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According to CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.traces.money/index.html – 90% of all bills in the US are contaminated with cocaine… impressive… Why do they complain about mexican drug cartels when they are the reason there are drug cartels?

I downloaded RunKeeper (www.runkeeper.com) for my iPhone the other day. It’s free if you can stand some ads. For the ones that don’t like ads there is a $10 (USD) version with more functions.

So, what does RunKeeper do? It tracks your exercise on your iPhone. If you like running, just start the app and stop it when you are done. The built-in GPS tracks your every move, speed, elevation changes, etc. When you are done, you upload the information to RunKeeper’s website and you can also make your training efforts public (I don’t, just yet). It even pulls maps from Google Maps to show where you have been moving around! It even shows the amount on calories you have burned, based on age, weight, and type of exercise. This is simply said a completely brilliant application and I recommend it warmly to anyone wishing to get training motivation.

RunKeeper

AMLO – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the looney that lost the presidential election in 2006 to Felipe Calderón just said he is going for it again in 2012. According to a speech he held in Oaxaca, he said “We won the presidency in 2006, but were robbed. We will seek the presidency in 2012 and win it once again”… “We” refers to him, obviously.

I just wonder how it all will pan out after his successor as Mexico City mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, was dubbed by him as his successor when he claimed victory in the 2006 elections. Ebrard still wants to run for president in 2012…

The fact that AMLO is about to get kicked out of the PRD party won’t help him either. He is (hopefully) going to be kicked out since he fought his own party – the PRD in the local elections 2009 by setting his own candidate in a Mexico City township. The party, PRD, presented one candidate democratically elected by the party. Not to his liking (since this candidate goes against AMLO’s different ideas), AMLO campaigned for another candidate, running for another party (PT). He made a deal with the guy, that if he won, he would step down and let AMLO’s candidate take his place… In essence, AMLO is playing games with democracy – just as long as he gets what he wants. Like this delusional character did in 2006, when he kidnapped the main avenue in Mexico City for months by paying people to protest, set up tents and live there. That little stunt amounted to nothing, except financial breakdown for thousands of business owners along the avenue that lost all due to no sales.

AMLO is like a Hugo Chavez on steroids – but without a country to run (thankfully)

A couple of weeks ago I read an article in a Swedish newspaper that intrigued me…. this article was called “what type of mom are you?”. I was kind of interested in the picture that they used to promote the article, since it comes from Swedish Television.

The article was made like a questionary or poll to see what kind of mother one is… The one that really caught my eye was this one:

Slackermom
Known traits: Is allergic to other moms that prohibit sugar and hysterical security moms… McDonald’s is their second home. Says usually that TV is good and that it actually helps kids develop. Doesn’t really care about the kid(s), as long as the kid(s) don’t bother. Wants the kid(s) to be at home all the time (except for going out to buy cigarettes for mommy, wherever that is permissible)… Wants to know where the kid(s) are, not because she cares, but just to know.  Tinted hair, tattoed and slightly (or heavily) overweight. Usually has a problem with alcohol and is a heavy smoker.

Type of mother: Is usually poorly dressed (see picture) and says she doesn’t care since she already has a well-defined fashion sense (knowing that she doesen’t, she really wants to know how to dress well). Likes to agitate people with her slacker and carefree attitude. People think, though, that she is poorly dressed and probably a moron. Period.

Type of kid(s): Unfortunate, intelligent, want(s) to know more about life, become(s) destructive later on, thanks to their parents’  wish to control them without ever listening to them or even spending time with them.

Motto: No official motto… but I found this really funny description on a website: “I’m a self professed slacker mom. I drive my kids to school in my pj’s, I can make a couple of Happy Meals from the floor of my car, my kids eat in front of the television, and I believe a dirty house helps kids have a healthy immune system.”.. that kind of says it all, doesn’t it?

Thankfully, there are no (that I know of) slacker moms in Mexico. In Sweden I suppose there are quite few slacker moms…

The Pope’s spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi, said a couple of days ago that Joseph Ratzinger (alias: Benedict the 16th) had never been involved with Hitler or the Hitler Youth… some hours later, he retracted and said that he had been forced into the Hitler Youth…

How can one believe in the church? The Catholic church’s highest representative was (provably) member of a party portrayed to have killed 6 million Jews… simply amazing…

Who can believe in the Catholic church? Who can believe in ANY church?

The people behind The Pirate Bay were convicted and sentenced to jail (apart from a ridiculously high amount of damages to be paid)… but what happens next?

They have all appealed, and the appeal (which probably will be accepted and taken to a new trial) will take place in about a year… so – for now – the convicted won’t have to face jailtime.

Now, it seems the judge that handled the case might have been biased. He is member of two organizations: The Swedish Copyright Association and the Swedish Association for Industrial Legal Protection.

This makes him – in my eyes at least – totally biased and not suitable to judge in a case involving copyright. But if Judge Norstrom was truly an impartial, brilliant, expert judge, might he have not offered the following quote: “This is a sensitive case. So before I agreed to hear it, I asked some of my fellow judges whether they considered that I would be in a position of conflicting interests. Two judges said absolutely not. While a third said he wasn’t quite so sure. I went with the majority.”

This says it all, doesn’t it?

On another note, the people convicted actually had a website much like google (albeit much much smaller).. their site (www.thepiratebay.com) contains a search engine and listings to torrent files. They don’t host files. They were convicted for “facilitating” torrent files to the public. So what does Google do? The exact same thing.

That’s why some clever guy registered the name thepirategoogle.com. Where he (or she) uses google to search for torrents. This website has the exact same functionality as the Pirate Bay – it uses Google’s search engine to “facilitate torrent files” to people searching for torrents. It seems, however, that media companies are a bit afraid to sue Google, aren’t they?

The Daily Show is one of my favorite shows, together with Real Time with Bill Maher.

Recently, the Daily Show sent a reporter to Sweden, to see in what direction the US was heading, now that they are going “Socialist” according to right wing pundits:

And the second part:

Update: Another 2 cases of fathering children have surfaced after this first confession… He was quite active promoting celibacy – and living the dream.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/13/paraguay.lugo/index.html

ASUNCION, Paraguay (CNN) — Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo acknowledged Monday that he is the father of a 2-year-old child who was conceived when he was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo speaks at a news conference in Asuncion on Monday.

“It’s true that there was a relationship with Viviana Carrillo,” Lugo told reporters, citing the mother. “I assume all the responsibilities that could derive from such an act, recognizing the paternity of the child.”

He said he was making the acknowledgment “with the most absolute honesty, transparency and feeling of obligation.”

The announcement came in the week after Carrillo had filed suit in a city in southern Paraguay seeking a paternity test.

Judge Evelyn Peralta, who is overseeing the case, said she was treating it routinely. “It is a case like any other, which involves the president and nothing more,” she said. “It will be processed as it should be.”

Some Cabinet members interpreted Lugo’s acknowledgment of paternity as an indication of the change he has promised to bring about to achieve greater transparency in the public sector.

“This is the Paraguay that we want,” said Liz Torres, minister of children’s issues. “This is the Paraguay of serious change, in which there is no double standard or secrets. It seems to be an example, a very big lesson.”

But some opposition party members said it appeared that Lugo had practically been forced to acknowledge what happened; that he had not done so willingly.

Sen. Julio Cesar Velasquez of the opposition Colorado Party called on the Vatican to excommunicate Lugo.

Lugo was laicized last year, around the time he assumed the presidency.