Kerfuffles

But not until he is an “ex-President.” What a RIP OFF! President Barack Obama should do it now - for all the Euro-weenies and Muslim non-terrorists to see now. How impressed they would be to know that he is NOT just a rock star, but is truly God’s Gift to mankind, - “The One.” Walking on water would prove his Godliness to all the non-believers. Do it now Obama! Do it now! Show us how you can “STROLL” down the River Seine.

“I have a very tough schedule and I would love nothing more than to have a leisurely week in Paris, stroll down the Seine, take my wife out to a nice meal, have a picnic in Luxembourg Gardens,” Obama said, pointing out that he was caught up in dealing with the pressing financial crisis at home. “Those days are over for the moment,” Obama said, but promised to spend more time in France when he is an ex-president. (Breitbart.com)

Is that soy meal made from “organic” melamine?

I think I once advised here “If you are going to give it to a child, eat it or feed it to a pet - don’t buy it from China.” Now I think I must change that admonition a bit to “If you are going to give it to a child, eat it or feed it to any ANIMAL - don’t buy it from China.” This comes on the heels of news reports that organic poultry farmers are buying food for their chickens from China.

First off, although China makes some find products, there can be absolutely NO guarantee that ANYTHING from China is “organic!” Chinese food manufacturers do not follow rules; they label their products to sell, not to inform truth. Why they even “intentionally” added melamine to their own baby formula to make it more profitable to sell (Poison Milk). So if you think you are going to get “Kosher” food from China, think again. You will probably get a pork-laden meat product with a “Kosher” label. Can America’s organic farmers feed their animals meal imported from China and still label the resulting meat “Organic?” I hope not, but I do not really know. At least farmers can do this in France, according to this news: Melamine Found Contaminating Soy Meal Fed to Organic Chickens.

Do you know what you are eating and where it came from? How about your organic chickens and beef products that you are paying double for? Is that melamine meal those animals eat “organic?”

Soy Meal in Europe

Down with the Old Glory - Up with the New Glory!

The French are so delighted with our President-elect that they have designed a new flag for our new Obama Nation. While there are still the thirteen red and white stripes representing the thirteen original colonies (states), there are now only seventeen stars representing the actual states in the Union.

What has happened to the other 33 states? Or are they just behind the Messiah’s head and have given up their autonomy in obeisance to The One? Or, are there really 40 missing states, as Obama had said that there were 57 states in the union, not 50. And why is Obama’s face three-fourths red and only one-fourth blue? Does it mean he has destroyed all the red states?

Michael Barone writes that all Europe has become divided into three parts. He writes in a blog essay entitled “What the Italian elections mean”, that there is Old Europe, New Europe and the Anglosphere.

Jacques Chirac’s leadership has once again doomed his countrymen, this time with his surrender on the employment law. France will have more stagnation, but they will be in good company with other Old Europeans such as Germany and Italy.

The off shore island nations of the United Kingdom and Ireland are still more Anglo-Saxon than European, much to the chagrin of the French.

Small countries like the Netherlands and Denmark and the former Communist countries of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and others have effective, intelligent governments and thus are considered “New Europe”.

New is new and old is old and never the Anglo Saxons shall be European.

French is Not the “Lingua Franca”. English Is!

The French had their opportunity for greatness, but blew it. Instead of building on the original language of business, the ancient Lingua Franca, they destroyed it so that their beloved French would, they hoped, conquer all tongues and the world become one great Francophony.

Lingua Franca came into being during the middle ages as a trade language used by traders, crusaders and various communities around the Mediterranean to negotiate and communicate with each other while conducting business. Sometime in the nineteenth century the language completely disappeared with nary a trace, at the exact same time that the French language ascended as the preferred tongue of the erudite. Speakers of French sneered at Lingua Franca for being too easy - a language of simpletons, much as they treat the English language of today. Until the French stealthily massacred Lingua Franca, it served as a highly efficient means of communication, a kind of pidgin language with a limited vocabulary and simple grammar. It lacked endless verb tenses and inflected case endings, which left the French speakers in a highly distressed state of anxiety when they were forced to listen its spoken words. It never evolved into a written language, mainly so as not to enflame French sensibilities even more. Nevertheless, Lingua Franca was just too easy to learn and to understand, so it had to be destroyed to make way for the much more evolved, yet barely comprehensible French language.

