Offsite Comments

"…on earth as it is in Heaven…"

Be careful what you ask for.

The local battlefront of the War in Heaven continues to heat up.

In Texas, a pro-Islamist rally was outnumbered by a free speech pork BBQ, but over in Europe, an anti-Islamist rally was threatened into cancellation.

We practically become numb to atrocities revealed daily, like a mob of a thousand, ostensibly riled over the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, with iron bars, clubs, and axes, stampeding through Niger's capital, Niamey, defying tear gas, hurling rocks at police, torching at least eight churches, and murdering at least five. (Yahoo / AFP c/o WZ)

It's relatively minor in scale, compared with all the murders, rapes, kidnappings, and genocide, but, like the torching of churches, this strikes me as deeply symbolic of the true struggle:

A man was kneeling in prayer before the statue of the revered Madonna, with the photograph of a loved one in hand, in the small chapel of St. Barnabas in Perugia (Italy), when he was attacked by five “immigrants.”

The first thing they did was rip the photo from his hands.

Next they unleashed their hatred against the image of the Virgin Mary. They broke the statue to pieces and then urinated on it.

Don Scarda, pastor of St. Barnabas, said the event was led by five “foreigners.” By the time police arrived at the chapel, the unidentified attackers had already fled.…

Raymond Ibrahim as quoted by Gateway Pundit

Would not want to be them at their judgment, knowotImean?

Responses I saw regarding these blockheads ran from the cruel

Protesters chained to barrels full of cement. And they're on a bridge? Ready-made solution…

to the unusual.

Move them and the barrels all over to one side lane, put out orange cones to direct traffic around them, then hose them down and leave them.

Or was the latter one cruel and the first one unusual? Anyway…

I get to the end of the post and I find... no comments? Foolish me, I might've grabbed First if I had only given a dang.

Whatevereth.

Morning, Glories!

Thanks for the news, Vic. Helps wake me up for the day and get the old brain in gear.

We've got to go visit my cousin in the hospital this morning. She couldn't breathe last night, among other, longer-standing problems, and last we heard she was comatose-like, but responding well to treatment. Any spare Moron prayers appreciated for a really sweet woman who has been put through the wringer.

In the desert
you can remember your naaaaame
'Cause there ain't no one
for to give you no paaaaame

* hic *

You just cawwwwl out my naaaame
And yoo knooow wherever I aaame
I'll come runnin' runnin' runnin'
to see you agiiiiiiin

Yewve gawt a freeeennnnnn

* hic *

TickledPink: "She decides she wants a Kentucky Derby themed Baby Shower"

So, horse'd'ouvers and pin-the-tail.

Vic: "If the fan quits working the compressor also quits. Then you are SOL."

Yup. I think it's already had a couple of instances where the vent fan faltered and the furnace shut off, only to come right back on.

Crossing my fingers on making it through the weekend.

_______

Re smoke in the Chunnel. We just had that in two subways in America, ending in one death. Just coincidence?

Vic: "…I am already tired of this Winter and ready for some Spring."

With temps in the 60s this week, and not dipping below freezing, I'm pushing the season by foregoing the long juans this morning. That's living dangerously for my sick old bod. The long juans may be back on if I have to get out in the cold tonight, though.

Our 20-year-old Sears furnace keeps right on cooking, thanks much to our long-time furnace doctor, but at the end of the week it started screaming. Bearings on the vent fan seem to be going. I had hoped the unit would last out the winter. Now I'm wondering if it will last out the weekend. Wonder if it can even be repaired, the thing's so old.

If the temps will just stay in the 60s, we'll be okay. Yeah. Sure. All the way through February.

Morning, Glories! Thanks for the news, Vic! (That's as far as I've read in the comments so far.)

The next several days are supposed to be above freezing at night and 50s/60s during the day. Yay!

Now, back to a-readin' the comments.

Here's a something-different.
____

Pity the can-fed husbands!
The lean ones and the pale!
What tragedy can equal
The hungry, unfed male?

How woe-begone their manner,
What pathos in their mien,
As they devour with gusto
The salmon and the bean!

