~ AS ALL PRE-DEAD Minions are aware from their official Approved Guide To Teh Binky, the Binks is pretty much infallible (Chapter 31, Section III, subsection N, “Who Ya Gonna Believe: Binks, Or Yer Lyin’ Eyes?“).

Thus, even though I’ve been AWOL for a while and pretty much tuned out of the news, FaceBook, e-mail, blogs, and the like, my pretty much infallible status still stands, even if there are what appear to be blind-spots* or misinformed views or infelicities of style in the blog over the next few weeks.

Thank you for your patience in clearing up your misapprehensions. Binks forgives you. ~

*Trayvon who? Tawana Brawley what-now?

Coren & Crowder on Trayvon Martin

Watch & Spread

Gaffney On The Muslim Brotherhood in America

Binky Says– Go And Do

~ ITEM: Maroli Restaurant owner charged after scuffle with alleged thief

~ ITEM: Google Maps of Maroli

~ GO AND eat at The Spiceman’s restaurant in Toronto, Maroli Restaurant (630 Bloor St. W. near Euclid Avenue). Naveen needs your support. ~

P.S. Hey Naveen: get Toronto to move that tree 8 feet to the left.

Going Off Plantation

~ ITEM: N.S. student suspended for wearing pro-Jesus shirt

~ ITEM: School board says student can wear Jesus T-shirt; Student returns to school, Dad pulls him out in protest

~ ITEM: Christians ‘Most Persecuted’ Religious Group in the World, Says Expert

~ IT NEVER happened. Not once.

Of all the weddings I ever performed, nobody ever stood up to speak out at the “Speak now, or forever hold your peace” thing (which isn’t a time to slag the couple, but report something choice-changing about bride or groom).

Sad to say, in the People’s Republic Of Nova Scotiastan, speaking up now or forever holding your peace is now available at one local high school, at least for one Christian young man, who stepped outside the accepted socialist libertarian narrative.

What About?…

Acceptable t-shirt choices: Abortion– A Woman’s Business; Gay Is Great; Buddha Rocks; Recycle Or Doom; Islam Is Best; Mao Is Wow; Atheism: The Smart Decision; Hurray For Condoms; Che Guevara got erections at executions, but he’s still my hero.. and any variety of corporate logos.

Unacceptable t-shirt choices?: Anything Christian.

 Perp In Offensive Hate-wear

So pity poor William Swinamer of Chester Basin, who thought–like many generations of teens over the past 40 years– to wear his opinions and commitments for all to see on a t-shirt.

His crime? A “Life is wasted without Jesus” t-shirt. In public. Where other people might actually read it. Oh, the humanity.

Now, we can debate the taste or effectiveness of clothing-based evangelism, but not that this is how a lot of teens express themselves. Nor that he has a right to wear clothing with assertions on them– as many teens do– and, further, to actually tell other people about what he believes.

In fact, the pithy t-shirt is fairly mild compared to what Jesus actually said on occasion, and his claim that, indeed, Life–and the afterlife– is wasted apart from his saving love. Very offensive stuff.

Yet this is the era of people waiting around to be possibly offended– like cow-pies hidden in the grass, waiting for the unwary walker. Squish.

Wah, Boo Hoo

Witness local atheist and delicate flower Niall Barkes (and bites):

“I’m an atheist myself and I’m kind of offended because he’s basically saying that my life is wasted without Jesus, and I think the reason for him getting suspended is reasonable.”

Free speech in a free society under God is like that, Niall. Anybody else out there getting suspended for a week for wearing t-shirts? No?

Unless you are spineless squishy liberal “Christians”, the NDP in robes like the United Church of Canada, it’s open season on Christianity. That’s because– like Jihadists who attack churches– secular socialist libertarians recognize a threat when they see it.

The actual living Jesus is good, but he is not safe, and won’t shut up and keeps reminding us of love, sacrifice, sin, heaven and hell, and all that we would deny and unknow. You know, like

….The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?….

…. They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is shall shadow
The man that pretends to be….

T.S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock (1934)

Thanks, but God is not a subject or object or idea in our very modern educationism, as we perfect the system, forever and ever? Why is it some people still live as if fascism & Communism weren’t tried and found evil?

Sorry, but human duties and freedoms precede the state or bureaucracies or human rights experts. Where do they come from? God. How are they rightly ordered? In liberty under law.

The future of Canada as a free non-utopian idea is being tested all around us, and many of our sincere but sincerely wrong fellow citizens think “managed” truth and semi-liberty are the way forward. But I ask: the way forward into what? Countless endlessly multiplying rules for every word and action and article of clothing? ~

The Good News

Thought Criminals At Play

~ MARK STEYN and Ezra Levant are non-conformicrat Canucki heroes– and thank heaven for SunTV, and all the journalists and commentators on there speaking out against the usual media-political consensus.

If you can’t watch Ezra on SunTV, there’s a decent amount of it on SDAMatt’s channel & Blazing Catfur on YouTube. As a chronic Steynian, I enjoy listening to Mark.. he’s a wealth of pith, humour (as opposed to comedy), not taking himself seriously, but taking the issues very seriously.

That’s why I’m Binky and not whatever generic name– look at what I say, and not me; click the links, agree or disagree, but don’t let the conform-y self-editing politically correcting mind-bot we squishy moderns all carry around in us forbid thought, debate, and even truth.

We all have things to learn.. and we must also take risks to help others de-conform and open their minds to the wider reality of what’s happening in our culture and world. Beyond that, there’s the ugly facts of bankruptcy and demographic collapse happening all around us– never mind the Titanic 100th Anniversary, that was a rowboat in trouble compared to the world situation in 2012.

If the devilish debt-loving Obama wins this Fall, we will be facing societal & global collapse. If Rombot or some dark horse wins the Presidential race, then it’s up in the air. We’re not just spending our grandchildren’s money, we’re gambling with their future safety & the health of western civilization, and creating a world on the edge of chaos.

In the meantime, let’s keep reading, watching, forwarding, writing letters, speaking out, and standing for sanity. ~

Another Day, Another Atrocity

~ ITEM: Religionofpeace.com

~ DID YOU SEE IT? The massive, world-wide condemnation from Muslim nations, mosques, and groups around the world, protesting the recent Easter-time massacre of Nigerian Christians by Muslim jihadis? Millions marching, online petitions signed, apologies offered, denunciation from countless pulpits.

No? That’s because it never happened. Nor did it happen for the twenty thousand violent attacks big and small since 9/11 in the name of Muhammed’s rapey slavey head-choppy asplody death-cult. ~

Not So Laughy, Says Binks

~ ITEM: And in return, we get smugness

~ OK, SO SHINY PONY Justin Trudeau is a lightweight, a rich snob, a foot-in-mouth eejit, and is a great topic for giggling.

People in 2004 might have said the same thing about “Who, You Say?” Obama in the early 1990s. Thing is, even a babbling twit can be polished and made shiny for the media, electorate, made to speak from a Teleprompter, and surrounded with fog, illegal money, and all the rest– bingo.

Shiny Pony will still be around decades from now, when Harperism is a memory. If I were wanting to bring hardcore Obamunist/ EUSSR socialism to Canada– where LibNDPs are already ripe for it, and the kneepad media ready to service the powers that be– Shiny Pony would be perfect.

What if? Shiny Pony the handpuppet performing for power elites would silence a currently uppity, contrary, pro-Israel, andi-Jihadist, Obama-disrespecting government. Watch for it.

Please, O Lord, prove me wrong. ~

The Truth Will Out

Via

W.A. Mozart – Requiem (KV 626) – Dies irae

~ WHATEVER HIGHLY defective, radicalized, half-assed kind of cultural Christianity The God-King (PBUH) Barack Obama supposedly believes, he does not appear to truly and life-changingly live under the last judgement, nor all of Jesus’ sternest warnings– directed towards hypocrites and show-offs– nor the warning that all which is whispered shall in That Day be shouted from the rooftops. You know, listen to Mozart’s “Dies Irae” for an idea of actual Christianity & the End Times.

Hateful racists Brenda Elliot and the Jew Aaron Klein have done much to unearth the deliberately hidden, falsified and whitewashed life of the current resident of the White House.. and another book is either just out or soon to be so. The have done us and history a great service

Still, a Christian who truly believes that God our saviour and judge knows all, and only forgives sins confessed and repented of, who walks this life surrounded by the blessed trinity in whom there is no darkness, lies, or shadow of turning, does well to keep in that light, to live openly and frankly and with a true fear and love of God.

