FEAR NOT

        There's a fear more terrifying than the coronavirus among us. If you fear being shackled in a small dark place like George Floyd was then where Floyd is is where you are going as you follow your demons to your death as he did.

How is it that so many people believe wearing a mask and burning down buildings with total disregard for innocent life is going to beat Trump who stands in the Dems way. It seems that black lives only matter when they support the lies of the liar, Satan, and his followers. Black Lives Matter leaders are nothing more than Satan's puppets, dangling from their chains.

Today's actions are dictated by yesterday's lies. You cannot outrun your lies no matter how fast you move into your future. They will always be right there with you, hiding in the shadows, ready to expose you to God. The biggest fear a lie has is that you repent to God through Jesus Christ to receive the Spirit of truth which empowers you to turn your lives away. Then the lie becomes defeated and left in search of a weakened victim because it needs to feed off the fear that a born-again Christian no longer has.

You see, people, it is not the colour of your skin that matters: it is the content of your character. There are good, bad and ugly people in all countries. The unfortunate events of 2020 so far has very much exposed this fact about all kinds of man. Black Lives Matter is a lie and a fraud that is more deadly than any virus.

Abortion is the number one cause of death in North America, which is an indicator that, in our new reality, no lives matter.

Corona is of the fear that causes us to act like fools and deceives us from what we are becoming: that is, godless creatures.

There is a plague far worse than corona that has been lurking for a while now, that has been hiding in plain sight. It has been with you everywhere you go for years now: the zombie virus that causes us to follow the decaying flesh in front of us to an unfortunate end.

Doug

LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU

Do not allow yourself to be deceived and reeled in by Satan's kite strings. Time is running out. We need to find pour way to Jesus to start walking with the Spirit of God's truth. Time does seem to be coming to an end for us as we knew it.

This vaccine for coronavirus is not going to have any resistance for the pandemics yet to come as we continue to follow false gods into the virtual reality tunnel that has no light. I wonder if they know how to treat bubonic plague yet.

We  become slaves to our wants that then become the weight of sins that in turn feed the flames that want to consume us. The COVID vaccine is not of true science: it is of virtual science which does not follow truth. When you obey a god that has no honour then you have no honour: just obedience to your slave master, the delusional spirit of deceit.

A story about the COVID vaccine is that it is about altering our DNA in such a way that it destroys emotion that removes us from God in order to support the sins of our enslaver, the devil who enslaves us to lies and deceit. It seems this has already started with vaccines of the past.

The whole COVID joke is about controlling and tracking populations, restricting where they go and what they are doing. Therefore, traditional police will no longer be needed. Open your eyes, ask God to restore your sight, then look around you at the ungodly zombies we have become.

If I were a space traveler who stopped by so see what this planet was all about the only thing I would be able to do for you all would be to say a prayer to your Creator that He grant salvation to all who deserve it. Then I would leave and not come back because what I would see is all hope is lost for your planet.

Doug

PARODY TIME-IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

                                                                            It’s Not The End Of The World

 

Scene 1

The kitchen. Death metal plays. Karen’s father enters. Ellie, Karen and Jeff are eating dinner.

Bill: Hello, Karen. Hello Jeff. Hello, ball and chain. Couldn’t you have waited? You knew I was coming home for dinner.

Ellie: No.

(Amy enters)

Amy: Hi Daddy.

Bill: Hi Amy.

Amy: Want to hear a joke?

Bill: Sure.

Amy: This farmer sees a guy giving plane rides, eh. The rides cost ten bucks, but the farmer’s never been in a plane before so he remarks to the pilot that the price is steep. The pilot says, “If you can last the whole ride without saying anything, then the ride’s free.” So they go up and the pilot does all sorts of dips and the farmer doesn’t say a word. When they get back on the ground, the pilot says, “Wow, you didn’t say a thing.” The farmer replies, “Yeah, but I nearly yelled when my wife fell out back there.”

Bill: (Feigns laughter) Good joke. Now sit down and drink your milk.

