Sunday, December 26, 2021

MEDIA-RELATED STUFF

Sad to learn of the death of comedian and CBC broadcaster Candy Palmateer.


Today on "Cross Country Checkup", a caller requested "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" and "All I Want for Christmas is You" was played instead. There was a time when CBC wouldn't have made such a mistake. Also, don't allow people to sing and play the guitar over the phone, especially when they can't sing. I swear, CBC, you just get more and more disgraceful every day.


Been catching up on the saga of WBCQ, WHRI and World's Last Chance on Don Brown's blog. A pretty sad and pathetic situation over all. By the way,  the SW Florida blog looks interesting and informative.


Speaking of which, it looks like Family Broadcasting is no longer on shortwave at all.


I checked out the schedule for Family Entertainment TV. A bit of a neat line-up, but there's definitely stuff on there of which I don't think Grandpa Lester would approve.

Saturday, December 25, 2021

THE GOSPEL OF JOHN STARRING CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER

This is a word-for-word dramatization of John's Gospel starring the late, great Canadian actor Christopher Plummer as the narrator, of course ostensibly the apostle John at the time he wrote this book of the Bible.


I hope it ministers to, edifies and blesses you as much as it did me.


My only quibble is they got John 1 5 wrong.


Watch it here. 

RADIO-RELATED STUFF

Sue Tyler, you perfumed your bed, now lie in it.


That Santa on "Here and Now"  yesterday was something else. He sounded like a hoser who couldn't wait to get off the phone so he could crack open his first beer of the day.


A couple weeks ago Wolf Peterborough, yet again, you couldn't find a replacement host for "All Request Saturday Night", the only decent thing on your station.


Was listening to KGLT from Helena, Montana Thursday afternoon. Sounded like an awesome station.


Was also listening to the emergency railway frequency from Bozeman the same afternoon.


Also listened to the K-Love affiliate from that region of Montana. Glad they didn't deluge their listeners in Christmas music the way UCB Canada did.


The commercial for the Military Families Resource Centre that recently aired on 91x Belleville shouldn't have listed loving kids as a qualification for its early childhood educator position. You shouldn't go into ECE because you "Love kids" since there will always be that child who is hard, if not next to impossible to love.


I suspect the vast majority of Bill Cunningham's Sunday night show is pre-recorded.


Listened to UCB Belleville last Thursday. Looks like they've gotten rid of their teaching programs and filled evenings with a nationally syndicated show sent to stations ala John Tesh. I heard about nothing local except for commercials and a weather forecast. I heard a recording concerning one of the winners of their current contest, but as I listened I realized it was from their Chatham station. Pretty disappointing for a station which I thought when I heard about it coming to Belleville twenty years ago was going to present a lot of unique and local programming focused on Christ. Incidentally, had to turn 'er off when "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" came on.


Apparently, "Saturday Night Blues" is gone from CBC Radio as well.

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

SOME WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND ADVICE

AH: A brother in Christ emailed this to me. It is who we are in Christ and what we need to grow and more into as our relationship with God grows and deepens.


If you are ever tempted to think bad of another Christian:


A Helpful Reminder But you don’t have to move. Try this: The next time you see a Christian, look beyond what you can see. Look to what God says is true of him (since He made it happen!) and tell him about it right then and there. “Hello, my friend. Isn’t it amazing that as you stand there, you are a holy son or daughter of God, a blameless, radiant, and righteous friend of His? While you’re stuck in the chaos and turmoil of this world, you are not at all of it, and it is not worthy of you. I know who you are, and I’m thrilled with God because of you.”


Ralph Harris. God's Astounding Opinion of You (Kindle Locations 2083-2087). Harvest House Publishers. Kindle Edition. 

