Christiane Taubira, garde des sceaux. . LOL

France’s new prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who was chosen in part for his fluent German, is proving to be a headache in Arabic. When spoken, his family name is colloquial Arabic in many countries for the third-person singular possessive form of the male sex organ.

Christiane Taubira, garde des sceaux LOL

An exit of Greece from the euro zone could cost the French taxpayer up to 66.4 billion euros and saddle the country's banking system with 20 billion euros in lost loans, according to a study published on Tuesday.

The new French President Francois Hollande has delayed his meeting with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel after his plane was struck by lightening while en-route to Berlin. The aircraft was forced to turn back to Paris as a result. LIGHTNING DOES NOT STRIKE TWICE LOL

Congratulations to the French on the inauguration of their new president. I have high hopes for the Hollande presidency and look forward to what the future may bring for France.

If Europe is lucky, it will just end up looking like Bulgaria or East Germany, circa 1980. However, I doubt they'll be that lucky. Mass death from malnutrition-related diseases, starvation, and violent civil upheaval lie in their future. Sucks to be you.

French leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon confirmed on Saturday that he would run for the same parliamentary seat as far-right leader Marine Le Pen, setting the stage for a showdown between radical forces at opposing ends of the political spectrum.

Francois Hollande, 57, who “dislikes the rich” and wants to revolutionise his country with high taxes and an onslaught against bankers, is in fact hugely wealthy himself.

As well as the spacious Paris apartment he shares with his lover Valerie Trierweiler, Mr Hollande owns a palatial villa in Mougins, the hill-top Cannes suburb where artist Pablo Picasso used to live. It is valued by the Official Journal at 800,000 euros (£642,000), and is just a short drive from Hollande’s two flats close to the promenade in Cannes. They are priced at 230,000 euros (£185,000) and 140,000 euros (£112,000). Mr Hollande has promised to cut his pay by 30 per cent after he is officially sworn in as president next week, but he will still be on 156,000 (£125,000) a year, plus fabulous expenses and other perks.

They say he has money in french banks but where else is he hiding it?

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Jeremie Le Febvre, the 30-year-old founder of private equity marketing-services firm TBG Capital Advisors, plans to move to Singapore from Paris this year. Not because of President-elect Francois Hollande’s pledge to boost taxes; rather for what Hollande’s victory says about how wealth is viewed in France, the entrepreneur said. “What’s really driving my departure is the fact that I don’t share the values that emerged during the election, the rejection of ambition and success,” he said in an interview.“It’s part of France’s difficult relationship with money, but it has reached a new level. Even if it’s utopian, I need to believe for me and my descendants that the sky is the limit.”

Nan, j'déconne. Mais avouez que ce serait marrant

Happy Europe Day!

Europeans, with the incompetence and stupidity that are the hallmark of their subspecies of humanity, are staring into the abyss. Europe's days as a leading region of the world are numbered. And this time, you're on your own.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected government stimulus as the way to spur economic growth in Europe, setting up a clash with French President-elect Francois Hollande before he’s even taken office. In her first response to Hollande’s victory in yesterday’s French election, Merkel rejected a return to the “huge”stimulus programs following the financial crisis in favor of business-friendly economic changes. She and Hollande will talk“very openly” about the form of growth to pursue, a discussion now taking place across Europe and “to which the new French president will bring his own accents.” “This discussion is not whether we should pursue consolidation or growth, it’s completely clear that we need both,” Merkel told reporters in Berlin today. “Rather, I think the core of the discussion is whether we again need debt- financed economic programs, or whether we need growth elements that are sustainable and oriented toward the economic strength of certain countries.”

Rush's take on France's election of a Socialist: "France is gone."

The Euro hit a three and a half year low against the pound as financial markets reacted to the election of Francois Hollande as France’s first Socialist president for 17 years and the new threat to a eurozone break-up posed by the post-election turmoil in Greece.

In a year or two, people would rather you give them leprosy than a euro.

