In the English language there are a group of punctuation points that have been used for more than four hundred years. Among these forms of punctuation is the mark known as the period. The period looks like and is written like this: . The period is a small solid circular mark made at the lower portion of a sentence. It usually means that the sentence has come to an end.
For more years than this writer cares to recall the period has been called a "dot" by computer users. An example would be "Yahoo. com" pronounced Yahoo dot com.
There is no punctuation mark called "dot." The proper name of the mark is "period."
The mother tongue has undergone an awful assault over the past forty years. Is there any reason that the basics of punctuation should suffer the same?
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Read and Remember
For those of this writer's readers who did not feel like typing in the address referred to in yesterday's post, here is a link to the recommended article:
Gates of Vienna: Why Is This Not Treason?
Gates of Vienna: Why Is This Not Treason?
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Read, Regard and Remember
Ask yourself this question: why would anyone who immigrated to a free nation want to bring the nation from which they "escaped" want to bring the mores and morals to their new nation?
http://gatesof viennablogspot.com/2011/05'why-is-this-not-treason-html
http://gatesof viennablogspot.com/2011/05'why-is-this-not-treason-html
Pro Baseball? Chuck It!
We here at the Manor have long (much longer than we'd care to admit) been fans of Major League Baseball. Our teams were the California (now called the Los Angeles) Angels, the Boston Red Sox and the Saint Louis Cardinals.
But be it known, that while we may still occasionally watch a pro ball game, we have had it with the pro game.
The reason is simple.
The pro players make too much money and the game has been ruined.
Now realize that we at the Manor are capitalists (though poor capitalists). We believe that a man or woman should be payed an honest wage for his or her work. The problem with pro baseball (and pro hockey, basketball and football as well) is that the players do not get paid for their work. They get paid on the promised results of their work. A player may have a great year and be played at the lower wage. A player may have a crappy year and be paid a superstar wage.
Ask yourself this: would my boss pay me the highest wage in the trade if I was a screw-up?
More importantly, baseball, more than any other sport, and in it's various permutations such as softball, is the American peoples' game. It's a game that the parents of children pay to have their children play in leagues, a game that kids play on the streets with tennis balls or red rubber balls, it's a game that adults play with wiffleballs.
Why should you pay to watch a game the you played for free as a kid. It's like paying to watch an adult build something with Legos.
If you want to watch baseball play baseball or softball or wiffleball.
Don't pay some guy who can't read a spreadsheet or build a house to do it for you.
But be it known, that while we may still occasionally watch a pro ball game, we have had it with the pro game.
The reason is simple.
The pro players make too much money and the game has been ruined.
Now realize that we at the Manor are capitalists (though poor capitalists). We believe that a man or woman should be payed an honest wage for his or her work. The problem with pro baseball (and pro hockey, basketball and football as well) is that the players do not get paid for their work. They get paid on the promised results of their work. A player may have a great year and be played at the lower wage. A player may have a crappy year and be paid a superstar wage.
Ask yourself this: would my boss pay me the highest wage in the trade if I was a screw-up?
More importantly, baseball, more than any other sport, and in it's various permutations such as softball, is the American peoples' game. It's a game that the parents of children pay to have their children play in leagues, a game that kids play on the streets with tennis balls or red rubber balls, it's a game that adults play with wiffleballs.
Why should you pay to watch a game the you played for free as a kid. It's like paying to watch an adult build something with Legos.
If you want to watch baseball play baseball or softball or wiffleball.
Don't pay some guy who can't read a spreadsheet or build a house to do it for you.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
We're Lost
Ask yourself this question:
Why does the government of the United States bother trying to negotiate with barbarians?
A strong nation either ignores or smashes barbarians. But our government seems to think that savages are worth the time that it takes to notice them.
Why does the government of the United States bother trying to negotiate with barbarians?
A strong nation either ignores or smashes barbarians. But our government seems to think that savages are worth the time that it takes to notice them.
Sunday, May 01, 2011
So What?
The news organizations have reported that Osama Bin-Laden was killed in a US airstrike.
The writer of this blog asks the question, "So what?"
Bin-Laden has been out of the picture for a good while. His killing will make no difference in the West's battle against the incursion of Islam into the West.
The writer of this blog asks the question, "So what?"
Bin-Laden has been out of the picture for a good while. His killing will make no difference in the West's battle against the incursion of Islam into the West.
The Result of Thug Culture
This writer has often railed against gang, hip-hop and thug culture, if not always on this blog, but in real life.
