½ Pound Ground Beef or Veal
½ Pound Ground Pork
1 Medium Yellow Onion (pulp)
3 TSP White Flour
½ - 1 Cup Milk
1-2 Eggs
1 TSP Salt
½ TSPGround black pepper
1 Stick Butter (for frying)
Optional:
The traditional version of this recipe is made with beef, pork and veal.
Preparation:
Be sure to get the finest grind of meat possible. Ask your butcher to help run it through with the finest plate a couple of times. Store bought ground meat will work but the texture will be slightly more coarse. If you are using a home machine (Kitchen Aid), add the onion while grinding the meats together.
If you have not ground the onion with the meat, grate the entire onion into pulp, there should be no large bits left. Mix the meat and onion together and stir in the flour. In a separate small bowl, add salt and pepper to the eggs and beat well. Combine the egg mixture with the meat and proceed to mix well. You want to aerate the mix to get fluffy and light meatballs. Avoid overworking the mixture as it beats all of the air out of it.
Preheat a large skillet with half of the butter in it. Use two tablespoons that have been dipped in lukewarm water. Scoop out a heaping spoonful of the meat and shape into a small golf ball sized oblong with the spoons. Drop the meatball into the pan and repeat. Dip the spoons into the water again to avoid the meat mixture sticking to them. Again, avoid overworking or compressing the meat while shaping it. One by one, drop the meatballs into the hot pan and fry until well browned on one side. If the pan is dry, add more butter when turning the meatballs. Continue until they are browned on all sides. Remove the finished frikadeller from the pan and drain on paper towels. Serve immediately or keep warm in oven until ready.
Note: In a separate pan, slowly caramelize some onion rings to serve with the frikadeller. They should be nicely caramelized when done. A side of mashed potatoes, some rich brown gravy and Rødkaal (red cabbage) makes this into Danish soul food.
To make the caramelized onions, cut yellow or white onions into medium thick rings and warm them in a pan with some butter or oil. Warm them over medium to low heat. They should not show signs of vigorous cooking. It will take at least half an hour to get them nice and brown. They will take on a dramatically sweet flavor that accents meats and other fine dishes.
5-10 Peeled Russett potatoes
1/2-1 Cup Milk or Half and Half
1 Stick Butter
½ -1 TSP Salt (or more)
¼ TSP Ground White Pepper
Dash of garlic powder
Dash of onion powder
Preparation:
Bring a large pot of salted water to a rolling boil. Peel the potatoes and cut into large pieces if a shortened cooking time is required. Add the potatoes to the boiling water and cover tightly. Be careful not to overcook the potatoes. They should still be slightly firm and not shedding or flaking. (Overcooking the potatoes causes dense textured spuds.) Properly cooked potatoes will just barely slide off of the fork when speared. Drain the potatoes and place in a large bowl. Add the salt, spices and half of the butter and milk. Mash thoroughly without overworking the mix. The potatoes should still be fluffy. Adjust salt, milk and butter to taste as you work the spuds. You should not be able to taste the onion or garlic powders.
Note: To avoid overcooking the potatoes, allocate some extra time to prepare them and once the pot is boiling, reduce the heat to medium low or low. This lengthens the cooking time and gives you more chances to catch them when they are at the perfect texture.
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Don't forget the bacon bits. It wouldn't be ramadan without it.
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Brown Gravy Danish Meatball Sauce
Preparation Time: 20 Minutes
Makes: Three Cups
Ingredients:
1 Quart Beef Stock (or 2 each 14.5 oz. Cans)
2-3 TBS Roux (see notes)
½ -1 TSP Salt
½ TSP Onion Powder
¼ TSP Garlic Powder
¼ TSP Worcestershire Sauce
¼ TSP Fine Ground Black Pepper
¼ TSP Mad Kulor (Danish caramel food coloring see notes)
Dash Crystal Hot Sauce
Preparation:
Before making the roux, bring the stock to a slow simmer and begin reducing its volume by almost half. This concentrates the broth and gives it a deep flavor. Make the roux according to the notes below.
