How do you translate “knuckle-dragging yokel?”

Pluc is insufficiant.

Yet another mayor found himself “empowered” by his inner twit. René Couanau, the mayor of Saint-Malo (35) in Bretegne uses the occasion of the commemoration of the liberation of the city from the Nazis to compare the (sorry, no points for guessing...) the Israelis to Nazis. A village scribbler called it son message de paix chaque été (an annual message of peace in summer).

« Comment nos pensées ne se tourneraient-elles pas aussi vers le Liban, où combattants et civils affrontent les mêmes épreuves, sous le regard du monde entier. », a déclaré René Couanau.

« Nous sommes en communion avec les hommes, les femmes et les enfants qui, à des kilomètres d'ici, mais si proches médiatiquement, revivent les mêmes heures de bombardements, de souffrances, de deuils et d'humiliations. »

“How could our thoughts not now turn to Lebanon, where combatants and civilians endure the same test, in view of the whole world [?]”, said Rene Couanau. “We are one with the men, women, and children who though they are many kilometers from here are so close in spirit, must endure the same long bombardment, suffering, mourning and humiliation.”

He either thinks the Nazis were okay, just “misunderstood”, or could otherwise have been persuaded to leave with sanctions.

But his notions are entirely misplaced. Imagine all the miserable people in the world whom he ISN’T wishing peace on, (like the southern Sudanese victims of Islamo-fascism,) and not dip their enemies in the pungent gelatin of Nazism (a movement ironically found to be in greatest abundance among ignorant young Europeans whose brains have become malleable as those of the altermondialistes.)

How does he see it? Saint-Malo was bombarded to free it of an occupying force, and Israel (aside from the fact that it withdrew from Lebanon years ago) somehow is a comparable occupier which wasn’t occupying diddly of Hizballah-stan when they trained rocket propelled artillery at Israeli civilians.

60 years ago, they wouldn’t have been overcome by the irony, the sane would have judged the Nazis for who they were. They would have to be fought that day, or the next day, month, or year. They understood that it couldn’t be made painless.

FACT: the residents of southern Lebanon (especially the Amal supporting Shiites and the Christians native to the border region) are put upon by an insidious occupation that Hizzoner might be please to learn is called Hizballah.

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Standing up to Hezbollah

If just one of these jokers gets so much as a scratch over there, the whole contingent will be shipped back to France.

Le Choc des civilisations s'en occupera

"L'Europe doit mettre en oeuvre tous les moyens dont elle dispose pour construire un espace méditerranéen de coopération et de négociation, seul antidote à la logique du choc des civilisations." ... tous les moyens dont elle dispose ...?!?!? L'Europe ne peut même pas se construire elle-même (merci surtout aux franchouilles). Comment et avec quoi compte-elle construire cet espace méditerranéen? Mouarf!

La Méditerranée, berceau de l'histoire, sera le tombeau de cette Zéropa, l'expérience ratée pondue par une flopée de sous-doués.

Chiraq: Small man, Big mouth

The French preSS is only too happy to change the subject from France's poule mouillée stance (hell, Koffee Hard-On is déçu by France's bed-wetting) to Israel's supposed cease-fire violations. For the Hezbollah boys, France is just a minor threat (they couldn't even pacify Clichy-sous-Bois).

Compete, compete, do it for the boys
Empty barrels make the most noise
You're always on the move
You've always got something to prove
What the fuck are you fighting for?
Is it because you're five foot four?
You better be happy with what you've got
You'll never get any more
You laugh at a man when he tries
You're trying to make up for your size
To you life is a rivalry
Keep a step ahead of me
SMALL MAN, BIG MOUTH

This is so strange, I can’t even repeat it.

I really can’t.

Ya allah!

