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he is a cutie as well.

http://www.swazi.com/king/king.html

by PeWi on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:37:21 AM EST
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Wonder if that is why he has so many pretty wives...?

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by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:39:17 AM EST
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No, that is because of his stance towards the EU. As I can vouche Pro-European Woman are prettier.
by PeWi on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:41:54 AM EST
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sorry, I was jumping ahead of myself.
Here in all its hegalian glory

A: he is Pro-European.
B: being Pro-European is a sign of intelligence.
C: Intelligent woman are attracted by intelligence.
D: Intelligent woman are more attractive
C: being Pro-European attracts pretty, intelligent women.

by PeWi on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:46:21 AM EST
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I really like your argument. According to the great Immanuel Kant it is a good deal simpler though. My paraphrase: "Man has reason and looks for grace. Woman has grace, and looks for reason."

Chauvinist? Mayhaps a little.

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:53:11 AM EST
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I'd say I'm a lot more reasonable than graceful..and mayhaps you're right a little.

"People never do evil so throughly and happily as when they do it from moral conviction."-Blaise Pascal
by chocolate ink on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 05:54:06 PM EST
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Hm, I'll relay that to the female Norwegian naysayers... If I ever tire of living, that is.

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by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:47:01 AM EST
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Completely OT (even for an open thread). I still owe you a diary -- I'm going to wait for the report to come out before I write it though. It's due out at the end of the month.  

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world" Eugene F. Debs
by dove on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 03:15:55 PM EST
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OK - looking forward to it!

Also OT, could I ask you a favor? Only relevant if you're using Explorer though, especially 5.0 or older versions.

If so, could you take a peak here and see if the layout looks symmetric and generally non-botched?

Thanks much in advance!

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 10:56:33 PM EST
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=)

Looks fine to me using Internet Explorer 6.0.


"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world" Eugene F. Debs

by dove on Tue Jun 21st, 2005 at 01:00:02 AM EST
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Thanks! (Dammit. The quest for a 5.0 user continues...)

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by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Tue Jun 21st, 2005 at 01:10:34 AM EST
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Looks ok in IE 5.2 on a Mac, which is quite an achievement given was POS that was.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 21st, 2005 at 01:18:29 AM EST
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Now that's relief. Thanks, mate.

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by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Tue Jun 21st, 2005 at 01:43:29 AM EST
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The new EU countries want the EU more than the old horse, Blair and Chirac, do. When are they leaving?

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:49:07 AM EST
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I think Jérôme has called for a cab.

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by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:55:57 AM EST
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yep (none / 1)
but services not having being liberalised yet in Europe, they are not very responsive to customer requests...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 07:10:09 AM EST
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Aw, come on, Paris cabs are all private...

Perhaps Chirac could take the Métro?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 08:09:08 AM EST
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Formula One (4.00 / 2)
I'm hoping for an intelligent explanation of why the F1 race in Indianapolis was such a disaster. Why can't the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, the French Michelin, the Italian Ferrari, and the British Bernie Ecclestone get their act together? Especially if the result is a German win--after a season of straight losses?

It's exactly a parallel to the Euro budget summit: The French set up rules that nobody else likes, the Italians refuse to cooperate, the British suck out the money, and the Germans win on points.  Then all the big shots go home, and the general public is left with nothing but frustration.

F1 is dead to America. NASCAR is laughing all the way to the bank.

by asdf on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 08:33:04 AM EST
A euro (none / 0)
What's the exchange rate these days?  Last I heard, it was about $1.20 to the euro.

As for my thoughts, I've been thinking about this:

Chinese farmers, acting with the approval and encouragement of government officials, have tried to suppress major bird flu outbreaks among chickens with an antiviral drug meant for humans, animal health experts said. International researchers now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect people in case of a worldwide bird flu epidemic.

China's use of the drug amantadine, which violated international livestock guidelines, was widespread years before China acknowledged any infection of its poultry, according to pharmaceutical company executives and veterinarians.

Since January 2004, avian influenza has spread across nine East Asian countries, devastating poultry flocks and killing at least 54 people in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, but none in China. World Health Organization officials warned the virus could easily undergo genetic changes to create a strain capable of killing tens of millions of people worldwide.

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In the United States, amantadine was approved in 1976 by the Food and Drug Administration for treating influenza in adults. Amantadine and it sister drug, rimantadine, known collectively as amantadines, work by preventing a flu virus from reproducing itself. Both are now ineffective against the H5N1 [avian flu] strain.

International health experts stressed that amantadine could have been vital in stanching the spread of the bird flu virus in the early weeks of an epidemic.

Now, the only alternative is oseltamivir and closely related zanamivir, which stop the flu virus from leaving infected cells and attacking new ones. Oseltamivir is easier to use and has far greater sales.

"Amantadine is the cheapest drug against flu," said Malik Peiris, an influenza expert at the University of Hong Kong. "It is much more affordable for many countries of the region. Now, it is clearly no longer an option."

I know several physicians who are very concerned about a possible pandemic.

How well is Europe prepared?

by Plutonium Page (page dot vlinders at gmail dot com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 09:07:55 AM EST
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I have no idea. My hunch: about as badly as the US.

It strikes me that maybe Beijing is plotting to scale down the world population, just as you trade down in chess when you have more pawns...

We'll live in interesting times, as the Chinese curse goes.

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 09:26:28 AM EST
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PP (none / 0)
I don't know the subject well enough to write about it, but the little I have seen, like your extract above, is really scary.

But my reaction to that, for the time being, seems to me that of people that hear about peak oil for the first time: yeah, sounds scary, but there are lots of big companies and organisations and governments that are watching the issue and we'll find a way around the problem, won't we? Or maybe it's just all scaremongering?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 21st, 2005 at 12:46:29 AM EST
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Sometimes I wonder if some world leaders are subconsciously trying to get rid of surplus population through war, rampant pollution, etc. Maybe it's some lemming like reaction caused by overcrowding.
by northsylvania on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 10:34:21 AM EST
My very own stalker (none / 0)
Man, I friggin swear.

I've gained my very own friggin cyber stalker.  This is part of the reason that I'm beginning to get irked at Dkos.  

See this thread

I get called a terrorist because I think it's bullshit to ban political parties.  Wasn't it our friend Voltaire who said that you can loathe what someone has to say but you are responsible for defending their right to say what you loath.  I guess the hypocrisy of Iberian  feeling  it's ok for him to criticize America,but when someone points out new stories that are not good about his home country,he feels free to go in and call people who disagree with him a terrorist.

This is why I'm gald that ET is here, every time that I've tried to post a dairy about Spain, I get troll rated and stalked by Iberian.

Trying to make something good of this, I want to ask everyone if they feel there is ever a circumstance in which it's ok to ban political parties or papers for what they say?  My comment that I thought the banning of a political party  and newspaper in Spain was counterproductive was what started to stalking.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 07:32:58 PM EST
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Speaking in the abstract: If a party or newspaper explicitly embraces violent crime, I do believe there is a case for banning it for what it says. Otherwise not. Not sure whether Herra has done so though.

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by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 10:48:03 PM EST
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