Voters in Greece and France challenged austerity as Europe’s sole prescription for the financial crisis, adding pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to broaden her focus from debt reduction to save the 17-nation bloc. Greek elections left the two biggest parties short of the clear majority to keep bailout efforts there on track. In France, Socialist Francois Hollande defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel’s preferred partner for enforcing fiscal rigor. “Europe is watching us,” Hollande, 57, told supporters in the central town of Tulle 90 minutes after his victory was announced. “The mission is now mine, to give European construction a growth dimension. That’s what I’ll tell our partners as soon as possible.” Germany and France, whose leadership in fighting the crisis that began in Greece in 2009 gave rise to the partnership known as “Merkozy,” don’t have much time to patch up rifts between Merkel and Hollande. “To get anything done in Europe, Germany and France have to agree,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank in London. The euro fell to a three-week low in Asian trading after the elections, declining to $1.3026 at 6:50 a.m. in Tokyo. “What worries me is the initial negative reaction in the Asian market,” said David Kotok, chief investment officer, Cumberland Advisors. “Political turmoil raises the uncertainty premium.” Hollande’s platform calls for policies Merkel opposes, including higher taxes, increased spending and a delayed deficit-reduction effort. He used his campaign to call for an activist European Central Bank, defying Germany. He also sniped at Merkel’s policies by calling for watering down a European Union accord that she pushed to cut debt.

Wasn't it only a couple of years ago that we kept hearing that the Euro was going to be the world's next reserve currency? Analysts now suggest that Greece will depart the Eurozone by the end of 2012, almost certainly followed by the other failed states of Portugal, Italy, and France.

Somebody did fuck France...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a leading French political figure for whom the French put forth feverish efforts to select for IMF chief a few years ago, has been charged with participating in a gang-rape. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a typical French political figure, well-respected and admired by millions of Frenchmen, many of whom look to him as a role-model.

The “soak the rich” rhetoric that has punctuated the presidential campaign has prompted a sharp rise in the numbers weighing a move across the Channel. ... London’s status as an international finance hub as well as its proximity to France make it a natural choice for French professionals rattled by the campaign’s hostile mood towards the wealthy.

French presidential elections: Hollande clings on to slim lead over Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy faces stiff challenge to defeat Socialist rival in Sunday's election despite latest polls showing lead narrowing

I'm quite sure that they're shaking in their jackboots in Kiev right about now. Flinch: "This may affect your ability to host the world's favorite faggot game!" Ukrainian response: "Fuck France!"

"The French journalist was under our protection when the firefight was going on. But then he all of a sudden took off his bulletproof jacket and took off his helmet, and ran toward the FARC rebels."

Women encouraged to post pictures of breast to raise awareness about breast cancer

French Foreign Legion remembers long-ago bravery

Persian women are well known for their unique beauty, Ayrab women little less...

President Hollande will save your social model! There is no need for austerity measures in France. The government needs to spend more to stimulate the economy. Votez Hollande!

france - cheap whores for tyrants for 60+ years

let's take our popcorn and watch

French Socialist Party candidate François Hollande spoke at a rock and pop festival on Friday in Bourges, France. He and Nicolas Sarkozy will face off on May 6. The US elections seem tame by comparison.

(Reuters) - For France's immigrants, life just got worse. To a group of youths huddling by a fast-food shop west of Paris, the rise of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in France's presidential election comes as no surprise but as worrying confirmation of what they see as their growing isolation in French society. Le Pen's breakthrough in Sunday's first round brought her anti-immigrant National Front (FN) party its highest poll score to date, touching off a round of soul-searching as French elites sought to understand her appeal.

Ha-ha! French like any other elites cannot understand what's wrong with destroying a country

France wants the United Nations Security Council to consider allowing military action in Syria if an international peace plan fails to stop the violence under Bashar al-Assad's regime, the French foreign minister said Wednesday.

The defeat of Sarko will usher in the end of France

Frenchies supporting Communism?

On to round deux

... not that anyone really gives a shit what happens on the lilly pads, but a few more frogs might be waking up. My guess is that the Le Pen votes will eventually go to the dwarf because nationalists always hate socialists/communists.

Congratulations to the French! Don't forget on May 6 to vote Hollande!