Dr Malone has written a great deal about the psy ops and info ops our own government runs against us. Covid may be the latest, but it ain’t the first. One of the older ones is the psy op that so many of your neighbors likely believe: that it’s totally ok per American constitutional values for Pride flags and drag queens to be in your kids’ public school, but absolutely forbidden for any mention of the Bible.
Well, I wanted to share this very real 1920s public school textbook with y’all this morning. Check out the pictures, the stories, the music. This is what we used to teach our kids.
One of our present problems with education stems from our federal government. The United States Constitution grants very limited powers to the federal government. Education and health issues are not among those powers. Powers not granted to the federal government belong to the individual states and the people. Consider our present situation with the intertwining between the NIH and federally funded education. Federal money almost always comes with attached strings. For example, if a school district desires federal funding for school lunches, then the school district must also adhere to the federal mandates as to the subjects taught. If a college or university desires federal funding for research, then the college or university must also agree to the agenda of the research. But the problem goes much deeper. Government welfare programs disincentivize normal family structure of a father and a mother raising children. Single parent households qualify for dollars, while two parent families generally do not. The more children born into the single parent household, the greater the money qualified for. It has been shown children perform much better in school when they live a once normal two parent household. More government money is thrown at schools when the schools underperform in educating children. It’s a vicious cycle with greater and greater government involvement and more and more government control. States, cities, towns, schools, college and universities would be wise to reject funding from the federal government, urge their (our) Congressional representatives to bring it all to an end by dissolving the unconstitutional federal alphabet agencies, relinquishing powers unconstitutionally usurped and returning it back to the states and the people where it rightfully belongs.
It wasn’t that long ago when an industrious college student working a summer job could earn sufficient money to pay for his/her entire tuition for the upcoming school year. Federal government involvement changed that. The cost of a college education has greatly outpaced the rate of inflation. The influx of federal student loan guarantees in essence is a cash cow for colleges. Today the average college graduate will work for many years with the burden of college debt.
The Old Testament tells the story of the great wonders God performed in bringing the Hebrew people out of captivity in Egypt. On their arrival in the Promised Land of Israel God commanded the grandfathers and fathers to teach their children of the wonders He had performed and His commands. In the span of just one generation the fathers failed to do what God had commanded. Among others there are two clear lessons here: it is the responsibility of the fathers to teach their children; it only takes one generation for a society to fail.
L.b.j.s great society added to the problem. Houston was informed they had to adjust the teacher population to mirror the black population or lose fed funds. Ergo, complexion trumped merit and this at a time when finding qualified teachers of any stripe was a challenge. I am sure this was a nationwide dictate
The teacher who graduates high in the class has a choice of where to teach. Most prefer the suburbs, they are safe. I met an 8th grade innercity teacher. He could not control his class. Boys were taller than him. They refused to listen. Starts at home. If children not taught by parents a teacher has no power to teach them.
The Jekielik - Rufo (and as covered in Rufo's new book) discussion, last night, covered further influences and goals of radicals as they have driven educational directions. Worth considering and reflecting on imo.
If you are fifty or so, or older, you should thank god that you grew up when America was free. Looking back on the past 40 plus years it’s surprising how a large portion of our citizens have welcomed in this cancer of communism. I started to think of summers as a kid, and how they seemed to go on forever. Maybe it was a young boys Synaptic firing perfectly that made it seem so long. I remember in the early fall climbing up onto the shelf behind the rear seat of my fathers old Chevy Belair and sleeping in the warm sun on a long ride. Or later driving in the back of a pick-up truck with friends to the beach. Ronald Reagan’s 1st inaugural address when he became the governor of California, began with the message of the routine commonplace of Americas traditional transfer of power. Then he spoke these famous lines, “perhaps you and I have lived to long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation. For it only comes once to a people, and those in history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” Ronald Reagan 1967. J.Goodrich
It is change James as the odious kenyan effluvium informed us. Change has been going on at a rapidly accelerating rate. My mom was 20 yrs older than me and we shared more culturally than I did with my sister 4 yrs younger than me. And it is only getting worse. I say worse because it results in abandoning cultural standards before something better is found, eg.the Jedeo-Christian ethics our Founders built this Republic around.
I don't know how vaccinations make a 22 year old female want to wear a metal dog collar with spikes around her neck and rings hung in her lips. Her dad is the salt of the earth kind of guy.
Perhaps she got addicted to all the metals within the dangerous jabs. Actually, if it is a defense mechanism against anyone who comes close and wants to give her more jabs, I congratulate her.
Just this past month, two of my childhood friends (OR & CA) and I are exchanging emails and pictures reminiscing about our teen years in the 1960s in the wilderness that was Thousand Oaks, CA. Our lives were one horseback ride experience after another. Up in the hills, down in the valleys and in the barranca - all open space back then. Riding in the Conejo Valley Days parade each year was special. Life was sweet and carefree and Malibu beach was only 25 minutes away!
