This writer recently re-signed up for a Facebook account. Having done so your faithful correspondent remembered why he quit the silly thing in the first place. Be it know that the only reason that yours signed up for the thing was to keep track of his favorite niece and to try to be the "cool" uncle. A waste of time. Do you really think that this writer cares about his niece's next cubicle occupant. She might, but the person is really a non person here at the Manor.
Facebook is a silly thing. It's all based on a false definition of friendship. After having signed up for the thing this writer looked through the list of "people you may know" and found that he actually knew about two percent (either in person or electronically) of the people listed. Some names were recognized, but some of them were columnists.
The idea behind Facebook seems to be "Be friends with the world." The whole idea is ridiculous. Do you REALLY want to buy the world a Coke? Most people have about a half dozen real friends and about three close friends. Other people known by name are acquaintances, not friends. If everydamnbody is your friend then you have no friends. A friend is a special person to YOU. If everyone is a special person to you you might as well crawl into a hole and cover yourself up because you'll never get any peace.
But, hey! If you want to be a Facebook friend of your faithful correspondent, feel free to ask. You'll get made a "friend" for sure. Just e-mail thos blog and the Facebook address will be sent to you.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Some Times the Truth Hurts (the Guilty)
Every time this writer thinks it might be a good time to make this blog a little more upbeat the real world comes along and slaps your faithful correspondent in the mug with a wet mackerel.
When Bob Wills, the great Western swing band leader and song writer was a young boy in Oklahoma his mother went out into the backyard and found young Master Wills on his knees repeatedly tossing a pair of pebbles from his hand and shouting. She asked him what in the world he was doing, and he answered that he was not quite sure but, "that's what the niggers in town do." In other words, he was copying the playing of street craps that he had seen Negroes play in town. His mother was quite upset and told him never to do such a thing again. She was not so much upset that her dear boy was playing at gambling as she was that he was pretending to be a black boy.
For let's say one hundred and twenty years American black culture has leeched into the greater American culture; blues, jazz, clothing, rap and hip-hip as well as certain types of rock music. And most of those influences have been of the lowest sort from, during their initial phases, were considered low culture by blacks themselves. The result of this influence is a bunch of white kids (so pale as to defy description) From Maine to San Diego to Anchorage playing "gangsta" wearing "hoodies" and flashing bogus gang signs on their photographs on their Facebook pages. It's all silly and despairing. It's a sign that, if not urged to rise, a generation will descend. It's easier to sink than swim, and, culturally, can be a lot more fun. It all has to do with the great urge downward.
The recent riots in London and Birmingham and other parts of Great Britain make one think of the irreducible element of rascality that lodges in the human breast. This is not to say that being black means that one is a rascal. Rather it means that some cultures trying to raise themselves as a whole while others don't. Maintaining a civil society is hard work. Being a a thug is easy. The sin nature is strong in man. And if a civil society (as well as church or synagogue or temple) does not fight against the sin nature of man in the name of political correctness, their is no hope for that society.
A British historian has caused a bit of a brouhaha by his statements regarding the riots. The chin scratching class has gone kooky, while the common sense faction has agreed with his statements.
David Starkey claims 'the whites have become black' | UK news | The Guardian
David Starkey says Enoch Powell was right with infamous 'rivers of blood' speech | Mail Online
Just because an opinion is unpopular does not mean that it is wrong.
When Bob Wills, the great Western swing band leader and song writer was a young boy in Oklahoma his mother went out into the backyard and found young Master Wills on his knees repeatedly tossing a pair of pebbles from his hand and shouting. She asked him what in the world he was doing, and he answered that he was not quite sure but, "that's what the niggers in town do." In other words, he was copying the playing of street craps that he had seen Negroes play in town. His mother was quite upset and told him never to do such a thing again. She was not so much upset that her dear boy was playing at gambling as she was that he was pretending to be a black boy.
For let's say one hundred and twenty years American black culture has leeched into the greater American culture; blues, jazz, clothing, rap and hip-hip as well as certain types of rock music. And most of those influences have been of the lowest sort from, during their initial phases, were considered low culture by blacks themselves. The result of this influence is a bunch of white kids (so pale as to defy description) From Maine to San Diego to Anchorage playing "gangsta" wearing "hoodies" and flashing bogus gang signs on their photographs on their Facebook pages. It's all silly and despairing. It's a sign that, if not urged to rise, a generation will descend. It's easier to sink than swim, and, culturally, can be a lot more fun. It all has to do with the great urge downward.
