Archive for September 2011
Steyner 450rd
Action Alert
Conversion = Execution
IRAN: Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s life still hangs in the balance.. via
RT @AlecSBaldwin ”IRAN: Pastor Yousef #Nadarkhani is about to be executed for his faith. Please protest this!” ~
Propheteering
~ITEM: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn
~ AN UPDATE– So the shiftless and feckless WebElf Binks keeps saying and wanting to get back to it full-bore. Still waiting, right? What a disappointment he are.
Thing is, health is a gift from God when you gots it, and a cross to bear when it’s a bit iffy. Constant pain is a wearisome companion, but an instructor, too. Saint Paul wrote:
For this thing, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And He said unto me, “My grace is sufficient for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore will I glory rather in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. [ 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ]
What’s that? The dusty old opiate-religion of bigots & gun-clingers has a purpose & help in it? Why ‘magine that.
When all the world has to offer is pain-meds and luxury Swiss self-murder clinics, some dead ex-Jew has wisdom that is greater than the world, a gift of the Living Lord Jesus, who is greater than sin & death and hell, and bears us all in himself. He says to those who bear long suffering– and the frequent burial of too many hopes and opportunities & talents– “My grace is sufficient for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”
Sniff, Slobber
Plus, I keep on because I love you all, try to love the truth, and feel a burning in my bones to speak up and speak out. Thanks to the new Tweet-subs: I’m trying to get back on the horse, and appreciate for your patience.
Freed Up Time
Had lots of time to read in the last while, including Mark Steyn’s finest & latest book, After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. Mark gets all Biblical– in the somewhat depressing mode of Jeremiah, or the widely ignored pagan Cassandra from The Iliad. Except with lots of wry humour.
Where in Biblical times the popular prophets– think CNN pundits or NPR/ CBC talking heads– toed the party line, told the powers that be and the sheeple what they wanted to hear, and what everyody was already saying and thinking anyway… Jerry? Not so much. Gets beaten up, thrown down a well, chased out of town.. the usual for non-false prophets.
It Burns!
The word of the Lord came to him– burned within him– and would not be silenced, even though speaking it made him unpopular with just about everybody in sight, the Temple punditocracy & clergy, the police, the royal family.
Mark has taken up something in the same spirit in After America– painting in clear and uncompromising tones where we are, and what may well lie ahead.. not way way off ahead, but in the next twenty years. Further, he doesn’t just point the finger at Obama, or the current international leadership, or Nanny Statism.
It’s us.
We’re largely over-comfy, lazy, crazy, politically correct, over-spending, careless of the consequences or the future of our actions. Obama and Co. are the symptoms of our disease.
Embrace Teh Stupid
If we go back in history, the first sack of Rome in AD410 was entirely avoidable. The rulers of the city, the faltering heart of a crumbling empire, refused to allow Alaric and his tribes to settle in the North, despite promises to the same. Despite broken promises and faithless dealings, Alaric kept coming back, asking for the same thing. Finally, after threats, warnings, and beseechings, the former Roman officer released his northern wolves to plunder Rome.
He Did Ask Nicely, First
Because of the duplicity, arrogance, and cluelessness of the rulers and people, that somehow Rome could never fall to– sniff– people of that sort, it fell hard. Reality bit them in the hindparts, but not after lots of warnings and chances to turn aside.
Mark’s book is not gloomy in tone, if in subject: Steyn has a razor-fine fine sense of the hilariously absurd, the insanity of our moment, the dance over the cliff that is 2011 and onwards. Rome in her lattermost days.. but with a witty prophet telling us to wisen up.
La La La, Can’t Hear You!
His prescription is one we already know, but want to ignore– growing up; to spend less & save more as families, chop up the credit cards & lines of credit and home equity self-plundering– and to stop overspending as nations, and a civilization; figuring out the point of life, and living it; making babies, and getting back to more human patterns of living & passing on traditions and civilization.
All this calls for some bitter medicine– we take it now, and get better, or else we take it later, and watch the meltdown, balkanization, and Nanny-Statification of the west stifle us to death.
Everybody Hates Steyn
The unpleasant thing about Jeremiahs is they say what we would do anything not to hear, because we feel it in our bones to be truthsome. Mark Steyn– unlettered author, former DJ, noted Islamophobe and rabble-rouser and shill for Big Evil– has done us all a signal service in issuing this courageous call from the rooftops about what lies right ahead.
Between he and Ezra Levant, we see some honest & heroic brass, for such a time as this.
I cannot say anything more than: Read It. Think It. Do It.* ~
* P.S. Mark sent me an autographed copy of the book. I’m clearly in the pocket of Big Steyn. I had to write the above in glowing tones, or The Jew Steyn would have me snuffed.
The Jew Did It!
~ ITEM: A Saudi woman has been sentenced to 10 lashes for driving, just days after King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and run for municipal office
~ ITEM: Ezra Levant– Saudi threats a SLAPP in the face: Blocking Canadian-made ad brings a taste of Saudi Arabian censorship to Canada
~ ITEM: From The Source, Sept. 26, 2011: The Saudi King has generously given women the right to vote, but do these reforms mean anything? Guest Raheel Raza says no
Levant & Raheel Raza on religious accomodation
~ A GOOD THING is a good thing, and so the recent decision– in part via the face of pressure from Ezra Levant & the ethical oil movement– for Saudis allowing the vote & candidacy for women (albeit in 2015) is good. Basic human dignity 1, cranky wahabist Islam 0.
Then the caveats & qualifications pile up. Let’s remember:
– “By law a female rape victim is at fault for illegal ‘mixing of genders’ and is punished along with the perpetrator.”
