This is an important point because the French are surely quite
Francophillic in the way they raise their oui-ones (Get it? Get

The French taught children in their colonies in Africa that they

the descendants of the Gauls. The French start really early with the
"France is great" stuff. Look at the fights we have today over such
things as school prayer and high-school curricula. Would you want

Clintons and the Children's Defense Fund being the people in charge

imprinting values on your three-year-olds? It cuts both ways;

the howling from the Left if conservatives ran the show. "Yes, Billy
that's an American flag, you should love it and honor it."

THE FRENCH, THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
AND SHOULD NOT BE USED AS ROLE MODELS

So lo and behold: Hillary Clinton thinks we should emulate the French
way of raising our kids. In her book, It Takes a Village, and in an
op-ed she wrote for the New York Times in 1990, Mrs. Clinton sings the
praises of the French child-care system. Whether she still holds these
views is impossible to tell, as she has been stripping herself of her
husband's positions the way her husband might strip off his pants at
the intern pool.

But assuming she does, here is what she thinks. The French are great
because they spend a billion-zillion francs (which should be about
$38.95 but is actually quite a bit of schmundo) on day care for their
children. Now she's too smart to say we should do precisely what the
French do. "France is a country far smaller and more homogeneous than
ours."

This is an important point because the French are surely quite
Francophillic in the way they raise their oui-ones (Get it? Get it?).
The French taught children in their colonies in Africa that they were
the descendants of the Gauls. The French start really early with the
"France is great" stuff. Look at the fights we have today over such
things as school prayer and high-school curricula. Would you want the
Clintons and the Children's Defense Fund being the people in charge of
imprinting values on your three-year-olds? It cuts both ways; imagine
the howling from the Left if conservatives ran the show. "Yes, Billy
that's an American flag, you should love it and honor it."

That's fascism according to the Dershowitz crowd.

So Hillary heads off that pesky "values" issue which would likely
come up. Instead, she says "What I do believe, however, is that the
French have found a way of expressing their love and concern through
policies that focus on children's needs during the earliest stages of
life." Well, that's awfully sweet. Government as an instrument of
love! You see, this isn't an issue of politics, it's an issue about
children and our love for them. Cue the Disney butterflies and snuggly
little bunnies!

If the Right would just lay down their guns and accept a huge
government-run and government-valued child-care system, our children
would prosper -- even the children of right wingers (as surely we
would educate them out of their intolerance).

"How can you transcend your political differences and come to an
agreement on the issue of government-subsidized child care?" Hillary
asked of her French hosts when she was over there. "One after another
of them looked at me in astonishment. 'How can you not invest in
children and expect to have a healthy country?' was the reply I heard
over and over again."

Ohhhhhhhhhh=85 The French were astonished. The French were astonished.=
Well, no wonder Hillary is convinced.

First of all, when did we get to stipulate that France was so
healthy? How do we define health? Mental health? No, that can't be it
-- Jerry Lewis, and all that. Physical health? Okay, so they have the
slightest of edges on us in life expectancy.

But that can't be the answer. She must be talking about political
health. Because in a mature, politically healthy society, people don't
question the role of government. It's like the role of fire and
toilets and shredders at the Rose Law Firm -- they're just there and
should be used as often as necessary or possible.

Let's also not forget that the French practice what the demographers
call pro-natalist policies. In other words, the French need to
encourage people to make more babies, because European birth rates are
in the tank and, unlike in the U.S., we don't mind (as much)
maintaining our population through immigration. Anti-immigrant
feelings are just one of the enlightened reasons the government makes
parenthood as painless as possible.

French "astonishment" has less to do with the fact that their
policies are better as much as it has to do with the fact that the
French can't stand Americans. The French are also astonished by the
fact that Americans: bathe every day, don't know diddly about the
U.N., don't want the government to raise their kids, don't think of
France as an equal great power, don't think it's a sign of national
greatness to subsidize the bulk of Africa's corrupt bureaucrats, think
it's an odd idea to spend tax dollars on a film industry dedicated to
the notion that chance encounters in used-book stores make for great
drama, and think that their national leaders shouldn't be canoodling
the help while they impose sexual-harassment laws on the rest of us.

Our idea of political health is to keep politics out of as many
spheres of human life as possible. "Consensus" on children's issues,
like with so many other things in today's political arguments, means
simply "capitulation" to the mature politics people like Hillary
Clinton admire.

