A Tiny Crumb of Progress

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Finally today I got out for a mini-walk.  Not much, but a start.

Yesterday when I went to the drugstore, I noticed how really weak my legs had become.  That is not good, especially when you are older.

Tomorrow’s walk will be longer, and I can build on it daily, if the weather prevails.

Did more work on the tax stuff and did other things that had to be done.

We are still plagued here in New Jersey by very low temperatures at night.  In fact my large bottles of water in the foyer are getting a ” I might be thinking of freezing”  look about them.  We have been getting bottled water for 15 years and that has never happened before.  I did hear a guy on line the other day say that this is caused by (can you guess?)  global warming.  These hard winters and other weird weather events have happened before and they will happen again.  I will say that 2025 was an awful year in many ways, weather included, and I certainly hope that 2026 will be better.

We can always hope.

And pray.

God bless everybody

Patty

 

Kitten and Doberman

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This kitten is quite protective of the Doberman.

Is It a Lie or a Delusion? REPRINT

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From June 16, 2015

Consider the sad case of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who became the head of the Spokane NAACP and a regular customer at the racial harassment shop, even going so far as to send hate mail to herself–all of it accomplished by telling people she was black ( http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/http-www-komonews-com-news-local-Spokane-NAACP-l-6327936.php ). Only now she has to resign her post because her mother and father have provided undeniable proof that their daughter is, in fact, white–and always has been.

Please, someone explain to me how Bruce Jenner really, honest, is a “woman” but poor Rachel is not some unfortunate black woman trapped in a white woman’s body, yatta-yatta. Which statement is a lie, and which is a delusion? Or are they both lies, or both delusions?

Once upon a time they used to lock you up if you insisted you were Napoleon Bonaparte, the Archangel Gabriel, or (to use C.S. Lewis’ example) a poached egg.

But now it’s different. Now everybody else has to join hands and dance around your delusion, singing “Hail, Napoleon!”

What would have happened if Rachel had stuck to her guns and insisted she really is black, she can’t help it if Fate unjustly sentenced her to life imprisonment in this crummy Caucasian body? Would anybody have the nerve to tell her to get lost? Or would she wind up with Bruce Jenner, winning a Medal of Freedom? (And boy, have they debased that award!)

What if she’d remained at her post and threatened to sue the NAACP if they fired her because she’s white? Wouldn’t she have them for racial discrimination?

But let’s make it easy for ourselves. Let’s get down to brass tacks. Anyone who goes along with this blatant nonsense, be it trans-gender, trans-racial, or trans-whatsoever, is completely without even a shred of integrity, and should be recognized as such. In these cases, the enablers in politics, the nooze media, and the schools are much more despicable than the poor lost souls who make war against their own bodies.

Meanwhile, I am a billionaire trapped in a poor man’s body, and I demand my rights!

Funny Bunnies: The Video REPRINT

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From December 3, 2017

I wasn’t going to use this, but when I saw the bunny running around with his own stuffed bunny toy, I couldn’t resist. These little beggars have a lot of personality. PS–I disavow all responsibility for the background music.

Pit Bull Too Frail to Touch Gets Adopted

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Our Universities: Waste, Waste, Waste REPRINT

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Cynical Theories - Audiobook

From November 3, 2020

This was an unusual book review for me to do because the content of Critical/Cynical Theories is about as close as you can come to pure gibberish while still using the alphabet. It’s not the authors’ fault, but that’s what you get when you quote the Far Left Crazy.

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/critical-cynical-theories-a-book-review

The authors, a couple of liberals, fear that the Far Left will go too far and drive everybody else into the arms of the Far Right. Can’t happen soon enough, sez I.

As you plod through the verbal swamps of Far Left babble, you can’t avoid being appalled by the colossal waste that is “higher education”–waste of money, time, effort, and anything else that they can think of wasting. The billions of dollars spent every year to generate this garbage and drill it into the empty heads of gullible students constitutes a sin: the sin of incontinence. The money would be better spent on amusement parks.

The American people need to wake up and realize that they’re being scammed, if not outright robbed. For all the money they spend on higher education, they’re only getting garbage for it. As for the alumni who support these idiot factories with lavish gifts of money, shame on them: they have to stop doing it.

This is the result of insisting that everyone, no matter how intellectually undistinguished, must go to college.

Read a few chapters of this book and see if your head doesn’t start pounding.

 

Some Badly-Needed Reforms REPRINT

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Congress Votes to Kill Anti-Corruption Safeguard | The FACT Coalition

From June 17, 2020

It’s long past time our country adopted certain badly-needed reforms. The beauty of it is now we know how easy it will be to do it. Constitutional amendment? Ha, ha. Actual legislation, with debate, and voting? Nope, we don’t need it.

As George Steppanoplace once said, “Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Cool!”

So, yeah, no more of that creaky old procedural stuff. We’ve got MANDATES! And here are some we really need.

*Raise the voting age to 50.

*Term limits for Congress! House: 24 hours. Senate: 36 hours. Cut it down farther if need be. See how much of our money they can waste if they’re not allowed to perch up on Capitol Hill for years and years.

*Student loan forgiveness–paid for by the colleges and universities who hand out degrees in Tripe Studies and the like. The problem with this was always that it was the defenseless taxpayers who wound up holding the bag, which was flagrantly unjust. But to make the colleges eat the cost of what they’ve done–well, fair is fair.

*Auction off all United Nations facilities on U.S. soil.

*Award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to anyone who refuses to bow down to the Marxist gang, “Black Lives Matter.”

*Still under consideration: arrange for the other 49 states to secede from California.

I Need Thee Every Hour

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This Day Completely Got Away From Me

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Like the title says, I was so busy all morning, between the doctor, the insurance company, Walgreens, the local pharmacy, etc,  I really lost a lot of time.

When I was done with all of it, I just wanted to post animal videos–something cozy and gentle.

My neighbor drove me to Walgreens.  He is a fine person, whose Dad had been a deacon in their church.  The world could use a few more people like Josh.

I still am going to change pharmacies.

Have a good night and stay warm.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Cats and Expensive, Delicate Technology REPRINT

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I don’t know what a cat is supposed to make of some machine that, for no apparent reason, suddenly extends a piece of itself in the cat’s direction. Nor do I know why the owner of said machinery would continue to tempt the cat to give it a good thrashing. Sometimes it’s hard to decide who makes less sense, cats or people.

From June 17, 2017