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Socialist Hollande has 3 homes on French Riviera
Ordinarily I wouldn't post something like this but the irony is just plain glorious...
France's new Socialist president owns three holiday homes in the glamorous Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged today.

The 57-year-old who 'dislikes the rich' and wants to revolutionise his country with high taxes and an onslaught against bankers is in fact hugely wealthy himself. His assets were published today in the Official Journal, the gazette which contains verified information about France's government.
Published a week after the election, not a week before the election...
To the undoubted embarrassment to the most left-wing leader in Europe and a man who styles himself as 'Mr Normal', they are valued at almost £1million.
Embarrassed? Nah, he's a socialist, he's incapable of being embarrassed. The critics are just all racists, that's all...
It will also reinforce accusations that Hollande is a 'Gauche Caviar', or 'Left-Wing Caviar' - the Gallic equivalent of a Champagne Socialist.

Among other assets are three current accounts in French banks - two with global giant Societe Generale and one with the Postal Bank - and a life insurance policy.

But it is the fabulous property portfolio which is causing the greatest stir among millions of ordinary French people who voted for Holland over the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy last Sunday. Hollande regularly attacked the 'Bling-Bling' presidency of Sarkozy, whose multi-millionaire lifestyle with Italian-born heiress Carla Bruni contributed to his humiliating election defeat after just one term in office.

As well as the spacious Paris apartment he shares with his lover Valerie Trierweiler, Hollande owns a palatial villa in Mougins, the prestigious hill-top Cannes suburb where the artist Pablo Picasso used to live. It is valued by the Official Journal at €800,000 (£642,000), and is just a short drive from Hollande's two flats in the Cannes. They are each priced at €230,000 (£185,000) and €140,000 (£112,000).

Hollande has promised to cut his pay by 30 per cent after he is officially sworn in as President next week, but he will still be on €156,000 (£125,000) a year, plus fabulous expenses and other perks.
Enjoy, France, you're going to get what you voted for...
Posted by: Steve White || 05/12/2012 12:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Every little commie believes he or she will be a commissar when the revolution comes. Turns out the real commissars make sure that never happens.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/12/2012 13:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Media couldn't do a little vetting before the election? Why does that sound familiar?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/12/2012 14:11 Comments || Top||

#3  The Onion made a story about the 2008 elections that said (paraphrasing) : Americans Awaken in horror to the Realization they elected the government they deserved.
Posted by: badanov || 05/12/2012 14:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Had the same thought Frank, this comes out now? But then again, Obama is from Chicago, unless he is on vacation then he is from Hawaii.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/12/2012 18:20 Comments || Top||

#5  "Media couldn't do a little vetting before the election?"

Of course not. Silly Frank.
Posted by: Barbara || 05/12/2012 21:11 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Romney 50% Obama 43%
Let's have a gay old time.
Posted by: tipper || 05/12/2012 00:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let's hope "ooooh! Shiny!" distractions don't work. It's all the lying lefty socialist loser has
Posted by: Frank G || 05/12/2012 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  But...but...but Romney is a bully!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/12/2012 11:46 Comments || Top||

#3  AllBeChe mourning newz had that very theme running today. Embarrassing...no not because it is inaccurate but because it is ineffective and three days behind the meme.

I knew bullies. I fought bullies. Romney is no bully. Just ask Bully Pulpit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/12/2012 13:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Read a joke online a few weeks back...a liberal, a moderate, and a conservative walk into a bar; bartender says, "What'll ya have, Mitt?" That kinda summarizes the guy for me. That being said, as The Holy Blogfaddah teaches, anything - anything at all - is orders of magnitude better than the empty-suited communist Hugo Chavez-wannabe currently defiling the White House. Compared to Ogabe, Mitt's the political offspring of Abe Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower, with a dollop of Sarah Palin thrown in for a little spice.

I'm also hopeful that Mitt's not going to make the same stupid phuecking mistake that McCain and Palin did in '08 - that is, thinking that the Obama lapdogs of the MSM will give him anything remotely resembling a fair shake. I think that he and his advisers realize that the MSM's the enemy, and that they'll have to work up other means of getting their message out.

Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) || 05/12/2012 14:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, at least now we know how far he will go, how much he will evolve, and what he will do... to stay in office.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2012 14:28 Comments || Top||

#6  You ain't seen nothing yet, Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2012 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  McCain was ahead at one point too. In fact, when Romney ran against Kennedy for the MA Senate seat, he blew a lead in that race as well.

Just sayin'.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/12/2012 15:01 Comments || Top||

#8  As a Massaholic I am familiar with Mittens. He has never been what would call ideologically consistent. Given MAs penchant for socialist proclivities that's the way Mitt bent.

My one hope for the last year has been that the Tea Party type Repubs. take over both houses of Congress. That should be enough to get Mitt bowing in the correct direction.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/12/2012 15:18 Comments || Top||

#9  McCain was ahead at one point too. In fact, when Romney ran against Kennedy for the MA Senate seat, he blew a lead in that race

No it wasn't McCain, it was Palin who was ahead; Obama was ahead all along until the Palin effect then there was the banaking crash and that plus Mcain's stupidity on the dabate issue put him ahead.
Posted by: JFM || 05/12/2012 18:47 Comments || Top||

#10  "anything - anything at all - is orders of magnitude better than the empty-suited communist Hugo Chavez-wannabe currently defiling the White House"

I'd vote for a syphilitic camel before I'd vote for Bambi, Ricky.

