Mark Steyn: Worshipping at the church of Tim Hortons (social suicide in Canada, Britain and Europe)

Macleans ^ | May 03, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[okie01]

Indeed, a legitimate concern.

The day may well come wnen the inhabitants are likely to find the fields of crosses and Stars of David "offensive".

[VOA]

"Americans aspire to independence," he told the Star's man. "Their model is
to drive out of town, Gary Cooper with Grace Kelly, and get on their ranch
and she's in the kitchen and having babies and he's standing at
the ranch gate with a gun, saying, 'no trespassing.' "

Well, the Canuck is right for at least one 'Murican.
It's just that I've not yet located a contemporary Grace Kelly available
for cohabitation.

[SuzyQue]

Americans are forced to worship Christ, whereas Canadians are free to worship crullers.

Maybe not the best line, but darned good.

[canadianally]

Steyn is a great Canadian and a once-in-a-generation wordwmith. Steyn for Prime Minister in 2012 (when PM Harper steps down)!

[SuzyQue]

No - I think he's ours now. Doesn't he live in New Hampshire?

[Bob Eimiller]

I have to save this gem.

[Richard Kimball]

I wish we would. France will be Muslim soon, and I hate to think of General Patton's headstone being used as a sidewalk. Dittos for the troops that were under his command.

[visualops]

Steyn is always brilliant but this piece is so good it hurts.

[denydenydeny]

...while the Frenchman by contrast affirms his belief both in personal interconnectedness and collective responsibility by spending the weekend with his wife's sister at a nude beach on the Côte d'Azur, secure in the knowledge that his dead mother on ice in the meat locker back in town is the state's problem, not his.

Brilliant.

[lawnguy]

This was one of his best ever, and that's saying something:

Why is death increasingly anonymous in Germany, with no death notice in the newspapers, no church funeral ceremony, no secular memorial service -- 'as though,' Richard John Neuhaus observed, 'the deceased did not exist'?"

If they never existed, then there's no pain having lost them, and our whole culture tells us daily that to experience even the least bit of inconveneince, let alone emotional discomfort requires a pill or a scapegoat.

The traditional American sense of community and our respect for our departed are two of our qualities I am most proud of. I hope we can hold on to them.

[secret garden]

He's just that good.

[RightWingAtheist]

There is no god but Tim Horton, and Homer is his prophet

[LZ_Bayonet]

I wonder if there will ever be a time when America thinks about bringing home the bodies of her soldiers that are buried in France?

Wouldn't it be ironic if someday our military had to once again storm the beaches of Normandy to secure our military cemetery perimeters and supervise the return of our WWII dead? It could happen when the Muslim's presence grows larger and they play the Mexican card ("Its too late, there are too many of us to legally control now!") and find the presence of all of those Christian crosses, not to mention the Stars of David, to be intolerable.

[little jeremiah]

Ping to self.

[TheSarce]

Must-read ping.

[tonycavanagh]

LOL I see you have added Britain to the title. Although there is no mention of Britain in the title

You seem to take great delight in having a go at Britain in all your threads.

So you take pleasure in attacking an ally that has stood by America, backed America up and has soldiers serving alongside America in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

I see you are a young man, when are you going to join up and support America, or are you just one of those who likes to sit on the sideline and insult others to make you feel like a man

[metesky]

You are too quick to take umbrage.

Now put that umbrage back where it belongs!
:O)

[tonycavanagh]

LOL its my umbrage.

After five years on this site I understand American freeper mentality and its best to be aggressive, anything else is seen as weakness.;)

[8mmMauser]

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