Posted by
Gene on Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:02:29 PM
June 28th, 2008
Apparently, the effects of decades of living in a socialist, diverse paradise are catching up with our cousins across the Pond. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200806/CUL20080626c.html
“Why is everyone so bloody miserable?” asks Tom Harris, Labor Member of Parliament, who’s “tired of the ‘crippling levels of cynicism and pessimism’ in British society.”
Let’s just examine the possible causes of that malaise and negativism. A long history of despoiling the planet, of conquering much of the known world and a bloody subjugation of its closest neighbor, Ireland? The subsequent collapse of that same British Empire? A descent into socialism which effectively deprives the individual of his personhood? A resulting disintegration of the character and moral fiber of the nation and its people?
Or, could it be a vision of a future in which Muslims will rule their small island and which already has instilled a fear of flying the British flag in its capital?” http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/06/ayaan_hirsi_ali.html
Some two million Muslims, mostly concentrated in what is ....