Well, no sooner do I remark that Binks has posted an “update pending” notice, then he posts a hefty new update.
Go on, show him some love and give him a read.
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A more concise and accurate summary of the history of post-sexual revolution Western society would be hard to ask for:
When I was a young stud — well, young anyway — in high school, girls were still oppressed, which meant that a guy knew he probably wasn’t going to get laid, so he might as well find a girl he really enjoyed being with. The idea slowly leaked into his hormonally disabled psyche that girls were kind of special. You could actually like one. Sure, a guy made pawing motions because he was expected to, and she went along to a minor extent. But that was it.
So she didn’t feel used or hooked up with because she hadn’t been, and he thought he was damned lucky to have her. It was a concept of sorts.
But then came fem-lib. A torrent of really nasty dykes with politically-significant hairy armpits started yowling about how it wasn’t fair that men could cat around and women couldn’t. Then the Pill shifted the paradigm into high gear. Girls could now Do It in relative security, and abortion, also championed by feminists, provided sure-fire back-up. There was now no reason why a woman shouldn’t say Yes.
Which meant — Oh bliss! — that she had little excuse for saying No. Sally Sue might have teeth like pearls and brains and perky tits and a wacky sense of humor and actually be quite a prize, but sex trumps art. If Sally didn’t say Yes, she knew that Greta would. Women had commoditized themselves. It was a marvelous thing for the testosterone wads we think of as college boys.
It quickly came to the old country saw with fangs: Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Guys learned that they could say, “Check your oil, lady?” and it worked. Praise de Lawd! Gloria Steinem and Andrea Fire-Plug-with-Leprosy Dworkin had done what men had failed to do in millennia: produce a race of obligately loose women.
Women, never happy, discovered that they didn’t like this either.
It would be unfair to say that women are entirely to blame for the troubles that beset the average woman today; men have always been, and remain, moral actors responsible for their own actions and the consequences thereof, whether or not they choose to admit as much.
But it would also be unfair — more unfair, in fact — to say that the burden of blame is more on men than on women, I think. Things worked under “the old system”, before feminism and the sexual revolution loused things up as completely as they did. And while men obviously recognized the…advantages…that “the new system” could and would confer on them, they weren’t (typically) the ones marching in the streets or infesting college and university curricula with “women’s studies” nonsense and PC bromides.
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Larry King is finally retiring!
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Check back with him in the next day or so!
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The Quebec cardinal has been appointed to the Vatican:
Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet has officially been appointed to a top-job at the Vatican.
Canada‘s highest ranking Catholic priest will head the Congregation of Bishops, the organization that makes bishop appointments around the globe.
Although…because this is the legacy media reporting, the obligatory attempt to sour things:
Ouellet set off a firestorm last month when he told an anti-abortion conference in Quebec City that terminating a pregnancy is a “moral crime,” even in cases where a woman has been raped. The comments provoked rebukes from several women‘s rights organizations and Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois.
Apparently, that’s supposed to be a bad thing.
Anyhow, all congratulations to the good cardinal. May God grant him wisdom and charity in the conduct and execution of his new office, and may he oversee the appointment of many good and faithful bishops with, at minimum, the above-demonstrated willingness to articulate uncomfortable truths to people who live in the shadow of lies and clever fictions.
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Posted in: Canadian News - Catholicism | Tags: abortion, Canada, Congregation of Bishops, Marc Ouellet, Parti Quebecois, Pauline Marois, pregnancy, Quebec, Quebec City, rape, Vatican, women
Advice to groom-to-be: get out while you can.
I mean that seriously: nobody who contemplates this sort of idiocy should have access to a ballot box.
Update: on a more practical note, this Nick should really get the heck out of the relationship; the girl is already a bridezilla and shows numerous indications of being the sort of person who will labour to destroy Nick’s every friendship and personal endeavour/enjoyment in order to satisfy her every selfish whim.
Nick, dude, seriously: it would seem that her best friend has the same name as her. It really doesn’t matter, at that point, how hot she looks or how wild and reckless she is in the sack. The looks will fade (probably quite quickly) and the sex will dry up with stunning rapidity once she has the legal hooks firmly embedded. Get out of it, now.
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…how the small but vocal minority who e.g. lobby to ban crucifixes from Italian classrooms always dress up their reasoning in the language of self-determination, of seeking the right to raise their children as they see fit (as though the presence of a religious icon hanging — usually unremarked upon — on a wall were some manner of impairment to doing so), or something along those lines?
What about the 90% of Italians who self-identify as Christian? Do they likewise desire the right to raise their children as they see fit, and do they likewise deserve to exercise that right? What if a component of that right, for at least some of them, includes a crucifix on the wall? In a sane society, this wouldn’t even be a question: the larger group would not have their rights diminished to satisfy the demands of the smaller group (since, really, the smaller group is not, in any reasonable sense being denied its rights or otherwise oppressed).
But then, the West has long since parted ways with sanity, hasn’t it?
Or perhaps it has only mostly done so. Italy is attempting to reverse the banning of crucifixes from its classrooms, though it is a pity that Italians themselves can’t be moved to return to a more typically Catholic birthrate, even if only in the interests of keeping Italy Italian.
Update: Welcome, Steynians!
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…that we’re only a couple drunken benders away from an oil price crisis that might make the 1970s seem tame by comparison.
You know, most workplaces I’ve worked in (there’s gotta be a better way to construct that part of the sentence) ban alcohol as a matter of course; my present employer allows limited consumption of alcohol during an allotted Friday afternoon staff “unwind” time, and then only within a designated area of the building. And God forbid anyone show up to work drunk!
Also, this is concerning:
…he was able to trade huge volumes with very little cash up front and no position limit, exposing how it easy it was for a single British broker on a bender to cause chaos in the oil market.
That’s what we in the business call a “security vulnerability”, though not one of a strictly electronic nature. Still, it’s pitiful and utterly antiquated that a system so critical to the operation of Western society can so easily be collapsed from the inside.
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