Che Goreva

Plenty of people seem to think the Gore poster can't be anything but satire. It isn't. It's the real thing on the Draft Gore website. But people such as the Lumberjacks have been getting ideas…

Star Gores

May the Gorce be with you!

As Al Gore wins a Nobel Prize, his fans seem to think he is a Jedi Knight come to save the planet…

Update: All that's missing is the moustache, says Spiny Norman (thanks to Ringo the Gringo), while the Lumberjacks, seeing Soviet-era poster "art", add Ché Guevara to the equation and while McGehee and Dave Runyan compare Al Gore to Xenu and even to God himself; in the meantime, Mamapajamas emits her own version…

Pourquoi pas, le ridicule ne tue pas

French citizen posts an online petition calling for a referendum before any French involvement in military actions against Iran. Although the text is meant to deal with French foreign policy, it is loaded with the usual anti-American agit-prop.

Is Bernard-Henri Lévy a Pretentious Fool?

…asks John Rosenthal, noting that the sometime darling of America's conservative circles is not that far to the right nor that pro-American after all…

…it is not unlikely that they would want to agree with [Henri] Guaino's assessment of "BHL" [as a petit con prétentieux] if they knew more about him…

Dude

Liberals are sewing the seeds of their own long-term defeat

This political affiliation will probably end up on the endangered species list within two or three generations

writes Ben Duffy.

Perhaps my great-grandchildren will inherit a world without liberals. What a glorious day that would be.

Hey you dirty bum, stop drooling on my granola

Intolerance in Frisco.

A la Cabaña, lorsque les familles rendaient visite à leurs proches, Che exigea qu'on les fasse passer devant le mur d'exécution maculé de sang frais

Oubliées, les purges, oubliées, les exécutions sommaires, le plaisir sadique des tortures: Che Guevara est un mythe, et un mythe ne peut être que parfait. En réalité, même si la légende à commencé à se fendiller, enfin, à l'occasion du quarantième anniversaire de sa mort ("Che Gevara n'était pas toujours héroïque", ai-je entendu à la radio...) le travail de vérité — sans parler de mémoire — ne fait que commencer.

Ainsi écrit Stéphane.

…Fidel Castro sut exploiter les pulsions sacrificielles de son ancien compagnon en l'envoyant exporter la guérilla dans le vaste monde — et surtout, coupé de tout lien officiel avec le régime. Che Guevara finirait bien par mourir sur un champ de bataille ou un autre; resterait de lui son image inspirée et intemporelle, contrastant avec une dictature cubaine qui n'en finit pas de pourrir encore aujourd'hui. L'homme devint légende grâce à d'innombrables intellectuels de gauche cherchant à éviter l'erreur du soutien passé à Staline: mieux vaut rendre un culte à la personnalité d'un révolutionnaire mort qu'à celle d'un dictateur vivant. Son histoire fut soigneusement épurée et revue, les moments de gloire mis en avant et les périodes sombres gommées ou effacées.

Oasis tell the French, who only expend energy to think about their retirement schemes, "I hope I die before I get old"

“the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust”

The Land of the Moral High Ground.

Commemorating the Death of Che Guevara the Baf Way

While the mainstream media commemorates the 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, members of La Baf, who are fed up with seeing his face all over the place, celebrates El Barbudo's death with a speech, an ode to Felix Rodriguez, a song, and (last but not least) a reconstitution thereof in a Paris park.

Felix Rodriguez meilleur que le Che
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Filthy Peasants

Typical 'sophistication' in the land of the great, thoughtful, educated, wizzened, oh-so superior masses mob...

Those Damn Fans Will Never Leave You Alone!

In spite of his shades, one of your webmasters is recognized in the Rue de Rivoli, and a pesky fan of No Pasarán asks to have his picture snapped with him.

There is more optimism about success among the battlefield soldiers than present with analysts in Baghdad

Victor Davis Hanson gives us "a real view of the war" (turban tip: Christopher Cook's" The left cares about NOTHING but its own perpetuation post).

"A Militant, a Communist, and a Revolutionary, She Claims to Speak in the Name … 'of All Cubans, Because That Is What They Deserve'"

Nicolas Bourcier treats Le Monde's readers to a typically hagiographic piece on Aleida Guevara, the daughter of Che Guevara.

Bon, Mais C'est Charmant !

Happy Ramadan, man !!!

Straight talk

Kouchner to French preSS correspondants: with regards to Iran, if the word "war" scares you, I won't use it anymore. That doesn't mean that bombs won't be involved somehow.

What's Behind the Straight Talk

The new French "firmness" begins with a terminological overhaul

writes André Glucksman.

It rejects euphemisms and linguistic taboos. If there is a risk of war, it should not be euphemized. Rather, it should be clearly stated and talked about, precisely to stop any escalation, before reaching the "catastrophic alternative."

… Essentially, Kouchner has invited the Europeans to go beyond Moscow's stalling maneuvers at the UN, if necessary. It is said that when the wise man points to the moon, imbeciles only see his finger. When Kouchner talks about "war," many Europeans feel that it is a dirty word fired like a handgun into the subdued atmosphere of respectful negotiations.

Speaking of "the implacable strategy of the scorched population", Glucksman goes on to point out that

We think we know what we are talking about when we speak of "insurgents" and "Iraqization," but we err.

The Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon, the resistance against Hitler and the anti-colonial insurgencies were first and foremost directed against a foreign army, secondly against "collaborators" and lastly and only sporadically against the people in order to mobilize them by intimidation.

In Iraq, the order of the targets is inversed. American troops are no longer the priority targets. The Americans lost 3,700 of their own in four years. During each of the "hot months" though, over 3,000 Iraqis lost their lives, mainly women and children, blown to pieces not by Americans but by the so-called insurgents. The Americans' frustration is due to the fact that they are facing an adversary who can kill as many of their own as they like, indefinitely, true to the motto "the more of our own we kill, the more you loose."

…Today, homicidal and suicidal bombers are creating the implacable strategy of the scorched population. This is neither a resistance against an invader nor even a civil war, but, more diabolically, a war against the civilian population.

None of this moves the Iranian mullahs, who, through the "moderate" former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, have declared themselves willing to sacrifice 15 million of their own for the theological glory of eradicating the Zionist entity, the necessary sine qua non for the universal hunting down of all crusaders and infidels.

The sacrifice of one's own and oneself, the systematic self destruction of a whole people, are not a new and unknown pathology in history. However, none of these butchers, in their fury, had our modern nuclear toys at their disposal.

To recognize this reality is to recognize why Kouchner was right to talk of war.

Bof, on est tellement mieux avec la variétoche franchouille de merde style Voulzy

Led Zeppelin, live in Paris, June 1969 ...