Once the roux has cooled and rested, add one tablespoon of the warm stock to the roux and begin tempering the paste. Adding too much hot broth all at once will cause lumping. The hot stock scalds the flour mixture and begins to form pudding instead of gravy. Add another tablespoon and continue thinning the roux. Begin to increase the amount of stock added until the paste has thinned completely and there is no danger of clumping.
With the heat at low, add this thinned roux to the gravy and stir constantly. Increase the heat and continue stirring all the while. Once the gravy begins to thicken, reduce the heat to medium-low and allow the mixture to reach a full simmer.
At this time, deglaze the pan that the frikadeller were fried in. Use a few tablespoons of water or reduced broth. For a coarse country-style gravy, add all of the crusty bits from the pan. For a more smooth and elegant sauce, strain them off with a sieve. Add the deglazed liquid to the gravy and continue stirring.
In order for the roux to thicken the sauce, it must be allowed to reach a boil. Once the mixture is bubbling nicely, reduce the heat. Do not worry if the gravy still appears a bit thin, it will thicken well once it cools slightly. Add your spices and all other ingredients. Taste for flavor and adjust as needed.
Notes: Roux is a thickening agent made from flour and butter or other fats. It is the secret to the very finest gravies, stews, sauces and certain soups. Roux is easy to make and has an exceptional shelf life if stored in your refrigerator.
In a small saucepan, combine equal parts of regular white flour and butter. Slowly melt the butter with the flour over low heat and, once it is liquid, begin stirring in the flour. They should combine without forming lumps and begin to make a smooth paste. Once the paste starts to bubble, reduce the heat to low and continue stirring every few minutes. Tilt the pan and make sure that the mixture is not runny. Add more butter or flour as needed to make a slow moving paste.
The roux will begin to turn brown and take on a nut-like aroma. Once it is a nice tan color, turn off the heat and allow it to rest for at least ten to fifteen minutes. This is critical for obtaining the proper texture. During this time the granules of flour soften and bloom which is what gives sauces made with roux their special texture.
The closest product approximating the Danish Mad Kulor (Food Color), is Kitchen Bouquet. I do not recommend using this preparation because it contains many other spices and flavors that lend inappropriate notes to the sauce. It is well worth ordering the Danish product. One bottle is essentially a lifetime supply and only costs a few dollars.
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The above three recipes represent a triumvirate of Danish cusine. Some red or green cabbage on the side and you have Viking soul food. This is a dish which, literally, I cannot stop eating. The flavors are rich, satisfying and the closest you can get to stopping over in Copenhagen for dinner.
These are very close to how my Copenhagen born grandmother made them and I am proud to share them with everyone here at Rantburg. I cannot urge you strongly enough to order the special caramel coloring. It has an infinite shelf life and will act as a superior browning agent for everything from gravies to beef jerky.
I hope that you will try this recipe and share it with your loved ones. One taste of this food evokes a flood of childhood memories and once more, I am sitting in my grandmother's kitchen so many years ago. The frikadeller reheat splendidly and make great sandwiches as well.
IT was President George W. Bush who pushed the diplomatic button that yesterday triggered North Koreas first nuclear weapon. He did it on March 20, 2003 when the first US cruise missiles smashed into Baghdad. He had prepared even earlier in January 2002 when in his State of the Union Address he called North Korea, Iran and Saddams Iraq the The Axis of Evil.
At the time, North Korea protested the Bushs assertion was little short of a declaration of war. Pyongyang withdrew from tortuous negotiations to abandon its nuclear-weapons program in return for aid and restarted its Yongbyon reactor. It is now clear that from this date it raised a series of diplomatic smokescreens during on-off negotiations within the Six Nation forum with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States. In January 2003, when it had become patently clear that Washington was poised to invade Iraq, North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Since then it has tested missiles and announced that it had six nuclear devices. At each revelation, the rest of the world, with Washington in the lead, has huffed and puffed. China, Pyongyangs only real ally and supplier of much of its energy and essential foodstuffs, has preferred to use gentle persuasion. In the event neither strategy has worked. The North Korean leadership has exploited international differences and Washingtons entrapment in the diplomatic and military mire of Iraq.
