I've had it with those French

NY Daily News ^ | July 5 2004 | Bill O'Reilly

[snopercod]

Boycott their products, services, companies and don't go on vacation to their $hitty country.


French Products to Buycott

Make it a lifestyle to avoid French products or products made by what appear to be a non French company in America. The reality is that many of these companies like Wild Turkey are owned by the French.

Let them fear the American Street---our combined wallets.

"France has burned too many bridges!"

Lets keep burning those bridges that the slimey and worthless frogs keep trying to build post Iraq.

$crew the $limey Frogs with a Boycott and no vacations in Slimey Frog Land!


French Products to Buycott

We can resist their wines which usually come in behind the good Napa Valley Wines and Australian wines in blind tasting without French Judges like in the Winter Olympics.

We can do without French Products and services for the rest of this decade. Here is a list of French companies and their products to avoid for the rest of this decade. Please keep this list and send it to your relatives, friends and fellow conservatives via e and snail mail!

*New additions to the list.

Air France

Air Liquide

Airbus

Alcatel - Based in Paris France, Provider of communications equipment, including ADSL equipment, terrestrial and submarine optical networks, public switching, fixed wireless access and intelligent networks.


Allegra (Allergy Medication) - Produced by Aventis Pharmaceuticals based in Strasbourg, France

Aqualung (Including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest)

AXA Advisors

*Bacou-Dalloz-Makes Industrial protective devices

Bank of the West - Owned by BNP Paribas

Beneteau (boats)

BF Goodrich - Owned by Michelin

BIC (Razors, Pens & Lighters) - Started in 1945 by Marcel Bich. Originally based just outside of Paris. Began trading on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1972. 40.5% Publicly traded. Bich family still owns 33.5%.

Biotherm (Cosmetics)

Black Bush

Bollinger (Champagne)

*Browning Firearms**

Car & Driver Magazine

Cartier

Chanel

Chivas Regal (Scotch)

Christian Dior

Club Med (Vacations) - Owned in part by Paris based CDC (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations)

Culligan (owned by Vivendi)

Dannon (Yogurt & Dairy Foods)

*Danone -Lea and Perrin, Evian and other food/water

*Decatholon Super Sport Stores or MVP Sport Stores*

* Dassault Systemes-(CATIA design software)*

DKNY - LVMH acquired 100% of Gabrielle Studio Inc., the privately owned licenser of Donna Karan trademarks back in 2001.

*DMC THREADS

Dom Perignon

Durand Crystal

Elle Magazine

*Emile Henry French Cookware

*Enertec makes high speed recorders used in Recon aircraft p>Essilor Optical Products

*Essilon- Varilux Progressive Lenses for eye glasses

Evian

Fina Oil - Billions invested in Iraqi Oil fields -FINA GAS STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES ARE NOT FRENCH-OWNED AND ARE NOT PART OF TOTAL-ELF-FINA ... FINA GAS STATIONS ARE OWNED BY ALON ISRAEL OIL COMPANY ..

First Hawaiian Bank

George Magazine

Givenchy

*Grey Goose Vodka

*GroupeSEB owns Krups, Moulinex, Roweta and Tefal Cookware

*Groupe Shneider, owner of Modicon and Square D

*Guerlain Fragrances

*Hachette Filipacchi owner publisher of many magazines sold in the USA. See the list below:***

Hennessy

Houghton Mifflin (books) International Herald Tribune - 181 ave Charles-de-Gaulle - F-92521 Neuilly - FRSource:World Business Council for Sustainable Development '00 [Domain Registration], [Corporate Profile]

Jacobs Creek - Owned by Pernod Ricard since 1989

Jameson (whiskey Owned by Pernod Ricard )

Jerry Springer (talk show)

Krups

****Lagardere****

Lancome

*Lea & Perrins a product of Danon

Le Creuset (Cookware)

L'Oreal (Health & Beauty Products)

Louis Vuitton

Marie Claire

Martel Cognac

Maybelline

Méphisto (Footwear & Apparel)

Michelin (Tires & Auto Parts) - Their phone number is: (33) 1 45 66 15 53 in France

Mikasa Crystal and Glass (purchased by ARC int'l in 2001)

Moet (Champagne)

Motel 6 - 33, Avenue du Maine- 75755 Paris Cedex 15 France

Motown Records

MP3.com

Mumms (Champagne)

