Posted on 04/07/2005 12:17:39 PM PDT by Bushwacker777
We certainly do, Clemenza. You can see them in Iraq and Afghanistan now, most noticeably. But you also can see them in the Heartland, those red voters that are our national backbone.
As long as you're sure that while laughing at French misfortune, we are not sowing our own.
I can easily imagine the same thing happening here in the not too distant future.
OMG...that's too funny!
Le jour de gloire est parti.
Better yet, le jour de gloire est passe.
Glad you enjoyed it!
> So did the Foreign Legion.
My friend called that force to the toughest in history.
I agree with you, Hildy. I think it's frightening, because it shows how likely it is that TROP may actually gain some territory in Western Europe before long.
This is what happens when both sides have bankrupt ideologies: The bigger bully wins. Watch for the warlords to move in next.
Let us celebrate this example of diversity and have a group hug followed by some snails, cheese and whine...truffle anyone??
I think I knew my Father a bit better than you did. My Father would not have laughed at this. Not by a longshot.
I think I knew my Father a bit better than you did. My Father would not have laughed at this. Not by a longshot.
Even though the manners of death are very tragic, sometimes it is difficult not to think of the Darwin Awards as funny. Try to read a Darwin Awards nomination without laughing. It is hard. That is not a refection of poor character on the part of the reader, it is the nature of humor. For instance, this poor guy was drying his boots in the oven, while they were on his feet, and they caught fire. He ran outside, and flames spread to the rest of his clothing, and he rolled around in broken glass outside his house before dying. I read this on FR, and I couldn't help but chuckle. This should not reflect upon Free Republic, any more than the huge numbers of so-called Freepers who joined in the calls for Terri Schiavo' death on the basis that she was gurgling instead of speaking.
Needless to say, there is a great deal of irony in the situation of the French. In the article, the French whites are approached with demands for money, which they freely give, thinking that the appeasement will spare them pain or injury. When this fails, and they get there a**e* kicked for being weenies, there is irony. The very reason that they are getting their a**e* kicked is that they refuse to fight back, according to the attackers. This is ironic. Irony is, unfortunately, sometimes humerous, and the laughing is coming from an appreciation of the sublime, not a mocking of the victims, necessarily.
"I can easily imagine the same thing happening here in the not too distant future."
But we have guns and we know how to use them. Let a Muslim mob attack *anyone* in my town and they will be TOAST.
If anyone is going to kick the hell out of a liberal in my town it's going to be ME!!! I won't sit idly by while a Muslim does what Americans should have done a long time ago.
I grew up on the lower Eastside of Detroit and if they marched in my neighborhood they would not do well either.
I grew up on the west side of Detroit, a place were we don't lie down and take it either, French or not. The French over there had better get some guts or they won't have a homeland...they will all have to move to Canada
What invariably happens when the dominant media preach a gospel of victimization. Charles Martel (Charlemagne's father, who turned back the Arabs at Tours) is rolling over in his grave.
Maybe you got that backwards.
Yup, nothing funnier for certain chuckleheads than mob violence directed at peaceful protestors.
It's shameful for these thugs to go on riotous rampages, but listening to their rhetoric, it is terribly funny how perfectly they have the Frenchmen pegged.
And yes, the French have brought this on themselves.
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