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KHL's avatar

What an awesome read!

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Steve Skojec's avatar

Thank you!

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Anne Heath's avatar

Bravo. Kudos. You're right, she's wrong. Pretty Lamb is a Euro snob.

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JennS's avatar

Bullseye! Our families came to America, the land of dreams. We assimilated, and made it better. We are not the bully, but the big stick. We don’t need the UK - ask our founding fathers! Rebel blood that seeks freedom runs in our veins and is our heritage.

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Steve Skojec's avatar

fight fight fight

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Thomas F Davis's avatar

It will be sad to see all those breweries, wineries and distilleries close after Sharia is implemented.

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Steve Skojec's avatar

What?

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Thomas F Davis's avatar

Sharia bans alcoholic beverages. Should Sharia be fully implemented in Europe the, ah, cuisine will be forced into dramatic changes.

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Steve Skojec's avatar

Ah, I wasn't sure what the target here was. That makes sense.

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Don Boehm's avatar

Same for museums, universities, empty cathedrals. Think Hagia Sophia, mosaics whitewashed. There's a California Jesuit on X, frequently in Rome, whom I suspect is assisting in the creation of a Latin Linux distro and the infrastructure for a digital archive. Too much "Canticle for Leibowitz" on my brain? Perhaps. But who's having babies? Who's not? Instead of blocking people at the border we should be rolling up the Welcome Wagon and distributing pocket Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Also have too much Hegel on my brain. Steve, you offered an impassioned antithesis to Pretty Lamb's thesis. What does the synthesis look like? Being a bastard is freeing. More or less the same way coming here was freeing to our fatherless forebears. This ain't the City of God, but it is a purty dern good city of humans. Many will roll up sleeves and get to work, regardless of the land of their birth. And even the undocumented pay taxes.

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