Save the date

So, are you coming to DC on July 12th?

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Passion about the real important things

While some people are worried about food shortage, rising inflation and the radicalization of the Middle-East - other focus their passion toward what is should really matter.

Milan 2-1 Inter commentaire Italien

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Questionable motives

I have to wonder about the timing of the investigation against the Israeli Prime-Minister, and the fact that the exclusive details were published at no other than the tabloid that is well known as a neo-con friendly. It is possible, of course, that for no apparent reason a person will decide to collaborate with […]

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New form, the same scam

Are you familiar with the Nigerian Scam? You should be aware of its newest form:

CONFIDENTIAL/URGENT POLITICAL PROPOSAL
Dear Sir
First we must solicit your confidence in this issue. This is by virtue as being utterly confidential and “top secret”.
We are SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON, the wife of the former United States head of state, PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, and […]

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Marking Marx’s Birthday

And how do you celebrate Karl Marks 190th birthday?
I think that it would be appropriate to remember the many victims of the dictatorship of the proletarian and the idea that it is moral to enslave one person to the needs of another. We should also emphasize that it wasn’t a great idea that was […]

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Day trip

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The wonderful weather encouraged us to take a short day trip near by and to hike a little bit. The girls had a lot of fun, and we enjoyed the girls.

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The girls were very tired on the way back home, as you can clearly see here:

More picture, as usual, can be found here and here

Rogel @ May 11, 2008

I agree

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Sometimes I do agree with our elected leaders. Here, for example, I agree with one of the architect of the disastrous Farm Bill - this Bill is very hard to justify

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) acknowledged that the payments are “very hard to explain to our urban colleagues.” But negotiators, under pressure from farm groups, made a token cut of $30 million a year in the current program.

Advocates of the bill stressed that eligibility will be tightened by prohibiting anyone earning more than $500,000 from off-farm sources to participate in the farm programs. Those earning more than $750,000 from farming would also be ineligible for the automatic payments. Currently, only those with more than $2.5 million in income from all sources are ineligible.

Rogel @ May 9, 2008

Did he rediscover fiscal responsibility?

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Not that President Bush is so great, he definitely isn’t. But I’ll applaud him if he will actually veto this monster:

President George W. Bush will veto the farm bill proposed by congressional agriculture leaders because it exceeds spending guidelines and offers no “real reform,” Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said.

“At a time of record farm income, Congress decided to further increase subsidy rates, qualify more people for taxpayer support and move programs toward more government control,” Schafer told reporters today. “The president will veto this bill.”

Schafer spoke shortly after leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees released details of the legislation at a news conference on Capitol Hill. They said they made compromises to meet Bush’s demands and hoped he would sign the five-year, $296 billion bill.

 

Rogel @ May 8, 2008

Don’t let those illegal immigrant leave

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Aside from the obvious questions about the wisdom of arresting illegal immigrants when they are leaving the country I think that this story indicates something that we often overlook. Many of those we now call illegal immigrants are seasonal workers that use to come work in the US for many years. Obviously seasonal workers aren’t as interesting as a “Problem” or a “Threat” so they are being labeled as Illegal immigrants. The advantage of such labeling, along with arresting them when they are going back home, is that its help people like Duncan Hunter or Lou Dobbs to build a very successful career. And than they argue that immigrant “takes” jobs from US citizens :)

Rogel @ May 8, 2008

Meditation

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Coming back from work today I was to tired to concentrate in the book I took with me, and I didn’t really wanted to start reading blogs. I wanted to just relax, so I started to browse through the pictures of the girls. I was watching and listing to music, and I decided to make a short slide show of some old pictures without any theme or even chronological order. The results are in front of you

Rogel @ May 7, 2008