http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Frenchman Tue, 21 May 2013 06:15:08 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Frenchman Wed, 15 May 2013 07:44:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=057_1368617680 Bannedman Franck Rib'ery was strolling the turf. The Frenchman was in good spirits. Cue defender Boateng to run the whole of the pitch carrying one of those huge beer glasses and chase Rib'ery down like a whippet after a rabbit. Despite the ducks, the weaves and feints, the winger got a soaking. Perhaps, not the best thing to do considering his religious beliefs. It has been reported that Rib'ery, who converted to Islam to marry childhood sweetheart Wahiba, had warned his team-mates before the match to keep any alcohol away from him. Outgoing Bayern boss Jupp Heynckes will be hoping his boys can keep their cool and solidarity in the heat of the Champions League final at Wembley on 25 May http://sport.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/ribery-in-rift-before-champions-league-final http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=057_1368617680 Bannedman Muslim Footballer Gets Drenched in Beer Ribery, Beer, Muslim, Islam Sun, 12 May 2013 14:32:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=503_1368382864 goervideos video 1 Watch at the first reactions of the nine-time World Champion Rally at the wheel of the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak. video 2 405 T 16 vs 208 T 16 Always ready to rise to a fresh challenge, the nine-time world rally champion S'ebastien Loeb and Peugeot Sport will contest the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on June 30. The Frenchman will tackle the world's highest hill climb -- which culminates at an altitude of 4,301 metres -- at the wheel of the 208 T16 Pikes Peak which was specially engineered and built by Peugeot Sport. The event marks the French team's return to the classic American event after its memorable victories there in 1988 and 1989. This year's contender, though familiar in silhouette to the roadgoing 208, is far more extreme to exploit the minimal restrictions of the Unlimited class in which it will compete. According to Michael Trouve, head of silhouette design at Peugeot's Styling Centre, the bodywork alterations give the 208 "an almost beast-like appearance". Within a set of technical constraints, Trove said they worked to produce "an extreme take on the 208". His sentiment is borne out by the reality of the 208 T16. The huge front and rear wings and wildly flared wheel arches, to house larger wheels and brakes, are all in the pursuit of victory at the iconic event. This year's Pikes Peak is just the second time the event has been run on a completely paved course, following its completion last year. This allowed a new course record of 9min 46sec to be set by victor Rhys Millen in a Hyundai Genesis, a target Loeb will aim to beat this year over the 156 corners and 1500m altitude rise of the Pikes Peak course. Peugeot has history with the American event, having won the hillclimb in 1988 and 1989 with a 405 T16. Ari Vatenen's 1988 victory was commemorated in the film 'Climb Dance'. Peugeot had also previously campaigned a 205 T16 at Pikes Peak earlier in the 1980s. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=503_1368382864 goervideos 208 T16 Pikes Peak : S'ebastien Loeb . 405 T16 vs 208 T 16 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, June 30 2013, S'ebastien Loeb, 208 T16, 875kg, 875ch, 0 `a 100 km/h 1.8s, 0 `a 200 km/h 4.8s Sun, 12 May 2013 04:56:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=072_1368348814 aaaxaaa Related to the common cold, the new coronavirus first detected in the Middle East could be spreading from human to human. A third suspected case of the potentially fatal coronavirus (nCoV) has been detected in France. It follows the hospitalisation of a 65-year-old who is the first confirmed case of the respiratory illness in France. He remains in a stable but critical condition. A nurse in a hospital in Douai where the patient was first referred has been placed under watch since Thursday night. A doctor and another patient remain in isolation as tests are carried out. If they return positive results, it could mean that person to person transmission is occurring. France is the third European country to be hit by the virus which appears to originate in the Middle East. The Frenchman (whose name has not been released) had returned from Dubai late April and was admitted to hospital on his return with digestive problems. In the UK three members of the same family were infected after a relative returned from Pakistan and the Middle East. As with the bird flu, family members may be more susceptible to contagion than other members of the public. Germany has also been hit with two cases. Both had travelled in the Arabian peninsula, one died and one recovered. A single hospital, Al-Moosa in the town of Hofuf, Saudi Arabia has reported 23 cases, suggesting it could be spreading through hospitals. