FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy may have lost a symbol of diversity in Rachida Dati, his Justice Minister of North African origin, but he has found another in the first minister publicly to acknowledge being gay. As Ms Dati, 43, reluctantly agreed to leave her ministry in June and run for the European parliament, another minister made waves at the weekend by revealing that he had a boyfriend and that the couple had been invited to Mr Sarkozy's holiday home for dinner. "He (Mr Sarkozy) said, 'Bring your friend'," Junior Minister for Parliamentary Relations Roger Karoutchi said in an interview with Optimum magazine. Mr Karoutchi said of the President: "We are lucky to have modern leaders who participate in the evolution of society. "I have a partner and I am happy with him. I see no reason why I should hide that."
FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy may have lost a symbol of diversity in Rachida Dati, his Justice Minister of North African origin, but he has found another in the first minister publicly to acknowledge being gay.
As Ms Dati, 43, reluctantly agreed to leave her ministry in June and run for the European parliament, another minister made waves at the weekend by revealing that he had a boyfriend and that the couple had been invited to Mr Sarkozy's holiday home for dinner.
"He (Mr Sarkozy) said, 'Bring your friend'," Junior Minister for Parliamentary Relations Roger Karoutchi said in an interview with Optimum magazine.
Mr Karoutchi said of the President: "We are lucky to have modern leaders who participate in the evolution of society.
"I have a partner and I am happy with him. I see no reason why I should hide that."
And he's certainly not the first notable politician to make such an acknowledgement - see a list here, with Bertrand Delanoé, mayor of Paris, as the most prominent one. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
The région is currently presided over by PS member Jean Paul Huchon who isn't exactly a great success at his post, as he gives the impression of slowing the development of heavy rail and the creation of a Greater Paris.
Thus the UMP believes they can take it, and currently there are two candidates vying for the position, Karoutchi and Valérie Pécresse. Karoutchi, as minister of parliamentary relations, is very much a politician's politician, completely unknown to the public, whereas Pécresse, in charge of higher education, and also as one of Sarkozy's hitwomen, is regularly on TV.
So this announcement by Karoutchi is well timed to make his name better known... Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
you can see a very blatant example with the often repeated figure of 61 detainees released from Guantanamo who are now individually dedicated and working towards destroying the USA. The inconvenience that this figure is demonstrable bunkum barely regsiters, it is being said by the right, the media are not challenging it, therefore it must be true.
And all of these people being released while still dangerous demonstrates that bush was right and Obama will allow the terrorists to win. keep to the Fen Causeway
... Among these fetishes is the prohibition against "split verbs," in which an adverb comes between an infinitive marker like "to," or an auxiliary like "will," and the main verb of the sentence. <...> In his legal opinions, Chief Justice Roberts has altered quotations to conform to his notions of grammaticality, as when he excised the "ain't" from Bob Dylan's line "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose." On Tuesday his inner copy editor overrode any instincts toward strict constructionism and unilaterally amended the Constitution by moving the adverb "faithfully" away from the verb. President Obama, whose attention to language is obvious in his speeches and writings, smiled at the chief justice's hypercorrection, then gamely repeated it. Let's hope that during the next four years he will always challenge dogma and boldly lead the nation in new directions.
... Among these fetishes is the prohibition against "split verbs," in which an adverb comes between an infinitive marker like "to," or an auxiliary like "will," and the main verb of the sentence. <...>
In his legal opinions, Chief Justice Roberts has altered quotations to conform to his notions of grammaticality, as when he excised the "ain't" from Bob Dylan's line "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose." On Tuesday his inner copy editor overrode any instincts toward strict constructionism and unilaterally amended the Constitution by moving the adverb "faithfully" away from the verb.
President Obama, whose attention to language is obvious in his speeches and writings, smiled at the chief justice's hypercorrection, then gamely repeated it. Let's hope that during the next four years he will always challenge dogma and boldly lead the nation in new directions.
Double set of kudos awarded this day to the headmaster of Covenant School in Dallas Texas. The first for apologising to the losing team and asking that their win be forfeited and for then firing head girl's basketball coach Micah Grimes for a 100-0 drubbing of winless Dallas Academy, a school for learning disabled kids. Kyle Queale, headmaster for Covenant School could not answer when asked if the firing was a result of the coach's e-mail sent to a newspaper disagreeing with school Administrators and saying he would not apologise "for a wide margin victory when "my girls played with honour and integrity."
