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The Note The following is a reflection on two aspects of the American political system that may seem paradoxical, but rather complementary.

The vote on the proposed reform of health insurance in the United States should be won by Democrats and before Christmas. While I believe that the Quebec health system must be reformed to give greater emphasis to the private sector, I think the current system in the United States is quite absurd. I am therefore pleased that the bill be passed by the Senate.

The first thought that arouses all the debates that took place for 1 year is about what I call here the party line. According to Senate rules, Democrats needed 60 votes out of 100 senators in order that the project can proceed to the final stage on December 24. However, given the polarized positions, Republicans opposing the project, the Democrats needed the votes of 58 Democratic senators and two independents. The first is an independent senator from Vermont who describes himself as a socialist, Bernie Sanders, whose vote was not a major problem.

The second is Senator Joseph Lieberman, running mate of Al Gore in 2000, elected in Connecticut. I must admit, I like Joe Lieberman. While I am not in agreement with all these positions, but I like the politician who does not follow a party line or ideology which must be dictated. Senator Lieberman is a controversial who supported John McCain in 2008 and is often the laughingstock of the Democratic Left who see him as a traitor in the party. These leftists, often guided by the rule of "Believe everything the party says or die, waiting the moment he leaves the Democrats and Republicans will join his friends. Some call him an opportunist since the vote as his constituents asked him in Connecticut, a state where there is a strong presence of conservative Democrats.

However, the presence of a Joe Lieberman or Ben Nelson, Democratic senator from Nebraska conservative who has also conditioned its vote under certain changes, represents a strength of American democracy. Admittedly, I hear the purists proclaim the opportunism of these two senators who use their vote to increase their power in a situation as important for Democrats and Obama. I think it is rather important to have senators who perform certain applications that allow a project to be nuanced, see improved.

While the Quebec and Canadian political system makes it almost impossible for this kind of situation due to the party line especially strong. However, this does not prevent dissension within the various ideological factions of political parties that would often benefit from being raised publicly by members, if only for the sake of representativeness and democracy.

Several elements of the Quebec and Canadian politics make the average voter cynicism. The "Believe or Die> is certainly top the list.

Krugman

I told you that the two thoughts might seem paradoxical. Now here is the second. Paul Krugman, NY Times columnist, raises a major problem in the American political system in this whole saga of the vote on the healthcare system in this text . It is absurd that after a resounding victory for the Democrats last year during the presidential suite and a majority (18) of these same Democrats in the Senate, the project has been so difficult to pass in the final stage. The rule of "60 Senators" was used historically to prevent a government from passing laws absurd, a kind of weight-cons a group of parliamentarians who have suddenly a "Power Trip".

As shown Krugman, since 2006, when the Democrats regained control of Congress, 70% of bills in the Senate were blocked with the use of this rule.

Previously, I was talking about the cynicism with respect to "Believe or Die" political parties. The "childish" for some members, whether in the National Assembly of Quebec or the U.S. Congress is likely in 2nd place in the list of cynics. Use critical thinking should be rule number 1 of the individual who makes a noble choice but to enter politics. The second rule should be to listen to these people. Not need a course of 45 hours to understand that the voters of Nebraska and Vermont often reflect very different politically. Should perhaps remind the "liberal" Democrat Party.

NB No need for me to come give me a course on political parties and unity. The purpose of the note was to denounce certain absurdities and congratulate some initiatives.

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"I Believe That In The Long Run, Separation Between Israel and the Palestinians is the Best Solution for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "

- Yitzhak Rabin -

Six months ago, I wrote a ticket in which I was doing a review of the final months of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly after the Israeli action in Gaza in December 2008 and the elections of February 10 that brought Benjamin Netanyahu to power.


I began by congratulating the Israeli prime minister for his stance in favor of the solution of two states, position of the international community and positive experience adopted Begin, Rabin and Sharon because they believed they were acting in the best interest of Israel and in the best interest to settle the conflict peacefully.


Subsequently, I warned the Netanyahu government to stop building new settlements if he wanted to be consistent with its basic idea, one more step towards peace.

This week, Netanyahu responded favorably to the idea of freezing settlement (which is also the position of the U.S. government and his secretary of state, longtime friend of the Jewish state).


The Israeli government responded yes to two conditions inherent in peace.


As noted elsewhere columnist Aluf Benn in Israel this article about the settlements: "Insofar as they are concerned, the Israelis are not in the colonies, they do not know how or where settlements are, in short they do not really care for them. All they want is peace. "


















As I mentioned in the article of June, it is unthinkable at the moment for the Israeli government to withdraw completely from the West Bank. The last time an Israeli prime minister had made the opening, it was Sharon in 2005 and this had led to the establishment of Hamas in Gaza, which advocates Israel's destruction and that launches rockets from the territory, and taking hostage the Palestinian population.


