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Wist u dat tien procent van de sterfgevallen in Nederland het gevolg is van euthanasie en dat de helft daarvan - vijf procent van alle doden in Nederland - het gevolg is van onvrijwillge euthanasie. Moord dus?
Het gaat hier om 6.800 bejaarden die ieder jaar worden omgelegd omdat ze oud en ziek zijn.
Vandaar dat alle ouderen in Nederland 'Don't Euthanize Me' armbanden dragen. Ook gaan de doodsbange oudjes niet naar een ziekenhuis in eigen land maar naar het buitenland uit angst om vermoord te worden.

U denkt natuurlijk hoe weet JdeW dat allemaal zo precies?

Nou, dat weet ik van de koploper in de Republikeinse voorverkiezingen in Amerika, Rick Santorum. Deze godvrezende christen maakt serieuze kans om gekozen te worden tot de uitdager van President Obama.
Vol verwachting klopt ons hart naar zijn buitenlandse beleid. Zie de video:

The new craze in the southern states of America is the 2007/8 presidential election campaign sticker of Barack Obama. It says Run Barack Run, Republican campaign strategist Frank Luntz said. 
Luntz: "But I put it on the front of my car."

The biggest sponsor of rightwing Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich is billionaire casino king Sheldon Adelson. He already gave $21 million till now to the campaign of Gingrich and is considering donating another cool $100 million. That's how obsceen politics in the U.S. has become. Adelson can afford it, he's good for at least $25 billion. 
When the casino mogul was asked if it was fair to influence an election like this, he said:

“I’m against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections,” he shrugs. “But as long as it’s doable I’m going to do it.”

But why would he spent so much money on Gingrich? Very likely a loser. Well, Adelson is buying public policy. In this case, the Middle East policies of Republican Newt Gingrich. 
Adelson, who hopes that his son will become a sniper in the Israeli Defense Force, wants for example to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Gingrich said he will do so on his very first day as U.S. president. Adelson also was pleased with Gingrich’s description of Palestinians as “an invented people.”
Indeed, that kind of policies.

Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com

The approval rating of President Obama is up to 50 percent while 42 percent of Americans have a positive feeling about Mitt Romney.
Rick Santorum's approval rating is 33 pct. His sweater vest comes in at 17 pct.
Ice cream is ahead of all candidates at 97 pct.

Yes we can show Romney he sucks for another cool 57 million dollars.
By the way a lot of it is not his but his friends money.

The next states where Republicans will be voting in one week are Arizona and Michigan. Michigan is particularly important because it is the home state of Republican contender Mitt Romney. Now that Rick Santorum is the main opponent of Romney people have to pay attention to what comes out of his mouth.
This happened just this week. Santorum comparing Obama to Hitler. Santorum's spokesman talking about the radical Islamic policies of Obama.

In the polls Rick Santorum is doing almost as well as Romney:

ARIZONA (PPP): Romney 36, Santorum 33, Gingrich 16, Paul 9
MICHIGAN (PPP): Santorum 37, Romney 33, Paul 15, Gingrich 10
MICHIGAN (We Ask America): Romney 29, Santorum 29, Paul 12, Gingrich 10

Look at Texas though... wow. Luckily for Romney Texans won't vote till May 29.
University of Texas/Texas Tribune. 2/8-15.

This is what writer Tim Egan had to say  in the NYTimes about the electoral process in the United States. The Republican primary electorate looks more like the population that the U.S. in 1890 than in 2012  than in 2012:

"There is no other way to put this without resorting to demographic bluntness: the small fraction of Americans who are trying to pick the Republican nominee are old, white, uniformly Christian and unrepresentative of the nation at large."

I wouldn't be to sure about that David Roberts. A majority of Republican primary voters dislike Mitt Romney a lot more more than Rick Santorum. In the polls Santorum is ahead in Romney's home state of Michigan. If he wins there, Romney is in deep trouble.

That's the problem with religious freaks like Rick Santorum. Not only do they believe in something never seen, never proven, something that created the wurm that bores through the eyes of innocent chlldren in Africa blinding them forever, they also can't be wrong. They have God on their side.
And of course the other man's God is false, like Obama's God. This is what Republican frontrunner Rick Santorum had to say about Obama's God. So if fundamentalist Christian Santorum will become the Republican nominee, get ready for the false prophet real prophet debate, like, well... medieval times:

The “president’s agenda” is “not about you,” he said. “It’s not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your job.

