This woman showed a lot of courage, standing up for her moral position.
Tag: culture rot
Goodbye, Adulthood REPRINT
From July 8, 2020
A liberal once said to me that socialism is good and necessary because “the government will take better care of you.” So much for adulthood.
God gave us families, the Church, voluntary associations, friends, and our own two hands and our own brains to take care of us. We don’t want The Government to take care of us. We are not infants. If they feed you, clothe you, and put a roof over your head, they can certainly tell you what to do and what to think and punish you if you don’t.
Yeahbut, yeahbut! If it saves one life…. Honk if you’ve heard that one before.
If it saves one life, Walter Williams said recently, then the government should reduce the speed limit to 5 mph. That would save thousands of lives! Unless it drove people to murder or suicide.
Let’s all wear face masks all the time! if it saves one life. Let’s ban all products that could possibly harm you–if it saves one life. Let’s put the government in charge of making all the people happy! Which will only make them all miserable; but if it saves one life, we’ve gotta do it.
Yeahbut! The Democrats will give us free stuff! All kinds of free stuff!
Is this not shameful? Do you want to be a baby or a toddler all your life? Aren’t you ashamed for living off the work of other people? It’s theft if you do it with a Saturday night special. If the government does it with an army that’ll kill anyone who resists, it’s just “fair redistribution.”
Grow up, America.
Euthanasia deaths are soaring among young women in Holland
Holland has both euthanasia and assistance in dying. That is horrible in itself, but deaths in this manner are soaring among very young women. Why?
Is There a Life Coach in the House? REPRINT
From March 27, 2018
We don’t have a donkey, but it’s not so hard to find an ass.
Today on my computer screen, heaven knows where it came from, was some kind of ad exhorting me to consult a Life Coach to get “attuned to your higher self.” Hey, how many selves have I got?
This is one of those shameful post-Christian things that people get into because they need a substitute for the true religion, Christianity. Oops! Looks like I’ve committed a microaggression there–speaking of my religion as if I believed it to be true. When everyone who’s hip and enlightened knows you’re not supposed to believe the things you believe in. A Life Coach could probably straighten you out.
Whole civilizations have arisen, flourished, and done great things without benefit of even a single Life Coach. I suspect the last twenty years or so contain all the Life Coaches that have ever been. And what we’ve got to show for that, I wouldn’t show to a dog.
Transgender paper dolls to be used in Minnesota schools? I don’t know.
After listening to this news release, I am very confused. Nobody seems to know when or where these “dolls” will be used. It might be that they were trying to sneak it in, and somebody blew a whistle, but nobody seems to know anything about this program. Not me (says everyone). We will just have to keep an eye on it, if possible. The fact that they were going to use them with children as young as four years of age stinks to high heaven.
The New, Improved, Politically Correct ‘Wagon Train’ REPRINT
From July 17, 2015
Our secret agent in Hollywood reports that Schlockmeister Studios is going to remake the classic late-1950s TV Western series, Wagon Train.
“But of course,” says studio honcho J.T. Fidget, “we’re going to update Wagon Train to bring it fully into line with today’s highly-evolved, modern sensibilities.”
So instead of Major Adams leading the wagon train, we’ll have Sister Twonda, a street-smart African-American nun, and her wife, Spike, 450 pounds of towering female fury. Instead of Flint McCullough as the scout, we’ll have a “gay” character named Zooey (“Oh, the Native American braves are just so fabulously brave!”), and Charlie the Cook will be replaced by Imam Khalil, who will make sure everybody on the wagon train eats a proper Muslim diet, or else.
Out of respect for animal rights, the wagons won’t be drawn by horses, mules, or oxen anymore, but only by heterosexual white men. To Save the Planet, the train won’t actually go anywhere. It’ll just go around and around in a circle. The passengers will all be undocumented Mexican immigrants living on checks from the government. And each episode will begin and end with a sermon against the evils of heteronormativity. [Gee, look at that–my computer’s spell-check doesn’t recognize any such word as “heteronormativity.” Obviously it has never been to collidge.]
“A lot of those old classic shows were very good,” says Fidget, “as opposed to most of the shows we produce today, which are crap. All those old shows need, to be popular again today, is drastic modification which will make them grotesque parodies of themselves. And that should be easy!”
There are no words for this “transgender” insanity.
This is absolutely unbelievable. There are no words to fittingly describe this idiocy. I thought the “transgender” craze was cooling off–but apparently not in Bern, Switzerland.
