Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Some inkling of an awareness of cause and effect have been located in EUropistan.
The first involves the usual Eur-obsession with a business that could only exist if you have large numbers of men with no discernable personality, and the other involves out of place, travelling rodentia. Same thing, really who thrive best when fed by others.
But first a word from their corporate sponsor, who will never ever go away.
Germans, despite the official declaration, remain entranced with that Obama magic that never existed to begin with. So much so, that they’re searching feverishly to find new and politically acceptable ways to abandon the Afghans to the control of a minority of violent Jihadists. You know the type: the brown-red European politi-bots refer to them as being the whole of the Afghan population.
Observing Hermann, being an all-around Klug kind of dude, notes:
No pressure here, time or otherwise. Before not committing any new troops to Afghanistan, Germany wants to take all the time it needs to say no more thoroughly and convincingly and much, much later (around February or so). And why not take your time? They’re in the best of company here.
Interesting new way of making friends, that is.
In other words, “no”, like I said. Westerwelle did indicate that Germany is prepared to increase police trainers in Afghanistan, however. That German police training in Afghanistan has been a catastrophe up until now is another question altogether, but still.
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Are Frenchmen the Europeans Most "Sensitized" to Global Warming Or Are They the Europeans Most "Brain-Washed" By the Media?
De fait les Français sont parmi les plus influencés par le matraquage des médias, particulièrement TV et Internet. …
Etant donné le matraquage éhonté auxquels ils sont soumis, il n'est pas surprenant que les français soient "parmi les plus sensibilisés".
La propagande écolo marche à plein régime ...
La France pratique l'omerta et la désinformation systématique sur le RCA. Les critiques sont traités de négationnistes. Les travaux récents de scientifiques non liés au GIEC ne sont jamais cités, car ils remetten en caus le pardigme du RCA. Et nous nous disons héritiers du siècle des Lumières ? Ne serions-nous pas plutôt ceux de l'Inquisition et de la Pensée Unique ?....
Meanwhile, Don Surber sums up the whole affair pretty neatly (merci à Larwyn):
They called us Global Warming Holocaust Deniers — sneered at us, snarked at us, and snubbed us.
None of them bothered to read “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
I have no time for paybacks or saying I told you so.
But pay attention to why they fell for this billion-dollar hoax which almost became a trillion-dollar tragedy.
1. The pseudo-intellectuals fell for it because none of them ever cracked a science book. 2. The policy wonks fell for it because it gave the government more control. 3. The bleeding hearts fell for it because they always want to save the Earth. 4. The communists fell for it because it portrayed capitalists as destroying the Earth to make money. 5. The capitalists fell for it because they saw a new way to make money. 6. The Hollywood crowd fell for it because it made their pampered lives seem to have a meaning and purpose. 7. The newspapers fell for it because it was new. 8. The teachers fell for it because it was a new thing to teach the children to teach their parents. 9. The children fell for it because they wanted to show how well they are doing in school. 10. The parents fell for it because they wanted their children were doing so well in school and they wanted to be supportive. 11. The utility companies fell or it because they can raise rates. 12. The Nobel Peace Prize committee fell for it because Al Gore should have won in 2000. 13. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences fell for it because Al Gore should have won in 2000. 14. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys) fell for it because Al Gore should have won in 2000. 15. The 30,000 scientists fell for it because while it was not in their field of study, they wanted to be supportive of science.
The only people who didn’t fall for it were we mouth-breathing, Bible-thumping, beer-guzzling, cousin-humping, baby-bumping, overfed, inbred, illiterate, gun-clinging, buck-toothed, trailer-park-living, truck-driving, ATV riding, Wal-mart shopping, knuckle-dragging, military-supporting, ain’t-recycling, patriotic, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist, racist hillbillies with cooties.
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Jimmy Gavroche Vs. Prince Zéfy le Bienheureux: World Wide Wrestling French Style
Aïe… Aïe… Aïe… Jimmy Gavroche, Monsieur Jacky Richard, Prince Zéfy le bienheureux, Divine Isabella la battante: those are some of the names of wrestling stars involved in Wrestling, French Style (click on the eyes in the narrow vertical frame below Le Monde's screen to see other wrestlers)…
Quand je finis un mec, j'aime bien plonger et l'écraser de tout mon poids. Je sais qu'il est écrabouillé comme une grosse limace immonde, et je sais qu'il va plus se relever. Et ça, j'adore ! (rires)
When this little journalistic stunt was cooked up weeks ago, it probably seemed like such a great idea .... at the time:
Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and half-hearted.
At some point even those bansheeing this this type of thing will notice the screaming satire they are purveying. Then again, we are aware of how blind people can become when their religious faith is under attack.
The N-P silver screen meltdown marches ever forward in something familiar to European political observers, that is to say in goose steps. We present Billy Wilder’s 1961 madcap tale of Commie Berlinalia called One, Two, Three, which also happened to star Jimmy Cagney who brilliantly shows his comic timing and skill, even as Wilder turned the pace of the film up to 11.