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Oh the in-Humanité

Raving, frothing madness: Now they do it openly. mush headed commies make the argument that when civilians are attacked, especially lefties who would be sympathetic to them, that it’s better to let them die then to permit the feelings of an violent, indoctrinated population to be hurt. L’Humanité in a article titled “Hizballah more popular than ever” is also so unaware that they’re being manipulated that they failed to conceal this:

« Anxious to communicate to the international media, they hung banners in English and French reading: “We won with our blood”, or: “It is your democracy”. The party of god also started to grant financial assistances. Between 10.000 and 20.000 dollars to buy products of first need and to find a housing. “Hassan Nasrallah (the chief of Hezbollah - note) said that it would do it and it does it. We believe in him”, underlines Abou Moussa, met in front of the cemetery of the city where the martyrs must be buried. In spite of that, it is difficult to find a family which really got such a sum. »

The author then proceeds to support that unsophisticated PR effort.
They then don’t ever get around to making the point that these people have been trained to throw their lives away for nothing, or that the conflict could have been entirely avoided by Hizballah by not initiating is. Alas, so be it. The reporter is writing for a Communist Fantacists living in the (relative) comfort of Europe and such attributions such as cause and fault don’t matter unless it’s politically useful.

That said, their glowing admiration for terrorists is only matched by their fawning over the UN, and a very randy UN at that which they won’t report on:

"MONUC has received allegations about the existence of a major prostitution ring involving minors, close to a large concentration of Congolese soldiers and Blue Helmets (UN forces) in South Kivu, (in the) northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo," the UN mission said in a statement Thursday.

A MONUC spokeswoman in the South Kivu capital Bukavu told AFP: "To attract the girls, the pimps used as a major advantage the fact that the Blue Helmets were there and could have money."

The statement did not mention the nationalities of the peacekeepers implicated, but the spokeswoman, Sylvie van den Wildenberg, said the region had UN troops from India, Pakistan, South Africa and Uruguay.

Maybe they’ll make a “things are tough at home” argument if L’Hueeeuuuu reports it at all. Maybe the story will sprout a new name for Mr. Happy: “The blue helmeted gladiator.”

How the left’s world view will see that (if they say anything at all) is a mystery. History says they will paper it over. It is after all a propensity they have – not so much to find good in people, but to shield their eyes from evil.

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Birds of a feather

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions."

source. Photo via Moonbat Media

So little has changed over the decades.

There have always been an few ignorant malcontents out there who (though living in the comfort of their freedom to speak out) thought it was okay to cheer on oppression and slaughter if there was some higher goal – but for those in the know who lived under the thumb of Communism and Socialism, there really isn’t anything noble about it.

Jack isn’t in a hurry today.

Says Madame X:

This is interesting because it is hard to imagine Kevorkian in his glory days not egging on someone in his own present condition. Old, imprisoned, and (in the words of his lawyers) a "walking cadaver," Kevorkian today certainly seems to fit the bill of someone who'd be better off dead. Many of his former patient/victims were in no worse straits, and where Jack saw "irremedial pain and suffering," he thought it best to cut to the chase. They were going to die anyway, so why not hasten the inevitable in the interests of pity?

So while there are still a few morons out there who consider him a ‘political prisoner’, the truth is out there.

Out of Kevorkian's more than 130 victims, a minority had terminal illnesses; most were people with disabilities who were not terminally ill. According to a review of Kevorkian's victims by the Detroit Free Press in 1997, 60% did not have terminal conditions.

Ironically, proponents became inheritors of Malthus’ philosophy, where we have to tell ourselves (much like environmentalists) that we weren’t welcome on this world to begin with. Being based solely on laziness and personal despondency it doesn’t so much speak to his thesis as much as it goads it. Fighting the reflex to strive to live, one has to ask the question “who’s paying to promote this?”

Thus we find colliding with it too something one can barely call a philosophical concept meeting the icky business of living and contending with serious decisions. Largely able-bodied and healthy, those who won’t contend will flatter their egos with something that seems to sound humanistic which is nothing more than a desire to avoid morally founded choices, deferring to a mushy notion that one shouldn’t burdening others is a meaningful substitute.

It’s little more than a prisoner’s choice. The only reason anyone is thinking that way is because of the collectivism which makes every individual into a ward, and turns the entirety of their well-being into an imposition on society.

