Don't give us jobs! Don't give us jobs! We like being unemployed!
Are the students in France today dumber than the students in France in 1968? Well, short answer, yeah. They are. Which shocks me because I thought they were stupid in 1968 and I was, effectively, on their side. So that begs the question: Am I dumber today than I was in 1968? Because if I am, I'm slitting my wrists.
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The so-called Palestinian Question really is Palestinian. It's got much more to do with long-simmering enmities between powers in the Territories than it has to do with Israel. Of course, what could be better than seeing the two Palestinian powers beat the crap out of each other? Not much. Hamas, Fatah leaders seek to quell tensions - Yahoo! News

The Vagina Monologues in Beirut? Well...not exactly The Daily Star - Arts & Culture - Lebanese women will have their say: "about "

Why not have holiday wives as well? Like Purim Wife, Passach Wife, Channukah Wife. Why stop there, though? What about St. Swithun's Day Wife, Armistice Day Wife, St. George's Day Wife, Trooping The Colour Wife, Maundy Thursday Wife, Shrove Tuesday Wife, Boxing Day Wife, St. David's Day Wife, Arbor Day Wife, Secretary Week Wife, Memorial Day Wife, etc., etc.Telegraph Expat Rabbi with wife for every day of the week

Guess we would need Special Ops to deal with Costco, huh? Telegraph Expat Gurkhas keep peace at Ikea:

Gosh, now why would that be?
Poll: Sinking Perceptions Of Islam - CBS News

What? He's trying to create new customers? Coroner lost his driver's licence for speeding in school zone - National

So she can arrest her johns?

Ex-call girl still battling to be a cop - National - smh.com.au

USATODAY.com - Cruise runs seminars to prepare for baby-to-be
Wow. What a concept. Space cadet Tom Cruise offering his services as an expert on having babies (making them he leaves to someone else, hopefully someone with a dick).

This is so wrong on so many levels. While his manic smile works great in his movie roles where a manic smile is called for, how would you like to stare into it while trying to concentrate on your counting and breathing? Wouldn't you be tempted to start counting his teeth? And we all know of his compassion towards Brooke Shields for her post-partum depression. Who better to teach birthing techniques than a dictatorial martinet who has all the sensitivity of a bitch wolverine? Katie Holmes phone home!

The perils of "cute"
They have salmonella, they eat the eggs of a threatened species of native tortoise, they are destroying the dunes, there are ten of them for every year-round resident, and they are aliens. Oh, and they are two feet long and like to swim in toilets: 16 years ago, however, when there was a plan to eradicate them, they were thought to be cute. Now there are 12,000 of them and they can never be totally eradicated. CNN.com - Florida�town taxed by plague of iguanas - Apr 14, 2006

From our WTF? Corner

OK, I don't want to sound gleeful or excited about this because it's really awful. But...OK, let's be honest, does this appeal the dark, macabre side of anyone? In Wood Green, Northeast London, housing association officials break into this council flat and find this woman who has thousands of pounds in rent arrears - dead. Dead three years, mind you - lying on the floor. Three years back rent and they just now decide to go see what's up? Well, too late, jackoffs, she's dead. She's a skeleton, basically. Her body has decomposed so badly that they needed dental records to ID her. But here's the thing: the TV and the heater ARE STILL ON! Three years later! Still on the channel she was watching when she died in the chair and fell over onto the floor. So, are you feeling macabre yet? But wait. Here is the even more freakish part: she is surrounded by Christmas presents from three fucking years ago! This is not a movie. This is real. Dead three years, a skeleton in her flat, TV on, presents scattered around, heater still functioning and NO ONE EVER THINKS TO DROP BY AND SEE HOW SHE'S DOING? WTF?Telegraph Expat 'Skeleton woman' dead in front of TV for years

Amazing how the elites in America and Europe have turned a blind eye to Arab racism against black Africans. The Arabs in the north of Sudan have been murdering and enslaving black Africans - Muslim, Christian, and animist - in the south for decades now. But you won't hear a peep from the likes of Jesse Jackson or the Congressional Black Caucus. They enjoy being wined and dined in Khartoum too much to piss off their vile hosts, the Arab Muslims who run the country. WSJ.com - Never Again, Again

If you wonder sometimes, about all these people in LA with all this money? Well, don't. It's not real. It's not their money. And they're all just as ratass poor as the rest of us. They just know how to put on the dog a little better. Man in L.A. Ferrari Crash Is Arrested - Yahoo! News

France's new legislative system: Mob Rule
Telegraph News Chirac abandons youth job law after weeks of rioting

That's right, if you want something in France, riot. It's simple: All you need to do is get some other wankers to riot with you.

It doesn't matter if they want the same things you want or not.
It doesn't matter whether or not they even know what it is you want.
It doesn't even matter if they want anything at all, or if they know anything at all (which they probably don't).

They'll be easy to find: They're the ones laying around on one or another of the twelve-week paid holidays they get every three weeks drinking beer and getting plenty of French ASS. Just give them more beer, some chocolate, the promise of some tail, and a sign saying what it is you want. They'll do the rest.

Eventually you will embarrass the French Government. Once embarrassed, the French Government will cave.

Beer, chocolate, and pussy - used correctly - can CHANGE THE LAWS OF FRANCE!

Telegraph News They took on the world's highest-paid novelist - and now they may have to sell their homes