Steyn on the Case

Mark Steyn usually has something interesting to say, often in an entertaining way. Here he has a few words about the the case of the Afghani convert to Christianity who faces death for this move either dejure or de facto:Facing down a culture where they talk like crazies. But perhaps Mr. Steyn doesn't realize that Islam is a religion of Peace (their peace, not ours).

Barbarians Inside the Gates

We here at Bloody Nib Manor cannot vouch for the veracity of this:France-Echos : le blog in English » Blog Archive » Muslims and leftists totali . But if it is true it shows the price of being politically correct.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, there was a rally of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans protesting proposed legislation to punish illegal aliens and punish their employers.

There is one lesson to be learned by both the US and France. If those of childbearing age want to know what their grandchildren's lives will be like all they have to do is either look South to Oaxca or East to Pakistan. And their grandchildren will curse them.

Don't Do It Ladies!

As regular readers of this blog should know, Bloody Nib Manor is a victim of Los Angeles in both sprawl and in television broadcasts. It has come to the attention of the inhabitants of the Manor that all too many women on television are in the process of making themselves look freakish. Such attempts are almost forgivable among actresses. The very act of being an actor or actress is freakish in and of itself. But when women who purport to supply the great unwashed with what is supposed to be news use their various beauticians and plastic surgeons to make themselves look less than natural, one finds oneself wondering, "if the presenter isn't real, could the news not be real".

A case in point is the female newsreader on KCAL at noon. Said newsreader (and for the sake of convenience sake we'll call her Mia) is an of Asian woman of some sort. She may be ethnically Chinese, Korean or Singaporean. Miss Mia, in contrast to her Asian sisters, has hair that is so blonde that it would have made the almost divine Brigitte Bardot, jealous (any excuse to post this pic of BB). Miss Mia seems to wear a larger cupped bra than the average Asian woman and she seems to have had collagen injected into her lips.

As those in the know know, the ever lovely Lady Nib is an Asian woman of the Japanese variety. Until very recently she had hair as black as a raven's wing and as thick and heavy as a Northwestern forest. The last few years a few strands of silver have appeared in her crowning glory and she wears her natural hair color proudly. She was blessed with a Bardot-like mouth, so the collagen injections would be useless. And as far as bra size goes, let's just say that Lady Nib wears a small. The almost divine Lady Nib is who and what she is and sees no reason to try to make herself into what she isn't. She's not a Barbie doll, she's not a California surfer girl and she's not an actress in blue movies. She's proud to be a Japanese-American Anglophile, and the only thing she ever wished to change about herself was to change her voice from one that sounded like Julie London to that of Kim Novak. Lady Nib calls Miss Mia "Freaky L---" because Miss Mia has done so much to deny what she is. Lady Nib looks askance at any Asian or Latin American woman who bleaches her hair (as does your correspondent, making an exception for Rita Hayworth) to conform with some strange homogeneous standard of appearance. It is, to her, like sticking a Mercedes-Benz emblem on a BMW.

Speaking as a male, yours agrees with Lady Nib. Women would be better off not dying or bleaching their hair to a color outside their racial group. Asian or Latin women with red hair, or Black women with blonde hair just looks not right. It's like putting a pinstripe suit on Johnny Cash or a tweed jacket and jeans on Tom Wolfe. No collagen treatment on lips looks good. They usually come out lopsided, and at best look weird. Maureen O'Hara, Margaret O' Sullivan and Marlene Dietrich were all attractive women despite the fact that they didn't have pouting lips. As far as breast enlargement -- have at it if you want to look like a porn star. It'll make your kids proud. Audrey Hepburn and BB were happy with God gave them and they did well in making men trip over their tongues chasing them.

But maybe it's just because I'm a hairist, lipist,breastist dog that I say such things.

How Far Can it Go?

In the county in which Nib Manor is located there are several television stations that broadcast news. Several of the stations have Asian women as anchorwomen. Most of the women are vaguely attractive and do a decent job of reading copy.

But there is a problem which your faithful correspondent has not been able to figure out. Why do so many Asian women insist in bleaching their hair to shades of red and brown or even blonde?

