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Mark Steyn: The Facebook Caliphate
National Review Online ^
| May 26, 2012
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 05/26/2012 11:08:37 AM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
05/26/2012 11:08:48 AM PDT
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neverdem
To: JLS
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05/26/2012 11:10:52 AM PDT
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neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
Mark Steyn is always a pleasure to read...witty too.
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05/26/2012 11:19:44 AM PDT
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EEGator
To: EEGator
Dude has a way with words, yes?
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posted on
05/26/2012 11:21:11 AM PDT
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Doctor 2Brains
(If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
To: Doctor 2Brains
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posted on
05/26/2012 11:29:20 AM PDT
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EEGator
To: neverdem
Death in the name of Allah is our goal. Like Literal LOL.
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posted on
05/26/2012 11:30:43 AM PDT
by
douginthearmy
(Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
To: EEGator
Steyn spot on as always, well almost: he perpetrates the annoying mistake of comparing market valuation (measured in dollars) with GDP (measured in dollars per year). I’ll be impressed when a corporation has revenues approximating even a small developed nation’s GDP (both measured in dollars per year) or a market valuation approximating the total value of all real estate and other assets held in (again even a small) developed nation.
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posted on
05/26/2012 11:41:16 AM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: EEGator
I just purchased the Kindle edition of his “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”.
I expect it to be very interesting reading!
Is he using “Armageddon” in the current sense of “a BIG mess!” or in the Biblical, prophetic sense?
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posted on
05/26/2012 11:43:21 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: neverdem
Sowell for President. Steyn for Secretary of State.
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05/26/2012 11:46:42 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
To: neverdem
One of the basic defects of the Bush administrations designation of a war on terror was that it emphasized symptoms (bombs and bombers) over causes (the underlying ideology). In the war of ideas, the West has chosen not to compete, True enough, but at least the Bush administration aimed at real solutions, regime change and democracy, while the Obama administration indulges in appeasement and assassination. I am less inclined to criticize assassination than I am to find fault with appeasement.
Nevertheless, I think Marc Stein is on something in this column as he brilliantly skewers our tendency to substitute anything for unpalatable reality. We will prattle on inanely like Maureen Dowd about cultural phenomenon like Facebook rather than recognize blood in the streets and rape in broad daylight, or we will declare war on a tactic (terrorism), or we will pretend we are not at war while waging murder from the skies.
When will we have a President who stands before the world and says, "Western Christian civilization is superior to Islamic barbarism and we will defend our higher way of life against the forces of medievalism, female mutilation, and authoritarianism; it is Islam which must reform and not America and the West which must apologize or submit"?
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05/26/2012 11:49:16 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: neverdem
...decent people should revile in the strongest terms thug-senator Chuck Schumers attempts to punish Zuckerbergs partner Eduardo Saverin for wishing to enjoy his profits under the less confiscatory tax arrangements of Singapore...
Dubya's opinion of Schumer:
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posted on
05/26/2012 11:50:00 AM PDT
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Albion Wilde
("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
To: Albion Wilde
That is a great pic. W looks like he’s going to knock him out.
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05/26/2012 11:54:01 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Albion Wilde
Mike Rowe for Secretary of Labor/Education!
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05/26/2012 12:00:25 PM PDT
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BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: The_Reader_David
He didn’t compare the two because they were equivalent in nature, but because they were near in size.
To: neverdem
In the course of the election campaign, the Muslim Brotherhood has cast off the veil of modernity and moderation that so beguiled the U.S. State Department and the New York Times: Khairat el-Shater, the deputy leader, now says that the Koran is our Constitution ... Years ago it seemed the nightmarish outcomes of liberal ideas was a 'mistake'...
Liberals acted surprised at painful "unintentional consequences"... And we believed them. Believed the myth of the bleeding heart. It was a lie. They're not even bothering to pretend on this one - it's just 'move-on to the next lie'.
The Egyptian end game - with the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamists in charge - flags waving as they march backwards into horror - is what democrats wanted. I repeat, it's what democrats wanted. There's no 'patrick moynihan' types to provide cover for the goons... no one believes dems feel anyone's pain - it's hunger and greed now. Illusions long past...
It works for them.
Making blacks childlike and dependent wasn't a 'mistake' of theirs either - it secured 90%+ of the vote. This horror will be the same. Don't know how they'll do it, but we'll see dems 'cash in' on what's to come.
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05/26/2012 12:10:42 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
To: Albion Wilde
Charles Schumer: A cross between a used car salesman and a mob lawyer, without the integrity or fashion sense of either.
Mark
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05/26/2012 12:22:44 PM PDT
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MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: MarkL
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05/26/2012 12:24:08 PM PDT
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Albion Wilde
("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
To: MarkL
Charles Schumer: A cross between a used car salesman and a mob lawyer, without the integrity or fashion sense of either. Wonder if Chucky's living room looks like it fell off a truck? </Michelle Pfeiffer>
A truck headed for Donald Trump's condo, maybe, but still, a truck.
To: neverdem
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05/26/2012 12:43:30 PM PDT
by
mykroar
(Romney: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Shows daily.)
To: Doctor 2Brains
Dude has a way with words, yes?
He also has a way with using words I've never even heard of before. I rarely get through a column without going to the on-line dictionary to look up at least one new word. It's fun; kind of like my lesson for the day.
I'd venture a guess that Steyn has an eidetic memory and remembers everything he's ever read.
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05/26/2012 12:46:54 PM PDT
by
Shannon
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