The Quad Co-opter

The Quad Co-opter
Biden: The Quad Co-opter

So, the deranged pedophile that the Democrats installed into the White House was just in Japan, attending the G7 Summit. While there he decided to mumble and rant about “The Quad,” which is an alliance of America, Australia, India, and Japan aimed at keeping the four nations policies in sync to address threats in the Indo-Pacific and South China Sea regions – i.e., an Anti-China military-political-economic alliance.

I doubt many people in this audience or any other audience would’ve said that two years after being elected, I’d be able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an organization called ‘the Quad’ to maintain stability in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.

Joe “Gaffemaster” Biden

Yeah, that almost sounds good. Hell, it almost sounds like the deserved crowing of an actual world leader. But, of course, it’s a bald-faced lie as one must expect from something like Biden. The truth is that Quad predates Biden’s residency in the White House, and it’s re-establishment being one of President Trump’s many unsung and unlauded international achievements.

But, the Quad Co-opter is going to drone on (pun intended) about how he did this and should be given credit for it.

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Westernized vs Traditional

Westernized vs Traditional
(Pashchimeekrt vs Paramparaagat)

Westernized vs Traditional
(Pashchimeekrt vs Paramparaagat)

As I said before, the women of Asia Minor – especially the Indian subcontinent – are quite beautiful and a, for we Westerners, great choice for dating and marriage. But, it does raise the question: Western (Pashchimeekrt) or Traditional (Paramparaagat) dress? Which do you prefer?

Westernized (Pashchimeekrt)

Simply put, Desi women look good in Western clothes. The beauty standards they grew up in make them fill out Western clothes very well. And, given that most of them that we’d run into are NRI’s, this is how we’re going find the majority of them dressed anyway.

In point of sad fact, many of the younger generations of Desi babes in the West don’t even know how to properly wear a sari – as my wives found out to their surprise when they were held up as examples to some younger Indian girls.

Traditional (Paramparaagat)

But then we have the traditional clothes of their origin – and the quasi-traditional choli. And I defy any hetero man – and the majority of women – to say that Desi women don’t look absolutely gorgeous in their “native” garb. Sariswith or without cholis, lehengas, and dupattas; they’re all delightful.

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This, of course, presents us in the West who want or even prefer Desi women as our mates a bit of a conundrum. Pashchimeekrt or Paramparaagat? Fortunately, this hard choice is, by and large, a false choice. There are times and places for both Western and Traditional dress.

Indeed, the only issue I and my wives have found is that the majority of Paramparaagat women’s clothes available in the West are very ornate and meant for very formal occasions. There’s a dearth of casual, business casual, and semi-formal options available.

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Why I Love Bollywood

Why I Love Bollywood

The beautiful Desi babe in the video above is why I love Bollywood, especially their musicals and romcoms. Or, at least, she and those like her in the Indian film industry are a large part of why I do so. The others being a life-long love of classic musicals – think anything starring Howard Keel – and a desire to maintain at least a tiny bit of my lingering fluency in Hindi. 😉

And no, it’s not a “guilty pleasure,” because I feel neither guilt nor shame for loving Bollywood musicals and romcoms. They are, insofar as I know, the last iteration of both the cinematic and musical genres created in far better, past days in America and the feature beautiful women who love, as opposed to hating, their feminine curves.

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India Is Racist!

Americans are forced to hear a lot about the purported racism and evils of requiring basic photo identification for voting. With the upcoming 2014 midterm elections and slightly later 2016 elections, Americans are going to be forced to hear a lot more about it because our domestic enemies need to brand the American people and the politicians we support as racists.

The funny thing is that the Liberals like to portray themselves as knowledgeable citizens of the world yet they seem to know very little about the nations of the world…

India Is Racist - They require Voter ID
India Is Racist!

That’s right; the world’s largest democratic republic has used and required Voter ID for some time and, despite the widespread real poverty in India, their voter turnout is comparable to America’s.

Then, the Democrats and those who support and feed off of them aren’t concerned with voting. They’re concerned with the realpolitik of maintaining the slavish support of minorities, especially the “Black Community.” To that end they’ll will always decry anything and everything that Americans desire and/or demand as racist.

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Abused Goddesses

Pranav Bhide of ad the agency Taproot has created a series of pictures depicting the Hindu Goddesses: Lakshmi (लक्ष्मी), Saraswati (सरस्वती), and Durga (दुर्गा) as victims of domestic violence to benefit Save Our Sisters, an recent anti-domestic violence initiative of Save The Children India which focuses on prevention and repatriation of sexually trafficked women and children in India.

Lakshmi, Saraswati, and Durga – Abused Goddesses

Each of the three ads is accompanied by the same text:

Pray that we never see this day. Today more than 68% of women in India are victims of domestic violence. Tomorrow it seems like no woman shall be spared. Not even the ones we pray too.

Taproot’s campaign was created by blending traditional hand-painted Indian art with modern-day photography using real models and has won multiple awards at different ad festivals.

If you’re Pagan, these ads will be eye-catching and a bit disturbing. For Hindu’s their blatantly shocking. Lakshmi who Hindus once beseeched on bended knee for good fortune now sits sad-eyed on a lotus with a bloodied nose. Saraswati’s infinite wisdom and knowledge were no defense against a black-eye. Durga, who once danced upon the demon (Asura) Mahishasura’s corpse now stands bruised, battered and teary-eyed, begging for our protection.

The images of Lakshmi and Saraswati are directly analogous to depicting the Blessed Mother Mary as beaten and bloodied. The image of Durga is a bit different because Durga is a Goddess of War and the defender of Heaven (Svarga). Showing Her as beaten and cowed is an implication that Heaven itself has been beaten and conquered by the growing violence against women in India.

That’s, however, a somewhat problematically mixed message. It may shock and shame men, which was its intent, but it also undermines the Indian women’s religious images of feminine authority by reducing three of their major goddesses to victims and stripping them of their awesome and often perilous divine power.

This may also be an indicator of how far the sad and shameful “domestication” of the Hindu Gods and Goddesses has gone in Post-Colonial India.

In Indian schools the now they tell children that when Shiva killed his wife Parvarti’s son, Ganesha she cried. They blatantly ignore that she also made ready to destroy the entire universe in her grief and rage and relented only when Shiva agreed to resurrect her son and make him a God.

At least Taproot was wise enough no to attempt to depict the Samrajni Kali Ma (काळी) as a victim of any form of violence, especially domestic violence.

Samrajni Kali Ma
सर्वमङ्गलमाङ्गल्ये शिवे सर्वार्थसाधिके । शरण्ये त्र्यम्बके गौरि नारायणि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥
ॐ जयंती मंगळ काळी भद्रककाळी कपालिनी । दुर्गा क्षमा शिवा धात्री स्वाहा स्वधा नमोऽस्तु‍ते ॥

It would be foolish to attempt to paint Kali as some form of abused Bhartiya Naari (“Traditional Indian Woman”). Nobody would believe or countenance that Kali, who sprung from Durga’s forehead and was made by Her rage and frustration at not being able to defeat the demon general Raktabija and his army could ever be a victim.

Of course, a follow-up campaign showing the possible repercussions of domestic violence against women in India featuring the Samrajni Kali Ma might be a powerful message…

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