Please don't feed the trolls!
I was a high school exchange student in the 1970s in Berlin and still have very strong ties to the families I lived with and with people I went to school with. I would be interested in hearing about comparisons to New York City, in that Berlin has the reputation of being the New York of Germany. I hope you enjoy the great city!
Have a great time!
Oooh! Deep jealousy! I haven't been to Berlin since '89 when it was still, more or less, two cities. If you're feeling like some cultcha, do go see the bust of Nefertiti in the Altes Museum - one of the very great things in the world.
And do (as if you need prompting) seek out and report on some SallyBowlesische Divine Decadence for us...
Bon Voyage!
Enjoy Folsom Europe, then!
Es macht nichts. Ich wunsche du ein gute Woche.
My highschool German suffers memory degradation as well...
Yes, if you go to onr museum, the Egyptian Museum is wonderful.
Your Palin meter just broke. She just smashed it.
Have a good time! Although you should definitely cover this story if you have the time:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn...ing-palin-pick/
Wonderful! You must try Luki Luki, off Nollendorfplatz. Great food and drag queen waitresses and buff bikini boy bartenders.
I've always wanted to go to Berlin!
Of course, I never go anywhere. Maybe Berlin, NJ on a good weekend.
Have a great time!
Have a great time.
Bring us back some Black Forest Kirschwasser. 
have a great trip, joe!
Nobama...what does this have to do with Falin'?
Really....your rants are becoming tiresome in a one note sort of way.
Who is the lucky man taking care of Shelly?
"being a mayor is like a community organizer. except that you have ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITIES." - Sarah Palin
Mmm, hot german men, have a great time Joe!
Anti-Obama posters: Could you at least contain your comments to political posts? Some of us are trying to avoid the arguing.
I loved Berlin when I was there a few years ago!
Advice:
Get a bike. It's a great way to see the city and cover a lot of territory, it's a very bike friendly city.
Don't cross against the light despite the time of day or lack of traffic. "It sets a bad example for the children"
Bike out to Lake Wanssee, it's a nice ride, is't cool to see what they call suburbs and there's a nice nude beach on the lake.
Have fun.
sarah palin's future son-in-law has incredible posture and sublime ass muscles 
@ david: what's to argue about sweetie? it's the truth.
Ich bin total neidisch. Besorgt Euch jeder eine Wochenkarte fuer die U-Bahnen und Strassenbahnen, Berlin hat prima oeffentliche Verkehrsmittel. Luki Luki (see Mark's) ist ein super Tip, ich weiss nur nicht ob es das noch gibt. Besorgt Euch eins von den kostenlosen Schwulen-magazinen (Siegessaeule)und guckt im Kalenderteil nach Partys, Ausstellungen etc, die Euch interessieren. Viel Spass im Tiergarten, und damit meine ich nicht den Zoo . Fuer Besichtigungen empfehle ich den Reichstag, das Brandenburger Tor, neben dem Hotel Adlon wo Michael Jackson sein Baby vom Balkon geworfen hat. Die Museumsinsel mit Kathedrale, das Regierungsviertel, das Sony-center und natuerlich die Gedaechtniskirche am Kurfuerstendamm.
Did I mention that I'm totally jealous.
Have fun
Oh, und wenn Ihr noch mehr Palaeste sehen wollt macht einen Tagesausflug nach Potsdamm.
WOW!
The number of bottoms in Manhattan just sank like Obama's poll numbers!!!
Ich kann Cheeseburger
Have fun boys...
"Ich bin ein berliner" means "I am a donut (or a particularly popular form of pastry)." Yes, Kennedy got it wrong, too.
Easyjet, German Wings and Air Berlin offer super cheap flights from Berlin to dozens of cities in Europe. Brussels, $30. Paris about the same.
Munich, if you have not been, is a wonderful city with an awesome gay scene.
send my special love to all the boys and have a great trip.
Careful David...the political trolls will threaten you with bodily harm!
They have no sense of decorum, and it's tough typing with the web hands they have.
It's fabulous!
@ hell's kitchen guy
I think Joe is saying he's a muffin (stud, that is!)
