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Point of No Return (Mark Steyn)
NRO ^ | Oct. 25, 2008 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/25/2008 8:49:23 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde

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To: jackv

I also wonder about his trademark” the “O” filled with the flag motif, which is on the floor, and the rising sun, which is the symbol of China.

Besides, what other candidates actually have a logo?


21 posted on 10/25/2008 9:15:11 AM PDT by keats5 ("I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing."- Rudy)
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To: tonyinv
If every one is going to get what's coming to them from the government gravy train - who is going to drive the locomotive?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

22 posted on 10/25/2008 9:16:08 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Mr. Blonde
I love Steyn and I agree with him alot.

However, I'm not sure about this:
And the wall came down not because “the world stood as one” but because a few courageous people stood against the conventional wisdom of the day.

To God be the glory! or was it a curse? It seems like we are more like the Communist East now than they are like us.

23 posted on 10/25/2008 9:17:11 AM PDT by Theophilus (Abortion: #1 National Security Issue, #1 Economic Issue, #1 Moral Issue)
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To: goldstategop

We will be ripe for a radical islamic take-over. Steyn is one of my favorites ..perhaps he will follow up with the consequences of America’s surrender to global consensus.


24 posted on 10/25/2008 9:18:47 AM PDT by caffe (please, no more consensus)
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To: TXBlair
Whoops, that sounded a little Concerned Trollish. Not my intention!! My point is just that our fellow Americans need to wake up and see what's going on in Europe, and then have the good sense to recognize that it's actually a problem, and one that we are creeping toward ourselves. Be vigilant!
25 posted on 10/25/2008 9:19:20 AM PDT by TXBlair (I'd pay to see The Great One rip The One a New One.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

I have a healthy man-crush on Steyn.

When we re-establish the Republic after the Obamatards and their RINO pets finally finish destroying it, I am nominating Steyn for Secretary of Logic and Persuasion.


26 posted on 10/25/2008 9:21:16 AM PDT by Infidel Puppy
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To: Mr. Blonde
If a majority of Americans want that, we holdouts must respect their choice

For the first time ever, I disagree with Mark Steyn.

We holdouts may have to live with their choice; but I will never respect it.

27 posted on 10/25/2008 9:23:00 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: keats5

bill ayres was on BOR last night wearing a t-shirt with a big red star also.
These guys are trying to dupe the American people...all in plain sight!!!!


28 posted on 10/25/2008 9:23:05 AM PDT by jackv
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To: Infidel Puppy

I really wish he were US-born. Talk about someone who could win in a landslide. Being right and funny at the same time can be very hard to pull off. He does it with ease.


29 posted on 10/25/2008 9:23:53 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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30 posted on 10/25/2008 9:26:12 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Mr. Blonde

Steyn is on target once again.


31 posted on 10/25/2008 9:28:59 AM PDT by Gritty (Obama's rise is a testament to the monarchical urge even in a two-century old republic - Mark Steyn)
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To: bert
We don’t need to accept the rat domination. It can be overthrown

I tend to agree more with Dr. Sowell's assessment of a "point of no return".

America is currently on a path to destruction. With Obama and a RAT super-majority in the Congress, it will be full speed ahead.

Once they gain full control, they will pass laws to ensure they never lose power again. I'm not sure how they can be stopped once it reaches that point.

32 posted on 10/25/2008 9:29:31 AM PDT by comebacknewt
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To: Mr. Blonde

“If a majority of Americans want that, we holdouts must respect their choice.”

Not if, in the proccess of doing whatever it is they want to do, they toss the Constitution into the trash.


33 posted on 10/25/2008 9:29:50 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Mr. Blonde
In the words of Publishers’ Clearing House, he may already have won!

Perhaps a closer analogy would be the fiasco of the 2000 election. The news media were broadcasting that some polls were closed, that Gore had won, so why bother going? Personally, I think they should have been prosecuted. They were not reporting, they were attempting to fix an election.

“People of the world,” declared Senator Obama sonorously at his self-worship service in Germany, “look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.”

I'll go with Reagan and Thatcher. There is a distinct difference between being a cheerleader or a real leader.

34 posted on 10/25/2008 9:30:59 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: Mr. Blonde

The end of the republic. America will no longer be the country founded by our forefathers, and will no longer lay claim to a constitutional government. Freedom will have been surrendered for security. The last vestige that will be ripped to shreds by an Obama led America will be to do away entirely with elections, and replace them with a sham exercise, like Cuba. This may already have been done.


35 posted on 10/25/2008 9:31:11 AM PDT by Spok (The Sinopian Sage)
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To: jackv
The five-pointed red star, a pentagram without the inner pentagon, is a symbol of communism as well as broader socialism in general.

And Obama's buddy Bill Ayers, a self-described "small-c communist," flaunts his red-star pin as a fashion accessory.

From a 12/9/2002 NYT story about his son (adopted with consent of his biological jailed domestic terrorist parents):

"A red-star revolutionary pin on his jacket, his Weatherman tattoo (and 17 others) hidden from sight, Mr. Ayers smiled as he watched his adopted son, fresh from his Rhodes interview, in the suit that Ms. Dohrn had helped pick."

And most recently he sports the red star pin on his shirt, in a video of this week's O'Reilly's talking points segment (in which a young Fox reporter does an excellent job of politely harassing a domestic terrorist who repeatedly bombed police stations, who now, in monumental irony, calls the police to protect from the dreaded Fox News boogeyman.)

36 posted on 10/25/2008 9:32:41 AM PDT by browardchad
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To: caffe
We will be ripe for a radical islamic take-over.

Very true. A financially decimated USA is going to be an awfully inviting target to our enemies.

I have zero confidence that Obama would deal appropriately with the threat. My guess is he would surrender without a shot ever being fired.

37 posted on 10/25/2008 9:33:34 AM PDT by comebacknewt
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To: browardchad

Send out mass e-mail messages with this attached!!!!

ayres and obama are probably laughing at how easily they’re duping the American people!!!!


38 posted on 10/25/2008 9:36:07 AM PDT by jackv
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To: Mr. Blonde
One of Steyn's more brilliant pieces.

For a vigilant republic of limited government and self-reliant citizens, it [Obama's election] would be a Declaration of Dependence.

My only, teeny, issue is where he writes...I think Obama will be content to be King Barack the Benign, Spreader of Wealth and Healer of Planets.

I hope to heck I'm wrong, but I worry that Marxist Obama's handlers won't be content with anything less than King Obama the MALIGNANT, confiscator of property, wealth, and Constitutional rights.

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39 posted on 10/25/2008 9:37:44 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Mr. Blonde
If a majority of Americans want that, we holdouts must respect their choice.

A fabulous piece by Mark Steyn, except for that last bit. If a majority of Americans want socialism, I may acknowledge their right to choose it. But I will never, not ever respect their choice.

40 posted on 10/25/2008 9:39:28 AM PDT by lonevoice (Ich bin ein plumber)
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