Oddly enough, one of the many things that points out the humorlessness of “progressive” activist to this day is the fact that some of them still campaign cheerlessly and sadly unaware of irony against “Coca-Cola Imperialism”, as if their own not drinking the stuff wasn’t enough. I wonder if they realize that the concept was just one of Wilder’s jokes.
I strongly recommend renting or downloading this film! Not only will you not know where the time went, and possibly regret it, but you’ll find strange hidden gems in it, like a Messerschmitt micro-car that keeps appearing in the background, and momentary references to Carney’s “Little Caesar” character by an untitled supporting actor playing to Cagney, and another play on it with him asking for “Rico”. Along the way, look for a Khruchevesque banging of the shoe on a table, and a chillingly accurate portrait of the shambolic ruin that was East Berlin long AFTER this film was shot.
Layering it even more is the appearance of wonderful players like Leon Askin, (born Leo Aschkenasky) who sent up the temperament of a Soviet apparachik in this film, much as he later sent up the comically greedy Nazi General Burkhalter in the television comedy series, Hogan’s Heroes. Those mere moments in his long and rich career which included politically provocative cabaret as only the Viennese could do. Immigrating to America in 1940, he enlisted in the US Army, was stationed in Britain, and upon return to New York having been unable to find his parents who were sent to a Concentration Camp, he started a theater group made up entirely of Army veterans. Like Mel Brooks who served as a combat engineer and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, he seems to have understood that the most humiliating defeat an enemy can face is mockery.
What they share with Wilder, a Berliner transplanted to America himself, wasn’t just comic ability, creativity, but a keen sense of observation, matched to a functioning moral compass.
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Juh Juh Juh Joker Face, Juh Juh Joker Face — Obamamaaaa!
Around 1917-1918, American government officials (soldiers) murdered thousands, if not tens of thousands of Germans, for (almost) no reason whatsoever.
And then, because the Americans — those clueless retards — are moronic as well as blindly patriotic, 20-30 years later, they still had not learned the lessons of tolerance and understanding, and they again, for no reason whatsoever I tell you, started assassinating poor, innocent Germans again, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands!
No wonder why the Germans and their leaders in the 1910s and in the 1940s hated us… (Now, if only we could have tried a little more understanding…)
In the year 3000, the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit delves into 1,000 years of music history to bring light upon one of the 20th century's top groups (cheers to Larwyn)…
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
Le Monde Readers Accuse the Daily of Disinformation Regarding the Climategate Scandal
In its first in-depth (sic) analysis (sic) of the Climategate scandal, Le Monde assures its readers that
all of this does not affect, far from it, climate science, which is linked to the work of thousands of scientists.
Stéphane Foucart goes on to offer proof thereof, the most "biting" of which is that the scientists involved in the scandal were "sincerely convinced" of their work, while the work of the sceptics has been… "ridiculed".
Well yes, Stéphane Foucart, except that the whole premise underlying the "fact" that thousands of scientists (and millions of citizens worldwide) accept global warming as gospel truth, the "fact" that the scientists (sic) were "sincerely convinced" of their work, and the "fact" that the work of the sceptics is deserving of "ridicule", that whole premise turns out to be false.
The impression left by the Climategate emails is that the global warming game has been rigged from the start
Mr. Morales is expected to win re-election easily, in part because in many areas that he controls voters will be escorted into polling booths to make sure they choose correctly. His party, Movement for Socialism (aka MAS for its Spanish initials), is almost certain to retain control of the lower house of congress and is likely to win the senate, which until now has been controlled by the opposition.
Because they think THIS kind of thing is a social advancement adn "solidaristic". So much so, that many among them idolize the world’s grim human failures as “naturalistic”. Natural for them maybe.
A dictatorship that fosters the production and distribution of cocaine is not apt to enjoy a positive international image. But when that same government cloaks itself in the language of social justice, with a special emphasis on the enfranchisement of indigenous people, it wins world-wide acclaim.
This is Bolivia, which in two weeks will hold elections for president and both houses of congress. The government of President Evo Morales will spin the event as a great moment in South American democracy. In fact, it will mark the official end of what's left of Bolivian liberty after four years of Morales rule.
Those with some resignation and a vile sense of humor, no doubt will take a certain joy in having this lesson – the one that was taught to eastern Europeans and a million dead Cambodians at the end of a stick – taught once more.
While the U.S. and the Organization of American States have been obsessing over Honduras's legal removal of an undemocratic president, Mr. Morales has been fortifying his narco-dictatorship. He's also made friends with Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will make another visit to La Paz tomorrow.
The only question is: who many decades will it take, and how many tens of million must die for the “progressives” of this world to put their ideology in line with what they claim to be their ethical framework.
PARIS (AP) - Woody Allen has successfully courted France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
But to actually add some life to the story, and the sort of flippant, ill-cast silliness that comes with French TV, you need some real talent to show up and save the day:
Allen "asked me to be in his next film," she said Monday on Canal Plus television, where she appeared for an interview and duet with crooner Harry Connick Jr.
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How Much Longer Can We Wait Until We Tackle Global Warming?!
