The other alphabet is Inuit, based on Cree, which was constructed by the missionaries.
Handsome script, almost extra-terrestrial.
His Grace, prostrate on a polar bear skin rug.
I wonder if he was required to hunt it down himself to prove his worthiness for office?
No spokespersons for either PETA or the RomanCatholicWomenPriests were available.
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Plus, a deer-hunting nun.
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A polar bear skin rug?! I want that in my church, but mine is a spirit of Vatican II mess, so no. Almost had a conniption when our monsignor wore navy vestments for Mass last Advent. When we told my uncle, he almost had a heart attack and said, "Jesus Christ, has he become an Anglican?"
That script is very interesting. I can recognize uppercase deltas and lowercase sigmas from chemistry and physics, but they don't seem to correspond to "d" or "s". Very creative, though, hat tip to the missionaries.
I guess when it comes to countries, you need to pick what set of issues and national ills you're willing to live with. For all our problems, most countries have it as bad if not worse. Can't think of a country I would call "better off." And how close you can expect to come to lethal wildlife on a daily basis. Which rules out Australia in my book. :)
-Sean
Mr. Steyn hit it out of the park again with his most recent article. I was reduced to fits of laughter no less than three times in the span of two pages. Brilliant man. He seems to be in agreement with me that we've passed from a representative republic to a judiocracy. If Obamacare is repealed and the SCOTUS reinstates it, what do you think the reaction would be?
-Sean
Re rule by judges. Harold Covington's NW Republic has no judicial branch. Lawyers are outlawed and "judges" --who are required by constitution to sit on the same physical level as everyone else in the room-- are confined to findings of fact, without decision making power, the issue then being referred to the legislature or executive for action. Extreme but understandable.
Kinda like the idea of judges being confined to facts. Like, determining what is permitted under the Constitution, and what the provisions of the law in question are?
I would also add that a law can be no longer than ten pages of size 12 Times New Roman font, with a single blank line of space between unindented paragraphs. If only to save us the headache of trying to figure out what is in each bill. Could you imagine how disastrous "comprehensive marriage reform" would've been? Probably would've mandated the showing of gay propaganda films in schools as part of "sex education," maybe even created a federal holiday on the 9th of June. I can just picture it now, the televised national gay pride parade, complete with rubber gimps, leather men, drag queens, porn stars, and she-men performing top tier choreography to some pop starlet's latest #1 single. You know, for kids!
The picture of the nun and the deer is delightfully surreal. Reminds me of a nun calendar I saw once. July was a picture of nuns on a beach, their backs to the camara, staring at a breathtakingly stunning man walking out of the sea wearing a speedo. The picture was captioned, "And lead us not into temptation." Leave it to Catholics to skirt the line between virtue and vice, all while making tongue-in-cheek jokes about it!
-Sean
The script is a neat example of a syllabary, one where the vowels are indicated by which way you /turn/ the consonant. Which makes the writing rather dense. Apparently this was thought to work better than the Latin alphabet for Inuit because it has super-long words like "Isumaksaqsiurungnatsiarnirmik," but only three vowels.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/inuktitut.htm
--Nathan
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