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Sarkozy planning pro-market, anti-crime reforms
Funny thing, Sarkozy was hammered in the MSM for calling the rioters ‘scum’ back in 05. It had ruined is career they announced.
Ho Hum… wrong again…..
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Yup, and it was 04 or 05 when the French voters voted down the EU constitution. That told me that the frogs weren’t quite ready to roll over and die.
Interesting political dynamics taking place. The right-center parties win in Germany, Canada, Mexico, and France, and expected to win in Australia, and in most of the old soviet bloc in eastern Europe.
How did elections turn out in Scotland and Wales last week vimto?
Hi Nuke, we live in interesting times eh?
Both Wales and Scotland in their respective assemblies and parliaments showed a swing to the Nationalists with Labour the main loosers. It really is exchanging one type of socialism for another.
Sarkozy is going to have nerves of steel to guide France over the next year…. The liberal left are well organized and easily mobilized. Very much like the situation in the UK prior to Thatcher. She had a group of very determined people around her who understood that literally years of civil unrest would have to be endured for lasting change to be made. Is Sarkozy up to that? There is no easy way opening up a socailist country to the free market. We shall see.
Which makes the spectacle of the Dems in a frantic foot race to be leftier than thou even odder.
Yes, the left in France showed us all of their plans for the future of France with the burning cars and rock tossing. Don’t these people ever do something constructive? Maybe they could protest by picking up trash or painting a large and tasteful mural.
Sarkozy looks like he might have a backbone.
Ha Swampwoman, I wish Sarkozy all the best! Hope does spring eternal and there might yet be a better future for France.
Yep, because I don’t think Greenpeace is going to have a big campaign to save the French from extinction. It’s gonna have to be up to them.
Maggots versus MRSA bacteria. More effective, less expensive, but the “ick” factor is very, very high.
Maggots are used a lot in the UK to eat the slough from wounds, esp. bed sores. Not for the squeemish but VERY effective.
Well, I’d likely be whopping the wound with the intention of killing the maggots with one hand, and spraying insecticide on it with the other. My ick level of tolerance is quite low.
And you work on a farm? How can that be – isn’t the ick factor high there…?
PS It’a bank holiday in the UK and mrs vimto to has allowed me to play while she cleans the kitchen and cooks a traditional Sunday roast for our evening meal (well yes it’s Monday but the family are all together so we postponed it for a day).
Ah, roast parsnip….and Yorkshire puds!
Well, I have been known to slice open a dead animal and do an impromptu necropsy to try to determine the cause of death; however, I also have to treat wounds in which maggots are aggressively eating huge fist-sized holes in the animal. I hate them thangs!
Parsnips are something that I’ve heard of but never actually seen here. Now I do love a good Yorkshire pudding, and mine are not to be eaten by anybody with any sort of circulatory disease.
Your Yorshire Puds sound scrummy to me. Are parsnips called by another name in over there?
If you ever get them you can 1) boil and mash with butter 2) Make a delicious creamy soup (goes well curiously with blue cheese)…..
Cut into thickish french fries, par-boil, and then roast ’till crispy. Thats the way. You can add honey or parmisan cheese if you are so inclined but that’s too much for me.
They can be par-boiled then frozen.
BTW my lad is off to Palm City, FL when the visa and job fall into line.
Ah, as I thought, the southern Atlantic coast. Hope he likes it there! And you can tell him that if he doesn’t contact home regularly, you know a grandmother in the state that will show up on his doorstep and give him a scolding about the importance of not worrying one’s parents.
Nope on the parsnips, I believe that the Yankees (northerners) eat them. If they’re at all akin to turnips, the yankees eat the roots and throw the greens away; we eat the greens (cooked with salt, pepper, and salt pork) and discard the roots.
Well dinner is almost ready – and it smells good – our traditional Sunday Roasts are pretty big affairs and the kids love them. So does vimto jnr’s Florida lass. Lots of meat, gravey and herb stuffing, 5-6 veg and mrs vimtos fav. apsaragus (me, I can take or leave the stuff).
I have just been given a 2 minute call with menaces. gotta go….
How funny. I made roast beef, carrots, taters, peas, and rice and gravy for my Sunday dinner. Didn’t even think about asparagus…dang!
As for the punks in France, likened by one blogger, as the same kind of punks we would find in South Central L.A., I have some news for you.
An adult is in charge now, one that doesn’t tolerate misbehaving children.
I also have some advise, pull up your pants, turn your ball cap around straight, and get a job. Unless you like the sound of Thawhhhappp upside your punkin’heads, of course.
