Europe's swinging right Steven, and we just elected God. . . so Penn et al. will soon be damning Europe instead of us. Do you really want to be on Penn's side?

"the tiny sean penn" works on a multitude of levels.

tiny, tiny levels

Ugh, you heard that bit about the newsweek editor too 'eh andrew? Pretty creepy if you ask me..Are people really that stupid or is it all a script that the left feels they NEED to adhere to save face?

How could I miss it?!! Talk about INSANE. I can't wait for the press corp to start asking for miracles: "Please my Lord, can you stimulate my ipod? It seems to have died."

I should switch to my real name. . . Lord Obama Master of the Universe and Destroyer of Donuts. Oh wait, that's somebody else.

lol..Down with doughnut destroyers!

I know, it's stunning. At least the Supreme Court tried to slow down FDR's progress, but nobody is standing in this jerk's way except reality. And when reality snaps back hard, we're going to pay the price. . . not him.

By the way, Lawhawk told me that Brown even re-named Omaha beach Obama beach. Nice huh? I wonder what next week will bring? Perhaps he shall ascend us all to the Heavens?

I think you have indeed outlined everything worth copying in your post!

The best thing about Europe, it's on the other side of the Alantic.

Nothing dirty here…Cleanliness is next to Godliness — err, Obaminess, ahh…

Well, some countries in Scandinavia absolutely rock, but I might be biased. Strangely enough, looking at Europe 25 years ago vs today, they have emulated the West in almost every manner possible. It's really strange to walk through Copenhagen in late October and see the stores selling Hallowe'en gear, just because it's American. Even the EU could be seen as an atttempt to mimic our Federal framework.

It's classical Star-Belly Sneetches…the Europeans are jealous of what America offers, and Americans romanticize, with good reason, the history and traditions of older cultures. I like being in other cultures…it's fun to be a stranger at times. The real problem arises when some people (many liberal Americans in this context) think that association with other cultures gives them a patina of class and sophistication. The real uncouth Americans are the elite Eurosnobs. I wonder if Sean Penn braids his armpit hair? Err..no, I don't really….

My goal for this month: Researching the exact nature of the threat from humans to doughnutkind by practical self-experimentation.

Dammit! Now there are two Kits!

Now wait, that is a GOOD thing!

I am not alone!

LOL! Yeeeeees!!!!

It's cleanly at the top.

lol..

The left just got savaged in the European elections. It was so bad for Brown that he's had to put down a rebellion in his own party. Several countries are talking about no-confidence votes in their socialist governments.

Sounds good to me. Time for us to follow their lead for a change!

Well I did see that video where PM Brown "slipped up" BUT it had to have been in the back of his mind in order for his lips to say it.

Who is following who's lead? They just like going wherever we are not. Nest time we swing right again… Well, let us hope by then they will have realized just how badly in debt their socialist union-friendly ways have left them.

Someone send that email to Bill Gates, see if he notices.

Nor has China, actually about all of Asia, the Middle East and Africa yet normally at a tribal level… I have doubts about large chunks of Central and South America…

Why does it seem practically all of the logical countries are former English colonies? The "transcend" part still applies since beyond the US the former colonies may give lip service to the monarchy and that is about it.

Deep fried hamburgers! Ummm…delish. I did like the pomme frits.

I think you hit the nail on the head. There's that thing on the foot of the statue, you know, the big green one in the harbor, about huddled masses. See, we have this habit of taking other countries' human refuse and letting those people grow and thrive as Americans, turning this into one of the greatest nations on earth. Of course, that's changed somewhat now that they don't grow and thrive as Americans – we have to let them revel in their old country cultures, see … and then there's that thing about it being cruel to let them experience the hardships that drive a person to achieve greatness …

At any rate, the rest of us are a nation of mutts that kick thebutts of Europe's old country elite.

Yup! Gotta have someplace to keep your collectibles and antiques…………….

and the occasional "Thermonuclear Warhead"………..

You too?!! Small world.

Point 3 is irrelevant anymore……..Speed Camera's nailed to everything that isn't moving!

"Health and Safety Nazi's" don't ya know!

I am so with you on the naps. Naps are AWESOME!

How many times have we had to pull Europe's ass out of the fire?
And not just in wars. Economically too!

I've been to Europe twice. I met more people than I anticipated who were big supporters of George W. They don't get the attention that raving leftists do.

