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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)

PJTV: Enemies of the State

~ 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)

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~ 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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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

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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.

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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

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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. ~


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

~ ITEM: IMDB- Supernatural 2005-2012

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~ 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 461nd

Ever Homewards

~ ITEMIMAGES OF PILGRIMAGE: PARADISE AND WILDERNESS IN CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY, Robert D. Crouse, 1986

The Way, with Martin Sheen

(available on NetFlix)

~ CONFESSIO: FOR A WHILE, I forgot.

I forgot my ever-home: heaven, better than all the best bits of nostalgia and remembrance and hope and longing. That the soul is on pilgrimage through a sometimes dark and dangerous land; sometimes with friends & companions, other times alone, with thoughts and God and the holy angels.

We are all on the same pilgrimage, towards or away from home, or just sitting in the ditch. It is easy to seek our own way; to mistake our wishes or desires for reality; to set up shop or head the wrong way, swimming in excuses and likeminded company. Such is the broad and easy way of illusion, or as the philosopher put it, to be born dreaming and die dreaming without ever having woken up.

I forgot.

In Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, when the character Dante wakes up in the dark wood, it is not that he wasn’t there before, but that he was spiritually, intellectually, and sinfully in denial of the doomed state of his soul, and the dangers all around, and that the right road homewards– through all our days, many or few, to heaven– was “wholly lost and gone”. He forgot.

There were other things I forgot, entangled in illness and isolation– like the hope of resurrection; that the grave is a doorway, not an oblivion; that God will not suffer his holy ones to see corruption; that though in the midst of life we are in death.. yet death hasn’t the last word.

I’m sorry, because the whole Binky Free Canuckistan thing is part of my calling to serve others, through, despite, and given the opportunity of illness. It’s a God thing. I let the blog drop, got into a bucket of “Why Me?”, and let weariness and a desire for a false peace overcome me.

As in every age and place, we are at war– with ourselves, with powers & principalities and horrible ideas and false faith and good intentions turned into hell.

There’s just no sitting this one out. ~


Books Galore & More

~ ITEMThe Lymond Chronicles

~ ITEMH.F.M. Prescott

~ ITEMHenry IV Part 1: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; and Part 2

~ I’VE STILL BEEN bookworming it– jonseing on Brit various tomes by historian Alison Weir; laughing out loud and enjoying the rich brain-squeezy goodness of Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Crawford novels; the Anglo-Catholic wisdom of H. F. M. Prescott in The Man on A Donkey; Ackroyd’s biography of Shakespeare; various other odds and ends along the way.

Via the Beeb & Tube of You, The Binks has been taking in The Hollow Crown (4 royal plays starting with Richard 2.0)– powerful, only slightly butchered, and wonderfully staged with a collection of faces new & old from the UK Shakespeariati crew.

Also saw the Globe DVD version of Henry 4.0 parts 1 & 2; a little over-acted in parts, but a great ensemble crew. Tried to watch & enjoy Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus (co-starring Gerard Butler), but great hunks of the text were missing (as in the pretty but patchwork Ian McKellen Richard III of 1995).

Read, Watch, Talk

It hardly does to talk about the riches of our cultural heritage, the importance of good literature and drama and all the rest, simply by paying lipservice to it. If we can follow the plot of Lost, or keep up with the twists and turns of tabloid romance, or learn the lyrics of countless pop-songs, then we can make room for the Bible, Greek and Roman legends, Medieval culture and music and literature, Shakespeare, and all the rest.

We must remember what we have forgotten, neglected, or had stolen away from us. These arou our words and thoughts, our stories, our joy and wisdom and warnings, our philosophy and theology, our history and art and understanding.

It is the radicals and progressives and Islamo-fanatics who would erase the past, consigning it to the infamous “ashheap of history”, a dead and buried past past. These things make us who we are– not just who we were– and who we can and shall be again. ~


Neener– Binks Told You So #941

~ ITEMSandy, a former hurricane, causes widespread flooding and power cuts

~ ITEM: How to Bug-In: What You Need to Know to Survive a Grid-Down Disaster

YouTube: Preparedness

~ SO THEN THE hellstorm of Hurricane Sandy hits and sludges the East Coast.. do the preppers and survival-types look quite so silly, hyper-cautious, and half-baked now?

Binks has written before, following on the thoughts of the Instapundit, about the fragility of our supply-systems, bringing us “Just In Time” most of our food, water, prescriptions– all of it. In our local area, one home-owner was forced to shut down his well and go on the water system, even though that well tapped a spring that has given hyper-fresh water for thousands of years.

Witness post-storm New York City– minus power, water, subway, trucked-in food & supplies– where’s your “Just In Time” shipping theory now? A supermarket with a warehouse– as in past decades– would mean food for several thousands for weeks. Now, what you see on the shelves is what you get. No back-up, no depth.. in one sense, no notion that there’s not always power and trucks and safe roads and staff able to get to work and unload the trucks.

Waaaah! Mommy!

