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Reports are that the Queen intervened because she received information that a lot of damaging evidence concerning Diana's affairs would be brought out. One incident that was reported is that Diana went to meet one of her lovers wearing nothing but earrings and a fur coat.

Rolling Stones and Counting Crows ping.

How unfortunate that you stopped reading after the second sentence of this obit. You missed a very good read.

Because-he's-not-here-to-post-this ping.

How is it that the architects of France's immigration policies failed to address those issues?

My concern is not with immigration architects, but the architects who design buildings where it is here alleged that it is their fault because of the style of the apartments that these thugs live in. If you can explain anything the French do logically, you are a better man/woman than I, and better than almost everyone. Our immigration policies stink, too.

This is one of the most interesting thing about internet discourse--its utter futility.

So many things that are so obvious to me seem utterly hidden to others reading the same text.

Ah, to be blessed with such insight, such intellectual prowess. If the discourse is so futile, why do you stick around? Such a bore to try to discuss deep and earth-shattering concepts with so many dolts who do not recognize the subtext. I'd stick to Aristotle and Plato if I were you - it's obvious that they are your intellectual equals. The scratch-and-burp crowd are sooooooooooooo dumb.

I'd like to stick to the topic at hand - the thugs and misfits in France who believe there is something that is owed to them without a sou given to the thought of individual responsibility. You and LBDSM can play the blame game and philosophize rhapsodically about the decline and fall of Western civilization and how architecture is one of the evidences of wars and terrorism - utter nonsense.

As you well know, the definition of poverty is never wanting to accumulate anything more than you need - it's in the Beatitudes in today's Gospel. Equally as important is the fact that we are taught that one must work for what one needs and to go without what we can't afford or what we don't need. Gold chains, cell phones, pants worn below the waist, free health care, stealing from parking meters - what the hell do these thugs want from the rest of us who work our butts off to get the things we need. Architecture indeed. You could put them in a villa on the Riveria and because they possess the morals and ethical values of a pack rats, their behavior would not change.

Hi. I'm afraid we're on opposite sides of the fence in this debate.

You quoted the statement from LBDSM:

I believe "terrorists" have been waging war against human beings on many fronts long before Osama ever minced his way onto the world scene. And architecture is evidence of it...

I responded:

I believe Osama did more than "mince" onto the scene, there are 3,000 dead bodies to attest to that fact.

The only evidence of architecture that was involved in this terrorism were the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

As somebody--I forget who--said: "You are either with us or you are with the terrorists."

Let me refresh your memory, it was President Bush.

Nice quotes, nice photos, but none with any relevance to the situation described in this article.

I believe "terrorists" have been waging war against human beings on many fronts long before Osama ever minced his way onto the world scene. And architecture is evidence of it...

I believe Osama did more than "mince" onto the scene, there are 3,000 dead bodies to attest to that fact. You present no compelling argument to support your statement. Architecture is now equal to waging war against humans and terrorism? What a leap - and into a bottomless pit of muddled rhetoric, at that.

You could not fail to comprehend the underlying view of human beings that inspired the architect--and the society that embraced his aesthetic.

Nonsense. Le Corbusier was not a "totalitarian architect" and blaming the house one lives in for barbaric behavior is Psychobabble 101. Explain the criminals who live in Southampton mansions or on the beach at Malibu or in very nice, middle-class homes in the suburbs. Were their homes too nice for them so they turned to crime and evil behavior because of that? Or explain those who have the moral and ethical values to rise above their humble beginnings to attain status and position and become contributing, valuable citizens. It is not the house, that's just a convenient excuse invented by the "don't-blame-me" crowd.

The author points out that these immigrants are living 100 times better than they did in their own country. They are certainly not poor, at least by the standards of all previously existing societies: they are not hungry; they have cell phones, cars, and many other appurtenances of modernity; they are dressed fashionably—according to their own fashion—with a uniform disdain of bourgeois propriety and with gold chains round their necks. They believe they have rights, and they know they will receive medical treatment, however they behave. They enjoy a far higher standard of living (or consumption) than they would in the countries of their parents’ or grandparents’ origin, even if they labored there 14 hours a day to the maximum of their capacity.

One must assume that they want it all and they want it all without the responsibility of working for it. I lived in Africa for three years and am very familiar with the local housing there. If you look at the apartment house that I posted that Le Cobusier designed, trust me, that's a palace compared to what these immigrants lived in at home.

There is a certain individual, whereabouts and whatabouts unknown, who probably should be considered a prime suspect. His departure came shortly before this story broke and I don't think it is a coincidence.

The theme of this year's Islam Awareness Week is "Islam: A Contribution to Our Society."

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If a train leaves Melanie's brain traveling from New York to Florida at 55 MPH, on which day of the week will Alexander end up as a Palm Beach County voting official?

Thanks much for the ping. Very good article.

Architecturally, the housing projects sprang from the ideas of Le Corbusier the Swiss totalitarian architect.

Unite d'Habitation, Le Corbusier

Never heard of a "totalitarian architect" before and am not quite sure what that means, but it does seem ridiculous to heap blame on him and the style of the housing for the conditions the author describes in chilling detail.

Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress from outside. Today, we have found a loophole to enter the fortress and to confront it from within. -- Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, after meeting with Louis Farrakhan in 1996

The Washington Post noted that “Among the reports to reach Washington, a story in an Iranian newspaper quoted Farrakhan (though he has denied it) as saying in Tehran: "You can quote me: God will destroy America at the hands of the Muslims."

To my contemporaries my significance depends on my trousers; it may be that to a later era my significance will also depend a little on my writings. --- Søren Kierkegaard

It all can be explained by too-tight pants.

Mr. Thomason said yesterday. "Some people have a natural feel for the profession, and Chris did."