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Bus firm takes car sharers to court
thegaurdian ^ | July 11, 2005 | Kim Willsher

Posted on 07/12/2005 11:43:06 PM PDT by freepatriot32

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hmmm treehugging cheese eating surerender monkeys against eurotrash sue happy monopoly business fascists there are no good guys to root for in this fight :=)
1 posted on 07/12/2005 11:43:13 PM PDT by freepatriot32
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To: freepatriot32

I know it's wrong, but...can I actually root for both sides to lose?


2 posted on 07/12/2005 11:50:04 PM PDT by JRios1968 (No Sir, I don't like it.)
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3 posted on 07/12/2005 11:53:33 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (www.lp.org)
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To: JRios1968

I don't see why we should want the women to lose. You have any idea what gas costs in Europe?

And what kind of commercial buses can't you eat or speak on?


4 posted on 07/12/2005 11:54:40 PM PDT by furquhart (Cheney-Bush '08)
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To: freepatriot32

Their present, our future....?


5 posted on 07/12/2005 11:59:20 PM PDT by Lexinom (http://www.abort73.com)
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To: furquhart
I don't see why we should want the women to lose.

Because they're French, of course.

6 posted on 07/13/2005 12:00:31 AM PDT by JRios1968 (No Sir, I don't like it.)
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To: Lexinom

This is a perfect example of why Europe is falling behind us. Having said that our own fascists in elected office are trying to bring more and more of the failed Euro-model here.

For example try to start a taxi company without the official and extraordinarily expense taxi liscences.


7 posted on 07/13/2005 12:03:12 AM PDT by ran15
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To: freepatriot32

What?! Am I to interpret from this that the bus line thinks it has a God-given right to the patronage of these ladies and can tell them how they can use their own cars and who they can share a ride with? The gall of them.


8 posted on 07/13/2005 12:06:02 AM PDT by coydog (My bathroom djinn can beat up your bathroom djinn!)
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To: freepatriot32

French news all looks like Scrappleface to me.


9 posted on 07/13/2005 12:06:49 AM PDT by shteebo
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To: freepatriot32; JRios1968

Careful with the kneejerk label-tossing. It is getting out of control with some folks here.

I don't know where you get your assumptions, but all I see is a group of ladies who want to carpool to work to save money and make their commute a bit more pleasant. You slap some kind of leftis liberal label on them for exercising their freedom of choice as a consumer?

The bus company wants to sue these women for carpooling instead of patroning their overpriced bus service, with overly restrictive rules. They want the government to force the women to patronize their business?

That they could even bring this suit with any thought of possibly winning is scary as all hell! Who should win is not even a question, unless you are somehow favorable to complete Fascism.

What's next? The local hat manufacturer begins suing an old lady for knitting a cap for her newbord grand-daughter, instead of buying the cap from him?

This is silly as all hell!


10 posted on 07/13/2005 12:09:10 AM PDT by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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To: SoIA-79

World gone mad placemarker.


11 posted on 07/13/2005 12:10:34 AM PDT by SoIA-79 ("The plans differ; the planners are all alike." – Bastiat)
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To: coydog
The gall of them

Did you happen to misspell "The Gaul of them."? :=)

12 posted on 07/13/2005 12:12:37 AM PDT by Bob
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To: freepatriot32

If our Supremes were over there, the complainants would probably win the case---something along the lines of eminent domain. But this smacks of a strange wrinkle from WITHIN a single "domain" of private enterprise, since both parties seem to be "private", rather than agents of a burgeoning government run/funded public utility. On closer examination though, the connections to Big Government would probably be evident. In any case, it's exactly what union thugs did in the USA in their heyday. Lots of overlap also with Mafia practices.


13 posted on 07/13/2005 12:22:57 AM PDT by willyboyishere
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To: freepatriot32

14 posted on 07/13/2005 12:23:14 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: coydog

"The gall of them"
---shouldn't that be "the Gaul of them", or am I the one
who just noticed the pun. If you meant it, very clever, very clever indeed. I would call it positively
"willyboyishere-ian".


15 posted on 07/13/2005 12:25:20 AM PDT by willyboyishere
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To: Bob

WOW! See my #15---I wrote it before I saw your post.
GMTA. YOU are the one,as it turns out, who is positively "willyboyishere-ian".


16 posted on 07/13/2005 12:28:26 AM PDT by willyboyishere
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To: willyboyishere
WOW! See my #15---I wrote it before I saw your post. GMTA. YOU are the one,as it turns out, who is positively "willyboyishere-ian".

You're absolutely right - GMTA, especially on FR. :=)

17 posted on 07/13/2005 12:32:37 AM PDT by Bob
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To: BulletBobCo

I like your picture!


18 posted on 07/13/2005 12:48:13 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: freepatriot32

Leave it to the Frogs to come up with somehting so stupid. And they want the rest of Europe to join them in their ridiculous EU ways?


19 posted on 07/13/2005 12:58:10 AM PDT by conshack ((Durbin deserves a fair trial and representation for charges of treason))
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To: freepatriot32

My guess here is that the cleaning ladies are a fairly large group, and that they organized what amounts to a rival bus company, complete with profits, but w/o a license. Tres cheap!


20 posted on 07/13/2005 1:05:58 AM PDT by kitkat
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