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Pray For Oklahoma

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God bless the rescuers, helpers, medical workers, and the injured and mourning.

HOW TO HELP OKLAHOMA

~ At least 91 killed in Moore tornado, hundreds injured after two-mile wide tornado pulverizes Oklahoma City

~ 43 PICTURES OF THE JAW-DROPPING DESTRUCTION IN OKLAHOMA; Out of the Rubble, the Children of Moore, Oklahoma

~ Donate to Mercury One– The Mercury One Disaster Relief Fund exists to help people whose lives have been torn apart by disaster.

~ Convoy of hope: Glenn Beck arrives in Okla. with two truckloads of food, water and diapers, broadcasts from Oklahoma

~ If you care to help: Americans, Text STORM to 80888 for Salvation Army, REDCROSS to 90999 or FOOD to 32333 for $10 donations.

~ Pray for Oklahoma

~ Scumbags will politicize– Glenn Thrush notes Okla. senators are ‘spending skeptic’ and ‘global warming denier’. Cuz, you know, tornadoes never hit Oklahoma before the GorbalWarmings got talked about; and Daily Show Co-Creator: Oklahoma Tornado ‘Ordered to Only Target Conservatives’; and “Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming.” ~


The Long Defeat

~ ITEM: Eucatastrophe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; Eucatastrophe – Tolkien Gateway

~ ITEM: A Long Defeat, A Final Victory

~ ITEM: More on Tolkien and the “Long Defeat”

~ ITEM: Pamela Geller struck back at the Toronto Board of Rabbis (TBR) for a critical statement it issued just hours before her appearance Monday night at the Zionist Centre

~ ITEM: Word From The Orcs– Hypocrite Khomeinist Gloats Over Pamela Geller Dust Up

~ HE’S A FRIEND, and an Anglican bishop– he looked at me and said “Cheerup: it’s going to get much worse.” He meant the Anglican world & the dying Anglican sect in Canada a dozen years ago (he was right), but I think I would apply it to the wider world.

The Bible is a story of defeat, until the surprise ending which is revealed in Christ, and in the Book of Revelation. J.R.R. Tolkien called it a “eucatastrophe”, the joyful seemingly impossible rescue at the uttermost extremity. Tolkien said:

“The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.”

Remember what’s up when Gollum finally falls into the heart of Mount Doom and the One Ring is destroyed, after Frodo failed in his task? The Army Of The West is surrounded on all sides by the forces of Mordor before the Black Gates, fighting before death comes and the heroes and army go down to defeat.

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Worse, this comes as the seeming end of “The Long Defeat”– Galadriel says to Frodo:

“For the Lord of the Gladhrim is accounted the wisest of the Elves of Middle-Earth, and a giver of gifts beyond the power of kings. He has dwelt in the West since the days of dawn, and I have dwelt with him years uncounted; for ere the fall of Nargothrond or Gondolin I passed over the mountains, and together through the ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.” (Mirror of Galadriel, LOTR)

“The phrase “long defeat” comes from J. R. R. Tolkien, who in The Lord of the Rings puts it in the mouth of Galadriel, and in a letter uses it himself: he wrote,

“I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.”

Battling Bravely

The Evil Pamela Geller – Toronto May 2013
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Pam Geller is a prophet to and for our times: speaking about the Long Defeat of Western Civilization to Jihad, risen like zombies in our day, before pandering politicos and the shivering media and the largely ignorant masses. We are rather like the hobbits, who as the Elves and Aragorn point out in The Fellowship Of The Ring, only enjoy their peace and can take it for granted because others protect their borders against the real evils that surround the peaceful Shire.

Things are going mostly badly right now, guys. Not to speak out, donate, read up, encourage the happy warriors at the front is to take the side of the barbarians & orcs assailing The West. We are at the point of decision. The comfy years of 1960-2005 may not have prepared us to do right and suffer and fight, but the time has come, nonetheless.

Cheer up, it is– and is going to get– much, much worse. ~


The Blorg!.. Its ALIIIIVE!

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~ COMING BACK to persistent blogging (we hopes, preciousss), I am reminded constantly by the blog of things to write, links to note, sentences to polish, pithy thentences to compose, and catchy title for a whole descending flow of essay to ensue.

At night, when I start to doze after prayer, lo, the precious blog is wandering about in my sleepy skull, picking flowers and stray thoughts. I waken sleepless or needing the necessary, and start writing interesting stuff that my waking self may or may not recall. I walk Wee Wallace, Wonderdog of Many Dooms, and rehash past bloggings, and wonder what else to say that is of bare worth to cast out my swine before pearls unto the world.

The precious blogses is alive– it`s been waiting, slumbering.. it WANTS to be written!

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This is, of course, the sense of mysterious inspiration which led the Greeks to suppose the bemusing and amusing divine Muses, who gave rise to the various arts. I`m not blaming any of them for my efforts, or claiming pagan or divine inspiration for these digital scribblings– only that the blog is.. somehow.. alive. Has, as it were, a mind and imagination and will of its own.

The Preciousss!

A-Burning In The Bones

The Muses are a pagan foreshadowing of the experience of the ancient Hebrew prophets, from Moses onwards– the Word of the Lord comes to them, unbidden, in vision and miracle, and in undeniable inward persistence.

Jeremiah, who was called to directly take on the King, court, priests and all of Judah`s high and mighty establishment, found that though he wanted to keep quiet, it was not to be–

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary from holding it back, and I could not. (Jeremiah 20:9)

The precious blogses is alive– it`s been waiting, slumbering.. it WANTS to be written! ~

P.S. The blogroll has been updated, and purged, and soforth. If there are any dead links or links you’d like to suggest in keeping with the evil and hate of this blodge, please e-mail or comment.


Do We Really Suppose?

~ ITEM: Obama’s Real Legacy; Obama-gate and World War III; If Government Were a Business, Obama Would Already Be Fired

O, Sinner-Man — Bob Marley

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~ TYRANTS and the People Who Love Them.. maybe that can be the title of the to-be-written tell-all last word on Obama, where most of the crimes and secrets from his birth on up are laid bare. For laid bare they shall be, before the throne of God on That Day.

Is he a Christian, truly Hard to say. If he’s suckled long at the teat of Marxism in ecclesiastical robes, then not seriously– but radically. Any Christian worth his baptismal salt should keep in mind two three days: the Day Jesus died for all; The Day he rose again, opening the Kingdom to the faithful; and the Day of Judgement, when all secrets shall be spoken aloud, all hearts opened, and the sheep divided from the goats for eternity.

A Soul In Public

He operates in what seem to be knowing lies, vengeance, deception, bullying, double-talk and good old radical say-one-thing-mean-another; narciccism and pride unbounded; profiteering and greeding up and forgetting his responsibilities, duties, and the verdict of history– and the Judge Of All, his allegedly believed-in Christian God.

Christ`s teaching of Judgement Day is one which modern non-judgementalists have cheerfully banished, as scary and negative and.. well, judgemental– the one forbidden thing they still allow. It is, of course, an essential of spiritual reality, that our deeds and character return to the maker of our body, soul, and spirit for a final word: Well done, thou good and faithful servant, or Depart from me, I knew you not.

Ultimate Perspective

In the shadow of That Day, our days and deeds have eternal consequences; God takes us seriously, and we all have to face him, be we President or homeless man; Queen or exotic dancer. It`s the final moment of justice; all those who think `They Got Away With It, all Tyrants who paddled in seas of blood, all bloated plutocrats and bureaucratsand crats of whatever sort have their uppance finally come– unless, in whatever sort or condition we be– we have repented, fled to the Lamb, and live daily by grace, falling and getting up, falling and getting up again in the walk of this life, which turns out to have been either a pilgrimage to the eternal heavenly city, or a long slow slide to the eternal garbage pit.

Here is true equality for us all, without bureaucracy or thought-police, IRS-witchhunters or speech codes or redistribution. ~


JUST.. CAN’T.. Do It…

~ ITEM: HBO Official Game Of Thrones Site

~ ITEM: Orwell’s Picnic

~ ITEM: The Real Always Wins

~ ITEM: Are You a Sheep or Sheepdog? Part II: 8 Reasons You’re Hardwired for Sheepness

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~ SO I’M TRYING TO re-watch The Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin’s epic books turned to HBO-fare. The Binklings tell me Season 2 is better. It would have to be. That`s him, above.

It’s just so BAD. Not the acting, sets, and show of it as such, but the wretched actual stories of the author, as set forth for video.

First episode– first 15 minutes– an AWOL guard reports the rise of an ancient evil, just before his head is chopped off (without any trial or recourse or mercy) by the Lord Something-Or-Other, as played by Sean Bean. Craptastic nonsense, illogical, unwise, and not what any real leader or person concerned about the land would ever do. Then begins the slow mass-murder of al lthe main characters, episode by episode.

The High Nerdly One

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Of course, that’s par for the course for GRRM (as his devotees call him). As I’ve noted before, this author is a High Nerd, a D&D-type authorial bully apparently in love with violence, sexy naughtiness, random bloody executions, no abidingly interesting characters, and repeating the same pattern over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And over.

I know the type, because.. my name is Binks WebElf, and I.. I was once a dungeonmaster. D20s, maps, game & monster guides, and a parcel of like-minded spotty-faced nerdlings to girl-proof themselves, and nerdify together about unreal things and pretend-heroic selves.

Yes, I bought the Gary Gygax books, and read them all– sort of enjoyable, in an I-Hope-This-Goes-Somewhere-At-Long-Last Are-We-There-Yet kinda way. Then I sold them, for I knew that I would never want to reread them again, and that`s saying something for a confirmed bibliophile and sometime fantasy-nerd who loves dragons.

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote fantasy violence, but he was also a veteran of all the horrors of the Somme, the loss of his friends, colleagues, co-officers and men under his command. He saw and commited or cause to be committed violence in real war; like all veterans I’ve ever known, none relished blood, war, death, or the cheerful expenditure or taking of life.. and talking of past war led quickly enough to tears

Heh.. I Likes To HURT Them!

GRRM seems rather to be one of those sometimes personally powerless folks who fantasize about gore and war and hurt; someone never in a fistfight, let alone a firefight, or a war. Real veterans and actual heroes tend to not be like that– but nerdy wargamey fantasy nerds do. Such was I, when I was 14 years old.. but I grew up. I learned how to fight, use weapons, and to be ready to defend myself or others as a good sheepdog/ guardian should. I was never in war, or the amed forces, though members of my family have so done, and I did my best for the veterans and Remembrance Day and remembering the tale and cost & lessons of wars, in our 20th century, the century of blood, mass-murder, and war-madness. And I have fought via the keyboard, via speeches and sermons and letters and blogging to tell the truth about real things, the state of our times, and the meaning of our current conflicts.

Ultimately, that’s why GRRM– on page or screen– is like half-raw meat, dripping blood and leaving a bad taste and offering no levels or depths in which to uncovr treasures like abidingly true or good or beautiful lessons about life, our own times, or human or divine realities. They are ugly fantasies which reveal rather more about GRRM than they do about real or true things. Game Of Thrones ends up like dramatic bubble-gum: it keeps you busy, but isn’t nutritious or filling or enjoyable in the long term. Not time well wasted: are we there yet.

Invoking The Real

To invoke Orwell’s Picnic bloggess Hilary White, our interior and exterior battles and struggles are ultimately for or against reality, what she and others term “The Real”– things as God knows them truly to be, versus sin, and error and self-deception and fantasy and good intentions or bad intentions or no intentions. She writes on Book of Face:

Giampaolo Crepaldi, archbishop of Trieste, on the primacy of The Real:

“Only if there is a nature, and only if this nature is in itself the foundation of discourse, is the use of reason possible. I speak here not of reason measuring phenomena, but of reason that discovers horizons. Only if the social order is based on a similar nature is possible to use public reason.

“It is understandable then why the defense of life has a fundamental importance to reconstruct the very possibility of a public use of reason. And in fact – we see it – the denial of public duty to protect unborn life is born from a desertion of reason to be public reason, reduced to private reason.

“The truth unites, opinions diverge.”

Our souls & our entire civilization are at war with The Real, and Reality– GRRM`s empty and arbitrary approach very much appeals to those who like endless shades of grey, and no black or white or awkward questions for us or our souls or actions in the world.

Finally, And In Conclusion

Binkling 2 says GoT is “random events that don’t come together or have much meaning, coming to an unsatisfying ending“.. he assures me that Season 3 is better than 2 or 1.. though as he notes, the otherwise fine actors are wasted in their roles because of GRRM’s bad writing. We shall see. ~


O Holy Chocolate Jesus

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Behold your god!

~ ITEM: Urban Dictionary: Chocolate Jesus; and Bill Maher calling Obama a chocolate Jesus

~ DESPITE WHAT Alan Keyes may be guessing at, I suspect that Obama won’t do The Full Adolf in response to the current manure-storm around him. Instead, disposible heads will roll, Holder will move sideways into some cuddly cushy spot, and denial will continue.

Mind you, as Teh Binks has said before, never doubt the depths to which a radical will go to keep the fires burning.. indeed, there are no limits– except telling the truth and owning up, and being decent and human. Revolution over all, blood is the best cleanser, kill kill killy kill.

That’s why, although legally all people are innocent until proven guilty, morally and in terms of probability, you may after a certain point assume that bad people who have done bad things are probably up to bad things. It’s how they roll. Or as a certain rabbi from Nazareth said, using a garden as a metaphor for moral content of a character “By their fruits ye shall know them.”

