Your chance to help...

Every year, in many countries around the world, people are denied basic rights. The rights to express their opinions, the right to make themselves heard, and the right to vote. Often this results in terrible tragedies and fails to bring the necessary results to those who really deserve it.

This year you can help. If you are one of a select 38 countries in Europe, or if you live in Israel, you can make a difference and change the future. Around the world many individuals will have to forego their involvement in an important decision making process that takes place not once, but twice this week. If the result on Thursday is flawed, there is but one more chance on Saturday to reach an appropriate solution.

This year I am one of those people. And I urge you, with all your televoting power to vote for Iceland and to vote for Sweden on Thurday night. Last year was a travesty of humongous proportions with Iceland not making the final and then Sweden losing direct entry to this year's grand final. The Eurovision Song Contest needs you. Silvia Night and Iceland needs you. Carola and Sweden needs you. And on Saturday Texas Lightning and Germany will need you. One extra vote for each of these countries could stop the horror of a boring faux-ethnic ballad or a two-bit by-numbers-euroturd winning the contest. Remember Eimarr Quinn? Remember Dave Benton and Tanel Padar? Remember Marie N.? No. No one does. Let's make it a year to remember. Vote wisely, vote carefully and DON'T VOTE FOR ROMANIA and DON'T VOTE FOR BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA!

And if this hasn't helped you reach your decision, think of the poor weeping children and abandoned puppy dogs. Only voting for Iceland and Sweden and Germany will help them now. If you don't vote for Iceland and Sweden and Germany those poor children will cry harder and longer and those poor puppies will sleep on roadsides forever in fear of bad things that can happen to puppies on roadsides.


Silvia Night for Iceland


Carola for Sweden


Texas Lightning for Germany

One of these three must win. The Eurovision Song Contest semi-final is this Thursday at 8pm (UK time), 9pm (CET) and the Grand-final is on Saturday at 8pm (UK time) and 9pm (CET). USE YOUR VOTE!

PS Japan was really boring last week other than a night in Joyfull with NP and Adam on Thursday and a villa trip to Takebe on Saturday. Nowt else to report...