Het Holstohus Theater in Olst pakt uit met nieuw programma. De opening van het nieuwe culturele seizoen en het 20-jarige bestaan van het Filmhuis worden in Olst op vrijdag 18 september feestelijk gevierd in de tot Frans café omgetoverde zaal met Franse chansons en een Franse film. Op 3 oktober verrast Höllenboer met hun nieuwe programma “Hej’t of Krieg’t” dat bol staat van droge humor, dromerige melodieën en puntige teksten in Algemeen Beschaafd Sallands.
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a) Dat kan niet want de limonade valt uit het glas.
b) Dat kan niet want je slokdarm werkt niet op z’n kop.
c) Ja, je kan drinken als je over de kop gaat.
Vernichtendes Urteil über liberalen Umgang mit Drogen im Land der Tulpen. DEN HAAG - “Die Behörden haben der Coffeeshop-Politik in den letzten 15 Jahren gar keine Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Der Staat war der Dumme für die Drogenmafia.“ – Dieses vernichtende Urteil fällt Wim van Donk und die vom ihm geleitete Untersuchungskommission in ihrem Abschlussbericht über die Drogenpolitik im Land der Tulpen.
Der Bericht zerzaust die liberale Drogenpolitik, die es möglich macht, dass in Holland seit Jahrzehnten in „Coffeeshops“ Zutaten für Joints verkauft werden dürfen. Das Gramm Marihuana ist vielfach ab acht Euro zu haben. Höchstabgabemenge: fünf Gramm an Käufer über 18 Jahre. lese weiter hier>> Lees verder hier »
BBC News – Parked on the tarmac at Kabul airport was the gleaming, freshly-painted Antonov plane. We climbed aboard the first ever commercial flight to Uruzgan. Inside we had a choice of seats. We were the only passengers on the Kam Air flight to Tirin Kot.
Flying above the vast, rugged expanse of southern Afghanistan, snow-capped peaks, barren mountains and fertile, green valleys, the journey took us into the heart of former Taliban territory. The new air service to Uruzgan is one sign of the small but surprising progress being made by the Dutch who are in charge of international forces in the province.
Uruzgan is a bright spot in an otherwise depressing region for America and its allies. Almost everywhere else in southern Afghanistan insurgent attacks have risen rapidly. In Uruzgan attacks are falling, and areas under Taliban control are shrinking. read on here>> Lees verder hier »
“President Obama is getting a lot of criticism from PETA, you know, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They’re taking issue with the fact that he killed a fly. For real. PETA said he should have captured the fly and taken it outside, which would have been a great message to send to North Korea.” –Jimmy Kimmel
“I don’t know how flies got on PETA’s do not kill list, but they have. And I say let he who is without a stain on his windshield that used to be a moth cast the first stone.” –Jimmy Kimmel
“The White House, though, doesn’t like confrontation. You know, they like to work things out. So as a gesture of goodwill, they have relocated the fly’s family to the Rose Garden, where they are now living on a fresh pile of Bo Obama’s dog droppings. So that’s nice.” –Jimmy Kimmel
Max Blumental in The Daily Beast reports that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped construct Palin’s home:
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an addition $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.
Alaska bloggers have reported in recent weeks that “a long simmering embezzelment/IRS scandal is still being looked at by the feds.” In her press conference today, Palin asked the public to “trust me with this decision and know that it is no more politics as usual.” But she also bemoaned “political operatives” who have “descended on Alaska” to investigate “all sorts of frivolous ethics violations.” Palin said this “politics of personal destruction” was one of the key motivating factors behind her decision today.
Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore writes, “For weeks the rumors of a criminal investigation against the governor have been brewing. They are rumors, but are swirling fresh again with Palin’s resignation. I’m holding my breath for the other ‘Naughty Monkey’ to drop.”
Twee dagen voor de dood van Jackson was er een dress rehearsel voor zijn show in Londen. De zanger is daarop te zien tussen zijn band en een groep dansers. De repetities voor de show worden samengevoegd om er een DVD van te maken.
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Im Osten Österreichs starten an diesem Wochenende für 470.000 Schüler die Ferien. Dazu beginnen die Sommerferien in der Slowakei, in Tschechien, im bevölkerungsreichsten deutschen Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Teilen der Niederlande und auch in Belgien.
Schon am Freitagnachmittag kann es auf der Wiener Stadtausfahrt zu längeren Staus kommen, wie etwa:
- auf der Tangente in beiden Richtungen
- weiters auf der Südautobahn Richtung Slowenien
- auf der Ostautobahn Richtung Ungarn
- sowie innerstädtisch auf der Grünberg- und der Altmannsdorferstraße, sowie der Triesterstraße stadtauswärts.
