Memorial Day

As those in the know are aware, Bloody Nib Manor is located in the United States. It is a bit of Anglophile-Japanophile Americana in a vast sea of the ever seeming rising tide of Mexicana. In other words, The Manor is an Alamo and it is only a matter of time before numbers outweigh right and this outpost will ring with the sounds of corridos instead of the manly and brave songs of the Great Republic.

This weekend is Memorial Day weekend and it is only right to pause to remember the war dead who have sacrificed their lives to maintain the ideals of the American republic despite the efforts of all too many of our leaders to make the nation into a pale imitation of the European Union. The United States may be seen by some as old fashioned, but there's really nothing wrong with that. It is the past that has created the foundation of the present. Once the foundation is ignored the the building becomes a structure that bends and collapses with every passing wind.

A British writer has written an appreciation of the U.S. Americans will die for liberty Dt Opinion Opinion Telegraph Unfortunately none of our leaders has deigned to do the same. Instead some have decided to attend Global Warming Conferences in Greenland.

How About a Little Though From an Unlikely Source?

We here at Bloody Nib Manor have never been big fans of Joan Collins. It is doubted that either you faithful correspondent or the ever lovely Lady Nib. In fact, it is not a matter of argument for yours to say that a complete episode of the television program Dynasty has ever darkened the Curtis Mathis.

But Miss Collins, or Ms Collins or whatever she deigns to title herself as, was, in her youth and middle age, a naturally pleasing looking woman. One recalls the films she appeared in during the fifties and sixties more for her visual presence than her acting ability. As far as conversation is concerned, her younger sister, Jackie, was a much more sparkling conversationalist than Joan. But one never got the idea that Joan was a dolt, despite her various romances that came to failure. More than a few of us can blame our glands for our mistakes instead of our synapses.

A couple of years ago Ms. Collins wrote a piece for the U. K. Mail. It deserves reading and study. And if you are a Yank just substitute the word American for Britain, Briton and English: DrudgeReportArchives.com © 2007

Maybe We Should Ignore Them

This past week a committee of members of the United States Senate has come up with what they call "comprehensive immigration reform." In other words, it's just another amnesty program a'la last year's proposal. Watch your tax rate because you'll be paying for the education, health and welfare of a bunch of mihos from Jalisco. The result of this senatorial idiocy will be the addition of between 24 and 40 million instantly legal people from Latin America in the United States. If this thing goes through you'd better contact Berlitz right quick to learn the lingo to get through the check out line at the local Ralphs.

The only thing your senator has earned from you, as a citizen of the great Republic, is a middle digit shoved up their nose for betraying the ideals of the nation and the legalizing of a crime so that they can either get a future vote from a former illegal alien or his/her kid or get a contribution from Big Business. You, on the other hand, are just someone who populates the senator's state.

Maybe it's time that we, the voters, both native born and naturalized, withdraw from the whole political system and make like the Amish. In other words, carry on our lives and ignore the bastards who claim to represent us and govern us.

Here is a video of a bunch of Frenchies who have, apparently, stopped time in their world: YouTube - Une soirée de pétanque Note three things: They are all French and none are Arab or North African. They all seem to smoke despite nanny state warnings. They are all playing a particularly French sport. We, as American working men and women under a regime that seems to be operated by nothing but representatives of Big Business or Political Correctness, have not only a right, but an obligation, to resist the nonsense from Washington D.C. by expressing our contempt by non-participation.

Let us celebrate out nation while reviling our "leaders"by ignoring their dictates. Let us celebrate our sense of Americanism, in the old sense, while we revile this nonsense of political correctness and economic expediency by separating, as much as possible, by participating in those things that are uniquely American, whether it be showing the Stars and Stripes, singing the old songs of Foster or Berlin or Gershwin, reading and disseminating as much as possible the literature and lingua franca of the traditional and historical canon.

In other words, when you encounter a person at the store, your house or a restaurant a person who insists that you speak the bastard form of Spanish spoken in Mexico or Latin America, tell that person that English is the language of the United States despite the vote of the Congress and that you will only deal with that person in English and that you will not discuss Mexican soccer or American soccer or any other type of soccer because soccer is a girl's game and the American games are baseball, football, basketball and lacrosse. You, as an American, are not a girl (even if you are a girl). You are an American and you consider Latin America and the Arab states as foreign to the Republic that the Founders intended.

Even a Frenchman Can Be Right

Long time readers of the Bloody Nib may recall that your faithful correspondent has several times urged the reader to read Jean Raspail's novel The Camp of the Saints. If, by this time, you haven't read it, do so. It is almost prophetic considering the fact that the novel was written in the 1973 and addresses issues that we, in the US and Europe, are facing now.

Here is an essay by Mr. Raspail that addresses a problem that our elites refuse to face: The Fatherland Betrayed by The Republic

Let us hope that the election of Mr Sarkozy will bode well for Europe and for us.

What's Good for the Goose...

How many times have you turned on the television or gone on the Internet and seen the Muslim monster, in whatever nation, telling you that you, as a Christian, are a bad person, a damned heathen and that you deserved to have your head lopped off because you aren't praying toward a cube in Saudi Arabia instead of to Our Lord God above? And when you saw such reports do you recall the news reader condemning the makers of such statements. I think not (to quote a Finn I once knew).

But when Christians publicly make the claim (which is true) that there is no salvation outside of Our Lord Christ the elite media portrays Christians as unloving, uncaring and just not inclusive. But, let's face the fact that the media, in general, is pretty much a Deist (if that) franchise.