The recent riots in London and Birmingham and other parts of Great Britain make one think of the irreducible element of rascality that lodges in the human breast. This is not to say that being black means that one is a rascal. Rather it means that some cultures trying to raise themselves as a whole while others don't. Maintaining a civil society is hard work. Being a a thug is easy. The sin nature is strong in man. And if a civil society (as well as church or synagogue or temple) does not fight against the sin nature of man in the name of political correctness, their is no hope for that society.
A British historian has caused a bit of a brouhaha by his statements regarding the riots. The chin scratching class has gone kooky, while the common sense faction has agreed with his statements.
David Starkey claims 'the whites have become black' | UK news | The Guardian
David Starkey says Enoch Powell was right with infamous 'rivers of blood' speech | Mail Online
Just because an opinion is unpopular does not mean that it is wrong.
Sunday, August 07, 2011
We've Become Awfully Soft
This past weekend thirty some odd Americans, some of them Navy Seals, lost their lives during an action in Afghanistan. All the Americans, were killed while riding in a Chinook helicopter after an action against the Taliban. The educated guess is that the kill shot was via RPG. In fact, some of those in the know say that it was a lucky shot.
Needless to say, we here at the Manor mourn the loss of lives of the National Guard pilots, the Air Force combat directors and the Navy Seals.
The various news organizations have claimed that the incident is the greatest loss of American lives in Afghanistan and are wringing their hands over the incident. They hold the opinion that the loss of life should result in a withdrawal from Afghanistan and that the incident is the worst loss of life in American history.
Let's face the true facts. This incident, while tragic for the families and the comrades, is, historically negligible. The daily loss of American soldiers during the Civil War was much higher. The daily loss of Americans during World War One was higher. The loss of soldiers during the Tawara, Saipan or D-Day landings were all about ten times higher.
War is a bad thing and men die. It seems that the news organizations now think that only the enemy die. But the enemy gets to shoot back. That means that some of our men will die. But the strange thing is that when our guys kill the bad guys we are supposed to feel guilty. How can a warrior win?
The way the Afghan War is waged is all bulls**t. The press wants a clean war like that of 500 BC Greece (no civilians involved). But those days are long gone. The enemy uses civilians as cover and has done so since before World War One.
Modern warfare, in the American and NATO style, has prevented the killing of civilians supporting the enemy. Be it known that the supporters of enemy fighters are really part of the enemy.
But the news orgs seem to think that the West, and especially the Americans, fight with one and a half hands tied behind their backs. The Taliban and Al--Queda can kill innocent men, women and children with impunity while the West is expect to hold to the Marquess of Queensbury rules.
It's all a one way street with the popular media. Any death is bad. In fact, death is bad, which it is. But one has to ask CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC what is the cost of defending the Western and Christian world? Apparently nothing. The Taliban for that crowd of clowns, equals evangelical Christians and Al-Queda seems to equal the Roman Catholic Church.
An interesting thing is that some news talkers have actually asked the question, " Are the Navy Seals receiving grief counseling so they can grieve for their comrades?" The answer4 is that the Seals, Air Force men and Soldiers have grief counselling. It's called a bullet for the enemy.
We are at a low level war. A war that politicians are not willing to invest their children, but a good and just war nonetheless. As is usual, the upper classes call for war to be fought by the middle and working classes while they save their dear ones to rule in the future. It's all pretty crappy. But life IS pretty crappy. Just remember, at voting time, that one should hold one's representative responsible and ask the question as to whether or not the representative has made a blood investment. If he or she hasn't, f**k 'em.
Needless to say, we here at the Manor mourn the loss of lives of the National Guard pilots, the Air Force combat directors and the Navy Seals.
The various news organizations have claimed that the incident is the greatest loss of American lives in Afghanistan and are wringing their hands over the incident. They hold the opinion that the loss of life should result in a withdrawal from Afghanistan and that the incident is the worst loss of life in American history.
Let's face the true facts. This incident, while tragic for the families and the comrades, is, historically negligible. The daily loss of American soldiers during the Civil War was much higher. The daily loss of Americans during World War One was higher. The loss of soldiers during the Tawara, Saipan or D-Day landings were all about ten times higher.
