Dianne and I went for a short drive around our village's backyard this afternoon, equipped with her wiz-bang camera.
We've only been here for 6 months, and it's pretty wild mountainous arid and desolate territory. So unlike the lush stuff we used to see only 200km away in the Var where we lived before.
Still, all nature is beautiful, and while driving around a few km's off the village we saw a few donkeys in a field, and we had to stop to take piccies.
I am fanatic horse lover, and donkeys are close enough for me to want to kiss them on the mouth. Dianne took all the pics, so apologize if I'm the only human intruder appearing on them.
Hope you enjoy them anyway... :-)
(Photos taken with a Canon EOS 300D and reduced 100 to 1 for web publishing)
The village is called "Moustier Sainte Marie". About 1200 years old, hanging from a cliff. We rode there 3 years ago or so while touring the "Gorges du Verdon", of which I'll post some piccies soon.
Wow, how I love to read mindless drivels from ppl like HunterParse-Anal and LynnKrapper.
It's really interesting to see the constant mentions of "how the French ppl HATE America". In fact, 50% of their prose is dedicated to this. Not just the posts, the comments keep reminding the reader of it (just in case (s)he lost the plot, ya know).
The remaining 50% is dedicated to explaining how they then feel justify to say they hate the French. Like I once got from a lovely fan of mine: "All french ppl are bastards and should be eliminated, so I feel justified in saying so".
Wow, how can you beat that kind of argumentation skills?
Oh, by the way, this is of course NOT racist. Like RedTigress, Gindy, Noguru and others remind us, we all know the French is not a race, and so statements of the LynnKrapper kind like "the entire French civilization should be eradicated" is NOT in the least racist.
Phew!!! Thank goodness we've cleared this out.
Funny thing though, my dictionary defines "racist" as "someone who discriminates, especially on the basis of race, nationality, ethnicity or religion". Duh... why do these intellectuals dudes keep throwing spanners in the works, I ask you? ---
Anyway, it kind of puzzled me because while I spent most of my life in Australia, I also spent a good few many years in France and the US as well. And to this day, I yet to have heard one French person saying they "hate Americans".
But of course, I haven't met ALL 60-odd million French ppl, so perhaps there are half a dozen nutcase American haters around.
So, I thought I'd google around, you know, to try get some HATE stats, using keywords like "fuck[insert country of your choice]", "[country] sucks", etc.
Guess what? I haven't managed so far to find ONE French website dedicated to the cause of "All Americans suck" (but I'm sure if keep plugging along, there might be a couple out there).
On the other hand, websites dedicated to hatred against the French returned 27,000 hits.
27,000 websites (need I mention they are all US sites?) are out there, dedicated to this lovely pastime. Oh, and that's just on the *suck/country* category. The *fuck/country* category is also fairly impressive.
Here is a chart I found which gives the HATING score of weblogs around, versus the destination hated “sucking” country.
Oh yes, no doubt: the French ppl are the ones spewing racist hatred. I guess they are all out there blogging in a frenzy hating.... err... hating.... mmmm.. they're still looking for a target, I guess.
What's gone wrong with America lately? How come 1/2 the population is turning into nazi racist dicks, and then have the gall to accuse other nations of their own repulsive racist urges?
PS: LynnKrapper and HunterAnal, why don't you kindly both drop dead? You're putting a bad name on America, and since I'm an American too, it makes me really embarrassed. Thank goodness, I have multiple citizenships, and even if I'm mainly Australian I'll keep promoting my French one, just to piss you off :-)
T-Rex has lost interest in cat biscuits lately after he had a go at munching on what he thought was Bush's rear end.
Meanwhile Neige's has climbed up the top shelf just under the ceiling, and refuses to come down till I promise her a Rumsfeld or Dubya porkie. I'm trying to negociate with her ... she might settle for a LynnKrapper rump, but I fear it might be highly toxic.
But it's quite simple, really: they don't actually have a brain. There are a few documented examples of them. Even right here on tBlog minuscule world, ranging from Noguru to LynnKrapper. HunterParsenal fits right in, desperatly trying to revive Noguru (who by the way once commented HunterParsenal was a cretin - Ouch!).
The flap over the White House allowing James Guckert, the Gay Escort and Conservative Christian White House reporter formerly known as Jeff Gannon, into it’s daily press briefings continues...
I'm purposely not making the above a hot link for the simple reason he deleted his entire blog just a few hours ago - you can still find the URL in my blog links, but it points to a now defunct entry.
