Your faithful correspondent is of an age where he remembers the Iranian Revolution. During the time more than a few pundits and expatriate Iranians were singing the praises of the Revolution and Khomeini. Not long after the Shah had been exiled it was revealed that the new rulers were not only, in any sense, democratic, but they were Shi'ite fundamentalists of the worst sort. Some thirty years later we find ourselves still dealing with this bunch of jackals and are having a harder and harder time of containing their insanity.
Now we have a revolution of sorts in Egypt. Much of the press is behaving that this revolution will be the dawning of a new day in the land of the Pharaohs. They are correct. But it is not likely that their will be anything close to a Jefferson or Adams in charge in Egypt once the dust settles. More than likely a faction of the Muslim Brotherhood will take power and we'll have another fundamentalist Muslim regime to have to put up with.
Meanwhile, there is this:
French increasingly anxious about Muslims - St. Catharines Standard - Ontario, CA
And this:
New Zeal: Is PCism Worse Than Communism?
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Dump the Irony
The Superbowl football game will be played soon, and that means that there will be a lot of speculation about what commercials will be shown, and once shown, there will be a lot of comment regarding the commercials.
If we face fact, probably about a quarter of the viewers of the game via television watch the game to watch the commercials. The game is, in a sense, a premiere of what some people consider the best commercials of the year.
And, if one watches closely, one will probably see that most of the commercials are humorous and that most of the humor is based on irony.
We here at the Manor have had it with intentional irony. Intentional irony is a cheap form of humor and satire. In fact, this writer posits that intentional irony is really irony and is not particularly humorous. Intentional irony is the same oxymoron as is designed accident. One could say that intentional irony is the Jackson Pollack of humor. In other words, it's boring.
The reader may well ask the question, "Lord Nib. What do you mean by intentional irony? How can irony be intentional?" And your faithful correspondent can only reply, "Any Jerry Seinfield joke is intentionally ironic. It is artificial. It is insincere. It is the purview of the hipster."
Real irony comes from real life. A preacher who is well known for raging against adultery and then is later caught en flagrante with a cheap hooker, or even a call girl or a housewife, is an example of irony.
Intentional irony is cheap. It is the form of "humor" used by the person who thinks that he is an insider or wise to the follies of human nature. But this person is neither an insider nor wise. The ironist is a smart-ass always looking out to show his smart ass while calling others asses.
The Internet has made every man a comedian. And that comedy is based on irony.
The result has been a cheapening of sincerity.And the cheapening of sincere humor. Now, when one says something sincerely the listener is often listening to the statement ironically. The result is that one cannot have a decent conversation in which each person really understands the other. There is always that jaded eye between the two.
Let us drop the irony. Let us be sincere. Let us enjoy our simple pleasures without a hipster standing on the sidelines - a man who seems to have no pleasure beyond making fun of others - pouring his scorn upon our pleasures. Let us be honest.
In honor of the upcoming Superbowl, here is the best beer commercial ever made. It was not shown during the Superbowl game. It was buried by irony. And we are all less for it:
YouTube - Miller High Life Girl in the Moon
If we face fact, probably about a quarter of the viewers of the game via television watch the game to watch the commercials. The game is, in a sense, a premiere of what some people consider the best commercials of the year.
And, if one watches closely, one will probably see that most of the commercials are humorous and that most of the humor is based on irony.
We here at the Manor have had it with intentional irony. Intentional irony is a cheap form of humor and satire. In fact, this writer posits that intentional irony is really irony and is not particularly humorous. Intentional irony is the same oxymoron as is designed accident. One could say that intentional irony is the Jackson Pollack of humor. In other words, it's boring.
The reader may well ask the question, "Lord Nib. What do you mean by intentional irony? How can irony be intentional?" And your faithful correspondent can only reply, "Any Jerry Seinfield joke is intentionally ironic. It is artificial. It is insincere. It is the purview of the hipster."
