Follow up,add on or whatever you call it…

In a previous Fray titled the European Crack Up I shared an article from CityJournal. That post generated a pair of responses that added well to the discussion at hand. The first from Raji looked into the UK taking a stand differing greatly of Core Europe (see 2nd comment/Forbes link). A follow up from Charlie who resides in the UK added local flavor and the notion of the UK embracing the Anglosphere.

Well lo and behold CityJournal has an article that ties into that quite nicely. I offer it for a number of reasons.

First and foremost let’s not get hung up on any false racial undertones of the word Anglosphere. It is all about  language and culture.

Second,please note that there are a number of “thinkers” who believe dramatic variations and paradigm shifts of global relations is on the not too distant horizon.In fact some have all ready begun to take shape. What is meant by that is the rise (resurrection?) of city state as well as out of the box alliances. I guess one could imagine the EU on steroids although given the state of the EU I’m loathe to use that as an example. I can offer other examples which include NATO,various Pacific Rim nations,the international Islamic slant and of course there is the G’s,OPEC and MERCOSUR for examples.

Closing out this list but by no means the end of a list on this subject,realities. The nations that make up the Anglo-sphere have a set of unique assets that positions them well if realized and embraced.(this is illustrated well via the graphs in the linked article)

So for linkage we have:

The initial Fray: The European Crack Up

And the new follow up: The State of the Anglosphere

I wasn’t gonna vote for him anyway but since he made me sick to my stomach…

I will do all that a private citizen can do to prevent Rick Santorum from being the next President of the United States of America.

Foreign Policy and the Common Man 1

I try to pay attention to the world and in doing so there are times I get fairly outraged. There are a number of story lines,talking points etc floating out there that finds me in my unhappy place. Here are a few all connected to Syria in one way or another:

Dhimmi? Dummy? Thinker! : Judge Martin,address him “Your Dishonor”

So there is no lack of blog chatter regards the Pennsylvania judge who dismissed charges against a Muslim man recently.

The story is something like this:

in2somepoliticalthoughts….

Even though reality is busily hounding me I have still had time to drift off into Ponderland and those trips have me thinking…

in2dealing with a lot of stuff…

Some of that is as follows:

1. The GI thing that was going around found me and in fact my entire household and took me out for 16 hours.

2. Awakening from my GI hell I found the door of my shed wide open and two Trek mountain bikes gone. That was a special moment.

3. The improved but admittedly challenged state of my health found it fit to allow the chest cold thing that was going around to set up shop. I went from not being able to keep fluids and solids in me to trying my best to get some out of me,well my pulmonary system anyways.

4. Work…. Do I really need to say anything?

5. Home improvement project…. it is so almost done,carpets and touch up to go but I have to tell you,I am so done with the project!!!!!

So those are like the real life issues I dealt with. The only one really wearing on me is the bike theft,so much so that I have a post coming.