Day: February 19, 2025

O England how far you have fallen
from the great empire you used to be.
And what happened to your Christianity
when a man can be arrested
on the streets of England for praying?

Adam Smith-Connor, a patriotic man who served
for twenty years in England’s National Guard,
including a tour in the Afghanistan war zone,
was arrested for a brief silent prayer outside
an Abortion Clinic where he prayed for an
aborted son, an abortion he regretted
having been okay with over twenty years ago.

He was sentenced to an $11,000+ fine
and will be sent to prison if God forbid
he prays near an Abortion Clinic again
or does anything else deemed an offense,
like, for example, posting critical tweet
that British police will come to your house
and arrest you for.

I love the English people. I’m part English myself,
but I hate what their totalitarian government
is doing to them – and good English people
be careful of what you tweet.

Bob Boyd

Consider this a public service
in case you have to deal with vampires.

I learned a revelation from
watching a vampire movie today:
that a silver bullet not only
dispatches snarling werewolves
but those of the vampiric persuasion
as well.

I learned, to my surprise, that hawthorn
is highly effective as a deterrent,
and if you strike or stick a vampire
with a branch or even a twig, it renders
the creature of the night helpless enough
to effortlessly drive anything resembling
a stake through its evil heart
or to escape from it.

Of course, the old standbys still work:
crosses, regular or with Jesus on them.

Garlic around doors and windows
and on your person.

Some say crystals and charms
work too, but I wouldn’t bet
your unvampirized soul on it.

Better to stick with the tried and true.

Bob Boyd

I hate the monkey see monkey do
of people who parrot the latest sayings
and the latest words or phrases:
echo chamber, disingenuous, FAFO, et cetera.
I’m way better than being a mindless parrot,
but you do you.

Bob Boyd

I went to Walmart last night for the first time
in over a decade.

Upon entering the automatically opening doors,
the store ambience felt oppressive to me.

It all seemed too phony to me and I hated
how overcrowded it was.

It hearkened back to decades ago when
I heard groceries cost less at Walmart.

I went there with the prudent idea of
saving a lot of money

I filled my grocery cart with ten or twelve items
and rolled my cart to the cash registers lanes.

They had twenty or more of them with
only three open.

At those three the lines was at least
twelve people deep.

I got so exasperated at those long
and slow moving lanes

I said screw this and got out of
the lane I was in

and rolled my shopping cart and the items
back to where I had put the items in the cart.

I put the items back on the shelves
and never shopped for groceries

at Walmart again.

Tonight I had the same feeling
and walked out the automatically opening doors

without buying anything.

And I’ll never set foot in
a Walmart store again.

Bob Boyd

She was 25 or so
and sitting in the cancer ward.

No telling if the cancer she had
was going to kill her.

Imagine being in your twenties
and having cancer
and in the back of your mind
having to wonder
if you were going to live or die.

I heard her tell an older woman
that she had a new boyfriend.

I hoped to God she was going
to live long enough
for that relationship to blossom.

Bob Boyd