4th of July was so special. There was a parade in the morning, where every entrant, child or adult, had to reference an event in the history of the country. I remember one year several of us kids portrayed the XYZ affair, but usually we were Civil War soldiers carrying one of our friends covered in ketchup on a homemade stretcher. Three legged races, egg tosses, turtle races, etc, followed, with baseball games for all ages throughout the afternoon. And of course huge fireworks display of both ground and aerial shows that night..
You know the damnest thing? When I tell that story today, many people thinking I'm making it up, that I'm recalling a movie or something. Well, I have Dad's old 35mm slides
I believe you. We used to go to Pracilla Beach in Plymouth or Rexham Beach in Marshfield Mass. and have fires and lots of partying every year all night. They used to allow it. Some things I’ll never forget.
I have a friend who grew up in fairly large interior PNW city. Him and his 12-13 yr old friends would hike with their .22 rifles to the outskirts of town to hunt/target shoot.
And of course most every pickup in the west had a rack in the rear window with rifles. Gun violence, murder? Never heard of it back then.
Same way in and around Wichita Falls Tx when I was a kid. Dad a cop and never used his gun. Did have to have mom soak his bloody shirt off his back after a knife attack (guess cops back then only went to hospital in ambulances) but not that much local violence. The likes of bonnie and clyde were prevalent back then and he carried a tommy gun on stakeouts but never used it
I wish life for me could slow down like that again. It goes by so fast today, I really feel for the young, I’m afraid they’ll never experience those feeling of freedom like you did Shelley.
The young have their communication devices, and no longer require real interaction with nature, other humans, God or his gifts. A truly sad state,of affairs.
I'm looking at several properties in rural VT right now, and I cant wait till my phone wont have any service where I'm at
We lived in MO's rural areas. My oldest was a pilgrim in the Bicentennial festival put on by the local school while the Bicentennial train was visiting Jefferson City. Each car was full of US history. ( I made his costume) My sons grew up riding their bikes to the bus stop, hunting in our woods (we had 10 acres), fishing in grandpa's pond, and after our move to Hood River OR, riding dirt bikes with the friends in the hills and we all learned to ski. They never had a boring moment.
I would like to point to both Robert F Kennedy and Vivek Ramswami as taking up the torch of statesmanship. Kennedy in particular speaks the language of the constitution and unification.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. So funny and moving, great cartoons. I have never really watched Ice dancing or figure skating. I guess I had, but this is beautiful. Amazing how a few moments of some incredible human achievement; synchronicity, creativity, grace and power can give one hope for the future. I sit and play my guitar and sing for hours in my backyard, and the birds come from all around and sit in the trees and sing along with me. It never gets old. We have 2 Mourning Doves that are regulars, they have their little spot on the fence. If this is what we are capable of, then, surely, we can overcome a few control freaks trying to destroy our world. RFK Jr. Gives me hope for the future, even if he doesn’t win, he will wake up a few more. Seeing the fires in Hawaii has been disheartening and shocking, and I think it’s sad that my first thought is how did this start? Has this been done intentionally? Imagine your home being devastated like that. God bless those that are caught in the middle of all of this corruption. Whenever I am feeling that life has been unfair to me, I quickly thank God for the lesson.
I have been an art dealer, my entire life, and it never gets lost on me when people say they have no talent. They look at the work of a great artist and think wow I wish I could do that. But when I ask them about their life , we always find their art.
Humans are artists and can create some of the most beautiful things. However, we can get lost so easily in self indulgence. When we become thoughtless, we are capable of horrendous things. I don’t know if anybody ever said that, but it seems like a thing to say. Peaceful Sunday.
Wow, I am so glad that I watched the deer video first. It was mesmerizing and beautiful. The skaters blew me away. What a great start to a beautiful Sunday. Thank you Dr. Malone for sharing such beauty and grace.
I watched the Anthony Oliver video last week, and was blown away, sending it to my local country station, as previouly mentioned.
My wife was downstairs tending to our brood, when I asked her to come up to the office, and watch the deer video. My wife, the overtly intense animal lover she is, would enjoy the deer sneaking up on the human playing some Simon and Garfunkel music, quite magnificently, I might add, and seeing the surprise at the end.
I then clicked on the skating video, and was pleasantly surprised to hear Disturbed playing my favorite cover tune of the Sounds of Silence. Since David Draiman is by far one of MY top 3 metal singers who've ever lived, I really enjoyed the skating display on the screen, and David's voice in syncopation.
When the video ended, as I turned around to ask my wife what she thought of the skating they did, she began sobbing. She was overwhelmed by the beauty of both the skills of the skaters, the song itself, with the majestic growl, depth, and presence of David's singing. As she left the room, I heard her muddle, "Deer and skating just overwhelms me". She's still down there weeping.
Thanks Doc. Awesome choices for video's all the way around. I have to attend to my wife now.
Have them too. Our labs cornered one atthe fence and it promptly played dead. The dogs decided that was no fun and wandered off and...poof it was gone.
