Sunday, February 04, 2007
The confusing relevance of the hotness of Hungarian women
Hungary is where the Mongol hordes ran into the Germanic tribes.
What this means is, the women there are incredibly hot.
It is fairly impressive that Jules Crittenden was able to work these lines into a post about the influence of George Soros on the Democratic party.
5 Comments:
By 
Escort81, at
Sun Feb 04, 01:59:00 PM:
TH -
Careful, that post starts to approach a "yo mama" joke for me. My mother was born in Budapest.
I don't wan't to go into therapy for Oedipal issues everytime I read this blog.
That said, I can't disagree with Crittenden's characterization.
My mother came to the U.S. in 1937 when she was 11 years old because her mother (also Hungarian) had remarried and moved to Bucks County, PA. She learned English quickly, attended George School in Bucks County and then Barnard and Oxford. She was an FDR Democrat and then a Reagan Democrat.
Perhaps what's more interesting than the "hot" comment is that Soros doesn't appear to want to use any kind of force or threat of force to deal with totalitarian regimes, notwithstanding what Hungarians had to deal with from the end of WWII until the fall of the Wall in 1989-90 (and what Hungarian Jews had to deal with during WWII, which Soros has first hand knowledge of).
There's no doubt Soros is a brilliant financial investor -- his record is such that, well, res ipsa loquitur.
I think he believes that simply by sponsoring his "Open Society" programs around the world, he can effect change from within the structure of objectionable governments.
How that might have worked in Baghdad in 1999 is unclear.
How it might work in Tehran in 2007 -- maybe there's a better case to be made there because of the diversity of Iranian society and some trend toward modernity in the younger generation, and perhaps the Mullahs' secret police aren't as good as Saddam's were. I just don't know.
By TigerHawk, at
Sun Feb 04, 02:21:00 PM:
Escort81 -- Your mother attended the George School? Pretty cool. My son goes there right now. He claims he is one of three conservatives in the entire student body...
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Sun Feb 04, 03:21:00 PM:
I dunno. I've been in and out of Budapest and driven across the Alfold several times since 1998, and didn't think Hungarian women were, uh, facially that attractive. I do recall the thong-and-cleavage thing pretty vividly. We had a blonde cafe waitress about 6'2" tall, plus platform shoes (in 2001) and a thigh high skirt. I'm not recalling what her face looked like...
By Dawnfire82, at
Sun Feb 04, 06:20:00 PM:
Save a reference to 'almond eyes,' neither did the original article...
By Escort81, at
Mon Feb 05, 04:00:00 PM:
Tigerhawk -
I believe my mother was class of 1942 or 1943 at the George School, and took the train from Churchville (near her home in Bucks County) to the rail stop at the school.
As you probably know, many of the good private schools in the metro Philly area are Quaker schools and there is still a strong Quaker philosophical tradition, to a greater or lesser extent, at all of the schools. The philosophy somewhat reflects that at the American Friends Service Committee, which is pacifist in the purest sense (based on theology), and interventionist only with non-military humanitarian aid. In short, it isn't terribly helpful when confronting a real live international bad guy (the AFSC was in concert with the isolationism of the right-wing America First supporters right up until 12/07/41, by way of example, and continued its non-violent stance beyond that date, notwithstanding the fact that around 50% of service age Quaker males did in fact serve during WWII). Germantown Friends School has probably been the most progressive in terms of the political atmosphere. Penn Charter (where I attended, as did my grandfather) is probably more centrist. George School is somewhere in between, closer to GFS. Clearly, you will not find too many Republicans anymore on the faculty or in the administration of any Quaker school.
If you talk to your GC at your company in NJ (the guy who writes the sports blog), he knows me well and he knew my mother, and can fill you in. We can continue off line when he gives you my info.