But actually, the "jelly doughnut" thing is a bit of an urban legend. When I was in Germany, to be called a Berliner was not a positive as people from Berlin were consider rude, spoke to fast and thought too much of themselves.
I love Berlin! How ironic that he would go to Berlin to miss our own little Nuremburg rally and the speech of America's new neoNazis in St. Paul!
You should adopt the tagline on that poster for your blog: classy service with heart!
Actually, the only phrase I can remember is:
"Entschuldigung, bitte. Nein sprechen Sie Deutsch" Which I was told means "I'm sorry, but I don't speak German".
It probably really says something like I want to be topped by a German.
Have fun. I was in Berlin in 1989 when the wall was still up. I remember walking for blocks along the wall looking at all the art on it. Amazing. I also recall that I bought (long before the internet) the most extreme porn mags I had ever seen and looked at but did not buy even more outrageous stuff that makes the 2 cup girls looks amateurish (how about fat naked grandmothers being fucked in the cunt by real dogs in cinematic colour close up -- or the gummi shit men -- mind blowingly sick!. By the way I had more porn than clothes in my one little bag and trudged that treasure all the way to Morocco and back and no one checked my bag!!! Those were the days.
Make sure to wear white socks with your Birkenstock sandals -- if they still do that. Auf weidersehen, Herr Joe.
Have fun, Joe.
Here's how I imagine a conversation with Nobama, chgophilly or chubbyhubby is like these days:
Co-worker: So did you see the game last night?
Nobama/chgophilly/chubby: Palin really knocked it out of the park!
CW: Who? No, did you see the ball game last night?
NCC: She has much more experience than Obama.
CW: Um...Yeah. Whatever. Say, do you have that budget ready for the proposal we need to submit to the client?
NCC: Her family is private. I don't see why the media elites can't respect that.
CW: Are you feeling OK?
NCC: I think she really connects with the people on a personal level.
CW: Right....Are you on crack?
LOL! @ Little David (very good!) chapter two/second installment/series?
Sounds very exciting, have fun. I've always have something for those big and tall German men.
Make sure to go to Cafe Fatal on sunday night. It's in SO 36, formerly the stomping grounds of the eighties punk scene. Now it hosts one of the nicest parties in Berlin on a sunday.
@chgophilly - One of her former co-PTA moms tells us all about her "responsibilities":
"During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.
"Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
"The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing."
If you'd like to read the entire history of her political life, you can go to:
http://www.andrewtobias.com/newc...mns/
080904.html
Sorry my computer won't make that a hyperlink so it would be easy for you to follow; you'll have to copy and paste. My bad.
Hey Joe have a wonderful time, those Germans love to be speaking the English for their Ameircan friends...you'll do just fine. Now, before the wall came down there was sort of a bahnhof but for subway cars; it was above ground were U-bahns became S-bahns. Anyway the sucker was closed because the wall stopped the train route. So those Berliners parked wonderful old train cars and loaded them with antiques and flea market treasures. It's gone now I assume, but something has taken its place...go flea market shopping. Also remember that Hitler loved the greeks, so he brought to Berlin alot from Athens and the Greek Islands. museums!
I'm in Bryce canyon today. Lots of German being spoke around here. They Germans love are Western National Parks. Most of the desk staff are from Germany.
was in Berlin for 5 days last year. what a great city with fine museums and also great turkish neighborhoods and restaurants. oh yeah--so gay.
haben sie eine grosse schawanze mein herr?
LOL @ LD comment. the homosexual imagination is indeed a fabulous gift.
I'd be curious to know if Ficken 2000 was still in business. It seemed like one of those places that might change its name as millenial enthusiasm diminished, but given that it's a gay club, the resonances of the name might simply shift.
I got the email that Calpete quotes from exensively - it also stated that one could forward it all you liked, but please don't post it on websites because the author was worried about crazies. I thought that this was weird, although a good deal less weird than Palin's idea that going after Obama's lack of experience is a good strategy. After all, if she's Mavericky McMaverick, her track record means nothing because she'll do whatever she wants, right? Otherwise she would not be a Maverick.
I was in Berlin this March for 5 days and had a blast. I'm sure you will too. Most Germans speak English and Berliners in particular still like Americans for saving their asses during the Berlin Blockade when the Wall went up. The food airlift planes were called rosinenbomber (raisin bombers) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai...Raisin_bombers)
. Have a good trip!
