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  1. C'est déjà arrivé.
  2. C'est aussi valable pour le Livre d'Or.
  3. Ce qui inclue aussi ses variantes : Socialisme, National-Socialisme, Communisme, Fascisme, etc.
  4. Avec un gros 'Bang'
  5. Londres, New-York, Sydney ou Tokyo, d'accord. Mais Paris, c'est un bled de cul-terreux.
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Comments | Commentaires

polprof | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/11 2007
06:59 PM

Wow.  All the disparities discussed here are true, however terrible, with one possible exception:  I’m not so sure we (as in the West) have spirit on our side.  There are so many signs of moral and intellectual exhaustion—remember that you are, after all, the DISSIDENT Frogman.  (That spiritual exhaustion may show itself in the troubling birthrate declines.  This is admittedly not only a Western problem, but it may have its own causes in the West, where people remain free to have as many kids as they like, unlike in other places that  face similar problems.)  I see all too many of my fellow American citizens, even ones who have sound inclinations, who have little or no understanding of what is good about what  has been achieved in the West, no sense of the moral case to be made for their own culture (as opposed to the "don’t mess with us, sucker" case that is stressed in the concluding paragraphs of your original post).  Powerful empires have been taken down from the periphery before, God forbid. . .

 
stinky CHEEZ | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/11 2007
08:00 PM

Victor Davis Freaking Hanson.

Froggy reads great book (Carnage and Culture) and distills its essence for the less fortunate among us.

GOOD ON YOU.

 

 
floridasuzie | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/11 2007
08:08 PM

DF,

I knew you would write something awe-inspiring for this 9-11 and could hardly wait to read it, but this essay is even better than anything I could have imagined. I’ll comment further later on the essay and the first response.

Suzie

*♦* IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE ON FLIGHT 23 (PENNSYLVANIA), WHO WITH COURAGE & BRAVERY, WILLINGLY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR OUR PRESIDENT &  ALL AMERICANS. FOR THE AMERICANS WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY IN THE PENTAGON AND GAVE THEIR LIVES. FOR THE CIVILIANS WHO SIMPLY WENT TO WORK IN THE NYC TOWERS THAT DAY. TO THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES AND TO ALL THE FAMILIES OF THESE AMERICANS. WE ARE FOREVER THANKFUL AND WE WILL NEVER FORGET. *♦*

♦*♦ "I’m glad to be an American where at least I know I’m free

And I won’t forget the (wo)men who died that gave that right to me

And I’ll gladly stand up next to you and defend her to the end

Cuz there ain’t not doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A." ♦*♦

 

 
Sentry | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/11 2007
08:13 PM

I don’t think the fall of the west is a foregone conclusion. There are victories among the losses even in Europe—Germany and Russia implementing procreation incentives, for example (which is ridiculous, but a step in the right direction.) The real question has always been will the west wake up soon enough. I don’t think the average westerner has lost their will to defend themselves or their desire and appreciation for freedom. Too many of them are just uninformed and disinterested. Once their own peace and prosperity is personally on the line and the media’s version of reality becomes too disconnected from their own, they’ll act. And they’ll be pissed. And they’ll have all that wonderful firepower behind them.

The danger is, that might not happen until it’s too late.

 
Denny_Crane | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/11 2007
08:39 PM

Well said Sentry.

 
tinga-tinga | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/11 2007
09:09 PM

Thank you for the special 9-11 post.

It should give people encouragement to let them know that the blustering speaker in Khartoum is ignoring the little problem that the Sudan Islamic monolith is nothing of the sort, with the Christian animist South having fought them to a measure of autonomy, and elections in 2012, restive Darfur in the West, the Eastern Sudan region in rebellion and now to the north also in conflict,  the Nubia Sudan area.   Khartoum has its hands full.  Better  for the long term, the Arabs will always look down on the blacker members of the Muslims - to the point of slavery.  How is that better?  How long does one fight for sharia when it is applied unequally against you once it is installed?    A flaw that becomes a crack, then a break.  

 
beachkatie | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/11 2007
10:20 PM

Thankyou dissident frogman! I say amen to your theist.I am praying to God , people ever were wake up before  it’s to late….. I readed on little green football tonight the found some terrioust in Winsconcin. I beleive the other’s caught in Demark.. Glad someone is on there toes!!!!!!! Thankyou for your blog it really picked up my spirit!!!! Sorry for misspell words ,i’m in a hurry.    Take care!

 
JihadGene | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
12:05 AM

Yo! DF!!!

