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FRANCOIS LEAVES HOME
Mother Sheehan ditches the peace movement, Laurie David splits with her husband, Rosie O’Donnell divorces reality ... it hasn’t been a great year for lefty romance. And now this:
Defeated French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal has split from her partner, party leader Francois Hollande, accusing him in a new book of having an affair.
“I have asked Francois Hollande to leave our home, to pursue his love interest which is now laid out in books and newspapers and I wish him happiness,” Royal said in an interview for the book to be published Wednesday.
One assumes Royal kept this quiet during the election campaign to avoid, I don’t know, setting off riots in the high-immigration suburbs. Not all is well among creationists, either:
There is trouble in paradise, with a fight of biblical proportions raging between a Kentucky-based creationist group and the Australian group from which it sprang.
Three days after the Memorial Day opening of Answers in Genesis’ $27 million Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky, a group called Creation Ministries International filed suit in the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Sigh. It always comes back to Queensland.
Defeated French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal has split from her partner, party leader Francois Hollande, accusing him in a new book of having an affair.
But I thought having affairs was a French trait? I didn’t know they took such stuff seriously. Mind you, all I know about personal relations in France I got from Pepe LePew, so I might be mistaken.
#7 - Paco, you’re right. The media here just doesn’t get excited about it.
See here for background on how the last three French Presidents have had second families that the press just doesn’t write about.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 06 18 at 12:54 PM • permalink#11 Dylan: Absolutely fascinating article; thanks for the link. I am somewhat puzzled, however, by this line: “At his personal museum in the Correze, the most impressive section by far features his [Chirac’s] collection of sumo memorabilia.” I mean, I don’t pretend to be an expert, but doesn’t Sumo memorabilia consist primarily of loincloths and giant hair barrettes?
In 1994, Ham arrived in Northern Kentucky—chosen for its proximity to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and a sizable portion of the nation’s population—and started Answers in Genesis.
Gawd this pisses me off, and not for the reason you think. Northern Kentucky, you might think it’s a real place. It’s not. It’s the three or four counties to the south of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. A better term for it would be: the south part of metropolitan Cincinnati.
But do you think those stubborn Kentuckians would allow themselves to be called Cincinnatians? Hah! Never. Or so I’ve been told in very strong terms. Geez, they live closer to Cincinnati than I do, in my northern enclave.
The Civil War is over, you slack jaw yokels. Get over it.
Do Australian cities have to put up with such crap? No!
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 18 at 01:18 PM • permalink“I have asked Francois Hollande to leave our home, to pursue his love interest which is now laid out in books and newspapers and I wish him happiness,” Royal said in an interview for the book to be published Wednesday.
The French or just so, so, civilized.
Reminder to self. Bride of Bagadonuts was a highly skilled U.S. Army trained soldier with a “expert” ranking in marksmanship on the M-16.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 06 18 at 01:22 PM • permalink#7 Exactly. Why isn’t she being sophisticated about it. Only us dumbass Colonials would get upset over a guy cheating on his girlfriend. It’s not like they actually made a committment to foresake all others and spend their lives together—which is a quaint notion anyhow, designed by an archaic patriarchal system designed to oppress women.
Man, I love it when the cluebat gets out of control and just starts smacking people all over the place.
#13, wronwright, I’ve always wondered why the Cincinnati airport is called the Cincinnati airport, even though it’s in Kentucky. Now I understand. To be fair, the rest of Kentucky considers that little patch of Northern Kentucky to be Occupied Kentucky, since it’s largely populated with Ohioans now. I mention this out of mild interest, since I speculate that I live a little farther north than you do.
Our win in the State of Origin has really pissed you off, Tim. That’s the only reason one can think of why you’d impune the fine state of Queensland.
:-)
—Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 06 18 at 04:53 PM • permalinkwronwright: got a riddle for you.
Q. How did Ohioans and Kentuckians fight each other during the Civil War?
A. At Cincinnati the Kentuckians threw dynamite across the river at the Ohioans. The Ohioans picked it up, lit the fuses, and threw it back.
I spent a few years living in New Martinsburg. Can you tell me where that is without looking it up? ;->=
#18 paco: haven’t you heard of American fans called “jock sniffers”? Chirac is obviously a jock sniffer of the first water.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 18 at 07:28 PM • permalinkQUEEEEENSLANDEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Yes, I’m with Nick.
1. Nigeria scammers do just as well with New South Welshman and Victorians.
2. Creationists - well let me see, where was Reverend Nile from? And who VOTED him into your Senate?
3. We won the only game that counts, and a queensland team won your little nrl comp last year.
Oh yeah baby, it hurts down Sydney way.
ps take care in the 3rd lot of storms in nsw ppl.
Don’t worry about it Frank, she’s just got the shits about being rejected by the masses and in time honoured female fashion is taking it out on you to make herself feel good.
I suggest a couple of weeks on the piss with the lads and a bit more stray rooting, just to show her she’s not needed.
That’ll fix it.
Rebecca,
Actually, it’s not called the Cincinnati Airport. It’s called the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Airport. I kid you not. The hicks demanded that it be named The Northern Kentucky Airport. Ohioans laughed in their face saying—
(Didn’t I already mention this? Does anybody read my stuff? I’m not writing this just for me people!)
—saying nobody goes to Kentucky. They all go to Cincinnati.
So anyway, that’s the so called compromise.
And I think you might be wrong on your statement about Ohioans living in Kentucky. We would not do that. Rather it’s the hill people that are crossing the bridge, bringing their shoes with them.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 19 at 12:36 AM • permalinkJorgMcKie,
Are you kidding? Fayette County, near Washington C.H. The home of the greatest department store in the history of mankind: the old GC Murphys. Hot nuts, fresh bulk candy, and 45 cent records. And thousands of goods priced less than one dollar. Back in the Seventies that is.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 19 at 12:38 AM • permalinkIt’s a bad time for lefties. When I was squeezing past Phillip Adams’ piece in the Australian I noticed it was yet another woe is the the left column. Must be the third this week.
Adams’ one was interesting because he was claiming left wing commentators were outnumbered by right wingers. he proceeded to list every columnist he had ever disagreed with as right wingers but could think of just three lefties - himself, Robert Manne and David Marr.
The selction shows a remarkable degree of snobbery for an egalitarian communist.
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I notice that the media spent a good part of the election campaign smearing the Sarkozys’s relationship and insinuating that it on the rocks because, apparently, Sarkozy was a domineering, bullying bastard.
Funny how they completely missed the exact same problem in the Royal-Hollandes’s mutually respectful co-habitation arrangement.
Slightly on topic, but the most blatently biased and cynical, “the glass is half full”, vinegar soaked, lemon sucking headline I’ve seen for quite a while in this morning’s London Metro (rag) read:
“Major Setback for Sarkozy in French Polls”
Apprently, the “setback” was that he didn’t thrash the commos as badly as he’d been expected!?!