“It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology,” Santorum said to applause from the crowd. “Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.”

The approval rating of President Obama is at the highest level since a year. More than half of the Americans now approve of what he's doing. 
Finally his well thought out strategy of not being any of the Republican candidates is paying off.

The debate about whether birth control should be a part of health insurance will be over soon in the U.S. Science has come to the help of the christian rightwing.
Republican Jeanine Nutter from New Hampshire explains her male collegues all about protecting their prostates from the evil workings of the pill for women:

Republican New Hampshire Representatove Jeanine Notter:  “As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?”, Notter asked state Rep. Andrew Manuse (R-Derry). 
“In the children that are born from these women?” a confused Manuse replied.
“Women take the pill and it’s in their bodies - I’m very anti-chemical - and the men pick it up,” she explained.

RJ Matson, Roll Call

This is what Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum said in a speech recently:

"If we follow the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are heading down the road to the guillotine."

That's why Santorum is surging ahead of Romney in the polls. With every sentence he hits on all things Republicans love: logical fallacies, Obama paranoia, and fuck the French.

Rob Tornoe, Media Matters

Kathy if you ever change your mind, you know I'm there for you.

Dominique: Hier de email van Frans Timmermans ('de hopeloze propositie om ons als “SP light” te positioneren') aan Job Cohen en Hans Spekman. Die liegt er niet om.

Geert Wilders: Dagelijks toeteren CDA-ers (Verhagen/De Jager) wensen over hervormingen de wereld in. Ze krijgen er 0 zonder miljardenbezuiniging ontw.hulp.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is outspending fundamentalist Christian Rick Santorum 30 to 1 in his home state of Michigan. Still Santorum is surging ahead in the polls. The Republican primary will be held there on Februari 28.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Romney wanted to 'let Detroit go bankrupt' when President Obama saved the car industry in that town with a bailout.

Santorum, who will campaign in Michigan on Thursday, has responded with a small ad buy, reportedly $40,000 compared to $1.2 million from Romney’s campaign and a SuperPAC supporting him.

Thirty years ago 3,2 percent of all marriages in the U.S. were interracial. Now a record 8,4 percent of marriages is between races. In 2010 more than 15 pct of all marriages were between races. Mostly black people with another race, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.

Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle

In Bangkok a supposed Iranian man had his legs blown of by his own bomb. He also slighty injured a taxi driver and passersby with a grenade. According to Israel this was directed at Israeli officials and the work of the Iranian government. In India and Georgia there were attacks on Israeli diplomats.

This was the headline in The Washington Post: “Israel blames Iran for India and Georgia bombing attempts; Tehran denies role.”

As American professor Juan Cole points out, investigators in India do not believe Iran was responsible. Still it is clear who, according to the coordinated propaganda campaign in the American and Israeli media, is the scary agressor in the Middle East: Iran.

We don't know at this moment who is responsible, but what is clear is that the attacks are being instantly exploited by Israel-devoted neocons to further depict Iran as the gravest threat to world peace. 
Neocon Jennifer Rubin: “one more piece of data that Iran is growing ever bolder and more aggressive.”
And Alan Dershowitz warns for "Iranian attacks on American synagogues."

Remember just how dangerous Iraq was in the days leading up to...

Gayhating Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is ahead of expert flipflopper Mitt Romney in the last CBS News/New York Times national poll by a 3 percent margin. In all national polls only Gallup still has Romney slightly ahead of Santorum. CNN/Opinion Research has Santorum up  2 points.
Let the smearcampaign part 2 begin.

Good for President Obama is that independent voters are leaving the Romney bandwagon. Romney was ahead of Obama among independent voters in november 53 pct to 41 pct. Now those numbers are 41 to 42 pct..

That was very classy of Sony. Within hours of the death of Whitney Houston her label almost doubled the price of albums like The Ultimate Collection to take advantage of the expected rise in sales:

The music giant is understood to have lifted the wholesale price of Houston’s greatest hits album, The Ultimate Collection, at about 4am California time on Sunday.
This meant that the iTunes retail price of the album automatically increased from £4.99 to £7.99. Houston’s The Ultimate Collection, originally released in 1997, was the second top-selling album on iTunes on Monday morning. Apple returned the album to its original price late on Sunday.