You got it right!!! If OBL keeps this sh*t up and wants to play in the USA, again….even Nancy Pelosi, and her fellow "SYRIAN SUCKER"  (Dennis Kucinich) couldn’t save his (Osama’s) sorry A$$!

 
Grimmy | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
12:44 AM

DF:

Love yeh man.

I mean that in the traditional "stand beside you in the shield wall and fight until the enemy is either dead or broken" sort of way.

Keep the faith, Semper Fi

Ad Triarios Redisse!

 

 
SisterToldjah | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
12:57 AM

Excellent post, DF. I share your optimism in this battle against Islamofascism.   At the same time, I worry about next year’s elections here, and wonder if it’s going to be a Democrat like Hillary or Obama determining how we should respond to those threats.   We’ve seen time and time again how Democrats are clueless when it comes to dealing with dangerous threats, and Hillary and Obama are amongst the most clueless of them all. 

 
N. | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
03:30 AM

God bless you, Frogman! That was awesome. Like liquid Viagra. I must admit, I feel a little funny right now.

 
Iwo Gina | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
06:34 AM

"But ultimately, it was about survival, not suicide."

     That says it all.

 
MuggedLib | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
08:02 AM

Excellent post, although I do fear that we in the West have lost the ‘spirit’ (hopefully, only temporarily).

You may be a frog, but your ability to turn a phrase in English is nonpareil:

Like the Marxists, who thought wrongly that History was on someone’s side (and their own, just to be wrong twice)

I’m still cleaning the OJ off my monitor!

When the S.S Mahomet sails into the Great Lakes, I vow to help defend their shores from the Taliban Task Force!

 
Lady Cincinnatus | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
09:25 AM

Frogman~ Wow. I wish we could erect a statue to your honor (alongside Lafayette) for this blog post alone.  BTW, my grandpa fought the Nazis in Europe too. While he wasn’t named “Tommy” he was “Bobby”. Grandpa fought his way up a beach and manned a big gun. PolProf~ It sounds like you have been listening to too much of the media and are forgetting the “spirit” that exists in the heartland, not the blue city-states like New York and LA. I would draw your attention to the battle of King’s Mountain during the Rev War. This battle was fought by 1,000 plus militiamen—without orders, formal military training, uniforms or provisions, and with no promise of pay—against the supposedly “superior forces”of English Col. Patrick Ferguson. Col. Ferguson—like UBL—-threatened the American Rebels by sending a message from his camp in Gilbert Town, Rutherford County, North Carolina, to the officers west of the Blue Ridge that if they did not “desist from their opposition to the British army, and take protection under his standard, he would march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword.” In only one hour and five minutes, the American Rebels totally decimated Ferguson’s American Tories (Loyalists, Royalists), with every last man of them either dead or taken prisoner, and the Colonel himself left dead on the battlefield. Col. Ferguson’s warning was the result of his frustration over the refusal of most of the Overmountain men (east Tennessean and southwestern Virginians) to take the loyalty oath (or embrace Islam if you’re UBL). That’s the real spirit that lives in America’s heartland.  

 
Valerie, Texas | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
10:11 AM

 

Brilliant.

I am going to have to unearth my ancient copy of Roget’s Thesaurus so I might other accolades for your writing.  Brilliant is going to wear thin if you keep this up.  And I know that you will.

 

 
SisterToldjah | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
12:42 PM

It sounds like you have been listening to too much of the media and are forgetting the “spirit” that exists in the heartland, not the blue city-states like New York and LA. I would draw your attention to the battle of King’s Mountain during the Rev War. This battle was fought by 1,000 plus militiamen—without orders, formal military training, uniforms or provisions, and with no promise of pay—against the supposedly “superior forces”of English Col. Patrick Ferguson. Col. Ferguson—like UBL—-threatened the American Rebels by sending a message from his camp in Gilbert Town, Rutherford County, North Carolina, to the officers west of the Blue Ridge that if they did not “desist from their opposition to the British army, and take protection under his standard, he would march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword.” In only one hour and five minutes, the American Rebels totally decimated Ferguson’s American Tories (Loyalists, Royalists), with every last man of them either dead or taken prisoner, and the Colonel himself left dead on the battlefield. Col. Ferguson’s warning was the result of his frustration over the refusal of most of the Overmountain men (east Tennessean and southwestern Virginians) to take the loyalty oath (or embrace Islam if you’re UBL). That’s the real spirit that lives in America’s heartland.

