The Political Vigilante

What Is Happening With IRAN?

jens — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:20:46 +0000

I thought that Iran was actually developing into a country with peace and understanding as its main goals. But I guess that I haven´t been paying attention.

I am a little worried about what is happening there at the moment.

…and hopefully Mr. Bush will not do something stupid.

I Am Writing A Novel

jens — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:52:31 +0000

I have started to write a novel over at my other blog. Here´s a preview:

The darkness is surrounding me. Everywhere I look, I am surrounded by complete darkness. I try to grasp some light at the usual spot in the ceiling, but there is no way that this is going to save me tonight. As always, you are here by my side. Your breathing is a little heavier tonight. You are making those small squeaky noises, noises that only you create. Slowly I take my right arm up from under the blanket, I find the big white pillow by the bed, like I always do. I use both my hands to straighten it and to get it in just the right position, then pulling my body up, like I am half sitting and half lying down. It seems that someone just turned your volume a little louder. I keep trying to find my spot in the ceiling, but it is too dark.

At this time, I find my right arm just laying there on my side all warm and alone. It’s almost as if it is an entirely different body part. I move it towards my lips, and slowly start to rub my upper lip. I am so incredibly dry, and I am feeling thirsty. The rest of my body is shivering, I am feeling something cold and warm simultaneously, a feeling that started close to my toes and slowly kept coming closer and closer to my head. I have been laying here, stiff as a corps or stiff as a carrot or at least I haven’t moved for a long time. My thoughts are slowly drifting away, towards a new day tomorrow. What will my activities be, what will a new day be like, will there ever be a tomorrow?

At this moment I realized that I just didn’t care. I didn’t care about the world, about life, about family, about anything at all. It was a time when my thoughts were focused on goals and hopes, everything was directed towards the future. Some sort of happiness. A lonely happiness, but even so, it was some sort of happiness. This was all in the past. Now, I am just empty. There are no more thoughts. I am just shivering. There might never be any thoughts. I just don’t care.

Bush Chooses Credentials Over Politics in Filling Fed Vacancies

jens — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:04:35 +0000

U.S. President George W. Bush has reshaped the Federal Reserve Board — soon all seven members will be his appointees — and did it by emphasizing professionalism over political purity.

Read the whole article

Hillary plays politics at U2 gig

jens — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:17:31 +0000

The Irish rock star, Bono, has been angered by Senator Hillary Clinton’s use of a U2 concert this week to raise funds for her political campaign coffers. Read the whole story.

Politics, democracy and intra-party crises in Nigerian politics

jens — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 08:24:34 +0000

This is an interesting article by Ojo Maduekwe in the Vanguard online about the state of Nigerian politics.

interviewing Harriet Miers for the U.S. Supreme Court

jens — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:40:07 +0000

This is something I haven´t actually been thinking about, but I guess it might be important:

A better job must be done interviewing Harriet Miers for the U.S. Supreme Court than that which was performed with Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts offered up very little about his judicial philosophy during his confirmation hearings, and what he did say received very little scrutiny.

Do we need to raise our political discourse?

Guess who briefed President Bush about Bin Laden?

jens — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:39:19 +0000

Guess who it was that provided Bush the briefing on the famous 2001 “Bin Laden determined to attack America” memo? Hint: She was just nominated for the Supreme Court in a large North American country. No judicial experience, member of the inner Bush circle. Get the answer here.

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Want your own wordpress.com blog?

jens — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 04:56:53 +0000

I have two invites to give away. If you want your own wordpress.com blog, please just write a comment below. The two first that either contacts me by email or writes a comment, will be getting the invites.

President Nominates Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice

jens — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:20:15 +0000

President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers earlier today as Supreme Court Justice. Read the White House press release. My guess is that not many people know that much about Harriet Miers, I certainly didn´t, well I still don`t.

Her full name is Harriet Ellan Miers and she was born August 10, 1945 and a former member of the Dallas City Council. I guess it´s too much to list here, you can read it yourself at wikipedia. Even though I don´t know much about her, I am very satisfied that she is a woman. Maybe that´s no real comfort, but I have a tendency to like women in politics and as fighters for “justice for all” (no, not the metallica album).

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Philippine army neutral in the on-going political turmoil

jens — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:07:39 +0000

The Philippine army stated that they will continue to be neutral even though people have been accusing two politicians of trying to kill President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Democracy is on trial, hopefully they will have respect for the people´s will and no force will be used.

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