Take The Money And Run

 

This isn't even remotely some kind of parable. But where's the money? Hey now, see the monkey.

Your Pal,

LSP

War

 

Wow, you no sooner delete a random reminiscence post about dodgy nightlife in central London in the mid '90s than yet another war breaks out, this time in Israel. 

Cause and effect? Delete Groucho's, the Atlantic Bar and Grill, Cafe Boheme and Blacks and get what, a war? Apparently, and you can read all about it here.

It seems as though Hamas raiders caught the IDF napping just at the time they're low on ammunition because of sending all those 155s to Zelensky. But that's as maybe, in the wake of an IDF base being overrun, an IDF General captured and Hamas terrorists roaming seemingly at will through Israeli cities, Bibi's declared a state of war and has vowed, "The enemy will pay an unprecedented price."

They doubtless will and you'll notice none of this, the war in Ukraine, escalation in Armenia, Syria, African coups and now war in Israel happened on 45s watch, yet we were assured that this was precisely the geopolitical chaos unhinged Nazi Trump would lead us to.

Projection? I'd argue yes and urge your prayers for the people of the Holy Land. 

Pax et Bonum.

LSP

Time For Bluegrass

 

It's Friday, so it's time for bluegrass. I like these Appalachian Finns:

And homegrown Iron Horse:

Rock on,

LSP

Stop Trans Genocide

 

Here's the deal, trans persyns are being genocided, it's a hideous thing. There's hardly a day when you don't see a tranny slaughtered and lying headless in the gutter while zhir gender dystopia drag queens are dragged into cattle cars for extinction events in cis gulags.

Yes, a terrifying reality. Just the other day I was walking by the town square  and there was a poor tranny lying face down on the tarmac like a fragment of a broken child's toy. Heartrending and tragic.

The very same day at Milano's Pizza we navigated a veritable heap of dead and dying trannies, just outside the door of the pizzeria where they'd been transmassacred. The sheer trans horror of it all.

So awful, so many trannies dead due to spite, bigotry and Trumpism. It's like the killing fields of Cambodia but oh, so very much worse. Yes, it's here in North Central Texas; piles of dead trannies everywhere, a genocide.

For God's sake, please cut this risible, insane, demonic, Mengele garbage out. And I tell you, there will be a reckoning.

Nuremberg Forever,

LSP

Thursday After Mass

 

On Thursday evenings there's a Mass at Mission #2 and afterwards we decided to go down the road to Parson's Marina for a drink and a snack. It's tranquil there, with a view over the lake and offers $2 beers and discount pizza on Thursdays, which can't be bad.

So we pulled in to Shooky's only to find several other members of the flock already there who had cunningly skipped Mass in favor of cut price lakeside fare. In fairness, the latter's a big draw but look, you can have both. Hmmm, maybe I need to say an outdoor Mass at good old Shooky's, move the mountain to Mohammed, sorta thing.

Good Old Shooky's

Then more people from the church turned up, it was getting to be like an Annual Parish Meeting and I found myself invited to a dove hunt on Sunday. Great result, let's see if the birds are flying when the day comes around and regardless, it'd be good to get out in the field now the climate's changed.

We'll see how that goes, in the meanwhile, what a lot of fun to meet up with such good people as the sun was beginning to set over the lake, beautiful. I feel more of this is in order.

Cheers,

LSP

Thunder Eshaton

 

Yeah, go right ahead and post on Thunderbirds and see where it mythically gets you. Good call, LSP, now you're right in the middle of a ferocious, apocalyptic thunder storm. No kidding, the heavens are crashing down with eschatalogical fury.

At first I thought it was shrapnel bouncing off the justified and ancient timbers of the house but no, it was hail. I know this because I went outside to look at the lightshow and an icy boulder clocked me in the eye. Dam painful, I can tell you.

Would the rig be alright along with the planet itself? Good questions, so go outside with a flashlight to find out. All OK, thank God, and the storm passed over with its massive and predatory birds. We live to fight again another day.