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has travelled to Saudi Arabia to investigate how the virus is being transmitted. They are worried about the clusters of cases being a potential for a pandemic. The Saudi Health Ministry suggested that the cluster observed in the single hospital suggested nosocomial transmission. Patients may have had increased susceptibility to infection or severe disease because of their multiple illnesses. However, two family members of patients have contracted the virus suggesting it is being transmitted amongst the community. The virus attacks the respiratory system causing pneumonia and potentially kidney failure. The WHO has advised all countries to test patients with unexplained pneumonia. World Health Organisation alert web page latest update There have been 33 cases reported since September 2012, with 18 of them dying. The 50 per cent death rate indicates the coronavirus is more aggressive than SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) which killed some 800 people in 2003, which had a death rate of 11 per cent. The WHO have released guidelines for prevention and control of the virus The source of the virus is unknown, though the most popular theory is that it is related to a virus strain found in bats. The SARS virus which originated in China proved that intermediate animal hosts may sometimes play an important role in transmission to humans and that direct exposure to animals is not needed for infection. Identifying the source will require the cooperation of veterinary services, food safety authorities, environmental health agencies as well as public health authorities. Source: Euronews http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=072_1368348814 aaaxaaa Deadly Coronavirus hits Europe? (nCoV)(SARS) Sars, coronavirus, virus, deadly, cold, Europe, Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:47:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=716_1367004677 Sunday - A nice story I recently found to make up for all the depressing &amp; messed up shit I normally upload. A Frenchman with late-stage cancer has saved the life of an ambulance driver who had a heart attack whilst driving him to hospital, doctors say. Christian Nayet, 60, took the wheel of the ambulance after the driver, Jean-Francois Pina, complained that he had pins and needles in his fingers. He then rushed Mr Pina to a hospital in the nearby city of Lens. Doctors operated on Mr Pina within 10 minutes of his arrival, Mr Nayet told the Voix du Nord newspaper. An emergency room manager, Frederic Allienne, said that without Mr Nayet's help, Mr Pina "could have died". Mr Pina was taking Mr Nayet for a scan at a hospital in Lille last week when he fell ill. Mr Nayet told the Voix du Nord newspaper that he offered Mr Pina some of the medicine he was carrying, before telling him: "'Give me the keys, trust me! My life is not in danger, but yours is!'" "We drove fast," Mr Nayet said. "I couldn't find the siren, but I managed to turn the lights on and told him to put his arm out the window to signal to the cars to let us pass." Another ambulance was later found for Mr Nayet to take him to his scan. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=716_1367004677 Sunday Old Cancer Patient Saves Ambulance Drivers Life - Drives Him To Hospital Tables Turned, Heroic, Happy, Heart Attack, France, Selfless Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:01:39 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=780_1363985900 SAPD_HRT A white shirt with pilot wings is all I need? Police in Philadelphia have arrested a French national after he allegedly impersonated a pilot on a US Airways flight bound for Florida. Phillipe Jernnard, 61, of LaRocelle, France, boarded the US Airways flight Thursday evening, Lt. John Walker of the Philadelphia Police Department said. After having his request to be upgraded to business class denied, he angrily remarked, "I hate Americans," but boarded the flight in coach class, police say. Shortly thereafter, Jernnard was allegedly discovered by a flight attendant and the co-pilot in the cockpit sitting in the jump seat located directly behind the pilot's seat. He apparently was able to gain access to the cockpit by dressing as an Air France pilot. "He was wearing a white button-down shirt, which had and Air France logo about the chest area," Walker said. But flight staff was suspicious, and when Jernnard was unable to present acceptable identification, the flight attendant and co-pilot asked him to return to the cabin. The police were called and arrested Jernnard upon arrival, finding fake crew credentials and some Air France decals in his bags. "The flight was never in danger of taking off," Walker said. "The FBI is looking into the case with the U.S. Attorney. We are trying to make a determination as to the motivation of the gentleman," he said. For its part, Air France said the impersonator's ID badge was a shoddy forgery. "This person was not wearing an Air France uniform or badge (Crew Member Certificate)," according to a statement from Air France." "Regarding the badge, it was a very bad fake badge, which in no way resembled the Air France Crew Member Certificate (CMC)." Jernnard is charged with forgery, criminal trespassing, making false identification to law enforcement, false impression. He has been arraigned and is being held on $1 million bail. It's unclear whether he has entered a plea. Jernnard's next scheduled court appearance is April 5 in Philadelphia. If the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office decide to bring federal charges against him, he could appear in federal court today. