OK .. SO THE FRENCH TURNED DOWN THE EU CONSTITUTION .... BUT WHY?

Yep, that's Chirac with Michael Jackson in the 80's.

By now you've heard -- and you probably don't care -- that the incredible French have rejected the European Union Constitution.  First of all .. this is good news.  Good news, that is, if you believe in such outmoded concepts as national sovereignty and capitalism.  Bad news though for Jacques Chirac.  The constitution was more or less his baby.  This morning he's busy replacing France's prime minister.   Yeah ... when you screw up, replace the prime minister.  That usually works.

The European Union is an anti-American, socialist bureaucracy, designed to suck the sovereign lifeblood out of the nations who are members.  What should be just a loose affiliation of states to provide for a common currency and other means to enhance trade has now become a bit of a one-world type government.  Now the French have rejected its constitution.

OK .. so the French probably inadvertently did the U.S. a favor.  But what you're not reading in the media is what might possibly be the real reason for the French rejection.

You will remember about ten days ago we brought up laziness on the show.  I named the seven continents: North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.  I asked you to respond to a poll and comment on which one of these continents was inhabited by the laziest people.  Most of you got it right.  The answer is Europe.  Europeans are the laziest people on the face of the planet.  Oh boy .. here come the phone calls:  "I have a cousin in Belgium, and he's not lazy."  We're talking in generalities here folks, and generally speaking Europeans, more specifically Western Europeans,  top the laziness scale.  They are constantly begging their governments to come up with new rules and regulations that absolve them of the responsibilities for their own lives, keep them from having to work too hard, guarantee their jobs, and provide for their retirement.  The French have had their thongs in a bunch quite a bit lately

How does European laziness manifest itself?  France recently adopted some measures to get rid of their mandatory 35 hour work week.  That's a maximum, not a minimum.  The French government would  send spies out to observe cars in company parking lots.  If cars were parked there too long investigations would be launched to see if someone was working longer hours than the government wanted them to work.  To be sure, there were some French citizens who actually believed in themselves and who wanted to get out there and push as hard as they could ... work as long as they wanted ... to succeed and achieve.  For the most part the French were quite happy to allow the government to dictate not only their work hours, but their work conditions, vacation days, and when they could retire.

To many French workers, the new EU constitution represented something very dangerous to them.  A loss of government workplace protection rules.  My God!  They might actually have to work more hours to make a living!

There's another referendum coming this week...in The Netherlands.  The No's are leading there too.  Perhaps the Axis of Weasels is finally being dismantled from within.

THOSE MEMORIAL DAY GAS PRICES

The one thing nobody ever really does is revisit the dire predictions made by the media and other so-called analysts.  Remember just a couple months ago, when gas prices were at $2.50 a gallon, and many were predicting it would easily eclipse $3.00 a gallon by Memorial Day?  After all, surely by then...gas would be even more out of sight.  This is the official start of the summer driving season, you know.

It didn't happen.  Right now, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded is $2.09, which is down several cents in the past few weeks.  Gas got cheaper, not more expensive.  The predictions were wrong. 

So the next time gas price hysteria gets whipped up, just remember....those peddling the doom and gloom frequently turn out not to be right.

Check the latest gas price averages and prices in your area at gaspricewatch.com.

HILLARY TO RUN IN 2008

A new book is coming out written by Washington Post reporter John F. Harris.  The book is about the Clinton White House.  As you can imagine, there are some things in the book that are not too flattering.  Stuff about Bill Clinton's temper and the like.  There's also something in the book about the disdain Hillary shows for those whom she deems to be of a lower social caste than herself ... and that would include just about everybody.  Probably interesting reading there.

But what's more important is what it says about The Hildabeast.  Aside from her potty mouth, the excerpt released today paints a portrait of her as quite the political operator.  But here's the real news.  Apparently her aides have said she won't pledge to finish her next Senate term.  In other words, she intends to use the voters of New York as a springboard to the presidency.

Does anyone doubt for 2 seconds that Hillary Clinton's entire act....staying married to Bill through all the affairs and scandals, running for the Senate...moving to the right on so many issues...is a cold political calculation designed to put her in the Oval Office?

She's running for president already...could she win?  Perhaps...quite a few voters are none too bright.

AMNESTY GETS IT FROM THE VP

Amnesty International, which used to be an organization concerned with human rights abuses by rogue regimes, has suddenly taken an interest in the United States.  Their constant harping about supposed goings-on  in Guantanamo Bay and their eagerness with which they bash the United States have finally exposed their anti-American agenda for all to see. 

And finally people are calling them out on it.  Speaking on Larry King, Vice President Cheney had this to say about Amnesty's report calling the prison at Guantanamo Bay a Gulag:  "Frankly, I was offended by it.  For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously."  Right on.

