SHAWMUT: White Sale

Friday, September 21, 2007

White Sale

It's not unreasonable to notice an impulse of France to assert herself after decades of playing varsity dogdeball. There's more than one element in France that would like the honor of representing France in the large field of Weltpolitik and that is its military. Long constrained, since the days of deGaulle, and manipulated into a marginal force of the UN along with Fiji and/or Ecuador; what were its resources in weaponry, were quite often bartered off for goals never realized, than employed in any military initiatives. Now remember, this is a well trained force of French army and naval elements (not to be mistaken with the Foreign Legion) with all the allegiance from any soldier to his homeland. This is also a force that has been missed in the in the confraternity of democratic nations.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,506396,00.html

Economically, France is a ship-wreck. Perhaps they could sell their former banners at the next Democratic Convention. Think about, "White Sale - Sheets waved at Dien Bien Phu, Algiers and PAris suburbs and slept on by John Kerry."

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"Americana"

With no due respect:
I use the term 'Americana' quite frequently. It's that crowd I refer to who take great inspiration in articles they find in months-old magazines left in laundromats. It's often written by a waning celebrity thirteen-steps-short-of-twelve who's been 'in recovery' for two months (this time). Sometimes it’s written by not even a has-been, but by a would-be who succeeded in becoming a might-have-been. Dramatically, they would assign an element of guilt to others over war, trees, whales, rutting goats, and would impose on anyone in hearing, sight or sense, their sense of superiority as being the only people eligible of making judgements. Some will have made that achievement of higher education. (A fewer number of observers might ask; "Higher than what?")
They'll be found following the lemmings who want to pay slavery reparations or buy $500 tickets for a 'Stonewall Minute' gay rights dinner. They believe in no-score sports, competition is seen a form of atavistic dysfunction, and they believe every issue can be solved by becoming add-water'n-stir victims or plaintiffs in discrimination suits. This specie is sterilized from perspective and can be programmed to vote. They don't formulate opinions based upon facts, but upon opinions of others they would emulate in style, dress, linguistics, glossies or the canned humor of late-nite TV - depending on how the late nite host is styled, dressed, speaks, etc.).They'll slip that magazine into their dried wear, never referring to again; that thunderclap of revelation no longer even an echo. To even remember to review it again it would exceed the capability of their attention span. Their sense of poignancy oxidizes with each breath. That magazine will balance an uneven table. These are the people, who, when led to the font of knowledge, will only gargle.