War is a bad thing and men die. It seems that the news organizations now think that only the enemy die. But the enemy gets to shoot back. That means that some of our men will die. But the strange thing is that when our guys kill the bad guys we are supposed to feel guilty. How can a warrior win?
The way the Afghan War is waged is all bulls**t. The press wants a clean war like that of 500 BC Greece (no civilians involved). But those days are long gone. The enemy uses civilians as cover and has done so since before World War One.
Modern warfare, in the American and NATO style, has prevented the killing of civilians supporting the enemy. Be it known that the supporters of enemy fighters are really part of the enemy.
But the news orgs seem to think that the West, and especially the Americans, fight with one and a half hands tied behind their backs. The Taliban and Al--Queda can kill innocent men, women and children with impunity while the West is expect to hold to the Marquess of Queensbury rules.
It's all a one way street with the popular media. Any death is bad. In fact, death is bad, which it is. But one has to ask CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC what is the cost of defending the Western and Christian world? Apparently nothing. The Taliban for that crowd of clowns, equals evangelical Christians and Al-Queda seems to equal the Roman Catholic Church.
An interesting thing is that some news talkers have actually asked the question, " Are the Navy Seals receiving grief counseling so they can grieve for their comrades?" The answer4 is that the Seals, Air Force men and Soldiers have grief counselling. It's called a bullet for the enemy.
We are at a low level war. A war that politicians are not willing to invest their children, but a good and just war nonetheless. As is usual, the upper classes call for war to be fought by the middle and working classes while they save their dear ones to rule in the future. It's all pretty crappy. But life IS pretty crappy. Just remember, at voting time, that one should hold one's representative responsible and ask the question as to whether or not the representative has made a blood investment. If he or she hasn't, f**k 'em.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Men in Hats
Due to the various oddities of Blogger the correspondent is unable to add a photograph of a hat or a man in a hat. So this writer asks the reader to use his or her imagination.
It is the middle of summer and it is time for a man to wear a light colored and light constructed hat. Not a baseball cap worn sideways, backwards, or frontward. Not a skater's "beanie", which is, in reality, a truncated navy watch cap, not a rasta toque whether made of cotton or hemp. It is time for a proper straw hat with a proper brim.
There are two choices: the Panama or the boater. The boater is the lesser choice simply because they are harder to find, and the fact that the modern wearer of a boater may find himself embarrassed by comments by idiots on the street that the wearer is an escapee from a barbershop quartet. But, of course, the modern man cares little for the trend of the times. The modern man wants to present himself as a man and a gentleman in a society of children and barbarians.
Having said that, your faithful correspondent would suggest that the modern gentleman not willing to wear a proper boater or skimmer wear a Panama hat of some sort. The cost of the hats varies greatly - from $300 for a handmade hat from Ecuador to $10 hat made of a paper product from China. The point is to have a cool hat that looks sharp and to have a hat that looks like a man's hat.
Get a freakin' hat for the summer and save yourself from the sun.
It is the middle of summer and it is time for a man to wear a light colored and light constructed hat. Not a baseball cap worn sideways, backwards, or frontward. Not a skater's "beanie", which is, in reality, a truncated navy watch cap, not a rasta toque whether made of cotton or hemp. It is time for a proper straw hat with a proper brim.
There are two choices: the Panama or the boater. The boater is the lesser choice simply because they are harder to find, and the fact that the modern wearer of a boater may find himself embarrassed by comments by idiots on the street that the wearer is an escapee from a barbershop quartet. But, of course, the modern man cares little for the trend of the times. The modern man wants to present himself as a man and a gentleman in a society of children and barbarians.
Having said that, your faithful correspondent would suggest that the modern gentleman not willing to wear a proper boater or skimmer wear a Panama hat of some sort. The cost of the hats varies greatly - from $300 for a handmade hat from Ecuador to $10 hat made of a paper product from China. The point is to have a cool hat that looks sharp and to have a hat that looks like a man's hat.
Get a freakin' hat for the summer and save yourself from the sun.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
What Do They Have In Common?
There are sometimes people who have outlived their own perceived influence or importance. This is not necessarily a matter of the person aging and holding to old ideas or philosophies, but more the matter of holding to old stupid ideas or philosophies or denying that they ever held those ideas. Prime examples would be Timothy Leary and his idea that LSD was a great thing for the general populace as a way to get to "enlightenment" or Jimmy Carter who denies to this day that he is responsible for the current rotten government of Iran or that Fidel Castro is a rat bastard.
