Happy Birthday Mom!
Since this will go up Saturday, Happy Birthday Mom!!! Hope it’s a good one.
The rest of this post is a follow-up to my post about the cartoon brouhaha. I really worry for the future of the West when it can’t summon the courage to stand up to fascist protestors bent on bullying everyone into submission. Air Canada and Indigo have announced they will stop carrying the Western Standard because it printed the cartoons. French supermarket chain Carrefour has this in their stores: “Dear Clients, We express solidarity with the Islamic and Egyptian community. Carrefour doesn't carry Danish products”. This is shocking. Fine, the cartoons are offensive to some. But to give in to the psychos marching around with placards calling for the beheading of blasphemers and offering rewards for the murder of the cartoonists only encourages them further. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! What the hell is the matter with the media and politicians? We are sleepwalking into dhimmi-hood.
David has written an article for one of the papers at Princeton that sums up how I feel in a much better and funnier manner than I could hope to. You can read it at http://www.nassauweekly.com/view_article.php?id=433. It is a great read, and finishes well: “On Friday in Turin, the tiny Danish delegation entered the Olympic stadium, accompanied by armed guards. The flag-bearer waved the first Danish flag I’ve seen in weeks that wasn’t on fire. The Italian crowd cheered the Danes loudly. At least someone gets it.”
I was all in favour of invading Denmark after the whole Hans Island thing. But enough is enough. I see Danish engineers here every day, as DANIDA (Danish development agency) is turning the highway here into a dual carriage one. Their country does not deserve this. So everyone go out and hug a Dane or read Hamlet or eat a danish or chew some Copenhagen tobacco.
The rest of this post is a follow-up to my post about the cartoon brouhaha. I really worry for the future of the West when it can’t summon the courage to stand up to fascist protestors bent on bullying everyone into submission. Air Canada and Indigo have announced they will stop carrying the Western Standard because it printed the cartoons. French supermarket chain Carrefour has this in their stores: “Dear Clients, We express solidarity with the Islamic and Egyptian community. Carrefour doesn't carry Danish products”. This is shocking. Fine, the cartoons are offensive to some. But to give in to the psychos marching around with placards calling for the beheading of blasphemers and offering rewards for the murder of the cartoonists only encourages them further. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! What the hell is the matter with the media and politicians? We are sleepwalking into dhimmi-hood.
David has written an article for one of the papers at Princeton that sums up how I feel in a much better and funnier manner than I could hope to. You can read it at http://www.nassauweekly.com/view_article.php?id=433. It is a great read, and finishes well: “On Friday in Turin, the tiny Danish delegation entered the Olympic stadium, accompanied by armed guards. The flag-bearer waved the first Danish flag I’ve seen in weeks that wasn’t on fire. The Italian crowd cheered the Danes loudly. At least someone gets it.”
I was all in favour of invading Denmark after the whole Hans Island thing. But enough is enough. I see Danish engineers here every day, as DANIDA (Danish development agency) is turning the highway here into a dual carriage one. Their country does not deserve this. So everyone go out and hug a Dane or read Hamlet or eat a danish or chew some Copenhagen tobacco.
posted by Tony at 5:30 p.m.
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