I never tire of this.

Because as Drinking From Home point out with comic élan, that it’s true that the narrow-minded and ignorant leftist press prefer to describe the world as they feel it or wish it, and not as it is.

Transposing the statements, positions, nay, their “stance” on present day events with history can help even the biggest wankers, even the ones who won’t stop spamming me with their improbable 9/11 conspiracy theories “keep it real”.

French Presidential campaign : highly predictable

Off of the Figaro newswire, Jean Marie Le Pen calls Bush a "war criminal". Le Pen is sailing along at over 15% in the polls, with surprising support in French suburbs. Well, not all that surprising considering he shares quite a bit with French youth: Jew hating, America bashing, Saddam supporting ...

Pour Le Pen, «Bush est un criminel de guerre»

"Je suis bien obligé de constater qu'il a attaqué un pays sans aucune justification», déclare le président du Front national, depuis Vichy, au lendemain de la publication du rapport du Sénat américain sur la guerre "injustifiée" en Irak. (Avec AFP)

Nicolas Sarkozy does the only sensible thing for a front running French Presidential candidate who wants to remain front-running -- he distances himself from the USA, "I am not in blind admiration of the United States." says Sarko.

And yet the left continue to idolize their parano pet tyrants

Our less refined, less reality and fact based commenters seem still madly in love with the tyrannies that those who experienced or understood the enlightenment saw as toxic to the human spirit as long as two centuries ago:

"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the reedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."

-- Thomas Paine

I... I... feel so violated!

Bové falls for the big fat joke of the building business

“Eco” houses:

Fittingly, M Bové insisted on a house that is “100 per cent ecological”. Conifer walls, copper guttering, non-chemical paints, varnishes containing no pollutants and so on.

Almost all the “natural materials” used in construction, he told Le Monde, came from Germany because France lags behind. The lavatories function without using up water and require him to slop out into a”guaranteed smell-free” compost bin. Solar panels are to thank for 40 per cent of his hot water.

Having done much with green building for more than a decade, the only conclusion that I’ve come to is most everything people want in a green building has more environmental impact than doing it right the first time, and for good.

Banish the transient organic fluff, and you won’t spent the time, money, and energy rebuilding in 20 years. Come to think of it, sheep-boy might realize that his “survivalist” house built by him and others among these “communitarian” types are little more than a piece of their own cognitive dissonance. Something they might only grasp after they’ve destroyed the arable landscape that they’ve fanned out into.

Crank up the pedal-powered CD player and listen to the Joan Baez geriatric collection, because it’s time to hit the wall of delusions, and make sure we don’t capitalize on any of the efficiencies created by technology, a.k.a.: knowing more than we did yesterday.

It is all very well running a peasant farmers’ group using slow internet connections and having to nip indoors to make and receive calls. But a presidential campaign is a little more demanding, even for fringe candidates. “It takes us hours to send three e-mails,” complains M Bové’s girlfriend, Ghislaine Ricez.

And who else should have shared the couple’s sense of inconvenience but Peter Yarrow. It seems surreal that someone from the 1960s American folk group Peter, Paul and Mary would want much to do, beyond leaving on a jet plane, with new-fangled contraptions.

Wise move it is, to compost and give back to you and yours your own pathogens. How about a nice cistern of standing water with undigested transients to go with it?

Hell, while you're at it, why not get rid of a WHOLE MILLENIUM of human progress, and leave mankind’s survival to the fickleness of agriculture and have a short brutish life like they did in the good old days when they REALLY denuded the landscape just to subsist and stay warm!?

D'un côté on leur reproche de jouer aux gendarmes du monde, de l'autre, de ne pas agir avec la responsabilité et la diligence de gendarmes du monde

…on a beau tourner le sujet dans tous les sens, le seul problème du monde, c'est les Etats-Unis. Les USA fournissent des armes à Israël, "déstabilisent" le Moyen-Orient en dérangeant les dictateurs qui y vendaient paisiblement leur pétrole, et parallèlement, restent froids et inactifs devant les "bonnes" catastrophes (comprendre, celles qui n'ont pas d'effet sur le prix de l'essence. Ceci dit sans matérialisme aucun, bien sûr.) Bref, ça ne va jamais. D'un côté on leur reproche de jouer aux gendarmes du monde, de l'autre, de ne pas agir avec la responsabilité et la diligence de gendarmes du monde. Un reportage édifiant sur la tragédie du Darfour expliquait les atermoiements des Etats-Unis sur ce dossier, donc leur responsabilité sur les centaines de milliers de morts de ce génocide. L'opposition de la Chine et de la Russie à l'ONU? Aucun reproche. L'inertie de la France, grande donneuse de leçon devant l'éternel sans avoir l'excuse d'être déjà engagée en Irak? Le reportage n'en parlera pas. Un seul pays est sur la sellette, toujours le même.

