http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0NLmlz_ew

Lawrence Auster is getting on women's chests yet again. He really needs to focus on higher things or take a cold shower:

"Acres and Declivities"

[L]et us consider a situation we see constantly on television today, particularly on the cable news stations, in which a male guest or host is speaking with a female guest or host (though more often the woman is the host or interviewer) on a political talk show or news program. The man is dressed properly in jacket and tie. The woman is wearing a top with an absurdly plunging neckline revealing half her upper chest and often more besides. It is highly revealing, highly provocative, and totally inappropriate for any forum in which serious matters--war, economic recession, constitutional crises--are supposedly being seriously discussed. Yet, though the woman is exposing her body in a way that is impossible not to notice, and though her exposed body undercuts the very idea that this is a serious news program, the man is not supposed to notice it, or to appear as if he notices it. And, I believe, so profoundly acclimated are contemporary men to feminist mores and liberal expectations generally that the man in fact doesn't notice it and is entirely cool with the whole set-up. And so the man in sober jacket and tie and the woman with ludicrous acres and declivities of flesh revealed go on talking about terrorism, or the economy, or the next president's cabinet appointees, with the man's eyes never even for a micro-second wandering below the woman's face. Not only does the situation emasculate the man, but the man, by submitting to it instead of telling the woman that she is not dressed appropriately and ought to cover herself (as, I've heard, Muslim guests on TV shows have occasionally told female hosts) emasculates himself. He emasculates himself sexually and as a male figure deserving of respect, because he is suppressing his normal reactions both as a man and as an authority figure. Thus have contemporary men turned themselves into passive drones, eunuchs of the gyneocracy.

Carol Iannone speculates that this ubiquitous self-emasculation of men, this psychological turning off and suppression of their normal reactions to women, has affected them to such a degree that when it's actually time for them to release their normal sexual response, the response is not there, they can't do it, they need help. And thus the Viagra craze.

This theory of Viagra doesn't really stand up. But I like "acres and declivities".

It's a bit rich for a man who thinks women shouldn't vote to tell them to be more sober and serious. Aren't our "acres and declivities" so vast because we keep our brains there?

Andrew Bostom is interviewed Democratiya:

I have always thought a key point about Islam is that Muhammad presented himself to the local Jews as the Messiah, a political Messiah, intending to sit on the throne of David, and that he was rejected by them. Megalomaniac that he was, Muhammad didn't take rejection or ridicule well.

 http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1930.htm

This is mostly from The Times, with a little additional information from the Daily Mail.
A British missionary couple have appeared in court and been charged with sedition following their arrest a week ago in The Gambia, a largely Muslim nation
They were arrested last Saturday accused of inciting rebellion against the government.
Police said the Fultons had sent letters critical of the government to individuals and groups. The couple were paraded on state television earlier in the week.
President Yahya Jammeh seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1994 and has ruled Gambia with an iron fist ever since. Journalists and opposition activists receive death threats and are regularly arrested, beaten and detained without charge, according to human rights groups.
Speaking from the capital Banjul a missionary colleague, Kofi Mensah, told The Times there was confusion surrounding the whereabouts of the couple. "I am trying to find out where they are. I have heard nothing from them but think Fiona may be at the police headquarters," he said.
Pastor Martin Speed of Westhoughton Pentecostal Church in Bolton, with which the couple has links, said: "The work he is doing is not political. He's sharing his Christian faith with people. There does seem to be a growing difficulty of Christians in the country of Gambia."
Mr Fulton helped establish a Gambia branch of the Christian organization Prison Fellowship International. A newsletter published by the Fellowship said Mr Fulton had fallen foul of Gambia's government in the past.
Mr Fulton is chaplain to the Gambian army and carries the rank of major, while his wife looks after terminally ill people and visits women in their homes and in hospital.
As well as ministering for the army, Mr Fulton also has a ministry on the river, which involves reaching immigration outposts and villages only accessible by boat.
The Westhoughton Pentecostal Church website states: 'This is a major challenge, as it involves a 10-day trip up river every month. But by God's grace he sees many won for the Lord from Islam and animism.'
The Gambia, one of Africa's smallest countries, is predominantly Muslim but has a significant Christian community, and indigenous beliefs are also practised.
After being banned from the Gambian prison system Mr Fulton became a military chaplain, a role that may have put him on a collision course with the unpredictable president.
Mr Jammeh is prone to outlandish claims and bouts of paranoia that see alleged plotters thrown in jail.
In recent years the eccentric 43-year old retired colonel claimed to have a secret cure for AIDS – his prescription is a green herbal paste and a diet of bananas. Mr Jammeh has visited the sick and dying waving his hands over their heads and chanting incantations rather than supplying anti-retrovirals.
A United Nations official who questioned the efficacy the president's 'cure' was thrown out of the country.
Rights groups were outraged earlier this year when Mr Jammeh told a rally that he would make the country's ban on homosexuality "tougher than the Iranian laws" and threatened to behead homosexuals giving them 24 hours to leave the country.
A concerned friend of the couple added: 'While we are free to speak out, in Gambia you cannot.
As a chaplain part of David's job is to provide comfort to all sorts of people, people high up and people low down - and people who have perhaps fallen out of favour.  I don't know of anything they have done that could be called sedition. Their whole focus has been teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.'
That is sedition in an Islamic country of course.

