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Back to Work, at Last

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I haven’t seen this animal in Obann yet–Doedecurus, a giant South American armadillo with a tail club. But I suspect it’s only a matter of time before one or more of them turns up.

Finally! I sat outside and wrote a scene in my new book–which has only just started, and only God knows where the story’s going to take me. Indeed, after I post this, I think I’ll go back and write some more.

Hot tip heard on the radio this morning:

Want to keep your face mask/badge of submission disinfected? Nothing could be easier. Just leave it in your car (I’ve hung mine from the rearview mirror) and let the intense heat that builds up in there kill the germs. Be sure to shut your windows.

And now, back to Obann City for Lord Chutt’s treason trial.

‘Why on Earth am I so Hopeful?’

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I’m not that good at optimism, but I recognize the need to inject a note of it into the conversation. So I’m going to let Alicia Colon do it for me, in her essay for The American Thinker:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/why_on_earth_am_i_so_hopeful.html

Ms. Colon is persuaded that “we will come back as a country stronger than ever,” with tighter family bonds and “excellent economic data” to come. “I remain optimistic that we are a better people since the coronavirus hit the globe.” This is not twaddle: some of our neighbors have done really nice things for us lately, and I hope we will always be ready to return the favor.

We do have the riots, just now; but the silver lining to this is that by now even some Democrats realize that this schiff has got to stop and those responsible for it have got to be put out of business. Is it possible that some degree of normalcy might return to the Democrat Party? What good news that would be! We could send our food-tasters home.

Finally, for Ms. Colon, the successful launch and rendezvous with the space station by the privately-financed rocket sent up by Elon Musk–this achievement, she said, brought tears to her eyes. At last, something to cheer about!

O Lord our God! Have pity on our country: lead us through the door of repentance and turn us back to you! In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Trying to Catch Up!

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If you follow this blog very closely, you may have been wondering, “Hey, where did Lee go? He posts a hymn and a best-of, and then disappears?”

Well, yeah! I had to confer with my doctor via telephone–they don’t want you in the office unless it’s really necessary; and I don’t want to pick up even a little COVID-19 Chicom Death Virus–and then I have to go into the stores for all our errands because Patty has COPD and can’t breathe if she wears a mask. Next thing you know, it’s 11:30.

It’s going to rain, I want to get a bit of my new book written before it does, I want to add another post or two, and I’ve got an article to write for Chalcedon… Oy, Rodney! How to catch up?

Meanwhile, everywhere you go around here there’s a sign on the door, you can’t go in unless you’ve got a face mask, BY ORDER OF the Police, due to GOVERNOR’S MANDATE… What the devil? “By Order of the Police”? Did we wake up in North Korea? And what are all these blanking “Mandates”?

Whatever happened to laws? You know–publicly debated, publicly voted on by our chosen representatives, signed by our elected executive. Do we just not do “laws” anymore?

I don’t think the word “mandate” is found anywhere in the Constitution.

The Latest Phony ‘Cause of Death’

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Climate Change Disasters And Your Municipal Bonds

Nobody likes to see his pet apocalypse shoved out of the limelight by someone else’s pet apocalypse. COVID-19 has upstaged the Climate Change doomsayers, and now they want back in.

Inspired by the recent practice of corrupting death certificates by listing the Chinese Wuhan Death Virus as the official cause of death for almost every death, Climate Change wackos now want “climate change” listed as the cause of death on death certificates (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/27/activists-call-for-climate-change-to-be-listed-as-/). In addition to panicking the public into thinking powerful elites should “Do Something About Climate Change,” the purpose of doing this with the death certificates is explained: “death data must be coupled with large-scale environmental datasets so that impact assessments can be done.”

And they’ll want to know where to put the camps for climate change deniers.

How many apocalypses can center state accommodate?

But they all have one thing in common. They are all for the purpose of giving left-wing loons power over other people’s lives.

Did He Say ‘Insubordinate’?

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“Government’s the only thing we all belong to.”  –DNC video, 2012

Democrat governors throughout America seem to be taking this motto literally.

