Not Bad for a Weekend

Sat: an anti-Bush singer and good folk Irish music.

Sun: lovely Brazilian food!

Mon: surprinsingly good Lebanese film.

Thank You!

Funny Guy of the Day (No 2,341)

"Go and steal as long as you don't take too much."
J.D. Mobutu

Victor Jara

Funny Guys of the Day (IX)

"The Party must not become the servant of the masses, but their master."
Adolf Hitler (an Austrian)

"The defence of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that's what we have carried out."
Francisco Franco (a Galician)

Donna di Porto Pim

Antonio Tabucchi (Pisa, 1943)

Funny Guy of the Day (VIII)

"This is genuine democracy, but
reallistically the strong always rule."
Muammar Al-Qadaffi

Boris v Ken: The Winner

Amazing Facts

Mario Uribe, a former senator and a cousin of Colombia's president, Álvaro Uribe, was arrested on charges that he had colluded with right-wing paramilitaries. Around a third of the country's Congress is under investigation for paramilitary links.

Is Italy Fascist?

Silvio Berlusconi: "We are the new Falange."

A Panphlet On The Floor

I don't think any politician is saint, of course. But at the same time each one of them have a track behind him or her which shows some basics about their ideology (or lack of it) and their honesty and principles. In those fields Red Ken is an ok guy - just don't compare him with the xenophobic bufoon of Boris The Blonde.

It just happened today that I took a panphlet from the floor and this is what I read about Ken's achievement as Mayor - I agree with some, I don't with others:

- Secured 2012 Olympics for London (poor Paris...)
- Improved transport (true, but "improvement" doesn't mean is good enough - The Tube is expensive and overcrowded).
- Respected all communities (true, indeed!).
- Driven racist attacs down by more than 50% (Hats off!!).
- Increased police numbers and reduced crime (not always both parts of the equation are linked but, ok).
- Stood against the war in Iraq (few senior politicians can say that... just remember 15 Feb 2003!)
- Supported all Londoners after 7/7 (true indeed, when every politician was running like a headless chicken Ken kept the message and practice of We Are One London).

I don't think a politician should be too long in office but before the idea of two-terms limit becomes rule and if I have to chose between Red Ken and Boris The Blonde, I have no doubt.

Just because The Evening Standar and The Mail are against him he deserves our vote. Simple like that.

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Another Day...

... another "legal" killing of Palestinians - this time a mother and her four sons.

Funny Guy of the Day (VII)

"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."
Idi Amin

Amazing Sports

Funny Guy of the Day (VI)

"Liberty is so precious that it must be rationed."
Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov "Lenin"

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Funny Guy of the Day (V)

"Power must be vested in the armed forces since only they have the organization and the means to fight Marxism."
Gen Augusto Pinochet

Funny Guy of the Day (IV)

"A nation always needs an enemy."
Sukarno

One of US

Under the Constitution of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico is described as a 'Commonwealth' and Puerto Ricans enjoy a degree of administrative autonomy similar to that of a U.S. state. Puerto Ricans are statutory U.S. citizens, but since Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory and not a U.S. state, the U.S. Constitution does not enfranchise U.S. citizens residing in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico does participate in the internal political process of both the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S., accorded equal-proportional representation in both parties, and delegates from the islands vote in each party's national convention...