Will this be considered terrorism or activism by the MSM ?

That'll learn 'em to raise prices on women's shoes!

Darn those non-sectarian youths!

I'm betting on leftists but it could be anybody.

Did the whole chain of stores surrender?

There are plenty of home-grown French radical leftists, anarchists, and/or fascists who might pull a stunt like this.

What do they do? Mime explosions?

re: #7 Ford_Prefect

What do they do? Mime explosions?

No point. Where would the outrage come from? Heh.

Any connection to the anarchic situation in Greece I wonder, which has been reported to have a bit of sympathy in certain quarters elsewhere in Europe. Anti- globalization nuts?

"capitalist"
IIRC, that's right out of the Quran!

/

this brings a new meaning to the concept of "fashion commentary"

The letter mentions "big capitalist stores", so I'd say it's some nutjob Leftist group. Islamists would probably use "infidel" or "kuffar" instead :%P%

You can tell it probably wasn't Muslims due to the detonators. These sound like timed or remote detonated devices. Muslim detonators are usally named Mohamed or Achmed.

Leave it to a French terrorist to leave a bomb that doesn't do anything.

I wonder what that stores return policy?

Anarchists want anarchy?
Give it to them.
All the way.

/a masked stranger just broke in and typed that!

re: #15 Nevergiveup

I wonder what that stores return policy?

NON!

This does not look like the work of Islamic terrorists, because of the warnings (they don’t give them), the lack of detonators (their bombs are never just symbolic)

This shows that we are better.

maybe this needs a tag?

Police have discovered five sticks of dynamite at Paris department store

Well of course they did. They were in the Explosive/Jihadi Supply Dept.

Expect this kind of nonsense to become commonplace in the US after January 20.

re: #14 Ford_Prefect

Leave it to a French terrorist to leave a bomb that doesn't do anything.

Couldn't they have just left a Jerry Lewis DVD?

re: #20 CIA Reject

Why?

re: #19 maddogg

Police have discovered five sticks of dynamite at Paris department store

Well of course they did. They were in the Explosive/Jihadi Supply Dept.

"OUR PRICES ARE INSANE!"

The French have long ago forgotten their own history! They need to remember the Battle of Tours and Charles Martel!

re: #24 moogie

The first battle of the Marne as well.

There certainly seems to be a lot of humor thrown about here with regard to this very serious situation. Maybe I just don't get it. But I'm not laughing.

They were right next to the designer suicide vests. 5 colors!

This does not look like the work of Islamic terrorists

I suspect just a Frenchman in the neighborhood.

Someone who really doesn't mean to hurt people and in the future may be a "respected professor" in Chicago.

Blowout sale.

re: #25 buzzsawmonkey
Galeries Lafayette for me!

re: #29 maddogg

They were right next to the designer suicide vests. 5 colors!

Silly. There is only one classic color for suicide vests. Blew.

Could be one of those new French violent non-voilence groups.

You can see their manifesto

we will use every means necessary to advance our cause and threaten maximum destruction of lives and property with the sole exception of actually causing the threatened mayhem.

But our press releases will be first rate! You will yield to our demands or we will become even more violently non-violent in the future.

Yeah, that it.

typo in the highlighted (blue) headline. The department store name in Paris is Printemps (spring)...

That location, Printemps Haussman, is basically a bit north-west of Paris Central. Big train station a few blocks away. Saint Lazare and The North station (connections west all the way to England).

That would be too close for me. I wonder if it is a test run?

re: #21 Wyatt Earp

Couldn't they have just left a Jerry Lewis DVD?

That would be a crime against humanity.

re: #31 Ojoe

Blowout sale.

Total door buster.

You are probaby correct in this, however I've also noted some terror groups in a 'conversion' process from Islamist back to old style marxist ala original PFLP.

This does not bode well if that's the case and the groups are reuniting with Euro marxists again. There are remnants of Marxist groups in Afghanistan still, but I highly doubt this really originated there. Looks more Euro-leftist to me.

Personally, I can't understand why explosive jockstraps haven't caught on with the splodydope crowd.

re: #31 Ojoe

Blowout sale.

Naw, it was just meant to keep the police on the stick.

re: #38 FrogMarch

Smoke damaged remnants

better laugh while you can

Wasn't there a French fashion show not so long ago that had models going down the runway in fake bomb vests? (can't find the link right now)

France is the European epicenter of "pro-Palestinian" thought and politics, and yet it still buys them no peace.