– “The guardianship system requires that every woman have a close male relative as her ‘guardian’ with the authority to approve her travel.”
– “Women risk arrest for riding in a vehicle driven by a male who is not an employee or a close male relative.”
– “Women also faced discrimination in courts, where the testimony of one man equals that of two women.”
– “The law requires a woman to obtain the permission of a male guardian to work if the type of business is not ‘deemed appropriate for a woman.’”
Erm.. Right Then
And so on and so forth, thanks to polygamist, child-molester, & wife-stealer Mohammed & 1400 years of repeating his misogyny.
What next? The current Saudi King is by all accounts what passes for a ‘liberal’ in Saudi & Middle-Eastern terms. No doubt this decision of his will not be popular in some quarters, but as with the Wink-Wink moment when Saudis were fine with Israeli overflight to take out Iranian nuke facilities, there’s the official position, and then there’s what you think and do and allow anyway.
So Far So Good?
Now, the list is still extremely long for any serious reform of Islam, whether in the golden hallways of Riyadh, or the deepest backwaters of Hillbillistan, where they still party like it’s 999. I’m not one as thinks any religion should go progressive, that being an ever-changing dirty-laundry list of political correctness. Let’s hope & pray instead that Saudi leads the way into.. well, the 13th or 19th century. The better parts of the Magna Carta, with some Victorianism, maybe?
We should not cluck and finger-wag too much, given how our modernity hardens and mannifies a lot of women, teaching them to chemically neuter themselves, act like whores from youth up, and generally out-boss and out-pig the most piggish and bossy men. We lie to them about abortion, wonder why all the cancers spring up, and enslave their minds with Marxist-feminist nonsensery about liberation with no consequences, and that family (and biology) are disposable– whilst turning them into greedy consumers for worldly goods. It’s new-and-improved slavery– of the mind and soul.
Baby-Steps, Or A Publicity One-Off?
Still, the new voting rights are but one element, in a religion and arab culture that is pro-slavery, pro-Jihad, pro-female genital mutilation, pro boy-rape, pro-tyranny, anti-reading, anti-semitic & Israeli, anti-Christian, and religiously intolerant, especially of converts. Then there’s that whole trying to bully Canada thing.
What Next?
But a good thing is a good thing, and this new moment for human dignity & liberty or the 55% of Saudi people that is female will hopefully herald a cautious, moderate, and un-radical change, bringing a leading arab nation out of the stultifying slavery of mind, body, and soul that is the religion of Muhammed. ~
MMmm.. Juicy Mouth-Drippings!
Bottled-Water Rant Part II
Cute..and tasty!
~ SO ABOUT THOSE new-fangled aluminum water-bottles which will save us from burial in evil plastic water-bottles.. how often do we clean them? Like the rarely-laundered re-usable enviro-bags which can become havens for e.coli and bacteria and such, if you don’t wash your enviro-bottle daily, it becomes a bacterial playground full of juicy mouth-drippings– unless you always pour it into a cup, which means more dish-washing, more soap down the drain, more water-wastage. What’s an eco-freaky to do?
Ye Olden Dayes
Old-style paper & plastic grocery bags were endlessly re-used.. but not for carrying food. Likewise, regular-sized bottled water is consumed in a short time, and the bottles recycled into other things. A dirty plastic or metal reusable water bottle? Full of bacteria, viruses, mucous, spit, bits of dental plaque, blood & dead cells, fragments of old food and drink, you name it. Hardly good for your health, however environmentally correct it might be.
We’ve been swamped with scares for 40 years or more– food, products, additives & chemicals, containers, and the panic-mongers show no signs of easing up. The fits and starts about this or that emergency threatening everything and everybody get a little overwhelming, and thus dull our minds to actual problems, or telling the difference between popular scares and actual dangers. If the sky is always falling, or Peter is always crying wolf, most people turn off their ears.
The bizarre schemes and panics and rules of the ecopocalyptics are enough to make your head spin.. never mind the juicy mouth-drippings. ~
Short Takes: Verboten Topics
~ CERTAIN TOPICS are off the table in today’s free-for-all.
(1) Abortion & Breast-Cancer. Not allowed to mention any possible link or evidence, cuz consequence-free sexuality is the highest freedom.
(2) Cards instead of money? Credit-cards and bank-cards track your life. Money is inherently democratic, because it’s hard to follow: big companies can’t mind your business, note your preferences, or review & pass on your business-activities, reading materials, or travel habits to other similar corporations. Creepy.
(3) Birth-control pills kill babies, too. Spontaneous abortions result when new fetuses cannot implant, or are lost when the woman’s period starts. 5% chance of conception every month.
(4) The tax-levels in Canada are insane. We’re milked for 75% by some reckonings, via all the hidden, tax-on-tax, and ubiquitous takings from everyone everywhere to pay for the ever-larger nanny-state, and all the folks who refuse to work, and all the goodies squandered on bureaucracy and the costs of running the government itself. Little tinkerings with the GST are sops to we addled tax-cows.
(5) Fried by amusements? What are the long-term health-effects of wireless tech? Any single bit may give us a mild dose, but what about the cumulative doses from (i) your cellphone, (ii) workplace wireless network, (iii) home wireless network, (iv) bluetooth devices, (v) cell-towers, (vi) all the rest? A life bathed in such localized & constant radiations & waves & electro-magnetism means the current & future generations are exposed to We Don’t Know What, But Just Don’t Ask. Just wondering (typed on a wireless computer.. I think the Binks-nads are sizzling).
