What is the purpose of this law? Does freedom of speech mean nothing to the French?
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. ~news.yahoo.com
I hate to be caught gloating, but when it comes to the French, and Jack Chirac in particular, it’s just to much to ask me this story in the Times UK there’s this wild story about Chirac losing the battle of cancelling a holiday.
THE collapse of President Chirac’s authority will be exposed today when most French people blithely ignore his decision to make Whit Monday a normal working day. ~TimesOnline.co.uk
Is it me or does it seem weird that the French government expects to have the control over what holidays everyone gets to take? Sure, we have national holidays too but the U.S. government doesn’t have control over when employees of private business get to take days off. Continue reading French quagmire
It appears that John Kerry passes the global test. But America as a whole, at least led by GW the merciful and compassionate, does not.
Two headlines make one thing abundantly clear, Europe is to the left of America, but perhaps not to the left of Democrats.
“In Europe, pushback against US ‘war on terror’”
“Europeans’ chill deepens on US policy” Continue reading Global test
Democrats keep putting forward the idea that the albatross of Iraq around Bush’s neck won them congress in 2006. But I don’t remember Democrats campaigning that hard on the war issue. I do remember them saying, after the election, that Iraq was the defining issue and that Democrats have a mandate to end the war by any means necessary. Thus they are ready to go to war against Bush just as they would have planned with or without an Iraq war. Continue reading Dems won because of Iraq?
Bring it on.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats would be “relentless.”
“There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment . . . just like in the days of Vietnam,” Schumer said. “The pressure will mount, the president will find he has no strategy, he will have to change his strategy and the vast majority of our troops will be taken out of harm’s way and come home.” ~kansascity.com
Finally, their journey to the darkside is complete. Democrats are now officially the party of Dennis Kucinich and Michael Moore.
DarthDilbert, TexasRainmaker, and a slew of others are magnifying what should be obvious even to Democrats; their actions are those which, in another time would be called treason.
PROVIDING aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime is treason. It’s not “just politics.” It’s treason.
And signaling our enemies that Congress wants them to win isn’t “supporting our troops.”
The “nonbinding resolution” telling the world that we intend to surrender to terrorism and abandon Iraq may be the most disgraceful congressional action since the Democratic Party united to defend slavery. ~NYPost.com
Incredible. I am literally amazed.
Democrats have decided to, “slow-bleed,” the troops in Iraq in order to end the war.
Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against using congressional power to force a quick end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration’s options. ~politico.com
Surely this is a sign of the enormous failure of Bush’s “troop surge.”
Feb. 13, 2007 — While members of the U.S. House of Representatives take turns weighing in on President Bush’s planned troop surge in Iraq, the focus in Iraq is not on the arrival of more U.S. troops, but the departure of one of the country’s most powerful men, Moqtada al Sadr and members of his army.
According to senior military officials, al Sadr left Baghdad two to three weeks ago and fled to Tehran, Iran, where he has family.
It’s just a vacation. C’mon. He knows that Democrats are in charge now. He’s not actually running scared of our mercenary armies. He’s celebrating the surrender of U.S. forces led by Pelosi, Murtha, et al. Continue reading Surge purges Moqtada