A Little Honesty from Denmark

American politicians are, for the most part, notorious for not wanting to offend anyone. There are a few exceptions. Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter come to mid.. But most pols are not much more than lickspittles to whoever promises to give them money and/or votes.

Recently in Denmark a Danish politician stated some truth about the Muslim community in Denmark and the Orcs decided to sue said politician for slander. The court ruled in favor of the politician. The details are here:Gates of Vienna: The Good News From Denmark

When will an American politician state the truth. Are all Mohammedans bad? Probably not. But enough are bad to make one suspicious of them all in the same way that Shintoist in the US during World War Two were worthy of suspicion.

It is not Arab Christians rioting in the Paris suburbs. It is not the Turkish Christians that are raping Swedish woman with impunity. It is not Methodists and Baptists planting bombs in subways and outside of nightclubs in London. And it wasn't the Amish who flew planes into the World Trade Center. All these acts were carried out but Muslims. We are, in fact, involved in a battle of Helm's Deep against Orcs. And our elected masters refuse to acknowledge who the real enemy is. Their desire for easy money and an easy job is killing us in slow motion. We are being killed by a Kumbaya philosophy. And the proof that their realization of the importance of the "War Against Terrorism" is proved by the very fact that few of their sons or daughters have enlisted in the war. They have refused to make the war a fact of daily life and have doing so have shown that the war is, to them, a phony war to be supported or opposed for their own benefit.

Eh, Wot the Hell?

The past couple of weeks have been interesting ones at Bloody Nib Manor and the surrounding territories.

Paris Hilton served time in the stir, the local media fell all over themselves getting film of Ms Hilton leaving the jail after she had served her time, and she managed to wear a pair of her signature blue jeans while walking out to her ride as the world's media watched her.

Al Gore's son was arrested for drunk driving and speeding the week before his old man, Saint Al, put on his global warming world wide concert which proved to be a bust and a joke.

And David Beckham and his wife, Victoria, came to Los Angeles so Mr. Beckham can play soccer for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Apparently Mr Beckham intends a career in the movie industry as does Mrs. Beckham ( a woman of no known talent or even appearance -- think of the Anne Francis episode of the Twilight Zone)..

The local talk radio talkers have spent a lot of gas talking about about and complaining about the interest the general public finds in the above three stories. ln other words, they talk about the thing they bitch about and that bitching is what they think brings in the listeners because the listeners are bitching about what they are talking about. Or to put it more simply, "I think what you're talking about is stupid and I'll spend my time talking about what you think is stupid and thus talk about the thing you're talking about."

Here's the view from the Manor. Talking about silly stuff is a great thing simply because we, in this great nation, are so confident of the competence of the nation that we can can bitch about Paris, Al Jr. or the Beckhams. Hell, how bad can it be when we worry about our mattresses?

And finally, the media insists that Victoria Beckham is a "hottie". Here's a real "hottie" at the upper right hand corner.

Mohammedans as All About Caring

As regular readers of the Bloody Nib are aware we here at the Manor are Christians of the conservative Protestant type. This does not mean, despite the screeching of the mainstream media, mean that we have any animus against Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Jews, Buddhists (the ever lovely Lady Nib's father is a Buddhist), Hindus, Jains, Taoists, Confucians, Zoroastastrians, New Agers or Wiccans. Up until about 6 years ago we had no ill feeling towards those who followed the teachings of the Arab merchant called Mohammad.

But since the attack on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the USS Cole and the bombing of the night clubs in Indonesia we have developed a weariness concerning those who practice what they call the "Religion of Peace."

Does this mean that we think that all Mohammedans are bad? No more than our fathers and mothers thought that all Germans were bad during World War Two. In other words, unless a Mohammedan is willing to speak out against the people who kill in the name of their religion, they are an unindicted co-conspirator with the nonsense of the Islamist philosophy. We're still waiting for the Mohammedan version of the White Rose.

Until that day comes we have this to judge our Islamic "brothers" by:

What if Israelis had abducted BBC man? Dt Opinion Opinion Telegraph Which, of course shows that the Jews are animals while the Mohammedans are the pinnacle of civilized behaviour.

