Posted on 12/16/2004 6:28:43 AM PST by Pokey78
Brutal.
Holy moly, what a column. He's outdone himself with this one.
Thanks Poke mon! There are so many gems in this that it would take me all morning to highlight each one. Steyn at his best!
Brilliant, Mr. Steyn, as usual.
BTTT
Do the euros even bother to read Styne? Do they understand what he's trying to tell them?
Wow, one Steyn gem after another.
This man is the best columnist, bar none, on the scene today. Why he is not syndicated in every major newspaper is proof positive of their liberal blinders. If a lefty had one-tenth the wit and insight as Steyn, he'd be splashed accross every papers editorial section 3 times a week.
For a later read
I here these overtures from the evolutionists on this forum. You know who you are.
"But, if the world’s media want to conjure visions of stump-toothed backwoods knuckle-draggers stomping out of the Jesusland multiplex firing off verses from Leviticus as they demand a full refund, why get in the way of their illusions? The Guardian’s Timothy Garton Ash, just back from a tour of America’s blue states, says that they’re crying out for Europe’s help: ‘Hands need to be joined across the sea in an old cause: the defence of the Enlightenment,’ he writes,..." (emphasis added)
Steyn is brilliant as always!
"I doubt whether a Euro-blue-state alliance is in any position to defend the Enlightenment....or too enlightened to save yourself from Apocalypse and certain destruction."You can’t defend the Enlightenment if you’re too enlightened to breed"
"Why, they wonder on this side of the Atlantic, wouldn’t the Spaniards stand firm?"Yes. Can't they understand that they are inviting the re-conquest of Spain?
"But what’s to stand firm for? To fight for king and country is to fight for the future, and a nation with Spain’s fertility rate — 1.1 children per couple or about half ‘replacement rate’ — has no future."Yes. And nations "too enlightened" to defend and protect themselves also have no future.
"What" contemporary Western Leftists call "‘the Enlightenment’ has degenerated under its present trustees into a doomsday cult with all the coerciveness of the old state religion and none of the eternal truths."Yes. And whereas Leftists of Europe, America, and the rest of the West are determined to commit suicide, finding nothing in Christianity, religion, or Western Civilization worth preserving--let alond defending--the American Heartland ("Jesusland") is determined to survive, to prevail, and to ascend--and at the core of this self-confidence is the knowledge of God and a commitment to His eternal truths.
"‘How many divisions has the Pope?’ scoffed Stalin."Yes. The Pope is still going strong. Where are Stalin and his empire?
FMCDH(BITS)
I love Mark Steyn!!!
Bump for later read...
They might theorize who they are but these days they are heavily into denial.
Bump for later.
I can't recall a better article written by Steyn. And that's saying a lot!
Thanks for posting the whole essay, Pokey. Very good.
Quidnunc, while many ask Pokey and others (—and you) to post Steyn in whole, I've yet to see anyone asking him to do it your way, or thanking you for refusing to post Steyn complete. Would you please post the whole essays, as Pokey does? Or just FRemail him, and if he's willing let him post it the way most FReepers seem to prefer it?
Dan
A question to ask everyone who demands all abortions be allowed:
Do you wish your mother had aborted you?
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