Obama– like many public figures– would rather risk it, deny, dodge, double-deal, dissemble– and leave the whole truth about himself to the misty future when it can no longer affect his power, or almighty utopian agenda.

The adulterous anti-colonialist & Marxist Jeremiah Wright may forgive Obama, but Barack seems to laugh off the final judgement of God, apparently cocksure that God is on his side– and so not acting with any sense or sensible self-doubt that guides most of us into a little humility and caution when we have great or little things under our responsibility.

Lord have mercy upon him, and all of us. ~

Bend Over, Here It Comes

~ ITEM: Privileging hybrids a visible reminder of class inequality

~ ITEM: Mitsubishi Electric Car

~ SADLY, MANY Leftists are cheerful semi-fascists.

Back in the day, ye olde Soviet officials would regularly plonk people in Psych Hospitals for insanity.. because they were in any way discontented with the worker’s paradise.

The wretched psychologization of language and politics– witness the universal use of the suffix ‘phobia’ to blanket condemn opponents of whatever smelly little orthodoxy they are on about.

How bad is it now? Well, aside from “Phobia” being rammed down the throats of school children and on and on, now it’s a selling-point for.. cars. Mitsubishi electrics.

OK, it’s funny– but using the “phobia” tag isn’t. Further.. not wanting to pay $32 large for a tiny car that might help the environment a bit (how many precious earth-metals in those batteries?) is a sign of (snicker) mental illness?

Killing Us Softly with His Ride

I drive a small (fuel efficient) SUV.. before that, a large van. It’s obviously because (a) I hate mother earth, (b) I love buying gas, (c) think Smart Cars are portable piggy-banks (OK, that one is true), (d) hate coal-fired ‘electric’ cars, (e) really love the smell of burning carboniferous dino-plants.

Nope. I will cheerfully buy a hybrid or electric when (1) we’re pretty sure they won’t melt or self-ignite, (2) there are quick-charge places at most gas stations, (3) they won’t strand me and mine in a snow storm or the middle of the woods at 1am, (4) home or neighbourhood solar panels & batteries will charge the thing off-grid.

That’s right, Binky is ACTUALLY more hippy than this current crop of poseur eco-capitalists.

Right now, Hybrids & electrics are over-priced urban middle-class hipster & hippy feel-good propaganda, shifting the hydrocarbons just out of sight.. in our case, to the provincial coal-fired generators burning very dirty Cape Breton coal.

As far as “Smart” cars, this dumbkopf would rather get the same mileage (and two more seats, and a lot more safety) out of the smallest Toyota products. ~

The Bloated Absolutist

~ ITEM: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

~ ITEM: The Supression of the English monasteries

~ AS A LOVER of history, I do not think it strange to feel strongly about people and events of the past.

During the last while, I’ve watched a fair amount of historical stuff on YouTube and elsewhere, and together with past studies and reading, I’ve revisited the ruinous reign of Henry The Terrible, 8th English monarch of that name.

Pardon if Teh Binky repeats hisself on this theme– my brain is a slow hamster on a tiny wheel.

A Whole New World

The worst part of the reign of Henry VIII is the failed possibilities: his monarchy might have heralded a true renaissance of English Christianity, culture, society, arts and letters, a real Christian humanism which– as Erasmus and Thomas More had hoped– would be a blessing to England and the world.

The young new-minted King of 1509 was a rock-star of his time; educated, strong and athletic, a pious Catholic, a dreamer who loved the new learning, but also the best of medieval chivalry and literature. The Tudors seemed a new start, and although Henry VII had abused the power of the state to fill his coffers, young Henry seemed the very opposite of his father.

Then it all imploded.

WORST. KING. EVER.

As it was– just as Henry’s bloating corpse lay in a neglected coffin while dogs licked up the seeping blood– the sheer wreckage of his own land and people, under a promising king become a wolf and heretic and monster of self-will, would doom England to nearly 2 centuries of warfare, division, persecution, wrecking and civil war, and regicide.

The strongest Catholic nation in Europe became a persecuting petty bureaucracy and secret police state, not only raping the monasteries, but plundering every church and parish, and hunting down the faithful as if they were enemies of God and the state.

Never since the Norman invasion had all the power of the crown been turned so violently against the English people. All the power of the medieval bureaucracy, all the loyalty of the people to the crown, all were gradually turned into a police-state checking the loyalty and religious life and submission of England to the contradictory enormities of Henry’s making himself a modern dictator, semi-divine master of church and state.

The older tradition of rule was with the will of the people, and under the law: France and the Normans introduced the idea of divine right– and the absolute power– to English monarchy, and Henry became the absolutist ever.

One Wee Example

When it comes to messianical leadership, Der Fuhrer or President Hopenchange are tyrants-come-latelies. Look at the frontispiece of Henry’s 1539 Great Bible. Once you get past all the ‘Vivat rex!’ (Long Live The King!) scrolls and grateful-looking subjects, there’s Old Bloaty himself, handing down the new Bible to everybody. All well and good.. except– where’s, you know, God? It’s a little bit of Tudor “Where’s Waldo”: a micro-Christ is visible like a hasty afterthought in a very tiny cloud above a very large and central Henry VIII, like Dr. Seuss’ Yertle The Turtle, master of all he surveys.. perhaps even God.

Finally, & In Conclusion

It still makes me sad, and angry, and no more so than at the ‘official’ state church version that paints Anglicanism as the inoffensive genteel broad middle way, etc. etc. — it’s rather like attending a fine art gallery, and finding out later the paintings were Nazi plunder from murdered owners. ~

Attention-Whore Dan: Bullies For Buggery

“Jesus Christ is Justice and Mercy, personified — he stays the hands that would stone but simultaneously says “go and sin no more.”

~ The Anchoress ~

~ ITEM: Dan Savage Calls Bullshit On Bible-Thumping Bigots

~ ITEM: Dalton McGuinty’s Anti-Bullying Partner Calls the “Bible Bull S-t”; Dan Savage Bombs while Bullying Christians and Bashing the Bible

~ ITEM: Mark Shea– The difference… between Dan Savage and Dawn Eden–explained!; and Dan “Hooray for Inciting Rape!” Savage; Dan Savage, Professional Gay Victim, uses bullied gay teens as human shields so that he can… bully teens.

~ ITEM: This Is The Left’s Answer To Bullying?

~ ITEM: Gay bully supported by the Obama administration: He’s “Savage” in more than just name

~ ITEM: The Talking, Thinking and Wondering Will Continue

~ ITEM: VIDEO: A Savage Bully– Ezra Levant looks at how Dan Savage bullies others in the name of ‘anti-bullying’.

~ DEAR OH DEAR– Dan Savage has caught us all. We Christians, out busy stoning infidels, hanging homosexuals, unfreeing slaves, and burning books. The local Anglican Church Women are busy knitting rocks and taking up collections for our next crusade even as I speak.

The Bible does not reflect our current amazing ideas. Who knew? There are ugly bits in Holy Writ– human sacrifice, rape, incest, slavery, hookers, sodomy, hellfire, merciless war, gory executions, suicide, a spike through the head– a shocker. The full gamut of sin is there in black and white and red. The Bible apparently says some things are good, some evil, and furthermore, that God minds our business.

Hurray for Dan Savage!.. for reminding us that the Bible is not a safe piece of literature or scholarly toilet-paper or mindless crap (the Bible also talks about defecation repeatedly). It’s dangerous. Alive. Bitey. Confusing. Glorious. Shot through with light and dark. Not always blindingly obvious. Transformative.

Not A Bug, A Feature

Thing is, that’s been known forever. By the Hebrews, called by God, who wrote the first scrolls; by the priests and rabbis who taught and articulated it; by the commentaries on the Law like the Mishnah; by Jesus and his disciples; by the first bishops and defenders of the faith, through almost 2000 years (and 2000+ years before that), and onwards to the apologists and evangelists and scholars of the faith in The Year Of Our Lord 2012.

What Dan Savage says is news only to an age profoundly ignorant of the content and even cultural resonances of the Bible; to agnostics and atheists always glad to give religion a poke in the eye. Actual seekers or those trying to understand the Bible can get a world of books, audio, video, and interpretative material to grapple with– if not resolve– all the wierd or gross or confusing bits of the Bible.

There are those who might wish the Bible to have all the excitement and relevance of a bureaucratic report from the Department Of Inoffensive Reports, but thank heaven reality– and God– and his doings in the world with his eople– just aren’t that neat, boring, or sleep-inducing.

Free Flights Now!

