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| Europe |
| The insanity that the Euros are indoctrinated with... |
| 2004-11-09 |
| You really need to read the whole thing, but here are some choice quotes from this transcript of a Belgian news program analyzing our elections... CX: We have to be mindfull what we say, but are they a bit retarded? When I hear they don't accept the theory of evolution... Some at least. ... VW: What I also found surprising is that there were so many people who got their information from the internet. Are good newspapers not available everywhere in the U.S. then? AW: No, not really. You have seen the large middle part of America that went largely for Bush, and that is also where print-media is not wel represented. The "good" newspapers are on the coasts: the LA Times, the Washington Post, the NY Times. And those are not spread in the middle, except if you have a special subscription. So most newspapers are local products, made with things from the wire services like Reuters or AP and now and then a NYT article. But people don't read "the big news". ... DG: Look, we've had this discussion four years ago about counting votes. Back then everybody wondered how it was possible in such a developed country that is at the top of technology that they couldn't count votes. And now they almost had the same thing in Ohio. That shows the two sides of America: on the one side an incredibly developed society, cosmopolitan, on the forefront of technology and next to that you have a large number of Americans that live very rurally, who still live from agriculture, are turned inwards and for who the outside world hardly exists. ... AW: America changed a lot during the past 20 years. Demographically speaking there has been a shift. Among other things, in my day when I lived there, the African-Americans were the biggest minority group and now the Latino's are a bigger group than the African Americans. They now make up 14% and the African-Americans only 12%. The white American is more and more under pressure. The scared white man is a reality in the U.S. He now really is a minority compared to all the other ethnic groups that have come in during the last 20 years. Every year more than one million immigrants come to the U.S. I could go on but you get the point. Read the rest... these people are really deranged... |
| Posted by:Damn_Proud_American |
| #4 Let's see, Belgium? Isn't that the country whose Supreme Court just outlawed the largest political party in the country for being racist because it opposed immigration? Isn't that the country terminally split between the Flemish and Walloons? Belgium, isn't that one of those little postage stamp countries that hasn't mattered to anyone since the middle ages? Isn't that the little piss-ant country whose people are so sophisticated that they think they are qualified to judge everyone but themselves? Who cares what these losers think about anything? |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-11-09 10:49:54 PM |
| #3 "...you have a large number of Americans that live very rurally, who still live from agriculture, are turned inwards and for who the outside world hardly exists." The real people I've known from rural areas (rather than the imaginary people this leftie twit is referring to) are actually turned OUTWARD much more than the urban folk I'm familiar with, and are much MORE aware of the world beyond their own horizons. These people read a lot, and travel a lot. (My Iowa Connection says there's a simple reason for this: farming is boring, so intellectual pursuits compensate.) |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-11-09 9:37:46 PM |
| #2 ...on the one side an incredibly developed society, cosmopolitan, on the forefront of technology and next to that you have a pissing statue. Yeah I know the frustration. Yup. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-11-09 9:30:20 PM |
| #1 You mean Belgains don't live from agriculture? They eat plastic and stuff? They must be highly evolved. Latinos are "white." Last time I checked their isn't a seperater race called "Latino" anymore than their is one called "french". On top of that they self identify as white. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-09 9:30:08 PM |