(6) Got any others? Send ‘em along via binks-dot-webelf at gmail-dot-com. ~
Just Driving Me Nuts
~ ITEM: Hollywood versus History: Kingdom of Heaven and the Real Crusades, by Daniel Hoffman; plus Four Myths about the Crusades
~ ITEM: The New Concise History of the Crusades (Critical Issues in World and International History), Thomas Madden
~ ITEM: Chronicles of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey de Villehardouin, and Caroline Smith
~ MAYBE IT’S A RISK of being a screenwriter, or of holding Hollywood preconceptions, but I really dislike story-benders. Not letting people or history or events speak for themselves– and then putting our own words and thoughts in their mouths– is arrogant, blind, and unjust. It also whitewashes and confuses the past.
To take one example, the only modern Crusader flick– Kingdom of Heaven– rapes the past to tell a skewed and revisionist 19th and early 20th century version of the eeeevil Crusades. Even though the history is there– sometimes in the very words of the participants and observers themselves– Ridley Scott insisted on making a “We Suck” version of the crusades, where all the good guys are on the Jihad side.
Read this article (by Right Girl’s uncle, no less) on all the historical details & facts steamrolled by Mr. Scott, who was (of course) bullied by local Muslims while filming that project. Ironical, no?
Unplug Ears, Off The Blinders
For history to speak, you have to take off the blinders, turn off the political correctness, and see what there is to see. There’s lots of good anti-revisionist books & websites out there, including Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics) by Jean de Joinville, Geffroy de Villehardouin and Caroline Smith; Thomas Madden’s The New Concise History of the Crusades, as well as Muslim and Byzantine histories of the time. There’s the detailed world of archaeology, extant castles and buildings, and even the more recent excavations and history of the Massacre at Jacob’s Ford, where an incomplete crusader castle was the scene of a bloodbath committed by the Muslims.
That is, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it’s not hard (though perhaps uncommon) to find & know the real deal. 4-500 years before the Crusades, the Jihad began, eating up much of the Roman (and Christian Empire) of East and West, submitting Persian and Arabian and African and European and Asian Christians and Jews and pagans under the sword, Sharia law, and third-class citizenship. Then the Crusades happened, and for another 400 years (give or take) the Muslims were pushed or held back.. then Europe gave up or couldn’t get it together, the Byzantines fell, and the jihad was on again. It still is.
We Lost, Right?
For many Muslims, the Crusades have become an excuse for hating us– even though they were the original conquerors, and they won. That our simultaneously smug and pandering creative classes & academics can only mock and misrepresent and rewrite history for political reasons (and have that picked up by the Islamic hateocracy)? It demonstrates the madness of our times, when all people and facts must be parrots and puppets and mouthpieces for ideology.
Polly wanna cracker? ~
Big Damn Hero
Adam Baldwin Music Video Tribute
~ ADAM BALDWIN– no relation to those other ones– is a talented American actor, and one of the stars of the greatest TV series ever, FireFly. There he skilfully played brutal meathead & mercenary for hire Jayne Cobb, since it takes a smart man to truly play a dumb guy.
Thing is, Adam’s a real-life Big Damn Conservative Hero, in a Hollywood where too many actors aren’t as heroic as the characters they play. A former Democrat, he read former Communist David Horowitz’s book Radical Son, and underwent a dramatic political conversion.
Now, Baldwin Tweets a great deal, and writes on BigHollywood.com – demonstrating that there’s an equally big brain inside his 6’4″ muscly self. All those dangerous books out there, threatening to mess with your political correctness– it’s a truthful world out there.
A Manly Man
For this fan of Baldwin’s work (he’s been in everything for years), that takes it above admiration for his talent, into seeing him as a true man of courage & commitment– like conservative actor John Voight (Dad to Angelina Jolie)– bucking the political trends in TV and Hollywood, and speaking out loudly and intelligently about what he sees that is wrong in America, the world, the jihad, and much more.
One person can make a huge difference in the world, and for everybody else, near or far. Even if it may have cost him jobs or the limelight, clearly Mr. Baldwin knows that truth and goodness and speaking out is more important than fleeting fame, riches, or the approval of the leftward American media-clique.
You can see him these days on TV’s Chuck, doing teh tough & funny. ~
John Casey Presents: So You Want to Be a Deadly Spy?
Binks
Shorter Steynian 449st
We Lesser Sons?
~ ITEMS: Arab anger; CTV– Coward TV; Saudi assault
~ ITEM: Feminist hypocrites silent on Saudi censorship of Canadian commercial
~ THE CORRUPTOCRAT tyrants of the Kingdom of Saud (having only just banned human slavery– officially– in the 1960s), now hope to tell the free nation of Canada what to do and not to do about a commercial advocating ethical oil. Appeasement and slavery, anyone?
Now the friendly face is off.. and lo, our oil pushers (who use our loot to promote their brand of sharia and global jihad, as well as supporting Al Qaeda and other such groups, and quietly funding radicalized mosques everywhere) reveal the Sauronish iron-mailed fist inside the velvet glove. There’s always a price to pay to the mafia.. sooner or later.
This is– of course– another aspect of the push for a world-wide Shariastan. All nations and people enslaved unto Allah is the big picture, ever since the pirate head-chopper & Jew-killer got his jihad on is what is now western Saudi Arabia, back in the AD600s. Let’s remember that a majority of the 9/11 mass-murderers were Saudi, too.