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=780_1363985900 SAPD_HRT US-Hating <span class="highlight">Frenchman</span> Accused of Impersonating Pilot Fake, Pilot, Hates, U.S. Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:26:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=66d_1365970888 sixhundredn66 Redoine Faid fashioned himself as a modern-day gangster. He thought big -- getting inspiration from the movies, as when he wore a hockey mask like Robert DeNiro's character in "Heat" -- and acted audaciously, attacking armored trucks among other targets. After more than a decade in prison, though, the Frenchman insisted he'd sworn off his wicked ways. This promise didn't last for long, according to French authorities. In 2011, a year after his autobiography came out, Faid landed back behind bars. Now, he is once again free -- and, once again, the subject of an international manhunt after his brazen escape from prison. Where he is now is anyone's guess. French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira told reporters on Saturday that a European arrest warrant covering 26 countries has been issued, and that Interpol is working to track him down as well.Faid held five people, including four guards, at gunpoint at a detention center in the northern city of Lille on Saturday, officials said. He then burst his way to freedom, detonating explosives to destroy five doors, penitentiary union spokesman Etienne Dobrometz told CNN affiliate BFMTV. One person not surprised by Faid's breakout is his lawyer, Jean-Louis Pelletier. In a few days, Pelletier had planned to meet his client in preparation of an upcoming trial tied to a May 2010 attack in Villiers-sur-Marne, east of Paris, that left a 26-year-old policewoman dead. "He is remarkably intelligent, and he is using his intellect to serve his ambitions," Pelletier told BFMTV. "(And Faid) cannot stand being imprisoned anymore." Questions raised about prison's security In his 2010 autobiography, "Robber: From Suburbs to Organized Crime," Faid chronicled his progression from a petty thief to one of France's most notorious criminals, according to the book's publisher, La Manufacture De Livres. In 1998, after three years on the run during which he fled to Switzerland, Faid was finally caught. Sentenced to 20 years, he ended up spending more than 10 years in high-security prisons around France. After getting out, Faid put himself out there -- not only with his book, but as the subject of numerous interviews. The high-adrenaline life of crime he described resembled that of another famous French gangster, Jacques Mesrine. The country's most wanted man in the 1970s, Mesrine made his name as a charismatic, press-courting criminal known for his daring bank heists and spectacular prison breaks. Mesrine's story ended in 1979, when he was gunned down by police on the streets of Paris. Faid's prison escape Saturday evokes some of that brand of criminal bravado. But it also raises a number of questions: How did an inmate gets guns and explosives? How did he manage to use those to force his way out? And, after all that, why is he still at large? The four guards who Faid allegedly held hostage "are safe and sound," said Lille prosecutor Frederic Fevre. Still, officials from the prison guards' union pressed Taubira to provide better safety measures inside prisons, including more thorough searches of those who enter, BFMTV reported. Built in 2005, the Lille-Sequedin penitentiary from which Faid escaped is not old, but it's not well designed to keep watch of prisoners, said Jimmy Delliste, a former associate director there. "The construction ... makes it particularly difficult to manage detainees, who are particularly difficult to watch," Delliste told BFMTV. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=66d_1365970888 sixhundredn66 Manhunt for French Muslim gangster who used gun, explosives to escape prison Redoine Faid, Muslim, Gangster, Killler, On The Run, France, Europe, Explosives, Prison, Escape, Heat, Scarface Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:12:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8a0_1365512498 CrushedGravel JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded, "Does that include those who are buried here?" DeGaulle did not respond. You could have heard a pin drop. When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." You could have heard a pin drop. There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims.. What does he intend to do, bomb them?" A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?" You could have heard a pin drop. A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?" Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German." You could have heard a pin drop. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready." The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." "Impossible..Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !" The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to." You could have heard a pin drop. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8a0_1365512498 CrushedGravel How Much Sound Does a Pin Make When Dropped? You, Could, Have, Heard, A, Pin, Drop Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:45:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6df_1365010670 dcmfox Published time: April 03, 2013 14:56 Edited time: April 03, 2013 17:31 Flames have enveloped all floors of the highest building in the North Caucasus, southern Russia. All people have managed to leave the building. The Grozny-city complex in the Chechen Republic includes luxury apartments and a 5-star hotel. Watch LIVE on RT The local emergency service said the call about the fire on between the 4th and 5th floors was received at around 18:00 PM local time (14:00 GMT). According to witnesses' pictures that immediately started to appear on Twitter, all stories of the building are covered with flames. At the same time there have been reports suggesting that the fire started on the top floor and the bottom floor was on fire as well.All people have managed to leave the the 145-meter skyscraper ; one woman was seen to be supported by others, witnesses said. Local police confirmed no one was injured. Fire units and ambulances have arrived at the scene. Nearly 300 people are involved in extinguishing the fire. The area around the Grozny-City complex has been cordoned off.In two hours the fire has completely engulfed three sides of the skyscraper from the top to bottom as the flames spread rapidly due to the plastic trimming on the building. Firefighters have managed to extinguish the flames on the lower floors. However, the fire has spread very quickly, making it difficult to tackle the blaze from the ground. Helicopters have been sent from the southern city of Pyatigorsk to help out. A criminal case has been launched in connection to the violation of fire safety rules. According to the initial version the cause of the fire was a short circuit, LifeNews tabloid reported citing a local police source."According to preliminary information, the cause of the fire in the skyscraper was a short circuit. A more concise report will be done after experts examine the building," the source told the tabloid. In the burning skyscrapers called "Olympus" is an apartment belonging to French film star and tax exile Gerard Depardieu. LifeNews tabloid reports local administration confirmed the Frenchman's apartment is on the 27th floor, facing the so-called "heart of Grozny"- central mosque."The fire has completely enveloped the right-hand side of the skyscraper. Both the wall and the window of the actor's apartment have been damaged," the tabloid quoted a local police source as saying.The head of Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov granted the actor the status of "Chechen's honorable resident" and presented an apartment in Grozny-City shortly after the Frenchman was granted Russian citizenship. The Grozny-City complex was partly open in 2011. It consists of seven skyscrapers both condominiums and a hotel: one 40-storey (currently on fire), one 30-storey, three 28-storey and two 18-storey buildings. The completed complex would boast 1000 apartments. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6df_1365010670 dcmfox Luxury skyscraper hotel completely engulfed by fire in Grozny, Chechnya luxury, skyscraper, hotel, engulfed, fire Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:15:40 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6b4_1365009206 grimghost At the same time there have been reports suggesting that the fire started on the top floor and the bottom floor was on fire as well. All people have managed to leave the the 145-meter skyscraper ; one woman was seen to be supported by others, witnesses said. Local police confirmed no one was injured. Fire units and ambulances have arrived at the scene. Nearly 300 people are involved in extinguishing the fire. The area around the Grozny-City complex has been cordoned off. In two hours the fire has completely engulfed three sides of the skyscraper from the top to bottom as the flames spread rapidly due to the plastic trimming on the building. Firefighters have managed to extinguish the flames on the lower floors. However, the fire has spread