When that Man is Dead and Gone

Composed by Irving Berlin and sung by Al Bowlly, what a beautiful, innocent diity.

I was in London outside Buckingham Palace on V.E. Night and remember the King and Churchill on the balcony.All the lights were lit.

And Satan, the real Satan, not the allies, it seems, won.

WHEN THAT MAN IS DEAD AND GONE (Irving Berlin) Al Bowlly - 1941 When that man is dead and gone When that man is dead and gone We’ll go dancing down the street Kissing everyone we meet When that man is dead and gone What a day to wake up on What a way to greet the dawn Some fine day the news’ll flash Satan with a small moustache Is asleep beneath the lawn When that man is dead and gone Satan, Satan, thought up a plan Dressed as a man Walking the earth and since he began The world is hell for you and me But what a heaven it will be When that man is dead and gone When that man is dead and gone When they lay him twelve feet deep I’ll be there to laugh, not weep When that man is dead and gone What a day to wake up on What a way to greet the dawn Satan’ll take him by the hand To meet old Gerring, look what, man When that man is dead and gone When that man is dead and gone Some fine day the news’ll flash Satan with a small moustache Is asleep beneath the lawn When that man is dead and gone What a day to wake up on What a way to greet the dawn When a certain man is dead and gone

Does anyone remember wartime Welling, Kent?

I am trying to track down the date and details of a V 1 which killed at least two people, and demolished the upper storey of a baker's shop in Central Avenue, near the juction with Bellegrove Road in Welling in 1944. I was there, aged 3, in my pushchair about two thirds of the way along the shops on the left. I remember clearly the damaged dome of the Granada cinema opposite, the wrecked shop building, and a felled signal on the embankment. Two dead men were lying under black cloths on the pavement, and a boy, his arm open from the wrist to the elbow and pouring blood, was sitting crying in the smashed shop window. My grandmother, in the shop, was uninjured.

If anyone remembers anything about this, I would very much like to hear from them. 

Does Europe deserve to survive?

Islamic State is 300 miles from Italy, while Europe is busy watching pornography, posturing over the 'Charlie" killings, and ensuring political correctness.

Does Europe deserve to survive?

First they came for the ......

Pastor Niemoller's famous words do not speak for me, because they are grounded, not in morality, but only self-interest and self-preservation. 


First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me. 



I would prefer: 


First they came for the communists, and I showed them where they could be found, and shot a few myself--
because I hate communism;
Then they came for the socialists, and I was happy to protect the decent ones I knew--
because I hate naked capitalism;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because the TUC supports abortion;
Then they came for the abortionists, euthanasers, and child molesters--
and I gave them a list of names and addresses,
Then they came for the liberals--
and I opened a bottle of Russian Champagne;
They did not come for the Jews, with whom they had no quarrel--
and that was fine with me;


Then they came for me--
and they gave me a medal, a decent state pension for being so helpful, and a front seat at the public executions.
Whoopee!


No, I would not defend to the death anyone's "right" to adhere to and promulgate evil.


So put that in your bongs and smoke it, all you goodthinkful folk out there!

Stink

In Polish, final voiced consonants are devoiced ('b' becomes 'p', 'd'>'t', 'g' > 'k'), so at a party on Saturday where the television was left switched on because a vocalist who calls himself "Sting" was, er, vocalising, people were saying excitedly, "Look! It is Stink."

Absolutely.

Phoowaarrrrrrr!!!!!

Cardinal Kasper

A PIN-UP

for

HERETICS

What's that? Judgment day? You Catholic or summink?

Government Health Notice

GOODTHINKFULNESS

DUCKSPEAK

SUBMISSION

And don't worry.

Gardinal Gasper and the Concrete Boots

Homo? Straight? What's the problem? It's love, innit?

Catholic Household has an interesting article on the egregious Kasper and his ludicrous application of German "form criticism" to the Gospels. 

They quote from his writings:

“A number of miracle stories turn out in the light of form criticism to be projections of the experiences of Easter back into the earthly life of Jesus, or anticipatory representations of the exalted Christ. Among these epiphany stories we should probably include the stilling of the storm, the transfiguration, Jesus’ walking on the lake, the feeding of the four (or five) thousand and the miraculous draught of fishes. The clear purpose of the stories of the raising from the dead of Jairus’s daughter, the widow’s son at Naim and Lazarus is to present Jesus as Lord over life and death. It is the nature miracles which turn out to be secondary accretions to the original tradition.

“The result of all this is that we must describe many of the gospel miracle stories as legendary. Legends of this sort should be examined less for their historical than for their theological content. They say something, not about individual facts of saving history, but about the single saving event which is Jesus Christ. To show that certain miracles cannot be ascribed to the earthly Jesus does not mean that they have no theological or kerygmatic significance…The probability is that we need not take the so-called ‘nature miracles’ as historical.” (Jesus the Christ, p. 90-91)

“The almost universal opinion today is that in their present form at least these passages are prophecies after the event. They are post-Easter interpretations of Jesus’ death and not authentic sayings. That applies particularly to the third prophecy, which gives very precise details of the actual course of the Passion. If Jesus had foretold his death and Resurrection as clearly as that, the flight of the disciples, their disappointment and their initial refusal to accept the evidence of the Resurrection would have been completely incomprehensible.” (Jesus the Christ, p. 114-115)

This kind of Biblical exegesis was hilariously lampooned a hundred and more years ago by Chesterton in The Flying Inn, a book which is always worth a read.

A Cardinal of the Catholic Church? The Devil's mouthpiece. St Nicholas, I think, would have dealt him a quick smack in the teeth.

The concrete boots? I could find a use for them, strengthening my kicking muscles.

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Fry's opinions are in no way more significant or interesting than something a dog has deposited on the pavement, which I must take care to walk around.