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ARE WE ALL CHAMBERMAIDS?

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the mono-directional pendulum Down Boy!! DSK and the maid Arnie and the maid..and the illicit offspring Clinton and the intern JFK and the actress, etc Mel Gibson and the porn star..and the video!Plus...Mel Gibson hitting his girlfriend Charlie Sheen and several pornstars....on the video, abusive behaviour, etc Tiger Woods and all those " gals" President Mitterand and the odd illegitimite child Julien Assange..did he do it? Berlusconi's habits A pattern? The last few weeks have left the global public appalled and frankly, dismayed by their "public people."  What is it about men with power?  How is that some of the "chaps," global advisors, governors and the like, voted in by their public, turn into predators around women? In France, women are beginning to become sick of the country's elite, influential and academic standing up for DSK - DSK le libertin . My legal background has taught me one thing to reply to these mysogynous com

GET THIN GET THIN GET THIN

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The French Spring Battle-Cry! That time of the year again when this desperateanglohousewife feels like the poster-girl for too many culinary indulgences over Winter (...autumn, winter, spring, summer, autumn, winter..!) Every magazine, pharmacy window, pop-up and flyer are constantly telling me Mincir, mincir, mincir .  It's the annual self-cringe moment when, in France, the gorgeous snake-hipped, unhealthily slim french woman gets, well, even slimmer.  It is a dreadful time of the year to live in this country... Instead of telling myself I have an anglo/scottish heritage of tall, big-boned women to blame for my curves, I : 1. Do the French thing of hissing and spitting at myself. 2. Take a "cure" of something with enormous amounts of herbs and plants which renders me utterly loo-bound 3. Stop buying butter! 4. Watch Georgy Girl** for the 100th time and cry into my chardonnay.  This year things have to change. Basic logic tells me it is not at 40-something