I've been to berlin twice--a few months after the wall came down and then several years later. Two memories--great bakeries and konditerrie and a lack of patience for Americans fumbling with their high school German. the bauhaus Museum is great if you appreciate design. Say "Hi" to Knut the cute polar bear at the Zoo.
"being a mayor is like a community organizer. except that you have ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITIES." - Sarah Palin
chgophilly | 09.04.08 - 9:03 am | #
Weren't America's Founding Fathers Community Organizers?
Wow Michael....Bryce Canyon is one of my favorite places on earth. I spent summers on my uncle's farm in Hurricane.
Zion's close by too. I need to get back out there soon. It must be hotter than hell though.
wtf?? you're all of a sudden in fucking germany???
checking out the expat scene in anticipation of the coming election debacle?
as for postings being light, i think you're just slacking.
aaron has proven himself highly capable of keeping us informed while he's on his monthly global jaunts.
you can at least take photos of morning espresso.
or pepsi, coke. wev. just take pictures, at least. show us joe & co. in germany.
ich bin so eifersuchtig, denn ich liebe berlin soviel.
gute reise, und beeile dich zuruck. wir warten auf dich.
Warum gahen Sie yetzt nach Berlin?
Johannes
Do us a favor and post occasional pictures of your handsomeness! WOOF @JMG.
What?????!!!!!!! Ich bin ganz neidisch!!!!!!
Ich glaube auch that a baseball cap pegs you as ein Tourist from 200m away.
Oooh girrrl, the home of Cazzo!
Just got finished with Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept- be careful over there!
"I'm in Bryce canyon today. Lots of German being spoke around here. They Germans love are Western National Parks. Most of the desk staff are from Germany."
Most of the interpretive staff SPEAK GERMAN. Unless you're only interning, you can't work for the Federal Gov't. if you're not a U.S. national.
It's taxpayer money and it stays STATESIDE.
As an employee, you have to show your birth certificate or passport when being hired and sworn in. These Germans may also work for the non-profit NGO, the bookseller association.
John Kennedy said "I am a small doughnut" - you have to learn how to say "I have a large weiner".
Just got finished with Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept- be careful over there!
Oy. Now there a hack book if there ever was one. I hope anyone who reads that book does a little in-depth fact checking themselves. Good grief.
@Georgie:
Ich habe eine grosse schwanz
who is minding shelley?
Have fun! If you need inspiration on things to see, I was just in Berlin myself, and here are my photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Crai.../
BerlinJuly2008
-Craig
Here's how I imagine a conversation with Nobama, chgophilly or chubbyhubby is like these days:
Co-worker: So did you see the game last night?
Nobama/chgophilly/chubby: Palin really knocked it out of the park!
CW: Who? No, did you see the ball game last night?
NCC: She has much more experience than Obama.
CW: Um...Yeah. Whatever. Say, do you have that budget ready for the proposal we need to submit to the client?
NCC: Her family is private. I don't see why the media elites can't respect that.
CW: Are you feeling OK?
NCC: I think she really connects with the people on a personal level.
CW: Right....Are you on crack?
NCC: no, but if you'll excuse me, I'm going to shake it while evisioning Sarah pegging Johnny Flaccid-Ass.
CW: Well, here's a sock to squirt it in.
Wissen Sie dass Ihre Zeitung gedreht ist?
psych!
lol @ Rabid Child! Am I the only one that checked if that was really today's paper?
Joe, you're sooooooo near me now, won't you stop by and say hello?
Ach! Das wasser ist ice kalt!
It's easy Joe. I was there in 44 and 45 with no German, and found the above spoken by a Frauline up hear the Elbe on VE day. Just substitute English words when you can't think of the German, and remember who you are.
I love Berlin! Keep us all posted about each and every day please. And all the places you visit. I once fell asleep in the Berlin Zoo and they closed it. I woke up alone with a lion and tiger screwing each other in front of me.