Scumbags Is As Scumbags Does

Barack Obama, Eric Holder

Scumbags-`R`-Us

The thing about Obama– or any corrupt person in power– is that by definition, you don’t know the quarter of it. Lies, secrets, scams, cover-ups, show-politics, hoaxes and crimes, treasons and betrayals, subversion.. his whole adult life is a tissue of cover-up, misrepresentation, personal and revolutionary advantage, and sacrificing a nation to his ambition, vanity, and revolutionary goals of vengeance against ordinary Americans, and The Great Satan itself.

The entire record of his crimes may never be uncovered in this life, but after a certain point, it’s just common sense to assume he and his minions, enablers and cronies are Up To No Good, while the gettin’ is good. Further, the depths of evil, nastiness, undercutting and undermining good things and good people should be assumed to be widespread, and just waiting to be unearthed.

Obama The Good

If anybody could ever trust such a character again, Obama would need long years of proving himself to be a decent human being before anybody ever should trust him with any power, money, or opportunities to change things. He’s a tawdry Chicago mobster, with schemes and thugs, a cruel and brutal heart, and a nation to loot and suckers to exploit and overrule and dominate.

Let’s be clear, though: even if Chocolate Jesus and all the rotten fruit in the current administration vanished tomorrow, the American Radical Progressive movement still wants all that he wants, schemes all he schemes, and hates America and Americans, freedom and liberty under law, small government, and uppity constitutionalists, Tea Partiers, Gun Nuts, Christers, and the disposable scum who should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

That’s how he rolls. “By his fruits ye shall know him.”* ~

* P.S., I agree with Bill Whittle: Barack Obama is in real trouble, but will not be impeached, even if he were to chew the head off a toddler on nation-wide TV.


Killy Kill Blood Kill Death Kill

~ ITEM: Orwell’s Picnic; Hilary on FaceBook

Hilary White of Evil, revisiting a classic (via Facebook):

to which she responded,

“Miss Williams has helpfully illustrated exactly where the abortionist ideology goes. It is not, at its root, a manifestation of feminism, though feminism has adopted it as a core doctrine. It is not even a tool of political manipulation from the left, or a method of systematic genocide in the developing world to protect western economic interests.

“At the very core of its black heart, it is the scream of the nihilist, who seeks power and ownership over anyone weaker, for no other reason than the pure exercise of the will: because we want it. Abortion for woman has become the final manifestation of the old ‘will to power’.

Truth is pointy. ~

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Saith Teh Binksmeister



Random Binky Linkies

My Lovely Horse – Father Ted

~ EUROVISION 2013: An American in London; Any Way You Slice It, It’s Still the Cheesiest Song Contest Around(boingboing, scaramouche)

~ INTO NONSENSE: 4 Ways The New Star Trek Shills for Surrender in the War on Terror … (pjmedia.com)

~ ROFLMAO! Words that the Internet Gave Us … (neatorama.com)

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~ THE BALLAD of Han Cholo … (iowahawk)

Out in the Tatooine town of Mos Eisley
I fell in love with an Alderaan girl
Nighttime would find me in Chalmun’s Cantina
Music would play and then Leia would whirl

~ A HOTAIR Film review: Star Trek: Into Darkness … (hotair.com)

TEN HOURS: The best Renaissance Music (sacred)

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~ W.H. AUDEN: Old People’s Home (from Epistle for a Godson, 1972) … (americandigest.org)

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~ THE MAN WHO Nearly Broke The Internet With His Massive Eyebrows.. It’s ALMOST a unibrow.. what terrible forces might have this viking hacker unleashed had the terrible energies of each brow been combined in an unspeakable vortex of hairy power? … (guardian.co.uk)

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~ CHASING AWAY the big black bird: a monologue on cancer and depression by Jeff Simmermon … (boingboing)

~ DAN BROWN writes fresh crap which cheerleads for human culling … (thedailybeast.com)

~ WORTH1000′S “Modern Renaissance” contest: Classic paintings featuring modern celebrities … (boingboing.net)

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GreenEcoClimatology

~ BIRD-BLENDERS? Ezra on Killer wind turbines … (ezralevant)

~ LOSING THE BBC?: Unexplained ‘standstill’ in ‘global warming’ — since 1998! … (bbc.co.uk)

~ LOOK OVER THERE!! Obama Frets Planet In “Chaos” Because Of Non-Existent Global Warming … (weaselzippers)

~ VIA SDA– ‘Unfortunately in climate science there is a tendency to proclaim absolute truths and to link these immediately to instructions on actions to take,’ [IPCC lead author Hans von Storch] said … (sda)


Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn on Rush Limbaugh Show – Friday 4/19/13 (Full Episode)

~ STEYN’S SONG of the Week recalls happier times both for Sweden and Eurovision … (steynonline)

~ A RIVETING glimpse into the resources the Government of the United States can deploy when an ordinary citizen makes the mistake of catching its eye … (nationalreview)

~ FORBES MAG explains how Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy will end climate-change denialism in the Republican Party … (nationalreview)


FreeSpeechers

~ SHAIDLE OF EVIL– ‘That’s all well and good for sheep, but what are WE to do?’; ‘The Progressive Glossary’; Guess what? I’m “aware” of the homeless every time I venture downtown; We need to do something about the REAL biggest problem facing the West today; ‘Why on earth would people live in Oklahoma?’; The urban legends surrounding Disney are legion; Camille Paglia on the mainstreaming of kink;
Free breakfast programs for kids are b.s.; Jesus raised a 9 year old girl from the dead. Mohammed had sex with one.; Terry Jones plans to burn 2,998 Korans on 9/11; The best one-stop summary of what’s wrong with the Millennials; ‘What if a Muslim denounces today’s jihad, sharia, Islamic state and all? Is he then moderate?’ … (fivefeetoffury)

~ WILL WESTERN CHRISTIANS fight back against Islam’s terrorization of their coreligionists? … (frontpagemag)

~ KATE OF HATE– The Tolerant Left; Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead; I Was Sitting By The Phone, Mr. Harper; Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors; This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society; How To Become A Dictator(SDA)

~ MICHAEL BARONE: IRS and AP Scandals Cast a Big Chill on Free Speech … (townhall.com)

Pamela Geller – Toronto May 2013

~ THE BASIC QUESTION– Are You a Sheep or Sheepdog? Part II: 8 Reasons You’re Hardwired for Sheepness(artofmanliness)

~ INTERNATIONAL Conventions, the Human Rights Regime, and Religious Freedom … (juicyecumenism)

~ GET RELIGION– IRS scandal and ‘easy’ religion ghosts; and Religious liberty is a civil liberty; Absent a priestly predator is paedophilia a religion news story? … (getreligion)

Bill Whittle: “Civilization in Crisis”

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~ BLAZING CATFURZE– IDF jeep fired upon and hit from Syrian fire; Ontario NDP to back Ontario budget and keep minority Liberals in power; DiManno is at her frothy best today railing against Ford; PM Harper calls on caucus to reform Senate following scandals; Fort Hood Jihadist: The US is still paying Muslim terrorist Nidal Hasan’s Salary; Number 1 Best Selling Android App For Those Suffering White Liberal Guilt; Chicago weekend rampage – 5 dead, 18 wounded; Canadian on EI shut out amid foreign worker influx; Muslim sectarian violence now spreads to Australia; The most persecuted religious group in the world are Christians. But not according to Obama & John Kerry; Do you self-identify… as “other”(blazingcatfur.blog)

~ BEAUTY and the Face of God … (glory2godforallthings)

~ GAIRDNER– Democracy and Leadership; Freedom In Canada — Tribute or Eulogy?; The Inspiring Dr. Carson Speech(williamgairdner)

~ SILENCE, PEASANTS! The shape of things to come? … (theagetocome)

~ PRIME MINISTER Harper is doing himself in; OK, but where’s the alternative, really? … (wernerpatels)

~ EVIL JOYLESS WOMAN– EWTN’s “Faith and Culture,” “Women of Grace,” a Philly retreat, and more; Life in Eden update; Latest on my studies, apostolate, and vocation; healing sexual wounds with the help of the saints(dawneden.blog)

~ ALL SIN DISTORTS our souls, makes us less human, and breaks down the love we owe one another … (juicyecumenism)

~ CHINESE Government Commands Chinese Tourists To Be Polite … (neatorama)

~ THE PIRATE PARTY of Canada has uncovered that IP addresses from within the RCMP and Industry Canada are used to download copyrighted material(boingboing, pirateparty.ca)

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~ IS IT FAIR to Bring a Child Into a World With Such a Low Birth Rate?, by John Zmirak … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

Abortion and Black Genocide (Barack Obama and the Negro Project)

~ BWA HA HA HAAAAAAA!– IRS Scandal’s Central Figure, Lois Lerner, Described as ‘Apolitical’ … (thedailybeast.com)

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Lois Lerner: Persecutor of Faith, Political Enemies

~ WEEKLY STANDARD– He’s No Nixon; Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw; IRS’s Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC(weeklystandard)

~ BEWARES– Soros Funds Anti-’Torture’ Report Featuring David Gushee … (juicyecumenism.com)

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~ ROMANO GUARDINI and the Dissolution of Western Culture, reviewed by Wayne Allen … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ 8 COLLEGE DEGREES with the Worst Return on Investment: Sociology, Fine Arts, Education, Religious Studies/Theology, Hospitality/Tourism, Nutrition, Psychology, Communications … (salary.com)

~ OPINIONATOR– Hacktivists as Gadflies … (opinionator.blog)

~ WHERE ARE THE HEROES? Finding Heroism in Cinema & Television Science Fiction … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ SOBERING THOUGHTS– IRS scandal is a freedom of speech issue; London spends more on benefits than United Kingdom does on defense; Congress is considering cutting funding for food stamps; Journalist does job asking questions, could face criminal conspiracy charges in Obama’s America; Best. Che. Shirt. Ever.; quantum mechanics dictates that you should buy a lottery ticket(soberingthoughts.blog)

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~ MELANIE PHILLIPS– The flak flying at Michael Gove shows he’s bang on target … (melaniephillips.com)

~ STIFLE, EXCLUDE, SILENCE– U.K.: Gay marriage could stop Christians becoming teachers or doctors – church leaders. Saith Binks? Can? Will? MUST! … (telegraph)

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~ ON THE DAWKINS– The evolutionary biologist and crusading atheist Richard Dawkins is not as singular as the mass media makes him appear … (princearthurherald.com)

~ REMEMBER THAT Your Cheap Clothing Has a High Price … (catholicexchange)

~ MERE COMMENTS– Statement by Religious Leaders on Boy Scouts; Mere Links 05.20.13(touchstonemag)

~ ROGER KIMBALL- “Art is what you can get away with,” said Andy Warhol (a comment that Roger Kimball has frequent occasion to quote). What they are getting away with now is not to be believed — and yet, it’s real … (NRO)

~ THE MCJ– Requiescat In Pace; Kermit Gosnell was an outlier; Alice Walker. Novelist. Author of The Color Purple. Activist. Leftist. Feminist. Piece of crap; What could possibly be more serious than stealing Barack Obama’s thunder?; It really is who you know(themcj.com)

~ THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Interfaith Event Teaches That U.S. Is ‘Aiding’ Oppression … (juicyecumenism)

~ BARBARA KAY: Woman loses half her face in assault; judge rules it’s her fault … (princearthurherald.com)

~ THE PROPAGANDIST– American Diplomacy All About Speaking Softly; Cops Intimidate Jews for Talking About Islamic Violence Against Jews; Before Star Trek Into Darkness. A Look Back at the Future’s History(propagandistmag)

~ IS CHRISTIANITY good or bad for mankind? Dinesh D’Souza vs. Andrew Bernstein … (godscopybook.blogs)

~ LIFESITE GOODNESS– Tory MP: Pro-abortion group’s view ‘mirrors the approach of North Korea and Vietnam’; Disabled baby so ill his parents bought a coffin has now passed first birthday; Webcast to expose other Gosnells in America tonight; Moscow defies EU, prohibits gay pride march out of ‘respect for morality‘; House of Commons to vote on marriage redefinition next Tuesday; A reminder of what truly great men are like and that there have been many(lifesitenews)

~ WHINY SLACKER BLOGGER goofs off, takes a break … (socon.ca)

~ THE ACTUAL STORY– Very different from Robert Redford’s terrible The Company You Keep, go see Oliver Assayas’s Something in the Air instead, says Ron Radosh … (ifcfilms.com)

~ IRS ABUSE Extended to Traditional Marriage, Pro-Life Groups … (thenewamerican.com)

~ WINTERY KNIGGIT– Is the gay lifestyle the same as the heterosexual lifestyle?; When were the gospels written?; Obama administration spied on Fox News; New York Times: Democrats knew about IRS scandal 5 months before 2012 election; The IRS abuse of power scandal started from the top(winteryknight)

~ HEATHER MACDONALD on Multiculti U. The budget-strapped University of California squanders millions on mindless diversity programs … (city-journal.org)

~ THE MIGHTY CRANMER– Paul Goodman: Gay Marriage Bill is a threat to religious freedom; Gay marriage brings gay supremacy, not equality; The failures of Committee Stage of Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill; Have we lost the war against Female Genital Mutilation? … (archbishop-cranmer.blog)

