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Fin de Semaine Fil Ouvert

by Tim F|  September 5, 20093:20 am| 52 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Tokyokie

    September 5, 2009 at 3:22 am

    Je vais bien, merci.

  2. 2.

    eric

    September 5, 2009 at 3:40 am

    Je vais très bien, moi aussi, merci, mais je suis trop fatigué avec les gens stupides de le parti Republicain.

  3. 3.

    eric

    September 5, 2009 at 3:42 am

    Je vais très bien, moi aussi, merci, mais je suis trop fatigué avec les gens stupides du parti Republicain.

    Pardonnez moi, pour un petit fault.

  4. 4.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 5, 2009 at 4:17 am

    Tout va bien merci.

    So I was thinking today, reading about jobs:

    “With the job market severely wounded, and with consumer spending expected to be weak for a very long time, it could easily take until 2014 for employment to recover”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/opinion/05sat1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

    Why didn’t Barack Obama and company embark on a massive jobs program? And I mean massive.

    I’m sure the stimulus is already creating some and keeping unemployment from being even higher, just the clunkers program obviously created some work for car manufacturers and maybe for dealerships a little. But why not have a really huge program, programs, WPA style, and put the country back to work big time, and I mean first thing, before now?

    I don’t think that the financial bailouts were all bunk, I’m sure some of it saved us from real catastrophe in credit really evaporating and all the rest of it, and we can argue about how it was done and all of that for the next many years. But why not just create huge jobs programs, government hiring, and so on?

    And of course the answer I can think of is that if they went too far, the Republicans would freak out because it would be “Socialism”, and nobody in the Administration wanted to be accused of that.

    So, good thing they avoided anyone calling them THAT, boy oh boy.

    Sigh.

  5. 5.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 4:27 am

    Tim,

    Do you plan to provide English translation of the comments on this thread for the benefit of those people, like myself, who don’t speak French?

  6. 6.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 5, 2009 at 4:36 am

    @JK: They were all about you. That’s all I’m prepared to reveal.

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    September 5, 2009 at 4:36 am

    Tray beyond. Voolay voo cooshay avek mwah? Siswah?

    Cocoa Van? Silver play?

    Allah Reshersh Do Tomp Perdoo.

    Jhenna parl paz franchaze. Excusem Wah.

    This is not a pipe.

    This is not a post.

    .

  8. 8.

    Zam

    September 5, 2009 at 4:57 am

    Drunk in Europe are we?

  9. 9.

    MR Bill

    September 5, 2009 at 5:18 am

    C’est la meme chose, la plus ca change…

  10. 10.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 5:36 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim: Win

  11. 11.

    geg6

    September 5, 2009 at 6:18 am

    As someone who took 3 years of French in high school and another two semesters in college, my reaction to any attempt to read or write or speak French today? Merde! That said, I just watched Maria Bartiromo on the syndicated “Wall Street Week” and never heard a word of the show. I could only stare at her in wonder and think about the fact that she has no idea what the Medicare program is all about. Simply amazing. Money honey, indeed.

  12. 12.

    RedKitten

    September 5, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Ça va bien, merci, mais je suis un peu fatiguée. J’ai mal dormi hier soir.

  13. 13.

    Trinity

    September 5, 2009 at 7:35 am

    Freedom Fries Forever!!!

  14. 14.

    ChrisB

    September 5, 2009 at 7:37 am

    @JK: Read Tim’s post again. He was just asking us to comment, the way we normally do on this blog.

    ;-)

  15. 15.

    jon

    September 5, 2009 at 8:09 am

    Commentarie san frontier!

    Hans has a banner rouge, Chien Ching’s c’est cyan. The rest? Something about their own hills to fly them on. I barely remember any of that language other than my hotel room in Paris near that damn gay club that played The Macarena fifty-thousand times during my three-week honeymoon. The Fifth Arrondesmont is a great place to stay, but bring earplugs for the Grand Hotel du Loret if you intend to sleep through the Quetzal’s disco nights.

