Last year your faithful correspondent brought to the reader's attention tow porcine related items from Great Britain. One had to do with a woman who owned a collection of novelty ceramic pigs which she displayed in her front window. The problem arose when the local Mohammedans, passing by her house on the way to the local mosque, complained that her display was offensive to them and demanded that she basically redecorate her house. The second involved an English bank which quit giving out, to new customers, piggy banks as rewards for opening new accounts for fear of offending the local sons and daughters of Allah.The madness continues: Muslim Imam Objects To Year Of Pig Greeting Cards - World News - Playfuls.com Now, before the reader clicks on the link, he or she should be aware that the nation in which this protestation takes place is Taiwan. Most of the people in Taiwan are ethnic Chinese. The year that the West calls 2007 is what the Chinese and Japanese call the Year of the Pig or the Year of the Boar. The designation of this particular year, among the Celestials, goes many, many years back before the advent of the Arab trader called Mohammed, and yet an imam with probably no more than fifty slavish and not too bright adherents, demands that the Chinese ignore a tradition that goes back more than 2,000 years. If yours remembers correctly, the last time the Year of the Pig came around in 1994 there was no protest from anyone, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu or Jew. This is not a good sign for the future. The Sons of Allah have decided that they can now pitch a bitch and not be laughed out of town. And that's not a good thing for the West nor the Far East.The homosexual lobby has been working overtime the past few years to make homosexuality a norm rather than an exception. The media and chattering classes, being ever sensitive to the needs and wishes of the "oppressed" have gone along with this nonsense. The result has been such abominations as the "metrosexual", Will and Grace and such school textbooks as "Heather Has Two Daddies." Several "Christian" denominations such as the Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians have gone along with this nonsense in the name of inclusion while driving away the most devout Christians in their various denominations.Be it known that some Christians who have suffered under the arm of real persecution, have taken a stand against the homosexualization of the nation and the culture: The Seattle Times: Local News: Gay-rights foe finds new allies in Slavic churc . This past summer in Sacramento, California, the gay lobby was complaining about Russian Protestant immigrants protesting the teaching of homosexual values in California state schools. This is the type of thing that makes one wonder whether the adherents of Our Lord Christ, whether Protestant, Catholic or Orthodox, do not thrive under oppression. Could it be that we American Christians have become fat and lazy and so fond of our TVs and RVs and Girls Gone Wild videos that we have forgotten that the Faith is not a guarantee of comfort and safety in this life, but is rather an assurance of persecution here and Glory in the here after?
One of the things that separates the men from the boys (as well as girls and women) is, well, women.For more years than can be explained, men (real men and not metrosexuals) have been told by women and their rather effeminate male friends that Julia Roberts is a beautiful women. Most men have not fallen for the claim. Most women who think that Julia Roberts is beautiful think so because she looks more like a horse than they do. In other words, the thinking goes, for a woman, "Julia Roberts is beautiful. I look less like Trigger than she does. Therefore I'm beautiful and all men should worship me." There is no end to wishful thinking.The other day yours was having a conversation with the ever lovely Lady Nib and for some reason Angelina Jolie entered the conversation. In a moment of bad manners this writer uttered the syllable, "Ugh" at the mention of Miss Jolie's name. To which Lady Nib replied, "Why, my lord, whatever can you mean by such a rude expostulation! Miss Jolie is a lovely young woman, even if she doesn't have the sense that God gave a goose and bad taste in men." To which yours countered, " No, my beautiful bride. Miss Jolie is a strange looking woman with a nice figure. There is something positively alien about her countenance." And there the conversation ended because neither argument was worth the thinking involved. But it later occurred to yours that Miss Jolie looks like a Bratz doll, as is shown above. And what is a Bratz doll but a celebration of the tart?Speaking of aliens, an interesting article has appeared in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin concerning illegal aliens and the threat that the government's refusal to take this problem seriously poses to the US: DailyBulletin.com - Of special interest .And finally, in an wage that seems to lack heroes, we all have memories of our guitar heroes. Here's a site that has videos of 20 good ones: cityrag: 20 Greatest Guitar Solos Ever, With Videos
The number of people declaring their candidacy for the Office of the President of the United States of America seems to have become never ending. Today Bill Richardson, former Energy Secretary and governor of New Mexico, has declared his intention of running for the Executive chair while the press falls into the vapours about the possibility that he "may" become the nation's first Hispanic President.
So if we look over the field of those who have declared their intention to grab the highest office in the land we have: The first female President (Sen. Clinton), the first black - or more properly, mulatto Hawaiian born and bred - President (Barak Obama), the first Italian-American President (Giuliani), the first Hispanic President (Richardson), the first ambulance chasing President (Edwards), and the first Speaker of the House to make a big ass of himself President (Gingrich).
