Except when it is waged with rubber dinghies

Rayonnement franchouille dans toute sa splendeur. This from Chiraq who has stated that war is never a solution.

Birkenau comparisons surely forthcoming

Gitmo has 460 prisoners, a figure the press holds back for fear of eliciting a “so what” when put in perspective. Le Monde’s intellectual gulag has a circulation of 400 000 and dwindling. Despite the difference in scale, they inspire similar fears:

Journalists Philippe Cohen and Pierre Pean say the paper has become a "modern-day Pravda" run in a "climate of fear" by an unscrupulous triumvirate.

Albeit Gitmo scares murderous malcontents, and Le Monde goes for the socially low-hanging fruit by scaring it’s readers.

Corpor(e)al admission rituals

You are what you eat plug an E-3’s butt with.

I’m still waiting for the continent that’s habitually outraged by the mere breathing of U.S. troops to say something.

Still waiting.

No, that’s okay. I’ll hold.

No, I really don’t want to watch Caligula in the mean time, I’ll just wait, thanks.

The fuse is lit!

EuroWanker Saturday Night Special

Mention honorable attribuée par le jury de Bègles.

Take the side of good against evil

Play Paris Riots (the game comes with English subtitles). The 'official game' which re-enacts last year's riots by French youths, Paris Riots places you in the role of French riot police facing off against ultra-violent French racaille. Wipe 'em out!

The wings are clad in an esoteric alloy an ordinary engineer would call "unobtainium"

P.J. O’Rourke on the A380:

Two months to the day after the A380 first became airborne, Peter and I were at Airbus headquarters, in Toulouse, France, in the A380 systems-testing facility. The building is as blank-walled as the Kaaba and much larger.

Glorious socialism

Fête de la Liberté on Sunday

Next Sunday, Erik Svane will be signing his books at the Fête de la Liberté, along with over 30 other authors, including artist Dan Greenberg.

Erik (entre Pierre et Marine) et Dan à Genève pour le 10ème anniversaire des éditions Paquet

The Mata Hari New York Times

I guess when the left said that they wanted a “smarter” form of anti-terrorism involving aggressive use of intelligence operations in lieu of military force, what they meant was ‘please, don’t do anything at all to protect civil populations against terrorist organizations.”

Andrew McCarthy:

The effort, which the government calls the “Terrorist Finance Tracking Program” (TFTP), is entirely legal. There are no conceivable constitutional violations involved. The Supreme Court held in United States v. Miller (1976) that there is no right to privacy in financial-transaction information maintained by third parties. Here, moreover, the focus is narrowed to suspected international terrorists, not Americans, and the financial transactions implicated are international, not domestic. This is not data mining, and it does not involve fishing expeditions into the financial affairs of American citizens. Indeed, few Americans even have information that is captured by the program — though there would be nothing legally offensive even if they did.

And unlike the last vital program the New York Times compromised — the National Security Agency’s Terrorist Surveillance Program, which the same reporters, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, exposed last December — there is not even a facially plausible concern that the TFTP violates statutory law. The provisions germane here (mainly, the Right to Financial Privacy Act that Congress enacted in 1978 in reaction to Miller) do not even apply to the nerve center at issue, the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.

The New York Times has done it again. They have published enough about methods, people, and operations to compromise them, and to deter anyone from cooperating with the US Government because their identities would be blown by cretinous scribblers who are fighting their own little Jihad against what they have obviously always believed are expendable human lives – anyone they don’t understand in their own society.

And their “poodles” are on it like white on rice.

The fuse is lit!

Subliminal Economics

Bankruptcy in the age of SoDoKo and the dismal science that dares not speak its’ name.

Out of the woodwork

3 cops pull over 2 motor scooter riding French youths in Nanterre ... and are attacked by 15 suburban scum.

Ils s'en footent

And outside of France, 100% of people couldn't care less.

Do you have a political re-education camp to send me to?

In fact, they do.

Zap it to 'im

The EuroWanker of the Day is an espingouin.

Faut être franchouille -- c'est à dire pédaloïde obsédé par son image -- pour penser ça

The USA doesn't try to cover things up, the USA does the right thing and punishes wrong doers, and leaves the whole transparent process open for the world to see -- but Libération PropagandaStaffel bleats that Uncle Sam is only taking care of his image.

The obvious, graciously omitted

Le Vieux Continent copiera-t-il les vins du Nouveau Monde?

(Will Old Europe copy the wines of the New World?)

From astute reader Michael, who noted that in a Reuters article discussing the state of the wine business in Europe the New World mentioned had some curious omissions. Apart from Mentioning Chile and Australia, they did see any need to hurt anyone’s tender feelings by naming names.


Note too when it’s acceptable to use any sort of warrior speak vocabulary in EUtopia:

Brussels embarks on conquest to recover wine markets

You go out there and git ‘em, champ!

The fuse is lit!

Maybe the MRAP hacks will try to sue the Economist

Not so long ago, you would be hauled in by French cops on trumped up charges of extreme right activism for printing an image like this one or for uttering the word "Eurabia".

