Dutch join Germany, Austria, in reverting to coal. Who’s up next? We bet on California. Oh, and keep listening to Greta and Al Gore dummies.
Tag: France
June 5-6 D-Day Thread 2019
June 5-6 D-Day Thread 2019. Got a D-Day story, post it here.
Eiffel Tower is shrouded by smoke as Paris burns into the night: Iconic landmark shines through choking black pall after Yellow Vest protesters set cars ablaze for the seventh weekend as they call on Macron to go
Eiffel Tower is shrouded by smoke as Paris burns into the night: Iconic landmark shines through choking black pall after Yellow Vest protesters set cars ablaze for the seventh weekend as they call on Macron to go. How long before this happens in the US in places like Washington DC, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Portland, etc.?
Macron caves in AGAIN! French police will be given pay rises after the Blue Vests joined the Yellow Vest anti-government movement
Macron caves in AGAIN! French police will be given pay rises after the Blue Vests joined the Yellow Vest anti-government movement. Macron seems to be setting a new French record for whipping out the white flag.
Yellow Vest protesters erect a GUILLOTINE in Paris bearing French President’s political party name amid revolt that has forced Macron to address the furious nation Monday evening
Yellow Vest protesters erect a GUILLOTINE in Paris bearing French President’s political party name amid revolt that has forced Macron to address the furious nation Monday evening. Laissez le bon temps rouler. Or should it be laissez les têtes rouler?
Driver rams into crowd of students outside high school in Toulouse leaving two gravely ill after ‘voices in his head told him too’
Driver rams into crowd of students outside high school in Toulouse leaving two gravely ill after ‘voices in his head told him too.’ Another ISIS terror attack the French are trying to cover up? We find it mighty suspicious the name isn’t being released? Mohammed perchance?
Austria election RESULTS: Eurosceptics poised to celebrate in nightmare for Brussels
Austria election RESULTS: Eurosceptics poised to celebrate in nightmare for Brussels. Time for another Brexit? People are getting tired of the EU and Herr Merkel running their lives and importing Muslims.
The Daily Religion of Peace
Two women killed at Marseille train station in suspected terror attack
Two women killed at Marseille train station in suspected terror attack. France gets it again. “Police sources told Sky News the attacker shouted “Allahu Akkbar” as he carried out the attack at Gare St. Charles.” But it was a ‘suspected’ terror attack.
Two Separate Terror Attacks in France Today, One Suspect Still on the Loose
Two Separate Terror Attacks in France Today, One Suspect Still on the Loose. It appears the Muslim terrorists are busy in Europe today. Knife attack and a hammer attack. They should outlaw assault knives and hammers.
Multiculturalism on parade: French police can’t enter 750 Muslim enclaves
750 neighborhoods in France, controlled by Muslim immigrants, are now considered too dangerous for the police to enter.
Sacre bleu! Thanks to those who worship at the altar of multiculturalism, France now has 750 neighborhoods that police, firemen and ambulances refuse to enter unless they have absolutely no other option.
Those neighborhoods, controlled by Muslim immigrants, are now considered too dangerous for the police.
Sounds suspiciously like our southern border, doesn’t it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3YQANdvvbY
French newspaper ad blames us for 9/11 terror attacks (the World Trade Center was just too tall, damn it)
French newspaper Courrier International created an ad suggesting that we could have avoided 9/11 if we’d simply built the twin towers a bit shorter.
Every year, at least one advertiser somewhere in the world is guaranteed to exploit the 9/11 attacks with a tasteless ad.
French newspaper Courrier International gets the “honor” this year with an ad suggesting that we could have avoided 9/11 if we’d simply built the twin towers a bit shorter. The ad shows two jets flying over a substantially shorter World Trade Center along with the headline, “Learn to anticipate.”
MyFoxLA has the tasteless details:
The website Ads of the World reported that Saatchi & Saatchi France is the agency behind the ad.
The Montreal Gazette reported that the campaign is an attempt to imply that the newspaper’s coverage will help readers anticipate major events.
The 9/11 terror attack are only one of the events used in the promotion. The campaign also uses the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy and the 1969 moon landing.
Many who have posted comments about the ad on various websites are upset about its insensitivity.
“Stupid beyond belief. There will NEVER be a right time to reference 9/11 in advertising,” reads one comment on the website AdFreak.com. “Oooh, I know, perhaps the Saatchi creatives could do one on the deportation of gypsies from their country,” quipped another post on the site.
