Posted on 01/02/2006 12:04:17 PM PST by Rummyfan
Schroeder was at the Carnegie Deli.....
That size and graphic file does not exist anywhere on the internet or on a cell -- yet -- until today
"Schroeder was at the Carnegie Deli....."
I have always wanted to go there.
"That size and graphic file does not exist anywhere on the internet or on a cell -- yet -- until today"
Congratulations!
It is absolutely wonderful!
Leave it to you...;o)
Wow. What a read. Beyond a "keeper"...
Thanks for pinging me on this one.
If those kinds of people are a deterrent, then they would have had an effect in the interim. But it's completely the other way around. There's been Islamic expansion in Euroland, even with the native meanies.
I'm more skeptical that there's a broad enough coaltion to turn things around. And as long as the members of the EU are democratic, that matters. Those in power control things such as immigration levels, and direct the power of the state. What good is being a hooligan if your government decides you're too much trouble, and unilaterally takes your property and throws you in jail?
What we're seeing is the outcome of the centuries long project to try and create the "rational society," by trying to change human nature. They don't believe in natual law, or God's law. To change now, those peoples would have to repudiate their modern history and its "wisdom." Not likely.
What's needed is a firewall between us and them. One such element is kicking the UN off American soil, and putting an end to importing "international law." Let them have their own such institutions, and sink in their EUtopia.
"Ah, the old 'historical inevitability' thing - one reason this is not an issue of the Left is that there are an awful lot of disappointed true believers over there who are still desperately holding out for their own form of historical inevitability, wherein capitalism founders from its own internal contradictions and a new socialist utopia eventuates."
Which is probably why the multiculturalism model arose.
If you devise a system where unassimilatable peoples are given a substancial amount of autonomy in their own communities, in your homeland, you still maintain the overarching power of the state. More foreigners, yes, but the same white ruling class. At least for the time being.
"The abortions you really DON'T want happening are those taking place because the girl is 17 or 20 years old and doesn't have a reasonable way to think she can raise a child and manage her life at the same time...A rational society should prefer to pay the price for that to paying the price for putting their country under sharia law which, as Steyn notes, is basically the alternative."
Pay that price, with what? It's own money?
The idea is to not tax children out of existance in the first place. Many cities are too expensive to live in, and maintain the standard of living that young parents grew up in.
I am not a scholar and don't pretend to be. But I don't think there was this reproductivity problem before:
1) New Deal/welfarist administrations came into being. The old "everybody's out for themselves" days had more than a replacement rate of child births
2) Abortion on demand. This literally kills off people who would otherwise be contributing to out ponzi-like welfare and entitlement systems.
So I disagree. The solution to this problem is not more socialism and income redistribution. Let two-parent families keep more of their own money by taxing them less.
"Granted, European countries often exacerbate this problem by failing to thoroughly assimilate their immigrants in the first place. The isolated North African ghettos of Paris are the perfect incubators for radical Wahabbism, even if they are mostly moderate now."
This is what progressives mean when they say don't promote foreign policy that will provote muslims. In this calculus, so called moderate muslim "yutes" will only embrace radical Islam when they have been sufficiently threatened and offended; they have no free will to take Western response in context, and thus they cannot be held responsible for becoming extreme.
......The average German worker now puts in 22 percent fewer hours per year than his American counterpart, and no politician who wishes to remain electorally viable will propose closing the gap in any meaningful way.....
This statement means that Freedom and Democracy are self destructive. In the long run people will think only of themselves and not make the hard decisions necessary for the long haul.
The essay is proof of the inability of democracy to be sustained over the historical long haul. To maintain democracy there must be blood of the selfish left spilled in the streets.
Unfortunately, they aren't having babies at a rate that will allow them to win. They may struggle when the inevitable finally becomes clear to them, but it will be the gasps of a dying culture. What a shame. (no sarcasm)
Scary, depressing read, but hopefully one that will rally people to thought and action.
...Agree...I'm going to convince the wife that we need to make another baby to save western civilization...Step 1 is to convince her to read this article...that's the ticket...it will put her in the mood.
"May I remind you that the same could be said of the Brits in the late 30's, but when their homeland was threatened, they became ferocious, if under-armed. Never underestimate a people fighting on/near their own territory -- remember the Vietnamese."
Good point.
The question is whether western Europeans have the same dogged willpower?
What we see from their ruling class is the desire to explicitly end traditional Western civilization. They may welcome Islamism as a weapon to kill off remaining "right wing" power. I am sure these people are rationalizing the situation, believing that more appeasement will somehow win over intransigent muslim immigrants and their community leaders.
A bridge too far, indeed!
They're right.
Liberals don't believe in assimiliation; they believe in multi-culturalism. People have categories they must be lumped into, and they are not permitted to change them simply because they desire to. This stems from a misguided desire to put people and cultures onto an 'endangered species list' status where they are protected, and come to rely on liberals for that protection. You can't have victims if everyone's on the same team, and liberalism needs victimhood to surive.
Unfortunately, in the real world, victims aren't helpless. In the rest of the world, victims can easily become oppressors. It happens all the time. When you keep the flames of discontent burning in people because it helps your political standing, you run the risk of losing control of that fire.
Now, in France's case, it appears that good old fashioned racist/elitist snobbery had a large hand in keeping the Muslims segregated. Still, the bottom line is that the French chose not to force their new immigrants to assimilate, and they now have a growing segment of their population that feels alienated and victimized. A segement of the population, incidentally, that hails from a culture where brutal acts of revenge are commonplace.
Yes, I've always found that there's nothing like a lengthy article on demography to put a woman in the mood. Well, that, and perhaps a nice dinner, good bottle of wine, thoughtful gift . .
Could be. However, they are idiots. The first to be killed will be the so-called liberals, with their love of feminism, atheism, homosexuality and licentiousness, and all the other thngs that the Muzzies hate.
Oh, well said, Mr. Steyn!!
Ironic how Europe wanted to beat up our economy with the Euro states. It's like Islam is working for us.
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