Draft
Did anyone not see this coming?
Sunday, November 19, 2006
France Revisited
French Violence
Quite apart from considerations of Islamic Fascism, one can't help but recall the sneers directed at the U.S. by Europeans during the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.
The U.S. was castigated as ignorant, racist and beneath contempt. This by a Europe which was racially homogeneous by U.S. standards. As the racial component has grown, so has the racism. Sneering does little good, however, so I'll just wish them well as they seek their own way out of a difficult situation.
Quite apart from considerations of Islamic Fascism, one can't help but recall the sneers directed at the U.S. by Europeans during the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.
The U.S. was castigated as ignorant, racist and beneath contempt. This by a Europe which was racially homogeneous by U.S. standards. As the racial component has grown, so has the racism. Sneering does little good, however, so I'll just wish them well as they seek their own way out of a difficult situation.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Ban the Burqa in Holland?
Burqa Ban?
"The Dutch cabinet has backed a proposal by the country's immigration minister to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public places.
The burqa, a full body covering that also obscures the face, would be banned by law in the street, and in trains, schools, buses and the law courts.
The cabinet said burqas disturb public order, citizens and safety."
"The Dutch cabinet has backed a proposal by the country's immigration minister to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public places.
The burqa, a full body covering that also obscures the face, would be banned by law in the street, and in trains, schools, buses and the law courts.
The cabinet said burqas disturb public order, citizens and safety."
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
The Ass, er...Donkey Brays
Well, John Kerry's gaffe failed to sink his party's hopes for the House, and Nancy Pelosi Of San Francisco appears to be set to be the Speaker of the new House. Commentary centers on her being the first woman Speaker, yet I think we will all learn that she is may well be the most liberal Speaker ever.
The bright aside? Now that the election is over and the Democrats remindthe country of what they really are like, the 2008 election may well see them repudiated, along with whatever candidate they propose.
The bright aside? Now that the election is over and the Democrats remindthe country of what they really are like, the 2008 election may well see them repudiated, along with whatever candidate they propose.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Roosevelt on Wars of Civilization
The indispensable George Rutler From the Pastor (Bulletin of Our Saviour, 38th and Park NYC):
Quoting Theodore Roosevelt:
The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century."
End of Rutler's quote. More is here:
"During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any "social values" whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such "social values" today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader."
Funny how some folks get it, and some folks never will.
Quoting Theodore Roosevelt:
The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century."
End of Rutler's quote. More is here:
"During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any "social values" whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such "social values" today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader."
Funny how some folks get it, and some folks never will.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Kerry Continues to Annoy
The Joke is on Kerry
Okay, so it's all a joke about Bush being stupid. Only it can't be much of a joke, laughing about W's SAT scores and grades at Yale, in as much as Kerry has never released his SAT's and Bush had a higher GPA at Yale than did Kerry. Does this man never think about what he's saying?And he should be president why?
Okay, so it's all a joke about Bush being stupid. Only it can't be much of a joke, laughing about W's SAT scores and grades at Yale, in as much as Kerry has never released his SAT's and Bush had a higher GPA at Yale than did Kerry. Does this man never think about what he's saying?And he should be president why?
Saturday, October 28, 2006
The Face of Islam
The woman above shows herself long enough to demonstrate support for the Muslim cleric who in defense of rapists, likened Western women to meat. Who can blame a cat if it eats meat exposed for all to see?In other Islamic news:
Canada Warned
"OTTAWA - An al-Qaeda strategist has warned Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or face terrorist attacks similar to 9/11, Madrid and the London transit bombings.
The threat, attributed to a member of the al-Qaeda information and strategy committee, condemns Prime Minister Stephen Harper for refusing to pull out of Afghanistan.
It also refers to Canada's "fanatic adherence to Christianity" as well as its purported attempts to "damage the Muslims" and its support for the "Christian Crusade" against al-Qaeda."
