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2007-05-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-05-08 10:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "While the unrest has been small-scale, it sent a message..."

"Small-scale"? From Reuters:

Official figures released on Monday said demonstrators set fire to 730 cars and injured 78 policemen across France, with 592 people arrested in the violent protests against the tough-talking former interior minister.

That's small-scale? Are Watts-scale riots a nightly occurance in France, or something?

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-05-08 11:21|| 2007-05-08 11:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's see who's "brutal": 2 nights of riots vs. ?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-05-08 11:23|| 2007-05-08 11:23|| Front Page Top

#3 That's when the boggle started to steam.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-05-08 11:31|| 2007-05-08 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 No kidding. If that kind of thing happened over here both the city and state governments would have their heads handed to them, and maybe even the federal government too. And we'd be seeing documentaries about it on the History Channel for the next 20 years.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-05-08 11:34|| 2007-05-08 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 It's like the BBC who describe the (failure reward system) benefits as "generous", but would never described the taxation to fund this stupidity as suffocating.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-05-08 11:37|| 2007-05-08 11:37|| Front Page Top

#6 The continuing violence in France shows that the Roosevelt adminstration's unilateral decision to invade France has proven to be a stategic disaster. Moreover, a study in Lancet establishes that over a million Frenchmen have died since 1944. We must withdraw now. The war is lost.

Posted by Matt 2007-05-08 13:41|| 2007-05-08 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Matt you left out the Frenchwomen and Frenchminorities, you chauvinist swine. Surely they've suffered unduly under the tyranny of Rooseveltian patrimony.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-05-08 13:53|| 2007-05-08 13:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Awright, awright. Update:

The continuing violence in France shows that the white male Roosevelt administration's phallic decision to invade France has proven to be a stategic disaster with transparent racist and sexist overtones. Moreover, a study in Lancet establishes that over a million Frenchwomen have died since 1944, and that each was holding a baby duckling at the time of her demise. We must withdraw now. The Second World War is lost.

Posted by Matt 2007-05-08 14:30|| 2007-05-08 14:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Dave D. - it's probably due to de-sensitization. Some french or rather anti-french blogs indicate that 200 cars per night is about average. 700 isn't that big of an increase.....

Posted by Pancho Sheting8326 2007-05-08 17:19|| 2007-05-08 17:19|| Front Page Top

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