Once upon a time we had “public servants.” Remember those? Now we’ve got masters.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has publicly complained about “insubordinate” citizens in his state (https://www.wethegoverned.com/they-cant-arrest-us-all-so-they-will-bankrupt-us-inslees-plan-to-suppress-insubordination/). They’re supposed to be subordinate to him. For Upstairs, Downstairs fans, this would be like Mr. Hudson the butler ordering Lady Margery to take out the garbage.

Inslee’s mightily cheesed off at the Snohomish County sheriff for not carrying out his plethora of lockdown mandates and wants him recalled from office. There’s no room for properly legislated laws in Mandateistan. And because he can’t count on the sheriffs lately, he has ordered his state Dept. of Labor and Industry to enforce his mandates, threatening small businesses with $10,000-a-day fines for noncompliance. He ordered this radical change in L&I’s function without any debate or public hearings. Louis XIV couldn’t have done it better.

Another one of his bureaucracies, not too long ago, got snookered for “hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars” by a Nigerian fraud ring. You’d think anybody, by now, wouldn’t fall for one of those scams. Gov. Inslee is angry because this resulted in some of his insubordinate citizens making jokes about him. Ah, well, easy come, easy go.

What strange new mutated kind of America have we become, when governors can rule like 18th-century despots and not only get away with it, but be applauded for it by more than a few of their drunk-on-socialism citizens? Who more resemble subjects than citizens.

Again, shame on us.

My Newswithviews Column, May 21 (‘We Can’t Afford to be Stupid’)

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Another memory of my Cold War childhood: Nikita Khrushchev banging his desk with his shoe at the United Nations, declaring, “We will bury you!”

He and his successors tried to make good on their boast, but it was the Soviet Union that got buried.

And now we’re in another Cold War–with China.

We Can’t Afford to be Stupid

This one sort of crept up on us while we weren’t looking, until all of a sudden we had the Chinese Communist Wuhan Death Virus From China in our living rooms.

It has become obvious that China means to bury us. Democrats are rooting for them to do it, so they can rule the wretched little has-been country that the Chicoms leave us.

While we teach… gender studies.

 

The Face-Mask: Our Badge of Submission

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I had to go to stores today, so that means I have to put on my anti-virus (they wish!) face mask–my badge of servility, the outward token of my submission to the all-powerful, all-knowing state.

But everything’s a “mandate” now, we don’t debate legislation anymore, and our masters never ask us what they ought to do; no, they tell us what we must do. Or else.

And anybody who voices opposition to the continued “lockdown”–you know: like they have in  prisons when the prisoners get rowdy–is sure to be called a White Supremacist, even if he or she is not white. It would appear there are some folks who like the lockdowns just fine and hope they go on and on until we get permanent socialism. If they hear the word “freedom,” they sneer.

Do we really want to be wards of the state, our whole lives? In a condition of perpetual childhood? Perpetual dependence? Who needs freedom, if the High And Mighty are going to take care of you forever?

God, who really is all-powerful and all-wise–and all-righteous, too! Don’t forget that!–endows us with our freedoms and respects them. He will not use us as puppets.

For sinful, fallible, broken, foolish mortal men and women to play God, to act as God, is obscene and blasphemous. They guarantee our safety, but they can’t deliver. They promise all sorts of utopian goodies, but it’s only empty words. The only thing they’re really good at is abusing and oppressing people. They’ve got black belts in that.

We must never again be stampeded into anything even remotely like The Great Lockdown of 2020. If there’s a crisis and there’s no time to discuss it now, then be doubly sure to discuss it later, as soon as possible. Discuss and debate. And if the action taken to deal with the crisis is unlawful, wrong, ineffective, or worse than the crisis itself–then for sanity’s sake change course!

But with only secular fat-headism to guide us, and in ignorance of God’s ways, we aren’t going to do that well with any crisis.

P.S.–One of our neighbors just came to our door and gave us a bottle of rubbing alcohol. She is now my friend for life.