very quickly, making it difficult to tackle the blaze from the ground. Helicopters have been sent from the southern city of Pyatigorsk to help out. A criminal case has been launched in connection to the violation of fire safety rules. According to the initial version the cause of the fire was a short circuit, LifeNews tabloid reported citing a local police source. "According to preliminary information, the cause of the fire in the skyscraper was a short circuit. A more concise report will be done after experts examine the building," the source told the tabloid. In the burning skyscrapers called "Olympus" is an apartment belonging to French film star and tax exile Gerard Depardieu. LifeNews tabloid reports local administration confirmed the Frenchman's apartment is on the 27th floor, facing the so-called "heart of Grozny"- central mosque. "The fire has completely enveloped the right-hand side of the skyscraper. Both the wall and the window of the actor's apartment have been damaged," the tabloid quoted a local police source as saying. The head of Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov granted the actor the status of "Chechen's honorable resident" and presented an apartment in Grozny-City shortly after the Frenchman was granted Russian citizenship. The Grozny-City complex was partly open in 2011. It consists of seven skyscrapers both condominiums and a hotel: one 40-storey (currently on fire), one 30-storey, three 28-storey and two 18-storey buildings. The completed complex would boast 1000 apartments. http://on.rt.com/7eqyxk http://www.youtube.com/user/SergeyLification http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6b4_1365009206 grimghost Luxury skyscraper hotel completely engulfed by fire in Grozny, Chechnya Skyscraper,Grozny,Fire,Hotel,Chechnya Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:03:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7cc_1363899119 rtsrcool Footage of the 9. Round of the 1987 German Touring Car Championship (DTM) held at the Diepholz Airbase temporary racetrack on 9th August 1987. Frenchman Fabien Giroux won that day driving a BMW M3. Diepholz Airbase was used as a racetrack between 1968 and 1998 in a variety of variations, It was a part of the DTM-Schedule from 1986 until 1996 and was well liked by drivers as well as spectators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diepholz_Air_Base http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7cc_1363899119 rtsrcool 1987 German Touring Car Championship (DTM) - Diepholz Airbase DTM, 1987, Deutsch, Tourenwagen, Meisterschaft, german, touring, car, championship, Diepholz, airbase Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:02:33 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f3_1362343834 ACRA Henri Schaub is a Frenchman from Alsace, a French province annexed by Germany in 1940. He was forcibly drafted into the German army. People like him were labelled 'malgr'e-nous', which means 'in spite of our will'. Schaub deserted the same day he arrived on the Eastern Front. He became a Soviet PoW, and made a long journey from Russia to the Middle East and Europe to join Allied forces fighting the Germans until the end of the war. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f3_1362343834 ACRA War Witness: I deserted Nazi army on day one WWII,France, Soviet Union, Germany Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:28:22 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f49_1361647498 Detroit Iron by Mark Twain (Published in 1905) have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that the theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.?In proceeding toward this unpleasant conclusion I have not guessed or speculated or conjectured, but have used what is commonly called the scientific method. That is to say, I have subjected every postulate that presented itself to the crucial test of actual experiment, and have adopted it or rejected it according to the result. Thus I verified and established each step of my course in its turn before advancing to the next. These experiments were made painstakingly in the London Zoological Gardens, and covered many months of painstaking and fatiguing work. Before particularizing any of the experiments, I wish to state one or two things which seem to more properly belong in this place than further along. This in the interest of clearness. The massed experiments established to my satisfaction certain generalizations, to wit: 1. That the human race is of one distinct species. It exhibits slight variations-in color, stature, mental caliber, and so on-due to climate, environment, and so forth; but it is a species by itself, and not to be confounded with any other.?2. That the quadrupeds are a distinct family, also. This family exibits variations-in color, size, food preferences and so on; but it is a family by itself.?3. That the other families-the birds, the fishes, the insects, the reptiles, etc.