The spirit of Ireland

The Sassenach neighbors objected when an Irish developer wanted to tear down an Edwardian house to build a development. (Come on, it’s England;  Edwardian houses are “new development.”) So he called the place “Pogue Mahone Court”, a phonetic rendering of “Póc mo thóin”….which means “kiss my ass.”

Like, “Why aren’t you in jail too?”

This afternoon, Dr. Eduardo Torres Cuevas. the director of the Cuban National Library will be speaking in NYC, and Robert Kent suggests a few questions that could be respectfully asked of him.

Zelaya’s back!

It looks like he’ll be pretty impotent, but you never know.

Heck of a job there, Obie.

“Prizes are for boys. I’m a man.” — Charles Ives

First reaction: “WTF has he done? [ROTFLMAO]“

I was first going to call this post “RIP Nobel Peace Prize”. But the rot has been in for a long time. Al Gore?! But longer than that, from the beginning.  Elihu Root (guy responsible for “pacifying” the Phillippines after the Spanish-American war); Theodore Roosevelt, the hero of San Juan Hill,  Root’s boss and waver of the “big stick” all through the Americas; Woodrow Wilson, who got us into an unnecessary war and set up the next one. Actually, I don’t begrudge Wilson, in historical context; it really looked like he’d fixed it for peace. But Obama was in office for all of 12 days when the deadline for nominations came. And he hasn’t yet stopped the two wars he’s responsible for.  Maybe it’s a prize for “destroying the world’s last superpower”, which could eventually lead to more peace (or maybe not; the caliphate cometh). ““The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO.” Uh, yeah, sure. This isn’t about Obama, who was and is a hapless boob, nor even about the DNC making it “all about Obama”. It’s about the utter fatuousness of giving Peace Prizes to leaders of institutions which are set up to have monopolies on violence. If the Nobel Committee was half as serious about real peace as they are about teabagging Marxists, they’d make any sitting head of state ineligible for an award. The Dalai Lama or Mother Teresa? Sure, any day. Heck, even “this or that commission.” But leave do-nothing fraudsters out of it. And it’s good to see that even some Democrats see this as over-the-top.

Disparate souls

Today is the anniversary of John Henry Newman’s reception into the Catholic Church.
And of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s reception into Hell.
You can get the shirts here.

The Queen disapproves

I don’t get this:

According to informants quoted in The Catholic Herald, the Queen has “grown increasingly sympathetic” to the Catholic Church over the years while being “appalled”, along with the Prince of Wales, at developments in the Church of England.
The usually well-informed newspaper adds that the Queen, who is the Supreme Governor of the C of E, is “also said to have an affinity with the Holy Father, who is of her generation”.

If Her Majesty is ultimately in charge of the Church of England, why are we hearing about this from “Catholic moles”? Why aren’t we hearing it from Elizabeth’s own bully pulpit? Granted, nobody has any business running both a church and a state (the main historical and structural problem with the C of E), but if she’s deemed to be ultimately responsible, then why isn’t she taking responsibility? Why isn’t she speaking out about the increasingly apostate positions the church is taking? What would her illustrious predecessor and namesake have done?

As for her relationship with the Pope, wouldn’t it be a hoot if she attempted to give the C of E to the Vatican upon her death? It would never fly, for sure, and would stir up all kinds of bizarre historical grudges. But at least the Catholics would know what to with the thing. OTOH, “King’s College sings Marty Haugan”…. EWWWWWW!!!!

You know a country is a hellhole when…

… the economy of FLINT MICHIGAN is three times the size (of, in this case, Zimbabwe)

However, the GDP of The Country Formerly Known As Rhodesia is roughly equivalent to that of Lawrence, KS. Half of that probably comes from Bobby Mugabe’s 10, 000 acre farm.

UK Boy Scouts: burnt toast

Evidently, British Scouts are only to handle knives at meetings “at specific need”, with the knives held at other times by Scout leaders. As usual, rank and file leaders think this is nuts:

Troops leaders however have said the decision is “very sad”. Sheila Burgin, from 4th Sevenoaks Scout Group in Kent, said: “Scouts by law are allowed to have Swiss army knives. I think this is going too far – you just don’t know when a Scout will need a knife.
It is also suggested that the leader keeps control of the knives when they go camping, but I think that is completely wrong. The first Scout Law is ‘The Scout is to be trusted’. Scouts love having knives and using them properly. There is nothing wrong with it.”

The knife is the most basic of all tools. The difference between man and animal is that man uses tools to modify his environment. How is a Scout to interact with the wild effectively without a knife? And if a Scout cannot be trusted with sharp objects, who can? What is the point of being a Scout anymore? I mean, aren’t there gangs where you can learn more about honor and survival?
New Kenyan Scout alternative-energy project: dig up Lord Baden-Powell’s corpse and hook it to a generator.

Darwin award

Young Belarus man gets drunk, climbs on plaster statue of Lenin. Statue falls apart, head lands on man, killing him.

As Eric Garris said at LRC, “Still killing, years after his death.”

Come and get me, Dermot Ahern

By the chancrous balls of the child-molester Mohammed! (piss be upon him)…the Micks want to pass a law against blasphemy!

Remember, governments are the regents of Satan on Earth.