Archive | June, 2009

Phrase of the Day

21 Jun

What to do about those who state there is no absolute right or wrong:

If he really does think there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our house let us count our spoons – Samuel Johnson

Two Events in the War on Christianity

21 Jun

One:

A Pagan group in Britain has accused a Catholic social club of religious discrimination for refusing to host a Pagan group’s Annual Witches’ Ball on the grounds it was ‘not compatible with the Catholic ethos.’

Sandra Davis, 61, a High Priestess of the Pagan group, initially had reserved Our Lady’s Social Club in Stockport, Manchester for her group’s Annual Witches Ball. When she called to make payment arrangements, she was told the event could not be held there and must find another venue. She told the Daily Telegraph she was “appalled” and said her congregation was “shocked” that there can be such “religious discrimination.”

“We’re normal people who follow an earth-based religion and want to enjoy ourselves.

“We thought we were bridging the gap with other religions but misconceptions still exist, like we sacrifice animals.

“Does the church check everyone’s beliefs before allowing them in the club?” she asked.

Fr. John Joyce from the Diocese of Shrewsbury explained to the Daily Telegraph why the event could not proceed at the Catholic club.

“Parish centers under our auspices let their premises on the understanding users and their organizations are compatible with the ethos and teachings of the Catholic Church,” he said.

“In this instance, we aren’t satisfied such requirements are met.”

Two:

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the news that the Education Committee of the New York City Council has approved two new Muslim holidays, Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha, to be added to the school calendar:

“On January 14, I testified before this very same committee requesting equal rights for Catholics: Jewish and Islamic religious symbols are displayed in the schools every December, but Christian symbols are banned.

“With the exception of Councilman Tony Avella, and a few others, the Education Committee showed no interest in appeasing Catholics.

“But its members are apparently capable of demonstrating great sensitivity to Muslims.

“Speaker Christine Quinn, who was raised Catholic—and who has shown no interest in the push for parity that the Catholic League wants—is now urging all City Councilmen to vote for this new round of Muslim rights.

“What’s at work is the politics of multiculturalism: tolerance for some, intolerance for others. But this fight isn’t over yet.”

If we don’t allow representatives of the Enemy to use our property, we’re discriminating. If we’re refused access to someone else’s property, we’re not being discriminated against. Boiled down: Whatever offends Christians must be allowed, whatever shows tolerance for Christians must be banned. This is the trend of things, and why we Christians insist there is a war upon our faith – certain people (including the odd alliance of political leftists and Moslem extremists) want us out of the public square and unable to even retreat to private places for our own defense. Essentially, we aren’t wanted at all and the sooner we’re destroyed, the better our enemies will like it.

Well, sorry to say, the gates of Hell will not prevail – so, you who want us gone may as well just give up. I know you won’t, but you are wasting your time, and putting yourselves at exceptional long term risk.

On a Shoestring, Part II

21 Jun

Ed. Note: This was among the papers of George Childs Noonan, Jr. upon his death and was written by his father, George Childs Noonan, Sr., at a date uncertain. Given the sort of paper it is typed upon and the sort of print, it was probably written some time prior to 1970. It is incomplete, comprising 17 type-written pages. Whether there ever was anything else to this biographical essay is unknown.

Part I may be read here.

Before moving on, let me relate a thing that happened to me. A thing, I think, that could happen only in Hollywood in the picture business.

On the surface it is pretty hard sometimes to tell a no-talent from the real McCoy and so I was able to fast-talk myself into a job on the writing staff of the Hal Roach studio. They had several units, Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, All Star etc. continuously in production making two reel comedies and it was the job of the writing staff to come up with stories and gags for them. They hired me on at the minimum salary of $500 a month. It took them about four months to find out that I was a no-talent, whereupon they let me go.