Come The Yellow-Bellies
The planetary clucking in response to scary-noises from jihadis and their state-sponsors (and Western law-whores) now comes to a new level– will we (as with the Muhammed cartoons) back off, back down, and destroy our freedoms and duties our own selves? CTV leads the way! Will the Harper government put up with such naked interference in our national Canadian business by a foreign realm? Time will tell.
Proposed New CTV Mascot: The Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
What Used To Be
Mean old Hitler massed all of German might & manpower and industry toward world domination back in the day.. but isn’t it much more handy if the proposed conquerees just go ahead and do it themselves, without all the ruckus in the middle? Heck, after D-Day Canadians were so determined that the Brits had to invent new (higher) categories of unit-damage to account for it; and eyewitnesses noted that some of the toughest German units would often rather surrender to Canucks than take the punishment. So much for the past.
Joooooooooz!
Once again, the evil Jew Ezra Levant* is behind it all. Ethical Oil? His book, and his fault.. and then the gubmint took it up as policy. Keeping uppity on his SUN-TV show? His fault.
He is a Canadian hero– the uppity conscience that too many in the official media are trying to lose, murder, betray. This controversy is what the end of a civilization looks like– Greco-Romano Judaeo-Christian civilization merely surrendered. The heirs of Moses, Plato, Leonidas, Cicero, Jesus, Charlemagne, the Crusaders, and all the rest? Ready to meekly hand over what others fought and bled and pondered and died for. We & too many politicos and media-folks have become the bland and lesser men of greater fathers, content in our comforts, willing to stand and die for nothing whatsoever.
Loserist Loserism
Herein is judged the secularist project, the nanny-state, the multi-culti cultism, and big-bottomed feminism– denying all goodness in who we are, and the supremacy of any and all other ideologies– even those which would silence, enslave, and erase our over-tolerant civilization in the name of their religion.
Time to remember who we are, and what has been entrusted to us as a treasure and inheritance to pass on, not to deliver up to the latest bullying sons of a desert pirate and his insane god.
Dear Saudi rulers.. bugger off, and go pound sand. Ahem. ~
* Of course Ezra’s supporting the Oil Sands. It’s a Canadian success story. That he’s not in the pocket of Big Eco is what grieves the critics so much.. plus, he won’t pipe down, and does a great job.**
** After the recent flood, and the loss of many Binks-books (including my autographed copy of Ethical Oil), the Jew Ezra kindly sent along another copy. Clearly, I am in the pocket of Big Ezra, and will sell my soul to support him, no matter what. Except The Evil Jew Steyn sends me books, too– so many masters, so little time!***
*** Binks= Not For Sale. Don’t get ideas, Saudi.
Little Bottles Of Life*
And We Missed It. Shucky-darn.
~ SO YER CLEVER and uppity busybody inbred-city-types (and their idiot rural inlaws, and all the obedient eco issue-clones) keep coming up with teh newfangled stupid, because (1) big reliable operational cities & modern systems are the only real, and (2) said smarter-than are SO much smarter than more realistic types, because of their goormay coffees, and ironical chatter, and fancy experiences.
What was one of the first things off the trucks after Hurricane Katrina? Cool, clear water- 200 000 cases in the first weeks. In those ubiquitous & hand-sized plastic bottles, full of liquefied dihydrogen monoxide**, H2O, sweet, sweeet Adams’ Ale.
Stick this in your craw, eco-flaky city-twerps: bottled water saves lives. Yes, even the dreaded plastic water-bottles of horror. What– you wanted poor blacks to die of dehydration?
Use Your Noggin
Imagine.. just for one moment.. your water-system fails. Or gets polluted.. or attacked.. or hit by a storm. What’s that? You need to refill it, you say? Here’s a plastic water bottle, of fresh, clean, unpolluted water.. oh wait– didn’t you and your ilk locally ban those last year? You are welcome to clutch your little aluminum water-container as hard as you wish, it will not pour forth water for you. Same for your Brita. Try the ditch, or the pond, or the lake. Word has it you can even drink your urine once or twice through. Best of luck, then.
Every rural dweller knows: water can’t be taken for granted. Many homes have wells, water coolers, filters & softeners, downspout barrels, and even bottled water big and small, Just In Case. Some communities have dodgy water-systems. Everywhere can get storms, power-failures, and other short or long-term emergencies. Every time a big storm threatens here, we grab an extra refill for the water-cooler.
Taken For Granted
It goes without saying that bottled water should be tested, clean, safe, and all that good stuff. Selling unhealthy water is evil, and bad business.
Time is long-past when micro-minded urbanites (and their idiot rural in-laws) should be dictating & banning and nagging based on the assumption that we’ll always have working & safe giant urban water-systems. This is a kind of blindness, as if They (The Nanny-State) have made things so safe and predictable that the proposed general banning of the convenient mass-production of bottled water in plastic water-bottles is a mere afterthought.
Because sometime, sooner or later, Just In Case comes along. ~
* This message not brought to you by The Bottled water Uber Alles Global Syndicate, a.k.a. Big Water.
** Available as a Binks-shirt.
Cheating With pictures
~ ANALOGY, or word-pictures, are the root of science and philosophy, as well as thinking and speaking. The a-tom (a Greek idea): the indivisible basic itty-bitty particle. Light? Kinda a particle (like an atom).. but also wave-like (like water), too –hence, not exactly easily described or nailed down. After all, analogy fails at a certain point because what is, is its own self, and not our “kinda like” word-pictures of it.
