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2008-01-15 Europe

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-15 11:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "Afro-Caribbean customers protested that they found grams and kilograms baffling."

This made much chuckle because Afro-Caribbans would have no experience with a gram of pot, or a kilo of coke transhipping through the Caribbean.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-01-15 14:11|| 2008-01-15 14:11|| Front Page Top

#2 While the EU is legalizing jihadism, they criminalize weights and measures law. What a sick joke.

Posted by Gromosh Forkbeard2610 2008-01-15 17:41|| 2008-01-15 17:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Quantitative Nationalism vs. [pan]Continentalism???

"An invention of the British Tabloid press" - so, is the point here that the Brit Judiciary System follows the sensational medias before they follow Brit laws or even Parliamentary legislation for same.

D *** NG IT, EVEN IN "PIRATES" THE OUTLAW CREW OF THE BLACK PEARL WANTED TO SHOOT CAPT. JACK SPARROW FOR USING THE FRENCH WORD "PARLAY/
PARLEY"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-15 17:49|| 2008-01-15 17:49|| Front Page Top

#4 LA TIMES OP-ED [paraph] > THE FRENCH SURRENDER/GIVE UP THEIR FRENCHINESS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-15 17:51|| 2008-01-15 17:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The author Jerry Pournelle, among others, calls this "Anarcho-Tyranny." No-go places in the UK where the Queen's law doesn't apply and, elsewhere, harassment of decent citizens to remind them they are under the thumb of the authorities so they keep their mouths shut and their heads down in submission.
Coming soon to a country near you.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-01-15 23:14|| 2008-01-15 23:14|| Front Page Top