In Paris suburbs, anger won't cool

International Herald Tribune ^ | NOVEMBER 4, 2005 | Katrin Bennhold

[rightinthemiddle]

Occupation "forces"???

"Force" is a strong word.

These are the French, after all!

[CheyennePress]

When was the last time you saw a journalist clarify that Dominique was, indeed, a man's name? ;)

Of course it's a joke. Or some terrible writing/editing.

[Shortstop7]

Thank God. Amazing how something like that could truly be believable......

Nothing surprises me any more.

[george76]

Yes, the whole website is full of fun stuff.

http://www.scrappleface.com/

[Ronin]

Gee... maybe inviting all those immigrants to settle in France wasn't such a good idea after all.

[staytrue]

In post 7, you need to id the source as sarcasm from SCRAPPLEFACE.

You make it seem like the frogs actually said this when you do not source your material adequeately.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks George.

The sad reality is the scrapple face nuances are probably very close to the truth.

[george76]

Thank you. You have a good point. I will try to make it more clear in the future.

Please also refer to post # 17 and to post # 24 where Scrabbleface is linked and noted.

[deltanine]

"The sad reality is the scrapple face nuances are probably very close to the truth."

That's why it's so funny.

[Grampa Dave]

You are correct. Good parody is so close to the truth, that they are often hard to separate.

[dk/coro]

Give it time. IMO the EU will collapse upon itself.

In close examination of Sam Huntington's "Clash" thesis, the tribal instinct and its cohesiveness trumps collectivism, in spades.

In due course, Europe will incrementally become Islamic -- and without question, we will see a great deal of follow-on accomodist (appeasement) rationale introduced into European policy, at all levels.

The poor post-WW-11 national leadership -- for a number of reasons --brought this upon themselves; and the cork is well out of the bottle -- never to be replaced until the civilizational shift has gone full circle.

Europe is a Dead Man Walking!

[Odyssey-x]

What a dumb article. The whole thing was about how they had to open some sort of "dialogue" with the rioters thorugh mediators. Except for the fact that the police are trying to prevent crime in the high crime suburban areas, using reasonable means this is all just a bunch of nothing. The reality behind the fog of political correctness is probably Islam vs France.

[george76]

Thank you for your response.

I have enjoyed your thoughtful posts.

Have you seen this recent joke?

[ncountylee]

The IHT is owned by the NYT.

[Odyssey-x]

The ironic thing about the weak kneed, accomodationist, anti-hero worshipping left is it is a product of the 1960s plan of the Soviets to distablize the west using the ideas of Antonio Gramsci. See John Fonte's excellent "Why We Have A Culture War" article for a backgrounder. It used to be before the Soviet's scheme that any smart person could make observations and speak on topics and his idas could apply to all people. Now, only Muslims are allowed to speak for muslims, only blacks are allowed to speak for blacks, etc. This is the concept of "organic intellectuals" which Gramsci pioneered.

Now the Arabs who were unaffected by the soviet cultural campaign and still playing by 19th century rules are charging into the ideological vacuum that has been created now that the Soviets have lost interest.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the kind words. That cartoon is great and goes right along with this one:

[TEXOKIE]

Yeah....and there also seemed to be a plug in there for midnight basketball...they were lamenting the cutting back on sports programs for the yout's.

[Thunder90]

Will the french get the balls and call out the military? I don't think so, not until the government itself is threatened by the rioters. This will happen soon, however.

[Bon mots]

Send in the UN! Where's Koffi??

[george76]

LOL...That is very good.

At least we can have some fun while we fight the good fight.