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2007-03-24 Europe

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They sure take a long time getting born.
The US was about 1781-1789 or 8 years to a constitution..
50 to a failed constitution sounds really lame.

Posted by 3dc 2007-03-24 02:02|| 2007-03-24 02:02|| Front Page Top

#2 A constitution with a 21-page preamble, 3dc. That's extremely lame. I prefer the US version.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-03-24 07:02|| 2007-03-24 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 The US was about 1781-1789 or 8 years to a constitution..

To be fair, that was then. People then were focused, practical, moral, and wise. As a result they didn't take their system, country, prosperity, existance, or future for granted.

Posted by gorb 2007-03-24 07:06|| 2007-03-24 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 It has a terminal illness. Needs to be put down like the cancer it is.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-24 09:07|| 2007-03-24 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Paul Belien's birthday address is much better, including such tidbits as this:

"Like the two previous attempts to politically unify Europe [i.e, Napoleon's and Hitler's], the third attempt is utterly undemocratic. The former French President Valéry Giscard dEstaing drafted the European Constitution. . . . In a lecture at the London School of Economics on 28 February 2006 he declared that the 'rejection of the Constitution [by the French and Dutch voters] was a mistake which will have to be corrected.'"

Posted by exJAG 2007-03-24 09:08|| 2007-03-24 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Will the European Union of Socialist Republics last longer than the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics? they started 40 years later so they have more capital to burn, and they spend relatively less on defense. But given socialism, demographic trends, and Moslem invaders, how much longer do they have until implosion?

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2007-03-24 13:18|| 2007-03-24 13:18|| Front Page Top

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