Succinct

Via The Thinking Housewife

“Let’s face it: Christianity and Islam are eternal enemies. Each makes uncompromising claims of exclusive truth. But this doesn’t mean that the secularist-Zionist war on the Islamic world serves any Christian interest or deserves Christian support.”

— Joseph Sobran

Square One Mississauga: New Babylon and its Twisted Tower of Babel

[Photo By: KPA]
Front building (part of a "twin" structure):

Absolute World is a Residential condominiums twin tower skyscraper complex in the five tower Absolute City Centre development in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The project was built by Fernbrook Homes and Cityzen Development Group...at 50 and 56 storeys. [Source: Wikipedia]

And more:

In Mississauga, Canada’s sixth largest city, Beijing-based MAD saw fit to embrace not only a global trend for curvaceous skyscrapers, but also for satellite developments to express the town’s individuality. [Source]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tower of Babel, in biblical literature, structure built in the land of Shinar (Babylonia) some time after the Deluge. The story of its construction, given in Genesis 11:1–9, appears to be an attempt to explain the existence of diverse human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and a tower “with its top in the heavens.” God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The city was never completed, and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.[Source: Tower of Babel, in biblical literature, structure built in the land of Shinar (Babylonia) some time after the Deluge. The story of its construction, given in Genesis 11:1–9, appears to be an attempt to explain the existence of diverse human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and a tower “with its top in the heavens.” God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The city was never completed, and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.
[Source: Britannica.com]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Languages spoken in Mississauga

Below is information from City of Mississauga: Population, Demographics and Housing: Updated July 2017

The percentage (3.1% here, 1.8% there) quickly adds up to the overall 26% (3/4) of languages spoken in Mississauga that are neither French nor English! And these are the ones that made the cut.

In terms of raw numbers, significant portions of the population speak languages other than English (or French), and which are not one of the major world languages like Spanish or Italian. For example, 0.3%, or 69,000, of the Ontario population speaks Farsi. This information is from the 2011 census. By the 2016 census the number has grown by 20,000 to 80,000 Farsi speakers. This is a 33% growth in five years. How this occurred is not clear and is probably a combination of births and new immigrants. But the significant information is that an additional 20,000 people declared Farsi to be the language they speak most often in their homes by 2016.

Now think of those numbers in terms of all those 1.8%, 3.1%, 4.2% increases in languages that are mostly from Asia and Africa. And these are people who say that these are languages most often spoken in their homes!

At some point there has to be discords in communication. I have written numerous times of lack of understanding (or awareness) of words and phrases by shop keepers and sales women (usually younger women) of non-White origin who DON'T understand what I am asking them. And these could be second or third generation immigrants. The kinds of language and communication may not include some old (they may call it archaic) idioms and vocabulary. It is disconcerting because I never know when they may slip and close shut the doors of communication.

And as ethnic groups invariably start to group together as their numbers increase, they begin to speak together in their own jargons and accents, and start introducing words and phrases from their lands and origins within their English communication. English becomes modified into some kind of "patois" with regional influences: Indian patois; Chinese patois; Arabic patois (regional - Syrian patois, Egyptian patois, etc.). And so on.

So a modern Babylon in Multicultural Mississauga is a distinct reality. Not now and maybe not in ten years but somewhere down the future.

Van Cleef and Arpels Delivary

[Photo By: KPA]

Jungle Lion

Patience keeping Guard


https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Edward_Clark_Potter
Sculptor

1 Corinthians 8:9-12

9 But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?
11 And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
12 But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Still Life in Yellow

Hat trunk
“Volez, Voguez, Voyagez - Louis Vuitton”
At the American Stock Exchange Building
New York City
October 27th, 2017 through January 7th, 2018
[Photo by: KPA]

-------------------------------------------------------------------

I always write (or take a photo of) the corresponding label/description of any object I take a picture of, but I rushed through the Louis Vuitton "Volez, Voguez, Voyagez" show last November, which was magical in its own way seeing those beautifully crafted objects through a whirlwind "volez" tour. I meant to go back but didn't have the time.

The best I can say is that the yellow hat from above is from around the 1920 based on the hat itself and other tags on similar objects. And the trunk is a "hat trunk," as far as I can remember, with special compartments for various hat/head-related accessories.

Hat Duel

Why would a guy with a baseball cap show up at an exhibition like this one (even if it was free)?


Hat Duel
“Volez, Voguez, Voyagez - Louis Vuitton”
At the American Stock Exchange Building
New York City
October 27th, 2017 through January 7th, 2018
[Photo By: KPA]

Trudeau: Peeling off the Layers

PM Pierre Trudeau at the Vancouver Gay Pride Parade
With his wife and three children, August 2016

The Globe and Mail's Andre Coyne on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a recent discussion on Steve Paikin's The Agenda:

[Trudeau] is a weird mixture of...occasional flower child naivete and occasional just deep cynicism.

