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1 posted on 06/14/2004 4:06:58 PM PDT by Pokey78
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2 posted on 06/14/2004 4:07:51 PM PDT by Pokey78
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What a joy to read a Steyn that quidnunc hasn't excerpted. The line,
Same in Holland until Pim Fortuyn got gunned down by a crazed vegetarian, the first fruitarian to kill a fruit Aryan.
would never have appeared in his version.
3 posted on 06/14/2004 4:12:35 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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Same in Holland until Pim Fortuyn got gunned down by a crazed vegetarian, the first fruitarian to kill a fruit Aryan.

ROFLOL

So9

4 posted on 06/14/2004 4:13:58 PM PDT by Servant of the 9 (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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Most Britons don't want to be part of a super-Eurasian state. They want to be governed from London from a Parliament they elected to represent them, not grandees from a distant Brussels.


5 posted on 06/14/2004 4:14:12 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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"Chospin and Jirac ran on identical platforms, both fully committed to high taxes, high unemployment and high crime."

The quintessential definition of Socialism.

8 posted on 06/14/2004 4:18:53 PM PDT by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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Man you can't beat Steyn with a stick!

Eurocrazi bump.


9 posted on 06/14/2004 4:22:39 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Same in Holland until Pim Fortuyn got gunned down by a crazed vegetarian, the first fruitarian to kill a fruit Aryan.

Normally, I'd chide Mark for using the same line in more than one article, but considering it is by far the most clever line ever written, I'm inclined to give him a pass.

11 posted on 06/14/2004 4:30:34 PM PDT by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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Between the Eutopian dreams in Eurabia full of Eurinals led by Eurodee and Eurodum, the humor says the EU loses if it ever comes before the people. The question becomes whether the elites ever allow it to come to a vote.


14 posted on 06/14/2004 4:43:38 PM PDT by blanknoone (Europe says: "Let's give communism another try!")
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I wasn't very amused by the Pim Fortuyn reference... Steyn usually has more class than that. But the rest is spot on insightful as usual.


15 posted on 06/14/2004 4:46:56 PM PDT by thoughtomator (No Gays = No AIDS; No Arabs = No Terror; No French = No Appeasement)
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Immigration is a comparable issue in the US. Neither party wants to talk about it. Most of the public does.


16 posted on 06/14/2004 4:51:32 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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Steyn BTTT


18 posted on 06/14/2004 5:01:31 PM PDT by spodefly (This post meets the minimum daily requirements for cynicism and irony.)
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Cross-referencing this Steyn from last week:

Reagan knew why the EU won't work

By Mark Steyn
(Filed: 08/06/2004)

'We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." Of all the marvellous Ronald Reagan lines retailed over the weekend, that's my favourite.

19 posted on 06/14/2004 5:03:45 PM PDT by RobFromGa (The Four Pillars of America; Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan)
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One reason why the Eutopian dream has fizzled across the Continent is because the entire political class took it for granted no right-thinking person could possibly disagree with them, so they never felt they had to bother arguing the case and, now they have to, they can't remember what the arguments were.

This line is a keeper, and it is so true of many facets of American politics as well. By the time the cure comes around, it not only doesn't solve the problem, but the problem doesn't even exist anymore.

21 posted on 06/14/2004 5:07:20 PM PDT by RobFromGa (The Four Pillars of America; Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan)
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The "lunatic mainstream" paradigm is there, because they've received lunatic left concepts from their most popular choices in media for most of their lives. They expect the government to take care of everything, including the maintainance of their bizarre, anti-American and anti-Jewish perceptions of what's happening in the world. To them, Panama is administered oppressed by a government of US leaders.

For some phantastic resemblance of sanity, they are fed intermittent doses of the illusion of symbolic monarchy--empire, and believe that the US is not properly administering its empire. They are taught that President Bush is a mildly retarded country bumpkin--a puppet of conspiratorial, corporate shadow dictators in a conspiracy to oppress the perfectly justified "Palestinian" "freedom fighters."

They publicly criticize our President mildly. In smaller circles of their own, behind our backs, they bash us all mercilessly and generally. There are no truth or lies there, and only cruel denizens of the radical right hold to dictionary definitions. To them, fascism is a "state of mind," rather than a form of government where businesses may be privately owned but are contolled, along with speech, by the government.

The UK has a brainwashed populace indoctrinated by fascists/communists, indeed.


22 posted on 06/14/2004 5:18:51 PM PDT by familyop (Essayons)
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The politicians are getting further and further away from the people. Looks like term limits are going to be the only answer. I know that here, our forefathers never envisioned professional politicians.


28 posted on 06/14/2004 5:39:00 PM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
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If England doesn't feel "at home" in the EU. Rather than be isolated on their little island, they could petition to join the US. At least they'd speak (mostly) the same language.


29 posted on 06/14/2004 5:42:00 PM PDT by narby (Bumpersticker: "Democrat = Internationalist ... Republican = American")
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"the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain issues, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable ones. "

How far away is this from happening in the United States?

31 posted on 06/14/2004 5:47:07 PM PDT by FreedomSurge
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There are three basic political groups in the United States right now.

The patricians, the plebeians/productive workers and the blood suckers.

The Republicans are made up of Patricians and Plebeians; The Democrats of Patricians and Blood Suckers.

Our Patrician rulers divide their loyalties between their party and their class. This means no party fully represents my interests.

Both Kerry and Bush are Patricians.

As a mental exercise I developed the following percentages.
Bush is 30% beneficial to me 35% Harmful and 35% indifferent
Kerry is 15% beneficial to me 50% harmful and 35 % indifferent

I will obviously vote for Bush, but I will not deceive myself that the net result is beneficial to me.

33 posted on 06/14/2004 5:59:25 PM PDT by FreedomSurge
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placemark


35 posted on 06/14/2004 6:30:15 PM PDT by Maigrey (He was our Governor; he was our Homeboy - Seven of Nine)
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Bump for later savoring.


41 posted on 06/14/2004 8:03:17 PM PDT by Ruth A.
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