Václav Klaus' 75Th Birthday

On Sunday, I was honored to attend the magnificent birthday political party of Václav Klaus, the instant president of Czechia, which took house at the Štvanice [=Hunt or Exhaustive Effort] Island on the Moldau River inwards Prague. The isle is named "Hunts" later on Canis familiaris hunts at animals (bears, bulls, deer, cows...) that bring been organized on that isle upwards to 1816 or then – this action has been defunct for 200 years inwards this year. The ban of this amusement was penned yesteryear Francis I of Republic of Austria inwards 1802 as well as later on a delay, the isle switched to to a greater extent than peaceful sports.



Lots of European politicians bring sent him birthday wishes remotely (the video to a higher house was posted yesteryear AfD as well as is AfD+FPÖ-centered but if you're patient, Marine Le Pen sings) as well as lots of famous Czech politicians, economists, artists, as well as singers bring attended. The political party was located [bird's eye] inwards the existent estate of the First Bohemian Lawn Tennis Club (founded 1893) which has owned it since 1901 but the electrical flow modern buildings were solely opened inwards 1986.




Before the birthday party, at that spot was a lawn tennis tournament over there. The winner was Prof Václav Klaus, the electrical flow executive managing director of the First Bohemian Lawn Tennis Club. I intend that every bit an athlete, he's even then impressive although I create know a homo of basically his historic menstruum who claims to survive vastly ameliorate at all these sports. ;-) Because of the lack of whatever difficult evidence, I volition omit whatever speculations on whether or non the other participants of the tournament bring helped the managing director to win. ;-)




The listing I volition simply break won't say much to the non-Czech readers but the Czech readers may desire to know that the next politicians, ambassadors, economists, aides, singers, as well as actors bring attended, with hundreds of others:

Martina Bacíková, Pavel Bém, Lucie Bílá, Jana Bobošíková, Lubomír Brabec, Aleš Brichta, Jiří Brodský, Vladimír Dlouhý, Rajko Doleček, Dominik Duka, Karel Dyba, Jindřich Forejt, Richard Genzer, Petr Hájek, Tomáš Haas, Ondřej Hejma, Ladislav Kerndl, Milan Knížák, Jaroslav Kubera, Ivan Langer, Marek Loužek, Miroslav Macek, Petr Mach, Jiří Rusnok, Michal Suchánek, Petr Štěpánek, Dušan Tříska, Emil Viklický, Jiří Weigl...

The well-known musicians (written inwards italics) were singing, too. This listing is champaign biased inwards favor of the people whom I know, specially inwards person. All the folks had to hold off inwards the draw of piece of work to wishing Václav Klaus. The queue has existed for to a greater extent than or less 3 hours inwards total.

Klaus has received lots of gifts including a 60-kilogram pie resembling iii books.

The participants were champaign non illustration of the Czech political views. Critics bring called the participants "polistopadová galerka" ([Post-November-1989] Criminal Underground or The Museum of Crime?) as well as asked whether Viktor Kožený, fugitive Czech living inwards the Bahama Islands (who earned a lot of coin through his "Harvard Funds"), attended every bit well. Well, I intend he couldn't but I guess he volition ship me some email virtually cutting-edge technology again, anyway. Also, Mr Kožený, I aspect some apology as well as an explanation why y'all didn't attend. ;-)

My approximate is that 6% of the participants could survive classified every bit Klaus' critics – they would charge per unit of measurement president Klaus with a negative sign. The calculation is analogous (and the resultant is the same) to Polchinski's calculation of the probability that the multiverse is physically incorrect (search for 94 inwards that article). You demand to halve 50% thrice. In the society, virtually 50% would survive anti-Klaus but: at the party, basically solely the companions were candidates for the negativeness (one ingredient of 1/2 or so), the anti-Klaus companions are underrepresented because of alternative effects (another ingredient of 1/2), a one-half of those anti-Klaus would-be companions haven't come upwards at all (the 3rd ingredient of 1/2). ;-) I needed to brand an approximate of the figure 6% because my companion could bring likely been counted into this fringe group.

So the 94% of us didn't bring a work at all with the speeches maxim that Václav Klaus was the most of import Czech homo from pretty much every honour etc. I write these things a flake jokingly because I am naturally against regime but I create concur that he's amazing as well as his contributions to the life of Czech Republic bring been profound.

Thank y'all again, Prof Klaus.