Real irony comes from real life. A preacher who is well known for raging against adultery and then is later caught en flagrante with a cheap hooker, or even a call girl or a housewife, is an example of irony.
Intentional irony is cheap. It is the form of "humor" used by the person who thinks that he is an insider or wise to the follies of human nature. But this person is neither an insider nor wise. The ironist is a smart-ass always looking out to show his smart ass while calling others asses.
The Internet has made every man a comedian. And that comedy is based on irony.
The result has been a cheapening of sincerity.And the cheapening of sincere humor. Now, when one says something sincerely the listener is often listening to the statement ironically. The result is that one cannot have a decent conversation in which each person really understands the other. There is always that jaded eye between the two.
Let us drop the irony. Let us be sincere. Let us enjoy our simple pleasures without a hipster standing on the sidelines - a man who seems to have no pleasure beyond making fun of others - pouring his scorn upon our pleasures. Let us be honest.
In honor of the upcoming Superbowl, here is the best beer commercial ever made. It was not shown during the Superbowl game. It was buried by irony. And we are all less for it:
YouTube - Miller High Life Girl in the Moon
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Hyperbole, Christian Peresecution and the Gheys
Recently there has been a call by our elected masters for they, and us, to tone down the rhetoric and argument while referring to their, and our, political and moral opponents. In other words, if you think that your congressman is a socialist you should not call him a socialist because the word "socialist" is inflammatory. Your political party should not "target" a congressional district for the election of the party's candidate and to oust the incumbent. We should conduct our political and moral arguments in a "nice" way sort of like what they do in Canada. Instead of argument there should be agreement.
That's all nonsense. If the person who holds a political or moral opinion opposed to yours how can you honestly find a compromise? Consider the questions of gun ownership and abortion. If you believe in the Second Amendment as written and intended, how can you compromise with a person who wants to ban gun ownership for the private citizen? If you believe abortion is a crime, how can you compromise with an abortionist?
Your political opponent is your enemy. That person wants to deny you your rights. Why should you co-operate with someone who wants you to live their way instead of your way? To do so would make you a secular dhimmi - subject to the whims and ways of others.
Having written the above, this writer urges the reader to abandon the current use of hyperbole and reckless superlatives. This is not only intended for political or moral speech, but also for everyday speech.
Consider the following conservation overheard by your faithful correspondent between two young women. One lived in San Diego and the other lived in Orange County, California.
Kate: I've applied to attended UC San Diego. (Kate lived in Orange County)
Toni: That would be awesome. (Toni lived is San Diego)
Now, it may be nice, neat-o or fun, for Kate to go to school in San Diego and be near her friend Toni. But is it awesome? Not really. There is nothing in the situation that excites the sense of awe. God is awesome. Victoria Falls is awesome. The launch of a Delta IV rocket is awesome. Living in San Diego is not awesome. It's pleasant.
Or consider the description of Jennifer Aniston or Julia Roberts as beautiful. Let us face it. Neither woman is beautiful. They may be mildly pretty in the high school cheerleader sense, but neither woman will go down in history as a beauty.
Years ago the comedian Victor Borga had a bit in which he described and inflationary language. The bit was based on a mathematical model. Tennis became elevenis, for became five, someone became sometwo, and so one. The act was funny, but ended up being inaccurate. The inflation came with the cheapening of superlatives. Nice became good. Good became great. And the result was that the words mean nothing at all.
It used to be that overstatement was the sign of an uneducated and excitable person. Understatement was the sign of a calm thinker. Who would you rather deal with. The hyperbolic (most politicians) confuse urgent with important. And what has this habit gotten us? Crisis after crisis that, in the end, have shown themselves to be meaningless and not crises.
To move on. This blog and this writer has shown a concern for Christians being persecuted in heathen and atheistic nations. And for those Muslim readers of this blog the word "heathen" is intended to apply to Mohammedanism. And while there have been protests by the Vatican and organizations such as Voice of the Martyrs and International Christian Concern, there has no been, until recently, mass protests supporting Christians against persecution. This protest took place in the Czech Republic. This writer finds it passing strange that such protests have as yet been mounted in the Grand Republic.
