Amat Victoria Curam!

With Google integrating more and more stuff and vox standing still in its development, I decided to move back to blogger and my original blog which you can find at: marque.blogspot.com.
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Just a couple of weeks after I visited Buchenwald, Obama did and Elie Wiesel made a very moving speech.

The expectations were almost impossible  to achieve but he did it again: a water shedding speech by Barack in Cairo about the Muslim world. I feel this is truly the start of a new beginning! Of course he is omitting the inconvenient truths that women are generally subjugated in those cultures, gays are ostracized or killed outright, but hey: we have to start somewhere...

After earlier experiments in separating the homosexual penguin couple in Bremen revealed great difficulties, the zoo decided to let them adopt a pinguin egg - and... it worked! Dad & dad hatched the egg and now are proud parents of a healthy chicken pinguin of the rare Humbold race :-)

While waiting for Ice Age: The dawn of the Dinosaurs - I have been watching Ice Age I & II in blueray. Sid is still the man! (uh... I mean Sloth!). Johnny Legiuzamo as his voice is great too ;-)

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He is the first guy to receive the highest military honor of the Netherlands - The William Knighthood Cross - in 55 years. Marco Kroon truly is a hero - saving soldiers in Afghanistan. This was really a big thing here: live tv coverage, Queen, cabinet, prime minister the lot - and that is how it should be: someone who defends our freedom, sacrifice himself and who is outmost couragous deserves our utmost respect.