Here’s the thing: Shortly after being canned from the Roach studio, a fellow came up to me in the lobby of the Christie hotel, “you’re Georgie O’Neil who worked on the Roach lot?”. “That’s right”. “Well, I’m Jack Adolphi and I have a package contract to write and direct a series of comedies over at the Educational studio – if you’ll help me put together a couple of quickies I’ll get you on the payroll as my assistant”. We went up to my room and hashed it out. Adolphi thanked me for my contribution and promised to call me in a couple of days.

Weeks went by and no word from Adolphi. I figured he tried but was unable to deliver on my behalf. I understood – some exec’s son-in-law was given the job, par for the course in Hollywood. Then one day I got a call out of the blue. It was from Ivan Kahn, the actors agent, “DeMille studio has been calling all over town for you”.

I hustled out to the studio and was greeted like I was a big shot and in hushed confidence, “the picture stinks. It needs some laughs to save it – see what you can do – they are shooting some war scenes down on the back lot – don’t crack to anyone – just sit around and observe and catch the rushes for a couple days and we’ll get together later”.

Before the end of the week a messenger from the front office came to the set to escort me to the front office, “Georgie, what’s your salary – what did they pay you at Roach?”. “Five hundred”, I replied. “O.K., then, $500 it is”. When my pay check was delivered to me at the end of the week it was for $500 – I was on the payroll for $500 per week, not $500 a month!

What happened was this: DeMille studio had a sick picture on its hands and needed a gag man to help doctor it up, a writer expert in comedy construction. They did the natural thing in calling a comedy lot to recommend someone. They called Educational studio and Jack Adolphi just happened to be in his office – he gave me a big buildup as a Hal Roach staff writer and for the work I had done for him. At $500 per week I was able to bluff it through long enough to end up with enough loot to get married and go on a honeymoon – first cabin.

Next Week – Part III

Side Note: Two of George Childs Noonan, Sr’s sisters were Hollywood actresses:

Molly O’Day

Sally O’Neil

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-20

20 Jun

President Obama Finally Starts Acting Like an American

20 Jun

Not enough, but at least better than the mewling poltroonery thus far:

Obama directly addresses the Iranian government for the first time after a day of violence in Iran:

The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.

Now, Mr. President, get in touch with those Iranian security forces which might be willing to flip and take the side of the Iranian people – do it, and do it now.

Shia Travis and the Necessity of Rebuilding American Civilization

20 Jun

Shia Travis? Have you heard of her? I’ll bet most people outside metro Las Vegas haven’t heard of her. For those who haven’t heard:

The man accused of killing his girlfriend’s baby and dumping the body in a trash bin also is being charged with sexually assaulting the 21-month-old girl, Las Vegas police said Monday.

William Marshall, 37, was arrested late Saturday in Phoenix and charged in the death of Shia Travis, whose body was discovered last week by two homeless men rummaging through an apartment trash bin near the Strip.

Police said the toddler died from blunt force trauma to her head that occurred during a beating.

Marshall also has been charged with one count of sexual assault with a minor under 14 years old. Shia had suffered injuries “consistent with forced penetration,” according to the police report.

Authorities on Saturday also detained Darrean Williams, Shia’s 20-year-old mother, in Phoenix for questioning.

Williams is not facing charges, but that could change as the investigation continues, Metropolitan Police Department officer Jay Rivera said Monday.

“Right now, she has not been arrested,” he said.

Marshall will be extradited to Southern Nevada, police said.

Williams is a prostitute who traveled to Phoenix to work, her sister, Nicole Farmer, told police. Williams had left Shia in Marshall’s care when she went to Arizona, Farmer said in the police report…

…Her death is reminiscent of that of 3-year-old Crystal Figueroa, who in 2006 was found dead in a trash bin in a southeast valley apartment complex.

Crystal’s mother and her mother’s boyfriend received life sentences for the slaying.(emphasis added)

Horrific. But its actually worse:

The grandparents of Shia Travis describe this ordeal as a “horrific reality”.

Their son is the biological father of the toddler, who they say is devastated …

Despite the overwhelming heartache they’re coping with, both grandparents choose to remember Shia in a positive light.

