July 14, 2002
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité encore!
I still have a great love for France, despite their recent delusions and their rash of Anti-Semetic attacks, so in the spirit of Quatorze Juillet, Vive La France--Forget the EU!
Don't know if you know this, but the Bastille Day festivities are sponsored by the Pompiers or Firemen of Paris and this year's parade has been dedicated to the FDNY and their victims of 9/11. A group of the victims' families and FDNY personnel have been the guests of honor in France for this reason.
These are French children posing by an FDNY firetruck yesterday that was going to be featured in today's parade.
Merci!
[On a darker note, they caught a gunman on the parade route trying to take a shot at Jacques Chirac, but here's the shocker: he doesn't look like an Arab male!
Update: But he *is* a Neo-Nazi, which I think is like being an honorary Arab Muslim male.]