Serves them right.

re: #40 maddogg

Personally, I can't understand why explosive jockstraps haven't caught on with the splodydope crowd.

Because terrorists don't have the balls to fill them.

re: #38 FrogMarch

Total door buster.

Explosive Grand Opening! It'll be a BLAST!

re: #44 Ford_Prefect

Because terrorists don't have the balls to fill them.

Before, or after?

re: #33 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Silly. There is only one classic color for suicide vests. Blew.

How about Violent?

Now pull out of Afghanistan or we shall taunt you a second time!

re: #46 maddogg

Before, or after?

Yes.

So what.

Hamas was having a DIY suicide vest kit sale. The holiday season is tough this year - markdowns on everything.

/

re: #43 Lizard by the Bay

France is the European epicenter of "pro-Palestinian" thought and politics, and yet it still buys them no peace.

London is giving them a run for that title and may be surpassing them.

Where any of Bill Ayers friends seen in the vicinity?

Dented cans 1/2 price

re: #52 Thanos

Where any of Bill Ayers friends seen in the vicinity?

It was France. They were everywhere.

re: #43 Lizard by the Bay

a French fashion show not so long ago that had models going down the runway in fake bomb vests?

REALLY?! *grin*
If you happen to remember how to find something on it, please pass it along.

re: #22 Ojoe

Why?

Because that's the day we go from being a country that defends itself to a country which apologizes to the world for existing.

Overcooked weenie sale

(I better quit.)

BBL

re: #40 maddogg

Personally, I can't understand why explosive jockstraps haven't caught on with the splodydope crowd.

Should be plenty of room.

re: #47 Conservative in Liberal Hands

How about Violent?

Never after Eid.

re: #56 Lizard by the Bay

I see.

This has been a trend.

re: #36 Walter L. Newton

That location, Printemps Haussman, is basically a bit north-west of Paris Central. Big train station a few blocks away. Saint Lazare and The North station (connections west all the way to England).

That would be too close for me. I wonder if it is a test run?

Now that I re-read my own post, that area is also the big shopping area of Paris, sort of like a lot of mid-priced stores (Macy like stores).

It could have been a way to interrupt the Christmas shopping in Paris.

(Hell, all the would have had to do to do that would be to send about 25 people into the store and start asking French sales clerks for help. That would have brought the store to a stand still)

re: #59 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Never after Eid.

I think it was a fire sale.

yes, the bombs had to have been made in France
since they just surrendered all by themselves

Only way to keep out the Wal-Mart crowd

re: #50 karmic_inquisitor

So what.

Hamas was having a DIY suicide vest kit sale. The holiday season is tough this year - markdowns on everything.

/

Those come with a life time warranty, don't ya' know!

re: #52 Thanos

Where any of Bill Ayers friends seen in the vicinity?

They are using the new OSHA approved terrorist bombs. Detonators were forbidden since they were deemed too dangerous after the 'Friends of Bill Ayers' incident.

re: #52 Thanos

Where any of Bill Ayers friends seen in the vicinity?

Billy boy was reportedly seen trying out strap-ons in the men's dressing room.

re: #48 CyanSnowHawk

Now pull out of Afghanistan or we shall taunt you a second time!

hahahaahahahahahahhaahhhaaa

“Otherwise we will go back into action in your big capitalist stores and this time without warning you,”

Where terrorism and Marxism collide.

British-Iraqi Doctor Convicted in Failed London, Glasgow Attacks

A London court has convicted a British doctor of Iraqi origin of carrying out failed bomb attacks in London and at Glasgow airport in Scotland last year.

The court found Bilal Abdulla guilty Tuesday of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. The 29-year-old will be sentenced Wednesday. It acquitted his co-defendant, Jordanian neurologist Mohammed Asha, of all charges.

This reminds me, there was a bank bombed in Paris iirc.. let me see if I can dig that up.

re: #51 Opinionated

London is giving them a run for that title and may be surpassing them.