Baghdad Christians Find New Life in Kurdish North - New York Times Considering the fact that Christianity has had such a long foothold in the Middle East, it's a strange thing that Iraqis would persecute Christians. But that's the philosophy of Mohammad for you. All love for the other. Oddly enough, the Kurds seem to accept the Christians despite the fact that Saladin, the Islamic conqueror of Jerusalem during the Crusades, was a Mohammedan.

Let's stop channeling angry Muslims. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine Chris Hitchens is Chris Hitchens. Sometimes he's really right and sometimes he's really wrong. In this case he's really right. Dan Brown, despite his nonsensical book, only got a verbal slap from the Evangelical Protestants and the Vatican. We here at the Manor are waiting for him to take on Mohammad. It'll be a long, long wait.

On Open Letter to Our Elected Masters

This week the Senator Harry Reid, of Nevada, decided to pull from consideration for the nonce, from the Senate the McCaine-Kennedy (sometimes called the Bush-Kennedy) Immigration Reform Bill. The senior senator from California (home state of Bloody Nib Manor), Diamond Diane Feinstein, claimed that public opposition to the bill was excited by right wing talk radio. Well, ol' Di lives up on Russian Hill in San Francisco and has about as much contact with her constituency as Marie Antoinette had with hers. But, of course, our elected masters know better than we do despite the fact that they claim to represent the voters. A segment of the voters rose up and denounced this immigration reform nonsense and the denouncers were not all right wing radio talk show listeners. They were people concerned about the fate of the nation.

Let's looks at the nonsense that our legislators have foisted upon us over the past twenty years and the results:

1.) The Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Reform Bill, which gave amnesty to over 2 million illegal immigrants in 1986 was passed with the explicit promise that no such bill would even be considered, let alone passed, by the Senate, the House or signed by the President. Since that time there have been several proposals by the Senate and the President to not only repeat Simpson-Mazzoli, but to exceed it. The latest incarnation would have amnestied 12-20 million illegal aliens, including criminals and potential terrorists.

2.) The legislators and the President passed the North American Free Trade Agreement under the aegis of the idea that free trade between the US and Mexico and Central America would result in the reduction the number of illegal immigrants to the US because there would be more and higher paying jobs in Mexico and Central America. The result has been the loss of good US jobs to Mexico while not stemming the flow of wetbacks to these shores. Consider the fact that the Maytag plant in Illinois has been shut down and the work has been sent to Mexico. The result? Hundreds of United States citizens thrown out of work, a town almost killed, no stoppage of illegal immigration and no reduction of the price of your washer, dryer or dishwasher. Who benefits? It's not the average American?

Also consider the fact that Chinese companies are now having the final assembly of their products done in Mexico so that they can take advantage of NAFTA and the low or non-existent tariffs levied on products from Mexico instead of paying the tariffs on products that have been shipped from Shanghai.

3.) The Chinese Trade Agreement of about ten years ago. This was one of Diamond Diane's causes. Just forget that her husband is a businessman with many trade agreements with the Chinese. What have we gotten? Cheap crap and lost jobs. Go into your local Home Depot or Lowes and look at the country of origin of the products they sell. Nails, tools, lawn mowers; all made in China. Food products of questionable safety and purity ranging from wheat gluten to fish labelled as monkfish that are actually puffer (a poisonous fish that is only allowed to be prepared in Japan by a licensed chef). China has gotten our low skilled factory jobs and our money and we have gotten boxes of nails at 5 cents less a pound.

4,) The failure to enforce the Simpson-Mazzoli Bill has resulted in the flooding of the US with cheap labor. Illegal immigration has busted the dry wall and plasterers union in California, the reduction of wages for carpenters, gardeners, production machinists, the clothing and shoe making industries and the introduction of TB back into the country after it had been thought to have been almost eradicated. Meanwhile, the cost of housing has gone up and the roads have become more congested. Crime has gone up. The numbers of people on the welfare rolls has gone up. School have become overcrowded and over-burdened with children who don't speak English and whose parents don't care if their children speak English or not.

