It may be due to the age of your faithful correspondent, but this writer has felt for the past twenty years that many popular female singers have confused being a slut with being smokey,erotic or sexy.
When we here at the Manor were callow youths the average "girl" singer in rock music, such as Linda Ronstadt or Janet Joplin, were considered rather outre' by appearing on stage wearing hot pants while they either stood before, or held, a microphone. There were no gyrations, no dry-humping the mike stand, no tit flashing.
When the creature now known as Madonna appeared on the scene all that changed. That crazy chick, in such of popularity and the big buck, realized that she could make a lot of money and get a lot of popularity by portraying herself as the equivalent of the high school "easy girl". In other words, she gave the idea that she's lay down and lift her dress for you if you told her that you loved her -- or even liked her-- as long as you didn't call her a slut. And she'd do the same thing for any guy who made the same tacit agreement.
Since that time when Madonna was singing "Like A Virgin" she has given birth to a whole lot of musical children ranging from Britney Spears to Lady Gaga to Katy Perry to Miley Cyrus. One wonders when the whole chain of nonsense will stop. A tit flash? A beaver shot on stage? Perhaps a little fellatio on stage?
And the whole wonder is that from Madonna on the result has not been the expression of love, desire or longing. In fact, they have not even been sexy or erotic. They have been expressions of the most base animal instincts akin to watching a bull and cow mating in a pasture.
Why is it that the performances of Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, Julie London, Jane Monheit and Diane Krall, among a few others, reflect a more sexy or erotic sense than to the current crop of slut singers? None of them dress(ed) like cheap whores, none of them dance(ed) like drunken pole dancers, and all of them sang (or sing) doing nothing more than standing or sitting in front of microphones.
Here's a Tom Waits' song sung by Diane Krall that has nothing to do with love or sex. And yet it expresses a sense of longing that Madonna and her musical offspring have shown themselves unable to express:
YouTube - Diana Krall - The heart of saturday night (Tom Waits)
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
A Bit o' Dis an' a Bit o' Dat, Bruddas an' Wahines
The always thoughtful and interesting thinker, Sir Mike of Whittier, sent this writer a file that showed the actual stoning of a young woman in some Islamic country. The young woman, and she was a young woman -- not more than eighteen -- was condemned to stoning by the local sharia court for the crime of refusing to marry a man some 21/2 to 3 times older than she.
Needless to say, your faithful correspondent was repulsed by the video. He was repulsed for two reasons. The first reason is because the stoning took place at all. The second was because he was curious enough to actually watch it from beginning to end. It was not a nice thing to watch. It was cruel, disgusting and inhuman; especially since those taking part in the stoning were so enthusiastic in the hurling of rocks and cinderblocks. It was the type of execution that makes the gas chamber, the electric chair, hanging or the firing squad look merciful in comparison. It was an example of mass hysteria directed toward a a girl with the participants recording the incident on their cell phones.
And that goes to show the sickness of the whole incident. Men who were able to access the world through their computers and cells phones were participating in an action that is pre-medieval . In fact pre- Christian. And those Jews who claim to know something about their history claim that the Mosaic injunction to stone adulterers has never been observed among the Tribe. Giving Orcs such tools as cell phones and computers is akin to giving an infant a Zippo lighter. No only is there the possibility that said infant will burn himself; the brat may burn down your house.
For those who wish to see a sanitized version of the stoning, there is this. Note that Wolfe Blitzer is not outraged at the crime. But he is a professional and an apologist for little brown babies who he feels are too damn stupid to be brought into some semblance of civilized behaviour. And remember that the Kurds are supposed to be the "good guys" in Iraq and Iran:
YouTube - unbelievable gore vioelence kurdish Girl Stoned to Death
For those readers of this blog who read fiction, this writer would suggest that the reader buy Andrew Klavan's Empire of Lies. The books has just come out in mass-market paperback and is also available for the Amazon Kindle.
The novel is NOT politically correct. It is also NOT the usual political/terrorist thriller. Mr. Klavan has taken a Christian man with a past of which he is ashamed and put him into a situation in which he is tempted, performs acts for which he is ashamed, and a man who is willing to examine himself. It is a novel that combines the thriller genre with the type of introspection that one usually finds in the "art" silk stocking writer like John Cheever or John Updike. And Klavan has a wicked sense of humor, as is evinced by this clip:
YouTube - The World According to Andrew Klavan
Mel Gibson has shown himself, over the past couple of years to be a bit of a lout. Several years ago he got heat for telling am Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy (who was a Jew) that he could smell a Jew (which, apparently he could because he seems to have found the only Jewish deputy sheriff on the force since Sherman Block retired) and calling a female deputy "Sugar-tits."