But with what satisfaction
They tell their martyrs' tales!
Ah, canned meals are the stock in trade
Of all the injured males.

I've wondered what the others
For martyrdom have used,
For even the hand-fed husbands
All yearn to seem abused!

From Songs of a Housewife by Marjorie K. Rawlings. "It's an odd book of poetry, recording in verse all the various complaints and problems of 1920's housewives, such as husbands who complained about being given canned food." (c/o Alex at Weird Universe)

Re James Taylor singing You've Got an Effendi for France, from a commenter on Ace this morning:

Could have been worse.

He could have brought Cat Stevens to sing Peace Train.

Regarding "Kevin Williamson... dissing the entire pseudoscience canon...."

/hops on soapbox

It's absurd to lump all those things together. Wonderful for click-bait, though, I suppose.

Just for one example, NUCCA upper cervical adjustment (a very gentle, specialized kind of chiropracty) relieved my wife from decades of migraines in one adjustment. Most of chiropracty is valueless-to-dangerous, absolutely, but not all.

I have even had too much "anecdotal" experience over three decades suggesting that there's more to homeopathy than we can scientifically validate, yet, even if it's also my experience that 96% of what is popularly claimed for it is crap (and much of what passes for "homeopathy" simply isn't, in classical terms).

It's like vitamins. Most supplements are worthless, and people in their nutritional ignorance are more likely to throw their vitamin balance off with supplements than actually do themselves any good. But, if you are for some reason severely lacking in some fundamental nutrient, vitamin therapy is just what you need. You don't throw the baby of B12 out with the bathwater of moon in Pisces with Venus rising!

The health industry's snake-oil salesmen we have always with us. Finding real health in the haystack is tricky, sorting out the effective from the superstitious, the St John's Wort from the powdered rhino horn.

So, I like to always bear in mind the wise words (paraphrased from memory) of Mark Twain:

Don't believe everything you read in health books. You might die of a misprint.

/soapbox

Y'know how you write a long comment here on the webpage and then accidentally hit back-a-page or something, and when you return, everything you'd written is gone? Operator error, in part, yeah, but, browsers are still incredibly stupid.

It was something about imminent sunrise, warmer days, and feeding the pets a little early because the blog was slow. Hope Vic is snoozing comfortably. /random spew

Mmm, pie. Another perfect breakfast food.

Morning, Glories of the ONT running late.

Didn't seen any Vic. Hope he's here for us today.

Prayers for AltonJackson's wife's surgery.

Oops: Truth Revolt link for the Henri Roussel quote.

___________

Another Islam has Nothing To Do With Islam:

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo slaughter, the Executive Director of CAIR, Nihad Awad, sounded much like the president in his condemnation of the attack by perpetrators he characterized as “extremists who claim to be Muslim.”

The Obama Regime, CAIR, and the Doctrine of Taqiyya by Nice Deb

80-year-old co-founder of Charlie Hebdo, Henri Roussel, blamed editor Stéphane Charbonnier for the terrorist attacks: "What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it."

Overdoing it. Going too far. Her skirt was too short so she deserved to be raped. This kind of thinking is despicable.

But, then, sounds like even the Pope thinks that way: “One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one’s own religion, that is, in the name of God. … if Dr. (Alberto) Gasbarri, a great friend, says a swear word against my mother, then he is going to get a punch. But it’s normal, it’s normal. One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people’s faith, one cannot make fun of faith.” (Via Nice Deb)

The future does not belong to people with big chips on their shoulders.

What with the other actions with "untimely optics" following the French attacks, we at least have Duke deciding not to let its bell tower be a minaret once a week. You know that wherever their vuvuzuelas can be heard is considered "claimed" territory for the Caliphart, right?

"It's a slap in the face to Muslims," said Khalilah Sabra of the Muslim American Society. Good thing they're all about turning the other cheek. Oh, wait…

Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft has a few thoughts about how Islam has nothing to do with Islam.

Firebrand comedian Pat Condell has some thoughts about how Islam has nothing to do with Islam.