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LIVE THREAD: French Riots
April 4, 2006 | FR

Posted on 04/04/2006 10:33:28 AM PDT by Peach

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To: Zack Nguyen

Good grief. Is that a parody?!

Sacre blu, no. That would be straightforward Communist Ideology, and spoken with distain to those whose intellect is so clearly inferior to these fine students of Lenin.


361 posted on 04/04/2006 12:17:52 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: debg
or this one.


An unidentified man lies on the ground after being attacked by youths following clashes after a demonstration against the French government's new labor laws in Paris Tuesday April 4, 2006. Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through cities around France on Tuesday, hoping to make their biggest show of strength yet to demand the repeal of a job law that has divided the country .(AP Photo/Francois Mori)

362 posted on 04/04/2006 12:17:58 PM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: debg

Hoodie Alert! LOL


363 posted on 04/04/2006 12:18:38 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ("Liberals see what they believe... Conservatives believe what they see")
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To: mystery-ak

"Ah!...I love riots in the springtime.."

Come to Phoenix on Saturday. You might get to see one.


364 posted on 04/04/2006 12:18:50 PM PDT by lawdude (2006 Republican bumper sticker : Vote Republican: We are NOT democrats!)
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To: eraser2005
Kind of like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.....

The comparison is tempting but in France it is a whole nother thing.

Here, your daddy may get you into an Ivy League college and then your path may be greased into some excellent, undeserved opportunities. But, ultimately, when you are forty or fifty years old, I don't think even a Harvard degree means much if you have accomplished nothing.

In France, you can be shuttled in and out of top government jobs for your entire life based on absolutely nothing but that fancy degree. It is, as I said, more like being admitted to the nobility.

(I agree that the snot-nosed prestige attached to some of our elite schools is undeserved and the institutions and graduates should be taken down a few pegs. Even our president, I will not concede to be an especially educated fellow, Yale and Harvard notwithstanding.)

365 posted on 04/04/2006 12:19:02 PM PDT by LK44-40
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To: onyx
Call the fashion police!

366 posted on 04/04/2006 12:20:56 PM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: RetiredArmy

>OMG! There is a God in heaven after all!!!!

My thoughts exactly, sir. my thoughts exactly...


367 posted on 04/04/2006 12:21:16 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bill1952

You're right - you would probably have all of France in the streets. But you simply cannot create a second class of citizens and employees that gets treated differently for doing the same work and expect the societal structure to survive. Either France has to do nothing and live with their languishing economy, or they have to remove protections for all and watch the longer-term growth. If they continue to try to create a second class, they're just speeding up another revolution.


368 posted on 04/04/2006 12:21:19 PM PDT by eraser2005
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To: maggief



LOL! Send in the clowns!


369 posted on 04/04/2006 12:22:15 PM PDT by onyx (Elections are in November, 06 ---- 08 can wait!)
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To: maggief
No fashion police needed. He is simply wearing the face mask and hood like his fellow muslin brothers when they are doing their thing in the middle east.
370 posted on 04/04/2006 12:22:37 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Democrats: The communist, socialist, and Al Qaeda loving party of America.)
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To: maggief

Hey, that's one of those new Iranian missles!


371 posted on 04/04/2006 12:23:06 PM PDT by debg
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To: maggief
LOL.. I thought the French were supposed to be the fashion Innovators.. not the fashion Laggards!
372 posted on 04/04/2006 12:23:15 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ("Liberals see what they believe... Conservatives believe what they see")
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To: onyx
Will a mime do?

373 posted on 04/04/2006 12:24:49 PM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: Robert DeLong

"France is just reaping the seeds of socialism it sowed long ago."

The USA is not far behind.

I was listening to a live reporter on fox news a couple of hours ago. He said that much of the Hard Core trouble makers in these crowds are made up of Muslim's. You don't hear the mainstream media say that too often.

In the USA we also have the Illegals who have been so kindly treated to socialism in this country. And we have seen in the last couple of weeks just what that is leading up to.


374 posted on 04/04/2006 12:25:29 PM PDT by Revel
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To: maggief


LOL -- she's a little too calm to be in attendance!


375 posted on 04/04/2006 12:26:19 PM PDT by onyx (Elections are in November, 06 ---- 08 can wait!)
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To: Peach
I love Paris in the springtime
I love Chirac's fast free fall
I love a riot as it sizzles
I love Villepin as he fizzles
I love gendarmes every moment
Every moment in the Square
I love gendarmes
Why oh why do I love gendarmes
Because they swoop with flair

Ooo, la la

Leni

376 posted on 04/04/2006 12:26:56 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: maggief

And what say you, Mademoiselle Kabuki? Oh, you don't speak? Hope you can get out of that invisible box!


377 posted on 04/04/2006 12:27:35 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: Revel

Fortunately, there has been a backlash against the liberal socialist agenda... Amnesty without securing the borders first will not fly.


378 posted on 04/04/2006 12:28:22 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ("Liberals see what they believe... Conservatives believe what they see")
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To: Peach

I feel a song coming on:
Apologies to the Doors, Jose F. and, of course, DFU

C'mon Boss, You just can't fire (Tune: Light My Fire)

You know that this is so unfair,
To think, that I could just be fired.
Tho’ this, I will say to you:
I’m a sorry labor supplier

Come on boss, you just can’t fire
Anyone that you hire
So, I’m not a ball of fire
At work, no real live wire
In fact, I’m a big flat tire
But, it's my job, ‘til I retire!


379 posted on 04/04/2006 12:30:04 PM PDT by MaggieCarta (I will seek gainful employment, which does not describe holding public office--Dean Acheson 1952)
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To: debg

Bebes in the hoods?


380 posted on 04/04/2006 12:30:09 PM PDT by Rte66
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