The Brit's say they want out of socialized medicine and assinine tax's. If that's true they are going to have a conservative goverment for a very very long time…….They've got about a 30 year of socialist crap piled up in the loo to clean out……………..Good luck with that!

I like everything you said. But I have a question? Please explain to me what's up with their teeth?

Apparently Dentistry wasn't on the list of things to emulate………………Too harsh? Nah……

Wow. Not to be a "yes man (or yes woman)," but I feel the same way. I have since before I took high school history with my liberal teachers, even more so after. I don't feel the need for America to be loved by other nations, just respected and not attacked. If the other nations don't attack us and we keep our strong military, that's fine with me. If we lose everything our founding fathers worked for by letting someone come in and lead us back to medieval times, under one person's thumb, I don't want to follow.

People used to immigrate from other nations a hundred years ago and work to become like the "average American citizen." My Irish, Polish, German, and American great-grandfathers worked and fought wars alongside each other to make this nation what it had become in its greatness. America was once referred to as a "melting pot." When things honestly melt in pots, sugar, brown sugar, and water for example makes a caramel syrup, the result is something relatively homogeneous. People should not be coming into America and speaking their native tongue and expecting us to learn it to appease them, they should learn our language and use it. America is looking less like a "melting pot" and more like a pot of stew with huge chunks of one flavor here and another flavor there, each fighting to give the most pungent flavor. Welfare here, Legalization of illegals there, "impoverished" here, "privileged" there. They can be proud of where they came from, but I'd prefer that they be even more proud to be American citizens. Living here is a "privilege." You don't have to live here and if you don't want to, who am I to stop you?

Failure is a great teacher, and also something that we seem to be trying to do away with here. Europe seems to be finally growing discontent with the safety net and its exhorbitant costs, while we're rushing towards the cradle-to-grave caretakership here.

Steyn likened it to a perpetual adolescence; not allowed to be responsible, not allowed to fail, not allowed to be independent, and not pressured to do much for oneself. No wonder they have trouble fighting it. They've forgotten how.

I just hope we remember.

[...] more dynamic economy than any of our European counterparts… And we’ve done it in record time. We left the world’s greatest superpowers one century only to blaze past them the next. June 10th, 2009 | Tags: Big Hollywood, Steven Crowder | Category: Commentary | Leave a [...]

True. But I'd add that if we can get there without becoming a bunch of godless, big government addicted nihilists, then we might be on to something.

I have been to multiple countries within the EU and witnessed the machinations of European society firsthand. I do not quibble with the majority of Mr. Crowder's article and have also asked his "Why does America have to be like Europe–didn't we leave Europe to come here in the first place?" rhetorical question.

Mr. Crowder does travel, he can read, and the guy knows how to listen to other people and learn from their experiences. Not everything must be experienced to be understood. For example, you don't have to experience colon cancer to understand that it's more than mildly unpleasant.

One of the great things about America is that if you want to live in a place like Europe, you are free to move there.

The need of elitists within our own country to emulate Europe is driven by cultural insecurity. They see the history, architecture, literature, governments, etc. as superior because it is dominated by European elitists. Our economy is meritocratic and our culture is chaotic. Our elitists wish for us to become more like Europe because it concentrates more power in their hands, which is, in their minds, where it belongs.

Not exactly right in the sense of American conservatism or classical liberalism, but some countries seem to have found a kind of balance for the moment. In the countries I know, at least they don´t glorify government power. They far too often look to government for solutions, but the relationship is more like that of sulking teenagers to their parents: make lots of demands but hold politicians in contempt. French farmers may strike for higher subsidies, but you would never expect the same creepy hero-worship we are seeing with Obama. Barry is a minor celebrity in Europe, but the relationship would be much more adversarial if he actually had power.

Some people seem to think that American can emulate Europe by copying its political mistakes. Look: Big government and socialism is not responsible for the art and food in Europe. Emulate Europe and you will get the socialism and unemployment, but none of the rest.

(Yes, I know much of the art was historically sponsored by the aristocracy. But they still spent their own money, and that was a long time ago. Today European governments sponsor the arts and the result is crap that nobody likes even though they pay for it through taxes)

Corrections:
1) Some parts of Europe have better food
2) Europe has *older* art, and that is better. Modern European art sucks goat balls just as much as ours.
3) You obviously believe that Europe getting rid of their "sexual hangups" has no connection to their general malaise. You are mistaken.

