Comments on: The French Declare State of Emergency http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the_french_declare_state_of_em.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:34:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: circlethewagons http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the_french_declare_state_of_em.html#comment-112498 circlethewagons Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:54:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the-french-declare-state-of-emergency.php#comment-112498 <p>David Brooks:</p> <p>One of the striking things about the scenes from France is how thoroughly the rioters have assimilated hip-hop and rap culture. It's not only that they use the same hand gestures as American rappers, wear the same clothes and necklaces, play the same video games, and sit with the same sorts of car stereos at full blast. It's that they seem to have adopted the same poses of exaggerated manhood, the same attitudes about women, money and the police. They seem to have replicated the same sort of gang culture, the same romantic visions of gunslinging drug dealers.</p> David Brooks:

One of the striking things about the scenes from France is how thoroughly the rioters have assimilated hip-hop and rap culture. It’s not only that they use the same hand gestures as American rappers, wear the same clothes and necklaces, play the same video games, and sit with the same sorts of car stereos at full blast. It’s that they seem to have adopted the same poses of exaggerated manhood, the same attitudes about women, money and the police. They seem to have replicated the same sort of gang culture, the same romantic visions of gunslinging drug dealers.

]]> By: neocon cowgirl http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the_french_declare_state_of_em.html#comment-112497 neocon cowgirl Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:57:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the-french-declare-state-of-emergency.php#comment-112497 <p>Hey Tammy....<br /> Sorry I can't call in to your show like a proper listener but here in Montana our cell phone service is spotty...especially when you are out bringing your livestock out of the snow, like me today!! </p> <p>There is more and more information coming in showing not only Islamofascist links but Al Qaida ties to the attack on the cruise ship.<br /> <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2005/11/pirate_hijack_p.html" rel="nofollow">http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2005/11/pirate_hijack_p.html</a></p> <p>My question are these "disaffected" pirates....like the "youths" in France?<br /> Also....since you are in charge of the pirate kitties, how about some viking kitties? See vikingkittens.com<br /> It is right up your alley!<br /> Neocon cowgirl...</p> Hey Tammy….
Sorry I can’t call in to your show like a proper listener but here in Montana our cell phone service is spotty…especially when you are out bringing your livestock out of the snow, like me today!!

There is more and more information coming in showing not only Islamofascist links but Al Qaida ties to the attack on the cruise ship.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2005/11/pirate_hijack_p.html

My question are these “disaffected” pirates….like the “youths” in France?
Also….since you are in charge of the pirate kitties, how about some viking kitties? See vikingkittens.com
It is right up your alley!
Neocon cowgirl…

]]> By: BGF http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the_french_declare_state_of_em.html#comment-112496 BGF Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:49:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the-french-declare-state-of-emergency.php#comment-112496 <p>I agree, Tammy.</p> <p>"[S]tockpiling weapons" is a terribly mature term for immature "delinquents" and "disaffected youths".</p> <p>I deal with "delinquents" regularly in my line of work and, what many might term, "disaffected youths". I don't recall us dealing with too many weapons stockpiles. </p> <p>Hmmmmm? Maybe we are just reading too much into it? We may just be too black and white in our analysis. ;-)</p> I agree, Tammy.

“[S]tockpiling weapons” is a terribly mature term for immature “delinquents” and “disaffected youths”.

I deal with “delinquents” regularly in my line of work and, what many might term, “disaffected youths”. I don’t recall us dealing with too many weapons stockpiles.

Hmmmmm? Maybe we are just reading too much into it? We may just be too black and white in our analysis. ;-)

]]> By: Dave J http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the_french_declare_state_of_em.html#comment-112495 Dave J Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:26:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2005/11/the-french-declare-state-of-emergency.php#comment-112495 <p>One thing that's particularly sick about all this is that Chirac attempted to stay on the sidelines so the public would blame Sarkozy, who is a likely future presidential candidate and just about the best France can do in the foreseeable future in terms of a leader who might actually attempt and be able break them out from at least some of their old modes of thinking. I wouldn't go so far as to call "Sarko" the potential French version of Margaret Thatcher, but he's a hell of a lot closer to that than Chirac is!</p> One thing that’s particularly sick about all this is that Chirac attempted to stay on the sidelines so the public would blame Sarkozy, who is a likely future presidential candidate and just about the best France can do in the foreseeable future in terms of a leader who might actually attempt and be able break them out from at least some of their old modes of thinking. I wouldn’t go so far as to call “Sarko” the potential French version of Margaret Thatcher, but he’s a hell of a lot closer to that than Chirac is!

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