people are funny when they are prejudgingsame kind of stupid bigot bull****
that explains why everyone thought
the blonds sitting at our new years eve table were german, though not one
word of german flowed from their drunken lips----- Original Message -----
From: "marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:22 PMSubject: Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF -
Pursuit of Happiness | New Year 2008 | German Chancellor's World> > "Frank
Kalder" <editor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message >
news:48148fa1-934f-4e96-890c-a60a081I have >
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> > > The Iowa vote this week.> > I
was
provided with some emails from old friends who are voting for Fred >
Thompson based on 2 reasons> > 1 for the fact that they believe he has the
most reagenlike economic > policies, and second because instead of
generalization, he has actually > already made real proposals> >
interesting
quotes> about globalizaton and about Angela> > Did the people in Europe
read
about the tiger that accidentally got out in > the California zoo?> IT's
still being debated.> > I will mention the DC zoo here. I may have talked
about it in the past when > Lester came to visit me a few summers ago,
I'll
mention here again based on > an even older visit to the DC before that,
with a coworker who retired just > this week, and whose whom I stayed at
when I visited Monticello.> > We were accompanied by her nephews who were
actually well behaved extremely > nice kids. Mostly> well behaved.> > the
dc zoo is not all that good. the exhibits are rather unnervingly> empty
in
the sense that it either means that the animals are getting> too
endangered
or too expensive> > ALthough they do have the famous panda couple who are
gifts from China.> > The gorilla house was very strange. Weird stuff was
the hammock in the > gorilla house. The zookeepers apologized> for the
place being untidy??? Because the gorilla living quarters were > strewn
with
toys. because the gorillas need toys. Not like you see out of > a real
toy
store, but things they could explore. So they don't get too > bored in
their living quarters. But> they didn't apologize for the hammock? That
was very very out of place.> There was one big gorilla lying on the floor
staring at the people> coming by and the ones that would tap on his glass,
he would toss his> head and look away. Just like a seven year old. Wants
to stare at everyone > or everything, but as soon as you notice them, they
hide behind their mom's > skirt.\\\> > the reptile house was the best with
the beautiful s****s> > You access the zoo at the Woodley Park DC station
which is towards the > northern end of the city. The grounds are HUGE.
Much acreage to cover. > Very tiring after an entire day's walk. So far
both times I have been have > been on the hottest day of the year. Ices
and
lemonade couldn't even make > it through the day> > The thing though I
liked
better than the animals was the plants. They have > beautiful grounds.
Most beautiful plant was the purple confronflower which > is the ecinacea>
>
The butterfly house was pretty sad not much of a selection> > mk5000> >
"one
of my most salient childhood memories involves the now defunct If You >
Had
Wings ride in Tommorowland at Disney World, which I lived just over an >
hour away from.> > Back when rides required tickets of varying degrees of
expense my sister and > I would make a beeline for "If You Had Wings," one
of the scant free rides > in the park. (I was also quite fond of the
People
Mover -- probably the most > boring ride ever conceived -- simply because
it
was free.)> > > The theme song for "If You Had Wings," sung by a choir of
celestial yet > cor****ate sounding voices (the ride was sponsored by
Eastern
Airlines, and > after that airline's demise, by Delta) became something of
a
standard for my > sister and me, and we probably drove my parents nuts on
the ride home with > our attempts to recreate >
it."--http://thingstocome.net/log/2002_10_01_archive.html>
> > >> M. K. ~
e-glob, Wa****ngton, DC>>> Frank Kalder ~ GLOBAL HAPLIFNET>> ~
http://haplifnet.blogspot.com
[US+EU Community]>> -
transatlantic daily ->>>>>>> . Pursuit of Happiness>>>> "Globalization is
neither a natural phenomenon nor simply the result>> of technical
advances.
It has been driven for centuries by peaceful>> trade and change. It is a
process that is politically desired and has>> been purposely accelerated
by
opening markets and creating>> international institutions. It then
received
an added boost with the>> disappearance of the Iron Curtain and the
arrival
of China and India>> in the global economy. Through their work and
aspirations, billions of>> people are furthering the process. Their
pursuit
of happiness is>> permeating and changing the world. ...">>
http://www.bundespraesident.de/en/-,5.640864/Berlin-Address-by-Federal-Pres.htm>>>>>>
.
New Year 2008>>>>> > ...>>> > Last year's final 'transatlantic daily'
update
....>>> > >>>> Back at ya.>>>>>> We spent New Years with a bunch of people
who were exceptional hosts and>>> guests. In a neighborhood in the
Northern
part of DC. A friend's cousin>>> just moved to the area. He and his
friends
play a game called >>> "Diplomacy".>>> They play in international
tournaments. The guests included some world>>> champions.>>>>>> It was
described to me as multilevel chess.>>> We did have some problems with
finding the place.>>> L'enfant the architect who designed the city did so
with the idea that >>> the>>> White House would be sort of like a fort,
and
if they had straight line>>> roads to the capitol, it would be easier for
the enemy to attack. So he>>> made a complicated city plan. Some say it is
very similar to Paris. He >>> may>>> have defended the city from invading
foot soldiers, but he made it>>> impossible to drive around here.>>>>>
It's
been a great start...>> __>>> "I've been saving up for a life like
this"--Sole, Selling Live Water>>>> . German Chancellor's World>>>>
Politics: for grown-ups only? No way, the Chancellor and her>> government
make policies for everybody in Germany.>>
http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BK/EN/For-kids/for-kids.html>>>>
"Surely
almost everybody knows the Chancellor. Not personally of>> course, but her
name, what she looks like and her particular manner of>> speaking. That is
because she appears on television so often. And>> because her picture is
always in all the newspapers. ...">>
http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BK/EN/For-kids/Chancellor/chancellor.html>>\
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