Syphilis can be cured.

Stupid socialism can't. :-(
Posted by: Barbara || 05/12/2012 19:14 Comments || Top||

#11  The "syphlitic camel" has my vote as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2012 20:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Yer a discerning voter, B. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara || 05/12/2012 20:51 Comments || Top||


State Probes Possible Voting By Foreigners In Florida
Thousands of foreign citizens -- particularly in South Florida -- might be registered to vote in Florida and could have unlawfully cast ballots in previous elections.

The potential problem is largest in Florida's largest county: Miami-Dade, where the elections supervisor is examining 2,000 potentially unlawful voters, WFOR-CBS 4 News reported Tuesday. Broward is examining 260 suspected foreign voters. One suspected noncitizen voter has been registered for about 40 years, CBS 4 found.

Over the past year, the Florida Division of Elections has begun identifying potential foreigners on the rolls in coordination with the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Division of Elections front man Chris Cate told The Miami Herald. He said the state has forwarded the names to county elections supervisors, who are in charge of the rolls.

"There will be more names," Cate said.

The discovery of potentially unlawful voters is sure to fuel the partisan debate over voter fraud and voting rights. With 1.2 million registered voters in Miami-Dade, 2,000 potentially ineligible voters might not seem like a big number. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
it is more than enough to swing a close election in a state like Florida, where the 2000 presidential election was decided in favor of George W. Bush by 537 votes.

It is unclear how many -- if any -- foreign citizens cast ballots or when, CBS 4 reported. Elections supervisors in all Florida counties are contacting these voters and asking them to prove their citizenship within 30 days.

"If we find out after the fact that you are actually a noncitizen, and you are registered to vote, then we would report you to the State Attorney's Office," said Christina White, Miami-Dade's deputy supervisor of elections, according to CBS 4.

With few exceptions, only U.S. citizens who are lawful Florida residents without felony records are eligible to vote in the state. A voter who unlawfully casts a ballot could be charged with voter fraud, a third-degree felony, punishable by a maximum five-year prison sentence and $5,000 fine.
Getting them off the voter roles will be a major accomplishment. Waiting for cries of "Racism!!" in 5 .. 4 .. 3 ..
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least they were not dead democrats, they were just fraudulent? Wait, do I have that right? They are fraudulent democrats that are alive.

A democrat that perpetrates fraud in democracy. Go figure.
Posted by: newc || 05/12/2012 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  At least they're not "white Hispanics".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2012 5:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't assume they are all Dems. Might be Cubans voting R.
Posted by: lotp || 05/12/2012 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  If the office of "Secretary of State" of your state is held by a Democrat, you can be pretty sure there is voter fraud going on. The Democrats have a program called The Secretary of State Project designed to get Democrats elected to that office in states across the union in order to facilitate such fraud.
Posted by: crosspatch || 05/12/2012 11:55 Comments || Top||

#5  What would happen if you deleted the voter rolls and had everyone re-apply. Give Em e couple years before the election, demand certain safeguards, such as witnesses or a photo taken and face matching to Prevent multiple submissions.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 05/12/2012 12:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Just ask Ozzie Guillan. They don't all vote d, some remember the olde days.

Nice blame Bush entry.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/12/2012 13:59 Comments || Top||


Obama Meets With Left-Wing Critics Of Israel To Plot Next Moves
President B.O. sat down yesterday with a cadre of far-left foreign policy writers, several of whom regularly lambast the state of Israel, to get advice on a range of critical foreign policy issues, among them Afghanistan, Israel, and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
, according to press accounts.

The group of nine included several writers who promulgate fringe views about the state of Israel, advocate in favor of divestment from Israel, and describe the Jewish State as an "apartheid" state--views that are also endorsed by the most extreme anti-Israel advocates.

Liberal author Peter Beinart--who has compared Israel to the segregated South and advocates boycotting areas of the country that he deems "non-democratic"--is reported to have joined forces with several other Israel bashers, such as the New Yorker's David Remnick and Time magazine's Joe Klein, for a powwow with the president. Left-wing activist Jane Mayer of the New Yorker also attended the meeting.

The meeting also raises questions about how Obama might approach the issue of Israel in a more flexible second term.

"If President B.O. believes Peter Beinart's opinions are credible or anywhere near mainstream thought, then that is a five alarm fire for Israel supporters all across the world," said one senior GOP adviser. "It's completely irresponsible to have the president meet with a radioactive writer and anti-Israel activist who has been shunned, alienated, and isolated by even the most left wing factions of the organized pro-Israel community."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Little more about Mr. Beinart need be said:

“For more than a half-century, anti-intellectualism has had a pretty good run in presidential politics. In fact, Republicans would never have gotten where they are without it.”
¯ Peter Beinart


Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2012 3:33 Comments || Top||

#2  President B.O. sat down yesterday with a cadre of far-left foreign policy writers

Never mind far-left.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2012 4:47 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2012-05-11
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Thu 2012-05-10
  Damascus bombings kill 40, wound 170: state TV
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  Annan Fears 'Civil War' Looming in Syria
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  Man wanted in USS Cole bombing killed in Yemen: tribal chief
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  Pro-Regime Gunmen Kill 12 'Qaida' Militants in Yemen
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  Suicide bomb blast hits hotel in Somalia, two MPs believed dead
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  'Egyptians thwart Iranian plot to kill Saudi envoy'
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