Am Samstag erwarten wir Staus auf den Autobahnen Richtung Süden: lese weiter hier>> Lees verder hier »
Dutch treat: Jaap van Zweden serves it up.
The Dallas Symphony returned Wednesday evening to the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival after a two- year absence, beginning a six-concert residency that launches the five-week summer series. It is easy to imagine this ensemble being overshadowed by the two other, better-known orchestras on the festival’s lineup: New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. But expectations surrounding 47- year-old Jaap van Zweden, who just finished his first year as music director in Dallas, assured that didn’t happen.
Response to the Dutch conductor from critics and audiences there has verged on the ecstatic. While it’s impossible to make any firm judgments after seeing him once, I’m ready to join the believers. read on here>> Lees verder hier »
“Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture,” an ambitious exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, reveals how New Yorkers have both embraced and mocked their Dutch heritage since 1609, when Henry Hudson first sailed up the river that now bears his name. The Dutch ruled New York for little more than five decades, but even after they lost it to the British in 1664, Dutch colonists held on to their heritage. For nearly a century they continued to speak Dutch, attend the Dutch Reformed Church and maintain Dutch dress, traditions and architectural forms (windmills and stone farmhouses).
The exhibition includes the kinds of Dutch furnishings that might have been found in 17th- century estates: pewter plates, silver bowls, brass candlesticks, Dutch tiles, Bible boxes, Delft jars and Dutch cupboards, called kasts. read on here>> Lees verder hier »
The pilots of the Air France aircraft that crashed off Brazil may have fought to control their stricken aircraft to the end, because it was intact when it hit the Atlantic ocean, investigators indicated yesterday.
In a first report on the disaster that killed all 228 aboard, the French accident bureau said that the Airbus A330 of Air France Flight 447 had not broken up at altitude as reported earlier by Brazil. Neither was it in a nose or tail-down dive. A study of 660 pieces of debris showed that it had shattered only when it slammed belly-first into the sea, said the bureau. read on here>> Lees verder hier »
[..]From Jon Stewart and Daily Show “reporter” Rob Corddry: Stewart: Here’s what puzzles me most, Rob. John Kerry’s record in Vietnam is pretty much right there in the official records of the U.S. military, and hasn’t been disputed for 35 years. Corddry: That’s right, Jon, and that’s certainly the spin you’ll be hearing coming from the Kerry campaign over the next few days. Stewart: That’s not a spin thing, that’s a fact. That’s established. Corddry: Exactly, Jon, and that established, incontrovertible fact is one side of the story. Stewart: But isn’t that the end of the story? I mean, you’ve seen the records, haven’t you? What’s your opinion? Corddry: I’m sorry, “my opinion”? I don’t have opinions. I’m a reporter, Jon, and my job is to spend half the time repeating what one side says, and half the time repeating the other.Little thing called “objectivity” — �might want to look it up some day. Stewart: Doesn’t objectivity mean objectively weighing the evidence, and calling out what’s credible and what isn’t? Corddry: Whoa-ho! Sounds like someone wants the media to act as a filter! Listen, buddy: Not my job to stand between the people talking to me and the people listening to me.[..] Glenn Greenwald:
The still-growing NPR “torture” controversy
There are several noteworthy developments since I wrote on Tuesday about the refusal of NPR’s [National Public Radio] Ombudsman, Alica Shepard, to be interviewed by me about NPR’s ban on using the word “torture” to describe the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics. Given the utter vapidity of her rationale (”there are two sides to the issue. And I’m not sure, why is it so important to call something torture?”), I was momentarily amazed to learn that she actually teaches “Media Ethics” to graduate students at Georgetown University (my amazement quickly dissipated once I recalled that this is the same institution that, until last year, paid Doug Feith – Doug Feith — to teach students “national security policy” and that Berkeley Law School has John Yoo “teaching law” to its students; next semester at Georgetown: Karl Rove teaches Civility in a Post-Partisan Age, Bill Kristol lectures on Accountability in Punditry, while David Gregory examines The Role of Intellect in AdversarialQuestioning). read on here>> Lees verder hier »
In his thirdop-ed on Iran in a major newspaper in the last month, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton wrote in the Washington Post today that the time is right for Israel to launch an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities:
Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change. That prospect seems lost for the near future or for at least as long as it will take Iran to finalize a deliverable nuclear weapons capability.
