en de rest van de koninklijken en prinselijken en prinsesselijken.
Nee hoor, alleen complimentjes van mij.
Iedereen is mooi en perfect en slim.
Zolang dat wet op de boeken blijft
en ik veroordeeld kan worden van majesteitsschennis...
Potverdorie!
Ik wil die wet van de boeken AF!
En dan, mag van mij de hele koningshuis verdwijnen.
OK, als ambassadeurs van Nederland is het best leuk om een koningshuis te hebben.
Maar ik wil niet meer dat ze ook maar een enkele stem hebben in het bestuur van Nederland.
En zeker niet zo verheven boven ons, dat wij nooit iets lelijks mogen zeggen over mensen die alleen maar door een ongeluk van geschiedenis en geboorte een bepaalde maatschappelijke positie bekleden.
Van mij is geschiedenis een lopende zaak, niet in rots gezet
(en zelfs rots verweert...)
Ik had altijd zo iets van "waar maak je je druk over" wanneer mensen het hadden over afschaffen van de monarchie.
Vandaag ben ik zelf ook op dat punt aangeland.
Of is dit beledigend, mischien???
Indien wel, lang leven de koningin en haar volledige familie!
Mijn gedachten kunnen gelukkig niet gelezen worden.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
For the first time in over 20 years
I ate a gem squash, grown in my own garden!
(keeping mum about where I got the five seeds...)
Sliced in half, carefully saved the seeds (for next year, you understand!).
Then a pat of butter, sprinkling of salt, pepper, nutmeg and steamed it till it was soft and buttery.
Sheer perfection!!
Took a spoon and ate it.
Bite by delicious bite.
Divine!!!
I am in heaven!
Friday, July 27, 2007
What really matters
...is not
drunken actresses or spoilt rich kids
or even Gonzo go, Gonzo stay.
It's this, in various places on this small blue dot.
Every day.
Why are there not battallions of newspeople over there as witnesses?
It's as if these places dont even exist:
the dead have no names, no faces,
like leaves falling from trees...
dying without a sound.
This really gets to me, now and then.
On the red tourist bus in London last week, we drove by this wholly unremarkable paved island in middle of the road, and our tour guide said in this happy Koolaid voice that this was the spot where the Tyburn Tree once stood, where the public hangings took place in the old days.
So many people suffered horrific deaths on that little piece of earth
and it's neatly paved over now. A little island place where you stand halfway crossing the road... not noticing where you stand, not for one second wondering at what passed there in days gone by.
Just, look right, left, right again and rush across the road.
Pfffff. Like the song said, dust in the wind.
It should not be this easy to kill people.
drunken actresses or spoilt rich kids
or even Gonzo go, Gonzo stay.
It's this, in various places on this small blue dot.
Every day.
Why are there not battallions of newspeople over there as witnesses?
It's as if these places dont even exist:
the dead have no names, no faces,
like leaves falling from trees...
dying without a sound.
This really gets to me, now and then.
On the red tourist bus in London last week, we drove by this wholly unremarkable paved island in middle of the road, and our tour guide said in this happy Koolaid voice that this was the spot where the Tyburn Tree once stood, where the public hangings took place in the old days.
So many people suffered horrific deaths on that little piece of earth
and it's neatly paved over now. A little island place where you stand halfway crossing the road... not noticing where you stand, not for one second wondering at what passed there in days gone by.
Just, look right, left, right again and rush across the road.
Pfffff. Like the song said, dust in the wind.
It should not be this easy to kill people.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Reconstituted shit
...is still shit.
I cannot believe they are peddling this as something new, which now can be shoved through without referendum.
I would have welcomed a good constitutional treaty for Europe, I really would have. Now, I would not even trust these people to clean my toilets!
I am so disappointed. I am still pro Europe, though you would not say so these days hearing me. But, in the original spirit of the thing. I'm all for working together on many issues, for increasing the wellbeing of all Europeans, for open borders, I'm (gulp) even okay with the Euro as currency. But this unabashed shysterism we are seeing these past years, increasingly disgusts me.
It's enough!! No more!!
I cannot believe they are peddling this as something new, which now can be shoved through without referendum.
I would have welcomed a good constitutional treaty for Europe, I really would have. Now, I would not even trust these people to clean my toilets!
I am so disappointed. I am still pro Europe, though you would not say so these days hearing me. But, in the original spirit of the thing. I'm all for working together on many issues, for increasing the wellbeing of all Europeans, for open borders, I'm (gulp) even okay with the Euro as currency. But this unabashed shysterism we are seeing these past years, increasingly disgusts me.
It's enough!! No more!!
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Journalists in wartime
What a terrible profession they have.
I admire these newsmen and cameramen (and women) more than I can say.
The ones who go out there and tell it like it is, not the propaganda masters of the western media, safe in their offices, shaping the news just so.
For a country that says freedom of press and speech is paramount,
for a country who professes to be in the region bringing democracy and freedom,
this should be so very shaming.
And yet, this does not cause a ripple in the news.
It's non-news.
Americans in their cities and suburbs, driving their cars to and from work, shopping in the malls, discussing the latest Michael Moore movie, simply do not notice this.
Just another couple of dead Iraqi's.
It is outrageous.
I admire these newsmen and cameramen (and women) more than I can say.
The ones who go out there and tell it like it is, not the propaganda masters of the western media, safe in their offices, shaping the news just so.
For a country that says freedom of press and speech is paramount,
for a country who professes to be in the region bringing democracy and freedom,
this should be so very shaming.
And yet, this does not cause a ripple in the news.
It's non-news.
Americans in their cities and suburbs, driving their cars to and from work, shopping in the malls, discussing the latest Michael Moore movie, simply do not notice this.
Just another couple of dead Iraqi's.
It is outrageous.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
En maar zeggen wat wij het ons inbeeldden...!!!
echt hoor, dat ik het merk!
mijn functie en salaris is behoorlijk omhoog,
maar mijn leefsituatie is geen snars veranderd
ik heb nog steeds geen cent om extra uit te geven
mijn functie en salaris is behoorlijk omhoog,
maar mijn leefsituatie is geen snars veranderd
ik heb nog steeds geen cent om extra uit te geven
De gemiddelde werknemer in Nederland heeft sinds de officiële overstap van de gulden naar de euro begin 1999 een koopkrachtschade geleden van ongeveer 164 procent van het huidige inkomen.
bron
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