David Gustafson's Blog: Bonjour Amigos!, page 24
January 6, 2016
Medieval Calligraphy: It's Technique and History
Mark Drogin's "Medieval Calligraphy" is a must have resource for any scribat dedicatum or paleographer. It offers a concise history along with historical plates followed by a chapter of ductus for each of the scripts.
January 5, 2016
Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo - the day the politically correct toadies, who fear any free expression that they cannot suppress into alignment with their own imaginary world , stopped croaking for a couple of hours.
January 3, 2016
Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week #9
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Bonjour Amigos!
It is already time for the 9th edition of Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week where our team of cynical analysts sort through the week's contenders to crown a champion.
Those busy bees of hypocrisy were buzzing all around the globe this week. There was hypocrisy within hypocrisy within hypocrisy from Texas to Las Vegas to the Middle East and on to the snows of New Hampshire.
Let us "Remember the Alamo" and begin with Texas first.
Ethan Couch is the infamous "affluenza teen" who was gently remanded by Texas juvenile court to serving probation after killing four people while driving drunk. One of Ethan's passengers also suffered permanent brain damage.
His lawyers claimed that Ethan did not deserve any jail time because he was too wealthy and spoiled to know the difference between right and wrong. Believe it or not, that argument flew with the legal eagles of the Texas judiciary.
After skipping one of his annoying probation hearings, Ethan and his Mommy disappeared from the long arm of the law. The Texas Rangers were called out in force and a manhunt ensued. They were recently taken into custody down Mexico way.
Unfortunately, little Ethan will probably not end up in a Mexican jail where they regularly hose down unruly prisoners with cold water to remind them who is boss. Texas is seeking his return where they probably have computers and televisions in carpeted cells with a work-out gym just a few doors down the cell block..
How can the judiciary do anything with this little punk after having set their precedent? When the brat is brought up on charges of parole violation can he not plead that the court has already established that he is simply too spoiled to know the difference between right and wrong ? That there is no reason he should be expected to abide by the silly conditions of his parole?
I had a bout of "affluenza" as a much younger child than Ethan when I almost set the house afire playing with matches. My father whacked my ass. Today, Dad would be arrested for resorting to such barbaric measures of parental prevention.
We wonder if the Alamo boys would have fired a single shot in defense of Texas if they saw this one coming.
From Texas our baffled hypocrisy team travels to New York City and The United Nations in a search that winds up back here in Las Vegas.
We do not know whether the United Nations Commission on Human Rights keeps a record of the number of people beheaded this year by ISIS, the bloggers, gays and women auto drivers publicly flogged in Saudi Arabia, the number of women stoned to death in Afghanistan or the number of women publicly caned in Indonesia for being alone in the company of a man. We do know that somewhere, someone has dutifully recorded in indelible ink all of the gory details of the following heinous hate crime that was committed right here under the bright lights of Las Vegas.
Forget the beheadings, the cold-blooded Kalashnikov murders in Paris, the floggings, the stonings and the canings, this crime is all about bacon, yes, bacon!
A home-grown American terrorist wrapped raw bacon around the door handles of the local Masjid-e-Tawheed mosque. Bacon, mind you! That is small-minded stupidity. Now begins the hypocrisy.
CAIR, The Council on American-Islamic Relations called forth the media cameras and scribblers, who faithfully obeyed another call to prayer, and demanded an immediate federal and state hate crime investigation.
The local Review Journal newspaper that was recently purchased by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, a die-hard supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu, closed down the public comment section on this news article because most of the snarky readers did not feel that this particular crime weighed heavily enough on the scale of human events to justify so much front page outcry as well as that gory photo of the raw bacon wrapped around the door handles.
We doubt very much that CAIR will summon forth their media tools once again and congratulate Mr. Adelson for coming to their defense by imposing a little censorship on those mean and nasty, local snarks.
Where is the headline proclaiming an unholy alliance between CAIR and Sheldon Adelson to battle the citizen armies and freedom of speech? The Vegas book on that ever happening is approaching 10,000 to 1.
There are so many slow-burning, sizzling layers of crispy hypocrisy to turn over and over in the mind with that one but we must turn on the oven fan and quickly move away since there is an auspicious birthday party coming up.
The Bonjour Amigos Hypocrisy team now takes you into the bizarre world of those tedious, never-ending American Presidential primaries.
