Providing only one space of accomodation in therapy apartment, when we receive every month fifteen or twenty requests, it's not a challenge, it's a scandal.
And the winner is? [Les Innommables]
And it's only the very beginning of the article.
What the hell is happening?
In Germany, the FDP, a right-wing, pro-free market party led by Guido Westerwelle, won enough seats in the Bundestag to govern with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Everybody expects openly gay Westerwelle to become Foreign Minister. Gays.com highlighted in an article the year will have been good for gay politicians, especially since the victory of Johanna in the parliamentary elections, who became the first openly gay elected head of government in History.
Thinking about it, there's more and more prominent gays in the world... In the United States, the most active person in Congress among Democrats, after speaker Nancy Pelosi, is Barney Frank. He's on the front line regarding the health care reform. In the United Kingdom, Lord Peter Mandelson is one of the most powerful government members, gathering no less than three titles, including First Secretary of State, so much that the opposition called him "the real Prime Minister".
Nevertheless, can we talk of a real change for the gays? In the US, we saw that, during Barack Obama's election, last November 4, States also voted against every law project that would grant LGBT people new rights. Likewise, in Iceland, in the UK and in Germany, homosexuality is already broadly accepted. These issues of persons in charge doesn't seem to have any real impact, it's rather the other way around: it's the tolerance of a society towards LGBT people that seems to enable citizens from the sexual minority to be elected.
The Irish will have voted yes, in the end. The Lisbon Treaty is on its way to enter into force by the end of the year.
Now the question is: who is going to get the job of permanent President of the European Council created by the Treaty? Everything tends to say that this choice has already been made. The first Europresident would then be... suspens... Tony Blair.
Tony Blair. The man who followed George W. Bush into Iraq, who committed to give a pro-european feeling to his country but quickly gave up, whose country has not even accpeted the euro, and so on. To my eyes, it's really the worst choice that could be made, only because it would give the image of a Europe submitted to the United States, although one of its vocations is its independence.
When Tony Blair quit Number 10 to give his seat to Gordon Brown, he was named Middle East Peace Envoy for the Quartet (United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia). This choice was already a big mistake: Who could think that a man who took part to an unjustifiable war could help peace? By the way, you can see the results: Israel attacked Gaza last December and January, and a government opposed to a Palestinian state got elected in Israel. The situation has deteriorated.
But this is not the most ironic thing. Tony would like the EU's top job but something makes him hesitate. What could that be? A conflict with some leaders? The will to change the definition of his job, in order to make Europe stronger? A matter of conscience regarding Iraq??? Well, no, again, Mister Blair surprises us:
Meanwhile, Blair is said by some to have had some reservations about the presidency post, chief among them that he would earn less money than he does now giving speeches and other private work, and that the job would involve a lot of bureaucratic grind. But he would still earn about £250,000 a year with generous EU tax allowances, have a staff of at least 20 and a splendid Brussels residence.
Of course! Blair hesitates because he's offered ONLY £250,000! Well, let him say no to the job! Europe is an ideal. It needs to be carried by people who have a vision for it, not by some guys looking for attention and money!
How can we stop him? I know there's a website and an online petition taht I have already signed, at stopblair.eu. I'm wondering if I can do more, like... sending a letter to the head of State or government? To my MEP? Subscribing to the "No to Blair" Facebook group? Any ideas?
Earlier this year, I read Economy for dummies. A very interesting book, very instructive, sometimes even funny. But I already forgot everything. I will have to read it again.
French politicans are talking a lot these days. Anyway, these words, from Green MP and former presidential candidate Noël Mamère, go straight to the point and regard another former presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal, who is from the Socialist Party, a traditional ally for the Greens:
Ségolène Royal, we don't want her!
Fuck, I really missed ségobashing...
At least, Martine Aubry, leader of the shattered Socialist Party in France, a has humour:
I don't shave the morning.
She was referring to a famous quote of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy who said, while he was Interior Minister:
I think about the presidential election... and not only when I'm shaving.
(Via
Buzzle.)
It feels good to release the pressure with this kind of shows.
Ecology is not only about promoting local products, small cars or the chabichou (name of a local cheese).
Jean-Vincent Placé, deputy national secretary of the Greens, reacting to socialist ex-presidential candidate Ségolène Royal's words against the carbon tax.
Stupefaction and disgust this morning when I read in the newspapers that the government was to engage legal action against soldiers who have been injured in Iraq or in Afghanistan (and who are still fighting!) to claw back compensations that have been granted to them so they could receive treatment, among other things. Some articles indicate these compensations regard injuries that did not happen directly on the battlefield but others say they are complications due to these injuries.
This story happens a few weeks after the expenses scandal, which revealed the British MPs used public money for personal, or even speculative purposes.
New Labour (Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's party) will really have shown no humanity towards these men and women they sent to fight an illegal war.
In the US, when a clandestine CIA program engineered by Dick Cheney is revealed, nobody is worried. But as soon as someone says a swearword on TV, everyone panics! I thought Marcy Wheeler was having a point when she mentioned that blowjob:
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