Thursday, October 02, 2008
Why, the enemey is loud; you hear him all night.
If the enemy is an ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, is
it meet, think you, that we too should also, look you, be an ass, and
a fool, and a prating coxcomb? In your own conscience now?
part II
Does anyone happen to know
if the current coming out of the electrical sockets in Italy is the same as that in Yookay? I mean, if I take my sewing machine, can I just get the plug replaced and away we go? or do I have to buy Euro-trash sewing machine?
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Liberals. Are. Weird.
OK, I know I said I wasn't going to write about...that stuff...
but this...
It's just sort of hard to believe. Even when you've actually watched it.
but this...
It's just sort of hard to believe. Even when you've actually watched it.
Moving here
because the weather is better.
and, believe it or not, it's a lot cheaper.
I'm going to be able to cut my living expenses in half.
IN HALF.
I guess the scenery's free.
I've been puzzling over what to do about expenses since I got here. As well, another year of the wretched localhovel parish church, the polyester vestments and lycra sermons, the clapping and hugging...well. Let's just say I was looking at Manchester with envious eyes.
Manchester. Yeah.
I'd despaired of getting an affordable place in Rome and while I knew that lots of impoverished students lived in 'Nella, I just couldn't figure out how one went about finding a place to live there. I had been poking desultorily around the net but had only found appartamenti vacanze, to the tune of €500 a week. I was beginning to wonder if people actually lived in Lazio or if they only vacationed there.
Then I finally wised up the other night and used Google translator to do searches in Italian. I learned all sorts of interesting Italian words, like solo affitti case Santa Marinella affitto da privati e appartamenti Santa Marinella ... and Lo! all the ordinary rentals appeared out of thin air (or whatever the internet is made of).
I did a little number crunching and figure that it is going to cost me half of what I am spending now.
Half.
Sooooo, thanks Gordon Brown for the great Council Taxes and absurd rents. It's been great. But you know, considering the crap summer, the getting-dark-by-three-pm-in-November thing, the national ID cards, the CCTV, the data-losing and your let's-put-all-the-Christians-in-camps MPs ... I'm thinking a year or two on the beach is going to do me a lot of good.
And there's not a lot of Bernini, Caravaggio, and Michelangelo lying around Mancs.
My future living room
the neighbours
Party with the Queen on the beach
pointy trees
the late show
I've just had a note from the nice lady who is helping me find a place, and there's a hot one, with a big terrace. Say a prayer we can nail it down. At the moment, I've got a flight booked to Fiumicino for Oct 24th, but no where to put my suitcase once I'm there. I hate doing things backwards and the whole thing is making me very nervous.
I hate change.
(you wouldn't know it from my habits, though, I suppose.)
and, believe it or not, it's a lot cheaper.
I'm going to be able to cut my living expenses in half.
IN HALF.
I guess the scenery's free.
I've been puzzling over what to do about expenses since I got here. As well, another year of the wretched local
Manchester. Yeah.
I'd despaired of getting an affordable place in Rome and while I knew that lots of impoverished students lived in 'Nella, I just couldn't figure out how one went about finding a place to live there. I had been poking desultorily around the net but had only found appartamenti vacanze, to the tune of €500 a week. I was beginning to wonder if people actually lived in Lazio or if they only vacationed there.
Then I finally wised up the other night and used Google translator to do searches in Italian. I learned all sorts of interesting Italian words, like solo affitti case Santa Marinella affitto da privati e appartamenti Santa Marinella ... and Lo! all the ordinary rentals appeared out of thin air (or whatever the internet is made of).
I did a little number crunching and figure that it is going to cost me half of what I am spending now.
Half.
Sooooo, thanks Gordon Brown for the great Council Taxes and absurd rents. It's been great. But you know, considering the crap summer, the getting-dark-by-three-pm-in-November thing, the national ID cards, the CCTV, the data-losing and your let's-put-all-the-Christians-in-camps MPs ... I'm thinking a year or two on the beach is going to do me a lot of good.
And there's not a lot of Bernini, Caravaggio, and Michelangelo lying around Mancs.