That Anthony Oliver guy has already been contacted by John Rich, and most likely will be on the airwaves soon enough. I sent it to my local country station to the manager there, Chris VanZant, and he loved it. Looking forward to more of his political commentary 8-)
The deer video was cool. Simon and Garfunkle attracts deer. Wonder if I play some Madonna or Lady vomit Gaga on the box, I can get the deer to go elsewhere to eat other people's plants on their property. Unfortunately, I would drive myself off the property at the same exact time. Maybe, I'll just live with the deer visiting me.
I bought one of the new high powered 22 cal pellet guns with a scope. For some reason I have not seen a single doe since. I understand that they are all browsing on my neighbors garden now instead of my young fruit trees.
Well, from what I've read, that will leave a nice raspberry on their tookas, but not harm them in any realy way.
Haha. I'd better get me one of those for the libtard for across the street. He'd probably think he was stung in the ass by a Bill Gates Mosquito, instead of a .22 pellet rifle.
Robert, I just had to chuckle, in my head I say, "well at least it's not a poison". I use the hose on sharp/high for the random cat. Another laughable thought, see your favorite hater/monster on the target.
We have a large feeder type bucket we keep filled with water for the deer.....and skunks and raccoons and squirrels and foxes and... We have had a looong string of 100+° days and the fauna really love it. Saves a long walk down to the lake.
I remember watching this performance originally ....at the Olympics in China? I was in awe at the beauty and imagination of this completely in synch couple as they allow Gods Devine energy to flow freely throughout the disciplined yet artistic creation. This is the true manifestation of the distinctions, strengths, and weaknesses of the masculine and the feminine when the energy of each are combined in a selfless, yet focused fashion. God made manifest in the beauty of human form. Breath taking in its majesty.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WORLD. MY favourite song. So true. We sang a hymn called All Thingd Bright and Beautiful. The Lord God made them All. In school In England. We all need to remember that. Corruption probably started back to cave men. The world is still here. Still beautiful.
The ice skating was gorgeous. I loved the music and the choreography but my favorite part was in the quiet moments when we could hear the skritches of blade to ice synchronized. Like oars on a still lake.
I don't know how you do it, I'm still recuperating from yesterday's post! The harp and deer do help tho! Someone yesterday posted about how animals love music too, esp cows will come running for music.
We had a boxer that loved classical music. On Sundays we liked to listen to a station that played big band era music and when we did Bobo would just go to bed in our bedroom. Intolerant German aristocrat!
When my wife sings, our cats come from all over the house to greet her.
My one cat does the same thing when I rack my 9mm, as I'm practicing lazer target shooting on the walls of my home's interior. He associates the noise with the little red dot that appears somewhere. Whenever we can't find him hiding, a quick rack, and he's at our feet.
They morn too. We were down to 2 labs and when we had to put her down (spinal malignancy) we were both broken hearted but the male we still had mourned her for a solid year.
I never realized how true that was until recently.
When my MIL passed, we took her cats, as no one wanted them, and with how much she loved them, we were obligated to ensure hey continued their long, pampered lives.
Mama (the mother of the others) just passed at 18 years old. Her kids have been mourning since. There is no way that their current behavior is not a reflection of sorrow theyre going through. I'm 100% convinced.
My other cat has not left my dogs side, since our Shitsu, Mocha passed. Hes glued to his remaining, beagle brothers, ever since Mocha passed.
They feel sorrow, they feel loss. They just cant type it out on Dr.R.'s substack, like i can
I’m really sorry T. Pets depend on you for everything. Years back I lost my 14 year old yellow lab Brandy to stomach cancer. Eventually I had to put her down. To this day I feel I let her down.
Pets provide you with a lifetime of devotion, joy, and a relief from the stupidity we find ourselves in, daily.
I feel its my obligation to ensure the years of love they gave me are repaid back through preventing them of a painful passing with the help of our veterinarian. We've had many pups and cats who have passed with it, and any extreme measures with our peta would have only bought a few weeka to a few months, at best.
Cancer in a 14 year old pup is never going to be won against nature or time, therfore, you cannot do much for them other than comfort care, happy remaining days, and being helped along before the pain of passing gets to the extreme. Its my duty to them to spare them the horrible ends some of us face as were departing this life to the next, and thats what we do for all our furry friends.
My boy Mocha had cancer which spread from his prostate to his vital organs, and when he was diagnosed, we knew his time was limited. As long as he was happy, and out of major discomfort, he would remain with us, being spoiled rotten, eating steak, turkey, chicken, burgers or anything else he wanted. I took him everywhere from the Post Office, Home Cheapo, my clients homes where he would sit on a blanket, under a tree, watching while I worked on their homes, etc. Every single day, we went to his favorite park to walk the path, and then stop for a 1/2 old fashioned dunkin donut , which he loved. After 7 weeks of 24-7, round the clock of loving that little fuzzball, our vet gently, painlessly let him go. It was time, and i promised him I would not let him suffer. That process was my job, after he was gone.
I do not regret having him euthanized. I regret not having him in my life anymore, while at the same time, beyond grateful for the years i spent with him in my life. Mocha made me smile, ever single day, no matter how crappy my day went. He never asked for anything, never caused me any headache, and the only pain i got from him was never being able to hold him in my arms again.
