Quote of the day

posted at 10:45 pm on March 9, 2007 by Allahpundit

“It’ll be a tragedy if it starts to get built up and become like anywhere else in the world. People say, ‘progress,’ we should do this, we should do that. Someone at the moment is suggesting that we should have more building because that would give more work to people.

“But in a funny way, I feel it’s special because it has stayed as it was.”

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I link wants me to signup for the latimes.

Blech!

csdeven on March 9, 2007 at 10:59 PM

That would be “THE” link wants me to signup.

csdeven on March 9, 2007 at 11:00 PM

“But in a funny way, I feel it’s special because it has stayed as it was.”

AP, would I be banned if I did not want to sign up and give my information to the LA Times, or any other liberal media outlet?

PinkyBigglesworth on March 9, 2007 at 11:01 PM

The quote you gave is all I need to know, I will not soil my computer by going anywhere near that rag.
More liberal hogwash is all it is, elite snobs and buffons feeling superior and wanting to maintain their prostate position. Having anywhere else have success like America would lay waste to their precious notions,can’t have that now can they?

bbz123 on March 9, 2007 at 11:12 PM

“We must remember, it’s worked wonderfully for 450 years. Unfortunately, it’s a lot of the outsiders who come to the island because they love it, and lo and behold they want to change things once they get here,” said Elizabeth Perree, whose family, descendants of original tenants on the island, operates an inn and small farm.

Sounds like what we deal with here in Maine.

Stinking Massachusetts residents…

Slublog on March 9, 2007 at 11:15 PM

Well it looks like quaint has been removed from Big Brothers dictionary. 40 souls who aren’t contributing to the welfare state must be brought to answer. Besides, the place would make a great place for casinos.

Limerick on March 9, 2007 at 11:24 PM

There’s a damned good reason that it keeps asking me for my name and address: I’d never give it to the L.A. Times.

Vincenzo on March 9, 2007 at 11:26 PM

Would someone please take one for the team and sign up for la times and tell us what this post is all about.

billy on March 9, 2007 at 11:28 PM

The link worked fine for me…..went straight to the article.

Limerick on March 9, 2007 at 11:30 PM

I would check my cookies,Limerick, there may be LAT creepies in there.
( feel free to double-entendre that to death)

bbz123 on March 9, 2007 at 11:39 PM

Guess so….but my firewall and spyware software is pretty good. But thanks for the suggestion. Look out cookies here I come.

Limerick on March 9, 2007 at 11:42 PM

The link worked fine for me…..went straight to the article.

Limerick on March 9, 2007 at 11:30 PM

{just kidding Limerick….)

“He’s one of them!!”

How was “300″?

PinkyBigglesworth on March 9, 2007 at 11:43 PM

If you don’t want to subscribe, try this site out:

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Lonevoice on March 9, 2007 at 11:45 PM

Register with LA Times to see the article? There is NOTHING that the LA Times could ever puke up that would make me want to register with them… evar.

SilverStar830 on March 9, 2007 at 11:47 PM

Checked the cookies….nothing I could find….just updated to IE7….maybe that is my downfall.

Pinky……..GO……it was better then beer and if you know me that is saying something. I really enjoyed it. My Dharma wife had sort of that deer-in-the-headlights look when we left. Going again Sunday with a couple of friends.
Frank Miller outdid ‘The Dark Knight Returns’.

Limerick on March 9, 2007 at 11:48 PM

The Dem’s might like this as their new foreign diplomacy:

“Still, by tradition and law, Beaumont is the only Sark resident permitted to keep pigeons or an unspayed bitch. And residents with a complaint can still fall on one knee and invoke the Clameur de Haro, a Norman custom under which a person can obtain immediate cessation of any action he considers to be an infringement of his rights.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

auspatriotman on March 9, 2007 at 11:51 PM

We should draw straws. Short straw has to sign up and tell us wtf this is all about.

Perchant on March 9, 2007 at 11:52 PM

Small island off of Normandy. 40 Englanders. Ruled by feudal overlord. No-no says the EU, gotta be a democracy.
Who cares what the residents think.

That is it in a nutshell…..go to wiki- Sark Channel Islands.

Limerick on March 9, 2007 at 11:54 PM

Pinky……..GO……it was better then beer and if you know me that is saying something.

Calling a babysitter as I type, that’s the only reason I couldn’t go tonight!

Is it gay to get excited for a movie?

