Well, not really. Not any more at least but I could get it back in a month or so. The ear is still pretty good but I struggle with the vocab and construction and wondering whether something is male of female--but then again in these times when restaurants proudly advertise that in THEIR establishment boys and girls can go potty in the same place one wonders if even the French care any more. We'll all have to learn it I suspect as yesterday The Leader made it very clear that his goal is to turn this country into the Seventh...or is it the eighth Republic before he's done.
The arrogance is sunning, the stupidity unimagined and the question as to whether ANYTHING The Leader proposes will stand the test of constitutionality remains out there. It is clear he doesn't care. Like FDR he is determined to install his vision of this nation in stone and hope that it lasts. Getting it there is important for he realizes that once enacted, givaway programs are very hard to undo. And so the transfer of wealth continues this time from the hated banks to the UAW, to the lower middle class to every Democratic support group to be found without any concern as to effect. This administration has become entirely political in every action it takes. It exists only to survive and grow like some giant Hydra, devouring every thing to feed itself and its young.
To place a tax on the 50 largest banks is merely a cover-your-ass procedure to deflect attention from the monumentally failed programs of the president and the Democratic party: Fanny and Fred, GM, GMAC, Chrysler and the mortgage protection program. Yes, I am making assumptions but is there any doubt when just this week the "New" GM made it clear that there success depends on...wait for it...TRUCKS! Where have we heard that before.
Now France is a wonderful country and I, unlike many Americans, have never had a problem in France or with Frenchmen. Besides, the food is fabulous. But I fear this reshaping of this country: I fear the spirt a individualism that has shaped and is so much a part of what has made this country grate is being squeezed out of it in favor of an elitism of the political left who for the most part have never struggled with making a deadline, making a payroll or a mortgage payment. They are the new Elite, the children for the most part of privilege and of the eastern finishing schools referred to as Universities, offspring of those who grew up with the sounds of eastern European socialism argued around the dinner table. I grew up with their grandparents and their parents. I recognize the music. I am afraid they are the only band in town.
The Leader then gave another of his vacuous speeches about all we (he says "I") am going to do for that poor, benighted country, Haiti. Am so we should. But The Leader doesn't recognize that we are still capable of perhaps bringing this situation back from the brink because of what America has been, not what it will be in his vision of the future. Great nations are great because they stand apart, not blend in. They do this because of the will of the their people who refuse to be just another face in the crowd. The are great because their people have a overwhelming desire to overachieve; who when asked to lead and motivate and overachieve they say, "I will" not, "why should I?" The fruits of that attitude and labor allow us to save Haiti. As I said, I love France, but I don't want to be France. Every day The Leader and his mob gets us closer. Pour moi, NON! Sorry for the rant
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I though I was on to a really great idea as I mentioned, but as I worked on it it didn't come together. Hence nuttin' happened yesterday. I'm still working on it. Sorry again
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