They give way more than thet ever get, but thats just my experiences
Oh my. In the country the females dig out a nesting area under farm buildings to have their kittens. I raised four of them last year for four months. I took a picture of mom one day in my back yard eating bird seeds fallen from a feeder. This was after I saw her in one of my pastures. Then I quit seeing her. About two weeks later I found six kittens curled up next to a hole under a cement pad in front of a sliding barn door. A few days later my gelding's nose smelled like skunk and they were back out again trying to walk around but mainly stumbling. Eyes were barely open. Two of them I guess found mom's scent and follow it under the nearby fence into the pasture and were trying to follow one of my mares who kept walking in circles to get away from them. I went into the barn to get a poop scooper and a bucket to fetch them. When I came outside one was dead and the other was being stomped by my young gelding. I collect them and put a lid on the bucket. I moved an old water trough next to the hole to keep them from going anywhere and put cardboard down. I put out a water bowl and started leaving dried cat food I would soak overnight. They got 4 meals a day. At night I would have to stand guard because a very large racoon was wanting their food. Then they decided to stay in the barn. How they first got in there I don't know. But, okay. Every morning they would hear me and coming running out from behind boxes and building material and down the aisle before I could even gab their food from the barn office which I would leave outside on the cardboard next to their hole. One day in Sept my son lined the entire inside of my largest animal trap with cardboard. I used it the next day. I threw in wet food and they scrambled in and I closed the door. Into the PU bed went the trap. I found a place about 5 miles away next to a creek bed and woods. It took me several months before I shook my sense of loss. And no, I was never squirted.
I'll spare you my skunk stories. But what different perspectives and points of view we come from. Nature is still bloody eat or be eaten. This morning my wife came upon a bald eagle spread over and about to tear open one of her chickens. Chased it off, not sure if the chicken will live. This afternoon watched a herd of 50+ elk run across one neighbors grass pasture to settle and feed in another's alfalfa pasture. Majestic, captivating, yes. But a herd like that puts a huge dent in the hay crop in nothing flat. We had herds bed in our alfalfa, and it ain't pretty in the morning...My wife is a runner, and she's been followed 3x down our long driveway by lions. Many other stories, different perspective.
Everything depends on circumstance. Animals kill to survive. Human beings just kill. Obviously your experience Is different from mine. I can be kind to the nature surrounding me. You are like the animals. Survival of the strongest. I have read two books by English immigrants to Africa. Their children wrote the books. Both agreed if born in Africs it is hard to leave.
Our labs got " skunked" a couple of times. That was not so much fun but found an enzyme based treatment that actually did a good job of destinking them
The Sound of Silence!
We STILL have beautiful and wonderful things happening in this world 🌎 ❤️
True. My nieghbout brought home her newborn baby last week. Such a beautiful miracle.
Very true Ana. Everyday, all around me is the essence of life, nature at its finest.
Shelley, it put me in the perfect state of mind for our worship services this morning 🌄 🙌
Praise God!
Dr Malone has written a great deal about the psy ops and info ops our own government runs against us. Covid may be the latest, but it ain’t the first. One of the older ones is the psy op that so many of your neighbors likely believe: that it’s totally ok per American constitutional values for Pride flags and drag queens to be in your kids’ public school, but absolutely forbidden for any mention of the Bible.
Well, I wanted to share this very real 1920s public school textbook with y’all this morning. Check out the pictures, the stories, the music. This is what we used to teach our kids.
https://gaty.substack.com/p/back-to-school-blast-from-the-past
Any wonder we ended up where we now are after stripping that soul enriching content and replacing it with corporate-enriching drivel?
Think about it, and let’s reclaim our education from these corrupt beauty-hating enemies of childhood!
This is a great essay, we do need reclaim our educational system - thank you for sharing!
One of our present problems with education stems from our federal government. The United States Constitution grants very limited powers to the federal government. Education and health issues are not among those powers. Powers not granted to the federal government belong to the individual states and the people. Consider our present situation with the intertwining between the NIH and federally funded education. Federal money almost always comes with attached strings. For example, if a school district desires federal funding for school lunches, then the school district must also adhere to the federal mandates as to the subjects taught. If a college or university desires federal funding for research, then the college or university must also agree to the agenda of the research. But the problem goes much deeper. Government welfare programs disincentivize normal family structure of a father and a mother raising children. Single parent households qualify for dollars, while two parent families generally do not. The more children born into the single parent household, the greater the money qualified for. It has been shown children perform much better in school when they live a once normal two parent household. More government money is thrown at schools when the schools underperform in educating children. It’s a vicious cycle with greater and greater government involvement and more and more government control. States, cities, towns, schools, college and universities would be wise to reject funding from the federal government, urge their (our) Congressional representatives to bring it all to an end by dissolving the unconstitutional federal alphabet agencies, relinquishing powers unconstitutionally usurped and returning it back to the states and the people where it rightfully belongs.
