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Kristof 
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 Topic: Well, we had it coming...Posted: December-21-2008 at 1:29pm |
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Don't know if you guys get the news about our little country, but friday, our prime minister anounced the dismissal of the entire government.
After more than one and a half year of argueing after the elections in 2007, we finally had a government and now, this government fell... The reason for the dismissal is the interference of our prime minister in the judicial system... He exerced pressure on some of our top magistrates in order to force the sell of the Fortis Bank Holding to the french banking group BNP Parisbas... As the base of democracy rests on the separation of the powers, the government could no longer stand... |
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BuffaloBFN
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Posted: December-21-2008 at 1:58pm |
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Just damn...
Wow, I have a ton of questions... Will your infrastructure stay in place? What's the rest of the story? Fortune be with you sir! |
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BuffaloBFN
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Posted: December-21-2008 at 2:00pm |
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Now that I reread your post it sounds ominously familiar.
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h20loo
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Posted: December-21-2008 at 2:03pm |
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Is the opposition prepared to govern or do you go back to an election? We are headed for a similiar situation in Canada . We heard that Fortes was close to insolvent and needed a bailout similiar to the US banks. Our news made it sound more like a conflict between dutch and French groups.
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Kristof
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Posted: December-21-2008 at 6:53pm |
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Our banks needed a bailout too. Opposition and the shareholders claimed Fortis was sold too quickly to BNP Parisbas and too cheap. The shareholders felt they weren't consulted on the matter and sued the government for these reasons.
For the moment we don't know what the scenario will be... New elections or an interim government (would be the second interim government in one year...  )
Pretty ironic is that our prime minister had 800.000 personal votes thanks to his campaign that was built around "good government" 
He mentionned that line even more often than Obama saying "Change"... |
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- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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Riley
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Posted: December-21-2008 at 7:24pm |
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What's to keep France or one of the other neighboring countries from annexing you?
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SNobsessed
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Posted: December-21-2008 at 7:31pm |
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NATO?
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Kristof
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Posted: December-21-2008 at 7:44pm |
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Believe it or not, there are people here that say to annex the dutch speaking north to Holland and the french speaking south to France...
And Brussels independent capital of Europe (like Monaco). With all the sh*t going on in this country lately... There are moments that I don't mind if they do...
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- Gun control means: using BOTH hands!
- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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Kristof
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Posted: December-22-2008 at 10:41am |
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Well in the media today, they report two different scenario's for the moment:
1. Implementing an interim government lead by one of our former prime ministers... and continue to work untill the normal elections in 2011. 2. Implmenting an interim government and have new elections as soon as possible (toghether with the elections for the european government in june 2009) |
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- Gun control means: using BOTH hands!
- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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Morfoot
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Posted: December-22-2008 at 11:13am |
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Boy! And we thought we had problems over here in the Good Ol' U.S.A.
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"Morfoot; He can ski. He can wakeboard.He can cook chicken.He can create his own self-named beverage, & can also apparently fly. A man of many talents."72 Mustang "Kermit",88 SN Miss Scarlett, 99 SN "Sherman"
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h20loo
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Posted: December-22-2008 at 11:18am |
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Kristof- you have a Monarchy I think and do they have any power? Just a passing thought but - do they have a Correct Craft??
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Kristof
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Posted: December-22-2008 at 12:33pm |
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Doug, we do have a monarchy, but they only have protocol power... So, our king can't help us there... Too bad, cause he's a good guy.
As far as I know, the royal family do not posess a CC... |
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- Gun control means: using BOTH hands!
- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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Kristof
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Posted: December-29-2008 at 4:28pm |
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Update on our government soap...
Well the coalition worked all weekend to find a solution... They came up with this: We have a new prime minister. One of the "Old crocodiles" as we call them here has taken the burdon of replacing our dissmissed prime minister. Here's the problem... Because of all the f*ck ups, one of the coalition partners backed out, so the government does not have a majority anymore... Opposition is having a field day over this and want to have new elections in june 2009, toghether with the European elections. But the "reinstated" present government want to continue their (to me bad) work till the normal elections in 2011... So, in a nutshell, we're not out of the woods quite yet
But then again, compared to what is happening in Isral and Gaza... We have a luxury problem...
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- Gun control means: using BOTH hands!
- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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eric lavine
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Posted: December-30-2008 at 10:13am |
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At what point do you just drop your guns and say cant we all just get along? I have a feeling this will be going on 50 years from now.....we need to pipe in some MTV, and some good south African shrooms
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"the things you own will start to own you"
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Kristof
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Posted: December-30-2008 at 5:24pm |
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Eric, there's one scene in the movie "The day the earth stood still" that kinda got stuck in my head... John Cleese says to Keanu Reeves: "It is only when man stands on the brink of destruction that he changes... right at the moment that he stands on the edge of the abyss".
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- Gun control means: using BOTH hands!
- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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peter1234
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Posted: December-30-2008 at 10:31pm |
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we would be happy to send hillary over maybe with michelle obama , if nothing else we can be rid of them for a few yrs
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former skylark owner now a formula but I cant let this place go
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86BFN
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Posted: December-30-2008 at 10:48pm |
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LOL  I'm for that!
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Kristof
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Posted: December-31-2008 at 9:04am |
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Nope, you guys keep your own politicians right there... We got enough on our hands with our own... 
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- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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86BFN
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Posted: December-31-2008 at 9:20am |
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Happy New Year Kristof! Hopefully this year will be better than last for all of us!
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eric lavine
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Posted: December-31-2008 at 10:13am |
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Kris, one of my friends spent some time over in Europe and I asked him yesterday where was the best place and he answered Belgium, he said the people were the friendliest and would invite you to talk politics in thier back yard over a Belgian Budwieser...maybe i wont cancel my trip.... oh yeah, he said the older Germans still denied the big H, they said it didnt happen
Happy New Year. oh yeah, he also did say nobody said to him sorry to hear your from the states lol |
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Kristof
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Posted: December-31-2008 at 4:46pm |
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Looking forward to meet you and have couple of beers on our terras and talk politics Eric!
Oh yeah... and try to outwit one another LOL |
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- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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