Hooray!

French Social Model is back in action.

Merry Eco-Barbarian Luddites in Portugal

Last Friday (17 August) in Algarve in the south of Portugal, a Portuguese farmer who had planted a GMO crop legal even by tight EU standards, saw his lands invaded and the corn crop destroyed by activists of a fringe ecologist organization with complete impunity. Portuguese police did not act to prevent or stop the wanton destruction.

The vandals' actions were praised by the extreme-left party Bloco de Esquerda, which has supported the activist organization in the past. Miguel Portas, an MEP for the Bloco de Esqueda supported this action as a "precautionary measure", an act of "civil disobedience" and "non-violent conflict". Even tough he acknowledged the destruction of property, Miguel Portas wrote that there was a "wider social benefit" by raising the public awareness of GMO's.

Meanwhile, the Minister responsible for internal security said the police did everything they could to stop the crop destruction (although it was indeed destroyed...) and that those involved were to be prosecuted. In response, the spokesman for the eco-barbarians deemed this a "waste of public money" that would be better employed in a public campaign against GMO's. Their goal is to "re-establish ecological, moral and democratic order" even at the expense of others, so it seems.

- Via O Insurgente

La politique Chiraqo-Villepiniste de la France envers l'Irak a été karcherisée

Cleaning up Chiraq's mess.

Y'all Ain't in Kansas Anymore

But in zat case, where are iou, zen?
Over the past two decades, country and western festivals have sprung up in many parts of France, sparked by an abiding fascination with the trappings of the American frontier as well as by a craze for line dancing.

It's structural

A bug, not a feature.



"Accept loss forever." -- Jack Kerouac, In other words: learn to live with it, learn to love it. Jerkoffs!

Les fauves sont lâchés

The unemployed hacks at Rue89.com do their best to bite Kouchner's ankles.

Kouchner in 2003.

"Soiling One's Hands" Like "a Little Poodle"

When Moscow rattles its sabers at its neighbors (and the principle-minded leaders in the French government state that they will manage the sensibilities of the Russians), the French (including the opposition) have little to no reaction. When China threatens Taiwan (and the peacemakers in the French government light the Eiffel Tower in red for the visit of a Chinese leader while trying to resume weapons sales to Beijing), the French (including the opposition) have little to no reaction.

When Bernard Kouchner pays a visit to Baghdad, i.e., does something involving the Americans, all hell breaks loose. "France is like a little poodle" sputters Noël Mamère as the opposition (official and less official) erupts in indignation and even the government's friends and allies have their doubts and second thoughts. "It's a manner of soiling one's hands to go to Baghdad after Sarkozy's visit to Bush."

In France they call it a diplomatic surge

France's stance on Iraq shifting.

This Social Model is the Envy of the World

La vie cachee du peripherique / The secret life of the Paris beltway - part 1

- With thanks to the man with a camera

Could They Hack it?

Hurricane Dean (2007-08-21-1545 UTC) superimposed to scale on the heart of Europe. It would envelope all of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Benelux, and most of the Czech Republic. Greater London would fit in its eye.

So where are the Katrina-esque tirades? Bring ‘em on! Here’s the coverage from the commie anachronisms who so sure that they’re concerned with “all of Humanity” as the name might imply, this lot only seems to have seen fit to cover the fate of one small island in the Caribbean without so much as even a link to a wire story about the Yucatan peninsula getting whacked. This, regardless of who their “real heroes” are.



More no-event non-news and poodle-like
idol worship from their weekly magazine.

Paris made Mumia an Honorary Resident

What will they make this guy? France has a real soft spot for American murderers. Now Obama is involved.

There are too many of them and they are filthy and wasteful

French vacationers are destroying the environment.


The French say: take that Kyoto thing and shove it!

Americans Are Hardly Known to Speak of Jack Chirac or Francis Mitterrand

Seven (or 20?!) years later, French journalists like Raphaëlle Bacqué and Ariane Chemin (or Philippe Bolopion) are so entwined in their nation's language that they have still not learned how to spell the names of two foreign presidents, Georges W. Bush and Georges H. W. Bush (or if they know the name of George Bush, they will mess up that of Gérald Ford).

Pas de quoi fouetter un chat, probably, but this is from the nation that is always speaking of understanding and respecting foreign cultures, honoring foreigners and diversity and multiculturalism, learning from foreign travels (the French make a fuss out of their accents being mishandled abroad but still refuse to use Spanish accents on Hispanic names and still call Beijing "Pékin"), and (especially)… pointing out that clueless, egotistical, and self-centered zombie-like Americans (!) are the people who routinely, regularly, and randomly can be expected to mess those things up.

Ratatouille

France is not the place to be this summer as tourism has been hit hard by bad weather (expect les experts fwançais to put that on Dubya's tab along with the rest of the world's ills). Never mind the lies and rubbish spewed out on the usual French hate sites.

Maybe They Forcibly Sodomized him Because They Felt Oppressed

I’m still waiting for “Talk is Cheap” to touch this one:

Lawyers in Pakistan are investigating a report that up to 30 men tortured and gang-raped a young Christian man for refusing to convert to Islam.

The victim is seriously injured and unable to move, Release International’s partner in Pakistan has reported. However, according to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) the police are keeping him locked up and have denied him medical treatment.

The police are also refusing to register the rape following a counter-claim made by his principal attacker – “a man of influence”, Release International has told Christian Today.

According to CLAAS, the Christian was invited to a game of cricket. A quarrel broke out and he was beaten up. Later that evening, the father of one of the Muslims asked the Christian over to his house.

Joseph Francis, the National Director of CLAAS, explained: “When he entered the drawing room, he found it filled with unknown people. They began to beat him severely. They threatened him with dire consequences if he did not accept Islam. After his refusal, they committed sodomy with him one by one for the whole night.”

And to think that there are people in the bien pensent cities of the west living in their own little universe who would pay big money for that.

Sauve qui peut.

Lucid, Nuanced, and Visionary French Élites

In his editorial for the last issue of Courrier International before the summer recess, Philippe Thureau-Dangin shows that all the nuance and the rationality of the French élites are all about Bush, and nothing else.

• La fin du mandat de George Bush risque d’être dur.

• Et, si jamais l’Iran passe du statut d’observateur occasionnel [au sein de l’Organisation de coopération de Shanghai] au statut de membre associé, cela aussi serait pénible pour George Bush…

• Tout cela ne serait vraiment pas de bonnes nouvelles pour George.

