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MARK STEYN: THE MAN WHO LIKES TO POKE THE WORLD IN THE EYE
http://www.iconoclast.ca/newPage18.asp ^ | Q & A WITH MARK STEYN

Posted on 10/16/2006 6:05:45 PM PDT by Apolitical

One of the key signs of a shared culture is if you can all cheerfully abuse each other ...

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His new book is fantastic. Too bad the questions and answers didn't hone in more on its contents.
1 posted on 10/16/2006 6:05:46 PM PDT by Apolitical
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To: Apolitical

Please review the posting guidelines. It's important not to post too much of an article due to copyright complaints.


2 posted on 10/16/2006 6:07:52 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Apolitical

Wow, fascinating stuff in your post! Nice Pix too!! /sarcasm


3 posted on 10/16/2006 6:10:25 PM PDT by Babu
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To: 1rudeboy

May I suggest a more appropriate name for you? Ok, I don't need your permission. One rude assho-e.


4 posted on 10/16/2006 6:37:51 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: Apolitical

He was on H & C ~ 9:30 p.m. The show repeats at 2 a.m. if anyone is interested in seeing him.


5 posted on 10/16/2006 6:47:32 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: Pokey78

Steyn ping! (although it is quiddified)


6 posted on 10/16/2006 6:50:57 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Monthly donors rock!)
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To: billhilly

I'll stick with the one I have. I'd say thanks for the suggestion, but you'd probably get confused.


8 posted on 10/16/2006 6:59:11 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
In the spirit of the posting guidelines, I have decided to copyright my replies so that I can...

(Excerpt) Read more at the end of the Internet.

9 posted on 10/16/2006 7:01:21 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (The Program is Morally Good)
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To: Apolitical
From the speech following that article:

What’s important to understand is that Mr. Annan’s ramshackle UN of humanitarian money-launderers, peacekeeper-rapists and a Human Rights Commission that looks like a lifetime-achievement awards ceremony for the world’s torturers is not a momentary aberration. Nor can it be corrected by bureaucratic reforms designed to ensure that the failed Budget Oversight Committee will henceforth be policed by a Budget Oversight Committee Oversight Committee. The Oil-for-Food fiasco is the UN—the predictable spawn of its utopian fantasies and fetid realities. If Saddam grasped this more clearly than, say, Katie Couric or John Kerry, well, that’s why he is—was—an A-list dictator and they’re not.

Damn that's good...

It’s one thing to invent humanitarian disasters to disparage Bush’s unilateralist warmongering; but in the wake of the tsunami, the UN was reduced to inventing a humanitarian disaster in order to distract attention from the existing humanitarian disaster it wasn’t doing anything about.

Damn that's better...

It’s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice cream and a quart of dog mess and mix ’em together, the result will taste more like dog mess than ice cream. That’s the problem with the UN.

Damn that's brilliant.

Go back to that tsunami. While the UN and its agencies were on television badgering and hectoring the West for its stinginess, the actual relief efforts were being made by a couple of diverted U.S. naval groups and the Royal Australian Navy. The Scandinavians can’t fly in relief supplies, because they don’t have any C-130s. All they can do is wait for the UN to swing by and pick up their check. And it says something for the post-modern decadence of the age that that gives you supposed moral superiority...

That's what I'd write if I could write that well. I can't, so all I can do is give this one a BTT.

10 posted on 10/16/2006 7:16:02 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: John Williams

I've seen this jerk around here for many years, and his selection of names is not by accident.


11 posted on 10/16/2006 7:16:43 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: billhilly
Aww, did you get your feelings hurt?
12 posted on 10/16/2006 7:24:23 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Goldbugs, immune to logic and allergic to facts.)
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To: billhilly
The Man Who Likes To Poke The World In The Eye [Free Republic (unexcerpted)]
13 posted on 10/16/2006 7:25:08 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Toddsterpatriot

One of the key signs of a shared culture is if you can all cheerfully abuse each other . . . .


14 posted on 10/16/2006 7:26:41 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
I hope he's not a goldbug. I might feel bad if I made him cry.
15 posted on 10/16/2006 7:51:41 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Goldbugs, immune to logic and allergic to facts.)
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To: 1rudeboy

FWIW, I thought your comment was funny.


16 posted on 10/17/2006 5:11:19 AM PDT by Fan of Fiat
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