~ INFAMOUS CANUCKI abortionist Henry Morgentaler has died.. I hope he turned to God as he did so, even in the last seconds of awareness. He has a very long list of death, suffering, lies, and betrayal of his religion, and deliberately slain unborn boys and girls to answer for, unto a higher power that does not obey lawyers.
It is beyond ironic (a) that he lived a very long life, unlike his victims, (b) was a doctor who proudly betrayed his Hippocratic oath, (c) that he was a Holocaust-survivor, of a regime which promoted abortion, infanticide, murder of the handicapped, political opponents, Jews, and other ‘undesirables’, forcing doctors and hospitals to enforce totalitarianism, and to serve political ends. Then he brought death to countless ‘undesired’, fought to overthrow provincial laws to protect the unborn, and did more for creating the current status quo (no abortion law in Canada since ’88) than any other individual.
~ THE MORE I PONDER THIS, the more ashamed for British manhood and Western Civilization and bystanderism I get, and the angrier I get (in a constructive sense).
Just saying– anybody here actually willing to defend someone else in an assault situation like this? I am, and the second I saw what was going on, I’d be running them down with a car, beating them senseless with any blunt object at hand, and getting any folks with size or will at all to do likewise. The “men” in that Wellington Street beheading left it up to two women to do the manly thing, and defend someone in need.
No doubt the Bobbies would be along eventually to charge me with Islamaphobia, hate-crimes, bigotry, dangerous use of a blunt object, possible EDL membership, and many weapons charges– but I’d be a man for all that, and not a sheep, filming the end of civilization on my shiny thing and waiting for Somebody to Do Something. Guns? Knives? Barehand? Branch? Boots? Rocks? Pointy sticks?
Bystanderism ‘R’ Us
The irony, of course, that a cowardly observational don’t get involved life is a life barely worth living– and that’s the point which the jihadis are making to us, using us as the very object-lessons of our incoming civilizational doom. That’s why they wanted lots of witnesses and iPhone video.
What are you willing to live for? What are you willing to die for? If you have no clear answers other than comfort, pleasure, and more of the same, then you’re the rot.
~ SO THE ENGLISH Parliament, sometime plaything of kings and nobles and Calvinist rebels, but still the Mother of Western Democracy, has now made law an impossible thing. Pseudogamous “marriage” for same-sex couples is law in the UK.
This is a crime against multiculturalism, of course, because Christians, Jews and Muslims officially oppose same-sexuality; and the line-up of sexual minorities behind the same-sex crowd– at least by the logic of rights uber alles— also deserve their slice of the legality/ benefits/ state-enforced & state-funded sex-pie, and are starting to ask for same.
War Against Reality
This is yet another moment in the long war of our conformitarian Western elites against reality, and The Real– ultimately, against God– and against civilization, many of her people, and the actual best interests of children and future generations. That war started with the invention of the cradle-to-grave benefits state, with easier divorce, abortion & the Pill, the sexual revolution, widespread pornography, delayed and serial monogamous marriage, wherein the sexual habits of sex-crazed bunnies permeated the Middle class.
Polyphobic Hate!
The rest of us have acted badly– how can we say “No?” to the same-sexers, polygamous, child-marryers, incesties, group marriagers, trangender who knows what.. It’s Not Fair. We have TV-shows to guide and soft-pedal the new moralities and societal narrative and acceptable thoughts.
~ 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.
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.”
Escaping scholars and Byzantine people brought the treasures of monasteries and Imperial libraries Westwards, and helped cause the European Renaissance; art and artifacts– those not stolen by the Crusaders in the 1200s– came with the refugees to Mount Athos, Mystras above Sparta, to cities of Italy and the west. Even in her dying agonies in the late 1300s and onwards, she was like a bag of gold slit open, spilling treasure and life and memory and worship and truth like gold pieces falling to the earth.
Go and read up– it’s one of the greatest largely unknown stories of our western history.
From Middle Earth
For Tolkien, an informed scholar and attentive man of his times and history, the Turks were known (as they were) to be Jihad-friendly genocidal brutal folks, with a guttural-sounding language, and the rape and conquest of Constantinople behind them– not to mention countless purges, destruction of history and literature and artifacts and churches, under the tutelage of the Greatest Heretic since Judas, the sworn enemy of all other religions, Muhammed the Bloody.
Elements of the Turks appear on the speech and actions and names of the orcs in the Ring Trilogy; the siege of Minas Tirith derives in part from the great loss and horror of the siege against Constantinople. The armies of Rohan and Aragorn appear at the last moment to save the city, unlike Byzantium, which might well have been saved by a last crusade of the West, had not France been in geopolitical bed with the Sultan, the gold-grubbing leaders of Venice not to be bothered; the rest of Europe too divided or stupid or entangled in closer schemes and conflicts to divert money, ships, and knights to defend what was the real bulwark against Islam for 800 years.
Bystanders
Most of the West stood by, and few enough recognized the loss and what would inevitably come after the death-agonies of Constantinopolis. Westerners today are pretty much the same.
The Mediterranean soon became a Muslim lake; Istanbul took up the trade and some of the culture of Byzantium, under a totalitarian religion; the Sultans built palaces and mosques and harems on and inside the ruins of Byzantine palaces and churches an monasteries; and her armies swarmed, and her navies became like a movable forest on the waves.
BOOKNESS— Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto by Niccolo Capponi
and
EVEN MORE Booky Goodness— The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent, by John Stoye
The rest of the 15th century saw endless advance, the 16th the Battle of Lepanto; the conquest of much of Eastern Europe, Greece, Hungary, and the first seige of Vienna, the key to the heart of Europe. Even into the 1800s, the infant United States was forced to pay 1/3 of her national income to Muslim pirates centred in Tripoli to leave American trade alone. Eventually the U.S. decided to send her Navy and Marines (“..to the shores of Tripoli..”) to put an end to that lucrative little enterprise of Muslims taxing the infidel.
“..to the shores of Tripoli..”
So read up on the fall of Constantinople; her last tragic days; Lepanto & Vienna & Tripoli; and understand it’s still happening all around us. And the next time you read or watch Lord of the Rings and see Minas Tirith, realize with wonder that such a place– and better than the story– once stood upon earth, and that Europe and you and all you hold dear is a gift from the dying hands of the Eastern Romans. ~
Go Bump In The Night
Fae ghosties & ghoulies & lang-legged beasties & things that go bump in the nicht… Guid lord, deliver us!
~ 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. ~
~ AS THE UPPITY NEGRO patriot Allen West fights the Obama machine in Florida (there is no dirty trick so dirty that the dirty tricksters will not try), the recent hyper-fraudulent Obama victory— where some areas report 140% returns, and a national 103% voter response– is a new high in low. And it’s all across the United States, if you look even a little under the shiny hopey glitter-slime.