Recently two women who came to fame in the '60s and '70s are making fools of themselves and showing their absolute lack of awareness of how times have changed or opinions have not changed.
Firstly, let us look at Jane Fonda. Miss Fonda, whose best cinematic work was contained in two movies -- Cat Ballou and Barbarella (based on a comic strip that was based on the almost divine Brigette Bardot) -- is one of those people who is always re-inventing herself because she seems to not know who she really is. She was a sex kitten, she was a leftist political activist, she was an exercise guru, she was a Christian woman, she was a feminist, she now is an exercise guru aiming at seniors. Many of her various permutations seem to be based on the man with whom she is living at the time; Roger Vadim equals sex kitten, Tom Hayden equals political activist, Ted Turner equals jumping jack (or is it jumping Jill?). Once divorced from the mouth of the South she declared herself a Christian of the liberal sort, and when that didn't get her the proper attention she wanted she went back to the exercise bit because, let us admit it, she is in pretty good shape for an old broad.
Dear Jane is now pushing some product or another and planned to push the thing on QVC. Let us keep in mind that during the '60s. '70s and early '80s that Janie would have gotten no closer to QVC than she would have gotten to a nuclear power plant. Now that, fame-wise she's a was and not an is, she wants to push her thing on cable.
The trouble for her is that people have long memories and they remember that during the Vietnam War she campaigned, actively in favor of the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. This writer remembers the time and the scandal that she caused and the embarrassment she caused her father. Janie made radio broadcasts a'la Tokyo Rose to the U.S. troops, the difference being that Tokyo Rose was forced to make the broadcasts while Miss Fonda did so with enthusiasm. The result is that QVC, after a good number of written protests from viewers about Janie's appearance, cancelled the appearance of Hanoi Jane.
Jane's reaction? Denial. She did nothing to harm the American troops fighting in Vietnam. In fact, she was leading the charge waving Old Glory while fending off bullets from the Cong with her metal cufflets like Wonder Woman.
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Jane Fonda Blames Canceled QVC Appearance on the ‘Right Wing’
If our dear Jane had had any sense in her noggin she would have taken the BB route: love animals, love her nation and fear unrestricted immigration by the uncivilized.
Secondly, we have Erica Jong. For those who are old enough to remember, Miss Jon wrote a book (a novel) called Fear of Flying. The premise of the book was that "free love" i.e., unrestricted sexual activity, was a good thing for women. In other words, being a slut allowed women to find themselves and empower themselves.
Be it known now that feminism was the best thing that good happen to men. It meant that women, when they weren't busy wondering of they were carpet munchers, would bed with any guy who asked. Even the Romans, who among the upper classes were unbound libertines, the women as much as the men, didn't advocate the Jongian philosophy. They at least had the sense of decency to be hypocrites ("hypocrisy equals the duty that vice pays to virtue"), while the Jongian woman is really nothing but a sort of nymphomaniac without the psychological pathology. He reward is not even that of the cheapest crack whore. She'll give a guy a leg over in order to "discover her power" while Beulah on the corner of Fifth and Main, does the same for 10 bucks. The result? Beluah has ten dollars. The Jongian woman feels "empowered."
Well, Miss Jong has out lived her time in the '70s and '80s. The girl children of the Erica philosophy have finally figured out that sometimes tradition, instead of being a restrictive and anti-female mode of oppression of women, can be a tradition for a reason; that it works better, and is better, for the self and society than is the new thing. But Madame Jong denies that she is wrong. She's rather her own daughter behave like the slut that she was
Today's women are rejecting promiscuity for monogamy and motherhood | Mail Online
It makes one wonder.
Recently two women who came to fame in the '60s and '70s are making fools of themselves and showing their absolute lack of awareness of how times have changed or opinions have not changed.
Firstly, let us look at Jane Fonda. Miss Fonda, whose best cinematic work was contained in two movies -- Cat Ballou and Barbarella (based on a comic strip that was based on the almost divine Brigette Bardot) -- is one of those people who is always re-inventing herself because she seems to not know who she really is. She was a sex kitten, she was a leftist political activist, she was an exercise guru, she was a Christian woman, she was a feminist, she now is an exercise guru aiming at seniors. Many of her various permutations seem to be based on the man with whom she is living at the time; Roger Vadim equals sex kitten, Tom Hayden equals political activist, Ted Turner equals jumping jack (or is it jumping Jill?). Once divorced from the mouth of the South she declared herself a Christian of the liberal sort, and when that didn't get her the proper attention she wanted she went back to the exercise bit because, let us admit it, she is in pretty good shape for an old broad.
