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1 posted on 01/23/2006 2:56:18 PM PST by Pokey78
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Steyn ping!


2 posted on 01/23/2006 2:57:21 PM PST by Pokey78 (‘FREE [INSERT YOUR FETID TOTALITARIAN BASKET-CASE HERE]’)
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And, as far as the Scotsman is concerned, the alarming thing about this development is that it could put cushy state teaching jobs "in doubt". For crying out loud, man, get a grip. It puts every job "in doubt". It puts the continued existence of your country "in doubt". And it means the Scottish National Party is going through the motions: nobody needs a Scottish nation if there are no more Scottish nationals. See you, Jimmeh? Not for much longer.

Nobody says it like Steyn.

4 posted on 01/23/2006 3:02:07 PM PST by Red Boots
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And, as far as the Scotsman is concerned, the alarming thing about this development is that it could put cushy state teaching jobs "in doubt". For crying out loud, man, get a grip. It puts every job "in doubt". It puts the continued existence of your country "in doubt". And it means the Scottish National Party is going through the motions: nobody needs a Scottish nation if there are no more Scottish nationals. See you, Jimmeh? Not for much longer.

Nobody says it like Steyn.

5 posted on 01/23/2006 3:02:28 PM PST by Red Boots
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The Highlanders are forever!

As for the Highlanders, well...


10 posted on 01/23/2006 3:11:48 PM PST by voletti (Awareness and Equanimity.)
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Mrs. Blackitt: What are we dear?

Harry Blackitt: Protestant, and fiercely proud of it.

Mrs. Blackitt: Hmm. Well, why do they have so many children?

Harry Blackitt: Because... every time they have sexual intercourse, they have to have a baby.

Mrs. Blackitt: But it's the same with us, Harry.

Harry Blackitt: What do you mean?

Mrs. Blackitt: Well, I mean, we've got two children, and we've had sexual intercourse twice.

Harry Blackitt: That's not the point. We could have it any time we wanted.

Mrs. Blackitt: Really?

Harry Blackitt: Oh, yes, and, what's more, because we don't believe in all that Papist claptrap, we can take precautions.

Mrs. Blackitt: What, you mean... lock the door?

Harry Blackitt: No, no. I mean, because we are members of the Protestant Reformed Church, which successfully challenged the autocratic power of the Papacy in the mid-sixteenth century, we can wear little rubber devices to prevent issue.

Mrs. Blackitt: What d'you mean?

Harry Blackitt: I could, if I wanted, have sexual intercourse with you...

Mrs. Blackitt: Oh, yes, Harry.

Harry Blackitt: ...and, by wearing a rubber sheath over my old feller, I could insure... that, when I came off, you would not be impregnated.

Mrs. Blackitt: Ooh.

Harry Blackitt: That's what being a Protestant's all about. That's why it's the church for me. That's why it's the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual's right to decide for him or herself. When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas... [sniff]

12 posted on 01/23/2006 3:16:53 PM PST by colorado tanker (I can't comment on things that might come before the Court, but I can tell you my Pinochle strategy)
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Great read.


13 posted on 01/23/2006 3:24:19 PM PST by T. Buzzard Trueblood (left unchecked, Saddam Hussein...will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen. Hillary Clinton)
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Mrs Thatcher liked to say that "the facts of life are conservative"

Mrs. Thatcher was right.

L

14 posted on 01/23/2006 3:25:40 PM PST by Lurker (You don't let a pack of wolves into the house just because they're related to the family dog.)
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Another good Steyn demographic piece.

He takes a long view on these issues, and he is right.

What does it matter if you call a place Scotland when there aren't enough Scots to support it?

We may be getting to a point where countries will be competing aggressively for fertile immigrants. "Come to Scotland we'll give you more goodies"

15 posted on 01/23/2006 3:26:08 PM PST by lawnguy (Give me some of your tots!!!)
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BTTT


16 posted on 01/23/2006 3:30:52 PM PST by hattend (I wanna go through the Stargate!)
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Scots have lost because they no longer believe in God. The Brits disarmed the Scots at every opportunity, then disarmed themselves. The welfare state is God, and real men and strong women are few.

Sad to say but they have contributed to their own demise. A once proud and strong people are now just a bunch of wimps with their hands out. Enjoy your history Scotsmen, because that is all you have left.


17 posted on 01/23/2006 3:32:14 PM PST by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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This is exactly why that mullah demands that Scottish Catholic school be changed to an Islamic school. Muslims breeding in Scotland like rabbits.


18 posted on 01/23/2006 3:33:14 PM PST by hershey
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I guess we now know what Scotsmen have under their kilts...

Nothing!

21 posted on 01/23/2006 3:53:40 PM PST by F-117A
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Thanks for your ping, pokes.


24 posted on 01/23/2006 4:14:36 PM PST by Brian Allen (How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
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I doubt any Scot with an eye to electoral viability would want to run on anything that smacked of American conservatism, but surely they could at least learn something from Ireland...

Ireland has one of the freest economies, most robust economic growth, and not coincidentally, the highest Birth Rates in Europe.

26 posted on 01/23/2006 4:24:20 PM PST by Plutarch
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After three or four years of reading this guy you think I'd get used to it, but Steyn still bowls me over with regularity. As usual he knocks it out of the park with the wit and wicked scarcasm we are all used to. I guess when the facts are on your side It's easy to be a killer smarta**. LONG LIVE STEYN!!


27 posted on 01/23/2006 4:24:43 PM PST by joebuck
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Bummer. I'm so glad my Scottish ancestors left for a better life in the Carolinas
29 posted on 01/23/2006 4:50:12 PM PST by PogySailor (Semper Fi to the 3/1 H&S Company in Haditha.)
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Thank you 3!


30 posted on 01/23/2006 4:54:52 PM PST by UnklGene
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Celtic Canaries
32 posted on 01/23/2006 4:58:37 PM PST by UnklGene
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Where are the immigrants going to come from?

Miss Europe, may I introduce you to Senor Mexico?

36 posted on 01/23/2006 5:16:41 PM PST by aculeus
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There'll be a second round of Clearances soon - only the lairds will be speaking Arabic this time...


39 posted on 01/23/2006 5:50:37 PM PST by decal (Too many people mistake "tolerance" for "approval")
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