Listen to the panel (or read the transcript) here.

Coyne elaborates further in an editorial on the National Post:

But it may well have something to do with [Trudeaus'] patented mix of deep cynicism and flower-child naiveté — the kind that led him to name China’s "basic dictatorship" as the system of government he most admires, the kind that emerged in that embarrassing encomium to the late Fidel Castro that never managed to mention political prisoners or mass executions.

The Feminist War on Marriage

Laura Wood, of The Thinking Housewife, was interviewed in January 2018 by Judith Sharpe from In the Spirit of Chartres.

Here is the full hour-long interview, The Feminist War on Marriage, which is available for free download for about two more weeks now. A CD can also be purchased here.

From the In the Spirit of Chartres website:

ISOC happily brings you its twelfth year of interviews with traditional authors, scholars, publishers, apologists and more from around the world on a wide range of subjects.

God bless and a happy, holy, blessed New Year to all.

Hat Duel

Hat Duel
“Volez, Voguez, Voyagez - Louis Vuitton”
At the American Stock Exchange Building
New York City
October 27th, 2017 through January 7th, 2018
[Photo By: KPA]

Mississauga: The City of/for Immigrants

The Visual Arts Mississauga 40th Annual Juried Show is being hosted in the Art Gallery of Mississauga from January 11 - February 10, 2018. The winners were announced last week (January 11) at the opening reception.


And The winner is:

Since We Last Spoke [by Sophie Sabet] is an autobiographical three-channel video installation that explores the intricacies and tribulations of a modern Iranian-Canadian home. Sabet invites the viewer to witness the impact of the migration experience through an intimate portrait of her own family. Employing personal video footage and recorded conversations between family members, the installation reveals a family coping with interpersonal and cultural frictions caused by displacement.

Bio:

Sophie Sabet is an emerging media artist working predominantly in video. As an Iranian-born woman raised in Canada, her work focuses on exploring identity and the influences of the diasporic experience within the domestic sphere. She holds a BA in Art History from Queens University.

And another reviewer writes: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.aceart.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/noor-sabet-response.pdf

The setting(her parent’s bedroom) heightens the intimacy of the memories. By asking them to revisit the letters, she has found a way to insert herself into and also witness the stories that lay underneath the skin of the everydays that took place behind closed doors.

[...]

As Sophie attempts to revisit the everyday of her parent’s past she hollows out her own place within the diasporic drama. Always the documenter, she restricts her position to that of listening and recording, far away from any meaningful participation in the dialogue. For me, as her audience and fellow diasporic body, it is this hollowness that is the centre and strength of this project. In pointing to the holes within the domestic sound envelope, Sophie reminds us of the limits of empathetic witnessing.

For some of us the envelope of our parents’ culture is often not enough to cover us and give us new life. While it is important work to bear witness to the histories of our parents, in turn we must learn to respond with and fill up our own agency. So for the moment, let us hold on to the “cross-cultural”in hopes that it can prompt us to cut across.

The artcle s wrtten by another Mississauga diasporic: Nahed Mansour. She exhibited at the Art Gallery of Mississauga's VAM’s 38th annual juried show in 2016 with an installation titled Satellite Telefizyoon:

Nahed Mansour’s challenging and thought-provoking video installation Satellite Telefizyoon received the AGM Curator’s Award.

https://www.mississauga.com/whatson-story/6243447-exhibition-at-agm-rare-opportunity-for-regional-artists/


Nahed Mansour, her AGM Curator's Award for with her video installation 'Satellite Telefizyoon',
at the opening reception of the Visual Arts Mississauga Annual Juried Show
at the Art Gallery of Mississauga on January 14 2016.

It is fascinating. All of the online sources on Sabet's Since We Last Spoke are password protected or exclusive. Of course this means that she discloses personal, and even harmful or embarrassing, material regarding her family. For the sake of ART, all is permissible. Actually this s a whoring off of one's family and personal stories. Sabet most certainly gets all kinds of governmental artists'' grant money to execute her immigrant/ non-white "art." She has to make a living out of all of this.

Traditionally, all material is public at some point. That means to the GENERAL PUBLIC, not some exclusive gallery voyeurs. And Sabet needs this crawling team to view her work. She is ready to show the all now for her grants next year. The big names come to see such exhibitions including media.....

And no-one esle goes to galleres or museums any more. At least those that matter. Iranians (other than loyal family members who know that her daily bread (and theirs?) depends on such exhibitionism.