“This is madness!………….. This is SPARTA!!”

PinkyBigglesworth on March 9, 2007 at 11:55 PM

me ‘pooter went straight there. I think I’d like to visit this place this summer. It’s only a couple hours from my house and I never freaking heard of it. It’ll be an amusement park soon enough. Insert ‘sigh’ here.

james hooker on March 10, 2007 at 12:10 AM

Allah,

This part of the article is priceless:

The constable is one of the few who gets a salary. He earned it in 1991, when an unemployed French nuclear physicist, dressed in military fatigues and armed with an automatic rifle and 250 rounds of ammunition, launched a one-man invasion.

“He put these notices up, they were all in French, of course, saying he was going to take over the island,” Beaumont recalled.

“Everyone took it as a joke, of course, until the next day somebody saw him walking around with a rifle. Fortunately, the constable just had a lot of plain common sense. He walked up to the chap and said, ‘That’s an interesting rifle you’ve got there.’ And he asked, ‘How does it work?’

“So the chap started to show him, and the rest of the fire brigade pounced on him.”

Well, at least it still goes down as France’s deepest penentration into enemy territory since Napoleon.

Can’t get enough of the French jokes.

bert169 on March 10, 2007 at 12:19 AM

Well, at least it still goes down as France’s deepest penentration into enemy territory since Napoleon.

Can’t get enough of the French jokes.

bert169 on March 10, 2007 at 12:19 AM

Damn.
We’re missing out on French jokes.
I’m still not gonna give any traffic to the la times.

billy on March 10, 2007 at 12:27 AM

The quote in my previous post is the only french joke in the article.

The article itself was about a tiny little island in the english channel that is still practicing Feudalism, and some outsiders want it to get with the program and get democracy.

bert169 on March 10, 2007 at 12:32 AM

bert169 on March 10, 2007 at 12:32 AM

Thank you.

billy on March 10, 2007 at 12:39 AM

Cool… (cool that it is fuedal not that they have to change)

I remember hearing about that other island, Brecqhou. It was on the discovery channel years ago.

Theworldisnotenough on March 10, 2007 at 1:01 AM

Bizzare. I had no idea a place like that could exist. Worth the registratation.

starflyer on March 10, 2007 at 1:48 AM

Is it intolerant to be intolerant of intolerance?

The U.S. makes a strategic decision (whether right or wrong is not my point) to consider its long term national interests by invading Iraq and deposing a megalomaniacal tyrant who had for years threatened the use of every dirty weapon known to man, and had the past history of doing so to add credibility to the threat. In the aftermath of doing so, we returned sovereignty and governance to the nationals, and helped them craft a government of THEIR MAKING, under our guidelines. And for that, we’re filthy imperialists forcing our ideas of how to run a country on someone else.

In contrast, the best the EU can manage is to find the tiniest possible hamlet, which harms nothing and noone. A peaceful little out-of-the-way island with fewer than a hundred inhabitants. And turn their world upside down to suit the PC notions of the socialist elite.

Madmen like Hugo Chavez or Iran’s Handsinnadinnerjacket are preferable to these imbeciles than Tony Blair, John Howard or George Bush. They cheer for Al Qaeda and condemn the U.S.

“How dare the Americans actually combat real enemies? Let’s show them how it ought to be done. Let’s invade that little island over their. It serves no national interest, so that proves it to be a noble deed.”

We should send troops to defend that island from the European enemy. Shouldn’t take more than a dozen Marines.

Freelancer on March 10, 2007 at 2:43 AM

I was able to bring up the article with the URL and parameter values below.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-sark8mar08,1,5198388.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=false

If clicking the text doesn’t work, consider copying and pasting it in your browser, as a single string, unbroken by any spaces. This worked for me; I hope it’ll work for you, too.

Kralizec on March 10, 2007 at 2:58 AM

Sounds like what we deal with here in Maine.

Stinking Massachusetts residents…

Slublog on March 9, 2007 at 11:15 PM

Aren’t they still “Massholes”? I miss having them to mock and give bad directions to.

I also miss giving dangerously bad directions to Quebecers….after getting some money out of them of course.

TBinSTL on March 10, 2007 at 4:24 AM

No LA Times for me either.

Zorro on March 10, 2007 at 7:37 AM

Aren’t they still “Massholes”? I miss having them to mock and give bad directions to.

Heh. Yup. Wasn’t sure that would make it through the filter, though.

