A new link has been added to the Bloody Nib Blog Roll: The Desire to Conserve . This blog is written by a Finn (from Finland, of all places!) and the blogger has good points to make. He also has the talent to add interesting pictures to his posts. Check it out and go, "Umm."
Meanwhile, the right to spread one's religious beliefs continues to go only one way -- NEPA News - Pa. man charged with distributing anti-Islamic pamphlet in Kenya. At first blush one reading the headline would think that the missionaries were taking the Koran and stomping on it and calling Mohammed the rat that he was. But keep in mind that the very act of promoting one religion is to denigrate other religions. Kenyan Muslims throw rocks and pout and jump around like teenage girls having been called skanks, while at the same time their Koran claims that Jesus Christ, while being a "prophet" was a liar and a cheat ( the Koran claims that it was Judas who was crucified and that Jesus ducked out the back door when no one was looking). In other words, the Sons of Allah can call Christianity a lie and a fraud, but Christians can't call Islam a load of nonsense.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Men in Hats
In the upper right hand corner we have a photo of Lord Jim of Eagle Rock. As you can see, Lord Jim is wearing a contempory version of the Fedora hat. In the US the Fedora is usually associated with hard-boiled private detectives and Mafia wise guys. Your faithful correspondent can attest to the fact that Lord Jim is neither of those. He was, before his retirement, yours' boss, and was, and is, one of the greatest guys in the world. He is yours' best friend, but, of course, this may be due to the fact that aristocrats in a democracy always find and appreciate one another. Unfortunately Lord Jim did not wear this hat at work in the Satanic Mill, and left it to yours' to wear Stetson's version of a large brimmed Fedora and be called "Cowboy" by the Mexican employees. But Mexicans consider any hat other than a chapparel or a baseball cap a cowboy hat.
Anyway, here's to Lord Jim for donning the lid while at the computer. It reminds one of a hairier version of Walter Winchell.
Finding a Dead Rat in the Cobb Salad
To quote the old comic strip character Snuffy Smith, "Times shore doo change."
When you faithful correspondent was a laddie there were two radio stations that were not broadcast in the United States. One was Radio Free Europe. RFE was broadcast into Eastern Europe and the USSR as a voice of American freedom into European nations under Communist control. The other was the Voice of America. VOA was, to the best of yours' memory, broadcast world wide. It was, in a sense, the Yank version of the BBC without the posh accents and radio dramas.
Those days are long gone. Those were the days when the Republic had confidence in itself and it was assume that the American way of life was pretty darn good. Nowadays the elites of the nation have lost their confidence in the nation and claim that some Hottentot pounding on a hollow long with a stick is equal to a Samuel Barber piece and that female circumcision is not much more than an ear piercing. In other words, RFE and VOA were defunded and disestablished years ago and the world has to depend on reruns of Seinfeld and Gilligan's Island, and movie releases of The Short Bus and Magnolia to see what the good ol' USA is all about.
Meanwhile France, Germany, Great Britain, China, et al have shortwave radio broadcasts giving their particular nations' point of view on the news. They also have website. As does the Islamic Monster. And here's the point. The US has been doing a damn bad job of stating its position to our Islamic "brothers." -- U.S. seen balking at challenge by Islamist Web - Yahoo! News There are a jillion damn blogs in the US and the government can't even work up the energy to counter the propaganda from the Sons of Allah on the Internet. But we mustn't be judgmental, the guy said before his head was lopped off.
Once upon a time there was actually a mayor of Dublin, Ireland who was Jewish. The old joke was that during a Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York in which the mayor was grand marshall a Jewish woman was told that the mayor of Dublin was a Jew. With tears in her eyes she answered, "Only in America." Well kids, those days are long gone -- Ireland: Pro-Palestinian protesters attack Israeli ambassador - News from Isra .