Dear Jane is now pushing some product or another and planned to push the thing on QVC. Let us keep in mind that during the '60s. '70s and early '80s that Janie would have gotten no closer to QVC than she would have gotten to a nuclear power plant. Now that, fame-wise she's a was and not an is, she wants to push her thing on cable.
The trouble for her is that people have long memories and they remember that during the Vietnam War she campaigned, actively in favor of the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. This writer remembers the time and the scandal that she caused and the embarrassment she caused her father. Janie made radio broadcasts a'la Tokyo Rose to the U.S. troops, the difference being that Tokyo Rose was forced to make the broadcasts while Miss Fonda did so with enthusiasm. The result is that QVC, after a good number of written protests from viewers about Janie's appearance, cancelled the appearance of Hanoi Jane.
Jane's reaction? Denial. She did nothing to harm the American troops fighting in Vietnam. In fact, she was leading the charge waving Old Glory while fending off bullets from the Cong with her metal cufflets like Wonder Woman.
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Jane Fonda Blames Canceled QVC Appearance on the ‘Right Wing’
If our dear Jane had had any sense in her noggin she would have taken the BB route: love animals, love her nation and fear unrestricted immigration by the uncivilized.
Secondly, we have Erica Jong. For those who are old enough to remember, Miss Jon wrote a book (a novel) called Fear of Flying. The premise of the book was that "free love" i.e., unrestricted sexual activity, was a good thing for women. In other words, being a slut allowed women to find themselves and empower themselves.
Be it known now that feminism was the best thing that good happen to men. It meant that women, when they weren't busy wondering of they were carpet munchers, would bed with any guy who asked. Even the Romans, who among the upper classes were unbound libertines, the women as much as the men, didn't advocate the Jongian philosophy. They at least had the sense of decency to be hypocrites ("hypocrisy equals the duty that vice pays to virtue"), while the Jongian woman is really nothing but a sort of nymphomaniac without the psychological pathology. He reward is not even that of the cheapest crack whore. She'll give a guy a leg over in order to "discover her power" while Beulah on the corner of Fifth and Main, does the same for 10 bucks. The result? Beluah has ten dollars. The Jongian woman feels "empowered."
Well, Miss Jong has out lived her time in the '70s and '80s. The girl children of the Erica philosophy have finally figured out that sometimes tradition, instead of being a restrictive and anti-female mode of oppression of women, can be a tradition for a reason; that it works better, and is better, for the self and society than is the new thing. But Madame Jong denies that she is wrong. She's rather her own daughter behave like the slut that she was
Today's women are rejecting promiscuity for monogamy and motherhood | Mail Online
It makes one wonder.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
I Can't Reed!
Be it known that this writer does not have a college education. He has a high school education and he served an apprenticeship in a trade. The lovely Lady Nib has a college education in art, but she has the sense to ignore all the social nonsense that the university added to a training in painting and drawing.
This being said, your faithful correspondent has always been a big reader of novels ranging from Lester Dent to Shakespeare and Joyce (a truly rotten writer despite what the Micks may say). In high school we were expected to be able to read sophisticate and adult (not "adult") literature.
Now it seems that the average high school student cannot read a non-abridged version of one of Fitzgerald's novels.
Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal
Let's face it, Roger Ebert is an elitist butthead, but a blind squirrel is right occasionally.
This being said, your faithful correspondent has always been a big reader of novels ranging from Lester Dent to Shakespeare and Joyce (a truly rotten writer despite what the Micks may say). In high school we were expected to be able to read sophisticate and adult (not "adult") literature.
Now it seems that the average high school student cannot read a non-abridged version of one of Fitzgerald's novels.
Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal
Let's face it, Roger Ebert is an elitist butthead, but a blind squirrel is right occasionally.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Da News
We here at the Manor have the unfortunate honor of being served by two newspapers. One is the Long Beach Press-Telegram, which is good for local news. The other is the Los Angeles Times which covers national and international news than it does local news.