Ken (NY)
Chairman,
Department Of Redundancy Department
____________________________________
email:
http://www.geocities.com/bluesguy68/email.htm

"Eventually, socialists run out of other people's money."
--Baroness Margaret Thatcher

"This time I think the Americans are serious.
Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is
the end."
--Uday Hussein's final words,
in The London Sunday Telegraph

Q: What the hardest thing about rollerblading?
A: Telling your parents you=92re gay.

THE FRENCH, THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
AND SHOULD NOT BE USED AS ROLE MODELS

So lo and behold: Hillary Clinton thinks we should emulate the French
way of raising our kids. In her book, It Takes a Village, and in an
op-ed she wrote for the New York Times in 1990, Mrs. Clinton sings the
praises of the French child-care system. Whether she still holds these
views is impossible to tell, as she has been stripping herself of her
husband's positions the way her husband might strip off his pants at
the intern pool.

But assuming she does, here is what she thinks. The French are great
because they spend a billion-zillion francs (which should be about
$38.95 but is actually quite a bit of schmundo) on day care for their
children. Now she's too smart to say we should do precisely what the
French do. "France is a country far smaller and more homogeneous than
ours."

This is an important point because the French are surely quite
Francophillic in the way they raise their oui-ones (Get it? Get it?).
The French taught children in their colonies in Africa that they were
the descendants of the Gauls. The French start really early with the
"France is great" stuff. Look at the fights we have today over such
things as school prayer and high-school curricula. Would you want the
Clintons and the Children's Defense Fund being the people in charge of
imprinting values on your three-year-olds? It cuts both ways; imagine
the howling from the Left if conservatives ran the show. "Yes, Billy
that's an American flag, you should love it and honor it."

That's fascism according to the Dershowitz crowd.

So Hillary heads off that pesky "values" issue which would likely
come up. Instead, she says "What I do believe, however, is that the
French have found a way of expressing their love and concern through
policies that focus on children's needs during the earliest stages of
life." Well, that's awfully sweet. Government as an instrument of
love! You see, this isn't an issue of politics, it's an issue about
children and our love for them. Cue the Disney butterflies and snuggly
little bunnies!

If the Right would just lay down their guns and accept a huge
government-run and government-valued child-care system, our children
would prosper -- even the children of right wingers (as surely we
would educate them out of their intolerance).

"How can you transcend your political differences and come to an
agreement on the issue of government-subsidized child care?" Hillary
asked of her French hosts when she was over there. "One after another
of them looked at me in astonishment. 'How can you not invest in
children and expect to have a healthy country?' was the reply I heard
over and over again."

Ohhhhhhhhhh. The French were astonished. The French were astonished.
Well, no wonder Hillary is convinced.

First of all, when did we get to stipulate that France was so
healthy? How do we define health? Mental health? No, that can't be it
-- Jerry Lewis, and all that. Physical health? Okay, so they have the
slightest of edges on us in life expectancy.

But that can't be the answer. She must be talking about political
health. Because in a mature, politically healthy society, people don't
question the role of government. It's like the role of fire and
toilets and shredders at the Rose Law Firm -- they're just there and
should be used as often as necessary or possible.

Let's also not forget that the French practice what the demographers
call pro-natalist policies. In other words, the French need to
encourage people to make more babies, because European birth rates are
in the tank and, unlike in the U.S., we don't mind (as much)
maintaining our population through immigration. Anti-immigrant
feelings are just one of the enlightened reasons the government makes
parenthood as painless as possible.

French "astonishment" has less to do with the fact that their
policies are better as much as it has to do with the fact that the
French can't stand Americans. The French are also astonished by the
fact that Americans: bathe every day, don't know diddly about the
U.N., don't want the government to raise their kids, don't think of
France as an equal great power, don't think it's a sign of national
greatness to subsidize the bulk of Africa's corrupt bureaucrats, think
it's an odd idea to spend tax dollars on a film industry dedicated to
the notion that chance encounters in used-book stores make for great
drama, and think that their national leaders shouldn't be canoodling
the help while they impose sexual-harassment laws on the rest of us.

Our idea of political health is to keep politics out of as many
spheres of human life as possible. "Consensus" on children's issues,
like with so many other things in today's political arguments, means
simply "capitulation" to the mature politics people like Hillary
Clinton admire.

Ken (NY)
Chairman,
Department Of Redundancy Department
____________________________________
email:
http://www.geocities.com/bluesguy68/email.htm

"Eventually, socialists run out of other people's money."
--Baroness Margaret Thatcher

"This time I think the Americans are serious.
Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is
the end."
--Uday Hussein's final words,
in The London Sunday Telegraph

Q: What the hardest thing about rollerblading?
A: Telling your parents you're gay.

