Lucia de Berk Finally Cleared of Murder Charges

Finally, after six and a half years in prison, nurse Lucia de Berk was cleared of murder and attempted murder. In 2003, she had been convicted of seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder of children and elderly patients, and had been sentenced to life in prison. The reasoning the court in [...]

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Why I’m Hardly Affected by Hurricane Katrina

Yesterday, Dad asked me if I’d already come across a debate on the money for the Iraq war vs. money for Katrina victims issue. I said I hadn’t. In fact, Katrina to me seems like far away, unimportant and not interesting. I have no acquaintances in New Orleans or Mobile, AL or Mississippi as far [...]

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Thoughts on the Tsunami in Asia

Hmmm, I seem like minister Remkes of Home Affairs, who had been on holiday in Thailand since boxing day and yet hasn’t visited the Dutch Tsunami victims in the hospitals yet. Except that the disaster as a whole is much larger than only Dutch victims. 150,000 people dead! That’s really sooo shocking! And millions of [...]

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On Princess Juliana’s Death

Yesterday (Saturday) morning princess Juliana, queen Beatrix’s mother, died. She was 94-years-old and many people consider it to be in some ways good, cause she was severely demented. Juliana had already retired from queendom for six years when I was born, but from what I hear she was a very humane queen. Now I’ve never [...]

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Thoughts on the Madrid Terrorist Attacks

It’s Madrid, ETA, international terrorism and the elections in Spain what we hear on the news all the time. Because Aznar blamed the ETA (Basque seperation movement) for the train attacks of last Thursday, while there seems to be great evidence that it’s Alquaeda, Aznar’s probably lost the elections. Most Spaniards were totally against the [...]

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