Mark Steyn: Stop frisking crippled nuns

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 06/01/2002 | Mark Steyn

[GuillermoX]

bump

[Jeremiah Jr]

Just wait till you get a load of...

Jorge & Abdul's
Used Peace Plans!

[Cyber Liberty]

Fine with me. I don't think you're one of those, "Damn if I'll ever vote for him," help-put-a-'Crap-in-office-instead nut.

[ThinkDifferent]

Great article. Please add me to the ping list, thanks in advance.

[Sabertooth]

I don't think you're one of those, "Damn if I'll ever vote for him," help-put-a-'Crap-in-office-instead nut.

Oh, I might be... if he doesn't get off his Amnesty horse.

But I would seriously suggest that if he goes that route and looses, the responsibility would be his. He doesn't own my vote and he works at my pleasure.

The danger to my State and this country of another Amnesty, especially one originating from within the GOP, cannot be underestimated. Such a green light would open the floodgates to Illegals in numbers beyond our comprehension.

[Thinkin' Gal]

The blinking neon sign overhead must have been cropped.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said: "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence."

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls...

http://www.subway.com/sub1/student_ed/timeline.htm#1984

[Cyber Liberty]

Works for me. He'll "loose" for sure if he keeps walking on top of his conservative base. I would have hoped he'd have learnt something from his father, but we'll see.

He is keeping an eye on the 2002 elections, which could cripple him if they go badly.

[mondonico]

Although the substance of your reply is depressing, its form made me smile.

[beckett]

‘the reductio ad absurdum of racial sensitivity: better dead than rude’

Perfect.

[mondonico]

Woods told the whole story on The O'Reilly Factor earlier this year.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Has anyone else heard this?

Yes. I've read several articles on it, and watched Woods being interviewed about it by O'Reilly.

[moneyrunner]

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[MeekOneGOP]

Mark Steyn: Stop frisking crippled nuns

Excerpt:

We must, I suppose, take him and Cheney and Rummy and all the rest at their word. They wouldn’t scare us if they hadn’t done all they believe they can do. So, naturally, the mind turns to all the things they haven’t done: as I write, young Saudi males are still arriving at US airports on routinely issued student visas. If it lessened the ‘inevitability’ of that second attack just ever so slightly, wouldn’t it be worth declaring a temporary moratorium on Saudi visitors, or at least making their sojourns here extremely rare and highly discretionary? Oh, no. Can’t be done.

Ask why the Saudis are allowed to kill thousands of Americans and still get the kid-gloves treatment, and you’re told the magic word: oil. Here’s my answer: blow it out your Medicine Hat. The largest source of imported energy for the United States is the Province of Alberta. Indeed, whenever I’m asked how America can lessen its dependence on foreign oil, I say it’s simple: annex Alberta. The Albertans would be up for it, and, to be honest, they’re the only assimilable Canadian province, at least from a Republican standpoint. In 1972, the world’s total proven oil reserves added up to 550 billion barrels; today, a single deposit of Alberta’s tar shales contains more than that. Yet no Albertan government minister or trade representative gets the access in Washington that the Saudis do. No premier of Alberta gets invited to Bush’s Crawford ranch. No Albertan bigshot, if you’ll forgive the oxymoron, gets Colin Powell kissing up to him like ‘Crown’ ‘Prince’ Abdullah and ‘Prince’ Bandar do. In Washington, an Albertan can’t get ...well, I was going to say an Albertan can’t get arrested, but funnily enough that’s the one thing he can get. While Bush was governor of Texas, he even managed to execute an Albertan, which seems to be more than the administration is likely to do to any Saudis.

So it’s not oil, but rather that even targeting so obvious an enemy as the Saudis is simply not politically possible. Cries of ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘racism’ would rend the air. The Saudis discriminate against Americans all the time: American Jews are not allowed to enter the ‘Kingdom’, nor are American Episcopalians who happen to have an Israeli stamp in their passports. But America cannot be seen to take any similar measures, though it has far more compelling reasons to.

James Woods puts it very well: ‘Nineteen of 19 killers on 11 September were Arab Muslims — not a Swede among them.’ But au contraire, in a world where the EU officially chides the BBC for describing Osama as an ‘Islamic fundamentalist’, we must pretend that al-Qa’eda contains potentially vast numbers of Swedish agents, many female and elderly. Even after 11 September, we can’t revoke the central fiction of multiculturalism — that all cultures are equally nice and so we must be equally nice to them, even if they slaughter large numbers of us and announce repeatedly their intention to slaughter more. National Review’s John Derbyshire calls this ‘the reductio ad absurdum of racial sensitivity: better dead than rude’.

Last October, urging Congress to get tough on the obvious suspects, the leggy blonde commentatrix Ann Coulter declared, ‘Americans aren’t going to die for political correctness.’

They already have.

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[300winmag]

National Review’s John Derbyshire calls this ‘the reductio ad absurdum of racial sensitivity: better dead than rude’.

A more correct reading of the motto is: "better you dead than me rude".

Please add me to the ping list. Steyn just makes my day.

[stands2reason]

I predict another two or three major attacks until the voice of reason finally drowns out the rant of the PC police in the major news media.

[AmusedBystander]

Sure, he's complaining now, but when heroic airline security officers apprehend a feeble, 83 year-old nun who was trying to smuggle explosives and weapons onto a plane so that she could hijack and blow it up he'll be singing a different tune.

Unless of course, the feeble old nun has been made-up to appear that way by terrorist make-up artists.

I say check them all.

[Dimensio]

/Robert Stack

Agent Hurley, I want you to give this scumbag a cavity search! I'm talking Roto-Rooter! Don't stop until you reach the back of his teeth!

/Robert Stack

[joebuck]

O'Reilly replayed the Woods interview just two nights ago on The Factor.

[gcruse]

 
One can be a Bush supporter without being a s***head.
I wish I could say the same about the Bush-bashers.

Are you saying that one cannot criticize steel tariffs,
farm welfare, and CFR without being a shithead?

[Cyber Liberty]

{sigh}

There you go again.

Sure you can. I'm on your side on those issues. I'm just not prepared to replace him with a 'Crap like the extremists around here are.

The fact that you chose to respond the way you just did probably says more about you than you realize.