London's problems are Muslim in nature, but Palis are rare. Britain's Muslims are mostly Pakistani, Indian, and Afghani. Yes, every Muslim piles on the "Palestinian cause", but France is lousy with actual Palestinians and they're much more , um, "active".

re: #56 Lizard by the Bay

Because that's the day we go from being a country that defends itself to a country which apologizes to the world for existing.

I think we already are apologizing for existing
the MSM has done that
and Bush has not helped with his
"Islam is a religion of peace" nonsense

re: #47 Conservative in Liberal Hands

How about Violent?

Yell Ow?

re: #22 Ojoe

Why?

I think, but cannot prove, that a large number of whacko "activist" groups will be emboldened by what they perceive to be a weakened law enforcement environment under the BO administration.

Also I suspect that BO will attempt to re-establish some of the Clinton-era separations between Law Enforcement and intelligence with the result being that many of the incidents that have been prevented in recent years will occur.

It's just what I think based on my observation of the situation.

re: #75 CIA Reject

Ugh.

was that a "man" bag? re: #5 buzzsawmonkey

re: #14 Ford_Prefect

Leave it to a French terrorist to leave a bomb that doesn't do anything.

Gramscian Snore

re: #75 CIA Reject

I think, but cannot prove, that a large number of whacko "activist" groups will be emboldened by what they perceive to be a weakened law enforcement environment under the BO administration.

Also I suspect that BO will attempt to re-establish some of the Clinton-era separations between Law Enforcement and intelligence with the result being that many of the incidents that have been prevented in recent years will occur.

It's just what I think based on my observation of the situation.

And if that does happen ( may it never), I bet it gets blamed on Bush.

Things that go BOOM!

re: #14 Ford_Prefect

Leave it to a French terrorist to leave a bomb that doesn't do anything.

It's on strike.

re: #53 Ojoe

Dented cans 1/2 price

It's a Dynamite Sale!

re: #79 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Gramscian Snore

Heh.

re: #82 Lizard by the Bay

It's on strike.

Picket signs with images of undetonated explosives - subtle!

re: #1 noshariaincanada

Will this be considered terrorism or activism by the MSM ?

I'd vote for incompetence by today's standards of mayhem.

If we really want to render the terrorists ineffective, we should send in the UAW to organize them.

definitely not Muslim-made bombs

they would have appeared in a pizza parlor, not a grocery store

ablownup Snackbar !

re: #85 debutaunt

Picket signs with images of undetonated explosives - subtle!

Hey hey, Ho ho, better pay or we won't blow!

I wonder how she's reporting it.
Melissa Theuriau

Smokin'

Terrorist attacks Mount Wilson observatory - live shot!

re: #74 eschew_obfuscation

Yell Ow?

Yell OUCH! If you ask me...

re: #89 CyanSnowHawk

Hey hey, Ho ho, better pay or we won't blow!

What don't we want? When don't we want it?

re: #83 father_of_10

It's a Dynamite Sale!

Blow out pricing!

I'm not totally sure that this isn't the work of Muslim terrorists, albeit ones that are attempting to sway public opinion in the IRA/ETA mold, rather than the mass carnage of the al Qaedaists.

The goals are the same - to terrorize and to force a change in government policy. This attack was a warning sign. The next time it might not end safely and without incident.

re: #90 JHW

I wonder how she's reporting it.
Melissa Theuriau

Smokin'

Wow--who is that?

argh, disregard that last link, that was 1982, there was a bomb in paris recently. let me keep digging.

Charles can you remove?

re: #91 Racer X

Heh.

Posers.

re: #5 buzzsawmonkey

Not surprising. I remember my bag being searched by security when I went into a Paris department store 20 years ago. Innocent that I was, I was outraged that they thought I looked like a shoplifter, and bewildered that they would search my bag before I got into the store.

A week later a bomb went off in that same store.

In Manila (where I visit often on business) they are supposed to check every bag and even search people before they enter the store. The check under every car and in the trunk as cars approach hotels and parking garages. Although they seem to get lax and just seem to be going through the motions.

I stay at the Intercon in Makati City, and in October last year, as I was leaving the hotel in a cab, the mall across the street was bombed.

re: #91 Racer X

Terrorist attacks Mount Wilson observatory - live shot!

HAH! That's what they get for saying the universe is billions of years old!
//

re: #88 Adrenalyn

definitely not Muslim-made bombs

they would have appeared in a pizza parlor, not a grocery store

ablownup Snackbar !

