154 Comments:

• oh ... my ... fucking ... god ...

  By Angie, on 6:17 AM  

• I am so sad right now!
  That is so disturbing, I am going to cry for the little puppies and kitties.

  By Mye, on 6:22 AM  

• that makes me die inside.

  By i ate a smurf, on 6:25 AM  

• How can anyone have any respect for the french after that...

  By derek, on 6:28 AM  

• Holy shit. That's disgusting. They should take the fisherman, hook his bottom lip, throw him over the side and wait for the sharks to eat him for dinner. Then catch the shark and feed it to the poor little kitties and puppies at the local shelters.

  By Anonymous, on 6:37 AM  

• The "great" Brigitte Bardot is not only well known as a big animal rights activist nowadays. She is better known as a racist and crazy person.

  By Anonymous, on 6:48 AM  

• Stop crying you liberal pc hippies. At least it wasn't a fucking baby with downs.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 6:49 AM  

• That is absolutely disgusting! I agree with the other anonymous poster, the fisherman should be hooked and tossed over board to catch a shark. Or how would they like it if one of their children were hooked and used as fish bait!

  By Anonymous, on 6:55 AM  

• I don't know if you can really pin this on the French. They own the island, but it's like over a thousand miles from France, off the coast of Africa. By the way, if this practice didn't make you sick enough, go google "dog fighting bait dog."

  By Anonymous, on 7:01 AM  

• thats makes me ill.

  By Anonymous, on 7:14 AM  

• Now I am sad. Unbelievable what people can do to other creatures.
  
  My pug (child) is running around my house right now.
  
  If I ever came across someone being cruel to animals I would end up in prison.
  
  Go Brigitte

  By Heathaaa, on 7:22 AM  

• Alan Alda ... You are a disgusting human being, you have absolutely no compassion for living creatures. It is definately disturbing to hear that someone is ok with this happening to defenseless animals. I hope someone sticks a hook in your mouth and throws you to the sharks.
  Dirt Pig.

  By Anonymous, on 7:26 AM  

• "a French island located in the Indian Ocean"
  
  I guess it's cool to hate the French, but how about the fact that the people of this island are ethnically mixed and come from different parts of Africa, India, China, Pakistan, etc? Shall we hate them all, too? I guess it's only NOT racist to hate people if they're French.
  
  By the way, Brigitte Bardot is a fucking idiot. She is also known for being racist, anti-muslim, anti-gay, and supporting any old animal rights cause without knowing the facts behind the situation.

  By Anonymous, on 7:32 AM  

• I'd condone people using other people as shark bait; God only knows I can't think of more than a handful of people that I'd rather seen eaten alive than a puppy. Maybe that's too much info...

  By Russ, on 7:33 AM  

• That story makes me want to hug my dog.
  
  Note to self: Don't eat fish while in France.

  By Anonymous, on 7:34 AM  

• yeah there are like 14 people in france doing this, half are probaly from cyprus and the other half from africa, but lets go crucify a whole country. you know how many puppies have died in Iraq in the last 9 days? how did they die? you know how many kittens are going to be born dead or deformed for the rest of the existance of Iraq due to the use of depleted uranium in weapons? oh how sad...

  By Anonymous, on 8:05 AM  

• Filthy 'Cheese eatin' surrender monkeys.'

  By Russ, on 8:18 AM  

• Armalite. And go for the AR-10. The 5.56 won't penetrate enough to be certain.

  By Anonymous, on 8:29 AM  

• HAHAHAHAHA!!
  I don't know what's funnier: the french using puppies & kittens to fish with, or a bunch of Americans claiming outrage with the French for being desensitized to violence.

  By Anonymous, on 8:36 AM  

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  By Anonymous, on 8:41 AM  

• I live in an area of Florida,which is the "shark attack" capital of the world. The practice of baiting sharks is called "chumming", and it's not legal here for the simple reason that the results are disasterous...(leads to attacks on people.)
  
  If the fisherman are idiotic enough to persist, I imagine they'll experience the consequences in their waters much in the same way we have here. After all, the sharks don't care if you're Americans or not!!!
  
  "Send us more tourists...the last ones were delicious."

  By Anonymous, on 8:57 AM  

• I love puppies and kittens too, and agree that this is terrible, but does anyone have a problem with the fact that they are catching and killing sharks? Do they not have a right to live just because they aren't cute?
  
  And to those who would argue that they're nasty predators, what about cows, sheep, etc - animals who would never hurt us - who are killed for human use every day by the hundreds of thousands (if not more)?
  
  I heard of a stunt by Vietnam war protesters: they announced that they were going to kill a puppy. So of course lots of people turned up to protest, people who would never have turned up to protest human beings dying (on both sides) in Vietnam. And there was no puppy.
  
  Don't even get me started on blaming France for this. I sure don't want to be blamed for things other Americans are doing!

  By Anonymous, on 9:11 AM  

• I'll condone using Muslims as shark bait.
  
  Specifically young, male Muslims.

  By Anonymous, on 9:25 AM  

• ^
  I just "blame" the handful of idiotic fisherman, same as the ones who chum the waters here in Florida. (Except as I said earlier, it's already illegal here as a matter of practical consequence.)
  
  I think it was just two year's back, an eight year old little boy got attacked, and officials turned up evidence of fisherman chumming the water. Pretty sad.
  
  But it is difficult for me to blame the sharks for doing what is natural to them.
  
  So,"Send us more fisherman, the last ones were delicious."

  By Anonymous, on 9:26 AM  

• Revolutionary War
  
  France Allied with American Colonies
  February 6, 1778
  France aided the colonists by providing military armaments and loans. France's support deepened after the Americans beat the British in the October 1777 Battle of Saratoga, proving themselves committed to independence and worthy of a formal alliance. King Louis XVI approved financial assistance to the American colonists only four days after Franklin and his comrades requested it.
  
  During the Revolution, France sent an estimated 12,000 soldiers and 32,000 sailors to the American war effort, the most famous of whom was the Marquis of Lafayette. He became a good friend (ami) with American commander in chief George Washington in the process.
  
  Thus, without France there is a good chance we wouldn't be living the life we live. Oh yeah, and who was the smart country that said Fuck you USA when it came time to start an illegal war on a country not related to 9/11. Those arrogant blamy bastards aren't all that bad. So take your SUV and go get YOUR fucking "freedom fries"!

  By Anonymous, on 9:59 AM  

• "Thus, without France there is a good chance we wouldn't be living the life we live. Oh yeah, and who was the smart country that said Fuck you USA when it came time to start an illegal war on a country not related to 9/11. Those arrogant blamy bastards aren't all that bad. So take your SUV and go get YOUR fucking "freedom fries"!"
  
  Hahahaha!!! Right on!!!!!
  
  (and I'm American)

  By Anonymous, on 10:04 AM  

• ^ We should just nuke all the Muslim countries rather than continuing with this 'illegal' (cough ... bullshit ... hippies) war.

  By Anonymous, on 10:12 AM  

• Q. How do you say "Give me liberty or give me death!" in French?
  A. I give up.
  
  Q. How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
  A. Nobody knows. It's never been tried.
  
  Q. What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up?
  A. The French Army.
  
  Q. Why was the Chunnel built under the English Channel?
  A. So the French government could to flee to London.
  
  Q: Did you hear about the new French tanks?
  A: They have 5 gears...4 in reverse, and one forward gear just in case they're attacked from behind!
  
  Q: Why don't they have fireworks at Euro Disney?
  A: Because every time they shoot them off, the French try to surrender.
  
  Q: Why do they have trees in Paris?
  A: So the Germans can march in the shade instead of the sun
  
  Q: Why is good to be French?
  A: You can surrender at the beginning of the war, and US will win it for you.
  