Regular readers may recall that I think very highly of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. I missed this when it was first published last week but it makes me feel quite pleased. From The East London Advertiser.
BLIMEY! Yer actual Cockney accent ’as been voted second most likely to soothe a geezer in distress.
Gawd luv-a-duck! You don't hear that phrase, which is actually Lawd, luv-a-duck,  much these days but it was something my grandmother used to say whenever I did something outlandish. If you’re all at sea, it’s East End or ‘Estuary’ rabbit yer wanna hear from rescuers.
That’s according to a poll by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Cockneys inspire the most confidence in a crisis of all the accents in the South East—and that’s official.
This is entirely appropriate, of course, as Tower Lifeboat station on the Thames is the busiest in the British Isles.
Its crews have been called out on ‘shouts’ 180 times in just the first six months of the year.
Crew member Steve King waxed lyrical about his London lilt being given the seal of approval.
“It’s good to know people find it a comfort during an emergency,” he said. “People need to be comforted knowing we’re on hand to help in an emergency on the Thames or out at sea.”
The RNLI has 235 lifeboat stations around the British Isles, all relying on public contributions. It responded in the first six months of the year to 3,621 SOS calls, saving 138 lives and rescuing 3,267 people. Tower Lifeboat was by far the busiest.

Channel 4 has a documentary at 7.35pm about Muslim "extremists" in southern Thailand. The Times previews:

Muslim extremists in southern Thailand are waging a war against the Thai Government in which more than 3,000 people have been killed since 2004. What makes this conflict especially vicious is that the insurgents are targeting teachers, who are seen as representatives of a Buddhist Thai culture trying to impose its will on a region that is mainly Muslim and ethnic Malay. Even though schoolchildren are bussed to school in heavily armed convoys, more than 100 teachers have been murdered and more than 900 state schools forced to close. The police and the military respond by raiding Muslim religious schools, which only makes a volatile situation worse.

So, defending oneself against Muslim extremism fuels Muslim extremism? Still, the documentary should be interesting - it is about time somebody reported on this Jihad.

Channel 4 has a documentary next week on child "brides" (i.e. rape victims):

This week's Unreported World reveals the devastating effects of child marriage and pregnancy in Nigeria, where nearly half of all girls in the country's northern states are married by the age of 15, often to much older men.

Will the role of Islam be considered? This is Channel 4 not the BBC, so possibly.

"It is undoubtedly necessary to integrate the Muslims who are here. What other choice is there?"
        -- from a reader, the citizen of a country in Western Europe

It may be "undoubtedly necessary" to "integrate" those Muslims who happen to have, in a fit of criminal negligence, been admitted in large numbers into the advanced, entirely too generous, countries of Western Europe, some of which have made a fetish, an Idol of the Age, out of ill-thought-through Diversity and Tolerance, including the toleration of the murderously and immutably intolerant.

But what if those Muslims who have been allowed to settle, in such great and ever-increasing numbers, deep behind what they themselves are taught to regard as enemy lines, cannot -- because of the very nature of Islam, the immutability of its texts, the slamming-shut more than a millennium ago of the Gates to Ijtihad, the effect, the hold, on the minds of the primitive (and most men are primitive, which is why their belief-system had better be a largely innocuous or even conceivably an ennobling one, to begin with) Muslim masses, who may learn French, and acquire a suave Western veneer -- see Tariq Ramadan, notre Frere Tariq, that respectable Euro-Islamic prud'homme -- but remain deeply and disturbingly hostile to the legal and political institutions, and to the artistic expression, and free and skeptical inquiry, and solicitude for the individual (for Islam is incurably collectivist, and the individual "slave of Allah" is as nothing, he is merely part of the Army of Islam, and any attempts to jettison Islam by an individual are consequently treated as treasonm, deserving of death).

