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2007-05-28 Europe

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 That's $2,500 per lefty. Can't they just pay them to go away?

Posted by Bobby 2007-05-28 07:08|| 2007-05-28 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 THE PRINCE OF POMPADOODLE

The Prince of Pompadoodle
Lived behind a castle wall,
Behind a moat, behind a guard
Of twenty soldiers tall.

The Prince of Pompadoodle
Was the safest man alive.
Each day he wrote how long he'd lived
And multiplied by five.

The Prince of Pompadoodle
Would survive, he did decide,
Five times as long as he had been
Alive before he died.

The Prince of Pompadoodle
Called in the castle sage
For his advice in this pursuit
Of long and fulsome age.

The Prince of Pompadoodle
Heard in horror from this friend
That somewhere in the palace
Was a cur who'd seek his end!

The Prince of Pompadoodle
Scarce could credit a belief
His years might soon be sneaked away
By some ungrateful thief.

The Prince of Pompadoodle
Sent his every friend away
And sat alone, safe, locked alive,
To count another day.

The Prince of Pompadoodle
May hoard each empty hour,
But none can know; no word comes from
The silent stony tower.

Walt Kelly

Posted by bruce 2007-05-28 07:23|| 2007-05-28 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 It is outrageous that this play-acting fascist fantasy should be indulged at the risk and expense of democracy. These "demonstrators" should be treated as being in a state of apprehended insurrection and shot down in the streets.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-05-28 09:25|| 2007-05-28 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 These protesters are not the hippies of yore who wore tie-died shirts, listened to Bob Dylan, and engaged in promiscuous sex while tripping on hallucinatory drugs.

These are anarchists, hardcore internet-organized Marxist revolutionaries, and a variety of other violent and disruptive quasi-socialist malcontent groups.

There should be well-defined spaces where protests will be permitted, with a carefully spelled out set of allowable behaviors. To prevent the destruction and confrontation which these groups really seek, the authorities should react with considerable force and vigor at the first sign of even the tiniest infraction, and make no apologies for maintaining the public order.

There would be no excuse for allowing the area to degenerate into the lawless state of a French suburb after the recent election.

Posted by Lonzo Glung7757 2007-05-28 14:33|| 2007-05-28 14:33|| Front Page Top

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