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Alex Ferguson is a Heinze/Ronaldo shipper
Oct. 29th, 2008 11:55 am"Ferguson was quoted this week claiming Real Madrid only signed Heinze as a means of luring Cristiano Ronaldo to the Bernabeu." http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/29102008/58/la-liga-heinze-hits-ferguson.html
This was going to be a sober sensible post before I saw that.
So about two weeks ago, I was on my way to the Leicester Open (which is in Stratford for reasons to complicated to explain) when the news said that Joerg Haider had died. And I couldn't join in the general celebrating, not because I agreed with anything he ever said or did, but because I couldn't help but think about his poor aged mother.
There's many things I have to be grateful to Mr. Haider for, mostly that my nostalgia for home is not tainted by any belief that Austria is paradise. Paradise would have, I hope anyway, significantly fewer far right loonies. Austria is remarkably right wing, there's a very good reason why in the mock world vote for President of the US (http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/) Austria is one of the few countries where McCain is getting a reasonable portion of the vote.
And given that the first time he came to any great power, I was old enough to remember him, meant that from an early age I know not to trust excessively charismatic people and that just because someone's popular, doesn't mean they're right.
Of course, the main problem is that he was actually not as right wing as his possible successors so the FPO and whatever his new party was called are only going to go further right, and I fear people might still vote for them. Gah!
This was going to be a sober sensible post before I saw that.
So about two weeks ago, I was on my way to the Leicester Open (which is in Stratford for reasons to complicated to explain) when the news said that Joerg Haider had died. And I couldn't join in the general celebrating, not because I agreed with anything he ever said or did, but because I couldn't help but think about his poor aged mother.
There's many things I have to be grateful to Mr. Haider for, mostly that my nostalgia for home is not tainted by any belief that Austria is paradise. Paradise would have, I hope anyway, significantly fewer far right loonies. Austria is remarkably right wing, there's a very good reason why in the mock world vote for President of the US (http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/) Austria is one of the few countries where McCain is getting a reasonable portion of the vote.
And given that the first time he came to any great power, I was old enough to remember him, meant that from an early age I know not to trust excessively charismatic people and that just because someone's popular, doesn't mean they're right.
Of course, the main problem is that he was actually not as right wing as his possible successors so the FPO and whatever his new party was called are only going to go further right, and I fear people might still vote for them. Gah!
