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View Poll Results: How screwed is Europe?
not screwed 7 25.00%
just a tad screwed 6 21.43%
pretty screwed 11 39.29%
screwed royale 4 14.29%
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Old 11-12-2005, 07:02 PM   #61
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I don't know that it's necessarily comforting to find out that we aren't the only ones with a left wing media bias.

The French are certainly more up front about it, though.
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Old 11-16-2005, 12:18 PM   #62
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Last popularity poll after burning events in suburbs :

Nicolas Sarkozy (+11%)
Dominique de Villepin (+7%).
Jacques Chirac (+6%)

Add some other cars and French will be able to vote Bush. :p
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Old 11-17-2005, 11:16 AM   #63
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Well, I'll tell you: at first glance I've got a lot more sympathy for Sarkozy than for the rioters -- for I have NEVER liked rioters in democratic societies.
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Old 11-17-2005, 02:09 PM   #64
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Well, I'll tell you: at first glance I've got a lot more sympathy for Sarkozy than for the rioters -- for I have NEVER liked rioters in democratic societies.
Amazing !

Your screen name always make me think about democracy.

(Sarkozy never stopped increasing the problem).
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Old 03-05-2006, 09:58 AM   #65
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Torture and Death of Jew Deepen Fears in France

"I knew they had someone down there," said a young French-Arab man, loitering in the doorway of a building adjacent to the one where Mr. Halimi was held. He claimed to live upstairs from the makeshift dungeon but would not give his name or say whether he knew then that the man was a Jew. "I didn't know they were torturing him," he said. "Otherwise, I would have called the police."
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Old 03-06-2006, 03:25 PM   #66
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What the hell did this quoted individual *think* was going on? A little harmless B&D play?

Good thing this is in France. I mean, it isn't like this little incident is about anything important, such as truffles or grape prices.
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