This writer started reading the Times when the Herald-Examiner went belly up despite the fact that the Her-Ex was a better paper. It was more of a newspaper than the Times in that it actually reported the news in a fairly objective manner. The Times, since the late 1960s, has been a forum for the opinions of the "reporters."
In fact, if one listens to the various Times reporters and journalists and one were to take them seriously, one would think that the Times is the most objective news organ in the Southland. But those name scribes mostly live west of the L.A. City Hall. They do not live in East L.A., they do not live in the South Bay or South Central. They do not live in the southeast county. And worst of all, they seem to be all the products of journalism schools from whatever college or university.
Newspaper reporters like to portray themselves as "cynical" despite the fact that they are the biggest suckers in town. They will accept the story that a welfare mother has been wronged at a public housing facility before they will investigate that said welfare mother has raised a couple or three gang bangers and that she has a big screen television and she has her nails done by a Thai immigrant.
Let's face the facts. The journalism game has always been dirty. Back in the day reporters were high school grads who could write. Those guys were always out for a scoop, even to the extent of ruining a murder investigation like the Elizabeth Short murder in 1947. But the old timers were looking for a story. They weren't looking to change society
The modern reporter, having been infected by the university, is trying to change the world. The welfare mother is a victim instead of a lazy bitch and the bum is a victim of societal neglect instead of a bad drunk who'd rather be drunk than work.
Speaking for those at the Manor, we'd much prefer the old type newspaper man than the modern journalist. At least that guy, while trying to get a scoop, was pretty honest, straight forward and clear-eyed. He saw a bastard as a bastard, not as a poor thing.
This writer started reading the Times when the Herald-Examiner went belly up despite the fact that the Her-Ex was a better paper. It was more of a newspaper than the Times in that it actually reported the news in a fairly objective manner. The Times, since the late 1960s, has been a forum for the opinions of the "reporters."
In fact, if one listens to the various Times reporters and journalists and one were to take them seriously, one would think that the Times is the most objective news organ in the Southland. But those name scribes mostly live west of the L.A. City Hall. They do not live in East L.A., they do not live in the South Bay or South Central. They do not live in the southeast county. And worst of all, they seem to be all the products of journalism schools from whatever college or university.
Newspaper reporters like to portray themselves as "cynical" despite the fact that they are the biggest suckers in town. They will accept the story that a welfare mother has been wronged at a public housing facility before they will investigate that said welfare mother has raised a couple or three gang bangers and that she has a big screen television and she has her nails done by a Thai immigrant.
Let's face the facts. The journalism game has always been dirty. Back in the day reporters were high school grads who could write. Those guys were always out for a scoop, even to the extent of ruining a murder investigation like the Elizabeth Short murder in 1947. But the old timers were looking for a story. They weren't looking to change society
The modern reporter, having been infected by the university, is trying to change the world. The welfare mother is a victim instead of a lazy bitch and the bum is a victim of societal neglect instead of a bad drunk who'd rather be drunk than work.
Speaking for those at the Manor, we'd much prefer the old type newspaper man than the modern journalist. At least that guy, while trying to get a scoop, was pretty honest, straight forward and clear-eyed. He saw a bastard as a bastard, not as a poor thing.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Technical Issues
Technical issues have prevented the author of this blog from posting this blog via typewritten scans. Your faithful writer apologizes for this, and hopes that by next week the reader will be reading properly typewritten posts instead of formed electrons.
Consider these issues.
1.) NATO and the US are bombing Libya for some reason. If we here at the Manor understand the explanation properly, the excuse has something to do with human rights and the fact that Qadaffi is an awful dictator and all-around bad guy. We here at the Manor do not doubt that Qadaffi is a complete butt and butt-head. But one has to ask one's self if he is any worse than the government of the People's Republic of China. Mr. Qadaffi, as far as this writer is aware, has never arrested or persecuted the citizens if Libya for religious reasons. In fact, considering that he has in the past proclaimed himself a devout Orc, he has given Christians a pretty free reign (the citizens of Libya, on the other hand, have not). The Chi-Coms, on the other hand, have not been loath to pound down on Christians outside the Three-Self Church, members of the Falun Gong and Muslims. This writer has heard no demands for actions against China in reactions to Chinese persecution.
Analysis: Libya is weak and has a bunch of oil used in Europe. China is strong and will have no oil until they start to steal it from Vietnam and the Philippines.
2.) The One has announced that the US will be withdrawing 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by late 2012 and there will be a pretty much complete withdrawal by 2014.
