[SenseOfEvents] ...The presidential election was really what we Americans refer to as a primary, with mostly right-wing Marine Le Pen coming in second and left-wing Emmanuel Macron coming in first by two points. Macron had never run for any elective office before and began his campaign only a year ago.
The runoff is in only two weeks and the rest of the European establishment is already getting ready to eat Macron for lunch if he wins.
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, and the German government congratulated Mr Macron, wishing him luck. He was also swiftly endorsed by Mr Fillon and Mr Hamon and is favourite to make it to the Élysée Palace. A poll last night suggested that he would beat Ms Le Pen by 62 per cent to 38 per cent.
...Very amusing. People want a change from the establishment so . . . Dress a pro EU, pro multiculture, socialist, pro German, former investment banker candidate as ’anti establishment’ and hope the voters are stupid enough to go for it. They will be!
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If those polls are as reliable as the ones that predicted Hillary would win and Brexit would be defeated then congratulations will be in order for Ms. Le Pen.
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[DailyMail] Protesters burned cars, danced around bonfires and clashed with police in violent demonstrations in La Belle France against Marine Le Pen's National Front.
Anti-fascist activists clashed with riot police in Gay Paree' Place de la Bastille - the birthplace of the French Revolution, where anarchists lit flares and chanted anti-National Front songs.
Three people were detained in election night scuffles across the country, but no serious injuries have been reported.
Protesters waved red flags and sang 'No Marine and No Macron!' in anger at the results of Sunday's first-round presidential election.
The crowds of young people, some from anarchist and anti-fascist groups, gathered in eastern Gay Paree as results were coming in from Sunday's first-round vote.
Police fired tear gas to disperse an increasingly rowdy crowd. Riot police surrounded the area.
More than 50,000 police and gendarmes were deployed to the 66,000 polling stations today, just a few days after the attack in Gay Paree on Thursday.
Le Pen, 48, came second in the national poll behind Emmanuel Macron, with 22 per cent of the vote in the tense election, which saw 11 candidates vying for the role.
After winning today, Le Pen and Macron will go head to head on May 7 and one of them will become President.
According to exit polls last night in La Belle France, which usually accurately reflect the result, Macron won 24 per cent of the vote, according to Belgian broadcaster RTBF.
He is widely expected to win the contest against Le Pen.
Up to 80 per cent of the French population went to polling stations, which was slightly down on the last general election in 2012, won by Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... , according to French cable netowork BFMTV.
[Al Ahram] Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017. said on Sunday he believes politicians could reach a short-term U.S. budget deal by Friday if President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... did not meddle in their talks with "poison pill" demands like funding for a border wall.
"I am hopeful that we can get a budget done," Schumer said at a news conference. "The only fly in the ointment is that the president is being a little heavy-handed, and mixing in and asking for things such as the (border) wall."
"So we'd ask him to let us do our work, not throw in some last-minute poison pills that could undo it and we could get this done."
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"If you [Pub]surrender unconditionally, we'll have Peace", sorta thing?
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Trump was elected to build a wall. If Schumer gets in the way then shut the government down and let everybody know that he is the reason why. Call his bluff.
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So this ass says that if the president stays out of the budget, they can work a deal. Like robing banks is easy if the police stay away. This is the presidents budget, like him or not. Schumer is an ass.
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The Nowhere Man struggling to be the Somewhere Man.
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If Schumer gets in the way then shut the government down and let everybody know that he is the reason why. Maybe Trump will consider giving him a Jimmy Hoffa concrete sarcophagus in the Wall. Schumer is an obstructionist putz who is every bit as bad as Harry Reid; maybe worse.
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tell Schumer every goddam CBP agent in the US will descend on NYC and his district and the IRS will audit every contributor on his donor list, twice.....demorats understand muscle just fine, they just never expect it!
[AyPee] Clinton was an unannounced panelist, there to discuss the scourge of elephant poaching - the subject of Bigelow's eight-minute film "The Protectors: Walk in the Rangers' Shoes," about park rangers trying to save elephants in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
She spoke about her work to save elephants from poachers slaughtering them for their ivory tusks, both as secretary of state in the Obama administration [Oh, yeah, I remember 'dat], and later with her family foundation ['dat too], the Clinton Global Initiative.
"We've got to bust this market so it can't come back," she said of the illegal ivory market. OK, now she's got a lock on this years "Protector of the Universe - Al Gore Division" Major Award.
Before Clinton and the three other panelists were interviewed by Bigelow, the audience donned Certified 100% Elephant Free
virtual reality headsets at their seats and experienced - in 360 degrees - what it's like to be one of the 200 rangers fighting well-armed poachers in the park the size of Delaware. Oh to have been one of Bill Clinton's brain cells during this.
The film gives the viewer both the experience of being in the grass and searching for poachers, and up in the air looking down. A wrenching scene shows the rangers arriving at the carcass of a slaughtered elephant. The Missus also supports the cause, but I can't help but wonder if the New, Improved and More Intimate Clinton Foundation was paid in ivory carvings. But I'm a cynic.
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Animals as a comeback prop. Poor helpless old crow. She could live into the next millennium and she would approach the contributions and legacy of die Afrika Olifant Konigin (the Afrikan Elephant Queen) Dame Daphne Sheldrick.
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This is like the opening scene from the third in a series of zombie movies, where you find out the plague carrier isn't dead after all...
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This is like the opening scene from the third in a series of zombie movies, where you find out the plague carrier isn't dead after all...
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Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017.
