<title>WONDER LAND</title><p>Burning Down The House In FranceLand(No jobs, no future, why not riot?)

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/11/05 | DANIEL HENNINGER

[ricks_place]

I am prepared to entertain the notion that France's second-generation Muslims are burning down those lovely French towns because Muslims can't or won't integrate into European societies. I'm also inclined to believe that if you are 18, male, live in a scuzzy neighborhood and have not much better to do from 9 to 5 than hang with the boys, nothing good can come of it. The solution to the first theory of France's riots is to round up all the young Muslims, put them on trains and ship them "home." Plan B would be for France to output a better 9-to-5 culture than it's got. My guess is the Chirac government would prefer the first solution.

Rewind...from a different perspective.

Amid the flaming fortnight in France, two other notable events occurred. A stadium in Argentina filled with people waving Che Guevara flags who screamed obscenities at President George W. Bush's free trade proposals. The U.S. press reported that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's crypto-socialist theories pose a major challenge in Latin America to Mr. Bush's ideas.

The second, more important story, to anyone whose income depends on knowing where the world will be a decade hence, was the email traffic between Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his top techie, Ray Ozzie. "It's clear that if we fail to do so," wrote Mr. Ozzie--that is, fail to figure out the ultimate meaning of the Internet--"our business as we know it is at risk. We must respond quickly and decisively."

As so often the past 125 years, the wolf at the door--in France, Argentina and at Microsoft--is modernity...

The Gates-Ozzie Method, whose upside is survival, is: Get a grip on the change. The Young Muslim Method is: Burn down the house and rule the embers....

[ricks_place]

Chirac government would prefer to put them on trains and ship them "home."

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity is difficult to contain.

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

---

Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

---

Kindly note tagline:

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

---

Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

---

Kindly note tagline:

[A message]

But as the political leadership of France is the big news this week,...

But, but, but, I thought the "big" news this week was "The President lied", "Prisoner abuse", "CIA leaks", funny me how I can get the wrong idea from a glance at the TV or a newspaper headline.

Thank God for FR, expounding the truth for those who seek the truth.

[elfman2]

Interesting article, beyond the excerpt. It's a reminder that Europe exists in the same stagnation that has plagued it for decade (centuries?), and this latest round of riots is just another symptom.

[LikeLight]

A quiet night in France...

I'd hate to be there on a bad night.

(All above images sourced to last night or today)

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

When I see signs like this...I'm wondering what is wrong with people. Don't they know when they come to America, they learn English AND follow our rules. Why has our country become so-o-o backwards and started letting these other nationalities start their own little country within our borders? It's no wonder this nation is so confused, we no longer have one set of rules(OUR CONSTITUTION). The U.S is becoming just as wishy-washy as France.