Road Sassy

zee July 16th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

So Give ‘Em Hell!

Thank you for that. I would find it rather difficult to be any more civil than I manage to be.

I had to look up soixante huitards, having not heard the hippie era referred to in that way before and found this rather good excerpt that says it well

In France they call them the soixante-huitards [’68-ers]; perpetrators and fellow-travellers of les evenements de Mai, the epochal Paris student riots of May 1968. Now middle-aged and more bourgeois than the hated bourgeoisie they sought to bring down, the soixante-huitards and their counterparts around the globe have spent this thirtieth anniversary year of the evenements romanticising or justifying the rebellious and detrimental domino effect their riots set in train.
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a basic level of intelligence and reason which existed in public debate prior to ’68 disappeared in a fury of adolescent outrage and unintelligible babble thereafter; trampled in a rush to say n’importe quoi (”anything”) as long as it was dans le vent (”trendy”). In one of the numerous Swinging Sixties media profiles which have featured this year, Jimi Hendrix’s former lover recalled that: “As he got more into drugs, I would sit and listen to Jimi giving interviews, spouting the most ridiculous acid[LSD]-inspired stuff which the journalists would soak up as if it were timeless wisdom.” It was this sort of demented pseudo-intelligence that precipitated the eclipse of reason which now denies the very right to be born! It is the exaltation of this “quasi-absolute right to say [and do] anything,” inflamed by Henri Weber’s beloved revolt and embodied in rock stars like Hendrix, which has now enabled deviant minorities to hold sway through an oppressive, politically correct polemic: ‘if you don’t think boys should be legally buggered,’ they wail, ‘you’re homophobic.’ In a generation has such insanity become holy writ.
Les Soixante-Huitards
Poachers turned Gamekeepers

zee July 21st, 2008 at 10:37 am

Hi Pete,
Sorry for the late response - was having a few problems with the site.
I have not read Totten’s pieces, but I definitely will. I would like to get an honest account of what actually played out there and simply do not trust what has been fed us via mainstream news.

moderate Muslim community in southeastern Europe that lionizes the U.S

That I simply have not read about, nor do I trust any group of muslims who claim to be moderates. I need to hear more and see that actually demonstrated before I find it to be plausible, though, a few years ago, I was all about moderate muslim. I have reached the point where I think “moderate muslim” is essentially an oxymoron. In fact, I heard someone remark the other day that a muslim who does not want to impose sharia and supports western style freedoms could more accurately be termed a radical muslim. It is they, not the jihadists, who have made a real departure from islam as practiced throughout the centuries.

I daresay that having these nations in Serb hands is hardly what I’d call an improvement.

Well, that is where I have to distrust a couple things. First, I distrust Western media’s account of the brutalities purportedly executed. Next, I am coming to discount my Western sensibilities that cringe away from the realities of warfare. I have never had my family slaughtered or my home taken or my nation threatened by the enemies Serbs have faced over the last century. Be they come in the guise of communism or under the banner of Islam, Serbia has known decade after decade of war and unrest. If my bloodline had remained in that country I might very well be prepared to massacre a few enemies myself.( My mother was first generation American -being born here one month after her parents came over- but refused to talk about her homeland - though she did help bring a few dozen over here - but they were like ghosts who stayed a few nights and then went somewhere else)

I think the U.S. is better off with a Muslim majority that is very vocally pro-American than with a Serb majority that will take its marching orders from Mother Russia.

Well, can you name one instance where a muslim majority, ultimately, proved beneficial to the West? As it is , severing Kosovo has pushed the rest of the nation right into mother Russia’s lap.

I have quite a few links. I will have to put a post together that better explains why I have no faith in Kosovo and a tendency to place my sympathy with the Serbs.