November 24th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Dutch Labour party leader Wouter Bos was turned away from a polling station in Amsterdam on Wednesday because he showed up to vote without all the right papers.
That’s not the way to start off an election day now is it?
The Labour leader, Bos, who is usually calm and relaxed, cameras Bos, at first looked stunned In front of dozens of television and then sheepish before hurrying home to fetch the correct documentation.
Bos has seen a commanding opinion poll lead vanish over recent months as his rival, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, took the credit for an economic recovery in the run-up to Wednesday’s parliamentary election.
There’s no word yet on how he did in the election but that couldn’t have been a good Omen.
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November 23rd, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Thieves running from pursuers in Germany made the job of capturing them easier when they tried to flee across a drained pond and got stuck so fast in mud they had to be helped out by police.
A spokesman for police in the eastern city of Chemnitz said on Wednesday “They probably thought the pond looked dry and that it would be a handy shortcut, but they got totally stuck.”
Having released the men from the sludge, police arrested the pair, both Poles in their twenties.
The two had earlier given officers the slip after being caught breaking into a car.
Sounds like they have some quicksand like mud over in Germany.
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November 23rd, 2006 at 10:30 am
Interesting news from China, where homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder until 2001. China has opened its first hotline for lesbians following the success of a service for gay men, state media reported on Wednesday.
The free hotline operates in Shanghai, the free-wheeling financial centre where social change has outpaced the rest of China. The hotline opened earlier this week. The new line is staffed by trained counsellors and the plan is to provide “real help” for lesbians.
“Many lesbians in China are pressured into marrying men and end up living miserable lives,” sociologist Li Yinhe was quoted as saying. Understanding and tolerance from lesbians’ families and friends were needed, she added.
Recent Chinese history – During the Mao era, homosexuals were persecuted, especially during the Cultural Revolution when they risked prison terms and even death sentences. Even today homosexuals still face stigma and discrimination.
China doesn’t have any official statistics on homosexuality. The health authority estimated there were five to 10 million gays at the end of 2004, but some experts put the number at least 30 million.
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