Taters and rice? What, no dumplings?
Seriously, I think that their oppressive to business social programs have insured that it is nearly impossible for a new job seeker to obtain a job, and there doesn’t seem to be an entrepreneurial culture wherein if you cannot find a job to your liking, you simply create one.
Regardless of what your personal views may be on whether the customers or vendors should be identified, that last paragraph surely sounds like blackmail to me and the last time I checked, blackmail was considered a crime.
The Big Turnaround area swampfire in Georgia got a bunch of lightning strikes yesterday which have started new fires. Acreage thus far is 100,
Whoops, hit the wrong button! Acreage burned/area for Big Turnaround/Sweat Farm Road fires are 100,301, Kneeknocker swamp fire is 3,148, and Roundabout swamp fire 5,805 acres.
The winds are increasing to 40 mph tomorrow in the nor’easter; we are clear of the smoke due to the heavy winds today; however, Lake City, over 100 miles away from the Georgia fires has less than 100 yards of visibility in some areas and the smoke plume is extending out into the gulf of Mexico.
In Florida, Alachua, Bradford, Clay, and Flagler counties have wildfires being whipped up by the winds and portions of Bradford county and down in Flagler county are being evacuated now.
#22-I don’t know, blackmail maybe, leave me waaaaaaaaay the eff alone, absolutely.
One of the first things I learned in the USAF is, things will happen in a bureaucracy that you have no control over, and the first thing that happens is a scapegoat is needed. In order to insulate yourself from being the sacrificial goat, you have to have a chip in the big game, and I always found having something on someone higher up in the food chain paid dividends. There was one Major, a total jerk, that was throwing us under the train constantly, when the responsible parties were higher ups. So, I did what was necessary, and started doing some checking up on the guy before it came to me or my friends. I knew everything about the guy, including the date and location of his vasectomy. He tried to mess with me once!
Any rain in the forecast yet, Swampie?
I think our tornado warning has expired.
Lets hope the tide is turning in our direction Nuke!.:)
Talk is cheap. I want to see changes in policy and a crack down on “Asian and youths” in France before I pass judgement. All politicians’ start off with grand promises to make major changes, normally they are lying through their polished teeth.
*Maybe* some rain is in the forecast, n2L. That extratropical system off Carolina is heading our way. If it remains strong, we’ll get heavy winds and maybe some rain; if it weakens, we’ll just get heavy winds.
I hope your tornado warning has expired. I don’t like them thangs.
/Scary. No escape.
Ronin, I don’t know if what needs to be done can be done considering the massive civil disobedience that is likely to follow any attempt at amelioration in any direction.
#31-Well, the warning has expired, but the tornado watch is on til about 3a.m.
As for Sarkozy’s campaign promises, they are worthless until his actions can be observed, and if he has a parliament that is determined to obstruct him, like our leftard congress critters have with our President.
There was an excellent post at Publius Pundit, which described his campaign speeches in the last days. He actually sounded as though he had given serious thought to what he wanted to accomplish, as opposed to the commie he was running against, who only tried to address the campaign with emotion. The French people could see the difference, to their credit, and according to a report today, I think it was Hugh Hewitt, women voted for Sarkozy by 52%. So much for the emotional and sexist pleas Royal(pain in the butt) made in the last few weeks.
WHOA!
I’ve never seen one of these…a gravity wave.
I don’t think I want to see one of them!
Remember the retired man in Florida that I had linked to a few days ago that built a prototype machine that used radio waves to kill cancer instead of radiation? (Nanoparticles of gold or platinum are injected, the particles travel through the bloodstream and attach to the tumors, and radio waves are applied which heat the nanoparticles attached to the tumor and kill tumor cells only). The method is undergoing animal studies now at M.D. Anderson and nobody is commenting pending publication of a paper, but the rumor is that the trials have been good and human clinical trials should start up in @ a year and a half.
Well, I believe I’ll Dust My Broom.
/night
Heh. Go right ‘head.
/G’night.
Did you say GoatHead?
/alrighty then
Now, now, I would never call you goat head.
No, but can you can tell me to Go’t'Headon.
/over and out
Re the 52% female vote for Sarkozy; I’m surprised that it was not higher. My impression is of a person that has run on her appearance. There is nothing wrong with being attractive and working at it, of course, but it does not strike me that she worked equally as hard at developing her mind.
I finally got to see the pictures of President and Miz Bush at the White House festivities for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Heh. He does look like he was longing for his blue jeans.
Israeli archeologist finds tomb of King Herod.