Mr. Nature here–and good grief, where did the summer go?
I couldn’t let it pass without posting one of my favorite sounds of summer–the night-time chorus of the katydids.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy God’s stuff.
When Fools Play God
What do all of these have in common–safe space, hate speech laws, “affirming” and “celebrating” whatever aberrant “lifestyle” anyone can think of, vaccinating infants for every disease under the sun, and claiming that government action and policies can control the earth’s natural processes and prevent “Climate Change”?
All of these, and more, flow naturally, inevitably, from the cockeyed humanist project to set man up in place of God: and for “man” read “government.”
To out-do God in being God, these people seek to remove any and all challenges from life. Don’t take my word for it: read “the Humanist Manifesto II.” (http://americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II) “Using technology wisely,” we can wipe out disease, direct the course of human evolution, end war and poverty, and blah-blah-blah.
They can’t promise eternal life and forgiveness of sins (“Not yet, not yet–but we’re working on it!”), but for the time being they can transform the world into a secular paradise in which nothing bad ever happens–not even bad weather. And if perchance it does, well, it must be somebody’s fault it happened, and the government will soon take care of it.
This from people who would be hard-put to organize a softball tournament.
This is what we get from leaders and wise men who abandon God–now they’re the ones who have to be God! But don’t worry, it’s just bound to work: because they’re so smart, their intentions are so good, and anyhow human beings are naturally good and that will become apparent as soon as our masters engineer all the bugs out of the system. The problem is not original sin, oh, no! It’s just that our environment has been so screwed up by capitalism, racism, sexism, White Privilege, and yes, you bet, by Religion in general and Christianity in particular… and once we get rid of all that stuff, you’ll see heaven on earth.
But they have to prove they can do it–hence all these policies and programs to take all the struggle, all the stress, all the pain, and all the disappointment out of life: because if God were half as smart as they are, He never would’ve created such a defective world.
It started in the Garden of Eden and it’s still going strong today.
And Heaven help us if we’re fool enough to trust these people.
An Unintelligible Message
Lately when I go to edit my posts, I find this cryptic message, in red, displayed across the top of the page. See what you can make of it.
“Minified exception occurred, use the non-minified dev environment for the full error message and additional helpful warnings.”
It would take Daniel to figure this out, and I’m not him.
Should I be scared? Is something bad about to happen to my blog? Or even to my computer? As the message corresponds to no known variant of English, I have no idea what they’re trying to tell me–whoever they are. Aliens, maybe, who’ve monitored our radio and TV transmissions without coming close to understanding them.
I mean, what is the blooming point of issuing a warning to me that I can’t make head nor tail of? Even the Smothers Brothers made more sense than that. (“Why did you yell ‘Fire!’ when you fell into the chocolate?” “Because no one would’ve come if I’d yelled ‘Chocolate!'”)
Anybody out there able to interpret this? Standing by for further instructions.
Yes! ‘Lead On, O King Eternal’
Lead on, O King Eternal, performed by the Good Shepherd Band–I’m not much for rock, but give this one a chance. Too many hymns are sung like dirges. But this hymn was written as a call to battle and a celebration of victory–and that’s how these guys play and sing it! It has pumped me up pretty good, and I hope it does the same for you.
The wicked have us surrounded, they outnumber us at fearful odds, they’re already bragging about it–
The poor fools!
Why Do They Teach B.S.?
When I was a boy, people used to poke fun at the Russians for making ridiculous lies (“The Soviet Union invented baseball, comrade!”) that everybody knew were lies.
Now our own schools and colleges teach ridiculous lies that everybody knows to be lies–but they repeat them anyway, because you’ll be called a racist or a biggit if you don’t. So you’ve got people saying gender is a state of mind, microaggression depresses your immune system, Hillary Clinton is a defender of women who have suffered sexual harassment–one after another, just stupid and insultingly untrue.
Well, there’s no downside to this, for our friends on the Left. If they really can get you to believe any of this garbage, then in you they’ve got a dimwit who will never be a threat to them.