Our neighbor to the North -- Canada -- has done yeoman's work in Afghanistan. In fact, the longest recorded successful sniper shot was done by a Canadian sniper in Afghanistan. It was close to a mile shot. But Canada, as a society, seems to have, at least among the elites, seems to have taken the Chamberlain route regarding militant Mohammedans. There's a reason that militant Islamist move to Canada instead of, say, Mexico or Japan. But some Muslims just want the whole damn pie -- Al-Qaeda warns Canada. While reading the article note the complaint about Canada's "fanatic adherence to Christianity." Two points here. The first is that Canada is not a particularly Christian nation in its active faith. What Christianity that is there is from habit, not belief. Secondly, what does Al-Qaeda expect Canadians to be? Animists? Mohammedans? Sikhs? Do these idiots think that Canada is part of Andalusia?
This type of stuff is enough to make one want to drink gin straight from the bottle.
When you faithful correspondent was a laddie there were two radio stations that were not broadcast in the United States. One was Radio Free Europe. RFE was broadcast into Eastern Europe and the USSR as a voice of American freedom into European nations under Communist control. The other was the Voice of America. VOA was, to the best of yours' memory, broadcast world wide. It was, in a sense, the Yank version of the BBC without the posh accents and radio dramas.
Those days are long gone. Those were the days when the Republic had confidence in itself and it was assume that the American way of life was pretty darn good. Nowadays the elites of the nation have lost their confidence in the nation and claim that some Hottentot pounding on a hollow long with a stick is equal to a Samuel Barber piece and that female circumcision is not much more than an ear piercing. In other words, RFE and VOA were defunded and disestablished years ago and the world has to depend on reruns of Seinfeld and Gilligan's Island, and movie releases of The Short Bus and Magnolia to see what the good ol' USA is all about.
Meanwhile France, Germany, Great Britain, China, et al have shortwave radio broadcasts giving their particular nations' point of view on the news. They also have website. As does the Islamic Monster. And here's the point. The US has been doing a damn bad job of stating its position to our Islamic "brothers." -- U.S. seen balking at challenge by Islamist Web - Yahoo! News There are a jillion damn blogs in the US and the government can't even work up the energy to counter the propaganda from the Sons of Allah on the Internet. But we mustn't be judgmental, the guy said before his head was lopped off.
Once upon a time there was actually a mayor of Dublin, Ireland who was Jewish. The old joke was that during a Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York in which the mayor was grand marshall a Jewish woman was told that the mayor of Dublin was a Jew. With tears in her eyes she answered, "Only in America." Well kids, those days are long gone -- Ireland: Pro-Palestinian protesters attack Israeli ambassador - News from Isra .
Our neighbor to the North -- Canada -- has done yeoman's work in Afghanistan. In fact, the longest recorded successful sniper shot was done by a Canadian sniper in Afghanistan. It was close to a mile shot. But Canada, as a society, seems to have, at least among the elites, seems to have taken the Chamberlain route regarding militant Mohammedans. There's a reason that militant Islamist move to Canada instead of, say, Mexico or Japan. But some Muslims just want the whole damn pie -- Al-Qaeda warns Canada. While reading the article note the complaint about Canada's "fanatic adherence to Christianity." Two points here. The first is that Canada is not a particularly Christian nation in its active faith. What Christianity that is there is from habit, not belief. Secondly, what does Al-Qaeda expect Canadians to be? Animists? Mohammedans? Sikhs? Do these idiots think that Canada is part of Andalusia?
This type of stuff is enough to make one want to drink gin straight from the bottle.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Watching the World Go to Hell. From Ringside
To be absolutely honest, there are times when your faithful correspondent wishes that his entries were concerned with things like, oh, I don't know, pandas riding unicycles or the niceties of Korean karaoke as performed by Korean teenagers - YouTube - Crazy Korean Girls.
But life gets in the way and one finds oneself trying to make sense of a world that seems to have become populated by tweekers , i.e. meth addicts, enablers, excusers or the clueless.
