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My clumsy translation for Ségolène Royal's clumsy words:

Talking of honour, Ségolène Royal attempted to defend Georges Frêche's, excluded from the Socialist Party (...) after controversial words on harkis, that he had called «inferior men».

«There has been a lot of unfairness towards Georges Frêche», Ségolène Royal said on France Inter (French radio), highlighting he had been cleared by «a justice court's decision». «He's an important politician, he's a mayor who transformed Montpellier (town in the South of France), he's cultured, he's clever», she added. Obviously, he said «clumsy words but if you had to exclude from the Party everyone who has been clumsy, especially on the candidate for the presidential election (herself, last year), much more blameworthy (...), well there would be a lot of people to exclude», Royal said. But «I don't want to exclude, I want to unite».

A deux jours du vote, le PS en ébullition [Libération]

Is she saying that saying racist words is not important but criticising her when she's a presidential candidate is?! I hope she's just been "clumsy" again...

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I love Slate. I think it"s one of the best political magazines ever created.

Today, an article has been posted: which minority group will win the White House next? In the case of a gay candidate, they talk about the fact that younger generations are more tolerant of homosexuality and this is their advice:

We know what to do to improve a gay candidate's chances: murder an old person.

Shock of the day

The terrible attack that shocked Pakistan this weekend was shown on TV. One of the people close to me reacted in an appalling, for the least, fashion:

Anyway, they just have to all kill each other in this mess, this way we will get rid of the problem.

Ah, humanism, compassion, HOPE...

Quote of the day

Claudia Schiffer can speak thousands of languages, it's just shame she's got nothing interesting to say.

Quote of the day

My flatmate Luke, who was telling his love misfortunes, with a beer in his hand in front of the TV:

You know what my problem is? I'm too fucking romantic.

More seriously, I believe that he and I have close visions of romantism.

Quote of the day

It's not because I suspended my blog that I shouldn't update it from time to time.

A quote from Mrs Thatcher, during her campaign to become Prime Minister of Great Britain:

The Russians said I was "an iron lady". Well, they were right.

Quote of the day

In The Alchemist, the main character is with the girl he has fallen for. He tries to explain his feelings to her when she stops him:

You love because you love. There is no reason to love.

Well, at least, she's not making things complicated.

Quote of the day

  • Me: While you're having a healthy veggie soup, I'm having instant mashed potatoes!
  • Vicky: No Julien. Soup is not healthy food, it's normal food.

    • Tombé pour l'Europe:
    Quote of the day

    In response to why not many Britons support being in Europe - it has more to do with the nasty national trait of xenophobia and the tabloids playing off this than any actual analysis of benefits. We call the French arrogant, but we think we're too superior for a community and want to be isolated in the distant memory of a long-gone empire.

    You can still be patriotic and support the EU. The EU treaty is not about signing our freedoms away - and what would be the point of holding a referendum that will only prove how gullible tabloid readers really are? We already know this.

    Simon Foster, a Metro reader, Birmingham

    Quote of the day
    (I mean, of a few days ago)

    It?s hard for me to see me from the outside. Everybody says, "Oh she?s so lucky; she wore the swan dress and she hit a reporter" and all that clichéd rubbish mainstream crap. But ever since I was in The Sugarcubes it's always been about my voice.

    Björk in Plan B magazine.

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