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Mark Steyn: The sovereign individual
The Spectator (U.K.) ^
| 04/16/05
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 04/14/2005 6:17:46 AM PDT by Pokey78
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To: You Dirty Rats
Steyn might also want to e-mail the CAT-scans of the protectionists on Free Republic who are trying to fight globalization with pitchforks. Battling free trade in 2005 is like trying to stop the internet.Or commanding the tides to stop.
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:57:12 AM PDT
by
js1138
(There are 10 kinds of people: those who read binary, and those who don't.)
To: Tax-chick
Another Mark Steyn home run.
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:57:29 AM PDT
by
NCSteve
To: Pokey78
...the Eurinal of history. The man can turn a phrase.
To: secret garden
Meanwhile, all that that pompous Norwegian who heads up the UN humanitarian bureaucracy could do was give press conferences in New York hectoring the developed world for its stinginess, so every Western government promptly dipped into its taxpayers pockets and threw more money at the pompous Norwegian than he can ever usefully spend, and the only result will be that, when the next tsunami hits, itll take em even longer to get to the scene, but the pompous Norwegian will be able to give even more hectoring press conferences, perhaps with lavish visual aids. Yes. That jumped out at me too. LOL.
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posted on
04/14/2005 8:21:01 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
("It's time for the constitutional option Senator Frist" route-82.blogspot.com)
To: js1138
Or commanding the tides to stop. Just saw a program on discovery about that last night. Apparently the Dutch have figured out how to do this to a large extent.
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posted on
04/14/2005 8:49:44 AM PDT
by
John O
(God Save America (Please))
To: Pokey78
Bump for later reading; thanks for the ping, Pokey! (Two in two days; I'm feeling blessed!)
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posted on
04/14/2005 8:55:25 AM PDT
by
alwaysconservative
(Did you know it is impossible to lick your elbow?)
To: secret garden
I love all his references to the pompous Norwegian. Let's be sure to give credit where it's due. The pompous Norwegian is:
Jan Egeland of Norway, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
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posted on
04/14/2005 9:04:18 AM PDT
by
RJL
To: John O
I guess they're smarter than the Romans.
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posted on
04/14/2005 9:05:02 AM PDT
by
js1138
(There are 10 kinds of people: those who read binary, and those who don't.)
To: Pokey78; rmlew
Mark Steyn: Penetrating insights delivered with satiric genius.
There should be an award for this guy somewhere. At the very least an honorary degree since he never went to college.
Hmm. A Columbia ping for honorary degree??
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posted on
04/14/2005 9:15:54 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: wildbill
Hmm. A Columbia ping for honorary degree?? Fuhgeddaboutit. Mark Steyn is much too pro-Israel for Columbia to consider giving him anything.
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posted on
04/14/2005 9:28:51 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Pokey78
The question I find myself mulling over now is this: whats to stop everything turning into the British car industry? Yes, but what's the answer?
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posted on
04/14/2005 10:08:44 AM PDT
by
jordan8
To: Pokey78
"Down the Eurinal of history"
What an incredible genius this man is!
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posted on
04/14/2005 10:24:29 AM PDT
by
alwaysconservative
(Did you know it is impossible to lick your elbow?)
To: Tribune7
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posted on
04/14/2005 12:44:02 PM PDT
by
Temple Owl
(19064)
To: Pokey78
I was vaguely following things up to a decade or three back And if accountancy isnt a safe, steady job any more, you might as well run off and join the circus.
It means, as the old song used to go, when its moonlight on the Hudson, its CAT-scan-reading time on the Ganges.
Vintage Steyn and part of why I love him.
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posted on
04/14/2005 12:58:05 PM PDT
by
Ruth A.
To: Pokey78
Not all Dutchmen or Belgians will wish to follow their compatriots down the Eurinal of history.
I have quoted this man so often, I should be paying him royalties. Thanks, Pokey!
I've already bought the books....
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posted on
04/14/2005 3:02:36 PM PDT
by
Watery Tart
(Let the troof be toad. ®)
To: Mr. Jeeves
China has been Canadas single biggest source of immigrants accounting for 16 per cent of new permanent residents Largest Chinese populated city on the North American west coast is NOT San Francisco, but VANCOUVER, British Columbia.
Some REAL GOOD chinese food, there.
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posted on
04/14/2005 8:28:31 PM PDT
by
Experiment 6-2-6
(Meega, Nala Kweesta! It appears that SABERTOOTH got himself suspended. Again. ????)
To: wildbill; Pokey78
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posted on
04/14/2005 10:13:16 PM PDT
by
rmlew
(Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
To: Pokey78
He gets better by the week.
To: rmlew
A movement for Steyn to get an honorary degree would have to be generated by alumnai rather than students.
The administration has never cared what the students thought since I can remember.
By the way, as a quondam grad student adjunct teacher, I'm in support of higher pay and benefits to adjuncts. We carry the teaching load in large classes while the tenured profs teach one class a week--often to only a few students in a seminar.
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posted on
04/15/2005 6:57:51 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: Pokey78
the Eurinal of historyThat phrase alone is worth the read!
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posted on
04/15/2005 8:04:02 PM PDT
by
irv
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