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Steyn: EU just won't take 'no' for an answer
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 29, 2005 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 05/29/2005 2:39:29 AM PDT by xjcsa

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1 posted on 05/29/2005 2:39:29 AM PDT by xjcsa
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To: Pokey78

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2 posted on 05/29/2005 2:40:47 AM PDT by Smile-n-Win (The U.S.A. is here to stay--better move out of our way!)
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To: xjcsa
The Left here wants to turn America into Europe through the courts by ignoring the will of the citizenry. Today's vote in France is a fortuitous sign that ordinary people have had enough and are intent on taking matters back in their own hands. Europe has a future but not one cowebbed by elite designs and the suffocating dead hand of Eurocrat busybodyness. 'Nuff said.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
3 posted on 05/29/2005 2:51:10 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: xjcsa

Steyn is hilarious in this piece. Laughter at the Euro-leftist Will Hutton caused him to almost miraculously recover from his sick bed, and I see why.


4 posted on 05/29/2005 2:55:07 AM PDT by YepYep
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To: xjcsa

Is ther eany chance that the Euro will go into free fall? I don't mean go from an exchange rate of 1.29 to 1.22 versus the dollar, but a fall to the year 2001 levels?


5 posted on 05/29/2005 2:57:35 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: YepYep

Best wishes to the people of France. May their vote be truly reflective of their hopes and dreams.


6 posted on 05/29/2005 2:59:19 AM PDT by YepYep
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To: xjcsa

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7 posted on 05/29/2005 3:06:20 AM PDT by mlmr (CHICKIE-POO!)
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To: xjcsa

Another great article by Mark Steyn. Thanks for posting it.


9 posted on 05/29/2005 3:13:54 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: goldstategop
Got that? You have the right to vote, but only if you give the answer your rulers want you to give. But don't worry, if you don't, we'll treat you like a particularly backward nursery school and keep asking the question until you get the answer right. Even America's bossiest nanny-state Democrats don't usually express their contempt for the will of the people quite so crudely.

Would that it were true. In the eight years we've lived in Maine, we've had three votes on the so-called North Woods, every time defeating a proposal to turn the two northernmost counties into a Nature Theme Park, and two votes on so-called "gay rights", defeating that horror both times. Now our 'Rat dominated legislature has passed "gay rights" with no citizen input and done so in a fashion that leaves only 90 days to get the required signatures for a referendum.

Maine is headed for the dumpster because of these odious, imperious elected "betters".

10 posted on 05/29/2005 3:17:41 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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Individual liberty frightens people without it because the baggage attached is individual responsibility. Europe has been comfortable with Mama govt. telling them what to do and when to do it, plus paying through the nose for that doubtful privilege....not to mention the US picking up the tab for their defense so they were able to funnel millinos into social welfare programs.

And that's where we came in, after all, back in 1776. That's the basic difference, what drove us to revolution. Interesting to see that things haven't changed all that much. The basic tenets of our society define who we are -- it's that magic that turns immigrants into Americans, not just something in the water, it's the very air we breathe. Be whatever you like, the only limits are those you place upon yourself. (If you think about it, it's like jumping off a cliff and trusting that your wings work.)


11 posted on 05/29/2005 3:23:55 AM PDT by hershey
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"In a world that is wholly private," he says of America, "we lose our bearings; deprived of any public anchor, all we have are our individual subjective values to guide us."

Good Lord.

12 posted on 05/29/2005 3:24:13 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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I agree, Maine has been having serious problems. Sympathy from the great state of Taxachusetts.


13 posted on 05/29/2005 3:25:45 AM PDT by hershey
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'millinos' hmm, must have meant 'millions'. It's hard to type with four mini dachshunds in your lap. Sorry.


14 posted on 05/29/2005 3:27:46 AM PDT by hershey
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Except it is not all that funny, is it? We are within spitting distance of this happening here - just one election away from it.

That people like Hutton can so easily nad shamelessly pput forward these thoughts shows how far we have fallen in the West.

ANd do not forget, the results of that election are nt in yet, and it will not matter anyway.

Many of those voting "Non" would agree with this Nazi. Vichy lives on.

15 posted on 05/29/2005 3:36:43 AM PDT by CasearianDaoist
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To: RefugeeFromA2

That is not what is holding the dollar down. THe European goverment debt is even higher than ours and a percentage of GDP. You are not suppose to know that.


16 posted on 05/29/2005 3:38:17 AM PDT by CasearianDaoist
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To: xjcsa; Happygal; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; ...

Steyn is right as usual!


17 posted on 05/29/2005 3:57:20 AM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (Orwellian Relativism: All philosophies are equal, but some philosophies are more equal than others.)
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To: hershey
Well being a Massachusetts native who has moved to Maine and brought my conservative standards with me (not the usual Masshole, dragging the nanny state thoughts behind), I can only truly say I don't know whether to sh!t or go blind.

My revenge on the statist Mainers is to keep telling them that the only reason they became a separate state from MA is so the people of Missouri could deal in human chattle. They hate to be reminded...

18 posted on 05/29/2005 4:10:23 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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"Got that? You have the right to vote, but only if you give the answer your rulers want you to give."

Similar occurance in Pittsburgh a couple years ago when the citizens voted down, by 70% no less, publically financed sports stadia. The pols came up w/ a plan "B" and built the danm things on public money anyway.

Pittsburgh is now in receivership and losing population faster than ever.

But here's the beautiful thing; they are going to elect another democrat mayor and nothing will change. Its the suicide of the City of Pittsburgh.

19 posted on 05/29/2005 4:27:35 AM PDT by Pietro
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My revenge on the statist Mainers is to keep telling them that the only reason they became a separate state from MA is so the people of Missouri could deal in human chattel. They hate to be reminded...

Interesting, what is the story?

20 posted on 05/29/2005 4:29:22 AM PDT by Mark was here (My tag line was about to be censored.)
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