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2006-02-14 Europe

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Posted by tipper 2006-02-14 04:40|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pretty damned bad. And no cure possible if the people won't give up their Nanny State goodies and the Pols haven't the spine to spell it out and lead them out before they collapse. Hey, enjoy your time off - sitting on the park bench wistfully wishing you were as well-fed as the pigeons.

Hey, I know: put on a brave front, organize a march, make some big puppets, lotsa banners n' stuff, proclaim Socialism as the answer to, um, everything, be really smug, feel superior, wear the dreaded Bérets de la Sophistication, drag out some of that tradition and heritage shit and sneeringly explain to us, yet again, how superior you are.

Prolly won't even be able to afford their jizya.

Posted by .com 2006-02-14 05:31|| 2006-02-14 05:31|| Front Page Top

#2 That's news?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-02-14 06:13|| 2006-02-14 06:13|| Front Page Top

#3 gromgoru, to the Newsweek crowd, it is.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-02-14 07:41|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-02-14 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 It may not be news to us, and it may not even be news to the Newsweek crowd. But it is a useful, succinct and (for that reason) powerful review and summary of the situation.

"You can't beat something with nothing." People intuitively understand that but somehow think that their 'nothing' is 'something'. That's the trouble with Europe: most of its citizens aren't willing to look in the mirror and say, "well folks, we are shortly to be well and truly fucked."

If they could say that, they'd then be able to start analyzing why, and then perhaps implement a plan to change their situation. But knowing that you have a problem is the first step, and there are way too many Euros who can't admit it.

So Zakaria writes an article that is a useful cudgel. Don't know how many people will face a mirror because of it. He'll need to write the same article again and again.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-02-14 14:44|| 2006-02-14 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Right minded europeans concerned for their children and grandchildren need to immigrate to the west (usa/austraila). NOW. leave the leftists behind for they are not needed or wanted. once europe has been cleansed they can return if they wish. although unless they have the pioneer spirit, i don't recommend it. europe is lost. we all know it even if we won't say it. gather now the best people europe has to offer. we'll fight from the shores of the usa to defend western civ. we're the last best hope to defend, conquer, and retake.

Posted by Mark Z 2006-02-14 16:50|| 2006-02-14 16:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Wby do you think Koffe Annan wants the UN to have the right of taxation and pushes it every chance he gets? So that the West can subsidize the failed welfare states of Europe (as well as the Thugs of Africa and ME) and, evnetually, Europe can drag the West down with it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-02-14 17:55|| 2006-02-14 17:55|| Front Page Top

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