Amen to that! I live in NC - incidentally about 45 minutes from Kings Mountain - and I can personally attest to that attitude being alive and well :)

 
polprof | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
01:33 PM

Dear KL and Sister T: 

I could not be happier if both of you were absolutely right, so don’t really want to get into a fight about the American spirit.  My observations come mostly from the Rustbelt—maybe that is not Heartland enough.  But LGF just posted the following about kids not being allowed to wear the American flag to school, so that the school will not have to disciminate between which flags it is ok to wear and which not—and if Sampson County NC isn’t the heartland, I don’t know what is: http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2007-09-11-0027.html.  Even if, as I hope is the case, there are outraged parents, the fact of the matter is these kids are being taught by people who don’t have a clue—so what will they learn?  Allow me one further anecdote to support my point that there is a lack of understanding of the moral foundations of American liberal democracy.  In a class of 60 college kids I am currently teaching, NOT ONE had ever read the Declaration of Independence.  (I started out asking who had ever been asked to memorize any part of it. . .silly me.) These are students from all the schools of my university, which is not on located either coast—nor does it have a particularly liberal/left student body.  IF we still had that noteworthy spirit of ‘76, I don’t think we’d be facing quite the same problem we are facing.  But hey, I’ve been wrong before, and would not mind being wrong on this point.

 

 
tinga-tinga | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
02:00 PM

Dear polprof: If you discover that your students do not have a foundation, then it is your opportunity and duty to teach them.  They could have ended up in another class where the prof didn’t care, but somehow they ended up in yours. Go for it!   The huge debates of the founding of the American Nation plus the Barbary Wars provide outstanding  comparisons between Liberty and self-governing  and libertine and slavery.  Be positive.  You can make a difference.   Even the French school textbooks do a pretty good job of describing the progression of the English Revolution, which set the foundation for the American Revolution, and then what when wrong to make the catastrophe of the French Revolution.  So, bonne chance!

 
NevadaDailySteve | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
02:00 PM

You sure swing a cluebat with the best of them. Vive le Froggy! Durka! Durka! Mohammed Jihad!

 
Lady Cincinnatus | 4 years, 5 months ago
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09/12 2007
02:55 PM

PolProf ~ I agree with Tinga-Tinga.  You have an opportunity…and you can start by sharing the story of King’s Mountain! :)  Also, note that I said "Heartland" not "Public Schools". They are their own realm.   Why do you think so many are choosing to home school? 

 
Papa Ray | 4 years, 4 months ago
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09/12 2007
07:42 PM

Well, looks like I got here late. But I still have to tell you that is a fine mess of words, ideas and emotions you put to the computer for us to read.

Yea, we ain’t fighting yet, and they had best hope that our Military takes care of the various battles and that they never sit foot here in America or even France with swords, guns or whatever drawn.

Because that is when they will find out that Islam and it’s ideas was a bad idea and their downfall.

Hell, I can raise a hundred armed Texans in an hour, several thousand in a day and millions in a week. All I have to do is give them a time and place to be and tell them who we are fighting. Nothing more will be needed.

And if they do get to get off another large terrorist attack here in the states, the warcrys from the citizens of the United States will shake Washington’s walls with anger and resolve.

And the Muslims everywhere will have to worry if they will survive the day.

Thanks again for a great read.

Papa Ray

West Texas

USA

 
Valerie, Texas | 4 years, 4 months ago
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09/12 2007
08:45 PM

polprof - It was a school board in North Carolina that came up with that jackass policy.  But what disgusted me was the gutless parents.  It is THEIR school.  My daughter wanted to wear a flag bedraped shirt that said "Remember 9/11" I would PROUDLY walk into that school and take her home for having flaunted such a stupid decree.  Where were these tax paying citizens when the school board met and approved this piece of junk?  Too busy watching Dancing with the Stars or the latest DVD of some Hollywood Useful Idiot to notice.   Why I do not send my child to a government school.  Just a PC cess pool.

Papa Ray - You can count on us.

 
Chris | 4 years, 4 months ago
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In: Stranger from out there
09/12 2007
08:47 PM

Are you sure your not from Texas?  I am, and I hear comments like yours every weekend down at the gun range.  But never put so well.  You are 100% on the mark.  Thanks

Chriscut84

 
TBinSTL | 4 years, 4 months ago
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In: St Louis MO USA
09/14 2007
03:19 AM

When I first read this, I couldn’t manage a response that did you justice. Now I read all the other comments and I’ll just tack on my heartiest of "dittos" to all of their’s.

As the kids these days say, U RAWK!!

 
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