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Sixteen days before that whimp declared an emergency and then only to save his damned Louvre; #$!#$!#@$$@!
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11-15-2005, 04:44 PM | #85 |
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That is one of the #$!@# non-sequitur reactions I've seen in ages.
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11-15-2005, 06:34 PM | #86 |
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are you in a bad mood today spock?
...er... not a problem ... (just seen your pic in the picture link thread) ...er ... not a problem at all MR Spock I was going to come up with a cunning way of writing them into the same sentence ... but decided not to - .. also because Lotesse will not be too pleased if we get away from the subject too much either! So, paris and france - the riots - are the french authorities largely to blame? How much is it just angry young men and a chance to let off steam (and petrol) - or is it the start of anything more? |
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Was Che Guevara violent? I am embarassed by my lack of knowledge.
I was still going to defend Che Guevara, but... lack of knowledge. Where's Last Child of Ungoliant? Anyway, this is off-topic now so... (Is the Louvre in Lyons?) I am under the impression that declaring a state of emergency was in response to extended rioting. But it does make sense to try to save historical art museums and other national treasures. Losing something incredibly valuable and irriplacable would make the whole situation worse, and every French person would lose.
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Who is Che Guevara?
http://www.time.com/time/time100/her...guevara01.html "You can't put MLK and Che in the same sentence with "compassionate" YOU JUST CAN'T." - Spock WHY NOT, SPOCK? At the risk of going slightly off the topic of French rioting, I would greatly appreciate a DETAILED reason why you say this, Spock, and I realise you favour quippy one-sentence pat statements to actual explanations, but humour me this time, if you please.
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I think is safe to say that the state of emergency was indeed declared as response to the riots and NOT merely to save the Louvre. Frankly, I don't think I can remember the museum was ever in any danger from the riots. (Although considering the museum holds many items that I would class world enheritage, I'd declare a state of emergency right away if the Louvre WAS threatened. And I wouldn't feel bad about it for a minute. Cars can be replaced, history cannot.)
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11-16-2005, 03:51 PM | #93 |
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hardly harsh .... the teasing was just about the fractions ... nothing to do with the french ... was a follow up to the last PM, was all - after rohirrim mentioned fractions there!
just a mild rib! ... a light-hearted josh so, ...er.. back on subject ... will anyone here actually care what happens in france when this all dies down and goes down the media agenda? to me, this is though, endemic of what will happen more and more as tensions between muslims and western society in general are being heightened all the time it seems... you cannot be soft ... but be too oppresive and you enflame the situation into a vicious circle ... any easy, ready-to-go answers anyone? |
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best case scenario:free beer for everyone!! if france could just set em all up with a round at the bar everthing would die down (figuratively of course).
worst case scenario: free beer for everyone!! it would then become a drunken riotous crowd, and cause even more flammable materials to be used. seriously though, i wonder if france has tried to make friend with these people, beer would be a good start. or would that be bad, are muslims against alcololic beverages?
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Indeed. 1. Muslims dont drink. 2. France is a wine country for the most part. beer is secondary.
Although in northern France they make some fantastic Saisons...
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I knew it wouldn't work, i thought that muslims had a religious issue with alcohol but i couldn't remember. it seems that they know how to make molitov cocktails pretty well though.
it seems like france has completely ignored this portion of their population and now they don't know what to do.
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The French who always allege they are on the moral high ground selling arms to Sadaam and anyone else for genocide or whatever. THOSE French would ignore an issue of racism in their own backyard? Surely you jest! I mean they ignored Germany twice already. And they are very moral about US disruptions of their arms sales to dictators. Soooo, you must be very confused about which French it is you are alleging ignored immigrants on racist grounds. It must have just ben the Vichy, don't you think?
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yes, rohirrim they might get peed off if everyone got free beer, except them .. cus they don't (officially) drink it .... ironically enough as inked infers, (in a general, the french are twits kinda way) it may be their next approach ... well, inked it's big business for the french (as it is for us and you lot) none of us i think can really take any high moral ground on arms sales ... though for sure the french, if anyone, would probably try it .... Lotesse - the only problem with these riots being in paris et al, is the french ... they do rather get in the way of this discussion .... TYPICAL! (sorry!) |
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I beleive there was an old Russian joke...Let's see...
A Russian man in the street is asked by a TV interviewer, "Do you think things are getting any better here?" "Oh, yes," the man says, "things are definitely getting better...well, maybe not as good as yesterday, but certainly better than tomorrow!"
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And now for some good news from CBC (there are four links in the quoted text). It looks like the riots are dying down. Quote:
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