Paris’ Forgetful Mayor
From the desk of Tiberge on Wed, 2008-09-10 07:59
One would think the visit to Paris by the Pope would be considered an important event. Not so, if we judge by the official website of the city of Paris. In the agenda of cultural events you will find the current and future events scheduled in the Capital, for example: the Ramadan vigils, the Ramadan concert and the annual Communist shindig called Fête de l'Humanité (which will take place in Courneuve in Seine-Saint-Denis, and not in Paris). While there is ample information about Ramadan, no mention is made of the Pope’s coming.
The conservative blog Le Salon Beige writes: “You get the point I'm trying to make: there is absolutely nothing on the Pope’s visit this Friday and Saturday. Such silence constitutes misinformation, if only because of the delays the visit of the Holy Father will cause (metro stations closed, streets blocked...), and an injustice considering the treatment reserved for Islam.”
The image above from Mayor Delanoë’s website announces a Ramadan concert on September 13. The Pope will have left for Lourdes by that time.
A reminder that the openly gay Delanoë was born in Tunisia. According to his biography his father was an atheist geometrician, his mother a Catholic nurse. His origins are mixed: his father was “Breton” (from Brittany) and Delanoë is said to be a “Breton” name. His mother was at least part Italian. He has been a socialist activist from the beginning of his political career, and espouses vigorously the cause of gay rights and multi-culturalism with a special emphasis on Islam. Paris celebrates Ramadan in a big way, with its mayor often participating.
Delanoë’s Catholic background has certainly been discarded in favor of socialism and Islam. Maybe the Mayor doesn’t know the Pope is coming?
re: the tunisian peter-pan
Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Wed, 2008-09-10 22:40.
traveller: "Until he (Delanoe, the 13 year old boy) became mayor he passed every holiday there (Bizerte) with the same passion".
Q @ 'K': At what age did Delanoe, the 13 year old boy (who enjoyed 'watching' other boys on the beach and who passed every holiday in Bizerte from the age of 13 to the time he became mayor of Paris) become mayor of Paris?
'K' wrote: "So a 13 year old boy watches other boys on the beach, great story!"
An interesting comment coming from a 47+ year old teacher.
@kappert
Submitted by Paganini on Wed, 2008-09-10 21:44.
Homosexuals have a selfdestructive nature: life ends with homosexuals that can't/don't reproduce. That's why the majority of them holds self-destructive opinions and ideologies. Delanoë is a typical example.
Example in my own country: Tom Lanoye: a hysterical lemming that curses everyone that doesn't want to throw himself of a rock just like him.
Mayoral "Passions"
Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Wed, 2008-09-10 19:49.
@ traveller & marcfrans
Men with "passions" like that are the scum of the earth, the bane of civilised society. Where do they belong? Well, a 'bain-marie', perhaps but "la mairie'", never!
Bretagne and Copernicus
Submitted by marcfrans on Wed, 2008-09-10 18:35.
@ Atlanticist
Could it really be true that Delanoe is a Breton name, and that the mother of the mayor of Paris is "part Italian"? Wouldn't it be easier for Armor to blame jews and nonwhites for this situation at the Paris 'mairie' or City Hall?
Your link to the Viscount and the Lady is fascinating. Are you responsible for that little add-on from Amnesty International claiming that years of "diplomatic posturing" have achieved nothing for Aung S.S.K. in Burma? Was that a subtle hint to ridicule the Copernican, sorry Kappertian, worldview?
@ marcfrans & Atlanticist911
Submitted by traveller on Wed, 2008-09-10 19:05.
Delanoë was personally acquainted with the mother of my partner, a french lady, born in Bizerte where Delanoë lived.
He was famous for "watching" little boys and "approaching" them on the beach in Bizerte.
Until he became mayor he passed every holiday there with the same "passion"
Bizerte
Submitted by kappert on Wed, 2008-09-10 20:50.
So a 13 year old boy watches other boys on the beach, great story! What was monsieur traveller doing in French-occupied Bizerte at that time (battle of Bizerte 1961-63)? Don't worry, I do not care to know.
The Castle Ward Analogy
Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Wed, 2008-09-10 13:08.
"In the middle of the eighteenth century the Viscount Bangor and his Lady Anne Bligh, both people who were passionate about architecture, decided to have a house built...
http://paolosinterweblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/aesthetic-relativism.html
Without assertion of belief there can be no discussion let alone argument. If we are all right, who could possibly dare challenge our opinions? ...".
don't worry
Submitted by kappert on Wed, 2008-09-10 11:47.
The city will be insanely busy with the Papa Razzi visit. Meanwhile, French police have placed radical gay militants under surveillance, to avoid a repeat of the condom shower that greeted the Pope in (protestant) Sydney. Some 6,000 police and other security forces will be covering the event, a deployment of unprecedented scale, including an AWACS aircraft, fighter-jets and anti-missile batteries will seal off airspace extending some 20 kilometers around the city.