Here is a result of the culture of the lowers:
Group of deaf, mute friends stabbed at bar after thug mistakes sign language for gang signs
Note that the perpetrator was a white woman who had allowed herself to fall into a culture that was not hers. There's no thug like a new convert.
Here is a result of the culture of the lowers:
Group of deaf, mute friends stabbed at bar after thug mistakes sign language for gang signs
Note that the perpetrator was a white woman who had allowed herself to fall into a culture that was not hers. There's no thug like a new convert.
What the Hell Has Happened?
When your faithful correspondent was in high school the National Organization of Women (now it is called the National Organization for Women because some womanly men wanted to join it) was just starting up. This writer well remembers a female English teacher urging the girls in the class to join NOW to "stand up for their rights."
At that time NOW was considered a bit of a joke. It was considered an extremist organization with less credibility than the old IWW (Industrial Workers of the World; not International Workers of the World. This writer knows because he was once a member). NOW was considered an organization for angry women who were more than likely Sapphists.
These days NOW is considered an almost mainstream, though liberal, organization. Popular media often quote NOW concerning political matters perhaps because the society has changed so greatly over the past forty years. Some radio commentators refer to NOW as the National Organization of Nags (or Gals). But the mainstream media has adopted NOW as the go-to organization for women's issues.
Some thirty years ago the organization known as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was considered a joke. They were at the time, and are now, against the raising of meat animals; dogs and cats, fish and birds as pets; the wearing of animal fur. In other words, they see the world as a place where Rousseau's painting The Peaceable Kingdom can come to pass before the return of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Now it is not unusual to see on the television news or read in the newspaper a report that relies on a statement by PETA concerning animals. PETA, despite its silly stunts, has become mainstream in the mass media. Where once hunting and fishing and the raising of stock were considered honorable past times or professions, they have all suddenly become bad things.
There was a time, not all that long ago, when homosexuality was considered a sin. Now, it is not only not a sin, but an honorable title and activity. After all, it's all about love, isn't it? The organization known as GLAAD is the new media daring. If a scout master buggers a scout the problem is not that the scout master is a homo. The problem is that the scout master is a pedo-phile. If a man is ashamed of being a closeted queer the problem is not that he's a queer, but with society. "Faggot" is the new "nigger" and demands apology.
Could it be that, as society as a whole descends into immorality and just damn silliness, that the society that has held up the nation for over two hundred years, in fact, the Western culture that has built the West for over two thousand years, should expect an apology from those who are singing from the Kumbaya songbook?
The writer Andrew Klavan has an interesting take on the fag thing:
Klavan to GLAAD: Drop Dead!
At that time NOW was considered a bit of a joke. It was considered an extremist organization with less credibility than the old IWW (Industrial Workers of the World; not International Workers of the World. This writer knows because he was once a member). NOW was considered an organization for angry women who were more than likely Sapphists.
These days NOW is considered an almost mainstream, though liberal, organization. Popular media often quote NOW concerning political matters perhaps because the society has changed so greatly over the past forty years. Some radio commentators refer to NOW as the National Organization of Nags (or Gals). But the mainstream media has adopted NOW as the go-to organization for women's issues.
Some thirty years ago the organization known as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was considered a joke. They were at the time, and are now, against the raising of meat animals; dogs and cats, fish and birds as pets; the wearing of animal fur. In other words, they see the world as a place where Rousseau's painting The Peaceable Kingdom can come to pass before the return of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Now it is not unusual to see on the television news or read in the newspaper a report that relies on a statement by PETA concerning animals. PETA, despite its silly stunts, has become mainstream in the mass media. Where once hunting and fishing and the raising of stock were considered honorable past times or professions, they have all suddenly become bad things.
There was a time, not all that long ago, when homosexuality was considered a sin. Now, it is not only not a sin, but an honorable title and activity. After all, it's all about love, isn't it? The organization known as GLAAD is the new media daring. If a scout master buggers a scout the problem is not that the scout master is a homo. The problem is that the scout master is a pedo-phile. If a man is ashamed of being a closeted queer the problem is not that he's a queer, but with society. "Faggot" is the new "nigger" and demands apology.
Could it be that, as society as a whole descends into immorality and just damn silliness, that the society that has held up the nation for over two hundred years, in fact, the Western culture that has built the West for over two thousand years, should expect an apology from those who are singing from the Kumbaya songbook?
The writer Andrew Klavan has an interesting take on the fag thing:
Klavan to GLAAD: Drop Dead!
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