It wasn’t that long ago when an industrious college student working a summer job could earn sufficient money to pay for his/her entire tuition for the upcoming school year. Federal government involvement changed that. The cost of a college education has greatly outpaced the rate of inflation. The influx of federal student loan guarantees in essence is a cash cow for colleges. Today the average college graduate will work for many years with the burden of college debt.
The Old Testament tells the story of the great wonders God performed in bringing the Hebrew people out of captivity in Egypt. On their arrival in the Promised Land of Israel God commanded the grandfathers and fathers to teach their children of the wonders He had performed and His commands. In the span of just one generation the fathers failed to do what God had commanded. Among others there are two clear lessons here: it is the responsibility of the fathers to teach their children; it only takes one generation for a society to fail.
L.b.j.s great society added to the problem. Houston was informed they had to adjust the teacher population to mirror the black population or lose fed funds. Ergo, complexion trumped merit and this at a time when finding qualified teachers of any stripe was a challenge. I am sure this was a nationwide dictate
The teacher who graduates high in the class has a choice of where to teach. Most prefer the suburbs, they are safe. I met an 8th grade innercity teacher. He could not control his class. Boys were taller than him. They refused to listen. Starts at home. If children not taught by parents a teacher has no power to teach them.
The Jekielik - Rufo (and as covered in Rufo's new book) discussion, last night, covered further influences and goals of radicals as they have driven educational directions. Worth considering and reflecting on imo.
Reason home schooling becoming popular.
Just want to say I look forward to your comments as you always add something interesting!
Where can we get a copy of this book?
I found some on eBay (the initial ones we found by total luck at an antique store)
If you are fifty or so, or older, you should thank god that you grew up when America was free. Looking back on the past 40 plus years it’s surprising how a large portion of our citizens have welcomed in this cancer of communism. I started to think of summers as a kid, and how they seemed to go on forever. Maybe it was a young boys Synaptic firing perfectly that made it seem so long. I remember in the early fall climbing up onto the shelf behind the rear seat of my fathers old Chevy Belair and sleeping in the warm sun on a long ride. Or later driving in the back of a pick-up truck with friends to the beach. Ronald Reagan’s 1st inaugural address when he became the governor of California, began with the message of the routine commonplace of Americas traditional transfer of power. Then he spoke these famous lines, “perhaps you and I have lived to long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation. For it only comes once to a people, and those in history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” Ronald Reagan 1967. J.Goodrich
It is change James as the odious kenyan effluvium informed us. Change has been going on at a rapidly accelerating rate. My mom was 20 yrs older than me and we shared more culturally than I did with my sister 4 yrs younger than me. And it is only getting worse. I say worse because it results in abandoning cultural standards before something better is found, eg.the Jedeo-Christian ethics our Founders built this Republic around.
To this day I cannot understand later generations penchant for the debasement of humanity.
If you have been a pincushion with 72 Pharma jabs before you understand that you are a human, what do you expect.
I don't know how vaccinations make a 22 year old female want to wear a metal dog collar with spikes around her neck and rings hung in her lips. Her dad is the salt of the earth kind of guy.
Perhaps she got addicted to all the metals within the dangerous jabs. Actually, if it is a defense mechanism against anyone who comes close and wants to give her more jabs, I congratulate her.
Just this past month, two of my childhood friends (OR & CA) and I are exchanging emails and pictures reminiscing about our teen years in the 1960s in the wilderness that was Thousand Oaks, CA. Our lives were one horseback ride experience after another. Up in the hills, down in the valleys and in the barranca - all open space back then. Riding in the Conejo Valley Days parade each year was special. Life was sweet and carefree and Malibu beach was only 25 minutes away!
4th of July was so special. There was a parade in the morning, where every entrant, child or adult, had to reference an event in the history of the country. I remember one year several of us kids portrayed the XYZ affair, but usually we were Civil War soldiers carrying one of our friends covered in ketchup on a homemade stretcher. Three legged races, egg tosses, turtle races, etc, followed, with baseball games for all ages throughout the afternoon. And of course huge fireworks display of both ground and aerial shows that night..
That was America and a great story!!!!
You know the damnest thing? When I tell that story today, many people thinking I'm making it up, that I'm recalling a movie or something. Well, I have Dad's old 35mm slides
I believe you. We used to go to Pracilla Beach in Plymouth or Rexham Beach in Marshfield Mass. and have fires and lots of partying every year all night. They used to allow it. Some things I’ll never forget.
Now in a lot of places it is illegals firing guns in the air. Why?? Because they can.
I have a friend who grew up in fairly large interior PNW city. Him and his 12-13 yr old friends would hike with their .22 rifles to the outskirts of town to hunt/target shoot.
And of course most every pickup in the west had a rack in the rear window with rifles. Gun violence, murder? Never heard of it back then.
Same way in and around Wichita Falls Tx when I was a kid. Dad a cop and never used his gun. Did have to have mom soak his bloody shirt off his back after a knife attack (guess cops back then only went to hospital in ambulances) but not that much local violence. The likes of bonnie and clyde were prevalent back then and he carried a tommy gun on stakeouts but never used it
Sign on tough.
