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How do they say ‘messy’ in French?

How do they say ‘messy’ in French?: Let's admit that things are crazy over here. Just yesterday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared a Tennessee law banning gender transitions for minors to past laws banning interracial marriage. On top of that, President Biden pardoned his...

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How do they say ‘messy’ in French? - American Thinker https://t.co/Y1uZM5TMmG

— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) December 6, 2024

 

Let’s admit that things are crazy over here. Just yesterday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared a Tennessee law banning gender transitions for minors to past laws banning interracial marriage. On top of that, President Biden pardoned his son Hunter and the effective date is January 1, 2014.

However, our mess is nothing compared to what’s happening in France. Check this out:

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier lost a confidence vote on Wednesday.

The vote was triggered after he forced through part of the 2025 budget using an executive decree.

It was France’s first successful vote of no confidence in more than 60 years.

Barnier lost a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly on Wednesday after Left and far-Right parties voted together.

The collapse of the three-month-old government makes Barnier France’s shortest-serving prime minister and could bring further upheaval to financial markets.

Poor Michel. Three months is scarcely enough time to enjoy a little French roast coffee and one of those nice chocolate croissants that they serve over there.

Seriously, the argument is over a budget. Does that sound familiar, by the way? They can’t seem to agree on le budget or how they say it over there. According to news reports, “le déficit” exploded on COVID-19 payments to citizens, tax cuts, and subsidies for energy bills.

We hear that a new prime minister will take over soon but no one expects the new one to fix anything. So this show will go on and Paris will look beautiful at Christmas as usual.

The good news is that the French do not have a Supreme Court justice who can’t define what a woman is and Macron is not pressured to pardon any one of his three adopted sons.

So France is France and where is Brigette Bardot in a swimsuit when we really need her?

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An engine breakdown that said it all

(My new American Thinker post)

Over the years, Cubans, in the U.S. and the island, have come up with some rather amazing jokes about the death of Fidel Castro.   

For example, Cubans have joked about the inefficient Cuban bureaucracy by saying that Castro died years ago but they are still doing the paperwork.

Another joke going around is that refugees from hell will soon show up in Florida’s shores. Fidel’s newest exiles from hell!

Another joke is that Che greeted him in hell and then lit him up.    

However, no one could have foreseen what we saw in Cuba over the weekend. Yes, the car taking Castro’s remains to his resting place broke down:

The vehicle hauling the trailer carrying Castro’s remains broke down on the road near the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba during Saturday’s procession.

Please don’t blame the U.S. embargo because this is not a 1950s car. This is probably a small truck built in the USSR or somewhere in the old Soviet bloc. Maybe the Castro government forgot to pay the Russian equivalent of road assistance.

Overall, it was a reminder of just how much harm Castro did to Cuba.

As my parents, born in the late 1920s, will assure you, Cuba was not a perfect country nor the land of casinos that so many people talk about. It was actually a very dynamic place, a good place to live and the beneficiary of many immigrants who went to the island because they heard it was full of opportunities.      

Just a few days ago, I saw this in National Review:

Cuba’s capital, Havana, was a glittering and dynamic city. In the early part of the century the country’s economy, fueled by the sale of sugar to the United States, had grown dynamically. 

Cuba ranked fifth in the hemisphere in per capita income, third in life expectancy, second in per capita ownership of automobiles and telephones, first in the number of television sets per inhabitant. 

The literacy rate, 76%, was the fourth highest in Latin America. Cuba ranked 11th in the world in the number of doctors per capita. 

Many private clinics and hospitals provided services for the poor. Cuba’s income distribution compared favorably with that of other Latin American societies. A thriving middle class held the promise of prosperity and social mobility

How else do you think that Castro contacted Cubans almost nightly by TV? Well, there were lots of TV’s spread out throughout the island with Cuban-owned stations broadcasting.   

Again, it was not a perfect country and politics had always been challenging to Cuba. But let me tell you about two things that did not happen in pre-Castro Cuba:

1) People were not taking homemade rafts to the U.S.; and,

2) Funeral cars did not break down on their way to the cemetery.

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FDR on the day before Pearl Harbor 1941

We will celebrate another anniversary of Pearl Harbor tomorrow.   I found this note very interesting.    This is from the day before the Japanese bombed the US:  

On this day, President Roosevelt—convinced on the basis of intelligence reports that the Japanese fleet is headed for Thailand, not the United States—telegrams Emperor Hirohito with the request that “for the sake of humanity,” the emperor intervene “to prevent further death and destruction in the world.”The Royal Australian Air Force had sighted Japanese escorts, cruisers, and destroyers on patrol near the Malayan coast, south of Cape Cambodia.
An Aussie pilot managed to radio that it looked as if the Japanese warships were headed for Thailand—just before he was shot down by the Japanese.  

This is a remarkable note.   In other words, we suspected that the Japanese fleet was moving to Thailand.   We learned the next day that it had been moving to Hawaii all along. 

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Happy # 79 Larry Bowa

We say happy birthday to one of my favorite players.

Larry Bowa was born in Sacramento on this day in 1945.  He played his first game in 1970.    And another 2,247 games after that! 

Bowa was one of the key players in the Phillies who won 3 NL East titles and the 1980 World Series.   He finished his career with the Cubs and played in the 1984 NLCS.

We remember him as a great shortstop and a hard nosed player, or the kind of guy that you wanted on your side.   

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World War II: The outbreak of war and the invasion of Poland in 1939

The story of World War II, part 3 of our series.........the outbreak of war after the invasion of Poland...

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The 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865

Maybe you should watch that 2012 Lincoln movie.  It tells the story of President Lincoln and the 13th Amendment.  It is a great movie and good history.   

On this day in 1865, the 13th amendment to the US Constitution was ratified.  It ended slavery in the US.  

 

President Lincoln showed great leadership in getting members of Congress to vote for the 13th Amendment.    

This is a movie worth watching.    You can get it here:  CLICK!   And it's never too late to read a Lincoln biography.

 

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