The current talking point among the pro-amnesty crowd is that the current law does not work. They are wrong. The current law is not, and has not been, used. The current law is rusted from lack of use. All it takes to make it work is oiling by a bit of money and use.

One argument by our elected masters to refute the enforcement of the current law is that we cannot, as a nation, separate illegal alien parents from their native born children. But that's not the nation's problem. That's the individual's problem. Illegal immigrants have broken the law. They are criminals. The argument has never been made about a man or woman, having been convicted of selling weed, coke or robbing a bank that to send that person to prison would be the breaking up of that person's family. Family farms, ranches and even homes have been confiscated by the government in the name of the "public good." by eminent domain" with no consideration of the fate of the families involved.

Here's the point. Those we have elected do not seem to represent us. Some represent illegal aliens in the hope that the immigrants, once citizens, will vote for their party. Others represent big business whose only concern is money. We, as the voter, have neither the sympathetic ear nor the jack required to to catch the attention of our Senators. All we have are our voice and vote. We each have to assume the role of Stentor and announce, yell and scream long and loud to make this bunch of idiots take the rolled up dollar bills out of their ears and listen to us.

Finally, there are those who say that in writing, phoning or addressing those officials who are on the opposite side of the immigration issue than we are, that we should be respectful and polite. Why? They hold us in contempt by their positions. Why address them better than they treat you?

Memorial Day

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

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

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

How About a Little Though From an Unlikely Source?

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

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

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

Maybe We Should Ignore Them

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even a Frenchman Can Be Right

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

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

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

What's Good for the Goose...

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

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

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

We're all kumbaya now.

What Are You Talking About?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grab a Cup of Joe!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let Us Breathe!

When you were a child taking a long car trip with your family did you sit in the back seat and, between wondering if you had enough money to buy the Sea Monkeys you saw in the advertisement in the Sgt. Rock comic book and trying to poke your brother's eye out with a Wheel-O, ask your father, about every five minutes, "Are we there yet?" This refrain usually started once you were out of your neighborhood, which means about three blocks. And, after the eighth chorus the wise father would tell you to shut up and threaten to drop you off at the side of the road so that you could better spend your time fighting off sidewinders and coyotes.

Let's move forward to today and ask ourselves who is crying "Are we there yet?" Well, lo and behold, the questioners are none other than those politicians who desire to become President of the United States. This week we have been treated with a broadcast debate between eight Democrats who want to park in the Oval Office. The Republican aspirants are falling all over themselves to offer their resumes to the voter. All of them are putting out their hats for the collection of the coins that the populace just cannot restrain themselves from dropping in to maintain the campaigns of their favorites.

And what is the difference between you and the pols. The difference is that the pols haven't even waited until the car is out of the driveway before wondering if they are there yet.

The election is a year and a half away. The campaign for the 2008 election began two months after the 2004 election. Up until this month most of the campaining has been for money (as Jesse Unruh said many years ago, "Money is the mother's milk of politics").

The candidates want you to be excited about them. They want your attention. They want your money. They want to tell you what you should think. The question is: are you excited about the. Any of them? Especially this early?

Whether they be microcephalic Democrats or hydrocephalic Republicans, they are parading themselves about like dominatrix hookers in jackboots and carrying whips while promising you the greatest experiance you've ever had if you'll toss them your pence and give them your vote. And not only are you not feeling randy, you're still recovering from the last election.

All this nonsense makes one nostalic for the days when party conventions really chose the presdential candidates instead of this never ending primary nonsense. If nothing else, then the voter was left alone to get on with his life until election day instead of being bothered with a bunch of beggars knocking at one's door.

This link shows the various presidential candidates waiting for the money and the votes: YouTube - Candidates Waiting for Votes and Donations Remember, you are the person in charge. Once you let them in, it's all over.

So Long, Johnny

Johnny Hart has been so long a part of the comic page that it's hard to believe that he's returned home: Star-Gazette.COM - News Updates

For those who are fans of the comic pages, it is ironic that Mr. Hart was taken the day before Easter considering the fact that on Easter Sunday, for many years, he featured a comic indicating the importance of the Resurrection of Our Lord.

