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by Kyle-Anne Shiver • January 2, 2009
Laura Bush has single-handedly restored the term, “lady,” to the American vocabulary. And she has done it with such rare aplomb that nary a soul seems to have even noticed, which I’m quite certain, is precisely the way she planned it.
I took an instant liking to Laura Bush; I won’t deny it. After [...]
by Kyle-Anne Shiver • December 11, 2008
I’ve had the flu since Thanksgiving, so my brain might not be back to full strength. But I simply could not resist commenting upon something a faithful reader sent me this morning. Perhaps he knew this particular bit of news from one of our esteemed mullahs would be just the proper amount of kick to get me out of my sickbed.
It seems that an Islamic cleric has now demonstrably proved that women (Yes, ladies, all of us!) cannot talk and remember at the same time. He claims this is why Allah — in his great wisdom — demanded that the testimony of 2 women are required to equal the testimony of a single man.
Here’s an excerpt:
Yemenite Cleric Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani Presents “Scientific” Proof that Women Cannot Talk and Remember Simultaneously |
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Following are excerpts from an interview with Yemenite cleric Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani, which aired on Iqra TV on October 23, 2008: Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani: Allah said, with regard to women bearing witness: “If two men are not available, then a man and two women, such as you choose as witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her.” Some heretics – communists and other atheists – ridiculed [this verse], saying: How come a man’s testimony equals that of two women? They used this to mock [the Muslims]. The Muslims used to respond that women are subject to menstruation, when their endurance and mental capacity for concentration are diminished. When a woman witnesses a killing or an accident, she becomes frightened, moves away, and sometimes even faints, and she cannot even watch the incident. [...] The American Time magazine, in its July 31, 1995 issue, published this picture from research about the brain functioning of men and women. This is the ma… This is the female brain, and this is an image of the male brain. What do we see? We find that in the case of women, this area… And there is another here… Two areas in a woman’s brain are activated when she talks. As we can see, there are many centers of speech in a woman’s brain. There is a center in each lobe, while in the case of a man, there is only one center, here. The opposite center does not operate during speech, because it is busy remembering. Both men and women have centers for speech and for memory. In the case of men, the center for speech is here, while the center for memory is here. When a man talks, his center for speech is active, and when he remembers something, his center for memory is active. On the other hand, when a woman wants to talk, she puts both centers into action. This may give us an explanation why women are more talkative. What is the outcome of this? When a woman talks, she uses the part of the brain that contains the memory, because in the case of women, both centers function for speech and memory. So when a woman talks, she might use the part of the brain containing the memory for talking – and that’s it, the data is lost. Therefore, if we need the testimony of women in cases pertaining to human lives, property, honor, or the stability of justice, we must take into consideration this fact of life in the nature of women. |
Now, in my own esteemed wisdom, I am forced to conclude that this type of whacked-out rationale is the precise reason why these folks remain trapped in the 7th century, unable and unwilling to move forward.
This reasoning actually reminds me of the revered spiritual mentor of Barack Obama, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who postulated before the National Press Club last spring that black youngsters cannot learn in the “white” system. Black children, claimed the Reverend, are “wired” differently than white children. Black children, Wright proclaimed, cannot sit still in a classroom and must be free to move around and explore and touch everything in their environments in order to learn. Is it any wonder, then, that the Reverend holds the Islamic religion in such high esteem? They seem to think very similarly, if one can call this gibberish “thinking.”
But never fear! Do not despair. Whenever I’m tempted to roll over and die from the frustration of it all, I remind myself of the ever-stalwart, brave, persistent men and women of our American Armed Forces fighting this destructive lunacy on our behalf — around the world even as I write this from the safety of my sickbed.
Once again, a 15 year old girl has given us a video that reminds us of the watchful, duty bound soldier. His fidelity to American ideals lives and breathes and brings truth and dignity to a world gone mad. Enjoy this tribute and be thankful. Be very, very thankful to be an American.
And whatever you do, do not give up.
by Kyle-Anne Shiver • December 3, 2008
Our soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital are home, but they are suffering the horrible adjustment of a life quite different from the life they have prepared for. Many are facing lives without the arms and legs they once took for granted. Others are disfigured in ways we cannot even imagine.
