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I’m back in town. Or shall I say, back in this sunny country. Since my last post on March 7th, which I wrote in a hotel room by the way, I was travelling around. Too many planes, too many trains, too many hotel rooms, too much time without the internet. Or should I say, thank God I didn’t have internet? Sometimes, being without internet, and without a truckload of e-mails, can be welcome as well. The other side of the medal obviously is that, upon the return, there is this truckload of e-mails to respond to… Anyway, I got my first customer in Brasil! Yes!!! The money arrived today on the bank account, and tomorrow the safes will be on their way to South America! Hopefully the first customer of many to come…

Being back home, with all the comfort of the internet, I keep an eye on the world news as well.

In Belgium, a good friend of mine who was the chief of the Ghent police force has been suspended from his job because he made a mistake. One of the most capable police officers I’ve ever met is at risk of losing his job due to a human mistake.

In Austria, a human monster is facing trial for raping his daughter who was prisoned by him in a cellar for more than 24 years. She gave birth to seven of his children of which six survived. Three of them were kept in the same cellar as well.

Last week in Germany, Tim Kretschmer, a young kid murdered thirteen other teenagers and two more people before taking his own life. He said he just loved doing this.

What a world we’re living in. Louis Armstrong must be turning around in his coffin. The wonderful world he once believed in has definitely made some changes.

And yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cameroon, Africa. He had better stayed in his beautiful palace in Rome, Italy. I really wonder if he realised having landed in Africa. Upon arrival, he declared the following, and I quote: “The aids problem can’t be solved with money, however necessary that is. It can’t be solved by giving out condoms. On the contrary, condoms do make the problem even worse”.

Hello? Is this guy living in the year 2009? Only because he’s not allowed to have sex himself, he thinks he should lie to the world in this way? I am not a very catholic guy (although I was baptised on April 19th, 1960 - I was only three days old, but my mother once told me that I was making a whole lot of noise while the priest was throwing some water over my little head, so I guess I must have been revolting already!), but I believe it’s written somewhere in the Bible that one cannot lie…

For telling a lie like this, he should be suspended. For life! If his boss, the bearded guy who’s sitting on top of a cloud somewhere in heaven, or his son who was crucified in the Middle East some 2000 years ago, would really know the world we’re living in today, they both would immediately send the Pope to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands, in order to have him trialled for crimes against humanity!

As a reaction to this, Spain has taken the decision to send one million condoms to Africa. I love Spain. I’m thinking of going to the local pharmacy tomorrow myself, in order to buy their stock of condoms as well. I might send them to Africa. Or should I send them to the Vatican in Rome, with a request to forward them to the black continent?

Or maybe I should run for Pope? According to the rules, every male person, who once got baptised, can be elected. At least, that’s what I read a couple of years ago, when the current guy was elected. I promise, I would change a lot!

And change is needed urgently. Especially within this church!

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