Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 26 Oct 2015 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/26/2015 2:23:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Christian bakers have to bake gay wedding cakes, but Muslim truckers don't have to transport alcohol. Gotcha.

I'm sure Anthony Kennedy can explain it, but wouldn't it be quicker just to load America onto the truck and drive it off the cliff?

Then again, if you're a senior bureaucrat with the IRS and you regard conservatives as the spawn of Satan, you have complete freedom of conscience to screw them over as you wish.

~Every day the papers are full of stories that would have seemed extraordinary 20 years ago but are now depressingly routine. For example:

A rabbi and two of his congregants were stabbed outside a synagogue in Marseilles, France.

One of the victims in the Saturday-morning attack was stabbed several times in the abdomen and is in serious but not life-threatening condition, the French daily Le Figaro reported.

Police arrested the assailant, who shouted anti-Semitic epithets at the victims and reportedly was drunk at the time of the attack. According to Le Figaro, the assailant is known to local police and is considered mentally unstable.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:

1 posted on 10/26/2015 2:23:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan
Then again, if you're a senior bureaucrat with the IRS and you regard conservatives as the spawn of Satan, you have complete freedom of conscience to screw them over as you wish …
. . . which would be the IRS performing the actions of Satan.
2 posted on 10/26/2015 2:25:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

Tings, Dey Happen...


3 posted on 10/26/2015 2:27:14 PM PDT by Jim W N
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan
The US and Europe have blatantly become anti-Western.
Criminals, homosexuals and Muslims rule those regions. Productive, white, Christian citizens? Well ... we're not being rounded up into cattlecars quite yet, but give it time.

Amazing level of change in a very short period of time.

And I still know Liberals who will say, "What? You're crazy! Nothing has changed! It's just that you Conservatives have gone all crazy ever since Sarah Palin showed up. The only thing that's changed is YOU!"

4 posted on 10/26/2015 2:32:04 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

I guess a customer who is a protected class can make someone go against their religious convictions but a boss cannot make an employee go against their religious convictions. So I have to wonder would the trucking company get in trouble if they made an observant Jew work on the Sabbath?

Can the company fire the Muslim drivers if they are unable to find other drivers to make the delivery of alcohol. I know there are very strict federal laws about the hours truck drivers may be behind the wheel so not being able to find a driver is a real possibility.


5 posted on 10/26/2015 2:33:40 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

I am in my 9th decade now. THINGS HAVE CHANGED!!!!


6 posted on 10/26/2015 2:34:46 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Don Corleone

Wow! Congrats! My step-father turned 91 today.


7 posted on 10/26/2015 2:38:16 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

If they didn’t need us tax drones to make money for their Big Government hutopian dreams, we would have been loaded on the trains long ago, so tote that barge and lift that bail. Your children won’t be.so fortunate.


8 posted on 10/26/2015 2:44:20 PM PDT by txrefugee (C)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

I agree with Mark (and/or Sean Hannity).


9 posted on 10/26/2015 2:48:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lastchance

The company should branch out and get some septic tank cleaning trucks, and assign the muzzies to that duty!


10 posted on 10/26/2015 2:55:18 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Don Corleone

Congrats most honorable Don Corleone. Your post are held in ever more respectful esteem.


11 posted on 10/26/2015 2:57:27 PM PDT by Fungi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I think 91 is in one’s 10th decade, unless you skip birth to 10 as the first, but then using that measure I am in my 7th decade and tend towards some confusion.
12 posted on 10/26/2015 3:18:15 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai
. . . which would be the IRS performing the actions of Satan.

Considering who the IRS works for, that is no surprise. No, I don't think Obama is Satan himself, or even the Antichrist, just a petty wanna be who makes me frightened of just how destructive the next round will be. Imagine Obama's level of evil but pair it with intelligence and energy. The real thing is going to be very ugly.

13 posted on 10/26/2015 3:47:46 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan
Christian bakers have to bake gay wedding cakes, but Muslim truckers don't have to transport alcohol. Gotcha.

Exactly.

14 posted on 10/26/2015 4:01:49 PM PDT by marron
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Best of all they won’t have to take a lunch break.


15 posted on 10/26/2015 6:03:24 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Pollster1
No, I don't think Obama is Satan himself, or even the Antichrist, just a petty wanna be who makes me frightened of just how destructive the next round will be. Imagine Obama's level of evil but pair it with intelligence and energy. The real thing is going to be very ugly.

Obama *is* a wannabe, or as I've viewed him from jump, the hapless understudy used to test the machinery needed to propel the 'real star' onto the stage. Well, its obvious that the machinery works, the 'dress rehearsal' should soon end, and the actual 'show' will be beginning rather shortly.

that said, your other comments are spot on. The 'real deal' is going to be far more intelligent, and energetic that the 'understudy', and things will be more ugly than folks could ever imagine...

the infowarrior

16 posted on 10/26/2015 9:02:21 PM PDT by infowarrior
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy
Amazing level of change in a very short period of time.

It's quicksilver.

The moment I remember is, "Everybody lies about sex." This became doctrine in about 12 hours. I swear.

17 posted on 10/26/2015 9:22:23 PM PDT by dr_lew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy
The US and Europe have blatantly become anti-Western.

May I have leave to edit your statement? If so, then:

The US and Europe's political elite have blatently become anti-Western.

Why is it, I wonder, that the political leaders of the advanced countries have suddenly become dead set on drowning their own countries and cultures with a flood of Third World dross. And almost exclusively Muslim Third World dross.

Do they believe they are simply being humane? Are they that insensitive and unthoughtful? Then, however did they get elected?

Or do they passionately hate their own countrymen and heritage? Enough to brutally kill both?

Or are they getting paid to destroy their home and their neighbor's? By somebody? Or are they under duress? By who?

This is becoming a real puzzle. And a deadly dangerous one, at that.

18 posted on 10/26/2015 9:51:06 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: okie01
Do they believe they are simply being humane? Are they that insensitive and unthoughtful? Then, however did they get elected?

It's all right there. It is the electorate that is deluded, as they have accepted their comfortable position as a given, a fact of the universe, so why not be magnanimous? Then it's "Hey, wait a minute!" ... too late.

19 posted on 10/27/2015 10:56:26 PM PDT by dr_lew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson