[POL Café #943] stalend gezond!

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 12:31 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:
Et si tu n'existais pas
Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais
Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi
Sans espoir et sans regret
Et si tu n'existais pas
J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour
Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts
Naître les couleurs du jour
Et qui n'en revient pas

Et si tu n'existais pas
Dis-moi pour qui j'existerais
Des passantes endormies dans mes bras
Que je n'aimerais jamais
Et si tu n'existais pas
Je ne serais qu'un point de plus
Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va
Je me sentirais perdu
J'aurais besoin de toi

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:18 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:
538 zuigt.

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:17 schreef zakjapannertje het volgende:
Raymann is laat

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:19 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:24 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:

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waarom ben jij eigenlijk niet de hort op?

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:25 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Pff, ben net wakker man, even koffie tanken.

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:08 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:
kijken jullie niet naar 538 ? http://www.garnierstreamingmedia.com/asx/cross02.asp

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:32 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Mooie dansmarietjes.

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:34 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:

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Lasgo

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:51 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Hehe, vroeger, toen hakken nog in was, kwam de 538-Roadshow met Bart Ettekoven hier naartoe. Hij hield een hakwedstrijdje (en public) onder kinderen onder de 11 of zo en ik won....een XL-shirt van 538.

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Ken je hem nog?

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How to spot a baby conservative

KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional. Future liberals, on the other hand ...

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.

A few decades later, Block followed up with more surveys, looking again at personality, and this time at politics, too. The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.

The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective.

Block admits in his paper that liberal Berkeley is not representative of the whole country. But within his sample, he says, the results hold. He reasons that insecure kids look for the reassurance provided by tradition and authority, and find it in conservative politics. The more confident kids are eager to explore alternatives to the way things are, and find liberal politics more congenial.

In a society that values self-confidence and out-goingness, it's a mostly flattering picture for liberals. It also runs contrary to the American stereotype of wimpy liberals and strong conservatives.

Of course, if you're studying the psychology of politics, you shouldn't be surprised to get a political reaction. Similar work by John T. Jost of Stanford and colleagues in 2003 drew a political backlash. The researchers reviewed 44 years worth of studies into the psychology of conservatism, and concluded that people who are dogmatic, fearful, intolerant of ambiguity and uncertainty, and who crave order and structure are more likely to gravitate to conservatism. Critics branded it the "conservatives are crazy" study and accused the authors of a political bias.

Jost welcomed the new study, saying it lends support to his conclusions. But Jeff Greenberg, a social psychologist at the University of Arizona who was critical of Jost's study, was less impressed.

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:52 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:

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Kon.. jij.. hakken.. ???

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:52 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:

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Ik herken het gezicht wel, maar ik kan het niet plaatsen

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 13:56 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Toen was het nog Rabo top 40 of zoiets hè. Konden jongeren ook vragen insturen over zakgeld en zo .

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Musharraf says he's no US "poodle"
LONDON (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has rejected accusations he is a Western "poodle," saying his fight against Islamic militants is for his country's benefit, not for the United States or Britain.

"I am nobody's poodle," he said in an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday. "I have enough strength of my own to lead.

"When you talk about fighting terrorism or extremism, I am not doing that for the U.S. or Britain, I am doing it for Pakistan."

Musharraf, an important ally in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, has faced repeated opposition protests about his relationship with President Bush.

A 10,000-strong crowd gathered in the central Punjab region last month to hear opposition leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman call a visit by Bush an attempt at "enslaving the Pakistani nation and rewarding General Musharraf for his patriotism to America."

Newspapers have carried critical pieces on U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan and one has a "Mush & Bush" column lampooning the two leaders' relationship.

Asked by the Guardian if he had the "teeth" to bite back at his Western allies, Musharraf said: "Yes sir, I personally do -- a lot of teeth. Sometimes the teeth do not have to be shown. Pragmatism is required in international relations."

Pakistan has captured or killed hundreds of al Qaeda members since Musharraf joined a U.S.-led war on terrorism after the September 11 attacks on the United States.

Anger has been building in Pakistan over repeated U.S. attacks in the country, including an airstrike in January which killed 18 civilians in the remote Bajaur region.

Musharraf told the Guardian: "The strike was an infringement of our sovereignty and I condemned it."

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Op zaterdag 29 april 2006 14:29 schreef pberends het volgende:
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"Fuck me, spiderman!"