This guy should not have been invited to speak in a state-sponsored school, where the message and the teaching are considered ‘official’. Further, if Savage was allowed to one-sidedly savage the Holy Book of the Jews & Christians, was a reasonable response scheduled for a Christian/ Jewish defense of faith & the messy bits of Scripture?

You will note that Mr. Savage went on to mock the Christians who were upset enough over his verbal abuse to– what?– stone him? Shout him down? Bomb his home? Burn down his workplace? Send death-threats? Threaten his relatives? Beat him up?– no, to quietly, politely, and respectfully disagree and leave.

One more thing– if Dan the Man is an equal-opportunity religion-basher (he’s not), then I will buy him a ticket to Mecca and Amritsar, so he can publicly point out the bullshit in the Koran, and the teachings of Sikhism. Fair is fair, right?

Then on to Kano Nigeria, where he can mock over the graves of those stupid bigoted Christers recently slain by Jihadists over Easter. Cuz him so smarter. ~

Random Binky Linkies

“Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.”

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas ~

Black hole eats a star in 140 days

Mosh Ben-Ari Psalm 121 – A Song of Ascent

~ 27 DAILY AFFIRMATIONS FOR BLOGGERS … (americandigest)

Something Wonderful: 90 Voice Tracks = 1 Symphonic Tribute to Stars Wars

Cool hatey shirts for haters

Poetry Corner

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687. John Dryden

FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
When nature underneath a heap
Of jarring atoms lay,
And could not heave her head,
The tuneful voice was heard from high,
‘Arise, ye more than dead!’
Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry,
In order to their stations leap,
And Music’s power obey.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.

What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
When Jubal struck the chorded shell,
His listening brethren stood around,
And, wondering, on their faces fell
To worship that celestial sound:
Less than a God they thought there could not dwell
Within the hollow of that shell,
That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?

The trumpet’s loud clangour
Excites us to arms,
With shrill notes of anger,
And mortal alarms.
The double double double beat
Of the thundering drum
Cries Hark! the foes come;
Charge, charge, ’tis too late to retreat!

The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers,
Whose dirge is whisper’d by the warbling lute.

Sharp violins proclaim
Their jealous pangs and desperation,
Fury, frantic indignation,
Depth of pains, and height of passion,
For the fair, disdainful dame.

But O, what art can teach,
What human voice can reach,
The sacred organ’s praise?
Notes inspiring holy love,
Notes that wing their heavenly ways
To mend the choirs above.

Orpheus could lead the savage race;
And trees unrooted left their place,
Sequacious of the lyre;
But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder higher:
When to her organ vocal breath was given,
An angel heard, and straight appear’d
Mistaking Earth for Heaven.

GRAND CHORUS.

As from the power of sacred lays
The spheres began to move,
And sung the great Creator’s praise
To all the Blest above;
So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky!

GreenEcoClimatology

~ Binks Observes– Back a decade or so ago, Climate shyster Al Gore warned us the seas were going to rise 20 feet in the next century. Do the math– 2 feet per decade; 1 foot per every 5 years; 2.4 inches every single year. I call bushwah. 2 feet of rising watery doom already is it, Prophet Al? And the liars prosper. ~

~ NEW STUDY: Windfarms Actually Cause Warming of the Environment … (xanthippa)

~ CLIMATE CHANGE: “The lost debate” … (jr2020.blog)

~ LEFTIES CELEBRATE Lenin’s birthday in the guise of “Earth Day” … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ SHUT UP, HE EXPLAINED– “My brother, Jerry, is a genius.” … (jr2020.blog)

~ DAILY BAYONET.. on a hiatus, but has the links you crave … (dailybayonet)

~ JIMMY CARTER’S Legacy: Part II, Department of Energy … (theblogmocracy)

~ JAMES LOVELOCK’S climate climbdown … (jr2020.blog)

~ OBAMA’S “green economy” failed and there is not a whisper about it, why? … (irlontheright.com)

~ AL GOREBASM– Global warming has nothing to do with human activity after all … (clayandwater.ca)

~ MONEY-LOVING SUZUKI NEWS– Mr Fruit Fly cries to the G&M about government meanies enforcing accountability rules … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ CLIMATE CHANGE has had a direct effect on national security, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said this week … (breitbart.com)

~ THE GLOBAL Warming/Globalist Crowd is on the March Again … (canadafreepress)

~ NO THERMAGEDDON– Alarmist doomsayer and global warming guru finally admits computer climate models can’t compete with reality … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ ENVIROIDS Win Fed Backing to Shut Down 4 Hydro Power Plants … (canadafreepress)

~ Y2KYOTO: Ve Haf Vays Of Making You Varm … (SDA)

Mark Steyn

“Marked For Death brings together in one book a transatlantic pairing of two of the west’s most prominent champions for our civilization’s core liberties. And don’t forget, when you order from SteynOnline, Mark will be happy to autograph it to you or your loved one. Order one today for the incendiary imam or appeasing Eurocrat in your family!”

~ FAUXCAHONTAS and the melting pot; Going Native … (ocregister)

~ ATROCITIES ENSUED– Steynamite spared no sacred cows; Steynamite post-mitem; ‘An evening of jovial bigotry’: Mark Steyn’s Toronto event a big success … (Various)

~ BEHOLD THE Soft Bigotry of Multiculturalism … (nationalreview)

Mark Steyn, h8tefully h8tin’ on just anybody

~ WHO DOESN’T Mark Steyn hate? … (steynonline)

~ PACE STEYN, Obama’s “Dreams” Is Actually a Riveting Read. Dammit … (scaramouchee.blog)

~ A REVIEW OF Steynamite! An evening with Mark Steyn … (princearthurherald.com)

~ STEYN and a man who’s been tried in the Netherlands, deported from Britain, and banned from Indonesia … (steynonline)

~ THE STEYN: ‘Have you dated a composite woman? They’re America’s hottest new demographic’ … (fivefeetoffury)

~ WHILE AMERICANS have over a trillion dollars in college debt and 50 per cent of recent graduates can’t get jobs, Quebec students are demanding the right to get to the dole office a lot cheaper … (nationalreview)

~ HAPPY WARRIOR: Middle Class Mick … (steynonline)

~ AN INTRODUCTION to the Goldwater Institute narrated by Mark … (youtube)

~ THE JEW STEYN wants to sell you many things: go and buy– autographed books, music, t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, thongs, and all sorts of Steynamite special offers! … (steynstore)

Ezra Levant

~ NDIPPERS Party loses touch with its roots – Once the party of the unions, it’s now populated by eco-activists who deride labour … (ezralevant)

~ A YEN FOR YEN? Vancouver’s Manchurian Mayor – Gregor Robertson is really the Prince of Tides … (ezralevant)

~ WHAT’S ON fire at the Blaze? … (ezralevant.com)

~ BIG EZRA ON Big Politics, Big Paycheques… (ezralevant.com)

~ EZ PONDERS Consensus v. Conservatives … (ezralevant.com)

~ EZRA ON Chinese Massacres… (ezralevant)

FreeSpeechers

~ EVIL SHAIDLE OF EVIL– Progressives live in the past; Toronto Muslim children are taught: Nazis and Jews have lots in common; 5 percent of the population want to increase legal immigration…’; Brian Lilley interviews the man behind the video ‘If I Wanted America To Fail’; Ashton Kutcher is an enlighted progressive activist who voted for Obama!; Never mind his girlfriends’ real names — what the hell is Obama’s?; Is blogging any job for a woman? (PJMedia); Brian Lilley speaking on June 9 — North Bay; Cops protect Muslim criminals and other special ‘races’; Litter makes fake Indians cry. What about other folks? … (fivefeetoffury)

~ ANOTHER shakedown by the Alberta “Human Rights” thugs … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ THE SOUL OF LIBERTY– Calls for Freedom, Democracy & Secularism End Up with None of the Above, by Hunter Baker … (touchstonemag)

~ THE GYAPONG– Our reception into the Catholic Church at St. Patrick’s Basilica on April 15; The new reactionaries; Congratulations Archbishop Lepine!; Why Christians are leaving the Holy Land; Covering the religious leaders from Ukraine; Woof! The dog meme and the Obama campaign; You may have to follow American politics to get this … (deborahgyapong.blog)

Petition: Keep Omar Khadr out of Canada

~ PICNIC OF ORWELL- Primal cookies!; When nerd spies meet; If I have to do the Dorian Gray; I’m obviously turning into one of those obnoxious Modern People; It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that we started learning that sun = death; Gluttony of Delicacy; Wow, a grown-up in politics!; “Humanely”… is that like, disintegration chambers, or what? … (anglocath.blogspot.ca)

