Mark Steyn: No Smoke Without Fire

Steyn Online ^ | 10/24/2007 | Mark Steyn

[Mercat]

You can’t even smoke in bars in Ireland so get over it.

[Squawk 8888]

I know what you mean. I think that’s the reason I bought my motorbike- it’s a cheap way to get myself out of the city, if only for a day. Anything more than 30 minutes’ riding time from my house is a completely different world.

[cricket]

But the critical point happens way back upstream. It’s still flat, it’s still the river not the distant falls, but what you thought were the placid shallows has, in fact, a strong silent running current and, before you even know it, you’re being swept along.

Beautiful. . .from Mr. Huntington and thanks to Mark for sharing. . .

There are other analogies of course; that speak to our malaise. The analogy of the 'frog settling into 'resting phase' with heat underneath pan. . .and then. . .just a comotose 'sleeping'. . .followed by death and then only an observer's 'who knew?'

The catalyst for change began with the Left's political correctness designed to 'remake' us. . .program us. . .transform us; subtley - 'slowly and surely' - into suicidal swimmers; or just make us as sleepy and dopey. . .and as comotose; as a frog simmering on med high.

[cricket]

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts, but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere, and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue & freedom, would be my choice. -Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush Monticello, Sep. 23, 1800

Good one; and a wisdom that easily describes as well. . .Liberals and their 'Liberalism'.

A 'pestilence' indeed. . .and yes, they too, 'nourish the arts et al'. . .and as their influence grows; our collective health, virtue and freedom, diminishes. . .

[Squawk 8888]

Time for some enterprising individual to open a hookah bar that serves booze and has nothing but pork products on the menu ;-)

[Squawk 8888]

Canada has already set an exceptional precedent in this regard: it’s called Quebec.

Actually, it was never that bad- the language laws are quite stupid but most people there DO get equal treatment under the law. The fact that they have always been so fiercely protective of their culture is now serving them well; they are the first jurisdiction in North America that is openly debating the issue of accommodating the jihadis.

[cricket]

Tolerance becomes an excuse or rather an evasion for not living up to your own values. . .

Very true. . .

. . .but then, actually; while we ascribe 'tolerance' as a Lib value; the truth is they have none. Tolerance requires it's own boundary of sorts; the one they are supposedly ignoring. . . Perhaps, what they really exhibit is not tolerance - at least, as we know it. In truth, what we might be observing is just a moral vacancy of Reason.

Without 'discernment'. . .maybe these Libs ARE, the sound of one-hand, clapping. . .if only as an evil twin, might clap that is. . .)

Whatever. . .these people - 'slug-like'; without real 'substance'. . .without moral definition; just might find 'tolerance' as relevant and as useful to them; as eleven fingers, might be to the rest of us.

[cricket]

p.s. of sorts. . .see an error in my thinking here. . .

we KNOW that Libs do not 'tolerate' anyone who does not subscribe to their view of the world; soooooo; forget what I just said - earlier. . .They may not be tolerant; but we know they are IN-tolerant. . .still they are like a 'collective of evil-twins'. . .and I cannot tolerate them

[Dr.Deth]

The Great Shiite North?