(Amy sits down at the table. The table shakes and the glass of milk spills. Ellie immediately gets an enraged look on her face.)

Amy: Don’t be mad. It was just an accident.

Ellie: Who’s **** **** **** mad?! (Amy’s mother cleans up the milk) I baked a lovely cake for dessert tonight.

(She brings out the cake)

Bill: Is that rat poison? You know how I hate rat poison. I’ll scrape it off.

Ellie: Don’t do me any favours.

(She throws the cake into a cage with a rat in it. The rat dies)

Bill: (Getting up from the table) I’m going to a cheap motel which somehow manages to simultaneously pay tribute to “Fawlty Towers.”

 

Scene 2

The kitchen. Karen is making pancakes shaped like Craig Kilborn.

Amy: Back in the old days, a couple of newly weds are going on their honeymoon on a horse and buggy. After a while, the horse stops in the middle of the road for no reason and refuses to move. The groom gets down from the buggy, whispers in the horse’s ear, “That’s once,” and gets back up on the buggy. After a while, the horse stops in the middle of the road and refuses to move again. The groom gets off the buggy, whispers in the horse’s ear, “That’s twice” and then shoots the horse. He then gets back on the buggy. The bride says, “Honey, why did you just shoot the horse?” The groom turns to the bride and says, “That’s once.” (Ellie enters) Where’s Daddy?

Ellie: I don’t want to talk about it.

 

Scene 3

Karen’s room. Karen is sitting at her desk, which is part of an old air hockey table. Amy bursts in.

Amy: I think I know where Daddy is.

Karen: Where?

Amy: I think he’s at the Daytona 500, and when he comes back he’s going to bring back one of those foam fingers.

Karen: Maybe.

 

Scene 4

The diner, which is reminiscent of Mel’s Diner from the eighties TV show “Alice.” The family sans Bill is sitting at a table with Aunt Ruth and Uncle Dan. The waitress, reminiscent of the above-mentioned title character, comes over.

Waitress: Are you ready to order?

Ellie: Yes. My children and I will have the hamburger.

Waitress: Good choice. (Looks at Aunt Ruth and Uncle Dan) And for you?

Aunt Ruth: My husband and I will have something utterly and completely different: the cheeseburger.

Waitress: Good choice.

(She walks away singing” I love you Superman. I love you Superman.”

Ellie: I have something to tell you. I wanted to tell you before, but I just couldn’t. It isn’t easy for me to say this and it won’t be easy for you to understand ….

(Karen drops her fork on the floor)

Uncle Dan: Five second rule.

Jeff: (Very seriously) Go ahead … tell us what you were going to say, Mommy.

Ellie: Your pathetic excuse for a father and I are separating.

Amy: Okay, but let it be on your head.

Jeff: Is he coming back? Or are you getting a divorce?

Ellie: Hopefully. I hope we don’t resolve things. Then… ah Martinique. You kids could end up getting left on more doorsteps than The New York Times.

(Karen gets up and runs out of the restaurant. A while later, everyone else comes outside, too.)

Ellie: Here, Karen. Have a rye cone.

(She hands her an ice cream cone with a frozen blob of rye whisky on top.)

 

Scene 5

The dining room of the cheap motel. Bill, Jeff, Karen, and Amy are sitting at a table.

Jeff: Are you getting a divorce?

Bill: Yes.

Karen: I thought you were just thinking about it. I thought it wasn’t definite yet.

Bill: You’re mother and I just don’t get along. We can’t go on living together. It’s making a mess of our lives.

Karen: So, in order to make things better for yourselves, you decided to make a mess of ours.

Bill: You’ll live with your mother for now.

Karen: But for how long?

Bill: Karen … you’re asking me questions I can’t answer. We haven’t worked out any of the details yet. You don’t get divorced overnight.

Jeff: How long does it take?

Bill: Two days.

Amy: Daddy … please come home

Bill: (Picks her up. Takes off his glasses.) No bloody way. Return home to that selfish, crabby … (Tickling her under the chin) no way.

 

Scene 6

Mrs. Singer’s classroom.  Karen and Debbie are getting their coats.

