Tag: coronavirus panic

Liberalism at Work: Banning Church Services

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Justice Department Takes Church's Side in 1st Amendment Suit

Mendocino County, California–Soviet life, American-style–has banned  churches from “singing while recording online worship services, unless the individuals sang from home” (https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-california-church-online-order-county-worship-limit). The… “order”… was issued on Good Friday.

(Of course they could always use pre-recorded hymns for the service. But that’s not the point.)

Do you remember voting for any little tinhorn tyrant to give us “orders”? I don’t. I do remember “public servants” before they became the public’s masters. Whose idea was that, anyway?

Leftids always want to silence churches, and now the Chinese Wuhan Communist Death Virus From China has given them the excuse they’ve been looking for. Churchgoers in Mississippi were fined $500 each for attending outdoor worship, in their cars, with the service on the radio. In Louisville a federal judge had to prohibit the city’s church ban.

To me it looks like we now have more to fear from our own governments, especially at the state and local level, than we have from any disease.

Look for Democrats to spin the crisis out for as long as they can, and try to hold the nation hostage until they get mail-in voting or some other vast concession that will murder our republic.

Bill of Rights? What Bill of Rights?

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy

New Jersey Gov. Phillip Murphy–who calls recreational pot-smoking “the civil rights issue of our time,” who’s hot to trot for assisted suicide–told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that a basic consideration of the Bill of Rights is “above my pay grade” (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/above-my-pay-grade-new-jersey-governor-claims-bill-of-rights-did-not-factor-into-his-coronavirus-executive-orders).

Carlson was asking him about one of his executive orders that resulted in the arrest of 15 worshipers at a synagogue–exercising their First Amendment right of free exercise of religion–and Murphy answered “[I] wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this.”

Even if you believe these executive orders are absolutely necessary to cope with a medical emergency, does it follow that the Bill of Rights is just… a luxury? Well, yeah, freedoms are okay, but it’s not like we need ’em or anything.

I mean, he could have said, “Well, of course I thought of the Bill of Rights and I didn’t take this step lightly: I was responding to an emergency. I felt I had to do it.”

We are talking elementary civics here–the kind of thing everybody used to learn in junior high school. It was not above a governor’s pay grade. The Bill of Rights is foundational to our country’s entire legal system. To ignore it, to trample on it, is to weaken all the laws. As Mr. Pot-Head Governor is duty-bound to know!

Are we going to have to go through this quarantine rigmarole every time there’s a disease on the loose, from now on? Well, that would be always, because there’s always some germ or other looking to infect us.

So that’s another thing this experience has taught us: We need to tighten up and make much more specific the rules defining what powers governors or mayors may invoke and exercise to deal with an emergency. As we have seen in several states, we just can’t trust them to make it up as they go along.

Wahoo! Jackpot!

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I take expensive eye drops to stave off glaucoma, and last week I was about to run out of them. I called the doctor’s office. They didn’t have any samples at that office, only at the other one, which wouldn’t be open till Tuesday, today. They told me how I might get the prescription refilled, but the procedure was complicated and unlikely to succeed. So I said I’d wait till Tuesday and get a sample at their other office.

I called about that this morning. During the intervening days, the practice’s communications system seems to have fallen apart. No more email, no menu, nothing left but a generalized voice mailbox for everything. The best I could hope for would be a call-back at the end of the day, when it’d be too late to do anything about it.

With no assurance that anyone would be there today, I went there. Behold! I walked in, the waiting room was empty, only three of the staff on duty–and they hunted up a sample bottle and gave it to me! I’d have turned a cartwheel then and there, only I feared it might upset them.

Riding the hot streak, I went on to our little Main Street newsstand, here in town, to see if I could get rubbing alcohol, which they don’t have at the supermarket anymore. I don’t know how they do it, but these guys keep needful things in stock that the bigger stores can’t seem to obtain. Not only did I get my alcohol; I also was able to get a bottle of quinine water, another thing they’ve run out of in the supermarket.

And then our bottled spring water delivery showed up when it was supposed to. When you’re hot, you’re hot!

Thank you, doctor’s office staff, for ignoring all the red tape and simply solving my problem. Thank you, local newsstand. What would we do without you? I don’t know, and I don’t want to find out.

What Are the Nooze Media Doing?

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On 'Scream Queens' and 'American Horror Story,' Being Scary Is ...

Fact: Not an hour goes by, anywhere in the nooze media, without another report of someone–usually someone famous or sort of famous, or at least good for a tear-jerker–dying of coronavirus. By this technique they are able to keep Death dominating the nooze 24/7.

This scares people and depresses them.

Interpretation of fact: They’re doing it on purpose.

Why? A) Scary stories always get good ratings. B) The noozies are 100% in the bag for the Democrat Socialist Party, and by scaring and angering the public every cotton-pickin’ day and night, they hope to wreck the Trump presidency and stampede the voters into putting some Democrat psycho into the White House.

The Grim Reaper is their rock star.

America is fighting for its life against the Far Left Crazy. Please find some way to help America win.

Government Gone Wild: Michigan Gov’s ‘Order’ Bans Homeschooling

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Gretchen Whitmer responds to comments about her blue dress

[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip]

(As I start writing this, our electricity suddenly begins to flutter. Please, Lord, not that.)

The coronavirus panic–I’ve been calling it a “scare,” but it looks like devolving into panic–has given Blue State governors a tantalizing taste of the kind of power they would have if only America would sink down into socialism.

