Cause he’s got his finger in the dyke?

BBC

A new Dutch law preventing sperm donors from remaining anonymous has resulted in a shortage of donations. It has forced an increasing number of Dutch women to cross the border to clinics in Belgium, where anonymity for sperm donors is the norm.

The new legislation has been 10 years in the making.

Dutch sperm centres can no longer accept anonymous donations and children born from a donation can obtain their father’s identity when they are 16. But ahead of the new regulations the number of men willing to donate their sperm has declined.

Women are facing a waiting list of up to two years at a Dutch sperm bank.

It is not known how many Dutch women are applying for sperm donations in Belgium, asking a friend for sperm, or seeking fertilisation on the black market via the internet, but hospitals in Antwerp and Ghent have reported an increase in Dutch female clients. Dutch nationals now account for five percent of patients at one fertility centre and officials there say the number is growing.

Belgian politicians have discussed the issue of ending anonymity but the general view is that it should be maintained.

Good Dutch women, lining up for the sperm of anonymous Phlegms and Loons! And, blackmarket sperm on the Internet! Couldn’t they see this coming?

Asking a friend for sperm? Isn’t that called sex? And these gals aren’t even drunk.

but themselves

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BRUSSELS (AFX) – Lawsuits filed in Belgium against US officials for alleged war crimes are “very serious” and could impact on travel arrangements of US officials, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

Responding to a lawsit expected to be filed tomorrow against the US commander in Iraq, General Tommy Franks, General Richard Myers said it would be up to diplomats to work out the exact consequences.

But he said: “It’s looked upon by the US government as a very very serious situation… It is serious and it could clearly have an impact on where we gather.”

A group of plaintiffs, mostly Iraqis, will file the suit tomorrow under a disputed Belgian “universal competence” law which allows charges to be brought regardless of where the alleged crimes took place.

Their suit relates to about 20 alleged crimes during the Iraq war, including three cases where US troops are accused of firing on ambulances, said lawyer Jan Fermon.

The impending lawsuit has already sparked alarm in the US government, which remains concerned about the controversial law despite recent moves by the Belgian parliament to limit its scope.

In March US Secretary of State Colin Powell said that, unless restricted, the law could affect Belgium’s status as an international hub, including the EU as well as NATO.

Some 30 current or former political leaders are facing legal action under the law, including Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, former US president George Bush and Powell.[emphasis added ed.]

Why not ask the people of Bunia how they feel about Belgium?

Orgy of killing as Congo teeters on brink of genocide

From the Telegraph

Wielding machetes and rocket-launchers, hordes of tribal warriors and drug-crazed children marauded through the Congolese town of Bunia yesterday, unleashing an orgy of killing and forcing tens of thousands of terrified refugees across the Ugandan border.

United Nations officials warned the Security Council that the crisis was potentially a genocide in the making, drawing parallels with Rwanda, where between 500,000 and one million people, mainly Tutsis, were killed by Hutus in 1994.

“Bunia is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe,” UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said.

As the situation spiralled out of control, international humanitarian organisations evacuated 50 aid workers and their families from the town.

There are 600 United Nations troops in Bunia, and they can’t do anything! Give me 600 United States Marines and I’ll settle the problem.

These things keeps happening because no one wants to admit the truth. When you kill hordes of machete wielding primitives, they stop rioting. And eating people, and all sorts of stuff.

Washington Times

Belgium, the only country that will be going straight to Hell, is considering whether or not to charge General Tommy Franks and other officers for war crimes in Iraq.

Belgium, a country full of Phlegms and Loons, raped and sodomized (and not in a good way) the Congo for centuries and never once managed to feel any guilt. In fact, the country is crawling with people who participated in that particular crime against humanity and have never been charged. Nor have the tens of thousands of Belgians who fought with Hitler’s SS in World War II. I blogged this here.

And now they may feel superior enough to the United States to try to charge our officers with war crimes.

Time to leave Belgium, move NATO HQ out. Budapest is a lovely city, much older and more cultured than any in Belgium, and much more deserving. Time to turn Antwerp into a backwater by using Dutch, Spanish, and Danish ports. Recall the ambassador for consultations. PNG their military attaches for conduct unbecoming. Let’s let them know that they don’t mean an ant’s fart to us.

I’ve avoided talking about Belgium, well… because it’s a pissant, unimportant speck of a country. But, the powers compel me… sonorous organ music

Belgium is a country divided between the Flemish and the Waloons. The Phlegms are Dutch that are too good for the Netherlands and would rather be German and the Loons are French wannabes. About 38,000 Belgians served in Hitler’s Waffen SS. See HERE. Based upon population records, that aproximates two percent of the adult male population of military age.

Now, the Belgians have decided that their own national courts have the authority to try “international criminals” for crimes committed in other countries. They would like to try Arial Sharon, for example.

I wonder how many Belgians they’re going to try for their criminal colonial acts in the Congo before, during and after its independance. No country in Africa was so ill used by its colonial masters nor so ill prepared for independance. I’ll bet that there are dozens of Belgians still alive with responsibility for those acts. Direct responsibility, as in actually doing the shooting or torture or beatings. Unlike Sharon, whose responsibility is, at best, imputed for acts that another nation’s armed militia performed in the heart of a civil war.

See, the Belgians think they’re better than everyone else. Until they start trying their own, for the monsterous acts committed in the Congo, they’re just hypocrites.

As for their circle jerk with the French and Germans in NATO, well, it’s racist. It’s in violation of the NATO Charter. And, of all the nations of Europe, they should be the last to preach high moral principles without ever, ever having practiced them.

And, howcome you only ever get ONE Belgium waffle at IHOP? When Mom made them, we’d get a stack. One waffle, typical Belgium.