No. She is a spoilt, incoherent, superstitious upper-class twit who believes sheep, pets and fish are the new proletariat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
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No. She is a spoilt, incoherent, superstitious upper-class twit who believes sheep, pets and fish are the new proletariat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
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Hey, I didn't say I wanted to marry her. ~;)
That's how it tends to be...To quote Brian (the dog): Why are the pretty ones always so dumb?Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
Fragony: Medy van der Laan was pas een MILF. Haar zal ik nog missen :laugh4:
EDIT: picture
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/images/assets/11219087
MILF, heimelijk stijlloos huh :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kralizec
:bow: I am grateful for the answer. So, Pvda and VVd are economically based parties, left and right, respectively. The Christian Democrats theoretically are moderate, but in reality tilt a little towards the right? Then to the left of Pvda you have Socialists, then Communists. Most of the rest of your parties are more politically based (issues, not economy)? Do I have the gist of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kralizec
While I know our 2 party system drives the rest of you all nuts, could you imagine just how crazy it would have been in Florida in 2000 if you had 7 people, not 2, all claiming they had won? :dizzy2: Americans get too angry and upset about politics to ever employ a parlimentarian system. We'd kill each other. :duel:
Heh, it's good to know some acronyms cross cultural and linguistic boundaries.Quote:
MILF, heimelijk stijlloos huh
damn.....you guys have some hot politicians....
legalized prostitution, legalized pot....hot politicians....the reasons to move there keep growing.
@Don
This is the political spectrum in Holland:
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d...Other/kies.jpg
on the x-axis, from left to right, Left Wing - Right Wing
on the y-axis, from top to bottom, Progressive - Conservative
Excellent, thank you. :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
D66 seem like my kind of party, just from looking at the graph.
D66 is kinda the party where students vote for, they do loads for education.
Mind you imo PVV should be moved a bit more to the right and SP should be moved more to the left, but apart from that it's a good chart imo
Formation may take a while.
mmm sarcasm ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by TosaInu
Welcome! But then you wouldn't be a spoilt, incoherent, superstitious upper-class twit who believes sheep, pets and fish are the new proletariat, would you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin
Nah.
'Course not.
Or would you? :stare:
I guess all that charm is pretty much wasted on her constituency, no? Literally "pearls before swine."Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
BKS, you may not want to "hit that" so readily if you got a look at other potential partners....though I could be wrong and there may be no "Catherine the Great" component to this at all.
So, similar to PETA, eh? (Any english rundown of what they believe, if only to amuse myself?)Quote:
Politically speaking, an Animal Party is a bunch of spoilt, incoherent, superstitious upper-class twits who believe sheep, pets and fish are the new proletariat.
And I'm mincing my words here.
CR
I´m not spoilt, nor incoherent, nor supersticious......and sheep and fish taste good....Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
I have been known to be a bit of a twit from time to time tough :laugh4:
So: civil servants (beaureaucrats) run the show until the elected elite sort out who is in charge?Quote:
Originally Posted by TosaInu
What about emergencies (invasions, epidemics, terror-boomsky attacks, etc)? Are the various departments empowered to act on their own, in such circumstance?
Aye till we have a new prime-minister and ministers and stuff, the old ones still do their jobs.
We still talking about Holland here? :inquisitive:Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Well we do have the International Court you know, and the Yanks won't be happy if their countrymen have to stand trail there. :bounce:
We send in the Animal Party.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Special delivery for the Rabbit!
From their English party programme:Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
The Party for the Animals’ platform is built around the belief that both animals and humans are living creatures with emotions and a conscience and therefore, animals have the right to be treated with respect by humans.Another gem:The party believes the extent to which a human society is ‘civilised’ can be measured by the way in which its members treat other living creatures and the natural environment in general.There goes Texas...
Finally, you (and, I am sure, some of our Dutch friends who don't know this yet) are going to love this one.
The number two on the Animal Party list and party bureau head, Ms Esther Ouwehand, recently accepted an award from the The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association.
The what? I hear you say.
The Supreme Master Ching Hai is really a Taiwanese madam by the name of Suma Ching Hai (born May 12, 1950) who claims to be an incarnation of God, the Buddha and Avalokitesvara. Suma Ching Hai is a spiritual teacher of the Quan Yin Method. Quan Yin is a style oftax evasionmeditation she claims was used by Buddha and Jesus. Through thisracketsystem of meditation, Ching Hai professes to have achieved the fifth level of meditation herself. This makes her a Fith LevelHoaxmeisterMaster of Quan Yin Enlightenment.
Exhibit A:
https://img56.imageshack.us/img56/42...hinghaixs4.jpg
Enlightenment Personified
Exhibit B:
Shining World Leadership Award
A Political Party Committed to the Welfare of Our Animal Friends
By brother-initiate Roy Mannaart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
and sister-initiate Katelijne Rothschild, Surrey, UK (Originally in English)
On June 1, Golden Year 3 (2006), representatives of The Supreme
Master Ching Hai International Association presented the Shining World
Leadership Award to the Partij voor de Dieren (Party for the Animals) in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The award was accepted by Ms. Esther
Ouwehand, Director of the Amsterdam Bureau office. Instead of taking place
indoors, the event was held in the Vondel Park, a lovely and fitting reminder
that all animals should be able to enjoy the beauty and peace provided by nature.
Linky
I've been despairing about politics in the USA for years....thanks for the pick me up.:laugh4: That grass AIN'T greener (though the entertainment factor must be a blast).
Aw, it's a noble point of view, and Frag loves animals. As long as they don't go completily bonkers I am fine with having them around. There are some things that could easily be done, castrating boars without painkillers isn't necesary, forbidden by law in Norway I believe. If they can make that happen glory to them. Better to have them debating then having their militants intimidate farmers anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
You may have a point there. Though the aggressive animal rights activists belong to the loony left, whereas the Animal Party are smack in the middle. The party is socially and fiscally conservative and will not divert a lot of loony greens from their chosen path of liberating oppressed canaries, emancipating goldfish and murdering maverick politicians.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
I think the prospect of 'other potential partners' may be part of the attraction for BKS here. You know, what with our Welsh friend and her in full agreement that sheep and other assorted animals have feelings and need 'love' too...Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
Imagine the hot threesomes they could have when visiting pet farms...
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But their slate is all humans. No horses or turtles running for office.
A mechanical question(s): How were votes recorded and counted? Do you use machines or cards or paper? We spent several million dolars over the past 6 years to improve vote accountability, without much progress.
Are you confident that your vote counted?
Lastly: what kind of turnout did you have (% of eligible voters actually going to the polls)?
Both, not everybody is too happy about the machines as they are(were) pretty easy to hack. As for my vote, well now it's time to form the coalition, and it seems like it will become a centre-leftist one, so hopefully next year we have new elections. This is usually the time where everybody forgets they ever had any differences, and when there still are differences we have 4 years of therapeutic sessions where everybody gets to say how they really feel about it. I wanted a coalition between the CDA/CU/VVD/PVDV, a nice centre-right coalition but the chances of that happening is pretty slim.