They have a right to be upset about pepperoni being served within 30 blocks of some Muslim's house. Don't you have any respect for foreign cultures?

/yes, it's sarc

did anybody see the CPI report this morning... Talk about detonating inflation...

Not too suprising they'd try it in a French department store since they have made the same attempts in US shopping centers. Remember the guy who wanted to use nail bombs at the Cherryvale Mall in Rockford, Illinois? It may only be a matter of time until they're successful at this.

re: #91 Racer X

Terrorist attacks Mount Wilson observatory - live shot!

LOL!

re: #90 JHW

I wonder how she's reporting it.
Melissa Theuriau

Smokin'

Wow, she's gorgeous. I'm off to google for the topless pics.

re: #102 Lizard by the Bay

They have a right to be upset about pepperoni being served within 30 blocks of some Muslim's house. Don't you have any respect for foreign cultures?

/yes, it's sarc

hey, we're getting snow, snow and more snow up here
I don't miss the bay area when it looks like this out the window

re: #96 Nevergiveup

Here's another link on her, I find her quite easy to watch, even though I don't understand French.
Melissa Theuriau isn't shy

How does one say "kiss my ass" in French?

re: #96 Nevergiveup

Wow--who is that?

I'll go out on a limb and say her name is Melissa Theuriau

Well clearly Charles is right about the possibility of it being some other whacko group, not Islamic Jihadists.
But of course they have to investigate - the fact that there was a warning and no detonation caps or other devices I think PROBABLY means it was meant as a warning - real dynamite needs to be handled carefully (and if it's "sweating" not at all!) but it doesn't take any kind of genius to figure out how to set it off.

Wonder if this could be an attempt by some folks to "rouse" French sympathy against the Islamic jihadists?

re: #91 Racer X

Godzilla likes Snow!

re: #110 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I'll go out on a limb and say her name is Melissa Theuriau

Foxnews better send H-R out to recruit her quick

Does anyone know where Billy the Terrorist is?

hey, when are the awards nominations going to happen this year ?

Here we go, it was a parcel bomb

[Link: noblesseoblige.org...]

re: #104 Honorary Yooper

It may only be is a matter of time until they're successful at this.

Bombing a soft target with homemade explosives is so damn easy and cheap it's a wonder we haven't seen more of it. Actually, it's no wonder at all. The hate for Bush was a mask for the fear of Bush. Guantanamo really scares the s*@t out of these people, and the moonbat conspiraces of torture and "disappearing citizens" only helped enhance the legend.

With the fear of Bush gone, expect booms soon.

re: #27 unrealizedviewpoint
I updinged you for your comment, but given that there isn't anything WE can do about what clearly could be a true threat, I think a lot of folks just "cope" with the situation by using humor.

re: #113 Adrenalyn

Foxnews better send H-R out to recruit her quick

I say she would likely be a good replacement for Alan Colmes. Being French she must be a lib.

re: #116 Thanos

Here we go, it was a parcel bomb

[Link: noblesseoblige.org...]

What good does a partial bomb do? oh, wait...never mind.

re: #107 Adrenalyn

hey, we're getting snow, snow and more snow up here
I don't miss the bay area when it looks like this out the window

Funny you should metion that. The Bay Area is getting dumped on by snow at elevation above only 800 feet! And it's sticking! They've been plowing 17 all day just to keep it open.

Damn all this global warming...

re: #116 Thanos
Hey Thanos, for some reason your link didn't open for me - since IIRC it's your blog, you might want to check it.

re: #108 JHW
Wow!
Hottie alert!

Explosives Found in Paris Department Store

Fortunately, Winona Ryder was there and was able to sneak out without incident.

The Pakistan government has decided not to dismantle the vast infrastructure of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa

/terror state to be spatshat upon.

re: #101 jcm

HAH! That's what they get for saying the universe is billions of years old!
//

*grin*
Check your email in a few minutes.
Am about to compose the message and attach a pair of jpgs.

re: #124 bosforus

Fortunately, Winona Ryder was there and was able to sneak it out without incident.

PIMF

re: #109 MandyManners

How does one say "kiss my ass" in French?

I was curious so I googled it, "baiser mon cul"

That sound right to anyone that speaks surrender monkey lingo?