Yours' suffers for your benefit.
So let's start on an up note and descend to the basement.
Orianna Fallaci bequeathed her library to the Vatican Library - Atheist gifts pontifical school in will - Yahoo! News. As those in the know are aware, Signora Fallaci was an atheist, but she had enough sense to know that the future of the West lies with Christianity, not with secularism, multiculturalism or the Islamic monster. Let us all be grateful that she did not will her library to an American university (where it would have remained hidden in deference to the Saudi donors of the intuition) or a mainline Protestant denomination (where it would have remained hidden in deference to the "feelings" of the Islamic monster). One wonders if Signora Fallaci, despite her self-professed atheism, is not at this moment interviewing St. Peter.
Melanie Phillips takes a look at the problem in Great Britain - Banner of Truth Trust General Articles . Even the upper level of the Church of England seems to have figured this out, though perhaps too late. Long gone are the days when a son of Allah would feel the need to convert to the True Faith, even if an insincere conversion, to progress into British culture and politics. One wonders if Benjamin Disraeli is not kicking himself for converting from Judaism to the C of E to enter politics. Meanwhile, the BBC seems to have been exposed as a base tool of multiculturalism - We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News the Daily Mail . Your faithful correspondent remembers when the BBC News was considered the most objective of news organizations. That was back in the days when the news readers all struggled to acquire the "BBC accent." But that was long ago. Now the news readers mumbled away in accents ranging from Cockney to Scouse to Jamaican to Arabic. How the mighty have fallen!
A little news from France. As an aside, one longs for the France from the days of Inspector Maigret when the French, while being arrogant French, were at least French. The police are apparently the canary in the mine in La Belle France - Here We Go Again The Brussels Journal . And while the cops are being beat up by "Islamic youth" a lot of people are losing their cars - Why 112 cars are burning every day - World - Times Online . But, never fear, Inspector Clouseau is on the case, about five years too late - Muslim airport workers lose clearances - Yahoo! News . Is it not a strange thing that Marie Antoinette was Austrian by birth, is held in disregard by the French, and yet they seem to have her blindness to what is happening around them.
Finally, on a local note. A group of actors and surfers gathered in Malibu to protest the building of an off-shore natural gas plant. The said protesters claimed that the plant would be dangerous, harmful to the ecology and just plain ugly. One wonders what they would have done if said plant was planned for San Bernardino County, Compton or Bakersfield. The silence could be deafening. But only the working class live in those areas. Your needs, as a working class person, matter less to the elite than does their view. Ain't it great?
Sunday, October 15, 2006
A couple of three of things
Great Britain seems to be undergoing some sort of schizophrenic crisis.
First we have this: Christian BA employee to take legal action over suspension for wearing cross For those not in the know, BA stands for British Airlines. The woman in the story was not even wearing a crucifix. She was wearing a cross on a chain. But the wise men at BA thought that such a display of religious affiliation by a Christian might be offensive to... who? One wonders if the officials at BA might not think it a good idea to take down the crosses from all the churches in Great Britain to avoid offending ....who?
Of course, we all know who the "who" referred to by your faithful correspondent. But they shall remain nameless. Let's just say that if Great Britain continues on its present course the guild of church bell ringers will be abolished and screaming prayer callers in church steeples will take the place of the clarions.
But some Englishmen seem to understand that there is a difference between the fear of offending and the expectation of assimilation: The Standard - China's Business Newspaper. Be it known that the wearing of a veil across a Muslim woman's face is a nationally cultural norm. It is not a religious requirement for Muslim women. Muslim women in India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia and Egypt have gone for years without veiling their faces. If the veiling of the face were a religious requirement your faithful correspondent might be more sympathetic to the woman in question. But once one immigrates to another nation it is only to be expected that one conform to the norms of that nation. Otherwise, why immigrate?
