France recently passed a law banning the use of the hijab in public schools. French laws have been fiercely laic for the longest time now. Your statement that French law is being made to coincide with the sharia makes no sense.

So, perhaps all the ones who fear a “Christian takeover” in America (which realistically can never happen) will make their way to Europe to participate in a Muslim takeover of the countries that “laugh at the US”. . . . .

I am at odds to understand your rant. “A Christian takeover can never happen”? In a country were close to 80% professed to be Christian, why would Americans need to worry about a “takeover” by Christians? Following your logic -haven’t Christians already “taken over”?

Europe is hopelessly coming undone, partially due to the very things that you listed. It is impossible, yes, impossible for those countries to undo the path they are on: negative birth rate means more immigrants to support the national health care, mandated vacations, etc. Those immigrants are mostly – not just “majority” Muslim and are already beginning to have an effect that will snowball in just the next 2 years. I know you don’t want to deal in factsthat are unpleasant to you, RS, but there they are. Cold. Hard. Facts. And at this point, because of the European moral structure (cowardice in the face of terrorism; “anything morally goes life-styles”) it is impossible to prevent.

Cold, Hard. Facts

As to the Asians and Europeans “calling in their notes” – I’m assuming you meancallin in “ALL” notes at the same time – I’m sorry . . . . I’m too busy laughing. While “anything is possible”, there is not an economist on the planet that seriously believes that will happen. Without the long explanation (I know you are limited on how many words to read at one time), suffice it to say that the simple answer is that it is no in the short or long-tem interests of Asian or European nations to “call in their notes”.

It was the famous Clinton Treas sec Rob Rubin who warned , in the 80’s, that we were just a slip away from the japanese “owning” or financially destroying America. Yea, that happened. At least Rubin learned from his mistaken words.

Self-interest, RS, like it or not, is the driving force in capitalism. And that includes those buying America’s debt.

So, let’s see . . . . we’ve given you both a short social antho lesson, and a short econ lesson, both for free, correcting your emotionally hopeful, but sadly fact-lacking analysis..

Think of me as Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3:

“What else ya got? . . . . .”

Ah, Europe, as the pissy, jealous little cousin to the States and it’s grown-ups . . . as irrelevant as ever. . . .

I’m sorry, what were you saying that mattered to the world. . . . ?

Let’s see, can’t bring your unemployment below twice America’s;
You obviously can’t wait to embrace Islam – it’s immigrant numbers will overwhelm your populations in Italy, Germany and Spain in less than 7 years from now, leaving you with the beginnings of Isalmic (should I say “religious”) governments. The Euro is a such a “success” . . .

Yes, Europe is such a hellhole — they work shorter hours, have longer vacations, national health care, and the euro is gaining against the dollar. And, except the UK, they don’t go to war for superfluous reasons. By the way, to all you Euro-bashers, you might want to check your tongue; along with Red China, they have been loaning Bush billions to keep his leaky boat afloat. If the Asian communists and the Europeans decided to call in their notes, no more war in Iraq, or anywhere else. For that matter, our Bush-weakened economy would collapse.

“Doing a bit of research on the Left’s latest patriot, I realized why lefty’s love Ray McGovern SO MUCH!! As an anti-American thread runs through much of the diatribe of the left, I was not surprised to find Mr. McGovern on the European anti-war speaking circuit. (The latest “patriot” gives new meaning to the words “is” and “near”.)”

Ray McGovern, the America-hater who spent 27 years as a CIA analyst. What a traitor! Maybe you should do some research includes facts, MA, although I realize that’s not your style.

Most humane and decent people are anti-war… So your point is? You’re just a psychopath that is pro- war and pro-murder. Very hypocritical to take a condescending tone when you delight in bathing in the blood of slaughtered innocents. But we really don’t expect you to use reason or logic in any of your arguments, after all, you’re not really a lawyer, you just play one on Think Progress.

What?! . . . someone else making sense on a “progressive blog”?

WOW!! . . . . I thought it was too much to hope for . . . .

Right you are . . . Europe’e negative birth rate, England and France already writing regional laws to specifically coincide with Muslim law . . . it’s not looking pretty.

So, perhaps all the ones who fear a “Christian takeover” in America (which realistically can never happen) will make their way to Europe to participate in a Muslim takeover of the countries that “laugh at the US”. . . . .

***** Brent, remember the phrase, “Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it” – Most of the spineless Europeans forget that much of Europe was overrun by Muslims for 700 years. What a quaint way for them to learn the lesson once and for all! The best part of Europe, you ask? The ones who immigrated HERE – legally…..

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* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The “MS” in MSNBC
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* Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, 2 regional sports networks.
* Group W Satellite Communications.
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* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.
Media Holdings:
* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
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TIME-WARNER TBS – AOL (donated 1.6 million to GW’s 2000 campaign)
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* Music: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop (distribution) = the world’s largest music company.
* 33 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Fortune, Book of the Month Club, Entertainment Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%), and MAD Magazine.
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* 132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including the New York Post, the London Times and The Australian.
* 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard.
* HarperCollins books.
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* Ansett Australia airlines, Ansett New Zealand airlines.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000

Ah, Europe, as the pissy, jealous little cousin to the States and it’s grown-ups . . . as irrelevant as ever. . . .

I’m sorry, what were you saying that mattered to the world. . . . ?

Let’s see, can’t bring your unemployment below twice America’s;
You obviously can’t wait to embrace Islam – it’s immigrant numbers will overwhelm your populations in Italy, Germany and Spain in less than 7 years from now, leaving you with the beginnings of Isalmic (should I say “religious”) governments. The Euro is a such a “success” . . .

Oh, what’s that you were lecturing others on. . . . ?

“What a bunch of patheticly nagging fools you Americans are! Why come screaming bloody murder now? Did it take your National mass of collective mind-numbness this amount of time and proof before you had the silver plate “that far up” to enable you of “seeing the light”? Or is really so that you guys still haven’t gotten the IQ enough to sight the fact that it is an incompetent clown and his hard-core Neo-Con followers who still are running your show?

Please do not think ill of us for laughing at this, your melow-dramatic comedy. It is simply so, that you and your chosen leader and his always smiling circus have gotten your arses so bluntly exposed to the view of the world that we out here can either cry of feeling with your fall, or rather yet, laugh our selves silly while you are violently storming ahead towards your Nations premature end of that “we trust our selves to be agreat Nation” stupidness. Because, with these moves that you have done these past six years you have justly proven one and only one simple truth. And that truth is, that in the eyes of the rest of the world…YOU. No. Longer. Are!

But my main objection is that Paula Zahn all fluff, no substance. When she tries to talk about the economy, for instance, she’s utterly clueless. She adds absolutely nothing to the conversation. Paula Zahn is CNN’s pretty face. She’s no reporter.

And what kind of message does this send to young girls? To be a journalist, you have to be a model with an IQ of 25? This another reason why I despise 24 hour news channels. I long for the days of old crusty unpretty anchormen (or women), reporters, jouranlists, etc… where it wasn’t about looks, but about substance.