There are a lot of people who don’t go bad in bad times: and praise the Lord for that.

Trying to Get My Head on Straight

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It’s a cool and windy day–something about the wind makes me tired–and having scanned the daily nooze for some hours, I find myself with a bad case of the blahs.

It seems to be the same nooze every day: the virus is king, our economy is all but wrecked, Democrats and all their little toadies in the media are running wild, and it sure looks like the bad guys everywhere are all going to get away with what they’ve done (I was afraid of that). So they tried to overturn a presidential election–big deal. Not that the rest of the world is any better off. And listening to my cats snore is not exactly invigorating.

With all the globalists and liberals and noozies running interference for the Chinese Communist Party, it seems most unlikely, maybe even impossible, that any of these malefactors will ever be brought to justice. We might settle for some justice, but “no justice”–that’s hard to bear. And forget about getting any straight answers to our many questions about the Wuhan virus. We’re all gonna die! No, it’s just a hoax! And every conceivable position between those polar opposites. How do you decide which one to believe?

Maybe a shampoo will perk me up. And after that, some prayer.

See you again sometime after supper.

 

They’re Not All Herod’s Men

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Bucking an order/mandate/diktat from New Jersey’s governor, the owners of The Atilis Gym in Bellmawr (“South Jersey’s premier fitness facility!”) decided to open for business today (https://twitter.com/TheAtilisGym/status/1262403490929876993?s=20).

As a crowd gathered outside the gym to see what would happen, somebody called the police and a squad of officers arrived. And this is what its leader said:

“You’re in violation of the executive order–on that note, have a good day, everybody!”

And then they left.

The crowd cheered the officers.

And we need more of this.

The owners limited admission to the gym to 20% capacity, provided hand sanitizer, took everybody’s temperature coming in, ruled the showers off limits, and maintained social distancing guidelines. But they did re-open their business, and the cops didn’t bust them for it.

Let freedom ring.

Stop Doing Stupid Stuff

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The Sputnik satellite: in 1957 it changed the world

While China energetically trains young people in the sciences–including the sciences of hacking other countries’ computer systems, stealing intellectual property, and counterfeiting–our colleges and universities “squander millions on guaranteed-to-fail social engineering while China races ahead technologically,” writes Robert Weissberg, for The American Thinker (https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/is_covid19_our_new_sputnik_moment.html).

See, we Americans blundered into this stupid paradigm that everybody has to go to college. Well, everybody’s not cut out for college. But if you want to expand and expand the universities, and hire all sorts of people who’re gonna get fantastic pensions, you gotta keep the students coming. That means lower admission standards, or no standards at all, lower requirements to earn a degree, and a vast menu of intellectually vacuous nothing courses–and next thing you know, you’ve got 100,000 thumb-sucking young people with degrees in gender studies and what the mischief do you do with ’em?

Weissberg recalls the shock administered by the Russian satellite, Sputnik, which orbited the earth in 1957. Overnight, America’s priorities changed. Suddenly everything was science. Suddenly smart was cool. Because Sputnik proved that Fat Nikita now had the power to rain nuclear weapons on us from outer space, and we had to catch up, technologically, in a hurry.

Suddenly we had all these guys in white short-sleeved shirts with pen-holders in their pockets, and crew-cuts–and in 1969 they put a man on the moon. We had pulled ahead of Soviet Russia in the arms technology race; and you may have noticed there’s no Soviet Union today. Once we’d passed them, and were serious about staying ahead, they broke their own economy trying to catch up.

Weissberg says “the culture has to change” if we’re to avoid falling hopelessly behind China technological and economically. We have to stop doing stupid stuff. No more politically correctness, safe space, Play-Doh sessions, obsession with “white privilege,” no more wasting time and money and effort on “diversity and inclusion.” All of that is pure crapola and it gets us nowhere.

Red China is the bad guys, and it’s a bad bet to let the bad guys win.

It would be good for us, if this coronavirus panic taught us that.