Several years ago there was a controversy in Central California dealing with a Sikh boy who wore a knife on his belt to school. The school thought the carrying of the knife was dangerous to other students because of the fear that the boy might go nutty and attack other students with his knife. The boy carried the knife because it is one of the requirements of the Sikh religion that all men carry either a knife or a sword. One reason for this requirement is due to the persecution the Sikhs suffered under the Mughals (Mohammedan) dynasty in India during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The school district finally decided that the boy could carry the knife if it was riveted to the scabbard. And the Sikh religious leaders in the area agreed, seeing that the knife was, in the US, a symbol more than a weapon. The Sikhs moderated to the larger American culture. But the sons of Allah do not seem to be willing to do so. It makes one wonder if followers of Islam immigrated to the West to become citizens of the West or to take over the West.
Finally, Fjordman, a resident of one of the Nordic countries, has a few suggestions for the West: Gates of Vienna: Recommendations for the West . Republicans should take note. Democrats are hopeless on this matter. Every matter dealing with the sons of Allah is a new Gates of Vienna, a new Battle of Lepanto. And where are our Charles Martel, Roland, John Sobieski, Andrea Doria, El Cid? They aren't beating the bushes for campaign money because real defenders of the West act even if their swords are spotted with rust.
First we have this: Christian BA employee to take legal action over suspension for wearing cross For those not in the know, BA stands for British Airlines. The woman in the story was not even wearing a crucifix. She was wearing a cross on a chain. But the wise men at BA thought that such a display of religious affiliation by a Christian might be offensive to... who? One wonders if the officials at BA might not think it a good idea to take down the crosses from all the churches in Great Britain to avoid offending ....who?
Of course, we all know who the "who" referred to by your faithful correspondent. But they shall remain nameless. Let's just say that if Great Britain continues on its present course the guild of church bell ringers will be abolished and screaming prayer callers in church steeples will take the place of the clarions.
But some Englishmen seem to understand that there is a difference between the fear of offending and the expectation of assimilation: The Standard - China's Business Newspaper. Be it known that the wearing of a veil across a Muslim woman's face is a nationally cultural norm. It is not a religious requirement for Muslim women. Muslim women in India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia and Egypt have gone for years without veiling their faces. If the veiling of the face were a religious requirement your faithful correspondent might be more sympathetic to the woman in question. But once one immigrates to another nation it is only to be expected that one conform to the norms of that nation. Otherwise, why immigrate?
Several years ago there was a controversy in Central California dealing with a Sikh boy who wore a knife on his belt to school. The school thought the carrying of the knife was dangerous to other students because of the fear that the boy might go nutty and attack other students with his knife. The boy carried the knife because it is one of the requirements of the Sikh religion that all men carry either a knife or a sword. One reason for this requirement is due to the persecution the Sikhs suffered under the Mughals (Mohammedan) dynasty in India during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The school district finally decided that the boy could carry the knife if it was riveted to the scabbard. And the Sikh religious leaders in the area agreed, seeing that the knife was, in the US, a symbol more than a weapon. The Sikhs moderated to the larger American culture. But the sons of Allah do not seem to be willing to do so. It makes one wonder if followers of Islam immigrated to the West to become citizens of the West or to take over the West.
Finally, Fjordman, a resident of one of the Nordic countries, has a few suggestions for the West: Gates of Vienna: Recommendations for the West . Republicans should take note. Democrats are hopeless on this matter. Every matter dealing with the sons of Allah is a new Gates of Vienna, a new Battle of Lepanto. And where are our Charles Martel, Roland, John Sobieski, Andrea Doria, El Cid? They aren't beating the bushes for campaign money because real defenders of the West act even if their swords are spotted with rust.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Islamic Round Up
Let's take another look at the Sons of Allah:
THE MUSLIM QUESTION: Agenda of Islam - A War Between Civilizations Your faithful correspondent has often said that co-existence between Islam and the West is difficult, if not impossible. This article concurs with your faithful Solon.
