Yeah, kick duplicitous snail-eaters while they’re down–that’s my motto…

Tony Blankley isn’t impressed, either.

The list of countries under the French whip is ironic: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania and Bulgaria. All these countries were on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain during the Age of Communism. They were unlucky enough to be occupied by the Soviet Red Army in the closing months of WWII and thus lived in enforced slavery for half a century. But geography was destiny. France was occupied by American, British, Canadian and other British Empire troops, and was thus saved from such a fate by their English- speaking liberators. It is worth recalling that while French soldiers were throwing down their rifles in 1940 as the Germans advanced, the flower of Polish manhood charged into the invading Nazi tanks on horseback in the last and most gallant cavalry charge in history. Of course, they were killed to the last man. While the Poles were dying with their boots on, the French were living on their knee-pads (during which, they cheerfully ferreted out and shipped their French Jews off to the German death camps). How dare the French attempt to blackmail the Poles — of all people (and the Czechs and Slovaks, who they helped to sell out at Munich).

Ooohhh, that’s gonna hurt tomorrow.

Apparently, Jacques Chirac is a cowboy.

President Ion Iliescu of Romania led the counter-attack, describing M Chirac’s words as an affront to East Europe’s newly liberated nations.

“Such reproaches are totally unjustified, unwise, and undemocratic,” he said in Brussels, where he was attending a post- summit gathering of East European leaders yesterday which backed the EU’s tough new line on Iraq.

“It is unwise to separate countries into pro-American and anti-American. I thought it was outdated to say ‘He who is not with us is against us’,” he added.

Anyone who’s ever gotten sucked into a six-hundred-post evolution thread, or an eight-hundred-post homosexual thread at Free Republic, will love this.

Hilarious.

The idiocy of this article is in the title itself. I haven’t actually even bothered to read the rest, because given such a false premise, it’s pointless.

How do we get them out of this futile rut in their thinking?

The idiocy of this article is in the title itself. I haven’t actually even bothered to read the rest, because given such a false premise, it’s pointless.

How do we get them out of this futile rut in their thinking?

The idiocy of this article is in the title itself. I haven’t actually even bothered to read the rest, because given such a false premise, it’s pointless.

How do we get them out of this futile rut in their thinking?

The Los Angeles City Council narrowly voted down a supposed resolution “against the war against Iraq.” Problem is, the drafters of the resolution are idiots. Even if they had passed it, and even if the administration gave a rat’s keester about the opinion of the City Council of Los Angeles, it would still have had no effect, because there is no chance of what they’re opposing happening anyway.

Here are the key words:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, with the concurrence of the Mayor, that by the adoption of this Resolution, the City of Los Angeles hereby includes in its 2003-2004 Federal Legislative Program SUPPORT for all international diplomatic efforts to resolve the current conflict with Iraq, and OPPOSES a unilateral war against Iraq.

See, here’s the rub. We have no intention of going into a “unilateral war” against Iraq. Unilateral means, to anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature in an uninsulated shack at the north pole in January, and capable of reading an English dictionary, “by oneself.” We already have dozens of countries signed up to support our actions in the Middle East, but to these cretins, “unilateral” apparently means “without sanction of the United Nations.” Of course, as a result of UNSCR 1441, we already have that too, but we wouldn’t want to explode their miniscule brains by confusing them with facts and reality.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Chirac has blown it, big time. It’s going to be a lot harder to take him seriously when he calls Americans “arrogant.”

The eastern Europeans should be feeling a relief similar to that of a prospective bride whose fiancee beats her the day before the wedding. Before, that is, it’s too late…

Here she is, at her campaign rally that was attended by a single supporter.

…”and I’d like to conclude by saying that if everyone who had intended to attend had attended, this room would be full.”

[Update a few minutes later]

There are some good ones over at this Free Republic thread.

I like the one that has her channeling Neil Diamond:

“I am,” I said, to no one there,
and no one heard at all not even the chair
“I am,” I cried, “I am,” said I
and I am lost and I can’t even say why.

I also liked “Empty Suit Addresses Empty Chairs.”

Here’s another great one: “The NAACP estimated the crowd at about ten thousand, however, the parks commission put the total closer to zero.”

You know, after that last post, I just came up with an idea that would not only save the taxpayers money, but have a major effect on improving our educational system. Congress should pass a law denying federal aid or loans to students getting degrees in education. Force them to get a real degree, in which they might have to actually learn something.

It would probably put most colleges of education out of business, something that can’t happen too soon.