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2006-01-03 Europe

Chirac declares early end to state of emergency

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Posted by Steve White 2006-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 425 cars burnt in France on New Years Eve. Thank God things are back to normal.

Posted by Grunter 2006-01-03 00:32|| 2006-01-03 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Awww, Grunter, I wanted to say it. The good news is that Paris still can't afford to support its benefit burdens, as before. Iff the future Franco-Brit CVF follows the CHARLES DE GAULLE, the French can rest assured the props of the CVF will continue falling off or spinning off in a timely manner.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-01-03 03:34|| 2006-01-03 03:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Gotta get up early to beat Grunter, I was thinking the same thing.LOL I only wonder how many cars will burn tonight in celebration!

Posted by 49 pan">49 pan 2006-01-03 08:18|| 2006-01-03 08:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe they've run out of cars.

Posted by Darrell 2006-01-03 09:40|| 2006-01-03 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 All this car burning is starting to sound like a gigantic insurance scam.

Posted by SLO Jim 2006-01-03 11:46|| 2006-01-03 11:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Burn my car, die on the spot.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-01-03 13:23|| 2006-01-03 13:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Watch out, Jacques -- RJ probably gigs frogs too.

Posted by Darrell 2006-01-03 13:30|| 2006-01-03 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 "Chirac declares early end to state of emergency"
Should read: "Chirac surrenders without conditions ending state of emergency."

Posted by Intrinsicpilot 2006-01-03 14:27|| 2006-01-03 14:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Only one reason the new carrier will be a success, JosephM, it is a British design from the beginning. Only French contribution with be with costs and building one in their shipyards. The De Gaulle was a Frog design, from beginning to end, with the noted fun results.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-01-03 15:09|| 2006-01-03 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Cost cutting construction is where some of the CdG's problems crept in, especially the props, as I recall.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-03 15:20|| 2006-01-03 15:20|| Front Page Top

#11 The CdG's comedy of errors started with it's powerplant consisting of 2 submarine reactors (inadequately shielded at that) generating only 83,000 SHP to power a 41,000 ton carrier. I believe during flight ops, sailors have to break out the oars to get enough headwind. For comparison, the recently retired USS America (75,000 tons) had a 280,000 SHP power plant and Arleigh Burke destroyers have 100,000 SHP. Hell, even the WWII Essex class carriers (36,000 tons) generated 150,000 SHP and they did not have to generate steam for catapults.

Posted by ed 2006-01-03 15:42|| 2006-01-03 15:42|| Front Page Top

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