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~ CANUCKISTAN: Senate enters ‘darkest days’ in 146-year history, it’s ‘mired in deep mud,’ it’s ‘fighting gangrene, they’re going to start cutting parts off, piece by piece’ … (hilltimes)

~ THE WAR ON MEN & BOYS– Let’s Not Let Boys Be Boys … (takimag.com)

~ WEEZZLE ZIBBERS– Majority Of Americans Believe Obama Actively Trying To Cover Up Facts Of Benghazi Terror Attack; More Benghazi Whistleblowers To Come Forward; Poll: Majority Of Americans Think IRS Targeting Conservatives Was Intentional; NJ Second Amendment Supporters Defy Dem Senator And Recite The Pledge Of Allegiance; Ft. Hood Jihadist Nidal Hasan Paid $278,000 While Awaiting Trial; DOJ Instructs All Managers To Be Vocal Advocates Of Gay Pride; Amazing Story Of Survival In Oklahoma(weaselzippers)

~ FAILING GRADE: “There are few sure things in life: death, taxes, and educators ignoring what is right if it hampers the advancement of their agenda”; and “The progressive assault on traditional customs and institutions continues, and once again it is a recognized holiday that is the target”; and “The Celebrity Firing Line” … (lpsullivan.com)

~ WELL DONE, THEN! Ed West At The Telegraph: ‘Conservatives, Depressing Everyone Since 500BC’ … (chrisnavin.com)

~ WE’RE SO BORING.. Canadian Cheese Smugglers? … (godscopybook)

~ ON RACE & FREE SPEECH – From Volokh: ‘Philadelphia Mayor Suggests Magazine Article on Race Relations Isn’t Protected by The First Amendment’ … (chrisnavin.com)

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~ CJUNK VID Video: Abortion House of Horrors– “Interestingly, Canada has no abortion law … none. That means that just about anything to do with killing unborn children is legal”.. Saith Teh Binks: Do we really suppose there are no Canadian Gosnells out there in the last40 years of widespread Canucki pre-born medical murdering? How smug and deliberately uninterested we are in being disturbed by reality in the Deranged Dominion, no?; those who feed the beast, most often “progressives”, become a favorite of the beast(cjunk.blog)

~ CANFREEP? Just go read everything … (canadafreepress)

~ THE WONDERFUL DALRYMPLE– Of Owls and Richard the Third: Part 1; We Are All to Blame – or Is It the Others?; also, No Cant in Immanuel(newenglishreview.org)

~ CELESTIAL JUNK– American Fascist: Lie Casually; Lie Always; Lie to Anyone; They Say Stay Out of My Bedroom… “Yet it’s OK for them to crawl up your ass!”; It is horrifying to think that an entire bureaucracy could involve itself in the outright persecution of political rivals; Use the full force of government to crush unclean thoughts(cjunk.blog)

~ BULLY-BOY UN Pressures Germany to Bow to ‘Hate Speech’ Hysteria … (juicyecumenism.com)

~ ATLAS SHRUBS– everyone in the White House knew about the IRS tyranny except Obama?; MUSLIM JAILED FOR ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO DRAG TEEN FROM SOCAL BOOKSTORE; These are the kind of books that French “youths” read before they go out and torch cars; the polio campaign was a “Western conspiracy” to render the population impotent; It was Obama and his Muslim Brotherhood officials in his administration who called it workplace violence; This flag represents one thing — the ongoing jihad against the Jews; CHIEF IRS COUNSEL GOT HATE PREACHER JEREMIAH WRIGHT’S ‘CHURCH’ OUT OF IRS PROBE(atlasshrugs2000)

~ UK SPOOKS’ candid opinions of the Assange affair revealed … (boingboing)

~ UPSIDE RIGHT– G.K. Chesterton, told us that the best way to get a clear look at the reality of something is to turn it upside down and stand it on its head … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ THOUGHT-CRIMINAL & Christian printer resists gay magazine … (christian.org)

~ JARON LANIER: The Internet destroyed the middle class– Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth — even democracy. This week sees the publication of “Who Owns the Future?,” which digs into technology, economics and culture in unconventional ways … (salon.com)

~ THE COLLAPSE of marriage in the developed world is happening faster than many believed possible … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

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~ O, CHINADA: BC’s Chinese Communist Party-linked NDP candidate loses to normal candidate; BC commenter re media report on NDP communist: “… we don’t care about communism in our politicians…” … (proudtobecanadian.ca)

~ WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Evil Scientists Managed to Clone Human Embryos; here’s one possible horrid dystopia, and hints of another(neatorama, IMDB)

~ CONFORMITY UBER ALLES! Anyone who values diversity of thought and tolerance of dissent should find the sweeping consensus on gay marriage terrifying… (Spiked)

~ THE GLAVINATOR– I Told You So; The Suicide Letter of Samuel Zygelbojm; Well, we wouldn’t want another Iraq, would we?; Memo To Europe: No Seals, No Deals; A Long Time Coming: Making Another World Possible; Canada is not serious about terrorism; Do The Good People of Boston Really Need Mister Fred McFeeley Rogers Right Now?; Canada’s Journey to Energy Superpowerhood: Voyage of the Damned; It’s Not Complicated. Bigotry Simply Lowers The Tone; The Occupy Movement: Destroyed by a Conspiracy of Infiltration and Sabotage? … (transmontanus.blog)

~ NDIPPER OVERLORD Mulcair’s best-kept secret: Opposition leader could have blown the whistle on Laval mayor, but didn’t. Why?; in related news, It’s time for NDP leader Thomas Mulcair to come clean about why he lied about bribes(sunnews, brightcove.com)

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~ BIG BROTHER, BIG MOTHER– Loss Of Community Means More Power For The State … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ SCARAMOUCHE– How, Um, Generous: Chechnya Funds Construction of Massive Mosque in Israel; Israel Cancels UNESCO “Fact-Finding” Mission; Pearl Harbour As Reported By Today’s Clueless, Fluffy Media; York Regional Police “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” Double Standards Unearthed on the Internet; Local Khomeinist Zafar Bangash Among Honorees in Tehran; In the War Between the Civilized Man and Arab Savagery, Stephen Hawking Chose the Latter; A Bunch of Squishy Lefties Want to “Update” Queen Vicky’s Holiday; Change Your Gender and You Will Be Rewarded; Is Afghanistan on the Verge of Eliminating the “Elimination of Violence Against Women” Law?; A Holocaust-themed opera production was cancelled last week(scaramouchee.blog)

~ AN ATHIEST identifies “the central problem with the gay marriage agenda”; DOJ Instructs All Managers To Be Vocal Advocates Of Gay Pride(catholicworldreport, Wz)

~ THOMAS SOWELL discusses his newest book, Intellectuals and Race … (hoover.org)

~ BRUSSELS JOURNAL– Criminal idiocy makes likely events out of the scenarios of the impossible; The Legacy Of Margaret Thatcher; The Backward People And Leftist Democracy; Undermining majority rights in the name of democracy; Operation Language Cleanup; De Gaulle was a symbol of the morally declining Europe of his times; The Media Strategy Of Lies; Those That Threaten Are A Threat; The Problem With The Libertarian View Of Islam(brusselsjournal.com)

~ FROM THE Cambridge Companion To Plato- T.H. Irwin’s “Plato: The intellectual Background’ … (chrisnavin.com)

~ SHOULD DOCTORS Be Allowed to Choose Not to Treat Fat People? … (pjmedia.com)

~ NOTABLE Protestants Defend Marriage … (juicyecumenism.com)

~ WHAT-NOW? ‘Online courses are dangerous because they would “compromise the quality of education” and “stifle diverse viewpoints.” Ha, ha, ha. Saith Binks: Hyper-radical tenure-vampires see the future, and want to kill it, kill it now, burn it with fire before it lays eggs … (chrisnavin.com)

~ SKWEEEEEEEE! Justin Trudeau is so groovy. It’s a newsy fact … (proudtobecanadian.ca)

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~ THE PEOPLE’S CUBE– American Agitprop Playing Cards: Updated and Improved; St. Nick’s Twin Brother: St. Dick, the Tax Collector; A Special Mother’s Day Message from Commissarka Pinkie; Common Core GED book: ‘9/11 hijackers were poor Afghanis’; Ariel Castro, Cleveland Kidnapper, is a Registered Democrat; Obey the State: Subliminal Message from Shepard Fairey; How Thatcher changed this Soviet man’s heart and mind(thepeoplescube.com)

Grade 3 Rhyme:

Ev’rybody’s doin’ it,

Pickin’ their nose

and chewin’ it:

They think it’s candy,

but it’s not (it’s snot).

~ OY, CANADA– Your tax dollars at work: “picking nose and eating boogers may be good for you.” … (proudtobecanadian.ca)

~ GET RELIGION– That’s one very, very poor headline about the pope; How To Be A Lousy Journalist; Protip: Immaculate Conception is not the Virgin Birth; ESPN gets close to key question; Downplaying the canonization of Christians martyred by Muslim invaders? … (patheos.com)

~ IS THIS A HATE-CRIME? Agoura High: Anti-black grafitti written by… black student … (youtube.com)

~ JAMES DELINGPOLE warns on Bees, pesticides, more green lies; and 400 ppm! We didn’t listen! Dooomed! … (blogs.telegraph)

~ ORWELL’S PICNIC– What seems to be the profficer?; Scribbling in my book; Where there are differences, one must make distinctions(anglocath.blog)

~ THE JAWA REPORT– The real feat is getting off the mountain; blaming natural disasters in Oklahoma, Alabama, and Texas on global warming and Republicans; Obama doesn’t give a crap about non-Muslim minorities suffering persecution in Islamic countries; A Different View: Travels To Al Qa’im And Beyond; lawmakers are digging into life & death issues of Benghazi; PC Kills: Jihad Experts Decry White House Terror Training Guidelines(mypetjawa)

~ FUN WITH GAYSTAPO– Matt Barber: DOJ on ‘Gays’: ‘Silence Will be Interpreted as Disapproval’ … (townhall.com)

~ STUPID/ EVIL Liberal Religious Group Blocks Laws that Could Stop other Kermit Gosnells; Why We Must Care: A Letter from the Desk of Bishop John Guernsey … (juicyecumenism.com)

~ ZANFIPPA– Patent-troll Alcatel Gets a Legal Spanking; NASA, Google to share a quantum computer; It’s so hard to tell real wizards from fake ones these days; Canadian CSIS makes a smart move; Benghazi? We don’t know nothing about no Benghazi!!!; Our Solar System May Be More Unusual Than Previously Thought; The consequences of the Obama policies in threat denial(blog.xanthippas.com)

New ‘Speech Codes’ for US Colleges


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“Chilling effect. That’s the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech.”

~ Michael Barone ~

~ PJM EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama … (pjmedia.com)

~ A BENGHAZI EXCLUSIVE: State Department Denies Libya Weapons Buyback program Exists … (canadafreepress)

OOPSY-DAISY– IRS Scandal Reaches the White House  … (canadafreepress)

~ SURVEY OF POLICE: Obama/left-wing gun control fetish wrong on nearly every point … (proudtobecanadian.ca)

~ OBAMA’S Scandals and the Left’s Crisis of Authority; The Scandal Machine Breaks Down(Salon, WSJ)

~ OBAMA’S BLOOD TRAIL from Benghazi to Boston … (canadafreepress)

~ SERIAL LIARS– Chronicling the lengths a desperate president has gone to conceal the truth… (frontpagemag)

~ OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB– Hillary’s Benghazi Scapegoat Speaks Out; Hillary Policy of Serving Up Benghazi Scapegoats May Be Backfiring(mypetjawa, frontpagemag)

~ MARK SHEA & the content of his prayers– Or how about instead, IRS, you go to hell? “A bureaucracy, like a corporation, has no soul, so you can wish it to perdition all you like when it becomes an agent of evil. And when the IRS says to a pro-life group: We’ll approve your application if you promise not to “protest or picket outside of Planned Parenthood” it can go to hell.” … (patheos.com)

~ BENGHAZI KEY? — That 10PM Phone Call: genesis of a cover story?; The IRS Scandal Is Bad – The Benghazi Scandal Is Worse. Much Worse; Watergate Reporter Bob Woodward – “Don’t Dismiss Benghazi”… He’s Seen This Before(PW, ulstermanreport)

~ WHILE OBAMA DUCKED & DODGED– MOSCOW WARNS JERUSALEM ABOUT ATTACKING SYRIA: Says further air strikes would damage Russian ‘advisers’ … (wnd.com)

PRO-ISLAMIC Obama Administration Now Favors Muslim Clerics for Christian American Military Burial Services… (cfp)

~ OBAMA ADMIN Got Federal Judge To Rule DOJ Didn’t Need To Notify Fox News Reporter His Emails Were Searched … (weaselzippers)

~ TYRANNY is no Longer ‘Lurking’, warns Cal Thomas … (townhall.com)

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~ THE EVIL BRENDA ELLIOTT– Klamath Falls, Oregon, has fallen into the clutches of illegal immigrant drug runners; Emperor ‘Empty Suit’(hoocoodanode.com)

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~ OBAMA & HOLDER’S Justice Department targeted TWO Fox News Channel reporters and a producer for talking with government sources … (dailymail.co.uk)

~ SPECIAL TREATMENT? Chief IRS counsel bailed Jeremiah Wright’s church out of IRS probe in 2008; 15 Romney donors audited; “Congressman: IRS asked pro-life group about ‘the content of their prayers’” … (breitbart, FOX, PW)

