The "Makers n' Takers" list

There's something I've noticed about Britain. No one here, even people who think they are in the pro-life movement, have any idea what conservatism is.

In Britain, thanks to the ministrations of the BBC and the Labour party's "education" "system", there are not two sides, liberal and conservative, or left and right, to the contemporary political discussion. There is only the legitimate, accepted and proper political opinion, and

EVIL FASCISTS.

Guess which one I am.

(Many people in Britain don't believe in the existence of EVIL FASCISTS. But just in case here's how you are supposed to deal with them.)

Anyway, as a public service, I thought I would lay down some basic criteria.

* Some 71 percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent versus less than half (46 percent) of liberals.

* Conservatives have a better work ethic and are much less likely to call in sick than their liberal counterparts.

* Liberals are two and a half times more likely to be resentful of others' success and 50 percent more likely to be jealous of other people's good luck.

* Liberals are two times more likely to say it is okay to cheat the government out of welfare money you don't deserve.

* Some 55 percent of conservatives say they get satisfaction from putting someone else's happiness ahead of their own, versus only 20 percent of liberals.

* Those who are "very liberal" are three times more likely than conservatives to throw things when they get angry.

Sounds familiar.

Levant is a brash conservative provocateur in a nation of smug liberal wimps. He has been making enemies for almost all of his 36 years, and they'd savor [sic] his ruination.

Ezra is still fighting that Giant, and even though he has cut one head, there are 17 still coming.

Kathy's got a thing in the American Spectator about it.

Two years later, with violence breaking out worldwide over mediocre drawings of Mohammed, Levant chose to reprint them in his Western Standard, assuming his publication would be one among many to do so.

He turned out to be wrong about that. Levant wrote that he expected the fortnightly magazine to be behind the curve but "As we came closer to our production deadline, it dawned on us that no large-circulation publication and no TV station in the country had done so, and none would."

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Canada's Human Rights Commissions (HRCs) were established in the 1970s to address case-by-case discrimination in housing and employment. However, they eventually began silencing citizens who questioned the new Trudeaupian vision of Canada: multicultural, pacifist and blindly tolerant -- of liberal views, that is.

If you stop by any of the links, do throw a couple of shillings into the tip jar if you can. It's paying for their defence, which, because Big Brother is watching, will also be ours.

the money quote is at exactly 4:12

And "praise awlmahty Gahd" for Pastor James David Manning.

Ay-men






H/T to the Wild One

Here's a crazy suggestion

why don't the bishops and clergy try teaching about "conscience issues" outside election time once in a while. That way it won't come a such a shock and horror to the outside world when the elections roll around.

The Church has consistently claimed it is not party political, but this is not the first time it has used an election to promote its moral views, especially on conscience-vote topics.

Idylls of the Ring

I've been challenged to a poetry duel.

Now, I could probably still kick some you-know-what in a proper fencing match, despite age, steadily increasing roundliness and lack of practice; the killer instinct never really leaves one. But in poetry, I am a rank newbie and my challenger is one of those annoyingly talented people who keep themselves in peak condition year round.

Anyway, the challenge is one that leaves me clearly utterly outclassed. It is to re-imagine some story line from the Lord of the Rings and present it in the style of Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

Yah.

Sure.

Just to give me a snippet of what I'll be up against, I was offered:

Eowyn the fair, white Lady of the Mark,
Eomund's one daughter, priceless, being one,
Had hid her white hands under gloves of mail,
And her fair face close-visor'd with a helm,
To ride to war with Theoden the King
Unbidden, yea, against the old King's will ... '

Well, picked up a nice little three volume mini set of Idylls the other day in a Chester bookshop and read all through the wonderful story of Geraint and Enid, and realised that the fight is going to be over before it has begun. (I can certainly see why it appealed so to the neo-medievalist romantics of the Pre-Raphaelite school. I'd like it too if I had to live in squalid, sooty, industrialised Victorian England.)

It's OK. I'm just belligerent enough to take nearly any dare, no matter how sure I am to lose.

By all means, those poetically inclined, jump in, there are humiliations enough for everyone, I'm sure.

"Hell is other bishops"

Every now and then, Fr. Ray Blake makes me burst out laughing.

This post is worth it for that line alone.

written by Fr. Kenneth Baker S.J. He speculates on what we will wear in the life to come. Unfortunately he appears to deal only with those who stand amongst the Blessed, not those who damned themselves or those amongst the clergy who have sold their souls for prelatial purple.

I remember meeting a now dead Bishop to the Forces who was just about to go to the annual Low Week meeting, muttering, "Hell is other Bishops."

As to what we will wear in the hereafter,

I've always figured the Flemish school had it down pretty well:


They look pretty well dressed to me.

As well hung for a sheep as for a lamb

Seems the government of Canada is keeping a closer eye on the Catholics. Never know when something "questionable", like Catholicism, might come out of them into the public realm and start upsetting people.

Fr. de Valk might as well start saying the MOAT. If you're going to be arrested anyway on suspicion of Catholicism, might as well go all the way.

Baked Sawdust

I just watched three consecutive episodes of Little Mosque on the Prairie.

I have to say, I think the Canuckistani People's Republic State Television corporation needs to take a few lessons from the Stalinists.

Compared to the plodding correctness of Little Mosque, Soviet propaganda was high farce.

So, as I said before:

I'm fairly sure the Islams bringing Mark Steyn and Maclean's magazine up on blasphemy charges don't think its funny either. I think they think that non-Islams are required to think it is funny because that is how it is expected to work as a propaganda tool. They've been told that Westerners have this thing called "humour", and that when Islam is presented with this substance coating it, the dumb Westerners will accept it more readily. I'm fairly sure they think that "humour" is like a kind of icing that makes the dumb Westerners enjoy any awful bit of baked sawdust presented as cake.

And wasn't it just so sweet when the "hard core" Islamist character didn't get together with the oldest son and honour kill his daughter for refusing to wear the hijab?

Now that's tolerance.

"...what we used to call before the multicultural age: 'facts'"

The Great One doing his stuff



the pause that refreshes.

Role Reversal

What's wrong with this picture?

The Bishop of Genoa and president of the Italian episcopal conference voiced his "total disapproval" of Euro MP Mario Borghezio's vow to "defend Christianity against profanation by Islam"