Outlaws

Here's an obvious question about living in San Francisco - supposedly "America's most liberal city":

"Does this town have to outlaw everything?"

Why yes, yes it does. San Francisco, of course, is known as "The Paris of the West", and, of course, it was in "liberal" Paris that Jews were outlawed during WWII. But, like San Franciscans, the French don't talk about that side of themselves, preferring to be portrayed as heroic defenders of all that's right and good in the world.

Speaking of heroic defenders of all that's right and good in the world, remember when I wrote "Viva La France: A Vicious Nation Of Idiots", about the celebrations France was having for rogue trader Jerome Kerviel? He was then being called "the Che Guevara of France" because he lost 5 billion euros "to make a mockery of the greedy fat-cats who control the all powerful markets". Well, after he gets out of prison, he better try to become one of those greedy fat cats - and quick - because he, alone, now has to pay back 6.7 billion. Is that striking a blow against capitalism or what?

So crank up the celebrations for Jerome Kerviel - again - but this time, the French had better label them as San Franciscans do one of their favorite occasions:

The rent party.

Yea, You, You Trendy Douchebag

France Is A Freaky Communist Cult (Che Style)

"Why do people like this guy? It might just be the most idiotic and ignorant fashion today, which is, wearing the face of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. The ex-tyrant and "revolutionary," as his supporters, whom are either communist or stupid, like to call him, has received the attention and reverence one would expect of a saint, not a murderer who helped bring to power one of the most repressive regimes on Earth. Yet to this day there continues to be a cult surrounding Che Guevara."

-- Jordan Harp, on the face seen all over France, for the College Media Network's Daily Illini.

Another White Man In Search Of His Black Roots

“Ayers' office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X. It is also home to pictures of children, bills of rights for students and parents, and a rainbow-hued greeting card advising 'How to Be Really Alive.'"

— James Janega, exposing Bill Ayers as a race-obsessed, and potential NewAge, former-bomb-throwing communist (which would be a first for TMR to cover) while reporting for the Chicago Tribune.

Oprah, Che, Marxism - Change!

Isn't it funny how techno can make anything sound cool?

Barack definitely needs more techno.

More German voters too.

Yah.

Three Pictures Say A Thousand Words

"Palestinian artist Walid Ayyoub poses with a drawing of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in his studio in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 22, 2008."

Um, he's also posing with drawings of Yasser Arafat and Che Guevara,...but still no word if Walid Ayyoub works for The New Yorker.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

And - believe it or not - this guy is a judge!

Use Me

Two of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's children said Thursday they were tired of seeing their father's image used to sell everything from T-shirts to vodka, calling the growth of the revolutionary as a global super-brand "embarrassing."

Aleida Guevara, the eldest of Guevara's four children by his second wife, Cuban revolutionary Aleida March, said the commercialization of her father's image contributed to tension between rich and poor in some countries.

"Something that bothers me now is the appropriation of the figure of Che that has been used to make enemies from different classes. It's embarrassing," she wrote during an Internet forum sponsored by Cuba's government ahead of what would have been her father's 80th birthday on June 14.

Guevara's children took Internet queries for two hours, fielding questions from users in Qatar, Argentina and Brazil, as well as Cuba, where both live.

Aleida Guevara was asked about the use of her father's image to sell British vodka and French soft drinks. She decried those campaigns as well one in Switzerland that uses his likeness to peddle cell phones.

"We don't want money, we demand respect," wrote Guevara, who is a trained physician like her father.

-- From the Associated Press