RIP Johnny. We'll miss you.

The World May be Safe (for a while)

This week the Major League Baseball season begins. Therefore the world will continue until October despite the best efforts of the militant Islamists. The old ball game is stronger than the sons of Allah, the Reds, the Nazis, the sons of the Rising Sun and the Hun.

It's a grand old game and is the American game and nothing can be greater.

If you've got the jack and the time time the books listed in this link: OpinionJournal - Five Best

Basketball? Thugball. Football? Robots. Hockey? Finns and Russians.

Could it be that some Europeans are waking up? Mad?

Above is a photograph of a statue of the Danish warrior Holger Danske. Holger Danske was a war leader who fought against the attempted Islamic invasion of Europe during the Middle Ages. The background of the photograph is an image of the Danish flag. The Danes are one of the few European nations who have not fallen into the trap of "inclusiveness" in their dealings with immigrants from Islamic nations. The legend around the photograph reads, "Holger Danske Stirs." Could it be that not only Denmark, but other parts of Europe are waking up? Read this from The Brussels Journal: Native Revolt: A European Declaration of Independence The Brussels Journal It's long, but worth the read.

A tip of the Nib lid to Gates of Vienna for the image.

Oh! If they only had the power of Joshua!

For some reason the American writer Mark Twain took a mighty dislike to the English writer Jane Austen. Miss Austen had been long deceased by the time Mr. Clemens first put nib to paper, so this dislike could not have possibly been personal. One can only come to the conclusion that he disliked her novels. This should not be surprising considering the fact that Miss Austen's novels were, for the most part optimistic and comic in a subtle manner. Mr. Clemens' works, were often bitter, and his humor was of the rough frontier variety.

And he may have been able to see into the future and see the fact that, in this age of cinema, Miss Austen's works have been consistently popular among film makers and movie goers, while Mr. Clemens' works have not been of the same popularity among the cinema crowd. In other words, at the studios libraries, the works of Mark Twain are collecting dust alongside the works of Bret Harte.

Mr. Clemens at one time wrote (and your faithful correspondent is paraphrasing here) that Jane Austen's bones should be dug up from the grave and her femur used to bash her skull.

We here, at the Manor, being Janeites, feel that Mr. Clemens exercised bad taste and bad judgement in his remark. BUT, this writer feels that the punishment Mr. Clemens deigned for Miss Austen might be proper for another class than English lady writers.

A case in point are the Solons in Washington, D.C. who have decided to begin the farce of Daylight Savings Time three weeks early in the name of "saving energy." Their decision to fool with natural time was made despite the findings of the University of California Berkley that such an action would have no effect whatsoever on energy savings since 1.) many businesses are now active 24 hours hours a day, and 2.) the burden of energy usage would only be shifted from the early evening to the early morning.

But our elected masters, caring more about symbols than reality, have decided that we need to shift our schedules so that we can pretend to save energy and pat ourselves on the back for lighting our lamps at six o'clock in the morning instead of six o'clock in the evening.. One finds one's self wondering if our Congressmen, if given the power by Our Father, would not attempt to emulate Joshua and stop the sun in the sky for an hour everyday to save energy. The arrogance of the whole act is overwhelming.

One finds one finding one's self wanting to tear the femur from the local want to be Webster and beat their brains out with it. And one finds one's self wondering who profits?

A Few Items

The desk of your faithful correspondent is a pretty messy thing. If Martha Stewart were to see it she would probably run away screaming and demand to be boarded at the local ladies' prison where order prevails.
While going through a pile of odd scraps of paper this writer came across a quotation from the historian and philosopher Paul Johnson: "Rock music is the single most blatant stigma of the death of civilization that we are witnessing."
This writer cannot say when the statement by Mr. Johnson was made, nor when the quotation was written down and stuffed into the attic of forgotten Post-It notes. But your faithful correspondent feels, in his early dotage and after having listened to rock and rock 'n roll music during a misspent youth, cannot help but agree with Mr Johnson's sentiments.
Apparently not all Dutchmen are culturally suicidal: Dutch politician doubts Muslim ministers' loyalty International News Reute. Note the last paragraph of the story and ask yourself if any American politician would have the courage to say such a thing.
Finally, here's a web site that brings back memories of the days when Anglo-British relations were more friendly than they now are: 18 Doughty Street : Politics for Adults HOME The reader should click on the small world map on the right side of the screen under which is written Advert Launch: A World Without America to see an interesting advertisement. It is a shameful thing that many Britons and Americans do not realize the debt that we owe one another.