Finally, from Tehran comes criticism of Bush and the republicans, who it seems are to blame for the disquiet in the world. One supposes Pelosi et al agree.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Now This Makes the Terrier Mad
Indian Dowry Violence
"The burden both of dowry payments and lavish weddings is one of the main reasons why female feticide - the practice of aborting female fetuses - remains widespread in India. Earlier this year a report in The Lancet, a British medical journal, indicated that as many as 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the past 20 years by families trying to avoid the expense of having a daughter and hoping to secure themselves a male heir."
"People are getting more greedy and aggressive in their dowry demands," said Jha, of the Delhi Commission for Women. "You might expect that as the country becomes more and more Westernized, this traditional practice would be dying out, like other traditions, but actually the reverse is true. The old habits remain."
"The men say, 'I'll just ask the girl's parents to get me a Honda.' But they forget that then they have to buy the petrol, so they go back to the bride's family to ask for the petrol money. It's not a one- step system; it's a continuous process."
"Kamlesh's father had been saving for his daughter's wedding and dowry for 16 years before she married, and was squirreling away as much as he could from his daily earnings as a carpenter of around 125 rupees. The total cost of the wedding and dowry came to around 250,000 rupees, 60,000 of which he borrowed from his boss. When the demands for further dowry payments from the groom's side began coming, it was impossible for him to meet them.
Misrilal said his daughter was being bullied for an increased dowry payment from the start. After her husband attacked her in August, he left her, tied up, in the shed for several days, without food or water, until relatives came to her rescue.
"Within a year of marriage he was beating her because of dowry," Misrilal said, sitting with his daughter in a hospital corridor, waiting for her head wound to be examined."
The Terrier has always believed that it is the man who should pay the dowry.
"The burden both of dowry payments and lavish weddings is one of the main reasons why female feticide - the practice of aborting female fetuses - remains widespread in India. Earlier this year a report in The Lancet, a British medical journal, indicated that as many as 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the past 20 years by families trying to avoid the expense of having a daughter and hoping to secure themselves a male heir."
"People are getting more greedy and aggressive in their dowry demands," said Jha, of the Delhi Commission for Women. "You might expect that as the country becomes more and more Westernized, this traditional practice would be dying out, like other traditions, but actually the reverse is true. The old habits remain."
"The men say, 'I'll just ask the girl's parents to get me a Honda.' But they forget that then they have to buy the petrol, so they go back to the bride's family to ask for the petrol money. It's not a one- step system; it's a continuous process."
"Kamlesh's father had been saving for his daughter's wedding and dowry for 16 years before she married, and was squirreling away as much as he could from his daily earnings as a carpenter of around 125 rupees. The total cost of the wedding and dowry came to around 250,000 rupees, 60,000 of which he borrowed from his boss. When the demands for further dowry payments from the groom's side began coming, it was impossible for him to meet them.
Misrilal said his daughter was being bullied for an increased dowry payment from the start. After her husband attacked her in August, he left her, tied up, in the shed for several days, without food or water, until relatives came to her rescue.
"Within a year of marriage he was beating her because of dowry," Misrilal said, sitting with his daughter in a hospital corridor, waiting for her head wound to be examined."
The Terrier has always believed that it is the man who should pay the dowry.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
French Intifada Still Going Strong
"An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year. Officers have been badly injured in four ambushes in the Paris outskirts since September. Some police talk of open war with youths who are bent on more than vandalism.
“The thing that has changed over the past month is that they now want to kill us,” said Bruno Beschizza, the leader of Synergie, a union to which 40 per cent of officers belong. Action Police, a hardline union, said: “We are in a civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists.” "
I suppose we'll hear more about this after the election, when the MSM needn't fear it will cause security and the war on Islamic fascism to sway the voters. Then again, maybe they'll never mention it. There is another election coming up in 2008.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Depressing
America Alone © 2006 by Mark Steyn
Nothing new here, but Steyn says it so well. If any of this comes as a surprise to you, I suggest you have not been paying attention.
Nothing new here, but Steyn says it so well. If any of this comes as a surprise to you, I suggest you have not been paying attention.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
No Coercion in Islam Except If You Try to Leave...
or refuse to join, or ...oh, you get the point.