It is despicable; it is a knife to the body politic and the future of America; it is a blatant dare and provocation to the American establishment and the ordinary voter: Obama is saying “I fuck* you all. Come and get me, if you dare!” It is the national TSA-moment, where everyone is going to get the nastiest strip-search possible, forever.
We’ve all known of the proverbial army of dead Democratic voters, the ballot-stuffing, the fakery of past elections across America over the last 50 years and more. Thing is, now everybody– including electoral observers from the EU– are getting it. The joke is not so funny any more; the theft of elections in critical times a life-and-death matter; and whether it’s the POTUS, his backers, or all of them combined, the buck stops at the Oval Office.. if he can tear himself away from Golf, ESPN, movie-nights, celebrity parties, or vacays to fancy places around the world with Moochelle and his band of happy carpet-baggers and grifters and utopian master-planners.
And all it takes is a few key regions in a few key states, let alone across the board monkey-business, to sway an election. Looks like that’s what happened.. makes you wonder about 2008, doesn’t it?
Dark Troubles Are Here
America is like a soul and body possessed by demonic evil after November 6th, 2012. Jesus said of some stubborn evil spirits that “Howbeit this kind goeth nor out but by prayer and fasting” [ Mt. 17:21 ]– we must be changed and ready & worthy inwardly, by God’s grace, to confront evil– unless we would fail, or become evil ourselves.
What To Do?
Consider the 2012 Election still on. Support Col. Allen West & other true American patriots in this time of Constitutional & electoral crisis. Impeach Obama now. Watergate him, for his many and various crimes. You may have to step over the RINO squishes who love power over truth and fairness and freedom, but they were never true friends of the American idea anyway, just big money and big politics pushing pawns around, and lying out of both sides of their mouths.
If your local or state votes seem even a little iffy, demand and require a proper judicial recount, until “We The People”– under God the true source of authority & the last word in the American republic– expose the stink; don’t shut up; spread the word, make sure the thieves running the radicalized Democrat Party know that This Shite* Will Not Stand.
Sad to say, but movie sound-tracks & special effects telegraphing “This Is The Crucial Moment” dull us to those actual real moments in the actual world– just like the evil characters are made obvious and clear. This is America’s moment of crisis– more than 1776, or 1812, or 1861, or 1919, or 1941 or 1991, or even 2001 & 9-11.
Calling All Heroes
Real heroes don’t come with capes and powers and exciting music– most heroes are people doing their best, their duty, their yeoman’s work, speaking truth and seeking virtue, and standing up in big and little ways as needed. Allen West? hero. Anybody willing to recognize the true character of their times and act on it with discernment and not counting the cost? Hero.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The house is on fire; the alarm bell is ringing; the barbarians are in the city; act; pray; prepare for the trouble ahead, no matter if Obama is brought down as he deserves or not– for on the other side of the current electoral crimes, and even without O and the wreckers, America is sick and broke and needs bitterly painful surgery and terribly wracking medicine to survive another generation as a power for good, and a first-world nation.
Oh, and actual America-loving Democrats? This is your moment, too, but in a different way. Everything Mussolini and Stalin and Hitler did was technically ‘legal’; most of the media backed him; almost everybody looked the other way; everybody hushed each other not to get in trouble, and to let the revolution continue, for the good it might do, the end justifying all means.
Ridiculously obvious voter-fraud? Transparent lies? The politics of slogan and distraction and implied threat & violence? Is that what you really stand for? Will you allow them to do whatever they want, and in your name? If you will not speak out now, then you too bear responsibility for what Obama and his puppeteers are doing to the United States, and through it, to the world.
In the most serious way I can mean it, ITYS. ~
* Used advisedly. As I tell the Binklings, profanity is for serious use, to express in crackingly strong Anglo-Saxon the angry ugly truth as needed. Dropped a spoon? No. Smashed a thumb with the hammer? Yes. Laughably evil and obvious chicanery? Mhmm.
Them With Perfect Heads
A FaceBook friend recently chose bald, via razor. I wrote:
Welcome to the bald hair club for men. (1) Your scalp acclimatizes; (2) don’t use shaving cream, just wet your scalp down for a minute with warmish water in a facecloth, then Gillette Fusion away; (3) if it gets longish, cut it down with a shaver on ‘0’, then soak as above & shave. (4) Shave in strips from front to back, then forwards against the grain to catch the strays.. try not to go over and over an area more than 3-4 times, or you get rashy. (5) If rashy, a little aloe vera handcream will do the trick, and less screamy than alcohol or aftershave. (7) Once your scalp gets toughened up, you can in fact get a super-smooth shave and not stubbly. Wear a hat in the Summer sun, since melanoma and scalp-burn isn’t as cool as baldness. (8) The vibrating Gillette Fusion is a little easier on the scalp. (9) Get spousal unit or friend to make sure you’ve not missed any patches.
There you are, and there you go. And as Teh Binks says, don’t forget to do bald in Winter, if you live in such climes: any old wimp can do it in Summer. ~
~ IN THE SPATE of apocalyptic TV & movies out there, only some of them get it right. Too many writers seem to think that (say) people surviving the end of electricity or a zombie plague would be doofing around like newbies months or years later. Sure, it makes for gore and screaming and drama, but really?
In the new show Revolution, one of the opening scenes after The Lights Go Out is a armoured & armed-to-the-teeth buncha militia toughs riding into a small hamlet of survivor-folks. Where to begin?
(1) No lookouts? Really? No dogs outside the walls or on the road? Not even some holy geeses, as in ancient Rome, to sound the warning of sneaky invaders? No traps, nothing? FAIL.
(2) The wooden gate, wide open. No smaller door, no moat, ditch, or even pointy sticks. FAIL.
(3) No apparent emergency plan, protected vantage points for firing arrows or guns, and when battle does break out, all the hamlet folks just run into the open. Bloody hilarity ensues. Heck, one archer protected from inside brick walls could take out 20 guys in a minute. FAIL.
Believe me, I could go on.. and that’s only 15 minutes into the pilot. #Facepalm.
The Walking Dead asks us to believe the same thing– that two cops, plus a baker’s dozen of other survivors would walk into every zombie encounter like it was the first time ever, and blunder about in a highway full of stranded cars wondering where to get supplies and gas.
People that clueless in reality won’t make it months or years. Period.
The Lights All Went Out
I’m not a survivalist type, but when the power went out here for four days a few years ago (ice-storm, and cold out), the She-Binks and I were ready, because we generally are.
BBQ, with propane. Airtight woodstove (not pellet-stove), with kindling, logs, and fire-lighting. Candles, flashlights, batteries. Car kept above half-tank, if not full. A stash of small bills, for buying (no credit or debit cards, right?). Water cooler, with 2 back-up tanks (though we really are thinking of a few of these tub-liner tanks). Weapons of many & various sorts for dangerous animals, however many legs.
No Cannibalisms!
