Dronning Margrethes nytårstale

Dronningen kom blandt andet ind på mennesker fra andre egne af verden, som også har drømme og håb:

“Nydanskerne har selv et ansvar for at finde sig tilrette, ligeså vel som de “gamle” danskere har et ansvar for, at det sker. Det er helt nødvendigt, at man har et åbent sind og viljen til at finde sig tilrette. På samme måde er det vigtigt, at det samfund, som modtager de tilrejste, er parat til både at hjælpe, støtte og til at forklare, hvilke krav der stilles og hvilke regler, der gælder,” sagde dronningen.

31. december 2007.

Tak til Dronning Margrethe for at indflette det lille ord ‘tilsyneladende’ i omtalen af klimaforandringerne.

Godt nyår!!!

Fra Skjoldungen, Limewoody og Hodja.

Det danske sprog

Er ikke helt let at finde ud af.

Når autonome og BZ’ere kaster med Molotov-cocktails, brænder biler af og forsøger at dræbe politiet – så hedder det ‘aktivister’.

Når ‘ en ‘broget blanding af skinheads og indvandrere’ kaster sten, flasker og kanonslag mod vinduer i den besatte bygning BZ’erne op holder sig i – ja så hedder det ‘gangstere’.

Sådan er der så meget.

SF’ere går ind for den stramme udlændingepolitik

Til at hjælpe sig ved valget har Villy Søvndal haft kampagnekoordinator Thor Möger Pedersen.

Den kun 22-årige statskundskabsstuderende fra Københavns Universitet skulle finde ud af, hvem der stemte på SF, og hvem der kunne finde på det.

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Endelig viste undersøgelsen, at ganske mange af partiets vælgere var tilhængere af både den stramme udlændingepolitik og regeringens skattestop.

Læs det hele på Avisen

De radikale og Enhedslisten må føle sig mere og mere alene i verden?

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents.

Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?

Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism and Mussolini’s Fascism.

Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”). They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities—where campus speech codes were all the rage. The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine. Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist.

Do these striking parallels mean that today’s liberals are genocidal maniacs, intent on conquering the world and imposing a new racial order? Not at all. Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots. We often forget, for example, that Mussolini and Hitler had many admirers in the United States. W.E.B. Du Bois was inspired by Hitler’s Germany, and Irving Berlin praised Mussolini in song. Many fascist tenets were espoused by American progressives like John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR incorporated fascist policies in the New Deal.

Fascism was an international movement that appeared in different forms in different countries, depending on the vagaries of national culture and temperament. In Germany, fascism appeared as genocidal racist nationalism. In America, it took a “friendlier,” more liberal form. The modern heirs of this “friendly fascist” tradition include the New York Times, the Democratic Party, the Ivy League professoriate, and the liberals of Hollywood. The quintessential Liberal Fascist isn’t an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore.

These assertions may sound strange to modern ears, but that is because we have forgotten what fascism is. In this angry, funny, smart, contentious book, Jonah Goldberg turns our preconceptions inside out and shows us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.

About the Author
JONAH GOLDBERG is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and contributing editor to National Review. A USA Today contributor and former columnist for the Times of London, he has also written for The New Yorker, Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Limewoody

Skin(d)barlig socialisme

Alle, der elsker bare bryster, må nu også elske SF.

Det må de, fordi SF i København i det ny år vil tillade, at kvinder kan bade topløst i byens svømmehaller. Vinteren er så mørk, men nu går vi lysere tider i møde.

Folkesocialisternes forslag er muligvis tænkt ud fra et eller andet fis med ligestilling, men er sambasocialisme på skandinavisk.

SFs medlem af Kultur- og Fritidsudvalget, Frank Hedegaard, mener, at de københavnske kvinder naturligvis skal have lov til at lade bikini-overdelen blive hjemme, når de går i svømmehallen.

»Det har de københavnske mænd lov til«, udtaler han og spørger retorisk: »Så hvorfor skal det være anderledes for kvinderne?«

Nej, hvorfor skulle det dog det? Den nøgne sandhed er, at ingen borgerlig politiker ville slippe af sted med at stille dette topløse forslag, hvilket beviser, at der endnu er brug for socialister – til meget begrænsede opgaver.

Groft sagt kan fremover træffes i svømmehallen.

Mikael Jalving i Berlingske. Groft Sagt. 30. december 2007.

Godt nytår og på gensyn i svømmehallen 😀

Er alle kulturer lige?

The Tanzanian high commissioner to South Africa was beaten unconscious by armed robbers at his own farewell dinner in Pretoria, police say.

A South African government official at the dinner told the South African Press Association that armed men broke into the diplomatic compound at around 2200 local time.

Calls for a crackdown on violent crime in South Africa have been renewed by a spate of attacks on high-profile targets. These include:

• A Vietnamese embassy official shot and wounded at his home in Pretoria in October
• South Africa’s UN ambassador robbed at gunpoint in his son’s home in July.

Mere på BBC

Mon ikke de bare skal have noget mere u-lands-hjælp 😀

Hvis han har gjort noget kriminelt – så er han norsk!

Hvis han har gjort det legalt – ja så er han ikke norsk.

Pakistaneren som er siktet for drap i Islamabad, skaffet seg pakistansk pass før pilegrimsreisen til Mekka.

Dersom han har kjøpt eller på annen måte skaffet seg et falskt pakistansk pass – er han sikret bistand fra norske myndigheter. Dersom han søkte formelt og skaffet passet på lovlig vis – mister han etter alt å dømme retten til hjelp fra norske myndigheter. Dobbelt statsborgerskap er ulovlig etter den norske statsborgerloven.

Det er jo utroligt, at man overhovedet skal hjælpe sådan et uhyre.