Yet More Fish

 

Thanks to the Government shutdown I was able to get out and fish (What? Ed.) on the mighty Brazos. Well, Lake Whitney's dam spillway, where there's a handy fishing pier. It was deserted and I gazed down into the murky depths of the pool, the hot blue Texan November sky overhead and the Brazos stretching south beneath me. Quite a sight, but were there any fish?

Not many, they seemed pretty much shut down, perhaps all those government subsidies had dried up and they were busy not working from home. Still, I spotted a few predatory Gar gliding beneath the surface like Poseidon armed Russkie subs off the coast of England without a navy and chanced a few casts at them with frozen shad.

Don't Scorn The Gar

Gar typically love frozen shad here. They look at it, snatch it, hold it in their beak, then swim with it, pause for reflection, and then run downstream, delicious frozen shad in beak. Let the fish get a hundred or so yards out and try and set the hook. 

If you you do, if you manage to get that far and it's not easy, you're in for a lot of fun. Bam, leaping, thrashing, diving big fish action as you attempt to bring this Jurassic monster up to the pier. Like poor man's sea fishing, I always think.

Would that happen today? No, the Gar weren't after my tasty, shiny frozen shad, they wanted the swarms of bugs flying over and swimming in the water. Still, I had a brief run, fun, but didn't close the deal, next time. So, leaving my Gar rod stationary, I cast off with a Mark Carney worm in search of anything else. Lo and behold, a turbulence, a thrashing on the water and down went the light rod, fight on.  And up came a decent Bass, great result, see top photo.

On Patrol

Word to the wise. Take full advantage of the Government shutdown to get out and fish, as in exercise your freedom to do so now that you're freed from the jackboot tyranny of our DC Overlords. If only, eh? As it is, we have the rainbow wing of the Uniparty holding its opposite number to ransom, at the expense of the people. 

At what point will this idiocy end? Perhaps, dear friends, when the money runs out and we've had enough. Is that point fast approaching? Perhaps, in the meanwhile, we fish on.

Tight Lines,

LSP

Obey Your Rainbow Rulers

Great Britain's Monarch, Sir Elton John, has forbidden British press from reporting on his star-studded sex life, involving steamy three-ways with his husband David Furnish and other male celebrities.

Elton John and David Furnish

Because of a court order, it is now illegal for media to publish stories about Elton John and David Furnish cavorting with their lovers in children's swimming pools and having olive oil wrestling bouts with Canadians.

John Bercow

The pink gag order extends to England's Parliament, where the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has banned MPs from revealing the identity of England's Rainbow Rulers, Elton John, and David Furnish.

Er...

Thanks to what is known as a "back door injunction," British citizens and MPs face punitive fines and prison if they publicly reveal the identities of their Queens.

You can read about England's new-found freedom of speech here, here and here.

Some Guy in a Dress

In related news, the US Navy is actively recruiting transsexuals. "The hope," said one senior naval officer on the condition of anonymity, "is that the enemy will die laughing."

Rule Britannia,

LSP

What Will Happen to The Communion Partners?

Do you remember the Communion Partners? Sure you don't, unless you happen to be a keen-eyed observer of the Anglican scene in North America. So here's a refresher. The Communion Partners are trads who stayed in the Episcopal Church (TEC) as a kind of righteous remnant, witnessing against the pink revolution that took over their church.

A Communion Partner With The Covenant

They hoped, perhaps they still do, that when TEC gets disciplined by the Communion for going gay, they, the Communion Partners, will be recognized as the true voice of Anglicanism in North America. And all without the pain and grief of getting sued by your rainbow rulers for leaving the church. Don't want to incur the stainless steel fury of your liberal overlords, eh?

An Alien in The Corn

But what's happened? It looks like the conservatives who left TEC, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), are the ones who're being seen as authentic Anglicans in the US. After all, their leader, Archbishop Foley Beach, was given a voice and vote at the primatial gathering in Canterbury, and his church wasn't sanctioned, but TEC was. So it's starting to look like ACNA is seen as the true Anglican franchise in America, even if it's not formally counted as such.

I'll leave you with a question. What would happen to the Communion Partners if, three years from now, TEC has refused to repent and is kicked out of the Communion, and ACNA isn't? Perhaps a picture speaks louder than words.

Good luck, Communion Partners.

LSP