Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Subtle, to the point or lack of same.
Lex, nice comment.
Grumpy
“… that he had been tricked into a marriage.”
and his point is….?
Funny enough, until you see how far Shiria has already crept in. France is doomed. We will see it go Islamic in our lifetimes.
The old joke, Lena walks up to Sven and smacks him on the back of the head. “That’s for thirty years of bad sex,” she yells at him. Sven looks chagrined, then turns and smacks Lena on the back of the head, “And dat’s for knowin’ the difference!”
— Max
….small stuff indeed.
Now, it’s easy to mock, especially when one finds oneself oddly on the side of French feminists, but even a recently as a hundred years ago such a fraud could cause scandal and bloodshed in much of Europe. I think this is proof of how Muslims are successfully integrating into Western society–he took it to court! He could have just had her knocked off, like a thousand or more of her Muslimah sisters every year in Europe (“How unfortunate that she just fell off that balcony when her four brothers were all just standing there, completely unaware.”)
No, the nasty part is this. Why would a college-educated (do French nurses require a BSN or equivalent?) woman of independent means who had obviously made her own decisions for herself for at least part of her adult life, turn around and accept an arranged marriage to an obvious religious bigot? The sinews of tribalism are very, very strong.
And MaxDamage, more Ole and Lena, thank you!
He may be a Star Trek fan and only wants to go where no man has gone before.