Tourism ugly from lack of Americans

Universal Press Syndicate | 6-14-2003 | Tad Bartimus

[Dec31,1999]

ping.

[beckett]

[I] do not think they fell into the 'sick' classification.

Let me tell you why I disagree with you. First, he employed a transparently false justification for seducing the teenager (at most, according to Allen himself, 19 when they started the affair, but quite possibly as young 14, 15 or 16 when it started) by saying, "The heart wants what it wants," implying that one should always follow one's "heart" where sexual desire is concerned. He wanted his listeners to believe that he fell in love with a child, and that lust had nothing to do with it. He is a liar.

But something else has to be taken into account too, something even more damning, in my opinion. Soon-Yi had been in Mia Farrow's home for well over 10 years at the time the scandal erupted. She was closely bonded to the other children in the home and was considered by them as a sibling. In particular, a boy a few years younger than Soon-Yi named Moses looked up her, and thought of her as his sister. Woody Allen was in the process of adopting Moses at the same time he was banging the 14 year old boy's sister.

When Moses found out what his "Dad" had done he was devastated and enraged. I remember reading the NY Post story in which he expressed his anguish, saying "He knew she was my sister!"

That's why Allen is a creep and a slug, and, yes, a man with a "sick" mind. He dropped a nuclear bomb in the middle of that family, and hurt a lot of kids, just to satisfy his own lust for tender flesh.

There has been some payback though. His career never recovered, because even large numbers of people like me, who always liked his movies, have stopped going to them out of deep feelings of ambivalence about his artistic integrity. And he is stuck for the rest of his life with a plain looking woman who many say is something of a dullard, and whom I'm sure he doesn't really love, because to leave her would expose the craveness of his character to a degree that even he is unwilling to tolerate.

[Dec31,1999]

They don't miss us Americans, they miss American $$$$.

I laugh at their pain!

LOL! I fart in their general direction!

But seriously, we should nourish the Freedom-loving people in France. They do exist. It's just that they are losing elections. They are our brothers in liberty and need support.

[man of Yosemite]

Thanks for the great laugh.

[PatrioticAmerican]

France: Hillbilly Italians.

[LibKill]

But seriously, we should nourish the Freedom-loving people in France. They do exist. It's just that they are losing elections. They are our brothers in liberty and need support.

Interesting thought. I never heard much from, or about those folks, but if they are there they probably can use all the help they can get.

[Dec31,1999]

Not to mention that France has a veto vote in the UN, which Germany doesn't have.

Were it that Germany had one and threatened to vote against the action and done so, we would probably be bashing them as well.

[PoorMuttly]

They made their choice, now they're stuck with it. We're not ALL as spineless as our fortunately EX-president, the national Disgrace in Perpetuity.

Now they can continue to live in fear of their potentially violent immigrants...and eat inexpensive crow with them too.

Yum !

[Dec31,1999]

Well, Karl B, whom I have pinged to this thread, was one of them, but I think he was overwhelmed by the anti-French threads at that time.

My hope is that he, or other French Freedom lovers, of whom there are many, will join us here and continue the fight for Liberty.

It's not wise to cut off one's nose to spite one's face!

[cricket]

"The heart wants what it wants," implying that one should always follow one's "heart" where sexual desire is concerned. He wanted his listeners to believe that he fell in love with a child, and that lust had nothing to do with it. He is a liar."

. . .you do not have to convince me of Woody Allen's lack of judgement; lack of fairness; lack of moral perspective in his indiscriminate behavior.

My point was simply that all the things you mention are in fact, symptoms of being an amoral Liberal - New York/Hollywod, or otherwise. . ."the heart wants what it wants" being only one selfish dictum. . .

These people insist on playing by their own rules - and no one, least of all Mia should be surprised, shocked when suddenly, that behavior impinges on their ego or their home turf; these people have only the weakest moral legs to stand on. . .

As for the age; Mia was not much older when she married Frank Sinatra; albeit under different circumstances. . .

[Dec31,1999]

May I point out to you that we are always "this close" to having the same leadership as France in this country. Look at it this way: the French who are on our side need support. It would be our shame if we didn't help those on the side of Freedom in France, or ANY other nation. It's time for FreeRepublic.com to go international.

At this time, it behooves us to set the entire world free, least we perish. With the advent of modern technological weapons, we no longer have the advantage of distance to protect the Free world.

[Boot Hill]

"Phuque the Phrench"

France is the smegma under civilization's foreskin.

--Boot Hill

[beckett]

My hope is that he, or other French Freedom lovers, of whom there are many, will join us here and continue the fight for Liberty.

Did you read this symposium at FrontPage.com? Not a very optimistic outlook for the future of France.

[CathyRyan]

The president can say buy french but that is not go to make me do it.

[LibKill]

It's time for FreeRepublic.com to go international.

It already is, the internet does not stop at our borders. Anyone is free to join. It helps if they know english.

I do like the idea of exporting FReedom. Really.

[PoorMuttly]

You see, France...this is the World...

...and 2 ARE playing at this game now.

Words have consequences...especially when the stakes are human blood. If you HAD a "World" Trade Center, and had seen it reduced to screaming carnage...perhaps your smug, self-serving intellectuality would have benefited from the taste of it.

It is a life-changing experience to wipe the dust off of your shoes at home...and have your heart tell you that you should bring the tissue to the cemetary, since it contained the live-incinerated bodies of thousands of people, from all over the world.

One tried avoiding the thought of them being in our living lungs, 24 hours a day.

We are not amused by you. We tolerate you for the good of mankind, and the more noble souls still trapped among you.

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

The Statue of Liberty, offered by France to the United States in 1886, is a symbol of friendship that represents shared values and ideals.

Shared values and ideals? The U.S. and France? -- perhaps back in the 1950's and earlier, but no longer....

[Mogger]

Screw the French... and that includes the ones in Quebec.

By now we would have gone to Quebec at least 4 times this year, shopping and eating out.

Until their government and attitude changes, we will be staying south of the border.

[eleni121]

Italian wines are superior to the French

[grapeape]

When are the Frogs going to learn? The American Government is not boycotting anything French. George Bush is not either. The American "people" are boycotting everything French because we have had enough of Frances crap. This has been an individual descision made by free individuals based on our own individual feelings. You have no concept of that you will never get it. Especially if you were invaded and defeated 3 times in 90 years and you still didn't learn.