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Originally posted by Macheath
rgr22j, that idiotic law against insulting the French president also applies to other heads of state.
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Thanks for the extra information: it's a dumb law, agreed, the French should be able to insult both Chirac and Bush whenever they please. But it looks like France just ignored the European Court's ruling anyway. I imagine that's exactly what America would do as well.
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Originally posted by Macheath
So, um, Dubya could try and go after Johnny in a FRENCH court! That's about as likely to happen as Tom DeLay deciding to send the FBI after the Texas Democrats.[/B]
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I'm not sure if you're being facetious, but didn't DeLay send Homeland Security after the Texas Democrats? And as I remember, when the Democrats took off to New Mexico, DeLay tried to yank them back again, but this time the Texas Supreme Court (all Republicans) struck him down.
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Originally posted by smooth
Now I get it, the heat! How could the French government be so callous as to allow the heat to get to intolerable level?! They shoulda flipped the French Gallactic Therometer to 'ON' or sumthin.
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Temperatures are much hotter in other parts of the globe, but most people handled it pretty well. Especially for a wealthy country like France, dealing with heat should be a relative non-issue. Here is an example of the Chicago plan, from Eric Klinenberg's "Heat Wave":
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In 1999, when Chicago experienced another severe heat wave, the city issued strongly worded warnings and press releases to the media, opened cooling centers and provided free bus transportation to them, phoned elderly residents, and sent police officers and city workers door-to-door to check up on seniors who lived alone. That aggressive response drastically reduced the death toll of the 1999 heat wave: 110 residents died, a fraction of the 1995 level but still catastrophic.
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-- Alvin