Transnational Soul Train

Rebranding themselves like a tobacco company with a scarred reputation, the European Commission has come up with some great ideas. We’re talking real Jeffersonian stuff, here:

These are some of the colorful ideas for reconnecting with disgruntled EU folk in a Commission document obtained by the news agency. Others include a new EU logo and theme tune, a Commissioners' Day and a kitsch pop extravaganza modeled on the Eurovision Song Contest. "We want to show the EU can dance," the report says, according to Reuters. An anonymous, presumably British, official is quoted as saying the aim is to make the Union "more punter-friendly" and to "show that the EU can be fun." Diplomats from some new member states are not so keen on the idea. "They feel people are being forced to dance and sing, like they were by the communists," said one.

Useful nationbuilding skills, indeed - but what will restore their former dignity as adult humans?

The fuse is lit!

Dreaming for a War Between America and Iran?

Difficile de l'avouer mais Villepin rêve secrètement d'une crise internationale majeure pour se refaire. Plusieurs hauts diplomates de l'Elysée le cachent à peine. «Il mise sur un conflit avec l'Iran pour reprendre la main et dire aux Français qu'ils ont besoin pour les protéger d'un homme d'Etat à la hauteur des grands enjeux internationaux», confiait récemment l'un d'eux avec le plus grand sérieux. Comme si son heure de gloire lorsqu'il était ministre des Affaires étrangères lors de la crise irakienne pouvait à nouveau sonner.

If Libération is correct, the wise, non-egoistical, peace-loving, dreaming-of-a-better-world representative of the people of France (who, don't forget, are friends of the Americans) — lionized for his anti-American anti-war stance in 2003 — is (also) dreaming of a (nuclear?) war between America and Iran (thanks to Eurowanker). Dreaming of a conflict involving the United States to save his personal hide and elevate his personal glory? How laudable. But not to worry: it's only against Bush!

That's right, Roger. No thought control.

Trying to sustain a wheezing career, Roger Waters of the former Pink Floyd has shaken the cobwebs out on Israelis trying to protect themselves from Palestinian snipers, by spray painting on ‘the ApartheidNaziZionistWall,’ 95 percent of which is actually a fence.

Wall? Fence? Getit? Hu-huh-he-huh!

Much like Hamas, Waters made a living helping adolescents channel their darkest, most suicidal thoughts. Unlike the Berlin Wall whose ‘hu-huh!’ allusion in The Wall provided him with a meal ticket purpose is to keep people OUT – not IN.
If there ever was a ‘yeah, whatever’ aura to another washed-up entertainment figure trying to say something they find meaningful about the Israelis protecting themselves from snipers and infiltrating bombers, this is it – the reason world traveling entertainers are coming to Israel this summer after years of staying away is because it’s safer now. The ‘ApartheidNaziZionistWall’ appears to be doing a fine job of protecting Waters and all the other little darlings who always seem to know better than anyone else about how we mere plebes and proles should comport ourselves.

A look again at the solipsism of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” tells you everything you need to know about what’s behind this stunt – the movie was ginned up by Waters about himself, and wallowing in his lost years in an emotional wilderness caused and conducted only by him. It’s the perfect example of what presently passes for the arts in large part at the moment: self-absorption with no real point other than a self-therapeutic display which the artist expects us to pay for solely because of their ceremonial position and title of artist.

"I've seen pictures of it, I've heard a lot about it but without being here you can't imagine how extraordinarily oppressive it is and how sad it is to see these people coming through these little holes," he added. "It's craziness."

He’s right – it is horrific that people are trying to get through in order to kill the likes of Waters. Does he ask himself why they’re coming through at all? For their freedom from the misery created by the Palistinians in the West Bank, maybe? Probably not, since he cant imagine that it keeps people OUT, not IN, and that it might be there for reasons he might just understand:

Roger Waters was inspired to create the album during a 1977 concert tour for Animals, dubbed Pink Floyd — In the Flesh. In Montreal, a fan's disruptive behaviour resulted in Waters spitting in the fan's face. Waters was immediately disgusted with himself, and his alienation from his fans urged him to build a wall between himself and the audience, an idea which later evolved into the album

Roger, imagine that that fan had a bomb belt packed with metal flechettes like hooks, screws, ball bearings, and other objects foreign to the human body that the fence itends to keep out. Imagine he had a firearm that “society’s betters” in your native Britain have banned.

The purpose of the fence is to disengage Palestinian killers from the Israeli civilians – to prevent fighting by limiting contact. The likes of Waters don’t have the depth to understand that the Palestinian terror militants don’t want the fence so that they can continue to pick off Israeli civilians. It DOES form a border – one between reasoned though and barbarism. It permits Israel to have a boundary that lets Hamas, the PFLP, and Fatah to imagine an Israel not violently thrown into the sea, and the fact that Waters feels safe enough to travel to Israel is proof of that.


Were the misapplied and cryptic allusions to Orwell's Animal Farm, that great work that Waters was trying to ride the coat-tails of in "Animals" entirely lost on him? When every detached celeb (who knows what to say to be heard) parrots the same line, there are reasons to complain about thought control.

The celebrity set has indeed become a class – they have evolved into the Pigs in Orwell’s Animal Farm – trying to convince us of their commonality to their paying customers while showing that they are more equal than others.

The fuse is lit!