Guus Bosman

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The politician with the website I like the best is Klaas de Vries. He doesn't update it very frequently but he compensates for that with a very nice writing-style. Today:

"Zalm heeft gezegd dat Wouter liegt. De man is totaal zijn zelfbeheersing kwijt. Daar kan een mental coach niet tegenop. ‘Zalm for President’, heeft zijn campagneteam bedacht. Weten zelfs niet meer in welk land ze zijn."

Bulgaria

Ratelband and Bulgaria

We have seen our fair share of 'new politicians' this year in the Netherlands.

In an article about Emile Ratelband in the Washington Post:

He calls EU expansion "crazy," saying, "we don't need these gangsters, like Bulgaria." But he thinks Turkey should be allowed into the EU.

Obviously Bulgarians were not very pleased. The spokesman of the Bulgarian government, Todorov, declined to comment. "The ministry will stick to its practice and will not comment statements of foreign politicians made during pre-election campaigns".

Interesting enough on the agenda of Lijst Ratelband it said: "TV opnames voor de Bulgaarse televisie, Bulgarian National Television voor het programma ”Every Sunday”. LIVE!".

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Teletekst 2

Teletekst 2 hours later:

Teletekst 19 januari, 2 hours later.

Note the difference.

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Teletekst

A dream-teletekst this morning for the PvdA campaign:

Teletekst 19 januari.

boardgames

Fist of Dragonstones

We played another new game, Fist of Dragonstones. It's a short bidding game, I liked it a lot. (See a picture of the game online).

Jerry won again. Albert also arrived and now we're playing "Razende Roboters".

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First game

Jerry just won. His strategy with the 'steengroeves' (stonemines) turned out to be a winning one. The result:


  • 1. Jerry, 44 pts
  • 2. Marjolein, 31 pts
  • 3. Guus, 27 pts
  • 4. Daniel, 24 pts
  • 5. Ronald (played for the first time), 23 pts

    In the mean time Zoltan came home, so we'll start a new game for 6 people. Not sure which game yet.

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    At Zoltan's place

    Daniel came back Tuesday evening and we made an appointment to play a few boardgames tonight with Jerry and Marjolein.


    First I went to Jerry's, but there was nobody there to open the door. Then I remember that we agreed on Zoltan's place... luckily enough their houses are close to each other.


    We looked at Sterrenschiff, a new Catan game. Quite interesting. Later Ronald arrived, and now we'll play Puerto Rico. Let's see how it will work out this time...

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    Iraq War

    Some people are afraid that a war in Iraq would be a disaster... a very nice Flash movie demonstrates what could happen.

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    The Economist: Labour returns from the dead

    The Economist this week:


    "The name is Wouter Bos. He's a miracle-worker. He brings political parties back from the (almost) dead. [...]


    The Fortuynists' disarray has cut their own throats (they may get half a dozen seats, say pollsters). But Mr Bos has twisted the knife. When he went on the stump in one of Rotterdam's most Fortuynist areas, it was plain that working-class voters were swinging back to Labour in droves."

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    "Why do ducks have webbed feet? To stamp out fires.

    Why do elephants have flat feet? To stamp out burning ducks."

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