There's nothing like telling the enemy what you will do. The stupidest chess tyro knows that. If The One had been president during the Civil War he'd probably still be a slave.
Consider these issues.
1.) NATO and the US are bombing Libya for some reason. If we here at the Manor understand the explanation properly, the excuse has something to do with human rights and the fact that Qadaffi is an awful dictator and all-around bad guy. We here at the Manor do not doubt that Qadaffi is a complete butt and butt-head. But one has to ask one's self if he is any worse than the government of the People's Republic of China. Mr. Qadaffi, as far as this writer is aware, has never arrested or persecuted the citizens if Libya for religious reasons. In fact, considering that he has in the past proclaimed himself a devout Orc, he has given Christians a pretty free reign (the citizens of Libya, on the other hand, have not). The Chi-Coms, on the other hand, have not been loath to pound down on Christians outside the Three-Self Church, members of the Falun Gong and Muslims. This writer has heard no demands for actions against China in reactions to Chinese persecution.
Analysis: Libya is weak and has a bunch of oil used in Europe. China is strong and will have no oil until they start to steal it from Vietnam and the Philippines.
2.) The One has announced that the US will be withdrawing 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by late 2012 and there will be a pretty much complete withdrawal by 2014.
There's nothing like telling the enemy what you will do. The stupidest chess tyro knows that. If The One had been president during the Civil War he'd probably still be a slave.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Links. No Tlog
This writer is still attempting to work out the niceties of scanners (oh, for the steam powered age), so this Tlog is a blog.
Two items of interest:
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: How Many Infidels?
Germany has too many housewives, EU warns - The Local
One has to ask oneself two questions concerning the above:
1.) Do the problems of other nations require the aid of other nations to their own detriment?
2.) Why should Germany, or any other European nation pay any attention to the wishes, opinions or suggestions of the European Union? The EU is an artificial construct based in a joke of a nation.
Two items of interest:
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: How Many Infidels?
Germany has too many housewives, EU warns - The Local
One has to ask oneself two questions concerning the above:
1.) Do the problems of other nations require the aid of other nations to their own detriment?
2.) Why should Germany, or any other European nation pay any attention to the wishes, opinions or suggestions of the European Union? The EU is an artificial construct based in a joke of a nation.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
So Long Blog, Hello Tlog
As those in the know are well aware, we here at Nib Manor are considered old-fashioned. The reason is because it's true.
In the spirit of Ludditeism, starting tomorrow this blog will, for the most part, become a tlog. A blog is a blog in which actual typewritten pages are scanned and uploaded to the blog. More misspellings and more typos, but more human.
In the spirit of Ludditeism, starting tomorrow this blog will, for the most part, become a tlog. A blog is a blog in which actual typewritten pages are scanned and uploaded to the blog. More misspellings and more typos, but more human.
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Link-O-Rama
While we here at the Manor are capitalist, we are not modern or extreme capitalists. By this the writer means that a company or bank should expect a FAIR return for its investment and not an excessive return for its investment or perceived investment. Banks are especially guilty of being, and perceived as being greedy entities by their customers. Here is an example of someone getting their own against the Bank of America:
Gates of Vienna: News Feed 20110604
The writer of this blog has for several years urged the reader to read the novel The Camp of the Saints. The novel is coming true in slow motion:
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: Rediscovering Sovereignty
Please note that added to the links on the right side of this page has been added a link to Professor Martin Rice's Typewriter Blog. If you want some intelligent insight, check it out.
Johnstown Type Writer Conservatory, Johnstown Typewriter Conservatory
And finally, the rap chickens have come home to roost:
Uncle Luke, Co-Founder Of Urban Beach Week, No Longer Attends Event « CBS Miami
Gates of Vienna: News Feed 20110604
The writer of this blog has for several years urged the reader to read the novel The Camp of the Saints. The novel is coming true in slow motion:
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: Rediscovering Sovereignty
Please note that added to the links on the right side of this page has been added a link to Professor Martin Rice's Typewriter Blog. If you want some intelligent insight, check it out.
Johnstown Type Writer Conservatory, Johnstown Typewriter Conservatory
And finally, the rap chickens have come home to roost:
Uncle Luke, Co-Founder Of Urban Beach Week, No Longer Attends Event « CBS Miami
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Drop The Dot!
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?
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?
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.
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