This is a serious case of oral diarrhea. Give Ralph some pepto-bismol and send him to bed (or even better, give me some pepto and send him to bed anyway).
Isn’t he getting too old for this?
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I posted a time ago about the Dove commercials. Back then I was sort of thinking, “Cool, Dove let’s you be a normal human being. Dove makes products for ’normal’ women. Maybe the beauty industry is starting to smarten up and become more atune to what’s really going on in today’s world. Maybe the beauty industry is becoming sensitive women’s real needs and the real needs of society. Maybe they are experiencing a sort of ethical moment. ”
In my own little naive way, I was, of course, wrong.
The beauty industry has learned nothing. They are not experiencing (and probably will never experience) any sort of ethical moment.
Look at these two clips from youtube. The first one is the famous Dove evolution commercial (dripping with moral righteousness) and the second one is from Greenpeace.
So is Dove really doing us a favour just because it advertises with middle-aged sagging women? The whole beauty industry, irrelevant how they advertise, is just plain sick.
Don’t you just get tired of all this? What is wrong with this world that women’s looks can become such a central topic and can cause such unbelievable damage (I won’t even start on animal testing)? I just don’t get it.
Give us a break.
Seen at Ed’s blog.
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I should be working. I’ve got a lot to do.
But I just got home from working with my all time favorite group; a group of intelligent, sensitive, fun, interesting women. We spend our time together talking about any and everything. As David once astutely observed (after having read a vocabulary list from one of our weekly sessions), “Ihr habt ja gar keinen roten Faden” (You guys don’t have a central theme).
Right, David. We don’t. And that’s the wonderful thing about it. We don’t. We talk about God and the world. And everything in between.
Today, towards the end of our session we got to talking about current news and some of the more painful happenings in our quaint little world tucked away here in the Alps. We touched on a subject too frightening and too painful to even comprehend.
I don’t want to get into anything specific here because the national and international journalists (I’m using this term very loosely here) are getting enough mileage from it without my help.
But current affairs do bring up a subject that does beg discussion - the subject of victimization. Specifically, the victimization of women and children.
Victimization seems fairly cut and dried to me. You have the criminal and then you have the victim. The criminal is the perpetrator and the victim is the one perpetrated upon (so to speak).
Seems simple enough. But it’s not.
It’s not because some very sick part of society wants desperately to somehow blame the victim for what has befallen her. Why, for God’s sake, didn’t she do something about it? Why didn’t she just escape or something. Why did she ALLOW this to happen to her in the first place (I’m not even going to start a tirade on skirts being too short or too much make up). Any normal person would have planed and executed a cunning escape. No normal person would have been intimidated enough to allow such victimization.
It’s all so terribly easy, from an intellectual standpoint. Women are so damn weak. Get it together, girls. Pull yourself up by your pubic hairs. (Just goes to show you that we need more gumption, more guts, more ummph.)
Our society helps to create the victim. Our society helps women and children to slip into the revolting pattern of victimization; the belief that yes, we are somehow at fault. The belief that men know better. The belief that we are indeed somehow weaker; inferior to our counterparts.
And yes, once in the pattern of victimization, it is damned hard to get out.
I’m sure there are lots of people out there much more qualified than I to talk about the psychological aspects of victimization and the reasons behind it. And there are also lots of women out there who have been victims and who now are able to look back at terrible, unspeakable happenings and can speak volumes about tyranny, oppression, aggression, power, patriarchism, authoritarianism, fear, paralyzation, impotence and self-hate.
I too have been a victim.
Although I have always strived to make as little as possible of my private life public (as little as is possible for a person who is as publicly accessible as I am), I’d like to briefly mention my own private hell. My own private inadequacies, how I ALLOWED myself to become a victim.
I was stalked for over two years by a jilted lover.
I spent two years of my life living in terror and being a victim. I spent two years of my life watching a man drive ahead of me (not behind me) to work, two years of my life getting hundreds of phone calls per day (and night), two years of my life being afraid of going home in the dark, two years practicing with my child how not to go with anybody, not even with those you know and believed you trusted, two years of emotional prison. And I ALLOWED it to happen, because I was afraid and somehow believed that it was my own fault. I finally got help, and the courage to stop the tyranny of a very small man with very large priapic problems. I finally was able to stop being a victim. (Yes, the man who did this to me is still reading up on me in internet and is certainly reading this post. I know because I keep tabs on him and his IP address. So hello, dear RG. I am no longer your victim, and I am no longer afraid of you).