The British ally in Iraq, the Iranian foe in the Shanghai group, the WTO's negotiations in the Doha cycle, you name it, all international news revert to how it affects the Texan troublemaker, served with a spoonful of scornful schadenfreude that the news are hardly positive.

Forget about, ignore, the dangers posed by Tehran, Beijing, or international trade, real or otherwise. It's all about Bush being subject to bad news, Bush having a difficult time in the final months of his presidency, Bush not having a good summer this year…

Bon été à lui tout de même et à tous nos lecteurs.

All-Loving, All-Caring EUtopia

Which is superior in every way to America was deeply concerned about this man’s dignity:

A paedophile repeat offender, Francis Evrard, was sentanced Friday for the kidnap and rape of Enis in Roubaix (North). He had Viagra when he was arrested and says that it was prescribed to him before he was last released from prison, one confirmed source said on Saturday.

The 61 year old paedophile was arrested Wednesday evening in Roubaix with Viagra in his possession, according to one source close to the case.

Police officers indicated after his arrest that an investigation is underway to determine if this drug to treat male impotence was prescribed to him by a doctor in the Caen prison system where he was held.

Aren't you glad the Doctor went out of his way to enable him to get some of his physical manhood back in advance of his moral manhood?

Gratuitous Loony USA Reference № 2794

So Just Who is the Mad Cow?

Floaties: “ BCE “

Wifebeater shirt “ Love of risk “

Over at Libération PropagandaStaffel

Following French Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner's Baghdad visit, the reader comments over at Libération PropagandaStaffel are getting more hateful by the minute:

"J'ai mal au coeur quand je pense à M. Kouchner ..."
"C'est triste qu'un homme comme Bernard Kouchner s'abaisse à jouer les "Mickey" pour l'illusionniste de l'Elysée....Grave..!"
"... Koucner débarque pour se faire remarquer et bien 'nous' faire remarquer. A quand des attentats contre la France ?"
"A quand nos soldats à Bagdad ?"
"Trois hamburgers et un hotdog --
Je parie que Nick a promis à George d’envoyer les troupes avant la fin de l’année."
"Moi, je croyais que les visites médiatiques surprise à Baghdad, c'était le job de Blair. Ah oui, c'est vrai, Bush a changé de caniche... "
"le larbin --
le lobby francais a la solde de bush croit pouvoir sauver l'amerique.helas."

Bernard Kouchner in Baghdad

French Minister of Foreign Affaires Bernard Kouchner declares, "Now we have to face the reality, including the American view ... but this is an Iraqi problem and it must be solved by the Iraqis". Kouchner spoke to the press in English.

LCI French cable news video here.

French MSM will be in ape shit mode by this evening

French Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner has arrived in Baghdad for a 3 day visit.




De la lecture pour Bernard pendant son séjour.

Plantu is a Bigot

By that standard, would he caricature Rutger Hauer by putting him in wooden shoes?

I dare him to find even ONE Japanese woman who sees herself this way:

" Seven Japanese automakers accept a settlement in a lawsuit to compensate people for the harm done by pollution. "

After all, people don’t kill people, guns kill people. So by extension, cars pollute because people don’t have any free will of their own. Not in the well managed asylum Europeans like this strive for.

Soviet Sanitarium Redux

In today’s Le Figaro, Thibaut Danancher covers the story of one woman’s treatment by Paris’ city hall when she complained about vandalism and crime in her neighborhood in the 18th arrondissement: they referred her for Psychiatrist treatment:

By opening her mail last Saturday, Sylvia Bourdon discovered that it was invited to go to consult a psychiatrist at the Maison-Blanche hospital in Paris. An appointment planned for August 20 at 2 p.m. Subject of the consultaion: emails sent to the ministry for the Interior “to complain about what occurred in my neighborhood”.

Sylvia Bourdon then decides to take the things into her own hands. She created several blogs to denounce “this chaotic ghetto, this busted-up crime-ridden capital”. She spent June 14th at the window of her apartment taking photographs of what she qualifies as “persistent criminal activity”.

Tracked down by ten young men, her apartment was broken into a few days later. She had it. So much so that she sent angry emails to senior people at the Ministry for the Interior just to ask them to ensure her safety.

On one blog Sylvia Bourdon, a former porn and horror/ B-movie actress is shown to have been given the ultimate Scarlet Letter and being outed as some sort of xenophobe and racist, presumably for wanting to be able to walk safely down the street in a City in a Nation that won’t shut up about the wonders of its’ social model. In Paris, even when an argument to support someone’s views hints at any of this, the characterization becomes the kiss of death.

Last Saturday she received a letter which made it all clear to her: “Due to the various emails which you addressed to the Ministry of the Interior, the proper authorities required of us to contact you. If you wish, we can set up an appointment [with a Psychitarist] for you. I propose Monday August 20, 2007 at 2 p.m”, wrote someone from the hospital.

This last email was acted on at the request of the office of Mental Health Action of the Paris Police Prefecture, in particular the office responsible for involuntary admissions.

[ ... ]

Angered, Sylvia Bourdon has decided to leave Paris and France altogether. She announced that she will be migrating permanently to Greece in the fist half of 2008.

There goes the neighborhood. After all if you can’t cart off the citizens who speak up, what’s left?

- Hat-tip to Carine

Maybe Delanoë will make him an honorary resident of Paris à la Mumia

For Le Monde Al Jazeera on the Seine, Jose Padilla's guilty verdict symbolizes the excesses of America's war on terror.

It’s, like, all About the Environment, Dude

Which of course it isn’t. Not when you live in an apartment in a former industrial district, use a “macbook” (if you can even figure that out) and think that your over promoted, totally exploited thing is actually about “smashing PR” or “casseurs de pub”



And making America into a green Cyclopse, of course.

Today, they’re out on a marching protest to promote the act of walking! I’ll bet you didn’t know that big oil is trying to buy up peoples’ feet, did ya?!? You can smell the mendacity from here.

Zapatero’s Defense of Cuban Regime Explained

Socialists seeking youthful “solidarity”:

by all accounts, the country is a major destination for sex tourism, including child sex tourism. Cuba's thriving sex trade caters to thousands of European, Canadian, and Latin American tourists every year, and involves large numbers of Cuban girls and boys, some as young as 12. State-run hotel workers, travel employees, cab drivers, hospitality staff, and police steer tourists to prostituted women and children and facilitate the commercial sexual exploitation of these women and children.