The poster seems to have a limited historical knowledge, and limited imagination. It was within living memory that one of the most advanced and liberal countries in the Western world, Czechoslovakia, then led by those European statesmen, Masaryk (son of the famous Tomas, founder of modern Czechoslovakia), and Benes, decided that for security reasons, based on evidence of past behavior but not on any present threat, the Sudeten Germans, three million of them, should be expelled from Czechoslovakia to Deutschtum -- mainly Germany (Austria was still playing the role of "first victim of the Nazis" for all those willing to listen). Not a single advanced Czech, then or since -- not the poet Jaroslav Seifert, not General Ludovik Svoboda, not sad-eyed sweet Aleksandr Dubcek, not Milan Kundera or Milos Forman, or Vaclav Havel (who did on a state trip to Austria admit that the "execution" of the relevant Benes Decree, left something to be desired, something to be regretted). And when those ethnic Germans were expelled -- many had enthusiastically collaborated with the Hitler regime, both before the outbreak of war (allowing themselves to be used for the purposes of propaganda, as they staged riots that would, they knew, be put down by Czech police and these reported scenes would be used to justify taking sides with the "Sudeteners" and their "legitimate rights" by such fools as Sir Basil Runciman, who undertook the Runciman Mission in 1938 to establish, as Runciman said, a "comprehensive and a lasting peace." Connoisseurs of Carter and Brzezinski and others who have been pressuring Israel unbearably for the past several decades will not fail to note the echo.

All over the world, all through history and even in the past decades and past centuries, transfers of populations have been deemed necessary or advisable, by one side, or another, or sometimes both. Think of the Greeks and Turks in the 1920s, Hindus and Muslims at the time of Partition -- have taken place. The Muslim Arabs have not hesitated even to expel huge numbers of other Muslim Arabs -- Libya expelled Egyptians, Kuwait expelled, overnight, 400,000 "Palestinians" after the aid and comfort they gave Saddam Hussein's invaders, Saudi Arabia from time to time expels hundreds of thousands of Yemeni workers at a time, Iraq has expelled Egyptians, Algeria has expelled Moroccans and Morocco Algerians, and so on, by the tens and hundreds of thousands.

The Western world has generally not done so, but it did when it had to, or when a justifiable case was made, and it was made, by little Czechoslovakia, in 1946.

"What else can we do?" says that poster above. If you have to ask, you can't afford it. What's "it"? Oh, "it" to begin with is that continuing, and permanently dangerous, Muslim immigration to Western countries. "It" is permitting Saudi and other outside Arab money to come in to pay for mosques, madrasas, propaganda, campaigns of Da'wa. "It" is anything that allows Muslims, as Muslims, to become deeply and seemingly permanently settled into the land, but not into the society, that was once so securely Infidel.

No, I must repeat: If you have to ask "what else can we do?" then you can't afford... "it."

On the subject of lIfeboats, here is something: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UvuDLYzISs

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8LNvGqQ9o

  Hugh writes of his experience as one of the three Kings in a nativity play. I needed someone of his experience yesterday. 
I had washed the costumes, ironed them, aired them with care on every radiator in the house.
3 king's outfits. Red king, purple king, green king.
That’s a beer. I need a beer.
Mary was lowly and humble in a blue cotton dress.
"don't want wear that! I want to be an angel wiv wings an' tinsel"
So I took some powder blue satin and made Mary a new dress with gathers and daisy buttons. And an Indian gauze scarf, azure blue with silver stars.
And so far since one little girl has been prepared to forsake the glamour of tinsel and wings for, if not the honour of carrying the baby Jesus, the glory of azure gauze with silver stars.
I check it all by numbers as I lay it on tables in the church hall.
Crowns 3 red green and gold. Cloaks 3 gold red and green. Boxes 3. 
 Joseph - tunic and head shawl. Made from a flannelette sheet from the stock my Mother laid in for us the winter before her death. Grey/green candy stripe is no longer in vogue, but was just the thing for Joseph.
Sheep, numerous, shepherds for the use of.
Tinsel, plentiful, angels for the adornment of.
Manger 1.
Baby Jesus 1
Swaddling tea cloth 1
Vicar 1, pianist 1. Leaders 4
The Mums, Nans and children arrive. Batman looks splendid.
"Would you like to be Joseph? Baby Jesus could use a superhero to look after him."
"No, thank you."
"A King? Your cloak is rather splendid."
"No."
"Would you carry these sheep for me then please?" You carry sheep, you're a shepherd.
In comes a little girl with a push chair and baby doll.
"Great, you have brought baby Jesus with you. Would you like to wear this nice blue dress and be his mother Mary?"
"No thank you, I want to be an angel wiv wings an' tinsel". I knew this would happen.
Once in church 1 king, Batman, lots of angels and some cool dudes carrying sheep gather and we sing carols sitting on the floor after which our vicar tells us about Christmas.
I produce the Holy Families understudies. They are Winnie the Pooh, a 3ft stuffed moose and a baby reindeer.
We sing Away in a Manger as the Nans take photos. They all look beautiful and it is all worthwhile.
"That’s the ugliest baby Jesus I have ever seen" whispers the vicar as we eat mince pies and Christmas cake.
In the evening was the Mums and leaders Christmas meal.
So I got my glass of beer and it was indeed Greene King IPA.