Lafayette, the Debt Is Paid.

One of the oldest allies of the United States - - France - - has decided that the US under President Donald Trump is to be treated as an enemy:

Emmanuel Macron has called for the creation of a “true European army” to allow the EU defend itself from threats ranging from Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin.

The French president has pushed for closer EU defence union since coming to power last year but has been so far met with limited success amid foot-dragging by other member states.

“We have to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia and even the United States of America,” Mr Macron told France’s Europe 1 radio in an interview.

I've been less scornful of France in the past than other Americans because of the tremendous debt that our budding country incurred when France came to our aid during the Revolutionary War. It's quite probable that without that aid the Revolution would have failed, and we would still be subjects of the Queen of England. Even going to their aid during WWI and WWII didn't repay that debt, at least in my mind. Now, though?

Lafayette, the debt is paid. You're on your own from this point on, as far as I'm concerned.

I Guess It Wasn't An Unemployed Bell-Ringer Looking For Work

"Notre Dame: Man shot by French police after attacking them with hammer."

Re-Open Devil's Island!

France still owns the colony of French Guiana in South America, and could conceivably ship all of the malcontent Muslims in France to the place - - rebuild the old prisons to hold the Muslim criminals, and exile all the non-criminals there as undesirable citizens. Let the jungle diseases, insects, and South American wildlife take care of population control.

Warning Signs

*Jeff Foxworthy voice*

If you child stops eating baguettes...he may be a jihadi.

The French post a warning advisory of ways to detect Islamisation of good French people:

Jeff Foxworthy could do a whole comedy routine based on this.

If you catch your son having sex with local goats...he may be a jihadi.

If you catch your son burning down synagogues...he may be a jihadi.

If your son replies to an inquiry of how school was with "Allahu Akbar!"...he may be a jihadi.

The French Are So Fed Up With Jihadis...

...that they want to send them to their very own version of Guantanamo: Devil's Island, the infamous penal colony of Dreyfus and Papillon. Got any Papillon fans out there? Not just the Steve McQueen movie, but the wonderful (and largely fictional) book written by Henri Charriere? How many of you know that the English translation of Charriere's book was done by Patrick O'Brien of Aubrey-Maturin fame?

Headline of the Day

"Rare fish nicknamed the Nutcracker that bites men's testicles as they swim is found in the River Seine."

Merde!

Merde! Those Putains Ate My Camel!

Sacre bleu! Zut alors!

Malian authorities will give French President Francois Hollande another camel after the one they gave him as a present was eaten.

The animal had been given in thanks for helping repel Islamist rebels was killed and eaten by the family he left it with in Timbuktu, an official in Mali said.

A local government official in northern Mali said today that a replacement would be sent to France.

"As soon as we heard of this, we quickly replaced it with a bigger and better-looking camel," said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

"The new camel will be sent to Paris. We are ashamed of what happened to the camel. It was a present that did not deserve this fate."

Meanwhile, At Notre-Dame Cathedral...

there are new bells in the bell towers.

Treasure Blog: US Double Eagle Gold Coins, Champagne, France

497 of them, hidden in an attic, came raining down during renovations.

Dated 1851-1928, so they are Liberty Head and St. Gauden's pattern.

Pic:



Value over one million USD.

Workers get half of them? Sweet. Guess they were taken out of the US to avoid Franklin Roosevelt's roundup of gold coins.

McChrystal's Fatal Mistake: Mocking the French

Because as everyone knows, you do not mock the French; the French mock you.

More Hardcore Than John Wesley Hardin

John Wesley Hardin, the Old West gunfighter, once killed a man for snoring. In France, Nicolas Cocaign, a "cannibal prisoner," murdered his cellmate with a razor blade and then cut out and ate his lung, simply because the man "gave him a dirty look."

Here he is, the French Hannibal Lecter:

Are You Lookin' At Me?

Who's Trying To Burn Down France?

The French Foreign Legion, that's who.

I should probably amend that to "who else is trying to burn down France," since the Muslims in the Banlieus have been working at burning down France for several years now.