I recently visited Berlin & had the time of my life. I highly recommend "The Gate," a bathhouse that caters to the bear/mature crowd. I am a bear in my 50's and I've NEVER had a bathhouse visit like I experienced at The Gate. The facilities are clean & organized (eyeglass holders near the wet areas), and the bears, mostly German and Italian, were scrumptious! Have Fun, I envy you!
P.S. Here's a gay city guide:
http://www.out-in-berlin.com/
The by far "most interesting" location is www.lab-oratory.de
Haben Sie doch eine gute Verein!
here is how i imagine a conversation with any and all of you obama braind dead kool aid drinkers:
you: you are a racist, self hating asshole.
me: i don't vote simply on single issues and i don't have anything in common with a gay culture that glorifies drugs, sex, alcohol,looks, material things, snarky feminine men, etc, etc, etc. i also don't have anything to look up to in a candidate that hangs out and associates with the common crooked thugs of chicago, spending years in a racist white/jew hating church and has non repentent terrorist pals. i do however have a LOT to look up to in a man who has served and sacrificed for our country and a woman who has and lives small town morals and values. and by the way, you can kiss my ass if you don't like it.
I haven't spoken German since I was seven. I wouldn't even try! Good luck (viel Glück).
"here is how i imagine a conversation with any and all of you obama braind dead kool aid drinkers"
Shhhhhhh. Be very very quiet and maybe it will go away. Don't look it directly in the eyes. Back away slowly.
I thought chgophilly was "Gone" after an off-meds violent episode a couple weeks ago.
Please do us all (yourself included) a favor, hon, and find a Log Cabin blog where the people are actually happy to chat with you.
Next time i am there i want to go to a place i have not been. It is the Ufer-Cafe. Nordufer4 13353 Berlin. I have no idea what type of place it is but i have an impression that without a doubt "love is in the air."
@ anthony menendez
HA! Beat me to it!
> WOW!
The number of bottoms in Manhattan just sank like Obama's poll numbers!!!
---
If Joe-In-Atlanta was half as funny as he thinks he is, somebody, somewhere might have laughed at that joke.
I already have a JMG sighting. We spotted him eating lunch with some tall bearded guy about 6 hours ago at Cafe Berio. JMG is short, btw.
i do however have a LOT to look up to in a man who has served and sacrificed for our country
You really look up to a man who left his wife after she had an accident, cheated on the current one and just did flip-flops on many of his social and economic positions as a Senator in order to be a viable Presidential candidate?
Wow. That's sad. The POW thing was 40 years ago. The other stuff is recent. People change.
Being a Chicagoan, I can vouch for the strong democratic and liberal base here. Chicago Philly is a table for one (and will be for a very long time). Someone needs to be sold to a glue factory, and quickly.
And I'll write it again: Supreme Court justices. If you want more Scalias and Thomases vote for McCain. But keep in mind:
They voted against Romer v. Evans which overturned Colorado's Amendment 2 which stopped local municipalities from giving gay people any civil protections.
They voted against Lawrence vs. Texas and wanted to keep Sodomy laws in place.
And I guarantee you that some kind of challenge to DOMA and the State anti gay marriage constitutional amendments will end up in front of the Supreme Court someday. Do you really want more right-wing justices?
"I love the clubs in Berlin. You can slide home in other people's sick."
- Dieter of Sprockets.
Sooooo... what about that Joe swanning off to Berlin, eh?
Do you happen to like piano bars by chance?
Sooooo... what about that Joe swanning off to Berlin, eh?
SubtleKnife
To be fair to Joe, on another site where he has a profile, he listed his travel plans to include Euro Folsom in Berlin months ago. So I think this is a well planned get away to relax (wasn't Joe also sick and stressed out a few months ago?) and not some whimlike gadabout jetting off to Baden-Baden for a weekend face lift!
enjoy some fat juicy German sausages for all of us!
send photos!
chgophilly -- what about snarky masculine men?
I just read these two totally unrelated posts together...transposing them:
"Chicago Philly is a table for one (and will be for a very long time). Someone needs to be sold to a glue factory, and quickly."
"I love the clubs in Berlin. You can slide home in other people's sick.
I somehow think they are even stonger than the sum of their parts!
Gute Reise! Machen sie viel Spass!
dwerk, I was trying to draw attention to the actual subject, but thanks for the info anyway. So... what site?