  16. 16.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 8:15 am

    Je suis triste, mais, je…will fucking survive!

    My French is very fractured these days, although my reading comprehension far exceeds my speaking (or typing) skillz.

    I will say I agree with this:

    …je suis trop fatigué avec les gens stupides du parti Republicain

    . Moi, aussi! Aussi.

  17. 17.

    PaulW

    September 5, 2009 at 8:16 am

    Pardon me miss. I speak Jive.

  18. 18.

    jon

    September 5, 2009 at 8:19 am

    Damnit, I was feeling nostalgic so I had to look it up before I forgot about it. And of course, I had some facts wrong.

    It’s the Grand Hotel du Loiret, the Marais District is in the 4th Arrondesmont, and I read some reviews that mentioned that it’s on the Rue de Mauvais Garcons. It’s a bargain still, as it was fifteen years ago when I was there.

  19. 19.

    Xenos

    September 5, 2009 at 8:53 am

    L’ancien regime, c’est fou. Comme les lapins. C’est tout.

  20. 20.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    September 5, 2009 at 9:02 am

    Wouldn’t you know it! A bunch of libs talking all French and stuff.

  21. 21.

    Demo Woman

    September 5, 2009 at 9:07 am

    @RedKitten: Did the baby keep you up?

  22. 22.

    Demo Woman

    September 5, 2009 at 9:18 am

    @The Grand Panjandrum: lol, On the lower post they are discussing music and books, definitely a liberal site.

  23. 23.

    Bruuuuce

    September 5, 2009 at 9:20 am

    Comme ci, comme ca.

    Realisant mon espoir, je me lance vers la gloire…

    Okay?

    (Pardonnez-moi for the lack of accents, but not only are they a pain, but I know they mess some folks’ browsers around)

  24. 24.

    ** Atanarjuat **

    September 5, 2009 at 9:25 am

    You’ve been in France too long, mon doux petit con.

    Drop the camembert, lower your arms, and catch the next flight to les Éstas-Unis — tout de suite!

    All kidding aside, I hope you shot some awesome pics with your new E-P1. Maybe you could share a flickr gallery with your fellow photographes here on BJ.

    A tout a l’heure.

    -A

  25. 25.

    Graeme

    September 5, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I’ve enjoyed Jim Manzi getting filleted by Dish readers.

    Also, the GOP doesn’t want to win me back.

    If there’s to be a make work program, I think they should hire people to clean up litter in the cities and along the highways. People would love it, socialism or no. They could call it something about taking pride. Nationalism and all that. Whatever. It’s early here in CA.

  26. 26.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 5, 2009 at 9:35 am

    @jon: Funny, I read your post and didn’t know the street but I thought “Disco in the 5th? Sounds more like the Marais”.

    The rue Mauvais Garcons is a block or two from my apartment. I remember when I first heard the name years ago, I had a fire in the fireplace from wood we had found along that street, but hadn’t noticed the street name, and my friend said something about how “We can thank the mauvais garcons for the nice fire” (the bad boys). And I just blinked, trying to figure out what in the world she could be talking about.

    Ah the joys of not knowing what the hell anyone is saying, I miss those days. Now it’s just Wingnuts I can’t understand.

  27. 27.

    RedKitten

    September 5, 2009 at 9:38 am

    @Demo Woman: He was up a bit more than usual. We went to town yesterday evening to run errands and get dinner, and the little fart slept the entire time — from 5pm to 9:30pm when we got back home. (I’m sure the people at the restaurant thought we were carrying one of those creepy fake babies around…)

    So then he woke up, ate, and conked back out at 11pm, up at 1:30, up again at 3:30, stirred and squirmed at 6am (he didn’t wake up, but I certainly did), and then up again at 7:30am. So yeah, I’m a bit groggy.

  28. 28.

    Marked Hoosier

    September 5, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Le sigh.

    I blame our liberal news media for our problems today.

    /sarcasm!

  29. 29.