And high school cared not that their parking lot had student's car or pick up trucks with rifles in them.
I wish life for me could slow down like that again. It goes by so fast today, I really feel for the young, I’m afraid they’ll never experience those feeling of freedom like you did Shelley.
The young have their communication devices, and no longer require real interaction with nature, other humans, God or his gifts. A truly sad state,of affairs.
I'm looking at several properties in rural VT right now, and I cant wait till my phone wont have any service where I'm at
We lived in MO's rural areas. My oldest was a pilgrim in the Bicentennial festival put on by the local school while the Bicentennial train was visiting Jefferson City. Each car was full of US history. ( I made his costume) My sons grew up riding their bikes to the bus stop, hunting in our woods (we had 10 acres), fishing in grandpa's pond, and after our move to Hood River OR, riding dirt bikes with the friends in the hills and we all learned to ski. They never had a boring moment.
How prophetic. Reagan, one if the greatest statesmen of that generation.
We so need a man like him today. They haven’t made politicians of his caliber in a long time.
I would like to point to both Robert F Kennedy and Vivek Ramswami as taking up the torch of statesmanship. Kennedy in particular speaks the language of the constitution and unification.
The skaters were fantastic! Thanks for sending that out as part of these great Sunday posts. The jellyfish reminds me of some people I know.
Danny Huckabee
Agree. Probably the best I've ever seen
The View comes to mind.
Your Friday Funnies and Sunday Strips always make my day! Thank you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. So funny and moving, great cartoons. I have never really watched Ice dancing or figure skating. I guess I had, but this is beautiful. Amazing how a few moments of some incredible human achievement; synchronicity, creativity, grace and power can give one hope for the future. I sit and play my guitar and sing for hours in my backyard, and the birds come from all around and sit in the trees and sing along with me. It never gets old. We have 2 Mourning Doves that are regulars, they have their little spot on the fence. If this is what we are capable of, then, surely, we can overcome a few control freaks trying to destroy our world. RFK Jr. Gives me hope for the future, even if he doesn’t win, he will wake up a few more. Seeing the fires in Hawaii has been disheartening and shocking, and I think it’s sad that my first thought is how did this start? Has this been done intentionally? Imagine your home being devastated like that. God bless those that are caught in the middle of all of this corruption. Whenever I am feeling that life has been unfair to me, I quickly thank God for the lesson.
I have been an art dealer, my entire life, and it never gets lost on me when people say they have no talent. They look at the work of a great artist and think wow I wish I could do that. But when I ask them about their life , we always find their art.
Humans are artists and can create some of the most beautiful things. However, we can get lost so easily in self indulgence. When we become thoughtless, we are capable of horrendous things. I don’t know if anybody ever said that, but it seems like a thing to say. Peaceful Sunday.
Actually I saw an Elephant paint. He was pretty good.
Wow, I am so glad that I watched the deer video first. It was mesmerizing and beautiful. The skaters blew me away. What a great start to a beautiful Sunday. Thank you Dr. Malone for sharing such beauty and grace.
Agree.
I watched the Anthony Oliver video last week, and was blown away, sending it to my local country station, as previouly mentioned.
My wife was downstairs tending to our brood, when I asked her to come up to the office, and watch the deer video. My wife, the overtly intense animal lover she is, would enjoy the deer sneaking up on the human playing some Simon and Garfunkel music, quite magnificently, I might add, and seeing the surprise at the end.
I then clicked on the skating video, and was pleasantly surprised to hear Disturbed playing my favorite cover tune of the Sounds of Silence. Since David Draiman is by far one of MY top 3 metal singers who've ever lived, I really enjoyed the skating display on the screen, and David's voice in syncopation.
When the video ended, as I turned around to ask my wife what she thought of the skating they did, she began sobbing. She was overwhelmed by the beauty of both the skills of the skaters, the song itself, with the majestic growl, depth, and presence of David's singing. As she left the room, I heard her muddle, "Deer and skating just overwhelms me". She's still down there weeping.
Thanks Doc. Awesome choices for video's all the way around. I have to attend to my wife now.
I love every loving thing. I'm feeding a possum. Gentle too. Not the mosquitos fault they were made to need blood.
Have them too. Our labs cornered one atthe fence and it promptly played dead. The dogs decided that was no fun and wandered off and...poof it was gone.
That Anthony Oliver guy has already been contacted by John Rich, and most likely will be on the airwaves soon enough. I sent it to my local country station to the manager there, Chris VanZant, and he loved it. Looking forward to more of his political commentary 8-)
The deer video was cool. Simon and Garfunkle attracts deer. Wonder if I play some Madonna or Lady vomit Gaga on the box, I can get the deer to go elsewhere to eat other people's plants on their property. Unfortunately, I would drive myself off the property at the same exact time. Maybe, I'll just live with the deer visiting me.
