Tag Archives: france

Enough Is Enough

May 8, 2012 – 1:11 pm

After a series of election Leftist parties of France, Greece, and Italy have swept austerity junkies from office. Pro-growth promises trumped hardline economics threatening the German government’s demands for budget cuts in order to repay bank loans from before the crisis. PM Merkel has called a continuation of cost-cutting, while the newly elected leader of […]

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A Spade Calling A Spade A Spade

November 18, 2011 – 7:18 am

At last week’s G-20 meeting in Nice the French President Nicolas Sarkozy was overheard saying to President Obama, “”I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.” Obama was quick to defend his position with the Israeli PM. “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you.” The off-the-cuff […]

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Unlearned Lessons

May 18, 2011 – 7:55 am

The New York Media is having a party at the expense of the jailed head of the IMF. The french socialist contends that the sex with the hotel maid was consensual. DSK has been convicted by the Press and public opinion. His innocence is a foregone conclusion, for the millionaire has a history of aggressive […]

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Pauvre Con

May 17, 2011 – 7:24 am

America loves a good sex scandal. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Tiger Woods and his many gold companions. GW Bush and his alleged rape of a Texas woman and the accusation of a former stripper. The first shot herself and the latter vanished into the aether. America missed those scandals, since the Press gave GW […]

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Antha Thikarnta Mubarrak

January 31, 2011 – 8:34 am

In the autumn of 1982 I drove north from Paris toward Hamburg where I was working as a doorman at Bsirs. My journey was stalled outside the city limits by a massive police presence on the Autoroute. CRS police and French Army soldiers lined the exit ramps and guarded the overpasses. My orange VW Bug […]

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