tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post4611530432270031911..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Inflammatory Statistics On French Car Burningstruepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-43532169236928453752013-02-27T04:09:35.751-08:002013-02-27T04:09:35.751-08:00Valuable information and excellent design you got ...Valuable information and excellent design you got here! I would like to thank you for sharing your thoughts and time into the stuff you post! Thumbs up<br />singapore limousinehttp://sg.sixt.com/limousine-service/sixt-limousine-service/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-70787600689644556762008-05-22T02:41:00.000-07:002008-05-22T02:41:00.000-07:00i've once seen a burning car, yet the authorities ...i've once seen a burning car, yet the authorities says , it just got burned all th sudden, very strange huh, nice review....<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.cdmanuals.net/category/CDManuals/Buick/p89-1948-1949-BUICK-SHOP-MANUAL-AND-DYNAFLOW-MANUAL-ALL-MODELS.html" REL="nofollow">1948-1949 Buick Shop Manuals </A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-37749845954565166052008-01-03T14:39:00.000-08:002008-01-03T14:39:00.000-08:00Ha! You talk to me about this in a thousand years ...Ha! You talk to me about this in a thousand years and then we'll see who knows what.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-11089487413623632532008-01-03T13:19:00.000-08:002008-01-03T13:19:00.000-08:00There will never be a mass of free people: only ev...<I>There will never be a mass of free people: only ever a few</I><BR/><BR/>-Never is a long time. If you believe in freedom, as something inherent in human nature, it seems to me you can't pretend to know what the future holds.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-63829771829690324972008-01-03T11:19:00.000-08:002008-01-03T11:19:00.000-08:00During WW II the British maintained an admirable s...During WW II the British maintained an admirable stoicism in the face of German carnage and destruction of property -- while the British also fought back with everything they had or could borrow. A Brit might well have watched his bike burn and might well have shrugged it off stoically, but he would also have been part of the militia ready to take on landing Germans at Dover. The notorious Gallic shrug isn't stoic.<BR/><BR/>I know French people, and they are not some other species. Some will gladly give up medical careers for lives as sewer-dwelling journalists if that's what a friend of the people is required to do. Some French are Free. <BR/><BR/>There will never be a mass of free people: only ever a few who will lead and act while the others help or maybe follow at best. But there will be some few who act and lead regardless. Who will they be? Will they be men who are good and true or will they be maniacs longing for the Terror? Leave it simmering long enough and those who dwell in sewers will make that answer plain.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-31584830605479271182008-01-03T09:11:00.000-08:002008-01-03T09:11:00.000-08:00Zazie,the government gives you satellite dishes an...Zazie,<BR/>the government gives you satellite dishes and television sets? Or do you mean they give away the <I>programs</I> over television? (I think you have mostly state-run television stations there, compared to our privately-owned selection here and in the US, which we must pay for, buying various packages of stations)<BR/><BR/>Dag, one interview I left out of the story for space reasons concerned a fellow who watched his motorcycle get burned right in front of him. After complaining of the hardships of losing it, and the costs in replacing it so that he could get to work, he adds, "well I wanted to get a newer one anyway..."<BR/>In my personal book collection, I have many books written during the Second World War, and within them are many first hand accounts of the Blitz. Visitors to England are always writing admiringly of the forebearance and stiff-upper-lip calmness of the British under the german bombing; a shopkeeper is sweeping away broken glass from his several damaged storefront and sighs, "that hitler is such a nuisance..." Many stories like that one, of reserve and resolve. <BR/><BR/>It seems the French are trying to echo that calmness... but without the nation-wide commitment to counter-attack that historically went with it! <BR/><BR/>Over the two years I've been blogging about these stories out of France, the underlying theme behind the French government's reaction has remained the same: finding ever more creative ways to adapt to the problem, rather than finding ways to reduce the problem in the first place. (I don't consider the French left's policies of bribing the vandals to leave them alone, as a serious attempt to solve the problem) <BR/><BR/>The culmination of this adaptation was the government's declaration that New Year's eve was a "calm" night, despite many police officers attacked, private citizens' property damaged, especially cars, on a scale several times higher than on an average evening. <BR/><BR/>How closely does the government's (and the French media's) attitude represent a reflection of that of the people of France? Every day there is a growing divide... that's also been a theme I've seen in the two years I've blogged about this.Charles Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18168475254263681673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-69879651746348654682008-01-03T02:14:00.000-08:002008-01-03T02:14:00.000-08:00When a surgeon or a dentist knows he/she (hell! I'...When a surgeon or a dentist knows he/she (hell! I'll say they!), they give you some drug to make you completely or partly asleep, don't they ? Well, governments give TV sets and parabols.....zaziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02639722488366613594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-40434302172970592452008-01-03T00:17:00.000-08:002008-01-03T00:17:00.000-08:00If ever I caught someone burning my car, in fact, ...If ever I caught someone burning my car, in fact, my motorcycle, he'd be riding it to Hell. What's the matter with the Europeans? Do they give cars away for free? Do the French give people time off work to go shopping for a car? Is a personal possession the worth and commitment in money and emotion and identity that a vehicle is for most just nothing to them? I find myself pondering even the purchase of a can of beans to be worth my while, and if someone were to grab it from me on the way home I'd nail him, no matter who or where from. If I lost more than I gained I'd still go for it because the beans are mine. Imagine the result of torching my bike. Am I that different from others or are the Europeans that different from the rest of the world's people?Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.com