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[Tex]

Europe can take their boycott and "shove it"!
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"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness." -- Theodore Roosevelt

[Inatizzy]

Boycott schmoycott. Big deal...oooooooo...we're so scared of them not buying from little ole USA.

Let em eat cake.

Wonder how long they'll last without blue jeans?

All the teens in Europe will be whining "waaaaa momma I want my 501s".

[wednesdaychild]

I have been boycotting france for some time now. Unless they try and put Mickie D's out of business over there, what harm can they do?
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Jim Steinman

[Anker-Klanker]

[Inatizzy]

[MassInd]

Isn't that what those cheese eating surrender monkeys tried to do to Iraq?

Does that mean that we're going to be bribed?

[Poposwife_Retiredarmywife]

A boycott would hurt them much more than it would hurt us.

Granted businesses like Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Disneyland etc would feel the pinch however we are an "Importing country" which means alot of our dollars go overseas. Just take a look at the specialty aisle in the commisary next time you go, its filled with items from there.

Our crystal, clocks, artwork, nifty clothes....

None of the things we import are really "needed to live" items though.

We don't import food unless its a luxury item, the staples of life? Please people....we GIVE away more food than we buy in these luxury items, and PAY our farmers not to farm.

Medicine?

After this flu vaccination shortage, be prepared for a revamping in that industry to where we won't have to rely on anyone else. We have the capability, we have just never applied it.

Oil?

If push came to shove...and yes this is a subject near and dear to my heart as I grew up in Alaska. I live in NC but I'm a "transplant"

Alaska is the largest state with EXTENSIVE oil fields, its just getting to them thats the problem because of the wildlife preserve. Alaska is roughly the size of 1/3 of the rest of the USA. (It still galls me that when they make maps, they make AK sooooo tiny)

Frankly, the USA could be completely cut off from the rest of the world and we would be just fine for at least 20 years. We could build a 500 foot wall around us, cover it with barbed wire, Make it a no fly zone and just sit the rest of the world out.

That is why a "Boycott" is so laughable. These countries, whether they want to believe it or not, rely on us as the "Last superpower" to keep the peace for them, die for them, supply them, entertain them.

Not to mention how many tourism dollars they garner from us each year.

Business they gain from our companies employees, that end up living overseas.

Business they gain from our soldiers, and the bases/posts there. Economy dollars from when these same soldiers have to house families off base/post.

<shakes her head>

Unfortunately 40 percent of our population has been spoonfed from birth to listen to doomsday tripe, how we as the USA RELY on other countries, how important they are to us.

Fact of the matter is, its the opposite. The only thing we RELY on them for is our "world presence"....nothing else.

Lorelei

[Kimmymac]

I have been boycotting Old Europe and France in particular, since Iraq, and the Oil for Food scandal has only reinforced it. It is kinda tough at times, because I am a gourmet cook and they make some excellent cookware. Germany makes the best knives. I like French wine because they don't use sulfites, but I will put California wines up against French any day.

All I can say is THANK GOD the French are going to boycott us. Promise? One less group of rude tourists at Disneyland, woo hoo! As for the rest of their boycott, the day they go without Levis, Coca Cola and American music is the day I register to vote Democrat.

FLASHBACK: We were on the Left Bank in France on a warm Spring day, and I was sorta irritated at my husband because he and his friends had been teasing me about the *sexy* French women he was going to see when we got to France. (They are pigs, but aren't they all?) So we are sitting at one of their sidewalk cafes, and this braless woman comes over and sits down next to us, and my husband is doing his whole Groucho Marx waggling eyebrows thing, and I am just *ignoring* him (because he is so ignorant when he acts like that, I am not even going to dignify it with a response) and so the *sexy* European sees her *sexy* girlfriend (also braless, I guess they are boycotting decent foundation garments also) and waves to her.

WOOF! Under her arms there is about 4 inches of long black hair, and the foul body odor that came borne on those soft left bank breezes was enough to choke even the most hardy male chauvinist pig.

So I waggled my eyebrows at him, Groucho Marx style, and laughed so hard I almost fell off my precious bistro chair.

When we got back to the hotel I went to my overnight case, got my razor out, held it up and waggled my eyebrows again.

When we got to our eventual destination, and my husband was reporting the first day, I told my husband to be sure to remember to tell his buddies about the sexy women he saw in Paris.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Do not mess with American women. We will eat your lunch, spank your butt, and send you crying home to your mama, everytime.

Gotta go, going to TAKE A SHOWER and shave my legs.
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The last refuge of scoundrels is not patriotism; it is finicky liberal humanitarianism.--Martin Paretz

[blue9t3]

Damn you Kimme! I was chewing on a piece of steak while reading your post, the more I read--the more it started tasting like a filthy sock!

EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW
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MOPAR-BUYER

[Armybrat/Armymom]

I've been boycotting anything French since 1964 when my "dear old daddy" dumped his wife and 4 kids for a French fluzzy. When he died, she didn't even put in his obit that he had children.

Besides French wine isn't all that, give me a glass of Texas wine anytime.

[sdonions]

Speaking of wine....Have any of you wine lovers tried the Assie wines. They are a very good staunch ally of ours and made a damn good wine.

I also agree that our soldiers from both WW need to come home. Our heros have been disrespected long enough from the socialistic French.



Edit cause I be not awake yet. ( these grave shifts are killing me )

[Kimmymac]

ARMYMOM--not to be technical, but French slu*s are called "floozies". But maybe she was a fluzzy. A fuzzy fluzzy, from France.

Men are interesting, but they do make me wonder about what part of their anatomy controls. I have seen more than a few men lose everything important for some foreign whore looking to be part of the foreign-wife exchange program. You know, the program works like this: exchange your stateside wife for me, sailor. Sailor gets a (temporary) menu change and foreign whore gets a US Visa. 5 years later FW divorces sailor, FW gets his military pay, and he has lost his wife and kids. (And how DUH can some men be?)

Now I guess they stay married for 10 years so they get more $$$.
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The last refuge of scoundrels is not patriotism; it is finicky liberal humanitarianism.--Martin Paretz

[msindependent]

Give me an Aussie wine anytime, they really are excellent.

[Truegrit]

I'm already boycotting French and German goods. No problem to extend that to other countries that dis' us. Only problem: a lot of things we buy, especially manufactured goods, often have offshore components, and it is sometimes difficult to learn the source of all of the components, especially in a car.

We should consider sending letters to ordinary citizens in Europe, to explain to them the dangers of appeasement and cowardice, and to remind them of the 1930's and also how America came to their rescue.

I don't mind doing that in a way that is patronizing. They deserve it!

They need to start funding their own military forces rather than relying on us to carry their water over there.
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Ted Harwood, Ph.D.
Enlisted, U.S. Army ('57-'60)

[Armybrat/Armymom]

Kim-I was typing fast and meant floozie but fuzzy fluzzy sounds good too. She stayed with him and got it all including our child support. My mom called her Miss Roundheels. Didn't know what it meant until I got older.

Pepsi burns like h*** when it comes out the nose, sdonions. I do agree that A(u)ssie wine is really good too.