Tuesday - April 11, 2006

French Crybabies Persist

This just gets better and better. The Frog government caved in to the striking students and surrendered without a shot being fired. So what do the stoopid Frog kids (tadpoles?) do then? Why ... they keep protesting and marching. For what? Nobody knows. Maybe they just like to protest and avoid having to go to class. Typical Frog behavior - sit in a pond a croak .... ribbit .. ribbit ....

French Students Protest, Despite Victory
_{April 11, 2006, 12:22 PM EDT}

PARIS (AP)—Students and unions staged new protests Tuesday across France, hoping to ride the momentum that led President Jacques Chirac to scrap a youth labor law and force the government to pull other contested reforms.

Chirac’s retreat and school vacations that began this week were expected to deplete turnout from massive recent protests and university sit-ins that prompted him to abandon the “youth jobs contract” on Monday.

Hundreds of students marched in northeastern Paris—far fewer than the 84,000 who turned out in the capital for protests that drew 1 million demonstrators nationwide on April 4.

Police were on high alert to head off a possible replay of violence that marred earlier marches, checking bags of people leaving a subway station near the start of the march. A few tourists heading to a Paris department store expressed alarm at the line of police vans.

- More On The Frog Freaks Here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/11/2006 at 02:33 PM   
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