I'll be honest with you, Diane, I'm not entirely sure what qualifies the former Vice President to render an opinion on Afghanistan
is how the White House press secretary answered Diane Sawyer's question on Dick Cheney's criticism of the Apologizer-in-Chief's war policies (thanks to Scott Whitlock via Larwyn).
Hello-oooo! Are you kidding, Robert Gibbs?! The man was in the vice-president's chair when 9-11 happened, for Christ's sakes, and when the decision to send troops to Afghanistan was made and he was at the helm of power for more than seven years after that!
Can you imagine the — rightful — outrage, not least from the TV interviewer, if, say, Dick Cheney himself had said that he was "not entirely sure what qualifies Al Gore to render an opinion" on Afghanistan, on global warming, on whatever subject? (Well, come to think of it, Al Gore on global warming…)
That was the specifics. More generally, the comment shows the left's tendency to think that no opponent of the White House (or simply a skeptical person) is qualified — remember Obama's admonition that conservatives should shut up and let him do the ruling and make the decisions? — to render an opinion on leftist policies…
In other matters, Maggie's Farm quotes two veterans regarding Obama's West Point speech (you know, the one without the words "win" or "victory" in it):
Obama graduated from Columbia and he knows absolutely nothing about US and World history. Nothing! Listening to him reminds me being in a coffee shop in the late 60s, trying to make my move on a beautiful girl, but as the 4th international idiocies tumbled out of her mouth, the beauty slowly vanished, and chastity became easy--at least with her. Four things can kill sexual desire: hunger, exhaustion, fear, and listening to an idiot.
The previous person quoted is "a combat veteran, a journalist, a frontline refugee aid worker, a man of the cloth, a professor, major scholar, a mentor and example to generations":
Obama says Afghanistan is different from Vietnam because in Afghanistan we are not facing "a broad-based popular insurgency." So it was the "broad-based insurgency" that finally won in Vietnam? Why are there so many Vietnamese in this country? Why did South Vietnam become a gulag for twenty years after 1975? (I went back for the first time in 1995, and it was one of the most oppressive societies I have ever experienced.) Where did the soldiers in the South Vietnamese army come from? If North Korea were to overtake South Korea tomorrow, would it be the result of a broad-based insurgency? The entire North Vietnamese army--after we had withdrawn all support from the South--overran the country. Not the Viet Cong, the North Vietnamese Army. Some South Vietnamese units fought to the last man. Some were still fighting a rear guard action in the central highlands for five years after the fall of Saigon.
…Obama doesn't believe that any war can ever be legitimate. Read his speeches from Cairo, Normandy, or Berlin. He has talked about the progress of American blacks from slavery to his presidency, without ever mentioning the civil war. It just didn't happen. It was like the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was no military involved, no "cold war," people just "came together" and the wall fell.
Several Republican National Committee members have proposed a conservative litmus test for candidates who wish to receive support from the RNC, writes Jillian Bandes.
These committee members say the test is essential to fixing the RNC, and one step toward rebuilding the Republican brand. … Here are the ten Reagan’s Unity Principles.
(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's "stimulus" bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and,
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Washington's Afghan Strategy Frustrates the Europeans
Good job, Apologizer-in-Chief! On repairing relations with Europe and on getting everybody on board towards a common future. A recent headline in Le Monde (two weeks prior to BHO's decision on adding troops to Afghanistan) shows the long path we have come since the days of Bush: La stratégie afghane de Washington déconcerte les Européens. (Still, notice how France's newspaper of reference manages to avoid saying: Obama's Afghan Strategy Frustrates the Europeans, whereas it would probably have used "Bush" in the headline during the previous administration…)
"Georgia does not want to be the victim" of the Obama administration and its revision of U.S. policy towards Russia. That is the first sentence in Piotr Smolar's Le Monde article.
Après des années de relations étroites avec l'administration Bush, les autorités de Tbilissi ont assisté, inquiètes, aux tentatives de rapprochement entre Washington et Moscou initiées par Barack Obama sur certains dossiers clés comme le désarmement ou le programme nucléaire de l'Iran.
Foreign minister Grigol Vachadze, 20% of whose country is occupied by the Russians, has gone to Paris to bring about a closer relationship both with the EU and NATO, but also to voice his worries about France's sale of a Mistral-class warship to the Kremlin.
L'Estonie, membre de l'UE, a déjà fait part de ses interrogations. "Tout le monde est très inquiet dans la région, reconnaît le ministre. Il s'agit d'un navire de dernière génération pouvant accueillir, si je me rappelle bien, 16 hélicoptères d'assaut, 900 soldats, 16 véhicules blindés. Où irait un tel navire ? Pas dans la Baltique contre la Finlande, ni dans le Pacifique contre le Japon ou la Chine. Tout le monde sait que ce serait dans la mer Noire, contre l'Ukraine et la Géorgie."
Meanwhile Le Monde's readers (most of them, at least) are (as usual) going gaga over Russia…
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Around 1917-1918, American government officials (soldiers) murdered thousands, if not tens of thousands of Germans, for (almost) no reason whatsoever. 