There was also this terror interruptus incident earlier this year:

[Link: noblesseoblige.org...]

re: #109 MandyManners

How does one say "kiss my ass" in French?

Is this a test?

/baiser mon cul

/yeah, I cheated

Hmm. The Afghan Revolutionary Front. The phrase "your big capitalist stores" strikes me as reminiscent of privileged home-grown ennui, more than the typical jihadi language. First impression, at least.

man oh man, those SF streets like Powell Ave and Market St, in the hills must be scary when slick with snow. Do they actually plow those city streets? re: #121 Lizard by the Bay

re: #123 reloadingisnotahobby

Yep for sure, my wife is giving me "that" look right now, I'd better be careful.

re: #130 Outrider

I was curious so I googled it, "baiser mon cul"

That sound right to anyone that speaks surrender monkey lingo?

ALways thought it was " Le kiss my ass"

re: #81 father_of_10

Another hottie alert!
I bet they'd be fun to "party" with!

re: #91 Racer X

Terrorist attacks Mount Wilson observatory - live shot!

Nice to see they found a solution to the high cost of heating in CA.

Ah. Reading further I see Charles beat me to the first-run analysis.

there seem to be so many groups of losers the world over who have been infected w/ the 'hey let's riot and see what happens' syndrome.
taking cues from moslems who are creating havoc.
why wouldn't these commie, socialist, anarchist, anti-social types try it.
they are watching the jihadis and seeing their gains.

re: #121 Lizard by the Bay

Funny you should metion that. The Bay Area is getting dumped on by snow at elevation above only 800 feet! And it's sticking! They've been plowing 17 all day just to keep it open.

Damn all this global warming...

heh !
the wife snagged a bunch of free Northstar passes at a mall down the road (84$ a person this year - OUCH)

if you show up at the right place - they give you two free tickets
and if it is slow and the girl is bored, she gives you a fistfull

re: #130 Outrider

I was curious so I googled it, "baiser mon cul"

That sound right to anyone that speaks surrender monkey lingo?

Isn't that "to kiss my ass"?

OT: name that party.

"Your big capitalist stores."

It's envy.

Needs Enzyte.

re: #133 Cognito

Hmm. The Afghan Revolutionary Front. The phrase "your big capitalist stores" strikes me as reminiscent of privileged home-grown ennui, more than the typical jihadi language. First impression, at least.

A.R.F.? Boy the terrorists have really gone to the dogs.

re: #140 Cognito

Ah. Reading further I see Charles beat me to the first-run analysis.

We do occasionally start without you.

there is snow, as big a goose feathers, coming down in nyc.
it is so beautiful against the dark gray bldgs.

re: #132 maddogg

Is this a test?

/baiser mon cul

/yeah, I cheated

Bese mi culo.

re: #134 apachegunner

man oh man, those SF streets like Powell Ave and Market St, in the hills must be scary when slick with snow. Do they actually plow those city streets?

I don't think snow has hit the city proper. Mostly, it's been the hills of the south bay and east bay. Especially peaks like Mt Diablo, Tamalpias, etc. The long range of hills that define the eastern border of Fremont looked like the freakin' Rockies this morning.

re: #108 JHW

Here's a fun pic of her.
Image: melissa-theuriau.jpg

re: #133 Cognito

With the economic downturn all the anti-capitalist roaches are crawling out of the baseboards of society. I expect some real ugliness this May during the usual worldwide leftgasm if things are still in bad shape economically.

re: #148 nyc redneck

there is snow, as big a goose feathers, coming down in nyc.
it is so beautiful against the dark gray bldgs.

It would look a lot better against the backdrop of forrests and mountains, I think.

Watch the contested ballot phase in Al Franken's Quest to Steal a Senate Seat!

/live feed

This is Frenchie leftism.

Dynamite is a commercial explosive. Had it been AQ it would be a plastic explosive or a home made peroxide explosive, IMO.

IIRC, most of the bombs in Corsica have been dynamite.

re: #134 apachegunner

man oh man, those SF streets like Powell Ave and Market St, in the hills must be scary when slick with snow. Do they actually plow those city streets?