I'm not at liberty to divulge the reasons why Young Fox decided to wipe out his blog. He sent us a beautiful email which you can find on Dianne's blog here.
I just want to pay a small & humble tribute to one hell of a rare person - dedicated to peace, justice and beauty on this planet, and not afraid to spell out the wrongs, in spite of daily death threats for doing so.
Let us all hope he comes back to us in the fight against the injustices and horrors of this insane world.
Please come back, Young Fox. The world needs you.
PS: Dianne's googling around like mad trying to find out what can be salvaged from Young Fox's outstanding blog.
We were following the Mediteranean seaside road, but took a wrong tun in Monaco and ended up on the hills of the lower Alpes.
This is Eze, a village about 5 km before Nice. The peninsula in the distance is Saint Jean Cap Ferrat (nice place if you have a few million euros to invest in real estate).
Sorry if the pic is a little out of focus - because of the darkness setting in, we really needed a tripod to allow for a long exposure time.
This one is kinda hard for me. I mean, REALLY hard. Please don't laugh.
I've been avoiding the subject for over 2 years. Thousands of pics I deliberately haven't looked at all this time.
I was literally in love with Chou-chou. Yeah, I know, sounds stupid. In love with a cat, eh?
She was Neige's sister (not genetically, only we picked them both kittens from the SPA refuge on the same day).
Chou-chou only lived 3 months. She was killed by a car. She was a little Siamese girl.
I think this will do me some good, even if it hurts like hell right now. I need to exorcise this horrific pain which still rips my guts, years later.
I hope ppl don't laught at me. Then again, nothing surprises me any longer. I'll keep posting pics of her till I hopefully finally get her out of my system.
No problem! All you need to do is become Finance Minister in Raffarin's government. 14,000 euros of monthly rent graciously paid for you by the French tax payers. Plus you get a cook, a butler, a nanny and 2 housekeepers thrown in.
Don't believe me? Get a load of this:
(first a little piccie to get your appetite going)
“Several EU member states are not putting their money where their mouths are (Photo: EU Commission)”.
14.02.2005 - 17:36 CET | By Honor Mahony EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS
A number of EU member states - some of them among the richest in the world - have been strongly criticised by development agencies for being tight-fisted....
Mad CAOward, as one of their spokeswomen, likes to point out: there is no such thing as a French race.
Wow, ain't they clever? Unfortunately, the world being what it is today, there is virtually no "race" left - apart from a few extremely rare cases of *natives* hereto undisturbed by white imperialism, be it French, Dutch or American.
On the other hand there is still very wide-spread racism. In fact, instead of being a thing of the past, it grows on a daily basis, in particular in the good ole US of A.
Since *actual* races are becoming harder and harder to define, today's definition of racism has had to adjust to the current hatred of entire populations by such racist ppl as Mad CAOward and Noguru.
In fact my dictionary defines racism as "discriminatory, especially on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion".
In other words, people like MAD COAward who spew constant "fuck the French", "fuck the Swedes", "fuck the Muslims" etc, clearly belong to the dumb and proud of it racist category.
Proud of yourself, MAD CAOward? When have you last dragged a French dude or negro or native American Indian from the back of your pick-up truck? Heil KKK-Bush-Hitler! :-)
Here is some info for deluded nazi Americans like Mad CAOward:
The EU has 87 prisoners per 100,000 people; America has 685.
Americans work longer hours and take fewer vacations.
Back in 1980 the average American chief executive earned forty times the average manufacturing employee. For the top tier of American CEOs, the ratio is now 475:1 and would be vastly greater if assets, not income, were taken into account.
By way of comparison, the ratio in Britain is 24:1, in France 15:1, in Sweden 13:1.
A privileged minority has access to the best medical treatment in the world. But 45 million Americans have no health insurance at all (of the world's developed countries only the US and South Africa offer no universal medical coverage).
According to the World Health Organization the United States is number one in health spending per capita—and thirty-seventh in the quality of its service. As a consequence, Americans live shorter lives than West Europeans. Their children are more likely to die in infancy: the US ranks twenty-sixth among industrial nations in infant mortality, with a rate double that of Sweden, higher than Slovenia's, and only just ahead of Lithuania's—and this despite spending 15 percent of US gross domestic product on "health care" (much of it administrative costs of for-profit private networks).
Sweden devotes just 8 percent of its GDP to health. The United States spends much more on education than the nations of Western Europe; and it has by far the best research universities in the world. Yet a recent study suggests that for every dollar the US spends on education it gets worse results than any other industrial nation.
American children consistently underperform their European peers in both literacy and numeracy. US is outperformed in worker productivity by Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and France.