    Marked Hoosier

    September 5, 2009 at 9:42 am

    @RedKitten:
    HEY! How is the little one??? Ya know, I have a newborn nephew who would be great for your little girl. How soon is too soon to set up kids? :)

  30. 30.

    Ash Can

    September 5, 2009 at 9:43 am

    Tres bien, merci. Ils vont bien, les vacances francais?

    (I have the same diacritical problem as Bruuuce. Normally I’d cut and paste from my Word program to get accent marks etc., but the husband arranged for this laptop to have NO Word program. Don’t ask.)

    So I come back from a week in the woods/at the beach in Cheeseland, and I find out that the big controversy that I missed involves the President addressing school kids. All right, when I first saw the sentence on the GOS mentioning a controversy over his address, I thought, “Well, nuts, he must have misspoken about something and the RW/media have grabbed the ball and run all over hell with it.” No. The “controversy” is that he’s addressing school kids. Period. Giving them a little pep talk and telling them to do their best, don’t give up, that sort of thing. And that’s controversial.

    ::headdesk::

    I’m not going to go so far as to call this Peak ODS, but I think I’m starting to get an idea of what it might look like.

  31. 31.

    SGEW

    September 5, 2009 at 9:45 am

    OT (i.e., not about France)

    Drips and drops in the inexorable tide of justice:

    Panel Rules Against Ashcroft in Detention Case

    The NYT:

    Former Attorney General John Ashcroft may face personal liability for the decisions that led to the detention of an American citizen as a material witness after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday.
    . . . .
    “We find this to be repugnant to the Constitution, and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history,” said the opinion, written by Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. [a George W. Bush appointee].

    From the Beeb:

    Mr al-Kidd’s attorney, Lee Gelernt, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said: “Our hope is that we can now begin the process of uncovering the full contours of this illegal national policy.”

    Opinion here.

  32. 32.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 5, 2009 at 9:46 am

    @Demo Woman: On the lower post they are discussing music and books, definitely a liberal site.

    Yeah but the books are always science fiction. That’s how you know you’re on the Internet, in case anyone forgets ;)

  33. 33.

    Marked Hoosier

    September 5, 2009 at 9:46 am

    Oh wait, sorry… ignore me Redkitten.

  34. 34.

    SGEW

    September 5, 2009 at 9:52 am

    [cont.]

    From the Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft opinion’s conclusion:

    The Fourth Amendment was written and ratified, in part, to deny the government of our then-new nation such an engine of potential tyranny. And yet, if the facts alleged in al-Kidd’s complaint are actually true, the government has recently exercised such a “dangerous engine of arbitrary government” [quoting Blackstone] against a significant number of its citizens, and given good reason for disfavored minorities (whoever they may be from time to time) to fear the application of such arbitrary power to them.
    . . . .
    We are confident that, in light of the experience of the American colonists with the abuses of the British Crown, the Framers of our Constitution would have disapproved of the arrest, detention, and harsh confinement of a United States citizen as a “material witness” under the circumstances, and for the immediate purpose alleged, in al-Kidd’s complaint.

    Good stuff! I wouldn’t place money on Ashcroft actually winding up being held personally liable, but this is still very encouraging.

  35. 35.

    rh

    September 5, 2009 at 9:54 am

    Check out the last quote on this book blurb:

    http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1667

    Incredible.

  36. 36.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 10:00 am

    @Marked Hoosier: R-Jud has a beautiful baby daughter. You could ask her. I think she’s spoken for by RedKitten’s son, though.

  37. 37.

    SGEW

    September 5, 2009 at 10:03 am

    @rh:

    Oh. My. Goodness.

    This must be a symptom of this: the only question is if the publishers of the book were suffering from satire recognition disfunction, or if they were simply relying on their readers’ ignorance.

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 10:05 am

    @rh:

    Bien sur. Le stupide, il brule.

  39. 39.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 10:10 am

    @rh: Fucking brilliant!

  40. 40.