Nissan (Cars) - Majority owned by Renault

Nivea

Normany Butter

Parents Magazine

*Perrier

Peugeot (Automobiles) - Pronounced "Pooh Joe", must be French

Pierre Cardin

Playstation Magazine

ProScan - Owned by Thomson Electronics, France

Publicis Group (Including: Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising)

RCA (televisions & electronics) - Owned by Thomson Electronics, France

Red Magazine

Red Roof Inns - Owned by the Accor group based in France

Renault (Automobiles) major owner of Nissan

Road & Track Magazine

Roquefort Cheese - All Roquefort cheese is made in France

Rowenta (Toasters, Irons, Coffee makers, etc)

Royal Canadian

Salomon (Skis)

Seagram's Gin

Sierra Software and Computer Games

*Sodexho Alliance* French Food Caterer for the US Marines

Sofitel (Hotels) - Owned by the Accor group based in France

Sparkletts (Water) - Owned by Danone, based in France

Spencer Gifts

Sundance Channel

Taylor Made (Golf)

Technicolor

T-Fal (Kitchenware)

The Glenlivet (Scotch) *Top Tobacco - Dist. by Republic Tobacco L.P., Glenview IL, made in France

UbiSoft (Computer Games)

Uniroyal

Uniroyal Tires - Owned by Michelin

Universal Studios (Music, Movies & Theme Parks) -

Universal Studios is owned by Vivendi-Universal, headquartered in Paris France

USFilter

Veritas Group

Veuve Clicquot Champagne

Vittel

Vivendi - Vivendi Headquarters, Paris France

Wild Turkey (bourbon)

*Winchester Firearms (US Repeating Arms)**

Woman's Day Magazine

Yoplait - France-based Sodiaal owns a 50% stake of Yoplait

Yves Saint Laurent

*Yves Rocher Cosmetics

*ZigZag (tobacco papers and roller products)*

Zodiac Inflatable Boats

*New additions to the list thanks to Freepers. If you have an addition, Freepmail me with the URL showing French ownership.

** Sad news but these two companies are owned by the Belgian Company Herstal, (French Light)

***List of 18 magazines sold in USA by Hachette Filipacchi with an estimated 50 million readers: American Photo, Boating, Car Stereo Review's Mobile Entertainment, Cycle World, ELLE Decor, ELLEgirl, Flying, Home, Metropolitan Home, Popular Photography, Premiere, Sound & Vision, Travel Holiday, Woman's Day Woman's Day Special Interest Publications.

****Lagardere owns the Virgin Megastore group in France, which it bought from Richard Branson three years ago. Its Hachette media division publishes a battery of magazines including Elle , see *** Hachette Filipacchi above. Lagardere also has a stake in the Airbus manufacturing operation. The company is capitalised at over €5bn.


41 posted on 04/16/2004 1:37:16 PM EDT by Grampa Dave (America can't afford a 9/10 John F'onda al Querry after 9/11.)

[Lord_Baltar]

Snoper, you'd better take Universal Studios off, it's not owned by Vivendi any more

[Arpege92]

"You Americans are all terrorists."

And you French Frogs are all unclean cowards, void of any morals and an easy target for any half-a$$ country to attack. Sleep well Chirac!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks Snopercod!

[Grampa Dave]

NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment have joined together to become NBC Universal, one of the world's preeminent media companies. NBC Universal is a group of highly skilled and motivated people focused on developing, producing and marketing the highest quality entertainment, news and sports programming, and location-based entertainment experiences, on a global basis. We own and operate the No. 1 broadcast television network, a fast-growing Spanish-language broadcast network, a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment cable networks, premier motion picture company and television production studios, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks and resorts.

NBC Universal is "Great People Doing Great Things." We invite you to explore our universe of career opportunities. If you're ambitious, passionate, and motivated by fresh and relevant ideas, you could play a role in realizing the extraordinary NBC Universal vision.

[Grampa Dave]

The link below sheds some insight to the criminal/former head of la V:

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/sec/secvivendi122303cmp.pdf

[snopercod]

Just a reminder that Air Liquide provides all the liquid Nitrogen for the space shuttle program at KSC. They have a big plant right outside the South gate.