Thursday, December 16, 2021

HOW TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY TAKES CHILDREN HOSTAGE

National Review
How Transgender Ideology Takes Children Hostage      
By Nathanael Blake
June 10, 2021 6:30 AM
Troubled kids are being encouraged to put their own lives on the line for a misguided worldview.
Taking oneself hostage is a bold move, but sometimes it pays off. It worked for Bart, the hero of Mel Brooks’s classic it-could-never-be-made-today comedy Blazing Saddles, and it just might succeed for the trans-kids movement as well.
Among the latest examples of this gambit is a Variety profile of Jazz Jennings, who became famous after appearing on 20/20 as a six-year-old transgender child in 2007. Attention, accolades, activism, and entrepreneurship followed, including a TLC show, I Am Jazz, that is about to enter a seventh season, after a couple of years off for Jennings to deal with “burnout, depression, and anxiety.” Now, Jazz is back, but Variety’s paeon to Jennings and other trans kids inadvertently reveals the dangers of transgender ideology and the movement it fuels.
The piece presents Jazz and other trans icons and advocates as lifesavers, on the premise that trans-identifying children will kill themselves without affirmation and transition treatments. The article claims that laws restricting minors’ access to medical transition “could quite literally be a matter of life and death.” Jazz’s mother, Jeanette, declares, “When I talk to a parent that says to me, ‘My child would not be alive today if it wasn’t for you,’ that makes it all worthwhile. . . . To save a child’s life, there’s nothing greater than that.”
Conversely, skeptics of the trans-kids movement are accused of being hateful, bigoted child-killers. But they are not the ones feeding vulnerable children a suicide script in which the alternative to transition is death. We should be alarmed by a movement that encourages mentally distressed youth to take themselves hostage — the tactic reveals something ugly at the heart of transgender ideology. Furthermore, its presuppositions are unsupported by the evidence. Though those who identify as transgender do commit or attempt suicide at high rates, it has not been demonstrated that early transition will ameliorate this.
For example, citing Jack Turban of Stanford’s medical school, Variety reports that “being able to safely transition in consult with medical professionals can lower the alarmingly high rate of suicidal thoughts in trans youth.” This presumably refers to a study that Turban co-authored that found that the use of puberty-blockers was associated with lower rates of suicidal ideation. But the study “did not detect a difference in the odds of lifetime or past-year suicide attempts or attempts resulting in hospitalization.” Of course, the study’s design limited its findings (those who succeed in killing themselves are not able to answer retrospective surveys). Alternately, we might expect that those who have been told that they should have been suicidal will remember thinking about suicide more. Regardless, the efficacy of transition as a suicide-prevention measure in children with gender dysphoria remains unproven.
Indeed, the studies that trans advocates cite tend to be full of methodological flaws, from poor response rates to minuscule sample sizes to overreliance on self-reporting. Furthermore, older studies of, say, Swedish adults (mostly men) who were carefully screened before transition can tell us very little about how the explosion of self-diagnosed, rapidly transitioned American teenagers (mostly girls) will play out.
This partly explains why other countries are backing away from rushing children into transition. Earlier this year, Sweden’s Karolinska Hospital announced that it would no longer be “prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to gender-dysphoric patients under the age of 18” except under carefully controlled research conditions. Meanwhile, the Keira Bell case in Britain ended the prescription of puberty blockers for children younger than 16. Like the U.S., both of these nations have had massive increases in the number of adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria, as well as loosely regulated clinics eager to begin medically transitioning these children. Unlike the U.S., these nations are moving toward a more cautious approach, having learned something from the damage done to children who were given body-altering hormones and surgeries by adults too afraid, or too blinded by ideology, to say no.