Reuters is reporting that Islamic terrorists are demanding the return of convert Abdul Rahman who excapsed to Italy to avoid being executed for the crime of leaving Islam. To make their point they have kidnapped an Italian journalist, who will be realesed when they get Rahman.
What is wrong with these people?
Reuters is reporting that Islamic terrorists are demanding the return of convert Abdul Rahman who excapsed to Italy to avoid being executed for the crime of leaving Islam. To make their point they have kidnapped an Italian journalist, who will be realesed when they get Rahman.
What is wrong with these people?
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Time to Confront Radical Islam, Says MP
Confronting Islam
"At long last, the debate on Islamism as politics, not Islam as religion, is out in the open. Two weeks ago, Jack Straw might have felt he was taking a risk when publishing his now notorious article on the Muslim veil. However, he was pushing at an open door. From across the political spectrum there is now common consent that the old multicultural emperor, before whom generation of politicians have made obeisance, is now a pitiful, naked sight.
The 10,000 Muslims in my constituency of Rotherham can only benefit from removing the dead hand of ideological Islamism – allowing their faith to be respected and their children to flourish in a Britain that finally wakes up to what must be done. Despite the efforts of extremists to prevent any sort of rational debate about the place of Islam in Britain, it is at last happening.
A fight-back is beginning to reclaim Britain from the grip of those who refuse to acknowledge the centrality of British values of tolerance, fair play and parliamentary democratic freedoms – notably those of free speech and respect for all religions, but supremacy for none. Voltaire noted this attribute of the English three centuries ago, when he wrote: "If there was just one religion in Britain there would be despotism. If two, there would be civil war. But as there are 30, they all live at peace with each other." "
"At long last, the debate on Islamism as politics, not Islam as religion, is out in the open. Two weeks ago, Jack Straw might have felt he was taking a risk when publishing his now notorious article on the Muslim veil. However, he was pushing at an open door. From across the political spectrum there is now common consent that the old multicultural emperor, before whom generation of politicians have made obeisance, is now a pitiful, naked sight.
The 10,000 Muslims in my constituency of Rotherham can only benefit from removing the dead hand of ideological Islamism – allowing their faith to be respected and their children to flourish in a Britain that finally wakes up to what must be done. Despite the efforts of extremists to prevent any sort of rational debate about the place of Islam in Britain, it is at last happening.
A fight-back is beginning to reclaim Britain from the grip of those who refuse to acknowledge the centrality of British values of tolerance, fair play and parliamentary democratic freedoms – notably those of free speech and respect for all religions, but supremacy for none. Voltaire noted this attribute of the English three centuries ago, when he wrote: "If there was just one religion in Britain there would be despotism. If two, there would be civil war. But as there are 30, they all live at peace with each other." "
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Newsweek Has Fallen on Hard Times
Newsweek
Time was the big three of news magazines were Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report limping in a distant third. It was with surprise that The Terrier learned of Newsweek's utter ignorance about Islamic plans to establish a worldwide caliphate, mocking Bush for using the word. The word is used frequently, usually by Muslims who plan on establishing one. Does Newsweek not know of the utterances promising Islamic world-wide rule? Is this the result of believing that jihad refers to a spiritual struggle to master oneself?
Time was the big three of news magazines were Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report limping in a distant third. It was with surprise that The Terrier learned of Newsweek's utter ignorance about Islamic plans to establish a worldwide caliphate, mocking Bush for using the word. The word is used frequently, usually by Muslims who plan on establishing one. Does Newsweek not know of the utterances promising Islamic world-wide rule? Is this the result of believing that jihad refers to a spiritual struggle to master oneself?
Thursday, October 12, 2006
...the Heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes
This comet, Swan, first discovered in June, will be at its closest to Earth at the end of October, then will fly off into space, never to be seen here again. Very interesting. If this were the Middle Ages, and I were a prince, I'd be getting my affairs in order.
It's Only A Game
Here's Mike Fancesa speaking with Cory Lidle two days before Lidle crashed his plane into an NY high rise:
Mike
"It was silly talk radio fodder, but in retrospect two sequences stand out and were difficult for Francesa to shake 31/2 hours after he and Russo initially told listeners of Lidle's reported death.
