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    French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    It's kind of a demographic inevitability. Modern muslim families, desiring a better economic future for their families, can't do so in many of their repressive homelands. They traditionally have looked to their colonial masters as beacons of hope. Thus emigration to Europe has been the easiest and most common method of improving their families. Nowhere has this been more true than in France, which has one of the longest and most congenial relationships with the muslim world. Liberal immigration to France has unfortunately worsened an oversupply of labor. Unemployment is sky high. Children born of this wave of immigration have little to look forward to, except a life of government handouts and marginalization in suburban public housing cellblocks. Sarkozy has his hands full, trying to change things to give these people hope, while at the same time enforcing traditional French cultural values and law. Although France has long social traditions which have for many decades provided a stabilizing force on the world stage, in many ways, it has more in common with Russia or Belarus than the rest of Europe. I hope that the coming years see these muslim youth enculturated with European sensibilities, and don't instead document the descent of one of the most democratic of countries into a hell of muslim extremism and intolerance.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    01/03/09

    @DoctorNine: Does the Sharia law say anything about pate de fore gras? That counld be just the spark this rebellion needs!
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    01/03/09

    @AmishJohn: I'm not certain. Do they BEHEAD the goose before they take the liver to make into the pâté? I'm seeing parallels...
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    Score

    Evil Poor: 1,147

    Law and Order: 0
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    So "The City of Light" is illuminated by automotive bonfires...?


    In Germany, would these be autobahnfires...?

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    Oh lalalala. Quel dommage.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    I told you I was hard coeur!
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    I guess that 35 hour work week gives them more time to go out and produce more demand for durable goods. Say what you want about high unemployment and inscrutable Gallic economic policies, they seem to have developed their own answer to the Carpocolypse.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    All while wearing "Save GM" t-shirts. It's kind of heartwarming, actually. That's more cars than Chrysler sold last year!
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    So they're not piston fans, but they act like Piston fans?
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    01/02/09

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: Nicely done.....(polite golf clap)
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    car-burning surrender monkey? Yeah I think you are right, doesn't roll off the tongue near as well
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    Image of Unevolved has three moving parts. Unevolved has three moving parts.
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Hooligans Burn 1,147 Cars To Celebrate New Year
    This seems pretty contrariwise to the usual French joke material. The usual "surrender-eating cheese monkey" doesn't seem to fit. Maybe they're turning over a new leaf.


    Or just drunk off their collective ass.

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    01/02/09

    @Unevolved: Prestigious Commenter of Justice: Fried-cheese monkeys?
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