~ A CLOSER LOOK at one of the conservatives persecuted by the fascist IRS … (WK)

~ THOUGHTS ON Marcus Aurelius and Barack Obama, by Louis A. Markos … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ GATES OF VIENNA– What Difference Does It Make?… (gatesofvienna.net)

~ HUGH HEWITT– Was Eric Holder recused from the Rosen surveillance as well as from the snooping of AP (and the House)?; “They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal e-mails.” … (hughhewitt)

~ ROGER KIMBALL– Benghazi as Lazarus, Back from the Dead, by Roger Kimball … (pjmedia.com)

~ DOJ TARGETED FOXNEWS REPORTER– denial, irrelevant ensues; The Smoking Gun on IRS Scandal?; “The IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties” … (wapo, spectator, proteinwisdom)

~ COMMIE HATE-PREACHER Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Church’ out of IRS Probe (so are Black Panthers & Nation of Islam) … (sheikyermami)

~ BECAUSE SHE Hasn’t Suffered Enough… Obama IRS Targeted 83 Year-Old Survivor Of a Japanese Concentration Camp … (thegatewaypundit.com)

~ S.E. CUPP: OBAMA IS Handing his enemies a cudgel … (nydailynews)

~ VER-R-RY INTERESTING– IRS Scandal Moves Closer To Special Prosecutor – Senate Seeks Links To Obama White House … (theulstermanreport.com)

~ A QUESTION has haunted the aftermath of the Great Recession: where is all the inflation? … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ THE “CHARITY” run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother that was fast-tracked for IRS tax-exempt status is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website … (dailycaller.com)

~ US FEDS: More time needed to indict Tsarnaev; Tsarnaev’s nurses admit it’s hard not to call him “hon” … (yahoo, WaTi)

~ IT CAN HAPPEN HERE: Hubris begot nemesis, by Victor Davis Hanson … (victordavishanson)

~ BANANA DICTATORObama: “Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny” … (jr2020.blog)

~ THE NEW YORK TIMES Rips Apart Eric Holder’s False Security Excuse … (theulstermanreport.com)

~ IN BED TOGETHER: The Dept. of Justice and the Same Sex Agenda; The Big Same Sex Marriage Lie(catholicexchange)

~ FRESH MALKINISM– Audit THIS! Tea Party groups to protest at IRS offices nationwide on Tuesday; WH visitors log shows Obama met with IRS union chief day before agency began tea party targeting; DOJ official leaked document to smear Fast & Furious whistleblower; President’s precise location during and after Benghazi attack ‘largely irrelevant’; Senate Finance Committee hearing on IRS witch hunt against conservatives at 10am(michellemalkin.com)

~ ULSTERMAN– Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13522 – And The IRS Scandal; Timeline of Obama Foreknowledge of IRS Scandal Continues to Slip(theulstermanreport.com)

~ THE ANCHORESS– A Gyno-Maniacal War on Men?; Benedictine Voices: Angels and Saints Debuts at #1; Shall we Embrace Human Wholeness in Church and in Government?; Are there Catholic & Christians themes in the latest Star Trek? … (theanchoress)

~ PROTEIN WISDOM– “Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?”; Not only is it unfair to thwart governmental attempts to hustle up revenue, it’s harassing; Shorter White House Spokeshole: Shut-the-f***-up, peasants … (proteinwisdom.com)

~ WHO’S THE MYSTERY MAN at the IRS who issued the directive to focus on conservative groups?; Oops: IRS’s rationale for scrutinizing tea partiers debunked by nonprofit application data(hotair)

~ BENGHAZI and Going ‘The Full Nixon’, by Roger L Simon … (pjmedia.com)

~ THE REAL COMPARISON– Richard Milhous Obama … (realclearpolitics)

~ CHILLING WATCH–- Pre-Selling The Coup: Obama Again Says America Would Be A Better Place If He Were Dictator … (patdollard.com)

~ PETTY THUGETTE IRS Official Lois Lerner Targeted Conservative Groups While Working For FEC … (weaselzippers)

~ ISLAMISM, Immigration & Multiculturalism-Melanie Phillips Via Youtube … (chrisnavin)

~ FAKE-FIRED IRS Chief Miller Admits It was His Idea to Plant Question that Kicked Off IRS Abuse Scandal … (pjmedia)

~ TWO MOMS vs. Obama’s Common Core … (catholicexchange)

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~ SMITE THE PEON– Inspector General: DoJ Leaked Docs to Smear ‘Fast & Furious’ Whistle-blower; the actual documents(patdollard, justice.gov)

~ OBAMA PROUD of NBA Player Coming Out as Brony … (scrappleface)

~ JOINT CHIEFS Chairman Pretty Sure He Could Pull Off Junta If He Really Wanted To. Courts Martial, Please … (accesstoinfo.blog)

~ I DON’T KNOW NUTTIN’! — When Democrats get caught red-handed abusing government powers and bullying their political enemies small and large, nobody at the top knows nuttin’ … (torontosun)

~ BALLSY JUDGE Jeanine Pirro: “So Who’s Running the Joint? I’m Convinced My Mom Could Do a Better Job”? … (americandigest)

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The Muslim Brotherhood Loves You, Infidel. No, really.

~ MILITANT Muslims to Sweden: “You have just seen the beginning”… (vladtepesblog)

~ MARK KNOPHLER performs a song that he wrote with Emmylou Harris after reading a newspaper column by English novelist Ian McEwan a few days after 9/11 … (smalldeadanimals)

~ ARE NOAM CHOMSKY and Edward Said Anti-American Terrorist Apologists? … (pjmedia.com)

~ ENGLAND, BECOMING SLAVES– Ex-soldier told to repaint his St George’s flag front door by housing association after it was deemed offensive and distressing … (vladtepesblog)

~ HUBRIS! Chief Palestinian Negotiator Displays Usual Intransigence In United Nations Speech … (canadafreepress)

~ SHEIK YER MAMI– Obama vows US support (for Muslims) as Myanmar leader visits; Why would an “all out war between Shiites and Sunnis” be a “nightmare”?; The Greeks don’t seem to be too keen on a new Islamic ‘golden age’; The state-run media gives this empty suit airtime because he ‘changed his mind’ on homosexual depravity(sheikyermami)

~ SAUDI PRINCES lose battle to keep court documents secret … (guardian.co.uk)

~ FUN WITH CAR-B-Q: Youths burn 100 cars in north Stockholm riots, cultural enrichment, diversity ensues … (vladtepesblog)

~ BLOGMOCRACY– Silver Linings Do Exist!; Al-Qaeda in Iraq attempts to move into al-Nusra turf causes a split; The 16 Trillionth Holiest Site in Islam(theblogmocracy)

~ GATES OF VIENNA– Fjordman: Top Norwegian Prof: Critics of Mass Immigration Mentally Ill; “The Police Are Running”; Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/20/2013; Burn, Husby, Burn!; A Rosetta Stone for Nassim Ben Iman: French; Promoting a Counter-Jihadist Narrative(gatesofvienna)

Coren & Geller: The Price Of Telling The Truth About Islam

~ THE FAMINE IN GAZA– “There’s no KFC in the Gaza strip, a 140-square mile coastal strip 1.7 million Palestinians call home, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t get the Colonel’s finger lickin’ good chicken there” … (neatorama)

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~ JIHAD WATCH– Obama decries oppression of Christians in Egypt — no, wait; No one particularly cares about the bloody ideology that incites all this murder; Pakistan: Muslims attack Christian village, murder Christian teenager; Sharp rise in jail terms for rape and abuse victims; Australia: MP calls for Egypt’s Ambassador to be called in over persecution of the Copts; More Christians killed in Northern Nigerian jihad last year than in the rest of the world combined; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Islamic engravings on a cabin wall — on The Glazov Gang; Jihad bombers target Catholic church in Benghazi, priests escape unhurt(jihadwatch.org)


Part Two

~ CREEPING SHARIA– Missouri bill prohibiting use of foreign law heads to governor, and in North Carolina; pro-Jihad CAIR urges veto; Muslim inmate threatened to kill witness, government not charging him; Two Muslim women sentenced in terror funding case; Time to replace Communism with political Islam on immigration application?; Transit authority rejects CAIR’s jihad propaganda campaign; How Islamic organizations skirt terrorism financing laws; Michigan Federal Judge Allows Muslim Violence to Suppress Christian Speech(creepingsharia)

~ BEWARE CANADA, The Jihad Devours Canadian “Youths” in Africa’s “Arc of Instability” … (scaramouchee.blog)

Stephen Coughlin, Part 6: The Boston Attack and ‘Individual Jihad’

~ BEHOLD Mohammedanism: a religion founded on narcissism, schizophrenia, and paranoia… (sheikyermami.com)

Suicide bomber in Somalia was “Canadian” Mahad Ali Dhore?

~ AUSTRALISTAN– The deceptive and politically correct practice of halal certification … (vladtepesblog)

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Thousands of Deadly Islamic Terror Attacks Since 9/11

 

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America: Know Your Heroes

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~ ITEM: Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)

~ ITEM: Big Fed & Speech on Campus: A Salvo

~ ITEM: Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

~ SINCE THIS blog was started to support free speech warrior Mark Steyn, you already know he’s at the top of the list of happy warriors doing the needful in times when freedom is treated like a disease.

Two other good folks come to mind.

Support, help, and encourage the current heroes in current U.S. Freedom Wars, like Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ); and Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

Sekulow is the one defending the IRS target groups; Lukianoff is currently exposing government interference in university speech-codes.

Oh, and the awesome 54 Colorado Sherriffs, too.

Heroes, saith The Binks. ~


Take Hope Back

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~ ITEM: James Graham, Earl of Graham, and 1st Marquis of Montrose; a good man born into very bad times

~ “HOPE”, LIKE “Justice” is become a cuddly modern code-word for many, signifying redistribution, white guilt, statism, and Obama Uber Alles/ Progressive/ cuddly Marxism in the case of American politics.

Hope is far older, and one of the theological virtues, the opposite of which is sloth/ despair/ mindless activity, cynicism. Hope is grounded in God, and as Wikipedia puts it, is an “expectation of and desire of receiving; refraining from despair and capability of not giving up.”

Exemplary Hoper

James Graham was a truly and persistently hopeful man, not prone to despair, or even being threatened by overwhelming odds in battle; he knew his own military ability; he was of one heart and mind and tongue; and even when some of his allies left or failed him or switched sides from Royalist to Covenanter, he did not despair of them, write them off, or judge them harshly.. but hoped that they might return.

When facing huge professional armies, he developed new tactics, using quick marches across impassable areas to surprise and outmaneuver his opponents. His ally the giant Alisdair MacDonald developed the Highland charge, overwhelming the enemy and traditional tactics. As he versified it,

He fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.

At all points, his hope never failed; even when, on the way to his death, his enemies abused, mocked, and sought to convert and bully him into submission (still to be executed, of course). He did not curse his enemies, or revile weak Scotland, nor weep for mercy at any cost. His last words were reported as “I leave my soul to God, my service to my prince, my goodwill to my friends, my love and charity to you all…. God have mercy on this afflicted land!”

Tears were running down the hangman’s face as he pushed Graham off the scaffold.

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Where We Aren’t

We have a crisis of hope; an absence of courage and confidence, or else wrong-headed courage and misplaced confidence. As G.K. Chesterton said, the problem with rootless societies is not the lack of virtue, but virtues running amuck, like giants in the land, wreaking havoc through good intentions, false hopes, lies and deceptions, and faith in worldly, passing things.

“I hope the government will fix this” and “I hope they make a law” and “I hope I don’t have to do anything about this” are not real hope, but mere wishes, despair, surrender to any power but God’s, or our own to do good and make good of the world as we find it in our years here below. Previous generations laboured to build towns, churches, hospitals, colleges, to cure disease and relieve want and provide education and opportunites for all. Sadly, they thus bequeathed us the problem of the ever-growing beast of modern all-powerful omnipresent government, ever shrinking the sphere of individual action and privacy and the call to do good and be good each and every one as and where he may.

Hoping Again

Montrose was a Christian, and though a moderate Covenanter, really a principled heir of the finer wisdom of his Scottish Catholic and royalist forefathers; of faith and liberty under law; who did not place their hopes in Protestant tyranny, rebellion and lawlessness, master-plans, and dictatorships. Ass such was worse than what went before, and a utopian counterfeit of freedom worse than what went before.

He is an example of hope, for our hopeless times. This dovetails in with another unpopular principle, in our rights-obsessed age: our duty to our family, town, region, nation, civilization, and our times. With the safety, comfort, longetivity and freedom we have enjoyed until recently in the modern nation-state, we have not always paid serious attention to our duty, to the material, moral, and spiritual capital entrusted and handed on to us by those who have gone before, those who are here and elsewhere, and those who come afterwards– our duty to build, improve, serve without thanks, and bear our troubles in that work without happy faces, golden stars, or self-esteem-building praise. ~


Unboiling The Frogs

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~ ITEM: ‘IRS scandal’ is the spectacle of ‘Christian’ ‘liberty’ groups begging for State approval

~ ITEM: Boiling frog – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

~ SADLY, THAT old story about slow-boiling the frog isn’t true, but it sure would apply to Christian churches in the West over the past century. The state slowly took over all her work & charity & paperwork; now– in Obamistan– the church is being invaded by bureaucracy, submission of the things of God unto Caesar, and bending the knee unto antiChrist– the state acting in place of God.

