Posted on 08/18/2012 4:07:37 AM PDT by C19fan
Americans, according to a Winston Churchill quote of uncertain provenance, always do the right thing after theyve exhausted all other possibilities. More verifiably, Sir Winston, upon being asked if he had any criticism of the United States, replied tersely: Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat.
But that was then. Today America is a land of two-ply toilet paper and one-ply newspapers. Being made of sterner stuff than Churchills posterior, the eco-Left want to ban two-ply bathroom tissue on environmental grounds, which would devastate the economy of Canada, whence comes most American bathroom tissue, at least until the Canadians, being the House of Saud of toilet paper, start shipping it to China, as theyre now doing with their oil ever since Obama told them to go lay pipe somewhere else.
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He certainly did, and rightly so. The phrase “cutting off your nose to spite your face” has come to mind a lot of late.
Another fan-girl in the I Love Steyn chorus.
“Our elites have sunk into a boutique decadence of moral preening entirely disconnected from reality:”
Only Steyn can write like this!
EVERY Mark Steyn is classic Mark Steyn! :-)
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