A case in point is Mia Lee, who works for KCAL 9 in Los Angeles. In recent months Miss Lee's hair has become more blonde than the almost divine Brigette Bardot. It is a disconcerting experience to watch her read the news. She has the face and form of an Asian woman, but the hair color of a Swede.

The ever lovely Lady Nib, who is Japanese, with a lovely head of raven black hair, refers to her as Freaky Lee because Miss Lee seems to be trying to deny that she is an Asian woman.

Let's face it. Certain races tend toward certain hair colors and they look best with their natural hair colors. Why bother trying to look like something one isn't? It would be like putting your faithful correspondent in a Bond Street suit instead of Harris tweed. It just don't work.

Cheap Instruments Part ?

In a couple of previous post your faithful correspondent has touted the value of cheap musical instruments. He has, in these post, emphasized the value of the ukulele because he is currently struggling with said instrument. He has fallen into the all too human assumption of, "If I'm interested in it, you should be interested in it. And if you are not interested in the thing I'm interested in you must be a fool and a rogue."

So, in deference to the tastes of those who happen to be fools or rogues I offer the suggestion of a really cheap musical instrument that is easy for the musical fool like yours to play, and yet has potential for those of more advanced musical aspirations -- The Penny Whistle. Sometimes said instrument is called the tin whistle or the Irish whistle. Said instrument is amazingly cheap -- $9.00 to $13.00 for a decent whistle. Add $20.00 for a method book and you can still get change for two twenties.

What can you play on a tin whistle? Anything with a diatonic score. One can play old American tunes, Irish tunes and English tunes, even Italian tunes. Playing the Stairway To Heaven or Purple Haze might be difficult, but I have no doubt that there is some guy in his other's basement working it out. The tin whistle offers one the opportunity to play music that is instinctive.

Yours prefers the classic Clarke tin whistle because it has a rather more mellow tone than the tin whistles with plastic fipples and is more traditional, but any tin whistle is better than no tin whistle.

A Decent Statement. And a Better One

The Danish newspaper that originally published the Mohammed cartoons recently published the following manifesto entitled A Manifesto Against Jihad:Indland Jyllands-Posten .
At first glance the statement, signed by 12 "thinkers", some of them ex-Muslims and some of them French "philosophers" (and it appears that any French streetsweeper is a philospher these days), looks pretty good.
But the Brussels Journal takes a closer look at the Manifesto and see a serious flaw -- Anti-Jihad Manifesto Misses the Point The Brussels Journal . Read the whole thing and pay particular attention to the statements that secularism has destroyed the religious roots of Europe and that Islam is filling the vacuum. The author of the Brussels Journal piece realizes that Europe was (up until some fifty years ago) Europe because of Christianity. ,,, The great English Baptist preacher of the nineteenth century, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, addressed the question of theocracy and the proper Christian response to the idea many years ago.
"We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the Reformation, we were reformers before Luther or Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the Apostles themselves. We have existed from the very days of Christ, and our principles, sometime veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel underground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike by Romanization and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never existed a government holding Baptist principles which persecuted other; not I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be the right to put the consciences or other under the control of man. We have ever been ready to suffer, as out martyrologies will prove, but we are not ready to accept any help from the State, to prostitute the purity of the Bride of Christ to any alliance with the Government, and we will never make the church, although the Queen, the despot over the consciences of men."
If we our Mohammedan "brothers" would take a hint from Spurgeon they would do themselves a great favor. But perhaps because they want to impose their false religion on the world by force because they realize that it cannot, by any reasonable and half intelligent person, be accepted in the stead of Christianity, or even outright atheism. One's faith influences a society not by force, but by example. And that shows, sadly, the failing of contemporary Christianity in Europe. The Termites (modern theologians) infected the Christian church in Europe and have made "Christianity" weak and negligible instead of the muscular and confident faith and force that it once was in the Old World. The result has been a malaise and apathy that allows a false religion to become more vibrant than the religion that was once considered the European birthright, while the Europeans have become unable, not only to defend their way of life, but their ideals. Secularism is not something that something that people will fight to protect.
And finally, your faithful correspondent is aware that some readers may bring up the stupid statements made by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell regarding a theocracy in the United States. Robertson is not a Baptist. I don't know what denomination Falwell belongs to, but Baptists, in the US have traditionally taken a hands off attitude toward government outside of voting.