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We have a winner!

Posted on May 5, 2021 | 2 comments

. . . for our 241st Caption Contest!

Our writers have voted for their respective #1 (best) and #2 (next best) captions. Each #1 vote is worth 4 points; each #2 vote is worth 2 points.

And the winner of our 241st Caption Contest, with three #1 votes and two #2 votes, totaling a whopping 16 points is . . .

Tim Shey!

Here is the winning caption:

The Wicked Witch of the West Coast.

Jackie Puppet (with two #1 votes) and GregB (with one #1 vote and two #2 votes) are in 2nd place, each with 8 votes. Here are their captions:

Jackie Puppet: “I’m laughing cause I don’t have to deal with struggling parents!”

GregB: “Two of the world’s most dangerous predators are pictured side by side here, with the one on the right being by far the more treacherous of the two.”

Scott Merson, Nina, and William are in 3rd place, each with one #2 vote and 2 points. Here are their captions:

Scott Merson: “In the immortal words of Jay and silent Bob, ‘what are you bitches babbling about.'”

Nina: “VP Kamala Harris reacted to the statement with a typical example of her sophistication and deep concern for others.”

William: “President Camel Womyn displays signs of advanced Kuru (laughing sickness) as she reacts hysterically to the government-imposed hardships of the little people.”

WELL DONE, EVERYONE!

Congratulations, Tim Shey!!!

For all the other caption submissions, go here.

Be here later today for our next, very exciting Caption Contest!

~E

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The astonishing Savitsky cats prove that cats can be trained!

Posted on May 3, 2021 | 2 comments

The saying, “Like herding cats,” refers to a commonly-held belief that cats cannot be trained or disciplined.

But the amazing Savitsky cats show that trope to be false: Cats can be trained!

Here are the videos of the Savitsky cats from the 2018 America’s Got Talent competition:

https://youtu.be/AZo8kRmAjl4

The Savitsky Cats is a family from the Ukraine that consists of mother Svitlana, daughter Marina, son Misha and their 10 very talented cats: Ulia, Chupa, Topa, Asia, Dasha, Matros, Eddy, Linda, Tosha and Mafik. Svitlana began training her first cat when she was 10 years old.

Sadly, the Savistsky cats were eliminated in the competition’s Quarterfinals. 🙁

Their Facebook page here.

~E

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Sunday Funny: Making breakfast for the one you love

Posted on May 2, 2021 | 4 comments

LOL! 

 

~E

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Sunday Devotional: You must choose

Posted on May 2, 2021 | 2 comments

John 15:1-8

Jesus said to his disciples:
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit,
and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you.
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own
unless it remains on the vine,
so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit,
because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
will be thrown out like a branch and wither;
people will gather them and throw them into a fire
and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”

Our “Sunday Devotionals” are usually about God’s love and grace. Today’s devotional is a sober reminder that we must choose, and that the consequence of an obdurate rejection of Him is dire.

Charles Baudelaire wrote in 1864 that “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” But too many Americans have fallen for that trick.

According to the 2014 Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study, whereas as many as 72% of U.S. adults said they believed in heaven — defined as a place “where people who have led good lives are eternally rewarded” — only 58% of Americans believed in hell — a place “where people who have led bad lives and die without being sorry are eternally punished.”

In fact, Jesus spoke more about Hell than Heaven. From Patheos:

Jesus describes hell as a reality (see here for all the biblical references to hell) and He spoke on hell three times as much as He ever did on heaven, thereby signifying the importance of believing in such a place. Hell is like a fiery furnace and there will be weeping (with anger and/or eternal regret) and gnashing of teeth (in anger and/or in pain). This weeping and gnashing of teeth is mentioned twice so as to emphasize the reality of hell.

Jesus also said it is a place not where “the” worm never dies but a place where “their” worm does not die. The fact is that it is their worm which means that it is their own personal gnawing of their conscience for their lifetime of rejecting Christ and this worm never dies, just like the Gehenna fire, which was a trash dump outside the walls of Jerusalem. That was a place where trash was continually dumped and maggots or worms never died off because there was always something thrown onto it so the worms or maggots had a constant supply of food.

And in John 15:6, the Second Person of the Triune Godhead explicitly and unambiguously warns us that:

Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither . . . and they will be burned.

Why don’t we take what Jesus said seriously? Do we imagine that He doesn’t say what He means, and means what He says?

May the peace and love of Jesus Christ our Lord be with you,

~E

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Pigeon visits elderly man in hospital

Posted on April 29, 2021 | 3 comments

An elderly man was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack.

In the days and weeks of his hospitalization, no one came to visit him — not a family member, friend, or acquaintance.

But a pigeon visited him every day, even after the man was moved to another hospital room.

The pigeon would perch on the window sill outside the man’s room, and when the window was opened, would fly in and stand on top of the man.

It was only when the man was well enough to go outside to sit on a bench in a park near the hospital that the attendant nurse found out why.

