tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post3474271112461267891..comments2023-07-23T14:10:14.460+02:00Comments on Shall we talk?: On est les meilleurs!Floconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-63437968944795086382012-02-23T02:56:26.588+01:002012-02-23T02:56:26.588+01:00History is not his forte,
Poetry maybe?
Mais il ...<i>History is not his forte</i>,<br /><br /><a href="http://flocon-flocon.blogspot.com/2012/01/o-tempora-o-mores_21.html" rel="nofollow">Poetry maybe</a>?<br /><br />Mais il n'a pas le temps à dire vrai. He is currently working on la limitation des hauts salaires, l'interdiction des retraites-chapeau, des parachutes dorés, la fixation des rémunérations des dirigeants des grandes Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-58980399450192828942012-02-21T19:09:18.011+01:002012-02-21T19:09:18.011+01:00I wonder where our Hungarian great leader places t...I wonder where our Hungarian great leader places that culture on the totem pole.<br /><br />Sarko also seems to have forgotten the entire colonial period, particularly in Algeria and Vietnam. No crimes against humanity there, is there?<br /><br />History is not his forte, so he seems not to know about the anihilization, or holocaust if you prefer, of the Cathares by the Catholics whom he loves soNed Luddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00599196155953996432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-31731301889783706972012-02-21T02:37:30.629+01:002012-02-21T02:37:30.629+01:00SemperFidelis,
Your comment calls for two remarks...SemperFidelis,<br /><br />Your comment calls for two remarks.<br /><br />1° As pertains to the US, the claim of being superior to others (the "our great nation" stuff) (countries or civilisations altogether) is worth a study (and I'm not being cynical or ironical here) since the huge majority of the American population descends from... well... foreign countries, cultures and Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-68955629597484499772012-02-20T03:53:54.831+01:002012-02-20T03:53:54.831+01:00Flocon: Thank you for the translation.
Having r...Flocon: Thank you for the translation. <br /><br />Having read it, I remain convinced that politicians throughout most of the world are ready, even eager, to assert that some civilizations (theirs, to be specific)are better than others and worth defending against encroachment. No American politician can expect to be elected (with the possible exceptions of New York City and San Francisco -and IAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-10722317171523747152012-02-15T22:30:55.148+01:002012-02-15T22:30:55.148+01:00Holà Ned ! Good to see you back to where you belon...Holà Ned ! Good to see you back to where you belong ;-) Hope you had a good time in the Golden State.<br /><br />re Guéant's relativism you point to, I didn't even notice it et c'est pourtant visible comme le nez au milieu de la figure...<br /><br />C'est vrai que le politiquement correct est devenu insupportable. There soon will be a backlash, return of the repress, so to say.<brFloconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-64615513531643289922012-02-15T15:05:53.023+01:002012-02-15T15:05:53.023+01:00Flocon, I have been away for a few weeks in sunny ...Flocon, I have been away for a few weeks in sunny California where the temperature was generally 25° to 30°. Arriving back in Paris was a system shock. I didn't have ready access to internet, so I probably missed some exciting subjects you thought were primordial. Win some, lose some.<br /><br />Je commente les deux derniers. Tu as raison avec ta conclusion sur Guéant. Mais il a fait une Ned Luddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00599196155953996432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-75858976432026093062012-02-14T14:24:10.176+01:002012-02-14T14:24:10.176+01:00Since he was speaking in front of a very rightist ...Since he was speaking in front of a very rightist student organisation, Guéant was preaching to the choir and eventually there's no reason to think he was trying to lure potential voters to support Sarko.<br /><br />He was merely saying aloud his personal convictions with people sharing the same values.<br /><br />As a private citizen, he's entitled to his opinions of course but as a Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-79833480037689216762012-02-14T13:55:21.112+01:002012-02-14T13:55:21.112+01:00"Perhaps this is merely my problem with trans...<i>"Perhaps this is merely my problem with translation. My English is rudimentary and I often miss the nuances"</i><br /><br />This is why I left aside the first part of your previous comment :<br /><br /><i>"Gueant's statement would be unremarkable if made anywhere but in Western Europe."</i> <br /><br />The sentence may not be particularly difficult to translate yet I&#Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-59857479212225679232012-02-14T12:40:15.623+01:002012-02-14T12:40:15.623+01:00Flocon: Perhaps this is merely my problem with tr...Flocon: Perhaps this is merely my problem with translation. My French is rudimentary and I often miss the nuances. I have seen Gueant's comment variously translated into English. Maybe I am missing something.<br /><br />Would you take the time to provide a good translation into English of his remarks?<br />Thanks,<br />SemperFidelisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-23911100385629816302012-02-14T05:29:57.121+01:002012-02-14T05:29:57.121+01:00Flocon: It is very late here as well. So I will ...Flocon: It is very late here as well. So I will just set out a few preliminaries. <br /><br />First, I understand us to be discussing whether or not Gueant's statement is controversial outside Western Europe. Not whether his statement is objectively true or false.<br /><br />Second, Nothing in my post is intended as a special criticism of France. Americans are very well able to hold and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-31081283797764672542012-02-13T01:55:03.551+01:002012-02-13T01:55:03.551+01:00Semper,
As you know, the first round of the next ...Semper,<br /><br />As you know, the first round of the next presidential election will be held within two months or so and since the party that supports Sarko perfectly knows it will lose a fourth if not a third of the overall seats in the Assemblée Nationale, it desperately scraps the bottom of the constituency.<br /><br />These people are actually running mad and loose at every possibility theyFloconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-88823693140231877322012-02-11T23:23:36.144+01:002012-02-11T23:23:36.144+01:00Gueant's statement would be unremarkable if ma...Gueant's statement would be unremarkable if made anywhere but in Western Europe. <br /><br />Elsewhere, the only argument would be over which civilizations were bad, good, better or best. The idea that some ways of organizing community life are better than others is beyond dispute throughout most of the world.<br /><br />The French position seems incoherent. On the one hand, elite opinion Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-76749650010657702852012-02-10T01:45:02.488+01:002012-02-10T01:45:02.488+01:00Sans doute as-tu lu le texte de l'intervention...Sans doute as-tu lu le texte de <a href="http://www.martinique.franceantilles.fr/actualite/politique/letchimy-le-texte-integral-de-sa-question-polemique-08-02-2012-143951.php" rel="nofollow">l'intervention de Letchimy</a> mais je n'ai pas lu tous les commentaires, ici et ailleurs, ils se comptent par milliers.<br /><br /><i>Ce qui me surprend, c'est le nombre de gens qui considèrent Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-70634057814572310152012-02-09T17:14:59.011+01:002012-02-09T17:14:59.011+01:00Ce qui me surprend, c'est le nombre de gens qu...Ce qui me surprend, c'est le nombre de gens qui considèrent que Guéant n'a fait que dire un évidence, et que les Socialistes sont tombés dans le piège qui leur a été tendu, et que Letchimy a atteint à grande vitesse le point Godwin.<br /><br />J'ai une opinion très différente. Heureusement, la lecture de certaines pages me font comprendre que je ne suis pas le seul.ZapPowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055974915059655780noreply@blogger.com