~ FREEDOM’S FINIS FLIGHT? — The U.S. Air Force’s “Neutrality” Policy Creates a Religious No-Fly Zone, by Joseph M. Burns … (touchstonemag)

~ BLAZING CATNIP– Scotland Yard has banned IT staff from using the word “blacklist”; TO School Board is putting the “cult” back in multiculturalism; Hug your children extra tight tonight; Blazingcatfur gets results; “I wish all white people would be killed“; So Sorry Soharwardy; US hostage Weinstein sends a message to Obama; Remember the Montreal Cabbie from last week?; Bridge Bomber’s Name Appears on Occupy Cleveland Building Lease; “There is no Muslim country in the world without a harrowing tale of minority persecution”; German Authorities Cower Before Muslim Threats; Mosaic Of Diversity Alert; Can’t Bring Himself To Admit He’s Afraid Of Being Mugged By Muslims … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ WHY NOT HOLD The Northern Gateway hearing in China: They’ll be affected, too … (cbc.ca)

~ IAN HUNTER WARNS that Christian morality will never win against the Canadian Charter of Human Rights … (catholicinsight)

~ CANUCKI SENTINEL– Is Communism and totalitarianism now going to end in China?; Was Andrew Breitbart’s Coroner Assassinated?; DADT Repealed By Obama, Homo Rape Skyrockets in Military; Why is Obama Attacking the Traditional Family?; We were brainwashed into believing that “gay” necessarily means kind and gentle; Totalitarianism Has Already Arrived In Obama’s Post-Civil-Rights America; Obama declared war on Catholics; Dearborn Favors Muslims & Wants To Take Christians’ Rights Away … (canadiansentinel.blog)

~ REMEMBER, KIDS– Modern ‘Tolerance’ consists of this one rule … (americandigest.org)

~ PHANTOM SOAPBOX– Just keep voting Liberal, we’ll get there; Flip, flop and fly… Barry blinks again; There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S.; NAACP is kewl with black females “defending” themselves; Zimmerman show trial pictures; If guns, why not pigs?; Being morbidly obese is a fire hazard. And they pollute the environment too; Didn’t I just say this yesterday?; New record for dumbest Traaaayvon! comment … (phantomsoapbox.blog)

~ THE PUBLIC SQUARE– Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins addressed the Canadian Club of Toronto in the context of the clash between those who desire to remove religion from the public square and those who resist this attempt … (catholicinsight)

~ EVIL MOOCHES– For the past three decades, the Khadr family has been taking advantage of Canada; Canada’s disgrace: the need to reject terrorists from our country … (princearthurherald)

~ MICHAEL COREN– The modern heretic … (boldcolors.net)

~ EYE ON THE HILL– Shimon Peres: Be my friend for peace, the remix; Menzoid blog roll, May 7; I am very strongly in favour of free expression; Smash state… from within!; Accountability reeks of totalitarianism?; Ding-Dong the Gun Registry is, er, not quite dead yet; Keeping the young Trudeau in the style to which he’s become accustomed; Well, somebody hates somebody … (eyeonthehill)

~ WHERE WE ARE– “Modern Westerners, including Christians, no longer believe in the supernatural in the taken-for-granted fashion of our ancestors. Confronted by major life events, we find solace in our own compassion” … (blogs.telegraph)

~ SOME GOOD NEWS– Burma celebrates Aung San Suu Kyi’s apparent landslide election victory: Nobel laureate expected to take office for first time after landmark poll that could see end to 50 years of military rule … (pundita.blog)

~ AMERICAN DIGEST– Supermoon 2012: Rio; Her last attempt to rule the world; The Racist Selfishness of Elizabeth Warren Adopted Tribe; Princess “Shits With Bull” … (americandigest.org)

~ HATEFUL BIGOTED EX-GAYS demand that extremely intolerant gays be tolerant … (thecanadiansentinel.blog)

~ SCRATCH A LEFTIST.. London mayor’s race– Boris wins. So, Ken Livingstone, how did that ‘wealthy Jews’ thing work out for you?; Ken Livingstone, George Galloway and Britain’s drift towards the politics of race … (blogs.telegraph)

~ HAPPY MAY DAY! A day to celebrate Marxist mass murder … (jr2020.blog)

~ JENNIFER Roback Morse lectures on sex and sexuality at Harvard University … (winteryknight)

~ THE LYNCH MOB– The Lynch List, 30-Apr-2012; and The Lynch List, 23-Apr-2012 … (missnixon)

~ PERSECUTION BRIEF: Violence Reigns in Nigeria, Kenya; Iranian Pastor’s Attorney Arrested; and Nigerian Christians Defy Fear of Bloodshed and Continue Church Worship … (global.christianpost, CP)

~ MITCHIEVILLIAN– McDonald’s – Retro; Jewperman is a Jewperhero; Jack Of All Trades; CNN Is Cruel To Us Every Month; Rabies outbreak at the shopping mall; No One Likes Chelsea Clinton … (mitchieville)

Reason TV: What We Saw at Occupy Wall Street’s May Day Protest in NYC

~ THE FIRST FREEDOM– Why Religions Must Be Free, Not Tolerated, by William L. Saunders … (touchstonemag)

~ IT’S THE KATE– It’s Probably Nothing; Children Of The Pod; A Taiwanese View of the Quebec Riots; This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society; We Are The World; “We’re not really set up to cover the extreme Left.”; How’s That Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?; Why It’ll Stay Government Motors For A While Yet; An Anarchists’ Fashion Guide; Take Me, Dear Leader … (smalldeadanimals)

~ MORAL NEOPHILIA– “Egalitarian rationalism is not moving the world to freedom, justice, and happiness, but to a kind of madness, in which ‘human rights councils’ police egalitarianism’s incoherent new standards of blasphemy and sacrilege, and male soldiers are forced to pretend they are pregnant women” … (princearthurherald)

~ ARCHBISHOP CRANMER– The EU is stoking nationalism, protectionism and racism; Raped by a priest? Did you enjoy it?; Peter Gowlland: the Diocese of Southwark responds; Anglican Lay Reader suspended for supporting Coalition for Marriage; County council cuts God from its prayers … (archbishop-cranmer.blog)

~ LIFESITE NEWS– Reggie Littlejohn relates the crucial lesson for all human rights activists to be learned from the Chen Guangcheng saga; Chen may be allowed to fly to America: U.S. officials; Chen’s horrifying discovery: Obama admin just another member of the population control mafia… (lifesitenews.com)

Phobical Bigots In Favour Of Reality

~ WAR ON REALITY– Anglican Preacher Pulled From Pulpit After Advocating Traditional Marriage … (christianpost, telegraph)

~ FENRIS BADWULF– “Amongst those that seek to prepare for the future, preparation for calamity is all the rage” … (mitchieville.com)

~ MOOSES AND SQUIRLZ– The Life of Julia; Occupy Movement’s “Commies on Parade”; 100 million victims of communism are still dead; Time to “crucify” the EPA?; Income Tax Humor: “Returned Mail”; Obama’s favorite gay bully… just another distraction … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

David Menzies on Stupified Toronto

~ SCRUFFY MOOCH- Seven Day Fools; Justin Time– The Musical; Communities Unite Against Omar Khadr’s Return; Top Saudi Cleric Blames “Arab Spring” Instability on “Sin”; Harpoon Siddqui high-fives the zany, zesty Zionhass; Forgive me but I’m a tad confused; A child bride in Afghnistan is said to be recovering; Heroes Don’t Spike the Football; Never heard of Sheik Quick?; We’re The Numero Uno Victims Because We Say We Are; Justin! Justin! Justin! … (scaramouchee.blog)

~ RIGHT BASTARDS– Sixty-seven years later – the fate of Raoul Wallenberg still enshrouded in mystery.. never mind the Uber-Schindler who– as Himmler’s doctor– saved 60 000 people, but who remains unhonoured in hyper-socialist happy face Sweden … (theblogmocracy, massagemag)

Felix Kersten, Unsung Hero

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS– Are girls getting meaner?; Can we have the real Michael Gove back, please?; The unspeakable vS. the uneatable; Britain’s education disaster; At last, a judge tells the truth about divorce; get her latest book, The World Turned Upside Down, now in paperback with a new foreword by David Mamet … (melaniephillips.com)

~ JUST GO WATCH EVERYTHING– SDA Matt has it all … (youtube)

“Since the 1920s the ‘nightmare’ has gotten worse — especially in the light of the fatuous progressive expectations that preceded it. Our undeniable history is replete with infernal images and memories: Pearl Harbor and Katyn Forest, Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, the Gulag Archipelago, Hiroshima, Cambodia, Uganda, right down to today’s headlines from Afghanistan, Angola, and Iran….”

