Draft
Did anyone not see this coming?
Sunday, November 19, 2006
France Revisited
French Violence
Quite apart from considerations of Islamic Fascism, one can't help but recall the sneers directed at the U.S. by Europeans during the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.
The U.S. was castigated as ignorant, racist and beneath contempt. This by a Europe which was racially homogeneous by U.S. standards. As the racial component has grown, so has the racism. Sneering does little good, however, so I'll just wish them well as they seek their own way out of a difficult situation.
Quite apart from considerations of Islamic Fascism, one can't help but recall the sneers directed at the U.S. by Europeans during the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.
The U.S. was castigated as ignorant, racist and beneath contempt. This by a Europe which was racially homogeneous by U.S. standards. As the racial component has grown, so has the racism. Sneering does little good, however, so I'll just wish them well as they seek their own way out of a difficult situation.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Ban the Burqa in Holland?
Burqa Ban?
"The Dutch cabinet has backed a proposal by the country's immigration minister to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public places.
The burqa, a full body covering that also obscures the face, would be banned by law in the street, and in trains, schools, buses and the law courts.
The cabinet said burqas disturb public order, citizens and safety."
"The Dutch cabinet has backed a proposal by the country's immigration minister to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public places.
The burqa, a full body covering that also obscures the face, would be banned by law in the street, and in trains, schools, buses and the law courts.
The cabinet said burqas disturb public order, citizens and safety."
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
The Ass, er...Donkey Brays
Well, John Kerry's gaffe failed to sink his party's hopes for the House, and Nancy Pelosi Of San Francisco appears to be set to be the Speaker of the new House. Commentary centers on her being the first woman Speaker, yet I think we will all learn that she is may well be the most liberal Speaker ever.
The bright aside? Now that the election is over and the Democrats remindthe country of what they really are like, the 2008 election may well see them repudiated, along with whatever candidate they propose.
The bright aside? Now that the election is over and the Democrats remindthe country of what they really are like, the 2008 election may well see them repudiated, along with whatever candidate they propose.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Roosevelt on Wars of Civilization
The indispensable George Rutler From the Pastor (Bulletin of Our Saviour, 38th and Park NYC):
Quoting Theodore Roosevelt:
The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century."
End of Rutler's quote. More is here:
"During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any "social values" whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such "social values" today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader."
Funny how some folks get it, and some folks never will.
Quoting Theodore Roosevelt:
The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century."
End of Rutler's quote. More is here:
"During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any "social values" whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such "social values" today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader."
Funny how some folks get it, and some folks never will.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Kerry Continues to Annoy
The Joke is on Kerry
Okay, so it's all a joke about Bush being stupid. Only it can't be much of a joke, laughing about W's SAT scores and grades at Yale, in as much as Kerry has never released his SAT's and Bush had a higher GPA at Yale than did Kerry. Does this man never think about what he's saying?And he should be president why?
Okay, so it's all a joke about Bush being stupid. Only it can't be much of a joke, laughing about W's SAT scores and grades at Yale, in as much as Kerry has never released his SAT's and Bush had a higher GPA at Yale than did Kerry. Does this man never think about what he's saying?And he should be president why?
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