Thousands of these lucid and thoughtful types are licking their chops over the revolution and class struggle no doubt.

It’s Becoming the Anus of Civilization

Pretend provocation, pretend sensitivity: This cartoon was published the day after the Feast of the Assumption, not that it really means much to your average Le Monde reader numb to the genuine beliefs of others. That very fake form of concern by way of telling oneself how fair one is, is the first step to not realizing how offensive this (and they) really are.

Virgin Mary matronly EU apparition: "What? The French only have 9 weeks of summer vacation and Bulgarians get 16? I foresee strikes at back-to-school time!"
Vacationers (who look like Plantu’s derisive characterization of Americans:"No-one will belive us."

The EU angle? There isn’t one. I suppose he’s trying to imply something about either traditional France or the EU commenting on the horrible “Anglo-Saxon-like” mechanization of their lives through the mere realization that there are schoolkids in Europe who get more vacation than they do.

News-people thinking that their own work is news. The public is predictably expected to bang their spoons on their high-chairs yelling “Me Me Me!” But this all comes out of a news item Le Monde brought out itself by reporting a survey of some of nationally mandated school schedules in Europe. More than one EUvian? Then think of it somehow connected with the EU and therefore paint it as a criticism... somehow.
In fact none of it is the case. As with many things the root cause of this great social horror is that someone actually reported it.

Big whoop. It IS in fact an indicator. If you look at the poorest and least intellectually developed or successful parts of Europe and the Middle East, they all have very short school seasons. This is due to a combination of weather and poverty. In fact in Germany, the summer school break used to be limited by law to 45 days or so. Their point of pride at the time were that Gerd and Uta were not dimwits. Meanwhile let’s teach François and Ingrid to demand more of something from the anonymous, objectifiable, all-powerful “other”

So, like all fake issues and fake buzz, how far can these detached Parisian take this? Invent a fake social problem, nay, a plague dogging their very lives! Serguei:

Girl on phone: "I’m in school in Denmark, François."
Surfer (too old to be a schoolkid anyway): "Maybe next year then, Ingrid."
Cupid: "That’s not the way to construct a single Europe."

Conclusion: the government and the rest of society should be responsible for your love lives, and that Anschluß unification means that Bulgarians and Danes should be forced to do as you.

Hence the title.

Where You Are Officially Free to Conform

... ”New idea: he fights against the evil power, but we'll make it less historically heavy and he can become the Harry Potter of the 1940s.” ...

... “Brilliant Mr. Cruise!” ...

Many Germans have been fearful of Tom Cruise, citing their own puzzling obsession with Scientology. If it wasn’t a religion, I’m sure many EUvians would surely ignore it with the same passivity they have for subcultures that actually cause harm.

Kerouac thinks they're pussies

While the French, like so many deers caught in the head lights, flip out over what's going down in financial markets (today's Libération PropagandaStaffel tells them how market swings will affect them on a daily basis without the slightest hint of how they might get a grip and benefit from such swings) -- Jack Kerouac (currently featured on a Le Monde Al Jazeera on the Seine blog) has a message for them ...


"Accept loss forever."

Cultural Awareness Day

For those of you who might have forgotten just how McDo-like the imposition of European culture really is, let us all sing, then kumbaya.

Staging the News: Magic Bullet Theories

AFP at it’s worst. I’ll leave finding the hook in this one to you.

"An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City."

BAD coalition! BAD! NO-ONE else is BAD. (Hint: note condition of said rounds, and the bogus nature of the way the photo and the story was staged.)

- Thanky-thanky to Kevin

Confusion Over Which Petty Demand to Get Worked Up About

Ahead of a very flat piece about the American treatment of the poor little Iranian National Guard (“Les Gardiens” – they support the troops, you see...) comes a confused story about France lagging behind in the number of days kids are in school per year. Since it’s about “les congés d'été” and not these kids growing to be as smart as your average speedbump, their deference must be toward the class-struggle angle of these brats only getting however much of this thing they like to think of as a grand national tradition, only to find out that a bunch of other European countries, all less developed, get more.

Décroisse it on up, baby!

Dar el Harb

Preferring Jihadi total war, hacking “Cyber Protestors” post Anti-American invective on a UN website, of all places.

A page usually used to display statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was yesterday showing remarks accusing the US and Israel of killing children.

The message on the site read: “Hey Ysrail and Usa don’t kill children and other people Peace for ever No war.”

Security experts believe a group of hackers known as Cyber Protest was behind the attack. The malicious users called themselves “Gsy”, “kerem125” and “M0sted”.

It’s a good thing that they’re idiots too:

the group, one of whom is from Turkey, has allegedly hacked into other sites, including those of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, the University of California and the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota.

Ooh, Sass-ay!

Someone tell the hateful French and their puppet media

"We were trapped by the French musically correct"

The duo Rita Mitsouko unloaded a double barrelled assault on the French music industry in an interview in the hyper politically-correct Télérama of all places. They slammed French musicians in general for being too intellectual, anti-American and pro-Diversity to a fault. They targeted French rappers in particular for being anti-Western Civilisation and anti-White. This is some pretty heavy stuff coming from a duo long considered to be Oh-so-hip.

Éminence grisaille

Jack-of-all-Trades consultant, philosopher, and blowhard extraordinaire, French Secular High Priest to the 5th Republic Jacques Attali blubbers some easy fluff about the current financial market turbulence and states that it is all the fault of US banks and their scandalous lending practices. Guess his investment portfolio took a hit. Either that or he's on the rag.


He has some BNP "funds" to unload.

Libération PropagandaStaffel bemoans the lack of regulation and the
increase of competition among financial markets. It's true that the French know all about regulation and very little about competition.

Now calling play-by-play from that big "Money Store" in the sky

So Much for Those Leisurely Sunday Strolls

A vacationing Italian sportscaster/journalist was murdered on Sunday afternoon by two petty thieves in the 15th arrondissement at the Bir-Hakim (above ground) Metro station.

Sergio Vantaggiato, a journalist for Italian television on vacation in Paris, was attacked by two people who stole his backpack on Sunday in a accessway of Bir-Hakeim station. The man in his 40s died of his wounds.

It’s an otherwise decent neighborhood where I once lived. The irony is that the French press will take little notice of Parisian gangbangers in favor of 24/7 coverage of crime in America. The source for this story?: the only Parisian paper with a shred of integrity.

