It takes me longer to make a sandwich than to eat it.
—First World Problems (via epic4chan)
I was out of extra virgin olive oil, so I had to cook my breakfast with slutty olive oil.
—First World Problems (via epic4chan)
Not even once.
Pickle Me Pink (by aqui-ali)
So
It looks like they found some sort of agreement about Brussels and its periphery. Basically, the Walloons gave up and abandonned the Frenchspeakers living in Brussels’ periphery, which becomes more Flemish (more “linguistically pure”).
However, the Frenchspeaking liberals who live in Flanders feel betrayed and they may split with the Walloon liberal party in the next days.
But we’ll see. It’s a good first step. Now they’ll finally start negotiating about what really matters: economy.
Job vacancy: prime minister
Yves Leterme has resigned about 16 months ago, and since then he’s been the demissionary prime minister of our caretaker government. But he’s “fed up by Belgian politics” and wants to leave for good, as he’s been appointed secretary general of the OECD.
Thus he has to “resign” (is it even possible to resign when you’re a demissionary prime minister? If so it would be the 6th time he does that). So now we’re looking for a new demissionary prime minister, who would lead our caretaker government until we find a “real” prime minister!
Which is probably not going to happen soon, as the usually optimistic Elio Di Rupo (the leader of the negotiations) himself has conceded yesterday that the negotiations were “seriously blocked”, which confirms what journalists had reported last week, when they caught a memo of the flemish socialist negotiator, explaining that the current negotiations were “completely useless”.
They have been debating until 4am on Monday and Tuesday, with Elio Di Rupo “pendulating” between the Walloon and Flemish negotiators (they are in two separate rooms), but apparently this is not working and today is the “last chance attempt” to restart the negotiations.
According to twitter, there could have been a “coup de theatre” today, when the Flemish Christian-Democrats agreed to change their positions, and an agreement could be in sight after all.
My graduation speech:
“I would like to thank not only Google, but also the internet.”
(Source: peetaperseuspotter, via wowfunniestposts)
There’s no solution
That’s what our former vice-prime minister (Guy Spitaels, former leader of the Walloon socialist party and former minister-president of Wallonia) said. “Our politicians don’t dare to tell the truth. There’s no solution to this crisis”
When the journalist asked him if he was still attached to the country: “my answer is no”
If we don’t cut Social Security, we won’t have the money to execute our children’s children.
—Rick Perry - @BorowitzReport (via brooklynmutt)
(Source: brooklynmutt)
![vruz:
The GOP War On Voting Is In Full Swing
vruz: in GOP universe, you can be for democracy and do everything to suppress voting rights at the same time.
—via sarahlee310:
“Registering [the poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote. […] Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn’t about helping the poor. It’s about helping the poor to help themselves to others’ money.” -Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum
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John Stossel (Fox News): “Let’s stop saying everyone should vote.”
Rush Limbaugh: “If people cannot even feed and clothe themselves, should they be allowed to vote?”
Judson Phillips (Tea Party Nation): “If you’re not a property owner, I’m sorry, but property owners have a little bit more of a vested stake in the community than not property owners do.”
Source: News Corpse](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr4t21cuUd1qg1nf3o1_500.jpg)
vruz:
The GOP War On Voting Is In Full Swing
vruz: in GOP universe, you can be for democracy and do everything to suppress voting rights at the same time.
—via sarahlee310:
“Registering [the poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote. […] Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn’t about helping the poor. It’s about helping the poor to help themselves to others’ money.” -Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum
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John Stossel (Fox News): “Let’s stop saying everyone should vote.”Rush Limbaugh: “If people cannot even feed and clothe themselves, should they be allowed to vote?”Judson Phillips (Tea Party Nation): “If you’re not a property owner, I’m sorry, but property owners have a little bit more of a vested stake in the community than not property owners do.”Source: News Corpse
(via eddyizm)
(Fox News Facebook Page Gets 8,000 Death Threats)
More and more, I feel that these are the darkest days for the United States that I can recall. I can hardly look at the news anymore. One of these people — Raylene (Shirley) Ingmire is a Social Studies teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and it makes me want to throw up my hands. Not to surrender, but to make clear I’m not armed.
(via kenyatta)
So today in Belgium…
…one of the negotiators (president of the Flemish socialist party) was photographed holding a sheet of paper, on which journalists could read that, according to her, “the negotiations are completely useless; the Flemish Christians will never agree”. And they’ve been discussing for 450+ days.
Meanwhile, the Flemish independentists are getting more and more support: polls give them 45% in Flanders (they won the latest elections with 33%, the second largest party getting less than 20%) and several Flemish politicians are “defecting” from the liberal/christian/socialist parties and join them.
However, in case of failure of these negotiations, the independentists said they would refuse new federal elections. According to them, the failure would be the ultimate proof that our system has reached its limit, and that it would be the moment to have the courage to say that Belgium is over.
This is absolutely brilliant.