The problem comes when we forget that our language is not reality, and stuff is more mysterious than we might imagine. An August 2010 National Geographic article about prehistoric whales which I read during some recent pondering time in the Binkses’ washroom liberry struck me as falling into this subtle but serious confusion. Hence:
“Around 45 million years ago, as the advantages of a water environment drew whales farther out to sea, their necks compressed and stiffened to push more efficiently through the water, behind faces lengthening and sharpening like a ship’s prow. Hind legs thickened into pistons; toes stretched and grew webbing, so they resembled enormous duck’s feet tipped with tiny hooves inherited from their ungulate ancestors…. Selection pressure for this efficient style of locomotion favoured longer and more flexible spinal columns.”
And so on and so forth.
Here Comes Chuck
Dear olde Darwin was a progressive son of the industrial age, when the historical and material forces of improvement and development were taken for granted; when mechanical depictions of reality replaced older ideas of creation. ‘Evolution’ was as much about Michael Faraday, or steam engines, or the cotton gin as it was an accurate depiction of the complex reality of living beings and how they change over time.*
That is, the above description of prehistoric whales seems sounds like an inventor adjusting and improving his hand-crafted machine, and not actual evidence or proof of the theory itself. Clearly, the 19th century idea of everything getting better and brighter and more efficient.. you know, like the latest hot appliance with newer and better features than the previous model.. lies behind Darwin’s ideas, and the whale-researcher’s attempt to describe whale fossils.
Humans have habits of thought, often tied to the Big Ideas of the day. Why do we moderns assume things always get better? What about death? Mass extinctions? Why shouldn’t creatures devolve now and again? Oh wait– God redeems, remakes, transforms.. generally upwardly. Let’s keep the direction, ditch the deity, but hush-hush on where the upwards comes from, right? Mighty oaks come from tiny acorns!.. but the acorn didn’t make itself.
Sneaking In The Back
Of course, inventors and science-nerds do improve technology– or at least make it smaller and cheaper and all that. Every day is amazing in the world of technology, and human power.
Scientific materialism is a theory. ‘Evolution’ is dishonest if you boot any notion of divine agency out the front door, but sneak in mechanical inventor ideas in the back door. It’s a slight of hand, trying to hide creative forces inside the creation & creatures. Talking about ‘selection’ or ‘nature’ or ‘the universe’ or whatever, but having a scientific inventor idea in the rhetorical hind-pocket? Cheating.
Singer & Song
The alternatives are not and were never ‘science’ versus ‘religion’; nor God against evolution. If God makes things, surely it is in a somewhat more complicated way than an engineer makes a design, or a factory makes a car. That stuff tends upwards, that life tends to work really really well, that there are so many and various forms of life now, and in the fossil record? Neither a ‘proof’ of Darwinism, nor a simplistic creationism where God winds stuff up at the beginning and lets it race around with no further influence.
If God exists, then the relation of divine activity to the universe of created objects might be more like a singer and a song; or a face and a mirror; or a painter and his paintings– except the singer is livingly in the song as it is being sung, and as the notes also each sing themselves. It’s both-and, since (if he exists) God is not a creature, but the creator. Nor is his relation to individual elements or living beings in creation that of an inventor to a car. Sorry.. more analogies just there.
That makes more sense to me than self-inventing whales. ~
* The Binks is not in the pocket of Big Evolution, or Big Intelligent Design. He just likes spouting off in general. I fully and cheerfully confess to being in-pocketed by Big Jesus.
The Son of God, By Whom All Things Were Made
Binks
In Memoriam: 2001-2011
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
He Told Us So
~ ITEM: Mark Steyn: From ‘Let’s roll’ to ‘Let’s roll over’
~ ITEM: Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II by G. K. Chesterton, Michael W. Perry and Winston S. Churchill
~ THE EVIL & UPPITY Infidel Prof, a.k.a. Dr. Mark Mercer of St. Mary’s U in Halifax, is a friend of this blog & blogger. He consistently sends along books from Teh Wishlist every three or four months– and the last dose were great. New translations of Iliad & Odyssey; the Penguin edition of The Life Of Alfred The Great; and the prize of them all, Chesterton on War and Peace.
Everybody must read them some GK Chesterton– he’s funny, smart, to the point, and usually gets to the obvious.. and stays there.. years ahead of anybody else. The Mark Steyn of his time, except (dare we say it) even better.
This book is a well-footnoted and appendixed edition of the best of his articles from the London Illustrated Weekly, before, during, and after The Great War, or WWI. He might as well be writing of 2011 as 1911.
Cometh Teh Steyn
Mark Steyn writes on the 10th anniversary of 9/11:
“..we commemorate an act of war as a “tragic event,” and we retreat to equivocation, cultural self-loathing, and utterly fraudulent misrepresentation about the events of the day. In the weeks after 9/11, Americans were enjoined to ask “Why do they hate us?” A better question is: “Why do they despise us?” And the quickest way to figure out the answer is to visit the Peace Quilt and the Wish Tree, the Crescent of Embrace and the Hole of Bureaucratic Inertia….”
In World War I, it was called Appeasement: peace at any price, even surrender. Appease Teutonism & military aggression & atrocities and treaty-breaking and land-invading, even if it meant the fall of Britain and the democratic West, and embracing every lie and half-truth from the German government. Any price would be high enough, as Chesterton pointed out of the logical consequence of appeasing the enemy.
The main thing Chesterton pointed out was this: militarily aggressive Prussianism was the real heart of the conflict. The German super-raced was destined to rule over all others. If this was not humiliated, defeated, and stabbed through the heart as a national ideology in World War I, it was only a matter of time before it rose anew to plague the world. He was writing in 1915 an onwards about that.. while German Corporal Adolf Hitler was busy in the trenches, not yet on a national stage.