Considering that the campaign features three American news events, perhaps the campaign should feature a new headline:
France. Where you can anticipate that nothing of any significance will ever happen.
Source: MyFoxLA.com
McDonald’s trying to penetrate closeted gay French teenagers
They’re trying to penetrate the closeted gay French teenage market. Here’s a French McDonald’s TV commercial that’s lost somewhere between poignant, funny, and politically correct piffle.
The market. They’re trying to penetrate the closeted gay French teenage market.
Here’s a French McDonald’s TV commercial that’s lost somewhere between poignant, funny, and politically correct piffle.
H/T: Jammie Wearing Fool
Proud Parisian protesters proclaim themselves “Unemployed on strike”
Those French are just too goldanged sophisticated for our limited American intellects. To our feeble minds, the words “unemployed” and “on strike” seem mutually exclusive.
Those French are just too goldanged sophisticated for our limited American intellects. To our feeble minds, the words “unemployed” and “on strike” seem mutually exclusive.
Would someone please ask John Kerry to clarify this.
Viva La France? Peut-être non (maybe not)
France is reeling from a documentary about a psychological experiment disguised as a game show. The fictitious game show had all the trappings of a real TV quiz show, including a beautiful and well-known hostess, and a raucous audience. A group of contestants posed questions to a man sitting inside a box in front of them in an electric chair.
Only the most despicable nation on earth (read the United States) would do something as horrible as waterboarding terrorists. Especially with a flimsy excuse like “Maybe we can get information to keep them from blowing up more buildings and killing more innocent people.”
But as we’ve been told by President Obama, great nations don’t torture.
Take France, or example. Now there’s a civilized nation. They don’t torture people unless it’s for a really good reason. Like maybe winning a TV game show.
According to NPR, “France is reeling from a documentary about a psychological experiment disguised as a game show. The fictitious game show had all the trappings of a real TV quiz show, including a beautiful and well-known hostess, and a raucous audience. A group of contestants posed questions to a man sitting inside a box in front of them in an electric chair.”
The players were urged by both the hostess and audience to send shocks into the man in the box when he gave a wrong answer.
Even when the player screamed out in pain, begging them to stop, 80% of the contestants continued zapping him.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and now, électricité.
– Written by Patrick Michael
Top ten ways the real Obama is just like the carnival balloon Obama
“A float called ‘Yes we can be ecologist’ depicting U.S. President Barack Obama, parades during the 126th edition of the Nice Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Nice, southern France. The carnival’s theme this year is ‘King of the Blue Planet.’”
The Associated Press reports, “A float called ‘Yes we can be ecologist’ depicting U.S. President Barack Obama, parades during the 126th edition of the Nice Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Nice, southern France. The carnival’s theme this year is ‘King of the Blue Planet.’”
To tell the truth, we can’t tell if that damn thing is a balloon like you see in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade or something more akin to a Rose Parade float. But we’re going with balloon because the other answer screws up our entire premise.
So now, without further delay, the top ten ways the real Obama is just like the balloon Obama
- Both rose to the top as a result of a lot of hot air
- Both look down upon the masses
- Both come with strings attached.
- Both are willing to accept massive inflation
- Both are traveling an ill-conceived path toward an ill-defined destination.
- Both have very thin skin.
- Both are being cheered by third-world rabble.
- Both have swelled heads.
- Both act as if they’re above it all.
- It’s arguable as to which will be the bigger let-down.
Source: Associated Press
– Written by Sven Waring
First Obama lost Massachusetts, now he may lose France
Despite CNN’s non-stop coverage of the continued horror in Haiti, the left wing network found time to ask this burning question, “Has Obama lost France as an ally?”
Despite CNN’s non-stop coverage of the continued horror in Haiti, the left wing network found time to ask this burning question, “Has Obama lost France as an ally?”
According to CNN, “President Nicolas Sarkozy called the new president ‘my buddy’ and tried urgently to be the first world leader to meet with him…” but “…after a year in office, France’s honeymoon with Obama seems clearly over.”
In case you’re wondering how anyone could dislike the Greatest President In History, especially since the left is constantly reminding us of how much the world loves us now that The One has come, the article gives at least three reasons:
1. “First there were published reports that Sarkozy didn’t think Obama knew his briefing books during the G-20 economic summit.”
2. “Then came widespread sniping along official corridors here that Obama was not measuring up when dealing with world leaders, like Russia’s Dimitri Medvedev.”
