CRIMINAL MINDS

"Teens offering free squirts of hand sanitizer to shoppers in Brandford--but it's super glue." Bored Panda

ON THE BORDER:  ERRATA

Yesterday I posted on FB about the Border Patrol intercepting 7 people on the Terrorist Watch List. Lois informed me that it was 23, NOT 7. I apologize for my fake news.

DEPT. OF SHAMELESS JOKE-STEALING *

* Compliments of Reader's Digest, Dec. 2021/Jan 2022

There is an order of monks that is sworn to silence. But each year, one monk is allowed to say two words. The day arrives & a monk stands up & says, "Oatmeal lumpy." The abbot then declares the session over. The following year, another monk stands & says, "Oatmeal fine." A year later, it's a third monk's turn. "I quit," he says. The abbot is shocked. "Why?" The third monk replies, "I can't stand the constant bickering."

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY

"Last week, reporter Christopher Rufo released footage of top Disney employees vowing to inject their radical LGBTQ agenda into children's programming. Disney producer Latoya Raveneau told an all-hands meeting that her team works to push a 'not-at-all- secret gay agenda' in programming aimed at kids & sought to add 'queerness' to such content . . . And people reacted. #BoycottDisney began to trend on social media. We at the Daily Wire committed to spending $100 million to develop children's content that would be safe for kids--content dedicated to traditional values, where parents wouldn't have to worry about prescreening content for messages about non-binary 5-year-olds . . . The takeaway, according to the social Left, is that anyone who defends traditionalism in child-rearing--or anyone who simply doesn't want children turned into targets of sexual propagandizing--is the true cultural aggressor. This is a transparent lie. And it's a lie that won't redound to the benefit of those who seek radical change. If they wish to pose the rubric of gay rights against parental rights, gay rights are likely to suffer. If they wish to suggest that LGBTQ freedom extends to teachers initiating children into sexual conversations without parental permission, parents are unlikely to go along for the ride , , , For too long, Americans have planted their heads firmly in the sand, hoping that the forces of the free market would militate against the cultural hijacking of corporate institutions. Instead, corporations built by entrepreneurs have been hijacked by woke employees & a feckless managerial class. The blowback will be real, & it should be real. And if that means parents swearing off Mickey Mouse, increasingly they will." Column by Ben Shapiro in Norfolk Daily News, 4/8

IS THERE A GOD?

"But if there is no God and we are simply the products of an unguided evolutionary process (rather than being created by God in His image), there would be no such thing as justice. Or goodness. Or absolute morality.

"As C. S. Lewis reflected on his mindset as an atheist, “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? . . .”

"He continued, “Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too -- for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist -- in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless -- I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality -- namely my idea of justice -- was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.” Michael Brown, Townhall, 4/18

THE MEANING OF THE CROSS

"The prophet Isaiah said it so beautifully, hundreds of years before Jesus’ death: “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6). What a message! We sinned. He died. We deserved the punishment. He took it on Himself. That is the meaning of the cross." Michael Brown, Townhall, 4/17

FREEDOM OF RELIGION

"Democrats’ record of hostility toward religion is fundamentally opposed to the majority of Americans’ convictions and the values that form the foundation of the American experiment. Worshipping freely and living out our beliefs in the public square is the reason our Founding Fathers enshrined religious liberty in the First Amendment. As Americans gather to celebrate Passover and Easter, we’re reminded of just how much our country needs the message of the hope, peace, and joy that can only come through faith." Ronna McDaniel, Townhall, 4/ 17

THE CORE OF OUR NATION'S SOUL

"Darkness either overcomes you or it compels you to shine your light to repel it.  Americans face this choice as we are bombarded with social issues that require us to examine the core of the nation’s soul. Whether you believe the United States is a Christian nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles or not, the universally accepted norms of right and wrong remain until they are upended. The far left in our nation is actively attempting to eradicate core beliefs by confusing children of their gender and God-given sex, by emasculating men, by making race an idol, and by worshipping at the altar of abortion. The movement to eradicate foundational biblical principles is influenced by the demonic (darkness) and Maryland and California now lead the way.

"As if the horrors created by abortion-on-demand causing the slaughter of 60+ million babies since Roe v. Wade in 1973 were not enough, Maryland and California legislators drafted bills moving through their legislatures that go a step further – they attempt to create laws that avoid civil and criminal liability for the murder of children. In these bills, they attempt to shield from prosecution a mother and any third parties who assist her in murdering her child from 7 to 28 days after birth (“perinatal period”).  This is called infanticide and getting away with murder. These bills are indecent and should not even be considered in a moral society. And there’s the rub . . . 

"What is unspoken and most diabolical is that the proposed laws in these states will have a disproportionate impact on black babies. In the United States, 44% of abortions are performed on black babies. Consequently, it stands to reason that the infanticide bills proposed in Maryland and California will disproportionately murder black babies after they are born.  The far left is quick to denounce anyone who opposes indoctrinating children with critical race theory in schools as racists, but they are eerily quiet when it comes to the wholesale slaughter of black babies in and out of the womb, as proposed.  The objective reality is that California Assembly Bill 2223 and Maryland Senate Bill 669 are the kind of discriminatory bills that should be deemed unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment (Equal Protection Clause) of the U.S. Constitution." Marc Little, Townhall, 4/17