Stéphane takes on McDonald's, the poor in L.A, the Cuban embargo (not a blocade), and more…

De toutes façons, face au moindre événement géopolitique, chacun trouvera toujours le moyen d'expliquer que les Etats-Unis sortent grands gagnants. N'importe quelle aventure n'est que l'occasion d'étendre l'American Way of Life ou de récolter des dollars. Leur richesse ne peut s'expliquer par autre chose que la malhonnêteté, l'exploitation et le pillage d'autres pays. Les multinationales tentaculaires font la loi dans le tiers-monde, avec la complicité de l'appareil d'Etat américain.

…Jamais il ne viendra à l'esprit que l'Amérique fonctionne parce qu'elle repose sur des règles différentes, et meilleures, et que son succès vient de là. Une telle perception est intolérable pour un socio-démocrate, dressé depuis l'enfance à penser qu'il n'existe pas de meilleure conception de l'Etat et de la société que la sienne.

Si quelqu'un fait mieux en faisant différemment, il y a forcément une arnaque quelque part. A défaut de la trouver, on l'inventera; et au passage, on décriera, critiquera, méprisera de façon hautaine tout ce que l'autre arrive à réussir.

…Plus que jamais, l'antiaméricanisme reste d'actualité en Europe, peu importe les démonstrations contradictoires qui peuvent lui être apportées. La réalité n'a aucune prise sur le phénomène, tout simplement parce qu'il est nécessaire à la survie du système.

George Galloway: Selective Genocide

Via Disturbingly Yellow The gorgeous one:

Well I don’t agree that it’s genocide but I definitely agree that there’s suffering going on there.

Tikram einek, ya Girgis! Adulating in his status as Mother Superior of the fever swamp, Galloway read the following hand picked correspondence:

Long live Georgy! I believe the whole world has been brainwashed into following the USA with Israel as its outpost. I can’t believe the genocide of Lebanon has gone without criticism from the so-called free West.

the fuse is lit!

Tales from the left-wing treehouse

From a big media FauxBlog entry by George Monbiot which gives an insight into the incredibly sad world of the activist left, comes a brilliant comment:

How funny are all these "peace activist" from the point of view of someone who grew up in the USSR. Demonstrating against the nuclear missiles. The peace movement. How could you not recognise the true enemy? USSR was out there to get you if it could. It failed - but if these women had indeed cerated "something usefull" - they would be learning Russian by now. That, and living in a society that has theretically equal rights but never elevated women to positions of power or authority.

I still recall seeing all these peace protest on the TV in Moscow. Even then I was amazed. The mass peace movement in the USSR (I still recall having to pay some money from time to time for the needs of "peace movement") was against the Western weapons. You could have a million in a demonstration against nukes in the UK. Did they not watch it? Did they not realize that if your enemy wants something that you want - your views might not be objective?

I could understand a 20 year old "protester". But one could hope that by the age of 40 the person would wisen up a bit.

As to you, Macbeth, it never fails to amaze me that there are people who grew up in the Western, democratic society, yet fail to appreciate it's main gift. Pluralism and the ability of a person to be different from the rest without fear of prosecution. What will happen if all of us, who think differently will just "go away"? Won't it be a dull world? Would it be one where new ideas are born? Homogeneity of views would have fit nicely in the USSR.

Just in time to dance on their graves.

Karl Zéro’s web site to be relaunched on September 11th...
just to be “untraditional”.

With thanks to Aléric

Upsetting the orthodoxy again

Figaro’s Ivan Rioufol:

« Jacques Chirac a estimé : « Se profile un danger majeur, celui du divorce entre deux mondes, Orient contre Occident, Islam contre Chrétienté, riches contre pauvres ». Mais les musulmans d'Irak ou d'Algérie sont les premières victimes du djihadisme.