Now that English has become the Lingua Franca of the world’s business community, the French, under the glorious leadership of Jacques Chirac, have once again engaged themselves in the Battle of the Linguas. Although they are doomed to lose, they fight on, for as the world knows well, the French never give up the fight when it is civilized and bloodless.

Chirac vows to fight growing use of English:
Jacques Chirac pledged yesterday to fight the spread of the English language across the world as he defended his decision to walk out of an EU summit after a French business leader abandoned his mother tongue.

“We fight for our language,” President Chirac said of the French walkout on Thursday when Ernest-Antoine Seillière, the French head of the European employers’ group Unice, addressed the summit in “the language of business”.

Mr Chirac added: “I was profoundly shocked to see a Frenchman express himself in English at the table.”

Francophones forever - fight on, fight on for the “égalité, complémentarité, and solidarité”. Man the barricades for La Francophony and all the glory be to the great leader, Jacques Chirac.

He was so SHOCKED, SHOCKED to hear another Frenchman speaking the disgusting foreign tongue of English, that he had to leave the room. If only President Jacques Chirac could be as shocked to hear himself use his own forked French tongue to lash out at leaders of non-Francophone lands, perhaps he would leave the world stage - for once and for all!

“The Hindu”, Brussels: French President Jacques Chirac led a French walkout from the opening session of the E.U.’s annual spring summit on Thursday night when a fellow Frenchman committed the grave offence of speaking English.

Highlighting France’s acute sensitivity towards the decline of the language which once dominated the E.U., Mr. Chirac led three Senior Ministers out of the talks when Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, French head of the European employers’ group Unice, abandoned his mother tongue on the ground that English is “the language of business.'’

Mr. Chirac quickly packed up his paper airplanes and spitballs and ceremoniously fled the chamber, dragging both his Foreign Minister and Finance Minister by the scruffs of their still intact necks. Gallic pride was soon restored when the Chiracistas finally found a French businessman who had never learned English, nor any other foul and foreign tongue, and they commanded this particular ignoramus to address the meeting in pure and unadulterated French or face the guillotine. At the restoration of his most favored lingo, Mr. Chirac haughtily returned, accompanied by his lackey Ministers.

The meeting had been between France and Germany who are at loggerheads over the economic future of Europe, and no English speaking states were present. Besides, the British who do not consider themselves to be European, could not care less about the economic future of Europe. Recollecting that the Germans and French used to constantly fight, with the Germans always victorious, it was believed that English would be a more neutral and less offensive language in which to communicate. Everyone would be able to understand each other, because, after all, everyone understands English. However, the French saw communication as a one way street - if one is not a Francophone, one has nothing of value to communicate. It came to pass, because few other than the French could really understand what was being said, that the infamous French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, pledged to support “economic patriotism” and named eleven French business sectors which would henceforth and forevermore be protected from any foreign bidders who speak with foreign tongues.

French is NOT the Lingua Franca - English is!

Dymphna at “Gates of Vienna” reports that in response to Chirac, other European leaders shrugged off his attempt to defend French pride. Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, a staunch Francophile, said “Europe has other worries and it’s a waste of time to have responded to such questions“.

Place de la Nation, Paris, France, March 18, 2006 - 18:41
The photographer describes this photograph as “due to outside provocators, the anti-CPE demonstration turned violent and a car has just been burnt (right of the frame). In addition, protesters have just thrown some kind of “bombs” (not sure how to call them), giving that pink glow to the smoke.”

UPDATE: “Girl With a Movie Camera” who has left a comment here filmed the Paris demonstration: The Video Until the youths began torching vehicles, they looked like a civilized and lovely bunch; the antithesis of the “Moonbats on Parade” that we see here during U.S. demonstrations. (Both “Expose the Left” and “JunkYardBlog” have video of the American Moonbats.) The stunning photograph above is from -

DEMONSTRATIONS is a photo story of the March 18th, 2006 demonstration in Paris against a new labour law passed by the government despite a majority of the French population being against it.

This law, backed by French PM Dominique de Villepin, will create a new form of two-year contract (the infamous CPE, First Employment Contract) for under-26-year-olds which employers can break off at any time without explanation.

Half of France’s universities are now under some form of strike or occupation. The protests of March 18th, all across the country, were joined not only by students but by their families.

Unfortunately, as is too often the case, the end of the day was spoiled by 100 to 150 “casseurs” (lit. “breakers”) who provoked the riot police throwing bottles, stones and finally burning down a car.