I bought one of the new high powered 22 cal pellet guns with a scope. For some reason I have not seen a single doe since. I understand that they are all browsing on my neighbors garden now instead of my young fruit trees.
Well, from what I've read, that will leave a nice raspberry on their tookas, but not harm them in any realy way.
Haha. I'd better get me one of those for the libtard for across the street. He'd probably think he was stung in the ass by a Bill Gates Mosquito, instead of a .22 pellet rifle.
Robert, I just had to chuckle, in my head I say, "well at least it's not a poison". I use the hose on sharp/high for the random cat. Another laughable thought, see your favorite hater/monster on the target.
Hee hee
They particularly love deer resistant plant we have found
Haha, say it isn't so.
Well, feeding God's creatures isn't a bad thing after all.
We have a large feeder type bucket we keep filled with water for the deer.....and skunks and raccoons and squirrels and foxes and... We have had a looong string of 100+° days and the fauna really love it. Saves a long walk down to the lake.
Sounds mighty pretty.
Eating them is not so bad, either.
Actually Lady Gaga performed with Tony Bennet. Quite good with Tony.
I love Tony Bennet.
I will not deny that LGG is a talented singer
HER forced vomiting on her stagehand ended any admiration of her ...... FOREVER
The meat costume did me in. However Tony brought out the best in her.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/first-public-appearance-since-going-viral-rich-men/
Thank you for the wonderful videos. Brightened my Sunday morning.
Harp and deer, priceless. Another great strip‼️
The beauty and skill of the skaters!!!!!!! Astoundingly magnificent! Thank you!
I remember watching this performance originally ....at the Olympics in China? I was in awe at the beauty and imagination of this completely in synch couple as they allow Gods Devine energy to flow freely throughout the disciplined yet artistic creation. This is the true manifestation of the distinctions, strengths, and weaknesses of the masculine and the feminine when the energy of each are combined in a selfless, yet focused fashion. God made manifest in the beauty of human form. Breath taking in its majesty.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WORLD. MY favourite song. So true. We sang a hymn called All Thingd Bright and Beautiful. The Lord God made them All. In school In England. We all need to remember that. Corruption probably started back to cave men. The world is still here. Still beautiful.
The ice skating was gorgeous. I loved the music and the choreography but my favorite part was in the quiet moments when we could hear the skritches of blade to ice synchronized. Like oars on a still lake.
If you expand the frame of the "speed bump" cartooon, you should see a Secret Service agent standing next the open door of a limousine.
I don't know how you do it, I'm still recuperating from yesterday's post! The harp and deer do help tho! Someone yesterday posted about how animals love music too, esp cows will come running for music.
We had a boxer that loved classical music. On Sundays we liked to listen to a station that played big band era music and when we did Bobo would just go to bed in our bedroom. Intolerant German aristocrat!
When my wife sings, our cats come from all over the house to greet her.
My one cat does the same thing when I rack my 9mm, as I'm practicing lazer target shooting on the walls of my home's interior. He associates the noise with the little red dot that appears somewhere. Whenever we can't find him hiding, a quick rack, and he's at our feet.
haha.
Love animals.
And when you are lucky they love you back
Got that right.
They leave big holes, as well.
We lost our ShiTsu a few weeks back. That dog took a huge chunk out of heart (and life) when he left us. Cried for weeks. Hurts to think about it
They morn too. We were down to 2 labs and when we had to put her down (spinal malignancy) we were both broken hearted but the male we still had mourned her for a solid year.
I never realized how true that was until recently.
When my MIL passed, we took her cats, as no one wanted them, and with how much she loved them, we were obligated to ensure hey continued their long, pampered lives.
Mama (the mother of the others) just passed at 18 years old. Her kids have been mourning since. There is no way that their current behavior is not a reflection of sorrow theyre going through. I'm 100% convinced.
My other cat has not left my dogs side, since our Shitsu, Mocha passed. Hes glued to his remaining, beagle brothers, ever since Mocha passed.
They feel sorrow, they feel loss. They just cant type it out on Dr.R.'s substack, like i can
I’m really sorry T. Pets depend on you for everything. Years back I lost my 14 year old yellow lab Brandy to stomach cancer. Eventually I had to put her down. To this day I feel I let her down.
I look at it this way.
Pets provide you with a lifetime of devotion, joy, and a relief from the stupidity we find ourselves in, daily.
I feel its my obligation to ensure the years of love they gave me are repaid back through preventing them of a painful passing with the help of our veterinarian. We've had many pups and cats who have passed with it, and any extreme measures with our peta would have only bought a few weeka to a few months, at best.
Cancer in a 14 year old pup is never going to be won against nature or time, therfore, you cannot do much for them other than comfort care, happy remaining days, and being helped along before the pain of passing gets to the extreme. Its my duty to them to spare them the horrible ends some of us face as were departing this life to the next, and thats what we do for all our furry friends.