The case of Keira Bell illustrates the dangers of this approach. She was rushed into transition in adolescence and early adulthood; her regret is mingled with blame for the adults who were more interested in modifying her body than in reconciling her to it.  “As I matured,” she writes, “I recognized that gender dysphoria was a symptom of my overall misery, not its cause.” Bell and the many others who regret transitioning are collateral damage from the hostage-taking of Jennings and other trans activists, whose threats of suicide have stymied efforts to carefully screen patients, even children, before transition.
The harm done in such cases is horrific. For example, when transition begins in childhood, using the Dutch protocol of puberty blockers followed by cross-sex hormones and surgery, it sterilizes the patient and destroys sexual function. The side effects are still being discovered. And yet it does not actually change the patient’s sex, which is beyond the capabilities of medical science. The biological reality, and there is no way to put it gently, is that Jazz Jennings is a young man who has been castrated and — through the use of chemicals, cosmetic surgery, and cosmetics — made to look like a young woman.
There is no proof that this drastic course of treatment is right for any, let alone all, of the onrush of children claiming to be transgender. Given time, most children diagnosed with gender dysphoria will desist and come to accept their natural bodies. Instead of rushing to affirm transgender identities in children, doctors used to urge patience in treating these (previously rare) cases. The new combination of affirmation-only treatments and a surge of children (many apparently influenced by social contagion and the Internet) claiming to be trans may be catastrophic, a medical disaster on par with the lobotomy craze of the last century. How will all the adolescent girls tripping off to Planned Parenthood for testosterone feel about it a decade or two hence?
These changes in treatment have been driven by activism, not medical science, and they are enforced by fear. Even stalwart progressives who support transgender identities in general are viciously attacked if they mention the growing ranks of those who regret transitioning, or if they suggest a need for more caution before transitioning children. Activists justify stifling discussion by citing the threat of the hostages shooting themselves. If dissent leads kids to suicide, then it must be squashed; if families stand in the way of transition, then they must be broken up.
Such efforts to manufacture and maintain elite consensus can collapse suddenly. We don’t know what may prompt such a shift with regard to transgenderism, but the negative public reception to letting men into women’s spaces and sports is a candidate, as is the mass sterilization of children by doctors adhering to the affirmation-only model of treatment.
We may hope that the radical results of transgender ideology provoke a reconsideration of it. Many who — rightly — want to be compassionate toward those diagnosed with gender dysphoria have been reluctant to challenge the demands of transgender activists. But genuine compassion depends on truth, and the truth is that the claims of transgenderism are fundamentally mystical, even magical, rather than medical.
In a revealing statement, Jennings insists that we listen to trans-identifying children because “they’re more connected to their spirit and to their soul than a lot of adults are.” This reflects the belief — manifest in slogans such as “trans women are women” — that physical transition is simply aligning the body with a higher, truer reality. In this view, the bodily modifications of transition are merely the external manifestations of internal truths about gender identity that even very young children can know, which is why leading LGBT groups assert that there can be transgender toddlers.
But the dangers of transgender ideology were apparent before it began promoting the idea of trans three-year-olds. Transgender dogma denigrates our physical embodiment by treating our bodies as mere material to be sculpted in accord with subjective desires. It demands the remaking of the exterior world, beginning with one’s body and continuing through all of society, to conform to subjective desires. Suicide, which subjectively destroys the world, is the proposed alternative. In other contexts, threatening suicide in order to manipulate others, or encouraging such threats, is recognized as abusive. Why should there be an exception for those encouraging childhood gender transition?
The self-directed hostage-taking in which transgender advocates engage reveals more than they might intend. It presents transgenderism as a compulsive desire that demands an impossible remaking of the world. The compassionate response from men and women of good will must be to develop therapies to mitigate these self-destructive passions, rather than flattering and indulging them.
Nathanael Blake is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