France: 4th economical power in the world (USA, Japan, Germany)

"Ken [NY)" a écrit :

THE FRENCH, THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
AND SHOULD NOT BE USED AS ROLE MODELS

So lo and behold: Hillary Clinton thinks we should emulate the French
way of raising our kids. In her book, It Takes a Village, and in an
op-ed she wrote for the New York Times in 1990, Mrs. Clinton sings the
praises of the French child-care system. Whether she still holds these
views is impossible to tell, as she has been stripping herself of her
husband's positions the way her husband might strip off his pants at
the intern pool.

But assuming she does, here is what she thinks. The French are great
because they spend a billion-zillion francs (which should be about
$38.95 but is actually quite a bit of schmundo) on day care for their
children. Now she's too smart to say we should do precisely what the
French do. "France is a country far smaller and more homogeneous than
ours."

This is an important point because the French are surely quite
Francophillic in the way they raise their oui-ones (Get it? Get it?).
The French taught children in their colonies in Africa that they were
the descendants of the Gauls. The French start really early with the
"France is great" stuff. Look at the fights we have today over such
things as school prayer and high-school curricula. Would you want the
Clintons and the Children's Defense Fund being the people in charge of
imprinting values on your three-year-olds? It cuts both ways; imagine
the howling from the Left if conservatives ran the show. "Yes, Billy
that's an American flag, you should love it and honor it."

That's fascism according to the Dershowitz crowd.

So Hillary heads off that pesky "values" issue which would likely
come up. Instead, she says "What I do believe, however, is that the
French have found a way of expressing their love and concern through
policies that focus on children's needs during the earliest stages of
life." Well, that's awfully sweet. Government as an instrument of
love! You see, this isn't an issue of politics, it's an issue about
children and our love for them. Cue the Disney butterflies and snuggly
little bunnies!

If the Right would just lay down their guns and accept a huge
government-run and government-valued child-care system, our children
would prosper -- even the children of right wingers (as surely we
would educate them out of their intolerance).

"How can you transcend your political differences and come to an
agreement on the issue of government-subsidized child care?" Hillary
asked of her French hosts when she was over there. "One after another
of them looked at me in astonishment. 'How can you not invest in
children and expect to have a healthy country?' was the reply I heard
over and over again."

Ohhhhhhhhhh… The French were astonished. The French were astonished.
Well, no wonder Hillary is convinced.

First of all, when did we get to stipulate that France was so
healthy? How do we define health? Mental health? No, that can't be it
-- Jerry Lewis, and all that. Physical health? Okay, so they have the
slightest of edges on us in life expectancy.

But that can't be the answer. She must be talking about political
health. Because in a mature, politically healthy society, people don't
question the role of government. It's like the role of fire and
toilets and shredders at the Rose Law Firm -- they're just there and
should be used as often as necessary or possible.

Let's also not forget that the French practice what the demographers
call pro-natalist policies. In other words, the French need to
encourage people to make more babies, because European birth rates are
in the tank and, unlike in the U.S., we don't mind (as much)
maintaining our population through immigration. Anti-immigrant
feelings are just one of the enlightened reasons the government makes
parenthood as painless as possible.

French "astonishment" has less to do with the fact that their
policies are better as much as it has to do with the fact that the
French can't stand Americans. The French are also astonished by the
fact that Americans: bathe every day, don't know diddly about the
U.N., don't want the government to raise their kids, don't think of
France as an equal great power, don't think it's a sign of national
greatness to subsidize the bulk of Africa's corrupt bureaucrats, think
it's an odd idea to spend tax dollars on a film industry dedicated to
the notion that chance encounters in used-book stores make for great
drama, and think that their national leaders shouldn't be canoodling
the help while they impose sexual-harassment laws on the rest of us.

Our idea of political health is to keep politics out of as many
spheres of human life as possible. "Consensus" on children's issues,
like with so many other things in today's political arguments, means
simply "capitulation" to the mature politics people like Hillary
Clinton admire.

Ken (NY)
Chairman,
Department Of Redundancy Department

email:
http://www.geocities.com/bluesguy68/email.htm

"Eventually, socialists run out of other people's money."
--Baroness Margaret Thatcher

"This time I think the Americans are serious.
Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is
the end."
--Uday Hussein's final words,
in The London Sunday Telegraph

Q: What the hardest thing about rollerblading?
A: Telling your parents you’re gay.