All Hail Texas,

LSP

Thunderbirds in Texas

 

Giant black birds with wing spans greater than ten feet and sometimes well in excess of that, seen today in Texas. Fact or fiction? Some residents of the Lone Star State say fact. Here's an excerpt from a sighting in McAllen in 2008:

We had visited for a few minutes when I noticed two large indiscriminate black objects in the distance, and I asked out loud “What the hell are those?”. I pointed them out to my brother, who acknowledged he saw them… but he couldn’t identify what he was seeing. As I stood up and took a few steps on the patio towards the back yard, I was thinking to myself… UFOs?… hang gliders?… neither fit with what I was looking at.

Just then, a commercial airliner that was apparently coming in for a landing (or possibly a departure) at McAllen Int’l Airport had swung around in an arc behind the objects…and for a long moment I could see the two indiscriminate black objects superimposed upon the body of the airliner, and I immediately blurted out excitedly, “It’s those G** D*** Big Birds from the History Channel… Holy S***!” (and then a few other words… expletives)… I told my brother to get his wife so she could see what we were seeing.

As I walked all the way out into the yard from underneath the patio, I glanced back to the southeast in the direction the birds had come from. Much to my surprise, there was an entire line of giant birds that stretched a good half mile to three quarters of a mile in the sky- in a straight line. 

 

Again, from the same year but this time near Boerne in the Hill Country:

Coming in low, just over the trees behind me to the south, and passing directly over the tree next to me, was a huge black bird. It passed only 30 to 40 feet from me, flying just above the treetop adjacent to my garage and deck. It passed to my east, so that I was located between it and the western sun. The low sun behind me illuminated it clearly. I got a very good look.

My first impression – besides its huge size – was of its wings. They were hunched and articulated into sections of different angles, like those of a bat or pterodactyl. They were not outspread and flat like those of a vulture or hawk. Its shoulders were showing, in other words. It seemed to fly sort of hunched up. The wings were messily pointy at the ends, not rounded.

This was not a vulture or turkey vulture. Vultures float and swoop constantly where we live and I am familiar with them. This was much larger than a vulture – bigger than the surprisingly long wingspan of a vulture when you see one up close. I estimate this creature’s wingspan to have been 10 or maybe 12 feet. It was easily double or perhaps triple the size of a vulture. Ditto for its head and beak [yellow] compared to the size of a vulture’s head...

Startlingly huge. Completely black. Yellow stubby but pointed beak. White eye. Oddly ruffled small feathers. Hunched or boney a bit at the shoulder. Articulated sectional wings. Grim looking. Definitely not a vulture because it was very much bigger and had an all-black head and no grey wing colorations.

 

There's many more sightings, especially in the San Antonio area, and cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard believes the massive birds, if real, have their base somewhere remote and relatively unexplored, such as the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico. But granted their existence, what are they?

Some speculate they're Teratorns, a giant American bird of prey thought to have gone extinct with other megafauna around 10,000 years ago, well within humanity's presence on the continent and possibly remembered by Red Indians as mythic Thunderbirds. 

If Teratorns exist in Texas today they're most definitely living fossils and that's not beyond the bounds of possibilty, such things do exist, see Coelacanth. And what remarkable fossils have been found. Discovered in 1980, Argentavis Magnificens had a wingspan of 8 meters and stood 3.5 meters from tip of tail to end of beak, the largest bird known to date which flew.

Could a colony of these tremendous birds have survived the Quaternary extinction event (no, they weren't hunted to death with flints you idiotic boffins but maybe a series of meteor strikes, 'bolides', had something to do with it) and lived on into the present day? Eyewitnesses say something very much like that may well be the case. An expedition to the Sierra Madre is clearly in order.

Far more exciting, don't you think, than hunting for living fossils inside, say, the Beltway. Feel free to share your sightings of mysterious creatures, avian or otherwise.

Best,

LSP

Listen Up

 

Some people scorn this, they are utter fools.

