Posted on 09/27/2015 10:08:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Twelve years ago, it was said that the western armies in Iraq would be welcomed as liberators. (They were - for a while.) Today in Germany, another conquering army are being welcomed as liberators - liberators from the residual moral stain of what remains of ethnic nationalism and cultural identity. Watching European news broadcasts right now is like an insane demotic inversion of the Emperor's new clothes. "To a fool these thousands of fit young Muslim men appear well dressed and well fed. But a wise man such as Your Majesty can easily see that they are desperate starving refugees in rags." And so as the trains pull in to German railway stations to disgorge men who meet no known definition of "refugees" they are greeted on the platform by volunteers offering food and second-hand clothes. The cameras do their best to alight on a telegenic moppet or a covered woman, but, even when they do, you notice that they're surrounded by a sea of confident vigorous males- who, according to the UN, make up 75 per cent of the "refugees".
That would be an unusual demographic distortion in most emergency situations. If 75 per cent of the Titanic's survivors had been men who'd left their women and children back on the ship, there might have been a few disapproving comments. But not here. And why complain that the Syrian refugees aren't really "refugees"? After all, they're not Syrian either. Only one in five of the arriving migrants are Syrians fleeing the implosion of their country.
To be sure, there are a lot of Syrian refugees. One in four people in Lebanon right now is a displaced Syrian. That's the equivalent of America taking in 100 million Mexicans-or Canadians, if there were such a thing as 100 million Canadians....
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the guy’s incredibly gifted.
A warning is being sounded.
L
Watching European news broadcasts right now is like an insane demotic inversion of the Emperor’s new clothes.
“To a fool these thousands of fit young Muslim men appear well dressed and well fed. But a wise man such as Your Majesty can easily see that they are desperate starving refugees in rags.”
I can’t even read this all the way through, its too painful.
Its like a “through the looking glass” fit of national madness and we’re all supposed to play along as if nothing is askew.
The wages of sin is death it is said. The wages of abandoning God and Reason is to lose your country. Who would have guessed you could lose it all in one generation and without a shot fired.
They’ll use Europe’s social programs to sustain their jihad.
He is incredibly gifted. That is even an understatement. I am amazed every time I read him. He is like Mozart only with words.
The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
Mistah Kurtz-he dead
A penny for the Old Guy
I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind’s singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer-
Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death’s other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death’s twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
BTTT...
I read about the Mongol hordes, the barbarians sacking Rome, El Cid and the Muslims, and marveled at these strange, far off times when such mass conquests and desperate battles could occur.
It appears history didn’t stop and replace these tides and tumults with stability just for my convenience after all.
European leaders have long been proving what idiots they are but on this one they’ve doubled down.
The incipient, demographic destruction of many European countries proves once again that liberals destroy everything they touch.
From the title I thought this was going to be about the clown prince Odinga
“If the Germans can’t see that, then they are doomed. “
It isn’t just the Germans that are blind..We here in the US have been allowing the liberals to import rabble from Latin America for decades. The results will be the same, and at about the same time...
“I can’t even read this all the way through, its too painful.”
I had to quit too. Can’t take it.
bkmk
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