In its terse announcement of the successful test, the North Korean news agency asserted, It will contribute to defending the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the area around it. It is hard not to disagree with this. If the international community was unable to intervene decisively while Pyongyangs scientists were hurrying to make their bomb, how much harder will intervention be now? It matters not that this explosion was equivalent to only 800 tons of TNT when one of the bombs the Americans dropped on Japan in 1945 represented the force of 15,000 tons of the explosive. North Korea has joined the nuclear club and the very unpredictability of its Stalinist regime makes its bomb that much more powerful.
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Uh, so what was their excuse for trying to build one in the '90s? The naked aggression of Bill Clinton? (Thank you! I'll be here all week!)
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Arabnews, huh? sounds like DNC talking points
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Yes, the US, UK and France have "Deterrent" arsenals. But we don't give press reports threatening to put them on missiles and shoot them at people. We don't break deals and crawfish reactors, and we don't starve millions(not an exageration) of people to death to pay for it all.
Prior to 9/11, most Americans found the idea that international terrorists could mount an attack on their homeland and kill thousands of innocent citizens not just unlikely, but inconceivable. Psychologically, Americans imagined that they lived in a security bubble. Terrorist attacks, including those on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, occurred elsewhere. These beliefs were reinforced by the conventional wisdom among terrorism experts, who argued that terrorists sought not mass casualties but rather mass sympathy through limited attacks that called attention to their cause.
As we approach the fifth year without a second successful terrorist attack upon U.S. soil, a chorus of skeptics now suggests that 9/11 was a 100-year flood. They conveniently forget the deadly explosions in Bali, Madrid, London, and Mumbai, and dismiss scores of attacks planned against the United States and others that have been disrupted. [1] The idea that terrorists are currently preparing even more deadly assaults seems as far-fetched to them as the possibility of terrorists crashing passenger jets into the World Trade Center did before that fateful Tuesday morning.
As one attempts to assess where we now stand, and what the risks are, the major conclusion of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission deserves repetition: The principal failure to act to prevent the September 11 attack was a "failure of imagination." [2] A similar failure of imagination leads many today to discount the risk of a nuclear 9/11.
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In 2003, Tehran offered to negotiate with the United States over Iran's nuclear program and even halt its support for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists.
Utter baloney. Tehran never intended to 'negotiate' and all its 'offers' were designed to buy time for its nuclear bomb program.
Having called for war against Iraq on false premises, the Bush administration has paradoxically increased the WMD threat.
Ah, just a wee bit of an agenda here.
The United States cannot undertake or sustain the war on nuclear terrorism alone. Nor can the necessary actions simply be commanded, compelled, or coerced. Instead, they require deep and steady international cooperation rooted in the recognition that nations share an overriding common threat and can only succeed with a common strategy.
Agenda identified. No basis for this conclusion is offered. We had lots of "international cooperation" buzzing along when two towers collapsed in New York City one fine September day. The only people who care about our safety is us. And sometimes, I'm not sure about us.
Conclusion: (1) Stop making nukes.
This is a non-starter. If we don't have nukes, our enemies will. This line of thinking is right up there with removing guns from law-abiding citizens because 'guns are dangerous'. Nukes aren't dangerous. People are dangerous.
Conclusion: (2) International cooperation is the only way to ensure nukes are controlled.
Yeah, like that worked so well during the 90's (and the 80's and the 70's and the...you get the drift...-ed).
Here are two facts the author seems to ignore, although he claims it is possible for individuals to build a working nuke:
(1) Only states have the money, organization and time to make nuclear weapons.
(2) Individuals with knowledge and education are required to build a bomb.
There is only one way to even marginally insure our safety. When any country says they now have a nuclear bomb, make that an act of war. Kill them.
If they make us SUPSECT they're working toward a nuclear bomb, kill them. If they intimate they are trying to BUY or SELL a nuclear bomb, kill them.
The United States should make it very clear that anything that looks like, smells like or quacks like a nuclear bomb will be considered a nuclear bomb. Leaving consequences unspoken and unnamed gives us the situation we have today. Consequences must be clear and immediate.
Oderent dum metuant.
The failure here is the failure to enforce our will.
The questions is: How many of us will have to die before we correct that failure and locate the spine to take the actions necessary to clarify that issue for the world?
