I posted a ? about Bush being 1 of the worst presidents ever. Most peeps were quick to bash me or atleast half. Am I wrong or are these peeps probush so much or die hard christians that cant see what has happened? If peeps are on Wall Street\ Mortgage\Real Estate business most have lost money significantly. Its pretty bad when AIG the worlds largest mtg insurance\ loan company has lost over 82 mill in this last 2 quarters and 3 of the biggest french banks have temporarily froze lending money to US.Most businesses have suffered not all n we are wasting so much money n good Americans with this war.We should be putting money in USA instead of not finding weapons of mass destruction n hunting down a guy on a camel while Al Qaidea is stronger than ever not to find him. We could have spent more mo n Louisiana n doing what we had to do like getting Saddem out as time needed instead of he n his rich oil friends n paying Canseco years ago to do steroids n now he wants to help the MLB.Idiot?YorN

We need to chastise them! Complain to the management, in the stores where you shop. Write, call, fax or email their corporate offices. Complain to local, state and national governance. Tell them that they are undermining the unity of our county by promoting the divisive use of a second language. Point out the problems that Canada has with the French speaking province of Quebec. Tell them how unhappy you are that they have chosen to pander to the Hispanic community. A community that is emboldened and supported by ALL the major national Hispanic organizations who’s racist agenda includes, incessantly and vehemently: Endorsing and promoting open borders and the massive illegal Hispanic invasion of our country; while constantly and arrogantly promoting bi-lingualism!

For those whiners and complainers, many of which get FREE medical care, it would seem that the BEST solution to the lack of FREE interpreters, . . . is to learn English! Or . . . let’s see some of those ‘family values’ that George Bush claims the Hispanics have, and have them scout up a family member, etc., to help translate. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see how quickly they would come up with someone to help them, if they had to PAY for their translating services. Just think . . . the cost of those services provided FREE to them, are then added to YOUR medical bills the next time you need medical care. Our country has regularly capitulated to Hispanic demands which will forever alter our nation’s health, social, political, law-enforcement, economic and educational institutions, in much than same manner as our government, banks and shopping malls have already done! When will Americans start fighting back and DOING something to stop the insanity? Only you know!

i got a new puppy a french mastif several months ago well 7 monts ago to be exact and about 3 months ago he started giving off a stinkey smell than his skin started flaking reall bad along with that came gooey stuff in his ears and hair loss,so i brought him to the vet and about $395.00 dollars later they told me he has allergies and if the antibiotics they gave me dont work i would have to bring him to a doggy allergist well i have a very high mortgage and cannot afford a doggy allergist let alone trying to locate one in my area!!! i didnot even know they existed well they DO. is there someone out ther that has a dog with these same problems and if so can you plzzzzzz help me with mine without spending hundreds of dollars i mean he is so worth it hes my second baby but i donty have it to spend it thanks…

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A friend owns a property in France which is used as a holiday home but also occasionally let. Tax must be paid in France on any rental income earned but he took a mortgage on his own home in this country to buy the house in France. Does anyone know if the French taxman will allow the interest being charged on the loan in the UK to be set against the rental income earned for taxation purposes?

New Words for 2007

* TESTICULATING.
Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.

* BLAMESTORMING.
Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

* SEAGULL MANAGER.
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

* ASSMOSIS.
The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

* SALMON DAY.
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

* CUBE FARM.
An office filled with cubicles.

* PRAIRIE DOGGING.
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on. (This also applies toapplause for a promotion because there may be cake.)

* SITCOMs.
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with thekids or start a “home business”.

* SINBAD.
Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

* AEROPLANE BLONDE.
One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a ‘black box’.

* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

* ADMINISPHERE.
The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the “adminisphere” are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded “administrivia” – needless paperwork and processes.

* 404.
Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found” meaning that the requested document could not be located.

* OH – NO SECOND.
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you’ve hit ‘reply all’).

* JOHNNY-NO-STARS.
A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The ‘no-stars’ comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.

* GOING FOR A McSHIT.
Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you’re just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you’ll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.

* MILLENNIUM DOMES.
The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there’s actually naught in there worth seeing.

* AUSSIE KISS.
Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.

* GREYHOUND.
A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.

* SALAD DODGER.
An excellent phrase for an overweight person.

* SWAMP-DONKEY
A deeply unattractive person.

* MONKEY BATH.
A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: “Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!”.

* MYSTERY BUS.
The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you’re in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.