It's really enough to gag a maggot. One wonders why there is no mention of an American man or woman who wants to be a President for the nation without the modifiers.
Most days one arises from bed rather groggy and after a few minutes realizes that another day has arrived and that one is glad to have found one in the position to appreciate the day. Other times one arises from bed with the feeling that God and His angels are smiling on one and (depending on the season) one feels like tip toeing through the tulips.
Then there are other days.
These are the days when one arises from bed with the feeling that something is not quite right as if the earth has shifted on its axis and that north has become south or that coffee tastes good or that a morning cigarette is a bad thing.
It is days like the later that, as the day goes on, one feels the desire to stumble to the local liquor store, but a fifth of Gilbys gin and down the whole thing before one gets out of the door of said liquor store.
In looking over the offerings given on the Internet today you faithful correspondent is nigh on prepared to head to the local Liquor Barn for a bottle of the cheapest gin that can be found.
Consider this website: The Blasphemy Challenge . This website is not only an atheist website, but an evangelical atheist website. If a person wants to be an atheist that is their business. Evangelical atheism is a whole other matter, especially considering the fact that the owners of the website are urging people to blaspheme something they don't even believe in. Not only is it interesting that the owners of the website urge the blaspheming of the Holy Ghost, but it is of interest that their denial of God seems to pertain only to the Judeo-Christian God. They don't spend a lot of time denying the existence of Allah, Vishnu or Wotan, among others. It is really an anti-Christian website that urges not only to deny the truth of Christianity, but to commit an act that,according to the New Testament, is the unforgivable sin.
This is an example of the times in which we live.
Not totally unrelated is this from North Korea: WorldNetDaily: Christian believers executed in North Korea. The persecution of Christians in North Korea (an officially atheist nation) is an example of what can happen when militant atheists gain control of a society. One wonders if the fools at The Blasphemy Challenge agree with the actions of the Malicious Midget who controls the populace of North Korea.
Congressional elections were held this past November and we at the Manor had hoped that we would be given a year's respite from electoral politics. But, as often happens, we were wrong. Once Pelosi Galore took her position as Speaker of the House nannying a bunch of spoiled children, we knew that the election cycle is not a cycle. It is a permanent condition. Now we can look forward to a day after day diet of politicians, both Democrat and Republican, posing and posturing like fashion models on a Milan runway telling us all how they are concerned or outraged while preening before news video cameras as the position themselves for the next election. Actually, despite their best efforts to appear that they have the wisdom of statesmen while looking like Ava Gardner or Tyrone Power, they come across as car salesmen trying to sell one a Pinto and look like those middle aged bleached blonde bimbos wearing stretch pants and too tight knit tops buying lottery tickets at the liquor store and trying to flirt with the twenty-five year old clerk. It's a sad, sad sight.
In the same vein, more than a few pols have announced that they plan to run for President of the Great Republic. Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, Sam Brownback have announced. Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Newt Gringrich and John Kerry will probably soon announce. Watching this mess is like watching vultures circling a watering hole where nothing is dying. They just can't wait. It reminds one of children sitting in the back of a car leaving Los Angeles and driving to Boston crying "Are we there yet?" when they cross the the Riverside County line.
We here at the Manor, because of our location, are often subjected to Spanish language (mostly Mexican) television. And most of it is pretty forgettable expect for the bustiness and blondness of some of the "actresses." But while flipping through the available fare on the idiot box last night you faithful correspondent was forced to stop in wonderment and glee at a Spanish language station. This particular television station seems to be a television station dedicated to the Mexican form of Roman Catholicism. Yours, being a hardshell Baptist, is not very interested in the Roman church, so he usually passes right by this particular broadcaster without a look. But last night the station ran a commercial for the Boy Scouts of America. The commercial was narrated in Spanish, so yours was unable to understand what was being said, but the visuals were of mostly Hispanic boys in Boy Scout and Cub Scout uniforms doing the things that Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts do - camping, cleaning up, singing, playing sports, etc., while accompanied by their parents, both fathers and mothers, in uniform. It was jarring for a moment because yours has never seen such a thing. Many years of living among Mexican immigrants and their offspring has shown that the children often run wild, the fathers ignore the children and the mothers seem to think that they are living in a pueblo instead of a modern American city. But this whole Boy Scout thing may be the thing to get Hispanics to assimilate into the larger American culture. One reason is because it appeals to something that Hispanics claim is important to them - the family - while integrating the Scout into the idea of Duty, Honor, Country and God. The local yokel politicians keep wondering what to do about the gang problem in the Los Angeles County area.
