• Tiens, een paar journalisten met

    Tiens, een paar journalisten met ballen blijkbaar op de briefing van het Witte Huis:

    QUESTION: Regardless of whether or not there was pressure from the White House for that line, I’m wondering where does the buck stop in this White House? Does it stop at the CIA, or does it stop in the Oval Office?

    Scott McClellan: Again, this issue has been discussed. You’re talking about some of the comments that — some that are —

    QUESTION: I’m not talking about anybody else’s comments. I’m asking the question, is responsibility for what was in the President’s own State of the Union ultimately with the President, or with somebody else?

    Scott McClellan: This has been discussed.

    QUESTION: So you won’t say that the President is responsible for his own State of the Union speech?

    Scott McClellan: It’s been addressed.

    QUESTION: Well, that’s an excellent question. That is an excellent question. (Laughter.) Isn’t the President responsible for the words that come out of his own mouth?

    Scott McClellan: We’ve already acknowledged, Terry, that it should not have been included in there. I think that the American people appreciate that recognition.

    QUESTION: You acknowledge that, but you blame somebody else for it. Is the President responsible for the things that he said in the State of the Union?

    Scott McClellan: Well, the intelligence — you’re talking about intelligence that — sometimes you later learn more information about intelligence that you didn’t have previously. But when we’re clearing a speech like that, it goes through the various agencies to look at that information and —

    QUESTION: And so when there’s intelligence in a speech, the President is not responsible for that?

    Scott McClellan: We appreciate Director Tenet saying that he should have said, take it out.

    QUESTION: But it’s the President’s fault.

    Scott McClellan: In fact, if you look back at it, I mean, we did take out a different reference, a reference based on different sources in a previous speech because it was said — the CIA Director said, take it out.

    QUESTION: Let me come back to your “nonsense” statement here, and let me slice it as thinly as I possibly can, just growing out of what Scott asked. Is it nonsense to say that the White House wanted this information included in the State of the Union and negotiated with the CIA to find a way to put it in to the State of the Union?

    Scott McClellan: I’m sorry?

    QUESTION: Is it nonsense to say that the White House wanted this information in the speech and went through negotiations with the CIA on a way to get it in the speech?

    Scott McClellan: That there were discussions? Speech drafts go — we’ve stated that these speeches go out to the principals, it goes out to the State, it goes out to DOD, it goes out to CIA, when it’s going through the drafting process.

    QUESTION: Scott, you said it was “nonsense” to say that the White House was pressuring the CIA to put this in the speech. Is it nonsense to say —

    Scott McClellan: I think the question that you asked about was that someone was insisting —

    QUESTION: Durbin said, a White House official insisted —

    Scott McClellan: — insisting that it be put in there in an effort to mislead the American people, I think is what —

    QUESTION: You didn’t explicitly give a motive.

    Scott McClellan: And I said I think that’s just nonsense.

    QUESTION: I’m just trying to slice it a little bit narrowly, to say, is it nonsense to say that the White House wanted this information in the speech and negotiated with the CIA on a way to get it in the speech?

    Scott McClellan: Are you asking me to characterize the discussions that occur going on during the speech drafting process? I don’t —

    QUESTION: I’m saying, does your “nonsense” statement apply to the idea that the White House wanted it in the speech and negotiated with the CIA on a way to get it in the speech?

    Scott McClellan: I think that it still goes back to, these drafts go to the various agencies, it goes to the CIA, this is an intelligence matter. It was based on information in the National Intelligence Estimate. That’s the consensus document of the intelligence community, and that’s what the information was based on in that speech.

    QUESTION: So what I asked you about in that speech, your “nonsense” statement —

    Scott McClellan: I’m trying to walk you —

    QUESTION: You’re trying to walk me out the door. (Laughter.)

    Scott McClellan: I’m trying to walk you through this.

    QUESTION: So your nonsense statement doesn’t apply to what I just asked you?

    Scott McClellan: I’m trying to walk you through the drafting process. And that’s why I was trying to put it in context, so you understand how this occurs.

    QUESTION: Scott, on Keith’s question, why can’t we just expect, basically what would be a non-answer, which is, of course the President is responsible for everything that comes out of his mouth. I mean, that’s a non-answer. Why can’t you just say that?

    Scott McClellan: This issue has been addressed over the last several days.

    QUESTION: Why won’t you say that, though, that’s, like, so innocuous and benign.

    Scott McClellan: The issue has been addressed.

  • Allez, ik zal dan wel

    Allez, ik zal dan wel geen prostaatkanker krijgen zeker?

    Yahoo! PhotoStudy: Masturbating Lowers Cancer Risk
    (Reuters) – Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research. Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year. They suspect that frequent ejaculation has a protective effect against the cancer because it prevents dangerous carcinogens from building up in the gland. More

  • Ha! ’t Is gelijk archeologie,

    Ha! ’t Is gelijk archeologie, ik heb hier een paar negatieven gevonden waar ik de foto’s nog nooit van gezien had. Ik heb zo geen negatievenscanner, maar met wat fotoshopwerk is daar toch nog iets uit te krijgen blijkbaar.

