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The political, familial, and trivial ramblings of a Canadian, expat, SAHM in Germany.
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Playboy apologises
Are you offended by this magazine cover? I am not. All I see is the typical Playboy cover; a suggestively clad woman with enough exposed skin to be scandalous, yet enough covered skin to be permissibly printed on the cover.I do not see the need for P...
A musical you don't want to miss!
Love it!See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die...
Democracy: US vs. Canada vs. Germany
But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist many other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign governments still long for a democr...
Comebacks to use this Thanksgiving
For those of you not looking forward to conversing with the "Righteous Right" during Thanksgiving, 236.com has taken it upon themselves to make sure you enter Thanksgiving equipped with a list of comebacks sure to put Obama haters back in their place...
Open to anything but sex
The Catholic Church is not always behind the times. In fact, it has a history of reversing aspects of its doctrine to keep up with the zeitgeist. It renounced usury in the 16th century, slavery in the 19th century and capital punishment in 1995. Whe...
And the fear-mongering continues...
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) fears a possible implementation of a “Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship” by President-elect Obama. It never ceases to amaze me how dominant the ultra-right’s obsessive-compulsiveness lets them v...
Gay Gay Gay
Gay TV All I seem to be running into this morning is news linked to homosexuality. A new gay television channel called Timm was launched last Saturday here in Germany. It struck me as odd that Germany, a country seemingly more accommodating towards i...
Obama won. Now what?
Now that I have had a couple of days to let the words “Obama is the President-elect” sink in, my feelings of elation have given way to those of concern and worry.Yes, Obama is the first African-American President of the US. I do not mean to detra...
Will the real John McCain please stand up?
I think he finally did last night, when he gave his concession speech. It is a shame we lost him when he accepted the Republican nomination. I highly doubt he expected to get pulled into a campaign as filthy as his turned out to be. I remember breat...
ACORN and the perils of the uninformed vote
Kaffeetrinken with my in-laws always comes with the guarantee of a fun-filled discussion about politics, religion, the economy and/or ethics. (Well, perhaps not always fun-filled, but definitely interesting and passionate.) Today’s get-together did...
Favourite Election '08 Videos
Here are a few funny Election '08 clips to help calm down the election day jitters:...
More from the Not-So-Straight-Talk-Express
During my midday news headline check I came across this headline from MSNBC that made me laugh: "McCain: Racism will barely affect election." Of course racism will not affect the election very much **end of sarcasm** - which is why it was made into ...
Lions and tigers and...
...pot smoking, gay loving Canadians! Oh my! (cartoon from mapleleafweb.com)...
Gay Nader Fans for Peace
Mr. Murphy and his law strike again. My mother-in-law took our older kids for the day to take some stress off of our shoulders, and what happens? I get sick. Ick. I did not get that nice (calm) stroll in the woods with Hubby and baby as we planned, ...
From the Canadian to the US Election (nur auf englisch)
I'm not happy with the result of the Canadian election. The first words to come to mind are "waste of time". All that money spent on an election that pretty much resulted in maintaining the status quo. It's a shame the Green Party did not win a seat ...
Conservatives Win and Colin Mochrie Apologises
No, Mochrie doesn't apologise for the election outcome. This day is just full of bad news and silly comparisons for me (and to top that off I think I caught the bug going around from my hubby) that I needed some cheering up.So for all of those mourni...