I realize that this is small beans in comparison to what has been going on here in our charming little country of bourgeois lawn tenders (and in comparison to that which is happening around us every day, both hidden and public).
But it certainly does give me a breathtakingly close perspective.
I am not a feminist. I am a humanist. I am a believer in the importance and value of every person; woman or man. And it is here that this belief and the everyday practices of society diverge.
We can’t allow this to continue. We have got to learn to say no to authoritarian patriarchies. We have got to learn to say no to aggression and oppression.
We have got to teach our daughters (and ourselves) that they (we) are strong, that they (we) have an innate value and worth and that nobody has the right to oppress, tyrannize and victimize them (us).
Here are some good links. Read them, but be aware that their language is not quite as sweet as mine. So if you’re under 18 or terribly sensitive, skip ‘em.
I blame the patriarchy
BitchPhD
Stop the victimization of women and children dead in its tracks.
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She was down, but not out. Hilary took the Pennsylvanian primary, what a surprise. She still hasn’t overtaken Obama’s lead, but she’s working at it.
Here’s how it stands:
Obama: 1,694
Hilary: 1,556
Needed to win: 2,025
It’s a close race, more exciting than the Euro 2008 (but then, cold morning oatmeal is more exciting than that), and it will still take a while until it’s over. We have 13 days until NC and IN, so let’s keep watching.
I’ve been terribly busy the last days (good) and haven’t had time to blog (bad), but I just had to throw this quickie in.
For all of you who think that I have a short temper (admittedly, sometimes I can get in a bit of a snit about things that others foolishly qualify as insignificant), have a look at this (watch carefully at 00:33):
He beat himself bloody. And then he won. :-)
I was out riding with my good friend Justi this morning and we got to talking about our usual topics.
We started talking about horses (naturally) and how incredibly wonderful they are (especially ours) and how unbelievably lucky we are to be able to ride out on such wonderful mounts (sigh) on such a sunny morning (sigh again).
After we killed that subject (it took a while) we got into English and whether the word healthily exists or not (I couldn’t find it in Websters on-line, but I did find it in dictionary.com, and I googled it with lots of references, so it is used, but I don’t think I personally have ever used it. I suppose I would say in a healthy way, or just healthy, and forget the adverb.)
Talking about English lead directly to how hard it is to learn Slovene (which it is) and all the problems associated with body parts and language.
Then we slid directly into the American presidential election and how entertaining it is - much more so than any other presidential election before. But how often do you get a black and a woman running for the oval office. Just too exciting, if you ask me.
I’m sure that most interested Americans and non-Americans alike already have “favorites” in the race. We’ve all compared (more or less) the candidate’s standpoint on the various issues, for example here from your’s truly, or here from CNN, or here is a summary of the issues for the major candidates Hillary, Obama, Huckabee (sorry, it’s always wikipedia, but it’s so darn quick, even if it’s not always as consistent and correct as we might like - you can find the rest there too, if you’re interested). And we’ve all found that the one or other candidate is closest to our own views.
But will we actually vote for that candidate? Just because he or she holds beliefs that are closest to our own? Oh, I doubt it.
We’ll vote for the candidate we like best - for whatever reason that might be. Accept it. Life’s a popularity contest. When you’re hot, you’re hot. When you’re not, you’re not.
Have you taken the Implicit Association Test yet?
Give it a try, you may prefer a different candidate from the one you actively endorse. Who knows how that will reflect on your voting behaviour, but it’s a great way to waste some time in internet.
I found the link all over the place. Here at Bitch, PhD (who, by the way, is generally an interesting read), and then again at Pandagon (a well-read blog), and yet again here at Blog of the Moderate Left (and for you German speakers, go one post higher and you can see the German word Schadenfreude used in English - so I wasn’t lying when I said that we do that some times) and again at Utne blogs.
I won’t tell you who I prefer, but the test came out like I thought it would - but not like I thought it would 6 months ago.
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I was perusing Pink Tentacle this morning and I found an interesting item.
Seems a bank robbery took place in the Ladprao branch of the Government Savings Bank (GSB) in Bangkok last week. An unidentified thief absconded with 200,000 Baht (according to the conversion chart of Bank Austria, that’s about 3,952.57 Euros, or 5,640.32 Dollars, which wouldn’t be enough for me to want to rob a bank, but that’s another story altogether).
