Old Weird Ward
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
- - - - - Father's Day - - - - -
Went down to Cocoa Beach to see the In-Laws this weekend. The girls love their Poppa, and delighted in giving him hugs and kisses, and a music-box/bubbling fountain featuring Eeyore (famous co-star of Winnie-The-Pooh) - a $19.95 Walmart special.
He was delighted.
More with the kisses and hugs, I think.
Come to think of it, I collected MY share of those, the latest not ten minutes ago.
- - - - - France and Freedom of the Press - - - - -
There was a time when I admired France. I even spoke it, a bit - enough to sorta read Le Monde's editorials, with the aid of a LaRousse and my high school French teacher.
That was then, this is now.
There is no living way that I can say that France is an "ally" of America. More like "trouble-making sorta neutral, kinda" fits the bill. I'm put in mind of the best President that France ever had, and what he said was "a great nation worthy of the name has no friends, just interests." I propose that we apply that standard to France.
Meanwhile, take a look at THIS.
So much has anti-Americanism become an undisputed expression of truth for the French press that, when veteran journalist Alain Hertoghe documented in his recent book La guerre à outrances (the “all-out war”) how the big French papers, because of their hatred of the U.S., reported the Iraq conflict with wild inaccuracy, the media response, right and left, was . . . silence. Well, except at Hertoghe’s own paper, the Catholic daily La Croix. There, his boss accused him of committing “an act of treason” and fired him (just as the BBC yanked journalist Robert Kilroy-Silk’s radio show off the air after he penned an angry column in the Sunday Express praising the U.S. and harshly criticizing “despotic, barbarous, and corrupt” Arab states).
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The greatest President that France ever had? It wasn't Napoleon. It was Charles de Gaulle, Le Grand Charlie. Read up on his bio if you don't believe it - he was smart enough to line up with the winners in WW2, and sucker Churchill AND Roosevelt into supporting him, and to also survive at least two serious assasination attempts. Quite a guy, and a monumental PITA to boot.
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