Mrs. Singer: Goodbye, yesterday. Goodbye yesterday.

Debbie: I heard about your parents … and I’m sorry.

Karen: Heard what?

Debbie: You know?

Karen: Know what?

Debbie: Oh, come on, Karen. That your parents are getting a divorce.

Karen: Who told you?

Debbie: Your aunt met my mother in Earth Apple Supermarket and she told her.

Karen: My mom blabbed something like that to an acquaintance she met in the grocery store?!

Debbie: Yeah, I guess. According to Mom your mother’s more excited about this divorce than a little kid waiting for Christmas.

 

Scene 7

Bill’s bachelor apartment. Bill is showing Jeff, Karen and Amy around. Montmorency enters.

Bill: That’s my roommate, Montmorency.

Montmorency: (Screams) Ahhhhh, light Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Bill: Karen, there’s a girl about your age living in  apartment 12B. I told her you’d be over on Sunday. Why don’t you go down and see her.

Karen: OK.

(She makes her way downstairs and knocks on the apartment door.)

Val: You must be Karen Newman. I’m Val Lewis. My mother is dating this really rich guy named Montmorency. I believe he’s you’re father’s roommate.

 

Scene 8

The kitchen. Ellie, Jeff, Karen, and Amy are sitting around the kitchen table having Christmas dinner.

Ellie: I’m going back to school.

Jeff: Really. Why?

Ellie: Because I only had one year of college before I got married. I never really had a chance to find out what I might be able to do, thanks to your jerk of a father tying me down.

Karen: What do you think you might take?

Ellie: I don’t know. I was thinking something along the lines of The Role of Zombies and Vampires in World Literature or The Feminist Perspective on Traffic Laws, but then I started thinking I should maybe take something even more useful such as The Science Behind Action Movies or maybe even learn a foreign language like Elvish or Clingon.

 

Scene 9

The kitchen. Ellie, Jeff, Karen, and Amy are sitting around the table having dinner.

Amy: Weney, my friend in school, has a Talking Howard Dean Doll. She brought it in for Show And Tell. I want one too. The kind with the cool hair.

Ellie: Maybe for your birthday.

Amy: My birthday’s not until the end of June.

Ellie: Well, that’s not so far away.

Amy: Oh, please, Mommy! I can’t wait until my birthday!

Ellie: I’m sorry, Amy. But you’ll have to.

Amy: Why?

Karen: You know Mom doesn’t have a lot of money to throw around. Stop being so selfish.

Amy: I bet you Daddy would get it for me.

Ellie: That’s enough, Amy!

Amy: _I _hate _you. You made Daddy go away just so you could be mean to me!

Ellie: (Reaching across the table and smacking Amy in time to her words) No. I. Did. Not. Now go up to your room and stay there for the rest of eternity, you ungrateful brat who’ll never amount to anything. (Amy leaves the room shrieking and crying) That felt so good. I would have never been able to get away with that if your father were still living with us. Now finish your breakfast and head off to school or else. (Giving a little cackle.).

 

Scene 10

Mrs. Singer’s class. Mrs. Singer is sing “It’ll Be OK” by Limp Bizkit.

Mrs. Singer: I got a letter from Gary Owens: (Reads) Dear Mrs. Singer and Class 6-108, Texas is fun. We got a dog. His name is Al, as in the Bundy. I am looking forward to growing up to become the announcer on “Laugh-in” and am also looking forward to my voiceover gig on “Bobby’s World.”

 

Scene 11

Two firebombs appear on screen, one headed toward Ellie’s house, the other toward Bill’s apartment complex. Caption: How dare you mail me an anniversary card, you jackass.

 

Scene 12

Val’s apartment. Karen enters. Montmorency is in the apartment, making llama noises.

Val: Montmorency, this is my friend, Karen. Her Dad lives upstairs. He’s getting a divorce.

Montmorency: Howboutwawontwontzazazaza. (he exits, saying “Niminiminiminiminiminiminiminimi”)

 

Scene 13

The living room. Ellie and Bill are sitting on the couch.