Czechs Demonstrate Against the Persecution of Christians
The government of Canada is urging the nation's radio stations not to play the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" because of the use of the word "faggot." And now Great Britain is including teachings regarding Sodomy and the Sodomist lifestyle in every damn subject in schools that can be thought of:
'Gay lessons' in maths, geography and science - Telegraph
That's all nonsense. If the person who holds a political or moral opinion opposed to yours how can you honestly find a compromise? Consider the questions of gun ownership and abortion. If you believe in the Second Amendment as written and intended, how can you compromise with a person who wants to ban gun ownership for the private citizen? If you believe abortion is a crime, how can you compromise with an abortionist?
Your political opponent is your enemy. That person wants to deny you your rights. Why should you co-operate with someone who wants you to live their way instead of your way? To do so would make you a secular dhimmi - subject to the whims and ways of others.
Having written the above, this writer urges the reader to abandon the current use of hyperbole and reckless superlatives. This is not only intended for political or moral speech, but also for everyday speech.
Consider the following conservation overheard by your faithful correspondent between two young women. One lived in San Diego and the other lived in Orange County, California.
Kate: I've applied to attended UC San Diego. (Kate lived in Orange County)
Toni: That would be awesome. (Toni lived is San Diego)
Now, it may be nice, neat-o or fun, for Kate to go to school in San Diego and be near her friend Toni. But is it awesome? Not really. There is nothing in the situation that excites the sense of awe. God is awesome. Victoria Falls is awesome. The launch of a Delta IV rocket is awesome. Living in San Diego is not awesome. It's pleasant.
Or consider the description of Jennifer Aniston or Julia Roberts as beautiful. Let us face it. Neither woman is beautiful. They may be mildly pretty in the high school cheerleader sense, but neither woman will go down in history as a beauty.
Years ago the comedian Victor Borga had a bit in which he described and inflationary language. The bit was based on a mathematical model. Tennis became elevenis, for became five, someone became sometwo, and so one. The act was funny, but ended up being inaccurate. The inflation came with the cheapening of superlatives. Nice became good. Good became great. And the result was that the words mean nothing at all.
It used to be that overstatement was the sign of an uneducated and excitable person. Understatement was the sign of a calm thinker. Who would you rather deal with. The hyperbolic (most politicians) confuse urgent with important. And what has this habit gotten us? Crisis after crisis that, in the end, have shown themselves to be meaningless and not crises.
To move on. This blog and this writer has shown a concern for Christians being persecuted in heathen and atheistic nations. And for those Muslim readers of this blog the word "heathen" is intended to apply to Mohammedanism. And while there have been protests by the Vatican and organizations such as Voice of the Martyrs and International Christian Concern, there has no been, until recently, mass protests supporting Christians against persecution. This protest took place in the Czech Republic. This writer finds it passing strange that such protests have as yet been mounted in the Grand Republic.
Czechs Demonstrate Against the Persecution of Christians
The government of Canada is urging the nation's radio stations not to play the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" because of the use of the word "faggot." And now Great Britain is including teachings regarding Sodomy and the Sodomist lifestyle in every damn subject in schools that can be thought of:
'Gay lessons' in maths, geography and science - Telegraph
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Muslim Free Saturday!
Your faithful correspondent, at the beginning of the year, made a resolution to spent less time and typing thinking about and writing about Jihadists and their fellow travelers.
Let us face it. There are people who wish Western civilization no good. Most of these people are made up of Muslims and the academics of Western universities and colleges. The situation is like dealing with termites. One attempts to deal with them, but one knows that they will return. And in the meantime one cannot spend all one's time battling them and ignore all the remaining aspects of life.