Libération sat on the story until Tuesday afternoon. That must mean that there can't be much crime, I guess.

Sonderkommando „Frieden” 2.0

It takes a special kind of amoral nature and stupidity to think this up, and parade around calling it kunst, with that detachment from decency that let’s one use the subject of a murderous micro-sect who were the wholly owned flunkies of the KGB as part of one’s attention-seeking behavior:

Today they'd probably form a rock group rather than a political one, and Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin would play death metal rather than live it till their deaths. On the stage of Hamburg's Thalia Theater, the RAF veterans have reformed as an OAP band. One standing on a tripod, the other on a dolly, the two erstwhile rivals Gundrun and Ulrike wobble towards each other. Physically disintegrating but ideologically in tact, the RAF setptuageneriennes pose with their Andy, who can no longer close his biker jacket round his belly of affluence, Bond girls and their manchild with the golden Colt, fighting more over him than for a new world order. From the bitch fight with poisoned love, a menage sentimentale

Behold: gentle, lucid, humane, and solidaristic EUtopia. The idea that those happy go lucky terrorists wanting to be in nothing more than a band if they were running around today is undermined by the fact that they weren’t a band THEN. In fact if they were “Active” today, they’d be Jihad-and-kill-the-system-symps like Richard Reed, David Hicks, John Walker Lindh, Adam Yahiye Gadahn (a.k.a. Adam Perlman) and the “European Citizens” in Gitmo.

Méchant et pingre

Yep, sounds like the French.

Nidra Poller covers French media coverage of Sarko's lunch with Dubya.

"So, my friends, that’s how it was reported over here. Mainly mean and stingy. But don’t think you’re friends with yourselves alone. There are a whole lot of French people over here who would be glad to share hot dogs & hamburgers with you…if only they could get a word in edgewise."

The truth is out there

Surprise, surprise. There are a few ideologically challenged Europeans who can no longer hide the truth.


"The 'Hands of Victory' in Baghdad's Green Zone: The US military is more successful in Iraq than the world wants to believe.

Eurospin

"Europe had a lot of explaining to do last night on its conference call with analysts. The continent announced 2nd quarter growth that was slower than what had been forecast. What's more, the continent never gave a pre-announcement warning, leaving investors feeling blindsided. Of course, leaders tried to put an optimistic spin on things, citing seasonality and deal timing for the shortfall."

It’s not About what you Believe. In Europe it’s About who you are

Meet their gentle, thoughtful citizenry:

The European Jewish Press reported Monday that she was attacked in front of her house by two youths of "African origin" wearing hoods and scarves to cover their faces. One of the two was later arrested by police and taken into custody.

They shouted "You dirty Jew" at the woman before stealing the mobile phone she was using and beating her violently about the head and body, the EJP reported

These model citizens will no doubt get a stern, paternalistic talking to, but I’m sure it will stop just short of mattering to them.

The INSEE and the Banque de Fwance are on crack

France's economic growth not what it's cracked up to be.

There’s Always Hope in his Imaginary Universe

Georges Bouche: ... “Sometimes we think of you as Superman” ...
Sarko: ... “Thanks. That’s kind of you” ...
Georges Boosh: ... “Except – I’m Superman” ...

Imagine the number of delusions you need to harbor to nod dumbly at the sight of today’s scribble by Pancho

Everyone’s a Critic

Everyone’s a comedian

Opinions are like...

Um:

DES DIZAINES d'impacts de balles sur les murs, sur des voitures et sur la vitrine d'une banque voisine... Voilà ce qu'il restait de « la plus impressionnante fusillade de ces dernières années à Paris » - dixit un policier -, hier devant la boîte de nuit Plaza Madeleine, dans les beaux quartiers de la capitale.

or, as it were:

TENS of rounds hit the walls, cars, and the window of a bank...

Here are what remains of “the most impressive shootout of these last few years in Paris” a police officer said -, yesterday in front of the Plaza Madeleine night club, in the beautiful part of the capital.

Look, I’m impressed too, but I don’t think it’s the right time to dwell on their style or get too hung up on the stats.

Slow news day

So Libération PropagandaStaffel let loose with their "Decline of the American Empire" issue. All the news that's fit to print on how the US is history and how a France-led EU is ready to take its place. <insert_yawn_here/>

French socialized medecine watch

In France, where more and more dentists are proposing root canal treatment for simple cavities (some dentists are even teaming up with consumer credit agencies to better milk the clientele -- think "subprime dental"), patients are looking East to receive decent and affordable dental care. Specialized travel agencies have sprung up that provide dental junkets to Hungary for struggling French.

Great Moments in French House Music History

Summer musical interlude.

Alex Gopher, Party People.

All the News That’s Fit to Ignore for 16 Months

August 2007: frothing cartoonist Pancho finally gets all worked up about the Hamas-Fatah split.



Pancho finally noticing the Palestinian Civil War that started brewing in March 2006

French hatred continues unabated

The lunch didn't go down too well. Sarko is scolded by both the French Left and the Right. As we have seen with a certain French Hate Site, these are pavlovian animalistic reactions.

Comparative Dictatorship 101

We have so much to thank Europeans for.

The hatred continues

The French are hateful creatures.

Warning: Link is to French hate site.

Shoot out at Place de la Madeleine

Bandits armed with kalashnikovs rip off an after nightclub and shoot it out with police in Central Paris at 5AM this morning. One bystander was hurt.

Même face, même race

"I Hate My French Bank" is a group on Facebook.

To be run by a Frenchman, of course

As the subprime situation plays itself out, the remaining hacks at Libération PropagandaStaffel (those who have not B-lined over to Rue89) are calling for a new "world economic government" that would make those French economic girlie men feel more secure.

Great Moments in French House Music History

Etienne de Crecy, Am I Wrong ...

A French musical statement against American fast food, McJobs, and obesity.

EUtopia: Slouching Towards a Gloriously Undemocratic Future

Threatening vicariously:

The Brussels mayor, the Socialist Freddy Thielemans, has, on 9th of August 2007 sent out a press release in which he has banned a demonstration with a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of 9/11 on the 11th sept in Brussels. The reason for the prohibition is that he says he cannot guarantee public safety and that he won’t disturb the Islamic section of the population in Brussels.

Sign the petition here.

If This is Tuesday, It Must be Belgium

Socialist Mayor of Brussels bans 9-11 moment of silence on Tuesday, September 11 2007.