The first began with Lidle saying that he was "sitting here trying to enjoy my day in New York" when a friend's text message alerted him to the criticism. Russo's response to that was, "First off, no Yankee fan should enjoy the day in New York ... If I'm a Yankee right now I'm in hiding. I'm not enjoying any day in New York."
Lidle: "Hold on. I have friends in and I'm not allowed to go and enjoy this day in New York?"
Russo: "I don't know any Yankee fan who's enjoying the day, to be honest with you."
Lidle: "I want to win as much as anybody, but what am I supposed to do, go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?"
Russo: "I know a lot of Yankees fans who are doing that, that's for sure."
Russo had been critical of Lidle previously, and got into a heated discussion about his merits (or lack thereof) with Yankees GM Brian Cashman the day after he was acquired from the Phillies.
Later in Monday's interview, Lidle told the hosts, "I'd like to meet you sometime and we can sit down and you guys can really get to know me instead of just what you think about me."
Said Francesa, "I haven't thought much about you at all, to be honest with you." "
I love the Yankees as much as anyone, and have done since the days Rizzuto was playing. I cried over a World Series loss in 1960, not since.
With all that goes on in the world, or in a single life, we are supposed to mourn losses on the ball field? Sorry, I can't go there. I hope Cory Lidle enjoyed his last two days despite the Yankees loss and Francesa's words.
Enjoy the days you have Mike, despite the scoreboard.
Mike
"It was silly talk radio fodder, but in retrospect two sequences stand out and were difficult for Francesa to shake 31/2 hours after he and Russo initially told listeners of Lidle's reported death.
The first began with Lidle saying that he was "sitting here trying to enjoy my day in New York" when a friend's text message alerted him to the criticism. Russo's response to that was, "First off, no Yankee fan should enjoy the day in New York ... If I'm a Yankee right now I'm in hiding. I'm not enjoying any day in New York."
Lidle: "Hold on. I have friends in and I'm not allowed to go and enjoy this day in New York?"
Russo: "I don't know any Yankee fan who's enjoying the day, to be honest with you."
Lidle: "I want to win as much as anybody, but what am I supposed to do, go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?"
Russo: "I know a lot of Yankees fans who are doing that, that's for sure."
Russo had been critical of Lidle previously, and got into a heated discussion about his merits (or lack thereof) with Yankees GM Brian Cashman the day after he was acquired from the Phillies.
Later in Monday's interview, Lidle told the hosts, "I'd like to meet you sometime and we can sit down and you guys can really get to know me instead of just what you think about me."
Said Francesa, "I haven't thought much about you at all, to be honest with you." "
I love the Yankees as much as anyone, and have done since the days Rizzuto was playing. I cried over a World Series loss in 1960, not since.
With all that goes on in the world, or in a single life, we are supposed to mourn losses on the ball field? Sorry, I can't go there. I hope Cory Lidle enjoyed his last two days despite the Yankees loss and Francesa's words.
Enjoy the days you have Mike, despite the scoreboard.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Northern European Front
I'm told this story speaks of Ramadan riots in Sweden, meanwhile in Belgium the backlash seems to have begun:
Swedish riots
Belgian Elections
Meanwhile, here in the USA the coming election may be turned by word of a Congressman's misbehavior online with a page.
Swedish riots
Belgian Elections
Meanwhile, here in the USA the coming election may be turned by word of a Congressman's misbehavior online with a page.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Battle of Lepanto
On this date in 1571 Western civilization was saved from the Muslim-would be-conquerors, thanks to the Spanish and Italian fleets and the prayers of Christendom for victory. The pope called for roaries and they were prayed. October 7th has ever after been the feast of Our Lady of the Rosay (although at one time it was called Our Lady of Victory. Say a rosary today.
If you won't serve the public, don't drive a cab
A Muslim cabbie in Britain has refused to carry a blind woman because he didn't want her guide dog in his Muslim cab. Why doesn't this clown lose his license?
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