Through the whole thing, the heat in the house never went below 63F or so.. we ate well (freezers had to be cleared out, unfortunately.. we’ve no generator yet), rose with the sun and didn’t stay up very late, gathered an elderly relative to our refuge, kept an eye on neighbours, and bought what we could at stores which were open for business.
It was exhausting. It was very very dark at night. The Binkses abided.
Survivor: Burb
Why? Because after an emergency comes, no amount of wishing will make you ready after the fact. During the big outage, I saw people at the local Gas Mart who were literally shocked that their plastic was not going to work, as if everything they’ve always taken for granted would always be so, even when a moment of paying logical attention would show them otherwise.
No, there is no honking big bunker loaded with years of food and firearms and all that heavy-duty survival stuff, because in time of trouble or serious breakdowns of society, I would rather bug IN (stay at home with others nearby) than bug OUT to some expensive hideaway, as the predominant U.S. survivalist mindset would have it. Check out Ferfal’s book & blog to see how bugging in during hard times works best.
Why? because I’m a Hubby, and a Dad, and a sheepdog, and so bear care & responsibility towards my family, to my neighbours, and the wider community to be resonably prepared for emergencies. The government cannot replace my basic readiness needs, and people who live day to day with the assumption that someone else will make it all better even in minor situations like an extended blackout are in for needless surprise, pain, disappointment, stress and fear.
Am I huddling under a rock because of Mayans, asteroids, aliens, or the latest apocalyptic fears? No. Yet nobody should assume that the next decade and more in the West will be years of peace, plenty, and mindless careless same old same old. Sometimes the apocalypse is a small one, and you will have to choose to survive.
Free Advice, Worth Every Penny
A little preparedness will help you and yours; a little spent now will save trouble later; a little planning and imagining the worst (yet hoping for the best) will see you ready come storm or sunshine.
Everybody Who’d Like To Bear Up With The Coming Fiscal Tsunami: read Ferfal, and get his book, and pass the word. If it all works out anyway, you’ll be ready for emergencies; if not, you will be ready to survive hyper-inflation, social unrest & chaos, rampant crime, authoritarian government, degradation of all goods & services & all the rest which lies ahead for the EU, and America, and everybody who depends on the current bankrupt financial system.
Be a man. Be a woman. Stand up, and look after your business now. ~
How 2 Gear Up Now
~ YOU NEED WATER, food, shelter, warmth, light, protection. You need to have your car ready to provide such things, and your home/ cottage too.
The general rule of having stuff is: one is none, and two is one. A single flashlight or knife or survival tool or lighter is next to zero– you lose it, and a crucial part of your kit and future is gone. Double up, and keep things in various places.
Details, Details
Food: most important for the long-term, though water is crucial for the shorter-term. There are MRE-style ready-meals; power bars; canned foods including vegetables, soups and stews; a woodstove or propane BBQ or camp stove can allow for cooking, boiling water, and sterilization of various items including cutlery, or surgical tools. Make sure to have salt, some kind of sugar, instant coffee & tea.
Water: filling your bathtub doesn’t work, except for providing “grey water” for dishes, toilet-flushing, laundry-tubs and the like. If you want to use the tub, buy a WaterBob or equivalent tank-liner, for a month of clean water for four people (sparingly used). For travel, water tablets or a filter-straw.
Lights: candles, lanterns (plus fuel), flashlights & lots of batteries. A Petzl-style headlamp is very useful for task-oriented work, and hands-free travel and walking around in the dark. You can sometimes get cheaper versions from dollar stores. Matches, firesteel, and other means of making flame is invaluable. Triple-up.
Shelter: house, cottage, portable tent, tarp, paracord & string & rope, learn how to make basic shelters out of branches and leaves and all that. Being out of the wind and cold and weather is important to surviving, and keeping your family or dependents safe. Lots of online resources here, and there may be local schools or weekend workshops you and your kids can enjoy. Again, lots of resources on the internets.
Warmth: Proper clothing, outdoor with polartec fleece & GoreTex Windstopper, the full kit. Multiple layers, flannel shirts, long underwear, hats. Rainproof clothing. A woodstove, solar heat collector, whetever you need to make cheap heat for your shelter or home.
Tools: a couple of multi-tools, portable wrench system, hammer/ hatchet. Small hatchet, wood-axe, folding saw/ pocket chainsaw. A Really Serious & Serviceable Working Knife.
Protection 1: We should all have a penknife, a rescue knife, a hunting knife, and machete — buy them now for each family member, as appropriate. A cane & walking stick, and baseball bat. A tomahawk or three. And backups. Learn how to cut & baton wood & kindling. Learn how to use a knife to protect yourself. Find a blade-nerd & online sites, and get wise.
Protection 2: Guns are tools, not toys. Learn to use one, buy a .22 rifle & .308 Remington rifle & a shotgun, and a small and larger handgun, as local law & certification allows. Gun safety is mostly common-sense, and you can learn to use a gun in a few days– weeks for real skill development. Find a gun-nerd, and gun-nerd sites online, and learn up.
Finally, & Conclusorially Speaking
This is only a starter-guide; not complete, nor the last word– some ideas culled from my own preparations. Heck, don’t take my word for it– watch gear-reviews via YouTube to build up your own sense of proper gear, and what’s right for you, and your sitch.
Preparedness is not only the gear, it’s a mindset, a take-care and provide attitude, a choice to be a sheepdog instead of a predating wolf, or a helpless sheep. ~
“When the Shafia girls went looking for help from youth-protection officials three years ago, their case was hampered by a uniquely Canadian bureaucratic snafu. Some of their pleas were lost in translation. Or, more precisely, their different complaints were handled by separate English- and French-language agencies that failed to share case information.”
~ ASIDE FROM THAT & THE POLITICALLY CORRECT droning that all cultures & their practices are equally good, does Modern free-for-all youth culture fail immigrants and their children?
Our sometimes anarchic manners and morals, restless materialism, and absolute insistance on being ‘free, free, free’ would shame most of our own forebearers, let alone a newcomer from the cultural & religious 10th century. It’s a rarefied environment.
The moral and religious tide of Western societies go in and out.. and the results can be alarming to those who belong to the older tradition. Mind you, for Judaeo-Christianity, ‘getting back to basics’ comes via moral renewal, individual transformation, spiritual awakening, mass movements and accompanying political actions. For a Muslim immigrant ‘getting back to the basics’ means Koran, Jihad, Sharia, and the dirty family secret (as Muhammed taught) of murdering your kids/ family if they are tempted away from the faith– whether that’s by the spiritual rebirth of Christianity, or the siren-song of materialism, moral relativism, and dressing/ acting like a party girl.