~ Michael D. Aeschliman, 1987 ~

~ OUR MADNESS– The Heirs of Canto III of Dante’s Inferno … (brown.edu)

~ STAND YOUR GROUND– Starting a pro-life group on campus despite the opposition from the “student union”; Prolife Letter Writing Campaign; Courageous Manhood: A Titanic Virtue; “Earth hour” is a scam; New LifeCanada Petition – How Do We Define Human Life?; Invasion Of Our Homes And Schools … (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ THE PROPAGANDIST– Democracy Is Broken In London; Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming At Rich People; In the Bizarro Koran; Stephen King Scares Republicans; Butchering the Bitches Honour Killings Officially Sanctioned in Chechnya; Occupy May Day 2012. An Activist’s Agenda; Pew Poll. Lots of Muslims Are Still Fans of Al Qaeda; Jimmy Kimmel at the White House … (propagandistmag)

Michael Coren On The Liberal Hatred Of Democracy

~ FENRIS BADWULFISM– Thinking about the unthinkable; When the cup is empty you want it full; Rabies outbreak at the shopping mall; Inside Mitchieville; Moment of Meditation; The passing of White Guilt; You cannot trust the government … (fenris-badwulf.blog)

Bernie Farber’s Final Appearance on Michael Coren’s Arena

~ GEERT WILDERS on Glenn Beck excerpt … (vladtepesblog)

~ MERE COMMENTS– Sweden Still Neutral; Writing Assignment: Make Evolution Interesting; Mere Links 05.04.12; United Methodists Uphold Teachings on Homosexuality; Organ Donation, Facebook & When You’re Dead; Millennials: How Ready Are They to Change Culture?; President Obama Declares War on Children … (touchstonemag)

~ IS THERE A LAPEL RIBBON FOR THIS? Doreen’s story: the heart-rending truth about ‘lazy cow syndrome‘ … (blogs.telegraph)

~ WILLIAM GAIRDNER– The Charter Has Made Us Colonists Once Again … (williamgairdner)

~ MODERATE Toronto Red Star Supports Snooping Stalker … (clayandwater.ca)

~ AMAZING SPEECH by Tommy Robinson as pro-Muslim fascists try to attack 3,000 English Defence League supporters in Luton … (barenakedislam)

~ GOATS With FLEAS– Breathe in. Breathe out; Good news for the mandarin class; Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown; Lenin and the Inquisition; The British Museum has re-examined a 16th century map of North Carolina; the oldest blood sample ever retrieved; Stephen King argues the wealthy should pay more in taxes … (ghostofaflea.com)

~ ATTENTION: “Are you a young person recently graduated from college? Did you run up an aircraft carrier full of student loan debt to get a diploma in Women’s Studies, Art History, Asian Linguistics, Dance Theory, Bulgarian Numismatics or some other subject for which no employer anywhere wants to pay you the mad jack to which you think you’re entitled?” … (themcj.com)

~ LOTS OF AWESOME GOODNESS over at Vlad Tepes’s blog– Horrid Sweden takes gender neutrality seriously; Tower Hamlets polling station fracas; “Twas a toon, that stirred the mustard”; Girls are ready to be married at 10; Muslim found guilty of planning to attack NYC subways May 2 2012; Someinteresting links … (vladtepesblog)

~ I AM A HUMAN BEING website– check it out … (iamahumanbeing.ca)

~ AGONY MACHINE GONE– “The $11-million-a-year random scandal generator officially known as the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, more commonly called Rights and Democracy, is over and done with at last” … (transmontanus.blog)

~ SOCONVIVIUM– Andrew Coyne on necessity for an abortion debate; Parliament ‘debates’ motion to debate when life begins; Judge to pro-lifer: “Your God is wrong”; Opposition to McGuinty’s gay activist ‘anti-bullying’ bill; Canada & Religious freedom … (soconvivium)

~ PEOPLE’S CUBE– Occupy Cute Puppies!; Forward with Obama, Mao and Lenin … (thepeoplescube)

~ IN 2013, taxpayers will be paying more of their incomes to government … (winteryknight)

~ ANCHORESS– “I don’t have to think; Hollywood does it for me!” … (patheos.com)

“One person alone can never fill the void that Breitbart leaves behind. We need thousands of Andrew Breitbarts. We need you to be Andrew Breitbart. I am Andrew Breitbart.”
~ Katie O’Malley ~

~ BARNYARD OF THE SLAVES– Socialism and the Sexualization of the Masses; and How Canada Opted for Libertarian Socialism … (williamgairdner)

~ A HOMOSEXUAL Episcopal minister named Harry Knox is set to become Führer und Reichskanzler of the national organization of Einsatzgruppen America the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice … (themcj.com)

Obysmal

UNBELIEVABLE

Dear lame court jester Stephen Colbert– This Is How You Do It:

“Mr. President, remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? That was hilarious. That was your best one yet.”

~ Jimmy Kimmel ~

~ THE STATE IS MOTHER, FATHER, HUSBAND– Obama Introduces Creepy Statist Propaganda; Obama Marries “Julia” to the Government; The Life Of Peter, Julia’s Sperm Donor; Obama and the Democrats love women! … (weaselzippers)

~ THE REAL BARACK OBAMA– Barack Obama, Has-Been; GOP Video: ‘Are We Satisfied? No!’; It’s time to close tax loophole for illegal immigrants; Did ObamAyers fabricate a ‘New York girlfriend’?; Where #OccupyWallStreet Really Began — Obama’s Hand in the Movement; A presidency fixed on a murder by gunshot; What happens if the looter class wins and America’s business owners quit?; Republicans engaging in ‘reign of terror’?; Obama’s racialist past; Black racism ‘sells’; Obama’s Religion of Reparations, False Prophets in the White House; How many times do you go back to the same used car salesman when he sells you a car that doesn’t work? … (rbo2.com)

~ MARK SHEA NOTES Hey! Our God King has Launched a New War! … (patheos.com)

~ OBAMA’S COURAGE? The Coward Hasn’t Got a Gram of It; SEAL Tears Off President’s Head. Micturates Down… Respectfully … (americandigest)

~ TREASON & TRAITORS– FBI Refuses To Name Outside Islamic “Experts” It Used To Scrub Agency’s Counterterrorism Training Materials … (weaselzippers)

~ BLACK HOODS– Attacks by Blacks on Whites on the Rise in the US as Revenge for Trayvon … (clayandwater.ca)

~ EXPOSING Obama’s “I killed Osama” braggadocio with his own words … (canadafreepress)

~ JIMMY KIMMEL Hosts the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.. forced regal presidential smiles ensue … (propagandistmag)

~ OBAMA MINITRUE Information Czar Cass Sunstein Confronted on Cognitive Infiltration of Conspiracy Groups … (canadafreep)

~ HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS Lord Obama and family bill taxpayers for 17 lavish vacations … (winteryknight)

~ IF MOVEON.ORG has its way, using the word “illegal” along with “alien” or “immigrant” could land you in beaucoup trouble … (republicaninthearts.blog)

~ DICTATOR Obama Issues New Threat to Supreme Court over ObamaCare … (canadafreepress)

~ BARACK OBAMA ‘spits’ on the families of the dead Navy SEALS … (barenakedislam)

Men Named Trayvon Get Killed all the Time, But The Left Doesn’t Care

~ THE OBAMA RECORD– Chinese dissident betrayed … (thespiritofman.blog)

~ VORWARTS! The Knish puts into historical context the term “Forward” and analyzes the left-wing roots of the use of the term that Obama has been using as a 2012 campaign slogan … (theblogmocracy.com)

~ BOW-TYING White Boy’ Meets Black Racism … (sheikyermami)

~ PALATE CLEANSER: Focus Like A Laser … (patheos.com)

~ OBAMA: “We’ve Begun to See What Change Looks Like”—America: “No Thanks, Barack!” … (canadafreepress)

 ~ SLAYER of liberal cliches watches as Piers Morgan unwittingly slays himself with cliches … (boldcolors.net)

Charles Murray on Coming Apart

~ YAY TYRANTS! Sen. John Kerry (D-Horse Face) In Egypt To Meet With Muslim Brotherhood Presidential Candidate … (weaselzippers)

~ NEVER HIRE A MUSLIM REASON #85: AT&T ordered to pay Muslim baghead $5 million dollars for religious discrimination … (barenakedislam.com)

