FRANCE: BIG STRIKES BIG SEX SCANDAL, GUESS WHICH IS MOST IMPORTANT?

At Least to the French, who are more like us than we imagine.

French public service sector unions dominated by Communists are engaged in "rolling strikes" that are getting more and more violent. Naturally, when strikes get violent the public turns against the strikers. The Government is going to win this and it is very important for France, for the EU, and for us that the government win. For us, because the EU is our major trading partner and if faced with bankruptcy by 2010, their economies will free fall. At stake is a re-ordering of the pay as you go pension system. The government wants to increase the amount of time paid into the fund from 37.5 to 40 years in order to remain solvent. The Communist unions (Teachers, big surprise) and others are fighting mad but the government has a huge majority and will win.

But what is REALLY important, like in REALLY REALLY important?

The people of France, although sort of pissed at being inconvenienced by these strikes are positively riveted to their TV sets and papers over sex and violence. A huge juicy scandal involving a serial killer, sado-masochistic parties with government officials hosted by this serial killer, cocaine, sex, whores, under age sex and sado masochism, and, and, well you can't have all that without having lying, cheating on wives and husbands, and M-U-R-D-E-R. The papers are filled with it and if you are stuck home because of a strike, TV will give you the wildest sex since, since, well since the French invented sex. This is the biggest story to hit France, ever. Here are some juicy links, most of them probably unreliable since all compete for the latest juicy sex outrage, but why not have some fun too. Try this one. And this one. And for good measure this one. That starts: "A former mayor and three judges will be questioned about allegations by prostitutes of torture, rapes of under-age girls and other `barbaric acts'" Barbaric acts will glue me to the set every time.