Our Unintended Consequences
The simple fact is that no man– or society– is an Island. We can all think of people and ways of life to admire and inspire– and the opposite is true. For us to pretend that preventing and/ or ditching our unborn and replacing them with immigrants– some of whom will be profoundly confused and dislocated by what seems to us a normal way of life, is to misrepresent ourselves to them, and to pretend that our accumulated actions and choices make no difference, and our current way of life is perfect and everybody should immediatley like & understand it. That’s a form of Leftist self-congratulation, just like exporting Feminism, the pill, and busy-body NGOs to go and bring the new progressive way to the heathen darkies.
What is brightest and best in us is not merely sexual and moral “freedom”, but our first things– love of truth, of law and fairness, of justice, our art and higher culture, literature and music and so very much more. The Christians transformed Rome and Greece not because they cheered on paganism, but because they replaced the enticements of mere power and pleasure with a higher love found in Christ, the Son of God, and thus drawing attention away from all that degraded, exploited, or ruined souls.
Higher, Better, More Gooder
St. Paul put it clearly to the Christians in Philippi:
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” [ Php. 4:8 ]
You can’t replace something with nothing. Asking immigrants to replace their spiritual lives with a secular vacuum doesn’t work.. or it works for a generation or so until folks start looking for roots & traditions.
We have hidden our Western glories under commercialism, an ever more crass pop culture, and a profound loss of confidence and understanding about who we are, and why. Immigrants come, take the oaths, and find us mumblers, afraid to speak truth and goodness, or to challenge their home-cultures in any way. Ghetto arise of like-minded folks, where the old ways live on, for lack of anything better. Child-marriage, concubinage, honour killings? That’s good old-fashioned Muhammedanism.. at least it stands for something, however evil or wrong-headed.
Apportioning Blame
Mr. Shafia failed his family. Mohammed & the sick cultures he helped bring into birth are partly to blame. But these girls died because of our way of life too, as in Bilingualism, government failure, a hands-off policy towards newcomers, and (perhaps) the idea that party-girlism is the way to be– as represented in youth culture and on TV. ~
~ AS NOTED CULTURAL philosopher Uncle Ben Parker put it, “With great power comes great responsibility.” GoogleCorp likes the former, not the latter.
In an evil move that must concern freespeechers, privacy activists, and anybody who doesn’t like powerful software & websites all up in their bizniss, Google is going to mind your online activities via their sites, and you have no privacy-opt-out choice. GoogleCorp had already slid this modus operandi under the radar with their popular Chrome Browser, assinging individual IDs to users, and recording their online activity. Now, the Google search-engine, Youtube, GMail, AdWords, and the many-tentacled mass of other Google products and sites will all be collecting data on you, personally. Via ComputerWorld:
“What has the blogosphere and some users in an uproar is that Google isn’t offering users an opt-out option. If you don’t want your information from Gmail, YouTube and Google searches combined into one personal data store that can paint a detailed picture of you, the only option is to stop using Google’s services.”
It all starts March 1st.
Already Evilling
GoogleCorp is a corporation with inappropriate & cosy ties to the radical Obama administration; it has in the past helped with the Great Firewall of China (blocking traffic & content into & out of China); Google Earth data-catching was sweeping up passwords, private info, and illegal content; Google Corp has also been fined $500 million by the U.S. Government for criminal activity connected with the online drug market. That is, despite the founders’ motto “Don’t Be Evil”, the temptations of money, political power, and collaboration with repressive regimes has been a sweet, sweet opportunity for evil.
Now, it’s ‘No Opt Out’. Well, if you want to use their products, that is. All freedom-loving Netizens should respond by refusing to use Google (except via anonymizer websites like Scroogle), cancel Gmail (I’m moving over to Yahoo), use SRWare’s spyware-free Chrome-copy Iron browser instead of Chrome (yes, it supports Angry Birds), use Bing or any other engine for searches, and off-dump any browser or desktop-intrusive Google products for free substitutes available everywhere online. And yes, the snooping also includes the new Google+.
But Binky!, You Say
“But Binky,” you say, “you’re an international elf of mystery– we’re just using FaceBook and GMail and sending e-mails and browsing Amazon and eBay and kitten-picture sites. What’s the big?”
The big? One company not only wants to be your gateway to the web, but install itself all over your computer– and watch you. And that’s only what we know about, or what GoogleCorp haven’t been charged and convicted and fined for. Power used irresponsibly is a great evil, but even greater is the indifference to such evils, whether here or abroad. Like Van Rompuy the unelected Obergruppenfuhrer of the EU, or rogue-POTUS Mr. Teleprompter in the U.S., such absolute power is not a tool for freedom, or due process, nor does “trust us, we’re the good guys” relieve us of vigilance and responsibility for our generation, and generations to come.
In some Anglican parishes, I sometimes met old conservative folks who loved the non-radicalized Bok of Common Prayer, but who missed the point when they said “I just want it around long enough to get my funeral properly done.” Hmm. ‘Well, thanks’, I thought to myself, ‘and too darned bad for the rest of us, is it?’
Muzzling The World
Google or SOPA & PIPA or the even worse international ACTA treaty are part of the wars by national and world establishments not just to curb alleged ‘piracy’ (we need digital content licenses, NOW), but to curb the very unpredictable, fast, and democracy-enabling flow of ideas, information, commentary, and activism (the good sort) which the web enabled in the mid-1990s.
Slaving the web? “Put the genie back in the bottle, he’s messing up our masterplans and skewing the official narrative.” Don’t confuse our would-be masters with the facts.
Imagine if something like the internet had been around in the 1930s. No Hitler. Imagine what Obama or the EUcracy would be like if ther were no internet today– or one that only gave us games, advertisments, and highly santitized pre-web-style network “news” tidbits, with little right of swift fact-checking fisk-making responds and the rest of the story?
GoogleCorp stands over the digital world like Big Brother, and should toatalitarian times arrive, they’ve already cheerfully cooperated with repression and web-crippling in the past. What’s to stop them from going 1984 all over us and the world? Little or next to nothing, if everybody just shrugs.
Don’t use Chrome– use the free Firefox or SRWare Iron if you like Chrome features & functionality, but don’t want Google watching you. It even has an anonymous surf mode.
Uninstall all the Google desktop ‘Freeware’, and find online alternatives.
Get rid of Gmail, unless only for innocuous stuff, and use Yahoo, or onboard MS-Outlook, or FireFox/ Thunderbird e-mail clients on your computer. Online mail is easy, but it’s very hackable, and in the case of Google after March 1st, very trackable and snoopable.
ITYS, Folks
The new Google No Opt-Out policy? Take back your freedom, and opt-out from Google like Binks is doing.
~ AFTER HE’S GONE, and the Dems finally start blaming him for stuff, Obama’s toxic legacy will live on. So will that of his voters, and enablers, apologists, and political cronies.
Obama is a kind of cipher, an untalented political hack and opportunist serving the agendae of anybody who can pay him or push him. He bears repsonsibility, but should not serve as a handy scapegoat for all the other players in the current very ugly American politico-economic sideshow.
