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We've all heard how Bush, 'that idiot' and Blair 'his lap dog' managed to get themselves and their countries isolated, ostracized, and set the whole world against them by bumping into the French'sFrom which is assumed, consequently, that France managed to rally the said world behind her, and therefore should be enjoying a soaring position in the Big
As far as murderers, oppressors of various Middle East nations' populations, Ivory Coast putschist Muslims and other bearded (figuratively or properly) terrorists are concerned, I would certainly not argue against the fact that France's popularity is at its highest in decades -- Although there is room for improvement, if only those stubborn French representatives would amend that silly little law of them, and limit its scope to, say, just Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Judaism, Blessed Adorers of The Great Billy Goat's Holy Testicles¹, Shintoism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Vodun².
Then France would get a serious PR boost among the veiled zealots of the Religion of Oppression, Sequestration and Decapitation.
But then these are a minority - or so we are told
Well. Ah.
I don't...
... think so.
At least if these articles can be of any indication.
Money quotes. First, this:
French banned from selling the Eurofighter,I've got news for the poor banned French: when you achieve a pathological state of collusion between the industry, administration and politics such as the one France is infested with, -- thank to the evil metastasis constantly spread by the ENA's drones (National School of Administration, AKA the Festering Heart of French Corruption) and the School of
(...) ministers have imposed the extraordinary condition (...) because they believe the French would undermine the plane's export potential by putting their national interests - and products - first.
(...)As well as harbouring the suspicion that French nationals will sell their own planes, such as the Dassault Rafael (sic), ahead of the Typhoon, industry is wary of letting the French see Typhoon prices and capabilities for fear that they will leak sensitive information to their own industry.
The second and rather long article by Brian Moynihan in the Sunday Times is so consistently spot on that it is almost scary.
It is also somewhat embarrassing when it comes to picking quotes, frankly.
So here's a, well, pot-pourri of course:
Going, going... the old man of EuropeWhat do you call a great survivor at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.
(Chirac) the great survivor is on his way out, leaving France in a state of decline
I know, you're not in for easy jokes but I just couldn't help it. And because I'm the one pulling all the work here doesn't mean I should climb the walls, does it?
Gaullism, tetchy in its defence of French interests, pining for grandeur, has moulded him.Right. Tell that to Napoleon's horse, Charly.
One of its principal features is to lump Americans and the British together as "les Anglo-Saxons", and to mistrust both. Another (...) is the general's dictum that "with the English one must bang on the table and they will submit".
Forty years ago, de Gaulle described the Americans as "the greatest danger in the world today to peace".1. Now you know where Lefties and their Islamofascist allies borrowed their pathetic rhetoric.
2. Now you know why I regard de Gaulle as a great man up until, say, June 18th, 1940. Tops.
Chirac is more circumspect. But he went out of his way to praise the philosopher Jacques Derrida, (...) as one of the "major figures of the intellectual life of our times". Derrida was notorious for calling America the "world's leading rogue state".1. Now you know where Lefties and their Islamofascist allies borrowed their pathetic rhetoric.
2. Now you know why I regard Chirac as a great man up until, say, November 28th, 1932. Tops.
And as a side note, I'll had that being called 'a major intellectual' by somebody like Mr. Chirac tells you a lot about what Derrida was, and was not. If you get my meaning, wink, wink.
As to the British, the general once said that Churchill had told him: "Each time I must choose between you and Roosevelt, I shall choose Roosevelt."Which is one among many reasons why Churchill still is a great man.
There is a tangible fear that the French vision of the EU, politically integrated, socially conscious, is being replaced by an English- dominated collection of loosely linked states with a liberal, free-market economy hostile to Gaullist notions of state-backed industries and étatisme.Fear? What do you mean fear? Gee, I can't wait for that glorious day.
All right, this is just an appetizer really. I do insist you go and read the whole thing, as it is addressing some key French issues, above and beyond Jacques C., King of the Thieves -- from de Gaulle to that quarter of the French workforce made of public sector employees rushing the country on the road to bankruptcy.
However, as the French expression goes, here's a last one for the road:
The socialists under François Mitterrand misused public funds on a scale undreamt of by Juppé. They created a building consultancy, Urba, with 16 regional offices, in order to siphon money from public works contracts into party coffers. It contributed £2.4m to Mitterrands re-election campaign. Police and investigating magistrates were stymied when Mitterrand announced a grand amnesty for those being investigated for financial misdemeanours. This applied to all elected representatives, including himself.That's the French way: bribe and swindle your way to the top, and then pardon yourself.
1. : Well I understand your point, but this is a big world full of deluded people and I'm fairly confident that somebody, somewhere, is worshipping that.
And guess what? I, for one, believe that anybody willing to believe the Great Big Everything was created by a goat's testicles is absolutely entitled to do so. As far as they don't fly airliners into our towers just because we don't.
2. : Which, as the rocket scientists among you already figured out, exclude de facto from the range of that silly little law not only the veiled zealots of the Religion of Oppression, Sequestration and Decapitation but also their fellow travelers, the Socialists of all obedience.
Yeah, that's a friggin' sick death cult as well.
3. : Naah, don't get me started on this one. Not just yet.
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