Op de site van het NRC Handelsblad kon jarenlang gereageerd worden op het ‘ikje’. Enkele jaren geleden stopte de krant er mee en nam drasties het over. Nu is het weer toegestaan mits..
Is uw ikje niet geplaatst in het NRC dan kunt u het publiceren op drasties in de categorie Trots Op Ikje. Opsturen via ‘contact us'.

Grillig als zovele vrouwen
is het weer in Nederland.
De verschuiving der seizoenen
loopt gigantisch uit de hand.
‘s Zomers storm en regenbuien,
in ‘t voorjaar komt het ijs aankruien.
Gelukkig maar dat Jan z’n kaart
de stabiliteit bewaart.

Gorilla

Joep Bertrams, The Netherlands

The best First Lady is certainly Gingrich's latest wife since she has already defeated the competition in the primary two times.

Rick 'oops' Perry worked for governor George Bush of Texas and followed in his footsteps in 2001 without a real challenge. But now that America has seen his true colors in the Republican primary debates, the popularity of this dumbass is plummeting. Even in Texas:

Rick Perry now has a lower job approval rating in his home state than President Barack Obama, The Dallas Morning News writes.

A shiver runs through the world. In the national polls Newt Gingrich is getting away from Mitt Romney... fast.
Once Romney had a 24 pct lead over Gingrich. Gallup Poll, 26 januari:

Remember Bob Dole, the widely respected Republican who lost against President Bill Clinton in 1996? This is what he thinks of Newt Gingrich. Go Tea Party Go!

Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway. I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late.

The Pentagon has presented plans to cut $487 billion in defense spending in the next ten years. It's not much but it's a start. It proposes to shrink U.S. ground forces with 100.000, slow the purchase of next-generation aeroplanes and retire old planes and ships.

This is the response of Republican Senator and defense expert John Cornyn:

"Taking us back to a pre-9/11 military force structure places our country in grave danger," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

So would, according to this Republican, 9/11 not have happened if the U.S. would have had three more infantry divisions? Or one more aircraft carrier?
Isn't it amazing that the American public keeps voting these nitwits in power? The only thing that could have stopped 9-11 was President George W. Bush listening to Clinton experts like Dick Clarke and not ignore reports like, "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in U.S."

Foto: Reizen

Op de site van het NRC Handelsblad kon jarenlang gereageerd worden op het ‘ikje’. Enkele jaren geleden stopte de krant er mee en nam drasties het over. Nu is het weer toegestaan mits..
Is uw ikje niet geplaatst in het NRC dan kunt u het publiceren op drasties in de categorie Trots Op Ikje. Opsturen via ‘contact us'.

Grillig als zovele vrouwen
is het weer in Nederland.
De verschuiving der seizoenen
loopt gigantisch uit de hand.
‘s Zomers storm en regenbuien,
in ‘t voorjaar komt het ijs aankruien.
Gelukkig maar dat Jan z’n kaart
de stabiliteit bewaart.

Pavel Constantin, Romania

Patrick Chappatte, Le Temps, Switzerland

According to a poll held immediately after the State of the Union, 91 percent of Americans approved of the message put forward by President Obama. Only nine percent of the people, who saw the speech, disapproved of the proposals made by Obama.

Barack Obama: tweets: 2.657; volgend: 683.294; volgers: 12.151.404. Tweets from Barack Obama are signed BO.

Elder statesman Fidel Castro has this to say about the Republican race to the White House. Mind you, the retired Cuban leader has battled with eleven American governments since he came to power in the Cuban revolution in 1959:

"The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been."

Thirty of the largest American companies spent more on lobbying policy makers in Washington last year than they paid in federal taxes.

Republican contender for the presidential nomination Newt Gingrich yesterday promised to create jobs on the moon. Gingrich made the bold pledge in Florida, where the next Republican primary will be held, that as presoident he will establish a permanent American base on the moon. And he knows when: by the end of his second term. He also promised to get a man to Mars in a "remarkably short time.”

President Obama ended the program for the creation of a lunar colony after NASA said it didn’t have the budget to get there. 

Gingrich, who once compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, the Wright Brothers and John F. Kennedy, has promised that as president he would not only change America but the whole world. But apparently he doesn't plan to stop there.
Another example of how grandiose a Gingrich presidency would be, was his idea to make driving n the night more safe by putting a "mirror system in space that could provide the light equivalent of many full moons” 

Foto: Apiedapie

Op de site van het NRC Handelsblad kon jarenlang gereageerd worden op het ‘ikje’. Enkele jaren geleden stopte de krant er mee en nam drasties het over. Nu is het weer toegestaan mits..
Is uw ikje niet geplaatst in het NRC dan kunt u het publiceren op drasties in de categorie Trots Op Ikje. Opsturen via ‘contact us'.

Grillig als zovele vrouwen
is het weer in Nederland.
De verschuiving der seizoenen
loopt gigantisch uit de hand.
‘s Zomers storm en regenbuien,
in ‘t voorjaar komt het ijs aankruien.
Gelukkig maar dat Jan z’n kaart
de stabiliteit bewaart.

Arend Van Dam, politicalcartoons.com

Larry Wright, The Detroit News

In Florida the police responded to a domestic disturbance call Thursday around four in the night. There a cop found a 15 year old girl who demanded to be taken away from her house and put in a local shelter because she heard her mom (35) have sex with her boyfriend.

The police had the teenager talk to the representative from a shelter and after that conversation the girl decided that she would rather stay home because “it was almost time for school anywhay.”

The girl acknowledged that apart from her mom having sex “there was no form of abuse or neglect in the house.”

Nobel Peace prize winner President Obama had his own war, just like his predecessor President Bush had.

In todays State of the Union speech Obama won't spent a lot of time talking about Iraq and Libya.
But comparing the two is quite enlightening.

Both wars accomplished almost the same objectives but the costs were rather different as this infographic from Center for American Progress shows.