2007/01/16 Cordoba
Betting
Secret meetings
Ha’aretz reports: “In a series of secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, Syrians and Israelis formulated understandings for a peace agreement between Israel and Syria.”
And also: “The Syrian Foreign Ministry Tuesday denied a Haaretz report that understandings for a peace agreement between Israel and Syria were formulated in a series of secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, calling the account 'completely false.'"
I wouldn’t bet on a peace agreement in the near future. War is the safest bet.
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That reminds me of the analogiy that it's better to trust a bad person than a good person, the way I live, because you know the bad person is going to be bad, and all good things are a gift, but you don't expect the good person to be bad.
I try to be as bad as I can. Today is my mothers birthday, well accually it was yesterday, but we celebrate it today, because my grandfather wanted it this way (She was born in the weekend, but you could get a day off if you child was born on a working day, so he staged the birthday one day later), so as my gift, I'm going to be good. I did some shopping and bought a prewritten Hallmark-card.
There was one card saying "You can not choose your family, but if I could, you 'd be my favourite.", but being good, doesn't include lying, so I chose another one.
“Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region. (Rebuilding America’s Defences: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century)�?. ‘The Project for the New American Century’, still remains an interesting and intelligently written document on the matter of upcoming war and peace. (Although, in my humble opinion, the practice turns out to become the first most shameful and clumsy disaster of the century).
Mother and son,
Thanks for the desperate yet courageous column, a pearl in Humo. Do you remember the ‘Mother and Son’ sketches by Van Kooten & De Bie ? (Dutch TV – VPRO – 1980/90) Wherein a son, like myself, was merciless depicted. My mother liked it! But I never had the courage to ask her why…
Also, the underestimated modest writer, the late Ischa Meijer (contrary to Connie Palmer, even if you don’t ask me) wrote some precious words about the troubled relationship with his mother (and father).
autopech en fotos
Op de plaatjes met bekende gezichten staat meestal een kapotte of gerepareerd wordende auto op de achtergrond... nog gelukkige vakantiekiekjes in de aanbieding voor de luchtige afwisseling?
car
Eliza,
You don't like cars? You don't like women willing and able to fix cars?
What kind of photographs are you waiting for?