-are more or less distinct, also. They are in the procession. They are links in the chain which stretches down from the higher animals to man at the bottom. Some of my experiments were quite curious. In the course of my reading I had come across a case where, many years ago, some hunters on our Great Plains organized a buffalo hunt for the entertainment of an English earl-that, and to provide some fresh meat for his larder. They had charming sport. They killed seventy-two of those great animals; and ate part of one of them and left the seventy-one to rot. In order to determine the difference between an anaconda and an earl-if any-I caused seven young calves to be turned into the anaconda's cage. The grateful reptile immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the calves, and no disposition to harm them. I tried this experiment with other anacondas; always with the same result. The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn't; and that the earl wantonly destroys what he has no use for, but the anaconda doesn't. This seemed to suggest that the anaconda was not descended from the earl. It also seemed to suggest that the earl was descended from the anaconda, and had lost a great deal in the translation. I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite. I furnished a hundred different kinds of wild and tame animals the opportunity to accumulate vast stores of food, but none of them would do it. The squirrels and bees and certain birds made accumulations, but stopped when they had gathered a winter's supply, and could not be persuaded to add to it either honestly or by chicane. In order to bolster up a tottering reputation the ant pretended to store up supplies, but I was not deceived. I know the ant. These experiments convinced me that there is this difference between man and the higher animals: he is avaricious and miserly, they are not. In the course of my experiments I convinced myself that among the animals man is the only one that harbors insults and injuries, broods over them, waits till a chance offers, then takes revenge. The passion of revenge is unknown to the higher animals. Roosters keep harems, but it is by consent of their concubines; therefore no harm is done. Men keep harems, but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws which the other sex were allowed no hand in making. In this matter man occupies a far lower place than the rooster.?Cats are loose in their morals, but not consciously so. Man, in his descent from the cat, has brought the cat's looseness with him but has left the unconsciousness behind-the saving grace which excuses the cat. The cat is innocent, man is not. Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity-these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing; they are not ashamed. Man, with his soiled mind, covers himself. He will not even enter a drawing room with his breast and back naked, so alive are he and his mates to indecent suggestion. Man is "The Animal that Laughs." But so does the monkey, as Mr. Darwin pointed out; and so does the Australian bird that is called the laughing jackass. No-Man is the only Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it-or has occasion to. At the head of this article we see how "three monks were burnt to death" a few weeks ago, and a prior "put to death with atrocious cruelty." Do we inquire into the details? No; or we should find out that the prior was subjected to unprintable mutilations. Man-when he is a North American Indian-gouges out his prisoner's eyes; when he is King John, with a nephew to render untroublesome, he uses a red-hot iron; when he is a religious zealot dealing with heretics in the Middle Ages, he skins his captive alive and scatters salt on his back; in the first Richard's time he shuts up a multitude of Jew families in a tower and sets fire to it; in Columbus's time he captures a family of Spanish Jews and-but that is not printable; in our day in England a man is fined ten shillings for beating his mother nearly to death with a chair, and another man is fined forty shillings for having four pheasant eggs in his possession without being able to satisfactorily explain how he got them. Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals. The cat plays with the frightened mouse; but she has this excuse, that she does not know that the mouse is suffering. The cat is moderate-unhumanly moderate: she only scares the mouse, she does not hurt it; she doesn't dig out its eyes, or tear off its skin, or drive splinters under its nails-man-fashion; when she is done playing with it she makes a sudden meal of it and puts it out of its trouble. Man is the Cruel Animal. He alone is of that distinction. The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and with calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out, as the Hessians did in our Revolution, and as the boyish Prince Napoleon did in the Zulu war, and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country-takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him. Man has done this in all the ages. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle after cycle, by force and bloodshed. Man is the only Slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.?Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"-with his mouth. Mark Twain and Joseph Jefferson in Nikola Tesla's South Fifth Avenue Laboratory, 1894, Tesla's image is blurred between the two men. Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion-several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. He was at it in the time of the Caesars, he was at it in Mahomet's time, he was at it in the time of the Inquisition, he was at it in France a couple of centuries, he was at it in England in Mary's day, he has been at it ever since he first saw the light, he is at it today in Crete-as per the telegrams quoted above-he will be at it somewhere else tomorrow. The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out, in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste. Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal. Note his history, as sketched above. It seems plain to me that whatever he is his is not a reasoning animal. His record is the fantastic record of a maniac. I consider that the strongest count against his intelligence is the fact that with that record back of him he blandly sets himself up as the head animal of the lot: whereas by his own standards he is the bottom one. In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately. Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbytarian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh-not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court. One is obliged to concede that in true loftiness of character, Man cannot claim to approach even the meanest of the Higher Animals. It is plain that he is constitutionally incapable of approaching that altitude; that he is constitutionally afflicted with a Defect which must make such approach forever impossible, for it is manifest that this defect is permanent in him, indestructible, ineradicable.?I find this Defect to be the Moral Sense. He is the only animal that has it. It is the secret of his degredation. It is the quality which enables him to do wrong. It has no other office. It is incapable of performing any other function. It could never have been intended to perform any other. Without it, man could do no wrong. He would rise at once to the level of the Higher Animals. Since the Moral Sense has but one office, the one capacity-to enable man to do wrong-it is plainly without value to him. It is as valueless to him as is disease. In fact, it manifestly is a disease. Rabies is bad, but it is not so bad as this disease. Rabies enables a man to do a bad, but it is not so bad as this disease. Rabies enables a man to do a thing which he could not do when in a healthy state: kill his neighbor with a poisonous bite. No one is the better man for having rabies. The Moral Sense enables a man to do wrong. It enables him to do wrong in a thousand ways. Rabies is an innocent disease, compared to the Moral Sense. No one, then, can be the better man for having the Moral Sense. What, now, do we find the Primal Curse to have been? Plainly what it was in the beginning: the infliction upon man of the Moral Sense; the ability to distinguish good from evil; and with it, necessarily, the ability to do evil; for there can be no evil act without the presence of consciousness of it in the doer of it. And so I find that we have descended and degenerated, from some far ancestor-some microscopic atom wandering at its pleasure between the mighty horizons of a drop of water perchance-insect by insect, animal by animal, reptile by reptile, down the long highway of smirchless innocence, till we have reached the bottom stage of development-namable as the Human Being. Below us-nothing. Nothing but the Frenchman. There is only one possible stage below the Moral Sense; that is the Immoral Sense. The Frenchman has it. Man is but a little lower than the angels. This definitely locates him. He is between the angels and the French. Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of a thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market. On top of his specialty-the Moral Sense-are piled a multitude of minor infirmities; such a multitude, indeed, that one may broadly call them countless. The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; and at a time of life when he is but ill able to bear it. As soon as he has got them they must all be pulled out again, for they were of no value in the first place, not worth the loss of a night's rest. The second set will answer for a while, by being reinforced occasionally with rubber or plugged up with gold; but he will never ger a set which can really be depended on till a dentist makes him one. This set will be called "false" teeth-as if he had ever worn any other kind. In a wild state-a natural state-the Higher Animals have a few diseases; diseases of little