The Fuhrer In The Making
England and America won the military side of that first war, but not the essential part. So, twenty years later, an even more demonic form of Prussianism metastasized across Europe, cooperating with racialist Imperial Japan, and a truly global world war began. And all that, despite years of denial and slavish appeasement from the Western powers. Imagine.
“I say, Herr Hitler.. that’s one happenin’ ‘stache you gots there!”
Cometh The Airliner-Bombs
Post 9/11 (otherwise known as 1993 WTC Attack, Part Deux), with “Let’s Roll” by Neil Young, and Paul McCartney’s “Freedom” (both later semi-recanted as The Usual Multi-Culti Cowardice re-asserted itself), American political and religious and other differences were left aside– the United States was bloodied, and the human ash was still sifting down the streets of Manhattan. So okay, the songs weren’t great, but they were something.
Sadly, suckled on Soviet money and post-Vietnam angst, the appeasing spirit has not ceased from that day to this– we deserved it, why do they hate us, more dialogue. It’s sucking up to the Kaiser & moral insanity all over again.. except so much worse, for having failed in the 19-teens and the 1930s.
War, War War 24/7
True Jihad is perpetual war, until all submit. That’s why Mohammed and his successors speak of the Dar Al Islam (House Of Islam), and the Dar Al Harb (House Of War).
Some enlightened Muslim thinkers and writer extrapolated that into purely spiritual categories, but the Ottoman Empire continued the war of expansion & conversion well into the 17th century.. and they only stopped due to internal problems, and having their asses handed to them at the navel battle of Lepanto, and the twice-stopped Vienna excursions. Of course if you ask the Greeks and Armenians and Kurds about the loveable Turks and their Jihadified militarism, you’ll know the ugly hasn’t stopped.
Here’s the point: most of the Muslim world lives in the long past. They do not relate to the modern world, and much of what they do “know” about us is what comes across on TV & DVDs. Many Westerners do worship technology and the state and comfort and sexual freedom, not God. Sometimes Teh Binks wonders what our very own medieval ancestors would make of us (you know, the people after whom we are surnamed).. might they not be tempted to crusade against us, as cowardly post-Christian people who love evil and indolence and our own power?
This Means War
In any case, we’re at war.. and have been for 1400 years. It’s the true world war, since Mohammed the land-pirate and blasphemer and head-chopper got his conquest on in the early 600s. That war sometimes sleeps, or rages off our radar, but it’s always on, converting, destroying, mutating human nature into the image of Mohammed.
That 10% of the Muslim world is Jihadi and 40% supportive and 90% pro-global sharia law for everybody on earth? Them there’s the facts. Our cowardice or make-believe or self-hatred are an appeasing luxury, a form of madness, and the possible precursor to our slow self-defeat and surrender, if not religious civil war in Europe and North America.
Islam means “SUBMIT”– as in enslavement. It’s them or us, and the more we soft-pedal the facts, the more likely we are to win all the high-tech battles, and lose the war.
Chesterton did forewarn us a century ago, after all.
Remember. ~
Steynicle 448rd
~ OKAY, so it’s been super-slow here.. for some of us, the operation is the small thing, the recovery the long and winding road. Anyhow, I’ve been writing odds and ends of little essays.. no news links, that’s seriously energy-consuming.. so I hope you enjoy.
Binks
On 9-11 & Conspiracies
~ ITEM: Peterlance.com
~ ITEM: Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI– and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him
Peter Lance on TRIPLE CROSS his new 9/11 book
~ OF COURSE the Jews did it to make the Muslims look bad, along with BushChenyBurton and the Illuminati. With bells on. Though it’s also a Muslim Brotherhood/ Qaeda victory against the Amiriki infidel, in the 1400 year Jihad.
If investigative reporter & author & Honey Badger Peter Lance is to believed, the modern history of America & Terrorism is all about screw-ups and cover-ups. He’s one of the few in the U.S. persistently interested in WTF, and the old reportorial who what when where and why stuff, which too much modern media can’t be bothered with, whilst bashing Mrs. Palin, or slagging the Teapot Party. CNN/ MSNBC, the New York Times, and the rest (minus the yeoman work of a few hard-working reporters) are infotainers and echo-chambers.
In a set of supremely researched & detailed books, Lance reconstructs what Bin Laden, the CIA/ FBI, Department of Justice and various armed forces did in the face of infiltration and attacks. Compartmentalize, downplay evidence, treat Qaeda like individual mobsters, and cover up whatever made them look bad.
The warnings found & known by some for all that happened on the ’93 and 2001 WTC attacks not to mention the USS Cole, Khobar Towers, and more); the terror-attacks were preventable, and weren’t. Remember: all of this is related to the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and the reality that the FBI/ CIA– and to some extent, the armed forces of the U.S., were still ready to fight a state, not a spider’s web of terror-connections aiming at humiliating and bullying the Great Satan.
If you want to know the whole story, I’m currently reading Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI–and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him (whew), which reads like a detective novel, except too many of the higher-ups covered up, ignored, didn’t want to know, or failed to pass on basic information & agent footwork that might have saved thousands of lives and untold suffering at the hands of Allah’s kamikazis.
Conspiracy? Yup, of human nature, pride & hubris, negligence and incompetence, suppressed evidence, bureaucratic self-protection, and how a group of evil men used our weaknesses and generousity against us to attack us. Lay aside The 9-11 Report: that’s the official idiot version of the facts, all chopped up and shaped retroactively to make the U.S. and her watchdogs look good. “A conspiracy to cover up incompetence” as Lance puts it.