  Q: What is the first thing you are taught when joining the French army?
  A: To say "I surrender" in German
  
  Q: Why was Jesus not born in France?
  A: Because they couldn’t find three wise men or a virgin.
  
  Q: Did you hear about France's new weapons contracts?
  A: They gave one to Ace Hardware to produce 250,000 wood sticks...they are still looking for a company to produce 250,000 little white flags.
  
  Q: Where are the brave French soldiers buried?
  A: There aren't any so they had to bury some of ours on their soil.

  By Anonymous, on 10:36 AM  

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  By Anonymous, on 10:42 AM  

• Oh for the love of Jesus' taint, I don't necessarily condone using puppies like you do one of those $5 styrofoam containers of fishing worms bought at the gas station, but please hear me out:
  
  For starters, why is it ok to use worms to fish; aren't they living creatures?
  
  Moving up the Darwinian food chain, would it be ok to use sewer rats as shark bait? I bet nobody would give 2 shits if "the French" were using rats to fish and rats are at least as smart as those retarded Irish setters and certainly more advanced from a genetic-selection survival point of view.
  
  But you know why nobody cares about rats? Because they aren't cute like puppies. So in essence, if you read this article and were duly offended but aren't out there saving rats on a daily bias, you a species bigot and by extension may or may not support eugenics. Like Hitler. You sick fucks.
  
  Also, while fishing for Jaws using Lassie might not be the most enjoyable mental picture for some of you, who the fuck are we to dictate morality? You DO realize that our tax dollars went to this little thing called Operation Iraqi Freedom, don't you? You realize some (10,000 conservatively) people died there right? Innocent people. Civilians. Kids. So cry for your pugs you repugnant pieces of hypocrite shit.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 11:14 AM  

• I don't understand what's with the France-bashing. Would anyone expect the US to be blamed if some fishermen in Guam were doing something similar?

  By Anonymous, on 11:23 AM  

• daily "basis". Excuse me. Though a daily bias does sound interesting.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 11:28 AM  

• alan alda is gangsta...
  
  marry me?
  
  this was beginning to sound like a fucking PETA rally. just because the cute widdle puppies and kitties are being used.
  
  used as an excuse to be completely racist, of course. but it's ok, because it's only the french!

  By Anonymous, on 11:30 AM  

• Fuck the French. They hate us. We hate them. That's the way it is. Go to France and talk to the snail snorting fucks about Americans and see if it sounds any different than what you've heard here. Travel much?

  By Anonymous, on 11:34 AM  

• The French are arrogant but we're arrogant AND ignorant. Which is worse? We better tear down the Statue of Liberty while we're at it. I love how all the retards in middle America have a patriotic orgasm for Dale Earnhardt, bald eagles, flags and the Statue of Liberty but in the next breath rip the French a new one. "The ironing is delicious."

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 11:48 AM  

• France is a fantasy for the whole world.
  
  America is hated by the whole world.
  
  Sorry man.

  By Greg, on 12:13 PM  

• I wish I had poor logic-it looks like life would be more fun. Somehow you take the practice of French using dogs/cats as bait and managed to turn it into a rant against middle America.
  
  What?
  
  And for Greg...how many are trying to emigrate to France vs. the US?

  By alan alda is a fucking idiot, on 12:26 PM  

• Not "everyone" hates America. And those who do are jealous of us.

  By Anonymous, on 12:32 PM  

• Thanks for that comment, Anon 9:11 AM. Anyone who eats animals or wears animal products is such a hypocrite...let's all cry for the cute little puppies! But it's ok to torture chickens and cows, because they're not cute. Yeah. OK. Love ALL animals, and get indignant over the treatment of ALL animals, not just the cute ones.
  
  And to the last commenter, keep seeing the world thru your rose colored glasses. America is the most hated country in the world, for our arrogance and ignorance.

  By pebbles, on 12:36 PM  

• ^ Good. Pack your ignorant ass up and move out of the country. See how much you bitch about America then.

  By Anonymous, on 12:38 PM  

• They're jealous of us? Really?! I thought they "hated our freedom"!
  
  What are they jealous of exactly? Our obesity? Our $17 gasoline? Our mediocrity in almost every field that doesn't include eating things on reality television? There are dozens of free and democratic countries that have higher standards of living than America. The UN publishes a list every year or every 2 years that ranks them using a set of accepted criteria.
  
  I was being satirical and pointing out that the Statue of Liberty, the preeminent symbol of America for more than a century, was a gift from the French.
  
  The same small minded people that practice bizarre iconography and worship their Nascar collectable plates and the Statue of Liberty while in a patriotic fervor forget that the cheese-eating surrender monkeys gave us the damn thing.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 12:44 PM  

• The French don't live on an island in the Indian Ocean. FRANCE is that country in EUROPE, you know, beside Germany and Switzerland, close to the UK and Italy?
  
  Do they even teach geography in the US anymore? I mean geography of the world, as the world is not made up of the US.
  
  Get a grip. We're talking about a small nation technically owned by France, far away from France, where are few fishermen are doing something that the French people appear to be opposed to. I can never understand how Americans can hate the French, or have they stopped teaching history in the US as well? American history, this time.

  By Anonymous, on 12:48 PM  

• alan alda, you're obviously an ignorant, young guy. Early twenties, perhaps?
  
  When you're done hanging out with the rest of the Michael Moore fanclub and absorbing every bit of propaganda MoveOn.org spews forth move to those countries I'm sure you've spent a copious amount of time studying.
  
  I'm sure you'll be much better off.

  By Anonymous, on 12:50 PM  

• Exactly. The island was probably a French colony 200 years ago. Like how there are the "French West Indies" and the "Netherland Antilles". I have decided to put these geographic areas in quotations because since no one apparently understands geography, they might as well be fictional concepts.
  
  The people there are not French in the immature and simplistic, Peppie LePew way you are thinking. They are Black and Creole and speak the French language. They are they progeny of various Caribbean peoples, slaves and some French colonialists.
  
  Also, why isn't this mysterious island being named? That makes me suspicious.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 12:56 PM  

• >>Also, why isn't this mysterious island being named? That makes me suspicious.
  
  Sad. Your posts show that you're an ignorant, angry fellow that reacts based on your opinions rather than logic. Why start your need for evidence now?

  By Anonymous, on 1:00 PM  

• Out permalink is jacked up and I mistakenly thought the reason may have been the links in one of the comments, so sorry to that person for deleting them.
  
  They said, " Anonymous said...
  
  For christ sake, it's not because some fucktards are doing it that every fisherman in France are doing it!
  
  I've seen pictures of the poor dog. There are no words really.
  You can see one here actually here. (you have to scroll a little). And I've just found a video."
  
  I didn't save the links, so feel free to re-post them.
  
  My apologies. Smooches.

  By Jenny, on 1:04 PM  

• Michael Moore is a fat liberal fuck. I like him and his legion of spoiled, east coast student protestors about as much as I like a rusty nail enema. Michael Moore doesn't make documentaries or even movies, he makes narcissistic odes to his own unshaven, obese face.
  
  I don't understand what is wrong with this country if we cannot accept our faults. Do we want to slip further into mediocrity or do we want to fix things and be able to truly be proud of the place we call home? If you viewed America as a singular entity(like a person) and sent it to a shrink, America would have a huge problem with denial and a baseless sense of entitlement.
  
  And America was also molested by its third grade piano teacher.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 1:05 PM  

• The island is actually called Reunion, google "reunion island" and you'll find it on the CIA world factbook.

  By Anonymous, on 1:05 PM  

• Oh sorry, I guess I shouldn't ask for the name of the country that is supposedly using pound puppies as shark bait. No need for sources or facts. Let's just believe everything we are told, like the pretty little Orwellian drones we are.
  