How did this ever slip through the cracks of political correctness?

Someone was asleep at the switch.

The surge must be working

Why else would the purple helmets of peace make their way back to Bagdad?

This Week on “This Old Box”

Les Caniches de Chavez Le Monde Diplomatique isworked up about « Liberalisme » that barely exists at all in the public discourse in France:

His first act, the “tax shield” offers special protection to very large fortunes from get hit [by taxes], however measured of the tax department. The cost to the Treasury of the delicacies which the right-wing parliamentary majority has just offered to future heirs: approximately 13 billion euros. As has just been pointed out it the daily newspaper Les Echoes, it is almost exactly the same sum that François Mitterrand spent in his 1981-1982 economic renewal plan. The left devoted a good part of this money to the creation of 240 000 public jobs.

At the time the pitch, according to them, was that this would inconsiderately add to the burden of the national debt.

The writer says that, of course, as if 240 000 more piglets suckling at the public teat for the next 35 years is a good thing. Absent is the realization that any cent that passes through the digestive tract of government comes out very slowly and half the size. By that measure, Mitterand was acting with the same sophistication of crack smoking Washington DC mayor Marion Barry who made people fully aware that expanding government and handing out jobs can be made to look like an economic band-aid on a sucking flesh wound, but was actually nothing more than a way of buying votes.

If the government of Mr. Sarkozy is quite as generous (or as much of a spendthrift), it’s not towards the same recipients. What it loses in revenues from taxes, it saves it in use of civil servants: 22 700 jobs will be eliminated next year. As for the debt, whereas last October the government of Mr. Dominique de Villepin, for whom Mr. Sarkozy was a minister of State had committed to European authorities to bringing France’s public debt into balance by 2010. Mr. Francois Fillon is pleading now for an additional 2 year grace period.

Good heavens! They might even exist, and they might even have an agenda! How dare they trim away part of the “to hell with the future” left’s fifth column in any way!

And they actually think that that’s economic Liberalism. They, and this really is shared by the mainstream left, genuinely believe that taxing the rich more will make them not leave the country, and that the progressive nationalization of the greatest number of jobs will improve the economy. They seem to have missed what 6 decades of commie-nomics did to ravage Eastern Europe and are completely and utterly hopeless.

Because it involves a stupefiante, they might understand this oft-emailed old saw:

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

1. The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
2. The fifth would pay $1.
3. The sixth would pay $3.
4. The seventh would pay $7.
5. The eighth would pay $12.
6. The ninth would pay $18.
7. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, thats what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until on day, the owner threw them a curve. Since you are all such good customers, he said, Im going to reduce the cost of your
daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33, but if they subtracted that from everybodys share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each mans bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:
1. The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
2. The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
3. The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
4. The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
5. The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
6. The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before and the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. I only got a dollar out of the $20, declared the
sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, but he got $10! Yeah, that’s right, exclaimed the fifth man. I only saved a dollar, too. Its unfair that he got TEN times more than I! Thats true!! shouted the seventh man.
Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!

Wait a minute, yelled the first four men in unison. We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor! The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him.

But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn”t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

That, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being
wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.

In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

And that is precisely the sort of journalist we’re talking about.

You would think even faded impressions from the 1970’s of their own preoccupation with rebellion would ward off trends toward collectivization, central authority, and a remaking of the economy in the image of mid-century Army life would leave their mark. They haven’t. I don’t think that the people who entertain notions of a huge civil service as a form of idealized worker society are even intelligent enough to question it because they carry on as if the last century and its’ horrible treatment of the individual never happened – and yet they never seem to make the connection between this statist fetish of the left and the totalitarianism it inevitably brings down on people.

It’s as if finding them a few basic needs can make them fall for anything. Good God, it’s sad how cheaply their will can be bought for.

Veolia et ses patrons voyous

I question the timing.

Cognitive Dissidence

For Le Monde Al-Jazeera on the Seine, US Marines are guilty until..., well, just plain guilty. In its coverage of the Haditha case, France's newspaper of record stresses the fact that prosecutors do not share the defense's views on the case. Duh! Looks like French journalists prefer kangaroo courts. L'Immonde then goes on to detail Time Magazine's past (anti-US military) coverage of the case based on the video made by an Iraqi journalmalism student.

Lucidity TV

Yesterday on one of the ubiquitous “debats” talk shows that are barely worthy of Jerry Springer, we find the usual fixation with the U.S.

Titled « Deadly crossing, » the show started off by mentioning hurricane Katrina in the same breathe as a « discussion » of the Minnesota bridge collapse. Not only did they seem to take incredible delight in the whole thing, one can’t imagine them even mentioning anyone else’s bad news along with the sadness it’s brought to individuals, let alone their own.

The only purpose there was for them to cover this subject at all is because of the popularity and joy so many in mainstream France take in detesting America. Nothing more.

Behold the baseline: France 2 in 2007 rehashing mendacious abuse of George Bush during 9-11 after 6 years. No new news, no nothing – just abuse.

[Program] Summary: On September 11, 2001, while terrorists hijacked airliners to take down the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, George W. Bush attended the class of a primary school of Sarasota, Florida. The images of the American President learning the news from one of his advisors and remaining inexplicably passive with a stupefied air, drew the notice of the world. But what really happened that day? Did Bush deliberately choose not to react “live”? How did he manage the crisis after that? The team of “One day/one destiny” asks witnesses closest to the President, key facts, and reconstituted the event.

OPINION: It’s a detailed log exemplary in its rigor and in the precision of its revelations but which, curiously, remains a little vain. With the image of a Bush obviously overwhelmed by the task...

Nothing but hatred. What makes it even sadder is the way they talk up their own sophistication and insightfulness, as if they're above any sort of emotionalism they'd leap to paint someone a "warmonger" with.

Weekend Stroll in Ohio

Globalize yourself, cha-cha: Europeans trying to be as dyspeptic as possible in the U.S., subtitled in Japanese. They must have been visionaries. After all, how else could a European get too tired to get overraught.

France isolation watch

German-French EU motor kaput.

Too much stealth and too little democracy

The EU is a kind of USSR lite.

Don't sweat the small stuff, sweetheart

BNP Paribas gets burned by the US subprime market and French journalists howl like stuck pigs. What!?! A French national champion has been sucker punched?!? Must be an American plot. As happened immediately after the Enron scandal, we'll be seeing French editorials of the furrowed brow sort about how American-led capitalism has gone awry and that something must be done to change all this. Expect to see those editorials within the next 48 hours. Nothing gets worthless Europeans off of their lazy duffs like a bit of self righteous America bashing.