Too many cops wreck the pursuit of truth & justice. And a good reporter– reading all the evidence & facts– can still connect the dots. ~
P.S. Get the updated 2009 version of Triple Cross, with new information, preface, and updates.
What’s A Hater To Do?
~ ACCORDING TO THE Speech Coders, those who are even slightly critical of anybody about anything are (1) not only about to burst into open violence, and (2) will thence let loose a giant societal conflagration which only speech-codes and bureaucrats and lawyers can prevent.
What’s a hater to do?
Here in the Binks suburban paradise, it’s a veritable playground of hate-objects and provocation. We got yer fags, yer nigras, yer chinee, yer ay-rabs.. all within a 4-block radius! We conservatives are just time-bombs ready to go off. So many hate-objects, so little time.
It was worse at college: Muslims, a dwarf, a Chinese poet, Libyans, Bermudans & Jamaicans, a veritable united nations of potential hate-objects. Except I was friends with all of the above, if they were friendly. Who were they? Where had they been? What was their life like at home, and what did they think of Canada?
So far, I have yet to rage on any local targets. Why? Because I believe in minding my own business; because civic peace is a gift from God; because true tolerance means accepting views or behaviour or differences with which one disagrees, while reserving the right to oppose, critique and exercise my God-given reason and freedom to speak the truth as I have received and pondered it. The democraphobes at the Human Rights Commissariats may imagine that democracy needs constant supervision, adjustment and interference to even survive– but I’d say it’s their own interference which is the greatest threat to civil society, law & order, and peace between people.
Liberals talk a great game, but they seem to prefer comrades who are ideologically identical, whatever their gender, colour or background. Heaven help the dissenter, the ex-Liberal, the unlucky person who gets off the talking points of the revolution. Who’s the hater? ~
On Interblog Anonymity
~ ITEM: Lord Credo (@lord_credo) is well known to those interested in politics on Twitter
~ ITEM: Lord Credo vanishes from Twitter after exposé
~ ITEM: The Incredible Lord Credo
~ ITEM: Lord Credo ‘outed’ on twitter
~ ITEM: Lord Credo was nominated for a Shorty Award!
~ BINKY HAS BEEN online under that name since 1998 (if not before, on smaller sites). The blog-battles over anonymity are usually about some folks hiding behind a pseudonym, or others using such a cloak to lie about themselves.. that’s not me.
The Twitterverse is currently all a-twitter over a former Binks-buddy who used anonymity to tell tales, lie, and misrepresent himself as a UK government insider. Amazingly, he got to be in the top 10 of UK political tweeters. Go figure. IMHO, the equally pseudonymous but authentic Cranmer blogger seems to me to have more and better info, cred, and insider insight, but some people are over-impressed by an imaginary CV and big-name-dropping.
I hope my former friend gets the spiritual and psychological and marital healing he needs– though like many folks with such troubles, they can be rather clever at avoiding reality, consequences, and real change for the better.
This writer has only once or twice misused this online pulpit– and when called on it, apologized, retracted, and otherwise made amends. As St. Peter warns, we are to live “As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.” [ 1 Peter 2:16 ]
You see, I believe that even if only a few dozen fellow-bloggers know who I “really” am, that my Lord & saviour and Judge knows first and forever who I am. In this sense, lying or lashing out or being unaccountable is rather consequence-laden, because of the nature of God.
Here endeth the sermon. Get well, Mike. ~
Retelling The Tales
Beowulf & Grendel Movie Trailer – 2005
~ STORIES MUST be allowed to tell themselves– witness Beowulf, that pagano-Christian epic poem of abiding power & significance. Despite a powerful CG effort in 2007 and Gerard Butler’s 2005 storm-plagued production, for too many moderns, stories are for us to retell our abiding lies and favourite confusions.
In both versions, it’s the eco-post-colonial guilt fest that warps the tale, however technically told or well-acted. We are simultaneously great enough to know all things, including the fact that we Westerners are horrible wreckers, pillagers, and destroyers of nature and cheerful innocent native folks. We suck, and everything ever is our fault.. and there’s no merciful grace of God to make it right.
Back To Beginnings
Thus, for the bard who composed Beowulf, the ogre Grendel simply is– a force of nature, bloody and malicious and single-minded. Think tiger on steroids. Small T-rex on a tear. Can’t have that.
Thus, Beowulf the warrior is pagan courage and Christian virtue against the power and darkness of nature and human nature unredeemed by God. Without form & void and all that.
Yet in these retellings, it’s– inevitably for this narcissistic age– All About Us. ‘Cuz we suck, right?
Thus, in the live-action version, it turns out that the ogre Grendel is the wronged son of a murdered father.. murdered, it turns out, by the Danish King Hrothgar. Years later, Grendel party-crashes Hrothgar’s new golden hall. In the digital Beowulf, the problem is that Grendel has over-sensitive hearing. What’s a monster to do? The insensitive Danish neighbours can’t stop from singing and the like.. you know, the loud-rocking neighbours of a innocent handicapped victim. We suck, right?
Semi-Human Rights Commission?
Since there’s no dark age Danish Disabilities Association or Semi-Human Rights commission to execute bloodless bureaucratic justice, who can blame the outraged victim from taking matters into his own hands?
Plus, in the digital tale, it also turns out that Hrothgar had in the past done the rumpy-bumpy with the Grendel’s mummy.. the witch/dragon/ogress. So really, the noisy swiving hairless monkeys more than had it coming.. indeed, Grendel is actually Hrothgar’s own misbegotten child. A classic tale of Danish deadbeat dads, and how much we all suck. “We men are the monsters, now.”
