[xzins]

SchadenFROG

Rotflol!!!

[banjo joe]

may vote for the revolutionary far-left;</>

Brilliant; that's the problem to begin with.

[bert]

....France can only carry out reforms via revolutions....

Can this be so?
It can be argued that the French can't accomplish reform even by revolution. There was a revolution agains tha monarchy that failed and killed tens of thousands. The revolutionaries squabbled and then killed each other.

The best that can be said is that there was change, but not reform. All institutions were obliterated, not reformed.

[PieroC]

The decline began when the Champagne went up.

[Teacher317]

Gee, losing those Iraqi deals sure seems to have put quite a dent in their economy. It's no wonder they defended Saddam so vigorously. Why should they care about the blood of Iraqis, so long as their Socialist vision is allowed to continue?

Schadenfreude, indeed.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Internationally the country has ruptured its relations with the world's only superpower, marginalised the United Nations, and by its arrogance towards the countries of the former communist bloc created a glaring rift through the heart of Europe just at the moment of its unification.

But, but...the Demonrats tell us we're the problem...not the French.

[mewzilla]

Schadenfrog. LOL. Love it!

[Agnes Heep]

... the nation that invented human rights ....

Not in their wettest dreams.

[bluesagewoman]

Definition-

SchadenFrog:

Taking pleasure from the French taking it up the . . . .

The Germans must love it.

[muawiyah]

Uhhh, they don't speak English very well there do they?

Heckfire, that'll marginalize your society every single time!

Worse, the last time somebody posed a threat to the "heart of Europe" they ended up bombing Kosovo.

[RobFromGa]

The reservoir of international-level genius has mysteriously dried up -- in every art-form," wrote the British novelist and academic David Lodge.

Froggie Shrugged

[mylife]

"If there is a sickness in France it is nationalism. It has found a place at every social and political level...

Do you suppose Europe will ever learn that this is what will make the EU an impossibility?

[rickmichaels]

...the nation that invented human rights, cheese and Charles de Gaulle is headed for oblivion.

Not only did the French invent cowardice, they own the patent for it as well. The cheese-eating surrender frogs are going down in flames. Good riddance.

[friendly]

I was in Southern France this summer during the European heat wave on a wonderful pilgrimage to Lourdes. The people were OK, the food was great but tres expensive, but there was indeed a profound uneasiness among the people.

One odd thing: by 9PM in France you cannot find a human... they disappear into a tranquillizer/TV induced coma behind closed doors. You can drive all night and not see a single human, no gas stations, nothing. Just endless ghost villages from 9PM onwards.

Over the border in ally Spain, at 9PM the party is just getting started! An amazing change occurs when you cross the mountain passes.

[Savage Beast]

MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE: Follow the leadership of the American Heartland--a bastion of ascendancy, energy, freedom, and the best of Western Civilization--and of President Bush!

It will lead to ascendancy, energy, optimism, self-confidence, renewed liberty, clarity, and renaissance!

Vive la France! Vive les Etats-Unis! Vive la liberté! Vive la résistance!

"There is no substitute for strategic and moral clarity."

[FRgal4u]

that's pretty sad assessment

if we have 10% unemployment rate and just 0.4% gdp last qtr, plus the tax rates - we prolly will go onto riots in the streets -

it is a stunning comparison between the USA and FRance - we have 6% unemployment rate and dropping, a 7.2 to 7.7% gdp last qtr and a 11-Trillion economy vs the frenchies' 105 UE rate and just 0.4% gdp in the same qtr - dang

one thing on France tho, if the Frenchies are smart, instead of blocking or balking the USA in the UN with regards to the Iraqi issue, they could have offer "real" help to the USA in exchange for some of their demands - say they offer 30,000 troops and 2 billion dollars of grant immediately if the USA agree upon on a unified UN resolution on Iraq - then I think no matter how displease Rummy or Cheney maybe on the UN, they would be over-ride by Bush on this issue - but no, the French just complain, either block or balk on talks, offer no material help, then why should the USA listen to their demands in the UN - at the end the UN was marginalized, and there goes the final stage for France that has any real world influence.

jmho.

[jimbo123]

Paris 2028

[Paul Atreides]

Well, Saddam is out of a job. The Fr*nch love him so much. And, he did make the trains run on time, in Iraq. If they are willing to put up with a little murder, rape, torture, and corruption, they can make him a citizen and elect him as leader.

[Beck_isright]

And in America, we hope they continue the trend. The world needs an inept, weak, corrupt nation of France. To make the world a safer place.

Whoops. They are already inept, weak and corrupt. Never mind.

[Drango]

SchadenFROG

LOL (at FreeRepublic you get to read some of the funniest things.)