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…
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Friday, June 08, 2007
Here, Kid. Pull My Finger.
Dick Marty accuses civilization of trying to protect Itself. All of society complicit.
I thought that the very existence of an unelected and unaccountable "Council" that levels accusations without proof was an insult to Europe
For the French, it's the next best thing to America bashing
Religious fanatics regularly flout French law
As if the Rest of it isn't Pretty Awful to Begin With
Coming in behind a washed up tennis pro is what sells, even if it’s mindless trash, comes someone singing about something completely unrelated, that is, channeling their personal disappointment into criticizing a whole nation.
Live From Jerry’s Acid Park
Get a load of this idiot who wants to pollute in the interest of “raising awareness” about the environment or some other little mental pleasantry.Marco Evaristti, originally from Chile, said he would colour the peak of Mont Blanc -- the highest mountain in western Europe --- in biodegradable paint and establish a sovereign "Pink State" on the summit in an attempt to raise awareness for environmental issues.
Not his property, but so what. He’s got an answer to that one: good old fashioned Euro-thought and moronic pseudo-rebelliousness acted out for personal reasons.
Evaristti's guide Michel Bordet told AFP the artist had already painted a part of the mountain at the Col des Flambeaux passage, at 3,400 metres (11,150 feet) in the Vallee Blanche valley, as a "small taste of what is to come.""My aim is to transform this mythical mountain of Mont Blanc into a Mountain Red and establish a sovereign state, the 'Pink State'," Evaristti told AFP.
His credentials as a grreenie hypocrite are nonetheless firm:
Snow-capped Mont Blanc rises to 4,808 metres (15,774 feet) in the French Alps.
According to the 43-year-old artist, the purpose of his "Mont Blanc Project" is to raise questions such as: "Who owns nature? Who owns the water in the lakes, the snow on the ground, the flowers in the fields and the trees in the rain forests?".
Evaristti said he has the "right" to "create a non-violent state of pluralism and tolerance" on the mountain, which "doesn't belong to France alone."Evaristti caused an outcry in 2000 with an exhibit in Denmark's Trapholt modern art museum that featured gold fish swimming in blenders. Evaristti's exhibit gave visitors the choice of switching on the machine.
It’s right up there with the illogic of imposing new things on nature in an effort to “purify” it in a subconscious effort to “purify” themselves of guilt that’s been trained into them:
"I wanted people to confront their consciences, their inner judgement, their instincts, to press the button of death or not," the artist said at the time.
A Danish animal rights group took him to court over the exhibit. Evaristti was acquitted.The Pleistocene was the heyday of megafauna, a span of geologic time when big mammals like mammoths, saber-toothed cats, woolly rhinos and giant ground sloths roamed the continents. The epoch lasted over one million years during which glaciers plowed the planet's surface, stretching and retracting across vast expanses. Near the beginning of the end of the Pleistocene some 50,000 years ago, much of the megafauna disappeared in synchrony with the spread of modern humans. This loss left the Holocene, the current geologic epoch (which began about 11,000 years ago) with a much impoverished megafauna.
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But re-wilding initiatives in Europe must also include reinvigoration of megafauna populations already there that have suffered severe range constriction. Among them: the wolf, brown bear, lynx and moose. Scientists should also consider reintroducing 11 additional megafauna species: the Asiatic lion, leopard, spotted hyena, dhole, horse, cattle, Asiatic wild ass, Asiatic elephant, hippopotamus, water buffalo and hairy rhinoceros.Indeed. The membership nodded with a sheepish, unquestioning display of some sort of mimicry of sane behavior that they recall from their youth at private school. We’ll set aside the resemblance this has to the effects of child abuse at this point. The real nuttiness here is that natural climate change killed off these species. In the interest to create a pre-human ecosystem that humans will not be able to enjoy out of self-loathing guilt, these idiots who seem only slightly better educated than “zee arteest” want to impose a completely artificial nature that does nothing particular for the earth’s most useful and able species (at least a few of them) - man.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Caption Contest
You’re the flower of Europe’s youth. You’re wearing a wig. You’re protesting the fact that the G8 exist. You’re dressed like a clown. The Polizei are either trying not to laugh at you, or thinking of giving you the "wood shampoo". You have your hand up a puppet’s ass. What could the puppet possibly be thinking?
