Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

Hello, everyone. Our flights were on time, and the train from London was almost so, and we arrived just in time for supper last night. I then went to bed at 2000 local time, and slept for 14 hours. I managed to get up and went to work. It is a gloomy day here, but [...]

Mrs Bear and I are heading out tomorrow, early evening, for 9 nights in the UK. We are heading to Heathrow through Halifax, and then on Monday we shall take the train up to Edinburgh where we will spend six nights. Next Sunday 3 June will take the train back to London to the Tavistock [...]

Resisters are us.
Toronto Sun
May 26, 2007
OK, admit it. You’ve probably resisted. Yes you did, you naughty little resister. Because earlier this month was Marxism 2007: A Festival of Resistance in Toronto. And we were all as excited as a leftist poet with a government grant.
The website for the jamboree was [...]

But go ahead and try. Here is the post.
And there is an update here.
Tell me, please. What happens to a person before he or she can support this kind of radical perversion of a society?
Go ahead, tell me. Please.

First, there is John Ray: (Scroll down to the Muslim Terror of Sexuality.)
THE MUSLIM TERROR OF SEXUALITY
The men of Islam are obsessed with sex beyond even the wildest imaginings of the Western male’s mind. And the obsession is far from healthy and even further from reality. We frequently joke about men’s preoccupation with sex [...]

ROME, MAY 4, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Those who want to ordain women to the priesthood manifest a failure to recognize the dignity of women, said an expert in moral theology and women’s issues.
Pia de Solenni asserted this during her April 27 conference at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
De Solenni won the Pontifical [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite attempts by pro-homosexual advocates to paint the homosexual lifestyle as just another, normal, and healthy lifestyle choice, the FDA has renewed its 1983 policy that gay men cannot donate blood, due to the high-risk nature of living an active homosexual lifestyle.
This past Wednesday the FDA stated that, despite mounting opposition [...]

Progress on an ecumenical front. Thanks to VirtueOnline.
Here is the lead:
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND UNITED EPISCOPAL CHURCH SIGN COMMUNION AGREEMENT
Official Press Statement
On Ascension Day, May 17, 2007, The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) and the United Episcopal Church (UECNA) entered into a communion agreement. Archbishop Stephen Reber of the UECNA and Archbishop Mark Haverland of the [...]

You may recollect an outstanding essay from Fjordman about the growing distance between the political views of the ruling elites and the masses. The elites are insulated from the everyday life experiences of the common folk. It is they who have to deal with the worst issues arising from uncontrolled and imprudent immigration, &c. He [...]

Pirates attack 2 Navy warships from Norfolk in the Indian Ocean
By STEVE STONE, The Virginian-Pilot
© March 19, 2006
Last updated: 5:14 PM

Updates, photos and video from the Associated Press

A dozen suspected pirates on a small fishing boat became prisoners Saturday after they opened fire on two Norfolk-based Navy warships [...]