Lee Duigon

Will somebody out there please read The Last Banquet and post a review on the book’s amazon.com page? I can hardly ask my wife to do it, after all. It ain’t honest… and I think we’ve all had quite enough of that lately.

Meanwhile I want to take back what I said a few weeks ago about Speaker of the House John Boehner: he is a eunuch, after all. He’s waving that white flag so hard, he’ll probably tear a rotator cuff.

As all the readers of my Bell Mountain series know, the bad guys only think they’re winning.

Oh, but this is real life! The villains always win! They won big last week! Your books are just fantasy.

OK, fair enough. Go to a much higher authority, then, and read I Corinthians 1:18-31 (the Bible verses which have inspired much of my books).  Especially verses 27-28:

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and  things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to  bring to nought things that are…

Amen, amen.

In the wake of our electoral disaster, businesses have begun to lay off some of their employees, or at least cut their hours. So far a few thousand people have lost their jobs. It’ll be tens of thousands before this month is out, and hundreds of thousands before the next inauguration.

The reason? Under the financial burdens imposed by Obamacare–which now will not be repealed–businesses can’t afford to keep all their employees. If they don’t lay people off, they’ll go under.

And, oh! Listen to the complaining! Ooh, this is awful! How can this be happening?

Well, folks, not to say “We told you so,” but… WE TOLD YOU SO! If Obamacare stands, a lot of you will lose your jobs. At the same time, your taxes will go up. It was written in neon letters half a mile high. It was bloody obvious.

Hmm… What do you suppose would’ve happened if these employers, shortly before Election Day, told their employees, “Just so you know–if this jerk gets re-elected, I’m gonna have to let a lot of you go”?

But that would have been like having to tell people, “Hey, guess what? Night will follow day!”

We have only just begun to pay for our folly.

There’s an old proverb that says, “Never write a letter while you’re angry.” It probably means one shouldn’t write a blog post while depressed. So I’ll be brief.

Lights out, America. You have just signed your own suicide note.

Meanwhile, the next storm has started and we still have no water for drinking, bathing, or washing dishes. So we eat frozen and canned stuff. Yum, yum.

Special thanks to those self-righteous Christians who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Romney. Congratulations–you helped Obama win.

And here I deem it unwise to write another word.

I don’t know what I can say that I haven’t said already, but I am moved to try. Maybe someone’s listening. So here goes.

Anything but a vote for Romney is tantamount to a vote for Obama.

Remember whose party it was that booed the name of God at their national convention.

Remember whose party it is, in the words of Rev. John McArthur, whose platform consists of the sins described in Romans Chapter 1.

Remember the Bible’s teaching: “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you… Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” (James 4:8, 10)

You cannot draw nigh to God by turning to the Democrat Party. No man can serve two masters.

Friends don’t let friends vote for Obama.

via phone…

I’m being held incommunicado by Public Service Electric and Gas and we have no seen any work crews anywhere around here. They must be trying to solve the problems with magic. That is all the information I can give. It has been suggested that we will get power back sometime next week.

I was talking with an 11-year-old boy who did not know who King David was and had never heard of David and Goliath. I’d be willing to bet he’s never heard of Moses, either. He had a very vague idea who Jesus was. By “vague” I mean almost undetectable.

He was an intelligent child, not dull at all. Unhappily for him, he inhabits a poverty-stricken spiritual and cultural wasteland. All the information he gets comes from television, movies, video games, and public school. “Communism does have some really good ideas,” his friendly public school teacher told him recently.

In addition to the Bible stories that children need to get them into God’s word when they’re older, in addition to the critically necessary knowledge that even very young children ought to have about God and God’s Son, this boy I know has been deprived of damned near everything that roots a human being in human history. You name it, he lacks it: King Arthur and his knights; the Trojan War; Julius Caesar; the Magna Carta; ancient Egypt… on and on and on.

There is nothing this impoverished child knows outside of his own microscopic sliver of time. There is nothing for his imagination to feed on but video games about zombies and movies based on comic strips. William Tell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Magellan, Beowulf, Queen Guinevere, the Three Musketeers, Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, who said of her two baby sons, “These are my jewels”–not one stray fragment of this treasury of Western civilization has found its way to this child’s plate.

As Steve Brown likes to say, “Now you think about that.”

An Italian court has convicted six scientists of manslaughter for failing to predict a 2009 earthquake that killed several hundred people, and has sentenced them to six years in prison (not to mention a bodacious fine).

They said the earthquake wasn’t going to happen, and it did. People believed them, so the city of L’Aquila wasn’t evacuated.

The ruling has appalled scientists all over the world.

As a thought experiment, let’s turn the story inside-out. Suppose the scientists said there was indeed going to be an earthquake, and advised the people to get out of town. So you have mass terror, if not panic, looting of homes and businesses, vast expenditures of public and private money (the police overtime alone would be a whopper)–and then suppose there was no earthquake, after all. Would the scientists have been dragged into court in that event? Sent to jail for starting a panic?

If they can be held liable for not predicting a quake that did happen, it seems they could also be held liable for predicting a disaster that didn’t happen. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

But what about all those Global Warming predictions that are ca-ca? Hey, “the science is settled”–right? We’re all gonna die–unless, of course, we hand over all our money to the government and sign away our liberties, and do everything the government’s ace scientific experts demand of us: then they’ll keep the planet from getting too warm. Honest.

Maybe we need some of that stuff to wind up in a court of law.

While I can sympathize with those particular scientists in Italy, who surely must have meant no harm, this case ought to make us reconsider the role of the scientific establishment in our world today.

There is no God, say our secular sages.

That leaves a huge vacancy at the top–a place to be filled by puffed-up politicians and their scientific henchmen–

Who are now discovering that playing god isn’t quite so easy or amusing as they thought.