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"The failure here is the failure to enforce our will. The questions is: How many of us will have to die before we correct that failure and locate the spine to take the actions necessary to clarify that issue for the world?"
My best guess: about 5 million.
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If we could limit the deaths to leftists, about a half million would be sufficient.
An enjoyable, long article describing in detail how Kofi threw away all the promise and goodwill he had at the start of his tenure as Secretary General. Hat tip Orrin Judd.
Earlier this week, the security council officially nominated Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea's foreign minister, to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations. Ban's nomination will shortly be rubber-stamped by the general assembly, and his term will begin on 1st January 2007.
But the new secretary-general will inherit an organisation in deep trouble; and much of the blame for this can be laid at the door of the outgoing secretary-general, Kofi Annan. Six months ago, Annan's waning credibility was dealt a death blow by the UN general assembly. By an overwhelming majority, including most developing countries, the member states rejected his last reform proposal, aimed at placating a hostile America.
Following the vote, the African daily Fraternité Matin called Annan the African who tries to please his white masters. For Annan it was a watershed. Having reaped the resentment of the Bush administration for not having supported the war in Iraq and the hostility of the Arab world for not having opposed it, Annan had now achieved the ultimate indignity; the scorn of the continent he represented.
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Too bad we still have to wait for the fall of Kofi.
A number of recent apologies made to the Muslims by non-Muslim leaders clearly indicate that the world has grown increasingly fearful of the Muslim rage. Political Islam, as is obvious by the reactions of the socio-cultural and political institutions in countries of Europe, Britain and the U.S. has come of age. It has been able to install itself in a position from where it can manipulate the host countrys social and political systems to its advantage. The significance of this achievement cant be denied. Political Islams disabling fear has already deprived much of the West of its ability to stand up and defend its values.
After Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten apologized for publishing the Prophet Muhammads caricatures, Pope Benedict XVI found himself repenting for his comments and now Germanys leading opera house, the Deutsche Oper Berlin has cancelled a production of Mozarts Idomeneo, because it was determined that it will offend the Muslim sensibilities.
A report on combating terrorism issued by the Netherlands Interior Minister Johan Remkes and Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner says that radical Muslims are gaining influence in the Netherlands. According to the report, the ultra-orthodox Salafism that seeks to return to the pure Islam of the days of Prophet Mohammed was making its presence felt in an increasing number of mosques.
The adherents of Salafism shun western society and work against the moderate Muslims who want to integrate in the Dutch society. The report pointed out that the followers of radical Islam have successfully used the internet and lectures to win over more followers and gain control of moderate mosques, Remkes said. LINK
U.S. experts believed that radical Islam in France was responsible for last years rioting in France that began in a poor, mostly Muslim, neighborhood near Paris and then spread to other suburbs and cities across France and parts of Europe. They said, despite the characterization by several media outlets that those perpetuating the violence are primarily disaffected youth upset with French economic and social policies, the fact the unrest spread so quickly and is virtually limited to Muslim neighborhoods signifies a deeper, ideologically driven motive. LINK
Great Britain, America's closest ally in the war against terrorism is also a major base of operation for some of the most radical Islamic organizations, including some direct supporters of Osama bin Laden. Radical Islam exploited the cultural and moral vacuum which has been emerging in Britain over the past 30 years. The London terrorist bombings last July, perpetrated by homegrown Islamist terrorists, shocked British society which until then thought that radical Islam was confined to distant places about which British people knew little and cared less. In January of 2002, British military intelligence working in eastern Afghanistan made a shocking discovery in the mountains of Tora Bora. During searches of Osama bin Laden's cave complex, they found the names of 1,200 British citizens, all Muslims, who trained with the Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan. LINK
In the United States of America, Islamists with clear ties to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon are not only being awarded by the administration but are also influencing the U.S. policy in the Middle East. There are reports that the Muslim cab drivers are imposing there restrictive values on the Americans by refusing to accept passengers who carry liquor in their luggage.