[jim macomber]

Posted this earlier but just now it occurred to me it might be of interest to some of you familiar with my books, too. Takes place in a section of the book about a Matsen mission in WWII Yugoslavia.
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What follows is an excerpt from my third novel, "A Grave Breach":

"Matsen and his team, known as A Force, knew about the Muslim Handschar Division. He had even heard that a second Muslim SS division was being formed. It is not widely known or at least dwelt upon that during World War II, many if not most of the occupied nations and territories raised and fielded military units to fight on the side of the Nazis. Plenty of people have heard the stories of the Baltic divisions made up of Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, who’d fought for the Nazis. And there were Poles and Ukrainians in large numbers. And the Croats, of course. But there were also something like 15,000 Serbs, too. In addition, though, there were also Danes and Swedes and Norwegians and Finns - even Russians. And surprising to many, 50,000 Dutch and of course the infamous Tri-Color Legion also known as the Charlemagne Division of the SS. Made up of thousands of Frenchman fighting for Hitler. Some to the death in the Battle of Berlin in April 1945.
Contrast this with the “British Free Corps” also know as the SS Legion of St. George. The German military authorities particularly wanted to raise a unit made up of turned British POW’s and mounted a recruiting campaign consisting of offers of various and sundry enticements including direct payments of cash and the recurring company of prostitutes. The Nazi’s were rewarded for their efforts with the acceptance of their emoluments by no less than 30 enlisted men and a single officer who was shortly thereafter diagnosed as schizophrenic by the Germans themselves and repatriated against his will to the British. While the existence if not the reality of the St. George Legion had some propaganda value, that was the extent of its contribution and none of the members ever saw combat. Indeed, it is reputed that the Germans saw the St. George Legion as so untrustworthy that it was kept out of combat by direct order. 30 British misfits and 1 psychotic lieutenant as opposed to thousands of Frenchmen willing to fight and die for the monster who’d raped their own country. Apparently, some things never change." (C)

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for this reply and post!

"The German military authorities particularly wanted to raise a unit made up of turned British POW’s and mounted a recruiting campaign consisting of offers of various and sundry enticements including direct payments of cash and the recurring company of prostitutes. The Nazi’s were rewarded for their efforts with the acceptance of their emoluments by no less than 30 enlisted men and a single officer who was shortly thereafter diagnosed as schizophrenic by the Germans themselves and repatriated against his will to the British. While the existence if not the reality of the St. George Legion had some propaganda value, that was the extent of its contribution and none of the members ever saw combat. Indeed, it is reputed that the Germans saw the St. George Legion as so untrustworthy that it was kept out of combat by direct order. 30 British misfits and 1 psychotic lieutenant as opposed to thousands of Frenchmen willing to fight and die for the monster who’d raped their own country. Apparently, some things never change." (C)

My Dad was a WWI vet. He was injured in accident and broke his back and never got to France. However, many of his friends did. They came back after WWI hating the French.

My Dad had a couple of younger cousins who served in France in WWII, one came back with a metal plate replacing part of his skull. I remember my Dad and his cousins discussing the French when I was growing up.

I could never understatnd their hatred of the French until the past couple of decades.

As you noted, some things never seem to change.

[Alamo-Girl]

Kudos, jim macomber! Thank you so much for the excerpt!!!

[MEG33]

Thanks for a history lesson...and the ping...I had no idea there were so many fighting with the Germans.

[windchime]

Bump!

[Tailback]

Read the book "Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. He was a Frenchman that joined the German Army and ended up in the SS. He survived the war (apparently by hiding in the nearest hole while everyone else fought) and returned to France.

[dfwgator]

Welcome to the party, Bill.

[jim macomber]

Growing up in a 3rd floor tenement in Fall River, Massachusetts, our landlord downstairs was a French Canadian who'd lost both his legs fighting in the US Army in WWII.
At some point as I was growing up, I came to know how much, as odd as it seemed, he, too, hated the French. Never got the details of why, though.

[jim macomber]

Thanks. It is history - and it's accurate - and part of a larger story.

[sarasota]

Thanks for the ping, Jim. Incredible details.

[sarasota]

Yeah, that's right you Paris gasbag. Why do they come here and spill their venom on our streets?

[sarasota]

That's brilliant. I salute you!

[sarasota]

The details probably go something like this: his "countrymen" left him to die.