Ce n'est pas l'Islam qui s'oppose à l'Occident, mais un totalitarisme mortifère à des hommes libres. En laissant deviner une responsabilité partagée de l'Occident qui aurait les clefs de la paix, Chirac se montre moins clairvoyant que George Bush quand il déclare, le 10 août : « Notre pays est en guerre contre les fascistes islamistes ». Qu'attend la France, qui a su désigner le Hezbollah comme agresseur d'Israël, pour soutenir cette autre évidence ? La gaffe de Philippe Douste-Blazy, reconnaissant à l'Iran un rôle de « stabilisation dans la région », a révélé l'aveuglement. »

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Jacques Chirac’s position is that “the greater danger is the cleft between two worlds, East against West, Islam against Christendom, and rich against poor”, even though it was the Muslims of Iraq or Algeria who were the first victims of the Jihadism.

It’s not the Islam which is opposed to the west, but totalitarianism that terrifies free people. While leaving aside that a shared responsibility shared for the east would be the key to peace, Chirac shows himself to be less insightful than George Bush when he said on August 10th: “Our country is at war against islamist fascists”. What is to become of France which knew to name Hezbollah to be the one that attacked Israel, but not support this other obvious fact? The blunder of Philippe Douste-Blazy, recognizing in Iran a role as a “stabilizing element in the area”, revealed their blindness.

That’s gotta hurt.

It’s all about people coming together, man

Eastern, not western Europeans aided in the capture and incarceration of 14 hardcore terrorists. Not only does that tell America who her friends are, but that’s what multilateralism is all about.

To the Gaucho-Islamiste left, that’s now, of course, considered bad.

Enjoy les reactions. They can be especially amusing when coming from completely irrelevant people.

And it’s a good thing: Guantanamo now holds top terror suspects

Petain and the Nurenburg defendants had to wait until after World War II was over to face trial. These 14 are bing moved to Gitmo to face it now. It must mean that they’re no longer useful for the purposes of intelligence, and being presented for future trial instead of kept in the can where they definately can’t kill anybody, quite guilty.

It sure put’s old Dick’s witch hunt against Eastern European sovereignty and toffish pacifist arrogance in perspective, doesn’t it?the fuse is lit!

Yes, and they’re mostly needy, greedy, whining Trotskyites

“...Do schools turn out cretins?...”the fuse is lit!

The natives are restless

Et puis merde quoi ! Ce n'est quand même pas un type qui s'appelle Mouloud qui nous apprendre à causer le franchouille !

Working hard or hardly working?

France is placed in 35th place (behind Puerto Rico and Armenia) in a international ranking of business friendly countries, "Doing Business 2007". France's Justice Minister has protested the method used to arrive at this conclusion.

So Marcel, who wears the pants in your family?

The American Pat Russo is set to become the first woman to head a CAC-40 company when she steps up as CEO of the newly merged Alcatel-Lucent group. She will also be the highest paid CEO in France. Don't hate the playa, you French half-a-faggots.

One for the chocolate soldiers

El gato says: fear the feather.

Have fun storming the castle, boys.

Lefty finds it therapeutic

Inciting violence, that is.
They’re just trying to become, their role model Mr. Peace and Lurrrrve.

Keythtone Kopth

If this doesn’t make Belgians sleep soundly at night, I don’t know what would:

If it wasn’t a little sad, it would be historic: On Thursday night the buildings housing the OCAM (Office of Threat Analysis Coordination) in the heart of Brussels was burglarized.

In fact VRT (Flemish public radio and television) announced it Friday evening 19H00. The OCAM is an interagency service responsible for the State security, the SGRS (General Intelligence and Security Service, military intelligence), the federal Police force and other agencies. Its role is to synthesize information and analyses transmitted by each service and certain foreign services, and to brief authorities on their estimation of the terrorist threat level.

The bearded crazies must be in their happy place.

Thanks to alert reader Hervé whose stomache for stories like that is much stronger than mine.the fuse is lit!

He was too stoned to properly read his Townhouse marching orders

Such is the level of political journalism in Fwance that the lead story for Libération PropagandaStaffel for 2 days running is that Doc Gyneco has announced his support for Nicolas Sarkozy. Doc Gyneco is a French rapper known for his slurred speech and stoner lyrics. His millionaire ex-partner, rapper Stomy Bugsy, has declared that the Doc has sold his soul to the devil. When every possible French show biz personality brown noses Djack Lang (French 'Minister of Culture' for Life) not a peep is heard from the French preSS. Bad boy rapper Joey Starr, known for beating chimps and airline stewardesses, is throwing his weight behind the Trotskyist LCR party headed by Olivier Besancenot.

The only blood shed by Zeropeans is when they get their navels pierced

Dear Europe, your lunch break is too long ...