consequence; the main one is old age. But man starts in as a child and lives on diseases till the end, as a regular diet. He has mumps, measles, whooping cough, croup, tonsillitis, diptheria, scarlet fever, almost as a matter of course. Afterward, as he goes along, his life continues to be threatened at every turn: by colds, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, itch, cholera, cancer, consumption, yellow fever, bilious fever, typhus fevers, hay fever, ague, chilblains, piles, inflammation of the entrails, indigestion, toothache, earache, deafness, dumbness, blindness, influenza, chicken pox, cowpox, smallpox, liver compliant, constipation, bloody flux, warts, pimples, boils, carbuncles, abscesses, bunions, corns, tumors, fistulas, pneumonia, softening of the brain, melancholia and fifteen other kinds of insanity; dysentery, jaundice, diseases of the heart, the bones, the skin, the scalp, the spleen, the kidneys, the nerves, the brain, the blood; scrofula, paralysis, leprosy, neuralgia, palsy, fits, headache, thirteen kinds of rheumatism, forty-six of gout, and a formidable supply of gross and unprintable disorders of one sort and another. Also-but why continue the list? The mere names of the agents appointed to keep this shackly machine out of repair would hide him from sight if printed on his body in the smallest type known to the founder's art. He is but a basket of pestilent corruption provided for the support and entertainment of swarming armies of bacilli-armies commissioned to rot him and destroy him, and each army equipped with a special detail of the work. The process of waylaying him, persecuting him, rotting him, killing him, begins with his first breath, and there is no mercy, no pity, no truce till he draws his last one. Look at the workmanship of him, in certain of its particulars. What are his tonsils for? They perform no useful function; they have no value. They have no business there. They are but a trap. They have but the one office, the one industry: to provide tonsillitis and quinsy and such things for the possessor of them. And what is the vermiform appendix for? It has no value; it cannot perform any useful service. It is but an ambuscaded enemy whose sole interest in life is to lie in wait for stray grapeseeds and employ them to breed strangulated hernia. And what are the male's mammals for? For business, they are out of the question; as an ornament, they are a mistake. What is his beard for? It performs no useful function; it is a nuisance and a discomfort; all nations hate it; all nations persecute it with a razor. And because it is a nuisance and a discomfort, Nature never allows the supply of it to fall short, in any man's case, between puberty and the grave. You never see a man baldheaded on his chin. But his hair! It is a graceful ornament, it is a comfort, it is the best of all protections against certain perilous ailments, man prizes it above emeralds and rubies. And because of these things Nature puts it on, half the time, so that it won't stay. Man's sight, smell, hearing, sense of locality-how inferior they are. The condor sees a corpse at five miles; man has no telescope that can do it. The bloodhound follows a scent that is two days old. The robin hears the earthworm burrowing his course under the ground. The cat, deported in a closed basket, finds its way home again through twenty miles of country which it has never seen. Certain functions lodged in the other sex perform in a lamentably inferior way as compared with the performance of the same functions in the Higher Animals. In the human being, menstruation, gestation and parturition are terms which stand for horrors. In the Higher Animals these things are hardly even inconveniences. For style, look at the Bengal tiger-that ideal of grace, beauty, physical perfection, majesty. And then look at Man-that poor thing. He is the Animal of the Wig, the Trepanned Skull, the Ear Trumpet, the Glass Eye, the Pasteboard Nose, the Porcelain Teeth, the Silver Windpipe, the Wooden Leg-a creature that is mended and patched all over, from top to bottom. If he can't get renewals of his bric-a-brac in the next world, what will he look like? He has just one stupendous superiority. In his intellect he is supreme. The Higher Animals cannot touch him there. It is curious, it is noteworthy, that no heaven has ever been offered him wherein his one sole superiority was provided with a chance to enjoy itself. Even when he himself has imagined a heaven, he has never made provision in it for intellectual joys. It is a striking omission. It seems a tacit confession that heavens are provided for the Higher Animals alone. This is matter for thought; and for serious thought. And it is full of a grim suggestion: that we are not as important, perhaps, as we had all along supposed we were. http://www.zengardner.com/the-damned-human-race-mark-twain-essay/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f49_1361647498 Detroit Iron The Damned Human Race Mark Twain