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Market Forces ("They died because of the recklessness of a western political class...")
Steyn Online ^
| Dec 19, 2016
| Mark Styn
Posted on 12/20/2016 3:33:15 AM PST by libertarian27
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posted on
12/20/2016 3:34:11 AM PST
by
libertarian27
(FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
To: libertarian27
Excellent article. Steyn is one of the best. His point about enforcing a border and not ugly barriers around our shops and cultural events is spot on. Trump should use this in one of his speeches.
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posted on
12/20/2016 3:47:44 AM PST
by
Nicojones
To: Nicojones
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posted on
12/20/2016 3:52:15 AM PST
by
Lurker
(America burned the witch.)
To: libertarian27
Just imagine how the scene in Aliens would go if Hicks were a bleeding heart liberal.
“Awesome man, Awesome. Multispeciesism man! All we have to do is let them in and sing kumbaya man! Awesome man, AWESOME!”
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posted on
12/20/2016 4:09:06 AM PST
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: Nicojones
Trump should ask Steyn to serve as one of his speech writers.
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posted on
12/20/2016 4:13:49 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
( "You can--in fact must--shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth. J Goldberg)
To: FreedomStar3028
I think one of the most iconic movie scenes was the one in--was it Fourth of July?--something like that--when the revelers gleefully approached the alien spacecraft which promptly zapped them.
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posted on
12/20/2016 4:15:40 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
( "You can--in fact must--shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth. J Goldberg)
To: libertarian27
I try hard to understand the liberal mind......here is Germany a high tech country, disciplined to go to work in the early morning, party at certain times of the year, mainly religious to a certain extent....why would their leader invite worthless desert tramps to live among them....no technical skills, no work skills, getting up in the morning is a challenge.....Germany is finished....
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posted on
12/20/2016 4:16:35 AM PST
by
B212
To: libertarian27
The last paragraph is awesome. Needs to be spread far and wide:
Since we seem to have wound up obsessing on percentages, I suppose twelve dead Germans is likewise an insignificant percentage, and far too trivial to sophisticates to warrant "Mark Steyn-esque hysteria". But it is December 20th, and for the victims' families in five days' time that will be 100 per cent of their children or parents or boyfriends or girlfriends missing at the Christmas table. Say a prayer for them: They died because of the recklessness of a western political class that has doubled down on a mad long-shot sociopolitical experiment that can only end catastrophically.
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posted on
12/20/2016 4:18:24 AM PST
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
To: libertarian27
There is a book written by Jared Diamond (the guy who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Guns, Germs, and Steel”) called “Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Succeed or Fail”.
Germany and most of Western Europe has simply chosen to fail. I think Toynbee said that civilizations are not murdered but commit suicide.
To: baltimorepoet
There is a book written by Jared Diamond (the guy who won a Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs, and Steel) called Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Succeed or Fail.I read that book years ago...pretty good book until I got to the end and of course.....wait for it.... global warming was the real reason civilizations will fail...
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posted on
12/20/2016 4:27:43 AM PST
by
Popman
To: libertarian27
The Rats seem to think moose limbs are a win win. They think they will vote Rat and kill mostly conservatives.
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posted on
12/20/2016 4:37:29 AM PST
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Savage Beast
I disagree. I hope Trump does not use Mark Steyn as a speech writer, unless only after some editing. Steyn is great at problem analysis, but usually tries to illustrate his points through sarcasm and droll humor.
Mark spends too much time weaving elaborate jokes then laughing at those jokes. He seems at times to be overly impressed with his ability to turn a phrase.
When he’s substituting for Rush, this tendency plus his Welsh accent can render Mark unlistenable for me.
To: Nicojones
Steyn is one of the best. That he is. He's smart, witty, and fast on his feet. He'd make a great Press Secretary.
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posted on
12/20/2016 5:27:49 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
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To: Nicojones
He is so right on and he began critical of Trump but quickly came around because mainly of the Moslem situation.
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posted on
12/20/2016 5:55:43 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: libertarian27
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posted on
12/20/2016 6:11:13 AM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: Savage Beast
War of the Worlds with Gene Barry(1953) but then, Independence Day had a similar scene. So have lots of other Si-Fi movies.
To: libertarian27
"An English tourist visiting from Birmingham complained that in his native city ugly bollards line the sidewalks to obstruct any similarly homicidal lorries in the vicinity...If free countries have to have unsightly security controls, why don't they have them around the national borders rather than around every single thing inside those borders?"
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posted on
12/20/2016 9:46:11 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
To: Popman
“...global warming was the real reason civilizations will fail...”
An actual rise in temperature, or the hysterical Luddite attempt to “stop” it? If the latter, then I agree - Global Warming will be the death of western civilization.
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posted on
12/20/2016 9:50:38 AM PST
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: lee martell
Steyn is great at problem analysis, but usually tries to illustrate his points through sarcasm and droll humor. Mark spends too much time weaving elaborate jokes then laughing at those jokes. He seems at times to be overly impressed with his ability to turn a phrase.It's why Coulter can't be taken seriously, and that's a great, great shame and waste of talent. Her books are better at controlling the sarcasm and snark, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America being the best.
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posted on
12/20/2016 9:52:45 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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