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Dr. Phil arguing with his wife

Posted on | September 2, 2010 | No Comments

Some people love Dr. Phil.

I don’t understand why.

I think he violates the ethical boundaries of the profession too often and he clearly enjoys exposing people in their worst moments.

A few years ago he raged on and on about euthanasia in The Netherlands, without even knowing our laws on the subject. Worse even: he used a completely different meaning of the word.
His ego grew with every word he said.

I had to laugh when a child at school asked why he was allowed to tell other people how to live whereas he himself was overweight, so clearly had no control over himself.

And now the guy is arguing with his wife over shows.

Maybe a new Dr. Phil is ready to tell them both to behave?

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Topdroppers August 2010

Posted on | September 1, 2010 | No Comments

Thank you all who visited my site in august.
I hope you’ve enjoyed your stay.

Thanks those who commented.
Due to the nightshifts I haven’t always been able to return the comment, but yours was very much appreciated.

thanks

And here are the topdroppers:

Parentimes
Guitarbench.com
T-Shirt Reviews
Photography by KML
The Ad Master
Singapore Playground
Laane’s Path
Sparkle
Laane on the World
Tips for your home

Thank you all very much!

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Bye bye Iraque

Posted on | August 31, 2010 | No Comments

Finally the war in Iraque is over.
Not for the people there.
They suffer the effects of the war that foreigners imposed on them.

Not for the families and friends of those who were killed. Among them more than 4,400 U.S. military personnel.
Not for the more than 30,000 young people who were wounded.

I remember when they bombed Baghdad.
A friend called me about the terror the people there were experiencing.

We can’t imagine here what it means to be bombed, even though many families here tell their stories about WW2.

I wonder if the people there are really relieved.
So many things are destroyed.
So many people killed.

For what?

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stormdamage

Posted on | August 30, 2010 | No Comments

One of my aunts called me to ask if the children could sleep at my place tonight.
They would bring enough matresses and blankets and such.

Ofcoruse I said yes, even before she told me why.

Yesterday we had very bad weather and their farm was hit so bad by the storm that they had to ask an engineer in to assess if it’s still safe to live there.
When I heard it I felt so sad for them.

The farm is the family home of her husband, and also one of the main houses of our extended family.
In the summer we often go there to help, in the winter they organise family events.

A strange feeling of sadness came over me when she told about the fallen tree, about the cracks in the walls after the winds blew open the door and made them feel like the room was blown up like a balloon.

More farms in their area were hit badly.
The storm came from a certain angle and caused more troubles than ever.
Add to it the tremendous amount of rain, soaking the hills where the farms are built on, and the construction can suffer enough to make a home unsafe to live in.

It’s not the first time the kids sleep here, but never before was it for a reason like this.

I’m worried about the farm.

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Extra work

Posted on | August 29, 2010 | No Comments

Last night I worked in the hotel, to make up for their flexibility to let me go when I found the right job.

Maybe someone gave me a bug, because I left there sneezing and coughing.

We were supposed to go to a parade with friends, but it was cancelled due to bad weather.

The rest of the day I slept. Ugh!

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Living statues

Posted on | August 28, 2010 | No Comments

After the usal saturday activities we went to another town to see the living statues.

It’s amazing to see how people dress up and spray themselves with paint to resemble a statue.
Because a human body can’t stand still for a long time, most make even seemingly articifial moves. For a short moment they’re a kind of robot.

World Statues festival is the name of the event.

Tomorrow the winners will be announced.

I hope they all can deal with the terrible weather.
Some are wearing such beautiful outfits which merge with the paint on their body so nice, that it will be a pity when the rain gets a grasp on it.

I’ve found the site of one of the artists.
It’s here.

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Water

Posted on | August 27, 2010 | No Comments

Last night I hardly slept due to the terrible weather.

Some family members and friends were confronted with flooded cellars during the evening and early night. And this morning I got a few calls about flooding of agricultural land.

Yes, I could throw away my shoes.
Such a pity.

The weather alarm was withdrawn and the rains drifted away.
Today wasn’t really bad, but the temps were down.

I hope we’ll get a few summerdays before autumn comes.

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Rain and local flooding

Posted on | August 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

Today we’ve had terrible weather.

Early in the morning very bad rainstorms with thunder and lightning and during the day so many downours that at lunchtime the amounbt of water that had come down in a few hours exceeded the amount of a whole month.

After that we’ve had worse…

The result was that after we had dinner at a friend’s place we could hardly reach my home. Some streets were completely flooded.

I think that my shoes haven’t survived the ordeal.
They were very comfortable, so I’ll miss them.

A weather alarm has been issued. So more rain and lightning will come.

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Politics this month

Posted on | August 25, 2010 | No Comments

We still have no new government.
What a mess.

One of the former main figures in politics spoke out against his own party and even contemplates to leave it.

Another member of the same party gave about the same signal, but with different words. She hopes that the politicians that are negotiating plans will come to their senses in time.

I doubt if that will happen after such a long time discussing plans behind closed doors.

In the meantime the former government, which has been voted away, is still ruling the country and making all sorts of decisions that shouldn’t be made by a government which functions by the grace of “nothing better yet”.

It feels like the country is on sale and they still haven’t decided how much discount to give.

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Why are they not trained well enough?

Posted on | August 24, 2010 | No Comments

I got the chills to read that a man was hot by the police while he was laying on the street.

The guy had a psychotic episode, like before. And he’d never been aggressive.
This time he was followed by the police and brought to a stand still.

They had the dog attack the guy. He feel on the floor.
But he was very afraid of dogs and used a knife to stab the dog.

The policemen, both or one, used 8 shots to kill him.

The first version was that the guy was aggressive towards the policemen and walked towards them while threatening them.
People who had seen everything said he was on the floor after the dog pushed him over, so he couldn’t have threatened the policemen at all.

I know that attacking a policedog is criminal, and many take that as an act against the policeforce.

But it was not to them to be the judge of him and shoot him.

Why are policemen not better trained to keep their feelings out of a situation?
When other people could see the man was harmless, why couldn’t they?

A man died!!
(According to the local paper the dog survived)

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