The debate resulting from his notoriety has made useful examples for those who don’t necessarily want people to be able to freely choose over the terms of their own lives, but for issues as pedestrian as nationalized health systems to get rid of them of them without that same choice. Human problem disposal for the state that assumed the responsibility and control of all human welfare. Pretty damn earthly, and awfully empty headed for people taking regard of their own lives as well, if you ask me.

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Thanks to Chirac, it will happen again

Source

Alas, cast your memory back to the usual talking in circles (28 July 2006):

Q. – If Hezbollah refuses to disarm and Israel accepts a conflict resolution scenario, who will disarm Hezbollah? The international force, the Lebanese army?

THE PRESIDENT – This is one of the real underlying questions. I do not believe that an international force, in the case where no political commitment could be obtained, would have the capacity or the mandate to disarm Hezbollah. It is up to the Lebanese authorities to do so. Which implies a political agreement. Hezbollah is currently in the Lebanese government. We can very well imagine, in any case hope, that Hezbollah will draw the conclusions from its presence within the government, and become a political force. This is why there has to be some contact between the Lebanese government and Hezbollah. Hezbollah once disarmed, is set to be a political force in Lebanon.

He actually used the word disarm!!!! Isn’t he just precious?!?

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Paper Tiger, Hidden Weasel.

Europe is confused today and has no clear policy up its sleeve. The unquestionable American dominance in the world has rendered it a paper tiger. Arab countries showed more courage than the European Union when they came out openly against Hizballah.

Europe is divided as well, speaking in a voice that is both weak and inconsistent. ...

...They cannot play a neutral role, and all the diplomatic exertions of Prime Minister Prodi and the journeys to our region by His Excellency Miguel Moratinos are but vain attempts to win sympathy in the Arab-Muslim world and bring Syria and Iran out of their isolation.

To which they are tossed a little lip service just to keep them coming back.

In other words, just put them in a dress.

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A Catalogue of Iranian Misfortunes

People are touting that the Israelis lost, but as any long-term observer that this is just the usual static. The fact that Hizballah maintains that they only lost 38 thugs is nearly Soviet in its’ implausible blatancy. The fact is that they would even sell out their Iranian backers for a nickel.

While the foreign ministry report highlighted the negative aspects of the UN resolution, the council’s document complained that Hizballah squandered thousands of rockets – either by firing them into Israel or having them destroyed by the Israeli air force.
The writer of this report is furious over the waste of Iran’s most important military investment in Lebanon merely for the sake of a conflict with Israeli over two kidnapped soldiers.
It took Iran two decades to build up Hizballah’s rocket inventory

And they pissed it away most of the launch platforms they spent a decade smurfing in.

The strategy evolving in Tehran since the ceasefire went into effect Monday morning requires Hizballah to employ a range of stratagems – not only to prevent the truce from stabilizing but to stop the Lebanese army from deploying n the south and, above all, the entry of an effective international force.

But that won’t be much of a problem anyway. Once again history will repeat itself: the Elysee will leave Lebanon hanging out to dry (again) In an interview with Le Monde, our favorite idiot foreign minister said:

The first is that no one talks anymore of a multinational force since the Lebanese Army has decided to deploy 15,000 men in southern Lebanon. That is an important political point. And then no one talks anymore of a force that will be given an offensive mandate to disarm Hezbollah. These are two new elements. They were the red lines for us.

The only political importance is the blatancy of the hypocrisy. A French general said the multi-national force drizzling the magical pixie dust of peace will take a year to build up to an effective degree, and this it would likely be a force they would command but staff rather lightly.

Imagine too any future argument about “robust peacekeeping” ever being taken seriously again, except perhaps for its’ comic value.the fuse is lit!

Never send a boy to do a man's job

France, the country that glorifies all forms of imaginary resistance, is starting to have second thoughts about standing up to Hezbollah.

BHL speaking truth to morons.