The Solvent That Dissolves the Cement

Several times in the past your faithful correspondent has written about the apparent slow motion downfall of American civilization in the name of political correctness, being inclusive and just being great big suckers, and the contention that the downfall will benefit no one; either those being brought down or those doing the bringing down.

For such a stance this writer has been called a paleo-conservative. This is an inaccurate description. The classic definition of a conservative, whether vanilla or paleo, is of a man who stands across the march of time and "progress" shouting "Stop!" This writer is standing across the seeming irresistible tide of modernity and post-modernity shouting "Go back! Beyond this point are dragons that will eat you for hors d'ouerves, and your children and grandchildren and great grandchildren will curse you memory for abandoning the Western canon in favor of anarchism, barbarity and just bad taste."

What brings on this particular screed concerning the hole that our nations cultural elites are digging us into, whether with or without our permission, are several things. The first is the inordinate amount of coverage that the passing of Anna Nichole Smith has brought to the media. The second is a talk by Dr. James Hirsen concerning the corrosive effect of popular culture, specifically the cinema, on the culture at large.

Let's face it. Anna Nichole Smith, may she rest in peace and God have mercy on her soul through Our Lord Christ, was nothing but a, to use an old popular word, a hooch. She came to fame by allowing herself to be photographed naked. Granted, she had a lovely figure, but so do many other women, including the ever lovely Lady Nib who has never allowed herself to be photographed naked, and she maintained her fame by allowing herself to be photographed naked and by being incredibly dumb. She was a slow motion train wreck that, for some reason, the media, and note that this writer does not say "the public" (the public has access only to those things that the media covers), was fascinated with. This fascination with Miss Smith is really tantamount with a fascination with the strippers that one finds at one's local "Gentleman's Club." In fact, the women at the local strip joint probably have more interesting tales to tell than Miss Smith had to tell.

But for some reason the media have decided that Miss Smith's passing of this mortal coil deserves microscopic inspections of her life, her death, her children, her many assignations and her finances. In other words, your local news reader has spent the last week celebrating the life of a woman who's claim to fame was a pleasant form as if she were the leader of a major nation. To be crude, as far as the news media are concerned, boobs trump local, national or world events. That's what a degree in journalism is worth: the mentality of a fourteen year old boy drooling over a copy of Juggs magazine.

There are times when your faithful correspondent feels like sitting back in the chaise in the solarium and saying to the family maid, "Babette, sweet and lovely frogette, please bring me a G&T. And then bring me another in fifteen minutes and continue to do so every fifteen minutes until I am goggled-eyed. The you have my permission to sneak off to the pub and meet, and bill and coo with an honest young yeoman farmer as long as his name is Bill or Bob or Albert." Thinking of the state of the "entertainment" industry causes this writer to reach for the Bombay Gin and Schweppe's.

Dr. James Hirsen, who is/was a professor at Trinity College in Orange County and Biola University, in an interview on the radio program Apologetics.com this morning pointed out the intellectual dishonesty of the entertainment industry and its sense of privilege and oppose, philosophically, to the rest of us plebes who actually pay their wages.

If you, like this writer, are a conservative or reactionary, you might wonder why those in Hollywood seem so hell bound on proving to you what an idiot, dupe of the Man or sucker you are while the powers that be in the movie/television/ music industry seem to give themselves a pass for behaving badly and setting a bad example for your children. This writer has no answer except that the power in the entertainment industry is infect badly with post-modernism.