In short, radical Islam has perpetuated itself in every part of the globe. No country or community is free from the influences of this fascist strain of political Islam. Islamist leaders are happy that they have been able to carry out the basic mission of Islamism to overwhelm the infidel world. In an interview with an Australian magazine, Nidaul Islam, The Call of Islam, bin Laden called for a global holy war against the West. Our encouragement and call to Muslims to enter Jihad against the American and the Israeli occupiers are actions which we are engaging in as religious obligations. Allah Most High has commanded us in many verses of the Quran to fight in His path and to urge the believers to do so We have given an oath to Allah to continue in the struggle as long as we have blood pumping in our veins or a seeing eye, and we beg of Allah to accept and to grant a good ending for us and for all the Muslims. LINK
Should I as a Muslim be happy about the situation? After all, these apologies and advances made by radical Islam confirm that the Muslims are winning in their jihad against the infidel world. The Judeo-Christian World is on the defensive and has chosen to lay down its arms at the feet of the religious fascists instead of standing up for its ideas about openness, tolerance and freedom.
But I do not feel any happiness or see any victory in finding that the world fears the Muslims. IN FACT I AM SAD. I do not want to be feared. I want to be respected, accepted and loved. The very fact that the world is appearing to be afraid of Muslims concerns me a great deal. I am afraid that the Muslim extremism is pushing this world to a point from where its rescue will be almost impossible. I do not see anything good in the situation.
The fact that the world fears Muslims speaks volumes about the image of my co-religionists. The image is definitely not good. People do not fear GOOD. They fear EVIL. And Muslims have somehow have failed to convey to the world that they are good. And I am not surprised.
Muslims will have to pause and ponder as to why world does not respect them Why are not they loved instead of being afraid of? Why it is that more and more people in the world have this image of them being fanatical as a rule as compared to the adherents of other religions where fanaticism is an exception. Muslims will have to think as to why the communities that welcomed the Muslim immigrants with open arms are now afraid to see them living amongst them. According to a Swedish, Carl Berglund, Muslims have polarized the Swedish society. Their religion is so stifling and unaccommodating. They expect us to accommodate their religion when they dont respect our beliefs, he said. Carl Berglund doesnt want to live with the Muslims any more and wants them to be expelled from Sweden. He says that he is no longer afraid of Muslims. We should stop being afraid of Muslims. This is our country, our world, and those who can't accommodate us, should get out of Sweden. LINK
France has also threatened to deport any Muslim leaders preaching extremist views, after fundamentalist Muslims won a strong voice in a new council to represent Islam in France. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said the council, which will represent the country's five million Muslims, would not be allowed to become a breeding ground for radical Islam. "Islamic law will not apply anywhere because it is not the law of the French republic. Any Imams whose views run contrary to the values of the republic will be deported," Sarkozy told Europe 1 radio.
Earlier, Britain revoked the citizenship of a radical Muslim cleric, Abu Hamza al-Masri, who praised the September 11 attacks, after banning him from preaching at his London mosque because of his extreme statements.
Author: Tashbih Sayyed, Ph.D.
I am afraid that this fear of Muslims will result in a serious revulsion of Islam in the western society. Contrary to the claims by the political Islamist establishment that Islam is a peaceful faith, their deeds convey an altogether opposite sense there is nothing peaceful in what is happening in the Muslim communities today and what Islamists are doing in the world. And the faith that the radical Islamists represent is a faith of perpetual outrage. And in the words of Thomas Jefferson, I have judged others religions by their lives, for it is from our lives and not our words that our religions must be read.
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Good find, GulfBravo! I, for one, applaud this MMM (Mythical Moderate Muslim) for seeing the train wreck that is coming. However, he is only 1 in a sea of billions, and they need to start speaking up LOUDLY and SOON, or else they'll get the "clash of civilizations" that the jihadis have been hoping for.
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"I am afraid that this fear of Muslims will result in a serious revulsion of Islam in the western society."
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Meant to add that the world is NOT afraid of Muslims, just becoming more suspicious and pi$$ed off at them with each new, dawning, splodydope day.
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Afraid? More like wishing the government would stop coddling these bastards, get of the way, and let the citizenry take care of the problem. These "individuals" don't seem to like living in Western society. Let's do them and ourselves a favor and run them out of it back to the hellholes they came from. Oh, just for the record, that criminal they call a prophet was a pedophile, a robber and a mass murderer. Screw him and the pig he rode in on, along with all his followers. Muslims suck. The sooner we see the last one of the pedophile's followers out of the West and the last mosque dynamited, the safer we'll all be.