It’s the modern disease– govtitty. Someone Else Will Look After It. If I choose not to be ready for storms, blackouts, floods, man-made disasters, somehow it’s not your fault or responsibility.

It’s been 50 or 60 years of bloated all-pervasive government, eating away at liberty, social and personal responsibility, charity to others, individual & group motivations to do the right thing, fight for and build the future, and hand on to others the hard-won gifts we have received from our forefathers, in better condition than we got them.

Most of the time, we can get away with this craziness, because the machine keeps working. We don’t see the general chaos ahead, because it’s kinda holding together just now, if we ignore the details and the evidence.

No, being prepared isn’t a free ticket to apocalypse land, bunker-living, or any of the rest of the sub-culture. As with any probem, some folks take things super-far. Learn what they may know, without following them down the End Of The World path.

Quit Stalling

Get ready. Now. Just do it, because you care for yourself, your family & neighbours, for being around to hand on civilization and live ordinary life, and enjoy the many blessings of God, and not needlessly suffer & die for the want of a few days of work and a few hundred dollars.

The links above are just a few useful sites to begin for disaster preparedness. Plan for 2 weeks or more; make sure you have lotsa water & food; basic tools, a good multitool, a good hatchet, a sawback machete, LED lights, several means of making fire, some means of cooking & heating, lots of backup meds, dogfood.. you know what to do. ~


So Obysmally Done

~ ITEMPresident Talks iPod on Radio as Hurricane Hits; FEMA, W.H. send storm victims to internet; Hurricane Sandy floods NYC subways; millions without power

~ ITEM – Admiral James Lyons – We Need Full Disclosure On Benghazi NOW; and McCain: Obama Might Be Conducting ‘Massive Cover-Up’ With Libya Attack

~ ITEMWill Hurricane Sandy deliver an election victory next week for Barack Obama?

~ ITEM – Roger Scruton: A pessimist’s guide to life

~ AS THE CURRENT POTUS melts in public, revealing the non-entity and busy minions behind the curtains, it’s sad to see that– if polls can be believed– that so many voters are still willing to pull the lever for the see-through President, versus the tried & tested Romney.

Obama offered enchanting hot air: feel-good, make-believe, and lots of evil & nasty behind the curtain. No real answers or plans, just Hopenchange and spin, smoke and mirrors. As apostate liberal David Mamet details in his take-no-prisoners book The Secret Knowledge, it is a battle between fact-light feeling and wishes, versus evidence, facts, and the tried & tested wisdom of our civilization.

The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, by David Mamet

And the naive & happy True Believers are on a veritable crusade, to perfect the world, come hell or high water or necessary deaths. Their opponents are not just people honestly upholding their reasonable positions, they are bad. It’s why The Big O himself demonizes and viciously attacks his opponents– he’s an elected god, therefore his enemies are obviously devils.

Pessimistically Yours

Said conservative cultural philosopher Roger Scruton (another former liberal) in 2010:

“Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.”

Frankly, I don’t care if Romney is just another politician– voters in the united States are electing a President, not a deity or messiah. Yes, U.S. politics is religion is politics, but let’s hope the past 4 years have awakened enough voters to reality, and away from the politics of perfection, let alone the politicization, division, proto-racewar and Muslim Brotherhood money and scheming behind the sockpuppet Obama.

The polls are still horribly skewed– if the truth behind them is what I suspect it is, Romeny is a shoe-in. But that may not be the end of this fight, in the short or long-term. November 4th may be a D-Day.. but the war was very much up for grabs for months and months after the allied invasion of Normandy.

Just sayin’, is all. ~

The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope, by Roger Scruton.

 
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Posted by on November 1, 2012 in Actionables, Doomwatch, Obama, Preachery, Remarks

 

Steynian 460rth

Watching Through The Looking Glass

 Somebody Nice May (or May Not)
Be Watching You

~ ITEM: Google of  ’utah nsa data center

General Keith Alexander

~ ITEM: NSA Utah ‘Data Center’: Biggest-ever domestic spying lab?; and National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance

~ ITEM: NSA Boss Says Agency Does Not Monitor Your Email; Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails

~ ITEM: Save The Internet– The federal government and big companies want limitless new powers to “friend” you, to “follow” you, to spy on your every online move. And they plan to get them via legislation called CISPA — the “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act” (HR 3523).

~ COMES THE INEVITABLE.. ever-smaller drones to be used to spy on America. You know, because all those tacky CCTVs littering the cities of the former United Kingdom are so snoopy and obvious, whereas a little modest hover-bot above our easy sight just makes it so easy. To watch.

You know, for catching drug-dealers and smugglers and lost kids and widdle wandered kitties and bitter racist Bible-Gun-clingers and bloggers and dissidents of all stripes and… and, like the ever-spreading tentacles of the American National Security Agency (whose boss is NSA & Cyber Command honcho, and supervisor of the new Utah mega-cyber-swamp a-building, to sweep up all data ever anywheres. So easy).

