Damn-Dutch

Apparently someone got the bright idea register the ethnic background of criminals. Of course the Dutch politicians are devided on the subject, as they are a merry mish mash of all sorts of opinionated people.
And our prime minster agrees. He’s entitled to his opinion, that’s fine with me.

To me this seems a weird idea at best. I don’t really care where a criminal’s from and I can’t see how anyone could care about it at all. Does it make a robbery, act of agression, murder or whatever any different? Maybe we should ask the victims if they’d rather have been say, shot by a Dutch or French criminal as opposed to an Antillean or Moroccan.

The topic of drugs was unavoidable for anything Dutch </stereotype> so here goes.

These last few years the politicians have been trying to get rid of and/or make life more difficult for all sorts of people. I’ll admit it’s the government’s job to do all sorts of things including bad things. But based on mostly their personal views, they decided that it might be a good idea to have another look at the way the Dutch tolerate certain drugs. Some have been taken out like certain mushrooms but here’s a spark of good news concerning our old friend Cannabis.

I know, I know. It’s about medicinal cannabis. Last I heard about this was an actual cannabis distributing apothecary which was able to distribute to anyone with a prescription and some other checks, but all legit and all right with everybody. Now homegrowing cannabis has been OKed to some extent by the courts. Now the debate, which was pushed to the back mostly by panic mongering xenophobes, has now been given a boost. Win!

Personally I don’t really care who or what or why you do to your body as long as you don’t bother anyone else with it, unless they want you to I suppose. The same goes for my stance on drugs for the most part. Even so, the freedom to do these things to yourself without clogging up the police etc is something I really like.

In case you don’t know about the PVV, this kind of says enough about hum, how to put it. Well let’s put it the way Marten Toonder put it in his Bommel works. Let’s say “een klein denkraam” [a small 'window of thought' ie narrowminded].
Anyway, apparently teaching kids a variety of things is a bad thing. Maybe it will broaden their horizons, which will probably lead to some kind of freedom of thought that the PVV may not want, I don’t know. I really don’t know what the hell the idea is here, but make up your own mind and read this little article.

Sure, teaching kids to read and write is important. Teaching kids a lot of things is important. For a lot of reasons. I’m not an expert, I rarely ever am. But I went to school because a) I had to and b) because there were some classes I really enjoyed. In my case that was biology back in the day. Broaden the minds of the kids, don’t make them as narrow as your own is the only thing that comes to my mind.

The word indoctrinated in that little article made me laugh more. Isn’t the idea of indoctrination to make them think the way you want them to think. Mostly the same way as you think. I’ll let you put 2 and 2 together… provided your eduction involved basic maths, which I’m sure it did.

This little news factoid caught my eye. It’s nothing shocking, it’s just that for some reason I can’t wrap my head around anyone not wanting a women’s footballteam wearing skirts? They prefer it, so they say and I’m sure the spectator’s don’t give a rat’s ass about it. It doesn’t get in the way of the game, right? Sure, the rules might have to be brent or changed, but how on Earth could that be a problem? Isn’t that part of what these people are for anyway? And here I thought it was all in good fun and sportsmanship.

In a bit of a rush, so it’s a quicky.

In the long long ago, when I registered this domain, I was all “I’m going to write this thing myself.” I tried, a little, didn’t have enough time and finally decided “fuck it”. WP will suffice once it’s properly modded.

Of course a friend of mine couldn’t resist to be all happy and start blogging himself, he even patted himself on the back for beating me to it. Damned drunk Brits - http://www.hattix.co.uk and his blog at /blogs.

In short, yeah I folded. I have better things to waste my time on, like bothering unsuspecting websurfers with ranting, raving, complaining and bitching since that IS what blogging is all about isn’t it? Maybe I’ll poke fun at some people too…