How Can You Tell When It’s New Years Eve In Paris?

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1. Obviosly the numerically challenged French can not be held accountable for this ciphering faux pas.
   Once you get into this multiplicashun and goes-into’s it’s all very confusing.
   I think I’ll have another cognac and head over to my ex-mother-in-laws. Now that’s understanding.
   Syncro

2. Well, you see, the French media and others are such apologists that they assume the punk terrorists meant to torch only those cars that have some space between them other cars. One at a time is the jihad’s policy, ya see. Who would have known !!!

3. Looking on the bright side of life, the extra light aides one to avoid stepping in the dog sh*t that’s all over the streets of Pairee.

4. Nice tie in between those links.

5. The noise they hear i paris is napolion spinning in his tomb do you think NOSTRODAMUS could have predicted this?

6. The French math is absolutely brilliant in not counting the 83 cars that caught fire due to proximity to the ones torched.
   If all governments do this, think of the possibilities! The “stray bullet” victims would no longer be counted, as the intent was to shoot someone else. This would definitely help keep Toronto’s stats acceptable.
   With this type of accounting used in all government departments, and crown corporations, soon politicians could, at election time, approach the citizenry with assurances that “everything is just fine and we have the figures to prove it”.
   (Note: if any political Party decides to use this idea, I want royalties, it was my damned idea!)

7. It’s not only France that has a counting problem. In jolly old England, homicides are not counted as such until a person has been charged AND convicted of said homicide. So..if a body were to land on the steps of a police station in London with 4 knives sticking in it and riddled with bullet holes it is not a homicide at that point. This is why England only has a homicide rate of 1.5 per 100,000 or something like that.

8. ah, yer onto something there dmorris… it’s brilliant to not count cars catching fire from other cars.
   I’d also like to know, what percentage of the burning vehicles in Paris were their “domestic” vehicles like Renault, and what percentage were “imports”… say BMW’s or Seats or whichever.
   Well more to the point,
   Is this random trashing of cars, or are the imports being stalked? maybe something that “RadioCanadaInternational” would look into, the so-called unfair outing of imported burning french vehicles.

9. The nightly car burnings and neighborhood terrorism provides an informative contrast with the US.
   If hundreds of cars were burned, American citizens would immediately put an end to it, police or no police.
   A bit higher percentage of responsible citizens, as opposed to French-type sheeple, in the US. I wonder what would happen if the rioting and burning was a nightly occurance in TO? Would Canadians act to form patrols and Neighbourhood Watch? Or expect the police to solve all their problems? Would we let that happen?
   Caledonia comes to mind…

10. et pour votre repas ce matin mlle et monsieur:
    je sugget l’auto flambe. tres tres flambe. avec environs 50 litre de le plus bon essence en Paris.
    LOL !!!

11. I predict that in the next ten years the French will all be pedestrians while their Muslim counterparts will be the only ones in cars.
    First they came for my car, then they came for my bike, then they came for my tennis shoes.
    This couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of spineless surrender monkeys.

12. Mad Mike,
    To answer your question. A few years back, when there was a very bad riot in the black ghetto area of Los Angeles, citizens of several of the middle-class and up-scale nearby LA neighborhoods (including left-wing Hollywood) did just what you predicted.
    They immediately formed informal neighborhood protection groups, blocked off streets and roads from the affected areas into their areas, WHICH THEY MANNED WITH ARMED NEIGHBORHOOD CITIZENS.
    The LAPD didn’t attempt to stop the citizens groups, as firstly the police were completely involved in trying to bring the riot-affected areas back under control and, secondly, the citizens were acting in a manifestly reasonable, responsible, necessary manner.
    Also, it should be noted, many of the police themselves lived with their own families in some of the neighborhoods being protected by these groups. These people, friends and neighbors of many LAPD members, were protecting the policemen’s’ families also.
    Now, contrast that proactive, muscular civic mindset with that shown by Swedes in the incident of the assassination of the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anne Lindt, in a shopping mall about 5 years ago:
    A knife-wielding maniac literally chased the screaming Ms. Lindt (she being a good Swede, eschewed personal bodyguards) around a mall for over 15 minutes before the maniac cornered her and stabbed her to death.
    Of all the Swedes in the mall, NOBODY attempted to come to her aid or even called the police. The decades-long passive mindset brainwashed into the Swedes by their Nanny Socialist state had programmed the citizenry to see action as The State’ duty, not that of any private individual. It was The State’s duty and surely Somebody-In-Authority had called the police.
    Of these two very different type of citizens’ responses, which type represents civic virtue and which represents civic irresponsibility? (Rhetorical question, obviously)

13. Dave, not to be left out of the equation is the fact that Americans have the right to bear arms and do. We have guns which any punk has to factor into his actions as a response.
    It takes time, organization, materials, and makes noise to break car windows and set the upholstry on fire night after night.
    I can’t imagine 313 cars torched on the streets of NYC or LA in a night without a citizen response. The passive slugs in France, conditioned to rely on the state for protection, are getting a preview of their fate when the infatah gets more deadly serious.

14. Thanks, Dave. Good example of what I was getting at.
    I am sure in my Western Canadian semi-rural neighborhood, there would be many (armed) volunteers. But one phrase in your example jumps out:
    “…the citizens were acting in a manifestly reasonable, responsible, necessary manner”.
    I worry that the “State” would not see it that way here in Utopian Canada. I fear we’d likely be charged with various “gun crimes” afterward.
    Any Canadian lawyers out there up for another rhetorical question?

15. I’ve always maintained that the North American media and nattering classes pay far too much credibility to France/French culture as a model of an evolved Euro- socialist society.
    Frankly, if you have ever lived there ( as relatives of mine have) you will learn that the larger inner city French culture is quite devolved from the romantic classical French culture which is propagated by the MSM…. France/French culture is in deep decline….made degenerate from years of decadent coddling socialism, hedonist value systems and post modernist realtivist morality….culturally they are in a degenerative homogenization process brought about by the above 3 factors interplaying with multicultural tribalism that assails the host culture with subculture warfare.
    This kind of display of wonton civilly contemptuous nihilism would even be shoking amoung America’s inner city underclasses….but it seems to be expected and accepted in France as something they must live with. They seem more concerned with the fires spreading to their favorite cafes or government buildings than they are with the civil disorder.
    As long as these nihilist fires are burning you may as well stick a fork in French culture and grill it over the heat.

16. No mention of muslims at all in that “400 burned cars a night” article.
    Thank god France has that messy “muslims prefer violence over assimilation” problem licked.

17. Is Paris burning? A. Hitler
    what the German army wouldnt do, the local muslims are doing without reason.

18. “what the German army wouldnt do”
    this is a fact.
    the top nazi commander in paris balked at the idea of setting fire to the french capital for no reason and kept coming up with excuses until they were forced to hitail out in front of the allies.
    hitler is the biggest single reason the nazis lost.
    the muslims are doing it and getting away with it.

19. I think the statistics of many of the major public school boards are in much the same category as the ones described here: bogus.
    Many boards have a “mitigating circumstances” exemption from consequences for their special ed students, the very ones most likely to cause havoc and mayhem. So, do misdemeanors or worse show up in the statistics? Quite often not.
    And, if the problem’s not properly diagnosed, solutions are just about out of the question.

20. think about Flight 93 on September 11, people fighting for their lives! It is the American Way. as soon as they knew what was going on…let’s play ball1!!!