  • Foto’s aan ’t inscannen gelijk

    Foto’s aan ’t inscannen gelijk zot. Ik begin er een beetje routine in te krijgen, maar eens al die dingen in de computer zitten, zouden we echt wel eens moeten kijken om daar een systeem in te steken.

  • Vacances

    C’est les vacances! Yay!!
    Two weeks of doing nothing! If taking care of two kids ages 2 & 4 counts as nothing, that is =)

  • Whenever Chu-chih was asked

    Whenever Chu-chih was asked a question, he simply raised one finger. One day a visitor asked Chu-chih’s attendant what his master preached. The boy raised a finger. Hearing of this, Chu-chih cut off the boy’s finger with a knife. As he ran from the room, screaming with pain, Chu-chih called to him. When he turned his head, Chu-chih raised a finger. The boy was suddenly enlightened.

    When Chu-chih was about to die, he said to his assembled monks: “I received this one-finger Zen from T’ien-lung. I used it all my life but never used it up.” With this he entered his eternal rest.

    Niets zo goed als een frisse koan voor het slapengaan. Leren appreciëren met Gödel, Escher, Bach. Voor wie dat nog niet zou gelezen hebben trouwens: essentieel!

  • Migrating from ColdFusion to ASP.NET.

    Migrating from ColdFusion to ASP.NET. Learn about the different capabilities of Macromedia’s ColdFusion MX and Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web application development frameworks and then examine how some common tasks are performed in each environment. [MSDN: Visual C#]

  • ’t Is hier ook wel

    ’t Is hier ook wel van laatste loodjes…

  • Dàt zijn bronvermeldingen:

    Seraphina Cooreman
    ° 24 Aug 1840, + 18 Jul 1923

    Seraphina Cooreman werd geboren op maandag, 24 augustus 1840 te Aalter.1,2 Zij was de dochter van Joannes Franciscus Cooreman en Eugenie Sonneville.1 Ze woonde in 4 juni 1862 met Joannes Franciscus Cooreman in Bellem. In 1871 wordt ze omschrevven als “werkvrouw”;3 in mei 1871 als kantwerkster in Bellem.4 Zij trouwde op 10 mei 1871 met Carolus Ludovicus Kesteloodt, zoon van Carolus Ludovicus Kesteloodt en Amalia Van Volsem,  te Bellem.4,5 Seraphina Cooreman en Carolus Ludovicus Kesteloodt woonden vanaf 1880 in de Cynsstraat 56 in Aalter.6 Seraphina Cooreman overleed op woensdag, 18 juli 1923 te Aalter, op de leeftijd van 82 jaar.7 Zij werd begraven na 18 juli 1923 te Aalter.


         Kinderen van Seraphina Cooreman en Carolus Ludovicus Kesteloodt:
    Mathilde Kesteloot (14 Mei 1871 – 30 Jul 1935)
    Blandinus Augustus Kesteloodt (16 Okt 1873)
    Emerentiana Kesteloodt (04 Okt 1874 – 29 Maa 1879)
    Maria Leonia Kesteloodt (25 Mei 1877 – 06 Apr 1946)
    August Kesteloodt (01 Nov 1879)
    Emerence Kesteloodt (14 Jul 1883 – 14 Dec 1967)



    1. Burgerlijke Stand Aalter, BS/G 48 24/8/1840.
    2. Burgerlijke Stand Bellem, BS/H 14/5/1871.
    3. Bevolkingsregister Aalter, 1871-1880, 455, 10.
    4. Burgerlijke Stand Bellem, BS/H 10/5/1871.
    5. Bevolkingsregister Aalter, 1871-1880, 432, 1.
    6. Bevolkingsregister Aalter, Losse fiches (1880?).
    7. Bevolkingsregister Aalter, 1921-1930, p. 138.

  • Taken

    Finished watching Taken today. All twenty hours of it. Une fin en queue de poisson, if you ask me.

  • En nog over Gent: De

    En nog over Gent: De Pissijnen van Gent

  • Het Gents baardkonijn. Bijna verdwenen,

    Het Gents baardkonijn. Bijna verdwenen, maar gelukkig:

     Door het kweken met aanverwante dieren had ik al snel een stam, waarvan ongeveer 80% van de nakomelingen niet enkel baarden hadden, maar duidelijk ook tot hetzelfde type behoorde qua kleur en lichaamsbouw. Door de afwijkende exemplaren voor de kookpot te bestemmen had ik omstreeks 1985 een reeks konijnen die men voor 95% als zui­vere baarden kon bestempelen.


  • Home

    Home for the day. With a bit of luck I’ll finish Taken today.

  • Calvin en Hobbes rulen.

    Calvin en Hobbes rulen.

  • Gaan ze op BBC toch

    Gaan ze op BBC toch wel iets maken over Philip Larkin zeker?