Ellie: Did you ever stop to think that maybe its  your fault we’re getting divorced. You’re not exactly a perfect husband.

Bill: Shut up! You want everybody to hear us.

Aunt Ruth: (From next room) We can already hear you, you stupid nits.

Bill: I’m warning you.

Ellie: You lay a hand on me and I’ll lay the smack down.

Bill: You wanna go?

Ellie: Yeah. Right now time.

(They wrestle.))

 

Scene 14

Petey Mansfield’s house Petey answers the door

Karen: Could I talk to you about something?? (Petey nodds) Do you know where Jeff is?

Petey: No. (He goes back inside.)

 

Scene 15

The kitchen. Ellie, Amy and Karen are sitting in the kitchen. Jeff enters.

Jeff: Hi, Mom. Hi Karen. Hi Amy. I was at the Masters. Here, Karen and Amy, I brought  each of you back a cup. Also, while hitchhiking home, I joined a cult.

Ellie: What?!

Jeff: I joined because, when I thought about it, Zazazaza truly has the answer, plus their compound makes _really good French fries. I mean you wouldn’t believe how… Anyway, I just came to give you guys your cups and to tell you that I’ll be living with the cult till ten thousand years after the end of time. Oh, and by the way, anyone who doesn’t worship Zazazaza should, and will, be killed.

(He kisses Amy goodbye.)

Ellie: (beginning to cry) Oh, first your father and I get a divorce, now my first-born baby has left the nest. Why does the universe always manage to make it all about me? Well, girls, I’m selling the house and moving to Martinique. Good luck fending for yourselves.

Amy: Hey, Karen, how do you get five hundred Natives in a phone booth? Tell them they own the land.

 

Steel drum music plays over the closing credits.

 

Based on “It’s Not the End of the World” by Judy Blume.

                                                            

FAMINE AND SHIPWRECK: AN IRISH ODYSSEY

Horrifying and eye-opening.

            A group of people trace their routes to Ireland and the ill-fated ship, the Hannah, that brought their ancestors to Canada.

This documentary tells the story of the Irish potato famine and the journey many Irish eventually made to Canada. It does not shy away from the true horrors the men, women and children of that time and place experienced.

Anyone who believes in white privilege should see this film.

        Watch it here on Encore+.

THE BHANGRA GENERATION

                                                                                                            Groovy and heartening.

This informative and heart-warming documentary traces the history of bhangra music from its origins as a harvest dance in India to a worldwide phenomenon, with somewhat of an emphasis on the genre's impact in Canada. As the history of this form of music and dancing is examined, we also see how the pioneers of bhangra have grown personally, marrying and having children.

    

Watch it here on Encore+.

ABRAHAM RESCUES LOT

So much of the Bible is glossed over as we blearily read through it in our morning quiet time, but there truly is so much on every page of Scripture if we just dig in there. In his latest sermon, Pastor Aaron Vriesman examines Genesis 14 1-16, looking back at an ancient war, a kidnapping, a victory, and a rescue. Learn how Abraham was a type of Christ, learn something you might never have realized about the character of our God and hear about a role Christians have that many don't think about. Watch and listen to this sermon here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXNObsr4j0&t=11s

WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE

Proverbs 15 33: "The fear of the Lord is instruction and wisdom."

You are a product of your choices. The more sin you follow the slipperier the slope into more sin becomes. Sin only leads to more sin; lies only lead to more lies.

The left lies because their god is the liar that blinds them from the truth. Jeffrey Epstein was only a minnow in an ocean of sharks and all the sharks are terrified. If the Dems in reality are full of evil then that would make sense because they want to follow the lord of lies who deceives and leads us into believing that there is a better way. What is right is now wrong; what is wrong is now right.

Following this direction, life as we knew it will be gone and our light will go out. Some will be saved by the grace of the love of our Creator through Jesus Christ. It is up to you to become one of them. (Acts 2 38)

Jesus Christ is the only way to self-distance from what is happening and what is yet to be.

AOC is only proving how weak and scared she really is. AOC is proof of the frontal lobotomy college degree.