So, being the cranky geezer that this writer is, he has decided to address the Ricky Gervais/Golden Globes controversy and the absolute foolishness of holding actors and actresses and celebrities as some sort of higher life form.
Be it known that we here at the Manor hold those working in the entertainment/celebrity industry in low regard. This writer's grandfather, Sir Bill of Talaqhua, when asked about actors often said, "They're whores." That about sums it up for the Bloody Nib Manor attitude toward actors. They are people who produce nothing, they are professional liars, they speak the words of others and they often behave like beasts in their personal lives. The average street walker probably has a higher moral standard than the average actor. There are some things that a hooker will not do. Actors will do, or pretend to do, almost anything for their "art" and a bit of the ready. One wonders how long it will be before an actor, portraying a child molester, will simulate some sort of sex act with a five year old child.
Having made the above statement, the actors of previous generations seem to have been a little more moral and to have been much more grounded than those actors of today between the ages of 16 and 60. Much of the older crowd seemed to know that there was something not quite right in making one's living as an actor. Many of them were roaring drunks and insatiable adulterers, but they at least had enough shame to pay a tribute to virtue by trying to hide their bad behaviour.
Consider for a moment, the reputed behaviours of Helen Mirren and Catherine Zeta-Jones. While neither woman has been implicated in any sort of great scandal, both are known to be foul-mouthed. In fact Mirren has bragged that she is probably the most foul-mouthed actress in the business with Zeta-Jones running a close second, and seems to proud of it. In other words, she, a woman in her late 50s, is proud of the fact that she can cuss like a 18 year old Navy recruit from the plains of Nebraska, the streets of New York or the beaches of California. She can do, as an older woman, what comes almost naturally to a young man. Is that something to be proud of?
Or, again, consider someone like Tom Cruise (a target of Mr. Gervais' jokes). The man is a Scientologist. An ardent Scientologist. He claims that the religion/philosophy is capable of solving all problems and bringing peace. Yet, during his tenure with the Hubbardists he has been married three times and is suspected of being a homosexual. Apparently Scientology will answer your problems, but it seems not to have solved his.
An actor will preach to you that you should drive a Smart car or ride a bicycle, heat your house with a compost pile and light your house with olive oil lamps while he or she is driving a Bentley, has forced air heating and uses 100 watt bulbs in every room of his or her house. His or her medicine cabinet is full of recreational drugs while yours may have some aspirin, saw palmetto and vitamin C. In other words, you are a bad person for not being an actor and/or wealthy.
So what Gervais did, in a pretty week way, was to show that the emperors and empresses have no clothes. He did the same thing that Don Rickles did years ago. But we are in the age of the fragile snowflake and it is a bad thing to point to their clay feet.
Here's an article that makes the point much better than this writer is able to and is a man who has dealt with the Hollywood wildlife:
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Gervais-gate: The Real Reason the Right Is Celebrating Ricky Gervais
And this:
The Daily Mash - Hollywood stars raise awareness for their stupid, childish jobs
Let us face it. There are people who wish Western civilization no good. Most of these people are made up of Muslims and the academics of Western universities and colleges. The situation is like dealing with termites. One attempts to deal with them, but one knows that they will return. And in the meantime one cannot spend all one's time battling them and ignore all the remaining aspects of life.
So, being the cranky geezer that this writer is, he has decided to address the Ricky Gervais/Golden Globes controversy and the absolute foolishness of holding actors and actresses and celebrities as some sort of higher life form.
Be it known that we here at the Manor hold those working in the entertainment/celebrity industry in low regard. This writer's grandfather, Sir Bill of Talaqhua, when asked about actors often said, "They're whores." That about sums it up for the Bloody Nib Manor attitude toward actors. They are people who produce nothing, they are professional liars, they speak the words of others and they often behave like beasts in their personal lives. The average street walker probably has a higher moral standard than the average actor. There are some things that a hooker will not do. Actors will do, or pretend to do, almost anything for their "art" and a bit of the ready. One wonders how long it will be before an actor, portraying a child molester, will simulate some sort of sex act with a five year old child.