France: 4th economical power in the world (USA, Japan, Germany)

THE FRENCH, THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
AND SHOULD NOT BE USED AS ROLE MODELS

So lo and behold: Hillary Clinton thinks we should emulate the French
way of raising our kids. In her book, It Takes a Village, and in an
op-ed she wrote for the New York Times in 1990, Mrs. Clinton sings the
praises of the French child-care system. Whether she still holds these
views is impossible to tell, as she has been stripping herself of her
husband's positions the way her husband might strip off his pants at
the intern pool.

But assuming she does, here is what she thinks. The French are great
because they spend a billion-zillion francs (which should be about
$38.95 but is actually quite a bit of schmundo) on day care for their
children. Now she's too smart to say we should do precisely what the
French do. "France is a country far smaller and more homogeneous than
ours."

This is an important point because the French are surely quite
Francophillic in the way they raise their oui-ones (Get it? Get it?).
The French taught children in their colonies in Africa that they were
the descendants of the Gauls. The French start really early with the
"France is great" stuff. Look at the fights we have today over such
things as school prayer and high-school curricula. Would you want the
Clintons and the Children's Defense Fund being the people in charge of
imprinting values on your three-year-olds? It cuts both ways; imagine
the howling from the Left if conservatives ran the show. "Yes, Billy
that's an American flag, you should love it and honor it."

That's fascism according to the Dershowitz crowd.

So Hillary heads off that pesky "values" issue which would likely
come up. Instead, she says "What I do believe, however, is that the
French have found a way of expressing their love and concern through
policies that focus on children's needs during the earliest stages of
life." Well, that's awfully sweet. Government as an instrument of
love! You see, this isn't an issue of politics, it's an issue about
children and our love for them. Cue the Disney butterflies and snuggly
little bunnies!

If the Right would just lay down their guns and accept a huge
government-run and government-valued child-care system, our children
would prosper -- even the children of right wingers (as surely we
would educate them out of their intolerance).

"How can you transcend your political differences and come to an
agreement on the issue of government-subsidized child care?" Hillary
asked of her French hosts when she was over there. "One after another
of them looked at me in astonishment. 'How can you not invest in
children and expect to have a healthy country?' was the reply I heard
over and over again."

Ohhhhhhhhhh. The French were astonished. The French were astonished.
Well, no wonder Hillary is convinced.

First of all, when did we get to stipulate that France was so
healthy? How do we define health? Mental health? No, that can't be it
-- Jerry Lewis, and all that. Physical health? Okay, so they have the
slightest of edges on us in life expectancy.

But that can't be the answer. She must be talking about political
health. Because in a mature, politically healthy society, people don't
question the role of government. It's like the role of fire and
toilets and shredders at the Rose Law Firm -- they're just there and
should be used as often as necessary or possible.

Let's also not forget that the French practice what the demographers
call pro-natalist policies. In other words, the French need to
encourage people to make more babies, because European birth rates are
in the tank and, unlike in the U.S., we don't mind (as much)
maintaining our population through immigration. Anti-immigrant
feelings are just one of the enlightened reasons the government makes
parenthood as painless as possible.

French "astonishment" has less to do with the fact that their
policies are better as much as it has to do with the fact that the
French can't stand Americans. The French are also astonished by the
fact that Americans: bathe every day, don't know diddly about the
U.N., don't want the government to raise their kids, don't think of
France as an equal great power, don't think it's a sign of national
greatness to subsidize the bulk of Africa's corrupt bureaucrats, think
it's an odd idea to spend tax dollars on a film industry dedicated to
the notion that chance encounters in used-book stores make for great
drama, and think that their national leaders shouldn't be canoodling
the help while they impose sexual-harassment laws on the rest of us.

Our idea of political health is to keep politics out of as many
spheres of human life as possible. "Consensus" on children's issues,
like with so many other things in today's political arguments, means
simply "capitulation" to the mature politics people like Hillary
Clinton admire.

Ken (NY)
Chairman,
Department Of Redundancy Department
____________________________________
email:
http://www.geocities.com/bluesguy68/email.htm

"Eventually, socialists run out of other people's money."
--Baroness Margaret Thatcher

"This time I think the Americans are serious.
Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is
the end."
--Uday Hussein's final words,
in The London Sunday Telegraph

Q: What the hardest thing about rollerblading?
A: Telling your parents you're gay.