Taking Names
Democrats? Yes, he’s yours. OK, so Soros, the Clintons, and others radicalized your party– you went socialist with them, and American political and social radicals pulled you into the big intoxicating campaign, unlocking the keys to power and loot. Sweet, sweet ambrosia– and you screwed over your own Party principles, and helped sell America down the river.
All you rich foundations and illegal donors and Sorosiac busy-bodies: America has become your experimental rat-cage. Real people are suffering, the real world economy is choking, the chance for chaos and triple, quadruple and quintuple dip recessions may become a new way of life. What’s that? You thought the free-money flow would fund the socialism, just like it did in Europe? Duh. America funded post-war European social statism– nanny got the loot, whilst Europe didn’t pay for military defence.
Who Pays Now?
Who pays now? What? Exactly.
This turkey-POTUS is a fail in every way: at home, abroad, geopolitically, economically, and even in terms of his own promises and policies. He has succeeded in adding 5 trillion to the debt; shutting down Main Street and cooling investment & expansion in corporate America. The vultures of Wall Street are glutted with stimulus and pay-offs, but the economy and markets are not strong for all that.
Hey, progressives: too bad your ‘Occutard’ movement is so full of stoners, nitwits, cowards, diaper-wearers and incompetents– hardly the unstoppable cadres of the Bolshevik revolution overthrowing the old regime, despite all the backing from the White House & Soros-machine. How will Obama get to further subvert the political process now? By main force, if at all.
One More Slap
Most of all to blame?– all you voters. He. Is. Your. Fault. You drank the Kool-Aid, swallowed the codswallop, believed the fumes and illusions– even though part of you knew bloody well that it was for show, and impossible. Hope & Change: I hope you will never vote for Obama again.
Yes, the Republicans deserve plenty of blame, but it is unlikely that anybody could have taken Obama in 2008. Not so now– don’t muff it up. ~
Fraud: How Radicals Work
“One of the most ubiquitous tactics of the Global Muslim Brotherhood is the establishment of a dizzying number of organizations and initiatives and which create the impression of broad based support when, in reality, the sponsors are the same individuals and groups whose leaders have not changed in many year.”
~ OK, SO YOU got a Cause– You find seed money (sources depending on if you’re a Prog or a Jihadi), an office, website, small staff, and a name.Out go offers for interviews, press releases, and PR. You act as if you represent your community, or a wide base of concerned persons. You achieve legitimacy, since in normal situations, only legitimate causes get groups going– the rest of us write irate letters to politicians or newspapers.
Like-minded folks set up three or four or twenty more copy-groups. All of a sudden, you have all sorts of apparent ‘political push’.
In the case of the Muslim Brotherhood, you get people to start up CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and an alphabet-soup of loosely related groups all pushing in the same direction, with various degrees of friendly or political correctness or victim-spin.
Or in the case of U.S.-funded Eco-groups in Canada pushing against national oil policy, you do the same, and clog up the legitimate process because you think oil is evil and the “Tar Sands” are Mordor, and even pumping oil-money to dictatorships and theocracies is better than that.
Faking It Bigtime
This faux-loading is a way of subverting the democratic process– the Soviet Communists operating worldwide taught us all about how to create such front-groups (or do a take-over of existing groups), and inflate a false political perception of a mass-movement concealing subversive reality.
That, of course, is why David Horowitz’s highly irritating site Discover The Networks got so many Leftist people so mad so fast when it debuted in the U.S.– as a former radical, Horowitz knew the game, the usual suspects, and how it all connected.
Once you know the scam, it’s easy to spot. That’s what the radicals of all stripes hate.
Edumacationing
It’s much harder to get the populace and political class to see and recognize such fraud, and to boil down such groups as over-inflated unrepresentative ideological prybars for breaking other people’s stuff. If it ain’t fixed, break it.
This modus operandi has spread since the 1930s, and took on it’s own after the radicalizing 1960s. A handful of radicals can have an exponentially disproportionate influence on society, its’ insitutions, and on whole societies and nations.
~ MUCH OF WHAT PASSES FOR modern culture is a rancid stew. And lots of us paddle in it. Nudity, horrific violence, glorified or cuddlified evil or depravity.. a gentle road down into being entertained by sewage.
The other day, The Binklings wanted to watch the series Dexter on NetFlix. It’s about a forensic blood-spatter analyst who is also a mass-murdering vigilante. See, he’s doing good! By being evil! Ooh, so complicated and tasty and– entertaining?
Quote, Unquote
Sorry, guys– mass-murdering and vigilantism is illegal and morally evil. True Blood? Vampires are evil. Glee? Gay-bullies High School, without reality or consequences. The Tudors? Sexy & uglified faux-history. Patrice Lewis comments:
“… the primary characteristic of this hatred of wholesomeness is its irrationality. How can someone object to decency? Why do people obsess over the efforts of others to achieve a moral life? Critics will often descend into crass personal attacks in an effort to malign or belittle someone’s integrity. Admittedly, a moral lifestyle sets a standard to which many others fall short, but that behavior isn’t forced on anyone else. It’s a personal choice. Could it be that purity shines light into dark and uncomfortable corners?”
Watching such evil as entertainment? How did we get to this place?
Monkey See, Monkey Do?
Prime time profanity, partial nudity, the mocking of virtue, faith, fidelity, the glorification of mere depravity and unrestricted libertinism– the TV is less entertainment that a sewer, telling our kids how to live, what is supposedly admirable and what false freedom looks like.
All of this in the name of ‘tolerance’, harmless tittilation, and the degading of human culture to things that pollute your soul, help shred families and relationships, and make us hunger for more of the same.
Garbage in, garbage out. You can’t unsee video-evil, or pretend it has no effect on your thoughts, attitudes, and actions. If the Binklings decide to watch such things when they are older, that is within their adult freedom– but just because we can do something, doesn’t mean we should. We cancelled our cable a few months ago, because so much of what passes for popular fare is time-killing, ugly, or stupid.
Better Fare
If you like decent shows, then buy them online. Castle, NCIS, Chuck, Firefly, or even older and enduring TV classics. Yes life is ugly and often depraved– but there are two attitudes to respond to that fact. First, we can recall that truth, goodness, and morality exist, and recognize that all fall short of the standard, but that there is a right and wrong. Or second, we simply lower the bar, and say that all things, behaviours, beliefs are simply good and equal and kumbayah.
Are we good? Happy? Holy? What happens in Vegas decays inside you. ~
~ SO: SHOULD SALONS close their doors to offer Muslima-only service? The Multicults versus opponents fill the comments with mostly the usual comments.
A few things: (1) Muslim teaching that women are giant sexual organs, and less than men originates with Mohammed. This is not Canadian law, or tradition. Thus, the swimming or mosque or other segregations which Muslimas engage in according to homeland custom or a sense of Muslim modesty? Moe uber alles over Canadian laws. Sharia law supreme.