  Geez, I was just asking what the name of the country is. Then perhaps people could complain to Reunion Island and not mindlessly insult the European nation of France which has, ummm I dunno, about NOTHING to do with this issue.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 1:11 PM  

• Found the problem. I'll re-post this person's post with a fixed link.
  
  Sorry for the interruption.
  
  " Anonymous said...
  
  Nothing remotely funny about this. Cruelty and suffering towards anyone or anything should not be funny to you or tolerated by society. That's how we get things change in the world.
  
  Here is a site with photos and a petition. I know it's long, cut and paste.
  30millionsdamis
  
  August 26, 2005 8:41 AM"

  By Jenny, on 1:18 PM  

• alan alda is gangsta says,
  
  "You don't know the history of political thought. I do.
  
  Despite having an introdctory class at community college, I will throw around enough terms (I don't know what they mean) to fool you into thinking I know something.
  
  Even better, I will insult a class of this country that has nothing to do with this topic.
  
  Children."

  By Anonymous, on 1:21 PM  

• Please tell me what terms you feel I am throwing around that I do not understand and let's see if I can clarify things. I have no problem having a fair debate about this.
  
  Also children aren't a (socio-economic or otherwise) "class", they are a age group or a statistical group.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 1:25 PM  

• French frog eating bastards. I hate your food. I hate your face. I hate your country.

  By Dom Jolly, on 1:26 PM  

• ^ Ha! Yay! Trigger Happy TV. Excellent.

  By Anonymous, on 1:29 PM  

• Out permalink is jacked up and I mistakenly thought the reason may have been the links in one of the comments, so sorry to that person for deleting them.
  I didn't even notice it got deleted. And I swear, I entered my name but it somehow got posted as anonymous.
  
  I didn't save the links, so feel free to re-post them.
  Sure!
  the video is here
  And for those who can't bother watching the video here's a picture of the dog
  
  There's also an online petition.

  By mel, on 1:30 PM  

• Personally, when I run out of puppies and kittens, I use orphaned Iraqi Children as shark bait. All my french interns are happy to help bait baby Kangaroo's and burn pictures of George Bush. And I you belive any of this... Johnny Depp is my french father.

  By Live from Iraq, on 1:51 PM  

• Jealous of "our $17 gas?" We pay bottom dollar compared to European countries, many of whom have been well over $6 USD for years. That's why they ride bikes.
  
  Sorry to nit pick, otherwise I agree with much of what you said, alan alda is gansta.
  
  And to the pompous fuck who assumed alan alda is gangster is a "young male... early twenties perhaps," I hope to God you're correct. It's about time members of my generation tear themselves away from watching Cribs long enough to have an opinion. Quit bitching, old man.

  By Anonymous, on 1:53 PM  

• Christ, what happened to this comment thread? Guess it was the provocative post. Well, it worked Brendon, it worked.
  
  I don't see how getting rid of a bloodthirsty tyrant like saddam and trying to bring democracy to iraq is a bad thing. Let's not lose sight of this one incontrovertible truth among all the inane chatter swirling around this issue.
  
  The reason the french govt was against the war was not because they have some deep abiding love or respect for iraqis or moslems (they don't) but because french corporations had signed important contracts with saddam to do business in iraq even though they knew what kind of a "human being" he was.
  
  I live in europe and am a moslem. George W. Bush is trying to do the right thing in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East and I fully support him. I am truly amazed that so many Americans are willing to leave their families and comfort to go halfway around the world and risk their life to help a long suffering miserable people that they do not even know.
  I am also amazed by how much criticism and hatred Bush has to put up with just for trying to do the right thing. I mean, what the fuck? You go and get rid of some thug killer psychopath and everyone whines about it! What if that cocksucker had been your neighbor?
  
  And, don't be fooled, the reason why other countries "hate" the US (a meaningless word in politics, really) is indeed because they are jealous of the US's military, economic and political might. Also, this is the natural burden that comes with being the biggest kid in the block. But at least this kid is trying to do the right thing and for that I truly say God bless America and, in my opinion, He does so every day.
  
  And yeah, ha ha, I know that sounds gay 'n all, but this time i don't give a shit.

  By brent, on 1:58 PM  

• Venezula pays sub 20 cents. If we weren't constantly trying to overthrow/assasinate their leader perhaps they could give us a break on the crude. Chavez is no worse than Pinochet or any of the other litany of Central and South American despots we installed over the years.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 1:58 PM  

• I eat puppies, kittens and French people...so fuck you all and your petty social issues. I'll eat your asses!!!

  By Anonymous, on 2:04 PM  

• Actually, the 'crying for my pug hypocrite' is a vegetarian, and a Canadian. (Alan Alda)
  
  I do what I do (though not enough) to ease the suffering of all animals, including volunteer at an orphaned/injured wildlife clinic where I've handfed and helped to pee/poo animals some people might call 'pests'.
  
  I think one of the reasons why some people feel more for 'pet' type animals is because they are domesticated animals that depend on us. My pug truly thinks I will make everything all right in his world.
  I would, however be horrified if rats were being tortured in this way.
  
  And while we all harbour hypocricy and ignorance, yes I would have to agree that Americans are pretty high up there on that scale.
  
  Hee hee.

  By Heathaaa, on 2:05 PM  

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  By Heathaaa, on 2:07 PM  

• Hey heathaaa... here's your fucking cookie!!! Why don't you volunteer your time licking the sweat off my balls!!

  By Anonymous, on 2:11 PM  

• Hey people, take a look at the world seen by an American
  (by the way France is not a city and it's in Europe)
  
  
  http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/kungfu/world/world-usa2003.html

  By Greg, on 2:12 PM  

• Getting rid of assholes like Saddam Hussein is not a bad thing at all. There are some problems behind the rationale and the execution of the plan.
  
  The inital problem is that the administration wasn't forthcoming or truthful from the beginning about the motives. If you want to say that Saddam Hussein is a human rights violator and needs to go that is fair, but that's not what they did.
  
  They offered a bunch of rationales of varying degrees of validity as to what Saddam's problem was. WMD, yellowcake uranium, nukes, etc. You cannot drill buzzwords an ideas into the minds of the population for 2 years and then expect people to forget the reasons you told them justified a war. And furthermore, it really fosters a lot of doubt and a lack of confidence in people when you keep switching the reasons for something as serious a war. This isn't a game of Risk here, people actually die.
  
  And if WMD, etc. are a basis for invasion, then are a greater offenders than Saddam and we need to examine the risks that they pose to us. (Kim Jong Il, I'm looking at you.)
  
  Then when the other things didn't pan out, they used the humanitarian/rights card as the reason for invasion. That's very noble and everything but it might hold a little more weight if the United States didn't give Iraq $2 billon in relief and other various monies one year after Saddam gassed the Kurds. All the governments and media outlets were aware of this at the time and the US still gave Iraq the money. Not only does it look like they were rewarding bad behavior but it also makes for a flimsy argument when you try to prosecute the butcher.
  
  Finally, the United States in doing a far less than stellar job in Iraq. We are sending soldiers over there to face death every day and the generals are having to fight a war without the troop amounts they needed and requested, the body and vehicle armor they need and using a plan created by a bunch of ideologue wackjob civilians in the Pentagon. Military people like Colin Powell should have been utilized in designing a plan for war, but moreso the occupation, not Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 2:27 PM  

• 1. Yes I'm a vegetarian. Your point? I don't like the taste of meat that much. Sorry. I just really want to kill plants.
  
  2. I'm a dual citizen. Born and raised American as well as possesing Canadian citizenship. Again, I'm not entirely sure what it is that you are getting at.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 2:30 PM  

• fucking morons. All of you.
  
  Will you hurry the fuck up and EVOLVE!?