~ DO YOU KNOW anyone who has been seeking work in the last several months, and has suddenly found openings? … (patheos.com)

~ THE GENIUS OBAMA– Sooner or later, it becomes just too painfully obvious; The Unbearable Lightness of Barack Obama … (transmontanus.blog)

~ OBAMA administration linked to gay activist Dan Savage … (winteryknight)

~ APPARENTLY, in reaction to the reality that the youth vote is fading on Obama, a memo has gone out from the campaign to the mainstream media, Democrat operatives, Hollywood moneybags, and all the ships at sea. It’s message was succinct: “Obama Hip, Cool! Romney Square. Peace-and-Drones Out, Daddy-O.”; Barack Obama wouldn’t get away with that Euro-wuss bike gear in Russia … (patheos.com, blogs.telegraph)

~ BRING OUT YER DEADS! — Mooch Sends The Bat Signal To ACORN: Election Could Come Down To “Last Few Thousand Votes” … (weaselzippers)

Jihad

Mahmoud  Ahgetknockdownanigetupagain

Victimless Criminal: Laugh Your Head Off at Islam

~ JIHADWATCH– Did Muhammad exist? The Blaze interviews Robert Spencer; Muslim school leader “disagrees” with free speech; Two “Belgian” jihad terror suspects arrested in Yemen; all women in courtroom should wear hijab; U.S. secretly releasing top Taliban jihadists in exchange for ‘peace pledges’; Hair dye for 9/11 mastermind KSM, but not for Blago; Syria: Muslim Brotherhood now “the dominant force of the exile opposition”; Muslim Brotherhood-linked ICNA promotes donations to jihad; Denmark: 10-12 Muslims pull four tourists out of their car and stab and beat them … (jihadwatch.org)

~ REMEMBER, YOU MUZZLEPHOBEZ– Clitoris mutilation carried out by Mohammedans on their female children is merely their particular contribution to the rich diversity of cultural multiplicity … (scifiwright.com)

~ SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL RECIPIENT, Grand Mufti Of Saudi Arabia, Calls For The Destruction Of All Churches In Region … (republicaninthearts.blog)

~ AUSTRALISTAN: Sharia Law Courses For Kids Booked Out! … (sheikyermami)

~ FUN-LOVING Pakistan spends UK’s £650million aid on nuclear missiles: “Perhaps if HM Government were to reduce aid to those countries which spend it on arms proliferation as it does to those who persecute homosexuals, we might move closer towards an ethical foreign policy. Why should Overseas Aid be contingent on international gay rights but not on averting imminent nuclear holocaust?” … (archbishop-cranmer.blog)

SHHHHHH! The Other Slave Trade

~ ISRAEL CALLS UP 6 army battalions to deal with threats from Egypt and Syria; Israel calls up reserves to counter rising threats … (winteryknight, vladtepesblog)

~ TERRORISM SUSPECT says he’s innocent, shock horror. So tell us, BBC: just how much of our money did you spend securing this exclusive? … (blogs.telegraph)

~ THE EVIL JEWESS GLICK– My friend Benzion Netanyahu died yesterday; Post-Zionism is so 1990s; Egypt has Felafel!; I don’t mean to be rude or anything but do Western policy analysts think we are stupid?; A suggestion to Danish protesters … (carolineglick.com)

Fun With Trains– Long Island Railroad terror plot

~ WEEZLE DIAPERS– Indiana: 12-Year-Old Boy Made Honorary Marine Before Succumbing To Cancer; Spotted At Occupy Wall Street: Jesus Christ … (WZ)

~ BANNED IN AUSTRALIA– File this video under “All People Are Created Equal– Especially Militant Muslims” Dep’t … (liveleak.com)

~ DEEPLY ROOTED Irshad Manji meets Islam 101 … (sheikyermami)

~ FIRST THE IRANIAN authorities sent Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani to prison for ten years for “apostasy”; now they have sentenced Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, his only lawyer, to nine years for spreading anti-government propaganda … (christianpost, guardian)

Jihadis hide terror plot in their porn

~ THE GLAVINATOR– Spring Break In Afghanistan: Pundits Gone Wild; the lucrative Beijing-Ottawa circuit of revolving doors; Obama The Catastrophe, Part XXXII; This Is What “Peace Talks & Troops Out” Gets You … (transmontanus.blog)

“Human rights organizations are reporting that Syrian rebels are actively involved in slaughtering hundreds of Christians and driving out tens of thousands from their homes–without even allowing them to bring their personal property.”

~ HUSH-HUSH– Are Muslim Syrian rebels driving Christian Syrians out of their homes and murdering them? … (pundita.blog)

BANNED IN RIYADH– Islam’s View of Christianity – Robert Spencer at Franciscan University

~ WINDS OF JIHAD– Oregon Discovers Islamic Misconceptions With Context & Comedy; UN Wants United States to Give Its Land Back to Indians; Muselmaniacs in Macedonia Scream Death to Christians, Demand Killers of Christians be Released; the real Afghan War: Up to 30 percent of Afghanistan’s water is used by Pakistan and Iran; Water scarcity: Saving Jordan and the Dead Sea … (sheikyermami)

Nothing To See Here

~ LEST WE FORGET– Pim Fortuyn assassinated 5-6-2002 … (creepingsharia)

~ PUNDITA– Afghanistan has a stubbornly high illiteracy rate of 72 percent, so TV and radio are the most effective ways of spreading news around the country; Bingo: “Infiltration of Pakistan, Iran in Afghan Media: NDS” … (pundita.blog)

~ NEW GERMANY: 29 police injured, 100 protesters arrested, as foaming-at-the-mouth Muslims try to shut down free speech … (barenakedislam.com)

Pat Condell: Hello Saudi Arabia

~ LOOKING AT THE Global War on Christians in the Muslim World … (creepingsharia)

~ WHITEWASHING barbaric Halal Slaughter to make it palatable to ignorant Americans … (barenakedislam)

MoBro Spring– What is happening in Egypt?

~ CHARMING Muslim cleric announces bounty on American, State Dept condemns… American… (creepingsharia)

~ CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE– Mohamed Mehra, the 24-year-old gunman “suspected of involvement in the shootings which killed three children and a rabbi on 19 March 2012 at ‘Ozar Hatorah’ Jewish school,” in Toulouse, France, is reported dead … (rbo2.com)

~ REMEMBER: “War on Terror” Over … (creepingsharia)

~ BIG JIZYA SCORE! Kansas City: Woman converts to Islam, shakes down AT&T for $5 million … (creepingsharia)

~ MOLESTERING– Islamic-Sanctioned Thighing of Children! Everything you want to know about something you’d wish you never heard of … (barenakedislam)

~ DELIGHTFULLY “Moderate” Kuwait MPs passes death penalty bill for offending allah, the quran, all prophets and the wives of Mohammed … (sheikyermami)

~ CORPSE SEXYTIME– Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Necrophilia Law Stance Now in Question … (clayandwater.ca)

It may be a few days, but rejoicing in a variety of fashions may ensue. TTFN. ~

Hello?

Is there anybody out there?

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

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? 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 well, 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 (1955) still rules them all. Plus, they knew how to make a decent 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 the murdering 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 so 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.

Downton is rather more what a 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 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 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 not to be able to think or sympathize with past generations except where they agree with and think & act like us. We, too, shall pass– and our blindness and prejudices will not be celebrated forever, no, not even by those who come after.

Horrid Utopitards

In the century of blood just past, the utopian best was the bitter enemy of the 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 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.

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 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.

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. You know, 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. 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 20th century record of atrocity needs to be 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 new, rising nation, built on Teutonic supremacy, and militarism. Kaiser Wilhelm II may have been Queen Victoria’s Grandson, but he saw all that had gone before as 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 law, limited warfare, or any limitation on the destiny of Germany to conquer and rule. Such niceties and limits applied only to weaklings, bourgeous fools, and non-Teutonicals.

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

A few German inventions and / or firsts in WWI? Lessee: mass bombardment via zeppelins & bombers against civilians; concentration camps for civilians; massacres of non-combatants; treaty breaking; constant violation 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 whatever? He or she believes God commanded it, through Moe, the One messenger of God, communicated in the Koran. Compare instead the oft-quoted 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 as the direct will of God, and the heart of the Gospel.

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’.

Actually, “Because I said so” is a perfectly good reason, even if most parent’s 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 accaoutnable 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 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.

However, if God has forbidden murder ( & child-sacrifice), and Muhammed revises that, but claims it’s all the same God, then (a0 all religions are arbitrary, or (2) Moe is wrong, or (3) 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 new law of self-made-ultimate.