Having made the above statement, the actors of previous generations seem to have been a little more moral and to have been much more grounded than those actors of today between the ages of 16 and 60. Much of the older crowd seemed to know that there was something not quite right in making one's living as an actor. Many of them were roaring drunks and insatiable adulterers, but they at least had enough shame to pay a tribute to virtue by trying to hide their bad behaviour.
Consider for a moment, the reputed behaviours of Helen Mirren and Catherine Zeta-Jones. While neither woman has been implicated in any sort of great scandal, both are known to be foul-mouthed. In fact Mirren has bragged that she is probably the most foul-mouthed actress in the business with Zeta-Jones running a close second, and seems to proud of it. In other words, she, a woman in her late 50s, is proud of the fact that she can cuss like a 18 year old Navy recruit from the plains of Nebraska, the streets of New York or the beaches of California. She can do, as an older woman, what comes almost naturally to a young man. Is that something to be proud of?
Or, again, consider someone like Tom Cruise (a target of Mr. Gervais' jokes). The man is a Scientologist. An ardent Scientologist. He claims that the religion/philosophy is capable of solving all problems and bringing peace. Yet, during his tenure with the Hubbardists he has been married three times and is suspected of being a homosexual. Apparently Scientology will answer your problems, but it seems not to have solved his.
An actor will preach to you that you should drive a Smart car or ride a bicycle, heat your house with a compost pile and light your house with olive oil lamps while he or she is driving a Bentley, has forced air heating and uses 100 watt bulbs in every room of his or her house. His or her medicine cabinet is full of recreational drugs while yours may have some aspirin, saw palmetto and vitamin C. In other words, you are a bad person for not being an actor and/or wealthy.
So what Gervais did, in a pretty week way, was to show that the emperors and empresses have no clothes. He did the same thing that Don Rickles did years ago. But we are in the age of the fragile snowflake and it is a bad thing to point to their clay feet.
Here's an article that makes the point much better than this writer is able to and is a man who has dealt with the Hollywood wildlife:
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Gervais-gate: The Real Reason the Right Is Celebrating Ricky Gervais
And this:
The Daily Mash - Hollywood stars raise awareness for their stupid, childish jobs
Sunday, January 16, 2011
At Least Some Frenchmen Have Guts
Be it known by all that your faithful correspondent that Nicholas Sarkozy is the best leader that France has had in many, many years. It is a passing strange thing that a man of recent Hungarian heritage was able to put some steel in the spine of La Belle France. But, as much as M. Sarkozy has done for France, it really not enough. He has spoken about the threat of the uncontrolled Islamization of France while every night in France "youth" (read Islamic youth) have burned approximately 100 cars per night in riots against Le Homme.
Now Marie Le Pen has been made the leader of the far right party in France, and while she will probably never become the leader of France she may be able to wield a lot more power and influence than her father:
Le Pen daughter inherits French far-right leadership - Yahoo! News
Meanwhile, CAIR (the Council of American Islamic Relations -- note that the group is not called the Islamic League as is the Catholic League or the National Association of Muslims, the put in the word American as a form of inclusion and assumed domination) has been telling its members that it is not a real good idea to co-operate with the FBI in its search for jihadists:
Officials: CAIR obstructs FBI terror probes
And if the accusation that the official Orc organizations are hostile to the US as it is, keep in mind, that while the FBI may be questioning Musselmen regarding jihadists in the US, the Japanese-Americans during WW2 were not only questioned, but interned. And the Japanese-American young men joined the Army anyway and made up the 100/442 division and fought and sacrificed for the US without a bitch. They became the most decorated unit of the war and were the only until to be personally awarded the presidential unit citation.
This writer doubts that any Arab or Muslim unit would be willing to make the sacrifices that the Japanese-Americans did. In fact, from what has been seen, the Muslim soldier in the US military is not an American soldier. He is a Muslim willing to kill Americans.