“Beautiful little girl, smart, alert. No reason she should’ve had her life taken like that,” said Lawrence Gibbs.

They say they’ll always cherish their memories of their granddaughter…

They’ll cherish their memories of the little girl and their son, the biological father, is “devastated”…of course, he’s not so devastated that he actually considered the wisdom of having sex with a prostitute, nor the wisdom of having a child with said prostitute, nor once a child was born of the prostitute taking her away from that life and providing for his child and the mother of his child. And the grandparents? Ah, the grandparents: they’ll cherish their memories…but I doubt they’ll want to dwell on the fact that they left their grand child in the care of a prostitute.

What is wrong with us? How can we allow such things to happen? Because we’re cowards – because we cower in fear of those who make money off depravity. We dare not raise our voice against our masters – and so smut runs rampant in children’s entertainment, so no one will dare call the failing to account…and so a “man” can produce a child with a whore and then leave his child in that whore’s care who then becomes known for leaving her child in the care of the “man” she currently shacks up with while she heads out of town to pursue her trade…and not a single person lifts a finger to save the child! From grandparents on down, the whole family should be flogged! Ah, but then I’d have to have myself flogged, too. No truer words were ever spoken by a mere man than “treat each man as he deserves and who shall ‘scape whipping?” Once we’re done laying the cat to the backs of that family, we’d all have to take our turn – because each and every one of us is responsible for the death of Shia Travis, and thousands (millions?) like her over the years.

We’re no longer civilized – heck, to call us barbarians is an insult to savages. Its hard to describe what we are – well dressed, very well scrubbed degenerates. Perfumed shit. And its time we stopped being such – its time we started to stand up and act like men and women and simply not allow the people who profit off death to continue unchecked. Pornography has to stop. Gratuitous violence has to stop. “Don’t be judgmental” has to stop. Allowing pre-teens to dress like gangsters and whores has to stop. Allowing men to just impregnate one woman after another without consequences has to stop. Allowing women to have 5 children from 3 men without ever being married has to stop. We must become civilized – for the sake of the next Shia Travis, who will be raped and murdered tomorrow, because we allow this to go on too long, today.

Phrase of the Day

20 Jun

This answer usually suffices for people who ask hostile questions about God and religion:

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. – C S Lewis

Global Warming Update

20 Jun

What a shocker – environmentalists are lying…for the zillionth time…about global warming:

The new federal report on climate change gets a withering critique from Roger Pielke Jr., who says that it misrepresents his own research and that it wrongly concludes that climate change is already responsible for an increase in damages from natural disasters. Dr. Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, asks:

[Why] is a report characterized by [White House] Science Advisor John Holdren as being the “most up-to-date, authoritative, and comprehensive” analysis relying on a secondary, non-peer source citing another non-peer reviewed source from 2000 to support a claim that a large amount of uncited and more recent peer-reviewed literature says the opposite about?

You can check out Dr. Pielke’s blog for a detailed rebuttal of how the report presents science in his area of expertise, the study of trends in natural disasters and their relation to climate change. While the new federal report (prepared by 13 agencies and the White House) paints a dire picture of climate change’s impacts, Dr. Pielke says that the authors of this new report, like those of previous reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Stern Review, cherrypick weak evidence that fits their own policy preferences.

Now, before you liberals start calling Dr. Pielke a paid shill for Big Oil, his credentials:

I am a professor of environmental studies at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I also have appointments as an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University’s Said Business School and as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. Since 2008 I have also been a Senior Fellow of The Breakthrough Institute, a progressive think tank.

It is only by cherrypicking weak evidence and suppressing contrary evidence that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) can be built up into a large enough threat to call for massive changes in society. Given that the goal is massive changes, there is no chance that the advocates of AGW will ever do other than lie about what is going on. We have much to do and limited time and resources to do it – we’ve been wasting a great deal of time and resources on environmentalist whacko distortions, and its time we gave it a rest.

Liberals are Stoners

20 Jun

Zonation hits it out of the park.

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-19

19 Jun
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