“If God does not exist, everything is lawful,” or as the old Spanish prover 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 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.

First, because 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

~ WHERE, O WHERE, YOU wonder– ye few who are still checking in– is that ever-whinging WebElf? Living in the fun-filled Book of Job, and scratching myself with potsherds, thanks for asking.

Toof Diagnosis

Thus, the first tooth problem is roughly 80% better– but there’s still pain.. and so the good dentist who recently pulled tooth #1 did some more probing, x-ray, and tooth-testing this morning.

Wait for it…. even more dentistry to ensue.

It turns out that if you do an un-asked-for root canal, drop a bit of dental file in it, and then leave the bottom 25% of the root unfixed, that not only are you risking tooth abscess, but neighbouring teeth are in danger, too, via inflamed & rotting nerves.

No, I’m not joking.

It’s Like A Party!

The result? A brand new Root Canal to be excavated on Friday for 2+ hours, on the next tooth in line.. which is indeed infected, and threatening a whole new abscess, despite 3 weeks of strong antibiotics. Oh, and more antibiotics to follow this treatment. Ha ha, whee!

What with my general poor health & abiding slow recoveries, so it goes… thank you so VERY much, O Rapacious Botchmeister Dentist Of Evil who started this slow series of dental implosions in my head 4 years ago.

Thank God for the blessings of modern dentistry, anesthesia & pain-control, decent insurances, and an utterly awesome young lady-dentist who knows her stuff, and just how to make it better. A silver amalgam lining to all these clouds. Lord have mercy on my rotting self.

So What, Elf?

Prayers please, and patience.

I do apologize for that burst of bloggy activity a a month ago (perhaps you were right, Hilary, full ITYS Rights to you), and now nothing. I just don’t have it in me with the pain, anti-biotic hangover, fevers, and general exhaustion to spend a lot of energy blogging. A few essays have percolated in my addled noggin, but not much else.

If anybody is inclined, do feel free to send along Amazon loot to cheer up & occupy your stricken servant.

All prayers and notes of encouragement would also be timely, and very welcome.. I’m seriously worn to a nub by stress, pain, tiredness, infection, and waiting around to get better.

Love Your Elf,

Binksmeister

~ BINKS UPDATE– The fabulous & ever-entertaining Molarpalooza continues, with the jaw-abscess still well under way, pain way above usual levels, and the lymph system in my face utterly overloaded & throbbing. Now on tasty second batch of even stronger antibiotics, just begun. 19 days and counting.

Blogging? Nope.

Prayers for healing, rest, and that She-Binks won’t put me out with the recycle bin rubbish all much appreciated. The Glenfiddich is running low.. anybody know if The Glenlivet is better for aches of the jaw? Islay’s Laphroiag? Jack Daniels? Moonshine in an old boot?

In related news, not only did Dentist of Evil leave a bit of file in the root canal, he left the bottom 25% of the actual canal undone on one side.. that is, a rotting pit of decay, dead flesh, bacteria, and thus a veritable time-bomb which asploded three weeks ago. In my personal head.

Grrrr grngrngrn. O Father, I seek to want to forgive him, amen?

Currently reading Metaxas’ new bio on Bonhoeffer; Cochrane: The Real Master & Commander; and anything else at hand to distract mesself. Plus EvE-Online.

Wah, boo-hoo, poor me,

Binks Webelf

The following is hardly an exaggeration, though minus modern dentistry & antibiotics as below, I can scarce imagine…

Address To The Toothache

My curse upon your venom’d stang,
That shoots my tortur’d gums alang,
An’ thro’ my lug gies mony a twang,
Wi’ gnawing vengeance,
Tearing my nerves wi’ bitter pang,
Like racking engines!

When fevers burn, or argues freezes,
Rheumatics gnaw, or colics squeezes,
Our neibor’s sympathy can ease us,
Wi’ pitying moan;
But thee-thou hell o’ a’ diseases-
Aye mocks our groan.

Adown my beard the slavers trickle
I throw the wee stools o’er the mickle,
While round the fire the giglets keckle,
To see me loup,
While, raving mad, I wish a heckle
Were in their doup!

In a’ the numerous human dools,
Ill hairsts, daft bargains, cutty stools,
Or worthy frien’s rak’d i’ the mools, -
Sad sight to see!
The tricks o’ knaves, or fash o’fools,
Thou bear’st the gree!

Where’er that place be priests ca’ hell,
Where a’ the tones o’ misery yell,
An’ ranked plagues their numbers tell,
In dreadfu’ raw,
Thou, Toothache, surely bear’st the bell,
Amang them a’!

O thou grim, mischief-making chiel,
That gars the notes o’ discord squeel,
Till daft mankind aft dance a reel
In gore, a shoe-thick,
Gie a’ the faes o’ Scotland’s weal
A townmond’s toothache!

~ Robert Burns (While Rome Fiddles?)

“A study by the University of Sherbrooke shows there have been 12 honour-killing victims in Canada since 1999 compared with three between 1954 and 1983.”

~ ITEM: Honour killings on the rise in Canada: Study

~ ITEM: Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings; “Honor” Murders – Why the Perps Get off Easy

~ NOW THAT CANADIAN justice has been upheld over the shariafied Shafias, let’s not have ‘special Muslim sensitivity squads’ abound– instead, review all the cases of missing teen Muslim girls over the past 10 years, and the outright cases of honour murder that have previously been let slide.

Unless a clear message is sent that this isn’t a one-off, the murders will continue, and the Muslim community well never be forced to confront the ugliness of this part of their religion. Justice is for all, or for none– if Jews and Christians and Mennonites aren’t let slide on offing their erring spawn, neither should the adherents of one certain religion.

Get The Rest

The Shafia parents & son are taken down– what about the case of Johra Kaleki? Or that ‘mother’ in Montreal a year or two back who got off scott-free? 12 such murders in 13 years? Now that we know what to look for, old cold cases of dead Muslims teen girls should be reviewed, and new ‘accidents’ be considered with a gimlet eye, until honour killing is ruled out. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

12 such murders in 13 years? Really? I’m guessing it might be double or more that figure, once you include erring wives, sons, or other family members who step over Mohammed’s line of “No penalty for offing apostates”. Plus, if the father/ brothers are good at covering their tracks, there are all sorts of ways to off people if you are determined, and think God demands it.

Brain-Rotted Response

Lots of Leftists and weepy types are going on about how everybody else is no better than the Honour Killers. Really? Is that sort of poisonous special pleading for evil the best you can offer? This writer has twin teen boys– just imagine. But if I have to punish them, or worry about their friends or moral lives, I work harder as a Dad to help and guide them– I don’t start plotting to dump them in a canal somewhere.

Aside from the 9% represented by Hindus and Sikhs and a very few other groups, if you’ve got a bloody pile of 100 honour-murdered girls & wives & sons, at least 91 of those corpses will be Muslim. That’s a world-wide problem, to say the least.

God: Holier Than Thou

The Judaeo-Christian way is clear: Thou Shalt Do No Murder, and then there’s Abraham & Isaac, where human sacrifice is set aside forever as a way to please God. Or read again the teaching of Jesus in the Parable Of The Prodigal Son, or The Parable of the Lost Sheep.

If Christians were really “just as bad”, then Jesus would have taught that the father of the prodigal cut the son’s throat before he ran off, or that the Good Shepherd slaughters the lambs to prevent strays. Can’t be too careful.

People Are Basically..?

Such disgusting pro-Shafia/ pro-sharia non-Muslim apologists are turning back into white, because their “everybody is basically good” (especially victim-classes) mentality will not allow that people are people, and some are good, some are not, and not all religions teach recycling, social justice, and feminism (like liberal-squishy Judaeo-Christianity). Better apologize for murder & a sick religion than adjust to uncomfortable facts & reality. Or protect vulnerable people.

Can’t be too politically correct. ~

Hating On Teh Christers

~ ITEM: First, They Came for the Catholics; Obama Attacks the Catholic Church- Where are the other Christian Leaders?

~ ITEM: This is protected speech? — Obama will protect speech that is pro-choice but will not protect the 10 commandments?