LSP

Exegesis

 

A soldier called me up today, "So you've got these pseudepigrapha, (he's become all exegete) how can we tell what's real in the Biblical text?" Resisting the temptation to dam his impudence I answered honestly, "You see, son, what happened was a lot of German atheists got together in the nineteenth century and tried to show us the Bible wasn't true, because its text  comes from different sources."

As in, "Oh my, I can't believe in Christianity because Matthew borrowed from Mark! My faith is ruined and now I must become a Marxist and celebrate trans weddings!" Pathetic. I told the boy, "Hold fire, the people who set the canon of scripture knew the people who knew the people who witnessed the acts therein. It has apostolic and therefore Christ's authority."

You Fraudulent Old Traveler's Club

He liked this and to be sure, it's a good apologetic, but of course we've moved on. No one's arguing about the veracity of Christ and his message of salvation, not least the various Churches. On the contrary, they just ignore it and all in the name of The Science and, obviously, cash. Look at them.

obey your rulers, serfs

A whirling cesspool of demonic corruption in the heart of our nation's governance. Out demons out? And then some, but we know the outcome. Whether this includes the ancient if rapidly declining Church of England is another matter again.

Your Pal,

LSP

Some Worldwide Anglican Non-Communion News

 

So what's going on in the Worldwide Anglican Non-Communion? Good question. The venerable and catastrophically shrinking Church of England is all about getting rid of CO2, which is a gas, carbon dioxide. Here's the Net Zero Bishop of Norwich, the COE's Lead Bishop on the Environment:

The Prime Minister said we can meet our climate targets without taking the carbon reduction actions the Government had previously announced. We can’t. Decarbonisation must permeate every aspect of our lives.

 

No more carbon for you, Church of Englanders, time to stop breathing. You'll be interested, punters, to know COE attendance is at a risible 600k per Sunday in 2021, down from over a million in 2009. All out of a population of what, over 60 million? Huh, you do the math. Then there's ACoC, the Anglican Church of Canada, which is totally gay. 

you risible old fraud

Check out Samizdat:

In advance of Ottawa’s Pride March on August 27th, Shane Parker, the bishop of Ottawa urged us all to read his letter “Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives”. The heading for the letter is: “Declaring the Sanctity of Life and the Dignity of All”.

Not quite all as it turns out. The handwringing is reserved for 2SLGBTQI+ people because “all sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions are a precious part of creation and are part of the natural order.”

 

Sanctity of life for all, except the unborn, obvs, which ACoC wants to kill. But not to worry, there's a new bishop figure in Peterborough. Look how lovely it is:

eyes left

I say, Colonel, what an attractive wife! Just kidding, Indian Army forever and good luck Peterborough.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

It's A Mystery!

 

How did career pol Nancy make all that money? It's a mystery. And let's not forget DiFi's mysterious wealth. Where did all that monumental hoard of cash come from? Perhaps DiFi was an alchemist, skilled in the arcana of turning base metal into gold.

Thanks, Armchair Warlord, for these illuminating infographics.

Cheers,

LSP

Out And About

 

One of the things people like to do after Mass at Mission #2 is go out for lunch and I joined in today. We went to Shooky's, which is a congenial little setup overlooking Lake Whitney at Parson's Marina. I hadn't there been before, strangely, and liked it a lot.

The food was good, I can recommend their pepperoni pizza, the view over the lake tranquil and I liked the fishing lodge, marina ambiance of the place. Just a really pleasant way to spend an hour or so after church and with great company to boot.

What good people! Representing several walks of life, law enforcement, banking, engineering, ranching, and all united in the Faith. Were there any libs at the table? No, there were not. Was anyone armed? Woe betide the fool who attempted to rob Shooky's on a Sunday afternoon.

Seriously, I feel blessed by such a good hearted congregation and am amazed at its range. It's easily the most intellectual church I've served but at the same time totally down to earth. From people who write books like I'd like to shoot dove to rodeo stars and all else in between, and right there in Bosque County, Texas.

Who'd have thought it, yet there it is. Go to Shooky's if you get the chance, I think you'll have fun.

God bless,

LSP