It is far past hight time that churches give over the tax-free charitable status, so often held as a threat over uppity Christers who criticize the modern uber-state in any way. Registered charity? Then the IRS minds your business, the POTUS minds your business, and Caesar gives permission for your official tax-receipt existence.

Marriage Registers

High time, too, for churches to get out of the official state marriage business. Christian marriage is not for the state to interfere with– such things predate the state, bureaucracy  and are of long tradition and God. State registration should be different from church blessings. Our current system is a survival of the Anglican structure, where the church kept the state records on baptism, marriage, and burials.

Thus, the state can continue with radical-prompted social experiments like legalizing irrational and immoral experiments like polygamy or same-sex pseudogamy or incest or whatever comes next in the fermenting social septic tank that is modern social engineering. The churches will be able to preserve actual marriage, as seen in the predominant tradition of Greco-Roman Judaeo-Christianity, and most civilizations ever everywhere.

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In a society which is consciously founded on Christianity in faith, law, practice, and morals, churches are rightly recognized for the spiritual glue, charitable work, and truth they set forth. Tax-free status frees up more (Victorianly speaking) for the poor, and good works, and all the rest. Now, it has become a chain to keep cash-strapped denominations and churches obedient to the Spirit of The Age, or the claims of tyrants.

Hitler liked the tamed German Lutherans, who lent an air of respectability to his regime and claims of authority over all spheres of life, including the minds and consciences of German pastors and Christians. That’s why martyred pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer refused to sign on; why Catholics refused to bend the knee to Hitlerism, and aides so many refugees and European Jews to survive.

Mind you, such uppity churches may risk various forms of persecution, martyrdom, purification, and a nearer following of Jesus, who promised suffering and rejection and that the world would hate Christians, because it first hated Him. Death and resurrection; sorrow and joy.

Too long the churches have been tame: part of respectable society, then in the 50s to the 70s, trying to be trendier than thou, in the 80s and onwards Leftier than thou. It won’t do. As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI stated, the future church may be smaller, but more devout and serious about the matters of faith and practice.

A Faithful Voice

Above all, the church should be able to preach freely about her own business, and proclaim the Kingdom of God, and criticize the false claims of the all-powerful state to rule over all matters public and private, earthly and heavenly.

After all, we are in a civilizational war between an aggressive secular statism on the one hand, and a renewed Jihad on the other– both utopian in their own way, both making ultimate claims to power and truth which are unWestern, antiChristian, and which stand against the earliest Christian confession that Jesus is Lord; not Caesar, nor false prophets and their war-cults.

In Canadian terms, that’s why a pompous cipher like Lefter Than Thou Justin Trudeau is the perfect enemy of the future of Western civilization: willing to pander to stealth-Jihadi Islam in the name of votes and multiculturalism on the one hand, and the would-be heir to his father’s notions of the state having right and authority over the lives, money, opinions, and society of all Canadians on the other.

No, the current Canadian government isn’t perfect or pretty; but the alternative is literally a surrender to intrusive globalism and global Jihad. Then, all our frogs will be on the boil. ~


Missing The Details

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~ ITEM: Craigievar Castle is a pinkish harled castle six miles (10 km) south of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

~ STRANGELY, despite the fairly high state of modern archaeology, research, and detail we know about the material and daily culture of past ages, too many movie-makers miss the fine details about castles.

Simply, many castles were never meant to sit there with bare stones: they were most often plastered and coloured with a form of whitewash or paint. This protected the mortar and stones from accelerated weathering and frost-heave in colder climes, so presenting a smooth face of the edifice to the world. Many castles were in fact composite wood-stone or wood affairs– such plaster was thus part of the wall itself, and prevented fire-damage from enemy arrows or bonfires against the wall. The same surfacing was done to many city walls in medieval and later times.

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The White Tower of the Tower of London complex was thus white both for the white Caen limestone favoured by William the Conqueror for his cathedrals, castles, and other buildings, and for the plaster finish (seen above; original link– engraving by Thomas H. Shepherd (1792–1864).

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In Scotland, there are surviving examples of properly preserved castles like the recently restored Craigevar in Aberdeenshire; in other places, ruins show surviving plastered brick and stone from the original finish on the walls.

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It’s strange how so many modern movie scriptwriters and special-effects guys and directors botch the details, which might so easily be correct, and so give movies more authentic historical detail and teaching-value. Sadly, director Ridley Scott (Robin Hood, Kingdom Of Heaven, Gladiator) has shown hismelf the master of pretty, at the expense of fact. ~

So Saith Teh Binks



Random Binky Linkies

~ FREE THINKING FILM SOCIETY– The Truth About Trudeau, June 3 at 7:00pm … (FTFS)

Space Oddity from the Space Station

Vangelis – Blade Runner (Esper Edition 2002)


GreenEcoClimatology

~ PROMINENT climate alarmist bested by Canadian resources minister … (jr2020.blog)

~ GLOBAL warming skepticism – 1100+ peer reviewed papers … (jr2020.blog)

~ THE ALLEGED Global warming “consensus” is only in the media… (jr2020.blog)


Mark Steyn

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~ WARNS MARK STEYN: Everything now is a tax issue … (ocregister)

~ STEYN VS. BOSTON TERROR: Did we all fail the Tsarnaevs?; All atrocities are not created equal(ocregister.com)

~ ON THE BENGHAZI LIE: A failure of character … (nationalreview.com)

~ SAITH Mark Steyn: Real ‘modern family’ not so funny … (ocregister)

~ O MILT! THOU SHOULD’ST Be Living At This Hour … (miltrosenberg)

~ STEYN & HEWITT– On Wiretapping the Eunuchs … (hughhewitt)

~ IRS OF EVIL: This Is What It’s Come To … (NRO)

~ MICHAEL POPPINS– The Big Nanny who won’t let you have more than three spoonfuls of sugar … (steynonline)

~ THE HUMAN RIGHT not to be the exhibit next to the toilet … (steynonline)

~ THE INBREEDING among Obama’s court and its press corps is more like one of those “I’m my own grandpaw” deals … (nationalreview)

~ BOG GOVERNMENT’S Back Alley … (steynonline)


Ezra Levant

~ ECO-PARTISANS suffer loss; Made in the USA: BC election donation list rife with front groups for American anti-oilsands lobbyists(ezralevant)

~ CBC’S #HASHTAG FAIL– The CBC is using taxpayer’s dollars to shut down private sector journalism … (The Ez)

~ MARC MORANO of Climate Depot speaks with Ezra Levant about Al Gore’s anti-Canada comments … (ezralevant.com)

~ QUEBEC’S anti-fracking legislation … (Ez)

~ EZRA ON Targeting the Tea Party … (ezralevant)

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FreeSpeecherism & Suchlike

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“Leave Justin AlooOOOoooone!!”

~ THE CROWN PRINCESS– “Stop the mean, personal attack ads against Justin Trudeau”; Justin Trudeau. Is This a Prime Minister?; It’s amazing how so many media pundits seem to feel obligated to come to Justin Trudeau’s defence; since becoming a Member in 2008, Mr. Trudeau has raked in $277,000 in speaking fees from 17 speeches(Various)

~ THE GYAPONG– I can relate to Melanie Phillips’ awakening to the reality of the ideological left; Drehrer on the impact of gay marriage on the culture; On the Boston Marathon bombers from Victor Davis Hanson; Aha! so this is what I am, a fusionist!; Victor Davis Hanson on ways to destroy the American economy; The Enslavement and Imprisonment of Western Children(deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SHAIDLE– An Open Letter to Justin Trudeau; Putting the “F” in FCC; We Don’t Need Another Antihero(takimag.com)

~ I CAN RELATE to Melanie Phillips’ awakening to the reality of the ideological left … (dailymail.co.uk)

~ STILL MORE HATEFUL KATHY SHAIDLE– Brad had his BALLS cut off years ago; the answer is to move to another country; ‘Reason’ Magazine might need to change its name after this; If we had nuked Afghanistan when I told you to; ‘I notice that these population control freaks never commit suicide’; ‘IRS scandal’ is the spectacle of ‘Christian’ ‘liberty’ groups begging for State approval; Prominent American Muslim, Umar Lee, leaves Islam: ‘We were lied to’; NEW Talk Radio Watch column is up: Weekly recap ; … (fivefeetoffury)

~ THE NEW THREE Rs – racism, reproduction and recycling … (jr2020.blog)

~ GHOSTS & FLEAS– Wait for me, Daddy; Bluetooth hoard; Not your father’s Liverpool Central Library; “The Battle of the Nations is an international historical medieval battles world championship; Benjamin Franklin – Fart Proudly; If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others(ghostofaflea)

~ BRITISH SLAVES– The Tories’ Nixon-style campaign against UKIP: something you should know … (blogs.telegraph)

~ BIG BROTHER NSA records every phone call and email made in North America … (phantomsoapbox.blog)

~ ORWELL’S PICNIC– Scribbling in my book; My buddy Chris explains it all to you; New study finds women prefer to be housewives than corporate execs; Spring in Rome; I wish I had a blackboard in my living room; The Laws of Nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.”; Allie explains what depression is like; Happy Fibonacci Day, Math Nerds!; The Death Culture is driven by fear; The Real Always Wins; Hey gay people! you’re being used(anglocath.blog)

~ LYING LIARS WHO LIE– York Regional Police “diversity” squad changes its story; York police thugs enforcing sharia York police thugs enforcing sharia … (jr2020.blog)

~ THE HATEFUL MCJ– The Internal Revenue Service now basically runs health care in this country; Worst Sermon Ever?; remember that Murder, Inc. receives federal funding; President Obama issued a statement on the IRS scandal; The Environmental Protection Agency joins the IRS-style fun; “What is ‘a worthless scrap of paper,’ Alex?”; the Emperor appears to be naked; the recent hearings on Benghazi; Anglican Bishop Bird flips his pointed lid(deborahgyapong.blog)

~ TURKEY uncovers alleged plot to kill Orthodox patriarch … (news.yahoo.com)

~ LESBIAN activist: “Gay marriage is a lie” … (jr2020.blog)

~ THE EVIL KATE @ SDA– Latest Democratic Ad Has Gun Firing at GOP Opponent’s Head; O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas; beware BC’s Eco-Terrorists; It Could Have Been “Senator McMillan”; IRS Scandal- “This is not going away, this is a Pandora’s box now open.”; “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal“; Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose; What’s The Opposite Of Diversity? … (SDA)

~ THAT BEHEADING GUY– “Yep, poor ol’ Vince baby is getting all poorly from being cooped up in the looney bin there” … (phantomsoapbox.blog)

~ JIHADWATCH– UK: Local council vetoes St. George flag for fear it might offend Muslims … (jihadwatch.org)

~ FIVE REASONS I should punch J.F. Sargent in the face … (phantomsoapbox.blog)

~ FASCISTICAL FUN– Brazilians fight back as regulatory agency tries to impose homosexual ‘marriage’ on entire country; Catholic elementary school has leading UK gay lobby group educate students on “homophobic bullying”; UK govt backs down on forcing chaplains to conduct gay ‘marriages’(lifesitenews)

~ PONDERING “The Invisible Hand vs. The Hand of God” … (jr2020.blog)

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~ EVERYONE YOU MEET is fighting a battle: My Own Inconvenient Truth; and My Human Face()

~ ZIPPERS FOR WEASELS: SecTreas Jack Lew Says He Was Told About IRS Scandal In March, Claims He Was “Outraged”; The Eight Year Old Girl Who Didn’t Make It Past Her Wedding Night; celebrity-worshipping celebrity FLOTUS Michelle Obama: Reject Celebrity Worship; CBO: Obama’s Budget To Add $5.2 TRILLION In Deficits Over 10 Years; IRS Chief Apparently Lied During Testimony Yesterday; IRS Major BS Alert; Man Gave Girlfriend Abortion Inducing Pills; Inspector General Told Obama Admin Officials In 2012 About Investigation Into Targeting Of Conservatives(weaselzippers.us)

~ GO AND READ everything over @ The Propagandist … (propagandistmag)

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~ AMERICAN National Socialism: Why yes, the IRS -does- have an official enemies list … (phantomsoapbox.blog)

~ LIBERTY & CONSCIENCE DENIED– Bad News for German Homeschooling Family … (merecomments)

~ MOOSE & SQUIRRELZ: For those who think the disabled are “a drain on society”; Laws are for peons, not premiers!; How the pro-abortion MSM ignored the “sustained conveyor belt of infanticide” … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

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~ HATE! EVIL! NOT SO MUCH, AKSHULLY! EU shows how to do a dodgy survey: “The EU’s largest-ever survey of hate crimes and discrimination against LGBT people claims that they labour under a terrible burden. But the figures don’t support the conclusions” … (mercatornet)

~ AN ATTACK ON FREEDOM– Report: IRS denied tax-exempt status to pro-lifers on behalf of Planned Parenthood … (washingtonexaminer)

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~ FORMER LEFTIE Melanie Phillips talks about her new autobiography, Guardian Angel, My Story, My Britain(jr2020.blogs)

~ CHARMING Homosexual Thugs Prove Selves and Movement Unworthy of Respect Due to Violent Intolerance Towards Christians … (thecanadiansentinel.blog)

~ PHILADELPHIA abortion doctor found guilty of first degree murder … (jr2020.blog)

~ A FEW YEARS AGO, I gave a talk to a small group of libertarians about what socially conservative Christians need to learn from libertarians and what libertarians need to learn from Christian socons … (DeeGee)

