climate” that doesn’t exist?

Anyhow, gigantic and very poorly-understood natural forces–the sun’s output, for instance–control what happens to the various climates on the earth. Government can’t stop, control, or manipulate these forces. The best we can ever hope to do is to roll with the punches.

But of course if you’re a non-Christian humanist doofus, you don’t believe in God, you don’t believe He is sovereign over His whole creation, you’re sure everything happens by merest chance unless some all-powerful State advised by all-wise Science controls it, etc., etc.

What bunk.

‘Top Scientist’: ETs May Have Already Been Here

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How different is “different”?

Some people so very badly want space aliens to be real!

A “top scientist” at NASA has suggested that “tiny super-intelligent” ETs may have already visited earth and that we need to rethink our whole concept of aliens (https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7885699/nasa-aliens-alien-life-ufo-sightings/).

See, they might be so profoundly different from what we expect, we wouldn’t even realize they were intelligent life. It depends on what “is” is. Like, for aliens that resemble, say, handfuls of sand and have a life-span of millions of years, interstellar travel would be no big deal. Anyway, the “top scientist” says we ought to step up our search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. He does not say why.

To look at it from another angle, we might be so totally different from them, that they wouldn’t even recognize us as being living things, let alone intelligent life.

This could lead to some really cool science fiction stories and movies–if there were still some really cool science fiction writers around to write them. C.L. Moore, James Blish, Theodore Sturgeon–ah, what you could’ve done with this material!

By Request, ‘Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence’

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Requested by Jan–Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, sung by the choir at Manchester Cathedral, in England: traditional French melody, from Picardy (just across the Channel).

Come one, come all, to our first Christmas Carol Contest! Don’t rely on just a few readers to do all the work.

I don’t know. Maybe I should offer a cooler prize, instead of an autographed copy of one of my books.

Anyhow, the business at hand is to proclaim the birth of Jesus Christ as the focal point of human history, as something that really happened, Word of God made flesh, Holiness born as one of us–and in a stable, no less! But to the King of Kings the most opulent palace in the world would fall as far short of His glory as any stable would. And it’d be a lot less cozier.

‘Star Wars Umpteen: “The Farce Awakens”‘ (2015)

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Liquidator-ready Star Wars merchandise!

Yowsah, yowsah! The Star of Bethlehem–why, it was a spaceship! Ooga-booga!

Those spoilsports who said science fiction would rot your mind… Maybe they weren’t so far wrong, after all. Like for instance:

https://leeduigon.com/2015/10/19/star-wars-umpteen-the-farce-awakens/

Hey! Has there been yet another Star Wars movie since I wrote this? I’ve lost count. Now that I’m no longer a liquidator, I’ve lost any reason I had for keeping track of Star Wars movies.