But continental right-wingers have, in the past, been no less keen to unify Europe than have those on the left.
Their dedicated area in the Gleneagles Hotel was decked out in the blue and yellow of the continental flag, right down to the tropical fish.
Last year the AU said it would promote its own continental human-rights court but incumbent leaders and their senior officials, it added, must be exempt.
Expect her to add juicy details about how she and Edwards conducted a trans-continental affair right under the noses of the candidate's cancer-stricken wife and the entire national press corps.
If anything, China has historically been more patient and gentle in asserting its claims within Malaysia's 200-nautical-miles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), even when Kuala Lumpur -- to China's chagrin - joined Vietnam (2009) in asserting its continental shelf rights at the United Nations.
UNCLOS stipulates that as far as islands and reefs are concerned, the former enjoy 12 nautical miles territorial waters, 200 nautical miles of exclusive economic zone and continental shelf rights while the latter only have 12 nautical miles of territorial waters.
That's how the continental divide works right now.
The boundary region can be divided into two subregions: the continental subregion (upper right region of Fig. 1) and the oceanic subregion (lower left region of Fig. 1).
Included therein: a solar cooker, which I gracelessly post here; some sort of earthquake-proof bed, which would be handy for any number of our continental U.S. readers right now; and a crank-powered radio, the scientific principles of which I learned in high school, proving that America's public school system isn't entirely broken.
It didn't seem right that Continental Europeans, who had produced no decent rock music of their own, should be allowed to fall under its sway, to frug, to form communes, to sing Pink Floyd lyrics in heavily accented voices.