After the unrest and riots in the suburbs last year, this is reflecting the growing uneasiness and despair of the youth about the lack of opportunities, and their desillusion towards the politicians.

More than 20% of 18 to 25-year-olds are unemployed (double the national average) and among the poorest communities, it reaches 40%.

The image, March 18, 2006 - 18:41, was originally uploaded by Hugo (looking for his pink elephant). It is posted here from

Linked at Don Surber’s “France Hates Capitalism”.

France Under Leadership of Jacques Chirac

France decided to offer cut-rate train rides for $1.00 so that French citizens could celebrate the new year in style on the French Riviera. When police in Nice, France spotted bands of drunken “French youths” they immediately escorted them back to the cheap fare trains to ensure they did not cause trouble in their city. Then what happened?

PARIS — A gang of more than 20 youths — thought to be North African immigrants — terrorized hundreds of train passengers in a rampage of violence, robbery and sexual assault on New Year’s Day, French officials said yesterday.

For five long hours while returning from Nice on the French Riviera to the city of Lyon, the 600 holiday train passengers endured a wild spree of crime committed by the gang of 20 to 30 “French youths.” They continued their “youths gone wild” New Year’s Eve partying en route, forcing passengers to hand over mobile phones and wallets. They slashed seats with knives and broke train windows. At least one 20-year-old woman was cornered and sexually molested and many more females were groped. The pillaging on the train by the marauding “youths” led to a state of panic. Finally, the train staff alerted police and stopped at a station, yet the police were not to be found and the two that finally showed up had to wait for reinforcements. A waitress (still have those in France) near the station said young women from the train were totally traumatized and crying and talked of sexual assaults.

So what happened next? The train resumed its journey, of course with the lovely “French youths” still aboard, instead of in jail. However, even with heavy police presence on the train, just before reaching the city of Marseille, the “French youths” pulled the emergency stop and fled.

What was the reaction of the French powers-that-be? Well … France’s Socialist Party blamed the police, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy blamed the state rail company SNCF for their hair-brained scheme of a cut rate New Year’s fare, and the most magnanimous French President Jacques Chirac placed blamed on no one as he described the marauding frenzy as “totally unacceptable”.

It is incidents such as these when Americans can glimpse the true value of the Second Amendment.

La Nouveau Renault Flambeau

Just when we thought that all was lost for France and its people forever doomed under the leadership of Jacques Chirac, comes breaking news of a great invention from the French manufacturing sector. France’s most popular auto maker has released a spiffy new model of their ever popular Renault sedan. This one is designed exclusively for the disgruntled suburbanites, known in France as “les jeunes hommes”. The 2006 model automobile has been aptly named “La Renault Flambeau”. No longer will the young men of Paris need to endanger their lives by toting hazardous cans of flammables during the night, as gasoline will not be necessary to torch “La Renault Flambeau”. This latest model automobile from France’s innovative automobile industry is cleverly programed to ignite automatically, treating the entire neighborhood to the type of flaming spectacle that immigrant youth have grown to know and love since their arrival at the French republic.

IMAGE of France’s Miracle Car - La Renault Flambeau

Jacques Chirac has assured his country that as soon as these new cars roll off the assembly line, the French hooligans will turn from their rioting ways, seeking employment and its accompanying privileges of union membership. Monsieur Chirac, himself, is also greatly relieved that, for now at least, his neck has been spared an unmentionable horror. Yet, that is not all. These latest model cars self-destruct in a programed and controlled manner, guaranteeing that Renault and their suppliers and sales force will be creating thousands upon thousands of new jobs to replace the burnt-to-a-crisp hulks. Keeping the country awash in these exciting “Renaults Flambeaux” will provide full employment to the disgruntled “jeunes hommes” for the foreseeable future - or at least as long as Jacques Chirac is in charge. Goodbye 20% unemployment! Even the firefighters will be hiring. It’s a win - win for all. Oui - oui - France is returning in a blaze of glory!

Nickie Goomba warns “Hurry - They’re Going Fast”. It is expected that France’s other car maker, Peugeot Citroën - The Essence of the Paris Riots, will soon follow suit. Michelle Malkin writes “France: Still Burning” and A Blog For All blogs France also. The distressed frog is from Atlas Shrugs. Linked at “The Political Teen”.