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Merkel / Self

Ah, today Germany has a new leader.

Chancellor Merkel became the first woman to hold the position as well as the first person from East Germany to hold the top job.

On the other hand, I got depressed this afternoon for a particularly odd and trivial reason which I won’t discuss here. I’m pretty much […]

November 22nd, 2005 | Tags: , | Category: Diary | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Wahl ’05

I just got home about an hour ago, and have turned on the television to watch election results.

The results: At least four different parties are claiming victory of some kind–the Left for getting as many votes as they did. The FDP (Yellow) for their best performance ever. The SPD because the CDU/CSU did not […]

September 18th, 2005 | Tags: , , | Category: Deutsche Kultur, Diary, politics, Travels & Moving | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Weekend Plans

This is going to be an exciting weekend!

Friday evening I am going over to Erfurt for three exciting events-the first is my journey to see the CDU candidate for German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Yes, Germany is in the midst of an exciting election campaign, and although I have no vote whatsoever, I am watching […]

August 25th, 2005 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Diary, Kai Tracid, politics, Queer | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

I see Gerhard Schröder!

SPD: Jena Rally 15.08.05

Originally uploaded by elmada.

So tonight I achieved something that put me in a select group of people on the planet: I have now seen the leaders of two different western countries in person.

The rarity of seeing one’s leader in person was pointed out to me in an […]

August 15th, 2005 | Tags: , , , | Category: Amusing Amerika, Deutsche Kultur, Diary, politics | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)