Now Marie Le Pen has been made the leader of the far right party in France, and while she will probably never become the leader of France she may be able to wield a lot more power and influence than her father:
Le Pen daughter inherits French far-right leadership - Yahoo! News
Meanwhile, CAIR (the Council of American Islamic Relations -- note that the group is not called the Islamic League as is the Catholic League or the National Association of Muslims, the put in the word American as a form of inclusion and assumed domination) has been telling its members that it is not a real good idea to co-operate with the FBI in its search for jihadists:
Officials: CAIR obstructs FBI terror probes
And if the accusation that the official Orc organizations are hostile to the US as it is, keep in mind, that while the FBI may be questioning Musselmen regarding jihadists in the US, the Japanese-Americans during WW2 were not only questioned, but interned. And the Japanese-American young men joined the Army anyway and made up the 100/442 division and fought and sacrificed for the US without a bitch. They became the most decorated unit of the war and were the only until to be personally awarded the presidential unit citation.
This writer doubts that any Arab or Muslim unit would be willing to make the sacrifices that the Japanese-Americans did. In fact, from what has been seen, the Muslim soldier in the US military is not an American soldier. He is a Muslim willing to kill Americans.
Jungle Fever
In the popular patois the term "Jungle Fever" usually refers to white women having a preference for black men. It is not a term of endearment, but is usually intended to mean that the woman is going through a phase of exoticism that the woman's family and finds hope soon she gets over, or at least hope that she finds a black man who holds the same cultural values as the family. An unlikely example would be Amy Grant dating Ice T. Amy Grant dating Denzil Washington would not be Jungle Fever. And it is a term used for white men with a jones for black woman. Justin Beiber dating Li'l Bow Wow -- jungle fever. David Bowie marrying Iman -- not jungle fever.
There are similar terms for other races or cultural groups such as Rice Fever or Chili Fever.
The whole point of this long introduction is to point out that in Great Britain a form of the malady has broken out that this writer shall refer to as Orc fever. Young English girls have, partly through their own shamelessness and partying ways, have been raped by a great number of English and foreign born Pakistanis. The girls, while seeking a good time, have through bad parenting, have forgotten that they really have no business dealing with Muslim men driving flash cars:
Asian sex gang: Toni-Marie Redfern's 'boyfriend' dubbed his car 'Rape Rover' | Mail Online
Jack Straw has pointed out that the ethnicity and religion of the men involved in such actions is overwhelming Muslim and Pakistani:
YouTube - JACK STRAW: 'PAKISTANI MEN ABUSING WHITE GIRLS'
Meanwhile the victims are blamed by the Orcs:
YouTube - White "sluts" attracting Pakistani Paedophiles - BBC
Now, let this writer be straight and perhaps cruel. This type of thing is nothing new. He saw it all too often back in the 1960s and 1970s when Arabs and Iranians were coming to the US to go to college. All too many American girls who wanted to learn to eat with their hands and be beat down hooked up with those scoundrels and found themselves with child while their Aladdin flew back to their benighted countries to marry a "good woman." The Orcs found white girls easy and the girls were so culturally and religiously unformed that they did not respect the value of their own culture and religion. One also, while it may seem unrelated, but really is, has to ask the question, is not a young woman not allowed to get drunk and not be raped?
The English Defense League has finally come up with a Mission Statement that this writer hopes an American counterpart will adopt with the only change that it will be an American statement:
Gates of Vienna: EDL Mission Statement
And while the Orcs rape and pillage European and American culture, Christians in the Mideast suffer:
Gates of Vienna: EDL Mission Statement
There are similar terms for other races or cultural groups such as Rice Fever or Chili Fever.