WHAT I'VE LEARNED RESCUING MY DAUGHTER FROM HER TRANSGENDER FANTASY

What I’ve Learned Rescuing My Daughter From Her Transgender Fantasy
Charlie Jacobs /
December 13, 2021
COMMENTARY BY Charlie Jacobs
Charlie Jacobs is the pen name of a California wife and mother of two teenagers. Until recently, she worked part time in a professional capacity, but is now dedicated to educating other parents about how gender ideology can overtake a child.
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My daughter’s story is no longer novel. Stories like it are occurring in your state, your town, and perhaps even on your street. Gender dysphoria—the incongruence between the mind and the body—moves stealthily and quickly to invade girls and boys alike.But this isn’t a cautionary tale. It’s a warning.
My daughter was an ultrafeminine girl since birth. She insisted that her room be painted pink, and she refused to wear anything but dresses until third grade. She avoided her older brother’s toys and sports, choosing tea sets and Shopkins, a series of tiny, collectible toys.
Her favorite activity was to slip into my closet and don my few sparkly clothes and shiniest of heels. She rejected sports in favor of art and sewing.
That all abruptly changed when she turned 12. As her body matured into young womanhood, she stopped begging for a bikini and avoided any clothing that accentuated her figure. She hid her breasts under men’s extra-large sweatshirts.
I remembered doing similar things as my body changed, so I didn’t worry at first.
Then, my daughter immersed herself into anime art and cosplaying, the hobby of dressing like fantastical characters. I supported her creative side.
I didn’t know that anime and cosplaying can overwhelm a young mind. I didn’t know that anime and cosplaying involved gender-bending themes and that the community crosses into pedophilic and sexual themes.
I also didn’t know that the older cosplay community groomed the younger cohorts.
During that same time period, my daughter went through Teen Talk—a Manitoba, Canada-based program that says it provides “youth with accurate, [nonjudgmental] information” on “sexuality, reproductive health, body image, substance use awareness, mental health, issues of diversity, and anti-violence issues”—at her public school.
She came home with a whole new language. She and all her girlfriends discussed their labels—polyamorous, lesbian, pansexual. None of the five girls chose “basic,” their term for a straight girl.
Now, I was worried.
She distanced herself from her old friends and spent more time online. I checked her phone, but I was not astute enough to know that she had set up “appropriate” fake social media accounts for my viewing.
An older girl showed romantic interest in her. I barred that girl from our home.  I learned later that she had molested my daughter.
When my daughter was in the eighth grade, as a Christmas gift, I took her to SacAnime, an anime convention in Sacramento, California. There, she met a girl three years her senior, but light years more mature. That girl mesmerized my daughter with her edginess or magnanimous personality.
The older girl went by “they.” After their meeting, my daughter got a boy’s haircut, stopped shaving, and asked for boys’ underwear. My daughter parroted everything about the older teen.
She started making gross TikTok videos, her language became vulgar, and she redecorated her room to look like a cave. She self-pierced her nose with one of those bull rings. She broke every family rule. She was morphing into an emo-Goth-vampirelike creature.  She was unrecognizable. Her personality descended into anger and rudeness.
The summer before ninth grade, she announced that she was transgender. Post-announcement, she began to threaten suicide. She sunk into deep depression.
I managed to get all of her passwords to all of her social media accounts. What I saw was jaw-dropping.  
Almost everyone that she was conversing with was a stranger, except for the SacAnime friend, who sent her a self-made masturbation video. The discussions on the Discord platform online involved fetishistic sexual conversations. Kids were sending each other erotica, including involving incest and pedophilia.
Older girls were instructing younger girls how to sell nude photos of themselves to men for money.
Girls bragged about their different mental illnesses. They talked about which drugs do what. They talked about how they are really boys, not girls. They discussed “top surgery” (that is, having their breasts removed) and “packers” that create a bulge in one’s pants to imply the presence of a penis.
My daughter’s electronic devices were filled with TikTok videos and YouTubers talking about how great they feel now that they had “transitioned.”
There were messages in which strangers told her to kick my head in because I was a “transphobe” for refusing to call her a male name.
I went nuclear. I took the phone and stripped it of all social media—YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter. I even blocked her ability to get to the internet. I deleted all of her contacts and changed her phone number.
I sat next to her while she “attended” school online via Zoom. I deleted YouTube from the smart TVs and locked up the remotes. I took every anime book from her room. I threw away all of her costumes. I banned any friend who was even the slightest bit unsavory.
I involved the police about the porn. I printed out the law and informed her that if anyone sent her porn, I would not hesitate to prosecute.
She hated me like an addict hates the person preventing her drug fix. I held my ground, despite the constant verbal abuse.
After going through seven mental health professionals, I found an out-of-state psychiatrist who was willing to examine the causality for my daughter’s sudden trans identity.
I immersed myself in reading everything on the issue, talking to other parents and other professionals. I worked unceasingly to re-create the bond she and I used to share.
After a year and half of utter hell, my daughter is finally returning to her authentic self—a beautiful, artsy, kind and loving daughter.
I am not sure what the actual ingredients for the magic potion were for alleviating gender dysphoria in my daughter. The formula will vary, but what I did was, after a very brief misstep of using a male name, our family and all of the adults in my child’s life only used her birth name and corresponding pronouns.
We did not permit social transition, although we could not control the school setting. Unbelievably, our local Catholic high school refused to follow our edict.
As I mentioned previously, we pulled the plug on all social media and her access to anyone other than those persons we vetted. I forced my daughter to listen to specific podcasts on the subject while driving her to school. I printed out stories about female detransitioners (women who had medicalized, but then regretted their actions and returned to living as a woman) and left them throughout the house.
I left all of my research out in plain view, including “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” by Abigail Shrier, “Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working With Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults” by Susan Evans, and other books.
I followed the advice of Parents for Ethical Care’s podcasts and the book “Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult” by Maria Keffler.
I worked hard to take back the close relationship my daughter and I had once had. I bit my tongue until it bled. I took her anger and only responded with love or walked away when I knew I would respond poorly.
I caught her in vulnerable moments and hugged her or climbed into her bed. I stopped looking at her as though she were the victim of a scheme or a monster.
I let her know that I would never stop fighting for her.  I let her see my posters from the protests I attended.  I peppered her with questions that demonstrated the illogic of the gender ideology. I happened to have funny gender-critical memes on my computer when she walked into my office. Most importantly, I held my ground. I refused to accept her delusion with compassion.
I know that I have to continue to be tenacious as the gender ideology has crept into every facet of life. But for now, I can breathe a sigh of relief.  
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     AH: This article really shows how Satanic the whole anime culture is. Here is the original article.

