Birthday Dogs

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Happy Birthday Bo.

It was Daphne's birthday recently, she is just a week or so older than Bo Obama.

She celebrated by having an extra Bonio. I am afraid that we missed the chance to have a Dog Birthday Party, a la Obama. Maybe next year.

Bargain of the week

As seen in a supermarket in France.

Obama also awarded Nobel prize in chemistry

According to Ezra Klein, the Nobel Committee stated that "He's just got great chemistry".

I am obviously not the only one wondering why on earth Obama has been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Not that I don't love him, I think he is fab but talk about high expectations. Poor bloke.

Maltese Terriers - vicious with ex-presidents

Who knew?

Little Daphne could turn into a dangerous dog.

Ex-President Chirac's Maltese Sumo took the move from the Elysee Palace to an appartment in Paris hard and severe depression turned him from "an innocent white fluff-ball into a ferocious attacker of ex-Presidents".

Sumo has been rehomed and now lives on a farm. When I was a girl sending a dangerous dog "to live on a farm" was a euphanism for euthanasia. I hope that this is not the case for poor Sumo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287166.stm

Roman Polanski and the Swiss

Switzerland is abuzz with the news of Roman Polanski's arrest in Zurich last week. It seems to me that the Swiss are torn between pride and anger.

They are proud that their country was the one to arrest this fugitive from justice but also peeved that they had to be the ones to do so. Not to mention their confusion as to why now when Polanski has been holidaying in Gstaad for some years now.

I am insensed that so many famous artists are raising their hands in support of Polanski. The sight of three young German actors, Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, his brother Wilson Gonzales and a female colleage made me wonder if the world had gone mad. Hollywood stars such as Harrison Ford, Monica Belluci stand hand in hand with German directors such as Wim Wenders and Tim Tykwer. Not to mention Whoopi Goldberg's catastrophic "rape-rape" comments.

He should be pitied, I have read, as he has never been able to return to the US. Never mind that he has lived and worked in Europe, lived in luxury, feted by his colleagues and critics. Never mind that he has won an Oscar during his self-imposed exile. Poor darling did not even get to return to US to accept his Oscar in person.

Here is the crux of the matter. Forget about whether the girl in question consented or not. Disregard the possibility of the judge being corrupt. At the end of the day a 44 year old man had sex with a 13 year old girl. That is not sex, whether she consented or not. That is rape.

It is illegal to give a 13 year old drugs and alcohol.

It is illegal to have sex with a 13 year old child. To rape and sodomise her.

It is illegal to break bail conditions.

He could have returned to the US at any time in the past 30 years, accepted a fair punishment for his crime then lived the rest of his life as he pleased.

He did not.

I commend Switzerland for arresting him and hope that he is soon out of the country, back to US to face the courts.

The Hollywood Stars should be ashamed of themselves.

If you agree with me, please visit this website and sign the petition, "Art does not excuse rape, Polanski must be punished".

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/art-does-not-excuse-rape-polanski-must-face-justice