Boycott France - REDUX
I posted the following in March, but it needs to be put up again in light of that dreadful cartoon I linked to below. The French deserve no mercy.
Don’t spend your money here!
Here is a list of all the companies the Frogs have their appeasing mitts in. One exception to my anti-French stance is Jean Paul Gaultier. His passionate fisking of PETA and their idiocies is something to support. (And yes, JPG does things for men.) List provided by Metrospy.
Air France, Air Liquide, Airbus, Alcatel – Based in Paris France; Allegra (Allergy Medication) – Produced by Aventis Pharmaceuticals based in Strasbourg, France; Aqualung (Including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest); AXA Advisors, Bank of the West – Owned by BNP Paribas Beneteau (boats); BF Goodrich – Owned by Michelin; .....
see the extended entry for the complete listing, in case you want to copy it for your own personal use …..
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Comments are off for this postThe French being true to form.
Paul links this obnoxious cartoon from Le Monde on 9/11. As if you needed another reason to boycott the vile French.
Comments are off for this postHow about the terrorists?
When it comes to drug smuggling, the Canadian and Mexican borders have a lot in common, the man in charge of the U.S. war on drugs said Thursday. John Walters was in Seattle to campaign against a municipal proposal that would make marijuana possession the lowest priority for city police. People in Seattle will be voting on the proposal, known as Initiative 75, next Tuesday. Walters says Canadian leaders arefailing to control drug movement across the border.” (09/11/03)
Surely stopping terrorists getting in is just a tad more important than stopped ganga shipments? These anti-drug zealots just don’t get it do they? Doesn’t he remember that some of the 9/11 hijackers came in via Maine from Canada? I say take the manpower wasted harrassing stoners and get them searching for the likely source of the next attack on the US. Isn’t about time they did something that would really save lives?
Comments are off for this postHanging chads redux anyone?
In a case reminiscent of the legal battle that clouded the 2000 presidential election, a federal appeals court panel questioned Thursday whether California’s recall election should go forward because six counties still use the flawed punch-card voting system. Lawyers … argued that a statistical study showed 40,000 poor and minority voters might have their ballots excluded …. In what
appears to be the last major legal challenge to the recall, the panel heard nearly two hours of arguments before taking the case under submission. The panel did not say when a ruling would be issued, but lawyers said outside court that they expect a decision early next week.” (09/11/03)
So we can expect Dems to claim Arnie “stole” the election then. Is it me, or are the Democrats in California looking and more desperate in their attempts to keep Davis in?
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A Melbourne scientist says dipping CDs in beer gives them a different sound. Cameron Jones discovered that fungus growing on the beer residue gave a different pitch and acted as an ‘optical biocomputer.’(09/11/03)
Wonder if this would improve the new Metallica CD? Anyone have any other suggestions on CDs that might sound better after this treatment? Naturally, this research was done in Oz.
1 commentJocks doing some useful
Virginia Tech is outfitting its football players with high-tech helmets with special sensors to gather data on the head blows the athletes suffer in normal games and practice sessions. The data are sent to a central computer in real time via a wireless link. “We’ll get a better handle on how head injuries should be managed from a clinical perspective,” says the school’s chief athletics physician, Gunnar Brolinson. The system is called the Simbex Head Impact Telemetry System, or “HIT System” for short. (USA Today) ...Let’s just say that
wasn’t their first attempt at a clever acronym.
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