American conservatives love to brag about something mysterious that they call "American Exceptionalism." How they can make this specious claim after fifteen painful years of the exceptionally unexceptional George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the two most irrefutable arguments against democracy, is beyond the suspension of ordinary disbelief.
Yet, there is a sweaty bullpen of boob tube bobbleheads continuously babbling away on the 24/7 news porn outlets over at CNN and Fox News who periodically come to the defense of the intellectually petrified, trust-funder poop nugget and the crackhead, narcissist, race-hustling anti-Semite. Our readers know which one is which.
One would think that it was time for America to catch a little break, but no way, Jose! The home of the brave land of the free is seriously considering a mentally unstable billionaire and a compulsive liar as presidential timbre.
Presidential timbre???? Timber!!!!!!!!!!!!
Presidential contenders Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have recently raised their voices with a little sexist smack talk prior to the primaries much to the delight of the news porn boys who need something, anything, to chirp, chirp, chirp about in order to feather the empty nests of their barren wasteland of repetitive, unimportant, boring and utterly useless news.
Artfully dodging the naughty pillow talk herself, Hillary has called upon the services of her very own sexist beast and unfaithful hubby, Billy Willy, to travel to New Hampshire in her defense where primary adversary Bernie Sanders might just pick up a little momentum with a victory. Do not fool yourself, the real debate is between the highly paid Team Hillary and the one man team of Trumper Thumper.
Thus, the Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week is awarded to none other than that wild, roaming, wandering, irrepressibly heart-throbbing Billy Willy, the Arkansas Adulterer who cheated on his bride with a chorus line, if not a small town telephone book, of various babes and then tried to intimate and destroy each and every one of them when the sordid affairs became public knowledge. Yes, the very same heroic knight in tarnished armor, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, 42nd President of the good old United States of America is Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week.
Two sexist pigs wallowing in the snow over Hillary! Does it get any better than this? Be careful Mr. Trump that you do not drop the soap. You might be the one who gets "schlonged" this time around!
As a footnote tucked away in our cabinet of curiosities, will history wonder why the news porn boys have hunted down sexual predator Bill Cosby with the unrelenting vengeance of Police Inspector Javert while they have given Billy Willy a free, "get out of jail" pass after he and his minions publicly destroyed the bucket list of babes he had his way with and then casually tossed aside like an unlicked banana peel? "Probably not," you say?
Okay then, while Billy Willy is heroically trying to put some lipstick on his bride, Bonjour Amigos wishes Monica Lewinsky would come out swinging with a little sarcastic mischief of her own and challenge Hillary Clinton to a public debate on the true meaning sexism. That would give the politically correct, media toadies some very difficult choices, would it not? We can already hear the beasties swallowing their croaking tongues.
Monica would quickly pick up a couple million bucks in speaking fees just by issuing such a challenge during primary season.
Stay tuned, we happen to know a satirist with the unmerciful heart of an anarchist who might be willing to contrive such a debate for the amusement of those discerning readers with a tad of inhuman impartiality. Stay tuned.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
BTW Happy Birthday to me! Thanks Mom and Dad! I hope it was as good for you as it has been for me.
And heartfelt thanks for those two amazing older brothers who have repeatedly saved my bacon over the years!.
Bacon? No, I was not the Las Vegas bacon creep. My father taught me the difference between right and wrong.
MATCH THAT QUOTE
Appropriately, BILL CLINTON is Bonjour Amigos celebrity guest appearing on this week's Match That Quote.
In a little twist, readers have three chances to correctly guess which quote DID NOT slobber forth from Billy Willy's lips. Good luck!
1. It depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
2. Buck or doe, down they go!
3. I never had sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky!
Until next week, Peeps,
Hasta Luego Mes Amis!
Bonjour Amigos!
It is already time for the 9th edition of Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week where our team of cynical analysts sort through the week's contenders to crown a champion.
Those busy bees of hypocrisy were buzzing all around the globe this week. There was hypocrisy within hypocrisy within hypocrisy from Texas to Las Vegas to the Middle East and on to the snows of New Hampshire.
Let us "Remember the Alamo" and begin with Texas first.
Ethan Couch is the infamous "affluenza teen" who was gently remanded by Texas juvenile court to serving probation after killing four people while driving drunk. One of Ethan's passengers also suffered permanent brain damage.