SEVERAL MORE BLASTS FROM THE PAST

    A tape from summer 1993 containing a repeating spot voiced by Joey Martin for the Clothesline Factory Outlet, a sale being held that Saturday in celebration of Madoc's 125th anniversary featuring singer Breanne Lawrence. 


1320 CFGM Toronto with an all gold weekend, an in-house documentary on the history of country music, "Country Concert" featuring Connie Smith sponsored by the record department at Towers, female anncr giving time of 10:00, unknown anncr giving time of 2:33, two editions of "Country Concert" featuring Anne Murray and Dolly Parton respectively, partial commercial for Charlie Pride's K-tel album.


1320 CFGM from January 26, 1986 Wayne Matthews on a top ten weekend, 3:15 promoted next week's "Country Concert" lineup, 3:18 Valentine's Day dance at the Blackhawk Motor Inn in support of York Central Hospital featuring Terry Sumption, 4:15 said Brian Barker would be in at 5:00 with the top 20, Bea Arthur for Shopper's Drug Mart 25th anniversary sale, Myrna Lory and Shotgun at the Birchmount, Air Canada, weather forecast, 4:25 commercial for Jamaica tourism, Valentine's Day tea and bake sale at St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic church. Then into weekday programming "Country Concert" featuring Carol Baker.


101.5 The Wolf (CKWF-FM) Peterborough canned promo voiced by Norma Green saying the station would be broadcasting live from Domino's Pizza on Parkhill Road Saturday for United Way. Then into Rock Radio Network unknown anncr backselling songs, sponsored by Molson Canadian. On the other side of the tape, Fly FM (CFLY-FM) Kingston with syndicated program "Oldies Coast to Coast." Then into Kix 104.7 (WKFM-FM) Syracuse unknown anncr with 20 in a row, promo for "Wake Up Service."


