More photos » by Denis Poroy - AP We need to see these kinds of celebrations when the Rockies beat the Dodgers. Browse more photos » The Boulder Yesterday's bullpen collapse, because you're a masochist and want to relive it, recapped at the DP and Inside the Rockies . David Martin blogs about his thoughts on the Rox pen here , including the painful truth that we've been neglecting ourselves...
Without wishing to bore you senseless with details of my Sunday lunch, I must share with you one addition to the usual ingredients that really did make a difference. Horseradish sauce mixed with mashed potato was a first for me this afternoon but certainly not a last and I recommend it wholeheartedly. As a newspaper, the Daily Star up until a few months ago was starting to show a lot of promise. Not...
Bulgaria's major political parties at the 2009 Parliamentary Elections ranked by ideological affiliation from right to left. The threshold for entering Bulgarian Parliament is 4% of the cast votes. "Ataka" ("Attack")Leaders: Volen Siderov, ChairIdeology: Nationalist/Far RightFounded: 2005Participated in Govt: NeverInternational Political Affiliation: In 2007, Ataka was part of the...
I'm not a European, but I play one on the Internet--at least for the next month. Comment: Visions , a website which "explores the personal views of thinkers, innovators and scientists about possible solutions to global warming, overpopulation and dwindling resources," asked me and other "European intellectuals and leaders" to respond to the following question for the month of July...
Lib Dem blogger Jonathan Fryer has the details (with apologies for LDV’s belatedness): The ALDE (Liberal) Group in the new European Parliament has chosen the Flemish Liberal and former Prime Minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, to be its new leader. He takes over from the British (South West England) Liberal Democrat MEP Graham Watson, who has [...]
The voting activity early on in Bulgaria's general elections reached 12,4% by 10 am with long lines of people forming outside some polling booths. This figure is so far 3,7% higher than the voting activity early on in Bulgaria's European Parliament elections on June 7, BGNES reported. The figure given out by the Central Electoral Commission at 10 am was slightly lower at 9,71%. ...
When Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer narrowly lost his seat to the NDP's Linda Duncan in 2008, no less than four groups claimed or were assigned credit for the defeat: radical Islamists , the vote-swapping AnyonebutHarper gang , George Soros , and--with at least as much credit as any of these-- Michael Geist's gang of copyright warriors . Now, The Pirate Party-- a Swedish organization dedicated to loosening...
For those of you who not understand the meaning of the term, Carpetbaggers , I shall explain. Apologies to those of you who already know. It is an an American term from the aftermath of the American Civil war, when white Northern politicians flooded into the defeated South, carrying their Carpet Bags , to loot and plunder from their new public positions. These days, the term has travelled and refers...
Martin Wingfield has rightly penned a warning, on his blog and the main website, about the dangers of the seduction of the European parliament and one just has to look at the above picture to see the obscene decadence of the monster. . His words ring very true as we are currently distracted from our task by the necessary setting up of the infrastructure for our MEP . BUT FEAR NOT. We have our feet...
BRUSSELS, July 4 (UPI) -- A vote to give European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso a second term has been delayed from July to September, European Union officials say. National governments supporting Barroso had hoped for a quick vote in the European Parliament to confirm him, but conceded Friday there wasn't enough support to conduct the early vote in the face of sustained protests by Socialists,...
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Moreover, if illegal immigrants insisted on coming to Malta, they should be kept in closed centres until they agreed to return to Libya. This provides a mechanism to enforce judgements. Franklin Cudjoe and nylon Alhassan Atta Quayson point out AU's. Give it away, you'll enjoy it, quot. If elected as an MEP, to Libya I will say frankly fulfill your international and humanitarian obligations or suffer...
Iain Dale has shown what a liar Labour MP Angela Eagle is. In a debate about gay rights, Eagle (who is sufficiently repellent that not only would no man go anywhere near her but, I suspect, no woman either) whined about how nasty the Tories are (when anyone who has ever been into a working man's club will know that it is Old Labour that bleeds homophobia if anyone does). Angela Eagle was at it again...
Hope Not Hate's petition to be delivered to the European Parliament currently has more than 84,000 signatories. While the petition isn't going to get the BNP de-elected, it will send a strong message to the BNP and, more importantly, to the rest of Europe, that the BNP do not represent ...
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