"JMG is short, btw."
Robert he is NOT short. He is just vertically challenged.
Ha ha, these comments are ridiculous...why are some people talking about Sarah Palin?! Weirdos.
Have fun Joe!
"...culture that glorifies drugs, sex, alcohol,looks, material things, snarky feminine men, etc, etc, etc..."
Shit. That just about sums up the new American Way to me. drugs? check. sex? triple-x-check. alcohol? check. looks? check. material things? bling! i mean check. snarky feminine men? tap tap tap- i mean check. this stuff is not just occurring in the gay boudoirs and baths. This is high schools in 'small towns' and cities across the country, Entertainment Tonight, The Leno Show, MTV, all of Hollywood, having brewskis with the office buds after work. You know, America. Perhaps you could go hang with the Amish, but they probably wouldn't want you around, either. But don't you have stock quotes to check or something?
Chicago Philly is the biggest asshole on this blog, and since his first post has been rude, obnoxious and bigoted. He is a republican spoiler troll just out to get you pissed off. Pay him no attention.
He is a creepy stealth faggot who loves Bush, Rove and McCain and embraces their homophobia with pleasure.
Viel spass und hol dir ein grossen Deutsche schwantz!
Joe is NOT short. Aaron is just exceedingly tall.
and like, YAY!!!!! Damien!
Let me try and draw two threads together.
ChgoPhlly, essen sie meine scheisse bitte.
(On the) Fritz doesn't reference a subj. here...
"Shhhhhhh. Be very very quiet and maybe it will go away. Don't look it directly in the eyes. Back away slowly."
...leaing one to gather that his is a one-sided, paranoid schitzophrenic sock-puppet conversation he imagines taking place btwn. himself and the fictional sock the Nobam-Chgo-Chubb thruple squirt their useless seed into ON RECOGNIZING THEIR KIN.
...then again,
maybe said squirts ain't useless: they're an xtra protein source spread over tuna casserole, an hors d'oevre for onthefritz's chronic, homebound self-hating solo
Subtleknife -- I know you were and so was I since anytime BigMuscleBear and Joe are mentioned it gets people's attention -- it didn't work this time. Oh well. More McPalinobamabedencain.
Georgie -- Joe is NOT short. He's just the right size for him (and several inches taller than I am -- *I'm* short, yes).
Fritz--my most humble apologies for not seeing what YOU were referencing: I HAD NOT EVEN READ the comment you were responding to(!)--I always skip Nobam-Chgo-Chubb comments, as life is too short for their shit--and so I misunderstood yours and lumped you in w/ the repulican hate-ling apologists. Part of my tired brain HAD remembered you as an ally; sorry for the misplaced friendly fire and, no excuses--you're on the correct side here.
I think it's time everyone on this thread sit back and enjoy this masterpiece of Krayzee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=A...feature=related
"Joe is NOT short. He's just the right size for him (and several inches taller than I am -- *I'm* short, yes). Calpete"
And i gather you're both big where it counts--in da heart.
Hey, JMG: If you're still there on Wednesday, go to Prinzknecht for the happy hour between 7 and 9. Then, later, if you have the energy, go to Mutschmanns for the not-really-happy-hour but a bit of a bargain.
And I agree with the person who recommends the Lab....
You boys are just nasty today! "in da heart"....rawr!
Viel Spaß!
JMG- You only need to say: "Ich bin Americaner, mit grosser schwanz.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm suffering from JMG withdrawls.....
I need more posts.
(Yes, I know...I need help)
@dwerk "...even more outrageous stuff that makes the 2 cup girls looks amateurish (how about fat naked grandmothers being fucked in the cunt by real dogs in cinematic colour close up -- or the gummi shit men -- mind blowingly sick!..."
I may regret asking, but who are the gummi shit men?
Warning Gross Content!
freddy -- think tight rubber bodysuits -- then "going" in your bodysuit -- then "play time" -- all in colour -- Nuff said!
HelluvaPlace2LoseACow I was refering to the hotel not bryce canyon itself
If you need any tips on how to give a good Nazi party chant be sure to watch reruns of the Republican convention.