Calling Dr. Benway
In 2003 Cheb Mami received the French National Order of Merit from Jacques Chiraq.
Cut rate abortions include free musical soundtrack.
Move Along. Nothing Left to See Here.
Paul Belein: Last year more than 155,000 Germans emigrated from their native country. Since 2004 the number of ethnic Germans who leave each year is greater than the number of immigrants moving in. While the emigrants are highly motivated and well educated, "those coming in are mostly poor, untrained and hardly educated," says Stephanie Wahl of the German Institute for Economics. In a survey conducted in 2005 among German university students, 52 percent said they would rather leave their native country than remain there. By "voting with their feet," young, educated Germans affirm that Germany has no future to offer them and their children. As one couple who moved to the United States told the newspaper Die Welt: "Here our children have a future in which they will not have to fear unemployment and social decline."
Americans who think that the European welfare state is the model to follow would do well to ponder the question why, if Europe is so wonderful, Europeans are fleeing from it.Belein describes some curious milestones that the wizened sooths of Old Europe’s™ national governments don’t care to call attention to: emigration peaked after the murder of Pim Fortyn and Theo van Gogh. For many, these events appear to be too much – a sort of tipping point or ”emotionally significant” number which the press reserves for issues they themselves seem better psychologically prepared to countenance.
The “other white meat” – social mass suicide.
Let’s not forget about the most noticeable feature scaring people with personal potential and families away: the social medium dominated by the predilections of many of the “aboriginals” themselves:
With the international media focused on the violent clashes between left-wing "anti-globalization" activists and German police at the anti-G-8 protest in Rostock this past weekend, another component of Germany's broad "anti-globalization" consensus will have passed largely unperceived: namely, the neo-Nazis of the National-Democratic Party of Germany or NPD. Under the motto "There is no such thing as fair globalization," an NPD-sponsored anti-G-8 demonstration had been scheduled to take place in the nearby city of Schwerin on Saturday, the same day as the "leftist" demonstration in Rostock. The NPD protest was, however, cancelled at the last minute, as the state supreme court of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, citing the potential for violence, upheld a ban issued by the local authorities. In light of the entirely predictable rioting of the leftist "Black Block" in Rostock -- leading to the violence that left nearly 1000 injured, including some 433 police officers -- the court's grounds, it must be said, now seem rather feeble.Much in the way Ausländern can’t quite understand how virtually the entire political spectrum in Europe tends to find quiet comfort in totalitarianism-light, they at least wonder about it out loud.
In spite of the ban, over 1,500 NPD members are reported to have taken part in smaller, "spontaneous" anti-G-8 protests in several German cities. Over 100 are reported to have marched through Berlin's central Brandenburg Gate. As documented on the NPD Web site -- but virtually ignored by not only the international, but also the German media -- some 50 NPD members, including three members of the regional parliament of Saxony, managed briefly to occupy the steps of the German Reichstag, unfurling anti-G-8 banners and waving NPD flags. "Under the gable of the western entrance to the Reichstag building with its inscription 'To the German People',"
For the NPD, the anti-globalization movement is to be understood as part of a "völkisch" uprising of the world's "peoples" [Völker] against the "rootless" capitalism system. [The German word völkisch is derived from the word Volk: which can be rendered as either "people" or "nation," but unlike the corresponding English words, typically carries a strong connotation of ethnicity. The ethnic idea of the "Volk" or nation was the core idea of the National Socialism of the 1930s and 40sOddly enough Nazi writer Joachim Fest said what seems to remain a truth of left dominated societies, both by omission and commission:
“The media fabricates more than two thirds of public opinion from which the foam of the parliamentary Aphrodite rises.”
- El Gato has more.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
One of the Best Movie Themes Ever Composed…
Many men came here as soldiers
Many men will pass this way
Many men will count the hours
When they live The Longest Day
Many men are tired and weary
Many men are here to stay
Many men won't see the sun set
When it ends The Longest Day
So that anti-American thing is about all Americans, not just Bush
C'était pour voir s'il en avait dans le ventre
"The mother, Fatia, spit on the courtroom floor. She then took a butcher knife out of her handbag and lunged at the judge, pushing the 20cm blade into his stomach."