~ ITEM: Krauthammer nails Obama’s religious hypocrisy

Michael Coren & Teresa Pierre On Catholic Persecution

~ ITEM: MCGUINTY’S MADNESS.. SunNetwork video on Ontario bullying of Catholics

~ ITEM: Nazi Persecution of Christian Churches

~ ITEM: Word for Word/The Case Against the Nazis; How Hitler’s Forces Planned To Destroy German Christianity; THE NAZI MASTER PLAN– Transcribed and annotated by Professor Richard Bonney

~ ITEM: Catholic priests in the Dachau concentration camp; Nazi concentration camp unveils monument to Catholic priests killed in Holocaust

~ ITEM: Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau by Jean Bernard; DVD The Ninth Day Starring Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate, et al.; DVD Sophie Scholl – The Final Days

~ WE’VE HAD 67 YEARS of reflection on the Holocaust. In addition to dead & suffering Jews, another 7 million people were victims of the German National Socialist Concentration & death-camp system, just like copycat Gulags and Laogai and Re-Education camps throughout the Communist world. The dead & suffering included a large number of Christians, for being Christians.

Why? Same old reason: Jesus Is Lord. Not Caesar, not Mohammed, not Adolf or Papa Joe or Mao or Pol Pot or Fidel (or Che) or Daniel Ortega.. and, dare we say it, not Pierre Trudeau or Jean Chretien or Barack Hussein Obama.

Witnessing In Blood

In Imperial Roman times, not to offer incense and a knee to Caesar’s image was not just atheistic apostasy (the leader was semi-divine), but rebellion, and a rejection of the political order, as far as the Romans saw it. That Christians obeyed the law, paid taxes, prayed for the Emperor, did not sit in Occupy rats-nests demanding stuff and things and other people’s money? Not good enough.

Eusebius of Caesarea details the horrors and martyrdoms inflicted on early Christians by the state & mob-rule.. or you can look to more recent history, or the streets of many Egyptian or Nigerian cities, in 2012. Much of a muchness.

What’s With All That?

Why? Jesus is Lord. There is a God-given and divinely revealed wisdom that transcends and pre-dates the state, and all false claims to supreme power in the world, nations, or the lives of people. Family & marriage? The dignity of life? The nature of true freedom? God’s will and kingdom in heaven and earth?

Catholic priests in the Dachau concentration camp

So Adolf– who knew that many faithful churches & Christians (including the Pope) were saving Jews by the hundreds of thusands, and aiding the resistance, and not at all preaching and rejoicing in the official teaching that Hitler Was Lord– had plans. That plan was a veritable Holocaust 2.0– against European Chritianity. Clergy rounded up; uppity laypeople rounded up; work-to-death and executions galore; property and money confiscated, churches closed, demolished, or turned into Nazi facilities.

The documents were found during the Nuremburg trials & investigation.

“In 1999 Julie Seltzer Mandel, while researching documents for the “Nuremberg Project”, discovered 150 bound volumes collected by Gen. William Donovan as part of his work on documenting Nazi war crimes. Donovan was a senior member of the U.S. prosecution team and had compiled large amounts of evidence that Nazis persecuted Christian Churches. In a 108-page outline titled “The Nazi Master Plan” Office of Strategic Services investigators argued that the Nazi regime had a plan to reduce the influence of Christian churches through a campaign of systematic persecutions.”

As it was, both Daschau & Sachsenhausen camps held many Christian leaders; monks, and nuns and leading laypeople were rounded up; and resisters like Dietrich Bonhoeffer or the White Rose group were executed not simply as enemies of the state, but for the faith that lay behind their courage and activity.

The Emperor Obama

The witless wonder of America has– instead of stealthing his pro-death agenda– made it public via trying to force Roman Catholic hospitals to take on the full contraceptive pro-abort programme. Like former Jean Chretien in Canada, Mr. Hopenchange is dabbling in anti-Christism: trying to rule as if God or no higher principle or power than him is supreme, and that obstinate (faithful non-prog) Christians are enemies of the state. Way to toss the vote, genius.

MCJ Blogger Christopher Johnson is all over this situation (with generous linkeries), so go read up and witness the soft-persecution even as it unfolds. Remarkably, even some liberals and prog-Catholics are pushing back against Emperor Hussein, and wondering where their paradise went. Welcome to the Obama’s Bitter Exes club, where the betrayed and lied to wake up and realize It Was All A Lie.

What Comes Next?

The unredeemed world hates Jesus, and so it hates his flock; when arbitrary power treads into claiming divinity and absolute authority (on a national or personal level), persecution will come to the faithful, who will not bend the knee, for Jesus is Lord. Western Christian persecution is mostly soft now, with Obama and McGuinty and a faith-hating media, but cheer up– it may well get much worse before it gets any better. ~

Star Wars & Nerds

~ ITEM: Go Read All This First.

~ ITEM: Scroll down for comments

Hey, Kathy. Another pithy, punchy piece to rouse the interwebs. Brava!

Interestingly, my father (a hard-core real SF reader from youth) cordially hated Star Wars, and still does. Good SF is where you’re still allowed to do metaphysics on the side– but don’t tell anyone. BTW, he studied nuclear physics, computers, medicine, and is a working pathologist, a.k.a. super-doctor, so he has a career or three. NRA, Republican.. you get the drift.

George Lucas is a smarter-than-thou nasty little man of limited but real talents, and a boundless appetite for money, and hating on his fans. As a teen, I too went to the theatre that summer of ’77 too many times, and enjoyed less and less the new movies as they came out.

Then I mostly grew up, got two degrees, got married, went to work, got babies, and while I’m a recovering nerd, I understand how SW is a fixture for so many people. It’s a place (like religion used to be) to discuss and cheer on and unapologetically love the big stuff: good and evil, right and wrong, sacrifice and redemption. It’s also politically incorrect, and has manly men being men and all manly and stuff. With swords and guns and zoomy ships. It’s hardly mangina fodder.

Mind you, it’s actually better to get a life & a real religion, since worrying about the fate of the Ewoks or spending endless years of life nerding up on fictional minutiae isn’t the same as worrying about the fate of the Copts, or figuring out the minutiae of faith, the Bible, and the fate of your soul.

In that respect, the Tolkien books are doors opening into that world without all of Lucas’ Buddhist BS, and the little idiot Yoda’s bromides and nonsense. Peter Jackson messed up many of the themes and characters, but reading the books is always possible, and re-reading them yearly (like Sir Christopher Lee) reveals more each time. Lucas’ original book is OK, but it’s like a signpost pointing to another signpost in terms of The Big Issues in Grown-Up world.

IMAO. ~

* Binky adds: raised on Star Trek, later realized it was insane fascistic political correctness.

Random Binkses Linkses

GASSY GOODNESS– Beer in Greco-Roman antiquity

THAT’S SO LAST WEEK– What’s The Oldest Internet Meme You Can Remember?

“Ron Paul” — A BLR Soundbite

Nine out of ten voices in his head agree with this message.

AGING ROCK GROUP– Hidden dimension of Stonehenge revealed

Google Under-the-Earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge in action

CRACKED– 5 Things You Should Know Before Trying to Fix Your Computer; plus, 8 Impressively Sarcastic Amazon Product Reviews

GROUNDHOG DAY-- A Movie for All Time

PEOPLE’S CUBE– Study Finds Economic Bias in Gravitational Law Enforcement

Crisis! Multitasking Tweens

~ HEY, PRE-DEAD minions.. Binks saw dentist #1, now off to dentist #2.. will know by early afternoon what kinda surgery/ treatment happens. It’s presently too bad an abscess right now to pull, so moar antibiotics ensue (again) until things calm down.

Then, tooth-ripping, re-root canalling, cap, nano-tooth or whatever. Pain-killers & Adult Anbesol™ on tap.

It turns out that my semi-evil previous dentist brought me here: not only did he commit root-canal unto me without my permission & knowledge ($$ cha-ching! drilling for gold $$), but Binky’s current (super-good) dentist actually found a flipping piece of danged mini-file left in the root canal itself by Evil Dentist Of Evil™, which is part of why the bloody throbbing thing is infected. You know, whole “Oopsies.. Surgeon Left His Watch In The Patient” type thing, only tooth-sized. Yay him.

Prayers, please. And patience on my blogging thing: I require massive distraction as pain-avoidance, and bloggage doesn’t fit the bill. Some MMORPG, and so shuddup Mrs. Shaidle. ~

~ DEAR BINKY-Minions.. 4 year-old badly-done root canal now super-inflamed. Prayers, please.

News-mongering on the back-burner for a day or three, whilst Binks distracts himself to reduce pain. Dentist tomorrer.

No, She-Binks will not take me out back of the barn for the “Old Yeller Treatment”, though I occasionally ask at times like these.

Pass me the whisky. ~

The Clay & Water PodCasters have invited Teh Binky to take part in their podcasting enterprise on a regular basis. Is that something of interest to you all?

Cheers,

Teh Binks