~ BLESSED ASSISTANCE– On the Un-humanitarian Charity of Martin de Porres, by Anthony Esolen … (touchstonemag)

~ SOCON.CA– Abortion Workers Start To Panic – A Fear of Slammer Time; ‘Fess up, Gay Cardinal; The American Bible Challenge; Catholic League Targetted by IRS; The IRS: ‘Please Detail the Content of Your Members’ Prayers.’; Abortionists & “The Fruit” of Their Work; Gay Marriage Battle Fuels New Kind Of Youth Revolution; Police Refused to Halt Muslim Rape gang; I hope secularism feels the boot of Islam on its neck(socon.ca)

~ DEATH-CORP: Once an intimate family affair, death and dying are now outsourced in America … (FT)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS– Permissiveness and perversity — two sides of the coin; The pattern is unmistakeable: the danger to America is exponentially increasing; Spare the rod — and bring on the porn; Open season on the press casts a chill on freedom; a major new publishing venture, Melanie Phillips Electric Media: @ embooks.com– motto, “Think the unthinkable. Say the unsayable. Do the undoable.” … (melaniephillips.com)

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~ COUNTERPUNCH– The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, by Edward Feser … (touchstonemag)

~ SAITH PUNDITA– Money, Wealth and You, Part 1: “We’re drowning in a sea of complexity”; Money, Wealth and You, Part 2: A brief review of reality(pundita.blogspot.ca)

~ SCARAMOUCHENESS– This is quite funny (in a bleak, totalitarian, Shia supremacist way); Obama’s Thuggish Creation and Corrupt Defense of His “Official Truth”; Nice Work If You Can Get It, and You Can Get It If You’re Falk; The hypocrisy of some “interfaithy” types knows no bounds; Queers Against Syrian Cannibalism (QuASC); Twitter Tweets a Threat to Wahhabi Totalitarians; The Reductio ad Absurdum of “Human Rights” Cases In Ontario; “Cutting” to the Chase Re Female Genital Obliteration; Canucki Islamic Website Crows Triumphally; Freedom’s Just Another Word for “There’s a Toronto Police Hate Crimes Unit” in Da House(scaramouchee.blog)

~ A LARGER PORTION of Canadians denying religious affiliation … (NP)

~ DELIGHTFULEgypt: Muslim mob attacks Christians and their businesses; The World’s Worst Places To Be A Christian (Or Another Religious Minority) … (jihadwatch, CT)

~ SEMI-INSANE LEFTARD Toronto District School Board celebrates International Sex Workers’ Day … (eyecrazy.blog)

~ MITCHIEVILLE– The AP Is Butt Hurt – The Mayor Sheds A Tear; Ding Dong The Twinkie Is Alive; Where’s The Diversity?; Time To Update Your Big Book Of PC Words; So, a gay guy and his boyfriend are walking through a certain suburb of Paris…; Obama’s Address To The Nation; $700 million In Katrina Aid Gone Missing – What Be Happen To It? … (mitchieville.com)

~ WHISPERS OF DOOM– Interview with Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion, by Les Sillars … (touchstonemag)

~ THE EVIL ROD DREHER on the impact of gay marriage on the culture … (deborahgyapong.blog)

Canada deports Palestinian terrorist Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad

~ FRESH SOCONVIVIUM– Gosnell guilty; National March for Life; The Gosnell cover-up continues; IVF, experimentation, and the sanctity-of-life ethic; Canada’s National March for Life and gendercide; The Conservative Party and abortion; Canadian ‘bathroom bill’ to be voted on Wednesday; Canadian Supreme Court rules against free speech(theinterim.com)

~ TORONTISTAN: Racist tribalism and indoctrination are now part of the TDSB curriculum … (eyecrazy.blog)

~ KEYNES SPASMS– Why is the media frothing over criticism of a long-dead homosexual economist? … (mercatornet)

~ THE CODE OF THE LEFT vs The Code of the West: Contrast and Compare … (americandigest)

~ WINTRY KNIGGIT- Obama administration wins appeal to deport German homeschooling family; Will right and wrong always be obvious?; Obamacare Report: premiums will go up 100% to 400%; RS official who targeted Tea Party groups now a director in Obamacare; State Department edited terrorism out of talking points; Obama administration won’t prosecute wind farms for killing thousands of endangered birds; Police and social workers ignored sex-trafficking, rape and abuse by Muslims; IRS gave confidential documents from conservative groups to liberal group ProPublica; Anti-Christian bias in academia, and beyond(winteryknight)

~ KILL THEM NUISANCES! How legal euthanasia changed Belgium for ever … (mercatornet)

~ WISE WORDS on the Boston Marathon bombers from Victor Davis Hanson … (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ STAND YOUR GROUND– Ottawa March For Life – 25000 Strong; Gosnell Trial – Abortion Is Murder; Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry; Dim View On “Earth Hour”; Great article by Ezra Levant; A Quarter Century Later, A Quarter Of A Generation Gone; Death By Starvation And Dehydration – For The Sake Of “Dignity” And “Choice”(forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ KILLER KERMIT– Gosnell the baby-killer and the liberals who shielded him; If Gosnell is guilty of murder, when does life begin? … (blogs.telegraph, archbishop-cranmer.blog)

Dr. Gosnell’s House of Abortion Horrors


Chocolate Jesus! Obama

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~ NIXON’S the One… We’ve Been Waiting For! … (gatesofvienna)

~ OBAMAGATE– We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ 10 CRAZY things the IRS asked Tea Party groups … (hotair.com)

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“Yawn. All this crap is re-e-ally cutting into my golfing-time.”

~ NUTTY PROFESSOR Ruth O’Brien from City University of New York has an op-ed piece where she complains that the Boston bomber arrest used “too much force” … (phantomsoapbox.blog)

~ UK TELEGRAPH– Why Barack Obama’s imperial presidency is imploding; Piers Morgan: Say, I guess government can become tyrannical after all(blogs.telegraph)

~ WISDOM– Victor Davis Hanson on ways to destroy the American economy … (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ HOOCOODANODE?, by Brenda Elliot: Emperor ‘Empty Suit’; Oh, the irony! Watergate hearings started 40 years ago today; Boston Herald: ‘Obamagate’; Doug Ross sums up Benghazi and entire Obama regime; Bernardine Dohrn, ‘revolutionary Communist’ agitator for the Kent State killings(hoocoodanode.com)

~ VIDEO PROOF: Obama, Military Break Promises to Soldiers in Fort Hood Attack … (creepingsharia)

~ DID THE FATHER of a radical Islamist travel to the White House with the Turkish PM? … (glennbeck.com)

~ WISDOM FROM Mark Steyn on those pesky drones … (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ HE WALKS AMONGST US– American Fascist: The Destroyer of Trust; Far Worse Than Nixon(cjunk.blog)

~ NAKED EMPEROR ALERT: “Look at the coverage of our jackass-in-chief in the international press. Everyone has his number. The comments say it all” … (A2K)

~ JIHAD IN AMERICA, courtesy of Obama’s subversive and lethal immigration policies … (atlasshrugs2000)

~ AMERICAN DIGEST– “In the afterglow of the last week I have come to realize that what is deeply wrong with this country is that so far we have neither heard enough nor seen enough of President Obama.” … (americandigest)

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~ LET’S BE CLEAR– Here’s the thing — Obama didn’t know about Benghazi. Obama didn’t know about Fast and Furious. Obama didn’t know that the IRS was targeting patriots while giving special treatment to subversives. Obama didn’t know about the AP wiretapping. But he knows inside of an hour about a twitter fight and that is important enough to respond?” … (atlasshrugs2000)

~ ODDLY ENOUGH, President Obama Blesses Non-Mothers on Mother’s Day … (merecomments)

~ FUN WITH DEATH– IRS Agents Working for Planned Parenthood … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ CHARGE: OBAMA’S DOJ SPIED ON HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TAPPED THE CLOAK ROOM … (atlasshrugs2000)

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Jihad Is Everywhere

“We can talk about the grievance industry, CAIR, etc., trying to hype up the threat of Islamophobia. Islamophobia is very minor. You want to talk about religious bias? You convert to Christianity in Saudi Arabia, you’re murdered. You convert from Islam in so many Muslim countries, it’s the death penalty. Why are Muslim societies so afraid of missionaries? Why are Muslim societies so afraid of freedom of speech? Why are Muslim societies so afraid of the Gospel? Why are Muslim societies so afraid of the message of Jesus Christ? If you believe Islam is the truth, why don’t you believe Islam can compete in the marketplace of ideas? Obviously you don’t, or you wouldn’t kill people that convert to Christianity and put missionaries in jail.”

~ Umar Lee, 2013 ~

~ DISAPPOINTED Prominent American Muslim, Umar Lee, leaves Islam & speaks out … (jihadwatch)

~ CRAVEN RABBI WHO CONDEMNED PAMELA GELLER TALK-NIXER WAS A SPEAKER AT HATE CONFAB; My Night with Pamela Geller; Pamela Geller is ‘full of love’; Toronto Rabbis called out for shameful betrayal(A2K, Blazing)

~ SAUDIS JAIL Lebanese who helped woman convert to Christianity… (english.al-akhbar)

~ STEALTH-JIHADISTRY– CAIR To File Complaint Against Federal Judge … (Weaselzippers)

~ CUDDLING WITH EVIL– “L’ambassadeur américain au Canada s’associe aux Frères Musulmans à Ottawa, London et Calgary”; English link to A2K(pointdebasculecanada.ca, A2K)

~ ALLAH UBER ALLES– Seal Team 6 parents outraged over imam cursing son at funeral … (creepingsharia)

~ POSTE DE VEILLE– Victor Lévy-Beaulieu et la légitimation du terrorisme … (postedeveille.ca)

~ JUSTICE, AT LAST– Deported Palestinian terrorist once bragged to CBC crew about crime, subsequent release; SunNews– Immigration Minister Jason Kenney joins to discuss the 26 year battle to deport a convicted terrorist from Canada(eyecrazy.blog, sunnewsnetwork.ca)

~ SCHEME? STUPID? PLAN? Obama’s DoJ allowed terrorists to fly on commercial airplanes in U.S. … (jihadwatch)

~ AFGHANISTAN: un père exécute sa fille en public pour venger son “honneur” … (postedeveille.ca)

~ SUICIDALLY INSANE Homeland Security guidelines advise deference to pro-sharia Muslim supremacists … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ TORSTAR’S “Mad Dog” Siddiqui upset about a rabies shot … (eyecrazy.blog)

~ FRANKISTAN: Muslim attacks priest, monsignor denounces “people of the Muslim faith taking control of the district” … (jihadwatch)

~ HE GETS IT– KISS Rocker, Gene Simmons, Calls Muslims “Vile” … (blazingcatfur.blog)

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~ REMEMBER WHEN? Pope canonises 800 Italians beheaded by Muslims for refusing conversion or submission to Islam(blogs.telegraph)

~ SAITH DOUGLAS MURRAY: In defence of Niall Ferguson … (eyecrazy.blog)

~ THE HORRID ‘WINDS OF JIHAD’– Gene Simmons calls Muslims ‘vile’; actual tolerance bothers hate-speech worriers; Surely reverse racism had nothing to do with the impostor getting a whitey slave marine to hold his umbrella; Al Reuters Reports “Sectarian Clashes” in Egypt; Back to sleep, infidels: your water supply is safe!; Parisabad: Muslim savages rioting in the streets again over a soccer game; The Norwegian rape epidemic can continue(sheikyermami.com)

~ ‘F*** AMERICA’ Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Wrote in Boat: Officials”. Saith Teh Binks: “Why Do They Hate Us?”, Root Causes search ensues … (atlasshrugs2000)

~ DANIEL PIPES is tolerated, Geller is not – In matters of culture and religion, political correctness circumscribes the right to freedom of expression … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ NOTHING TO SEE HERE!– Reservoir Jihad?; Saudi’s, Pakistani’s Caught Trespassing at Reservoir Supplying Boston Drinking Water. How long can millions of panicking people survive without drinking water, you ask? Bigot! Islamophobe! Racial profiler!! … (gatesofvienna, creepingsharia)

~ THE ONGOING Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World… (creepingsharia)

~ CANUCKISTAN RISING: Muslim population doubles since 9/11, fastest growing religious population. Saith Teh Binks: first accomodation, then confrontation, then domination. Watch for it. These are not your grandparents’ Muslims … (creepingsharia)

~ WHAT COULD IT HURT? US-DOJ Witness Protection Program lost two ‘known or suspected terrorists‘ … (atlasshrugs2000)

~ POLICE BAR Jews from Temple Mount As Muslims Threaten More Riots … (atlasshrugs2000)

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Steynian 464st

That Greatest City In Flames

~ ITEM: Byzantium 1200 – 3D Reconstruction

~ ITEM: Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth

~ ITEM: The Fall of Constantinople

~ ITEM: 1571: Remember Lepanto!, by Robert McMullen

~ ITEM: 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, by Roger Crowley

~ ITEM: First Barbary War 1801-1805

~ IMAGINE SOMEONE trying to make sense of the modern world without reference to the two World Wars. Nothing would fit.. effects without causes, strange changes and events, none of which quite made a whole picture.

Scholar and author J.R.R. Tolkien warned his readers and critics over and over against lazy allegorizing: reading into or reading out of his stories as if they were thinly veiled commentary on modern history, people, and events. The War of the Ring was not either World War; the Ring was not the A-Bomb, and all the orcs were not on the other side.

