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> "Deborah Terreson" 
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> news:a9adnfRDW9GKmWrcRVn-1A{at}comcast.com...
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>> Mr. F. Le Mur reported...
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1379536,00.html
>>>
>>> France outlaws sexist and anti-gay insults
>>>
>>> Legislation is aimed at curbing rising homophobia, but civil
>>> liberty groups say threats of imprisonment and heavy fines
>>> go too far
>>>
>>> Jon Henley in Paris
>>> Friday December 24, 2004
>>> Eth Grauniad
>>>
>>> The French parliament yesterday definitively adopted
>>> legislation that could lead to year-long jail terms for
>>> anyone found guilty of insulting homosexuals or women.
>
> Insulting heterosexual men remains perfectly legal
> in France.  Feminists call that 'equality'.
>
>> Goddammit! This is just too much!
>> I say we dismantle the Statue of Liberty
>> and ship it back! Let's put up a huge statue
>> of a person selling fries in a fast-food joint.
>
> The Golden Arches already soar above Paris, Deb.
> I've eaten at a Paris McDonalds before.*  The global
> reach of McDonalds has been a comfort to legions
> of US travellers abroad -- familiar food and clean
> toilets (i'fonly McD's in America had the latter too!  ;-)

Ewww. :(
>
> Oh, and what the French are proposing is already
> the stuff of the typical US college campus speech
> code.
>
> *  and felt no shame a'tall.

Lucky you!

Last time I ate at McD's (July 4th, 1995), I felt the agony of a brick
passing through my bowels.
>
>> THAT's a better representation of what the
>> huddled masses have in store for them
>> by coming to America.
>
> Why d'ya suppose so many of those huddled
> masses are massing to get across the US frontier,
> Deb?  'Cause they've SEEN a McDonalds and
> think a country full of 'em must be WONDERFUL!

Until they feel the brick.

Run, run away!!!

EeeEeEeeeeeEeeEeeeeee!!!

Deb.


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