Only once in a long time does the snow get down that low in the Bay Area. SF is right by the bay & ocean, so what little flurries we might get melt when they hit the ground. On the highlands around the Bay, however, there can be fairly good dustings of snow that will last a while, and make driving in the hills very tricky.

re: #151 bosforus

Thanks , it didn't work though.

re: #136 saberry0530

ALways thought it was " Le kiss my ass"

I think that would be from the Pepe LePew school of French. ;-)>

re: #147 Ben Hur

We do occasionally start without you.

No need for ugliness. I was just giving Charles a thumbs-up.

re: #157 mikalm

Only once in a long time does the snow get down that low in the Bay Area. SF is right by the bay & ocean, so what little flurries we might get melt when they hit the ground. On the highlands around the Bay, however, there can be fairly good dustings of snow that will last a while, and make driving in the hills very tricky.

I believe the last time it snowed on the Golden Gate Bridge was about 1975 or 1976

re: #136 saberry0530

ALways thought it was " Le kiss my ass"

That's a dialect of French unique to french skunks.

re: #158 JHW

Thanks , it didn't work though.

It was a full screen sized collage of screen shots of her giving the news.

re: #155 Killian Bundy

Watch the contested ballot phase in Al Franken's Quest to Steal a Senate Seat!

/live feed

Just remember - all Republicans are bad and all Democrats are good.

(Just in case you don't get MSNBC).

re: #143 MandyManners

Isn't that "to kiss my ass"?

Father-of-Ten says it's "Bese mi culo"

re: #125 buzzsawmonkey
and
re: #127 Iron Fist We have indeed been fortunate here in the US, post 9/11. But I do think Bush deserves major props for that - we have "gotten after 'em" BIG TIME while some of our "allies" have not done so and may appear to be weak because of that.
I don't even know how many French forces there are in Afghanistan, nor how effective they've been.
But my hunch is that the MAJOR burden of the fighting has fallen to the U.S., Great Britain, Canada and Denmark over there.
I know the Germans haven't been particularly effective and indeed have let it be known that they won't do any night time patrolling - don't know about the French activities there, though.

re: #161 Adrenalyn

I believe the last time it snowed on the Golden Gate Bridge was about 1975 or 1976

I remember being in Berkeley a few years ago around this time of year, and watching a light snow flurry come down on Telegraph. All the holiday shoppers were running around trying to catch the flakes on their tongues!

re: #94 jcm

Everything must go (up)!

re: #104 Honorary Yooper

Not too suprising they'd try it in a French department store since they have made the same attempts in US shopping centers. Remember the guy who wanted to use nail bombs at the Cherryvale Mall in Rockford, Illinois? It may only be a matter of time until they're successful at this.

Do first-timers use cherry bombs?
.

re: #128 pre-Boomer Marine brat

*grin*
Check your email in a few minutes.
Am about to compose the message and attach a pair of jpgs.

Got them. Posting "Re-engineering the Corporation" outside my cube...

re: #154 maddogg

It would look a lot better against the backdrop of forrests and mountains, I think.

i agree. i love to walk in the woods when it's snowing.
it's magical to see it here too. once we had nearly 3 ft. of snow. it shut the city down. people were skiing down bdway. and wearing snow shoes to get around.

re: #170 jcm

Got them. Posting "Re-engineering the Corporation" outside my cube...

LOVE IT!

re: #166 realwest

Here's a link to the French Ministry of Defense realwest, there are actually a few interesting videos on that site.

re: #169 AuntAcid

Do first-timers use cherry bombs?
.

Cherry Bombs?

re: #166 realwest

I know the Germans haven't been particularly effective and indeed have let it be known that they won't do any night time patrolling - don't know about the French activities there, though.

Germans have combat troops there? I thought their constitution (written with our "input" after WWII) forbade the deployment of combat troops outside their borders?

re: #157 mikalm

Only once in a long time does the snow get down that low in the Bay Area. SF is right by the bay & ocean, so what little flurries we might get melt when they hit the ground. On the highlands around the Bay, however, there can be fairly good dustings of snow that will last a while, and make driving in the hills very tricky.

