[Zakeet]

Athens last night after the police ran out of tear gas ... in case you missed it because the Mainstream Media nitwits focused exclusively on the far more important (to them) Whitney whinny ... coming soon to a country and cities near you when we face even more severe austerity measures ... with absolutely nobody on the planet able to bail our butts out.

[ClearCase_guy]

the burnt buildings that included the neoclassical home to the Attikon cinema dating from 1870

The year of the Paris Commune. How appropriate.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Look at this picture. This is the end result of the Welfare State. When the gravy train stops because there is no more "other people's money," the dependent class riots. They feel so entitled to a handout that they resort to violence to keep it. And anyone who refuses to pay for the handout is a "Nazi" or "greedy" or "selfish."

Then look at a picture of Detriot. That also is the end result of the Welfare State. Everyone sits around expecting someone else to take care of things and an entire city -- an entire metropolitan area -- reverts to a state of nature. The productive people leave and the buildings fall into disrepair. Entire sections of a city that once had one million people are grown over and revert to nature.

And yet people are so addicted to the heroin of government spending that they can't get off this path.

[Dr. Ursus]

And let’s destroy our tourist industry like Egypt,Tunisia and the Maldives.

[bert]

Ahhh Athens, the cradle of Democracy...... Learning the forgotten lesson of thousands of years ago.

Democracy fails when the riff raff vote to give themselves that which is not theirs.

It’s deja vu all over again.

[GeronL]

I bet our MSM refuses to call this a riot.

[Savage Beast]

"Greece: once the origin of Western civilization. Now, a burned-down debt penal colony"...

Greece is the vanguard. What happens there spreads across the rest of the West.

Brace yourselves! It's going to be a bumpy night--and a long, dark night too!

"There is a silver lining to Athens' ever uglier transition to a third world country"

Yes--if seeing the future can be considered a "silver lining".

[Savage Beast]

Cassandra didn’t think so. But what did she know? She was a Trojan.

[Texas Eagle]

Hope 'n' Change goes global.

How's that working out for ya, Greece?

[NRPM]

Last Fall I went on a cruise and visited the Pyramids and the Parthenon.

I figured it might be time to see them quickly and get the hell out of there before things got worse. It’s hard not to be pessimistic about what lies ahead for that whole area.

Luckily, the timing worked out for me. Things were pretty quiet when I was there, except for a garbage strike in Athens.

[Savage Beast]

In the inverted, perverse world of decadence (aka "liberalism")--Greece is The American Dream!

Well for starters. First Greece. Then North Korea. Then Zimbabwe.

[Savage Beast]

In the inverted, perverse world of decadence (aka "liberalism")--Greece is The American Dream!

Well for starters. First Greece. Then North Korea. Then Zimbabwe.

[Savage Beast]

In the inverted, perverse world of decadence (aka "liberalism")--Greece is The American Dream!

Well for starters. First Greece. Then North Korea. Then Zimbabwe.

[Savage Beast]

In the inverted, perverse world of decadence (aka "liberalism")--Greece is The American Dream!

Well for starters. First Greece. Then North Korea. Then Zimbabwe.

[Yaelle]

This is so telling. And here if this keeps up, these freeloaders that burn us down are the slaves we let come here for labor but don’t respect them as humans by making them keep to responsibilities here. We have glorified And coddled the non American underclass and it will kill us in the end.

[apillar]

And this what most major American Cities are going to look when the time finally comes that we have no other choice but to implement austerity budgets here (and it’s not a matter of if it will happen, but a matter of when). Imagine, food stamps, welfare, housing allowances, unemployment all cut by 80% and the salaries of federal, state and local government employees cut by 50%.

[Dead Corpse]

Coming soon to an Obama sponsored ghetto near you...

[EBH]

The Triodion is open… as they say in Greece, and along with it comes joy, fun and lots of kefi in each town of Greece. The Carnival is considered to be a hyper national celebration, since it has become an attraction for more and more people despite their financial status or age over the years.

The celebrations of music, masquerade, dance and colors mark a unique three-week-long period in Greece that dates back to antiquity and the worship of the god Bacchus, or Dionysus, god of wine and celebration in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Today, there are many different carnival parades going on all over Greece. Hundreds of groups take part in those parades, and anyone who wishes to participate can just join a group.

Greek Carnival Celebrations Across Greece By Stella Tsolakidou on February 13, 2012 in News

And they danced in the streets to their gods.

[treetopsandroofs]

No statistics on number of cars burned yet?

Wasn’t that THE graphic of the “disaffected youths” a few years ago?

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

There is a silver lining to Athens' ever uglier transition to a third world country: the massive GDP boost that awaits it as it sets off to fix broken windows and burned down buildings.

Ummm....Broken Window Fallacy, anyone? If the money wasn't there before the riots, it certainly isn't there now. Any money spent on repair/reconstruction must be diverted from other economic activities (unless Germany inexplicably decides to pour more money in from the outside).

[bolobaby]

“In fact, we eagerly await Krugman’s OpEd praising some of the more recent developments out of Greece in the past 48 hours.”

LOL, LOL, LOL!

Brilliant!