The whole point of this long introduction is to point out that in Great Britain a form of the malady has broken out that this writer shall refer to as Orc fever. Young English girls have, partly through their own shamelessness and partying ways, have been raped by a great number of English and foreign born Pakistanis. The girls, while seeking a good time, have through bad parenting, have forgotten that they really have no business dealing with Muslim men driving flash cars:
Asian sex gang: Toni-Marie Redfern's 'boyfriend' dubbed his car 'Rape Rover' | Mail Online
Jack Straw has pointed out that the ethnicity and religion of the men involved in such actions is overwhelming Muslim and Pakistani:
YouTube - JACK STRAW: 'PAKISTANI MEN ABUSING WHITE GIRLS'
Meanwhile the victims are blamed by the Orcs:
YouTube - White "sluts" attracting Pakistani Paedophiles - BBC
Now, let this writer be straight and perhaps cruel. This type of thing is nothing new. He saw it all too often back in the 1960s and 1970s when Arabs and Iranians were coming to the US to go to college. All too many American girls who wanted to learn to eat with their hands and be beat down hooked up with those scoundrels and found themselves with child while their Aladdin flew back to their benighted countries to marry a "good woman." The Orcs found white girls easy and the girls were so culturally and religiously unformed that they did not respect the value of their own culture and religion. One also, while it may seem unrelated, but really is, has to ask the question, is not a young woman not allowed to get drunk and not be raped?
The English Defense League has finally come up with a Mission Statement that this writer hopes an American counterpart will adopt with the only change that it will be an American statement:
Gates of Vienna: EDL Mission Statement
And while the Orcs rape and pillage European and American culture, Christians in the Mideast suffer:
Gates of Vienna: EDL Mission Statement
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Men With Hats
Today we look at what was commonly called the "coachman's hat".
This hat, while at first appearing to be a top hat, is anything but. It was a working man's hat and, while showing a bit of the fashion of the top hat or silk hat, is more practical and rugged.
First, note that the crown of the hat is a straight taper without the upper flare that one usually sees in a top hat (especially the Victorian top hat) and that the crown is not as tall as a topper. Also note that the felt used to make the hat is heavier and rougher than the normal top hat.
The reasons for these differences are obvious. A coachman needed a hat with less wind resistance than what was produced by a top hat. And since a coachman spent much more time suffering the effects of the climate (sun and rain) than the gentleman in a top hat, he required a durable hat. The brim offered a gutter for rain that allowed the water to fall away from the coachman's eyes, and the heavy felt offered a lot of warmth.
Because of the class system at the time of its popularity, the coachman's hat was often considered the head gear of the disreputable, as is illustrated by the drawing of Bill Sykes and his poor dog on the upper right.
The hat really is not suited for contemporary use because the crown is too high to be worn in an automobile, as well as seeming to be a rather unfinished hat.
It's Unavoidable
Your faithful correspondent made a half-hearted resolution this year to write more light-hearted posts on this blog. Your writer likes to laugh and to turn a clever phrase, but real life keeps getting in the way.
Our Orc friends keep making life difficult for those who are not Mohammedans. In some cases in a humorous way while cutting excuses that they claim that they do not understand the Western world and have been seduced by its "corruption", and other cases very deadly manners.
Assume for a moment, that you the reader, are a self-proclaimed devout Hindu and that you move to the United States where the eating of beef is the norm. You are arrested for, not eating beef, but for stealing a hamburger from your local In and Out burger. You go to court and your argument before the judge is that you were unable to prevent yourself from stealing the burger because burgers are a normal part of US life and you assumed that the burgers are free. Your "devoutness" has been overcome by the world.
Well, this Islamic bonehead has made a similar argument:
Cubicle pervert spied on women with mirror at Manchester Aquatics Centre - Manchester Evening News
The president of France has made a statement that is sure to anger a number of multi-culturalist:
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North Korea bad, Orcistan worse:
Islamic fundamentalism has replaced communism as greatest threat to Christians - report | Christian News on Christian Today
How far is a Christian supposed to be pushed before putting up a shield?