* MYSTERY TAXI.
The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bedinstead.

* BEER COAT.
The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3:00am.

* BEER COMPASS.
The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you’re too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you’ve come from.

* BREAKING THE SEAL.
Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.

* TART FUEL.
Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.

* PICASSO BUM.
A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she’s got 4 buttocks

Begin with the United States of America., the greatest force for freedom and change in history. We, the American people, are humankind’s pioneers. Our ancestors cultivated a natural wilderness. Americans of the twenty-first century confront a wilderness of flesh and blood in a world terrified by the virtues that we treasure, from religious tolerance to the rule of law, from the dignity of every man and woman to the rejection of hereditary power. Erupting with freedom, America challenges the world. We expose lies that justified thousands of years of tyrannies, proving that birth need not determine destiny. We demonstrate freedoms potential for all. And those we robbed of authority will never forgive us.
Each day we expand the frontiers of human possibility. Those who insist on limits are our enemies. It is their choice, not ours. The great struggle of the twenty-first century will rage between those, led by America, who believe that men and women have the right to shape their own lives, and those who believe themselves entitled to shape the lives of others. We will prevail, but the rearguard actions fought on behalf of decayed traditions and murderous beliefs will rage beyond our lifetimes.
Without the sacrifices of our forebears, most human beings – perhaps all – would live under tyranny. Without teh Americans of today and our English speaking brethren, dictators would again rise without hindrance. Because of us, freedom an dthe dignity of the common man and woman have become the ideal of a reordered humanity. We have lifted the weight of history from the shoulders of many millions.
And we are far from finished.

Our country is a force for good without precedent. We embody the revolutionary proposition that men and women can govern themselves from below, to the benefit of all, instead of being governed from above, to the benefit of few. Our pride does not rely upon purity of blood or religious monoploy, but uopn what multiple races and creeds have built with sweat and sacrifice. Our ancestors were not children of privilege,but men and women who refused to accept the limits of the lands they left behind. The new Americans who arrive to increase our strength are the spiritual kindred of teh earliest colonists. Old and new, Americans rejected the saftey of submission for a chance to stride upright. And we have learned to live together without hatred, if not without passing rancor. It is an achievement few other lands can claim – and none could claim it but for our example.

Our progress has not been easy. Some of our ancestors fled chains. Othewrs arrived in chains. Some wore chains as they lived upon our soil. Our past has been imperfect. But unlike others, we do not deny our mistakes. We do not embrace history as an excuse for continued failure.
That alone sets us apart from the rest of the world.
When Americans stumble, we get back up. We do not wallow in a self-made mire and call it the will of God or the hand of fate. To err may be human, but to roll up your sleeves and fix what went wrong is American. We bear with us all the faults humanity can manifest. But we do not surrender to those faults. While others cling to past glories, we know that our greatest days still lay ahead.

For all the complaints we must bear about America -the price of our success and the product of human jealousy – only imagine what this world would be like without us. Some may answer that proposition smugly, mocking us from foreign realms of failure. But their children line up by the millions to apply for U.S. Visas. And those who complain about their American birthright rarely leave to live their lives abroad.
All men and women dream. Americans forge their dreams into reality

We are not hated for what we have done to others, but for what we have done for ourselves. The example of our success is humiliating and bitter to all those who cling to traditions our power reveals as inadequate. Even the American capacity for hard work excites the hostility not only of our enemies , but of fair weather allies. Perhaps the cruelest thing European governments have done to their citizens over the past half century has been to destroy the sense that work fullfills a life. An unemployment payment is no substitute for a job, and welfare for the able robs human beings of their dignity, creating moral slaves. Most Americans ,on the other hand, cannot imagine a life without work. We win the lottery, then get back behind the wheel of the delivery truck. Our passion for work and achievement is a tremendous source of our strength.
As an American citizen, I see quiet heroism in the parent who labors at a grinding job, year after year, in order to raise a family, in the common citizen who will never enjoy celebrity or financial wealth, but whose steadiness and moral intergrity make this country go. America has no greater reserve of strength than the honest man or woman who, instead of scheming to beat the system, keeps that sytem running day after day.

Of course few of those Americans see themselves as revolutionaries. Yet we live in the most revolutionary society in history. We upset oppressivetraditions that endured, unchallenged, for millennia. Defiantly, we created new possibilites. The average American with an SSN, a drivers license , and a mortgage is a revolutionary to a degree that reveals Karl Marx and Che Guevara as dilettantes. While revolutionaries elsewhere sought to impose arid philosophies on humankind – at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives – we created a perpetual revolution of the people, by the people, and for the people.