What’s that? You’ve never heard of General Keith Alexander? Well, the world is awash in powerful unelected people minding your business, ordering your life, and collecting data galores. If you’ve been online, most sites data-mine, leave cookies on your hard-drive, and (in the case of FaceBook & Google) mind your business to try and sell you things. It’s a compromise we make (sometimes unknowingly) for the modern interwebs.

Pat The Doggie!

I’m sure Mr. Alexander is a nice man who pays his taxes, loves his wife, pats his dog, and puts his pants on one leg at a time. Thing is– and this is aside from whoever’s in the White House– so much power in the hands of one man is inherently dangerous, and open to abuse, secret government, and a kind and scale of data-gathering (video-cell-computer-credit/ banking-shopping) on people which the world has never seen before.

1984? Stalin could only wish for a surveillance-state so potentially all-pervading, detailed, and intrusive. The nearly omnipresent 2-way video-screens in Orwell’s dystopic vision were child’s-play compared to the power technology increasingly has over most of us in the Western world. This will be ‘for our own good’.

No Thank’ee

Although the Binky is wise and all-seeing, he would not for his soul nor all the Keurig k-cups in the world take on such a position of power– even if (like Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring) I might do so, at first, because I meant to do good. Such means hold within themselves the power of abuse, the temptation to mind business and intrude and expand the powers of the state and the military into the lives of ordinary citizens. In the books, Gandalf had a secret ring, meant to help him oppose Sauron, which was his divinely-given calling.

Photo by Pierre Vinet/New Line Cinema

Fool Us Twice?

In one sense, such cyber-schemery is also a grand illusion & joke on the powers that be– yet another misbegotten human attempt for certain powerful people to play God (over other people, and the future), trying to create a system so perfect that no-one will need to be good. Ain’t no such thing, There’s crime & sinners & saints & virtue in the strictest jailhouse.

The Lord God Almighty will (as always) laugh them to scorn– but the many questions remains.. how many laws will be broken, lives ruined, privacies invaded, governments become prison-guard states, and how much increased will be the sum total of human misery and degradation increased by the ever-deadly good intentions and unintended consequences of the mastery of technology over free peoples and the future? Nothing to see here: shrugs all ’round.. go back to your 400 channels and online puppies and pursuit of ever-staler pleasures.

At what price this notion of ‘security’? Too high, but the buying & paying for it is increasingly out of our hands. ~


MacBheatha

~ ITEM: Macbeth, King of Scotland Wiki

~ BEEN WATCHING lotsa Shaky Bill The Bard.. and loving it all, new, old, Branagh, Connery, Stewart, modern setting or old or otherwise.

Thing is, Shakespeare wrote on many levels, historical and metaphorical, tragical and comedical, to court and groundlings– and with all the subtlest layers to do with his recusant Catholicism, and the tides of England’s divided life in his times. This way of understandng was the way the Bible had been read since Jewish times; many levels of meaning in the same words and ideas. That reading and thinking was the root of the great thinking & poetry and philosophy and faith of the West– our own roots, if we know it or not.

The Scottish Play

I just wish that Shakespeare had gotten his Scots history correctly. MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh was a good guy, generally– a talented general and king in ever-warsome Scotland, a generous and pious man given to helping the poor.  Writers in the 1300s upended history, to make it dramatic thereby creating the legend which Shakespeare used as the basis of his play– the later version meant to flatter the ancestry of then-king James 5.0 of Scotland (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542). So much for historicity.

Yet all is not lost

“In modern times, Dorothy Dunnett’s novel King Hereafter aims to portray a historical Macbeth, but proposes that Macbeth and his rival and sometime ally Thorfinn of Orkney are one and the same (Thorfinn is his birth name and Macbeth his baptismal name). John Cargill Thompson’s play Macbeth Speaks 1997, a reworking of his earlier Macbeth Speaks, is a monologue delivered by the historical Macbeth, aware of what Shakespeare and posterity have done to him. Scottish author Nigel Tranter based one of his historical novels on the historical figure, MacBeth the King. David Greig’s 2010 play Dunsinane takes Macbeth’s downfall at Dunsinane as its starting point, with his just-ended reign portrayed as long and stable in contrast to Malcolm’s.”

Of course, Shakespeare’s royal plays were not only about about the history of Scotland or England, but of current royal matters under Elizabeth Tudor and James I & VI, and the spiritual crisis of the Reformation as imposed in blood and coercion and censorship by the Welsh-English junta against Catholic England.

So Shakespeare, via MacBeth, spoke immediately to King James, who had been the new hope for Catholic toleraton before his crowning– until he found out just how many English Catholics there still were; how the Puritans and the court establishment would prove most awkward; and how much money might be freshly torn from the recusants in fines, extortions, and blackmail.

More on this theme later. ~


Stinking Unto To High Heaven

~ BARRYACK SOETEROBAMA, the felonious fraudulent fake-IDed foriegner, who is currently eviscerating his adopted country, is a most scary and dangerous guy.

