According to a study by sociologist Dana Hamplová, Czechs believe more in horoscopes than in heaven and hell, Právo reported. The young devil wants to sell his talent in the world championships, the daily introduced motorbiker Jakub Kornfeil. David Rath wrote a book evaluating his work as a Central Bohemian governor, Lidové noviny wrote on Friday. “Ecologists say the planet must be saved. Saved from what? From whom? I know one thing for sure: We must save it – and us – from them,” President Václav Klaus writes in his latest book. The Green Party announced they are not altogether against nuclear power plants, E15 noted. ČTK reported the Greens want to decriminalise marijuana, while E15 wrote that the party wants to introduce paternity leave.
>>>”We are the first club in Serbia that has said we won’t use knives. We are allowed to do anything else,” Serb football fan Zoran Timić, a supporter of Crvena Zvezda, said in Lidové noviny. ODS leader Mirek Topolánek was hit in the head by a rock at a beach in Hustopeče, the press reported Saturday.
>>>”I am disappointed he did not find the courage to accept the slippers but instead tried to hide behind his pregnant wife,” said Štěpán Dlouhý, who wanted to give ČSSD leader Jiří Paroubek a pair of slippers for his early retirement. “He did not run. He always walks fast,” Petra Paroubková said of her husband’s retreat from the slippers’ donors. The Karlovy Vary region fired goats it was pasturing on the grounds of the regional authority. The goats refused to eat the weeds and were constantly running away. The region has replaced them with sheep, MF Dnes reported Saturday. “What do you say about my wife? Isn’t she charming?” Ben Kingsley asked Právo on Monday. Prime Minister Jan Fisher spent his holiday alone with his wife.
>>>Politicians honoured the memory of victims of the 1968 occupation, Právo wrote Saturday. Press reported that Brno archaeology student Michal Doležel glued 30 toy tanks to the Red Army monument in Brno-Královo Pole in protest of the Soviet hammer-and-sickle symbol being placed on the renovated memorial. Thursday’s Právo invited visitors to visit to the military museum in Lešany for “tank day” on Saturday.
>>>”Janota acts on behalf of Janota not on behalf of ODS,” ODS MP Michal Doktor said in MF Dnes on Friday, speaking about Finance Minister Eduard Janota and the privatisation of Czech Airlines. “I do not want to be, excuse the language, perceived as a minister-idiot who sat there for a few months watching public finances going the wrong way and pretending nothing’s going on,” Janota told MF Dnes on Saturday. “Sometimes it seems to me that I am a big monster,” ČSSD leader Jiří Paroubek told Lidové noviny Saturday. Právo reported that the legendary Golem had appeared on Old Town Square. Igráček, a plastic action figure formerly produced in Czechoslovakia, will return to the market next spring.
>>>Czech Airlines head Radomír Lašák offered to resign if his pilots would accept salary cuts, press reported on Thursday. ODS responded to the record increase of the national debt by proposing MPs’ wages be determined by the size of the budget shortfall. Banks are relaxing proceedings against creditors, E15 reported Friday. Confidence in the Czech economy fell 0.8% in August, E15 wrote Wednesday. A study conducted by Swiss bank UBS indicates that Prague is cheaper than Bratislava, Hospodářské noviny reported Monday.