The man was surrounded by a flock of pigeons, whom he fed with bread crumbs he’d saved from his hospital food.

The pigeon who visited the man must be among the pigeons he’d regularly fed.

And now, the rest of the story. . . .

On January 28, 2021, McKenzie Sadeghi of USA Today conducted a fact check of the story and determined that:

  • The origin photo for this story, first posted to Facebook, of a pigeon perched on top of a man in a hospital bed was taken years ago by photographer Loannis Protonotarios, an independent filmmaker in Greece.
  • Protonotarios posted the image to Flickr on Oct. 19, 2013.
  • Protonotarios told The Quint that his father was a patient at the cardiology ward of Red Cross Hospital in Athens, Greece. The man in the photo was a patient who shared the hospital room with Protonotarios’ father. Protonotarios said, “As I was sitting next to my father’s bed I noticed this bird that was sitting atop of this man who was asleep. It was sitting there for quite a while so I took a picture.”
  • But USA Today claims that “There is no evidence that the man’s family never came to see him or that he fed pigeons at a nearby park. We rate this claim as FALSE. “

Sloppy journalism.

Instead of “false,” the more correct word is “unconfirmed” because USA Today‘s “fact check fellow,” McKenzie Sadeghi, does not know for a fact that (1) the man’s family never came to see him; or (2) the man fed pigeons in a nearby park.

The fact is that USA Today can’t confirm or disconfirm claims (1) and (2). That is a lot different than declaring claims (1) and (2) to be outright false.

In the last analysis, it is interesting and significant that a wild pigeon would fly into a building — a hospital room — and stand on the body of a sleeping man. That is not normal pigeon behavior.

~E

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Thursday Funnies!

Posted on April 29, 2021 | 6 comments

~E

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Proof that cats do love their humans: Cat watches video of departed owner

Posted on April 27, 2021 | 5 comments

It’s said that cats, unlike dogs, don’t love their humans, but only use us as a source of food and shelter.

This video proves that the slur is simply not true.

In the video, a cat attentively watches a video of her recently-deceased owner on the small screen of a smart phone.

At the 0:37 mark, your heart will break.

~E

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Rescue cat and the mysterious dollar bills

Posted on April 25, 2021 | 4 comments

In 2015, Stuart MacDonald adopted a homeless cat from the Tulsa Animal Welfare Shelter.

He brought the cat to his marketing firm, GuRuStu, in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The cat became the resident office cat, who likes to sit at the firm’s glass doors on 3rd Street in the East Village.

Then, something mysterious happened.

Each morning, when office workers arrive at GuRuStu, they would find a little pile of dollar bills inside the front door.

Watch this video for the rest of the story!

 

Click here for Cashnip Kitty’s website, where you can make a donation and purchase Cashnip t-shirts.  >^..^<

H/t Elizabeth

~E

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Sunday Devotional: The Good Shepherd

Posted on April 25, 2021 | 2 comments

John 10:11-18

Jesus said:
“I am the good shepherd.
A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
A hired man, who is not a shepherd
and whose sheep are not his own,
sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away,
and the wolf catches and scatters them.
This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd,
and I know mine and mine know me,
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father;
and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.
These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice,
and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
This is why the Father loves me,
because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own.
I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again.
This command I have received from my Father.”

The Parable of the Farmer and the Geese

There once was a farmer who, though a decent man, was an unbeliever because he could not understand why God would become man, only to be crucified to death, abandoned by his friends.

The farmer loved all animals, but especially loved birds.

One morning, news came of the imminent arrival of a terrible snow storm.  Anxious to protect his beloved flock of geese from the coming blizzard, the farmer put his heavy coat on and went out to get the geese into the shelter and safety of the barn.

He first tried coaxing the geese, gently shooing them into the barn. But the geese, being geese, refused to be coaxed.

He then tried luring the geese into the barn. He got a bag of grain and left a trail of seed from the outside into the barn. The geese ate the seed but stubbornly refused to enter the barn.

Meanwhile, the wind began to howl, and heavy snow began to fall . . . .

Now desperate, the farmer thought he would try scaring the geese. So he took a hammer and banged on a metal pan, so that the loud noise would frighten the geese into the barn. But the geese again refused to budge.

So the farmer gave up and retreated into his house.

In the warmth of his living room, he stood helplessly at the window, watching the blizzard descend on the geese. He knew they would surely die in the freezing storm.

In despair, a thought came to the farmer: “If only I could become a goose, then maybe the geese might listen to me and follow me into the barn.”

At that, the farmer finally understood.

Falling on his knees, sobbing and choking with tears, he said: “Forgive me, Lord. I know now why You became man.”

1 Peter 2:24-25

By his wounds you have been healed.
For you had gone astray like sheep,
but you have now returned
to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

May the peace and joy of Jesus Christ our Lord be with you,

~E

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Friday Funnies: The all-animals edition

Posted on April 23, 2021 | 2 comments

~E

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