I’d love to know who all has died ‘suddenly’ around this character (including Andrew Breitbart, and other critics and investigators of this regime), from family-members on up.

Where and when was he born, and who were the parents?

What is his actual citizenship?

Why has cipher-man still not released all his background docs, transcripts, and medical records, or a fact-based CV/ biography?

What were his Russian connections? What do extant Soviet records report about him?

How many names or aliases has this character used in his life?

Who paid for his $1 million education? Why are there no records or memories of him at Columbia U, EXCEPT HIS DIPLOMA?

Why were he and his mother in Lahore Pakistan for ages?

Why is he allowed to use an 1890s-era social security number of a dead person from Connecticut?

What do the KGB, CIA, FBI, NSA, and Secret Service know, and when did they know it?

Has he ever met a Communist he didn’t like?

Why is he still in office, and not in maximum security prison?

America: wake up– you are at war. Expose & depose this imposter, before it’s too late, which I’d dare to predict is after the 2012 election, if he is allowed to run, and if he wins (or steals the victory, or overrules the results). ~


One Of My Heroes

Spring 2012 Lecture On Faith and Reason:
Dr. Anthony Esolen, “The Person as Gift.”

Scary Bad Man

~ ITEM: Some articles by Anthoney Esolen, and lots more here.

~ WHEN THIS same talk above was given at the formerly liberal arts college of Yale, it nearly caused a riot. Well done, then.

Dr. Anthony Esolen is an actual professor– i.e., One Who Professes– the fullness of the great tradition of Western Civilization and Christianity, founded upon Judaeo-Christian Greco-Roman truth. That sounds very staid and safe and stale, but in these days of political correctness, when professors can be fired, sidelined, and unpublished for straying off the intellectual and spiritual gulag that is What Everyone Must Think, behold his courage and wisdom in the face of it.

And unlike leftists provocateurs and smart-alecks and sneerers, Prof. Tony isn’t all “Yay me!” about himself. He just seems happy to say what is true and good and beautiful, and let the chips fall where they may.

Read his books & articles, watch his vids, and consider seriously what he says.

The Binks hath spoken! ~


Faith & Answers

~ ITEM: Twenty questions atheists struggle to answer

~ GO READ the article above first, and the many comments. It’s good stuff, if a little simplistic on both sides.

You Can’t Think It

There are several issues at play here– the deepest is the pretense that ‘Science™’ (taken as scientific materialism) is somehow a pure form of knowledge that does not depend upon axioms or a philosophy of science prior to it; that it is a self-sufficiently complete system of knowledge and truth; in short, that if you pull hard enough on your suspenders you can lift yourself into the air.

NOTE: The idea of “Scientific Proof™” as the test of true knowledge is not itself capable of being scientifically proven– that is, it cannot be measured by weight, volume, colour, material analysis, nor reproduced experimentally nor hypothetically, by any of the intellectual or scientific tools of proper scientific enquiry. It can’t be that simple–except it is. Modern scientific materialism is illogical, and claims too much.

You Can’t Live It

Equally, scientific materialism as applied to human life is an absurdity, since nobody actually lives, acts, or conducts themselves that way– or should be committed to a psychiatric hospital if they do. Such materialism does provide a scope for self-importance, selfishness, tyranny, and keeping God’s nose bloody well out of our business, which surely is a motive for believing it– as Sartre found when playing with matches as a child (look it up).

Old Dead White Guys

Neither the Greek fathers of the sciences, nor the long train of thinkers and inventors down the ages who were Christian, would think very much of atheistic materialism– they would rightly warn that power without conscience (or only such conscience as allowed by convenience or current fashion) is the very power of chaos and leviathan turned loose upon the world, and ultimately, upon humanity itself by those who use our powers of knowing and making to control the world, and other people, and the future.

The cautionary tale of Frankenstein and his Monster (best movie-version here) is a warning we do not want to hear. The full title is “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus“– reminding us that modern science, like the fire which the mythical titan Prometheus stole from the Greek gods to give to men, is a dangerous force.  Further, in the old tale, in addition to fire, humans were filled with blind hopes: huge power, and crippling blindness. Unintended consequences. “We never meant for that to happen” over and over and over.. but it does.

Most of Dr. Saunders’ legitimate questions remain unanswered by the attempts above, because mere description, or yelling “Science!” does not answer the “Why does anything exists at all?” question, any more than you can explain away Shakespeare by analysing marks upon paper, or quills and ink, or the composition of the wood used in The Globe Theatre.

Thou Shalt Panic!

Sad to say, a lot of what passes for Science today is groupthink-politics, and panic. Well-intentioned but sincerely wrong celebrities like Al Gore (Climatechangeomigodweresodoomed) or Parkinson’s-afflicted Michael J. Fox or Christopher Reeve (eat babies, whatever it takes! Embryonic Stem Cell Research– ESCR– will save us!) are just two examples of how misrepresented or just plain unscientific ideas get popular, pushed on us, as a kind of ideological test of sincerity & goodness.

