As far as I'm concerned everything is better than the orange coalition in which the electoral disaster of the christians recently, gets plastered over.
The christian fanatic lying and cheating hypocrits have caused too much damage over the past years: While cheating on their primary issue of family values, they raised the age of consent, halted essential genetic research, kept us from making the process of dying more humane, prosecuted homo erotic artists and seeking destruction of their works, while, even more hypocritical, they cosigned a UN resolution condemning the taliban for destruction of culttural heritage! Indeed, the image to the right shows sculpture, CDA and CU wouldn't blink about destroying, even though in another century that will be regarded just as barbaric as the original Dutch iconoclasm of 1672.

all in all more than enough reasons to keep them out of governement for at least a century!

All in all I see more problems arising coming weeks in the oldfashioned, power-enslaved, conservative structured PvdA than with the VVD.

wouldn't it also show enormous courteousy if Rutte would swallow his ego and leave the job of Prime Minister to the very capable lady below? Wouldn't it also show enormous political courage if he would not take part in the cabinet himself but instead strengthen his position as political leader by keeping his position as leader of his party in parliament?

quoted and translated the Cindy Pieterse column on NL radio 1:
Dear listeners of radio Tour de France. I find it sad for Rotterdam, but I still have to make the switch from football. Today it starts with a individual time race, so they cycle one at a time, a gorgeous sight for the Rotterdammers along the route, but I don't know, I can't help but find it a bit boring this time around; I miss the man to man battles, and hate it when only one can win instead of eleven.
I know I'm not the only one: have not heard anybody sofar saying "hey, where are you going to watch the etappe saturday?" Also have not spotted beer bellied men with a shirt of Gesink or tempers in bars rising to boiling point because men disagree about the attack stategies of the RaboBank team. If it were not a saturday, I'm sure most of the Dutch would also stay at work. It's sad for the cyclists themselves too: when they come steaming and hissing around the tight corner of the Stieltjesstraat, and they hear the sound of cheering from the corner café, not because of them, but because Germany scored against Argentina.

And what is saddest of all: they are obliged to keep their helmets on! Doesn't matter that sparrows fall from the roof and seagulls tumble from the Euromast, they must safeguard their bonking brains in hideous life saving devices. They are already forced to wear those hideous aerodynamic shirts and pants. I get a heat stroke if I even think about the concept in this week's temperatures.

So here's my suggestion: we should allow our gentlemen ro race in the nude. No clue if it stimulates a comfortable ride, but it most certainly will distract from the football W.C. In the days of the classic Olympics they had such a rule to make sure that no women were secretly participating. No, they don't have to go fully undressed; to help sweat drainage I wouldn't mind them wearing white socks and shoes. And to replace the information stitched on their shirts, I suggest the waterproof felt pens, already familiar from triathlons. sponsor name on their backs and their number spread across both asscheeks. Also good to try this out at the start of this tour: we're not particularly interested in the welts, bruises, bandaids or swellings (eh?), that inevitably show up after a week spent on those narrow saddles. Also have thought about the naked winners ceremony : no problem, the lucky guy can receive the kisses and wave the tulips all he wants, when he has an orange towel sporting our countries proud erect lion around his waist.