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2005-03-13 Europe
Spain continues to uncover terrorist plots
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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-13 2:51:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I don't get it. Why would the terrorists still be attacking Spain? Spain did what they wanted.

Oh...maybe it's because, like Italy, they have a track record of appeasement and the terrorists know they can get what they want.
Posted by gromky  2005-03-13 3:14:35 AM||   2005-03-13 3:14:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 What a bunch of incompetent jerks and cowards the Spaniards are!
Posted by Glereper Craviter7929 2005-03-13 11:12:18 AM||   2005-03-13 11:12:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Only some of them. Aznar was a courageous ally, and Garzon's been all over the Bad Guyz for years.
Posted by Fred  2005-03-13 12:40:24 PM||   2005-03-13 12:40:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Anybody know what the Spanish publics opinion is about the continueing terrorism plots against them? I'm curious if any of them think they made a mistake voting in Zappy/
Posted by Charles  2005-03-13 1:33:39 PM||   2005-03-13 1:33:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 So Zappy, how's that appeasement thing going? (Somebody had to say it.)
Posted by Jonathan  2005-03-13 1:37:52 PM||   2005-03-13 1:37:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I said it once and I'll say it again. Judge Garzon is a Stone. Cold. Stud.
Posted by Seafarious  2005-03-13 2:39:30 PM||   2005-03-13 2:39:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Damn, Jonathan - that's my line!

Please note in the future that it's "appeasement thingy™."

I'll forego the usage charge for my esteemed Rantburg colleagues. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2005-03-13 4:18:01 PM||   2005-03-13 4:18:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Seafarious---Garzon is one courageous person. A lone voice in the wilderness that has the courage to act against this terrorist plague. I am sure that he and his family live in great danger. I wish Zappy and his merry men had one tenth the stones and courage that this judge has.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2005-03-13 4:31:33 PM||   2005-03-13 4:31:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 What do you get when you take a fraction of zero, AP?

D'you suppose some of them are starting to appreciate the benefits of having the terrorists focussed on events in Iraq?
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-13 7:35:42 PM||   2005-03-13 7:35:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, I've got the same insane streak of grey hair, but my glasses are significatly thicker, which gives me the edge. I don't currently have a lime green tie however.
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-13 7:53:16 PM||   2005-03-13 7:53:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I was referring to the stones of the judge in the denominator, trailing wife, not to the stonelessness of the Zaapyists, LOL! Dividing by zero is a veddy veddy bod theeng.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-13 9:28:35 PM||   2005-03-13 9:28:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey Ship? It's not the tie.
Posted by Seafarious  2005-03-13 9:43:25 PM||   2005-03-13 9:43:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Veddy bod inded, AP. Thanks for clarifying -- my brain was about to go offline from the impossibilities it was trying in vain to calculate. ;-p

Oh, if anyone is interested in a real klein bottle, check out Acme Klein Bottle. I can personally guarantee the quality of the physical manifestation of the product in our space/time continuum.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-13 9:50:13 PM||   2005-03-13 9:50:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Whoops! Sorry, the klein bottle reference goes on another thread... possibly even another website. Oh, well, enjoy it anyway. *sigh* It's going to be a long week until Mr. Wife gets back from Europe. Please be patient with me if I am especially ditsy. Thanks!
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-13 9:57:59 PM||   2005-03-13 9:57:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Seafarious: Maybe it's the coat?

(I suspect we're all kinda hoping it's something we can buy cheaply, off-the-rack, in spite of being slightly overweight...)
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-03-13 9:58:02 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-03-13 9:58:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 The Klein Bottle, of course, being the three-dimensional rotation of the two-dimensional Mobius Band.
Posted by Bobby 2005-03-13 10:06:42 PM||   2005-03-13 10:06:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Great Scott, Trailing Wife! You understand the Klein bottle. You are one of us! Well, maybe that isn't such a good thing.....
Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-13 10:08:06 PM||   2005-03-13 10:08:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 No Phil, not the coat either.
Posted by Seafarious  2005-03-13 10:24:31 PM||   2005-03-13 10:24:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I was a kinda sorta math major before I got my MrS, AP. Or maybe it was a minor, with a major in dance or languages... I wasn't sure then, and I haven't yet figured it out. Just as well, as it turned out that my calling was to be a trailing wife.

Anyway. Found the site by accident while looking for something else. Actually fell off the chair, I was laughing so hard. Fortunately, Mr. Wife had fallen asleep earlier enough that my cackling didn't awaken him. Showed the site to Trailing Daughter the next day -- she giggled about it for days, and still periodically rereads the paperwork that came with the shipment. Yes, Acme is a real company that constructs real physical manifestations of Klein Bottles, in several variations and sizes (and prices). My own personal physical intrusion has appeared to sit amongst the wine glasses and beer steins and vases (the last mentioned lest I ruin your idea of my character) for the past two years without popping out of my own 4-dimensional version of higher level reality. So there.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-13 10:41:00 PM||   2005-03-13 10:41:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I do not remember how I found Rantburg, trailing wife. But regardless of the start, I am no longer living a life of quiet despiration. No, just loud despiration from here on up.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-13 10:51:14 PM||   2005-03-13 10:51:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 And so you have told the tale of most of us here at Rantburg, AP. All hail Master Fred, creator of Rantburg!
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-13 11:02:39 PM||   2005-03-13 11:02:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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