Via

Gore is famously wrong, whatever global temperatures may be doing (might have something to do with that giant flaming fusion reactor up in the sky); Chris Reeve & Michael J. Fox are less famously wrong, because (SHHH!) despite billions upon billions wasted, ESCR has produced nothing, versus Adult Stem Cell Research, which has nothing but successes. You know, scientific proof and reproducible experiments and actual health-benefits and all that picky stuff.

And shut up to them what will say “You’re Against Science!”; or “you hate progress” or “you’re a fundamentalistical!” Answer my arguments, first.

Just sayin’, is all. ~


An Movie Review

Vanessa Redgrave stars in Columbia Pictures’ “Anonymous.”

~ ITEM: Anonymous (2011)

~ ITEM: Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations [Kindle Edition]

~ ITEM: Anonymous, the new movie about Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford

Anonymous (2011) International Trailer – HD

~ IT IS A VERY MIXED movie, well-filmed & acted, but based on the theory that Shakespeare wasn’t himself. Apparently aging Shakespearian Derek Jacobi thinks so, for what that’s worth.

Here’s the thing: watch the movie, but ignore the endless theories. It’s amazingly well depicted– the costume & art department deserve an Oscar. So do the actors, like Vanessa Redgrave as  an ancient Queen Betty 1.0– and the vividness of gritty stinking Elizabethan London alone is worth the viewing.

Further, the screenplay-writer gets it.. the plays were political, with many levels of meaning, and topical beyond our belated understanding– however, since we don’t live in the times, know the personalities and headlines, and the punchy relevance, all sorts of goofy theories breed like mushrooms.

Proto-KGB In Frilly Collars

Central to Elizabeth’s reign were the horrid and grasping spymaster Cecils, father and son, wonderfully acted by David Thewlis and Edward Hogg. The greedy & social-climbing Cecils turned England into a police-state.. and Cecil the Elder got pilloried for it eternally by Shakespeare as the garrulous cold-hearted busybody Polonius, and Cecil The Younger as the hunch-backed schemer Richard III.

Mysterious Shakespeare

The “Shakespeare Was Somebody Else and/or A Committee” argument is irrelevant.  If not him, then a genius just like him did it. You might as well claim that ancient aliens probably made us, so there’s no God. You know, because if there IS a God, he couldn’t possibly have made the ancient aliens who may have made us. Gerp.

The lost history of the Reformation is the key. That many Elizabethan playwrights and poets were Catholic, or thoroughly soaked in that intellectual and culutral and imaginative world, despite the grim and literalist radicalism of the Puritan left. Shakespeare is a a puzzle to much scholarship (1) because of the later whitewashing of English history into the triumphant march of whiggery; and (2) because his interior world was illegal and treasonous according to the Tudor state, but truth must out. Hence the coded language, ever-moving loyalties, and people trying to speak out about what was true and good, and current events, and what it all meant through literary and dramatic means.

Watch, avoid the theorizing (sorry, Roland Emmerich & Derek Jacobi, but you’re terribly, terribly wrong), and enjoy the amazing acting and staging and special FX. ~

Anonymous, 2011: 4 Binky-hats out of 5.


 
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Posted by on June 16, 2012 in Obama, Popery, Preachery, Word From Sponsor

 

Odds And Ends

Hello?

Is there anybody out there?

Binky has had stray thoughts over the past little bit, and the following are them.

As you know, I been ailing, and after my attempt to restart back at the end of January, the teeth– in sailing terms– took me all aback: full stop. Since then, I’ve been waiting for the next disaster.. so far, none. Whew!

The thing is, this blog has been on hiatus so long, it’s dead in the water, visitor-wise. The Binky isn’t sure if there’s still interest in this thing getting going again or not.

Lemme know.

Binks-dot-webelf-at-gmail-dot-com


Goodest Friday

~ JUST WATCHING the last 1/3 of the internationally famous Jesus Movie by The Jesus Movie Project– a huge evangelistic gift to the Christian world, and done in a huge number of languages. Unlike the 1977 Jesus of Nazareth, it sticks to the gospel word for word; unlike Mel Gibson’s overdone but in-parts-excellent Passion Of The Christ, it’s not insanely over-violent and overful of Mel’s spiritual and personal agonies projected onto the big screen.

Good Friday is still there in our ever-more secularizing calendar, even if an inconvenient no-shopping day in some locales for buying Easter goodies and groceries. that is, it’s still there as a reminder of eternity in time; of the founding principles of our Western civilization; as the first part of the spiritual drama to be completed by Pascha, the promised bodily resurrection on the Third day.

Pesky Questions

What saves?– this is the question which abides, even if public religious faith wanes. Who or what shall make all things right? How & when? Politicians and promises? Generals and weapons? Bureaucrats? Malls and sales? Redistributionism? Recycling? Utter personal freedom?

We enjoy many good things, invented or set up or passed on by generations before, so that we have been generally healthy, well off, well educated, and had a rich table of a very great feast and market set before us for our enjoyment.