My future living room
the neighbours
Party with the Queen on the beach
pointy trees
the late show
I've just had a note from the nice lady who is helping me find a place, and there's a hot one, with a big terrace. Say a prayer we can nail it down. At the moment, I've got a flight booked to Fiumicino for Oct 24th, but no where to put my suitcase once I'm there. I hate doing things backwards and the whole thing is making me very nervous.
I hate change.
(you wouldn't know it from my habits, though, I suppose.)
Seriously, just for a moment,
LifeSite, the outfit that keeps me in tea and biscuits, and helps to keep Winnie from thinking of me as food,
has posted a note appealing for support from, well, supporters.
I know, it's tacky to ask your readers and friends for money, but there is just no way around it. LifeSite is pretty much the only news service going that tells the truth as it is.
And they employ me. Which is really good for everyone.
A one-time donation is great, but we would love it if people would put us down, as Mother Angelica used to say, monthly between the electric and the water bill.
Every little bit helps, of course, and as anyone knows who has spent more than a week in the pro-life movement, the entire thing is run on the little drips and drabs from people who give regularly.
But we're really not proud. If you've got a nice fat 50,000 bills to give us just this once, we won't turn it down.
We take pretty much any currency, whether $, € or the ones with the Queen on.
Thanks.
(and Winnie-the-Cat thanks you too).
has posted a note appealing for support from, well, supporters.
LifeSiteNews.com Needed to Balance Mainstream Media Bias During Canadian Elections [and every other election]
With the election looming, LifeSiteNews.com wants to balance the bias of the mainstream media – but we need your support!
Living in this information age, the media is the primary influencer of culture - but there is a gross media bias against life and family.
The Canadian federal election is less than two weeks away and these media giants are purposefully refusing coverage of major newsworthy items related to life and family.
For instance, the largest poll on the Morgentaler Order of Canada showing 56% of Canadians opposed the decision received no mainstream coverage. The release of the names of over 100 MPs who objected to the award similarly received not a mention.
We know that two thirds of Canadians support at least some legal protection for unborn children, yet any survey of media bigwigs will show them to be radically anti-life.
Don’t Canadians deserve to have the issues important to them taken seriously by the media?
“We are sick and tired of our government turning a deaf ear to the silent screams of our nation’s unborn children – we need to turn to the alternative media to initiate change.”
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I know, it's tacky to ask your readers and friends for money, but there is just no way around it. LifeSite is pretty much the only news service going that tells the truth as it is.
And they employ me. Which is really good for everyone.
A one-time donation is great, but we would love it if people would put us down, as Mother Angelica used to say, monthly between the electric and the water bill.
Every little bit helps, of course, and as anyone knows who has spent more than a week in the pro-life movement, the entire thing is run on the little drips and drabs from people who give regularly.
But we're really not proud. If you've got a nice fat 50,000 bills to give us just this once, we won't turn it down.
We take pretty much any currency, whether $, € or the ones with the Queen on.
Thanks.
(and Winnie-the-Cat thanks you too).
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
When the world is free
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
There'll be blue birds over...
There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after
Tomorrow
When the world is free
The shepherd will tend his sheep
The valley will bloom again
And Jimmy will go to sleep
In his own little room again
There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see
And on that cheery note...
how 'bout some poetry?
Limericks by an anonymous source:
THE LADY OF LEICESTER
There was an armed lady of Leicester
Who, when some fool tried to molest her,
Deftly clove him in twain
And skipped over the plain
Leaving him who would pester to fester.
OBI-WAN'S LIMERICK
Now no one, I think, will refute us
If we say this Chewbacca's hirsutus.
But, be that as it may,
Luke, it's our lucky day:
He's first mate on a ship that might suit us.
RUINS *
This castle, though built to be strong,
Would scarcely, I think, last for long
Under rocket attack:
The old stonework would crack.
If you thought otherwise, you'd be wrong.
* this was inspired by a discussion I had with the poet about a ruined castle near my village, perched up high on a rocky crag that has been inhabited and fortified for defense since the bronze age. I said it would be useful for those of us in the resistance to learn where these are and resort to them in...ah...times of trouble.
My friend noted that this would be a great plan had man not achieved flight. It's sadly true that the remaining 13th century walls of Beeston Castle did not stand up even to the artillery technology available to Cromwell's troops.
Too bad.
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