His lawyers claimed that Ethan did not deserve any jail time because he was too wealthy and spoiled to know the difference between right and wrong. Believe it or not, that argument flew with the legal eagles of the Texas judiciary.
After skipping one of his annoying probation hearings, Ethan and his Mommy disappeared from the long arm of the law. The Texas Rangers were called out in force and a manhunt ensued. They were recently taken into custody down Mexico way.
Unfortunately, little Ethan will probably not end up in a Mexican jail where they regularly hose down unruly prisoners with cold water to remind them who is boss. Texas is seeking his return where they probably have computers and televisions in carpeted cells with a work-out gym just a few doors down the cell block..
How can the judiciary do anything with this little punk after having set their precedent? When the brat is brought up on charges of parole violation can he not plead that the court has already established that he is simply too spoiled to know the difference between right and wrong ? That there is no reason he should be expected to abide by the silly conditions of his parole?
I had a bout of "affluenza" as a much younger child than Ethan when I almost set the house afire playing with matches. My father whacked my ass. Today, Dad would be arrested for resorting to such barbaric measures of parental prevention.
We wonder if the Alamo boys would have fired a single shot in defense of Texas if they saw this one coming.
From Texas our baffled hypocrisy team travels to New York City and The United Nations in a search that winds up back here in Las Vegas.
We do not know whether the United Nations Commission on Human Rights keeps a record of the number of people beheaded this year by ISIS, the bloggers, gays and women auto drivers publicly flogged in Saudi Arabia, the number of women stoned to death in Afghanistan or the number of women publicly caned in Indonesia for being alone in the company of a man. We do know that somewhere, someone has dutifully recorded in indelible ink all of the gory details of the following heinous hate crime that was committed right here under the bright lights of Las Vegas.
Forget the beheadings, the cold-blooded Kalashnikov murders in Paris, the floggings, the stonings and the canings, this crime is all about bacon, yes, bacon!
A home-grown American terrorist wrapped raw bacon around the door handles of the local Masjid-e-Tawheed mosque. Bacon, mind you! That is small-minded stupidity. Now begins the hypocrisy.
CAIR, The Council on American-Islamic Relations called forth the media cameras and scribblers, who faithfully obeyed another call to prayer, and demanded an immediate federal and state hate crime investigation.
The local Review Journal newspaper that was recently purchased by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, a die-hard supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu, closed down the public comment section on this news article because most of the snarky readers did not feel that this particular crime weighed heavily enough on the scale of human events to justify so much front page outcry as well as that gory photo of the raw bacon wrapped around the door handles.
We doubt very much that CAIR will summon forth their media tools once again and congratulate Mr. Adelson for coming to their defense by imposing a little censorship on those mean and nasty, local snarks.
Where is the headline proclaiming an unholy alliance between CAIR and Sheldon Adelson to battle the citizen armies and freedom of speech? The Vegas book on that ever happening is approaching 10,000 to 1.
There are so many slow-burning, sizzling layers of crispy hypocrisy to turn over and over in the mind with that one but we must turn on the oven fan and quickly move away since there is an auspicious birthday party coming up.
The Bonjour Amigos Hypocrisy team now takes you into the bizarre world of those tedious, never-ending American Presidential primaries.
American conservatives love to brag about something mysterious that they call "American Exceptionalism." How they can make this specious claim after fifteen painful years of the exceptionally unexceptional George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the two most irrefutable arguments against democracy, is beyond the suspension of ordinary disbelief.
Yet, there is a sweaty bullpen of boob tube bobbleheads continuously babbling away on the 24/7 news porn outlets over at CNN and Fox News who periodically come to the defense of the intellectually petrified, trust-funder poop nugget and the crackhead, narcissist, race-hustling anti-Semite. Our readers know which one is which.
One would think that it was time for America to catch a little break, but no way, Jose! The home of the brave land of the free is seriously considering a mentally unstable billionaire and a compulsive liar as presidential timbre.
Presidential timbre???? Timber!!!!!!!!!!!!
Presidential contenders Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have recently raised their voices with a little sexist smack talk prior to the primaries much to the delight of the news porn boys who need something, anything, to chirp, chirp, chirp about in order to feather the empty nests of their barren wasteland of repetitive, unimportant, boring and utterly useless news.
