Riots in Athens (Greece)

I've no idea what you are talking about.

But I'm rather sure that it has nothing to do with happens and happened in Greece.
And that's what my thread is about.

I just believe that the individual that you were having reparteee with is not appreciated for his good points.

When Walter uses the pronoun "my," it's because he's the person who originated this thread. If you can't see past this simple interpretation, you should go to the local bar to look for a fight.

"My" is rhetorical. It has nothing to do with property ownership.

It's somewhat similar to your use of "my post."

Europe exists, it appears. If Greek students sneeze, or catch a whiff of tear-gas, young people take to the streets in France and now Sweden. Yesterday, masked youths threw two firebombs at the French Institute in Athens. Windows were smashed but the building was not seriously damaged. Then youths spray-painted two slogans on the building. One said, "Spark in Athens. Fire in Paris. Insurrection is coming". The other read, "France, Greece, uprising everywhere".

ATHENS " Socialists won national elections in Greece on Sunday, trouncing a center-right government crippled by corruption scandals and a growing economic crisis.


With 65 percent of Greece’s 10 million votes counted, the Socialist Pasok Party was leading with 43.7 percent of the vote compared with 34.6 percent for the center-right New Democracy Party, a margin expected to give the Socialists their largest victory ever and a comfortable majority in Parliament.

“Today we set off together to build the Greece we want and need. We have no time to waste,” the Socialist leader, George Papandreou, said in his victory speech. “We want it, we can do it, we will succeed.”

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ATHENS " Socialists won national elections in Greece on Sunday, trouncing a center-right government crippled by corruption scandals and a growing economic crisis.


With 65 percent of Greece’s 10 million votes counted, the Socialist Pasok Party was leading with 43.7 percent of the vote compared with 34.6 percent for the center-right New Democracy Party, a margin expected to give the Socialists their largest victory ever and a comfortable majority in Parliament.

“Today we set off together to build the Greece we want and need. We have no time to waste,” the Socialist leader, George Papandreou, said in his victory speech. “We want it, we can do it, we will succeed.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/world/europe/05greece.html?hp

The Greeks are ready for a little revolution....will the fever spread? Obviously, I hope so. We have been to patient for too long with corrupt corporate class rule.

The usual people, I believe, that would like to change to a new economic/political system are mostly those that are not doing so well in the current economic/political system. It is called feathering one's nest.

Foofie wrote:

The usual people, I believe, that would like to change to a new economic/political system are mostly those that are not doing so well in the current economic/political system. It is called feathering one's nest.

How do you read that the political/economic system in Greece will change?
And why do you call voters who want a change in government "the usual people that ... . .... feathering one's nest."?

The usual people, I believe, that would like to change to a new economic/political system are mostly those that are not doing so well in the current economic/political system. It is called feathering one's nest.

Foofie wrote:

The usual people, I believe, that would like to change to a new economic/political system are mostly those that are not doing so well in the current economic/political system. It is called feathering one's nest.

No kidding. Kinda like the colonists hoped to gain something by staging that revolution against the British Crown. Always looking out for their personal advantage. No loyalty. It's a shame, really.