Sorry Guys - Michelin is French - no go for me.

[CPH]

Klenger, I'm with you!



CPH

 

[Mtngoat]

How cool you can trace your families back so far. Best I can tell my great grandparents were mutts from Arkansas and the Oklahoma panhandle.



Robin

 

[RustyJC]

My wife is into geneology. She did the research and got lucky enough to link up with someone who had already done a lot of the heavy lifting.



Rusty

 

[Diesel Gunner]

Same with me. I've got a cousin who has 800 pages of documents and is still roaming graveyards looking for more relatives. Thank God, for her, that Europe is on the other side of alot of water or she would be over there.

 

[Steve M]

Hey Nick!, What happened to your hub-caps?

 

[JR2]

Votre mère était un hampster et votre père a senti de eldelberries



Sorry I could not resist.



So you want to boycott the French, use this list as a quide line.



Air France

Air Liquide

Airbus

Alcatel

Allegra (allergy medication)

Aqualung (including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest)

AXA Advisors

Bank of the West (owned by BNP Paribas)

Beneteau (boats)

BF Goodrich (owned by Michelin)

BIC (razors, pens and lighters)

Biotherm (cosmetics)

Black Bush

Bollinger (champagne)

Car & Driver Magazine

Cartier

Chanel

Chivas Regal (scotch)

Christian Dior

Club Med (vacations)

Culligan (owned by Vivendi)

Dannon (yogurt and dairy foods)

DKNY

Dom Perignon

Durand Crystal

Elle Magazine

Essilor Optical Products

Evian

Fina gas stations and Fina Oil (billions invested in Iraqi oil fields)

First Hawaiian Bank

George Magazine

Givenchy

Grey Goose (vodka) Hennessy

Houghton Mifflin (books)

Jacobs Creek (owned by Pernod Ricard since 1989)

Jameson (whiskey)

Krups (coffee and cappuccino makers)

Lancome

Le Creuset (cookware)

L'Oreal (health and beauty products)

Louis Vuitton

Marie Claire

Martel Cognac

Maybelline

Méphisto (shoes and clothes)

Michelin (tires and auto parts)

Mikasa (crystal and glass)

Moet (champagne)

Motel 6

Motown Records

MP3

com

Mumms (champagne)

Nissan (cars; majority owned by Renault)

Nivea

Normany Butter

Parents Magazine

Peugeot (automobiles)

Pierre Cardin

Playstation Magazine

ProScan (owned by Thomson Electronics, France)

Publicis Group (including Saatchi &Saatchi Advertising)

RCA (televisions and electronics; owned by Thomson Electronics)

Red Magazine

Red Roof Inns (owned by Accor group in France)

Renault (automobiles)

Road & Track Magazine

Roquefort cheese (all Roquefort cheese is made in France)

Rowenta (toasters, irons, coffee makers, etc)

Royal Canadian

Salomon (skis)

Sierra Software and Computer Games

Smart & Final

Sofitel (hotels, owned by Accor)

Sparkletts (water, owned by Danone)

Spencer Gifts

Sundance Channel

Taylor Made (golf)

Technicolor

T-Fal (kitchenware)

Total gas stations

UbiSoft (computer games)

Uniroyal

Universal Studios music, movies and amusement parks; owned by Vivendi-Universal)

USFilter

Veritas Group

Veuve Clicquot Champagne

Vittel

Vivendi

Wild Turkey (bourbon)

Woman's Day Magazine

Yoplait (The French company Sodiaal owns a 50 percent stake)

Yves Saint Laurent

Zodiac Inflatable Boats



Good Luck.

 

[illflem]

I'm still trying to figure out why you guys boycott France but not Germany, Russia and the 123 countries that opposed the war in Iraq including Canada and Mexico.

 

[Joe G.]

I'm wondering what is going to happen with this boycott business when the politics change and the U. S. is best friends with the Frence and mad at the British.

 

[JR2]

I was just posting the list to show people how many companies are actually French. I don't boycott any of them, heck i work for a very large French oil field service company, boycotting any French company would be pointless since I work for one. Maybe I ought to go to work the other Big oil field service company, the one that is charging the US gov $1. 75 a gallon for gasoline that its paying $. 06 a gallon for in Iraq. They are stealing our tax dollars from us and we picked them to do it with out a competitive bid.....

 

[Bill Lins]

E-?]Originally posted by JR2 [/i]

Votre mère était un hampster et votre père a senti de eldelberries

[/QUOTE]



Alright, you clowns, this is America- speak Spanish!

 

[JWhitcomb]

They aren't stealing our tax dollars, they are being given to them with a wink and a nod from the Oval Office and what ever shape the office is for the VP.



Oh yeah, I forgot those spine less Senators. They voted to give away 87 billion of your tax dollars today. They did it with a voice vote so no one could pin them down as to how they voted. If you ask one how he voted I am sure the answer will be to say it was NO.

 

[QRTRHRS]

You may want to know that,

Headquartered in Greenville, S. C. , Michelin North America (www.michelintruck.com) employs 24,640 and operates 22 plants in 18 locations.



I have no love for the French either but I need to go with the Michelin side on this issue.

 

[illflem]

It's pretty obvious what's going on when a provision on the bill authorizing the $87B that would have subjected those who deliberately defrauded the United States or Iraq to jail terms of up to 20 years and very high fines was cut.

The provision was supported by both the GOP and Demos but was nixed from the bill under pressure from the White House...

I personally can see only one reason to not have the provision and it's not ethical.

 

[JWhitcomb]

Be careful with those Snausages, my cattle dog is starting to look like one. Come to think of it, so am I.