Now, I can’t really tell you exactly how the robbery took place (see for yourself), but I can imagine that it was very arresting (excuse the pun) for the other bank customers. It’s not every day that you get to be involved in a bona fide bank robbery, especially when you weren’t expecting it (but then again, who in the world would? One generally doesn’t wake up in the morning with the intention of being witness to a riveting bank robbery, does one?).
At any rate, and to continue my story; unfortunately for the bank robber and fortunately for the police, there were eyewitnesses. Fortunately for the bank robber and unfortunately for the police, he was wearing a motorcycle helmet at the time of the robbery.
The witnesses duly reported what they saw and the Royal Thai Police have released a sketch to aid in his capture.
Admittedly, it may be difficult to identify the culprit from this sketch, but at least they’re following all the leads, bless their little hearts.
I guess we can’t say the same for the Austrian Police, who evidently didn’t do their best for 10 year old Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped in 1998 and wasn’t heard of again until her escape in 2006. According to press, reports containing concrete suspicions about Wolfgang Priklopil (her kidnapper) remained unread and her whereabouts unknown until she took advantage of the moment one fine day and saved herself (if you want something done right, then do it yourself).
Well, it just goes to show you - the (Austrian) police is indeed your friend and helper (but only if you’re a criminal).
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I found this great video here. This is excellent, uplifting, motivating. It really gives me the feeling that anything is possible.
Yes, I do believe we can.
Florida behind us and the race continues. Possible election scenarios flying around blog-sphere. Giuliani’s out. Edward’s out. Will their endorsements up-end expected outcomes, or solidify existing advantages?
Who will get the dem nomination? (Here some thoughts about Hillary, Florida and 210 delegates looking for a summer job)
Sigh.
Will the dems have the strength to beat McCain? Does it really matter who wins (the will-anything-really-change-problem), or is this just fun writing for the press and bored bloggers.
I’m afraid we could be gearing up for the election for the lesser of two evils. Or shall I say the evil of two lessers? :-)
Doug is having trouble with this thought, too.
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The American elections are fascinating this year (more so than usual, mind you).
A woman.
A black.
Unbelievable.
And this in conservative America. Who would have thought it possible.
And now Super Tuesday is creeping up on us.
What’s Super Tuesday, you might ask. And why is it so important?
Super Tuesday is the day when the greatest number of American states hold their primary elections. More delegates can be won on Super Tuesday than on any other single day of the primaries, and candidates seeking the presidency normally need to do well on this day, in order to secure their party’s nomination (democrat and republican).
This year Super Tuesday falls on February 5. 24 states will hold primaries or caucuses on this day, with 52 percent of all pledged democratic delegates and 41 percent of the total republican delegates at stake.
So basically, this will be a very important day for the outcome of the primaries. And that, in turn, will naturally have a very large impact on the outcome of the 2008 American presidential election.
The competition in the democratic corner is fierce. Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. Which one will win? Obama did great in Iowa and really showed Hillary a thing or two. But that was short lived and, as many expected, Hillary took over the lead (The tears did it - got her the women’s vote. You just gotta love a lady who can get emotional about things).
What’s going to happen now though, with South Carolina behind us and Obama up and going strong. Is he strong enough to beat Hillary?
Is he strong enough to beat any republican candidate? Is Hillary? Is anybody?
Is America ready for change? Have things gotten bad enough, or does it have to get worse?
Here is an interesting post - talks a bit about hubby Bill jumping into the race (Oh, just stay out of it Bill. Go find yourself a nice intern to play with.).
How about the election scorecards according to CNN. Here the dems and here the republicans.
What do you think? Which democrat is strong enough to actually win the election (a woman? a black?) - I’m not talking just about the primaries here. Which one has the strength to win in November - in a race against a republican candidate?
Does either one have a real chance, or is this whole election thing just something fun to watch, but won’t change the direction America is going in.
I really do wonder if change is possible.
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Hmmmm. Will anything really change?
Found here
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You simply must have already heard that the super bowl is coming up. Now, I’m not a great football fan and haven’t seen a game since my high school days (at an age where being in the stands was just as athletic as being on the field), but that old super bowl can really pull a crowd.
