Steyn: EU just won't take 'no' for an answer

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 29, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[mylife]

"In a world that is wholly private," he says of America, "we lose our bearings; deprived of any public anchor

Oh thats a hoot!
Huttons seems to forget we have national parks the size of some euroweenie countries!
This country is covered with public lands

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey! Another wonderful article from our esteemed and brilliant Mr. Steyn.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Yellowstone Park is 4 times the size of Luxembourg!

[mylife]

Id be willing to bet that more than half of arizona is open to public use.

[jordan8]

Got that? You have the right to vote, but only if you give the answer your rulers want you to give.

Prop 187. There's only one form of government above the village level and that's oligarchy. The only advantage of democracy is that it has somewhat more power to influence the oligarchs than other forms of government.

[tjg]

"Good Lord."

Really. Evertime I read something like the sentence you quoted, I'm reminded of the ponytailed nitwit during the first Clitnon run for President that said, "I want you to treat us like we're your children".

It's everything that's wrong with modern leftist thinking in one sentence.

[Kozak]

The joke is the French are rejecting the EU for all the wrong reasons. Because it interferes with their 35 hour mandated work week, and their 6 weeks of vacation, and subsidized protected socialist lifestyle. NOT out of a rejection of the concept, or demand for liberty.

[Colosis]

Thanks for the ping - big Steyn fan here. Does he still write for the Irish times? (can't bring myself to buy that liberal rag)

[virgil]

State and local gov't is even more tyrranical than federal

[xjcsa]

My only quibble with Steyn's above observation is that in many places here in Iowa, we get exactly the same thing every two years or so... for school bonds or other special elections to raise taxes to increase educrat comfort levels.

I know what you mean. Here in Black Hawk County (Waterloo/Cedar Falls), the casino boat gambling referendum passed last year -- on its third attempt. I'm guessing there won't be a fourth attempt just to make sure.

[Ruth A.]

Thanks for the Steyn ping and pic!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Thanks for the ping - big Steyn fan here. Does he still write for the Irish times? (can't bring myself to buy that liberal rag)

I can't bring myself to do so either - even though Kevin Myers and Mark Steyn should override the IDIOTS who are Vincent Browne, Tintin O'Fool and Conor Clery (he can't even spell his own name right!!!!)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Id be willing to bet that more than half of arizona is open to public use.

I'd be willing to bet that Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg fit nice and tidy inside a corner of Arizona - I'm an Irishman - I too live in a small country - but it is a Hell of a lot bigger than those countries - the aforementioned countries would even fit inside Ireland together, at the same time!!! LOL!!!

[mylife]

And...God Bless it my friend, the Irish wont buckle to socialism.
They suffered forever resisting.

And looky looky now! Ireland leads europe in prosperity!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

And...God Bless it my friend, the Irish wont buckle to socialism.
They suffered forever resisting.

Not while I'm around - we have Sinn Fein/IRA though!!!

[mylife]

Im 2 generations removed from the emerald isles

I dont know much of the green and the orange but an pleased that Ireland is entering into its sovereignty

Im glad to see the land prosper

[Irish_Thatcherite]

OK, thanks, but just in case you take me up wrong - I meant Europe's march has been halted, but not Sinn Fein/IRA's march - I despise Sinn Fein/IRA they are terrorists/traitors - they are part of the Cuban-Venezuelan Axis

[mylife]

I want a free soveriegn Ireland.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

The two parts of the island are doing their own thing!

[CFC__VRWC]

I'd wager he's faking at least two of these enthusiasms. As for the third, Woody Allen is the man the French government turned to for assistance with a commercial intended to restore their nation's image in America after anger at post-9/11 Gallic obstructionism began to have commercial implications for France.

One thing the Euros actually do seem to love about America is our pedophiles.