Do you guys use sand or salt, or a mixture of both on your hills? When I was going to college in Houghton, Michigan, a town with hill steepness to rival San Francisco, they primarilly used sand during the winter, and salt/sand mixtures at the beginning and ending of the snow season. The locals tended to shy away from RWD vehicles due to the steepness of the sides of the valley and the amount of snow during the season. The area usually got 200 inches of snow for a season, but can vary from about 150 inches of snow to over 300 inches of snow.

re: #148 nyc redneck
Hey enjoy it - hope you aren't expected to get any accumulations cause we what that pretty white snow looks like after the plows and cars get through with it!

re: #178 realwest

We're expected to get 2-6 inches here in Chicagoland today. Should make the afternoon rush ever-so-fun.

Maybe the owner of the department store is setting the stage for an "arson for insurance" scheme? ;-)>

re: #177 Honorary Yooper

Do you guys use sand or salt, or a mixture of both on your hills? When I was going to college in Houghton, Michigan, a town with hill steepness to rival San Francisco, they primarilly used sand during the winter, and salt/sand mixtures at the beginning and ending of the snow season. The locals tended to shy away from RWD vehicles due to the steepness of the sides of the valley and the amount of snow during the season. The area usually got 200 inches of snow for a season, but can vary from about 150 inches of snow to over 300 inches of snow.

illegal to use salt in California
here, Caltrans (the hwy dept) uses a mixture of sand and gravel

the windshield repairers union came up with the exact ratio of sand to stone

re: #179 Honorary Yooper

We're expected to get 2-6 inches here in Chicagoland today. Should make the afternoon rush ever-so-fun.

70 degrees here. Perhaps I'll toss some dead beast on the grill tonight? ;-)>

but think if you had to drive up one of the hills going north from the warf. re: #150 Lizard by the Bay

re: #173 JHW
Thanks for the link - too bad I don't understand French!

re: #50 karmic_inquisitor

So what.

Hamas was having a DIY suicide vest kit sale. The holiday season is tough this year - markdowns on everything.

/

yeah, but they're making a killing on that product line.

re: #122 realwest

Hey Thanos, for some reason your link didn't open for me - since IIRC it's your blog, you might want to check it.

Yep, something wrong there, thanks RW I'll get a ticket in.

re: #176 Outrider
Don't know about their constitution, but they have 'em there. And iirc, some of the milblogs have indicated that when they DO engage the enemy they are pretty effective, but the criticism has been that they don't engage the enemy often enough.

re: #179 Honorary Yooper

We're expected to get 2-6 inches here in Chicagoland today. Should make the afternoon rush ever-so-fun.

Hey Yoop... Driving from NYC to Madison, WI next Tuesday... Praying that weather holds out...

don't forget the aussies re: #166 realwest

re: #177 Honorary Yooper

Dunno. It's so rare and minimal in the urban Bay Area that I'm not even sure if they have a contingency plan here.

The Sierras, however, are quite a different story. The California DOT might have the info you seek on winter road-safety measures in this state.

re: #179 Honorary Yooper
So go home now - beat the rush! LOL! I know, I know, easy for me to say, sitting down here, retired,looking at a 68 degrees or warmer day here!

Share this appears to be having problems, causing hangs where it's used. Reporting to Charles since he uses them as well.

re: #181 Adrenalyn

illegal to use salt in California
here, Caltrans (the hwy dept) uses a mixture of sand and gravel

the windshield repairers union came up with the exact ratio of sand to stone

ROTFLMAO!

re: #191 realwest

So go home now - beat the rush! LOL! I know, I know, easy for me to say, sitting down here, retired,looking at a 68 degrees or warmer day here!

Heh. It was 51 on Sunday evening, then 6 on Monday morning. Up into the high teens, low 20s now with the snow starting.

re: #189 apachegunner
My mistake Guns, you're right.

re: #192 Thanos

Share this appears to be having problems, causing hangs where it's used. Reporting to Charles since he uses them as well.

Yep, normal page load after deacting Share This.

re: #191 realwest

So go home now - beat the rush! LOL! I know, I know, easy for me to say, sitting down here, retired,looking at a 68 degrees or warmer day here!

my wife is golfing now with her GFs, suns out, near 70, gawd I miss Chicago :>)

re: #194 Honorary Yooper
So you're saying that it's typical December weather in Chicagoland, right?!

re: #190 mikalm

They require chains or snow tires?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No self-respecting Upper Midwesterner would use either.

re: #198 realwest

So you're saying that it's typical December weather in Chicagoland, right?!

Yes. :-)

re: #130 Outrider

I was curious so I googled it, "baiser mon cul"

That sound right to anyone that speaks surrender monkey lingo?