Now that Israel has once again served an intention to move towards a peace process, the ball is back in the Palestinian camp. The Palestinian moderates who seek peace with their neighbor Israel must return to the negotiating table. We know that leadership of one who was the flagship of the Palestinian cause for years, Mahmoud Abbas, is weak.


Certainly, a more active presence in the conflict of American mediators would not hurt.


Meanwhile, the world is searching for a Palestinian leader who could negotiate with Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank, but who can guarantee the government especially Hebrew basic security of its population on its territory, the first condition peace process.

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A week during which a rather odd sprinter won a mountain stage, the peloton was left plugged headsets, escaped escaped like this, where, and which ends in a howl of a hyena which mask the yelps of an old fox foundered. I did well to work as a little crazy, I missed nothing. For cons the coming week I will lose efficiency, the Alps have landed on the Tour and the Tour is not going to end them. Three stages of high mountains, against the clock and a step we will tell through to Mont Ventoux, and then the ride to Paris. Saturday if the differences are as tight now below the last rib of the Tour, it will be a beautiful pestacle. Luckily, I do not work that day. I hope the young wolves will show fangs. It makes me think all that a new Jack London, "A steak," which recounts the last stand of an old boxer who has shot down the ring why he had beaten the old man in his youth had a look so sad.

I await the final look of Armstrong with some emotion.

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"A hot dog at The ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. "Humphrey Bogart-


This reflection is a response to various comments I received before, during and after my visit to Quebec City Stadium on Wednesday to promote baseball team Capitales de Québec in Quebec which aligns the pitcher Eric Gagne.




I must say from the outset, my facebook status was provocative "will be at Municipal Stadium in Quebec City tonight to see Eric Gagne, winning the 2003 Cy Young Award" .



The comments were all in the same direction, or that this launcher was guilty of using steroids during his career in the majors, as well discredited everything he could perform well and the sport is no longer a mark of cheaters.


GOOD.



Let's settle on one thing. The era of steroids (which appears in the early 1990s) in major league baseball has really hurt the sport, especially for purists. It would be wrong however to think that sport has lost its popularity during this period. Instead, according to a study by Forbes magazine last year, revenue by baseball (ticket sales, TV revenue, merchandise sales) have exploded in recent years. Take for example the support of homeruns between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in the summer of 1998, which attracted the eyes of the world on a MLB.



Admittedly, this period has affected the purists of the sport as I have stated previously. I invite you to read an excellent article Jayson Stark of ESPN when published revelations about steroid use in the limelight of New York Yankees, Alex Rodriguez, last February.



The other side of the coin







The real purpose of my thinking is to show the other side of the story of baseball. While the popular media stories raffollent crisp, especially those on steroids or what players do off the field.


However, baseball is a bit more than that, very much.


Baseball is this important cultural heritage family. Is there something more significant than the first time that the father and son Launch ball?


Baseball is also the only sport where the stadium is of paramount importance, both in the atmosphere than at the history of the city and the people who live there.


Baseball is the sport accessible. Certainly, in several stages, the price of tickets is very high. However, last year, I attended a game at the Los Angeles Dodgers for a measly $ 9. It is a sport whose players come from several quarters of poor countries like the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Venezuela.


is the sport where statistics are vitally important. These statistics allow the sport part of a story and perpetuate.


is the sport where no matter what stage you're in Los Angeles, Quebec City or in Lasalle, you sing the famous "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in the 7th round.


This sport EMOTIONS.


is the sport where the game can change dramatically while until the last batter is not removed.


This sport where every pitch is a surprise.





Next time






The next time your brother-in will prompt you at the stadium, whether at Yankee Stadium in New York or the municipal stadium of Quebec, you will certainly scrutinize the arms of every player under the microscope and ask if it was in a Duane Reade of Bedford, Massachusetts or in a CVS pharmacy of Boswell, Pennsylvania that he purchased his little pill.


I invite you to do something else. I invite you, when you cross the doors you remember the first launch of your childhood, to let you wear each launch as perhaps that will change the game and maybe even history. To let you conquer by a spectacular diving shortstop making a double play



I do every time I go. A great feeling, I assure you.

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Among the gaps

Due to a work rate too excessive, I'm at the stage of the Tour proximity of their arrivals. I do not have a chance to see the soft underbelly, those moments that prepare the delicious final which saw the peloton often pounce on the few that escaped and tear on a last throw of the kidney, otherwise called when the final sprint. I attended with a je ne sais quoi of nostalgia to the failure of Millar on the avenues of Barcelona, a doped rider to the bone but this is the Tour gentry who made his fame. Millar swallowed, I had to wait until tomorrow. Just in case. I was not disappointed. A little kid who tries his luck from distance, then that part company with his fellow breakaway any offhand. And who wins. And assumes the polka dot jersey. A first pro victory. He may win more if he has the chance to deliver in bulk.