The virus and the riots are smokescreens that hide the raging evil that is burning. The virus is only a crumb on a very large plate that has not been cleaned in over sixty years and is starting to grow mold. When you break up family and promote sexual sin the days of Noah and the days of Lot are where you end up again.

Chaos, hatred and war on the streets. Too many must live plywood lives. (George Floyd.) He got 10 million dollars and an American flag for his sin, whereas all the people who died because of someone else's sin got nothing.

In the end the Creator will come from off the pace to win in perfect glory and form again

God's way through Jesus Christ's life and death is the truth about our life and direction. The first hurdle of the understanding of truth and reality is the only one that seems impossible to clear. We need to come back from where we have gone and aspire to what we were meant to be. It is necessary for our survival and is an awakening to God's promise of eternal life on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Are you falling into bondage or rising into righteousness? Christianity is about becoming aware of what you were not meant to be by means of the wisdom of the truth of God's trinity through Jesus Christ. Amen.

Doug

EASTARM ENDORSEMENT OF DEREK SLOAN FOR CPC LEADERSHIP

AH: This does not mean I endorse Sloan, but Graydon says some things here that really needed to be said. Plus, it would be nice to see a Christian become leader of the federal Conservatives.

To Our Mission Partners Across Canada, 

I'm writing this endorsement letter at what I believe is an important and in many ways unprecedented moment in our young country's history. In short, as the Director and Founder of East Africa River Mission, I aim to endorse Derek Sloan as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and Lord-willing as Canada's next Prime Minister. By month's end, I am calling all of our mission partners who have a membership with the CPC to strongly consider voting Derek into the leadership position of this party and persuade others under your influence to do the same, as we set the stage for a National Election.

Though the focus of our mission's work is in Tanzania, Africa, our roots are in Canada and we are active across this country. By our hard work in transforming a collective of rural Tanzanian villages out of physical and spiritual poverty, we have earned the favour and ear of the Canadian Christian community. I see the same grit and resolve in Derek Sloan. Further, as one who appreciates the burden of leadership, I see in Derek the inherent tenacity "without apology" necessary to attain the top position within his party, and ultimately, our country.

It has always been the ambition of East Africa River Mission to usher God's Kingdom, as described in the Bible and written on our hearts, into the places where we are. This is our connection with this coming election in Canada. In the same way we as a mission have established ourselves in the African villages by seeking out the vulnerable, mistreated, and chasing away the evil agendas of those who maintain the poverty of the people, I see this ambition in Derek Sloan. Canada is in need of a drastic change. We are living in evil days, where twisted ideologies are irreversibly foisted upon the most vulnerable of our society; days where agendas, rotten to the core, are promoted by mass movements falsely advertising peace and liberation on the surface. These are days where the unwanted ones among us, deemed so by the prevailing morality, are done away with without conscience or inconvenience.

Derek Sloan, in my estimation, has demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of the vital issues of the day. He has put in his time. Further, he stands on the forefront of these issues as a voice mirroring the heart of the Almighty. He is ready to leverage whatever title granted him to fight, uncompromisingly so, until the conventional ill is undone. His ambition is not for the political position or accolade of men, as seen in the depraved and current top leadership of our country, rather I'm confident with Derek the job is a means to a righteous end. This is a man we must promote to the position.

As God-fearers, it is our duty and obligation to use the power afforded us, to whatever extent it has been entrusted to us. If it is our power to vote, we vote. If it is our power to lead, we lead. The very lives of others are truly at stake, ours as well if we fail to act. Too often we confuse the line where the responsibility of God starts and expectation of us ends. In truth, there is no line, because God has no limit. Therefore, if it is within your unmerited favour to act, you act. It is high time for the Christian community, the church, to drop the pitfall of political correctness and secular servitude, and resolve to serve God with every opportunity. How can those who profess Christ disassociate ourselves from a system that preys on the ones God loves? Our silence and inaction has effectively rendered us impotent, non-essential to a world in need. Together we are a significant number.