Minyanville on containment:
"The U.K? Germany? And now Pepe Le Pew is holding his nose too? So much for containment."

Dealbreaker.com on BNP's "Freedom Funds":
To make matters worse, the funds have ridiculous French names like Parvest Dynamic ABS, BNP Paribas ABS Euribor and BNP Paribas ABS Eonia. We're thinking of just calling them "Freedom Funds."

It's good to see that respect for the French is at just around zero chez the Big Money Boyz.

UPDATE: That didn't take long. Le Monde Al-Jazeera on the Seine has an analysis up on how this American-led globalisation thing has gone all wobbly, what with these bouts of financial speculation and other unseemly activities that tend to scare God Secular-government-fearing Zeropeans half to death. It's the usual puff piece with some references to the Tulip bubble and the crash of 1929 thrown in just to let you know that this is France's newspaper of reference so you had better take it seriously.

French contributions to popular culture

That's one way to write a bestselling blockbuster.

He didn't make a killing during the Presidential election, so now it's come to this

José Bové©® and his minions have hounded to death a French farmer who committed suicide when he learned that José and his civil disobedience road show would soon make a swing by his farm and rip some genetically modified corn out of the ground. Between the impending "Have a nice day" vandalism of his hard labor by José's crew and the inevitable non-response of the authorities, he decided to snuff himself.

Appointing the Fox to the Henhouse

French president Nicolas Sarkozy recently appointed pinko Jacques Attali to a special economic advisory commission. The problem of his predilections is inherent problem number one. Number two is that he’s already done a number on the economy under Mitterand, and is an unreconstructed fantasy-communist skeptic of even the concept or growth. The free market advocacy group Liberté Chérie lays the problem out:

Whereas Philippe Séguin was first nominated to chair a commission on growth, it’s finally been entrusted to Jacques Attali. A quick look as the past gives us fear of what this commission will come up with:

- Jacques Attali advised Mitterrand in 1981 on economic questions, which has unanimously been recognized as a disaster.

- Jacques Attali’s economic projections have always proved wrong. In 1990 he wrote that “to pass the economic reforms before political reforms, China will experience slower development. One can even expect to see a long period of crisis and recession”. Reality bore out quite differently: in the 1990s the Chinese economic growth record was unbeatable reaching 9% to 11% annually. This is only one example of many.

- Jacques Attali was always skeptical of the virtues of the economic growth itself. In a work republished in 1990, he put forward that “economic growth of rich countries creates the conditions of increasing dependence in poor countries”.

- His short term as the head of the European Bank for the Reconstruction and Development (BERD) was a catastrophe: remembered only for especially extravagant expenditures and innumerable wastes of money which forced him to resign.

If Jacques Attali is put to the task of removing barriers to economic growth, it is only because his own ideas are major barriers to economic growth. Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Fillon are making a serious mistake.

And therein lies the problem: it’s cultural. The desire to impress, surprise, and try to make oneself look particularly bright by inverting the obvious is just a sort of attention-seeking pathology held by people who think anyone can be impressed, surprised, and made to seem bright this way.

The Just Called to Say They Hate You - Teil Vier

Running over the same old stale symbolism, even if it’s decades old:
Nixon, Kissinger, and Bush

High Correlation Between Socialism and Penis Envy

VDH reads the Pew leaves:

Contrast all that dislike with those nations who appreciate the United States, which tells us something much different about America’s role in the world. The Kenyans and Ghanaians, for example, reveal more admiration for the United States (87 and 80 percent, respectively) than do we Americans ourselves.

In fact, all of sub-Saharan Africa — poor and with a past of exploitation — has an unbelievably high regard for the U.S. Perhaps black Africans appreciate our support for democracy, realize that we were not colonialists, see that blacks are succeeding in the U.S. in a way unthinkable elsewhere, know that we spearhead the global effort to bring AIDS relief and stop the genocide in Darfur, and sympathize with their own long struggle against radical Islam.

Much of Eastern Europe is similarly well-inclined. Poland, for example (61 percent approval rating), does not trust Russia — and does not trust Europe to offer any help in a future hour of crisis.

Likewise, many countries of Latin America — Mexico, Chile, Peru — poll staunchly pro-American. We have tried to support these shaky Latin American democracies, welcomed their immigrants, and allowed billions of dollars to be sent back as worker remittances. And unlike a Spain, France, Germany, the Muslim Middle East, Russia, or China, such confident emerging nations also are not hung up on perceived past grandeur, blame-gaming the new superpower for their own subordinate roles.

Indeed, how strange that these poor countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, and South America are more favorable to America than are oil-rich sheikdoms, rich European socialist republics, and Middle East recipients of massive U.S. aid.

There’s no point even wondering what reasons the European subspecies of the anti-American even has on any given day. Over the decades, the only things that have changed have been the reasons they give themselves for their irrational venomous ire. Either way, it’s the pattern and persistence of that bile that indicates a pathology in them rather than us.

“In France, To Earn A Lot Of Money Is To Be Seen As A Little Bit Criminal”

However, the smart ones are voting with their feet:

Angry at paying more than 72 percent of his income in taxes, he moved to the ski resort of Gstaad last December in a storm of publicity. After Sarkozy's May election, Hallyday hinted he might come back. His press attache Catherine Battner says he has yet to make up his mind.

Fleeing the Tax

Households fleeing the fortune tax climbed to a record 649 in 2005 from 370 in 1997, according to a study by French Senator Philippe Marini.

Another study by the Economic Analysis Council, which advises the government, says about 10,000 business directors fled in the last 15 years, taking 70 billion to 100 billion euros ($137 billion) in capital to invest elsewhere.

Marini said the average age of the emigrants is 53, compared with 66 for the 394,000 people still in France who pay the tax. A third of those who left had started paying it only two years earlier, suggesting they represented new and growing wealth, he said.

Bend over Marianne. This is what you said you wanted.

“The Right to Laziness,” a 19th century book by Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx’s son-in-law, advised against working more than three hours a day. And French author Honore de Balzac famously said, “Behind every great fortune lies a crime.” This prejudice drove French citizens to Switzerland, Belgium, the U.K. and the
U.S., where at least 500,000 of them reside, either to make more or keep more of what they have. London and the U.S. are preferred refuges for younger people. Switzerland, with about 200,000 French residents, attracts the retired and stars like Hallyday.