Here's an idea: urge the parents in areas infected by gangs to get their boys to join the Boy Scouts and the girls the Girl Scouts; or the Woodcraft Rangers or the Campfire Girls. Such organizations give the child a broader horizon than just a crappy neighborhood that no one wants to live in and would move out of if they got the chance.
Ask yourself this question: Would you rather see your son dressed in an athletic tee shirt and khaki pants with a shaved head or daughter wearing too tight jeans, a tube top and bleached hair standing on a street corner listening to gangster rap at midnight, or wearing a Scout uniform and building birdhouses or planning on a way to clean up the local vacant lot.
If the Roman Catholic Church had any damn sense, it would urge its members to enroll their children in the Scouts or some other youth organization instead of bleeding about the fate of illegal aliens because the Scouts would bring the illegal alien into the American world faster than an act of Congress would.
Your faithful correspondent doesn't mention Protestant churches because those Hispanics who become Protestants tend to (and it sounds racist or religionist, but is not meant to) have abandoned the Hispanic culture in regards to the children and work harder to keep the kids on the straight and narrow. This may have something to do with the fact that for Protestants every day is a Confession day, and not just Saturday.
We here at Bloody Nib Manor are not Catholics. We are not Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics nor Anglo-Catholics. In fact, some would argue that we are anti-Catholics since we are Protestants. The ever lovely Lady Nib was baptized as an Anglican and your faithful correspondent was baptized as an Old Baptist.
But this is not to say that we harbor animus toward members of the Church of Rome as long as those members are truly Christian; in other words Catholics who have placed their faith totally in Our Lord Christ instead of the Church or the Virgin or the Saints.
Since the Second Vatican Council the Roman Catholic Church seems to have decided, in many ways, to embrace the world instead of Christ. Pope John Paul II, as admirable as he was, seemed to harbor feelings of deep ecumenicalism that went beyond the embracing of other Christians. He invited the teachings of the Dalai Lama and suffered the nonsense of Muslim clerics despite the fact, that according to the New Testament, both philosophies and (and your's shudders to use the word since theology is properly a science restricted to Christians; for other religions the study of religious thought is vain speculation) and theologies, are neither salvific nor true.
Some Spanish Roman Catholics seem to have taken a stand against the intrusion of false religion into Spain: Independent Online Edition > Europe The Muslim world likes to think that Spain was a Muslim country before it awakened to the "Truth" of Islam. In fact, Spain was a Christian country before the Muslim hordes crossed the Straits of Gibraltar. According to historical tradition, the apostle James, the half brother of Jesus Christ, established the Christian Church in Spain. In fact, one of the first pilgrimage sites in the Christian world was the church supposedly established by James.
Those in the know know that the pilgrims of old used to sport a seashell as evidence of pilgrimage. The seashells were reputed to have come from the area around the church founded by James.
But Muslims are idiots and have no sense of history, let alone theology.
Those of an age may remember Cat Stevens. He was the bargain basement version of the singer Donovan. Donovan was, and is, a very nice man. He is not a Christian, but is a rather New Age type who truly wishes no harm to anyone. Cat Stevens, on the other hand, became a Muslim, which, considering the fact that he is a British subject of Greek heritage, is a strange thing. A Greek becoming a Muslim is like a Jew declaring that he's a Nazi. Debbie Schlussel has an update on Cat Stevens and his comeback tour: Debbie Schlussel We here at the Manor assume that Mr. Stevens is having trouble paying the rent and must resort to saying one thing while meaning another to make some jack and friends. The old Protestants used to call such behaviour as Jesuititcal, but now we call it Islamic.
We at the Manor did not watch the Rose Parade on New Year's Day. We prefer our parades to be celebrations of national victory or pride instead of football. But the television news broadcast images of the parade and we found it seemingly odd that there was a contingent of knuckleheads dressed as Imperial Storm Troopers followed by a band dressed as Imperial soldiers as based on the Star Wars movies. Those who have seen the Star Wars films know, the Empire and its adherents are the bad guys. Imperial Storm Troopers equal the Waffen SS of Nazi Germany and the imperial soldiers equal the Wehrmacht of World War II. There was even some clown marching with the Imperial Storm Troopers dressed as Darth Vader. Darth Vader equals Heinrich Himmler. Meanwhile, the forces of freedom, in other words, the Rebel alliance, were poorly represented in the parade. It makes one wonder about the desire of the populace of the Great Republic to maintain their freedom. It would have been more comforting to have a troop of Jawas march in the parade than Storm Troopers. Finally, Nancy Pelosi was named Speaker of the House of Representatives this week. During her coronation (and make no mistake; she considered it a coronation) she had a group of children join her at the dais of the House of Representatives. It was then that you writer realized that children had taken over the government.