Here are some interesting facts:
The California Avocado Commission reports Americans eat 8 million pounds of guacamole on Super Bowl Sunday, more than any other day of the year (I hope they don’t eat as many beans).
More drivers are involved in alcohol-related accidents on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year except St. Patrick’s Day, according to the Insurance Information Institute (gotta love those Irish).
There are more parties thrown on Super Bowl Sunday than New Year’s Eve, according to Hallmark.
There are fewer weddings that weekend than any other (we all have priorities…).
9 of the 10 most watched TV programs of all-time are super bowls (again those priorities).
And let’s not forget that special super bowl commercial. It’s a very high profile time slot and advertisers take these 30 seconds very seriously (2.6 million dollars worth of advertising money).
Take a look at this one, it’s one of my favorites (from 2003).
And don’t forget to watch the super bowl - if you like football. Otherwise just try to get a look at the commercial - it’s really worth it (you can find it afterwards in youtube, then you don’t have to bother watching the game - that’s my method). If you’re a die hard or want to learn more, then here’s a post, and here if you like to cook too, and here is an interesting post connecting the winner of the super bowl and economic growth (we can get into that later).
Now this is excitement. Did you expect this to happen? I sure didn’t. Hilary hasn’t given up yet. The rest of the primaries are going to be great.
The winds of change are blowing…
Here I am, sitting around at home watching the ice melt.
We had an incredible ice storm last night that left my driveway and the sidewalk slick as hell. I had to sort of skate over to the car (probably looking like a drunk spastic with stiff knees), but I decided to drive to the gas station to get some salt anyway.
I didn’t want any old ladies killing themselves in front of my house (would ruin my whole day of peace).
So, now I’m sitting here basking in the glow of good citizenship, drinking a tea, and hammering away at my brand new keyboard (which is attached to my brand new laptop. Brag, brag, brag, …)
I don’t know how you feel about the American primaries, but I need to arrange and organize some of my thoughts, Iowa being behind us and all. Let’s run through the major candidates once, shall we? Just to sort of take stock of who supports what and who opposes the other thing, as it were.
rep. Mitt Romney: (currently 44% delegate total)
Born March 12, 1947 (old). Was the governor of Mass. from 2002 to 2006. Before that he was head of the Salt lake City Olympic Organizing Committee (very sporty). Former bishop and stake president in his church (strong church ties are always good republican qualities).
Issues:
Neutral on women’s right to have an abortion
Opposes gay marriage
Neutral on universal health care
Neutral on idea that global warming is human caused
Supports the death penalty
Opposes increased taxes for the wealthiest
Opposes setting withdrawal timetable for Iraq
rep. Mike Huckabee: (currently 34% delegate total)
Born August 24, 1955. Was governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. Before that he was a Southern Baptist minister (keep the church thing in mind). Is known for losing 110 pounds (!) and advocating a healthy lifestyle (sounds sportier than Romney, possibly anti-McDonald’s).
Issues:
Opposes women’s right to have an abortion
Opposes gay marriage
Opposes universal health care
Neutral on idea that global warming is human caused
Supports the death penalty
Opposes increased taxes for the wealthiest
Opposes setting withdrawal timetable for Iraq
rep. Fred Thompson: (currently 10% delegate total)
Born August 19, 1942 (very old). Was Tennessee senator from 1994 to 2002 (like oh so many). Before that he was an actor (stage experience is always positive). He announced his candidacy on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. (Sounds like a good basis for the American presidency)
Issues:
Opposes women’s right to have an abortion
Opposes gay marriage
Opposes universal health care
Opposes idea that global warming is human caused
Supports the death penalty
Opposes increased taxes for the wealthiest
Opposes setting withdrawal timetable for Iraq
dem. Hilary Clinton: (currently 56% delegate total)
Born on October 26, 1947. New York senator since 2000. Married to Bill Clinton (and basically already had to run the country once). Was named one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991 (and probably gets the female vote).
Issues:
Supports women’s right to have an abortion
Opposes gay marriage
Supports universal health care
Supports idea that global warming is human caused
Supports the death penalty
Supports increased taxes for the wealthiest
Supports setting withdrawal timetable for Iraq
dem. Barack Obama: (currently 22% delegate total)
Born on August 4, 1961 (definitely a date-able age, this handsome young man). Illinois senator since 2004 (what’s this senator thing?). Is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. History (distinctly taking the black vote).