Joe - Knut the "cute polar bear" -- is up around 350 pounds these days, NOT the cutie that once drew so many crowds. Apparently there is a danger that he is psychologically injured by having "imprinted" on humans instead of on other polar bears. So DO go to see him, it might brighten his day.
On the other hand, Knut's adorable and hunky handler (Thomas Doerflein) is probably ALSO lonely these days -- maybe you could look him up and console HIM too?
Joe went on and on about Knut for approximately sixteen straight hours yesterday. If you have additional disappointing information about the polar bear, please keep it private until he gets back from Berlin. We will do our best here to make sure that he is not exposed to the real truth.
It is hard to see a man's dreams get crushed like that.
have fun honey ...
don't forget to see the sights as well as the saunas ..
xx
R.
Don't forget to visit the Obama Memorial site while you're there.
And, of course, from Liquid Sky:
"Let's go to Berlin, baby. They love me in Berlin."
git us some pictures from inside them German sex palaces, there. . .
The very best bar/sexclub i have ever been to was Munchmanns in Berlin. Hot German men with huge ... Joe, you'll feel right at home. How about some nice touristy pictures from the basement of Munchmann's?
Viel spass Joe und crew...ich wunesche Euch einen schoenen Urlaubszeit.
STOP BY AMSTERDAM!!!!
Fan club is waiting!
it's currently deer hunting season in southern germany. because german is my native language i get a charge out of writing in american
Well you weren't kidding.
Okay, so how about you assign another blog-sitter while you're gone?
Aaron did a great job while you were on leave a few months ago.
I'm sure you arranged for the care and feeding of Miss Shelley.
But what about us? We need care and feeding too.
Yeah we need a republican convention post so the following comments can be left:
McCain is a true hero. I don't care about my rights. Also, if McCain wins I get a toaster!!
-Nobama
My mom says McCain is just like Jefferson Davis without the slavery. Hooray! I love how Sarah Palin can make us feel good about trashing the constitution!
-Joe-in-Atlanta
Don't say anything bad about McCain. Hillary Clinton was mistreated too. I'm sad.
-Douglas in Oklahoma
Wow that big black guy scares me. Wait, which screen name am I using today?
-ChgoPhlly
I'm bored.
-Ryan Charisma
Oh maybe this one.
-longgone
Cindy McCain is a riveting speaker.
-Chubby Hubby
Reading the comments posted in German (aloud) reminds me that the German language was invented so that you could spit on someone while talking to them.
hmmm, well at least the convention wasn't blatantly homophobic as in the past where they said everything but die fags, no mention of gay marriage or anything like that except for one mention of judges using their position to legislate which might have been a reference to it... i thought cindy mccain's speech was good, and was surprised to learn of her humanitarian work as she had been vilified by the fags as a slut and golddigger, so shame on the fags for that... as for mccain himself, true not the greatest of speakers but he does come across as kindly and caring and a plain shucks i'm just plain folk who loves and does my duty for my country and that may yet count for much so don't count him out... like i said, i think surprises are in store so hang on to your tampons girls... interesting with the fags here that if you look at things impartially and praise the republicans strong points you are instantly vilified as a traitor and log cabin republican which i'm certainly not... but that's the fags for you, we certainly can be evil can't we?
the mccain movie which was shown just before he came out ended with "What a life. What a faith. What a family. What good fortune, that America would choose this leader at precisely this time. The stars are aligned. Change will come."
hmmm, makes me wonder is he like reagan into astrology, or perhaps miss cindy is?
an astrologer acquaintance of mine tells me that indeed there is an alignment of certain planets saturn opposite uranus that portend change at the time of the coming election. hmmmm...
x-tians discuss it here
http://
blog.christianitytoday.co...good_fortu.html
and astrologers discuss it here:
http://margotmystic.wordpress.co...ection-in-2008/
Cindy McCain as humanitarian....Hmmm....it's hard to wrap my head around that one when her sweet little outfit on Monday had a value of $300,000.
Mind you, most of that value was attributed to the diamond earbobs she had on.
Change??? Hmmm.....Did John Abramoff pay for the earbobs or John McCain?
She probably paid for them herself, but it sounds to me like more of the same.
