Country French Rap

Marly-Gomont is by Kimini, the son of a Congolese doctor living in rural northern France.

Or Tennessee, maybe, if Tennesseans spoke French.

And we appear to have taught the world cow-tipping. I'm so proud.

Chien Bites Man

UNIFIL Chief: Israel doesn't trust us. No! How can that be? Could it have anything to do with continued arms shipments to Hizbullah? Surely not, or you'd think they would have mentioned that before the 15th paragraph. Fortunately, the French are very level-headed in a crisis.

"If we avoided an incident, it's because the French military showed great restraint and sang-froid."

French military restraint. Best euphemism ever.

Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys Fiddle While Paris Burns

The French were very happy about our elections. Odd, really. Their elections bore us at the best of times; I can't imagine we'd pay any attention at all if we were in their situation. Quick, can you even name the French equivalents to Denny Hastert and Bill Frist? Didn't think so.

No fair gloating (much) if you don't know who Hastert and Frist are.

Those Wacky UN Peacekeepers

All things considered, it's hard to believe the rest of the world ever, ever, criticizes the U.S. military. This article sites a report in Der Spiegel.

Spanish UNIFIL official Richard Ortax admitted to the paper that no patrols are carried out at night “because of the danger involved.”

...The report cites a long tradition of UNIFIL inaction, which it says allowed time for a Finnish contingent to construct a giant sauna and an Indian contingent to decorate its base with traditional Indian artwork.

The UNIFIL troops and the 14,000 Lebanese soldiers stationed in the region add up to a total of around 20,000 troops in the 18-by 31-mile region of southern Lebanon. Another 6,000 troops are still expected to arrive.

The United Nations itself has admitted that Syria was still successfully smuggling arms to the Hizbullah, which neither UNIFIL nor the Lebanese army plan to stop.

Israel has maintained overflights in the region in order to monitor and discourage the smuggling, yet UNIFIL officials condemn the continued Israeli maneuvers. The Lebanese army even attempted to shoot down Israeli fighter jets on Tuesday. France and the European Union have been accusing Israel of violating Resolution 1701 with its flights over Lebanon.

The noise from the Israeli jets must really spoil the serenity of the sauna.

Sheesh. Why do certain people in politics seem to think we need U.N. approval or advice for anything?