3. “And then members of Sarkozy’s government openly complained about how long it was taking Obama to make up his mind about Afghanistan.”
But just to make sure that we know who is really to blame, CNN asks the penetrating question, “So one year on, has President Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, lost France as an ally?”
Damn that George Bush. He probably caused the loss in Massachusetts, too.
Source: CNN
– Written by Patrick Michael
French government now giving away newspapers to buy loyal readers
The French government Tuesday detailed plans of a project called “My Free Newspaper,” under which 18- to 24-year-olds will be offered a free, yearlong subscription to a newspaper of their choice.
Earlier this year, Democrat Senator Ben Cardin introduced a bill to help struggling newspapers by allowing them to restructure as nonprofits giving them a boatload of tax breaks. Ahhh, but the French government has one-upped Cardin.
Naturally, the story is reported by the New York Times, which would, of course, be one of the primary beneficiaries if a similar plan were to be adopted in the United States:
Newspapers have tried many things to stave off a seemingly relentless decline in readers. Now France is pushing forward with a novel approach: giving away papers to young readers in an effort to turn them into regular customers.
The government Tuesday detailed plans of a project called “My Free Newspaper,” under which 18- to 24-year-olds will be offered a free, yearlong subscription to a newspaper of their choice.
“Winning back young readers is essential for the financial survival of the press, and for its civic dimension,” the culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, said.
The project is one of a number of measures, including direct financial subsidies, announced by the government last winter, after a study of the problems facing the newspaper industry.
About 60 publications are participating in the new project. In addition to papers like Le Monde and Le Figaro, they include a variety of local publications, as well as the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times. Even L’Équipe, a popular sports daily, is taking part.
Where the hell are the Democrats on this issue? C’mon, man, we want our free newspapers. We already have our free food, free rent, free cars, and free cell phones.
It’s a right. We’re pretty sure it’s in the Constitution. Isn’t that what they meant when they talked about freedom of the press?
Source: Reuters, New York Times
Un-friggin-believable: Ten French soldiers killed after Italians bribed Taliban not to fight
Italy’s bribery strategy proved more creative than the typical French strategy of retreat and surrender, but considerably more deadly.
Italy’s bribery strategy proved more creative than the typical French strategy of retreat and surrender, but considerably more deadly.
The Australian reports via Andrew Bolt:
TEN French soldiers killed in Afghanistan failed to realise the risks in the area because Italian officials had secretly paid the Taliban to desist from violence.
The Italian secret service had been paying tens of thousands of dollars to Taliban commanders and local warlords to keep the Sarobi area near Kabul quiet in the months before French forces moved in.
The French had been in charge of the area for just a month when the 10 soldiers were killed in an insurgent ambush in August 2008, in one of the biggest single losses of life for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
“Sacre bleu, Henri, pour me another glass of that insouciant ’93 chardonnay. This Afghanistan duty is a lot easier than I…(BANG)…”
Source: Andrew Bolt
Sacré bleu! Sarkozy tells Obama how to say “testosterone” in French
What does it say when the President of France has more testosterone than the American President of the United States? As the WSJ described the surreal scene at the UN, “At least the French President tried to sound tough, which isn’t hard when you stand next to Mr. Obama.”
What does it say when the President of France has more testosterone than the American President of the United States?
As the WSJ described the surreal scene at the UN, “At least the French President tried to sound tough, which isn’t hard when you stand next to Mr. Obama.” (Ouch!) After Obama used most of his United Nations speech to blather on about climate change and “a world without nuclear weapons,” Sarkozy brought him back to the real world.
Obama said, “We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth.”
“We live in the real world, not the virtual world,” Sarkozy responded. “And the real world expects us to make decisions.”
Sarkozy continued to school Obama with more teachable moments:
“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons … but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.
“Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993.
“I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map,” he continued, referring to Israel.
Talk about timing: Just as Obama wants to unilaterally lay down his nuclear arms, another inconvenient truth crops up in the form of a second Iranian nuclear facility. Seems like the last time Obama talked about disarming, the North Koreans tested another missile. Not that it fazed Obama.
Needless to say, we were shocked—shocked!—that Sarkozy’s mocking response to Obama’s utopian UN speechifying went unreported in U.S. newspapers.
Is it any wonder that newspapers continue to lose readers when they won’t even print news?
Source: BigGovernment.com
Sacre Blue! Universal healthcare going broke in France
The French system’s fragile solvency shows how tough it is to provide universal coverage while controlling costs, the professed twin goals of President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul.