Issues:
Supports women’s right to have an abortion
Opposes gay marriage
Supports universal health care
Supports idea that global warming is human caused
Supports the death penalty
Supports increased taxes for the wealthiest
Supports setting withdrawal timetable for Iraq
dem. John Edwards: (currently 16% delegate total)
Born June 10, 1953. North Carolina senator from 2000 to 2004 (ho-hum, seems to be a popular part of the bio of any good presidential candidate). Was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 (so what?)
Issues:
Supports women’s right to have an abortion
Opposes gay marriage
Supports universal health care
Supports idea that global warming is human caused
Supports the death penalty
Supports increased taxes for the wealthiest
Supports setting withdrawal timetable for Iraq
So, what does all this mean?
As I see it, America seems to be stuck with the death penalty, no matter what (hopefully not for illegally married gays, who also don’t seem to have good prospects in the near future). The democrats are all pretty pro-abortion and the republicans aren’t (now there’s something new). If you are pro universal health care, then go democrat. If you’re rich, go republican (really?). The democrats are getting the hell out of Iraq and the republicans are staying. The dems seem to think we can change global warming and the republicans are planning a barbecue.
I wonder how the rest of the primaries will go…
Just in case my synopsis doesn’t help you much, try this one. It compares the candidates to stocks, like John Edwards to McDonald’s and Mike Huckabee to Chick-Fil-A (despite his healthy turn).
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This is really strange. It’s amazing to see the activities people spend their free time with, or what some people do when they’re bored. (And equally amazing how many people will watch them doing it, naturally not including myself). Never accuse me again of doing unusual or odd things. There are people out there who are even worse…
How frustrating! I have tried several times to leave comments on and send trackbacks to the real Dichand blog, but they never make the “cut”. I wouldn’t have expected censor from a newspaper editor!
Hey, Mr. Dichand, isn’t that the point behind blogging - free exchange of information. Hmmm. Something’s wrong here…
Curious.
Hans Dichand started blogging. (He’s the editor of the Austrian tabloid Krone Zeitung -I couldn’t find anything about him in wikipedia in English, so you’ll just have to put up with some German.)
Well, you say, that’s no new news. And true, most Austrians have, by this time, already heard that. Perhaps even those of us who don’t blog.
But have you heard how many Hans Dichands are blogging?
At last count there were two of them (this figure could rise).
Exciting, huh?. We now not only have the opportunity to get a deeper understanding of his views by reading the Krone, but we can also wade through his blog and the blog of his double (which I prefer, personally).
Judging from the real HD’s reaction, I don’t think he’s all that happy about being parodied. Frankly though, I think somebody is paying him much more attention than he needs.
If he’s lucky, he’ll even make the front page of the Krone - bold 64 point type.
…
By the way, for all of you who are trying to learn German, this is a great learning tool. The sentences in the Krone are short and simple enough to be easily read even by non-German speakers. You will, however, have to excuse the typos, incorrect grammar and content.
What’s with the story about the Austrian woman, her daughter and the deceased rabbit?
I don’t know if you pay attention to stuff like this, but I just couldn’t get around this one. According to, ahhh, ehhhmm, news sources (also here, or even in a foreign language) and several blogs, there was an interesting incident in Baden the other day.
According to reports, the pet bunny of a certain Hilda Morgenstein passed away of unknown causes. She (Hilda) and her daughter decided, it seems, to bury the lifeless hare in the countryside. With the expired bunny in a bag, they purportedly were waiting for a train to take them to an undisclosed place to do just that.
(We, of course, all know the crime rate around here and it’s implications for travelers. Hilda and her daughter, however, did not.)
As they were waiting, dead-bunny-bag in hand, a pair of muggers allegedly took advantage of the moment and made off with said bag. (Weren’t they surprised when they saw the “loot”).
Hilda, evidently deciding not to complicate the situation further, told her daughter that they were angels and were taking the departed bunny to a better place.
….
This just has to remind you of the famous story of some family on vacation in Turkey, whose Grandmother dies (with them, on vacation). In order to avoid a bureaucratic nightmare, they roll her up in a rug (bought specifically for this purpose) and tie her to the roof of the car and begin the journey home. Whilst on a coffee and/or potty break the car, rug and the defunct Grandmother are all stolen. (Angels took her to a better place?)