A tribute to all who have had to stagger out of the blood foaming surf to die on a foreign shore
When America is supposed to pause and honor her fallen warriors. But, thanks to 4 decades of Leftist indoctrination it is now, to too many, a three day weekend to indulge in personal gratification. Nothing more. Not even a passing thought to the men and women and have died to safeguard this country.
Was going to send this out on Memorial Day but found myself thinking of this song almost daily.
A tribute to all who have had to stagger out of the blood foaming surf to die on a foreign shore.
For [my father's] friends who did not live to come home. And for the ones who did.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Sure. Whatever you say, Spanky.
They must have been peeing themselves with anticipation to say it: « L'économie américaine traverse un trou d'air » You know the one they’re talking about: the one that Old Europe has been stuck in for almost a generation.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Some Hayawan Must Have Whispered in His Ear
The claim emerged in a document written by official DH Colvin at the British embassy in Paris, quoting a contact at the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association, as the crisis unfolded.
Can become this:Israel secret services 'involved in 1976 Air France hijack'
What went nearly completely unmentioned, even then was that the hijacking was a collaboration between the atheistic European Leftists embodied by Bader-Meinhof Gang (those crazy kids!) and a religious offshoot of the PLO, but look at what the scribbler is calling a conspiracy.
Do I need to draw you a picture?
Yeah, but Would Thierry Meyssan Let Them Work on his House?
The “truthers” are desperate, if not obsessed with, to legitimating their credentials any way they can. It’s key to selling the irrational, implausible, and unprovable digestible to oneself and to others. After almost six years of banging their spoons on their highchairs, they finally found a handful of Architects and Engineers to provide some kind of satisfaction in their search for conclusions that don’t fit the objective evidence of the 9-11 attacks.
Meet bin Laden’s poodle, and the UFO seeking narcissists who’ve given up on Clearasil and are jumping up and down for joy. Too bad they don’t realize what a poor authority is carrying their hopes of getting more than 5 professional engineers (ones who have taken one of the P.E. registration exams) in the entire United States to go along with their “9/11 was an inside job” snowjob: Architects don’t do the structural design of anything larger than a freestanding house.
They include a Fire Protection Engineer who’s had his license cancelled 9 years ago, a Land Surveyor, a Mechanical Engineer, and an Electrical Engineer who aren’t qualified to analyze or design structural designs, and a Civil Engineer who’s professional registration check returns no results. Indeed, true scholars for “truthiness” if there ever were any. I'm glad to see engineers and architects finally coming together to dispel the myths and add weight to the science backing the questioning of the coverup...
- So goes one of the “testimonials” we're asked to take with the authority that comes with credentials as firm as these!
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Rotting From the Neck Up
Al-Jazeera sur Seine, having long-since redefined who the aggressor was in the 6-day war, reduces it to cartoon villainy.
Et il Continue à Leur Donner la Pipe
Where did Michael Moore’s whacky pipeline fetish get to?The EU pipeline, designated as a "priority project" by EU heads of state at the March summit, is designed to link Europe - via the South Caucasus and Turkey - to Azerbaijan and Iran in the first phase. A second phase, which is crucial in terms of overall financial viability, would add a branch under the Caspian Sea to Central Asia.
One wonders: did that dastardly Bushco go to war in Afghanistan just to protect Europe from Putin?
Shipwrecked Africans: left clinging to a tuna net for three days
Someone just take a pillow and put these doddering old fools out of their misery
And now for a moment of clarity
«I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.»
-Abba Eban
Habituated hatred: the leftist lifestyle that make you stupid
But then again that IS all there seems to be in the leftist mind – judging by what comes out of the mouth of those pissed-off mockingbirds of politics.
I guess they can always do a rag from the stock repertoire, and demand money more for healthcare. You can’t go wrong demanding more and more and more money for healthcare.
I guess they could just go back to making up stories and of course demanding more more Tapioca. Something like that.