Artfully dodging the naughty pillow talk herself, Hillary has called upon the services of her very own sexist beast and unfaithful hubby, Billy Willy, to travel to New Hampshire in her defense where primary adversary Bernie Sanders might just pick up a little momentum with a victory. Do not fool yourself, the real debate is between the highly paid Team Hillary and the one man team of Trumper Thumper.
Thus, the Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week is awarded to none other than that wild, roaming, wandering, irrepressibly heart-throbbing Billy Willy, the Arkansas Adulterer who cheated on his bride with a chorus line, if not a small town telephone book, of various babes and then tried to intimate and destroy each and every one of them when the sordid affairs became public knowledge. Yes, the very same heroic knight in tarnished armor, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, 42nd President of the good old United States of America is Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week.
Two sexist pigs wallowing in the snow over Hillary! Does it get any better than this? Be careful Mr. Trump that you do not drop the soap. You might be the one who gets "schlonged" this time around!
As a footnote tucked away in our cabinet of curiosities, will history wonder why the news porn boys have hunted down sexual predator Bill Cosby with the unrelenting vengeance of Police Inspector Javert while they have given Billy Willy a free, "get out of jail" pass after he and his minions publicly destroyed the bucket list of babes he had his way with and then casually tossed aside like an unlicked banana peel? "Probably not," you say?
Okay then, while Billy Willy is heroically trying to put some lipstick on his bride, Bonjour Amigos wishes Monica Lewinsky would come out swinging with a little sarcastic mischief of her own and challenge Hillary Clinton to a public debate on the true meaning sexism. That would give the politically correct, media toadies some very difficult choices, would it not? We can already hear the beasties swallowing their croaking tongues.
Monica would quickly pick up a couple million bucks in speaking fees just by issuing such a challenge during primary season.
Stay tuned, we happen to know a satirist with the unmerciful heart of an anarchist who might be willing to contrive such a debate for the amusement of those discerning readers with a tad of inhuman impartiality. Stay tuned.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
BTW Happy Birthday to me! Thanks Mom and Dad! I hope it was as good for you as it has been for me.
And heartfelt thanks for those two amazing older brothers who have repeatedly saved my bacon over the years!.
Bacon? No, I was not the Las Vegas bacon creep. My father taught me the difference between right and wrong.
MATCH THAT QUOTE
Appropriately, BILL CLINTON is Bonjour Amigos celebrity guest appearing on this week's Match That Quote.
In a little twist, readers have three chances to correctly guess which quote DID NOT slobber forth from Billy Willy's lips. Good luck!
1. It depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
2. Buck or doe, down they go!
3. I never had sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky!
Until next week, Peeps,
Hasta Luego Mes Amis!
December 28, 2015
Well Played and Thank You, Mr. Reynolds!
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Although he earned degrees in botany and forestry as well as literature, Lloyd Reynolds was most famous for teaching calligraphy at Reed College from 1949 to 1969. He was named Calligrapher Laureate of Oregon in 1972. The college discontinued that program around 1984.
Fortunately for posterity, Mr. Reynolds produced a series of 20 primarily italic lessons for Oregon Public Television that are now archived on You Tube for budding scribes.
Mr. Reynolds' polymath knowledge and graceful personality are as prominently on display as is each letter of his meticulously articulated craft.
Apparently, Lloyd was also an old-fashioned Western hero who was willing to stand his ground against punks, bullies, tyrants and political scum. Back in 1954 he refused to testify before the witch-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee.
Well played, Sir!
Although he earned degrees in botany and forestry as well as literature, Lloyd Reynolds was most famous for teaching calligraphy at Reed College from 1949 to 1969. He was named Calligrapher Laureate of Oregon in 1972. The college discontinued that program around 1984.
Fortunately for posterity, Mr. Reynolds produced a series of 20 primarily italic lessons for Oregon Public Television that are now archived on You Tube for budding scribes.
Mr. Reynolds' polymath knowledge and graceful personality are as prominently on display as is each letter of his meticulously articulated craft.
Apparently, Lloyd was also an old-fashioned Western hero who was willing to stand his ground against punks, bullies, tyrants and political scum. Back in 1954 he refused to testify before the witch-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee.
Well played, Sir!
December 26, 2015
Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week!
