A warrant of death political

Buckethead Buckethead

The troubles in France seem not to be entirely fading away, and President Chirac has taken action to deal with the crisis. His diagnosis? "Profound National Malaise."

I have two words for the French people: Jimmy Carter.

However, unlike America in the seventies, they do not have as we did, waiting in the wings, the Godlike eminence of Ronald Reagan. They have Le Pen.

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No shock, but James">http://www.lileks.com/screedblog/05/11/111705.html]James Lileks agrees:

They know they have a brie-spined enemy, filled with doubt. Chirac, after all, spoke of a national “crisis of meaning, a crisis of identity.” Hardly a call to the barricades, especially when ordinary Frenchmen are thinking about a crisis of flaming cars. He also used the deadly word “malaise” to describe the French mood, and if history is any judge this means that Ronald Reagan will be elected President in a landslide.

Oh, and earlier in the screed, unrelated to Black Jack Chirac's cheese-spine, this nice little turn of phrase about the 50,000 job training slots he's opened up for the rioters:

“My father in Algiers,” the rioter may think, “he was unable to find work as a taxi driver. But here in France, I am unable to find work as a medical technician. I dream that my children will grow up unable to find work as doctors.”
Patton Patton

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Strangely enough, I haven't actually been slacking. The demands of ordinary life blew the long weekend for writing. I don't believe there's any way I'll finish before the end of the month, but I am going to finish the damn thing.

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