  By Anonymous, on 2:49 PM  

• ^
  I agree with you, Alan Alda ...this issue has virtually nothing to do with France, except that these are where these moronic fisherman are from. Again, here in Florida where chumming is even illegal, some idiots do it anyway.
  
  As they say, stupidity isn't a mutually exclusive trait you could attribute to one nation. Stupidity crosses the boundaries of race, religion, education, gender,etc..
  
  Glad to hear you're a vegetarian, Alan.(me, too) Think that's awesome.

  By Anonymous, on 3:02 PM  

• As to being vegetarian I was alluding to the comment that people don't care about animals that are non-puppy/kitten. Also, while some may not eat meat because they don't like the taste, I have chosen not to eat it since 16 years ago because of my feelings for the suffering of the animal.
  
  As to being Canadian, I was referring to the comment you about Americans being extra ignorant/ Iraq issue.
  
  You seem (Alan Alda) to have a lot of anger/frustration (it shows your passion) towards this whole subject that I would say would be better directed elsewhere. The practice of putting animals on fish hooks is obviously cruel, and it would be better for the animals if it didn't occur. Just like a kazillion other things.
  
  I think stupidity is just a human trait in general.

  By Heathaaa, on 3:15 PM  

• ...and by 'elsewhere' I mean just agreeing that puppies on hooks sucks and not jumping on people for feeling icky about it. And not generalizing and making assumptions about people.
  
  Agree with the Iraq synopsis, but I guess it's basic knowlege.
  
  And thanks, I love cookies. Anything I've said is not for kudos, of course, I don't deserve it. I'm just making points about making generalized assumptions about people.
  
  And it's fun to goad people who are all riled up.

  By Heathaaa, on 3:27 PM  

• ^ Cool you're a vegetarian, too, heathaaa.
  
  As well as feeling bad for the more domestic animals, I really do feel bad for the sharks they're killing, too. (Talk about a misunderstood creature with a really bad reputation.)

  By Anonymous, on 3:41 PM  

• I'm glad the day you posted this, Brendon, coincides with the day there's an absinthe advertisement on the page. I think after reading this thread, I may order myself some...sigh.

  By Anonymous, on 3:47 PM  

• Screw puppies and kittens. If God had wanted them to not be eaten by sharks, he would have had Roy Scheider arm them with oxygen tanks and rifles. It's natural selection crybabies. Vive La France!!!

  By Anonymous, on 3:59 PM  

• http://www.divernet.com/news/stories/sharkfeeding120604.shtml
  
  Just som FAQ's about sharks, and chumming.

  By Anonymous, on 4:12 PM  

• ;o)
  
  Cool to anyone who tries to avoid harming animals in whatever way, like vegetarianism.
  
  Agreed too about the sharks being killed. Totally cool creatures and unfairly feared/hated. Awful the sharks being mutilated for their 'delicacy' fins and thrown back.
  
  As to the French; I live in Ottawa, right on the border with Quebec, and there is a big hate-fest back and forth. Separatism etc. My boyfriend is French and a separatist sorta, so I like to get him all riled up too. He also lived with Drew Barrymore for half a year as a roomie a couple years back (getting back to celebrities). She is one cool/sweet chick.

  By Heathaaa, on 4:19 PM  

• I tasted absinthe a couple of weeks ago (and no cheeky comments related to brain cells necessary). It was literally a tiny sip and enough to make me nervous. It tasted kinda anise/licoricey and sorta changed consistency in my mouth. Cool but freaky.
  
  I'll be drinking other concoctions tonight, of course. At 32 I'm not a cougar yet! Yet...

  By Heathaaa, on 4:32 PM  

• Absinthe is fine, you just don't want to drink it to excess or too much. It will fucking murder your kidneys/liver and may or may not be neurotoxic if used long term. Nothing says good times like neurotoxins.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 4:54 PM  

• As far as I can remember it was mentioned countless times by the administration that saddam was a "human rights violator" (an understatment, at best) and it was in any case common knowledge the world over that he was a killer (how much reminding did you need?). Before the war everyone thought saddam had WMD, this was based on the Blix report presented to the UN. The fact he didn't wasn't the result of any deception by the US admin and doesn't negate the legitimacy of their action in Iraq.
  The reasons for war, as far as I can tell, have never been switched: disarming and getting rid of a dangerous man and bringing some sort of democracy to a people and a region that have not had it.
  
  It's true the US helped or looked the other way with some unsavory regimes in the past, saddam amongst others, but 9/11 made it realize it could no longer follow such a policy which is why an opposite one is being followed today. Just because the US did things wrong in the past is no reason for then preventing it from doing something right today!
  As far as the other problem countries are concerned, N. Korea, Iran, etc., the US can only do so much at any given time, and yet, it is doing what it can about these cases as well. Again, just because the US cannot be in all places at all times and take care of all problems simultaneously is no reason to then stop it from doing the right thing in the places it can. Europe could help here but does not, instead they criticise Bush and argue with each other. They didn't even do anything when atrocities were happening in their own backyard in Bosnia.
  
  As to the state of the US effort in Iraq, the problem is that the news networks and the papers need something to talk about everyday to sell advertising so they report on every single death, every single suicide bomber, every single bereaved mother of a killed soldier, etc. Then various half-baked pundits and retired generals also put in their two cents and analyse and pick apart every little detail and argue about troop numbers and the rest all the while domestic politicians use every opportunity to score points and so on; a circus, as we all know.
  Naturally, day after day of these kinds of reports and an excessive focus on the details ends up giving the impression of a "quagmire" or "failure" in Iraq. However, these facts, tragic as they are, are details and do not, and should not, cloud one's view of the larger picture taking shape in Iraq, which is a positive one. When you consider that out of 150,000+ US troops only 1,800 have been killed and that elections have been held in which 8 million people voted for the first time in their lives and when you see that now a government and a constitution is being formed it is hard to see how the US is "failing". Once the effort in Iraq succeeds, which it will since the US has no choice but for it to succeed, then this will have a large impact on the region as a whole and other Arab/Islamic dictatorships and regimes will follow. This can only be described as a good thing.
  Of course, in Iraq everything does not always go smoothly and tactical mistakes are made, naturally, but at least the US is doing something in real terms, not just talk, and means well. Can the same be said of the suicide bombers in Iraq and Bush's critics in the US and around the world?
  
  Colin Powell is a nice, likeable man but, essentially, weak. It was because of him the US didn't get saddam the first time it had the chance. His weakness is also why he didn't end up running for president and why he was let go as Secy of State. The US needs to demonstrate strength and determination at this time.

  By brent, on 5:17 PM  

• "The reason the french govt was against the war was not because they have some deep abiding love or respect for iraqis or moslems (they don't) but because french corporations had signed important contracts with saddam to do business in iraq even though they knew what kind of a "human being" he was."
  
  This post deserved a bump. Read the book 'Hating America' and it describes what this person is talking about not just with France but several other nations as well. Yes it is biased, but you can pull some good info from it.

  By Russ, on 5:29 PM  

• God lord, you are so full of shit that I don't even know where to start. I'll address this later after I get home.
  
  And FYI, America didn't get rid of Saddam in Gulf War 1 because George Bush Sr. made the military decision not to "go on to Baghdad" and also did not provide air and tactical support at the last minute to a US backed group of Iraqis that ultimately got slaughtered by Saddam.
  
  And yah, it couldn't possibly be that almost 2,000 Americans have died over there and we greatly underestimated the guerilla capabilities of Iraqis. No clearly the media is just trying to "sell papers".
  
  At any rate, it's nice to know that Dick Chaney visits IDontLikeYouInThatWay.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 5:36 PM  

• Sorry Dick, I misspelled your name. My bad.