(2) Why not offer this service at a Mosque basement? Hairdressers go to various senior’s homes all the time to lovelify the ladies– if Christ had taught that women were walking vaginas, surely the churches would figure something out.
(3) That said, how do we support Muslimas get a less slavish mindset? The salon took the wrong approach in closing during regular businees hours– how about doing such treatments during off-hours? Or closing on Sundays?
(4) Special accomodationism & privileges lend themselves to sharia submissionism. Just because these women want their heair pretty doesn’t mean they aren’t also supremacists. Canada doesn’t have separation of church & state– it’s a Christian country, founded as such. thus, even our secularists assume a lot in common with Christianity and Western Civ, because that’s where laws & freedoms and individual dignity comes from.
We’ve Seen This Before, & Elsewheres
What next– making sure Jews and dogs and homosexuals are segregated from delicate Muslim sensibilities? No Christmas decoration or hymns & carols on the mall music? Silencing church-bells as offensive announcers of the resurrection, and infidel worship? It’s a long list.
You know, because throught the Muslim world non-Muslims are always catered to in every way and aspect of life.. oh, wait. ~
~ I’VE BEEN WATCHING THE U.S. election (though not in fanatical detail), and note that new Congressman Allen West is Quite The Thing. Former military, principled, a balanced social and fiscal and small-government conservative, and– once he gets his political props under him– a real candidate for the 2016 Republican ticket.
He has no patience for the liberal press, the Muslim Brotherhood, or politics as usual. He seeks an American renewal. Time will tell if he has horrible character-flaws or ugly skeletons in the closet. So far, despite a lot of Dem/ Mainscream Press character assassination, nothing has emerged yet. If he’s not a faker, I would support him.
Given his words, the ever-trimming Republican Establishment in DC,–seeking to keep the lobbying and big-government and corrupt habits of the past in place, with a show-election every 4 years– may not like an apparently straight-thinking, straight-talking and hard-driving Allen West.
Choose Wisely
America is on a precipice: business as usual just won’t do; radical progressive revolution just won’t do; the establishment and/ or political messianism just won’t do.
Rumour has it that West is up for a possible Gingrich VP-slot, along with Marco Rubio and others.. if the Romney hit-squad doesn’t re-distribute his district out of existence, and thus kick him out of office. It may already be too late.
Dear U.S.A.: Choose wisely. ~
A Hard-Hitting Website
~ ITEM:DALROCK—Thoughts from a happily married father on a post feminist world
~ ARE LOT OF WESTERN youth gone slutty and marriage-averse? Has feminizm & the laws thereof wreckified matrimony, betrayed and punished men, built the super nanny-state, and promoted female sluttery and male date-gaming as a result?
DalRock asks:
Why should men get married anymore, exactly? Why are so many women wondering ‘Where Are All The Men?’?
Why, exactly, ‘Women & Children First’ in an equalitarian society that punishes men for manliness and distinctiveness at every other turn?
Controversial Manosphere blogger Dalrock is asking these and many other questions, along with a number of other like bloggers. Warning: If you are in any way an ideological feminist who loves putting men in their place, these blogs may cause heeadache, heart-attack, or fatal blood vessel burstage in the brainpan.
A lot of western males are mad as hell, and just aren’t taking it any more. Thus the massive societal opt-out from college, husbandhood, and fatherhood. Are we aware? Do we care? ~
Prove It, Please
~ ITEM:Climate Skeptics— “Imagine if everything you knew about the environment was wrong”
~ MODERN SECULARITY wants you to ditch stupid old religion, but then to believe every last thing the elites tell you. Sorry, I’m a natural skeptic: who said so? Is this true?
That is, when it comes to truth-claims (religion or science of politics) I ask hard questions, because evidence and info leads to thoughts leads to principles, and then to action.
One Theoretical Topic
Global Warmism has the status of an apocalyptic secular faith for many politicians, scientists, eco-activists, and members of the public.
WHAT– Is there actual global warming/ climate change? What sorts?
WHY?– What are the possible causes? End results?
THEREFORE– Can anything be done about it, or not?
How do we adjust our actions based on evidence, and properly peer-reviewed science? How do we integrate criticisms or alternate theories
What A Working Theory Is
Anthropogenic (human-caused) Global Warming (increase in the base temperature of the planet by degrees, due to increased amounts of atmospheric “pollutant” Carbon Dioxide) is a working theory some people have to explain observed climate change over the past few decades. Theories are working models based on evidence, and supported by models interpreting the data into a working theory of reality.
However, like the 1970s Ice Age Cometh scare, Global Warming– along with big-eco– have become centre-pieces of national and international policy, taxation, and societal change. This is often in spite of dissenting scientific theories by legitimate climate experts. Then the political games start, the politics of personal destruction, and the demonizing of those who dare question the new absolute scientific orthodoxy, and the vested interests promoting one theory over others. Plus the climate skeptics, whose doubts can take on the force of a final consensus.
When I am pressured by government or eco-groups or the bandwagon-media to take one view of a phenomena like climate change, I smell a rat. Prove it. Account for discrepancies and contrary theories. Show me how the theory (and related proposed solutions) change to take account of new data. Don’t trash legitimate doubt, because to do so is bad science & ideology.
I like music, and bands. However, bandwagons are all well and good, but they are not necessarily right and good and true. Let the unrestricted debate be over theories, AND facts, however ‘inconvenient’.
Jumping To Conclusions
Further debt-burdening already cash-strapped and debt-ridden nations with expensive and/ or industry & economy killing taxes and requirements? Spending loads of taxes on inflammable electric cars, bird-killing wind-turbines, pricey solar energy schemes? Seems like a mix of good will and scammery, especially with untested new technology. To redirect science & technology in one direction, leading to the forbidding, say, of ye olde incandescent light-bulbs (and in favour of a polluting monopoly by a sleazy Military-Indistrial Complex corporation like General Electric?? Shutting down oil & gas exploration throughout the U.S. and offshore, and then saying we’re facing the end of oil?
You get the picture. Bad business, bad science, bad technology, bad politics– and a stupid and blind way to do things.
Chicken Littleism is a poor way to run a farm, let alone a planet. ~
~ SPAIN STOPS Green Energy Subsidies … (canadafreepress)
~ WARMIST bullsh*t increasing as solar activity decreases: “No slow down in global warming” … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)
~ WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control … (accesstoinfo.blog)
~ MISTAKS WUR MAID: Just when you thought it was safe to go our without your mittens: “Forget global warming….” … (americandigest)
~ GREEN GURUS choose Abu Dhabi to “Green” World Tourism … (canadafreepress)
~ NRO ARCHIVE— Mark Steyn, 2001-2012 … (nationalreview)
Ezra Levant
“The Khadrs were once upon a time considered among the most reviled, most dangerous people ever to make this country their home. Thanks to years of hard cheerleading on our campuses, in our political movements, and in our newsrooms for the family’s most favoured son, Canada will soon become Omar Khadr’s country. The rest of us will just be forced to live in it.”
