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Tourism ugly from lack of Americans
Universal Press Syndicate
| 6-14-2003
| Tad Bartimus
Posted on 06/14/2003 9:59:39 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: lilylangtree
The French will be kneeling toward Mecca with one more generation. From 10% Islamist, they will be 20% armed Islamists. Let them try being "French" under the Sharia.
The last French victory over Islam was at the Battle of Tours. Now with bahksheesh in hand, they think that they can profit from those of the prophet.
To: PoorMuttly
We are not amused by you. We tolerate you for the good of mankind, and the more noble souls still trapped among you. Those are the ones that I'm aiming at. To let the Leftists/Islamists gain France surely would be our embarrassment.
And since they, apparently, already have, it's vital to reverse the trend, just as it is here.
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posted on
06/14/2003 3:52:51 PM PDT
by
Dec31,1999
(French Freedom fighters need our support now more than ever.)
To: lilylangtree
The only things missing from these postcard-perfect scenes are Americans.The French live in the past. It's gotta suck to be them...
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posted on
06/14/2003 3:56:46 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Proud member of the Vast Right Wing Fatwa...)
To: SevenDaysInMay
The French will be kneeling toward Mecca with one more generation. From 10% Islamist, they will be 20% armed Islamists. Let them try being "French" under the Sharia. The problem with the French is that they are ignorant more than they are stupid, as is the case with our very own Liberals. They have the gift of language, but not logic.
Give the Liberty lovers in France a voice, and they will reverse the trend "toute suite".
It's OUR job to give them that voice, just as it is our job to give Iranian Freedom fighters their voice.
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:00:20 PM PDT
by
Dec31,1999
(French Freedom fighters need our support now more than ever.)
To: Dec31,1999
...so we penalize THEM ALL, until they better police their own. If they, as a voting public, don't value our position...perhaps a little tough love is in order. They don't respect our words. Perhaps they will respect our absence. At this point, many of us would vote for standing by, and basically handing them to their saintly European friends the Germans, should there be a "round three."
WE have not forgotten, or betrayed our bloody sacrifices for them in recent history. They seem to find it inconvenient to respect our needs...but we must respect theirs ?
Perhaps such anemic, self-serving statements of reconciliation work on Clinton-esque turncoats such as they, and their "friends," but we walked out on the European moral code...brutal, spineless arrogance and betrayal...in 1776. If they didn't hate the British so much, and sense a buck, I doubt they would have helped us then, either.
"Take a fool out of a ditch, and you will only have to do it again."
Perhaps we should just let them be further entertained by their "friends" next time. Perhaps now is "next time."
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:13:18 PM PDT
by
PoorMuttly
(...with friends like these...)
To: cricket
there is something very wrong about marrying the baby girl that you and your common law wife raised....
what was Woody thinking as he bathed her or wiped her butt when she was little?...did the fascination start then?
it doesn't matter if they were married or not.....the baby that he was a father to, he married.....
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:24:50 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: cricket
". . .Mia and Woody were never married. It was her adopted daughter; and while I do not think much of his actions; do not think they fell into the 'sick' classification."
That's even better - not married. I had assumed they were. What fine examples of parents they must have been. I still believe marrying an adopted daughted whose about half his age is SICK.
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:44:18 PM PDT
by
nmh
To: Mark17
"My Asian woman is half my age too, but was 19 when I met her."
Just as sick. The again she wanted a "father figure" and you obviously wanted a "daughter figure". Sick but compatible.
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:57:05 PM PDT
by
nmh
To: Drango
France's defense minister criticized her American counterpart, Donald Rumsfeld, in an interview published Saturday...
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89
posted on
06/14/2003 5:17:56 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Drango
Is Woody Allen the spokesman for the "Fall in Love Again" compaign, and if so does anyone know if he has a younger daughter to fall in love again with?
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posted on
06/14/2003 5:31:50 PM PDT
by
Cdnexpat
To: PoorMuttly
If you HAD a "World" Trade Center, and had seen it reduced to screaming carnage...perhaps your smug, self-serving intellectuality would have benefited from the taste of it.
I see what you are saying, but you have to know that France suffered horribly in WWI and WWII. Not just towers, but whole cities were in ruins. Nearly a generation of her young men gone. They know what it is to suffer in their homeland.
Which makes Chirac's actions all the more troubling. They saw first hand what appeasement could lead to. I don't understand how they could not have been right there with us.
Well, we survived the impeached X42, hopefully they will survive Chirac and the socialists that are ruining France.