Telegraph News Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union Les Flics seem to have become the canary in the mine.
Telegraph News Drive for multi-faith Britain deepens rifts, says Church The Church of England may have finally figured out that one reaps what one sows. Now they're complaining about the tares they've scattered over fair Albion.
Australia: GirlÂ’s conversion results in motherÂ’s death One has to love the logic of Muslim men. And for the religion tolerance.
Know who wants to dominate you. It isn't Focus on the Family or the Roman Catholic Church or the local Jewish/Hindu/Buddhist/Bahai/Mormon/Zorotastrian/Sikh temple.
THE MUSLIM QUESTION: Agenda of Islam - A War Between Civilizations Your faithful correspondent has often said that co-existence between Islam and the West is difficult, if not impossible. This article concurs with your faithful Solon.
Telegraph News Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union Les Flics seem to have become the canary in the mine.
Telegraph News Drive for multi-faith Britain deepens rifts, says Church The Church of England may have finally figured out that one reaps what one sows. Now they're complaining about the tares they've scattered over fair Albion.
Australia: GirlÂ’s conversion results in motherÂ’s death One has to love the logic of Muslim men. And for the religion tolerance.
Know who wants to dominate you. It isn't Focus on the Family or the Roman Catholic Church or the local Jewish/Hindu/Buddhist/Bahai/Mormon/Zorotastrian/Sikh temple.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
A Personal Testimony
In the past your faithful correspondent has suggested that you, the reader, go to the following link: Brigitte Gabriel / American Congress For Truth
Please go to the link again and then scroll down until you reach the listing on the left side of the page that reads: Watch Brigitte Gabriel's Interview. Click on that entry and you will see an interview with Ms Gabriel in which she recounts her experiences with the Muslims while she lived in Lebanon. Then ask yourself why the media are so soft on the Sons of Allah.
Please go to the link again and then scroll down until you reach the listing on the left side of the page that reads: Watch Brigitte Gabriel's Interview. Click on that entry and you will see an interview with Ms Gabriel in which she recounts her experiences with the Muslims while she lived in Lebanon. Then ask yourself why the media are so soft on the Sons of Allah.
A Couple of Interesting Items from Britain
Jack Straw set off a little rumble among the Muslims in Great Britain with his suggestion that Muslim women ditch the veil: BBC NEWS UK UK Politics 'Remove full veils' urges Straw Your faithful correspondent believes that what Mr. Straw was referring to was the burkha and other veils that cover the face of the wearer. And your faithful correspondent believes that Mr. Straw is correct in his assessment. The hajib or the chador don't cause problems. Roman Catholic nuns have worn attire similar to those for centuries, and no one kicked a bitch about it. It wasn't so long ago that conservative Protestant women made it a habit to cover their hair in public or lt least in church. But when women insist on walking around looking like Cousin It in full dress, a problem arises. It's like dealing with a person who insists on wearing sunglasses inside. No face. No person.
If a Catholic employer wants to hire only Catholic employees the world comes down on that guy. But, for some reason a Muslim doesn't want to carry a seeing eye dog in his cab there are people who will be cutting excuses for his action: 'Unclean' guide dog banned by Muslim cab driver the Daily Mail But consider the source. Any person who doesn't like dogs is an idiot. Ergo Muslims are idiots.
There is an old Red Indian legend that when God was splitting the world between man and animal the dog jumped across the gap to be with man. One wonders if the potential Muslim jumped across the gap to be with the snakes.
If a Catholic employer wants to hire only Catholic employees the world comes down on that guy. But, for some reason a Muslim doesn't want to carry a seeing eye dog in his cab there are people who will be cutting excuses for his action: 'Unclean' guide dog banned by Muslim cab driver the Daily Mail But consider the source. Any person who doesn't like dogs is an idiot. Ergo Muslims are idiots.