Accordingly, with no other timely option, the already compelling logic for an Israeli strike is nearly inexorable. […]
Those who oppose Iran acquiring nuclear weapons are left in the near term with only the option of targeted military force against its weapons facilities. Significantly, the uprising in Iran also makes it more likely that an effective public diplomacy campaign could be waged in the country to explain to Iranians that such an attack is directed against the regime, not against the Iranian people.
Despite his suggestion that now is time for an attack, in reality, it’s always a great time to attack Iran if you’re John Bolton, considering he never passes up an opportunity to use turmoil in the Middle East to suggest war with Iran.
In his column today, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz devotes his column today to the question of: “Does Race Play a Role in Coverage?” He readily admits that “no one raises questions when an Irish American male reporter covers a pol named Murphy,” but that doesn’t stop him from writing a 1,600-word article raising questions about black women:
Rachel Swarns of the New York Times and The Washington Post’s Robin Givhan were among those herded behind the rope Monday. They and the other main beat reporters — Newsweek’s Allison Samuels, Darlene Superville of the Associated Press and Politico’s Nia-Malika Henderson — have something in common: They are all African American women. […]Whether racial and gender identification produces a gauzier, more favorable portrayal of Obama is perhaps too early to judge.
As Adam Serwer observed, “You would never ever see a media critic like Kurtz questioning the ability of white men to cover other white men objectively, or for that matter the ability of white men to cover women or people of color, despite the fact that if newsroom coverage were to be affected, it would be by the prevailing cultural biases of the better represented population in the newsroom.”
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Der start der neuen Bayern Van Gaal: ‘Wir sind arrogant und dominant … deshalb passe ich zu Bayern’. UIi Hoeneß (57) grinste vor Freude wie ein kleines Kind. Neben ihm sprach Louis van Gaal (57) erstmals als neuer Bayern-Trainer. Und bei seiner offiziellen Präsentation pfefferte er Sätze ins Mikro, die Fußball-Deutschland in den Ohren klingeln.
Der Holländer (spricht nach Crash-Kurs gutes Deutsch) gestern um 14.38 Uhr: „Das bayerische Lebensgefühl passt mir wie ein warmer Mantel. Warum? Mia san mia, wir sind wir – und ich bin ich: Selbstbewusst, arrogant, dominant, ehrlich, arbeitsam, innovativ!“
Arrogant und dominant? Gerade deshalb werden die Bayern seit Jahrzehnten bewundert, gefürchtet, aber auch verachtet. Van Gaal: „Ich erkenne meine Persönlichkeit in diesen Begriffen und deshalb, denke ich, dass ich hier her passe und das ist wichtig, um gut zu funktionieren.“
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Fourteen GOP state senators — more than half the Senate Republican caucus — have already called for Sanford’s resignation, joining a list that, as of Wednesday afternoon, included 11 Republican members of the state House and six of the state’s biggest newspapers.
And three leading South Carolina Republican officeholders, including the state’s two U.S. senators, called Sanford today for what sources close to the lawmakers described as frank conversations about the governor’s ability to carry out his job.
“The governor has given a full and truthful account, and he is finished discussing this matter,” said Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer. “He is focused on being governor, on rebuilding his marriage and on building back the trust of South Carolinians.”
If these do turn out to be Mark Sanford’s final days in office, the crazy SC guv meme may just be getting underway. His replacement would be Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer who has managed to get himself in two car accidents and has been pulled over at least four times for speeding in recent years (including at least once over 100mph without a ticket). Bauer, for good measure, also crashed a plane.
Bauer, of course, is a GOPer. Let the good times roll!
Wingnuts face up to the reality of Sen. Al Franken: Wailing, gnashing teeth, foaming mouths ensue. Media Matters has put together a nice pastiche of all the Fox talkers and other assorted right-wing pundits writhing in agony and rolling on the ground holding their heads at the very thought of Senator Al Franken assuming office. It’s really something to behold.
Besides the Fox crew, headed up by Brian Kilmeade and Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity waxing wroth over Franken’s victory, you also had Limbaugh calling him “a genuine lunatic” (no doubt for having penned Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot). Jim Quinn chimed in that he thought the election was stolen. Mike Barnicle on Morning Joe thought it was “kind of a surprise” that Franken “behaved like a responsible adult”.
And Bill O’Reilly — who has, em, a bit of a history with Franken — has been on vacation all week, so we haven’t heard yet from the Hot-Tempered One. We can hardly wait.
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