A new book claims to have found the alternative therapist who gives the president his staminaA FRENCH author claims to have unlocked the secret of Nicolas Sarkozy's boundless energy. The "hyper-président" secretly consults a specialist in alternative medicine who massages his back and sends him "positive energy waves". Sarkozy's tirelessness - they call him the Duracell Bunny - has long been a subject of speculation. In political circles he is regularly accused of being "on something", with theories ranging from amphetamines to cocaine. In reality, he is addicted only to chocolate and the secret of his dynamism is not drugs but a long-haired "etiopath" called Jean-Paul Moureau, according to Patrice Machuret, a political journalist and author of a book on Sarkozy published last week. "Moureau the guru", as patients call him, has been treating Sarkozy for 15 years with his special technique of "manual therapy". The two have developed a close relationship and Moureau has become a sort of unofficial adviser, says the author.
A FRENCH author claims to have unlocked the secret of Nicolas Sarkozy's boundless energy. The "hyper-président" secretly consults a specialist in alternative medicine who massages his back and sends him "positive energy waves".
Sarkozy's tirelessness - they call him the Duracell Bunny - has long been a subject of speculation. In political circles he is regularly accused of being "on something", with theories ranging from amphetamines to cocaine.
In reality, he is addicted only to chocolate and the secret of his dynamism is not drugs but a long-haired "etiopath" called Jean-Paul Moureau, according to Patrice Machuret, a political journalist and author of a book on Sarkozy published last week.
"Moureau the guru", as patients call him, has been treating Sarkozy for 15 years with his special technique of "manual therapy". The two have developed a close relationship and Moureau has become a sort of unofficial adviser, says the author.
In an interview on Fox News, President Bush confirmed he will write a book once leaving the White House -- evne though some say he should wait.The topic: "You know, I'm not quite exactly sure what it's going to be, but I'm toying with the idea of maybe describing the toughest decisions I had to make as President, and the context in which I made them."
What title? "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
"Strategery." Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
The guy's fakin' it. I mean his entire tenure is a case study on the abyss between action and thought, the damage a unique power house brain can reek when left unhindered.
Richard Cohen - George W. Bush as an Avid Reader - washingtonpost.com
It is awfully late in the day for Rove -- and, presumably, Bush -- to assert the president's intellectual bona fides. Now feeling the hot breath of history, they are dropping the good ol' boy persona and picking up the ol' bifocals one. But the books themselves reveal -- actually, confirm -- something about Bush that maybe Rove did not intend. They are not the reading of a widely read man, but instead the books of a man who seeks -- and sees -- vindication in every page. Bush has always been the captive of fixed ideas. His books just support that. The list Rove provides is long, but it is narrow. It lacks whole shelves of books on how and why the Iraq war was a mistake, one that metastasized into a debacle. Absent is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," Tom Ricks's "Fiasco," George Packer's "The Assassins' Gate" or, on a related topic, Jane Mayer's "The Dark Side" about "extraordinary rendition" and other riffs on the Constitution. Absent too is Barton Gellman's "Angler," about Dick Cheney, the waterboarder in chief.
It is awfully late in the day for Rove -- and, presumably, Bush -- to assert the president's intellectual bona fides. Now feeling the hot breath of history, they are dropping the good ol' boy persona and picking up the ol' bifocals one. But the books themselves reveal -- actually, confirm -- something about Bush that maybe Rove did not intend. They are not the reading of a widely read man, but instead the books of a man who seeks -- and sees -- vindication in every page. Bush has always been the captive of fixed ideas. His books just support that.
The list Rove provides is long, but it is narrow. It lacks whole shelves of books on how and why the Iraq war was a mistake, one that metastasized into a debacle. Absent is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," Tom Ricks's "Fiasco," George Packer's "The Assassins' Gate" or, on a related topic, Jane Mayer's "The Dark Side" about "extraordinary rendition" and other riffs on the Constitution. Absent too is Barton Gellman's "Angler," about Dick Cheney, the waterboarder in chief.
Wanda: To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep who could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs, but you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape? Otto: Apes don't read philosophy. Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it.
Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it.
Bush is a reader eh ? keep to the Fen Causeway
We've been having lots of links from Hungarian, Slovak, Croatian and Finnish sites in the past week (on Gazprom but not only). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