The modern American economy is in hock to international bankers with a foreign debt of $3.3 trillion (28 percent of GDP).
Europeans even appear to be better at generating small and medium-size businesses. There are more small businesses in the EU than in the United States, and they create more employment (65 percent of European jobs in 2002 were in small and medium-sized firms, compared with just 46 percent in the US).
And they look after their employees much better. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights promises the "right to parental leave following the birth or adoption of a child" and every West European country provides salary support during that leave.
In Sweden women get sixty-four weeks off and two thirds of their wages. Even Portugal guarantees maternity leave for three months on 100 percent salary. The US federal government guarantees nothing.
In the words of Valgard Haugland, Norway's Christian Democratic minister for children and family: "Americans like to talk about family values. We have decided to do more than talk; we use our tax revenues to pay for family values."
In the US today the richest 1 percent holds 38 percent of the wealth and they are redistributing it ever more to their advantage. Meanwhile one American adult in five is in poverty—compared with one in fifteen in Italy. The countries of the EU also provide the largest share of the world's peacekeepers and international policemen.
Yep, I sure know which place I'd rather live in, LOL. A few years in Florida quickly summed up the pros and cons.
Prolly also explains why we have so many US citizens expats here. But don't get your hopes up, Mad CAOward, not much of a chance for you - we don't take American fascist nazis any longer, too many smart American folks to chose from already without having to bother with the scumbags.
This is the village over the border (about 2km from it), the first town you run into when driving along the seaside road. Can't remember the name now.
Here below is the little supermarket where booze and tobacco is sold by the megatonne every day. Opened 7/7 without interruption (no siesta break in that joint).
Cute little park just across the road.
The main competitor, but this one doesn't do tobacco, only booze.
Why are cigarettes 4 times less expensive in Italy?
I know smoking is bad. No need to give me a sermon, I've heard thousands before. But, since I'm bad and since our French gov sees nothing wrong with taxing tobacco at the cool rate of 86%, I assume I'm allowed to keep on smoking.
I mean, it's not as if I went around murdering ppl, right?
Here is a pic of my last trip to Italy with Dianne to stock up on cheap tobacco. These French pigeons live in Menton, at the eastern end, i.e. 500 meters (ok, yards for the peasants around) from the border to Italy.
Here is Ingrid, i.e. the 3rd rugrat running wild in the joint.
We had her while living in Florida. This pic is from those days, i.e. some 5 years ago, when she was still young and pretty. One thing hasn't changed though, she still insists on holding on to your mouse, be it at Dianne's or my computer.
Here's Neige. Like all French females, she likes to tease the hulks around. Any takers? No, LynnKramer, you can't have her, just stick to dogs and donkeys, thanks :-)
You've fucked the rest of the world for another four years. For christ's sake you dumb motherfuckers, even people as unused to democracy as those in the Ukraine didn't put up with a fixed election. They got up off their asses, got on the street and said “NO! We will not accept this!” And they made it stick...
In a short policy update brief today, president George bush explained that one of the policy changes he planned to make during his second term would change the way we describe our government...
Dear Mad CAOward who still has everyone blocked off your CAOlifower's tBlog so as to ensure you can publish slander after slander in total impunity,
First, a little appetizer before I go on to the main course. Could you CAOward explain why every time I log on your main blog (not the tBlog one), I am faced with the following browser message?:
Funnily enough, if I change IP address, I get to see your blog just fine. Even funnier is that after a few hours, I get the above message again. I change IP address again, and it works again. Etc. Fancy that!
What's the matter, CAOward? You afraid of me? I'm giggling at the thought you must be spending your entire days tracing me in order to try blocking me off even seeing your nazi blog. Shitting in your panties non-stop, eh? It must be hell now that I've devised a way by which you can't track me any longer, LOL.
Ok, on to the main course:
We've all realized for a long time here on tBlog you're (quote from a friend via email only just today) a "trailor trash cum spewing evil whore" as well as a confirmed "fascist neo-nazi".
What I didn't realize is that you also have the IQ of a dodo. Hurray for you for having at last worked out what everybody else has known for months, i.e. Dianne and I are married! I'm impressed! You may be dumber than a dodo but not quite as dumb as an extinct dodo. I'm relieved, for maybe you'll manage to understand my prose below. Who knows, LOL?
As you've demonstrated time and time again on your blog (this one here on tBlog but particularly your main one, i.e. Mad CAO's rattlers pit), you not only talk through your smelly ass most of the time, but have no problem publishing entire blogs dedicated to slandering ppl.