We forget the ‘why’ of these things, and imagine that we somehow deserve them. They were given that we might pass them on, and ensue future generations might live a better life– because God commands us to be fruitful and multiply; to love our neighbour as ourselves; to leave it better than we found it. That’s part of doing God’s will, on earth as it is in heaven.

The spiritual energizes a person or society or civilization– giving direction and power and determination. Without a spiritual renewal, our societies will lose their way, their energy, their growing principle– cut flowers living a fleeting shadow of a life.

The cross of Jesus remains looming over us as a question, a challenge, a reminder, a provocation.. even if we dwell only in the shadow of the cross. If nature abhors a vacuum, so does supernature. That we feed– rather vampirically– on the leftovers of living faith, on the fumes of the built up moral and spiritual and material reserves handed on by past generations, is no credit to us. ~


Put Away Childish Things

~ JUST BEEN watching various versions of the play Richard 3.0 by William Shakespeare (on YouTube). I’d say that though Ian McKellen does a good job in the severely abridged 1995 movie, Olivier (in the less-abridged 1955 version) still rules them all. Plus, they knew how to make a decent-looking movie then.

Impressively, Shakespeare’s Richard of Gloucester is depicted as a genuinely nasty man. Along with author Alison Weir, I’ve no problem supposing Lord Nasty Rick capable of plots, schemes, and ordering the murder of the young princes in the tower. Heck, a 20th century deposed King of England was a big Nazi-fan, after all.

“Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other…”

This is morally serious language. Here are no weasel-words, nor slippery “Mistakes were made, negativity occurred, let’s move on” which leaves the perp unguilty, unhealed, and justice undone, nor seen to be done. Our age is often morally frivolous, where the kind of coffee you drink or how you sort your rubbish is carefully noted, but not whether you have your own offspring slain, or worship God versus Satan (or nothing), or buy products made by modern-day slaves.

Richard is cheerfully black-hearted, and depicted thus that we might not only see ourselves clearly in our sins, negligences and ignorances; most importantly, that we can see the consequencs of evil in the heart of one man as it spreads, infects, corrupts not only other people, but the whole realm, and the very future of the nation.

Our own little evils don’t necessarily kill kings or ruin kingdoms, but they do add to the fog of darkness and inhumanity and little cruelties by which we harm our neighbor, and ignore God. A recovery of self-knowledge comes by calling things what they are, and not what they are not.

In the wider world, Communism may speak of justice, but reeks of envy and resentment; capitalism may depict itself as freedom and wealth-creating, yet materialism and spiritual death and destructive greed is there, too. ~


Upstairs, Downton

Part 2

~ A FRIEND put me onto the PBS series Downton Abbey (2 seasons so far). Hmmmm.

I’m not a student of the Edwardian/ late Victorian era, but then again, neither are the writers of this series. Jane Austen movies are rather more my taste, since those novels were written in the times they depict, and however repetitive her plots, they ring true for time and place. So too with many other Beeb & Masterpiece Theatre costume dramas. Or Patrick O’Brian’s sea-novels.

Downton is rather more.. well, what one clever person thinks the Edwardians were like; and while some critics paint it as hyper-nostalgic ‘snob-pron’, it seems to this watcher rather to be as unreflective and hollow as the Edwardians allegedly were before the Titanic* and the Somme. That is, a soap-opera in posh drag. And don’t get me started on the wince-tastic episodes 6 & 7 of Season 2, here we head into ever lamer plotlines.. what’s next, jumping sharks in the reflecting pond maybe? Shades of plot devices like “Last season was all just a dream”?

Sadly, most of the tropes are soap operatic old reliables– if they were on ‘As The Stomach Turns’ and set in 21st century New York, it would be much less interesting. Such fare does make me want to re-view Upstairs Downstairs and more historically researched and less superficial books, TV, and movies on the period.

Better Than Thou

Were the Edwardians– rich or poor– really such hollow twits and know-nothings, mere ciphers on their way to producing such prodigies as our own fine selves?

It is a very wicked habit of We Better Than Thou moderns to be incapable of thinking or sympathizing with past generations except where they agree with & act like us. We, too, shall pass– and our blindness and prejudices and stupidities will not be celebrated forever, no, not even by those who come soon after.

Horrid Utopitards

In the century of blood just past, how often the utopian Best was the bitter enemy of the actual good.. with predictably disasterous results, over and over and over. Such matters pierce the Binky-heart particularly: the world is full of victims of experts and grand theories and wrong-headed ideology and the more general war on reality.

Never mind that Tsarist Russia was reforming as fast as she could when war broke out, and that the fruit of good government policies were coming ripe when the war and German scheming to weaken Russia caused the great fall into blood under the revolting totalitarian radicals. Reality must be kept over-simplified, and wrongly remembered.

