A souvenir of Chile

Watch President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic collect a souvenir of Chile

H/T Lubos

Comments

[Robinson]

Haha. Classic!

[Robinson]

.....also, I've put the news presenter onto my todo list...

[Athelstan]

Yeah well, we don't know it wasn't a gift.

;^)

[Spence_UK]

Completely off topic, but has Simon Singh removed all of the comments from his posterous blog or is it just something about my browser settings that have made them disappear? linky

[matthu]

Spence_UK - see my comment on the unthreaded thread

[Spence]

Thanks matthu, not just me then, and oops - must remember the quick link to unthreaded in the future :)

[Nicholas Hallam]

Great man Klaus. Somehow he doesn't seem like other politicians, and that is very much to his credit.

A flavour of his thought here: http://www.klaus.cz/clanky/2266

A week ago, I gave a speech at an official gathering at the Prague Castle commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1948 communist putsch in the former Czechoslovakia. One of the arguments of my speech there, quoted in all the leading newspapers in the country the next morning, went as follows: “Future dangers will not come from the same source. The ideology will be different. Its essence will, nevertheless, be identical – the attractive, pathetic, at first sight noble idea that transcends the individual in the name of the common good, and the enormous self-confidence on the side of its proponents about their right to sacrifice the man and his freedom in order to make this idea reality.” What I had in mind was, of course, environmentalism and its currently strongest version, climate alarmism.

[Gixxerboy]

There's something about post-Communism Czech leaders. They seem so...normal. Like real human beings. You've gotta love Vaclav's cheek. And another thing - Czech women. How came they're all so gorgeous?

[Nicholas Hallam]

A number of people have tried to portray environmentalists as communists in disguise - "watermelons", green on the outside and red in the middle. Klaus's point is more subtle: environmentalism is another ideological route to the same statist destination - a different, but just as dangerous, "Road to Serfdom".

[dearieme]

When I need a free pen I pop into Barclay's. It saves so much on the air miles.

[H]

Hilarious! Love that naughty school boy smile when “the mission” is accomplished. The charity I work for once got sent pens which said “Nobody loves Chlamydia” (indeed) in big red letters as part of some public campaign. They were all gone within days. I am still wondering who the hell would steal a pen like that??? :o)