So...Macron seeks to avoid a civil war by catering to the muslims.  He's at war already and is either denying it or accepting it.

The opposition to Macon is as I mentioned in another threat, a far right Bimbo and a Putin Lover. She wants to take France out of Nato and not have them send anything to help the Ukrainians. She is into Putin for millions of bucks already. She should be taken out in a field and burnt at a stake and then wissed on and them buried in the sand at low tide. She a commie through and through.

Didn't France pull out of the military side of NATO in the mid 60s? The former underground RAF munitions depot at Fauld in Staffordshire was taken over for a few years in the mid/late 60s to store US munitions that had to be withdrawn from France due to their leaving the NATO military command, or something like that. 

An attendee of former President Donald Trump's Ohio rally on Saturday claimed that Princess Diana of Wales, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (often referred to as Jackie O.) and popstar Michael Jackson are "alive" and currently ruling the world.

Trump's rally at the Delaware County Fairgrounds is set to start at 7 p.m., with doors having opened earlier in the afternoon. Local media reported that Trump supporters flocked to the event from across the country.

Ahead of the event, Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) sent some of its correspondents out to interview those attending the rally. An RSBN reporter spoke with a small group of women holding cut-out photos of Trump's head, according to video from the network's live stream. One of the women wore a pink "Women for Trump" hat and a pink shirt featuring Jackson, Kennedy and Princess Diana.

The reporter then asked the woman for a detailed explanation, telling the group they looked "so cute."

"Right, so, living, living and we know living," the woman responded, pointing individually at each photo of the three deceased celebrities on her shirt. "Ruling the world—and you don't take down evil by being quiet or silent, right," she added. "So, people need to understand who they are. Do they look like them today? No."

The reporter interjected, asking, "You think Princess Diana's still alive?"

"Absolutely, 100 percent," the woman replied immediately. "Do you?" she asked.

"I didn't. But maybe you know something that I don't know," the reporter replied.

"Well, you know God speaks to us, right?" the woman answered. "There's ways that we can figure these things out."

Kennedy died in 1994, as did Princess Diana in 1997 and Jackson in 2009. While fringe conspiracy theories have been floated that they are still alive, there is no evidence to corroborate these bizarre claims. Unusual conspiracy theories have become a staple at Trump rallies and among some supporters of the former president.

And you wonder why some people should never be allowed to vote. This is what your Republican party has lowered it standards to.

Still got your Pink "Women for Trump" Hat, I see Shula.

Didn't France pull out of the military side of NATO in the mid 60s? The former underground RAF munitions depot at Fauld in Staffordshire was taken over for a few years in the mid/late 60s to store US munitions that had to be withdrawn from France due to their leaving the NATO military command, or something like that. 

Yes they did Mark and while on an exercise in a Base there i can see why. The whole Base and surrounding area was Moroccans. We sleep in a barracks that had a mattress cover fill with straw to sleep on and here is what their modern toilets looked like.

Lucky we brought our own arse wipe because the locals didn't seem to know what it was. All there military vehicles looked like they were left over from the first war. This is the same exercise my tank got run over by the tank in from of me. It's crew had a new young driver and the operator said to him I bet you don't know how to stall change yet do you? At that, young lad goes ahead and tries it going up the next steep hill and is suppose to wait until the tank can't go forward in 5 gear and is about to stall and then quicky change into first gear before it stalls. To make the story short, he didn't make it and the tank come back down backward and with no engine running he couldn't steer or stop. At the last second I dropped my seat and his tank went up and over ours ending up with his the 100gal fuel tank up at our crew commmander hatch. I looked up and all that I could see was the bottom side of his tank and the access plates that give you access to drain fuel or oil. My crew commander is yelling for me to answer him because he thought I was probably cut in half but I couldn't answer him because my headset were knocked off and I had dropped my hand mic somewhere down around my feet. Next I hear our operator from behind me saying, I think he's still alive because he's still moving.

It did knock both front fenders, driving and IR headlights and spare track off and luckly the main gun was over the back deck or that would have been bend all to hell for sure.

France was broke during this time Mark.

It would make a good film, with a touch of comedy thrown in. Although "only" a civil servant in the MoD I too have injuries sustained in service; I've put a staple in my thumb, fallen off a chair, and fallen off a bike that had no brakes so had to run into a bin to stop.  

luckly the main gun was over the back deck or that would have been bend all to hell for sure. Now if that's not a tankie talking! He's more worried about his phalic symbol up top than his phalic in the turret.

If you look at the tank picture I'm sitting in my hatch behind the left headlight. The other tank I don't think could have gone up any higher that the gun if it was in the forward position like that one.

Another time we were being escorted through a German town by a copper in his car. We get through and to the main highway again and he suddenly stops dead in front of me. I knew I couldn't stop so hauled on the right hand tiller bar and hit the highway guard rail. A car, it would have stopped but no me. The guard rail started streaming over the tank like wet ribbon. I took out a good 50 feet of it before I could get stopped. Think of a double tandum oil truck fully loaded trying to stop fast only using a VW manual hand brake. I did manage not to go straight through the guard rail though or I would have rolled the tank over after dropping 10 feet.

I have had a lot of near death experiences but nothing special about me other than I'm been very lucky.

A paper cut, you could have bleed to death and a bicycle with training wheels hitting a garbage can must have been scary for the owner of the garbage can anyway. Hope he wasn't carrying it.

I can't delete my first post with the spelling errors because I don't have the buttons to do it.

So until Art gets back from the local we all will have to live with it.