I remember in particular one in which you state the following, and which 82 comments later (during which Deviant1 and I beat your smelly ass to a pulp) you still never explained:
(I leave out the introductory racial statements which you so excel at, and concentrate on the factual points, i.e. the straight slander)
Here below is Mad CAOward speaking to (and/or of) Dianne - these are all direct copy/paste from her blog.
“1. you’re afraid to live in America because you’ve maxxed out your stupidity card and went to live on the government dole
2. She’s living in France, MLF. On the US Government.
3. she’s living off the American Government to spread her vitriolic anti-American sentiments.
4. And some Americans are “pretending” to be French. On our money. Makes me want to spit.
5. Don’t think the little “fact” has been lost on me that Why Not has an area on his website showing how you can get US Government grant to live in a foreign country.”
(this last one is about me, and I yet have to find that elusive "area" on my blog showing how one can get US gov grant to live abroad. Can anyone help me and point it out? Gee, it must be well hidden, LOL)
Even though I enlightened your pea brain on all these points, and challenged you to explain the reasons for spewing out such slander, all you did was ignore it and kept vomitting your nazi hatred as exemplified by this gem of yours:
“...but now that cubicle is an ordnance depot for the arsenal of pundocracy, a vast array of ammunition a mouse click away. Load ‘em up, lock’n’ load; ammo’s cheap, there’s targets everywhere, and 2005 is a whole new year.”
Yes. Heil Hitler-Bush, CAOward!
Anyway, I see now that you're at last convinced Dianne IS a US citizen, but I guess the fact she's moved to France and is very happy about it really pisses you off, doesn't it, LOL? Don't worry, it happens to lots of them - we have one of the highest US citizens expats communities in the world :-)
Oh, small detail here - not that it will make any difference, I'm sure - but since you see fit to once again talk through your ass, i.e. state things you don't have the first clue about, the "friend" who loaned the money for the air ticket isn't me (how I wish I had that kind of dough). In fact the loan was for 2 tickets, hers and mine, plus our belongings, and we are both repaying the whole loan back, even if very slowly. Sorry to disappoint you :-)
So.... Mad CAO.... come on, you can explain yourself here - you're not blocked off like ppl are on your blog. Come one, we're all waiting to hear ya, this will be a fair discussion between you and me - at least YOU get the chance to have YOUR say. Can't be fairer than that, right? Or are you literally shitting your piss-flaps at the thought?
For the last couple of days, I've seen on the national French 8pm news snippets of the International Lingerie Fair. Not certain, but I think it's held in Paris - not that the location matters, what matters is this:
From what I hear, the *designers* (read: the marketing groups behind) have worked out there is not that much creativity future (read: "dough") to be achieved in 2005 from selling 50 euros pairs of sexy undies. Maybe the males out there see their dicky wicky go flacid when they get their bankcard statements.....
Blogs that suck:NoGuru's blog
(fascist, racist and proud of it. Hatred and dumb rhetoric are his fav. pastimes). "Just my opinion, but I'll stick to it, just like a fly to shit" Reducto's blog
(written with the vision and logic of a deep-fried zucchini. Highly recommended for a good laugh)
BushLover's blog
(take a Noguru fruitcake, add more fascist sauce, sprinkle with threatening & bullying spices, and you've got a perfect BushLover dessert). Rsheinfield's blog
(pro-israel fanatic - anything the Israel gov says or does is gospel, including mass murder)
RedTigress's blog
(same as above + delightfully racist and fascist. An embarrassment to the Tiger species)
SithSense's blog
(same as above, + he just LOVES dead bodies and massacres)
Jim Doney's blog
(kinda like Reducto's blog. Just change "zucchini" to "potato")
ajhankin's blog
(same as above)
Defensor's blog
(another fascist bore)
LynnKramer's blog
(curious case of religious zealotry having reached advanced paranoiac delusional condition. Also a delightful source of racist blogs (her fav targets are the French, closely followed by Germans - but any European target will do just fine)
jrogg's blog
(not quite as dumb as Reducto, but ok for a bit of fun every now & then. There's hope for him)
Stepdad's blog
(yet another [sigh!] fascist nutcase)
Deshanews's blog
(same as above)
Camel dropping's blog
(A shameful insult to the otherwise very cute and cudly species of camels and dromedaries.
But, as CamelFace himself proudly announces, his thinking mode is achieved by farting through his own brain)
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Steve and Virginia Pearcy, a couple in Sacremento, placed a large doll of a US soldier on their house and wrote:
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