[Kay Soze]

WOW!

So much for French liberal compassion.

So much for socialized health care.

the French spend more energy on being anti American than they do on aiding their own parents.

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP* !

[MEG33]

This is a terrible toll. The numbers are difficult to believe.

[mvonfr]

WOW!

French found a way to solve social security budget problems!

[YaYa123]

Very well put!

[MediaMole]

It's all the fault of George W. Bush. If he had signed Kyoto, this never would have happened. It just goes to show that Bush is a greater terrorist than Bin Ladin. Bush killed 10,000 French citizens while Bin Ladin only killed 3000 Americans. < /French idiocy >

[claritas]

"the French spend more energy on being anti American than they do on aiding their own parents"

Don't forget the energy spent on all those vacations.

[gr8eman]

The summer of 2003 will be remembered as the year of the holocaust of the French elderly.

Are they implying that A/C would have saved the Jews? How Reeeeeeeeetarded!

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Just confirms what a bunch of wussies the Frogs are.

Oooo la-la! Le heat is too much for my delicate person!

[fourdeuce82d]

10,000?????

okay, so where are they storing the extra 10,000 bodies? That's at least 1,200,000 pounds of meat... are they stacking them in the streets?

Much as I enjoy bashing the frogs- this number seems a little suspect- kind of like "one billion wives beaten during the Super Bowl"

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Once again, I must ask, if the French are not used to hot air, who in the hell is?

[F.J. Mitchell]

Liberals may be singing a different tune about global warming, after seeing how a mere heatwave is so benefical in reducing the cost of maintaining a socialist state.

[mtbopfuyn]

I don't know what's true and what's not in this article. The numbers keep multipying daily so can we trust the French that the deaths are all from the heat? How many elderly die in France every month? Are the French such scum as not to check on their elderly relatives? Are the nursing homes and hospitals so bad they lock the doors or ignore thousands of patients? I'll give him that probably 80 of all deaths are of elderly and over 75, and that many people (especially the elderly) die in nursing homes and hospitals. But I don't buy it all.

Hey, wrap up in a wet towel and lounge in front of an opened fridge or is that too close to bathing?

[McGavin999]

Does anyone want to explain to me how you justify going off on vacation knowing there is nobody there to take your place? Or how about leaving your parents behind, alone, during a heat wave?

Didn't any of the neighbors even think about calling on their elderly neighbors to make sure they were OK? Where were the volunteers at the hospitals and old age homes who could have given these people spounge baths or cooled them down with alcohol?

[blam]

Chirac Goes On TV To Quell Heatwave Anger

[Righty1]

Now the frogs have more money to pay for muslims with multiple wives on welfare. What a lunatic country! Almost equals our weakness for messican invaders!!

[nutmeg]

Amen, KS! This article is incredible.

[elbucko]

Such was the death rate - described officially as a period of "surplus mortality"....

Such an innocuously banal government euphemism. Perhaps Gray Davis will become a "surplus governor" in October.

[Consort]

I'm glad we changed the name to Freedom Fries.

[Kay Soze]

Chirac Goes On TV To Quell Heatwave Anger

[nutmeg]

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