This 21 year old’s book was first published…
And the rest is history. Anybody have a guess???
This 21 year old’s book was first published…
And the rest is history. Anybody have a guess???
Kinda, sorta… đ
In the beginning, God covered the earth with broccoli, cauliflower and spinach, combined with an abundance of green, yellow and red vegetables. He did this so that Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives.
Then, using God’s bountiful gifts, Satan created Dairy Whip and Ice Cream. And Satan said: “You want hot fudge with that?” And Man said “Yes!” And Woman said: “I’ll have one too… with sprinkles”. And lo and behold, they gained 10 pounds.
And so God created the healthful yoghurt that Woman might keep the figure that Man found so fair. And Satan brought forth white flour from the wheat, and sugar from the cane, and combined them. And Woman went from size 12 to size 14.
So God said: “Try my fresh green garden salad”. And Satan presented crumbled Blue Cheese dressing and garlic toast on the side. And Man and Woman unfastened their belts following the repast.
God then said: “I have sent you heart-healthy vegetables and olive oil in which to cook them”. And Satan brought forth deep-fried squid rings, butter-dipped lobster chunks, and fried chicken so big it needed its own platter. And Man’s cholesterol sharply increased.
Then God brought forth the potato, naturally low in fat and brimming with potassium and good nutrition. Then Satan peeled off the healthful skin, sliced the starchy centre into chips and deep-fried them in animal fats adding copious quantities of salt. And Man packed on more pounds.
God then brought forth running shoes so that his children might lose those extra pounds. And Satan introduced cable TV with remote control so Man would not have to toil changing the channels. And Man and Woman laughed and cried before the flickering light and started wearing stretchy lycra jogging suits.
God then gave lean beef so that Man might consume fewer calories and still satisfy his appetite. And Satan created McDonald’s and the 99-cent double cheeseburger. Then Satan said: “You want fries with that?” And Man replied: “Yes! And super-size them!” And Satan said “It is good”. And Man and Woman went into cardiac arrest.
God sighed… and created quadruple by-pass surgery. Satan chuckled and created the public health system.
And here we are…
Definitely worth the read!
“Leading universities have turned themselves into hybrids of Mr. Rogersâ neighborhood and Maoâs Red Guards.”
Lance Morrow at the City-Journal on The Age of Travesties, HERE.
Personally, I think he hits the nail on the head. Being an old fart, I would add that I believe the ‘radicalization’ of the education system began in the mid-late 60s with the protests against the Vietnam war.
Some of us went over there and did what we thought was right, the left protested or ran to Canada (or both). We stayed in the military, they finished college, lived the hippy life, smoked dope, got advanced degrees, and got jobs teaching at those same universities…
We didn’t…
They started ‘inoculating’ the next generation (Gen X) against us, and we let it happen.
In the early 2000s, I was talking to a professor at an SEC school, who had been in the Reagan administration as a foreign policy advisor. He just flat stated that he and other ‘conservative’ professors were shunned by the liberal arts types, and the Athletics Department put out a list of profs NOT to take classes from. ALL of the conservative profs were on it, because they actually made students attend class and pass tests!!!
Now Gen Y are starting to move into those teaching positions… They are fully inoculated, and happily take to the streets with the students (millennials). Their goal now is control. They want to control who can say what, who gets $$$, who gets medicine, treatment, etc.
Ironically, I was chatting with reader Stretch, and he said this- Got to reuse a great line last week. Aging Hippie: “The youth of today will take to the streets and take the guns.” Me: “It’s not who’s in the streets … it’s who’s on the roof with their rifles that decides matters.” A most delightful mixed expression of horror/fear/hatred followed by a screech of “Fascist!”Â
Now Stretch is one of us… A grumpy old fart…
What that aging hippie and the others don’t realize is that we won’t go quietly. Just because we haven’t popped off before, is because we STILL respect the laws in this country, unlike the left…
Are we becoming the Koreans on the roof tops in South Central??? Maybe…
Of all the BS gun control arguments…
Especially where the ‘facts’ are wrong, and the ‘conversation’ is one way.
I’m not going to participate in any more of those discussions, either online, or in person. The antis refuse to ‘listen’ and any correction sends them down a different rat hole rather than actually trying to have a CONSTRUCTIVE conversation about guns.
When the default position becomes either, Well, you are white, so you can’t possibly understand. Or well, you are racist or (insert derogatory term here), when we don’t kowtow to them, I’m done. I will walk away because I have better things to do with my time.
I was watching a clip last night on Cruz vs. Scarborough about 2A and gun control and turned it off after about three minutes. Talking louder doesn’t mean you’re right, it just means you’re NOT willing to actually listen. And there was another one last night with Ingraham and the mayor of Baltimore. The mayor NEVER shut up during the entire interview, talking over the host the entire time. I know they used to fax out Dems talking points every day, and I guess the ‘new’ way is email and texts to people’s phones, since a lot of the talking heads are using the exact same language, which the mayor must have been reading, since she never actually looked at the camera.
The piece de resistance was the Governor of Connecticut, Malloy, accused the NRA and it’s members of being a terrorist organization!
There are no words… I’m done… I will no longer be polite, I will no longer listen politely to your BS ranting, and I will walk away. And you really don’t want to threaten me. Trust me on that.