Gibson was drunk at the time, which is no excuse for bad behaviour. After all, William Faulkner was a big binge drinker and never bothered anyone while he was drinking off his latest novel.
Now Mr. Gibson is getting grief for some things that his paramour, mother of his youngest child and aide in the wrecking of his marriage, recorded him saying. Admittedly, Mr. Gibson spoke like a lout and asshat. He called the woman a whore, a slut, a tart. He used the words "nigger" and "wetback", he threatened to burn down her dwelling. The woman claims that he brought physical violence upon her by punching her in the mug and knocking out a tooth veneer.
This writer has no sympathy for Mr. Gibson in his rant. No man should speak to any woman in the way that he did. But Mr. Gibson was standing forth in a private conversation. This writer knows of cases in which the wife says such things as, "I wish you were dead. I hope you die" to her husband. Lovers and married people often say very cruel things to one another; things that would make them join the French Foreign Legion to get away from those remarks if they were publicized at their workplace, church or country club.
But this writer has to ask the question of why, exactly, was the woman recording the conversations or rant? And why did the woman not call the cops once she was punched in the face by Mr. Gibson? Could it be that she is out for a bit of the long green? After all, she's a Russian and Russians who have come to the US since the "end" of the Cold War have shown themselves to be schemers, wide boys and crooks.
This reader is not giving Mr. Gibson a pass on his bad bevhaviour. He has, in the past claimed to be a devout Catholic, and this writer expects him to behave like a believing and devout Catholic. His language has been inappropriate, but nothing more. He's shown himself to be an asshat, but he does have the right to say to his cumbucket what he wants as long as he doesn't punch her lights out.
And having seen his "girlfriend" this writer wonders why Mr. Gibson would have severed his marriage vows for the plastic, siliconed "hottie." Apparently, a youth spent in Australia has ruined this idiot. He should have spent more time time downing Foster's lager and less time thinking about the state of his penis.
Needless to say, your faithful correspondent was repulsed by the video. He was repulsed for two reasons. The first reason is because the stoning took place at all. The second was because he was curious enough to actually watch it from beginning to end. It was not a nice thing to watch. It was cruel, disgusting and inhuman; especially since those taking part in the stoning were so enthusiastic in the hurling of rocks and cinderblocks. It was the type of execution that makes the gas chamber, the electric chair, hanging or the firing squad look merciful in comparison. It was an example of mass hysteria directed toward a a girl with the participants recording the incident on their cell phones.
And that goes to show the sickness of the whole incident. Men who were able to access the world through their computers and cells phones were participating in an action that is pre-medieval . In fact pre- Christian. And those Jews who claim to know something about their history claim that the Mosaic injunction to stone adulterers has never been observed among the Tribe. Giving Orcs such tools as cell phones and computers is akin to giving an infant a Zippo lighter. No only is there the possibility that said infant will burn himself; the brat may burn down your house.
For those who wish to see a sanitized version of the stoning, there is this. Note that Wolfe Blitzer is not outraged at the crime. But he is a professional and an apologist for little brown babies who he feels are too damn stupid to be brought into some semblance of civilized behaviour. And remember that the Kurds are supposed to be the "good guys" in Iraq and Iran:
YouTube - unbelievable gore vioelence kurdish Girl Stoned to Death
For those readers of this blog who read fiction, this writer would suggest that the reader buy Andrew Klavan's Empire of Lies. The books has just come out in mass-market paperback and is also available for the Amazon Kindle.
The novel is NOT politically correct. It is also NOT the usual political/terrorist thriller. Mr. Klavan has taken a Christian man with a past of which he is ashamed and put him into a situation in which he is tempted, performs acts for which he is ashamed, and a man who is willing to examine himself. It is a novel that combines the thriller genre with the type of introspection that one usually finds in the "art" silk stocking writer like John Cheever or John Updike. And Klavan has a wicked sense of humor, as is evinced by this clip:
YouTube - The World According to Andrew Klavan
Mel Gibson has shown himself, over the past couple of years to be a bit of a lout. Several years ago he got heat for telling am Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy (who was a Jew) that he could smell a Jew (which, apparently he could because he seems to have found the only Jewish deputy sheriff on the force since Sherman Block retired) and calling a female deputy "Sugar-tits."
