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Mark Steyn: The Yanks are going home
The Spectator (U.K.) ^
| 03/15/03
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 03/13/2003 7:50:04 AM PST by Pokey78
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posted on
03/13/2003 7:50:04 AM PST
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Pokey78
To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...
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posted on
03/13/2003 7:51:20 AM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
The UNs most recent population report has revised the global fertility rate down from 2.1 i.e., replacement rate to 1.85 i.e., eventual population decline. It will peak in about 2050, and then fall off in a geometric progression. What this means for the Continent is that the fall-back position use the Third World as your nursery is also dead. The developing worlds fertility rate is 2.9 and falling. Worth repeating. The fall in the developing world's birthrate is particularly noticeable in Latin America.
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posted on
03/13/2003 7:58:54 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: Pokey78
I quite like Stockholm, too. Well, I like the babes, but theyre gonna be a lot wrinklier by 2050.
Australia will never be as powerful as America, but it doesnt, as Mr Lipponen does, trumpet its arthritic defects as a virtue and demand that these should be accepted as the new global norm.
There are always some real gems in every Steyn article.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:00:12 AM PST
by
July 4th
To: Pokey78
the EU must not develop into a military superpower but must become a great power that will not take up arms at any occasion in order to defend its own interests. An empire built on a foundation of LIES - no doubt who "The Father" of this nation is... They also have no problem "selling" these same arms to rogue terror sponsering nations..
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:01:26 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
To: Pokey78
What Steyn doesn't add is that all the third world crazies WILL chose to go to Europe, because they're subzidized by the welfare state.....also, the themes in his article really explain why the "new Europe", i.e. the former Soviet colonies, are so pro-American, it's because they instinctively know that they will need the US to defend them against FRanco-German pressure..both economic and military....
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:07:22 AM PST
by
ken5050
To: Pokey78
Thanks bump.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:11:59 AM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Pokey78
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:16:14 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Pokey78
Great read bump.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:20:00 AM PST
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Ditto
(You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
To: Pokey78
The day is coming, predicted another prime minister, Sir Charles Tupper, when Canada, which has become the right arm of the British empire, will dominate the American continent.
Imagine this proclaimed in the voice of Benjie or Frankie Mouse.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:22:16 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: Pokey78
Thanks for the ping, but there are so many good quotes in this article that I'll just bump it.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:22:41 AM PST
by
xJones
To: Pokey78
You should also read the article by Oriana Fallaci on Opinion Journal along the same lines, but much more moving.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:27:38 AM PST
by
Eva
To: Pokey78
"Why would anyone think a disinclination to breed or to defend oneself is a recipe for success?"
He's not only funny, but he asks all the right Menckenesque questions.
To: Pokey78
Good grief ! >>>
Step forward, Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, who said in London last year that the EU must not develop into a military superpower but must become a great power that will not take up arms at any occasion in order to defend its own interests.
No doubt it sounds better in Finnish.
...or in French !
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:38:45 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Pokey78
BUMP
To: Pokey78
Step forward, Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, who said in London last year that the EU must not develop into a military superpower but must become a great power that will not take up arms at any occasion in order to defend its own interests.Again the denial of the existence of evil. Despite what moral relativists say, human beings are not "inherently good" and thus we have checks, balances, and a big stick.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:40:23 AM PST
by
Drawsing
(Want to see some awesome 3D graphics? Go outside and take a walk.)
To: Pokey78
the EU must not develop into a military superpower but must become a great power that will not take up arms at any occasion in order to defend its own interests. In other words, they are 1940-era France, all too willing to roll over (or bend over, pick your analogy) for whatever oppressive, freedom-denying regime comes along.
To: Pokey78
What weve seen in the last few weeks is that for Europeans the real clash of civilisations is not between Islam and the West but between what the French call Anglo-Saxon capitalism and Eurostatism. This clash is not only manifesting itself in Europe, but also in the United States Legislature. It is essentially Judeo-Christianity v. Atheism at it's core. Morality v. Humanism.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:50:42 AM PST
by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
Bump!
To: Pokey78
I continue to be amazed by this man's prose, wit, and insight.
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posted on
03/13/2003 9:12:15 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
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