stopbush
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:19 PM
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Remember Summer, 2003: 14,000 French DIED In A Heat Wave |
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Was there an outpouring of sympathy and support from Americans when France faced this natural disaster...or were we too busy eating our freedom fries? Maybe death by flood is a greater disaster than death by heat?
I'd guess that 95% of Americans are blissfully unaware of what happened in France back in 2003.
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:22 PM
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1. You are right.. I think most Americans did not know how horrible that |
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:23 PM
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 04:25 PM by melissinha
Goes to show you our MSM is BS.
I vaguely remember. OMG! Don't remember those numbers 14,000 for the heat???? How hot was it.... thats really a catastrophe... That is a LOT of people.
14,000?
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stopbush
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:30 PM
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6. Here's a cnn article from 2004: |
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:25 PM
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People are much too caught up in what they believe their current problems are at the time to see these things happening elsewhere. At the time, many many people here were even glad the french were dying. Our disregard for the world community is sickening sometimes. Honestly, this is my biggest critique of america. =/
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:26 PM
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4. worse: WaPo MOCKED them in an editorial, asking |
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"who needs A/C and windows now, Euro-Commies?!"
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:27 PM
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5. Oh, there was an outpouring |
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It went something like this: "Those cheese-eating surrender monkeys abandoned gramma and grampa to go on vacation. Degenerate lazy eurotrash! USA! USA!"
I'm pretty sure we won't be getting much more than polite expressions of sympathy from any French people with more than a two-year memory...
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:33 PM
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7. Yeah, my Repuke dad mocked them for not taking care of their |
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own. I love my dad, but I don't like him one bit!
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:37 PM
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8. Not to lessen the catastrophe in France, but there |
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were many people on vacation, IIRC, that couldn't be bothered to end their vacation and tend to their elderly family members. Sounds a bit like the blivet, oui?
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