One quick disclaimer: We hate France. We hate the French. We hate Napoleon. We hate DeGaulle. We have Charles Aznavour. We hate Jerry Lewis just because the French love him. We like Carla Bruni, but only because she’s hot.
That being said, France’s friggin’ healthcare system has been held up as the perfect example, the ideal, the epitome of what America’s healthcare should look like. So it is with great pleasure that we pass along this report from the Wall Street Journal:
“… soaring costs are pushing the system into crisis. The result: As Congress fights over whether America should be more like France, the French government is trying to borrow U.S. tactics.
In recent months, France imposed American-style “co-pays” on patients to try to throttle back prescription-drug costs and forced state hospitals to crack down on expenses. “A hospital doesn’t need to be money-losing to provide good-quality treatment,” President Nicolas Sarkozy thundered in a recent speech to doctors.
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French “youths” riot, burn cars. Were they (a) Baptist, (b) Catholic, (c) Jewish, or (d) none of the above
French (muslims) youths burned 317 cars and wounded 13 police officers overnight during the now traditional bout of street violence on the eve of the Bastille Day national holiday, police say
Please allow us to translate a story from France, reported by the BBC, found in an Australian newspaper, but generally ignored in the United States.
French youths burned 317 cars and wounded 13 police officers overnight during the now traditional bout of street violence on the eve of the Bastille Day national holiday, police say.
Paris police said 240 people had been arrested, almost double the number held after unrest on the same day last year.
The injured officers are suffering from hearing difficulties caused by home-made explosives blowing up beside them.
Last week, the death of a young man in police custody caused three nights of riots in the southern town of Firminy.
Police said Mohamed Benmouna, a 21-year-old of Algerian origin, had died after trying to hang himself in a cell earlier in the week.
So when you strip away the politically-correct reportage, you understand that “French youths” is an euphemism that actually means “Muslim youths.” You know, the same ones who’ve begun the delightful tradition of rioting and burning cars to celebrate the freedom they’ve found in France.
But, of course, it might offend some “French youths” if that story were to be reported…uhhh…accurately.
Source: Daily Telegraph via Andrew Bolt
Obama names Hollywood halfwits as ambassadors to France and the Bahamas
Some of President Obama’s biggest Hollywood financial supporters are packing their bags and heading off to become ambassadors. This despite the fact that their only previous diplomatic experience may have been spending a night in Hollywood’s Ambassador Hotel.
But that matters not if there were enough zeroes on the check you contributed to the President’s campaign coffers.
Music industry heiress Nicole Avant will represent us in the Bahamas. Wild Brain CEO Charles Rivkin gets France.
Avant is the daughter of longtime Bill and Hillary Clinton friend Clarence Avant and the sister of Democratic activist Alex Avant. She was the first in her family to break away and endorse Obama. Her experience for the ambassadorship includes being the daughter of the former chairman of Motown Records, bundling $500,000 for Obama’s campaign, and playing Protestor #2 in a 2004 film called “First Daughter.”
Why stop there, President Obama? There are lots of other Hollywood types itching to be ambassadors.
Rob Reiner. Barbara Streisand. Alec Baldwin. They all said they’d leave the country if Bush got elected, but didn’t. If a little ambassadorship is all it takes to get them out, we say it’s a small price to pay.
Source: LA Times
French human rights group tries to take Dutch politician to court for speech made in United States
Horrors! Bouzrou accuses Dutch politician Geert Wilders of uttering these scandalous words these words during a speech in New York:
“Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods” and “Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves.”
As MediaWatchWatch.org said, “The idea that a Dutchman can be prosecuted in France for saying something perfectly legal in the United States is simply too absurd to contemplate.”
“If this goes through, the United States should issue speeding tickets to every driver in France.”
Source: MediaWatchWatch.org
Latest diplomatic gaffe: Obama doesn’t know who the French president is
The online version of leading French newspaper Le Figaro says President Obama sent a letter to French Jacques Chirac saying that he wants to “work with him” over the next four years.
Oops! Chirac isn’t president of France anymore. Nicolas Sarkozy was elected to that office in May 2007.
Obama’s letter said, “I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world.”
Coming just a few days after Obama insulted British Prime Minster Gordon Brown, this is apparently part of a undisclosed plan by Obama to alienate NATO members one-by-one.
In other diplomatic news, President Obama has also sent letters to Russian Czar Nicholas II, English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck.
Source: Le Figaro