Exactly, I thought seeing yesterday's stage, that this Tour has become a competition that could not be won as a team. A man alone will no longer be able, whatever its strength. Spencer needs to go back in his grave. Before Hinault was the time of the aristocrats, the best, time and effort solitary transcendence, we talked about wrestling, wrestling at loggerheads, Since the clashes ... bland Delgado and his followers (Indurain, Armstrong), people with no class, no special talent, the rollers in the business side as shit ten a day, which does nothing but win the Tour , have team members who do all the work for their "leader" (that is an anagram that). The stage yesterday, I said, gave me a smile. Although it surpasses its pursuers, the Astana team has two leaders. The second I spend on it. The first is more interesting. Already a winner of three Grand Tours, a classic, a league and a few secondary turns, he said by his untimely shift changes as a true mercenary, with no faith, which relies only on himself to outdo the others. A man without integrity, but with style. In short, a champion who opened perhaps a new chapter in turn. Badgers and pandas are gloating, what animal would it be Contador? The hyena is not bad, but ... Maybe you have an idea?

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A look a little closer, what happened today on the tour was not to happen. In normal times, when there 's a boss in the bunch, a team that dominates and the sprinters have ants in the legs, a runner should not only win a stage when the vanguard it almost sucks the wheel. Ben sometimes, there's the guys who are still arriving, without busting your teeth, make the lunch at the big dozen training barking at his heels. It's nice. That's why we still look around, not because we are in chômedu or retired or to have a kid too taf, but to share the happiness of one type alone who waddles her ass in front of more hundred and fifty riders, five hundred cars and trucks three miles. In addition, it is not a Cador, a stiff bristle nobliau, a star, but a guy's bossé because he knows not do much else. Too bad, but it is like that the Tour, from the bottom. Well, after it is written from the top, but that's another story.

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Silently, I watched the first stages of the Tour. After passing a little winded on Sainte Devote and some laces on the edges of the pool, the trailer (which is long since a TGV) has embarked on the track of his "Golden Fleece", as they say when there are letters. And what do you think happened? Attracted by the smell, an old fox Cossack Texan and his company (or Kazakh, I do not know) greedily cutting back the folds of the dress that Divine Providence has put under their nose. Between them and victory, there is what makes the glory and honor of those battles of modern times, that is to say nothing.

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We waited since February 10 this speech. I speak of course of remarks by Israeli Prime Minister this week in Tel Aviv. Benjamin Netanyahu described his vision of the Israeli political situation a little more than a week after Obama's speech in Cairo on June 4



must rejoice at the opening of the Premier of the State Hebrew for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state living alongside an Israeli state.


We must recognize that the prime minister listened to what he told his national polls, that is to say that a majority of Israelis supported the two-state solution. One can also think that Netanyahu has heard the call of the President of the United States who demanded concessions from the Hebrew state. It is important to remember that American Jews have supported Barack Obama over 80% during the November 2008 elections. It fits


in the footsteps of Begin, Sharon and Rabin, who understood that it was possible to make concessions without compromising the security of Israelis.


can also share the concerns of Israeli Prime Minister, on some previous concessions, among others during the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005, which led to Hezbollah and Hamas control these areas and to attack Israeli territory every day.


The ball in the Palestinian camp





This "not before "is nothing if not accompanied by concrete actions. While Israel, the United States and the West have a role to play, but the ball is now in the Palestinian camp. Requests for Obama in Israel and the answer was positive, the Palestinian people must also do his homework. He must prove if he is serious or not in negotiations for peace. I see two important conditions and essential to this task.


First, the Palestinians must return to the negotiating table with strong leadership. The terrorist movement Hamas, which clearly wants "destruction of the State of Israel" is not a partner if possible. So there must have partners from the Fatah party who really want peace with their Israeli neighbors.


The second condition is the restoration's error Yasser Arafat at Camp David in 2000, is one not to renounce terrorism. If he wants to be a serious interlocutor, the Palestinian people must denounce all forms of violence used against Israel, either renounce terrorism and give up rocket attacks on southern Somalia from the Gaza Strip.


As the United States and the West, the first world power to assume its role as mediator by calling an early summit discussion of the peace process. Advances in the conflict progressed when the United States has invited both parties, either in 1993 or 2000 in Oslo to Camp David. It must also continue to support the Israeli democracy while maintaining a firm position on the settlement freeze and the two-state solution.


In closing, it is important to note that many observers were pessimistic about the conflict there is barely a few months when there were armies fighting in southern Israel and Gaza. It was argued that the peace process was still far and simply stating the principles of each side could take years.


Obama has clearly stated its desire to advance the negotiations and the peace process. Prime Minister Netanyahu has done the same this week. Remains to the Palestinians and the Arab world to make their insights and to return quickly to the negotiating table in serious interlocutor.

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