This Week (11-Oct-2004)
This week Over here in Holland, we got ourselves a general strike hitting the public transportation systems. About a million people took a day off because they weren’t able to find alternative transportation. What’s the strike about? Well, the government and the unions are fighting about crucial changes to the whole pension system we have here. A very important issue, but also a very tricky one, because we’ll never be able to predict the effects of the changes for the next generation of geriatrics. The only really sad thing is that politicians and union leaders are defending their positions with very cheap arguments about caring about the people etc. But this fight’s gone wrong due to grown-ups acting like squabbling little kiddies, just begging for some whoopass.
What else? Well… So, final debate between Kerry and Bush was held and the end result seems to be a 3-0 whitewash win for Kerry. But did it really work to Kerry’s advantage? Dunno, but when people start getting paranoid about a bulge on the president’s back instead of, oh, lemme shoot for the stars here, the thousand plus American casualties and lordknows how many thousands of Iraqi corpses, I get a bit worried. Just des(s)erts?!
What else? Well.. There’s quite a ruckus about Eminem’s new video for the “Just Lose It” track. Michael Jackson’s allegedly being thrashed in more ways than one in the video. So the King of Pop asked media outlets to ban the video… Some have, some haven’t. I guess the Whacky One (note the restraint, please, note the restraint) needs all the diversion he can get so people’ll lose interest in his case. You can say and think what you want but Peter Pan never misinterpreted “playing with kids”.
What else? Well.. Yusuf Islam happened. The Artist Formerly Known As Cat Stevens made headlines a little while ago due to his problems with US Customs. Now he’s really going for gold, Christmas gold, by releasing a Yuletide single with former Boyzone short stuff Ronan Keating. For the record, I don’t have any problem with my man Yusuf other than the fact that he supported the fatwah death sentence the religious leaders declared on Salman Rushdie a while ago for his book “The Satanic Verses“. I respect his beliefs up to the point where he agrees with things like that. Ronan Keating however.. Nah, too easy. Just browsing the Web and I’ve found a piece by Stevens denying he ever supported the fatwah. Read on.
What else? Well.. I got bored again, so I googled this up for ya: Turtle Trax
What else? Well.. Modern times aren’t necessarily better times. In Holland we’ve just received news of the first school that’ll be publishing their pupils results on the internet. This’ll enable parents to get a better and more actual view at their kid’s performance. I’m just thinking back at how many times I got away with stuff by managing the information flow between my parents and my school: fake parent notes, “disappearing“ letters from school for my parents etc. *Sigh*
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