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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 02, 2012

Check Out the Election Posters of France's Oddball Candidates, Including a Porn Star, a Creepy Ecologist, and a Hoodie-Wearing Rapper

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France 24 's Joseph Bamat takes a look at "the oddball candidates trying to spice up the race" for France's parliamentar...

“Management Frowns upon Penis-Whipping”

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There was more than just sword play going on at the NYAC Golf Course. as a tiff over a woman and “escalated into a brawl involving three ...
Friday, June 01, 2012

Black Helicopters and Doomsday Behaviour

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It’s something seemingly accepting and forgiving Europeans aren’t bad at, and occasionally prove. To keep the mad mob of zombies they expe...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Opposition to (Or the Very Belief in) Eurabia Will Make You a Neo-Con & Turn You Into Anders Breivik

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Le Monde devotes an entire full page of its paper edition (its opinion section, to be sure, albeit an opinion that is not balanced by one s...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Causes of Fools

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Lefty Britons (and other) who boycott and protest at the drop of a hat are mirroring the Nazis of yore, despite the over-use of the term or...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Mitt Hitler and Double Standards: Godwin's Law Applies to Thee, But Not to Me

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THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG, writes Damian sardonically as E-nough illustrates a post with a poster of Mitt-Romney-as-Adolf-Hitler that...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Pigs Got Him!

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Penguin no. 337, a Humbolt (known as Flash to his friends) who busted out of the Zoo in Tokyo 82 days ago by scaling a 13 foot high wall, ...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Who is a "natural born citizen" of the United States?

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Birthers questioned whether Obama was in fact born in the United States, while they claim Rubio, indisputably born in Miami, is not eligibl...

You’re Doing Fine, Baden-Württemberg, Baden-Württemberg, OK

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Rereading this is starting to make my stomach hurt. Observes Hermann. Not me, though. He discusses his view of the magnitude of the cash-p...
Friday, May 25, 2012

The New Europe is Actually the Old Normal Europe

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Title: "A run on the banks: Greeks gather together their liquid assets" Stereotypical Greek man: "... Quick!, hide this u...

Brett Kimberlin's Modus Operandi Was Described in Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism"

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The harassment that convicted Speedway bomber Brett Kimberlin has been subjecting various bloggers to ( Aaron Walker aka “Aaron Worthin...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Elitist Piffle and the Modern Do-Gooder

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An environmental “eco-district" built on "brownfield" land on the French side of the border with Switzerland 15 klicks from ...

Boat People: What Does the French Version Look Like?

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Obama Delighted to Meet France's Socialist Leader, Who Vows to Support BHO "For as Long as Possible"

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According to Le Monde 's Corine Lesnes and Thomas Wieder , Barack Obama is delighted to find in François Hollande a man of similar outlo...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Retreat From Afghanistan, as Seen by Plantu in a French Cartoon

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The Pullback From Afghanistan, by Plantu : • François Hollande: How do you say in English the words however … although … nevertheless … havi...

Further to Pointless Devotions

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Some of which live in a past held in some sentimental regard by people who can’t count past 21 . This is particularly true of European Synd...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Pointlessly Devoted to You

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Any informed person’s first thought is to want to ask: “what austerity?” , but you have to remember that we’re talking about the true black ...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

French Terror Ring Dismantled, Members Sound Like Sympathizers of the Occupy Wall Street Movement

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A terrorist ring has been dismantled in France, writes Elise Vincent in Le Monde , with its members now on trial and risking 10 years behin...
Friday, May 18, 2012

The Girls of Crazy Horse: In France, Even Strippers Go on Strike (Video)

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In France, even strippers go on strike. Because they only earn 2,000 Euros a month, writes Alain Beuve-Méry , the dancers of the Crazy Horse...

Oh you Little Shnickelfritz, how Could Anyone Stay Mad at YOU?!?

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The current foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, is responsible for French EU policy. In 2005, he and his crew tried to suffocate the EU treat...
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