There is an old Red Indian legend that when God was splitting the world between man and animal the dog jumped across the gap to be with man. One wonders if the potential Muslim jumped across the gap to be with the snakes.
Sunday, October 01, 2006
La Fallaci: An Appreciation
The Italian journalist and interviewer Oriana Fallaci died a couple of weeks ago.
For those not in the know La Fallaci was one of those rare journalists who was independent of any label. She was neither Left nor Right. She embarrassed Henry Kissinger and angered the Ayatollah Khomeni. During the riots at the University of Mexico, while reporting, she was shot several times by the Mexican police.
Since September 11, 2001 she focused in on Islam and the effects of Islam in the West. Her book, The Rage and the Pride, earned her lawsuits from various Islamic organizations and individuals in Europe. The nation of Switzerland tried to have her extradited from Italy to face criminal charges for what they considered "hate speech." In a rare example of grit the Italian government told the Swiss to go blow their alpenhorns and leave the woman alone.
La Fallaci, who participated in the resistance against the Fascist government of Italy during World War II, was one of the all too rare European intellectuals who loved the United States. She kept an apartment in New York City, as well as a domicile in Italy.
As far as your faithful correspondent knows, her last book to be translated into English (translated by herself so it sometimes reads odd) was The Force of Reason. The book is a long tirade against Islam and the Islamification of Europe. One could even say it is one long scream of rage by a woman who sees her homeland ruined by the Son of Allah. It is sharp. It is hard. It is sometimes cruel. But it all makes sense for those who know that the civilization of Europe is superior than that of the desert kingdoms and that Christianity, even for those who are not Christians, is a better religion for freedom and reason loving societies than is Islam. ... La Fallaci was one of those rare people who were able to admit that she hated with an exquisite hate. She hated Islam and everything it stood for. And despite her self admitted atheism she loved what Christianity, culturally, stood for and the values that it brought to the Western world.
What follows are quotations from The Force of Reason that may excite some thought:
"What I say is that today's Islamic invasion of Europe is nothing else than a revival of its century-old expansionism, of its centuries-old imperialism, of its centuries-old colonialism. More underhand, though. More treacherous. Because this time it is characterized not only by the current Kara Mustafas and Lala Mustafas and Ali Pashas and Ahmet Pashas and Suleymans the Magnificent, that is by Bin Ladens and the Al Zarkawis and the various Arafats and the butchers who blow themselves up with the skyscrapers and buses. It is characterized also by the immigrants who settle in our countries, our homelands. And without any respect for our laws impose on us their own laws. Their own customs, their God."
"Last summer in Florence don Roberto Tassi, parish priest of Santa Maria de' Ricci (the little church where in 1274 Dante Alighieri first saw his beloved Beatrice), put up two moving posters. The first, in front of the main altar. A poster which simply said: 'Hail our Cross, out only hope! Those bearded zealots want to destroy all of us!' The second, in the churchyard along with an image of the disintegrated Twin Towers. A poster which offered a perfect syllogism: 'Islam is theocracy. Theocracy denies democracy. Ergo, Islam is against democracy.'"
(Quoting the economist Hayek) "It is not only the principles of Adam Smith and Hume and Locke and Milton which are being abandoned. It is also the bedrock of civilization developed by the Greeks and the Romans and Christianity. Meaning the western civilization. What is being relinquished is not only the liberalism of the 18th and 19th centuries, that is the liberalism which completed that civilization."
"In my lecture 'Wake up, West, wake up' I said that the West has lost its passion. That we must regain our passion, the force of passion. And God knows if this is true. Living takes passion. Refusing to submit, to comply, to surrender, means living with passion. But Europe does not refuse at all to submit. to comply, to surrender. On the contrary, it cowardly waves a white flag of servitude and resignation which is suicide itself..."
And here is a longer speech by La Fallaci herslef made in 2003: FrontPage magazine.com :: A Sermon for the West by Oriana Fallaci
She will be missed more than she ever knew.
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