  By Alan Alda Is Gangsta, on 5:37 PM  

• ^ Yup. I'll be trying that absinthe. No long term thing...just a one time, I tried it once ,sort of thing.Thanks for looking out for my kidneys, alan alda!!!!
  
  Just for the record, I'm an American with some French blood lines. Which of course, doesn't make any difference on my position, which is as follows:
  
  1. Drink absinthe
  
  2. blog, while doing step number one.
  
  3. Always try to promote good will with others, whether or not you believe you'll be rewarded or that it will make a difference.
  
  4. repeat number one and two.
  
  5. must leave the sharks alone, they're entitled to their lives
  
  6. repeat all of the above, and have faith in the good of humanity, as it really does exist and will prevail.
  
  7. drink more absinthe, blog, and don't blast anyone along the way...chances are, they'd turn out to be someone you'd want to get drunk with.....

  By Anonymous, on 9:11 PM  

• alan alda is gansta: What are they jealous of exactly? .... Our mediocrity in almost every field that doesn't include eating things on reality television?
  
  "Mediocrity"? And you complain about other people's "ignorance"? Educate yourself.
  
  alan alda is gansta: They offered a bunch of rationales of varying degrees of validity as to what Saddam's problem was. ....Then when the other things didn't pan out, they used the humanitarian/rights card as the reason for invasion.
  
  They consistently made the democracy/human rights argument before the invasion. See, e.g., this, this and this. It wasn't adopted out of expedience after the WMD search turned up nothing.

  By Serenity Now, on 5:28 AM  

• ^ Michael, that's spoken like a Republican. And not an average Republican, but a "believe every word you hear of that dribble" Republican. Sell your motives for a justified war somewhere other than the world wide web. Most of the world was against this, including a lot of Americans.
  
  George Bush is not a man of the people...he's "the Commander In Cheif", and doesn't care if someone has a difference of opinion with him. Very much like Republicans before him handled Iran Contra, GWB is making it up as he goes along. It's been so wishy washy it's fishy. But fish is what this fucking thread was about for those who lost sight along the way.
  
  "Fighting for peace, is like fucking for virginity."

  By Anonymous, on 9:13 AM  

• To Anon: I agree about promoting good will; I probably would enjoy a drink with any of the bloggers (people here get unnecessarily personal and nasty), leaving sharks (and puppies) alone.
  
  Thanks to above for the link to the petition. I signed it 'just in case' it would help some creatures somewhere.

  By Heathaaa, on 12:18 PM  

• Hmm, that's too bad. I actually thought you might have some intelligence so bothered to write something on your points about Iraq etc. But now you have resorted to getting personal, calling me names and giving weak, nonsensical responses to the points I raised.
  
  Oh well, guess you're not that smart.

  By brent, on 12:45 PM  

• ^Rahneshin,
  If you agree about leaving the puppies and sharks alone, I'd still have a drink with you!!!!

  By Anonymous, on 2:59 PM  

• Anonymous (August 27, 2005 9:13 AM): Michael, that's spoken like a Republican. And not an average Republican, but a "believe every word you hear of that dribble" Republican.
  
  I'm not a Republican, and I haven't voted for a Republican for president (including Bush) since 1988. Also, the word you're looking for is "drivel," not "dribble."
  
  Anonymous (August 27, 2005 9:13 AM): Sell your motives for a justified war somewhere other than the world wide web.
  
  I'm not selling anything. I'm explaining to "alan alda is gansta" that he's mistaken about when the Bush administration offered the "Iraqi democracy" rationale for invading. People can choose whether or not to agree with or believe that argument, but they can't say it was adopted after the invasion.

  By Serenity Now, on 3:00 AM  

• Does anyone else find it hard to believe that Rahneshin is a "Moslem" living in Europe?
  
  Why the references to "god" and, even more curiously, "christ"?
  Why the use of a spelling that Muslims do not like and no longer use?
  
  You are a spoonfed, know-nothing dominionist. Just admit it. The ignorance you babble here is no different than the ignorance babbled on Fox News, and lying about who you are doesn't change that.

  By Anonymous, on 9:33 AM  

• I'm sure you think dribble only applies to the bouncing of a ball. But it can also be applied thusly:
  
  A dribble of drivel. (LOL)
  
  In any event, it amounts to the same thing, love.
  
  And I CAN, in fact, say: It (the "Iraqi democracy" rationale) was adopted after the invasion. Anyone capable of speech, can say it. As to whether or not saying something makes it a dribble of drivel or not, is another matter all together.
  
  Personally, I think anything Bush has used as an excuse to justify his actions, has been a dribble of drivel. I don't think the true intentions behind this war have been publicly exposed by the Bush administration. But in the eyes of many,his actions have been tantamount to a man grasping at straws because he failed to catch Bin Laden.
  
  From the onset, it should've been Bush and Bin Laden alone in a boxing ring together.

  By Anonymous, on 9:55 AM  

• You know what sucks? People like Alan Alda do have points, but they go so far into America-hating and care so much about what the world thinks and what the world does (when almost any other country has violated as many rules and decorum as us) that they come across as really really unlikable assholes.

  By Anonymous, on 1:32 PM  

• It's too bad you have to resort to calling me a liar and other silly things as a way of countering my points about Bush and Iraq.
  
  FYI:
  
  "God" is the English version of "Allah" in Arabic. To say in English that Moslems believe in "Allah" is like saying French people believe in "Dieu", or Germans "Gott". It makes no sense.
  
  Jesus Christ is a very revered Prophet of God in Islam (but he is not considered to be the "son" of God) and there are numerous references to him in the Koran as well as an entire chapter named after Mary (as well as Jonah, Joseph, Abraham and Noah). I can, and often do, make reference to him.
  
  "Moslem" is a perfectly acceptable and current spelling and I have never heard of anyone disliking it. "Muslim" is a transliteration of the Arabic version of the word. You should realise that not all Moslems are Arab.
  
  "Dominionist" is not a word.
  
  It's pretty obvious who the "ignorant" one here is and however much you may ally yourself to the liberal left in an attempt at seeming intellectual or intelligent won't change that.
  
  I'm beginning to think that you must be quite young and a little naive.

  By brent, on 2:58 PM  

• I have read all of these blogs and this is what comes to mind; alan alda gangsta LOVES to hear himself "talk" on here. I really don't think he cares what the topic is, it all just comes down to "PAY ATTENENTION TO ME, PAY ATTENTION TO ME, I AM SOOOOO SMART!!" lol

  By blogs, a new way to fight, on 3:13 PM  

• ^ Hey, rahneshin...don't listen to what everybody says at this site...some people post just to deliberately irritate others, or start problems.
  
  I've certainly had my share of being "blasted" at this site. I take it with a very big grain of salt.
  
  I had a friend from the Holy Land a long time ago, and he mentioned the same things you have about believing that Christ was a prophet, but not the Son of God.
  
  And I totally agree that it is naive for someone to think that there aren't any Moslems living in Europe (or America, for that matter.)Very naive.
  
  Anyway, peace be with you.

  By Anonymous, on 3:40 PM  

• I agree, young muslim males would be much more appropriate than puppies and kittens. Perhaps then "racial profiling" would become PC?
  
  Jim

  By Anonymous, on 9:58 PM  

• To alan alda 2:27p: That's because he had to try and sell it to idiots like you. Grow up and be a REAL man someday.
  
  Thanks.
  
  
  Jim

  By Jim, on 10:43 PM  

• Oh, you mean he should be a real man like you, and come along in the final hour and edit other's comments with criticism,huh,Jim?

  By Anonymous, on 7:33 AM  

• Viva la France. Only Filthy Americans with their filthy love of all things pork could make such a retarded blanket statement about an entire country! Fucking eat more fish so the rest of the world will quit thinking all Americans are intercloned with whales! And Brigitte Bardot is married to Nazi which really makes her work with animal rights groups about as relevant as Pam Anderson's!