Here's an example of what a Christian church has to say and the media reaction: Church's Sign Against Islam Sparks Controversy :: WRAL.com Note that the writer of the article wastes more ink on the response from the Islamic apologists than she does allowing the preacher, about whom the article is, to state his case.

We're all kumbaya now.

What Are You Talking About?

Your faithful correspondent has been listening to talk radio since he was in knee pants.

The talkers at that time were such long forgotten men such as Marv Grey, Joel A. Spivak, Joe Pyne and Ray Briem. Their politics ranged from left liberal to right conservative. But they all had something in common. They had a knowledge of an English language culture that seems to have been long forgotten and they used that knowledge as a short hand that they presumed was understood by the listener. References to lines from the Bible, Shakespeare, Twain, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Maugham and Hemingway were not unusual. Occasionally there would be references to films such as Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but rarely.

This is a round about way of stating that in days past there was a common language of culture that seems to have been abandoned in public discourse. The present talk radio hosts (Dennis Miller being and exception) seem to have no knowledge of or feel that their listeners have no knowledge of, a literary tradition that at once made up the canon of the English speaking people. And by this ignorance (I may be making an unfair assumption here, but I think not) the hosts of the various talk radio programs have, in effect, denied the wisdom of the past. It seems that everything that is of importance is immediate and new when, in fact, there is really nothing new in the heart of man. To quote Solomon, "There is no new thing under the sun." Technology may change, but the point of technology hasn't changed. Much of the Internet is really nothing more than a method of a Babylonian scribe scratching notes into a tablet of moist clay. Plastic is nothing but a substitute for bronze, tin or iron. The construction of a Boeing Dreamliner is nothing but a faster version of a horse and cart. But to talk radio every damn thing is new. Illegal immigration is new despite the fact that the Romans suffered and fell from the same thing. Bad behaviour by the rich is new despite the writings of Richardson in the 18th century. The invasion of the West by the Islamic monster is new despite the Song of Roland.

We seem, according to the chatterers on talk radio, to be ever made new when in fact we have a tradition in the English language of having faced almost every problem that talk radio addresses many century ago. The most powerful local talk station, KFI, has made a big deal of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests while not knowing that the same problem was addressed by the Lollards in England during the 15th century. The yakkers think that they have found something new, when in fact, they have found the same old sins and concerns that Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens and Conrad addressed. And these same talkers complain about the state of the governmental educational system not teaching the basics while revealing themselves to be not only half educated, but uneducated in what used to be called the "canon" of English Literature. If a caller were to refer to Lewis' novel The Monk while discussing the abuse of priests the caller would be greeted with either one of two responses: "Huh?" or "You're an idiot" because the talk show host is, in reality, an uneducated boob who has no idea of, let alone to have read, the novel.

My whole point is that, in the United States, it seems that there has been a loss of a common cultural touch point that spanned several generations and the idea that the loss of this touch point has resulted in a lack of communication between not only generations, but segments of society. The talk radio example has been used to illustrate this fractionalization. To abandon literature for a moment, ask your local person between the ages of 40 and 15 what he or she thinks of the music of Stephan Foster, Irving Berlin or George Gershwin and you'll get a blank stare despite the fact these composers works were the background music for much of the 20th century. Instead you are expected to know the "nigger" rhythms of rap and hip hop which have done nothing to add to the culture Americana for the simple reason that what is hot this week is dead the next.

It's enough to make a guy want to drink Sterno.

Grab a Cup of Joe!

This past week ten Republican dwarfs had a "debate" over who would be the best Republican Presidential candidate.

Needless to say, there was a lot of more noise than light, a lot of verbal smoke and mirrors. It was as bad as the Democratic Party debate the previous week. But this should not be surprising because the average politician in the United States is a man or woman more concerned with getting the vote than doing what is right for the nation.

But it's a pretty damn sad thing when the sitting President refuses to face the fact that the War in Iraq against Islamic terrorism is not confined only to Iraq. Mr. Bush has refused to proclaim that the nation as a whole is at war; not only the military. In other words, while the military is fighting, we, as a nation, are supposed to behave as if there were no war at all. This is tantamount with equating the "small wars" of Victorian England with the war in Iraq. The "small wars" were colonial wars and meant little to the survival of Great Britain. The War in Iraq and the war against terrorism are battles for the survival of Western Civilization.

Part of the reason for the apparently growing opposition to the war is due to the fact that Mr. Bush has not emphasized the threat that we face. This may be due to a deep seated an apparently sense of political correctness that he harbors because of his patrician background. Maybe it's because he really doesn't consider the Islamic threat as serious as he claims he does. He seems to be waging a "gentleman's war" instead of a war of survival. The enemy, on the other hand, whether they be in Bagdhad, Kabul, Birmingham or Montreal, is trying to wage, as best they can, total war. They want us, along with the Israelis, dead, dead, dead. Mr. Bush seems to want to make them friends. If he would make a study of the Byzantine area he would find that having a friend with a knife in his hand is often the same as having an enemy sleeping in one's guest room.

The only way these idiots will wake up is if we wake them up. And before we wake them up we have to wake up ourselves and quit worrying about Paris Hilton going to jail or Don Imus being fired for being Don Imus.

In other news, Sarkozy has won the election in France: Sarkozy wins French presidency - CNN.com He was the conservative candidate and claims that France will now be a friend of the United States. Let's hope so. Maybe the French have gotten tired of riots in Paris.