The American Revolution isn’t a single event summed up by the date 1776. Our revolution began when the first colonists arrived with their backs turned to an old, limiting world and began to carve a new Jerusalem from virgin timber. Our revolution never stopped – even our Civil War was a revolutionary struggle, the only civil war ever fought to free a never enfranchised, powerless group. We have changed nearly every aspect of the social and economic orders that prevailed fo rcenturies. An dour openess to the new threatens those whose allegiance lies with the barren, dying order – even within our own population. As we pioneer change each day of our lives, those who fear and reject change yearn to stop us, whether we speak of Islamic terrorists in love with a punitive god, French presidents embittered by the loss of status for which their citizens lacked the courage to fight, or the dwindling ranks of domestic bigots.

The distance between us and the rest of the world is growing greater, not lessening.

Consider how much has changed in a half century of American life, in this great age of revolutions, and you begin to understand how threatening our society appears to those who live their lives in thrall to yesterday..

May God continue to Bless America.

New Words for 2008

SALAD DODGER. An excellent phrase for an overweight person.

SWAMP-DONKEY A deeply unattractive person.

TESTICULATING. Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.

BLAMESTORMING. Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a Project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY. The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

CUBE FARM. An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING. When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)

SITCOMs. Single Income, Two Children, and Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a “home business”.

SINBAD. Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the “adminisphere” are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded “administrivia” – needless paperwork and processes.

404. Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found” meaning that the requested document could not be located.

AUSSIE KISS. Similar to a French kiss, but given down under.

OH – NO SECOND. That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you’ve hit ‘reply all’.)

GREYHOUND. A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.

MILLENNIUM DOMES. The contents of a Wonder bra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there’s actually nothing in there worth seeing.

MONKEY BATH. A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: “Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!”

MYSTERY BUS. The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you’re in the Toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.

MYSTERY TAXI. The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bed instead.

BEER COAT. The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3:00am.

BEER COMPASS. The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you’re too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you’ve come from.

TART FUEL. Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.

can someone offer us advice, preferably someone who has done the move, my wife and i are still in the production stage… we are thinking of going there in march for two weeks just to get a feel what it is like. How easy is it to buy a property there? would it be easy to sell our house in the uk and then get a mortgage in France. I ran into dept on a business i once run and picked up a few CCJ’s, would this cause problems in getting a mortgage in France? I have three children 14, 8 and 2 would it be easy for them to adapt to french life? what about school?…I am sorry for all these questions that is why it will be ideal for someone who has done the move to answer. Cheers

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http://www.expatica.com/fr/articles/news/Punish-those-responsible-for-global-crisis_-Sarkozy.html

Tue Sep 23, 4:04 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Those responsible for the crisis that has swept global financial markets should be punished, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said overnight in his first reaction to the latest bout of economic turmoil.

In an acceptance speech at an award ceremony attended by U.S. and French business leaders, Sarkozy called for the “truth” on the crisis to be uncovered.

“Today, millions of people across the world fear for their savings, for their apartment, for the funds they have put in banks. It is our duty to give them clear answers,” he said.

“Who is responsible for this disaster? May those who are responsible be punished and held accountable,” he said hours before he was due to give a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

The U.S. government has unveiled a $700 billion bailout package for Wall Street firms to rid them of the toxic mortgage-related debt which felled investment bank Lehman Brothers and threatens to wreak further financial havoc.

The plan, which has yet to be approved by Congress, has been criticized by some observers, who argue that it is unfair for the bankers who sparked the crisis not to bear the full brunt of its consequences.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, however, argues that his bailout plan will prove cheaper for taxpayers than leaving companies to suffer the cost of the crisis themselves.

Sarkozy’s comments earned him a lukewarm reaction from the members of the business community who had paid $1,500 to $75,000 each to see Sarkozy receive a “humanitarian award” at a black-tie gala event and eat a light meal.

The French president is due to give an economic speech on Thursday, in which he is expected to speak at greater length on the market turmoil and outline elements of the 2009 draft budget, which will be unveiled the following day.

(Reporting by Emmanuel Jarry; writing by Francois Murphy, editing by Mike Peacock)
Of course he’s not wrong. I think it’s the first time I ever agree with him! When I heard the news I told my husband “il lui a poussé des coui*les ou quoi?!?”.

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