Heya, New Orleans has a French heritage, strong beer, great food, loose women, and FOOTBALL! :)
Posted on 02/25/2017 10:26:29 AM PST by amorphous
One day after president Trump remarked in a speech at a conference that a friend thought "Paris is no longer Paris" after attacks by Islamist militants, French President Francois Hollande fired back at Donald Trump on Saturday. During a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Trump repeated his criticism of Europe's handling of attacks by Islamist militants saying a friend "Jim" no longer wanted to take his family to Paris.
Hollande said Trump should show support for U.S. allies. "There is terrorism and we must fight it together. I think that it is never good to show the smallest defiance toward an allied country. I wouldn't do it with the United States and I'm urging the U.S. president not to do it with France," Hollande said.
"I won't make comparisons but here, people don't have access to guns. Here, you don't have people with guns opening fire on the crowd simply for the satisfaction of causing drama and tragedy," Hollande said, responding to questions during a visit at the Paris Agric fair.
They may not have access to guns, but they have access to trucks which they then use to murder dozens of innocent bystanders in increasingly more frequent terrorist incidents, meanwhile the lack of guns prevents the local population from defending itself when one or more terrorists - who have access not only to guns but also explosives - use these to attack and murder members of the defenseless French population.
Oh yes, "here" the French people have also been living under what has effectively become a permanent state of emergency ever since the November 2015 Bataclan mass murder.
In fact, more than 230 people have died in a series of assaults in France since the beginning of 2015, and the country has been under a state of emergency rules since November the same year. Trump's comments also drew a rebuke from the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
Meanwhile, another attack has taken place in the German town of Heidelberg, where as reported moments ago a knife-yielding man drove his car into a pedestrian area, injuring three, and was later shot by the local police.
Twice in 100 years, the US and Britain had to save France.
No lectures needed.
Zut alors !
Nobody in their right mind would travel to Europe now. It would be the same as traveling to Beirut, Baghdad, Kabul, Mogadishu, or Tehran.
I remember my first extended stay in Paris; must have been around 1972 or 1974... I unwittingly toured the exclusively muslim quarter not too far from the Sorbonne for an entire day, with my camera --- and survived.
I would not do that today under any circumstances, even with a heavy escort by the Paris heavily armored Vans and armed Anti-terrorist Police, (whose acronym keeps changing.)
My month long holidays in what used to be my favorite foreign city became a thing of the past around 1994.
Face reality Hollande. I would never want to come to France, and I doubt I am alone in that respect.
The destruction of Paris has been a long time coming...
In 1993 my daughter spent a year of foreign study at Paris V (Sorbonne). While there returning late at night from school (foreign students had many socio-political events organized after normal school hours) she was trapped in a phone booth by 4 or 5 koranimals a long block from home in the 13th. Fortunately, a large group of men and women also returning home chased them off.
That was over 23 years ago!
Hollande should shut his Muzzie-loving cheese-eating surrender-monkey piehole.
Hollande is like the do-nothing, lying mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. Chicago has always been a magnetic tourist mecca with the greatest scenes, sights, sounds, smells, sports teams, museums, theaters, lakefront food fests, opera, restaurants, architectural wonders, etal in the world!
But the reality is that lefty Mayor Rahm doesn't care that folks from the suburbs, the country and the world are afraid now to visit Chicago for a vacation (and to get anywhere near the South Side killing fields). He's also proof positive that the greedy twisted minds of elected socialists, marxists, Democrats, liberals, "progressives" and radical-left fascists will willingly ruin the economies of their own homelands and cities if allowed to do so unchecked.
The Hollandes and the Rahms of this world are not only sick, but completely amoral and subversive in putting their destructive ideologies first over their people.
Leni
During my travels to 4 continents, never found anything which comes close to restaurants in Chicago. Uno's & Duo's, Portillo's, The Old Barn, Surma's, numerous Bohemian joints in Berwyn area, Bombay Palace in down town Chicago, The Athens, Willowbrook Ballroom restaurant....I could go on and on....have no equivalent anywhere.
Having worked for two French companies and visiting Paris over 70 times, I can tell you that my trip in 2016 was my last. Not even remotely the same.
Trump is right. Check the tourist numbers year over year.
I was in Paris in 1999, and it sure wasn’t what I expected. There were Indians, Africans, Arabs EVERYWHERE.
Well the people of Quebec think they’re another province of France
thanks to the shiite stirring DeGaulle.
Another Truman f-up allowing France to have reconstituted power, UN veto etc.
How the tourists are deserting France
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160810/in-numbers-how-tourists-are-deserting-france
Pt. Deux: Quebec is lovely and the cuisine is delectable,
as does any place with French heritage in the West.
Since Canada made their ridiculous French only language concession if you don’t know French or a Romance language you are at
a disadvantage outside of Montreal where most people are bilingual.
An “excusez-moi, pardon, parlez-vous Anglais?” goes a long way
Their French being several centuries removed
from the motherland is very rustic and the French that
come over to visit laugh at it!
Strong beer, good pizza, loose women.
Quebec is good.
Well, I always heard they hated the loud, “ugly American” tourists. I guess they figured out a way to stop us from coming.
I have been twice to France - once when in a boarding school in Cannes and once a visit to Paris. I will never return.
Heya, New Orleans has a French heritage, strong beer, great food, loose women, and FOOTBALL! :)
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