Could it be that they think that behaving badly is a good thing? Or to be more accurate, is their behaving badly is a good thing? One wonders if they would be happy knowing that the mechanic who is working on their Mercedes was so drunk that he mistook the oil filler cap for the brake fluid filler cap or stuffed an oxygen sensor into a spark plug hole. Behaving badly and showing and celebrating people proudly behaving badly is okay for them. But, of course, when their wives are caught in bed with the pool boy suddenly isn't as funny as it is in an episode of Desperate Housewives.

Consider the fact that the Hollywood elite considers itself the intellectual elite. They are above the norms of right and wrong, the moral and the immoral. Is it not a strange thing that the majority of the vocal persons in the entertainment industry oppose the death penalty while making films that celebrate murderers, sadism and sluttish behavior i.e., Saw I, II and III, Hostel, any Hannibal Lechter movie, Showgirls, Coyote Ugly. They entertainment elite denigrate the military during a time of war while the enemy, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan or in secret wars, protect said elite from the very enemy that claims that Hollywood is polluting and corrupting their world and who would, if given the chance, behead the Hollywood elites before they would behead Jerry Falwell or the Christians, or whatever stripe, who try to uphold traditional Western values. The elites seem to believe that they are above the concerns of the rest of us and use their influence to ruin the very thing that holds them up.

Back in the 1970s a French writer wrote a novel entitled The Camp of the Saints which dealt with a sudden and mass immigration of people from the Third World into Europe. One of the concerns of the novel dealt with the corruption of Western culture by people who did not value Western culture and who did not understand the value of Western culture. In one chapter of the novel there is described the experience of a man sitting in his house overlooking the beach in southern France where many ships full of Third World immigrants have beached. He waits for the inundation while cooking a supper, making sure that his rifle is loaded and listening to Mozart, who the author of the novel calls the epitome of Western music and culture. A shaggy hair French man appears in his courtyard claiming that he is simpatico with the invasion and looks forward to the overtaking of Western civilization by people who not only fix a carburetor or understand the writings of Saint Augustine, but can't even start a car or read. The homeowner listen to the shaggy man's rant for a while and then calmly shoots him dead. Consider yourself the homeowner and the entertainment industry the shaggy man.Much of it is against you and your values. They worry more about the effects of second hand smoke on your daughter than they do about influencing your daughter to become a round heels. They worry more about the deleterious effects on your son by becoming a Marine than they do about your son becoming a serial murderer preying on the daughters of other. They are more worried about you being a devout Christian than they are about you being a jihadist Muslim. Your life, as a legal and productive member of the American culture, is worth less than an illegal alien drug dealer. You are normal. You are an American. You are a Christian or Jew. You pay your taxes. You try to get your children a good education and assure them of a good life. And thus, you are, in the eyes of Hollywood, a freak and the people you consider freaks, criminals or dangerous, are the heroes.

There was a time when movies urged the viewer up. Now the movies seem to try to pull the viewer down. There was a time when fidelity to God, country, marriage were considered good things. Now (actually for the past forty years) these virtues are considered non-inclusive and what were considered vices are considered avant-garde. White and black trash behavior are celebrated by the entertainment industry and any appeal to the old values is considered an appeal by hypocrites because back in the old days occasionally some one was caught doing the nasty with his neighbor's wife or drunk on a Saturday night. Nowadays the entertainment industry doesn't even go to the trouble of being hypocrites. The industry just acts as if there is no virtue. The old saying went something like, "Hypocrisy is the price that vice pays to virtue." Now, in Hollywood, there seems to be no virtue.

Babette, bring me another G&T!

Ain't We Just a Bunch of Sissies?

This week the United States Mint will release the new one dollar coin. The Mint plans to release four one dollar coins a year. Each release will feature the portrait of a United States president on the obverse side of the coin. The first release will feature a portrait of George Washington, the second John Adams, the third Thomas Jefferson, the fourth Jame Madison and so on and so on and one shudders to see the day when the Lydon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton coins. This writer wonders why the mint just doesn't feature the concept of Liberty (whether as a woman or as an eagle) on the coin as was done in the past. But we live in the where many people are not able to understand abstract concepts.

