A Much, Much Better Day

Fortunately, the tornado never materialized last night, but we did have some wild wind.  No thunderstorms, but very high winds.

Today was sunny, bright and still very windy (and a lot colder than it has been).  No problem, however as the sunshine makes all the difference.  Did more neatening(?)  Is that a word?

Took a major side step when I was putting photos in one of  those little mini-albums.  There was a picture taken at Lee’s parents’ house of what I think was the first Thanksgiving after our marriage.  Everybody was there.  Then, of course, you start doing the memories-thing and an hour goes by.  It was good, though.  All those lovely people.

I remembered one Thanksgiving when Lee’s brother, Mark brought some wine–it was the darkest, reddest wine I had ever seen.  Aunt Gertie tipped her wine glass over and it spilled on my mother-in-law’s beautiful white lace tablecloth.  Yikes.  We had to get the tablecloth off the table and out to the kitchen to soak it before it stained.  They were good times.

My hellebore is covered with beautiful, almost black blossoms and the tulips are up.  No buds yet, just leaves.  It is amazing how God’s stuff works .  Faithfully, every year.

That’s about it for today.

Pray for our troops.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

Beware! Here Come Killer Robots! REPRINT

From May 29, 2015

A computer science professor at Berkeley has warned that “research” by the Defense Dept. (B. Hussein Obama, proprietor) could create “drones which can track and kill targets even when out of contact with their handlers…. the research could breach the Geneva Convention and leave humanity in the hands of amoral machines” ( http://godfatherpolitics.com/22681/killer-robots-will-destroy-us-scientist-warns/ ).

How much worse is that than being at the mercy of immoral and wicked human beings?

I believe Professor Stuart Russell means well, and that he’s trying to warn us against what he sees as a very real danger. He may even be right. Who knows what the DOD lab-rats get up to, behind closed doors?

Naturally, this conjures up visions of The Terminator and other robot menaces. Oh, dear–another thing to worry about! Aaagh, we’re all gonna die! From Global Warming… or Income Inequality, or Homophobia, or Too Much Red Meat in Our Diet and Not Enough Tofu… or the ocean is going to dry up, or else flood over all our coastal cities.. from overpopulation, underpopulation, or simply not enough Trans People to go around. From whatever.

See what terrors you get into, when you don’t believe in God.

If your god is such a patzer that he can’t protect his own creation from little ants and fleas like us, then your god is not God. If your god sent his only son to earth to redeem the human race, and it didn’t work because the human race totally destroyed itself, then your god is not God and your savior is not Jesus Christ.

Wise up, O men of God.

Dog Appears in Their Yard 2 Weeks After Their Dog Died

Gentle Dog and his Cats

Very Angry Kitten Unable to Walk Has Miracle Recovery

REPRINT ‘Democratic Republic’ Bridge Collapses… During Ribbon-Cutting

From September 9, 2022

You do know, I hope, that “democratic republic” is a euphemism for an authoritarian socialist regime. Like “people’s republic” means “communist.”

And you’ve surely heard the mantra, “Socialism really works if you only give it a chance!”

The Democratic Republic of Congo built a foot bridge over a stream recently, and regime officials gathered there for the ribbon-cutting ceremony (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/07/drc-officials-bridge-collapses-ceremony).

The bridge collapsed in the middle of the ceremony, as government officials scramble to escape a ducking while “spectators shout in apparent glee.”

This bridge ought to be adopted as a symbol of socialism. It says it all. Imagine the spectators’ joy when they thought the tyrants would be drowned, right before their eyes. Okay, it was hardly the Golden Gate or the Tappan Zee Bridge–but that’s the point. Socialism can’t even give you a footbridge that’ll last a week before collapsing.

I wonder if DR Congo will put this image on a postage stamp.

Deplorable People Have Too Many Babies! REPRINT

From September 24, 2016

Do you have to be moral, to be a “moral philosophy professor”? Nah.

One of these intellectual ginks at Johns Hopkins University has written a book in which he declares we gotta fight Climate Change by having way fewer babies ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-23/want-to-slow-climate-change-stop-having-babies-bioethicist-travis-rieder-says ). Yup: too many people on the Plaaaanet, poor ol’ Gaia, blah-blah-blah.

Government–and interllecturals–he reluctantly concludes, will find it necessary “to pressure families” to stop making babies: because modern people just will not “give up their toys” and scale themselves back to an 11th-century lifestyle. By “toys” he means things like refrigerators and air conditioning.

Yo, sunshine! Which of those toys have you given up?

He does not deal with the colossal amount of evidence that “climate scientists” and government agencies are lying, lying, lying about all this. Instead, he brands his critics, and anyone else who won’t agree with him, as “the far-right hate machine.”

The wisdom of God speaks truly: “All they that hate me love death” (Proverbs 8:36).

P.S.–Yes, I know I complain all the time about the noise and crowding in this part of New Jersey. But not being a liberal, I do not demand that my emotional reactions to my particular circumstances be made the basis of public policy affecting everyone.

Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus

Today Totally Stank

And now we’re under a tornado watch until 7 tonight.

For some reason, I was totally paralyzed today–couldn’t do a  thing.

The weather, as usual, was no help.  Gray, very overcast, and unseasonably warm.  It’s funny, but looking back on some of Lee’s posts, I can see he complained quite a bit about the weather.  Now I don’t feel so bad, he did it too.

Many of the things I wanted to post today were not able to be shared.

Just general frustration, which, when coupled with my non-existent energy made for a lousy day.

As the old New Jersey saying goes “I shouldda stood in bed.”

Well, at least I was able to get lamb chops for supper.

All is not lost.

Pray for our troops.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Retired K9 Leads Quiet Life