The man of letters with a Byronic hairdo....
Posted on 09/19/2005 8:09:36 AM PDT by Constitution Day
Steyn ping?
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The German vote result was pathetic. Almost as pathetic as 47% of US voters voting for Senator Kerry.
Bwahahahaha!
Just because the West is about to go down doesn't mean a greater civilization is to take it's place. After Rome fell the world regressed. It was in this power vacuum that Mohammed saw his chance. But still, compared to Rome, the Islamic empire, though vast ,was second rate. We are approaching a new Dark Ages. So it goes. I wonder what date future historians will pick as the "Fall of the Western World"?
And speaking of the Hokey Pokey..............
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry La Prise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey," died peacefully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in.
And then the trouble started.
:~ D
The Islamics will eventually bring about the "needed" reform...
The Tony Blankley book referred to in the last paragraph is actually worth a read. He annoys me on TV, and the only thing I hate more than "books" by right-wingers are books by left-wingers, but if the chips were ever Really Down, I'd rather count on Europe than India. But I fear it is too late.
The eurinals are heading for certain socialist/islamicist disaster.
I have a 57% confidence factor that we are not going to follow them down that path.
The man of letters with a Byronic hairdo....
The book has been excerpted in the Washington Times lately, and I believe you can still read the excerpts on the Times' website.
For the French Challenged:
The pun here is that 'Rimbaud' is pronounced in french the same as 'Rambo' in English.
Ooh-lá-lá!
"You know those showers where the merest nudge of the dial turns the water from freezing to scalding? Mainstream European politics is the opposite of that. You can turn the dial all the way from “left” to “right” and it makes no difference."
LOL! Well said. The French and German "conservatives" are both essentially in the same place as the UK conservative party was during the time of Edward Heath (pre-Thatcher). They didn't yet realize that the system had to be overthrown, and thought they could make things better by merely "managing" better. Most of Europe has truly reformed into capitalist economy, but France and Germany are behind.
We also need to recognize that capitalism alone doesn't make for a resurgent civilization. It can bring back economic growth, but for Europe to come out of decline there needs to be a strengthening of religious/cultural values... and no politician can force that to happen.
Hee.
That would be sometime in 1949 when, after abdicating responsibility for their parents' well-being to FDR and the social security scam, the greatest generation abdicated responsibility for their children to TV.
;^) Knew that. Thanks!
LoL...
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