But even better: if they can get you to say you believe it, when of course you know it’s hogwash, then, voila, they have humiliated you! Chipping away at your integrity, chipping away at your courage and your self-respect, day after day, is not going to equip you to stand up and say “Enough!” But it’s great practice in knuckling under and sucking up a lot of booshwa so that they’ll leave you alone, sort of.
I realize that here I am surely giving college prefesser and teacher union types way too much credit for being able to do something on purpose. They teach twaddle because it’s become their way of life. They’ve spouted so much of it, they’ve come to believe it themselves. The real credit goes to clever sods like Lenin and Stalin and Gramsci who invented this art and honed it to perfection.
America, you’re educating yourself to death.
Sanity Break: Pet Chinchilla
Did you ever see a cuter animal than this? It’s a pet chinchilla.
When I was a boy there was a fad for raising chinchillas at home, with the idea of getting rich by selling their pelts. I knew people who did this, but none of them got rich; and I’m glad that fad has petered out. People cheated themselves out of knowing and loving, and being loved by, some mighty appealing little critters.
Yeah, They Really Did It: Dems Hope to Outlaw Climate Change Denial
Just so you know what you’ll be getting if you vote for Hillary “Careless” Clinton, or refuse to vote for Donald Trump…
They’ve actually done it: a plan to criminalize “Climate Change Denial,” which some of us know better as common-sense skepticism, has been included in the official Democrat platform for 2016 ( https://patriotpost.us/articles/43531 ).
Yes–a major political party openly seeks to outlaw an opinion. You will not be allowed to say that “Climate Change” is anything but gospel truth.
How they plan to square this with the First Amendment is anybody’s guess, but they don’t seem to be overly troubled by that consideration. Maybe it isn’t a consideration. Maybe they reckon that Hillary’s Supreme Court appointments will allow them to do anything and everything they please.
So if you’re sitting around waiting for The Righteous Candidate–
Gee, thanks. I hope it makes you feel good.
My Alma Mater! Hot Dog! (It’s an Idiot Factory)
Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil: your Rutgers education
I just can’t wait till the next time Rutgers University calls me up and asks me for money!
Rutgers has adopted a “Language Matters” program in which students living in a dorm are cautioned to speak only when “necessary” or “helpful,” so as to avoid committing any kind of “microaggression” or “microinvalidation” or other such tommyrot ( http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8081 ).
Hey! Did you know that “victims of microaggression” are “more at risk for illness and a decreased immune system”?
We really do need to ask how, in the not-too-distant future, a country populated by such thin-skinned wilting idiots as our current college graduates can possibly survive in the real world. Any half a dozen goons armed with harsh language will easily conquer us.
Yo, people! Stop it with the colleges already! We are “educating” our country to death!
And I do not mean that as a figure of speech.
‘O Lamb of God, I Come’
This was one of my mother’s favorite hymns, and it was played at my Aunt Millie’s funeral. Her pastor, as I recall it, had a hard time keeping his voice on an even keel.
There are celebrity renditions of this hymn, but I preferred the plain piano, which sounds to me like Sunday school.
I already know this hymn will be with me in my head all day. May it keep you all good company.
Memory Lane: ‘Jim Bowie’
How many of you remember this TV show from the 1950s–The Adventures of Jim Bowie? It ran from 1956-58, and I was a fan. Not so much a fan that I ever would have dared to try to throw a knife so it would stick in the door–my mother would have taken a very dim view of that. But I sure liked that show when I was eight years old.
If you remember nothing else about it, I’ll bet you remember the theme song, by “The King’s Men,” and the kind of haunting background music (harmonious humming, believe it or not) that was a feature of this show. Man, I’ve been whistling that theme song for 60 years!
Of course, we’re not allowed to admire Jim Bowie anymore, the PC police have sternly forbidden it. But I guess we can still hum the theme song as long as no one’s listening.