In her haste to shut down the public schools for the rest of the school year, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order that seems to ban homeschooling, too (https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/governors-coronavirus-order-bans-homeschooling/?fbclid=IwAR0ZPnNmsKzHoQk_B2O36tKxi3_5chFltY9cVB83QOANCgF9qhOaTP8PVz0).

What the “order” says is “in-person instruction for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12… is suspended for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year” and that the order also applies to “all non-public schools in the state.” Michigan law defines homeschooling as “non-public schooling.”

The Great Lakes Justice Center is attributing the governor’s ban on homeschooling to “faulty drafting” of the executive order and calling on her to rewrite it. Otherwise it would, of course, be a mammoth overreach of the governor’s authority.

We’ll have to see if she rewrites it. Meanwhile, consider: Homeschooling was legal in Michigan before the coronavirus panic. What suddenly makes it illegal? And what exactly constitutes “in-person instruction” that must be banned? If I tell my great-grandson about the career and personality of Hannibal, would that land me in jail? (No, it would not be an eyewitness account!)

For the moment we’re not going with the speculation that the teachers’ union asked the governor very nicely to prohibit homeschooling. But I’m putting it on a low shelf, within easy reach should it be needed.

UPDATE: Gov. Whitmer has “clarified” her order to make it clear that her suspension of “in-person instruction” does NOT apply to homeschooling.

But it’s still a good idea to recall any Democrat governor.

New Law! Putting on Weight’s a Crime

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Inspired by one of those British nooze stories that makes a big splash and then disappears without a ripple, a new executive order by Manchukuo Gov. Alvin Calvin requires doctors to report it to the state if a patient’s gaining weight. This is getting rather mellifluous, so it must be true.

“Obesity’s a crime!” said the governor. “When the Brits were thinkin’ about doin’ this a few years ago, they never said how much weight you had to gain before your doctor had to report you to the government, and they never said what would happen to you if you gained too much weight.”

“A journey to obesity,” trilled Lt. Gov. Suzie Doozie, “begins with a single step on the scale!”

Therefor, said the governor, “any weight gain is too much weight gain, and must be reported by the doctor–and if he doesn’t report it, he’ll be charged as an accessory to the crime.”

Persons who gain weight will be given a certain amount of time in which to lose it.

“If you put it on and then fail to take it off,” said the governor, “we’ll simply shoot you in the head and have the coroner say you died of the coronavirus.”

 

Hyper-Humanist Heeby-Jeebies

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I think we all know that the brass ring, for global elitists, is a world government. Absolute power. Because they’re The Smartest Persons In The World and we should consider it a privilege to be ruled by them.

How crazy are these kooks? How filled with hubris? Here’s how they put it back in the Seventies, in Humanist Manifesto 2:

“Using technology wisely, we can control our environment, conquer poverty, markedly reduce disease, extend our life-span, significantly modify our behavior, alter the course of human evolution and cultural development, unlock vast new powers, and provide humankind with unparalleled opportunity for achieving an abundant and meaningful life.”

If that doesn’t give you the willies, you’re probably dead.

Oh! And all you’ve got to do is give up all belief in God, all hope of eternal life and forgiveness of sins, and the last vestige of sane humility.

Now, who’s going to do all these wonderful things? Sinners and idiots, of course. Who else would want to sit where God sits and try to do His job? They’ve got the power of the state and the omniscience of Science–what could possibly go wrong?

But when anything does go wrong, whatever that might be–coronavirus, for example–then it can only be because someone has slipped up somewhere! Things are not supposed to go wrong–not with us geniuses running the show. Some Hater must’ve snuck some sand into the works. Or maybe the ungrateful deplorables out there didn’t do what we told them to. It can’t be that The Smartest Persons In The World aren’t fit to be gods!

The bigger the government, the bigger its crimes. If the 20th century ever taught us anything at all, it should have taught us that.

This creepy pagan pseudo-religion has oozed into our civilization year by year, mostly without Christians even noticing, let alone going out on a limb to proclaim the truth. There is only one person who has the right to set His throne upon the earth–Jesus Christ, and none other.

Meanwhile, the expectation that Everything Is Supposed To Go Right only makes us prone to panic–just as we are seeing in waves of dread and terror over imaginary Climate Change and not-imaginary coronavirus: real, but not The End O’ The World.

Do you really want these self-anointed nincompoops modifying your behavior?

As they confessed once before, and long ago, they have no king but Caesar.

We have no king but Christ.

 

It’s Panic Time!

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You may have noticed I haven’t been writing about the coronavirus, which everyone else is writing about so who needs me? Besides which, I can’t make up my mind whom to believe.

Now, we generally buy a bottle of alcohol when we go grocery shopping, and it lasts us a week or so. But when we went to buy one this morning, the supermarket shelves were bare. The sign said “Limit of Five,” but all the alcohol was gone.

Who needs five bottles of isopropyl alcohol? Are all these people setting up their own clinics?

Meanwhile Democrats–they just can’t help themselves–are licking their lips and rubbing their hands together. “Yessss, oh yesssss! If a lot of people get sssick, we can blame it on Trump and win the election, my preciousssss!” They’re happy the stock market’s down today, too.

But what do people expect to happen? They’re carrying on like it’s The End O’ The World. Somehow bloody everything winds up as The End O’ The World. Like it’s the default position.

And we always wind up hearing that only a global government with absolute power over every aspect of our lives… can save us. Hot dog.