America’s dearth of dads

“Dad, how do I?”
 
That’s the clever name of a recently created YouTube channel devoted to sharing “dadvice,” provding practical content to many basic tasks that everyone should know how to do.
 
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The channel’s immense popularity – millions of views, 2.34 million subscribers – is a testament to the fact that far too many kids these days are growing up without fathers in their lives.
 

“Dad, how do I?” popped up on my radar last month in a Bill Whittle video, Videos Reach Millions, Answer Fatherless American’s Heart Cry ~

Rob Kenney’s just a middle-aged father of two adult children, but his YouTube channel — started during the pandemic shutdown — now has more than 2 million followers who want to see him teach how to tie a tie, or change a tire, or unclog a drain. The commenters on his videos seem to find an instant emotional bond with something that — in many cases — they never had.

 

The Whittle video is well worth a watch, affording a poignant look at the amazing impact “Dad” has on our lives. Here are three grown men who can’t help tearing up when talking about how much their dads have meant to them ~

 

 

Watching all these feral children running wild in the streets of our major cities these last few weeks, I can’t help but wonder how much of their destructive rage can be traced to a huge hole in their lives, caused by the absence of a real father in the home.

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Honoring their sacrifice

Moving new video from Prager U truly encompasses the spirit of Memorial Day ~
(3 Kleenex alert 😥 )
 

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Happy Groundhog Day!

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Operation Christmas Child

operationChristmasChildlogoI’ve been so distracted lately I totally forgot to post about the Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes this year! But the final drop-off date is Monday, Nov. 25th, so there’s still time to participate. I really encourage you to do so. Not only is it fun and personally rewarding, but you’ll be participating in the wonderful harvest of souls for Jesus Christ ~
 

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Democrats – they’re nothing if not tenacious

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The menacing Hydra of the Deep State

Have you been wondering where the Democrats’ seemingly endless dog and pony show is going? Why the country is continually being force-fed reckless collusion/bribery allegations – charges that ultimately turn out to be baseless? Why their iron-clad “proof” is really anything but, and real facts are either obscured or dismissed?… It’s all about power.
 
Simply put, the statists are desperate to retain control over the shadow government they’ve built. Donald Trump refuses to play their game, and they’re frantically scrambling to discredit him – and hold onto their elitist domination.
 
In his latest special, Glenn Beck explains in detail how this whole subversive scheme operates. Far from a conspiracy theory, this documentary exposes the progressive socialists for the destructive force they are, using their own words and actions.
 
The video is rather long, but a much better use of your time than 99% of cable offerings. And well worth it if you want to understand how the Deep State works and the existential threat it poses to our republic ~

 

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Veterans Day

Father, on this day we remember those who have served
our country in the military, and we give thanks for all
those willing to lay down their lives for their brothers
and sisters. Especially, we thank You Jesus, the sinless One,
who laid down His life for us. We thank you for His loving
sacrifice that makes us worthy, despite our sin-marked souls, of
standing before You for eternal ages to come. Amen

 
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Family matters…

I’ve been taking a brief hiatus to deal with some pressing elderly parent issues… Hope to be back to daily postings in a week or two.
 
In the meantime, enjoy this recent video from PragerU. It had me in tears. Both over the reflexively, selfless acts of these young men, as well as at the idea that the malcontented Left wants to eradicate the innate, courageous masculinity that they displayed ~

On November 7, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside a crowded bar in Thousand Oaks, California. Lives were lost that night, but lives were also saved. Who saved them? How? What can these heroes teach us? Journalist Abigail Shrier answers these questions in this powerful video.

 

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Oops! We forgot to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day!

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Related:
Political Correctness Erases History and Turns Heroes Into Villains ~

“History matters because it puts our lives and times in context. It teaches us how other human beings dealt with the flawed and imperfect world they lived in. It teaches us about human nature. If we erase our history we will soon have no past and no future.” ~ Jarrett Stepman, author of The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past (Regnery, 2019).

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By their causes you shall know them

I wanted to share a couple pictures of interesting displays I recently noticed in front of two local faith communities. The visual contrast is as striking as that between the two worldviews on exhibit.
 
The first, at a Catholic church, was unmistakably pro-life, featuring dozens of small white crosses in straight, solemn rows, representing babies lost through abortion. The message: All Life is Sacred ~
 

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Two miles down the road, the Birmingham Temple Congregation for Humanistic Judaism is declaring “solidarity with immigrants and refugees.” They’re doing this by tying small stuffed toys onto a bunch of wooden sticks. The overall effect is cluttered, chaotic and rather disconcerting, reminiscent of those roadside memorials for auto fatalities ~

 
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More to the point, only one of these religious organizations appears to be concerned with God’s opinion on these matters.
 
First of all, I don’t recall “separated children” being an issue during the last president’s tenure – even though the detention centers for housing minors were the brainchild of the Obama administration. I sure didn’t see any toys-on-sticks at this location four years ago.
 
