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November 07, 2005

Channeling Governor Blameco

Whatever dope he's smoking, I hope to hell no one else gets ahold of any.

Dominique de Villepin, the beleaguered prime minister, announced that officials in riot-hit areas would be authorised to impose late-night curfews "wherever it is necessary" in a bid to halt the disturbances.

He rejected calls by a police union for troops to be sent in but said that 1,500 reservists were being called up and repeated an appeal to parents to keep adolescent rioters off the streets.


Posted by tree hugging sister at November 7, 2005 09:50 PM

Comments

Completely utterly hopelessly clueless. I'm waiting for the Very Bad Thing to happen that will finally make them pop their heads out of their butts.

Posted by: Cindermutha at November 7, 2005 10:55 PM

Make that... "IS dope."

!!!

Posted by: Faith at November 8, 2005 07:53 AM

Tried to send a trackback. Says successfully pinged but it's not showing up.

Posted by: Cullen at November 8, 2005 08:11 AM

Fixed. Thanks Cullen!

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 8, 2005 08:23 AM

But he's asking them to stay home. Why doesn't that solve the problem?

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 8, 2005 08:24 AM

Thank you!

Posted by: Cullen at November 8, 2005 08:40 AM