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Bonjour Amigos!
Time for this week's hypocrite of the week and our contest, Match That Quote.
So many holiday hypocrites, so little time!
Considering the universal disdain for Christ, Christians and Christmas among the popular media, one cannot help but wonder why those hipster atheists, agnostics and all-stars secularists do not claim the winter solstice as their very own alternative and let it go at that. It would save them a lot of money on Christmas trees and presents.
There were so many of these media Grinches with garlic in their souls this week that we cannot begin to sort them all out.
The Holy secularists did manage to break into their holiday grumbling with a bulletin that Barack Obama was spending Christmas in Hawaii again this year. No word on where that intellectually petrified, trust-funder poop nugget and unindicted war criminal, George W. Bush was spending his holidays.
Good Christians are supposed to give malicious delight a rest during this Holy season, but… we have futilely been searching our brain cells for a first cousin to the word "schadenfreude" as a worthy substitute to describe our reaction to Madonna's latest publicity splash.
The ungracefully aging, immaterial-material girl filed a lawsuit in Manhattan to force her reluctant teenage son to return from a London visit with his father and celebrate Christmas with the one-and-only, ditch pig Diva.
Nothing smells like chestnuts roasting over an open fire quite like a mega-rich celebrity of questionable talent quarreling with her spoiled brat to the delight of "ten lawyers-a- leaping" trying to get in a little last minute Christmas shopping for other people's money in courtrooms on both sides of the Atlantic.
Maybe Madonna can cover the Beatles with "Can't Buy Me Love So Shit, I'm Gonna Sue For It."
And the winner of Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week is…
The Pocatello/ Chubbuck school district!
The Pocatello/Chubbuck school district, you say???
If you have no idea where Pocatello/Chubbuck is, we suggest you first find the state of Idaho and follow the potato trail from there.
The Pocatello Grinches snared an unrepentent cafeteria worker who gave a $1.70 hot lunch to a 12 year-old girl who could not afford it. Caught redhanded, the thief immediately offered to reimburse the school district, but she was terminated.
Then all-hell broke loose with the stinky publicity and $20,000 in donations poured into the perp's Christmas stocking.
All bullies are cowards and the Pocatello Grinches backed down. They offered to welcome the woman back to her job.
What a welcome back, Mister Grinch! Considering that this macaroni-and-cheese bandido offered to reimburse the school district for its immense losses, we suspect that many of the first cousins to Madonna's sewer-rat lawyers are desperately trying to locate Idaho on a map.
Match That Quote
As an emergency mouthwash to cleanse your taste buds after Madonna we offer up this week's celebrity guest, Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani schoolgirl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban to go on and be awarded The Nobel Peace Prize.
Match Malala with her own words.
1. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
2. If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
3. All I want is an education and I am afraid of no one.
Until next week, Peeps!
Hasta Luego Mes Amis
Bonjour Amigos!
Time for this week's hypocrite of the week and our contest, Match That Quote.
So many holiday hypocrites, so little time!
Considering the universal disdain for Christ, Christians and Christmas among the popular media, one cannot help but wonder why those hipster atheists, agnostics and all-stars secularists do not claim the winter solstice as their very own alternative and let it go at that. It would save them a lot of money on Christmas trees and presents.
There were so many of these media Grinches with garlic in their souls this week that we cannot begin to sort them all out.
The Holy secularists did manage to break into their holiday grumbling with a bulletin that Barack Obama was spending Christmas in Hawaii again this year. No word on where that intellectually petrified, trust-funder poop nugget and unindicted war criminal, George W. Bush was spending his holidays.
Good Christians are supposed to give malicious delight a rest during this Holy season, but… we have futilely been searching our brain cells for a first cousin to the word "schadenfreude" as a worthy substitute to describe our reaction to Madonna's latest publicity splash.
The ungracefully aging, immaterial-material girl filed a lawsuit in Manhattan to force her reluctant teenage son to return from a London visit with his father and celebrate Christmas with the one-and-only, ditch pig Diva.
Nothing smells like chestnuts roasting over an open fire quite like a mega-rich celebrity of questionable talent quarreling with her spoiled brat to the delight of "ten lawyers-a- leaping" trying to get in a little last minute Christmas shopping for other people's money in courtrooms on both sides of the Atlantic.
