~ AS ALL PRE-DEAD Minions are aware from their official Approved Guide To Teh Binky, the Binks is pretty much infallible (Chapter 31, Section III, subsection N, “Who Ya Gonna Believe: Binks, Or Yer Lyin’ Eyes?“).
Thus, even though I’ve been AWOL for a while and pretty much tuned out of the news, FaceBook, e-mail, blogs, and the like, my pretty much infallible status still stands, even if there are what appear to be blind-spots* or misinformed views or infelicities of style in the blog over the next few weeks.
Thank you for your patience in clearing up your misapprehensions. Binks forgives you. ~
“Canadians are going into the Easter weekend tomorrow with a few truths to consider. First and foremost, Stephen Harper will be the next prime minister. Second, if Michael Ignatieff cannot be counted on to stop Stephen Harper from forming a majority, left-leaning Canadians will look to the much more likeable and ideological Jack Layton to oppose Mr. Harper in the 41st parliament. Third, Canadians will consider a coalition government to be explicitly on the table as Layton may be in an increased position of strength to negotiate its outcome.”
~ PROGRESSIVES IMAGINE they can make people good, and that whatever they come up with, will take effect in the world without negative consequences, or a fallen human nature. As soon as I heard about the whole ‘over the counter chemical death pill thing, I thought of how men might abuse such things against wives, girlfriends, and even hook-ups (sneak a few into a drink, and there you are!.. or as some blog-wag put it: “Do her. Dose her. Ditch her.”). Then there’s the violation of pharmacist’s consciences. Let’s not forget BigPharm profits. Liberation, thy name is profit & convenience. And the progressive project of further turning men and women, and holy mystery, into nothing special, and possible or actual children into guilty intruders, to be judged and executed. ~
~ MARK STEYN SIGNED AND sent along to Castle Binks a copy of his new tome: Lights Out: Islam, free speech, and the twilight of the west. Huzzah! Eager reading ensues. It’s a powerful & sturdy 322 page revisit of the Elmasry-Free Speech wars, and a welcome collection of Mark’s best columns on a militant Islam versus a timid multiculti West, with our ‘eyes wide shut’ elites. He’s been and remains a warrior for all of us– buy & read and pass on this book to those who need to wake up before it’s too late.
Steyn’s open secret is his wit & turn of phrase, taking difficult or distressing matters and laying them out simply and engagingly. Like an artist, Mark Steyn depicts and delights, but never falls into the easy temptation of ranting. He reminds this reader of a bewigged character, (perhaps from the Nelsonian navy), saying of his opponents “I say, those beggars seem to be trying to kills us. What rotters. Shall we have at them?” The rollicking results always satisfy.
~ WHILE THE SLIPPERY-SLOPE argument is sometimes wrong in particular, it’s often right in general. The revolutionaries who seek to “break on through to the other side” of every received good custom and practice in the interests of their own programme like to pooh-pooh the slippery slope precisely because it makes people look to the past and present and future aspects of social engineering– “that has led to this and could well lead to that”. No busy-body likes to have the entire scheme exposed at once, and so those who warn of pesky logical consequences are smeared as extremists and nay-sayers or changeophobes. Logic? Precedent? Ancient custom and law? BIGOT!
So in the last semi-public and highly stage-managed Canucki debate over so-called same-sex marriage, those who warned that– logically– the union of one adult with another might well lead to calls for other arrangements: one adult with several others; one relative with another; whatever someone might desire. Polygamy; polygyny; incest; or– in the acceptable suburban fashion, serial monogamy via easy divorce. Monogamy is the target, and lots of people are shooting at it.
….Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!
Christ is Risen, and the evil ones are cast down!
Christ is Risen, and the angels rejoice!
Christ is Risen, and life is liberated!
Christ is Risen, and the tomb is emptied of its dead;
for Christ having risen from the dead,
is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
A blessed Eastertide to all Christians around the world this day– and our Eastern Orthodox brethren, whenever their Pascha is this year– may the joy and victory of the Risen Christ be yours this and every day. As I said over here a while back,
“Jesus comes to restore the image of God in man; to show us what a true man, a full humanity is like; and by his grace to begin that transformation in us. On the cross he offers forth his own life, to straighten our bentness, and to remake us into his better image, our truest selves. This is, he tells us, the purpose of his coming (St. John, 6:38-40): “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
May we who believe fight this good fight for our day and time, and for the good of all; may those who are uncertain or disbelieve yet act as if they do, so we may do good together, and seek a better world than Utopia or HRC or the earthly-minded dare hope for or imagine. We may suffer and struggle, but the victory has been won: the very ground of reality is eternal victory won for us by God in Christ.