To: baseballmom
I see what you are saying, but you have to know that France suffered horribly in WWI and WWII. Not just towers, but whole cities were in ruins. Nearly a generation of her young men gone. They know what it is to suffer in their homeland.Just to be clear, French losses in WWII on the battlefield were comparatively low. They surrendered quickly. In the battle to drive the Germans out, Americans and Brits did the dying.
The report below is from the Embassy of France in the US. You'll notice that WWI and WWII are combined. Clearly this is done to downplay the comparatively low number of battle losses by French troops in WWII.
FRENCH CASUALTIES IN WWI AND WWII
- 1,385,000 soldiers died
- 361,000 were declared missing
- 4,200,000 were wounded
10% of the active population and 3,5% of the total population died on the battlefields. As a comparison, if this were to happen now in the United States, the number of casualties would reach 10 million.
There would also be 680,000 widows and 760,000 orphans. Throughout Europe, the number of crippled soldiers amounted to 6,500,000.
Between 1914 and 1918, the drops in births in France is estimated at 1 million.
Regarding WWII, between 1939 (when war was declared by France and the United Kingdom) and 1940, 120,000 soldiers died [emphasis mine], not to mention the number of French citizens who died as war prisoners, forced laborers, deported civilians or in acts of resistence against the Nazis during the German Occupation. The amount of suffering occasioned by WWII in France is impossible to assess and should not be forgotten.
Source: Embassy of France in the U.S. - March 18, 2003
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posted on
06/14/2003 5:54:52 PM PDT
by
beckett
To: Drango
Thanks! Your gif is a keeper!
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posted on
06/14/2003 6:16:44 PM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Support Our Troops! Screw France.)
To: lilylangtree
"Wonder if Chirac is still popular with the people? Last I read his popularity with the French people was at a good 58%."
Rush's sub-host last week, Roger Hedgecock (sic?), had just returned from France and indicated that Chirac's approval rating was in the 20s!
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posted on
06/14/2003 7:12:29 PM PDT
by
DrDeb
To: headsonpikes
NO!, it's not au revoir, but adieu! I's rather say goodbye to Frogland than "until we see you again."
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posted on
06/14/2003 8:02:02 PM PDT
by
Paulus Invictus
(RATS are scum with poor memories)
To: cherry
". . .it doesn't matter if they were married or not.....the baby that he was a father to, he married....."
. . .I am not defending Woody Allen; simply offering a degree of irony, if you will, that people who take a certain pride living well beyond the norm of moral bindings, so to speak; still expect full measure of moral retribution/judgement'. . .
and outrage from the same people they basically told to 'get over it' in a manner of speaking. . . and then expect thet the benefit of that judgement and sympathy such as did Mia when this all erupted.
There is a Wisdom in the saying; 'live by the sword;die by the sword'. And so it is with Liberalism. . .
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posted on
06/14/2003 8:09:05 PM PDT
by
cricket
To: cherry
"there is something very wrong about marrying the baby girl that you and your common law wife raised.... what was Woody thinking as he bathed her or wiped her butt when she was little?...did the fascination start then"
. . .one more thing here cherry; and again less in Woody's defense and more a statement of Mia and Woody's liberal life style.
First, I think this child was adopted when she was older than a baby; though do not know exact age; and doubt Woody ever did very much with any of the children in way of personal care as Mia and Woody maintained separate residences for most of their partnered life. . .
. . .not to say they were not together; just that they worked determinedly to maintain their independence from each other;neither would 'give up' for a Marriage. . .Another liberal 'have their cake and eat it too' kind of lifestyle.
. . .and kaboom! They all lost. . .but in the end; hard to find what in this relationship as they defined it; was in fact violated. Reap. . .sow.
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posted on
06/14/2003 8:54:56 PM PDT
by
cricket
To: nmh
Just as sick. The again she wanted a "father figure" and you obviously wanted a "daughter figure". Sick but compatible. LOL, works for me. I have found many guys are not asking me how I do it. They are asking to see how they can do it. You only go around once in life, so I am enjoying it.
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:36:05 PM PDT
by
Mark17
To: lilylangtree
I have an idea that might help the hapless Frenchies. They coold hire an American to help them advertise what a great place France is. They could hire some respected American conservative like say...
Woody Allen!
To: Drango
Because of the recent disagreements between the American and French governments and the heated press coverage of events, we are aware that some Americans worry that they might be unwelcome in France. The French know no bound to their arrogance.
In their little minds, they think Americans "worry" about being welcomed in France. Can they even conceive of the idea that Americans do not "want" to be in France?
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