"If Darkness Can Dawn": FReeper Review of Mark Steyn's "America Alone"

Well, I wish I had written EVERYTHING Mark ever published. I would probably wish I had written his grocery list!

LOL. You're probably right. Here's the Steyn line that pretty much put the fork in any thoughts I may have entertained about writing seriously, or at least weekly:

The Chairman, alas, will not be giving terrorism up any time soon, not when Saudi TV has just had a hugely successful charity telethon raising US$56-million for the families of Palestinian "martyrs." King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah both chipped in. One Saudi Princess donated both her Rolls and her ox, a double jackpot sure to inspire any West Bank suicide bomber hoping to transform his relicts into a two-car family. Maybe they'll make it a weekly show: Who Wants To Be A Million Air Particles?

With stuff like that available, why clog the pixels.

Regarding my move to Austin, I haven't regretted it, not even for a nanosecond. I'll FReepmail you details tomorrow.

= )

101 posted on 10/15/2006 5:45:22 PM PDT by AnnaZ (I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?)

Yes, you did try to help with that problem once. I just haven't been able to make any progress on my own.

Next time post a picture.

;^)

Best of luck with the 15-year-plan. At least you have one.

=: o

(LOL)

102 posted on 10/15/2006 5:49:51 PM PDT by AnnaZ (I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?)

Reading now. Welcome to Texas.

103 posted on 10/15/2006 5:54:28 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Ezekiel 25:17)

Happy to be here. Read on.

= )

104 posted on 10/15/2006 6:00:42 PM PDT by AnnaZ (I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?)

Next time post a picture.

Did you ever see this picture?

http://snakebytesforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10549/Bill_and_Katrina_5apr06zz.jpg

Yes, I have a 15-year plan. I just have to make it work. To some extent, I feel pretty good about it, but I've learned that many things can derail the best plans.

Bill

105 posted on 10/15/2006 6:32:31 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)

Nah, nah. Sure, he is brilliant, but we'd be lonely if we only had one man to read. Let him be inspiration to you.

I am really looking forward to hearing how your family made this move. I am sick of treading agua here.

106 posted on 10/15/2006 10:58:29 PM PDT by Yaelle

There ya go! That's a start! (Did you name her Katrina before or after... ?)

= )

Any plan, at this point, is a good plan. May you see it through to successful, and peaceful, completion.

Best,

107 posted on 10/16/2006 6:44:07 PM PDT by AnnaZ (I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?)

I named her Katrina after the storm. I've wanted a ball python since I was a kid. I've done the research and almost made the purchase about half a dozen times. I've always ended up talking myself out of the purchase. About a month or so after the hurricane, I started down the path again and just kept going. Maybe I wouldn't have gone all the way if the storm hadn't unsettled my routine a bit.

108 posted on 10/16/2006 8:15:05 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)

LOL
Just checking in for a bit and I'm out again for a while longer. BTW, I do appreciate the sentiment, though I don't feel I deserve such praise. I do tend to "feed" too readily at times.

However, something to think about in the interim...
If we view FR as a microcosm of America and if my temporary absence influences you personally, then how much stronger should we look at the upcoming elections, comparatively speaking of course.
Just imagine our nation bereft of right-wing thoughts or leadership for several years if the election goes to the Dems.
And now I'm off to continue my "diet".

109 posted on 10/21/2006 4:26:23 AM PDT by philman_36

"Just checking in for a bit and I'm out again for a while longer."

HA!!
Wise you.

"BTW, I do appreciate the sentiment, though I don't feel I deserve such praise."

You've earned whatever respect you receive from me my [new?] friend, humility notwithstanding. {g}

"I do tend to "feed" too readily at times."

We all do, gotta *eat* y'know.
Right?

"However, something to think about in the interim... If we view FR as a microcosm of America and if my temporary absence influences you personally..."

While your -- & a few others -- presence and/or absence has a degree of influence over me (here at this forum) we cannot forget I/we are still individuals.
Possessed of individual opinions, tastes & most other aspects of this human experience.
In fact our individuality is really all there is separating us from the Liberal-Socialist left.
Everything else we do and are is after the fact of either our being individuals or a member of a pack.
Follow?

OBTW not to disrespect the forum but FR in my never be humble opin doesn't even qualify as a micro-mini-microcosm of anything in the scheme of things.
At best it's a congregation of supposedly like-minded peoples where given what one actually experiences "like-minded" is completely up for debate.
Let us say it's a gathering individuals & leave it go at that.
Some things are best left undefined.

"...then how much stronger should we look at the upcoming elections, comparatively speaking of course."

No more or less than any other election pitting "us" against "them".
In November we must go to the polls & cast our vote for what we feel is right.
It's never been any simpler than that in spite of what the quisling mediots and/or zealots -- on either side of the ideological continuum -- try to make of it.
It'll take a hellovalot more than one or a million to stampede me & I pray you don't permit yourself to get swept up in the bullshit, either.
Don't fire until you see the *whites* of their eyes. ;^)

"Just imagine our nation bereft of right-wing thoughts or leadership for several years if the election goes to the Dems."

Sun will rise in the east in my world, regardless whose running the country.
I prefer those in charge be of the right & will do everything I can to that end up to & including casting my ballot.
What I will not do is *cut* my wrists OR pitch a fit if I or "my guys" don't win.
Nope.
What I will do will be to begin anew preparing for the next time I meet the Liberal-Socialists in "battle", just as they're going to [do].

"And now I'm off to continue my 'diet'."

HA!!
Good for you. ;^)

While you fast I'm going to stock the wood bin, & afterward?

...have me a big, FAT Churchill. ;^)

110 posted on 10/21/2006 9:02:30 AM PDT by Landru (That does it, no sleep number for you pal.)

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