Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

I will be experimenting with the layout and content of both Blogs in the next little while.  Trying to make something that looks good and handles the longer writings I am planning for some content.  I’m trying to get this working across all of the social sites I use, the idea being write once – post many places.  That and solve the multiple posting problem on Facebook.

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism...

September 27, 2011 Obama Leads the Liberalism Parade By Joseph Ashby Beyond the realm of material things, liberalism is an ideology of conceit. The liberal believes that if he doesn't run the universe, everything will fall to pieces…. The reality is that long before liberals came to power, recessions ended, medicine advanced, and Americans were educated. Furthermore, we would continue to progress (and at a faster rate) without a Vishnuian political class which believes it must control the world. Read it all here

And we really wanted to see it – but there were these bikers…….. Beer

Macaulay, Gibbon, Plato etc. must train the muscles to wield that sword to the greatest effect. This is indeed a nice subdivision of the term "education". The result of one kind of learning is valued by what you know. Of the other by what you are. The latter is far more important - but it is useless in the total absence of the former. A judicious proportion should be observed. How many people forgot this! The education of the school-boy - and of nearly all undergraduates aims only at stocking the mind with facts. I have no ambition to "stifle my spark of intelligence under the weight of literary fuel" but I appreciate the power of facts. Hence my toil. From New-Wave Conservatives and the Lesson of Churchill   courtesy of American Thinker

Test from the iPad using new blogger software.

First try from my iPhone. Usually I write from the PCs, but this new iOs app is an interesting start. So I'll post a man's fairy tale and see how it goes.