Well my parents are back at home safe and sound. I had a really good time with them. It was stressful at times but we all lived through it. Sometimes its hard to translate and still keep track of everything going. Here are a few pictures of the Weihnachtsmarkt in Hamburg:
An interesting article from The Nation about how the media influences elections and other aspects politics based on money instead of the issues. Kucinich is raising the issue. Article here:
“When Ted Koppel steered one of the most critical debates of the Democratic presidential contest toward horserace questions about endorsements, poll positions and fund raising, the host of ABC-TV’s Nightline inadvertently created an opening for a serious discussion about one of the most important issues in America today: media policy. And Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Dennis Kucinich has seized that opening with a vengeance. “
While my mom and dad are here in Germany my dad has managed to defy the rules of space and time and appear in his local paper. w00t! We are having lots of fun here. We have drunk lots of Glühwein and eaten lots of bratwurst. We’ve done quite a bit of keeping the Irish pub in business as well. We are all on a first name basis with Dan the bartender/waiter. I will have more details later.
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Last night I came home and had a slightly higher than usual blood alcohol level. I published a flurry of posts, two of which could have been construed as provoking the Secret Service and theatening members of the Bush family. I decided to edit the post combining the two, because together they would be really funny and wouldn’t actually invite so much trouble. So I copied the text and wanted to start editing them and opened BBEdit and realized that the 30 day demo was long over. Then M. asks, “Uh, aren’t you driving carpool today?” and I noticed it was 8:10 and I was supposed to be there at 8:00. So I lost the data I had on my clipboard and I had already deleted the entries. I could try to rewrite them but I don’t really remember what I wrote so it wouldn’t be funny anymore. It’s like…..a bummer.
In a nutshell, it was like this: A play on Jackie Gleason in “The Bandit” when he says to his son, “Junior, when we get home I’m gonna punch your mama in the mouth.” Imagine the 41st president talking to the 43rd and you get the picture. And then there was something about how after I published a joke about Dubya (near the bottom) there was a huge spike of hits to my website in the 2 days following that coming from the Washington DC/Virginia area. I joked about the Secret Service sweating me if I were to fly to America and posted this link.
See? it doesn’t seem like anything more than ramblings of someone who needs to adjust his tin-foil helmet. Bah!
BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT (free reg required)
Ummm, yeah right Ahhnold. Its good to be king. CNN it up
For those that care, I will show pictures of the CT blizzard soon enough. Ach mannnnnohh! Der Detlef und der Frank Zappa look-alike haben mich heute Abend schon fast umgebracht. Ich kann nicht so viel trinken wie früher, das sag ich dir….
alter schwede1 Achhh bläächhh!!!