Conservative Cowards REPRINT
From March 22, 2013
Not content with abandoning his place in our defenses, Jonah Goldberg in his townhall.com column today tries to lure his readers to the Dark Side, arguing that we can join him in endorsing same-sex mockmarriage and still oppose abortion.
That’s very comforting, isn’t it?
Up and down the line, the “leaders” of what is still called the conservative movement are throwing down their shields and running away from the battle, leaving us nobodies to soldier on without them. Their position is that we can freely debase and devalue marriage and the family however we please, and our civilization will never be the worse for it.
I don’t know how many times I have to say this before the Goldbergs and the Portmans and the Coulters will be able to understand it, but here goes:
If you won’t conserve marriage and the family as the basic building-blocks of human society, you won’t be able to conserve anything of value at all. “Sexual liberty” will gobble up all our other liberties. If you think free speech or freedom of religion can survive the redefinition of marriage, you’re bigger fools than I take you for.
Marriage is a serious matter. Holy matrimony between a man and a woman is a type of Christ’s relationship with His Church. Have none of these fools read the Book of Revelation?
God ordained marriage, God defines marriage, and it is not in the power of a bunch of black-robed sinners, in love with their own sophomoric cleverness, to redefine it. I don’t care what any court says. I don’t care what any mob of politicians, academics, jive conservative commentators, or teachers union says to the contrary–and you shouldn’t, either.
I am awfully tired of my country being run by immoralists, liars, thieves, orcs, and morons. Aren’t you?
Another Movie For You to Avoid REPRINT
“Evolution strikes back”–is that what happened here? I don’t know what we ever did to Evolution to deserve this movie.
From July 14, 2014
I don’t ask a lot from a Saturday afternoon movie. All I want is to relax my brain. I mean, I’ll put up with actors in gorilla suits, special effects that wouldn’t mystify a toddler, and a storyline featuring characters who get killed off one by one because they don’t have the sense God gave an umbrella stand.
This past weekend we blundered into a movie that has all of the above: The Lost Tribe, made just a few years ago and starring nobody. The screenplay was a jumble of The Predator and a lot of Friday the 13th movies, with a dash of The DaVinci Code thrown in to make it really intolerable.
Let me set it up for you. There’s an archeological dig on an uninhabited island somewhere; and they find a fossil that turns out to be–you guessed it–The Missing Link. Says a scantily-clad girl scientist, “Uh-oh! Why, this proves that God did not create man! Wow, if the Church ever finds out about this, we’re dead!” But of course the Vatican already has an inside man on every little scientific expedition, just in case; and of course the Church sends in a team of sadistic hit men to murder all the scientists… and then a bunch of yuppies is shipwrecked on the island, and the Missing Links go after them…
Time out! Darwinists, is this the best that you can do? Or is this just Hollywood numbskulls taking yet another mindless, gratuitous slap at Christianity because they can? Maybe they think homosexuals or the government can give us eternal life, so who needs God? But trying to decipher the inner workings of reprobate minds is hardly a rewarding pastime.
The story is buttressed by a massive pile of inanities. Like, hey, something really nasty is stalking us, so let’s go wandering around the jungle all alone. Let’s not use our life raft to get off this lousy island. And after the monsters kill off everybody but the last surviving woman, who has already taken a worse beating than any Timex wristwatch, she… well, she just loses her cool and yells at the monsters, and they all run away: this after they’ve wiped out a whole Vatican death squad armed with automatic weapons.
It’s worth your while to avoid The Lost Tribe at all costs.
And if you want to thank me for this timely warning, just buy a whole bunch of my books.
REPRINT A Muddled Movie About Something Rather Important
From November 10, 2012
Many years ago, I think in an Agatha Christie novel, I encountered an old conscience-teaser (I don’t know what else to call it) that went something like this:
You get your heart’s desire; but to pay for it, a Chinese mandarin must die.
There’s the temptation. If this person were to die in the normal course of events, you’d never even know it. He’s a perfect stranger on the other side of the world. His life would seem a small price to pay for fame, fortune, love, health, or whatever else might head your crave list.
But the catch is that you know that as soon as you get your wish, an innocent man will die because of it.
Which was the inspiration for The Box (2009) by Richard Kelly, starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella. A married couple very badly needs a break, and Frank Langella shows up on their doorstep with a box. If they push the button on the box, they get a million dollars in cash… but someone they don’t know dies.
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