I don't speak Frog, so I don't know if it's the actual phrase they'd use, but "baiser mon cul" is definitely a legitimate translation of "kiss my ass."

That famous Mona-Lisa-with-a-Mustache by Marcel Duchamp is entitled "L.H.O.O.Q." -- a dirty rebus, because when you pronounce the letters Frawnch-style, it sounds like the phrase elle a chaud au cul, which means "She's hot in the ass" (i.e., she's horny).

And then there's the well-known Italian equivalent to "fuck off," vai a fare in culo, although it's rarely pronounced so distinctly and often comes out more like va'fa'cul. But it literally means "go do it in the ass."

re: #155 Killian Bundy

Watch the contested ballot phase in Al Franken's Quest to Steal a Senate Seat!

/live feed

Watching this for the past 10 minutes makes me never want to be a lawyer or public representative.

re: #187 realwest

Don't know about their constitution, but they have 'em there. And iirc, some of the milblogs have indicated that when they DO engage the enemy they are pretty effective, but the criticism has been that they don't engage the enemy often enough.

Can't debate facts. Just wonder how they (or the UN/EC) reconciled deployment of combat troops. The clause was put in the constitution because of European concerns of German troops.

I've worked with the Bundeswehr Heer a time or two in field exercises and they were good.

re: #196 Thanos

Yep, normal page load after deacting Share This.

Whatever was going on at Share this is now over, pages loading normal again, I"ve reactivated. Thanks again RW

re: #187 realwest

Don't know about their constitution, but they have 'em there. And iirc, some of the milblogs have indicated that when they DO engage the enemy they are pretty effective, but the criticism has been that they don't engage the enemy often enough.

Got curious so I had to look it up. According to Wiki:

The role of the Bundeswehr is described in the German Basic Law (Art. 87a) as defensive only. Its only active role before 1990 was the Katastropheneinsatz (disaster control operation), where the Bundeswehr helped after natural disasters. After 1990, the international situation changed from East-West confrontation to one of general uncertainty and instability. Today, after a ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court in 1994 the term "defense" has been defined to not only include protection of the borders of Germany, but also crisis reaction and conflict prevention, or more broadly as guarding the security of Germany anywhere in the world. According to the definition given by former Defence Minister Struck, it may be necessary to defend Germany even at the Hindu Kush. This requires the Bundeswehr to take part in operations outside of the borders of Germany, as part of NATO or the European Union and mandated by the UN.

They deployed eight times around the world in addition of Afghanistan. Interesting.

re: #201 Throbert McGee

"baiser mon cul" is definitely a legitimate translation of "kiss my ass."

Just following up on this: baiser is actually the infinitive form, and thus means "to kiss" rather than being a command.

The correct imperative would be baise mon cul, and that phrasing has evidently been used in French for a long, long time -- because I find from Googling that in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, a character punningly says that the dauphin of France is named "Monsieur Basimecu."

In other words, Bart Simpson's "Amanda Huginkiss" prank calls have a literary heritage going back to Shakespeare, at least.

re: #20 CIA Reject

Expect this kind of nonsense to become commonplace in the US after January 20.

they are not waiting note GOV'R PALIN'S CHURCH AND THE BANK BOMBING WERE 2 COPS WERE MURDERED

Just checked with a friend of mine, turns out the bomb was placed there six months ago and was only found now- apparently the bombers hid it in the soap and deodorant display...

re: #208 ayatollah ghilmeini

Just checked with a friend of mine, turns out the bomb was placed there six months ago and was only found now- apparently the bombers hid it in the soap and deodorant display...

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

re: #21 Wyatt Earp

Couldn't they have just left a Jerry Lewis DVD?

Good suggestion question!

But, come to think of it, that paltry-entertainment bomb would do some real damage.

re: #201 Throbert McGee

Actually...(as I laugh..) ya gotta watch that word "baiser"...it doesn't necessarily mean "kiss"... "baiser" can be used as a noun..."un baiser" translates, "a kiss". However, if you're using it as a verb then it can become a vulgarity (a vulgarity with 3 stars)...(meaning something like "f--k")...sooo, instead, one should use (the verb form of kiss) the word "embrasser", meaning "to kiss."

Dyno---MITE

/ JJ

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