-- "Ve can impose anythink we like. You cannot resist." (Which is pretty much damned true of every country in the European Union, whether or not they have an installed government, because proportional representation guarantees the governments don't represent the majority and politicians have already sold out their voters and their country's sovereignty.)
RELEVANT STORY
"Should the world be more like Belgium?" from the Malaysian Insider (March 30)
This is a European country riven by ethnic tensions. Its public debt is almost as big as its total annual output and it’s in the middle of a political crisis so deep that this week it passes Iraq as the modern-day state whose politicians have taken the longest to form a government.They ask: "Would some countries work better without a government? Could the world learn something from Belgium’s experience?"
-- Consumer confidence in Belgium is up, which just might be a clue.
Mea Culpa AND CAN WE HAVE A TRADE AGREEMENT? CAN WE? CAN WE?
U.K. Prime Minister DAVID CAMERON on a visit to India said that Britain caused many of the world's problems. Daily Mail (April 5)
U.K. reporter and blogger Nile Gardiner responds: "David Cameron should learn from Barack Obama’s disastrous apology tour" Daily Mail (UK) (April 6) " The Prime Minister should look carefully at the damage done by President Obama’s frequent apologies on behalf of the United States, which have provoked a furious backlash and widespread derision at home, and have significantly weakened America’s standing abroad."
In his first year in office, Barack Obama succeeded in apologising for his country to nearly 3 billion people across Europe, the Muslim world, and Latin America, a staggering achievement. From Cairo to Strasbourg to Ankara, Obama made a point of dragging his own nation’s name through the mud.
TURKEY, THE NEWESTS ISLAMIST STATE? Bernard Lewis thought it was a possibility in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. Now, Arrested Journalist's Book Claims Turkish Police Infiltrated by Islamic Movement Der Spiegel (April 6)
SOME OF US ALREADY KNEW IT "The ugly truth about Obama advisor Samantha Power" - Washington Examiner article (April 6)
PUBIC EDUCATION (not a typo) In Henrico, Va, it was Career Day at an elementary school. So a plastic surgeon brought -- breast implants for the kids to feel. - from NBC12 (April 5)
-- The school rates a 10 at Greatschools.org so the parents are doing something right. Next thing they should do is vote for better school board members. And oust the principal who doesn't think that such a demonstration is a problem.
BLOCKBUSTER BARGAIN SALE Dish network bought bankrupt Blockbuster, the Viacom spinoff, for $321 million. From Yahoo Daily Ticker (April 6)
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