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70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain should be seen as one of the 10 pivotal military contests of the last 1,000 years.
The 1969 movie about the battle, excerpted above, still pops up on TV occasionally in the US. When it does it should be watched, at least by those who haven't seen it before. From the standpoint of art, I don't even know if it's possible in 2010 to stage aerial photography like this anymore. So that's something that should be experienced. The scenes are somehow more gripping, direct and human than CGI. The ending shot of the German bomber being splashed into the Channel is of course meant to symbolize the entire course of the months-long contest.
Of course, the real value of the film is to remind us of the importance of the battle and to tell us that, however trite it may sound, sometimes civilization literally does hang in the balance. What would have happened if Britain had been successfully invaded or had made terms with Hitler? It is almost too terrible to contemplate.
Churchill of course gave in this period the classic example of leadership inspiring by its sheer resolution. This he was able to transmit down the line, as seen in this quote in which a British diplomat defies a German ultimatum:
"We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel — the last little corporal to try it came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! ...and even then we won't listen!"
This spirit is sorely needed in defending our civilization - but we face a harder challenge in many ways than the West did in 1940, for we must first convince ourselves that our civilization ought to be defended.
The moral collapse of the West - and its perverse child, the assertion of a moral equivalence between the Western systems based on Christian values and all other systems of thought and governance - have doomed us unless there is, in the most old-fashioned sense, true repentance.
70 years on, be inspired by the few who risked and gave all to defend their nation from what seemed to be an unstoppable tyranny.
Sharia in New Jersey: Muslim husband rapes wife, judge sees no sexual assault because Islam forbids wives to refuse sex
And now a New Jersey judge sees no evidence that a Muslim committed sexual assault of his wife -- not because he didn't do it, but because he was acting on his Islamic beliefs: "This court does not feel that, under the circumstances, that this defendant had a criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault or to sexually contact the plaintiff when he did. The court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited."
Luckily, the appellate court overturned this decision, and a Sharia ruling by an American court has not been allowed to stand. This time.
This type of thing is going to become more and more common. Destroying the actual meaning of the Constitution has intellectually perverted our judiciary so that special rights for groups (Islam, homosexuality...) trump individual rights under the law.
Interestingly, the US Constitution says that the Federal government shall guarantee to each State a "republican form of government." This not only excludes monarchy but the Shari'a law of the Muslims.
Come and deface this Bible!
Psalm 2 Alert from Scotland:
A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art — and visitors have responded with abuse and obscenity.
The show includes a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and stuffing them into her bra, knickers and mouth.
The open Bible is a central part of Made in God’s Image, an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. By the book is a container of pens and a notice saying: “If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.”
The exhibit, Untitled 2009, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community Church, which said that the idea was to reclaim the Bible as a sacred text. But to the horror of many Christians, including the community church, visitors have daubed its pages with comments such as “This is all sexist pish, so disregard it all.” A contributor wrote on the first page of Genesis: “I am Bi, Female & Proud. I want no god who is disappointed in this....”
One writer has altered the first line of the Old Testament from “In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth” to “In the beginning, God (me) I created religion.” Another has written “The Gospel According to Luke Skywalker”. The main sentiment, however, is rage at Christianity. “F*** the Bible”, one message says.
Connecticut newspaper wonders if religious rituals have anything to do with it.
Red candles illuminated the path to a frightening scene in a Madison Avenue basement near Bridgeport's Columbus School. There, a freshly butchered chicken's blood dripped into a bowl. The skull of an alligator sat atop a human skull on a goat's head. There were animal horns, colorful beads and strange writings.Nah. What do you think?
But that June 9 discovery by Bridgeport police's Tactical Narcotics Team was only the beginning.On July 3, the children of a recently deceased Milford man arrived at his Mountain Grove cemetery grave to plant flowers. What they found stunned them. Underneath a circular blanket of loose dirt were two human skulls. Stuffed inside were eight strips of blood-stained paper each containing a name.
Four days later Stamford police arrived at Woodland Cemetery, where the remains of a two-and-a-half year old girl dubbed "the Miracle Baby" (for surviving so long despite a brain deformity) were stolen. The remains were pulled from New Jersey's Passaic River, not far from a site where butchered chickens were found.