Heh. An apt analogy.

I'm pleased to see some response to all the negative talk about my country. I refuse to apologize for this to be the most free, most prosperous, most generous country in history.

[...] Read it. Why on EARTH would the United States ever want to be more like Europe? Correct me if I’m wrong, but we left, did we not? Not only did we leave that older, lesser world behind, but we left skid-marks along the way with an entire continent eating our proverbial dust. Those were good times… Not to mention the asskickery that followed suit. For people who seem so hell-bent on multiculturalism, why can’t liberals understand that free enterprise/freedom is a part of the American Culture? I guess as far as leftists are concerned, the United States can’t qualify as a “cultured society” simply because we’ve actually created a society that works. If a civilization fails, it becomes a study of the human condition. If it succeeds (as the United States has), it becomes a culture-less society of capitalist pigs. [...]

Europe has better art thanks in large part to Christianity, something they ditched long ago. Bye-bye art. As someone poitned out, the beer and cheese are also thanks to Christianity. Bye-bye new beer and cheese. And the rest was invented to cover up rotted meat, ringing endorsement.

Yesterday, I spoke to an 86 year old elderly gentleman who served in Japan after WWII. He told me that the Obama worship by the left and the media bothers him. He says he has never seen anything like it in this country, but that he did see it in Nazi Germany. He thinks Obama could become a dictator and that he thinks, YES, it can happen here.

"You know, I love Europe. I love to vacation there. I love their beer. I love the food. I love the castles. I love the Med. But daggone it, their economy and politics suck. Plus, it we end up trying to be more like Europe, what's the point of going there for vacation? Seriously. "

BRILLIANT!

Now, if they can throw off that farcical entity known as the EU, they may come back to sanity. Then, as soon as they do that, we can demolish the UN and send it to …..hell, I don't know, Bulgaria for all I care.

Sad, but true. European labor unions can paralyze almost the entire continent.

I should change mine to Lord High Knuckledragger, Devourer Of Donuts

Southern Germany, Austria and Italy are bliss.

Seconded, along with some parts of Spain. The rest of European cuisine I think is not only overrated, but based on dares between a couple goatherds in the early 1600s.

Don't look now, but I wish we WOULD be more like Europe; they've actually voted Conservatism back into the European Union, standing up against islamists….they've actually seen socialism and have just voted against it. I wish we could say the same.

For much of 2005 & 2007, our family lived in a little town in eastern Germany. When we were there in 2005, my son lamented that there weren't any children around to play with. I thought this was odd until I looked up the town on wikipedia and found that it "boasted" the lowest birthrate in the world. When we returned in 2007, there were baby carriages everywhere. When we went to the park, there would be at least a dozen strollers parked on the edges (with babies/toddlers still inside) while the parents (mom & dad! – high unemployment) would be congregated in little groups smoking. There was never any pushing Jr. on the swings. According to my husband's co-workers the government had began paying people to have babies. I understand why, but I'm still not sure it is a good idea to pay people to have babies who weren't willing to procreate on their own. I treasure the memories of the wonderful food, architecture, and friends we made there. But what I also remember is the utter sense of doom and gloom that seemed to permeate the entire town – the giant bust of Marx in the center of town is a perfect representation of the mood of the town.

I'm half American and half European. I grew up both in the States and in Europe. I choose to make the United States my home because, much as I love Switzerland (my other home), it just doesn't have what the U.S. has to offer. It's a beautiful place, the people are friendly, the food is decent but it's lacking something. It lacks the vitality and spirit that makes the States an exciting and wonderful place to live.
I will say that the European emphasis on polyglottism is just about the only thing they have on us. But, then again, there's a running joke in my family about how in reality the continent is The United States of Europe. Travelling from country to country is about the equivalent of going state to state. It's a bit easier to pick up languages when they're so omnipresent.

Absolutely and pray hard that global warming never change that !

Yeah, no Americans ever stormed the Winter Palace, elected Hitler to power, or introduced the word "gulag" to our lexicon.

Works for me, your Lordship.

You forgot about cheese, excellent cheeses!

iof herr onama likes europe so much and hates america why does he not move his black liberal ass and that whore of his and tthose two chimps over there waht a pitful excuse and waste of skin again born of a white trash whore and balck ape daddy is the prickadent of waht liberal homo lovers and piss ant baby killers and traitors. god will deal with him in due tiume when the son of satan and evil anti christ will be caste in to the firey pits of hell.

