[Louis Foxwell]

Good morning fellow FReepers. Once again the smell of burning rubber permeates the air in Stockholm. As always it is inflamed by heads full of mush encouraging other heads full of demons.
Remembering our troops this weekend.
Lou

[corkoman]

Thanks for the post. DG/SK once again... masterful command of the subject and the language.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Swedes have to be rethinking their invitation to these uncivilized people.
‘Bout time we did, too.

[left that other site]

Good Morning!

The notion of a painting in a museum or a scientific principle or an eagle soaring over a lake having value is an abstract notion to you. Value to you is your own identity. A painting is valuable if you own it. If it sits in a museum, then you can either steal it or burn down the museum. The principle is worthless unless you can cash in on it. The eagle is worthless unless you can kill it or identify with it.

About ten years ago, there was a phony email going around about "Surah 9:11" in which an Eagle gets revenge for an Islamic attack on America. Although Eagles are mentioned frequently in The BIBLE, they do not appear in the Koran AT ALL. So I widened my search for Eagles through all the hadiths and finally found ONE reference in ONE commentary, that of Bukhari. It was buried in a treatise listing the ransom amounts one should ask for various stolen or kidnapped items.

.I am NOT making this up.

[caww]

<.....Civilization is not a product, it’s a process.....>

<... You can’t export it.... You can ship a bunch of cars to Somalia,... but you can’t ship the process that makes a culture build a car.

......You can hand out PhD’s to them based on knowledge and test taking skills, but you can’t endow them with a respect for ideas.

..... You can set up democratic elections in Afghanistan and Egypt, but you can’t export the process that explains why the elections shouldn’t be abolished after the side with the most guns wins.

That’s just as true of a lot of the second and third generation immigrants who are no more Swedes than the South Africans became Africans or the English settlers of the American Colonies became Indians.

.....They may own iPhones, dye their hair and listen to the same music that you do, but they often don’t have the same assumptions........ They bought the product, but not the process....... They can drive cars and when they get bored, they can burn them, because they aren’t their cars. They’re your cars.

.....And the hair dye and the music and the democratic elections aren’t theirs either...... Those are things they took from you .....and if they get bored with them, they’ll put on Hijabs, ban music and go back to tyranny, because what they have is a product, not a process.

..... They walked into the movie in the middle and they like some of it,.... but it’s confusing and they don’t understand why the hero doesn’t just shoot the villain in the head,... take his woman.... and then raise a dozen children in his lair......>

..And ta boot...they don’t want to understand it!