The First Ever Bloviating Zeppelin "Moonbat of the Week" Award

And the award goes to:

France.

A country? I thought awards went to people.

Well gosh, boys and girls, for my very first award, I decided to make an exception.

Why France, you ask (I suppose perhaps I should be just a little bit ashamed; after all, they are such an inviting and easy target for one to mock)?

All seriousness aside, it has nothing to do with their wines (Fornicalia wines are every bit as good if not better) or their cheese or their vast tracts of unshaved body hair or lack of hygiene -- dammit, Jim; there I go with the cheap shots -- or their wonderful cars (man, those Renaults, Citroens and Peugeots -- huh, I wonder why we don't import them any more?).

It has everything to do with ten, count 'em, ten days of Muslim rioting. And the French response to same.

Let's see. What has the French government done? Oh, yeah; they had some really, terribly harsh words for the rioters:

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin -- who cancelled a trip to Canada to tackle the crisis -- said the violence was "unacceptable." President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday called for calm, warning that an escalation would be "dangerous."

In the meantime, rioters have burned close to 1,000 vehicles, nursery schools have been burned, firefighters and police officers have been the targets of bullets, rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails and more. The French claim 250 arrests have been made. Puh-leeze. . . I can make 250 arrests at any Ozzy Osbourne concert.

Faced with such violence and mayhem, I'm certain the Chirac government is seriously considering an unconditional surrender.

What ostensibly began as upheaval following two Muslim teens getting electrocuted whilst climbing a fence at an electrical transmission facility in order to evade the police, has now turned into night after night after night of rioting orchestrated via the internet and cellular telephones.

France is now, essentially, reaping what it has sown. And I must admit I have but little sympathy for the French government or its citizens -- who, by the way, though you'd never read about it, despise the Muslims.

Ah yes, that liberal, generous, accepting, non-judgmental, admirable Euro culture? Check this: You think unemployment is "horrible" in the United States? The October US unemployment dropped 0.1 percent from September, to 5.0%. The unemployment rate for France is over 10%, twice the US national average.

Yes, those accepting Euro cultures, the French in particular, are reaping what they have sown in terms of unlimited immigration, non-assimilation, elitism, and conciliatory non-judgmentalism.

The French, unfortunately, remind me of oh-so-many American mommies and daddies I see in stores and restaurants, telling their belligerent, spoiled children: "Tommy, don't do that. Tommy, I said, don't do that. I'm not kidding. Tommy put that down. I'm about to get really harsh. Tommy, stop that. I'm going to make you stop if you don't stop that. I told you, Tommy. Stop. I really mean it, now. Tommy stop that." Blah blah blah.

France: how stupid are you? You couldn't see this coming?

Evidently not. And you appear to be disinterested in stopping it.

= MOONBAT.