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Christians may need to start fighting back | Full Comment | National Post
Symbols mean something. If you don't get it, that's your problem:
YouTube - Meaning and history of the black flag of Jihad
Moderate Muslims on the march:
Pakistani lawyers salute Taseer’s killer - Arab News
Moderate Muslims on the march, part deux:
Gates of Vienna: Muslim Human Shields for Egyptian Christians
Our Orc friends keep making life difficult for those who are not Mohammedans. In some cases in a humorous way while cutting excuses that they claim that they do not understand the Western world and have been seduced by its "corruption", and other cases very deadly manners.
Assume for a moment, that you the reader, are a self-proclaimed devout Hindu and that you move to the United States where the eating of beef is the norm. You are arrested for, not eating beef, but for stealing a hamburger from your local In and Out burger. You go to court and your argument before the judge is that you were unable to prevent yourself from stealing the burger because burgers are a normal part of US life and you assumed that the burgers are free. Your "devoutness" has been overcome by the world.
Well, this Islamic bonehead has made a similar argument:
Cubicle pervert spied on women with mirror at Manchester Aquatics Centre - Manchester Evening News
The president of France has made a statement that is sure to anger a number of multi-culturalist:
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North Korea bad, Orcistan worse:
Islamic fundamentalism has replaced communism as greatest threat to Christians - report | Christian News on Christian Today
How far is a Christian supposed to be pushed before putting up a shield?
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Christians may need to start fighting back | Full Comment | National Post
Symbols mean something. If you don't get it, that's your problem:
YouTube - Meaning and history of the black flag of Jihad
Moderate Muslims on the march:
Pakistani lawyers salute Taseer’s killer - Arab News
Moderate Muslims on the march, part deux:
Gates of Vienna: Muslim Human Shields for Egyptian Christians
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
The Congress of the United States has decided to do away with the Don't Ask, Don't Tell doctrine concerning homosexuals that was first established during the administration of Bill Clinton. Before the reign of the Horny One the standard reaction to homosexuals in the military was that homosexuals be discharged upon discovery. Now your male homosexual yeoman or female homosexual airman can prance and dance and sing YMCA and not be discharged from the military.
The decision by the Congress is a big mistake. But the decision was made by man and women who have, for the most part, not been in the military. They have reacted to what they see as a powerful voting bloc, and not for the good of those in the military and for the military itself. They have not walked the walk and yet they have deigned to decide what is best for those who are walking the walk.
A person, some years ago and much more wise than this writer stated something to the effect that at first homosexuals will ask for tolerance from the public, then they will expect acceptance. Finally they will demand that homosexuality be made mandatory for a time.
We've reached the last stage. To use the words "queer" or "dyke" are now considered "hate speech" unless one is a queer or a dyke. In other words, a favored class has been established based on their sexual activity. The rest of us are not normal. We're the weird ones.
Here are two articles about veteran senior officers dealing with the rejection of Don't Ask, Don't Tell:
What do military heroes think of sex experiments?
Commandant of Marines’ Letter to Senators on DADT
The decision by the Congress is a big mistake. But the decision was made by man and women who have, for the most part, not been in the military. They have reacted to what they see as a powerful voting bloc, and not for the good of those in the military and for the military itself. They have not walked the walk and yet they have deigned to decide what is best for those who are walking the walk.
A person, some years ago and much more wise than this writer stated something to the effect that at first homosexuals will ask for tolerance from the public, then they will expect acceptance. Finally they will demand that homosexuality be made mandatory for a time.
We've reached the last stage. To use the words "queer" or "dyke" are now considered "hate speech" unless one is a queer or a dyke. In other words, a favored class has been established based on their sexual activity. The rest of us are not normal. We're the weird ones.
Here are two articles about veteran senior officers dealing with the rejection of Don't Ask, Don't Tell:
What do military heroes think of sex experiments?
Commandant of Marines’ Letter to Senators on DADT
Saturday, January 01, 2011
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