Each one's actions will be counted. To that end East Africa River Mission exists, and we endorse Derek Sloan without reservation. Our mission was founded by audacious faith, it is in our bones, and even in this endorsement we live outside of convention. It is audacious to think you can change a country, speak life into what has died. We approve Derek Sloan in this endeavour. Let each one live without regret, to daily be bold and courageous. For this is the only clear path forward regardless of which mission or continent you find yourself on today, be it Africa or North America. It is nonsensical to mourn indecision after the fact. It is rational to act in each moment. It is right to seek after God, and when you identify the places where He is, to strive after Him with one heart. As Canadians, let us do what we can to position Derek where God would have him, while it is within our power and obligation to do so.

 

Graydon Baker

EastARM Director

Visit Derek Sloan's Official CPC Campaign Website

PARODY TIME-MARY ANNE IN THE MIDDLE (NSFW)

MARY ANNE IN THE MIDDLE

Scene 1

Mallory’s locker. Mary Anne is wiping the words Spaz Girl off Mallory’s locker. Mallory enters and looks at her locker.

Mallory: Z Girl. What could that stand for? Jazz Girl?

Aloysius, one of the weird kids at school,, comes up to Mary Anne and Mallory.

Aloysius: Yes, Jazz Girl. I’m sorry, but “Tonic,” the former jazz show on CBC Radio Two. (Switches into an Indian accent) Jully Black is not jazz, sir. Feist is not jazz, sir. “Midnight Train To Georgia” is not jazz, sir.

Scene 2

The Hobart’s house. Abby, James, Mathew, and Johnny are sitting around the kitchen table. Felt, scissors and glue are on the table.

Abby: Okay, guys, we’re going to make a felt banner that shows different symbols of Hanukah. When it’s done, we’ll hang it up at Stoneybrook Manor so all the people there can admire it.

James: Bril.

Mathew: Brill.

Johnny: What’s Hanukah.

James: It’s a Jewish holiday (Looks at Abby) Right?

Abby: Right. I was thinking we could glue down a menorah, a dreidel, maybe even some latkes. (They stare at her blankly) You guys have no idea what I’m talking about, do you? (They shake their heads) Not even the dreidel?

Mathew: Oh, oh. (He jumps up from the table and starts singing) Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, my dreidel I will play, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, my dreidel I will play. Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, my dreidel I won’t play, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, ‘cause I might have to pay.

Abby: A latke is a potato pancake.

James: Hey, Abby, how can latkes be a traditional Hanukah food when the potato was only discovered when Columbus found the new world 500 years ago.

Mathew: What are they celebrating?

Abby: The kids are celebrating because they’re going to receive a gift on each night of Hanukah. Just kidding. No, really. The kids are celebrating because they’re going to get presents. They’re like most American kids. They don’t know or care anything about their history.

(Abby sits down and draws a picture of a latke)

Mathew: That looks like a blob.

Abby: It does. Well, don’t make too many of those. They’re not the most artistic-looking things. But they taste great.

James: How do you make them?

Abby: Well, they’re potato pancakes, so you peel and grate potatoes. Then you put in sugar, butter, eggs, salt, and baking powder. You can put maple syrup and butter on them. You can also add chocolate chips and peaches and blueberries.

(Ben enters.)

Ben: Whoa, awesome. You should put a Star of David on top. In fact, Abby, you should be forced to wear one on your coat. You should put an oven and a gas chamber on there. Well, it’s true. They’re so arrogant. Everything’s about them and how they’re the Jews. Their history is the only one that matters. They’re traditions are the only ones that matter. And out of all the people that died in World War II, who are we supposed to care about? The Jews. Out of all the things that happened in World War II. And it wasn’t just Jews that were killed in the holocaust. Hitler killed communists and trade union leaders and homosexuals. And they’re always saying how persecuted they are, even though they’re in the top jobs. I don’t think any company today would turn someone down because they’re Jewish. And they are cheap and they do complain.

James: Hey, Abby, want to hear how Australians celebrate Christmas?

Abby: No, I don’t. **** you.

