The Champagne Squadron
Come on. They have to expect us to laugh at that! Don’t they?
DVIDS
KABUL, Afghanistan – The first of six Mirage aircraft from 2-3 Champagne Squadron, French Expeditionary Air Group, landed at Kandahar Airfield recently.
The squadron, which is relocating from its former detachment base at Dushanbe Airport, Tajikistan, will now have greater capability to [...]

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I cannot be certain but I suspect that this news release’s author did not intend the irony I find in the bolded paragraph.
By U.S. Army Pfc. Melissa M. Escobar, 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
JALALABAD AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, March 20, 2007 — When the first six soldiers from the medical team with C Company, 710th [...]

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Ah, the summer of 1944. I remember it well. The French countryside was alive with the sounds of birds and turning coats. Flowering baskets and collaborators hung from every lamp post. And a beautiful young woman named Lilli Marlene bade a tearful farewell to her beloved Otto, and prepared to welcome her beloved Hank, just as her mother had a generation before.

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Congrats to my brother on eleven years of marriage.
Oh, yeah. It’s also a holiday in France. They celebrate the capture of a nearly vacant prison by an unruely mob. Huge victory.

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We had snow today in Rochester, the first real snow of the season. Not enough to accumulate, but it may overnight.
I still remain disgusted and dismayed about the actions of the Senate Republican leadership. What’s worse, they don’t seem to realize that they’re trampling all over their base.
My appendix seems to be cranky again. I [...]

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Glenn Reynolds notes perhaps the most apt commentary on the rioting in France, from Jim Dunnigan at Strategy Page.
Thus, the street violence is partly a lark, because the kids know the cops are not going to use lethal force, and anyone who gets caught will, at worst, do maybe a year in the slammer (for [...]

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The French government has finally reacted to the rioting. If the rioters don’t stop, the French will make them stay home. You know, kinda like a time-out.

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Recall, even the Nazis wouldn’t burn Paris.
Let’s face it, it’s a horrible experience for the French, but the Bloods and the Crips are laughing. These aren’t riots. Nobody gets killed. Blocks of buildings aren’t going up in smoke. Even when they have civil revolts, the French can’t quite measure up.
Oh, yes, I forgot, The never-ending [...]

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Usually the French don’t dress up for lovemaking.

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As the French celebrate the storming of an empty prison by the wretched refuse of their teeming shore, I feel bound to make a call that I have made before.
It’s time for a change in government in France. Time for the Sixth Republic.
The French change republics as often as they change underwear. Why should they [...]

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