Gibson was drunk at the time, which is no excuse for bad behaviour. After all, William Faulkner was a big binge drinker and never bothered anyone while he was drinking off his latest novel.
Now Mr. Gibson is getting grief for some things that his paramour, mother of his youngest child and aide in the wrecking of his marriage, recorded him saying. Admittedly, Mr. Gibson spoke like a lout and asshat. He called the woman a whore, a slut, a tart. He used the words "nigger" and "wetback", he threatened to burn down her dwelling. The woman claims that he brought physical violence upon her by punching her in the mug and knocking out a tooth veneer.
This writer has no sympathy for Mr. Gibson in his rant. No man should speak to any woman in the way that he did. But Mr. Gibson was standing forth in a private conversation. This writer knows of cases in which the wife says such things as, "I wish you were dead. I hope you die" to her husband. Lovers and married people often say very cruel things to one another; things that would make them join the French Foreign Legion to get away from those remarks if they were publicized at their workplace, church or country club.
But this writer has to ask the question of why, exactly, was the woman recording the conversations or rant? And why did the woman not call the cops once she was punched in the face by Mr. Gibson? Could it be that she is out for a bit of the long green? After all, she's a Russian and Russians who have come to the US since the "end" of the Cold War have shown themselves to be schemers, wide boys and crooks.
This reader is not giving Mr. Gibson a pass on his bad bevhaviour. He has, in the past claimed to be a devout Catholic, and this writer expects him to behave like a believing and devout Catholic. His language has been inappropriate, but nothing more. He's shown himself to be an asshat, but he does have the right to say to his cumbucket what he wants as long as he doesn't punch her lights out.
And having seen his "girlfriend" this writer wonders why Mr. Gibson would have severed his marriage vows for the plastic, siliconed "hottie." Apparently, a youth spent in Australia has ruined this idiot. He should have spent more time time downing Foster's lager and less time thinking about the state of his penis.
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Legally Forced Charity
Do you, the reader, contribute to charities of one sort or another? By contribute, this writer means voluntarily contribute.
We here at the Manor regularly contribute to the Salvation Army, as well as other religious charities that provide assistance to the poor and/or down-trodden throughout the United States and the world. Our Lord tells us to provide assistance to the widow and the orphan.
But those in power in the United States government have long decided that no how much you give, of your own free will, to the needy you should give more. This writer is not referring to unemployment benefits which the newly unemployed have contributed to while they were employed. This writer is referring to welfare, both state and local as well as national, food stamps, free health care and free higher education.
We have been forced to give to charities (government operated charities, which is the most inefficient form) that support in high style, not only illegal aliens, but people who are the third and fourth generation of welfare recipients.
The government is considering the idea that high speed Internet connection is a "right" and will probably soon subsidize said Internet connections to the "poor". Through the use of EBT cards in California the working man and woman is forced to subsidize the gambling habits and drinking habits of the "poor."
Some years ago an man in Africa was asked why he wanted to immigrate to the US. His reply was, "I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat."
We are a long way from the East Side of London in the 1880s or Hell's Kitchen in the 1890s. No body is starving in the streets. In fact, the average resident of Section 8 housing in the US is living in a better, and better wired structure than we are here at the Manor. We have been conservative with our finances, we have worked, we have been responsible. And we have, as well as we have been able, been charitable. And the state and national governments have punished us by denying us our hard earned cash so that a person who has never worked in his or her life is able to buy a 42 inch flat screen television and a 12 pack of Old Milwaukee daily.
It's enough to gag a maggot.
We here at the Manor regularly contribute to the Salvation Army, as well as other religious charities that provide assistance to the poor and/or down-trodden throughout the United States and the world. Our Lord tells us to provide assistance to the widow and the orphan.
But those in power in the United States government have long decided that no how much you give, of your own free will, to the needy you should give more. This writer is not referring to unemployment benefits which the newly unemployed have contributed to while they were employed. This writer is referring to welfare, both state and local as well as national, food stamps, free health care and free higher education.
We have been forced to give to charities (government operated charities, which is the most inefficient form) that support in high style, not only illegal aliens, but people who are the third and fourth generation of welfare recipients.
The government is considering the idea that high speed Internet connection is a "right" and will probably soon subsidize said Internet connections to the "poor". Through the use of EBT cards in California the working man and woman is forced to subsidize the gambling habits and drinking habits of the "poor."
Some years ago an man in Africa was asked why he wanted to immigrate to the US. His reply was, "I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat."