Have we all gone daft?
My now Canadian friend Petra sent me a great link that I’d like to share. It’s all about learning English and preventing hunger.
It’s a great way to increase your vocabulary, and at the same time, fight hunger.
The way it works is that it starts giving you words at different levels and then assigns you a starting level according to what you knew and what you didn’t know. Your level adjusts as you play. If you get a word wrong, you go down a level; if you get three words right, you go up a level. I’d tell you my level, but naturally, I don’t want to ruin anybody’s fun. ;-)
Where does the rice part come in?
Well, by playing the vocabulary game you earn rice, 10 grains at a time. The rice is paid for by the advertisers at the bottom of the vocabulary page. The rice itself is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program, which is the world’s largest food aid agency. FreeRice itself runs the website on a non-profit basis.
According to the FAQs, 25,000 people die of hunger or hunger related causes each and every day, most of them children. So, by playing the vocabulary game and trying to beat my level (which is much higher than you can imagine), you can help millions of volunteers fight to end world hunger (although I certainly do not want to insinuate that by merely playing this game you are doing your part - that would be wildly naive and downright wrong).
And, seen from a terribly practical side, you can improve your chances of not writing a letter like Gorbach’s (sadistic guffawing in the background).
Let me know what level you reach … (and yes, I also mean you, Nikk)
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There are lots of posts going around right now concerning the word “Ami”. Is it a derogatory term - when used to describe a US-American citizen? Here, and here, and here …
I don’t think it is just about the word “Ami”. What about the name “Kraut” for Germans, or “Jap” for Japanese, “Beaners” for Mexicans, or “Itaker” for Italians (used here in Austria), or many others (I can’t think of any more, or I could think of some that are used here in Austria, but I can’t spell them, so I won’t use them).
I honestly don’t think most people like to be referred to using a word denoting the country of their origin. I think their name is probably much nicer and more personal. Using such words is always a tad derogatory. All of them call to mind the many stereotypes associated with each ethnic group or nationality and using them automatically propagates those beliefs (positive or negative) and increases racism.
Now I don’t really want to turn this into a post about racism (here an good post from Bettina about that subject) but the connection between such terms and racism is a quick one for me and in an international environment like we have now, perhaps it is wise to avoid emphasising racial, ethnic or national backgrounds and instead concentrate on the person.
What do you think?
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I read this lovely post by Paul this morning. It’s amazing how little some people know about the world (and triangles for that matter).
It reminds me of Mikro Mann (I think that that was what he was called) on the radio here in Austria . He would go out on the street and ask people stupidly easy questions and he would generally get unbelievably stupid answers (at least they only broadcast the stupid answers, otherwise it’s no fun).
Here’s the video again, just to make it easier:
Your shoulders are created to be exactly as wide as the burden you are to carry. For some, that burden is no burden at all, but a reason to hold their shoulders high.
This man’s shoulders are as wide and high as the world.
I know it looks like I’m getting political again, but honestly I’m not.
I just sort of read this post the other day which has a link to an online cartoon strip about Bill Clinton’s cat Socks, and Georg W. Bush’s dog Barney.
Now, like I said, I’m not getting political, because I really don’t care much about politics,
but it’s drawn quite well.
Hey, now I don’t really want to get political here, but I’ve found a fun site for those of us who are sweating the 2008 American presidential election.
This is great fun. You can play around with prioritizing issues and come up with all sorts of possible candidates who purport similar belief systems.
I did it too and although I don’t want to tell you which candidate and I share the most beliefs, I can tell you that Duncan Hunter and I won’t be yahooing it up at wild parties any time too soon.
If you’re wondering who the hell Duncan Hunter is, then I suggest you try this little quiz too.
I am a tad disappointed that we don’t have a site like this for Carinthian politics…
Hey, have you read the news? Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize!
Good going, Al (et al)!
Have you seen his film An Inconvenient Truth? Wow, that was one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen. Despite claims that there are several (11?) inaccuracies in the film, it’s still one of the most moving documentary/films on the subject of climate change.
And what else is new with our pal Al? Well, it looks like there’s a bunch of people behind him trying to persuade him to run in the 2008 presidential election. Sounds like this US election could turn out to be the most exciting thing since sliced bread.
I don’t know about you, but I’m keeping my eye on Al. I want to see what else he’s up to these days…
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