However, just as the corpsified swamps, the desolation before the Black Gate of Mordor, and the trench-carved hell outside besieged Minas Tirith have something visceral to do with the Western Front in World War I, so the orcs and Minas Tirith have something to do with a catastrophe which goes unmarked in the minds of many, and thus the consequences misunderstood and misinterpreted by Tolkien readers, literary commentators, and film-makers alike. 1453.

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The Eastern Romans

BOOK – Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World by Colin Wells

The Eastern Roman Empire– unlike the barbarian-torn West which became Europe under Benedict and Charlemagne and Saint Patrick and so many others– never fell. It endured.. nibbled away chunk by piece until The Year Of Our Lord, AD 1453.

Mehmet’s Big Gun.. And Balls

Then the Great City of Constantine, guarded behind her eternal walls water and the holy angels, fell to the barbarians of Muhammed, armed with the latest and largest cannon and a longing to take a city which had defied them for over 800 years.

She was a hollow shell by the 1450s, a collection of villages and ruins and impressive leftovers behind the high triple-landwall and her seawalls. From the pillagings of the Crusaders, and battling Emperors and invasion and depradation of her once far-flung Empire, it was mere remnants, and your proverbial rag-tag international crew of misfits come together for the final agonies of the great city.

The seige was Biblical; the 1000 year old landwalls named for Theodosius trembled under the shock of the latest in cannon-making technology; the troops of Islam flung themselves against the walls like a raging and ever-rising storm-tide. The last Emperor died defending her gates.

“On the twenty-ninth of May, the last day of the siege, our Lord God decided, to the sorrow of the Greeks, that He was willing for the city to fall on this day into the hands of Mahomet Bey the Turk son of Murat, after the fashion and in the manner described below; and also our eternal God was willing to make this decision in order to fulfill all the ancient prophecies, particularly the first prophecy made by Saint Constantine, who is on horseback on a column by the Church of Saint Sophia of this city, prophesying with his hand and saying, “From this direction will come the one who will undo me,” pointing to Anatolia, that is Turkey. Another prophecy which he made was that when there should be an Emperor called Constantine son of Helen, under his rule Constantinople would be lost, and there was another prophecy that when the moon should give a sign in the sky, within a few days the Turks would have Constantinople. All these three prophecies had come to pass, seeing that the Turks had passed into Greece, there was an Emperor called Constantine son of Helen, and the moon had given a sign in the sky (an eclipse), so that God had determined to come to this decision against the Christians and particularly against the Empire of Constantinople, as you shall hear.”

Via Prophecies About the Fall of Constantinople

Prizes For Everyone

Escaping scholars and Byzantine people brought the treasures of monasteries and Imperial libraries Westwards, and helped cause the European Renaissance; art and artifacts– those not stolen by the Crusaders in the 1200s– came with the refugees to Mount Athos, Mystras above Sparta, to cities of Italy and the west. Even in her dying agonies in the late 1300s and onwards, she was like a bag of gold slit open, spilling treasure and life and memory and worship and truth like gold pieces falling to the earth.

Go and read up– it’s one of the greatest largely unknown stories of our western history.

From Middle Earth

For Tolkien, an informed scholar and attentive man of his times and history, the Turks were known (as they were) to be Jihad-friendly genocidal brutal folks, with a guttural-sounding language, and the rape and conquest of Constantinople behind them– not to mention countless purges, destruction of history and literature and artifacts and churches, under the tutelage of the Greatest Heretic since Judas, the sworn enemy of all other religions, Muhammed the Bloody.

Elements of the Turks appear on the speech and actions and names of the orcs in the Ring Trilogy; the siege of Minas Tirith derives in part from the great loss and horror of the siege against Constantinople. The armies of Rohan and Aragorn appear at the last moment to save the city, unlike Byzantium, which might well have been saved by a last crusade of the West, had not France been in geopolitical bed with the Sultan, the gold-grubbing leaders of Venice not to be bothered; the rest of Europe too divided or stupid or entangled in closer schemes and conflicts to divert money, ships, and knights to defend what was the real bulwark against Islam for 800 years.

Bystanders

Most of the West stood by, and few enough recognized the loss and what would inevitably come after the death-agonies of Constantinopolis. Westerners today are pretty much the same.

The Mediterranean soon became a Muslim lake; Istanbul took up the trade and some of the culture of Byzantium, under a totalitarian religion; the Sultans built palaces and mosques and harems on and inside the ruins of Byzantine palaces and churches an monasteries; and her armies swarmed, and her navies became like a movable forest on the waves.

BOOKNESSVictory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto by Niccolo Capponi

and

EVEN MORE Booky GoodnessThe Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent, by John Stoye

The rest of the 15th century saw endless advance, the 16th the Battle of Lepanto; the conquest of much of Eastern Europe, Greece, Hungary, and the first seige of Vienna, the key to the heart of Europe. Even into the 1800s, the infant United States was forced to pay 1/3 of her national income to Muslim pirates centred in Tripoli to leave American trade alone. Eventually the U.S. decided to send her Navy and Marines (“..to the shores of Tripoli..”) to put an end to that lucrative little enterprise of Muslims taxing the infidel.

“..to the shores of Tripoli..”

So read up on the fall of Constantinople; her last tragic days; Lepanto & Vienna & Tripoli; and understand it’s still happening all around us. And the next time you read or watch Lord of the Rings and see Minas Tirith, realize with wonder that such a place– and better than the story– once stood upon earth, and that Europe and you and all you hold dear is a gift from the dying hands of the Eastern Romans. ~


Go Bump In The Night

Fae ghosties & ghoulies
& lang-legged beasties
& things that go bump in the nicht…
Guid lord, deliver us!

~ ITEM: IMDB- Supernatural 2005-2012

Supernatural: Season 1 – Trailer

~ FOR A SHOW MOSTLY ABOUT two brothers hunting evil, demons, vengeful ghosts and the end of the World, Supernatural has a wicked sense of humour, and attempts to get the facts right.. but the writers are tempted by the usual simplification and dramatic possibilities of sloppy theology & angelology. What, fail in your research department?

Oddly Enough

Hence, contrary to Christian teaching, demons are not discarnate rebel angels, but evil humans become forever early. Angels can possess people; have no sight of God’s face; are cranky semi-robotic human-disliking jerks who get bored and rebellious and partial to limited human wisdom and torture, versus the Will of God. Demons can apparently take over anybody at all.

As for God, the Almighty according to McG can not only re-incarnate (apparently they forgot about Jesus and the words of the most basic Christmas Carols) but he can get lost, and whatever else can happen to superhero-types, and he’s a jerk. And there’s not exactly much attention paid to heaven, but lots of imagery and talk of hell. Hell, like sex, sells I suppose.

On The Other Hand

Except: angels are actually a different kind of being; discarnate mind and will serving God and his world and people; God is not another thing in the catalogue of creatures, but the eternal unbegotten perfect infinite source of all things ever anywhere.. in Himself without body, parts, or passions as the old definition has it.

The God depicted in Supernatural is a sloppy if clever high school misunderstanding writ large. On the one hand, supernatural and legendary monsters and ghosties and long-legged beaasties and things that go bump in the night are all depicted in detail according to the usual canon. Sadly, director McG and the writers of Supernatural didn’t bother to talk to an orthodox or Orthodox member of the clergy or theologian (yes, such mythical creatures exist) to figure out God, nor lay out some reasonable boundaries of the heavenly side of the universe for their plotlines.

The Big Storyline

After all, speaking Biblically, there is 7000+ years of Biblical goodness and 4000 years of Hebrew faith and 2000 years of Christian thinking and living to help people understand the ways and nature of God. It’s what keeps Supernatural from being a truly great show with eternal verities, instead of a not-bad attempt to allow good and evil, God & the Devil, choice and consequence a place in TV and pop culture.

Coulda woulda shoulda been so much better. But there are still many redeeming points.

Latinities & Demon-Smiting

As in most stories of the horror genre, “Who Ya Gonna Call?” still tends not to be a liberal protestant, a new age or neo-pagan devotee, or a prof of comparative religion: nope, it’s holy water, Latin exorcism passages and rosaries and all things Catholic contra stark staring evil. Hate them or not, the Popisticals still hold as official doctrine all the old stuff about sin and death and hell and war in heaven and saints and relics and all that stuff– as do the eastern Orthodox.

On The Other Hand

However, Supernatural does remind us that people are either servants of God, or otherwise, but all have a place on the divine plan. What you do really matters, and if you won’t stand for goodness, truth, love, beauty, and God’s Kingdom, that choices and actions have eternal consequences.

It’s a curious contradiction that God’s things work, but God himself is a diminished presence in the show. It’s rather like our human souls: in desire of the goodies & prizes & blessings, but not the gift-giver himself. Thankless, rebellious, forgetful, sinful & confused.

Does Binks believe in all that stuff? Well, ghosts and demons, yes; God and angels, yes; an unseen world that permeates and impinges the seen at every place? An omnipotent, omnipresent, all-loving, omniscient God, Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and all that Creed stuff? Yes.

A Warning

The Supernatural series: not recommended for those with tender consciences or uncertain faith, and especially not for those with unhealed exposure to the occult. Evil is afoot, and real, and not to be dabbled in needlessly. You are accountable for what you know: offer any past dabbling to God, and turn unto Jesus, the Risen Lord of the Living & the Dead. ~


 

Steynian 463nd

Lo, The Hyper Fraudulentism

~ ITEM: Mark Steyn: One-Party Statelets; plus Welcome to After America; and How the GOP earned its date with destiny.

~ ITEM: Just Go Read Everything

~ ITEM: Voter Fraud Out Of Control

~ ITEM: A Liberal Defends Allen West vs. Fraud

~ AS THE UPPITY NEGRO patriot Allen West fights the Obama machine in Florida (there is no dirty trick so dirty that the dirty tricksters will not try), the recent hyper-fraudulent Obama victory– where some areas report 140% returns, and a national 103% voter response– is a new high in low. And it’s all across the United States, if you look even a little under the shiny hopey glitter-slime.

It is despicable; it is a knife to the body politic and the future of America; it is a blatant dare and provocation to the American establishment and the ordinary voter: Obama is saying “I fuck* you all. Come and get me, if you dare!” It is the national TSA-moment, where everyone is going to get the nastiest strip-search possible, forever.

We’ve all known of the proverbial army of dead Democratic voters, the ballot-stuffing, the fakery of past elections across America over the last 50 years and more. Thing is, now everybody– including electoral observers from the EU– are getting it. The joke is not so funny any more; the theft of elections in critical times a life-and-death matter; and whether it’s the POTUS, his backers, or all of them combined, the buck stops at the Oval Office.. if he can tear himself away from Golf, ESPN, movie-nights, celebrity parties, or vacays to fancy places around the world with Moochelle and his band of happy carpet-baggers and grifters and utopian master-planners.

And all it takes is a few key regions in a few key states, let alone across the board monkey-business, to sway an election. Looks like that’s what happened.. makes you wonder about 2008, doesn’t it?

Dark Troubles Are Here

America is like a soul and body possessed by demonic evil after November 6th, 2012. Jesus said of some stubborn evil spirits that “Howbeit this kind goeth nor out but by prayer and fasting” [ Mt. 17:21 ]– we must be changed and ready & worthy inwardly, by God’s grace, to confront evil– unless we would fail, or become evil ourselves.

What To Do?

Consider the 2012 Election still on. Support Col. Allen West & other true American patriots in this time of Constitutional & electoral crisis. Impeach Obama now. Watergate him, for his many and various crimes. You may have to step over the RINO squishes who love power over truth and fairness and freedom, but they were never true friends of the American idea anyway, just big money and big politics pushing pawns around, and lying out of both sides of their mouths.

If your local or state votes seem even a little iffy, demand and require a proper judicial recount, until “We The People”– under God the true source of authority & the last word in the American republic– expose the stink; don’t shut up; spread the word, make sure the thieves running the radicalized Democrat Party know that This Shite* Will Not Stand.

Sad to say, but movie sound-tracks & special effects telegraphing “This Is The Crucial Moment” dull us to those actual real moments in the actual world– just like the evil characters are made obvious and clear. This is America’s moment of crisis– more than 1776, or 1812, or 1861, or 1919, or 1941 or 1991, or even 2001 & 9-11.

Calling All Heroes

Real heroes don’t come with capes and powers and exciting music– most heroes are people doing their best, their duty, their yeoman’s work, speaking truth and seeking virtue, and standing up in big and little ways as needed. Allen West? hero. Anybody willing to recognize the true character of their times and act on it with discernment and not counting the cost? Hero.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The house is on fire; the alarm bell is ringing; the barbarians are in the city; act; pray; prepare for the trouble ahead, no matter if Obama is brought down as he deserves or not– for on the other side of the current electoral crimes, and even without O and the wreckers, America is sick and broke and needs bitterly painful surgery and terribly wracking medicine to survive another generation as a power for good, and a first-world nation.

Oh, and actual America-loving Democrats? This is your moment, too, but in a different way. Everything Mussolini and Stalin and Hitler did was technically ‘legal’; most of the media backed him; almost everybody looked the other way; everybody hushed each other not to get in trouble, and to let the revolution continue, for the good it might do, the end justifying all means.

