Cogs can think.

Some interesting news lately.

First off, the Dutch NOS Journaal turned 50 today. This non-profit, tax-funded organization has provided the TV news in my country for 50 years now, and has done so in an utterly independant manner. As far as news goes, there are only two ‘news programs’ I trust to be truly objective: the BBC and the NOS. My congratulations to the Journaal, and here’s to another 50!

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Secondly, Ariël Sharon is closer to death than to life. Now, as many of my regular readers will know, I do not hold Sharon in high regard. He is a war criminal, a mass-murderer, and a nazi. He has killed thousands of Egyptian POWs during the 6 Day War because those POWs slowed his move accross the Sinaï Desert (as an Israeli general, he lead the move against Egypt). He is also indirectly responisble for the death of a lot of Libanese people. He is a nazi, like many other politicians in Israel, because he wants (wanted? Maybe, I’ll get back to that in a moment) a purely Jewish Israel (and someone is a Nazi if he finds his own people superior to others). There actually is a plan to deport (!) all Arabs out of Israel– a plan openly supported by many. Aother thing is the fence/wall/barrier he is building. Now, I have meny friends in Berlin, and I go there basically once a year, and I can tell you: that wall/fence/barrier is… I have no words for it. If the supporters of the wall just knew what it has done to a city like Berlin.

This leaves out the fact that the Jews have no right whatsoever to take land from the Arab people who have been living there for centuries.

Now, the last year we have seen a different Sharon. Instead of the cold, hard, nazi-like general, he turned more into someone truly out for peace. He retreated the Israelis from the Gaza strip, and dismantled many settlements there. And he should be commended for that. His almost-death, or else his inability to return to politics, is at this point a major loss for peace in the region. I am very afraid that Netanyahu will win the elections in three months– and then all hope for the Middle-East is lost.

So, I hope he comes out unscathed [unlikely] or that someone steps up from the left side of the political spectrum.

I’m getting so fcuking pissed off about that fcuking annoying horn in the commercials for Super De Boer… I’m gonna fcuking kill the fcuker who made that fcuking commercial up. Seriously.

You know what? God can shove 2005 up his stinking white ass. I’m so fcuking glad 2005 is over; buried, burnt, sent to the sky in big, exploding fireworks. 2005 was the worst year ever, and that’s why 2006 is going to fcukin’ rock!

The last few seconds of the year were kind of emotional; especially for me mum, but even I couldn’t keep my eyes dry at that point. After having some champagne, it was time to go out. Me and my friends went to some weird small village somewhere far way, and everyone at the pub was younger than we were. That just sucks. I swear to god, next year, it’s Big City Alkmaar again. We had fun anyway, I drained my glasses of Martini Bianco like lemonade. And oh, we disabled anonymous posting on OSNews.

I’d like to whish everyone a very happy and healthy 2006! And to make sure you enter this new year with a smile, here’s a picture of me taken just a few secs ago (and built-in iSight be damned): god, this was a really long day. Really long.

En je kunt niets zeker weten en alles gaat voorbij
Maar ik geloof, ik geloof, ik geloof, ik geloof, ik geloof in jou en mij
ik geloof, ik geloof, ik geloof, ik geloof, ik geloof in jou en mij

And you can’t know anything for sure and everything fades away
But I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe in you and me
I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe in you and me