Sharia Law Poll

EJDavid,

If I may say so, you�re (still) a good, if somewhat problematic sport, in my opinion.  What�s more, if, by any chance, you did happen to foil the great American pseudo-Peruvian rabbit-chasing con, then I applaud you.  I did recall, after my last post to you on this somewhat wandering subject, that, at one point late last year, I saw a headline in a West Texas paper.  It was some rather serious disaster, perhaps a factory fire at a chemical plant, I don�t remember the specifics.  I only remember the headline.  It said something like this: �the cause of the fire is unknown but terrorism has been ruled out.�

Yeah. Right. Whatever. Sure.  I mean, if the cause is unknown, how was terrorism ruled out, exactly?  Now I grant that plenty of us Yanks can sometimes be a bit slow on the uptake, especially before our anti-depressants and other CNS stimulants kick in and when we are distracted by our national pastime, idolatry, otherwise known as �American Idol,� but that headline, it seemed to me, stretched credulity just a bit toooooo much.

Vigilance!

Serv

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I suspect that Democracy is an elaborate conspiracy, designed to thwart my political will to power.

EJDavid,

Right.  I hadn�t thought of it that way.

One should be suspicious.  After all, according to this article in Prensa Latina, just look at who might be moving into Paraguay (there goes the neighborhood):

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7bEBA55617-2676-409 1-ABBC-20650EB6FEE1%7d&language=EN

Just out of curiosity, might that definition of civilization be elastic enough to include all of those (M-tv-beamed and beaming) Britney/MadonnawannaBe�s, wearing black John Paul Gaultier leather-coned braziers and blue jeans pushed to their pubic bone?

At any rate, and speaking of those English speakers who would seek a fortress, I just finished reading Peter Hitchens� at times almost amusing lament concerning the demise of (the once-) Great Britain and its unique institutions under the post-WWII American occupation, The Abolition of Britain.  It was a good and at times thought-provoking read.  (He's no Europhile, either, and is not at all keen to submerge Britian into a German-dominated EU suprastate.)

Now, not to be indelicate, but the situational update, Peter Hitchens and Paraguay for the moment aside, concerning this �Sharia law poll� of yours (thread title), what say you and why?

Serv

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Those who are willing to contribute the most to the corruption of Athenian (American) youth should not, like Socrates, be forced to drink hemlock.  Rather, they should enjoy celebrity status and be hired to host nationally-syndicated radio and television programs.