That said, these kids are being detained as a direct result of their parents’ ill-advised decisions to sneak them into the country illegally. God is compassionate – but He doesn’t want us to facilitate consequence-free living.
 
Furthermore, while the Lord calls us to be charitable and care for the needs of the true refugee – those fleeing life-threatening persecution – we should do so in a manner that doesn’t encourage further violation of our immigration laws. Our first response should be to help improve conditions in their native countries. And our first concern should be for their eternal souls.
 

While the temple folks are worried about the thousands of separated immigrant children, are they equally concerned with the sanctity of each and every life born and unborn? Aborted lives number in the 100’s of thousands. In fact, LifeNews.com reports that nearly 25% of annual deaths in the U.S. are due to abortion ~

(T)he widely accepted estimate is that there are 920,000 medical and surgical abortions in the United States each year. Each of these abortions kills an innocent human being […]
 
Shoot innocent people in schools, theaters, or on the streets and the Hollywood elite react with swift calls for “justice” and the banning of guns. Kill innocent human beings by abortion and not only do the Hollywood elite not care, but they are quick to shower gifts of money on the organization that does more of the killing than any other organization or individual.

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Ultimately, the “humanistic” designation really tells you all you need to know about the Birmingham Temple Congregation. They’ve pretty much evolved beyond the belief in a Higher Authority; we humans know better than God, and act accordingly.
 

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“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live;”

~ Deuteronomy 30:19 ~

 
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Related:
“Bishops Without Borders” ~ These guys have their priorities upside down as well

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Project Veritas exposes more of Zucker’s TDS

As we’re already confirmed – thanks to Project Veritas and brave whistleblower Cary Poarch – CNN really is virulently anti-Trump. This latest video illustrates that the network’s irrefutable bias clearly starts at the top. President Jeff Zucker is a control freak, infected with a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome ~

 

 
Stay tuned for more revelations.

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Pacific Islanders: “We’re drowning! Send $$!”

In case you missed it, last week the Marshall Islands declared a national climate crisis ~

The Republic of the Marshall Islands, one of the lowest lying island nations in the world, has declared a national emergency over climate change.

 
Now most climate activists probably couldn’t even find the Marshall Islands on a map. (So when they disappear underwater they won’t even be missed. Just kidding!)
 
MarshallislandsMapThe Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has a Compact of Free Association (COFA) with the U.S., but has been a sovereign nation since 1986. The nation consists of 24 coral atolls, with a total of 1,156 individual islands and islets. The population is around 55,000. And President Heine says they’re all sinking ~

The country’s president, Hilda Heine, tweeted the news Friday, blaming the international community for not acting quickly enough to mitigate global warming “of its own making.”
 
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“Our parliament has officially declared a national climate crisis. As one of only four low-lying coral atoll nations in the world, the failure of the international community to adequately respond to the global climate crisis of its own making holds particularly grave consequences,” she tweeted.

 
Oh good grief. Maybe they’re running out of money – but they aren’t running out of land. Because, science. Nature has a way of rebuilding atoll islands, as Paul Kench, a geomorphologist (University of Auckland’s School of Environment in New Zealand) discovered a while back ~

Kench, who had been studying how atoll islands evolve over time, says he had assumed that a rising ocean would engulf the islands, which consist of sand perched on reefs. “That’s what everyone thought, and nobody questioned it,” he says. But when he scoured the literature, he could not find a single study to support that scenario.
 
What his studies showed instead was: “instead of eroding land, the waves would raise island elevation by depositing sand produced from broken coral, coralline algae, mollusks, and foraminifera. Kench notes that reefs can grow 10 to 15 millimeters a year—faster than the sea-level rise expected to occur later this century. “ As long as the reef is healthy and generates an abundant supply of sand, there’s no reason a reef island can’t grow and keep up,” he argues.
 
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Remember, for example, that the Marshall Islands emerged on a reef 4800 to 4000 years ago, when sea levels were rising as fast as they are expected to rise over the next century.

 

Furthermore, this is from a 2009 U.K. Telegraph article ~

(I)f there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.
 
Despite fluctuations down as well as up, “the sea is not rising,” he says. “It hasn’t risen in 50 years.” If there is any rise this century it will “not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm”. And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.

 

Even National Geographic isn’t sounding the alarms.
 
So remain calm. And follow the science.

 
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Related:
“We need support”: Pacific Islands Demand More Climate Action
New Science: 89% Of The Globe’s Islands – And 100% Of Large Islands – Have Stable Or Growing Coasts ~ (Jan. 2019) ~

Over the past decades, atoll islands exhibited no widespread sign of physical destabilization in the face of sea-level rise. 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted. It is noteworthy that no island larger than 10 ha decreased in size. These results show that atoll and island areal stability is a global trend, whatever the rate of sea-level rise.

Tropical Pacific Islands Are Not Being Drowned By Rising Seas
Tidal Gauge Shows Marshall Islands Aren’t Being Drowned By Rising Sea Levels

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