Stuff & Nonsense

Downton does not exactly hearken back to the older & better elements of Western Civ, or Edwardian Victorianism. Too much of the 20th century hate and mocking of the pre-Great war era is so cussedly ingrained in us, we cannot imagine older ways of being, or the good that was in it all, alongside the evil and folly. It’s all corsets and oppression and horrible rich people and bowing servants.

And howlingly bad anachronisms.

Pour On The Silly

Thus, the various characters who insist on being “free, free, free” (like the Communist-Irish chauffeur who somehow gets the youngest daughter of the family to fall in love with him) get all the sympathy. Anyone insisting on morality, decency, and sanity are depicted as fuddy-duddy hidebound shitewits, because “everthing is changing”. Or somehing. The constant villains? You knowit– evil Victorians.

Verdict? C- at best. But Lord Julian Fellowes is laughing all the way to the bank. ~

* Fellowes’ 4-part Titanic series was a jumbly botch. C-. Stick with A Night to Remember.


The Barbarian Boche

~ ITEM: The Rape Of Belgium; an official U.S. Report

~ ITEM: German soldiers deliberately murdered more than 6,000 civilians throughout occupied Belgium during the first six weeks of the war

~ ITEM: The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I, by Larry Zuckerman; and Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914, by Jeff Lipkes

~ NOW, BINKS ISN’T calling for a revival of World War I anti-German propaganda, but some basic facts about Germany’s early 20th century record of atrocity needs to be re-remembered aright, for pacifists and anti-Westerners have made generations of hay justifying pro-German apologetics, and how it was all lies to get more soldiers for the meat-grinder of the Western Front.

Let’s recall that Germany was a brand new, rising nation, built on Teutonic supremacy, and militarism. Kaiser Wilhelm II may have been Queen Victoria’s Grandson, but he believed all that had gone before was corrupt and ripe to fall, to be swept away in a new Imperial and German age. In that sense, Kaiser Wilhelm had rather more in common with Lenin than his royal cousins throughout Europe.

A High & Lonely Destiny

In that sense, The Kaiser was a thorough-going social and political radical, and that radicalism would justify Germany’s leading the way in breaking all the bounds of international law, limited warfare, or any roadblock on the high historical Destiny of Germany to conquer and rule the inferior. Such niceties and limits applied only to weaklings, bourgeous fools, and non-Teutonicals.

The grandiose Wilhelm + an energetic military + huge popular support as the leader of the new Germany? = only a matter of time until war broke out, as the Kaiser fiddled with international agreeements, and upset the balance of powers, and armed his nation.

Such A Creative People

A few German inventions and/ or firsts in WWI? Lessee: mass bombardment via zeppelins & bombers against civilians & non-military targets; concentration camps for civilians; unlimited looting; repeated massacres of non-combatants; starvation used as a tactic; constant treaty breaking & violations of neutrality; unrestricted u-boat warfare; chemical weapons.. it’s a long ugly list.

Added to this ugliness was the apologetic attitude toward such atrocities by so-called World War I “pacifists”, who are the forerunners of modern leftists, who never met a radical and bloodthirsty dictator or Islamist terrorist they didn’t like– but for whom Western Civilization sucks and is to blame for everything ever.

Propaganda may exaggerate, but the modern habit of downplaying the truth behind images of the evil Hun in WWI serves neither history nor the facts. ~


The Nature Of God & Our Actions

~ ITEM: Crime and Punishment

~ A CRUCIAL PART OF ‘Answering Islam’ is to recall Christian definitions of God– because that is where we get our first principles, as expressed in the 10 Commandments, or the teachings of Jesus. That’s true whether we believe in God or not.

Say a Moe-Loving Koran-breathing terrorist chops off an infidel’s head, hands, feet, or whatnots? He or she believes God commanded it, through Moe, the One messenger of God, as communicated in the Koran. Compare instead the oft-mentioned bloody massacre of Jews & Muslims in the Crusader conquest of Richard “Lionheart” Plantagenet. Go ahead and show me where Jesus, Paul, Chrysostom or Aquinas teaches such things are the direct express revealed will of God, indeed the heart of the Gospel.

Think Like A Kid

Pesky 4-year old thinking is wiser than it seems. “Don’t break that, son.” “Why?” “Because I’m your Father.” “Why?” “Because I said so.” “Why?” Of course at this point arises the usual ‘See? It’s just arbitrary power, weak crushed by strong, blah blah blah’. Nonsense.

Actually, “Because I Said So” is a perfectly good reason, even if most parents don’t go behind their authority to proper sources for it. Thus: parents are legal guardians, responsible and accountable for children. Behind that, lotsa Biblical and civilizational reasons. Behind that, a commandment “Thou shalt honour thy Father and thy Mother”– that itself depends on God’s authority and self-revelation. But wait– there’s more!

“Because I said so”.. ultimately depends on the nature of God, himself, giver of life, and final authority for all legitimate authority– just as his loving, just, and constant Fatherhood is the model for all earthly fathers. There, parents: because, unworthy as you are, God gave you rule, and responsibility: you are accountable to more than yourself, your wife & kids, or even Social Services agencies.