  By Anonymous, on 11:05 AM  

• Alan Alda Is Gangsta said...
  The French are arrogant but we're arrogant AND ignorant. Which is worse? We better tear down the Statue of Liberty while we're at it. I love how all the retards in middle America have a patriotic orgasm for Dale Earnhardt, bald eagles, flags and the Statue of Liberty but in the next breath rip the French a new one. "The ironing is delicious."
  
  August 26, 2005 11:48 AM
  -----------------------------------
  
  Thank you for telling the goddamned truth!
  
  BB is a cunt; a dried out old cunt at that!

  By Jane, on 11:08 AM  

• Alan Alda is Gangsta is my new favorite person in the world.

  By Anonymous, on 2:45 PM  

• Fuck the French. They not only do this, but they eat horses. American horses, that are slaughtered in America and the meat shipped over there. The horses die from having their throats cut and bleeding to death. Many are ex-racehorses.
  
  Fucking French. May they rot in hell.

  By catriona, on 3:08 PM  

• ^
  A handful of fisherman in France do something stupid, and you criticize a whole nation of people. Can any thoughts penetrate your narrow fucking brain?

  By Anonymous, on 4:33 PM  

• A handful of people vote for Bush and you criticize all of Middle America and make general condescending statements. You liberals are fucking hipocrites, too.

  By Anonymous, on 6:54 PM  

• i love the french, and believe they were right. turns out they were right.
  
  Brendon's comments on the french are a JOKE, people. pretty funny too. don't everyone get their panties in a bunch.

  By othermother, on 7:56 PM  

• ^ no they weren't. how about you take the panties off your head. ha ha, i like that joke.

  By Anonymous, on 4:17 AM  

• It's easy to support the war in Irak, when you're behind your keyboard in your comfortable home.
  
  What, you're not in Bagdad fighting for freedom ?
  
  You guys crack me up.

  By Greg, on 6:20 AM  

• i eat anmials and i support the war in iraq (i'll be there shortly), but this is rediculous.
  
  the frech are actually direct descendents of satan. its a scientific fact.

  By Anonymous, on 8:43 AM  

• greg! thou art a moron.

  By Anonymous, on 1:37 PM  

• Jessica Simpson is above doing her French whore imitation...show some respect to the French.

  By Anonymous, on 1:44 PM  

• I guess they need to get back to hooking live fish through the mouth or back to attract sharks....the way nature intended.

  By Anonymous, on 5:53 AM  

• "Everytime you masturbate.. god gives a Kitten to a frenchman"

  By Anonymous, on 9:20 AM  

• "i guess sunshine and innocence wouldnt stay on the hook"-- that shit cracks me up

  By Anonymous, on 9:28 AM  

• This has little to do with the French, apart from the fact that the particular fisherman mentioned here is from France. I'm sure American fishermen are just as big pricks, and just as harsh to animals.

  By Aces_High, on 11:20 AM  

• How on earth did this topic go on so many tangents? I've hardly ever seen such idiocy, at least not on the West side of the Atlantic. What are you all, French?

  By Anonymous, on 11:25 AM  

• I am in no way condoning the practice described. But you Americans are such fucking hypocrites. What about all the dog fights in your country?!? Is that any less cruel? Training those beasts with kittens and puppies?? I am not even going to start expanding what the whole world can see you doing to your own countrymen and women in LA, MS and AL. And now you direct your disgust at the FRENCH??? How about cleaning up you OWN act first before hating "The French"?!? Without French assistance the US would still be a British colony. But then again, "world history" is not really your forte now, is it?

  By angry, on 12:25 PM  

• Wah wah one more reason to hate the French. Boo fuckin hoo. You know Jews slaugter lots of all kinds of animals yearly as a sacrificial ritual, but you don't hear about it because they own the media. Their also pretty disgusting when it comes to circumcision, a few baby boys caught HERPES from a Rabbi who SUCKED THE BLOOD FROM THEIR PENSIS AFTER CIRCUMCISING THEM. A link: http://volokh.com/posts/1125345741.shtml
  
  So just because a few French, that don't even live in France, practice a shameful habit like that, you shouldn't crap over all of them. Yet ALL JEWS ARE OK WITH AND ALLOW THIS TYPE OF CIRCUMCISION. THEY DON'T WANNA STOP EITHER. So please, direct your hate to the right people.

  By Anonymous, on 12:59 PM  

• ^^ Blame the illegal Mexican immigrants for those dog fights you're babbling about.

  By Anonymous, on 1:14 PM  

• i dont have much time for the french, but if some guys in ne of their overseas dependancies is using live dogs and cats to catch sharks, so be it. i dont think i would happily putt some hooks in a puppy and throwing it for shark bait, but then i am not a fisherman in what is a developing nation. ok, you may be entitled to a moral objection on this, but you have no right to judge these people. having not put hooks in dogs and fished with them, you can have no subjective opinion and having nounderstanding of being a fisherman in a underdeveloped country you can have no objective opinion. unless you agree with the premis what ever you say does not matter, you are wrong.

  By Doc, on 2:20 PM  

• you guys are such pussies, theres nothing wrong with using live bate for sharks :)

  By Anonymous, on 5:54 PM  

• Alan Alda - Great posts, I'm going to assume you take a hard line right down the middle like myself and most of America. Our "war" with Iraq is just one more generation of Americans being thrown into a meat grinder created by politicians for their agenda... Hallliburton has billions of dollars in contracts in Iraq.. who is the head of Halliburton? Cheney... coincidence? Get our boys out of there now... Oh yeah, animal cruelty thread, sorry, as for that, it sucks and i'm emphatic for the animals, but shouldn't we focus on human suffering before throwing all of our resources into animal cruelty? seems more logical but then again, the world's governments have never been logical... and now for the week's best celebrity quote:
  "George Bush hates black people."
  Kanye West - LOL LOL LOL
  
  Peace niggas - mayzenblue32@yahoo.com

  By Anonymous, on 6:03 PM  

• dude, i hate the french just as much as anyone...but notice that no one cares about the sharks? i mean, should an animal only be saved if its cute? its the same idea of "save the dolphins from the tuna nets" when no one gives a shit about the tuna...ever heard of the save the snake foundation? adopt and octopus? of course not...you hypocritical assholes are the same people who heal yourselves with crystals, eat vegan, and cry for bambi's mom every night...go fuck yourselfs...

  By teajae, on 6:36 PM  

• Sweet Christ...I know it sounds horrible, and I would never really stand up for the French for much more than their instrumental role in liberating the colonies, but people do all kinds of fucked up shit to animals everyday. Do you know what veal is? How about fois gras? I don't fucking care, either. I'll eat that shit and wash it down with a glass of blood. And "Hawkeye" up there whining about Iraq...give it a fucking rest. "Meat grinder"? Please. More people kill each other every day in Detroit than in Iraq. And now there are sub-human pieces of shit who have armed themselves in New Orleans, and have started to fire upon RESCUE WORKERS. But I have heard all the rhetoric...it's Dubbya's fault, right? Don't you understand that you can't just keep blaming EVERYTHING that goes wrong on ONE FUCKING GUY!!!You people make me fucking sick!

  By liberals_blow_goats, on 6:37 PM  

• Whoever doesn't think using live puppies and kittens as bait is fucked up can go die.
  Although it pisses me off that people would do that kind of crazy shit, it pisses me off even more that people who are so compassionate-seeming towards animals don't care at all about racism. Hating the french because of this is just as bad, if not worse, as hooking up a puppy to a line to catch a shark.
  Basically, if you are pro animal rights but blame animal cruelty on a whole nation, I would like to see you hooked to a fishing pole by your dick (or other genitalia of your choosing) and dangled in the water for a great white to tear your limbs off one by one. I would enjoy that, in fact.
  