Scene 3

Claudia’s room. The Bsc members are all sitting in their usual places.

Jessi: We need to know if Mallory will be going to that boarding school or not.

Kristy: We do need to know soon.

Mallory: Fine! I’m leaving! Are you happy?

Mary Anne: I think Jessi might cry, but probably not. She’s black, They’re stalwart.

Stacey: We’ll miss you.

Jessi: You already knew! Mary Anne, you knew Mallory was leaving, didn’t you?

Mary Anne: Ooh, the black woman gets angry. Big surprise.

Mallory: Just by a little bit.

Mary Anne: See, it happened like this. This afternoon, I told Mallory that she better make up her mind about going to Riverbend, you know, to sort of prompt her, and she told me she was going. I had brought up the subject. What was she supposed to say?

Scene4

The Barrett-DeWitt house. Jessi and Mallory enter. The Barrett-DeWitt children are watching TV. Mrs. DeWitt comes downstairs.

Mrs. DeWitt: Hi girls. Franklin and I will be at Bellaire’s looking for some new furniture since Franklin’s woman came and stole all of his stuff. I’ll leave his woman’s cell phone on so you can reach us. I don’t know the number.

Mallory: Thanks.

(Mrs. DeWitt exits.)

Jessi: I was thinking we could make decorations for Kwanza, so I brought some supplies.

Lindsey: We learned about Kwanza in school. It comes in December-it’s the celebration of African-American pride-although I don’t know what there is to be proud of about living in a ghetto, smoking crack and shooting each other-and unity, although the only time black people seem to be able to agree with each other is when they’re against white people. It’s also a harvest celebration. In Africa, they have the harvest, then they make all the grain into beer, so they’re all starving and the western nations bail them out, once again.

Jessi: That’s right. It’s a little like Thanksgiving because it’s celebrated with a big meal. Then again, black people are always eating big meals. Most of us are obese.

Madeline: I want to make a snowman for Kwanza.

Jessi: (Shouting) No Christmas symbols on Kwanza. You can make the Kwanza pimp. He doesn’t leave you presents: he takes yo’ presents.

Mallory: It was so fun when I celebrated Kwanza with your family last year. Kwanza is an ancient holiday dating back to 1965. It was started by a professor, who, among other things, was convicted of beating a woman with a phone cord.

Jessi: You got no right to know about Kwanza.

Scene 5

Claudia’s room. The Bsc members are in their usual places.

Claudia: What about Emily Bernstein? She’s nice.

Kristy: Too busy. Being editor of the school newspaper takes up every free second she has.

Stacey: Erica Blumberg?

Kristy: Please, someone who’s not Jewish and actually knows a thing or two about kids. … So that’s everyone in grade 6 and everyone in grade 8. Too bad our school doesn’t have grade 7.

Scene 6

The living room of the Pike’s house. Mary Anne, Vanessa, Nicky, Claire and Margo are sitting on the floor. Vanessa pulls a piece of paper out of her pocket.

Vanessa: Here’s a poem I wrote about Mallory (Reads) Black emptiness, black emptiness, you poured scalding hot battery acid on my heart. You said you were going to boarding school just the other day. The brightest star on my horizon just has gone away. I will close my mind and close myself and no longer open up to anything, like you wouldn’t believe. These extreme ways will help me deal with my book of longing.

(Mr. Pike and Mallory enter.)

Mr. Pike: Well, kids, Mallory has just returned from the checkup that Riverbend requires for its new students. It turns out she has a malignant tumor of the brain and will die in a few days.

Claire: Does this mean she won’t be going to boarding school?

Mr. Pike: Yes.

Claire: Yay.

(The Pike kids all start dancing around with glee and excitement.)

Scene 7

Stoneybrook Manor. The Bsc, along with their families, the Hobarts, the Rodowsky’s, the Johansens, and the Barritt-DeWits, are all gathered in the room marked FOR SOCIAL PURPOSES, KEEP OUT OTHERWISE. A whole bunch of old people are sitting around with dead-eyes.

