A Fine Rant on France

Denny at Grouchy Old Cripple lays down a fine rant on France including a little known bit of history -- those French wines you are drinking? They were grown with Missouri grape vines.

France Sucks
Have I said lately how much France sucks? It's a country of lazy, smelly, cowardly, backstabbers.

What has France done for us?

1. Helped us in the Revolutionary War.
2. Gave us the Statue of Liberty.

I know this because every time I write a French bashing post some asshole French person points this shit out to me as if I didn't know it. I know it assholes. You have done exactly two things for us: Gave us support when we were fighting one of your enemies and built us a fucking statue. BFD!

What have we done for France?

1. Helped win WWI.
2. Won WWII and freed them from the Germans. They could have stopped Hitler earlier but were pussies and thought appeasement would work, just like they think that appeasing terrorists works. Their stupid Maginot Line was about as effective as their aircraft carrier that never leaves port. We have those too. We call them airports.
3. Rebuilt their country after WWII with American tax money. That is money we never saw again.
4. Protected them in the Cold War. They provided no military support and no bases. They contributed no money or troops for their own protection.
5. Saved the French wine industry when the vinyards were being ravished with Phylloxera by sending them grape vine cuttings from Missouri that were resistant. See link.

   The gratitude of French grape growers was so great that they erected two monuments in the city of Montpelier in the south of France, honoring the Missouri grape growers who were credited with saving the French wine industry.

How soon they forget.

Denny then goes on to remind us of France's current political maneuvers and how they impacted the world. Need to be taken down a notch or two, they are no longer a world power and feeling mulish about it.