Mark Steyn: The right side of history

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 03/05/05 | Mark Steyn

[concrete is my business]

This article by Steyn equally applies to the Canadian Liberals and socialists (New Democratic Party) and communists (Green Party).

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the ping!

You bet. Thank you.

Pingin' a few more to this great article too. Some I meant to include above, and forgot.

[With apologies for any double pings in this list.]

[texasbluebell]

Thanks for trying, but it's not working for me either.

Must be some setting on my browser. My husband even tried to fix it, but he thought the cspam site was having problems.

So no luck, but thanks.

[pissant]

yep

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Pyro7480]

Try a few times. It didn't work for me at first either.

[texasbluebell]

Bah! So maddening. Nope.

I've even checked through the tools on my browser settings, can't see what's the issue here.

Thanks again. May have to get my husband to look into this once more.

[Pyro7480]

Are you trying the link in Internet Explorer, or in Real Player?

[PigRigger]

"How does a headless chicken squawk?"

Well it doesn't exactly squawk, more like gurgles.

This may shed some light on the subject:

Mike the Headless Chicken

[saquin]

Bookmarked for later read.

[texasbluebell]

IE. Is this the problem?

[Huck]

big bad Wolfowitz, the man whose name started with a scary animal and ended Jewishly.

That's funny.

[alwaysconservative]

Oh, thank you Pokey for another gem of a Steyn article to be savored again and again!

[Huck]

The other day I found myself, for the umpteenth time, driving in Vermont behind a Kerry/Edwards supporter whose vehicle also bore the slogan ‘FREE TIBET’. It must be great to be the guy with the printing contract for the ‘FREE TIBET’ stickers. Not so good to be the guy back in Tibet wondering when the freeing thereof will actually get under way. For a while, my otherwise not terribly political wife got extremely irritated by these stickers, demanding to know at a pancake breakfast at the local church what precisely some harmless hippy-dippy old neighbour of ours meant by the slogan he’d been proudly displaying decade in, decade out: ‘But what exactly are you doing to free Tibet?’ she demanded. ‘You’re not doing anything, are you?’ ‘Give the guy a break,’ I said back home. ‘He’s advertising his moral virtue, not calling for action. If Rumsfeld were to say, “Free Tibet? Jiminy, what a swell idea! The Third Infantry Division go in on Thursday”, the bumper-sticker crowd would be aghast.’

But for those of us on the arrogant unilateralist side of things, that’s not how it works. ‘FREE AFGHANISTAN’. Done. ‘FREE IRAQ’. Done. Given the paintwork I pull off every time I have to change the sticker, it might be easier for the remainder of the Bush presidency just to go around with ‘FREE [INSERT YOUR FETID TOTALITARIAN BASKET-CASE HERE]’. Not in your name? Don’t worry, it’s not.

Brilliant.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I get RSTP is not a registered protocol......hmmm!

Of course I am runing a Linux system.

[WarrenC]

Thanks Pokey. It's fun to watch the Martin Kettles of the world tie themselves in knots trying to acknowledge reality without admitting they were simply wrong - all the while complaining that Bush won't admit his mistakes, which were miniscule compared to theirs.

[hopespringseternal]

‘Give the guy a break,’ I said back home. ‘He’s advertising his moral virtue, not calling for action.

A better description of self-righteousness can not be found.

[texasbluebell]

Hmmm...

[MortMan]

Through its "beakeotomy".

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK, Opening in Realplayer Works...Terrific!