Readers, for the last year or so I’ve set the blog to show a summary of each post which you then click into as shown below.
For the years before that I just showed the full text like you see now.
I personally engage more with full text displays because I read as I scroll, so even if I’m skipping, I do at least pick up the gist of the post.
Do you have a preference? Does one view “feel easier” to you?
Let me know.
Dear Readers, thank you for your nominations. The day after I posted, I received notification that Awful Intent is now an official 2016 Whitney Award nominee, and that was all due to you.
We’ll know in February if it makes it as a finalist, so stay tuned…
Great video of a speech by Dr. Sebastian Gorka about defeating Global Jihad below. A few excerpts before you watch, bold emphasis is mine.
“The White House was telling us publicly, “Not a problem, ISIS is fine, not an issue.” But our friends, especially inside the FBI, were saying we have a problem, and as a result, we sat down and for 3 months we collected all the unclassified information on what ISIS is doing in American, and here are the facts.”
“Have a look at that chart. It is a bar graph of every terrorist Jihadi plot in America in the last 15 years. Do you see the problem? The graph is going in the wrong direction. They’re doing more, not less.”
“…body bags are not a good metric of success. They weren’t during that little tete-a-tete in South Asian called the Vietnam War and they’re not much of a better metric today. This war should only be fought about 25 percent in the physical domain. Ultimate victory will happen where? In the mental and spiritual when the enemy no longer believes their own ideology and therefore loses the will to fight us just as happened with the Soviet Union.”
Which is why the kill-the-leaders-of-Al-Qaeda-with-drone-strikes plan all by itself will never win this war.
“…We are not at war with Islam. That is a fallacious and dangerous concept. Why? No. 1, do you remember the video of the fighter pilot in the cage burnt alive? Yes. What religion was he? Was he an Episcopalian? No. He was a Muslim. In fact, if you run the numbers, the majority of victims of Jihadis in the world today are in fact Muslims. Yeah. I mean, they’ve decimated Christian, Yazidis, Jews, yes, but by sheer numbers and proportions they are far more likely to kill you if you’re a Muslim who disagrees with them than anybody else. So we have to do what? We have to empower those Muslims who want to be our friends to help defeat them. The Jordanians, the Egyptians, those countries who for the last seven-and-a-half years have been betrayed by this administration. It is not tenable to have white skin or black skin or yellow-skinned Americans be the face of victory against the Jihadists. We want it to be fellow Muslims. We want it to be the King of Jordan. We want it to be President Sisi. That’s when you get victory. When the Muslims destroy the Jihadis.”
“…The way I explain this in terms of visualization is, imagine if one of you, right now, left this building and went to downtown Miami and walked down the largest boulevard waving a giant swastika banner. Okay. You would not be cool to say the least. Okay. We have to do the same thing for the black flag of Jihad. It is a counter-messaging issue. We have to make it unattractive. Whether or not the end state is transcendentally informed or not is irrelevant. We have to associate that image with failure. Once we have done that we will be winning.”
Send Frank, Sheriff Hood, and the Knitters of Death club to kick some award patootie!Here’s how: go to: http://whitneyawards.com/ and click “Nominate” at the top.
Enter a bit of info and boom! But this needs to happen before December 31st.
The Whitney Awards are open for the public to nominate books they think are great and which are written by LDS authors (this is where your voice is heard, Faithful Reader). Those books that get at least 5 nominations are read and rated by a panel of judges. The judges then send on the finalists in each category to the Academy for voting.
Servant won an award in 2009. Awful Intent is doing well, and if the reviews piling up are any indication, it could win another.
Please take a few moments to send Frank to kick some award patootie.
It’s time for Frank to bring home a trophy.
So I lived for almost two years in the Netherlands and Belgium and learned the Dutch language, which is full of delights. Today’s delight is billenkoek.
Now koek means cake. A koekje (small cake) is a cookie. Boterkoek is butter cake, this delicious sweet, to-die-for Dutch version of shortbread.
So what does billen mean?
Back in the day when I’d visit various Dutchies (the people, not political territories), they’d always ask if I was thirsty. And very frequently when I’d ask for water, someone would say, “Water? The frogs wash their billen in that.”
Billen means bum as in behind, butt, buttocks. Bil is singular, one half of the full billen, if you will.
So what do you think a billenkoek is?
No, not that.
It’s a spanking.
“Honey, you’ll clean the dishes, or you’re going to get a little bum cake. What will it be?”
Gotta love the Dutch.
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