Abby: Now we’re going to sing a selection of songs from the album Ashley Simpson and Linda Lavin do Christmas.

(They launch into horrible versions of Christmas songs.)

Scene 8

Mary Anne’s room. Mallory enters.

Mallory: Guess what, Mary Anne. Since I’m dying, Ben and I are going to get married today and then have a baby so I’ll be able to pass on my genes.

Mary Anne: Oh, Mallory.

(She bursts into tears.

Scene 9

Jessi’s room. The phone rings. Jessi answers it.

Jessi: Hello.

Lindsey Barrett-DeWitt: Hi, Jessi. It’s Lindsey Barett-DeWitt. You know, you and Mallory fighting in front of us the other day wasn’t very professional. We’re going to tell our friends and their parents. Then the Bsc will be history.

Jessi: Oh well, it’ll give me more time to go shopping.

Closing credits.

Based on “Mary Anne in the Middle” by Anne M. Martin.

VIRTUAL BUT NOT VIRTUOUS

I try to only listen to news broadcasters who support a Judao-Christian following because they talk about actual facts, not virtual facts.

Virtual is a word that is an incomplete, a distraction from reality. The new virtual reality knows no direction and truth, only unreality. Unreality only follows the direction we have been deceived into following by virtual false gods of the earth.

The Lord God, the Creator sent His son to save us from the lie and then the Spirit of truth to help us see the lie. Only the Lord Jesus Christ can save us now. (Acts 2 38)

Doug

THE ANSWER TO FEAR

Your life in this darkness of a cloudy night
Can bring torment and terror
And fill us with fright.

The demons and ghouls
That turn out your light
As you struggle to be free
From being tethered like a kite.

Cry out to God
To renew you with sight
And be tethered no more
By God's grace
And God's might.

Pray in the name of Jesus,
Whose truth is always right.

Amen.

Doug

DINGBAT DEMOCRATS

The dingbat democrats
who somehow live
but never learn
All pile in their clown car
And always miss their turn.

When you're always turning left
When you know you should be turning right
Your insanity keeps bring you
Into the darkness,
Of a tunnel with no light.

Doug

GODLESS CORPSES: LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR OWN DEAD

Detroit once again only proves that way too many idiots have guns. Black lives matter no more or less than all kinds of man. They are only proving the problems you have and need to admit to so that you can start to help yourselves instead of blaming the white man, who would like to help if he could, but any criticism is called racism and only leads to denial and violence. God's truth leads to answers, not Satan's lies.

Turn to Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit of God's truth. (Acts 2 38)

As Candice Owen says, everything is related to father absence.

Black Lives Matter seems to be about handing the people shovels so they can dig their own graves and, so far, their deception is working.

Virtual reality is an incomplete phenomenon.

The problem with Black Lives Matters' agenda is the problems are becoming exposed for how bad things have really gotten over the past sixty years since God was removed from school, government and churches.

People need God to clear away the sin of racial unrest.

When you are following a need for what you want, that brings you to follow an endless need that strays you from your shepherd who knows what you need and wants you to have all that you need, which is truth, love and direction.

Do not become seduced by your sin.

A just and righteous path is not the one we are on as a whole of mankind. We cannot move forward as long as we are apart following different gods.

Doug

WEAR A MASK OR GRANDPA WILL GET SHOT

AH: I know their were other reasons behind why the man ultimately was shot but still...

A man shot dead for not wearing a mask.

Coronavirus is a killer with many tools and fear is its toolbox. When psychological terrorism has no accountability who buries the dead?

Doug

A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE GOETLING

The writing of these posts that Alex and myself have been doing, in the beginning was orchestrated by an old friend of ours, George, eight years ago. This is an example of how God guides us into doing His will through faith in His son Jesus Christ and the guidance of His Holy Spirit of truth.

George was definitely in possession of the fruit of longsuffering. In all the time I knew him I never saw him get angry, lose his temper or even get the least bit annoyed or irritated. He also endured much throughout his life with regard to marriage and family.

George is now with his God, his Creator in everlasting harmony. Thanks for the blessings that he left behind.

Doug