Speaking of the Pope and religious values, Daniel Pipes gave a speech in Australia last night (actually it's tonight, Monday, but it's already tomorrow over there, if you follow, so it's the morning after the speaking engagement the night before) discussing what he sees as the three options for Europe - in his words, "Muslims dominating, Muslims rejected or harmonious integration." The first is basically the Steyn America Alone option. The second is Ralph Peters' contrarian view: Relax, there'll never be a Muslim Europe. The old fascist tendencies will reassert themselves and there'll be blood in the streets, mass murder, etc. Or, as The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto deftly summarized this optimistic view: "The Glass Is One-Sixteenth Full." The fascist resurgence - the strong man on a horse - is appealing to a certain segment but delusional: Jean-Marie Le Pen is in his eighties; the strong man is too old to get on the horse; Continental geriatro-neo-Nazis tottering on walkers aren't going to be ethnically cleansing cities full of 19 year old Muslims.
The first is basically the Steyn America Alone option.
The second is Ralph Peters' contrarian view: Relax, there'll never be a Muslim Europe. The old fascist tendencies will reassert themselves and there'll be blood in the streets, mass murder, etc. Or, as The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto deftly summarized this optimistic view: "The Glass Is One-Sixteenth Full." The fascist resurgence - the strong man on a horse - is appealing to a certain segment but delusional: Jean-Marie Le Pen is in his eighties; the strong man is too old to get on the horse; Continental geriatro-neo-Nazis tottering on walkers aren't going to be ethnically cleansing cities full of 19 year old Muslims.
Yup, mainstream conservatism in America - a full blown Nazi resurgence in Europe, complete with genocide is seen as a hopeful vision. I think I'm going to be sick.
And it's not as though Europe is in the midst of Marxist rebellion at the moment, being ruled by Brown, Berlusconi, Sarkozy, and Merkel. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
What was Churchill's whole shtick, by the way? I know he was angry about the Indians, but I never figured out what it was, exactly, that he wanted, because the coverage was just non-stop "Churchill Hates America, Freedom and Kittens" bullshit. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Hell, they even tell me Steve Clemons is a leftist.
Where this leaves the actual radicals, I don't know.
you are the media you consume.
I suppose I could whip up a personal narrative on how I (mostly) beat this out of my own system.
Incidentally, another nice example of double standards is the treatment of Venezuela and Columbia. In both cases you have a genuinely popular and democratically elected leader with strong authoritarian tendencies. One harasses his opponents and applies heavy governmental pressure on the opposing media. The other does the same - plus has ties to death squads who kill and terrorize the opposition. Expressing sympathy for the former is a mark of dangerous radicalism and hatred for Freedom. Hailing the latter as a champion of Freedom is de rigeur among the center and the right.
I spent quite a bit of time in that country and it was an amazing place
there were a few things that surprised me about it:
Considering where you live, you must have heard Kolumbien. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
don't ever drive in Colombia unless you have piloted in Formula 1
Why? Is no overtaking allowed? "It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
lots of those roadside memorials in Colombia...
... and Columbia.
The school or the space shuttle? ;) WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Gotta watch out for those death squads of political correctness crushing dissent on campus.
I know a story of a person who lived in a small village in Colombia and returned from studying abroad. The local priest asked him to teach English to the parishioners, but the guy declined because he didn't want to be involved with anything with the Church (but didn't say that - he declined politely).
A few days later, he was in a shop, when the shopkeeper told him that there were people outside waiting to kill him when he got out because he had dishonoured the priest. He slipped out the back and left, never to return.
This war between right and left in Colombia has been going on for 50 years.
Sigh... one can hope. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Oruse exclusively 'Christians' to describe the inhabitants of the US - it would actually be a lot more accurate and relevant. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
When I was in then West Germany, where racial hatred then focused on "Turks" (and refugees), I made the experience that I am a Turk if I open my mouth and don't speak German. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
if you can't, you're an Anglo even if you have a French name
if you speak French like Jérôme, you're in trouble ;-)
he was very disappointed.
(ok, not really sure how to represent a Swiss accent in writing)
Surely you mean:
if you speak French, like Jérôme, you're in trouble ;-)
Comprende?
this explains Jérôme's mainly female entourage!
in the blogosphere, many DKosers and practically all Eurotribians, non?
If you speak French, then you're in trouble
"like Jérôme" provides no additional information in that sentence if you only use me as a notional Frenchman with no identifiable accent; otherwise it suggests that it is the way I speak specifically which would get one in trouble. But maybe that's what you mean? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
no, I only used you as an example but meant all Frenchmen
if you speak French with the same accent as Jérôme, you're in trouble. they think French people are arrogant,
Indeed, they are... "Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char