99.9 CKFM-FM Toronto from July 31, 1991 unknown anncr 99 Days of Summer with a chance to win a 1992 Chrysler Labairn. Then into "The Quiet Storm" with Lisa Brant in for Lee Marshall, gave time of 7:46 and talked about Rod Stewart's "Vagabond Heart" tour coming to the CNE Stadium August 29 sponsored by the station in association with Molson Canadian and Coca Cola Classic. Commercials for Bell Cellular, Sears Photo, golf tournament in support of CKFM children's fund presented by Simpson's and The Bay. Gave time of 7:57 and played a song for Bill and Sarah who were getting married in September. Commercials Martin Short for Blacks Photography, Public Storage, Ontario Science Centre's Mindworks exhibit. Weather forecast, Lisa Brant solicited stories about how people met their mates, then into eight favourites in a row.


99.9 CKFM-FM Kevin Maclean giving time of 12:16 and taking requests.  

Saturday, December 4, 2021

FRIENDSHIP WITH BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST

    BLESSINGS FROM HIS HAND


Jesus is the path of the love that bonds our friendship as we walk holding His hand in peace together down the path that He is leading us. Circumstances may separate us but the love we know and share will still be leading us to where our journey with God really begins when our time on Earth is at His hand and leads us into God's kingdom yet to come. Psalm 91


Jesus loves you,

This I know.

Seek His truth

And his direction will flow.


Amen.


Doug 

TRUTH SEEKERS: MARK 9 23

Truth seekers: the seekers of the power of the truth which is the panoramic view of God's universe that opens your mind to the vision of your soul which carries truth within you. The hunters of the truth about the lies that most believe is the vastness of the complexities that creates and evolves to bring the evolution that creates. We are God's people but also a part of everything else in the vastness of the big picture involving everything around us. We need to learn to see what we are and all that we can be within everything that God creates to evolve.


Spiritual growth is the secret that evil denies by its lies and deceptions that blind us from the true light and our God's greatness. We need to begin to see what our reality really is, not what we have been led into believing reality has become in this world of lies.


A mind set on Jesus will, by the grace of God, be led to the light over the gate of His truth.


DougC

GOD'S FREEDOM AND DELIVERANCE

Deliverance is freedom, compliance is a trap.


Deliverance is of God's Word in Jesus,, blind compliance is what He was sent to deliver us from. 


Jesus loves us,

This is clear

And sent the Holy Spirit

So we need not fear.


Open your eyes to see

And your ears to hear

So you can embrace the Holy trinity

And keep it near.


For God is God

And Jesus saves

So that the Holy Spirit can raise us

Up from our graves


Into the realm of the truth

That each Christian's soul craves.


If the truth of God's Word angers, frightens or offends you, then what that means is that you needed to hear it because nothing you do will change it.


God's way is the four steps of His wisdom, knowledge, logic, and common sense that, when followed without distraction, can never be wrong.


Following without deception and distraction are the logic and common sense that distractions and deceptions only pretend to virtually be in this world of Satan's way without God's direction and His Son.


The war we are in is for the great reset of the world. Will it be of good or evil? Choices matter.


Doug


REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NIGH

    Repent and learn to believe and seek the truth no matter how insane it gets because Satan's way is all about, "If it is impossible to believe (in resurrection, virgin births, etc.) then how can you believe it?" 


To believe in God's Spirit of truth means that you have already known the spirit of lies.


Doug 

REDEMPTION

    Psalm 104


Oh my God,

What have they done?!

For so long they've blasphemed your name

And denied Your Son.


On Earth as in Your Heaven

Your will be done

To bring us to the place of Your glory

That only by Jesus we will come.


We pray for the blind

The deaf and the dumb

Who will live and will die

In their flesh by their gun.


That Your right hand will reach out

And Your light will reach some.


Doug 

JUDGMENT, JUDGMENT, JUDGMENT

    Judgment, judgment, judgment

Is Your will to be done

To bring Your people together

Through the power of Your Son.


To remove all evil

And become united as one

Into the power of Your kingdom

That has already won.


Doug 

THE SNAKE OIL VACCINE

    The demons of deceptions

That caused you to fear and comply

Bring you to pray to the ground

And not to the sky.


When you turn from the truth

To follow the lie

Only prayer through God's Jesus

Will give you life when you die.


Jesus is the vaccine against eternal death.


Doug