Dude, did you lose a bet or something? Every post on this site hat-tips Allah. Did he finally produce the video we all know he has? You know, the one from your college days, when you were young and impressionable and needed the money?

Sheesh.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

O/T Steyn ate his Wheaties today.

I just got a new RSS reader and am swimming in links. Since I can't do anything with them anymore, I hand them off to Ace and Goldstein.

Chirac is a hasbeen he is on his last legs his bungling has left france open to terrorists and ruin out with the chickwn in with the fighting cock

What Spurwing said!

Except the whole "fighting cock" thing probably means a new Cheney thread is in the works.

All I know, is that if Don King were smart, he'd arrange a Pay Per View championship bout between Dick Cheney's Cock and Bob Dole's Cock.

Winner gets France. Just like Spurwing wants.

sorta seems like Ace and Allah are one in the same. Like evil Young and the Restless twins or something. I'm guessing Allah is the one that can read whereas Ace gets to do all the typing and manual labor.

That was "spent farce"

Gotta love this:

For the 73-year-old conservative leader, ...

Yeah, Chiraq is 'conservative...'

"Chickens" are a common theme in Spurwing's comments. There must be a reason for this; I shall investigate.

Chirac is a spent force--and it that he embodies all that is or rather was France and French culture.

I only hope he lives another 10 or 15 years to see his personal project, the EU, fail and to see France subsumed into the Caliphate of greater Germany.

geoff:

The Steyn billet doux is depressing, and I consider it a "what might be" instead of a "what must be"; demographics don't tell the whole story. I don't think this kind of pessimism is really warranted. I've got more to say about this on my own site; check there if you're interested. (I also put up a new poem.)

As far as Chirac goes -- I'll be glad to see him go, but really he's been par for the course as far as French leaders go. Ever since de Gaulle stabbed NATO in the back forty years ago, I can't think of a single French politician who has been anything other than a complete pain in America's ass. I wouldn't hold out too much hope for Sarkozy -- he may mean well, but France is controlled by les Socialistes and the trade unions these days.

Yeah, Chiraq is 'conservative...'

I spent the entire summer working on a paper about the French right. It was about the most difficult thing I've ever done because it's almost impossible to distinguish the right from left over there. Chirac toyed with being a Reagan/Thatcher style conservative in the 80's while he was PM under Mitterand, but his program failed and he's pretty much jettisoned the idea of free-market reform.

Technically Chirac is a conservative in the strictest term - in that he seeks to conserve the Gaullist statist legacy, which he's done. Too bad it's a crappy legacy to preserve.

I have somewhat high hopes for Sarkozy. We'll see.

The reason Chirac doesn't want to go gently into retirement is that as soon as he ceases to be President, he loses his immunity from criminal prosecution and is going to end up in the dock.

Monty:
I agree with your assessment, though it's not at all clear that we aren't accelerating toward the less desired future.

As to your blog (which I hadn't visited in a while since I had a brain glitch and remembered it as "heliotrope" instead of "heliopause."), it would be fun to discuss your posts, but this is obviously not the place. Add some comments there so I can put you some fuckin' knowledge. And you should dust the place (nyuk, nyuk).

geoff:

I dunno about comments. I might start turning them on for selected posts, but I'm not nutty about the way Blogspot handles commenting -- plus there's the comment-spam issue.

Ace, how much comment-spam do you get on this site? How much of a PITA is it to get rid of?

geoff,

I'm probably gonna regret this, but...comments turned on at my crack-house of a blog.

Party at Monty's!!

Im a crazy old bird SQUAWK SQUWAK

Chirac will hang in there for every possible dime he can grab.

And I'm sure we won't have heard the last of him. He's like the Clintons and kerry - egotistical hyenas who will feed on the world for their own glory as long as they can.

"Princeton could use a man like Sarkozy."

Sometimes you just gotta say, "What the fuck," make your move.