Immigrants need to learn the language of their host countries. There’s no excuse for not doing so and stern punishments should be enacted upon any who refuse to- or are incompetent to do so.

Bem-vindo à Ilha Megan Fox

The Portuguese might have taken things to a bit of an extreme though. Then again, when you balance an island of Megan Fox’s against one filled with savage cannibals, it seems almost fair. 😆

Aprende a língua , meninos e meninas!

Throughout much of its history the Catholic church has relied heavily upon its religious orders. The orders fulfilled varied missions and duties for the mother church that were not best performed by the clerks regular.

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This has, not surprisingly caused some friction and competition between the various religious orders. It’s natural that they compete for funding, prestige, and postulants.

Two young men considering a religious vocation were having a conversation. “What is similar about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders?” the one asked.

The second replied, “Well, they were both founded by Spaniards – St. Dominic for the Dominicans, and St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Jesuits. They were also both founded to combat heresy – the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians, and the Jesuits to fight the Protestants.”

“What is different about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders?” The first asked.

“Met any Albigensians lately?”

That about sums that one up. The Dominicans ensured that the Catholic church’s “catharsis” was complete. The Jesuits, on the other hand, weren’t nearly so effective. 😆

Ayn Rand, one of the few staunch literary defenders of individual liberty and robust American capitalism and excellence, had much to say about the goals of the Leftists, these Liberals and Progressives:

The goal of the “liberals”—as it emerges from the record of the past decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot—by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.

— Ayn Rand
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

I happen to disagree with her. Insofar as I can see, statism is the chosen methodology of the Liberals and Progressives, not the goal. A giant, all-encompassing, intrusive government is merely, to them, a necessary means to an end.

There goal is to have a “state” without national identity, pride, or identifiable culture where all of the people’s sundry needs and most desires are either fulfilled or guaranteed by the government. They wish to bring about an egalitarian Utopia where merit and circumstance have no bearing upon one’s material success.

Statism, despite Rand’s assertion, is just the only means by which the Leftists believe they can bring about this unnatural state of being. They simple need a despotic central force to enact and maintain their fantasy of a neo-Socialist, fully managed society.

Iranian actress and musician, Golshifteh Farahani has been exiled from Iran because she posed nude for the French magazine, Madame Le Figaro.  She was contacted by representatives of the Ayatollahs’ Islamist regime earlier this week and told not to try to return to Iran from France.

This Got Golshifteh Farahani Exiled

Other Iranian officials were even harsher, such as one assigned to Egypt, who said, “I think it is disgusting and she should be put to jail or worse for this crazy idea. Women here are treated with utmost respect.” So being exiled might be the least reprisal against her, given how Muslims deal with women who defy them.

So Golshifteh Farahani is probably much better off and far safer staying out of Iran anyway. The best Ms. Farahani or any women who refuses to accept slavery can expect from the Muslim vermin is to be arrested, repeated gang-raped and sodomized by the police, and eventually executed by either being whipped to death or stoned. Given Ms. Farahani’s beauty, the Iranian courts would drag out her case so as to give the largest number of the police and Basij a turn on her.

By taking part in these photo shoots the people taking part wish to demonstrate their redemption from these taboos by the way they act and talk.

The objective is to liberate their soul and bodies at the same time. As long as an individual has no power iver her or his body and their soul does not have the command of the way they wish to think, then they do not have a true freedom.

Although I do not think looking at the nude photo of another human may have an attraction, but it is certainly far more enjoyable than looking at the fully covered and burqa and hejab wearing body of a woman who has been wrapped and imprisoned by her man. So much for not looking at women as sex symbols as the fundamentalists want us to believe!

— Golshifteh Farahani

I was say that Golshifteh Farahani is a woman of beauty, grace, talent, and passion. As such, she had no “acceptable” place the current Islamist theocracy of Iran and it was only a matter of time before she could no longer return to Iran, be it do to being exiled or being under the death of rape, mutilation, and death at the paws and diseased organs of vermin in that “country.”

There is a final and permanent solution to the Islamist Question though. It just requires that Mankind remove the male vermin in Iran in toto, or near enough to that, and accept those Iranian women who wish into there own nations and bloodlines. There are enough educated women in Iran that we could leave the country in the hands of those who didn’t wish to leave with us after the cleansing.

The American economy, bogged down in an extended recession, is not walking swiftly down the road to recovery. In point of fact, it seems to be trudging slowly and painfully down the road to recovery with only slow improvements and few jobs for the American people.

This is not surprising since American businesses and corporation are forced to drag the huge, dead weight of government intervention along with them down that road.

The Road To Recovery

One can argue that any specific piece of government intervention into the market is necessary. One cannot, however, rationally dispute that almost all forms of government regulation have a chilling effect upon the economy. One also cannot rationally argue that these prior restraints upon trade have a disproportionate negative effect during times of economic crisis such as America now finds itself in.

To make matters worse, most occurrences of government intervention into the private sphere are politically motivated and the laws, regulations, and “fixes” are neither straightforward or equitable. They are instead laden with handouts to the politicians’ backers and supporters.

It comes down to one’s priorities. If one wants the economy to recover more quickly and robustly, one has to free it from the shackles of government intervention. If one wants to favor other interests or to have a slower growing, managed economy – paying the price in the loss of “booms” in order to avoid “busts” – one can continue on in the manner of the current regime.