{"id":274,"date":"2006-12-09T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T20:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=274"},"modified":"2006-12-09T12:26:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T20:26:02","slug":"sense-andor-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/sense-andor-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense and\/or Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this first one from <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/2006\/12\/09\/britain-finally-dumps-multiculturalism.php\">Kim Priestap over at WizBangBlog<\/a>. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=UJULHWJH1CTETQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=\/news\/2006\/12\/09\/nmulti09.xml\">Blair Nixes Multiculturalism?<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Tony Blair formally declared Britain&#8217;s multicultural experiment over yesterday as he told immigrants they had &#8221;a duty&#8221; to integrate with the mainstream of society.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair yesterday: &#8216;We don&#8217;t want the hate-mongers&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In a speech that overturned more than three decades of Labour support for the idea, he set out a series of requirements that were now expected from ethnic minority groups if they wished to call themselves British.<\/p>\n<p>These included &#8220;equality of respect&#8221; &#8211; especially better treatment of women by Muslim men &#8211; allegiance to the rule of law and a command of English.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sounds good to me, Mr. Blair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/RobertDNovak\/2006\/12\/09\/boltons_successor\">Bolton&#8217;s Successor<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Zalmay Khalilzad, who was announced this week as leaving as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, is the leading prospect to replace John Bolton as envoy to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>President Bush was reported by aides as looking for someone who approximates Bolton&#8217;s combination of toughness and diplomatic skill and has tentatively decided on Khalilzad. A native of Afghanistan, he has served in government posts dating back to 1985 and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Mr. Bush, this one sounds otherwise to me, but now I sound anti-Muslim or Islamophobic or something.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this first one from Kim Priestap over at WizBangBlog. Thanks! Blair Nixes Multiculturalism? Tony Blair formally declared Britain&#8217;s multicultural experiment over yesterday as he told immigrants they had &#8221;a duty&#8221; to integrate with the mainstream of society. Tony Blair yesterday: &#8216;We don&#8217;t want the hate-mongers&#8217; In a speech that overturned more than three &#8230; <a title=\"Sense and\/or Nonsense\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/sense-andor-nonsense\/\" aria-label=\"More on Sense and\/or Nonsense\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-4q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}