    CynDee

    September 5, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Ca va bien dans la cabine, mais j’ai oubliee plus de mes mots Francais. Merci pour la diversion. Ma grammaire, c’est TERRIBLE. Excusez, je vous en prie.

  41. 41.

    Agathe

    September 5, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Referring to your title: ‘Fin de semaine’.
    Well, in French, fin de semaine means rather Thursday and Friday, and for Saturday and Sunday, we use ‘week-end’.

    A part ça, j’espère que vos vacances se sont bien passées. Tu as parlé de bières dans un post précédent, mais au moins tu as goûté à du bon vin ?

  42. 42.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 5, 2009 at 11:19 am

    @rh:

    Aside from the sheer astonishment of the Colbert blurb, there’s the sheer astonishment of reading the sincere non-satirical blurbs:

    “SECULAR SABOTAGE is an absolute must-read for anyone who believes the Judeo-Christian ethos is the very heart and soul of civilized society.” – L. Brent Bozell III, president, Media Research Center

    Ah yes, the Japanese are so uncivilized. The Chinese, everyone in India, Turkey, not only are they strange and otherly, did you know that they’re not even civilized ? They still live in caves, are hunter-gatherer nomads, and I mean this goes all the way back, the Greeks, they knew nothing about civilization, and the Romans? Barbarians! It’s perfectly clear to anyone who studies history that Ancient Rome knew nothing of civil society and it wasn’t until the advent of Christianity that we became civilized and entered the, what were those called again, ah yes the Dark Ages, and….

    The stupid not only hurts, it kills. It ruins.

    Sigh.

  43. 43.

    SGEW

    September 5, 2009 at 11:25 am

    @burnspbesq:

    Le stupide, il brule.

    This is the bestest thing ever.

  44. 44.

    SGEW

    September 5, 2009 at 11:38 am

    More OT, from my “Trying to Bring You Good News So You Don’t Despair About the State Of the World” department:

    EU Plans to Admit More Refugees

    The European Commission has unveiled plans to allow more refugees from conflict zones and poor nations into European countries . . . . The scheme calls on the EU to set annual priorities – for example, focusing on Iraqi or Somali refugees – in coordination with the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR. An EU-wide Resettlement Expert Group will be set up to do that.

    About time!

  45. 45.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 11:48 am

    @SGEW: Thanks for bringing the good news, SGEW. Every little bit helps.

  46. 46.

    ominira

    September 5, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    Tres bien, merci.

    @rh: Colbert rules!

  47. 47.

    RedKitten

    September 5, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:
    Yes, evidently Sam is already set up with R-Jud’s daughter. However, Marked Hoosier, if we later discover that both Sam and your nephew aren’t into the ladies, we can negotiate.

  48. 48.

    Ricky Bobby

    September 5, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    How do you say “I surrender” in French?

    Also, Maginot Line.

    P.S. – It never stops being funny… LOL

  49. 49.

    R-Jud

    September 5, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    @RedKitten: I broke the news to Eve about the arrangement today. She lunged for my watch and started licking it. So I think she’s on board.

  50. 50.

    RedKitten

    September 5, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    @R-Jud: Good to hear. You might have to warn her, though, that he’s going through a fussy stage, and so will likely be of very little help picking out the flower arrangements.

  51. 51.

    CynDee

    September 5, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    @rh: You can always tell the pseudo, or religiosity-centered “Christians” because they have no faith. They are always running scared of the latest person who writes a book or makes a remark that is different from their beliefs (fears).

    They feel they have to gather up the faithful and “fight” for God, and resist the godless and/or vanquish them (with some other persons doing the actual smiting and vanquishing so as to keep the godless away from “us.”)

    Hmm. Wonder whether God is ticked or amused at the idea of having to be protected and saved by mortal humans.

    Poor scared folks have imagined themselves into a wet-paint corner when they could be leading vibrant lives that support health and happiness.

  52. 52.

    jaquestraw

    September 5, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    mange merde et mort mofos

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