Wrong-Religionists

That’s why Muhammed’s made-up claim that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all the ‘Abrahaminic faiths’ and revelations of the same God is terribly, terribly wrong. Either the first two are utterly mistaken and wrong about God, or the third is. Muhammed tried to get his authority by saying that his alleged revelation ‘completed’ the Old & New testament. Um– if they are so corrupted, we have to also take Moe’s word that they are still authoritative, and that he has the right to re-interpret them so Really They’re All About Him.

Moe’s version of religion & God amounts to– Trust me, because I said so, and my re-written versions of those other Scriptures which came before me and don’t mention me, and which explicitly forbid false prophets or new gospels prove that my religion is truest and bestest.

The Power Of Logic Compels You

However, if God has forbidden murder (& child-sacrifice), and Muhammed revises that, but claims it’s all the same God, then (a) all religions are arbitrary, or (2) Moe is wrong, or (iii) Jesus & Moses were wrong.

You can’t have it all ways at once, Muslimo-Judaeo-Christiano-Secularism. God is, or isn’t. God reveals himself, or doesn’t. God cannot contradict himself, so one revelation is true, the other not. On these foundations stand our freedoms, human dignity, moral action, and very society & civilization.

Non-Religionists

Secularists are like garbage-pickers living off the built-up moral and spiritual capital of the west, passed on over 4000 years. They pick, but don’t ask where the wreckage and ruins come from, or how & why anybody should be one way versus another.

Dostoyevsky was neither a ninnyhammer nor sour finger-wagger. When he wrote that “If God does not exist, everything is lawful,” he showed how these alternatives work out in The Brothers Karamazov, and in Crime and Punishment for the atheist radical character Raskolnikov.

In a chilling foretaste of the “higher destiny” claims of the Bolsheviks and Soviet Communists, Raskolnikov does what he wants, justifies it to himself, and keeps on killing. If the character is to re-invent morality, or what is lawful for him (or, in the case of a state-sized moral inversion, what is literally “lawful” according to Communist priciples), then everything is lawful, even if his victims or lesser mortals do not embrace his brave new law of the self-made-ultimate.

“If God does not exist, everything is lawful,” or as the old Spanish proverb has it “Take what you want,” says God, “but you will have to pay for it.”

Our choices (individual or corporate) don’t suspend the laws of causality or consequence; don’t actually supersede human nature or right & wrong; don’t erase the existence of God. Despite secular defacer or Muslim ranter, reality is. Part of the calling of Jews, Christians, and liberal Muslims to insist– in the light of God and eternity– that truth abides, revealed in God, written on human nature, and expressed in our lives, work, and built-up moral and material inheritance. ~


Again, More, And ReDo

~ AS MOST OF THE PRE-DEAD Minions will know, The Binks is a promiscuous re-watcher and re-reader of movies & books.

This is, of course, how kids learn language & letters & words, stories, reading, listening, the basic stories of childhood and our foundations. I vividly remember my parents reading The Hobbit to me, marking in red dots the map as Bilbo & Co. travelled from danger into danger.

A few years later, I read & re-read The Hobbit, Asterix, Tintin, later The Lord of the Rings, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Conan, all the rest.

And I still do it– having added many series including Patrick O’Brian, Nigel Tranter, Edith Pargeter, and many others. Likewise with great movies & TV series.

Why? Lotsa folks figure once is enough, then graze new stuff.

Wherein Binks Tries To Justify His Notion

First, because (re)reading worthwhile stuff is a good thing. Secondly, for the same reason most of us like more than one bite of a good meal. Thirdish, because we are different each time, and see new things, and the book (or movie) echoes in us differently each time we digest it, as we grow older & hopefully wiser down the years.

It’s still a strange part of my memories that some movies which I found amazing or intriguing I only saw once or twice because that’s the way TV was back in the day. Unlike other stories, I couldn’t re-watch and learn & enjoy them– although I’ve found some of the stories & books they were based on.

Teh Binks will be trying to dig up some of those flicks (I’ve been re-watching Teh Muppet Show, most of which I vividly recall) to see what was interesting.. I think there’s a Sinbad in there, Jack The Giant Killer, those Reader’s Digest cartoons like The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince.

Part of recovering and passing civilization and culture on is to learn, recall, and hand on to others the treasures of movie, art, culture, literature, music and whatever else is good, beautiful and true. If the Muslim Brotherhood gets there way, all that will be banned and forbidden and burnt and lost– so enjoy it while you can.

Point– Ho-o-o!

I find it interesting in this regard that some fans of Mark Steyn growl about how he doesn’t continuously and only write about U.S. politics, the Jihad, or the end of civilization and stuff.. you know, those articles on music, broadway, and showtunes. Sorry, but those are the life-giving things, the actual business of culture and soul and civilization.

Miss the point much, O commentators?

If you’ve got any tried-tested-and true must-read or must-see books or films, please add them to the comments below. ~

Binky

 
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