Then Cheney also pointed out something important...something you never hear the mainstream media bring up when they talk about these allegations of detainee abuse.  He said that most of the allegations of abuse almost always come from former detainees released to their home countries that are now lying about their detention.

It's a shame about Amnesty International.  There are people starving and dying in real Gulags in North Korea that could use their help.

ANY PLANS TO VISIT INDONESIA?

Cancel them.  Indonesia is a country that will sentence a convicted terrorist who killed dozens to two and one-half years in jail, and then will sentence a 22 year old woman to 20 years in jail for smuggling marijuana.  Over the past year or so there have been many reports of tourists arriving in Bali (Indonesia) only to find that drugs have been hidden in their bags.  This may well have been what happened to this young Australian.  Australians are canceling vacations to Bali.  Donations are drying up for Indonesian tsunami relief.  I was considering a South Pacific cruise next year that had stops in Indonesia.  No more.  I notified the cruise line that I would not book the trip if any trips were scheduled to an Indonesian port.  Perhaps you might like to reconsider your vacation plans as well.

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READING ASSIGNMENTS

For once, Hillary is being honest.  She will not pledge to finish another Senate term if she is reelected by New Yorkers. 

Vice President Dick Cheney is lashing out at The Gargoyle in North Korea.  Democrats will no doubt be concerned about such statements.

And now 10 reasons not to kill President George W. Bush, by Jennifer McBride of the University of Oregon.  Liberals take note: it would drive the final nail in the coffin of the liberal agenda.  Interesting reading.

Here's the latest tactic of Islamic terrorists: suicide dogs.  They strap explosives to a dog and then detonate it as a Coalition convoy rolls through town.  Most liberals love animals...perhaps this will finally flip the switch for them.

The Poodle has finally signed form SF-180, authorizing the release of all of his Military records.  It'll take a couple of months, but once those records come out, we'll know for sure whether or not he really earned those Purple Hearts --- or is there chicanery in the air?  At any rate, interesting times ahead.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers hit back at Amnesty International over its report comparing our prison at Gitmo to a Russian Gulag.  Finally...the White House is hitting back.

The EU is getting nowhere, and George Will says that has put Europe at a crossroads.  A big reason the ratification vote failed in France is hatred for Chirac. 

Mark Steyn talks about the outright contempt the rulers of the European Union have for the voters that are ratifying the Constitution.

Is the nuclear option still on the table?  Even after the agreement between the 14 Senators on both sides, Senator Orrin Hatch says nothing is set in stone.

The Democrats' blockage of an up-or-down vote on John Bolton shows that their good intentions are officially over.  Robert Novak has more.

Get ready for the biggest Supreme Court nomination fight since Clarence Thomas.  If, as expected, Rehnquist steps down at the end of this year's term, it's really going to hit the fan.  John Leo reports.

This past January, Army Sergeant Michael Carlson died in Iraq.  Back in high school, he wrote a "credo paper" for a high school project.  The Wall Street Journal published it, and everyone should read it.

The only surprise here is that it took so long for the first tell-all book to be released.  Seems like there was quite a bit of yelling, screaming and general not-niceness in the Clinton White House. 

Dick Cheney thinks Laura Bush would win a head-to-head contest against Hillary Clinton.  There's no question...just look at the polls.  As unpopular as her husband is right now, people think Laura Bush is a saint.

A suicide bomber slipped into a mosque in Pakistan yesterday and blew himself up, killing one and wounding 20.  The crowd's response?  They burned down the local KFC.  All Islamic terrorism is our fault, remember? 

Why are so many former captives of Guantanamo Bay claiming they were tortured?  Because the Al-Qaeda handbook tells them to, that's why.

William F. Buckley looks at the charge of liberal bias at the Corporation For Public Broadcasting and the media's attempts at savaging the personalities leading reform.

The conservatives were once again shut out in recent elections in Britain.  How can they make a rebound?  Irving Kristol says a Tory revival starts with a 10% tax cut.

Thomas Sowell looks at the environmental movement in California and their attempts to stop any sort of development.  He calls the whole "environmental impact" study a bunch of nonsense. Good reading as always.

People who work at universities are becoming so detached from reality it's hard to take them seriously.  Professor Mike Adams cites his college newspaper at UNC-Wilmington as an example.

Could it be time to actually stop and praise the French?  Bill Murchison says that's exactly what we should do...given their outright defeat of the EU Constitution. 

Miss Canada Natalie Glebova has won the Miss Universe title.  Now there's a useful Canadian export.  Brunette too.

Have you caught Michael Jackson's new video I Never Copped A Feel? [flash]

Morning Sickness: If mom is a Tammy Faye, baby boy might end up with a vienna sausage.

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