Bernard-Henri Lévy minces no words in Article and Q&A in the New York Times on the subject of the Hizballah-Israel war.

Q. 1. Why do you only paint your story from the point of view of Israelis? Why do you assume that Hezbollah is an organization that is not wanted by the people of Lebanon, if they provide services, have elected representatives, and are the only ones able to defend their country?

A. Three questions in one, dear Cornelius. First, why the Israeli viewpoint? Because only the other viewpoint is seen and I do not like conformism, much less injustice. In other words, it’s okay to criticize Israel and debate the strategy adopted by the military command, which is not necessarily the right one. But-a little equity, please — let one begin by listening to what Israelis say and looking at what they are enduring: that’s what I did in this reporting. Next: Isn’t Hezbollah “wanted by the people of Lebanon”? Don’t they “provide services” and “have elected representatives”? Yes, of course, there is no dispute about this, but since when would that be contradictory with the fact of being totalitarians and even perfect fascists? Wasn’t Hitler — even though it’s not comparable — democratically elected? Didn’t Mussolini provide the Italian people every possible service? Indeed, isn’t that in a general way the precise definition of fascist populism? Things get complicated with your third question and the idea that the people of Hezbollah are “the only ones able to defend their country.” I hope you are joking! For in truth Hezbollah has been bleeding Lebanon and has literally taken it hostage and taken its own people hostage, turning them into human shields with mind-boggling cynicism — a bizarre way to “defend” a country.

It might come as a shock to many leftist to hear any European to remark: “defend their country? Lay off the shrooms, pal!” But Lévy is nothing if not a contrarian when the facts are on his side.
A paid link to the NYT is omitted, but we have even better play by play from the charming and talented Phoebe. Enjoy.

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Tyrant larger than life

A BBC celeb puff piece about a man who runs political prisons. His presence is felt across Cuba like a gun to the head for more than a generation, but when youre the beeb, you ignore all of that.

They call what is probably a nail-biting cold sweat about a potentially violent political struggle:

For those at the upper echelons of the Cuban government, it will be a novel experience.

As is so often is the case the BBC (and an endless supply of lefty morons) eats up Castros PR routine at home without questioning it. Who needs democracy and participatory government when the Lider Maximo is both the government and the loyal opposition!

Mr Castro has never tolerated formal opposition to his rule. Instead, he sometimes appears to fulfil the role of opposition leader himself, haranguing government officials on live television.

Yum, yum, eat em up!

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No wasted time looking for root causes here

Barbarians at the Gates. Europeans Leftists in Italy have built a wall around a bad neighborhood (cool man, it's got a checkpoint and everything!). Of course, sermonizing Europeans Leftists are not subject to the same trash talk they love to dish out to Israel Jews. You know, all that rubbish about Israel's the Jews apartheid wall and other such crap.


In Zeropa, the gated communities are to keep the poor inside.

Les pleureuses sont de retour

"Can a free press survive if the public concludes that it's in the business of purveying politically motivated propaganda on behalf of civilization's enemies?"



N'en déplaise aux sales pédaloïdes, planqués dans leurs bureaux cossus sous les lambris dorés des beaux quartiers, qui font sans arrêt l'étalage des mêmes photos.

Coward New Network

CNN reporters act as Hezbollah's poodles running dogs.

It's time to take them out

European radical pacifism and all-too-tolerant humanism.

To be fought to the death

Our greatest enemy? Perhaps, but at least that enemy is in our crosshairs. A more dangerous enemy to be targeted is European radical pacifism and all-too-tolerant humanism.

Reality kept firmly at bay in cartoonland

Will someone please help deconstruct Monday (Sundays) Plantu?

It makes absolutely no sense. Even when you take into account Plantu's adolescent (now geriatric) difficulties with concept of authority, it still doesnt seem to have anything to do with reality.

Hizballah is magically transformed from terrorist organization into the Airport security trying to prevent it but you see thats still a bad thing since peace might be confiscated as potentially hazardous hand luggage.

Therefore, if we did nothing for the publics security, there would be no Hizballah, right?