We are a long way from the East Side of London in the 1880s or Hell's Kitchen in the 1890s. No body is starving in the streets. In fact, the average resident of Section 8 housing in the US is living in a better, and better wired structure than we are here at the Manor. We have been conservative with our finances, we have worked, we have been responsible. And we have, as well as we have been able, been charitable. And the state and national governments have punished us by denying us our hard earned cash so that a person who has never worked in his or her life is able to buy a 42 inch flat screen television and a 12 pack of Old Milwaukee daily.
It's enough to gag a maggot.
We Are Being Governed By Children and Judged By Liars
This weekend we celebrate our separation from Great Britain and the founding of our dear nation. It behooves us all to re-read the Declaration of Independence and appreciate the wisdom of out founding fathers and mourn the rejection of their wisdom by the legal and political elites of the present-day United States.
A citizen's required reading for July 4th: The Declaration of Independence (with music) | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
This week there were hearings in the United States Senate concerning the confirmation of Elaine Kagan for a seat on the United States Supreme Court. The hearings were troubling in many ways.
First of all, Ms. Kagan, who has no experience as a judge, has shown herself unable to give a straight answer to many questions addressed to her. She was not even willing to claim the authorship of a document that was written during her tenure in the White House despite the fact that the document was written in her handwriting. She would only say that it was her handwriting on the document, not that she actually wrote it. There are only three possibilities that arise from her answer: she wrote it, she was taking dictation or the document was a forgery. The latter two options are unlikely, so one can only assume that she wrote the document and was too embarrassed to admit that she wrote it.
Ms. Kagan, just a few days before the Glorious Fourth, stated that she does not feel that the Declaration of Independence is a Prologue to the Constitution and, thus, carries the same weight as the Constitution in the interpretation of the legality of issues coming before the court. The reader may ask himself what is the point of the founders to have enumerated the many arguments against the Crown instead of just telling Geo III to get stuffed if they did not intend, upon the founding of the nation, they did not intend to correct those insults to freedom that Great Britain perpetrated upon the Americans.
The Democrats (known here at the Manor as the Evil Party) have greeted Kagan during the hearings as the belle of the ball. The Republicans (known at the Manor as the Stupid Party) have been unwilling to pose hard questions. Kagan herself once wrote that the abusive hearings when Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court were to be considered a model for future hearings. One can only suppose that she (and the Evil and the Stupid) feel that an exception should be made in her case.
The following clip shows absolute childishness of some members of the Senate. The very fact that this Senator was not hooted down by her fellow Senators just goes to show that the Senate is no longer the thinking body that it once was:
Breitbart.tv » Girl Talk! Klobuchar to Kagan: Let’s Talk ‘Twilight’
This writer would urge the reader to read not only the Declaration of Independence, but also the Constitution as we celebrate the true founding of this great nation. And as the reader peruses the documents this writer asks the following question:
Was there anything in either document that was really opaque or unclear despite the older form of English?
If one grew up reading the King James Bible (or in the case of Roman Catholics, the Douy-Reims Bible), the language in both documents is dead simple and easily understood.
There are people, mostly Constitutional lawyers who stand to make a buck, who claim that the Constitution is unclear and fuzzy. These same lawyers are men and women who see themselves as high priests of Constitutional interpretation in the same way that the Gnostics saw things in the Holy Writ that are not there.
Americans should read the Constitution in the same way that Fundamentalists and Evangelicals read the Bible. The plain reading of the Bible and the Constitution is the right reading. There are metaphors in the Bible, but they are limited to the Poetic books. Everything is made as a clear and definite statement. There are no metaphors in either the Declaration nor the Constitution. Our founders wrote what they meant and they meant what they wrote, and until a mentally benighted group has the desire and power to write a new constitution the branches of government have no write to "interpret" our founding documents. Despite the desires of some, the government of the United States is not a priesthood performing mystical rites and writing quasi-theological tomes to maintain the state of the nation.
Our first President stated that government was like fire; a useful tool and fearsome master. Our current president has decided to use the government as a master. He is a man who is standing on the shoulders of giants and who has decided to urinate on their heads in his march toward a nation of subjects living at the whims of the government instead of a nation of free citizens.
Let us, on this day dedicated to the remembrance of those great men. so much more wise than we pygmies, remember that we are a nation of free men and women and that the government is an ugly tool that is supposed to serve us and not we it.
We are a free and sovereign nation. We are not at the beck and call of the "world" or the United Nations.
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