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French protest new year's arrival
Herald Sun ^
| 1 January 2007
Posted on 12/31/2006 10:47:16 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
SOME 600 people gathered in the western French city of Nantes to protest the new year's arrival today
Lashed by rain, the organisers said even the weather was against 2007, as they milled about under banners reading "No to 2007!" and "Now is better!"
"The world will come to understand that it must stop this mad course towards the future and we demand the governments of the world and the United Nations declare a moratorium to stop this December 31 the future," said one of the organisers.
The tension mounted as the minutes ticked away, but the arrival of midnight and 2007 did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm as they began to chant "No to 2008!".
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 2007; bloodymad; france; screwthefrogs
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The prosecution rests, Your Honour.
Stark raving mad.
Screw the Frogs!!!
To: Aussie Dasher
They want it to be 1968 again.
To: Aussie Dasher
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Only the FRENCH can come up with such crap.
Happy New Year
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:48:53 PM PST
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
Comment #4 Removed by Moderator
To: Aussie Dasher
Why didn't they just surrender instead?
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:50:26 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: Paleo Conservative
Would that be AD (CE) or BC (BCE)? :P
It appears that the French have snapped.
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:51:09 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
(Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
LOL surrender to the future
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:51:22 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
(Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
To: F15Eagle
this has to be a joke, LOL
Some writer's New Year's joke, perhaps. Pretty funny!
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:52:04 PM PST
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: Aussie Dasher
600!?! That's almost as many as the "thousands" of reporters from the western "media" who showed up at Saddam's grave to do a little mourning. The world gets weirder everyday.
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:52:20 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When I was a kid, "global warming" was known as "the weather.")
To: July 4th
The story showed up in
The Australian: apparently it's an official, legit Agence France Press wire report from Nantes.
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:53:13 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
(Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
To: Aussie Dasher
There are plenty of people in France who would like to take them back to the year 600.
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:54:05 PM PST
by
oyez
(Why is it that egalitarians act like royalty?)
To: Aussie Dasher
Hey, it's JANUARY 1st, not APRIL 1st!
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:54:44 PM PST
by
Lunatic Fringe
(Say "NO" to the Trans-Texas Corridor)
To: rabscuttle385
The story showed up in The Australian: apparently it's an official, legit Agence France Press wire report from Nantes.
Yeah, sometimes agency writers do stuff like this on slow nights, but it usually just stays in the newsrooms around the world as a laugh for fellow journalists on the wire.
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:55:06 PM PST
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: tuliptree76
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:55:16 PM PST
by
AmishDude
(It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Is this because of the Dems take over of the house and senate? Or they against odd years?
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:57:22 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
(Random thoughts can be rational.)
To: Aussie Dasher
To: Aussie Dasher
Sounds like somebody was looking for an excuse to get sh*t#aced and have a good time.
I can deal with that.
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posted on
12/31/2006 10:59:52 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(A bunch of radical Unitarians left a flaming question mark on my lawn!)
To: July 4th
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posted on
12/31/2006 11:00:21 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
(Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
To: uglybiker
LOL! I'll bet you're right!
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posted on
12/31/2006 11:02:36 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When I was a kid, "global warming" was known as "the weather.")
To: AmishDude
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