Let Africa Sink
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Let Africa Sink[^] Discuss.
Kevin
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Discuss.
No. (It's bad enough that Ilion does this, I would hardly encourage another). At least sate your opinion or observation, don't just command others.
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Discuss.
No. (It's bad enough that Ilion does this, I would hardly encourage another). At least sate your opinion or observation, don't just command others.
Rob Graham wrote:
don't just command others.
Sorry. :) Although I do make charitable contributions to Africa I'm increasingly sympathetic with the expressed view.
Kevin
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I have been feeling that way for years. I think the only solution is bringing back the British Empire and re colonising the place.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
I think the only solution is bringing back the British Empire and re colonising the place.
In a John McEnroe voice "You cannot be serious!" Africa has many and various problems, some can be traced back to those days when European powers controlled the place. What makes you think we could do a better job this time around?
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Rob Graham wrote:
don't just command others.
Sorry. :) Although I do make charitable contributions to Africa I'm increasingly sympathetic with the expressed view.
Kevin
I am also inclined to agree with the view taken in that article. Africa must learn to help itself before the rest of the world can help it. The current approaches benefit no one but the warlords and thieves.
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Let Africa Sink[^] Discuss.
Kevin
Frankly, I think the world would be amazed at how quickly the Africans could solve their own problems if the world would just leave them alone to do it. Africa, along with black ghettos in America, etc, are nothing more than monuments to the racism inherent in collectivist politics.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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I am also inclined to agree with the view taken in that article. Africa must learn to help itself before the rest of the world can help it. The current approaches benefit no one but the warlords and thieves.
The black Zimbabwean refugee who moved in next door to my old home also agrees. Aid just goes to Mugabe's thugs.
Kevin
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Frankly, I think the world would be amazed at how quickly the Africans could solve their own problems if the world would just leave them alone to do it. Africa, along with black ghettos in America, etc, are nothing more than monuments to the racism inherent in collectivist politics.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
What Africa needs is liberalism (in the original sense). It's what we need as well.
Kevin
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Frankly, I think the world would be amazed at how quickly the Africans could solve their own problems if the world would just leave them alone to do it. Africa, along with black ghettos in America, etc, are nothing more than monuments to the racism inherent in collectivist politics.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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Wow! "Some of my finest hours have been spent sitting on the verandah smoking hemp and looking as far as the eye can see" Thomas Jefferson (3rd President of the United States) You been doing the same? PS that quote is from his memoirs by the way
AndyKEnZ wrote:
"Some of my finest hours have been spent sitting on the verandah smoking hemp and looking as far as the eye can see" Thomas Jeffers
While dashing off letters to his white trash buddies which would later become used by collectivists to reinterpret the constitution.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
You been doing the same?
No - however I am home sick taking anti-hestimines and drinking extra strong coffee...
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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AndyKEnZ wrote:
"Some of my finest hours have been spent sitting on the verandah smoking hemp and looking as far as the eye can see" Thomas Jeffers
While dashing off letters to his white trash buddies which would later become used by collectivists to reinterpret the constitution.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
You been doing the same?
No - however I am home sick taking anti-hestimines and drinking extra strong coffee...
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Couldn't agree with the man more.
Stan Shannon wrote:
I am home sick taking anti-hestimines and drinking extra strong coffee...
Ah, that would explain your commie/liberal viewpoints today
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Couldn't agree with the man more.
Stan Shannon wrote:
I am home sick taking anti-hestimines and drinking extra strong coffee...
Ah, that would explain your commie/liberal viewpoints today
AndyKEnZ wrote:
the pursuit of Happiness. Couldn't agree with the man more.
I'm actually certain that you don't have a clue what he even meant by that.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
Ah, that would explain your commie/liberal viewpoints today
Just as long as I have you validating the correctness of my assertions by disagreeing with them, I can't be too fucked up.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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Let Africa Sink[^] Discuss.
Kevin
Why don't we take this attitude with every country? If you mess with us, then we'll mess with you, until then you're on your own.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
Jason Henderson
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AndyKEnZ wrote:
the pursuit of Happiness. Couldn't agree with the man more.
I'm actually certain that you don't have a clue what he even meant by that.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
Ah, that would explain your commie/liberal viewpoints today
Just as long as I have you validating the correctness of my assertions by disagreeing with them, I can't be too fucked up.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Stan Shannon wrote:
I'm actually certain that you don't have a clue what he even meant by that.
Are you a mind reader? Perhaps the message is like just too deep man, the pursuit of happiness...
Stan Shannon wrote:
Just as long as I have you validating the correctness of my assertions by disagreeing with them, I can't be too f***ed up.
Pretty much agreed with what you've posted today, ergo you must be really f&&&ed up man. Keep out of the sun and don't choke on yer pills.
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I have been feeling that way for years. I think the only solution is bringing back the British Empire and re colonising the place.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Only if Margret Thatcher is prime minister, else you would be making it worse.
MrPlankton
(bad guy)"Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
(good guy)"Which is where?"
(bad guy)"To a responsible future in a properly managed world."
Dean Koontz, The Good Guymodified on Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:19 AM
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Let Africa Sink[^] Discuss.
Kevin
Maybe discussion should be, compare and contrast South Africa with the rest of the continent?
MrPlankton
(bad guy)"Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
(good guy)"Which is where?"
(bad guy)"To a responsible future in a properly managed world."
Dean Koontz, The Good Guy -
Stan Shannon wrote:
I'm actually certain that you don't have a clue what he even meant by that.
Are you a mind reader? Perhaps the message is like just too deep man, the pursuit of happiness...
Stan Shannon wrote:
Just as long as I have you validating the correctness of my assertions by disagreeing with them, I can't be too f***ed up.
Pretty much agreed with what you've posted today, ergo you must be really f&&&ed up man. Keep out of the sun and don't choke on yer pills.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
Are you a mind reader?
I don't need to be.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
Perhaps the message is like just too deep man, the pursuit of happiness...
It means that you should be free to struggle to be happy. It ins't an affirmation that any one has an inherent right to actually be happy.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
Pretty much agreed with what you've posted today,
You agree that you're a racist?
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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Frankly, I think the world would be amazed at how quickly the Africans could solve their own problems if the world would just leave them alone to do it. Africa, along with black ghettos in America, etc, are nothing more than monuments to the racism inherent in collectivist politics.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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It's those damn Marxists again - they also make crop circles, you know?
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Oakman wrote:
It's those damn Marxists again
Indeed...
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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I am also inclined to agree with the view taken in that article. Africa must learn to help itself before the rest of the world can help it. The current approaches benefit no one but the warlords and thieves.
Rob Graham wrote:
am also inclined to agree with the view taken in that article. Africa must learn to help itself before the rest of the world can help it. The current approaches benefit no one but the warlords and thieves.
I agree. I don't think the idea of letting Africa sink - or swim, as the case may be - on its own goes far enough, but like 500 lawyers at the bottom of the Potomac, it's a good start. Then let's get the hell out of Asia, including, but not limited to the Middle East. Then evict the UN, and drop out of the World Bank.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Rob Graham wrote:
am also inclined to agree with the view taken in that article. Africa must learn to help itself before the rest of the world can help it. The current approaches benefit no one but the warlords and thieves.
I agree. I don't think the idea of letting Africa sink - or swim, as the case may be - on its own goes far enough, but like 500 lawyers at the bottom of the Potomac, it's a good start. Then let's get the hell out of Asia, including, but not limited to the Middle East. Then evict the UN, and drop out of the World Bank.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Oakman wrote:
500 lawyers at the bottom of the Potomac,
As shallow as the Potomac is, that's not enough Lawyers.