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'cuz the muzzies keep trying to kill us.
Duh!
Time to nuke the lot from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
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If I had to share the streets with dozens of them, and I didn't have a few guns available, I may be afraid of them also.
If you walk down an unfamiliar street, and people who dress different than you are sitting on their porches talking in a language you don't understand, then you are either afraid or hard as a stone.
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After all, these apologies and advances made by radical Islam confirm that the Muslims are winning in their jihad against the infidel
Moderate my ass. This is more of that passive support. Saying in public what we want to hear and supporting the jihad in private.
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Oh, by the way, I'm not afraid of Islam. I know their intent and have no desire accept their demands. Call it disgust, retrobution, defence, hate or whatever you want, but they should understand clearly it is not fear.
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If the Christian base of the GOP gets its way, "All government employees - federal, state and local - would be required to participate in weekly Bible classes in the workplace, as well as compulsory daily prayer sessions." We would all have to carry religious identity cards that "would provide Christocrats with preferential treatment in many areas of life, including home ownership, student loans, employment and education." Non-Christians would be indulged as second-class citizens, "but younger members ... would be strongly encouraged to formally convert to the dominant evangelical Christianity." Homosexual sex would be illegalized, while "known homosexuals and lesbians would have to successfully undergo government-sponsored reeducation sessions if they applied for any public-sector jobs." Dissidents would be on the run, the popular culture censored by bureaucratic Cotton Mathers, and "the mainstream press and the electronic media would be beaten into submission."
All of that is according to James Rudin in his book "The Baptizing of America." I learned about it from a brilliant essay in the August-September issue of First Things, in which Ross Douthat surveys the scare literature demonizing "Christianists," "theocons" and "Christocrats" - people who were under the impression that they were actually law-abiding, tax-paying, patriotic American citizens who happen to subscribe to the Christian faith. Little did they know they're actually all about rounding up infidels and torching the Constitution. . . .
Go read the rest of it.
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Would the neo-cons who are just tools of Isreal force people to become Christians? Methinks the conscipiracies are a bit tangled at times.
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Good article, really.
What's crack me up is that the very same people who wishes to (and often have successfully done so) limit free expression, want the All-Powerful State to regulate society (for its own good, of course, nanny is here to protect you against yourself), enforce essentially racist laws (in the name of affirmative action, diversity),... are the same who cry "wolf" about freedom in the USA.
And what's even more funny is those pundits, here at the heart of Tranziland, who say that the USa have de facto become fascist... while in fact this is in Europe that freedom of speech and opinion is truly in danger, that the actual european laws concerning terror are much more severe than the US ones, than the oprressing nany-State has gone haywire,...
Weird.
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Yet Orwell's point is still relevant. Intellectuals look at the world through literary prisms of theory. They come up with a vision of the world - one that usually magnifies their importance - and then select facts accordingly. Arendt herself was so convinced a Goldwater presidency would usher in an age of storm troopers, she looked for an apartment in Switzerland after he was nominated.
The waves of paranoia currently sweeping through America could be seen as the democratization of intellectual dementia. Criticisms of President Bush, Christians, the right wing, the Patriot Act, whatever: These are all fine. But presumably, such large claims against America should come with ample evidence to back them up. Instead, we get the opposite. The smaller the example, the greater its significance. And that trick is the intellectual class's gift to America.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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A number of recent apologies made to the Muslims by non-Muslim leaders clearly indicate that the world has grown increasingly fearful of the Muslim rage. Political Islam, as is obvious by the reactions of the socio-cultural and political institutions in countries of Europe, Britain and the U.S. has come of age. It has been able to install itself in a position from where it can manipulate the host countrys social and political systems to its advantage. The significance of this achievement cant be denied. Political Islams disabling fear has already deprived much of the West of its ability to stand up and defend its values.
Should I as a Muslim be happy about the situation? After all, these apologies and advances made by radical Islam confirm that the Muslims are winning in their jihad against the infidel world. The Judeo-Christian World is on the defensive and has chosen to lay down its arms at the feet of the religious fascists instead of standing up for its ideas about openness, tolerance and freedom.