~ AN EXCERPT from The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr … (amazon.ca)
~ WHITEWASHING Omar Khadr– Confessed terrorist will soon walk free in Canada … (ezralevant.com)
~ THE LYNCH LIST— The OHRT believes that some words are so offensive they should never be uttered, and those who do should be fined $5,000 … (missnixon)
~ A NEW BOOK— What ended Roman civilization and brought about the Dark Ages?” … (smalldeadanimals)
~ MAKING UN-ICRATS MAD— “Earlier this week Canada kicked out a Rwandan man accused of helping instigate the genocide in his homeland almost 20 years ago” … (forlifeandfamily.blog)
~ BIG-GOV WANTS YOUR PENSIONS! More Elderly Find They Cannot Afford Not to Work. Working Into the Grave. Obama, EUROcrats want all that ‘surplus loot’ to pay for bankrupt government … (canadafreepress)
~ THE SOPA may appear to be officially dead, but that does not mean that the lobbyists will not try to convince legislators to sneak SOPA-style provisions into other legislation … (xanthippa)
~ U.S. JUDGE orders a person to divulge her password … (xanthippa)
~ WRITES ONE BINKIAN— “This is appalling. This is a marginalization and dismissal of the Christian converts from Islam who have risked their lives to be Christians — Christians who believe in the Fatherhood of God, and in Jesus, the Son of God. Please sign this petition and indicate to our friends in the mission community that cultural sensitivity has gone to the level of dhimmitude!” … (change.org)
~ ROGUE LESBIAN OFF PLANTATION! Leftists outraged– Actress’ claim to be gay by choice riles activists … (apnews.com)
“Brian enters a conversation I’ve been lately encouraging sensible Canadians to have about the implications of Prime Minister Harper’s unexplained and sudden embrace of a corporate entity run by the Chinese Communist Party that serves as the guarantor of Omar al-Bashir’s regime in Khartoum, the bottomless overdraft in Bashar al-Assad’s bank account in Damascus, and the specific means by which Tehran’s Khomeinists are evading the West’s sanctions and double-daring us into a war.”
~ OIL-HUNGRY China snapping up contracts in Afghanistan that should have gone to the USA… (pundita.blog)
~ TEOTWAWKI— The End of the Win-Win World: Why China’s rise really is bad for America — and other dark forces at work… (cdfai.org)
~ THE LEFT’S FLEXIBLE ATTITUDE Toward ‘Rights’, by Rand Simberg– Selective outrage over abortion restrictions and none over curtailing gun right … (pjmedia.com)
~ THE AWESOMESalim Mansur is an immigrant who questions open immigration; a member of a visible minority who’s a fierce critic of multiculturalism, and a Muslim who’s pained by criticism of his prophet but who would never contemplate penalizing someone for their words … (cjnews.com)
~ HATING WHOLESOMENESS— Exclusive: Patrice Lewis reports on grandmas who try to corrupt homeschooled grandkids … (wnd.com)
~ PROPAGANDA— George Soros “tells us his plans for 2012”.. a.k.a., What He Wants You To Think He’s Thinking … (phantomsoapbox.blog)
~ TERRY GLAVIN— It’s Not Funny Anymore: “Just how Sinopec became co-author of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new foreign policy and energy strategy isn’t a question any of us are supposed to be asking” … (transmontanus.blog)
“Let me be clear, O is and always has been an ordinary political hack who was picked up by a brilliant campaign because he happened to be in the right place at the right time. This brilliant campaign ran him, and ever since he’s been trying and failing to lead the country. He’s been a failure from the beginning because he’s been a fraud from the beginning.”
~ REP. ALLEN WEST tells Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and Wasserman Schultz to “get the hell out” of the USA … (rbo2.com)
~ A NEW CLASS OF “CRIPPLES”— “Employers are facing more uncertainty in the wake of a letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warning them that requiring a high school diploma from a job applicant might violate the Americans with Disabilities Act” … (phantomsoapbox.blog)
~ JUNIOR HI POTUS! Barack Obama’s SOTUs Have All Been Written At An 8th Grade Level … (republicaninthearts)
~ OBAMA-EPA Moving Quietly to Impose Gas Tax… (canadafreepress)
~ MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Obama Has Nothing In Common With The 99% Who Still Adore Him … (republicaninthearts)
~ IMAGINE THAT— “The Daily Beast, Lefty-retardoblog par excellence, has “discovered” something that Conservatives have been raging about since Clinton first got elected: Cops in America are seriously over-armed” … (phantomsoapbox.blog)
~ AS OBAMA BUGGERED AROUND, Turkey’s transformation into an Islamist foe of the United States … (princearthurherald)
~ DOUG GILES— Obama Calls It Fairness. The GOP Calls It Class Warfare. Scripture Calls It Envy … (boldcolors)
~ BLOGMOCRACY— The True Obama Doctrine, And Its Chilling Result … (theblogmocracy)
~ URGENT ADVICE for State: Warn Obama to stop pushing the envelope … (pundita.blog)
~ I’VE NEVER HEARD the word “disgusting” used to describe a State of the Union speech until this week … (boldcolors.net)
~ WHY ARE BARACK Obama’s critics so smart? … (blogs.telegraph)
“… he is going to run a very decisive campaign for political gain and he has this concept of fairness and equality where he uses the kind of rhetoric we use, but the policies he’s producing will result in crony capitalism will result in more power in the government to supervise our lives, to give us a stagnant economy where the rich and the powerful are the ones who are picking it. So what I’m trying to say is he is giving us a future of debt, doubt, and decline.”