Wealth? Obviously stolen by “the bosses”!

Compare and Contrast

Envious French preSS can't stop jawboning about Sarko's USA vacation

It's the dog days of August and French journalists are bored with the usual stories of food poisoning on the French Rivera, droughts, and floods. As always, when in need of inspiration, they are looking West. If America didn't exist, you'd have to invent it just to give the French something to talk about.

Sarkozy takes on America's liberal media

French Favelas

The France they don't want you to see ...



The eyesores that are the Parisian homeless are finally being told to "bouge de là". (Paris ne veut plus des tentes de SDF dans ses rues) : pas de lapsus révélateur par hasard ???



Toujours les mêmes donneurs de leçons, in-tar-risables loose-rs imprégnés d'un ersatz de pensée et tellement obsédés par tout ce qui est américain qu'ils ne voient jamais ce qui se passe chez eux. Voilà encore des foutaises de gôcho qui vont rester bien coincées dans les annales.


Packed fudge

Get a Job, Ya Bum

So say Pejman Yousefzadeh discussed Sarko’s free market bait and switch:

At best, all Nicolas Sarkozy will do is to lull the French and Europeans into a state of complacency, making them believe that he and his policies can save them from the kind of free economic competition of which they are so deathly afraid. But eventually, a day of reckoning will have to come when France and Europe realize that either they must undertake radical reforms, or be left in the economic dust by Britain and America. Nicolas Sarkozy and people who share his views regularly present themselves as friends of Europe. But no enemy of the Continent, no matter how dedicated, could so effectively plan for Europe’s long term decline as well as Sarkozy and his allies are doing now.

Nonetheless that seems to be the exception for reality that the people of the cultural exception want. They’ll never be able to say that he didn’t listen to them.

- Tip ‘o the hat to alert reader Frank

Ça caillasse en Suisse aussi

Swiss youths supporting their French youth brothers and sisters.

“The truth is very different. The fact is, the rest of the world is jealous...”

Snpfth....

pfft.

snth.




HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Here’s another sort of Jacques Attali They all have something to sell.

Surprise of the Day: Pont Structure Metallique!

Get a load of this Rue 89brainchild:

Du point de vue structure on peut faire un paralele entre ce pont et les tours du World Trade Center, les deux sont en structure métallique, en France on construit les ponts et les immeubles en béton même la tour Montparnasse a un noyau en béton et les prochaines tours comme celle de Marseille seront entièrement en béton, de la a en tirer une conclusion c'est peut être un peur rapide, mais on peut se poser la question.

Hey, I’m just asking questions, here!

From a structural point of view, one can make a link between this bridge [failure] and the collapse of the World Trade Center. Both are metal structures. In France the bridges and buildings are built from concrete, even the Montparnasse Tower has a concrete frame, and the next biggest tower like that in Marseilles will be entirely made of concrete. To leap to conclusions might cause fear, but one can still ask the question.

This idiot is clearly not an engineer. They economic limit of concrete is somewhere near 20 floors in most places, perhaps up to 40 at this point given the rising price of steel as a commodity right now. Looking around even a cittythe size of Paris, it’s obvious that the number of tall buildings around “Courageux anonyme” is pretty limited.

His rationalization reminds me of that Monty Python routine where they figure out that the woman couldn't be a witch because witches are made of wood and wood floats – or doesn’t. They had it about as straight as these “89-istas.” To begin with, no-one has built a bridge with span distances like that out of concrete for about 50 years, and when they do use concrete, it's in the form of pre-cast beams that are set on abutments like steel, and behave like steel. Applying non-engineering analogy based reasoning to an engineering problem is par for the course for your average conpiracist “truther.”

Where is Adam Smith when you need him?

Fear of markets and its consequences. Bizarrely, the only invisible hand that Europeans trust is the government paw that regularly lashes out and shakes them down for loose change.

Avis aux jeunes entrepreneurs du Neuf-Trois

Aspiring French youths looking to create their own publishing multimedia start-ups can look forward to 2015 when "Mein Kampf" will be in the public domain. If they can read French by then.

Kidnapping Germans for Fun and Profit

John Rosenthal sums up rump Europe’s concept of free trade.

Ever since the disappearance of Susanne Osthoff in November 2005, the constant refrain of Foreign Minister Steinmeier and German Chancellor Angela Merkel after each new hostage-taking has been: "Germany does not allow itself to be extorted" ["Deustchland lässt sich nicht erpressen"]. This pretense, however, quickly began to crumble when, shortly after Osthoff's release, reports emerged that part of the ransom money had been found on the person of none other than Susanne Osthoff herself.

In their haste to deflect the obvious inference that the kidnapping had been staged and that Osthoff has been complicit in the operation, German officials appeared to forget their pro forma denials that Germany had ever paid ransom in the first place. Shortly after the May 2006 release of Bräulich and Nitzschke -- who had been in Iraq all of two days when they went missing -- German public television ARD reported that the German government had paid $10 million to obtain their release: thus seemingly confirming a stable value of Germans on the Iraqi hostage market of $5 million per.

They should know. The East Germans extorted an average of 55,000 DM from Bonn for every retiree that let emigrate and free them of their “Socialist obligation” to care for them in old age.

Sarko to rich exiles: please come home

"Few may heed his call".

One more hint: when you get to Kinshasa, you'll have to leave the hotel bar and mingle with the natives a bit

The hack journalists over at Rue89.com are furious that so much media coverage is directed at the Minnesota bridge collapse and not enough to catastrophes in other parts of the world. Hint to the hacks at Rue89.com: get on the stick and take your digicams over to Kinshasa instead of pontificating to your affluent bobo Parisian readers who, far from being interested in coverage of Third World disasters, spend increasing amounts of their leisure time lapping up the round-the-clock French coverage of all things anti-American.

La Chirakisation de Sarko continue

Sarkozy is tripped up by a loose-lipped Colonel Kadafi.

Utopia Now

The August edition of the Le Monde Diplomatique's website is pulling all the stops. Ignare je-fois-me-faire-Ramoner is outdoing himself in providing the latest and greatest in the realm of anti-American propaganda. The myth of social mobility is the USA, the struggle of French workers against the increased use of English in their workplace, how the sale of the Wall Street Journal to Murdoch is part of a vast conspiracy to brainwash every one on the planet, and an extensive interview with the darling of the Paris Left Bank intelligentsia , Norm Chomsky (the Left Bank shithole is one of the last places on the planet where any attention is paid to the Subcomandante Marcos, outside of Chiapas and Berkeley).