Maybe Madonna can cover the Beatles with "Can't Buy Me Love So Shit, I'm Gonna Sue For It."
And the winner of Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week is…
The Pocatello/ Chubbuck school district!
The Pocatello/Chubbuck school district, you say???
If you have no idea where Pocatello/Chubbuck is, we suggest you first find the state of Idaho and follow the potato trail from there.
The Pocatello Grinches snared an unrepentent cafeteria worker who gave a $1.70 hot lunch to a 12 year-old girl who could not afford it. Caught redhanded, the thief immediately offered to reimburse the school district, but she was terminated.
Then all-hell broke loose with the stinky publicity and $20,000 in donations poured into the perp's Christmas stocking.
All bullies are cowards and the Pocatello Grinches backed down. They offered to welcome the woman back to her job.
What a welcome back, Mister Grinch! Considering that this macaroni-and-cheese bandido offered to reimburse the school district for its immense losses, we suspect that many of the first cousins to Madonna's sewer-rat lawyers are desperately trying to locate Idaho on a map.
Match That Quote
As an emergency mouthwash to cleanse your taste buds after Madonna we offer up this week's celebrity guest, Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani schoolgirl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban to go on and be awarded The Nobel Peace Prize.
Match Malala with her own words.
1. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
2. If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
3. All I want is an education and I am afraid of no one.
Until next week, Peeps!
Hasta Luego Mes Amis
December 24, 2015
He Said-She Said, French Style
France has the largest Jewish population in Europe.
Citing the growing climate of anti-semitism, a record number of Jews have left France for Israel this year.
After the terrorist attack that claimed 130 lives in November, the French Assembly has granted police extraordinary powers of search and seizure.
Muslim leaders claim that the police unfairly target Muslims.
Citing the growing climate of anti-semitism, a record number of Jews have left France for Israel this year.
After the terrorist attack that claimed 130 lives in November, the French Assembly has granted police extraordinary powers of search and seizure.
Muslim leaders claim that the police unfairly target Muslims.
December 23, 2015
My Kingdom for a Spoon!
Tis the season!
Oysters, oyster liquor, cream, milk, butter, minced shallot, maybe or maybe not some minced garlic, a splash of tabasco, salt, pepper, a little more butter on top and some oyster crackers!
My kingdom for a spoon!
Oysters, oyster liquor, cream, milk, butter, minced shallot, maybe or maybe not some minced garlic, a splash of tabasco, salt, pepper, a little more butter on top and some oyster crackers!
My kingdom for a spoon!
December 22, 2015
How Do (Some) Christians Celebrate Christmas?
As you already know, CNN won this week's Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week Award for running the article, "How Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas?"
You know the politically correct toady twerps at CNN would never, ever step on Allah's toes with "How Do Atheists Celebrate Eid Al-Fitr.
After the shopping malls close, there may actually be some secularists out there who wonder how Christians really celebrate Christmas.
Far be it from us to reply to that question for all Christians or even all Catholics. We can only speak for ourselves.
We gather together with our family and give thanks because the family is our most important gift from our God who enters human history as a child during this season.
We go to Christmas Mass with our friends and neighbors.
Then we listen to silly music like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9cb...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDpWk...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNrI...
You know the politically correct toady twerps at CNN would never, ever step on Allah's toes with "How Do Atheists Celebrate Eid Al-Fitr.
After the shopping malls close, there may actually be some secularists out there who wonder how Christians really celebrate Christmas.
Far be it from us to reply to that question for all Christians or even all Catholics. We can only speak for ourselves.
We gather together with our family and give thanks because the family is our most important gift from our God who enters human history as a child during this season.
We go to Christmas Mass with our friends and neighbors.
Then we listen to silly music like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9cb...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDpWk...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNrI...
News Porn
There is a civil war going on in America.
More accurately, there is a war between the 24/7 news porn machines of Fox News, huddled in its right wing-nut bubble, and CNN snugly curled up in its politically correct, somewhat-to-the-left, wing-nut bubble.
This is not about news per se. This is a bitter, unforgiving war about filling in all that dead television air time between those annoyingly stupid, profit-making commercials. This is news porn!
This is a bloody stalemate of a war where neither one of those two pathetic networks has the professional talent to report the news yet they must keep babbling on like good soldiers. This is news porn!
