IS HE . . . OR ISN'T HE!

After developing a nasty cough on SAT & coughing through the night into SUN, I decided I better get tested for COVID. I did the test at CVS yesterday. Unfortunately, it wasn't the Rapid Test, so I may not get the results until TUE. Sad.

AFGHANISTAN

"CNN praises Taliban for wearing mask during attack." Babylon Bee

"Joe Biden has been wrong about most major foreign-policy questions all of his adult life, but — as a long-time senator and then vice president — didn’t have much power to do anything about it. That’s no longer the case, and we are now seeing the gut-wrenching consequences in Afghanistan, where Biden rejected the advice of his military and intelligence officials and ignored the clear evidence on the ground, and ordered a calamitous U.S. withdrawal." The Editors, National Review Online

"While President Joe Biden cowers at Camp David, the Taliban are humiliating America. The retreat from Afghanistan is our worst foreign-policy disaster in a generation. As the Taliban marches into Kabul, they’re murdering civilians, reimposing their vicious Islamist law, and preparing to turn Afghanistan back into a bandit regime. The U.S. embassy has told Americans to shelter in place. Refugees are fleeing to the airport, begging to escape the coming bloodbath. None of this had to happen." Ben Sasse, NRO Ben Sasse is one of Nebraska's congresspersons.

CRIMINAL MINDS

"A man has been charged for landing a helicopter in a busy parking lot to fulfill Dairy Queen pit stop." Fox News  Might be worth it for a turtle pecan cluster blizzard.

WHAT I'M READING

I finished reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," by Stieg Larsson. As I mentioned earlier, I watched the movie some years back. In many respects, the movie was faithful to the book, but not entirely. I'd give this book a thumbs up. Now I'm reading "City of Sedition:  The History of New York City During the Civil War," by John Strausbaugh. It's possible that New York City was even more dysfunctional than it is under Bill DeBlasio.

As part of my daily quiet time, I also started reading "A Year in the Gospels with Martin Luther." It consists of sermons that he preached about the Gospel in general & the Gospels specifically.

EDUCATION

"With schools reopening for in-person instruction in a few weeks, many people are understandably fixated on the dangers COVID-19 poses to students’ safety and well-being. While the pandemic remains a real concern, another very worrisome issue will face our nation’s high-school students when they return to the classroom: whether conservative students will be treated fairly if their views and ideas do not comport with the overall zeitgeist of particular schools." Samuel Abrams, NRO

SAY WHAT?!

"A recent article (which I will not link here) proclaimed the salacious news that a Christian woman is stripping online (and getting rich in the process) because that is what God wants her to do. She claims to have a personal relationship with Jesus, but without the baggage of thousands of years of man-made doctrine. And, she claims, whenever she asks God about stripping naked online, He always gives her the same answer: yes!

"This is the just latest example of a disturbing trend that has been growing in recent years, a trend in which you can claim to have a relationship with Jesus and speak of your great love for God while that relationship makes any tangible impact on your life." Michael Brown, Townhall