September 14, 2010

• J'ai Quarante Ans. Merde.

  At least I'm in Paris with other old relics.  Internet is unreliable, so here's saying, "Hi.  I'm forty fucking years old now."  And a picture.  It's some detail from the famous rose window in Notre Dame.

  

  Update 1:  Mom wrote me to make sure there wasn't fallout from the backward idiot Gainesville priest claiming we should burn Qurans.  Really? Is someone paying attention to this backward idiot rather than the vast number of other polite ones egging such sentiments on for weeks under the guise of "taking back the country" and "God and Nation?" Eff this, going to Eiffel Tower.

  Update 2:  Approach to Eiffel Tour on Champs de Mars is beautiful.  Actual access to tower or approach is totally cut off.   We can't even get under the tower.  Z-man overhears a French soldier say that there's a bomb threat.  I suspect they're just trying to keep people from going up there too late.

  Update 3:  Back at the hotel.  Apparently, the French senate passed a law that forbids complete burqa coverage of a woman's face, and there was a bomb threat called into various sites in Paris as the result.  Ugh.  Supported 4-to-1 by the French people, apparently.

  Update 4:  Watching a French talk-thing on TV, and they're talking about the Gainesville preacher.  Oh, good grief, world.  The idiots won this round. Security at CDG is going to be a bitch.

   

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