A broad, generic definition of newsworthy is, "sufficiently interesting to warrant news coverage."
If we apply higher standards such as "important," "notable" and "useful," Fox and CNN would be out of the news porn business.
The news porn boys at Fox and CNN have no such standards.
They fill the vast spaces in between the tiny newsworthy capsules with the latest serial killing, family murders of spouses and children, the big, big opinions of celebrities from the deep-thinking worlds of entertainment and sports, Hollywood break-ups and divorce settlements or the latest impending apology.
Hunting down frightened quarry with a vengeance for that politically correct apology has become front page material for the news porn boys but you will never hear any one of them apologize for babbling on and on about absolutely nothing important, notable or useful.
This is news porn American style!
More accurately, there is a war between the 24/7 news porn machines of Fox News, huddled in its right wing-nut bubble, and CNN snugly curled up in its politically correct, somewhat-to-the-left, wing-nut bubble.
This is not about news per se. This is a bitter, unforgiving war about filling in all that dead television air time between those annoyingly stupid, profit-making commercials. This is news porn!
This is a bloody stalemate of a war where neither one of those two pathetic networks has the professional talent to report the news yet they must keep babbling on like good soldiers. This is news porn!
A broad, generic definition of newsworthy is, "sufficiently interesting to warrant news coverage."
If we apply higher standards such as "important," "notable" and "useful," Fox and CNN would be out of the news porn business.
The news porn boys at Fox and CNN have no such standards.
They fill the vast spaces in between the tiny newsworthy capsules with the latest serial killing, family murders of spouses and children, the big, big opinions of celebrities from the deep-thinking worlds of entertainment and sports, Hollywood break-ups and divorce settlements or the latest impending apology.
Hunting down frightened quarry with a vengeance for that politically correct apology has become front page material for the news porn boys but you will never hear any one of them apologize for babbling on and on about absolutely nothing important, notable or useful.
This is news porn American style!
December 19, 2015
Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week!
Bonjour Amigos!
Time again for the Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week Award and our weekly contest, Match That Quote, where we challenge you to match our celebrity guest with his/her own words
But first, let's get down to hypocrisy.
It was a contentious week with hypocrisy bursting out all over the globe like an epidemic of genital warts after a Hollywood awards ceremony.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven was criticized for commenting on the lifetime sentences handed down to two persons accused of traveling to Syria and "violating human rights." We assume that "violating humans rights" translates into English as "killing other human beings."
The newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, complained that Löfven should refrain from commenting on cases likely to go to appeal. The SvD toadies whined that only journalists are allowed to comment on appellate cases.
Now, compare those lofty standards with Snoop Dogg Barry Obama who insinuates himself into every murder case involving a black victim and a white or brown murderer. We have yet to hear Snoop Dogg so much as raise a whisper about any one of the thousands of cases each year where both the victim and the killer are black.
Apparently black lives do not matter quite so much to the President when they are indiscriminately extinguished by other blacks. Does this indifference make Barry a racist as well as a hypocrite?
Over the years, the Nobel Committee has repeatedly sullied the Peace Prize by awarding it to the likes of Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger and Snoop Dogg Barry Obama so maybe Vladimir Putin is not so far out of line by suggesting that regardless of FIFA corruption, football mafioso Sepp Blatter should be awarded the grand prize because he is "a very respected person." His big fat Swiss bank account seems to buy a lot of respect from all the wrong people.
At the very same press conference, Vlad the Impaler announced that Donald Trump is "an outstanding leader."
Trump responded to his new best friend's endorsement with, "Our country kills people, too."
Funny how these guys can find one another across a crowded room. Just wait until the morning after their honeymoon night. I know, I know, what has been seen cannot be unseen.
And the winner of Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week is…CNN!
The 24/7 news porn machine that pays remedial adolescents to contemplate all varieties of metaphysical questions nagging at the holy secular conscience ran an article under the winter wonderland headline, "How Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas?"
The latest cheerful edict followed with a varsity team of celebrity atheists sharing their Christmas thoughts including one especially snarky remark, "Christians don't own December."
Forgive us, we must have dozed off in the pew during that particular beatitude, "Blessed are those who own December for theirs shall be a month of shopping, blinking colored lights and eating big."