As you mail holiday cards this year for Christmas or Hanukkah, please write extra ones and send them to our wounded heroes!
Here is the address:
by Kyle-Anne Shiver • November 29, 2008
Yesterday, “Black Friday,” I skipped the first day of shopping-stampede madness and went with two girlfriends to see the box-office splash of the season, “Four Christmases.” Starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, this movie is part of the genre I’ve labeled, “Disgrace-to-Christmas” movies.
“Disgrace-to-Christmas” movies usually have several things in common and have been coming out on cue this time of year for about a decade.
Common Characteristics:
1. clueless box-office stars
2. PC agenda
3. unnatural melding of Christian symbols with anti-Christian pagan humor
The last two seasons brought America “The Family Stone” and “Fred Clause,” which were both perfect fits for the genre.
“The Family Stone” melded sappy, faux sentimentality with the homosexual-rights cause, even producing what must be a first for the number of societal stereotypes in one plot: a gay deaf guy, “married” to a gay black guy, who adopt a black baby to the manipulated gushing of the clueless audience.
“Fred Clause” melded Silent Night with Santa Clause, and the overriding “moral” of the “story” was that all children of all ages are good to their cores and ought never be held accountable for their sins. It may have been written by hippie shrinks, whose motto remains, “If it feels good, do it.”
So, now you’ve a perfect idea of what you’ll see in this year’s tacky flick, “Four Christmases.”
Two ego-centric, semi-adults (Vaughn and Witherspoon) lie every year about being unable to visit family at Christmastime, and take a tropical vacation instead. Viewers get the point early on…every single American family is thoroughly dysfunctional, has no redeeming assets, no genuine faith and can be counted upon — absolutely — to share a “Christmas” celebration thoroughly devoid of anything even remotely resembling love, togetherness or a healing haven from the brutal world in which we live. According to the movie plotters, there isn’t a single family left in America with genuine faith in Christ, much less any who try to live out their faith in deeds. And true to form, everyone but our PC-stars-extraordinaire are afflicted with sexual appetites worthy of alley cats in heat.
The rest of the movie is built upon this faux-foundation and predictably takes the lowest road to the gutter culture in which we now find ourselves. Typically PC, the writers — without the slightest artistic effort — deliver an excessively tawdry excoriation of white rednecks who love babies, modern evangelistic Christians and the nuclear family in one fell swoop. If they were going for the Oscar of Tawdry & Tacky, then this movie is a winner.
I do not believe there was a single black person in the entire movie, save extras. Making fun of black people would not do this year in the newly created Obamaland.
The writers rely on their one, stock, finale redemption: Vaughn & Witherspoon decide that marriage and procreating do not deserve their unreservedly horrible reputation, and give in to Mother Nature, producing an infant of their own.
And all I could think as the lights mercifully came on was, “God have mercy on that child and the society upon which it will one day be turned loose.” The perversions she will be taught by her clueless parents make me thankful the PCers among us procreate in such small numbers.
That’s my take on the “Disgrace-to-Christmas” movie of the year. Can’t wait for next year’s version.
by Kyle-Anne Shiver • November 17, 2008
When I heard audio of Howard Stern’s people doing man-on-the-street interviews with Obama supporters on the streets of Harlem a week before the election, I knew it was bad. These people were presented with all the actual positions of John McCain and Sarah Palin, but told they were Obama’s and Biden’s positions. The people interviewed had no clue, claimed to support every one of the McCain/Palin issue positions, but were definitely voting for Obama/Biden.
“Doesn’t it bother you that Obama is opposed to abortion rights?” they were asked.
“No. That’s a good thing,” the Obama supporters answered.
“So, you agree with Obama that we should stay in Iraq until our job there is finished?” they were asked.
“Oh, yes. That’s a good thing,” the Obama supporters answered.
And on and on. These voters had absolutely no clue that they were spouting agreement with McCain positions, but were voting for the candidate who actually disagreed with them. More likely, however, was that they were supporting Obama either because of the color of his skin or the fact that they liked him.
This does not bode well for the future of a Democratic Republic.
But even worse, in my opinion, is the extensive interviewing conducted by Zogby, contracted by the group producing a new documentary on the election “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected.”
Here’s a sampling:
Polling summary from the new website, http://www.howobamagotelected.com