Your faithful correspondent celebrates the release of the coin. He appreciated the last dollar coin featuring Sacajawea despite the fact that he would have much preferred the image of Squanto, the Indian who aided the Pilgrims on the coin, be portrayed than Sacajawea. Your faithful correspondent champions any dollar coin, even if it bears the image of Ray Romano, simply because it is more practical and is inherently worth more than a dollar bill. A dollar coin lasts longer than a dollar bill and is thus a better investment for the Treasury than a dollar bill.

A recently survey, for what surveys and polls are worth, has shown that about 60% of those surveyed resisted the idea of a dollar coin for one of two reasons. The first is that the size of the coin is so close to the size of a twenty-five cents piece. that the user mistakes it for a quarter despite the fact that the dollar coin has a gold colored finish on it. And indication that the user doesn't look at his or her coins before handing them over to a clerk. Oddly the same complaint does not arise when handing over a dollar bill which is the same size and color as a five, ten, twenty, fifty or one hundred dollar bill. The second is that the dollar coin will wear a hole in the pants pocket of the user. This despite the fact that there has never been a demand for paper quarters, dimes, nickels or pennies to protect peoples' Levis or Haggars because of the alleged hole problem

The men and women of our grandfather's and grandmother's generation were used to carrying around heavy silver dollars in their pockets and purses and they never complained about the coins adversely affecting their pockets. And they also carried twenty dollar gold coins which were smaller than quarters; in fact, they were about the size of nickels, and your faithful correspondent has never heard a story about someone's grandfather accidentally using a twenty dollar gold piece to pay for a five cent Nehi soda.

If the Mint had any sense, which apparently it doesn't, it would not only issue a one dollar coin, but also issue a two dollar coin and a five dollar coin for the simple reason that coins make more economical sense than do paper bills and the fact that coins represent more value than does paper. After all, your local politician's promises are written on paper. And what are they worth?

A Call for Linguistic Reformation

When the denizens of Bloody Nib Manor were young the news readers on the radio and television did not concern themselves with appearing "cool." They were concerned with appearing authoritative, knowledgeable and articulate. They did not use slang, whether common, avant garde or teen age unless there was no other word available. They did not call marijuana "pot" or "grass" or "Maryjane. They called it marijuana. They did not call young women "chicks" or use words such as "groovy" or terms such as "far out." They spoke proper American English and prided themselves on their ability to convey their thoughts and the content of the news stories using the language that was, at that time, the common currency of the land.

And in doing so they brought the level of language up from the vulgar. Various slangs were then considered outre', uneducated, trendy or the result of youthful rebellion. For an adult over the age of 22 to use teenage or street slang was a sign of either lack of education or an attempt to appear young and "with it."

Things have changed, and not for the better. For some reason slang and slangish catch phrases have infected the news and the population in general. Ask yourself this question. How many times, during the course of a day, have you heard an apparently educated and mature person say during a formal talk, not just a personal conversation, say such things as, "Hello?" (meaning pay attention or are you stupid?), "Get used to it", "Bling", "Getting real" and so on and so on.. If you, the reader, do not find this at least mildly disturbing, perhaps you are reading the wrong blog.

There is a way of speaking and writing that is proper, and there is a way of speaking and writing that is improper, for general presentation. What we seem to have here are a group of people who are more concerned about appearing in touch with the current youth and gangsta culture than in conveying ideas and concepts. Slang has it's place. And that place is in a group or subgroup. Sailors, machinists and musicians et al have their own patois that serves as a verbal shorthand for members of that group. Ethnic minorities have slang that is traditional for that group. Youth have slang to make themselves indecipherable to adults. But it is the job of those in the various media to communicate with the general population and not any particular group. Language is one of the glues that holds a culture together and the use of various slang words and terms acts as a solvent that dissolves that glue.

So let us, as speakers and writers of English, the richest language in the world despite the protestations of the vile French, work to preserve the language which has served to create the most free and creative culture the world from the infestation of our tongue by barbaric slang by protesting when our local new reader leads a story by announcing that it is about "Bling for Dawgs."