Slublog on March 10, 2007 at 10:05 AM

Sounds like what we deal with here in Maine.

There are elitist snobs in Maine, too? What’s this world coming too.

Must be the French influence.

reaganaut on March 10, 2007 at 10:24 AM

There are elitist snobs in Maine, too? What’s this world coming too.

Only in Camden.

Of course, I’m “from away” as well, so I’ll never really be a Mainer.

What I found interesting about the story is how it displays a trend that never changes. Here in Maine, we have people move from the bigger cities on the east coast because they want to live in a more “rural” area.

But shortly after they get here, they start demanding the same sorts of services they had while in the city – curbside trash pickup, cable, cell phone reception…eventually, they hector the city councils and town selectmen into getting what they want and taxes go up as a result.

It’s insane.

Slublog on March 10, 2007 at 10:34 AM

Ya I know what you mean, I lived in Seattle for a few years and they were besides themselves with the migration of Californians.

Actually I love going to Maine in the summer – to vacation. I can’t take Cape Cod anymore, and the NH seacoast has been over run with Bostonians.

To be fair, I do live in MA, but I can’t most of the people either :)

It always reminds me of the South Park episode where they moved the Sundance Film Festival…

Actually, it’s not unlike the illegal immigrant situation – people flee their crappy home for something better, but then turn their new home to crap, too!

Just stay home and fight to change your own state/country…..

reaganaut on March 10, 2007 at 12:09 PM

To be fair, I do live in MA, but I can’t most of the people either :)

Oh…you’re one of…those. :-)

One of the major issues we’re having here is in Belfast, where a large group of uber-lefties moved a few years ago. Belfast is built on chicken-cr*p and fish guts. It’s a fishing and agriculture community at heart. A majority of the people who live there are middle-class types.

However, those who run the city and control the levers of zoning have worked to keep all so-called “big box” stores out of that community. So most of the local residents, who could save a few bucks shopping at Wal-Mart, have to drive to Bangor or Rockland to get that shopping done – all because a few limosuine liberal types want to keep the community “authentic.”

Basically, they want to keep Belfast just the way it is so they can brag about living in an “authentic” fishing community, as though the people who live, work and shop there are nothing more than set pieces in their fantasty.

Slublog on March 10, 2007 at 12:26 PM

I cannot stand WalMart. Keep ‘em out as long as possible. WalMart is a plague. They are magnets for everything a small town doesn’t want.

Theworldisnotenough on March 10, 2007 at 12:55 PM

Basically, they want to keep Belfast just the way it is so they can brag about living in an “authentic” fishing community, as though the people who live, work and shop there are nothing more than set pieces in their fantasty.

Oh, kind of like Funny Farm. Do they pay the locals to dress and act authentic?

I actually live out west in farm country, and we consider ourselves a seperate entity.

Now that I think of it, I’d like to scrape together some big bucks, buy some land and basically create a theme town. Think of the possibilities – big city, trust fund liberals can move in to their insanely overpriced homes to live in a genuine faux-community!

I’ll be the mayor and slap on all kinds of extra taxes to pay for the actors townsfolk. Carbon-tax, anti-war fund, white guilt tax… They’ll gladly pony up the dough to feel smug.

reaganaut on March 10, 2007 at 1:23 PM

…and sopeaking of Boston..

RIP Brad Delp

reaganaut on March 10, 2007 at 1:30 PM

I cannot stand WalMart. Keep ‘em out as long as possible. WalMart is a plague. They are magnets for everything a small town doesn’t want.

If it were just Wal-Mart, that would be one thing. But they don’t allow any stores over a certain square footage. No grocery stores, no hardware stores – nothing.

So these folks, in order to shop for groceries in a place other than a co-op, have to drive 20 miles.

Slublog on March 10, 2007 at 1:38 PM

RE: Slublog

Well that is just crazy. WalMart is in many ways a destructive leviathan, but not allwing natural progress associated with a growing population is insane. The change will come. If they do not realize that then a Wal Mart will bo forced upon them.

Creating an economic zone between small communities is a viable option. Columbia, MD was planned in little villages from the outset and handles the enourmous amount of traffic along the I-95 corridor rather well. They should look there for ideas on how to properly handle growth. Progress while maintaing that small town feel, two birds one stone.

Theworldisnotenough on March 10, 2007 at 2:04 PM

I’d live there

Mortis on March 10, 2007 at 2:26 PM