  Bah like a sheep bitch

  By Anonymous, on 7:11 PM  

• Whatever stupid old nasty french fishermen do that need to DIE!!!! RIGHT NOW

  By Anonymous, on 7:24 PM  

• I hate vegetarianism almost as much as I hate People who participate in Dog Fights and feed kittens and puppies to sharks.
  
  http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/bigpot6.jpg
  
  P.S. The French don't suck. They're arrogant, sure, but we Americans owe them a lot.

  By Anonymous, on 7:28 PM  

• Republicans and French people are douchebags. Alan Alda is a bush cookie.

  By Anonymous, on 8:13 PM  

• Liberals blow goats: You have no fucking idea what you are talking about. Dumbasses like you are the reason that we have a stupid fuck like "Dubya" in office. Don't get me wrong, i am not placing the blame on his shoulders alone, rather on the shoulders of him and his administration. Open your eyes.

  By Anonymous, on 8:21 PM  

• I find it very interesting that there are those who condemn the mistreatment of animals (i.e. - using puppies and kittens as bait) while in the same responses suggest performing the same or worse acts on humans.
  
  It is interesting to note, people who champion animal right usually come from the political left, the same side as that would abolish the death penalty. However, in this very thread they are calling for the torture and/or death of the humans involved.
  
  So it is ok to torture and kill a person who mistreats or kills animials but not a person who would kill another person? I don't get it?
  
  I'm confused.

  By Anonymous, on 8:51 PM  

• Ok since you guys are all so concerned about the welfare of these puppies/kitten/sharks/chickens/worms then I assume you're all out there doing somehting about it, because I dont really see the point in your arguing about it all. Why dont you get off your arses and actually do something about it if it pains you so much.
  I feel now my favourite quote would be very fitting:
  Arguing on the internet is like being in the special olympics.
  Even if you win, you're still retarded.
  
  (And if you're going to start on how not everyone in the special olympics is retarded, don't bother, if you had any common sense, you'd realise it's called 'sarcasm'. You might want to look that one up.)
  
  PS Keep it up Alan Alda :P

  By NewLeadersPlease, on 9:47 PM  

• You big bunch of wimps. Get a life. Puppys and kittens are killed everyday for lunch or dinner. Just because our culture humanizes dogs and cats doesn't mean every other one should. Cows can be cute. Just because they don't fetch sticks we eat them.
  
  And those dopes who bash America and Americans, bite me.. Right after you go to your local Burger King and drink a Coke.

  By Anonymous, on 3:45 AM  

• I find it funny that this became political. This is about fisherman who happen to be french using puppies and kittens for bait. Everyone who made this about Iraq, the Revolutionary War, or WWII, or anything else needs to shut up. Also, you bastards who talk about nuking the muslim nations need to go the fuck home. That's right, go home, don't vote. It's assholes like both of your camps that give us two shitty candidates at the same time. The matter at hand in this particular article is not world politics, but the legality and morality of using puppies and kittens.
  I mean, the obvious problem is that they're so adorable. The author admits that in the article with 'sunshine and happiness'? Of course no one cares about worms or rats, but no one is claiming that they would. Everyone, please grow up and for the love of God, don't have kids.

  By Anonymous, on 5:37 AM  

• well, not blaming bush would be easy if he didn't cut levee funding.
  but it isn't just his fault, you are right. the entire country kinda just moseyed on down there when the shit hit the fan.

  By Anonymous, on 5:41 AM  

• Alan Alda sucks at life so he has to bash America on a website while he sits and eats cheetos and has porn running in the background.

  By Alan Alda Is A Fag, on 8:45 AM  

• hi all !
  
  I'm french, and I don't really understand your comments.
  
  I personnally live in south france, and believe me, we always go fishing in the mediterranean sea with smalls cats,(or puppies) thrown into the water. It works well, I always go back home with a lot of fish !
  It's really nice on bbq with aromatics plants from Provence (Thyme, basilic, garlic, olive oil...).
  
  Really, you should come to france and try to go fishing this way, it is in fact not authorised but in fact nobody respect the law (in france, if you give money to the police they let you do nearly what you want...).
  
  That's what you can do in france !
  That's why I love my country.
  
  Sorry for my english which is not good at all.
  
  
  Regards.
  Murps from france.

  By Anonymous, on 9:40 AM  

• France sucks. If it was not for the US then france would be eating bratwurst and speaking german today.

  By Anonymous, on 10:09 AM  

• the French can lick my ass! I hate the F^&*^*$ French!

  By Anonymous, on 1:32 PM  

• I think the French are on to something! GO FRANCE!!! DIE PUPPY! HAHAHAA

  By Anonymous, on 3:13 PM  

• France sucks. If it was not for the US then france would be eating bratwurst and speaking german today.
  
  And the US would be fucking tea-sipping homosexuals (Britons). So STFU. The best part of america is canada, why, cause the french stayed there.
  
  Oh and by the way Bardot is A FUCKING RACIST. I'd ratherhave a bunch of puppies die.

  By Anonymous, on 6:25 PM  

• We've saved the French so many times and they don't give us any respect. France sucks, it is a fact. If you like France you aren't American.
  
  and who cares if they kill kittens. Cats suck. Cats remind me of French people.

  By Anonymous, on 6:39 PM  

• Screw Bardow

  By Anonymous, on 7:14 PM  

• OH GOD. You know what, the US is so much worse. We kill innocent citizens in Iraq and Afghanistan so Georgie Boy can vindicate for his fuck up father and keep his MILLIONS in oil investments safe! At least the French are doing this for survival on the basic economic level...

  By Anonymous, on 8:24 PM  

• I just spent about 20 minutes reading useless dribble that spilled from the mouths of so mny clueless americans.
  
  First off - the use of live animals as bait is not a new conept - just about every fisherman uses live-bait, it is just that these are animals familiar to you people. Hating them because of their cultural differences is RACIST - you can disagree if you like but i dont give a fuck. (this doesnt mean I like the idea).
  
  2nd - lay off the French. I am not french. but I have alot of good freinds that are. If it were not for the French - you good'ol boys would be Chaps right now. Your revolution would have been fucked. And read up on WWII, you guys werent the model soldiers in Europe yourselves. France tryed to defend themselves, they were not as ready as the Axis for a war. The evacuated there troops at Dunirk to supplement the Allied troops - after all, French troops are better than dead troops. The were cornered and had no other choice - what would american soldiers do if they were trapped on a beach with no cover, inadequet supplies, and were being mowed down by the most technologicaly advanced weapons of the time? I think you would ask for help and evacuate too.
  
  3 - drop the fucking "we art holier than thou" routine. You fucked this world up. You have a defecite growing by millions of $ every hour. You fucked up your share of operations during WWII (d-day you landed 10 fucking miles away from your intended destination while the canadian people landed in the right place, took heavy casualties and still kicked Nazi ass}.
  
  4 - just stop fucking with other people because of their cultures. You dont have to start wars to get your point across - your country has performed its fair share of assassinations - why not just do the same in Iraq or Afghnistan?
  
  In closing - GROW THE FUCK UP AMERICA
  
  Your peaceful counter-part,
  Canada

  By Anonymous, on 7:14 AM  

• I didnt waste my time redaing all of the comments but most are definately retarded. Do any of you know anything about l'ile de la reunion? Its very poor, hardly has anything to do with france besides the language and is only a colonie. You cannot say you hate "the french" for that. Hating anyone for something they have to do to survive is ridiculous. We have the means to do differently. They dont. Not that what they are doing is right but... grow up. Learn about the world instead of critizing places you know absolutely nothing about.