My boy Mocha had cancer which spread from his prostate to his vital organs, and when he was diagnosed, we knew his time was limited. As long as he was happy, and out of major discomfort, he would remain with us, being spoiled rotten, eating steak, turkey, chicken, burgers or anything else he wanted. I took him everywhere from the Post Office, Home Cheapo, my clients homes where he would sit on a blanket, under a tree, watching while I worked on their homes, etc. Every single day, we went to his favorite park to walk the path, and then stop for a 1/2 old fashioned dunkin donut , which he loved. After 7 weeks of 24-7, round the clock of loving that little fuzzball, our vet gently, painlessly let him go. It was time, and i promised him I would not let him suffer. That process was my job, after he was gone.
I do not regret having him euthanized. I regret not having him in my life anymore, while at the same time, beyond grateful for the years i spent with him in my life. Mocha made me smile, ever single day, no matter how crappy my day went. He never asked for anything, never caused me any headache, and the only pain i got from him was never being able to hold him in my arms again.
They give way more than thet ever get, but thats just my experiences
In a way that no one else in life ever did, oddly enough.
It is like the story of the young man whose fiancé has given him an ultimatum: The dog or me.
Torn between his love for the dog and the desire for wedded bliss, his uncle gave him a matrix to help make a decision.
"Lock your girlfriend and your dog in the trunk of your car for half an hour and see who's happy to see you when you return.
He's single and looking for a woman who adores dogs..
I've seen videos of pet birds doing great dance moves to music. They seems to like the beat of rock music best! They are very uplifting.
Would I be displaying my dislike of that music genre if I said they were birdbrains?
Yes. But it is hard for me not to jump up and dance when I heard Chuck Berry!
Hahaha! Dog's are so funny.
Our Sophie Tucker prefers Country Western. Kris Kristpherson her fav.
Once we were playing Buddy Holly records and a skunk let loose under our front porch. Everyone is a critic 🦨💩🎶😂
Dawn dishwashing liquid, hydrogen peroxide, and baking soda mixed up and soak for a while as it works.
That was years ago but it helped tremendously
Such gentle animals. Human beings complained about the smell. Years ago. My suburb allowed police officers to shoot them.
Oh my. In the country the females dig out a nesting area under farm buildings to have their kittens. I raised four of them last year for four months. I took a picture of mom one day in my back yard eating bird seeds fallen from a feeder. This was after I saw her in one of my pastures. Then I quit seeing her. About two weeks later I found six kittens curled up next to a hole under a cement pad in front of a sliding barn door. A few days later my gelding's nose smelled like skunk and they were back out again trying to walk around but mainly stumbling. Eyes were barely open. Two of them I guess found mom's scent and follow it under the nearby fence into the pasture and were trying to follow one of my mares who kept walking in circles to get away from them. I went into the barn to get a poop scooper and a bucket to fetch them. When I came outside one was dead and the other was being stomped by my young gelding. I collect them and put a lid on the bucket. I moved an old water trough next to the hole to keep them from going anywhere and put cardboard down. I put out a water bowl and started leaving dried cat food I would soak overnight. They got 4 meals a day. At night I would have to stand guard because a very large racoon was wanting their food. Then they decided to stay in the barn. How they first got in there I don't know. But, okay. Every morning they would hear me and coming running out from behind boxes and building material and down the aisle before I could even gab their food from the barn office which I would leave outside on the cardboard next to their hole. One day in Sept my son lined the entire inside of my largest animal trap with cardboard. I used it the next day. I threw in wet food and they scrambled in and I closed the door. Into the PU bed went the trap. I found a place about 5 miles away next to a creek bed and woods. It took me several months before I shook my sense of loss. And no, I was never squirted.
I just love these stories!
My wife worked with a woman who had a pet skunk. Never descented and never sprayed her. She loved the little guy
I'll spare you my skunk stories. But what different perspectives and points of view we come from. Nature is still bloody eat or be eaten. This morning my wife came upon a bald eagle spread over and about to tear open one of her chickens. Chased it off, not sure if the chicken will live. This afternoon watched a herd of 50+ elk run across one neighbors grass pasture to settle and feed in another's alfalfa pasture. Majestic, captivating, yes. But a herd like that puts a huge dent in the hay crop in nothing flat. We had herds bed in our alfalfa, and it ain't pretty in the morning...My wife is a runner, and she's been followed 3x down our long driveway by lions. Many other stories, different perspective.
Everything depends on circumstance. Animals kill to survive. Human beings just kill. Obviously your experience Is different from mine. I can be kind to the nature surrounding me. You are like the animals. Survival of the strongest. I have read two books by English immigrants to Africa. Their children wrote the books. Both agreed if born in Africs it is hard to leave.
Lions ? Nature is still bloody eat or be eaten?
Ah, you must be in Brooklyn NY.
8-)
You want to get your heart started? Become prey.
There are several recent books on man as prey. Try Quammen's "Monster of God --The Man-eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind."
Our labs got " skunked" a couple of times. That was not so much fun but found an enzyme based treatment that actually did a good job of destinking them
I have dealt with that too.
Very sad to kill them! They are gorgeous but apparently lacking in musical appreciation and some people are strongly allergic :-)