h/t Instapundit
What to fear in Germany -- an ideologically driven leader who unilaterally is changing the demographics of the nation without public support, or an angry populist counter-movement that vows to keep Germans safe by any means necessary when the government won't? Both, or neither? Is Germany postmodern in erasing borders, or premodern in bullying its neighbors to do the same?
Does the world want Germans to stand up, reassert their pride in Western liberality and tolerance, and insist that migrants either integrate and follow Western values or go back home and stay there? Or does it want Germans to more or less continue to repress any expressions of cultural confidence?
To even the least-informed observer, German chancellor Angela Merkel's recent decision to allow tens of thousands of young Muslim migrants -- about two-thirds of them young men -- into Germany from the war-torn and terrorist-infested Middle East seemed unhinged. Over a million migrants entered Germany in 2015 alone, the vast majority of them young, male, Muslim, from the Middle East. They were not refugees by any classical definition. Apparently Merkel in particular, and Germans in general, must assert that they are the most recklessly postmodern of all Western nations in order to reassure the world, 77 years after the outbreak of World War II, that they are no longer the most recklessly nationalistic.
#1
An unorthodox theocratic communist assumed leadership of Germany's mainstream center right party under false pretenses.
Think of something like Maggie Thatcher implementing the "Longest Suicide Note in History" after winning in 1983, after having revealed to the world that 'she' has been Michael Foot in drag all along.
The German political establishment is shocked and paralyzed.
To put this in perspective: In the 2013 election a majority voted center right. Since 2015 100% of parliament nominally supports policies earlier identified with the extreme left exclusively.
#2
Germany needed low cost nannies and house cleaners. In the USA, these come from central America. Germany's choice of the ME is, ah, questionable.
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It's foolishness. Merkel thinks that importing all these refugees will help the German welfare state by providing new millions of younger workers who will support the system.
She fails to ask this question: assuming Muhammed could actually get a productive job in the German economy, why would he and Fatima want to work to support the retirement of Dieter and Greta?
Immigrants who lack skills and who refuse to assimilate into the new state won't uphold any part of the core social welfare.
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^ yes. We could help Germany by providing those tens of thousands (hey, millions) of younger workers today who speak a European language, are Christian, and love football soccer too. Much easier in assimilation. Call it the 'Workers Airlift' with multiple daily charter flights from Phoenix, San Antonio, and LA.
[Wash Times] "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Wednesday said a possible Donald Trump presidency signals that "maybe it's time" for her to move out of the country.
Ms. Goldberg was responding to a claim by fellow co-host Joy Behar that the Republican presidential front-runner "has a lot of Democratic tendencies, if you look at his record."
"Listen, he can be whatever party he wants to be," Ms. Goldberg interjected, according to a clip obtained by Breitbart News. "What he can't be is he can't be the guy that says it's your fault stuff isn't working. That's not the president I want. Find a way to make stuff work."
#8
These leftist Hollywood types always promise to leave and never do, e.g. Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, etc. When they going to deliver? They are all talk.
A guardian of a free society continues its decline, in moral, spiritual as well as financial terms.
Last October, a McKinsey report declared, “We believe that many of the people likely to abandon print newspapers and print consumer magazines have already done so…. We believe most of this core audience — households that have retained their print subscriptions despite having access to broadband — will continue to do so for now, effectively putting a floor on the print markets.” The instrument the chap in the photo is holding with the wires attached is the next item to go.
Wow. Just because of inertia? Is the only medium-term threat to print the fact that most of its current audience will gradually die over the next 30 years? That would be great news, especially because nearly all newspapers still get most of their revenue from print advertising. Not just inertia. Some people have birds. Some still wrap fish.
But it doesn’t feel right in a world in which even mature adults’ media consumption habits seem to be quickly evolving. There's a reason why Geritol and Depends are advertised on the network evening news... The customers they really want have their noses buried in their phones.
Then, amid the hubbub about the Boston Globe’s delivery problems, I was struck by the Globe’s statement that they have only 115,000 daily print subscribers, and only 205,000 on Sunday. Really? I had had a sense that the Globe was still much bigger than that. So I poked around online, and, indeed found much larger numbers for Globe print circulation.
But they were from 2013, which is the last time print newspaper circulation figures were widely reported.
The simple chart below lays out the numbers for “total average print circulation” of the nation’s 25 largest newspapers as of March 2013. These are the basis for the figures you get if you Google search the issue or look for a list on Wikipedia. Then the chart compares these with the number of copies most recently reported to the Alliance for Audited Media (in September 2015) for “individually paid print circulation,” that is the number of copies being bought by subscription or at newsstands. This is the best indication of consumer demand for the product. In both cases, the figures are for weekday average circulation. Sunday numbers are generally higher.
Coupons, sales flyers from major national and local distributors. Trying to read some of those flyers on line is sometimes awkward and sometimes nearly impossible. Then as mentioned, the left overs for wrapping and lining.
#2
When my kids were in school, I kept a Sunday only subscription to cover the occasional school project. I mostly threw it out since the articles were largely slanted propaganda.
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After 20+ years, canceled the Sacramento Bee, paper had gotten physically smaller, cheaper paper stock, half the few pages in the Metro Section were obits, not only had the Editorial Page gone extreme leftie, but the news articles were all Climate Change, Gun Control, Obama accolades, no Hillary scandals, and other left coast tripe. The Monday edition was little more than a handbill, and even Sunday was mostly local human interest and LA/NY Times and WaPo reprints.But the Coup d' grace came when they upped the annual bill to $441, and when I called to cancel, got a call center in Pakistan. Since I cxl'd, have had seven calls to hype a new rate, but wanted credit card commitment, and when a management guy finally called to ask whey, when I told him my beefs, his answer was "Have you written a letter to the editor?"! They are quickly approaching DOA.
#8
Negotiate NMBS, I got the TLH demagogue for a year free, then negotiable. They want eyeballs on print ads.
BTW my school gets 200 copies a day gratis. Eyeballs man, it's all about eyeballz. Free circulation isn't paid, but it is circulation of a type auditors will allow, it may also be a tax deductible charitable expense. Raj?
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[Wash Times] "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Wednesday said a possible Donald Trump presidency signals that "maybe it's time" for her to move out of the country.