By the power invested in me by the almighty panjandrum Art I have done it. Or have I deleted the wrong one?

By the power invested in me by the almighty panjandrum Art I have done it. Or have I deleted the wrong one?

No you F'ed up and took the wrong one out and left the bad one in. Geez, where's my gun when I need it?

Still don't have use of the buttons or can I correct anything. Art being the owner has to do it.

He has to change me to PM like everyone else before I can do anything.

For Mark,

General De Gaulle and "Vive le Québec libre"

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By repeating the slogan of Québec independence movement, de Gaulle provoked a diplomatic incident that resulted in the cancellation of his visit, initiated an incredible campaign of French interference in the domestic affairs of Canada and, above all, lent his worldwide prestige to the Québec independence movement. A year after de Gaulle’s visit, René Lévesque founded the Parti Québécois and Canada would never be the same again.

Very rarely in the history of a country can we say that a single individual was instrumental to its preservation: Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln are examples of such heroism. Charles de Gaulle saved his country, not once, but twice. On 18 June 1940, with France collapsing before the Wehrmacht, de Gaulle, then a little-known general, refused to accept France's defeat and broadcast a “Call to Honour” from the BBC: “France,” de Gaulle declared, “has lost a battle, but it has not lost the war.” He went on to organize the Free France resistance, and his walk down the Champs-Élysées on the day Paris was liberated is one of the most famous scenes in French history. In 1958, this triumph was repeated when France again called on de Gaulle, then in retirement, to end the war in Algeria and to create the Fifth Republic.

When de Gaulle arrived in London in June 1940, he was befriended by Colonel Georges Vanier and his wife Pauline, probably the first Canadians he had ever met. Georges Vanier, later a governor general of Canada, was appointed by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to be the official Canadian representative with the French National Committee in London. In 1944, Vanier accompanied de Gaulle to Ottawa, where the Free French leader addressed a large and enthusiastic crowd outside Parliament, and in 1945, the French leader visited Canada again to obtain Canada's assistance for the reconstruction of France. Vanier and de Gaulle were so close that during a subsequent crisis in the formation of France's postwar government, de Gaulle told the Canadian ambassador that if the assembly vote went against him, he would want to go to Canada for a “rest.” Vanier got the Canadian government to quickly reply that it would facilitate any arrangements.

These happy Canadian memories, however, did not deter General de Gaulle in 1967. Since his return to power in France, he had settled the Algerian war, passed a constitution, built the French nuclear bomb, vetoed Britain's entry into the Common Market and withdrawn France's active participation in NATO. Canada was next on the agenda. Arriving by the cruiser Colbert in Québec City on 23 July 1967, de Gaulle was mobbed by enthusiastic crowds as his motorcade made its way to Montréal. The president noticed that some in the throng waved placards with the separatist slogan “Vive le Québec libre.”

De Gaulle was not even scheduled to speak that evening of the 24th, but as the people chanted “we want de Gaulle,” the president told Mayor Jean Drapeau: “I have to speak to those people who are calling for me.”

No one knows to this day if his message was premeditated or whether he was overtaken by the emotion of the day. “Vive le Québec,” he concluded, and then after a long pause, “libre.” The crowd was silent for an instant, not believing that the general had uttered the fateful phrase. Then they burst into frenzied applause and de Gaulle strode away, confident once again he had made history.

Prime Minister Pearson went on television to tell de Gaulle that his statements were “unacceptable to the Canadian people.” The newly appointed minister of Justice, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, asked what the French reaction would be if a Canadian prime minister shouted “Brittany to the Bretons!” After these rebukes, de Gaulle cut short his trip and went home. Madame Vanier realized to her distress that her old friend felt no gratitude for past help. Prior to de Gaulle's celebrated trip, she had sent him a single message: “1940.”

General de Gaulle’s statement would mark — and tarnish — relations between France and Canada for a long time to come. In many respects, his July 1967 visit had a profound impact on the Québec nationalism of that era. Tributes to de Gaulle’s visit can still be found in the province’s place names, various commemorative events and monuments erected in his honour.

So...Macron seeks to avoid a civil war by catering to the muslims.  He's at war already and is either denying it or accepting it.

I wouldn't go that far Shula but a lot of the French holding were in places like North Africa and they first allowed a lot of muslims in from there. I mentioned in another post that their military had a lot of Moroccans in it at that base I was in. I guess this was a way of building up there army after their military had been down scaled. In the last few years though the some muslims in France have become very violent with bombs and other attacks and probably supported by muslim group from the middle east. The French though have done a fair job of weeded a lot of the extreme ones out, so no civil war in the cards.They wouldn't put up with it.

I've said this before, the French have been fighting Muslim terrorists in West Africa for years largely unnoticed by the world. 

Republican campaign group has targeted Kevin McCarthy with billboard ads that call on the GOP House Minority Leader to "stop lying" about January 6.

The Republican Accountability Project (RAP), a conservative anti-Donald Trump group, shared a photo of one of the billboards in a Tuesday Twitter post that criticized the Republican leader.

"We've heard the tapes, Kevin. Stop lying about January 6th," the billboard read. According to RAP, several billboards targeting McCarthy went up around California's 23rd congressional district, which is represented by the GOP leader.

Since being shared on Tuesday, the post has attracted some 26,000 likes and more than 5,870 retweets.

The billboard refers to a recording of a January 10, 2021 meeting where McCarthy appears to consider calling on then-President Donald Trump to resign from office.

Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin of The New York Times reported McCarthy had debated making the call following the storming of the Capitol on January 6 last year.