Ish, thanks for bringing this up…and since it only take a few bites to devour my little South Beach Diet dinner…I have plenty of time to go on and on and on…about it all! ; )
Mom says Hi!
I think LeAnn will win!
Hope the boys are enjoying themselves in Berlin and Joe finds his Knuts…to be all that he wished for and hoped would be. And JMG, you do look quite handsome in that ball cap…as it fits you well.
Am I supposed to eat the box too? I’m craving more carbs…
Ok…as you all know I will NOT vote for Obama. However, now I find that my finger is hovering above the McCain voting button more than ever. I truly believe that he is the better candidate….from his personal story…his family…to the people he has surrounded himself with and so on. Simply put he’s just more qualified. He has integrity. It’s not just talk or an image that he is trying to market.
This has been weighing on my mind more and more as well these days. My little sister is a Navy Officer who will have made the rank of Captain…by the time she takes over a command post in Afghanistan early next year. There is no debating the fact that McCain would make the better Commander in Chief.
So, do I not vote…and stick to my principles…or do I vote for McCain and give my little sister the most qualified boss…in these dangerous times?
Maybe shuffle the deck a bit…an R here…a D there…a check and a balance…kind of thing.
All kidding aside, Joe, when the republicans have been in power for eight years you don't shuffle the deck by giving them four more.
Yay, Amsterdam!
Stop by guys, you know you want to...
McCain spent 20 hours in combat and flew 23 missions. He lost five aircraft in his military career, and eventually was shot down. He graduated at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy (790 out of 795). His captivity was characterized by questionable accounts of torture, although his extended time in solitary confinement isn't questioned. 85% of former POWs have experienced lasting psychological damage as a result of their Vietnam experiences.
John McCain served his country as best he could, given his limited military acumen. He also appeared to get through his captivity the best way he knew how, which clearly involved multiple propaganda statements used by the North Vietnamese. I do not see how this qualifies him to be Commander in Chief. It certainly doesn't set him apart as the better candidate for that duty. He's lucky to be alive. That's great, but that's all.
Milkman,
You'll truly be spinning like the Tazmanian Devil if you try to discredit John McCain on his military service and record. It will only sell to the Obama faithful...
Instead, sell Obama to me...why would he make a better Commander in Chief...in regards to the handling of the two wars that we are in...
I'm not trying to discredit McCain on his military service. Those are the facts. Do with them what you will. I just don't think that McCain's service record makes him any more qualified to lead the armed forces than anyone else.
Obama would make a better commander in chief because he recognizes the limitations of armed conflict. He recognizes the illegality and stupidity of the current Iraqi occupation. He values the role of diplomacy in solving or at least de-escalating international conflicts. He also understands that the best way to support our troops is to keep them from engaging in war unless it is truly the only way out of an impossible situation. He's smart, curious, and energetic. While I don't agree with Obama on all things, I do think his is the right vision for where America (and its military) should move from here.
McCain's actions and statements show a much more belligerent problem-solving method, a poorly-controlled temper, and a decided lack of intellectual curiosity. Further, his history as a part of the Keating 5 scandal and his lockstep voting record show that he's not nearly the "maverick" that he's purported to be. I'm glad he survived the Vietnam war, but there's no way he's qualified to lead our nation out of the hot mess that his party has created over the last 8 years.
Redneck,
How's anybody gonna sell Obama to you? He's "colored."
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Joe, if you want to kill your sister, by all means vote for McCain.
"Instead, sell Obama to me"
I firmly believe in the right to assisted suicide. If someone wants to jump off a bridge, by all means, jump away. Just do it over water so there's no cleanup and don't take anyone with you. Except, in this case voting for McCain makes you the equivalent of a drive by shooter who hits the infant in the car seat instead of the intended target. If Hillary can't be president then no Dem will, I get it. At this point, if a rabidly anti-gay ticket cannot get some queens off of McCain's jock, then nothing will. I won't try and sell you on Obama. Ending this war and bringing the troops home, preventing the end of a woman's right to choose, not having religion stuffed down the throats of every school age child in the form of creationism, just to name a few; should be reason enough to be against Palin/McCain. Just keep emoticoning and LOL'ing away until the day the military comes knocking on your door. LMAO! Oops, sorry
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