Rest assured, the politically correct, toady whore scholars at CNN will not be running the sequel, "How Do Atheists Celebrate Eid Al-Fitr?" Politically correct toady whores will always be toady whores, nothing more, nothing less and the politically correct toadies would never, ever step on the sacred toes of Allah, blessed be His name.
Match That Quote
We are fiddling around with our contest this week. Instead of three chances to match one celebrity guest with their own quote(s), we are offering up three quotes which you have to correctly match with each of our three celebrity guests.
Recently, it has come under discussion in the US that a woman deserves to be featured on one of the American units of currency, either the ten or twenty dollar bill.
In a previous blog, Bonjour Amigos wondered why such a reasonable suggestion should be limited to just one female? Why not have three monetary centerfolds strutting their stuff throughout the world's economy? Way back then, we nominated this week's celebrity guests - Willa Cather, Marilyn Monroe and Julia Child.
Match each lady with her own words.
1. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
2. The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambition to be a pope or an emperor.
3. I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.
Until next week,
Hasta Luego Mes Amis
Time again for the Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week Award and our weekly contest, Match That Quote, where we challenge you to match our celebrity guest with his/her own words
But first, let's get down to hypocrisy.
It was a contentious week with hypocrisy bursting out all over the globe like an epidemic of genital warts after a Hollywood awards ceremony.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven was criticized for commenting on the lifetime sentences handed down to two persons accused of traveling to Syria and "violating human rights." We assume that "violating humans rights" translates into English as "killing other human beings."
The newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, complained that Löfven should refrain from commenting on cases likely to go to appeal. The SvD toadies whined that only journalists are allowed to comment on appellate cases.
Now, compare those lofty standards with Snoop Dogg Barry Obama who insinuates himself into every murder case involving a black victim and a white or brown murderer. We have yet to hear Snoop Dogg so much as raise a whisper about any one of the thousands of cases each year where both the victim and the killer are black.
Apparently black lives do not matter quite so much to the President when they are indiscriminately extinguished by other blacks. Does this indifference make Barry a racist as well as a hypocrite?
Over the years, the Nobel Committee has repeatedly sullied the Peace Prize by awarding it to the likes of Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger and Snoop Dogg Barry Obama so maybe Vladimir Putin is not so far out of line by suggesting that regardless of FIFA corruption, football mafioso Sepp Blatter should be awarded the grand prize because he is "a very respected person." His big fat Swiss bank account seems to buy a lot of respect from all the wrong people.
At the very same press conference, Vlad the Impaler announced that Donald Trump is "an outstanding leader."
Trump responded to his new best friend's endorsement with, "Our country kills people, too."
Funny how these guys can find one another across a crowded room. Just wait until the morning after their honeymoon night. I know, I know, what has been seen cannot be unseen.
And the winner of Bonjour Amigos Hypocrite of the Week is…CNN!
The 24/7 news porn machine that pays remedial adolescents to contemplate all varieties of metaphysical questions nagging at the holy secular conscience ran an article under the winter wonderland headline, "How Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas?"
The latest cheerful edict followed with a varsity team of celebrity atheists sharing their Christmas thoughts including one especially snarky remark, "Christians don't own December."
Forgive us, we must have dozed off in the pew during that particular beatitude, "Blessed are those who own December for theirs shall be a month of shopping, blinking colored lights and eating big."
Rest assured, the politically correct, toady whore scholars at CNN will not be running the sequel, "How Do Atheists Celebrate Eid Al-Fitr?" Politically correct toady whores will always be toady whores, nothing more, nothing less and the politically correct toadies would never, ever step on the sacred toes of Allah, blessed be His name.
Match That Quote
We are fiddling around with our contest this week. Instead of three chances to match one celebrity guest with their own quote(s), we are offering up three quotes which you have to correctly match with each of our three celebrity guests.
Recently, it has come under discussion in the US that a woman deserves to be featured on one of the American units of currency, either the ten or twenty dollar bill.
In a previous blog, Bonjour Amigos wondered why such a reasonable suggestion should be limited to just one female? Why not have three monetary centerfolds strutting their stuff throughout the world's economy? Way back then, we nominated this week's celebrity guests - Willa Cather, Marilyn Monroe and Julia Child.
Match each lady with her own words.
1. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
2. The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambition to be a pope or an emperor.
3. I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.
Until next week,
Hasta Luego Mes Amis