Your Treasures.. Read!
When all the tales are untold, all the stories bent into fun-house mirrors of our own folly, we literally have no eyes to see, or ears to hear, or wit to understand the world, ourselves, God, society, good and evil, or even just a good old kick-ass epic. When the Iliad & Odyssey are remade into nanny-state nags about recycling, diversity, tolerance; when the Bible becomes a source for progressive talking-points; when all the nursery tales are mutated into sickly-sweet effusions of self-esteem and the monocultural rants of the moment? Then we are become the monsters, eating and regurgitating and turning gold into lead, and wine into water.
The cure? Read a good version of the old stories yourself, with commentaries or videos or wise books by conservative commentators. Take up the Greek poets in one hand, with Anthony Esolen’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization in the other. Or Dante’s Divine Comedy as translated by Dorothy L. Sayers.. read alongside C.S. Lewis’ literary essays. Or Beowulf as translated by Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
Too long the over-educated barbarians in ivory towers have greedily held these treasures as their own. If the West would recover the dream, our own memory restored– then our minds and thoughts and stories must be set free from the zombie-like death of political correctness, where all tales are one. ~
Aliens Mean What-Now?
~ THIS MEDIA-NERD is a big Peg-N-Frost fan: Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz, and whatever else. Sadly, the underwhelming Paul (2011) has few high-notes and some jarring low-notes, despite the able performance of Kristen Wiig as a uber-fundie caricature.
There’s the jarring bit.. Why did they take time to recycle the “Look! Christers Are Morons Just Like Thi-yus!” It’s not only easy, it’s lazy… they could have easily taken refuge in (say) a Western U.S. Orthodox monastery with a thoughtful monk or something. Or drop by my sprawling pad for a nosh & chat, and some complementary Glenlivet.
All Melty and Hurty
After all, The Elf has already made it clear that If God Exists, then given the right conditions, There Are Aliens. Period, QED.
Mind you, we better hope the Muslim Brohoodish Mohammedans don’t get to other inhabited worlds first, or they’ll be blowing up the off-world cultural artifacts of those infidel aliens as soon as you can say “Asplode That There Buddha!” Then the offended aliens– supposing we earthers are all such morons, will surely go all laser-ray on our asses and so the world ends neither bang or whimper, but all melty and hurty.
Still, the fundie-bashing in Paul is done with some humour– and is a good reminder that humour and mockery and making light of terrorist and sharia supremacism is the best response to a fascist faith, not cowering, apologizing, or readying ourselves (and others) for chains.
Spot The Evils
The horrible Norwegian massacre by the “Christian extremist” proves my point– liberal talking heads and propagandist Muslims all jumped on the bandwagon, making clear that “Tu Quoque!” (Oh yeah? You too!) is not dead. That the guy was technically but not livingly Christian? Well, take him and all the thousands of other similar bombings, beheadings, poisoned tea after church committed by bloodthirsty Christers, and there you have it.
A wise, informed, tough, determined Christianity is the root of our civilization. That we are trying to make new ways of being human apart from our spiritual roots is the root of our rot and current confusions. We’ve got to sort ourselves out.
Mohammedans should mind their own house and business when it comes to terrorism, bad government, oppression of the masses, and the fact that properly taken, reactionary Islam is not reason, culture, freedom, or science-friendly.. it’s pre-Medieval in all the bad ways. ~
Gleevil: It’s Pompous & Faggy!
~ ITEM: ‘Glee’: 19 Brilliant Brittany Quotes
~ FOR SOME IN THE TV industry, it’s all about the sermons. Can you say Curt Glee?
Some of it is the 80′s TV-show Fame; some high-school teen drama; some actual humour.. but the poop in the soup is Teh Gay. Clearly, the political message outweigh drama, humour, plot, legality, reality, even basic human nature.
In season one, Teh Gay Teen, Kurt, is a kind of high-drama hand-puppet for Teh Gay. he– unlike anybody else in the show– is literally sinless, and is never criticized in any serious way. He’s kinda vicious, scary, and is given the moral high ground at every turn.
At one point, in order to try and coerce another teen into a relationship, Teh Gay Kid hooks up his widowed father with the other teen’s widowed mother.. then connives at getting the boy’s family to move in, so he can force the other boy to share a bedroom with him. The other teen explodes, and goes on a ‘faggy’ rant– so ensues 5 minutes of brow-beating & sermonizing about Teh Gay. Restraining Order, anyone?
Excuse me? Imagine a boy trying to seduce a teen girl in this bizarre way, and you see the freakish nature of the situation: only then, you blame the GIRL for thinking it’s creepy and inappropriate and upsetting? Not so much. But remember– Teh Gay Teen can do no wrongs.
The music is nice; some of the actors & their characters are enjoyable, bt the world they live in is morally ugly. There are no healthy normal marriages; the two gay dads seem to be the most stable couple; those opposed to Teh Gay or general moral anarchy are depicted as hypocrites, idiots, or secret sympathizers; it’s as predictable as a Punch & Judy screenplay.
What a waste. More importantly, since it’s aimed at teens, the propaganda aspect– which they also get at school– is sad. Pride extremism is a blindly dogmatic totalitarian ideology, which brooks no dissent, and can stand no criticism or contradiction.
The one bright spot is the charmingly stupid cheerleader Brittany, who has all the best lines. “People thought I went on vacation but actually, I spent the summer lost in the sewers.”
More honest story & humour, less preachifying and bullying, please. ~
Binks
