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FRENCH VOTERS WILL BE LAST TO KNOW PRESIDENT'S NAME
The Tocqueville Connection ^ | 5 May 2007 | staff

Posted on 05/05/2007 8:45:01 PM PDT by Cincinna

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To: Tulsa Ramjet

That’s hard to see. Could you please post a larger version?


21 posted on 05/05/2007 9:27:46 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Cincinna
here is her hand thing she does. a subliminal message of desiring victory for her impoverished disgruntled youth?
22 posted on 05/05/2007 9:29:59 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Cincinna

23 posted on 05/05/2007 9:32:01 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Cincinna
What balderdash, everyone within the orbit of Mars who doesn't have a hammer and sickle tatooed on their forehead already knows that Sark won handily.

Liberals are so stupid rocks are ashamed of them...

24 posted on 05/05/2007 9:34:30 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Cincinna

25 posted on 05/05/2007 9:36:36 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Grizzled Bear

I could but only her nostril would be present.

Sorry, I don’t know how to reduce the pic. The original had an explode button at the bottom and I thought I could pick the version that was largely reduced. hey, I’m a neophyte at this. any suggestions....besides not post if I don’t know what I’m doing?


26 posted on 05/05/2007 9:43:50 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: JasonC

Well, if she loses in France, I bet the Dems here would love to have her. Too bad they can’t.


27 posted on 05/05/2007 9:45:16 PM PDT by Laptop_Ron
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

I’ve never posted pictures here. There’s a thread called “HTML Sand box” with instructions. You’re allowed to “go crazy” there to practice fonts, styles and pictures.


28 posted on 05/05/2007 9:49:21 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Cincinna

from Wilkepedia, take it for what its worth:

“Ségolène Royal was born in the military base of Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal on 22 September 1953, the daughter of Hélène Dehaye and Jacques Royal, a former artillery officer and aide to the mayor of Chamagne (Vosges).

Her parents had eight children in nine years: Marie-Odette, Marie-Nicole, Gérard, Marie-Ségolène, Antoine, Paul, Henry and Sigisbert.

After high school, Marie-Ségolène was admitted to Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, an elite university, popularly called Sciences Po. In summer 1971, she was an au pair in Dublin, Ireland.[1] In 1972, at the age of 19, Ségolène sued her father because he refused to divorce her mother and pay alimony and child support to finance the children’s education. She won the case after many years in court, shortly before Jacques Royal died of lung cancer in 1981. Six of the eight children had refused to see him again at Ségolène’s insistence.[2]

Her cousin Anne-Christine Royal has been a candidate of the far-right Front National party at a local election in Bordeaux.[3]

Her brother Antoine named his and Ségolène’s brother Gérard Royal as the agent who placed the bomb that sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. [4] [5]. Other sources claims this statement is exaggerated and that Gérard was part of the logistics team.[6]

Ségolène Royal is a graduate of the elite École nationale d’administration (ENA) along with much of France’s political elite, and was in the same class as the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin.[7] Since the late 1970s, Ségolène Royal has been the private-life partner of François Hollande, currently first secretary of the French Socialist Party, whom she met at ENA. The couple have four children: Thomas (b. 1984), Clémence (b. 1985), Julien (b. 1987) and Flora (b. 1993). While not married, they are bound by the PACS (pacte civil de solidarité), which provides for a civil union between two adults, regardless of gender.”

Hey, at least she has a brother(Gérard Royal) and a cousin (Anne-Christine Royal) that may have a promising political career.


29 posted on 05/05/2007 9:52:25 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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Gérard Royal
Gérard Royal is the former agent of the French intelligence agency DGSE who is accused of being a Rainbow Warrior bomber. A long serving officer, who retired from the French Army with the rank of Colonel, Royal works in an “economic intelligence business”. He is the brother of French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal.

In 1985 Royal was a member of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) (”General Directorate of External Security”), implicated in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Since 1995 it had been public knowledge that Royal was one of the team of saboteurs. In September 2006, as his sister Ségolène became a candidate for the presidency, Gérard returned to media attention when his brother Antoine told Le Parisien that he had admitted to being the man who planted the bombs which killed Fernando Pereira.

Le Parisien quoted Antoine as saying “...he was called upon in 1985 to go to New Zealand, to Auckland Harbor, to sabotage the Rainbow Warrior. Later, he told me that it was him who planted the bomb on the Greenpeace ship”. However some French media, citing sources within the DGSE, have stated that Royal was merely the pilot of the inflatable boat carrying the bombers. Royal has refused to confirm or deny that he planted the bombs, but made a statement complaining of “harassment by the media”.

Pereira’s daughter and Greenpeace both called for the New Zealand government to demand the extradition of Royal to stand trial for the murder. But the government made clear that they considered the case as closed.
http://www.answers.com/topic/g-rard-royal


30 posted on 05/05/2007 9:54:52 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Grizzled Bear

thx


31 posted on 05/05/2007 9:55:52 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Cincinna

Yeah with the internet, this is a realistic option.....


32 posted on 05/05/2007 10:03:03 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

I hosted it through imageshack.us and resized it to 640 x 426

33 posted on 05/05/2007 10:03:22 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

Ref your post #26 - I could but only her nostril would be present.


Well; is it a good looking nostril?


34 posted on 05/05/2007 10:18:57 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear

I was counting his pores.


35 posted on 05/05/2007 10:23:32 PM PDT by bannie
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To: bannie

Ewwww!


36 posted on 05/05/2007 10:25:58 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear

Everyone *** needs *** a *** hobby.

;-p


37 posted on 05/05/2007 10:27:40 PM PDT by bannie
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To: EagleUSA

sure that the winner doesn’t do that?

-joke-


38 posted on 05/05/2007 10:27:54 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: Cincinna
I don't believe this. Like the French are going to keep a secret? Or not call up or email friends in other places? Or just get on the Internet to read the results?

Bosh. What, is there a Great Firewall Of France like there is in China?
39 posted on 05/05/2007 10:34:39 PM PDT by George W. Bush (Election Math For Dummies: GOP ÷ Rudi = Hillary)
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To: JasonC
Liberals are so stupid rocks are ashamed of them...

You know, I couldn't help thinking that would make a great tagline for you. Original. And so true.
40 posted on 05/05/2007 10:37:20 PM PDT by George W. Bush (Election Math For Dummies: GOP ÷ Rudi = Hillary)
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