Ridiculously obvious voter-fraud? Transparent lies? The politics of slogan and distraction and implied threat & violence? Is that what you really stand for? Will you allow them to do whatever they want, and in your name? If you will not speak out now, then you too bear responsibility for what Obama and his puppeteers are doing to the United States, and through it, to the world.

In the most serious way I can mean it, ITYS. ~

* Used advisedly. As I tell the Binklings, profanity is for serious use, to express in crackingly strong Anglo-Saxon the angry ugly truth as needed. Dropped a spoon? No. Smashed a thumb with the hammer? Yes. Laughably evil and obvious chicanery? Mhmm.


Them With Perfect Heads

A FaceBook friend recently chose bald, via razor. I wrote:

Welcome to the bald hair club for men. (1) Your scalp acclimatizes; (2) don’t use shaving cream, just wet your scalp down for a minute with warmish water in a facecloth, then Gillette Fusion away; (3) if it gets longish, cut it down with a shaver on ’0′, then soak as above & shave. (4) Shave in strips from front to back, then forwards against the grain to catch the strays.. try not to go over and over an area more than 3-4 times, or you get rashy. (5) If rashy, a little aloe vera handcream will do the trick, and less screamy than alcohol or aftershave. (7) Once your scalp gets toughened up, you can in fact get a super-smooth shave and not stubbly. Wear a hat in the Summer sun, since melanoma and scalp-burn isn’t as cool as baldness. (8) The vibrating Gillette Fusion is a little easier on the scalp. (9) Get spousal unit or friend to make sure you’ve not missed any patches.

There you are, and there you go. And as Teh Binks says, don’t forget to do bald in Winter, if you live in such climes: any old wimp can do it in Summer. ~


Ready Steady

~ ITEM: Ferfal: Surviving In Argentina

~ ITEM: Supermarkets Being Looted In Spain, Sept. 2012

~ IN THE SPATE of apocalyptic TV & movies out there, only some of them get it right. Too many writers seem to think that (say) people surviving the end of electricity or a zombie plague would be doofing around like newbies months or years later. Sure, it makes for gore and screaming and drama, but really?

In the new show Revolution, one of the opening scenes after The Lights Go Out is a armoured & armed-to-the-teeth buncha militia toughs riding into a small hamlet of survivor-folks. Where to begin?

(1) No lookouts? Really? No dogs outside the walls or on the road? Not even some holy geeses, as in ancient Rome, to sound the warning of sneaky invaders? No traps, nothing? FAIL.

(2) The wooden gate, wide open. No smaller door, no moat, ditch, or even pointy sticks. FAIL.

(3) No apparent emergency plan, protected vantage points for firing arrows or guns, and when battle does break out, all the hamlet folks just run into the open. Bloody hilarity ensues. Heck, one archer protected from inside brick walls could take out 20 guys in a minute. FAIL.

Believe me, I could go on.. and that’s only 15 minutes into the pilot. #Facepalm.

The Walking Dead asks us to believe the same thing– that two cops, plus a baker’s dozen of other survivors would walk into every zombie encounter like it was the first time ever, and blunder about in a highway full of stranded cars wondering where to get supplies and gas.

People that clueless in reality won’t make it months or years. Period.

The Lights All Went Out

I’m not a survivalist type, but when the power went out here for four days a few years ago (ice-storm, and cold out), the She-Binks and I were ready, because we generally are.

BBQ, with propane. Airtight woodstove (not pellet-stove), with kindling, logs, and fire-lighting. Candles, flashlights, batteries. Car kept above half-tank, if not full. A stash of small bills, for buying (no credit or debit cards, right?). Water cooler, with 2 back-up tanks (though we really are thinking of a few of these tub-liner tanks). Weapons of many & various sorts for dangerous animals, however many legs.

No Cannibalisms!

Through the whole thing, the heat in the house never went below 63F or so.. we ate well (freezers had to be cleared out, unfortunately.. we’ve no generator yet), rose with the sun and didn’t stay up very late, gathered an elderly relative to our refuge, kept an eye on neighbours, and bought what we could at stores which were open for business.

It was exhausting. It was very very dark at night. The Binkses abided.

Survivor: Burb

Why? Because after an emergency comes, no amount of wishing will make you ready after the fact. During the big outage, I saw people at the local Gas Mart who were literally shocked that their plastic was not going to work, as if everything they’ve always taken for granted would always be so, even when a moment of paying logical attention would show them otherwise.

No, there is no honking big bunker loaded with years of food and firearms and all that heavy-duty survival stuff, because in time of trouble or serious breakdowns of society, I would rather bug IN (stay at home with others nearby) than bug OUT to some expensive hideaway, as the predominant U.S. survivalist mindset would have it. Check out Ferfal’s book & blog to see how bugging in during hard times works best.

Why? because I’m a Hubby, and a Dad, and a sheepdog, and so bear care & responsibility towards my family, to my neighbours, and the wider community to be resonably prepared for emergencies. The government cannot replace my basic readiness needs, and people who live day to day with the assumption that someone else will make it all better even in minor situations like an extended blackout are in for needless surprise, pain, disappointment, stress and fear.

Am I huddling under a rock because of Mayans, asteroids, aliens, or the latest apocalyptic fears? No. Yet nobody should assume that the next decade and more in the West will be years of peace, plenty, and mindless careless same old same old. Sometimes the apocalypse is a small one, and you will have to choose to survive.

Free Advice, Worth Every Penny

A little preparedness will help you and yours; a little spent now will save trouble later; a little planning and imagining the worst (yet hoping for the best) will see you ready come storm or sunshine.

Everybody Who’d Like To Bear Up With The Coming Fiscal Tsunami: read Ferfal, and get his book, and pass the word. If it all works out anyway, you’ll be ready for emergencies; if not, you will be ready to survive hyper-inflation, social unrest & chaos, rampant crime, authoritarian government, degradation of all goods & services & all the rest which lies ahead for the EU, and America, and everybody who depends on the current bankrupt financial system.

Be a man. Be a woman. Stand up, and look after your business now. ~


How 2 Gear Up Now

~ YOU NEED WATER, food, shelter, warmth, light, protection. You need to have your car ready to provide such things, and your home/ cottage too.

The general rule of having stuff is: one is none, and two is one. A single flashlight or knife or survival tool or lighter is next to zero– you lose it, and a crucial part of your kit and future is gone. Double up, and keep things in various places.

Details, Details

Food: most important for the long-term, though water is crucial for the shorter-term. There are MRE-style ready-meals; power bars; canned foods including vegetables, soups and stews; a woodstove or propane BBQ or camp stove can allow for cooking, boiling water, and sterilization of various items including cutlery, or surgical tools. Make sure to have salt, some kind of sugar, instant coffee & tea.

Water: filling your bathtub doesn’t work, except for providing “grey water” for dishes, toilet-flushing, laundry-tubs and the like. If you want to use the tub, buy a WaterBob or equivalent tank-liner, for a month of clean water for four people (sparingly used). For travel, water tablets or a filter-straw.

Lights: candles, lanterns (plus fuel), flashlights & lots of batteries. A Petzl-style headlamp is very useful for task-oriented work, and hands-free travel and walking around in the dark. You can sometimes get cheaper versions from dollar stores. Matches, firesteel, and other means of making flame is invaluable. Triple-up.

Shelter: house, cottage, portable tent, tarp, paracord & string & rope, learn how to make basic shelters out of branches and leaves and all that. Being out of the wind and cold and weather is important to surviving, and keeping your family or dependents safe. Lots of online resources here, and there may be local schools or weekend workshops you and your kids can enjoy. Again, lots of resources on the internets.

Warmth: Proper clothing, outdoor with polartec fleece & GoreTex Windstopper, the full kit. Multiple layers, flannel shirts, long underwear, hats. Rainproof clothing. A woodstove, solar heat collector, whetever you need to make cheap heat for your shelter or home.

Tools: a couple of multi-tools, portable wrench system, hammer/ hatchet. Small hatchet, wood-axe, folding saw/ pocket chainsaw. A Really Serious & Serviceable Working Knife.

Protection 1: We should all have a penknife, a rescue knife, a hunting knife, and machete – buy them now for each family member, as appropriate. A cane & walking stick, and baseball bat. A tomahawk or three. And backups. Learn how to cut & baton wood & kindling. Learn how to use a knife to protect yourself. Find a blade-nerd & online sites, and get wise.

Protection 2: Guns are tools, not toys. Learn to use one, buy a .22 rifle & .308 Remington rifle & a shotgun, and a small and larger handgun, as local law & certification allows. Gun safety is mostly common-sense, and you can learn to use a gun in a few days– weeks for real skill development. Find a gun-nerd, and gun-nerd sites online, and learn up.

Finally, & Conclusorially Speaking

This is only a starter-guide; not complete, nor the last word– some ideas culled from my own preparations. Heck, don’t take my word for it– watch gear-reviews via YouTube to build up your own sense of proper gear, and what’s right for you, and your sitch.

Preparedness is not only the gear, it’s a mindset, a take-care and provide attitude, a choice to be a sheepdog instead of a predating wolf, or a helpless sheep. ~


 
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Posted by on November 18, 2012 in Actionables, Doomwatch, Obama, Special Report, TEOTWAWKI

 

Steynian 462 Part IV, Subsection ii

Present Remembrance

~ ITEM: Remember Your Friend.. Gren

~ ITEM: War and Remembrance, by Mark Steyn; The Non-Victory Parade

~ ITEM: The Declaration of Arbroath (AD1320)

~ ITEM: Sir William Wallace; Wallace Quotes

~ ITEM: Saint Andrew & Scotland

~ THIS YEAR, BINKY was unwell on Remembrance Day 2012, and didn’t repost “Your Friend, Gren“. Please re-read it.

Now, after The Day itself, I would use the freedom and civilization fought for by all those young men and women long ago– and more recently– to speak clearly of these times.

Everywhere you look, freedom is under attack. Ever has it been thus, but now, it is whole societies of the free West which seem content with shackle and muzzle.

Not So Very Long Ago

King Robert The Bruce

Almost 700 years ago, King Robert The Bruce and his Scots spoke with one voice & mind to articulate why they fought against the seemingly inevitable and inexorable advance of English rule over Scotland forever. The Declaration of Arbroath– written as a plea to the Pope for Scots liberty– concludes with the ringing words:

“…for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”

William Wallace (below), who showed Robert The Bruce how to fight & resist military domination, learned & lived these words, taught by his father and uncle:

Dico Tibi Verum,
Libertas Optima Rerum:
Nunquam Servili
Sub Nexu Vivito, Fili.

Or,

My Son, Freedom is best,
I tell thee true,
of all things to be won.
Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

Ever Restless Scotses

No, Teh Binks is not throwing his considerable international reputation behind either side in the current Scottish Independence issue– it is not 1300, and Scotland, undefended against the soft evil EUmpire, would become even more a puppet of political correctness, micromanagement, and utopian corruption than England already is. She survives better as the motherland of Scots worldwide, and behind the shield of Great Britain, which may yet stand against the freedom-quenching currents of tyranny belching forth from Belgium and Brussells.

Rather, the battle spoken of by Wallace and Bruce is now everywhere, and in the hand of every man and woman who still loves the free West, and the fate of countless people now, and yet unborn.

This freedom is freedom under law, not mere license; it is freedom for each other, not selfish cafeteria individualism; it is freedom to do good, and be restrained from doing evil; freedom from bad government and tyrants, but ever seeking good rule, and just rulers. In that sense, the bureaucratic petty tyrant and the libertarian are twins, not opposites: they’re merely arguing over who makes the absolute rules– self or state.

Christus Rex

In the West, behind every such declaration as Arbroath or the Wallace family stands another, in whose name, and by whose conferred life and freedom we are free indeed. This is what both secularist and super-statist (and comfy populaces) have forgotten. The Scots Saltire is the cross of the martyred Saint Andrew, First-Called Apostle of Jesus, patron saint after the Irish prince and missionary Saint Columba, evangelist to the Picts.

Words Of Freedom

To the ancient world, ripe for his arival and message, came Jesus Christ, by whom each one of us may be free of sin, and death, and hell– and slavery to self or to external power. “I am come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly”; and “Greater love has no man than this, than that he lay down his life for his friends”; and “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” St. Paul declares:

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” [ Galatians 5:1 ]

Our Heavy Burdens

“Free indeed”– a terrible burden indeed. Seriously.

Slavery can be soft and safe– witness the state of most people ever, and Islam, and dictatorships– and people yearning for such when they lose them. How many utopians and progressives wish a perfect world, even if it means losing real intellectual, spiritual, and political freedom. How many feminists, same-sex militants, and political radicals cheerfully fight and impose real oppression on the minds & spirits of others, in the name of their own imaginings of ‘liberation’? We may not see literal shackles, but with CCTV, online surveillance, drones, freedom of speech curtailed, government goodies, and other forms of electronic power employed to sheepify the masses to worhip and serve the wolves.

Actual freedom takes actual men and women, actual virtue, actual courage and choosing, actual consequences, and ever and always serving the Kingdom of God as a present reality, and loving our neighbour as we would have ourselves loved. Even unto the cost of our lives. In Christ, ours is a perfect freedom, not the tempting worship of the self as god, nor the imposition of this or that heaven on earth.

Rest In Peace?

It would be a sad epitaph of this stage in human civilization to say

“They fell in love with slavery again,
bribed with false peace,
and most forgot how to be honest men.” ~


Binks, WebElf

 
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Posted by on November 16, 2012 in Actionables, Doomwatch, Go & Do, Steynianism

 
 
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