French president Sarkozy: Unplugged (and drunk)

I find this absolutely scandalous.  This is the newly elected anglo/american/capitalist-friendly french President Nicolas Sarkozy, giving a press conference at the G8 conference, UTTERLY DRUNK.  Shame….
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/__ZvAqDXvrU[/video]
[tags]france, president, g8, drunk, sarkozy, bouree [/tags]

Satrapi’s “Persepolis” wins Cannes Jury Prize

So the famous Cannes film Festival has ended, and so the prizes were awareded. The Palme d’Or was given to the Romanian film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," which depicts the horrors a student goes through to ensure her friend can have a secret abortion.  But …
The cinematic adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s "Persepolis" [...]

UPDATE: French Election results || résultat d’élection présidentielle

UPDATE II: According to Belgian media exit polls, Sarkozy has won the wiht a majority of between 53-55% of the vote.
UPDATE:  According to i-tele, the participation rate as of 7 pm has been at 75.11%.  Voting finishes in less than 45 minutes.

According to the AFP news agency, by 15h00 local time in france, 75% [...]

French Election results || résultat d’élection présidentielle

WELL……THE DAY HAS COME.
While inside france, no media outlet is allowed to give poll results until after the election has closed, there are always foreign news sources which give exit poll results.
So here you will find Loopy, giving what is found through the foreign news sources.
FOR NOW:
i JUST SAW ON AL JAZEERA ENGLISH, THAT [...]

French Presidential Election

UPDATE III : Reuters is reporting that with around 35% of the votes counted the results stands as such,
SARKOZY AT 30.5 %ROYAL   AT 24.3 %BAYROU AT 18.2 %LE PEN AT 11.5 %
UPDATE II : THE FIRST OFFICIAL RESULTS ARE IN!!  THESE ARE ONLY ESTIMATES AND VOTING HASNT FINISHED YET,
SARKOZY AT 29.3 %ROYAL   AT 26.5 %BAYROU [...]

Voting starts tomorrow

It is quite insane.  Two days to go, and campaigning stops tonite.  And the picture is as unclear as ever.
It is quite scary.  Sarkozy is still in the lead in the polls.  It looks more and more like Sarkozy will at least go the second round, probably will Royal.  Which is NOT a good [...]

Le Vrai Sarkozy

With the elections here in france, less than two weeks away, the campaigns, official and non-official, are fully underway.  The leader in the polls, unfortunately, continues to be Nikolas sarkozy, the conservative candidate.  However, not a conservative in the traditional french mould of de Gaulle, or Chirac.  He is rather a pro-american, pro-capitalist, something very [...]

Loopy wishes all a happy new year (yes he’s back)

Hello everyone!
Yes, yes, Loopy is alive and well, and no holidays! So first off,
HAPPY NOROUZ TO EVERYONE, I WISH YOU ALL A GREAT NEW YEAR, FULL OF LOVE AND HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS. 
So, yes i was gone a long time for many reasons.  First of all, as i told you all, i was [...]

Murder of a 12 Year old student

We have all been shocked by the news last night of the killing of a 12 year old student in a paris suburbs school, at the hands of his classmates. 
Now, before the anti-french flagwaver go on their little rants, it shoudl be known that this has NOTHING to do with race, immigrants, religion or [...]

Beautiful Words

Malheureusement, on vie dans une monde ou l’arbre qui tombe fait plus de bruit qu’un forêt qui pousse.
(English Translation: Ufortunately we live in a world where the one tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows)
I heard Abd Al Malik say these in and interview yesterday. He is an award winning french [...]