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2004-07-29 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2004-07-29 2:25:51 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Can you imagine if 15k Americans died in one summer (for any reason)? The press would crucify Bush (and rightly so). The Democrats would win and outright majority in both houses without breaking a sweat. But in France they re-elect them with a strong majority! Oh please can we have a healthcare system like that?

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-07-29 2:35:39 PM|| 2004-07-29 2:35:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 without breaking a sweat.

You have a vicious sense of humor, Sarge.

Posted by BH 2004-07-29 2:42:29 PM|| 2004-07-29 2:42:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I bet that bastard Kofi has been dipping his mitts into the "Oil for Air Conditioners" fund again.

Posted by Dar 2004-07-29 2:44:10 PM|| 2004-07-29 2:44:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh please can we have a healthcare system like that?
The Kerry/Edwards ticket promises that very thing for Americans...universal mediocre healthcare...it must be good, it's "free" isn't it?

An official report blamed the heat-related deaths on poor organization, a lack of communication and key staff being away on holiday.
Perhaps many of you don't realize this nasty factoid, but Jacques Chirac was vacationing in Quebec, courtesy of Cdn. "workies", the whole time the healthcare crisis occured in France last summer. "No worries," said Jacques to Jean, "I'll just turn off my cell phone. We can still go fishing with no interruption. My it's nice and cool here in Quebec."

Posted by rex 2004-07-29 3:02:14 PM|| 2004-07-29 3:02:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hot enough for ya...MONSIEUR!

Posted by tu3031 2004-07-29 3:22:02 PM|| 2004-07-29 3:22:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Gee, her anatomy
looks like ninety-three.

We're having a heat wave,
A tropical heat wave,
The way that she moved
The thermometer proves
That she certainly dead as she can can be

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-29 4:08:29 PM|| 2004-07-29 4:08:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 rex & the rest of you, too, too funny! ROFL!

Sarge, don't forget that given his close relationship with the Almighty (which the Left hates also), they'd blame Bush for letting it get so hot in the first place!

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-07-29 4:20:31 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-07-29 4:20:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Global warming was Bush's fault last sumer, why not this?

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-07-29 4:23:58 PM|| 2004-07-29 4:23:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I should NOT have used the word" factoid" in my #4 post, perhaps implying I was not being serious and stating "fact," #7. It is a fact that Jacques Chirac enjoyed an un-interrupted vacation in Quebec with Comrade Chretien, all the while that 10,000 French citizens were dropping like flies in Paris not only because of the heat but because of the excessive demands placed on France's socialized medical system and lack of proper communication[ie. leadership] to deal with the crisis. Keep in mind that the official French report blamed among other things "key staff being away on holiday." I don't doubt that Chirac was one of the key officials the report alluded to.

Posted by rex 2004-07-29 4:34:23 PM|| 2004-07-29 4:34:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, at least we know how the French are planning to solve their pension problem.

Posted by dreadnought 2004-07-29 4:44:12 PM|| 2004-07-29 4:44:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 #10-A little too close to the truth-this cost saving measure is being implemented all over by the "international community"-don't do anything but talk until people are dead-Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur...then moan about how nothing was done.

Posted by jules 187 2004-07-29 5:50:40 PM|| 2004-07-29 5:50:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The difference between America and France is so obvious. A major heat wave hit Chicago a few years back. The ward bosses were out in droves knocking on doors, distributing fans, and promising to make sure any increase in the old folk's electric bill would be worked out. Them's votes. No matter how much you may dislike machine politics, at least well run ones do make sure its not just the dead that vote.

Posted by Don 2004-07-29 5:54:27 PM|| 2004-07-29 5:54:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Jules,

Sadly I was only half-joking.

Posted by Dreadnought 2004-07-29 7:59:05 PM|| 2004-07-29 7:59:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Dreadnought-Me, too. Humor combined with cutting truth-what will the French ever do with that combination?

A nation that abandons its elders for weeks at a time so they get a vacation at the breezy sea or the cool mountains while Grandma slowly bakes to death is a nation which should have no word for "love".

Posted by jules 2 2004-07-29 8:27:45 PM|| 2004-07-29 8:27:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 A nation that abandons its elders for weeks at a time so they get a vacation at the breezy sea or the cool mountains while Grandma slowly bakes to death is a nation which should have no word for "love".

It doesn't. 'Amour' means 'sex partner on the side'.

Posted by Pappy 2004-07-29 10:39:33 PM|| 2004-07-29 10:39:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Re #12: I remember it well! Was a joy to watch as the Chicago political machine operated quite smoothly...

Posted by borgboy 2004-07-29 10:58:37 PM|| 2004-07-29 10:58:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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