The Hollies with "The Air that I breathe". From the 1974 album Hollies.
Ballad written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. The Hollies formed in Manchester in 1962 around Allan Clarke and Graham Nash as a Merseybeat group. 54 years later they are still there, and never even broke up to restart again.
Metallica with Nothing Else Matters. From the 1991 album Metallica (aka "the Black Album").
Band formed in LA in 1981. Its constant members are James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. I am of the MTV Generation. Watched these guys, among many others, in countless weekends in the late eighties and early nineties.
FRANCKEN WANTS TO EDUCATE ASYLUM SEEKERS: "A WOMAN IS TREATED WITH RESPECT HERE."
In the article there's first some talk about the rampant fights between Iraqis and Afghans in the asylum centers, a thing he "wants to end once and for all". He's looking into more severe measures, because "the heaviest sanction now, 30 days exclusion from the asylum centre, doesn't seem to impress anyone."
No shit, Sherlock. Have you already tried to cut off their wifi?
But then comes the thing:
The State Secretary also mentioned the courses he's planning for all asylum seekers that will teach them how to engage women. "Some asylum centers are already organizing this on the stump, but the government wants to expand the pattern over the coming weeks", daily De Standaard writes. "The main goal is that asylum seekers are taught to show respect for women. It's about the fact that it is normal that men and women are absolutely equal, that women can go to work, that they have the right to vote, in other words that a woman is somebody who should be treated with respect and who is not a slut or whore. We had these debates 50, 60 years ago and we are not going to have them again, we won't give in a millimeter".
Ladies and gentlemen, to call this drivel insane gobbledegook is bestowing it with too much honor.
In a normal country, COMPLETE NONSENSE coming from the mouth of a minister no less, should be enough ground to sack him.
But not so in Belgium.
So then our moral and intellectual betters usher in tens of thousands of barely literate "refugees" from islamic hellholes where despising, humiliating and abusing women has been part and parcel of the cultural DNA for 1,400 years...
Then they are dumbfounded when things like in Koeln and Weil-am-Rhein and Finland and Salzburg occur...
... but DON'T YOU WORRY, because Asylum and Migration bigwog Theo Francken is going to process these savages thru a 30-day course of sex ed and all them Mohammeds and Ibrahims and Alis will magically emerge from it like your average day cream using sensitive euroweenie metrosexuals.
Good luck with that.
I have stated on many occasions before that I am reporting from the world's biggest Open Air Lunatic Asylum. Perhaps I should be a bit more crass yet.
Even our lamestream media couldn't look past the appalling events in at least five German cities on New Year's Eve, so bad was it. In Germany, the country's most-influential political blog, PI-News, run by Stefan Herre, was on top of things.
And it seems Merkel's goons are not pleased with that.
Just tonight I was reading Steyn's latest take on German authorities cracking down on what they call "a rash of incendiary speech"...
"The German state is apparently incapable of springing to action over organized mass sexual assault in at least five cities on a rape-out-the-old New Year's Eve (oh, and Finland, too), but you've gotta be able to prioritize, right? Post reporter Anthony Faiola's snide opening is a classic of the genre:
BERLIN — Donald Trump may be testing the boundaries of tolerance on the U.S. campaign trail. But here in Germany, the government is effectively enforcing civility, taking aim at a surge of hate speech against refugees and Muslims.
There's actually nothing very "civil" about "enforcing civility". Indeed, if civility (which derives from "civis" - citizen) has to be enforced, it is by definition no longer civility at all. Nevertheless:
As Western Europe's most populous nation grapples with a historic wave of mostly-Muslim migrants, politicians and activists are decrying a rash of incendiary speech bubbling to the surface of German society. In a country whose Nazi past led to some of the strictest laws in the West protecting minorities from people inciting hatred, prosecutors are launching investigations into inflammatory comments as judges dole out fines, even probation time, to the worst offenders.
German authorities, meanwhile, have reached a deal with Facebook, Google and Twitter to get tougher on offensive content, with the outlets agreeing to apply domestic laws, rather than their own corporate policies, to reviews of posts.
I said yesterday that "without free speech, there are only the official lies". The first week of the New Year in Germany has provided a grim example of that: In one of the most famous public places in Germany a mass sexual assault took place ...and every organ of the state colluded in covering it up. The initial press release from the Cologne police read:
"A mood of exuberance - largely peaceful celebrations." That's what they told the citizenry. What they told each other was quite different:
The outbreak of violence was also far more serious than previously thought, and at one point senior police officers feared "there could have been fatalities".