~ PAUL RYAN talks about the flaws of Obama’s upcoming campaign … (fox)
~ TERROR-LOVING IDIOTS— The Obama administration has decided to engage Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef as a conduit to the Taliban in order to peacefully resolve the conflict … (legalinsurrection)
~ REALLY, are people like Obama, Romney and Gingrich the best leaders this country can produce? … (pjmedia)
~ OBAMA all about ‘divide and conquer’ … (wernerpatels)
~ ZO’S AUDIO BOOK— Weapon Of A.S.S. Destruction … (christianconservativepolitics)
~ MARK LEVIN— “If this is what the conservative movement has become, then count me out” … (legalinsurrection)
~ PISSING AWAY the War on Terror, by Andrew Klavan: Good job, Barack! … (pjmedia)
~ KEYSTONE PIPELINE decision proves Obama is anti-American and anti-West … (wernerpatels.com)
~ THE TOP 100 Statistics About the Collapse of the Economy … (familysecuritymatters.org)
~ CHOPPITY CHOP CHOP— Where the US Defence Budget Axe is Falling … (cdfai.org)
~ SMEARING Newt: Taking Names for 2016 … (pjmedia)
~ NEWSWEEK Cover: Obama’s New Clothes Thrill Media Elites … (thepeoplescube)
~ ENTER STAGE LEFT, another fictitious character in Obama’s world of make-believe and marxist campaign rhetoric … (atlasshrugs2000)
~ SOTU BREAKDOWN: Obama’s Ignorance, Inexperience, Character, and Incompetence, by Barry Rubin … (barryrubin)
~ NO WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE— U.S. outrage as Egypt bars Americans from leaving … (atlasshrugs2000)
~ THE BETTERS— 36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes. Well, as Tim Geithner demonstrated, taxes are for the little people … (pjmedia.com)
~ A MERE $118 MIL in Stimubucks down the drain: Obama-backed electric car battery-maker files for bankruptcy … (atlasshrugs2000)
~ CLUELESS: Obama Still Trying To ‘Reset’ with Russia … (pjmedia.com)
~ SCHTICK WEARING THIN: Jon Stewart on Obama– ‘You Opened With I Killed Bin Laden?!’ … (instapundit)
~ A PETITION FOR CANADIANS— I Support Property Rights in the Charter… “I support Scott Reid and Randy Hillier’s Motion M-646 and demand that Parliament vote to enshrine property rights for Ontario into the Charter of Rights and Freedoms!” … (networkedblogs)
~ CANUCKI Property rights entrenchment debate heats up… (fcpp.org)
~ MEDIA COMMANDMENT: Thou Shalt Not Write Bad Things About Obama! … (weeklystandard)
~ THE 2012 Election Circus — The Acts, The Players, The Hype … (victordavishanson)
~ THE MARXIST MISSION to Destroy Ayaan Hirsi Ali, By Phyllis Chesler. A new book endorsed by the New York Times compares the Dutch feminist with convicted terrorist “Lady Al Qaeda” Aafiya Siddiqui … (pjmedia)
~ REAL PUSH-BACK: HUGE VICTORY FOR INFIDELS: COURT AWARDS ATTORNEYS’ FEES AGAINST THE CITY OF DEARBORN, MICHIGAN FOR VIOLATING A CHRISTIAN PASTOR’S RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH … (atlasshrugs2000)
Dougga, Tunisia
~ THE FATE OF ROMAN CITIES of the Near East and North Africa, by Emmet Scott. Having read the start o this book, I’d remind the author that The Emperor Justinian’s Excellent Western Imperial Adventures ground much of North Africa & Italy into the ground before Islam attacked … (newenglishreview)
~ HOLLYWOOD SCIENTOLOGY? OLD SCHOOL– Moe Cult? New Hotness! Probably just a publicity stunt: Irish actor Liam Neeson has confirmed he is considering converting from Catholicism to Islam … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)
~ BUSY BUSY Muslims Converting Empty European Churches into Mosques … (williamgairdner)
~ THE UGLY REALITY— “..if you are born a Christian or Jew in a Muslim-majority country, you are likely to endure great oppression at the hands of your neighbors who regard you as the low cost target of hostility and frustration. To make matters worse, there is a good chance your suffering will be ignored” … (newenglishreview)
~ SURVEY SAYS— “Jews remain the faith group most likely to be targeted in hate crimes”.. cry-baby Islamists claim cry-baby Islamists most strongly hit … (atlasshrugs2000)
~ COMMON SENSE ISN’T— On Denying Islamists Federal Security Clearances … (islamist-watch.org)
~ ‘DIALOGUE’ with Radical Muslims is Dangerous for American Jews, by Jerry Gordon … (newenglishreview)
~ THE REALITY OF REALITY-TV— TLC’S “ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM” IMAM UNMOSQUED: UNHINGED JEW-HATRED … (atlasshrugs2000)
~ A FAILED REGION— The Arab World’s Endless Failures: Islam, Corruption and Hatred of Women Destroyed a Civilization … (familysecuritymatters)
~ THREE MUSLIM MEN CHARGED CHARGED WITH HANDING OUT RELIGIOUS LEAFLETS CALLING FOR DEATH PENALTY FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS … (atlasshrugs2000)
~ NIGERIAN JIHAD: Boko Haram Leader Say Members Travelled To Saudi Arabia For Training And Funding, Vow To Fight Until Formation of Pure Islamic State … (weaselzippers)
~ HORRIBLY EVIL Ethiopian Christian Prisoners Assaulted, Strip-Searched in Saudi Arabia … (global.christianpost)
~ ANDREW C. McCARTHY: ‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’– The tumult indelibly dubbed “the Arab Spring” in the West, by the credulous and the calculating alike, is easier to understand once you grasp two basics … (vladtepesblog)
~ VIA TAREK FATAH— “Guess what, one more death threat by Islamists forces Dutch satirist into abandoning his work”, namely, The Burka Song … (FB)
~ INSTAPUNDIT— The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America … (pjmedia.com)
~ RELIGION OF PEACE— Islam’s Latest Contributions to Peace … (thereligionofpeace)
~ DYNAMIC EGYPTISTAN: Mob of 3,000 Muslims Led By Salafists Attack Christian Homes And Shops … (weaselzippers)
~ ISRAELLY COOL has come up with a great Buycott poster highlighting companies which do business with Israel and which deserve our support … (legalinsurrection)
~ WORD FROM THE FRONT— Muslim Army, Trained and Funded in Saudi Arabia, Fights Until Nigeria Establishes Sharia Law … (networkedblogs)
~ TEH BINKS LOVES many aspects of the Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantium, The Eastern Orthodox Church, and the fact that the Byzantines held back the hateful tide of ruination, murder, destruction and Jihad from swamping Eastern Europe in the AD 600s and after.
On the other end of the Med, it was only the last-minute intervention and skill of Charlie “The Hammer” Martel which stemmed the Jihad-flood from taking France, Flanders and Northwards, Austria, Germany, and the opposite tide meeting them from across the Bosphorus into Central Europe. They did that for us, and for them.
A Response To War
The West began the Crusades as a response to Muslim cruelties and destruction–
“On October 18, 1009, Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, has the Church completely destroyed. It is believed that Al-Hakim “was aggrieved by the scale of the Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem…. everything was razed ‘except those parts which were impossible to destroy or would have been too difficult to carry away’.” The Church’s foundations were hacked down to bedrock. The Edicule and the east and west walls and the roof of the cut-rock tomb it encased were destroyed or damaged (contemporary accounts vary), but the north and south walls were likely protected by rubble from further damage…”
Minas Tirith, All Orced Up
Mehmet’s Big Gun.. And Balls
“..to the shores of Tripoli..”
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, by Whistler
The Unspeakable Mark Shea
Uppity Wench Bugs Marxists
Dougga, Tunisia
A Swift Sunrise 