  By Anonymous, on 12:23 PM  

• you stupid dumbass who think french, hate americans and further more say "just go to france and you'll see" I am sure you have never seen farther than your backyard. we have no anger against american people, but just your governement. And its not anger, most of us just don't like Georgie and Co because we simply don't agree with his idea.
  Then just because we didn't agree to participate the war in Iraq doesn't mean we don't like, don't care about you.
  Just grow up go outside, learn about the world around the US. People just don't have the same ideas culture or way of life than you have.
  They are fishermen using puppies as shark bait. and in america KFC employees throw chickens on the wall untill they die, and they have fun wih that. You think it s the best way kill a living animal?
  people posting here just give me reasons to think bad about your american people.
  YOU ARE THE ARROGANTS
  to think you can judge, and blame other country jsut because you are the richest, the most powerul country in the world. Your way of life is not the only one respectable. So shut the fuck up and listen and learn before talking.
  
  you fucking racist blame us because
  "we backed up the nazy army during wolrd war II" I dont even want to explain the real facts it would be useless to people like you.
  
  YOU RACIST
  and those who say : "I agree with puppies being use as bait... BUT DON'T SHOOT! I AM LIKE YOU! I HATE THE FRENCH!"
  worthless coward

  By Anonymous, on 12:34 PM  

• It's not that the world hates the United States, THE WORLD HATES DUMBFU*KS LIKE YOU!! You are the richest, most powerful country in the world... your calorie intake triples that of like 60% of africa and asia, you are wealthier than 90% of the world, and all you can do is bitch and whine about yourselves!! It's not that the french hate freedom or our politics (wait, yeah they do) or anything like that, it's that they (like everybody else EVER) hate biggots like YOU.
  Ohhhh and for the tree hugging hippies that go defending rats and octopuses and worms and shit like that... dude, what the fu*k? are you serious? Even I hate you!
  God bless America, God bless our President (I don't care about his politics, but he is STILL our president), and God bless any other countries who support us! Including the French, who throught history have!!!

  By Anonymous, on 7:42 PM  

• Simple lesson
  Disliking people based on their culture is not racist, its ethnocentric, but its not racist.
  Many Americans hate many countries' people, which makes them like many people in other countries. Do you think nobody in France hates people from other foriegn countries besides America. In addition, many people love America. I live in Japan (I am American) and I get both sides, but I will say most like America. Making generalizations is always stupid (I hope you got that). Attacking the person instead of the argument is self-defeating. We owed the French for their support in the revolution, but saying "America would still be a colony" without the French is without any evidence. Back to ethnocentrism, I wouldn't want to hook Spike and throw him to the sharks, but if I felt I had to, I probably would. And one more thing. You shouldn't say anything on the net that you wouldn't say to a person in real life. I understand people have deep emotional attachments to their morals, and believe animal cruelty is wrong, but writing about wanting to impale people who disagree with you makes people question anything else valid you might say. In essense, your wasting your time. I once heard that the person who makes the other person the maddest is the winner in an argument. If you only care about your self-preceived win column, keep up the anti-everything, look-at-me posts. But if you want others to take ernest consideration of what you have to say, just put your argument down and let others decide what to think of it.

  By Anonymous, on 10:08 PM  

• to support someone dosnt mean you have to follow him blindly. France is not the dog of the US, but a friend. and its a friend's duty to question "your"decision.
  if you can not accept being questioned by your friends then you need to grow more.
  
  AND
  
  the topic was about guys using living animals as bait. it happen that these guys a from a french TERRITORY (its not
  even like martinique or guadeloupe which are fully integrated in the french political system - parliament).
  how come people here just keep in mind that "all the french mistreat cute little animals"
  weird

  By Anonymous, on 2:41 AM  

• I am SO going there on vacation. Talk about cool. The only thing I can think of that would be cooler is drop kicking a baby into a crocodile pit. Totally sweet.

  By Anonymous, on 11:14 AM  

• You lot could really do with going out more, especially u Alan Alda, do u have nothing better to do. The invasion of Iraq was extreme stupidity from both Britain and the US. Saddam had the country under control, and just because we couldnt find Osama, we decide to invade Iraq to make it look like were doing something. Ive just wasted about an hour reading all these fuckin posts and im not happy.
  
  Im a dog person, but personally this issue doesnt really mean nething, the dogs they are using come straight off the streets, no owner, no home, no nothing, no one will miss them, its not like the fishermen are breaking into peoples houses and stealing their dogs and cats, all of you, think outside the fuckin boxes u seem to be living in.

  By Anonymous, on 4:17 PM  

• Hmmm....that was quite an interesting read.
  
  I'd like to know where all you people live, how many of you voted and therefore have a right to bitch about our president, and how many of you vegetarians wear leather shoes....
  
  Shut up about the fucking Revolutionary war....that was nearly 230 years ago, did it ever occur to you people that things might have changed slightly since then?
  
  The person referred to as Alan Alda has made several valid points, the post by Liberals_Blow_Goats was nearly flawless, and NewLeadersPlease also seems to be an intelligent individual with a grasp of reality.
  
  Here I sit in the Southeastern US, wondering what the hell is wrong with the rest of my country and why we spend so much time and effort helping people overseas when there's so much shit here that needs to be taken care of.
  
  When I read this kind of stuff it makes me laugh for a minute, then I'm deeply worried about people like most of you, who are busy fucking the world up with bullshit laws about animal rights and other useless garbage which should be common sense, not legislature.
  
  It's interesting to watch the news to see what goes on in the rest of this world, laws and lawsuits that aim to remove all traces of personal responsibility from our society, judges and lawyers who actually allow that shit to continue, and people who whine about the USA but wouldn't dare leave.......
  
  Well, that's it for now, i think I'm going to go eat an animal of some sort.

  By Southern Boy, on 11:12 AM  

• ok heres how it goes, french are gay, and so are canadians, but nobody is more retarded than the stupid liberal anitwar protestors, vegans and all the rest of the stupid people who give bush shit because he did the right thing - i am a part or the united states air force and i know that bush is doing the right things in the middle east. every last one of you unpatriotic bastards can go over to whatever foreign country you think is that much greater than the us and see how much "better" they really are. people like me are out serving their country so liberal bastards can burn flags, declare it unconstitutional to say the pledge in public school, protest the wars that we go to, to keep your country safe, and then you say i support the soldiers but not the war; that is the biggest oximoron or all, the soldiers are at these wars to protect the rest of the nation and by you protesting the war, it takes military attention away from the places it needs to be so we can go quell your stupid protests about actions that need to be done. i cant believe that anyone has the balls to go and blame bush for removing a dictator from iraq, and i sure as hell dont get how a bunch of liberal nut jobs can go around and spit on the freedom that all the men and women have purchased with their lives

  By Anonymous, on 11:01 AM  

• any body that will hate french people for something that is practised in a island thousands of miles away and where most people there are not ethnically french have just been victims of bad journalism created for that exact purpose.

  By Anonymous, on 10:49 PM  

• Alan Alda the Retard :
  
  Venezula pays sub 20 cents.
  
  Chavez's Venezuela has a lot to offer, especially if you're a fascist.
  
  Chavez is no worse than Pinochet or any of the other litany of Central and South American despots we installed over the years.
  
  Such foresight. Supporting tinpot dictators never worked before, so let's go ahead and do it again!

  By Anonymous, on 10:39 AM  

• I bet if the planes had crashed on the Eiffel tower, you guys would have been happy. Right ? Well, the Eiffel Tower is still erected, correct me if I'm wrong.
  
  Get brains, a life, keep voting for Bush, tell dead soldiers'parents that their kids died for Liberty and Democracy, for everyone knows it was not to get the oil resources in Irak... Fucking morons.

  By Anonymous, on 6:13 AM  

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