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Wilders' anti-Islam movie Fitna released

Anglosphere

Hurray for freedom of speech: Fitna has been released! And is it the hate-spreading, insulting, inappropriate movie people expected it to be?

No, not really. It simply joins loads of existing footage of NYC's 9/11, Madrid's March 11, London's 7/7 together with Koran texts and speeches. The ultimate message? The Islam seeks to conquer/control Europe. We stopped Nazi oppression in 1945, communist oppression in 1989.. now it's time to stop the Islamisation of Europe.

Well done, Geert Wilders. This movie is simply a strong and clear message and not at all insulting, unless you seriously believe not a single nation state or organised system is using the Islam to dominate others, or that such oppression is actually a good thing.

European constitution blackmail

European Union

From Dutch teletext:

If the Netherlands reject another European treaty in a referendum, Dutch EU membership is in jeopardy. Says secretary of EU affairs Timmermans.

The bloke admits this sounds a lot like blackmail, but maintains "the second chance is the last chance".

Well, I'll be the first to remind him when we vote no again, just to make sure he can't swallow these words to create a third "chance" to force a new constitution down our throats.

Million dollar camper

Personal

Mate Pimmez will tour Europe in a camper and needs dinero. Fortunately you can help out, by going to Million Dollar Camper dotcom. Just claim a piece of camper for yourself by renting sticker space. And know that part of the proceedings will go to the Warchild effort!

He's leaving tomorrow, so if you happen to see a camper on the Autobahn with HorrorPops stickers at the rear end: think of me, and greet the driver and passengers while honking your claxon to the tune of Where They Wander. Safe trip, lads!

Chirac's pride

Anglosphere

Read on Wikipedia's Euro-English article:

English is frequently used by Europeans to communicate even when neither of them know English as the first language. (For example, a French person who doesn't know German and a German who doesn't know French, but both of whom know English, would use English to communicate with one another, even though it is not the native language of either - such as at the first meeting of Jacques Chirac and Angela Merkel at the Elysée palace after Merkel's confirmation as chancellor).

I wish there was a quotation for that, but nonetheless I find it rather amusing to see Chirac as the example of English being pretty much the lingua franca of Europe.

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