Dude, even their BAD ART is better than ours. The French – I repeat THE FRENCH – are kicking our arses at action films and horror movies right now. What else do we still do better than anyone!?

Sauerkraut started out as a conservation method – but I love it. That´s right I said it. On a cold day with bratwurst and mashed potatos and beer and lots of mustard. I´m drooling over my keyboard right now.

They do and it´s hell. Because it is all you can think of when all you wanted was a slow day at the beach spent reading and sucking up rays.

Hi Terry. I have to point out a flaw in one of your points. As an American who has lived the last 3 years in Denmark – a welfare-state nation with free university, free health care, etc. – I have a first-hand experience of receiving free emergency care in such a system. Becoming more Danish, I don't have a car here, so I ride my bike everywhere. I had a bad bike crash almost 2 years ago, ended up in the emergency room, with excrutiating shoulder pain. The doctors looked at me — spoke very little Danish or English — and told me it was just a scrape, sent me home wth 2 ibuprofen. No x-rays, were necessary, he said. No follow up appointments, nothing. Two weeks, a month later, I visited my appointed doctor with a bright purple, swollen upper arm, who told me to exercise it and keep it moving. It wasn't until nearly 2.5 months later when I flew back to the U.S. where I saw a proper facility did I learn my shoulder was broken in 2 places, and that bone chips from my shoulder had calcified and caused horribly painful tendonitis. I was properly treated for the break in the U.S., but the delay in my care and the wrong "diagnosis" has caused pain and damage that lasts to this day. I could read on the Danish "doctors" faces and the person handling my paperwork that their decision to send me home was based on cost/benefit analysis, nothing more. Its a game of numbers here, purely. I was a competitive triathlete who can now barely swim because of this accident. I would have gladly paid a large deductible – or worked a second job to foot the entire bill of a visit to an American hospital — if I had had the chance to see a talented, trained and responsive physician in the United States at a time when I needed reliable care. In Denmark, medical tests like pap smears that most American healthcare plans and the AMA recommend for women to have EVERY year, are only covered by the Danish healthcare system every 3 to 5 years. You can imagine how many times higher the incidences of death by cervical cancer is in Denmark compared to in the U.S. The brilliant European health care system you tout is a complete fable and an utter failure to citizens

Europe's "right" is not like our "right". Righties in Europe don't believe in the right to self defense (no guns), nor are they socially conservative. Quote from France's Sarkozy:

"I would like to say one thing, in what is my conception of the Republic, security is the responsibility of the State, I am against militias, I am against the private ownership of firearms, and I’m trying to make you think about that. If you are assaulted by an armed burglar, he’ll use his weapon more effectively than you anyway so you’re risking your life. If the criminal is not armed and you are and you shoot, your life will be ruined, because killing someone over a theft is not in line with the republican values that are mine. The private ownership of firearms is dangerous. I understand your exasperation for having been burglarized two times, I understand the fear that your wife and daughter may have but the answer is in the efficiency of the police and the efficiency of the judiciary process, the answer is not in having guns at home."

Ugh.

Terry, the only reason why Europe is able to "afford" socialist medicine is because they don't have to spend a lot of money on a military budget – they've got the good ole' USA covering their backs, which is, in essence, the American taxpayer's courtesy. Right now, that health system is falling apart because Europeans are not reproducing, and their tax base is shrinking, with a growing aging population that needs more health care.

No, the losers were not those Europeans who left and became Americans. The losers stayed behind in Europe and gave you the mess that is Europe now. They just can't help themselves, can they?

Europe is dying. I've lived in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Switzerland. There is a lot about it that is very pleasant and nice. That said, they are noticeably less well off than Americans. I mean average Americans and average Europeans-not just elites-and the gap between Europe and America is growing wider. It will grow a lot wider still in the future as Europe's demographic death spiral accelerates. They simply do not have the kids to man the workforce and pay the taxes to support the retirement of the massive baby boom generation even if the system worked financially-which it doesn't. Their muslim immigrants do not want to integrate, but are happy to take generous welfare benefits and keep having more kids. Things will get ugly in Europe within a generation. I sincerely hope America is out of Nato and has brought the boys home by then. We do not need to be spending our people's blood and treasure to rescue the Europeans for a 3rd time in little over a century. Enough is enough.

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