Posted on 11/05/2005 3:37:50 PM PST by blam
Shame on you! I just had to clean off my computer screen!! LOL!
"The mooligans have promised 40."
FOR REAL??? FOR REAL??? I'm sorry, I did not mean to sound so excited. For real?
Did the rioting in New Orleans even last this long? The government was completely AWOL in NO, but the French are still in control in Paris.
Where are all the MSM reports of Paris turning into Mogudishu?
Heh. Although, sadly, I can't say its really that different from what John Ascroft did to the The Spirit of Justice statues in one of the more disappointing moments of his tenure...
:)
and there it is...
My understanding is that it goes on year round in a more restrained manner.
But it depends, I think it may go on for weeks as it is right now. But if people start dying (which weirdly they have not yet) then more force will be applied.
If I was al Qaeda this low grade urban warfare would sure look enticing. I just hope the French are up to fixing this ... but suspect that they are not.
My understanding is that it goes on year round in a more restrained manner.
But it depends, I think it may go on for weeks as it is right now. But if people start dying (which weirdly they have not yet) then more force will be applied.
If I was al Qaeda this low grade urban warfare would sure look enticing. I just hope the French are up to fixing this ... but suspect that they are not.
Rundown suburb of Paris? Hah? How can that be? I thought France was a socialist Utopia where there is no rich or poor.
If we can't even expect a paradise like France to remove the scourge of poverty from the face of earth....
How many nights before it subsides?
This appears to be gaining momentum daily, not slowing down.
I never new the words to that.
That's debatable, er the part about them being decent people anyway.
back to the bowels of the slimes on sunday, the infighting at the getty museum (now that's real rioting) takes precedence.
Look. I completely agree with you. You just had one fact wrong, and my feeling is that as conservatives we're not ever allowed to have anything wrong. Someone who read what you wrote might repeat it as fact to some wild-eyed leftie who then triumphantly pulls out a copy of the Saturday Times.
I only look at the Times these days for the purposes of derision. As you point out, today's (Sunday's) edition is a ripe target. The front page has a story about Iraq which is news I guess. But after that everything is a joke. The Getty Museum story is dwarfed by one about overcrowding in African jails accompanied by a large photo, datelined Malawi! There's an article about Google, about people looking for evidence that the to be dreaded Avian Flu has reached the US to replace the great West Nile crisis. And lastly there is an article about an island that floats around a pond near Springfield, Mass. This is apparently not a new phenomena and so only qualifies as news in the sense that the folks at the Times just discovered it.
Paris is confined to a brief, poorly written story on page 3 with no accompanying photo, which seems to blame the continuing unpleasantness on Interior Minister Sarkozy.
ML/NJ
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