Fedora on the Job

Joseph Mitchell's Fedora
Exhibit at the New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (42nd Street)
From the Manuscripts and Archives Division (acquired in 2015)
November 2017
[Photo By: KPA]

Postmodern Christians

Postmodern Christians (despite all fervent arguments to the contrary) LOL!

The Power of Woman Saving the World in Haute Couture

Nicole Kidman is coiffed and made up by a backstage team of who knows how many so that she can come out onto the Golden Globes stage looking like this.



So tells us this Nicole fan, inadvertently hitting the mark with Kidman's fairy dress. The Time's Out black has channeled darker forces where women stand with uplifted fists in flimsy glittering dresses to attack men and society. It only takes one (male) engineer to turn off those lights at the Globes and render Kidman aflutter. Imagine going to war dressed like a fairy!

The Australian actress gave us a sneak preview of Clare Waight Keller’s debut Spring 2018 Haute Couture collection for Givenchy, wearing a bewitching black gown.

"Wow. The Power of women! Huh!" Nicole mumbles as she accepts her globe

The dress is a Givenchy custom made gown whose price tag is off the charts. No ordinary "Time Outer" could ever in her dreams afford wear a dress like this.

And her accessories are:

Fred Leighton [jewelry], including Art Deco diamond earrings set in platinum; an Art Deco emerald, diamond and black enamel bangle; a 6.10-carat Art Deco old European diamond ring set in platinum; and an Art Deco diamond and platinum ring.

It's Time's Out with a six-figure wardrobe.

Here's a rundown of her hair helmet and makeup war paint:



- Her hair is that now popular manufactured disheveled look promoted by couture coiffeurs
- Cream or moisturizer on the skin
- Primer for her face to "prime" or prepare the skin and allow makeup to stay longer on the skin so it doesn't run in the heat of the spotlight
- Concealer to cover any dark shadows around her eyes or dark spots on her skin
- A foundation base to even out any flaws on her skin
- A highlighter cream to add glow to her face, especially around the cheekbones
- A rose-colored rouge to give her cheeks a youthful blush
- Eye-shadow primer to prepare the lids and lets the shadow stay longer on the lids so it doesn't run in the heat of the spotlight
- Baby blue eye-shadow to bring out her eyes
- Silver glitter eye-shadow on the corners and the top of her lids to make her eyes sparkle
- A pre-mascara treatment for her lashes to protect them from the mascara
- Black waterproof mascara
- False eyelashes, or lash extensions
- Lip "plumper" cream for fuller lips
- "Primer" for the lips to prevent lipstick (or lip gloss) from "flaring out" or from fading
- A lip liner slightly darker than the lipstick or gloss to contour the lips again to prevent lipstick (or lip gloss) from "flaring out"
- Lipstick sightly lighter that the liner applied to the lips using a lip brush
- Lip gloss slightly paler than the Lipstick to add a shimmer to her lips
- And the whole face is sprayed with a makeup setting spray

That's it!

But nothing must be overdone. We don't want her looking like those old, spent Hollywood under cakes makeup, who get called "legends" before they're even dead.

And of course the mandatory black nail polish, with at least a layer of top coating plus two layers of polish to make sure the goth polish stays on and no nail chips off.

Our fashion commentators elaborate:

The dress blackout thing worked out really well for Miss Nicole – at least, from our perspective, since we’ve spent years telling her (i.e., impotently ranting at her image) that she’s one of those rare birds who really come to life when she’s wearing black. Give her a little shimmer and sparkle, a little ruffle and romanticism; render it all in Disney-Witch Black and she never fails to look stunning. We understand why she wouldn’t want to step out in black every time she steps out, but we sure wish she’d stay in the darker end of the spectrum when making her public style choices, instead of defaulting to the washed-out, tea-stained romantic looks she tends to favor more often than not.

At first, we found all the foofaraw on the back a little distracting and silly, but once we decided they were fairy wings, we decided we loved it. Sparkle on, Goth Tinker Bell.

I don't think it is any accident that fairy dust and black goth are the theme this year as these women declared that black was their dress code.

There is a nefarious force creeping its way upward into our world ready, to capture and manipulate any anomalies. Fake News rapes and Woman Power are the perfect ruse to destabilize our world and Godly order to let the serpent in.

The globe has what is actually a reel of film looping around it in a sinewy curve. It is a snake with its head peering at the top. If we wait any longer, we might see its tongue flickering at us. Those Eves in black have already fallen for its charm.



And here is the the perfect man for the Modern Abused Hollywood Warrior Woman:


Keith Urban

Pslam 103

Allan Gardens Conservatory, Toronto
Dusk
Christmas Day, 2010
[Photo By: KPA]


Pslam 103

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
21 Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
22 Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.