Two publications have released what they claim is an internal report by a senior officer who was at the scene.
Which is full of stuff they didn't have room for in their night-of-exuberant-celebrations press release:
"We came to the conclusion that the situation threatened chaos or serious injury, if it didn't lead to fatalities."
Police decided to clear the area but met with resistance and were "repeatedly bombarded with fireworks and pelted with bottles..."
"Many women came to officers shocked and crying and reported sex assaults. Police forces were unable to respond to all the events, assaults and offences. There were just too many at the same time."
Because all the other coppers were back at the police station investigating mean-spirited Tweets?
Fortunately, none of this unpleasantness made the news:
Following a barrage of complaints on social media that the New Year's Eve events were deliberately under-reported amid fears they would encourage anti-immigrant sentiment, Germany's public broadcaster, ZDF, was forced to apologise for its decision not to report on the attacks until Tuesday, four days after they had occurred.
"The news situation was clear enough," the show's deputy chief editor, Elmar Thevessen, wrote on the Heute (Today) programme's Facebook page. "It was a mistake of the 7pm Heute show not to at least report the incidents."
But, if you have to report it a week later, blame the victims. Cologne Mayor and "refugee activist" Henriette Reker told the hundred-plus sexually assaulted women of her city that the easiest way to solve the problem is to keep men at "arm's length". This may work for Mayor Reker traveling around her fiefdom with a car and security detail, but, alas, out on the streets, men often have longer arms than women, and, when there are more than one of them, you can easily wind up out-armed: "Ich hatte Finger an allen Körperöffnungen," as one young lady put it. "I had fingers on every orifice."
And so the Arab Spring has come to Europe - or at least the Tahrir Square part of it.
But don't even think of saying things like that because that makes you just as bad as the gang-rapists. Just ask Ralf Jaeger, the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia:
Mr Jaeger also warned that anti-immigrant groups were trying to use the attacks to stir up hatred against refugees.
"What happens on the right-wing platforms and in chatrooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women," he said. "This is poisoning the climate of our society."
So, in the multiculti utopia, chatrooms are "at least as awful" as gang rape. Maybe his cabinet colleagues might usefully stick some fingers in Herr Jaeger's orifices, starting with his mouth..."
... I found I could not access it. That was around 1am on Saturday morning, January 9, and still so half an hour later, it wouldn't open.
I suspected a strong DDoS-attack, but luckily, at 1:32am, I found it was back online:
It turned out to be what I feared. Translation:
"After a strong DDoS-attack on our server we are currently, after two hours, back online. It's possible that PI in the following hours will remain somewhat "shaky", but we are optimistic that the heaviest attacks are behind us. We apologize to our readers for the missed On-Time and continue right away further on with new posts. Your PI-Team."
Barely a couple of days after the terrible events in front of Cologne's Hauptbahnhof, Mayor Henriette Reeker found it necessary to point out the perpetrators had nothing to do with the refugees.
In the absence of electable candidates in the Republican camp however, and because he calls a spade a spade, he deserves the Republican nomination.
For a long time Rick Perry was my man. For reasons unfathomable to me, he did not tick with the American public.
Then I started growing very fond of Dr. Carson. But he is way too nice and he started saying funny things. Plus, because of the current occupant of the White House's catastrophic tenure has ironically made it very difficult for people of color to again give it a try for POTUS, Dr. Carson has also become as good as unelectable.
Cruz remains as the sole Real Conservative. But as of today, he's still unknown to far too many Americans and were he the nominee, Clinton would almost certainly be victorious.
Because this Monster would completely ruin what is left of the United States after 8 disastrous years of a cryptomarxist at the helm, it is absolutely necessary - it is absolutely vital - that the GOP comes up with a candidate who can WIN.
Only Trump remains.
That is why I endorse Donald Trump for President. And while I'm at it, Ted Cruz for veep.
The rest of the GOP candidates should call it quits. Playing time is over.
"Today at 2pm a press conference took place in Police HQ Koeln, Germany, to address the extraordinary evens on New Year's Eve around the Koelner Main Station. Even Koeln's usually over-the-top politically correct Police president Wolfgang Albers (2nd from the left) appeared shaken and spoke of "an unbearable situation" in Koeln. The reason? Criminal behaviour of "a hitherto completely unknown situation" by a group of around 1,000 men, "of apparently Arabic or North African extraction".
"At noon (on the 4th of January), Koeln Police had already received complaints from 60 women, but it is thought that the real number is far higher. These are tales about theft, violence, sexual harassment and rape."