Edgy Zeropean culture

After "Fallujah", the play, "Jihad" the musical.

No competition please, we're French

Sarko guts the Zeropean Constitution and prepares the way for more interventionist Colbertism made-in-Fwance.

Europe showing signs of life

Dead cat bounce.

Patron voyou

Des hystériques qui s'étripent les unes les autres dans une cage aux folles. Bon débarras.

Miserable Failure

While collectively smug greenies in Europe make five-year-plans that sound like Soviet rutabaga production figures, and repeatedly cast the United States as a mustache-twirling eco-satan, they forget that they laughed at the environmental movement which started in America while their obsession remained in highly polluting state industries.

Fast forward to today where the US advances the cleanliness of the environment technologically, quietly, and without turning it into anything like the state established and imposed and religion that it’s become in Europe.

Nonetheless, for all the bluster we’ve gotten so used to, they still manage their practice of enfeebling anything they attempt.

For the second year running, more wind power was installed in the US in 2006 than in any other country: about 2,500MW. The American Wind Energy Association forecasts that a further 20,000MW will be installed before 2010, an investment of about $30bn, putting it well ahead of Germany and Spain which currently head the installed capacity league table. Much of this has been driven by a subsidy of 1.9 cents per kilowatt-hour for the first 10 years of any wind farm's operation and, although there has been some doubt as to whether this production tax credit will be extended beyond 2008, most of the presidential hopefuls (in both parties) have been making warm noises about the importance of renewables.

Twenty-three states now have ambitious "renewable portfolio targets", but it is California that has really seized hold of the challenge. Arnold Schwarz¬enegger, the governor, is taking the credit (with the state well on track to generate at least 17 per cent of electricity from renewables by the end of the year), but much of California's success goes back to the multi-billion-dollar research programmes introduced during President George W. Bush's first term as compensation for pulling out of the Kyoto process. California has become the centre for hund¬reds of start-up "clean tech" companies..

By comparison, the European renewables sector often appears stodgy, although it is fair to say that the new target adopted at the European Union summit in March (to achieve 20 per cent of all energy generation – not just electricity – by 2020) has sent shock waves through both the policy community and Europe's energy companies. The idea of generating 12 per cent of transport fuels, 18 per cent of heat and 34 per cent of electricity from renew¬ables will require every member country radically to rethink its policy mix.

Add to it the ignorance: several months ago I met a German engineer who was either engineering or peddling something relative to some kind of greenie blackmail. He was very proud that his native Germany had households which on average use less power as those in Minnesota. I asked him if he know just how much colder Minnesota is than any part of his precious Heimat. He averted his gaze and mumbled that he did.

Sonderkommando „Frieden”

Doctor, heal thyself.

Sarko kicks back

With a Stateside vacation.

The Just Called to Say They Hate You - Teil Drei

In front of the kitchen door: ”Ahem! The President is hungry“

Ouais, et Alors ?

They can’t hack it. The “Little Eichmanns” who comment at Rue 89 can’t bear the very notion that a French public figure has anything positive to say about the US, Israel, or basically anything mentioned by their public figures. The Rorschach inkblot that set them off? A review of Sarko’s books in the NYT by Bernard Henri Lévi. Rue 89’s “good points and bad points” approach was more than the lurkers could bear.

Behold one commeter who found a link to a pud-cast piece questioning Lévi’s patriotism and nationality while hashing over the miniscule CPE reforms. I have an even better question for these clucking buffoons: how could anyone who looks fondly on the European left, the one that compelled Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, and Mao Tse Tung to commit real-life bloodshed with their academic arguments about how many dead it would take to make a proper socialist society question ANYONE’S ethics or patriotism from their Commophiliac transational mass-murdering perch?

Operating from the starting point where BHL is just indulging flatulent overweigh chain-smoking American trailer park dwellers, they can’t quite consolidate the comparative poverty of both spirit and material comfort inherent in their “revolutionary” world view which does more to kill and oppress than elevate from poverty of provide with hope.

Moron See, Moron Do

A few years ago, a bar named Café Marx cropped up in DC. Owing to the youth it was going after, advertising clearly wasn’t required. Now Babalu reports on a retread of the same idea in the impoverished proletarian ghetto of the West Village.

As for the place in DC fantasizing over a form of misery I had the pleasure to live through before most of these little shits were born, one bar reviewer reports that they seem to have unintentionally gotten one thing to seem rather accurate: no, not cultural uniformity, not the polar opposite of freedom of thought and speech, not control over ones’ life...

Apparently socialism encourages surly waitstaff and food that tastes like it just came out of the freezer. The good news is I've had drinks there half of dozen times and as bar Marx Cafe works very well. They have several beers on tap, including Chimay and Guinness (although they often run out)

Scarcity. Something these patrons who might imagine for a moment that Marxism has some virtues have never known thanks to Capitalism, where even the poorest in America were living better than the average Soviet citizen.

As for the booby hatch in New York, the Times of course gushed since their haughty selves who refused to seem moved by lowbrow celeb distraction seem also to be easily moved by lowbrow celeb distraction:

“In a perfect world, socialism means everyone is equal,” said the club’s owner, Armin Amiri, who spent five years buffing and rebuffing egos while manning the door at Bungalow 8.

He’s recruited the TV producer Ben Silverman, Harvey Weinstein and Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, to invest, and Giuseppe Cipriani to create the menu for Socialista’s ground-floor restaurant. And though Mr. Amiri admits that gaining entrance to the upstairs lounge is a long shot for most, he says that once you are inside, celebrity and money hold no special privilege. “If they come, fine, but there is no baby-sitting here,” he said.

Indeed, the hard knocks of elitism built on equality were on view on a recent Friday night. Loads of fancy-dressed hopefuls, arriving in chauffeured BMWs, S.U.V.’s and limousines, were turned away. “I have a bicycle,” Mr. Amiri said. “I don’t care what car you drive. It’s all about energy, attitude and personal style.”

To correct Mr. Amiri, it was about absolutely none of those things unless you call forced conformity and oppression “energy, attitude and personal style”.



Diversity and free thinking: school kids in the DDR who have a school period on “solidarity” with “Kampuchea” pitying the Cambodian childrens' pre-Pol-Pot days of labor.