TGM- Twilight might be delayed.
Amazon now wants me to PROVE it’s my novel… Sigh…
This is turning into a week of Mondays…
Simply @%^^$!( amazing…
If you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything…
So you get humor!
Barb was lying in bed one night. Larry was falling asleep but Barb was in a romantic mood and wanted to talk.
She said: “You used to hold my hand when we were courting.”
Wearily he reached across, held her hand for a second and tried to get back to sleep.
A few moments later she said: “Then you used to kiss me… ”
Mildly irritated, Larry reached across, gave her a peck on the cheek and settled down to sleep.
Thirty seconds later she said: “Then you used to bite my Neck…”
Angrily, Larry threw back the bed clothes and got out of bed.
“Where are you going?” Barb asked.
“To get my teeth!”
DOWN AT THE RETIREMENT CENTER
80-year old Bessie bursts into the rec room at the retirement home. She holds her clenched fist in the air and announces, “Anyone who can guess what’s in my hand can have sex with me tonight!!”
An elderly gentleman in the rear shouts out, “An elephant?”
Bessie thinks a minute and says, “Close enough.”
OLD FRIENDS
Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years, they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures. Lately, their activities had been limited to meeting a few times a week to play cards.
One day, they were playing cards when one looked at the other and said, “Now don’t get mad at me… I know we’ve been friends for a long time but I just can’t think of your name. I’ve thought and thought, but I can’t remember it. Please tell me what your name is.”
Her friend glared at her. For at least three minutes she just stared and glared at her. Â Finally she said, “How soon do you need to know?”
SENIOR DRIVING
As a senior citizen was driving down the motorway, his car phone rang.
Answering, he heard his wife’s voice urgently warning him, “Vernon, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on I-25. Please be careful!”
“Hell,” said Vernon, “It’s not just one car. It’s hundreds of them!”
DRIVING
Two elderly women were out driving in a large car – both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along, they came to major crossroad. The stop light was red, but they just went on through.
The woman in the passenger seat thought to herself, “I must be losing it. I could have sworn we just went through a red light.”
After a few more minutes, they came to another major junction and the light was red again. Again, they went right through.
The woman in the passenger seat was almost sure that the light had been red, but was really concerned that she was losing it. She was getting nervous.
At the next junction, sure enough, the light was red and they went on through. So, she turned to the other woman and said, “Mildred, did you know that we just ran through three red lights in a row? You could have killed us both!”
Mildred turned to her and said, “Oh! Am I driving?”
SUPERSEX
A little old lady who had lost her marbles was running up and down the halls in a nursing home. As she ran, she would flip up the hem of her nightgown and say “Supersex.” She ran up to an elderly man in a wheelchair, flipping her gown at him, she said, “Supersex.”
He sat silently for a moment or two and finally answered, “I’ll take the soup.”
NRA AM planning
If anybody cares, the North Texas contingent will be staying at the Embassy Suites up by Love Field, since none of us can or want to afford $300/night to stay downtown…
Embassy Suites, 3880 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, Texas, 75220, USA +1-214-357-4500
In other news, there is a dinner and a party in the planning stages for Friday and Saturday nights. More on those as we get the plans firmed up.
In other news, The Grey Man- Twilight will hopefully be up for sale on Friday, March 9th, both in paperback and Kindle. Yea!!!
Soooo… The WAPO decides to weigh in on the gun ban with the old saw about Australian gun control…
The headline reads:
As U.S. gun debate rages on, Australians hand in 57,000 firearms, and Norway is set for a broad ban
Snippet- In Australia, authorities revealed that citizens had handed over 57,000 illegal firearms between July and September last year during a gun amnesty. In total, more than 35,000 rifles and more than 12,000 shotguns were turned in, among other firearms.
Full article, HERE.
Seems pretty straight forward, right? Ehhh… Not so much…
Reason has the backstory. Or should I say ‘the rest of the story’.
Given the context the Post itself providesâthat the U.S. gun debate is now largely about semi-automatic riflesâit’s worth noting that, according to the actual “National Firearms Amnesty 2017” report, only 2,417 were semi-automatic weapons, a far smaller number in this “amnesty” than air rifles, accounting for 4,816. (The report says 162 of the “guns” handed in were “imitation.”)
Full article, HERE.
The other ‘interesting’ thing is that neither Australia or Norway have anything like a Second Amendment. So a small group of activists and lawmakers rammed through a set of laws that changed an entire culture in Australia (but they still own guns, and still hunt and target shoot); and potentially want to do the same thing in Norway.
And Australia STILL has a significant issue with illegal weapons, with thousands of them seized every year. They are either home made (e.g. Sten machine guns), or smuggled in from Indonesia.
Holly Chism has a new set of short stories out!
Click on the cover to order!
The blurb-
Look closer. The things that youâre assuming youâre seeing? May not be what you think. Is that really a mouse, or is it a Brownie? Is that really an owl? Is that polished gemstone a stone…or an egg?
We take so many things for granted. Some of them may be harmless, but many are a lot less so. I wonder how many people ignore red flags every day, because they only see what they expect to see?Â
This collection takes whatâs ânormalâ and asks âWhat if itâs something more?â
I was happy to be an alpha reader for this one, there are some nice twists and turns in the stories! I think you’ll enjoy it!!! Gremlins… đ