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Zwiebelmarkt und Demokratie

Tomorrow is the day of my big Onion Market party—where I am serving delicious Louisiana Gumbo.

Today is the day I make the basics of gumbo—including vegetable stock.

But before I did that, I ran down to the Zwiebelmarkt because I needed to get cash from the ATM and run over to the post office […]

domestic elections

In case you haven’t noticed, I have pretty much sworn off ever voting for a Republican again. George W. Bush and his friends have managed to screw up America more than I ever could have imagined possible.

This stands in direct contrast to a rule I once had that I could not vote a straight […]

Voting Reminder

Just a reminder to all the US expatriates: It’s still not too late to register to vote for the November election.

VoteFromAbroad.org is a free service that will fill out all of the paper work for you and give you a PDF at the end that you can print out, sign, and then fax or […]

Kinky Grandma

‘Kinky’ Allowed on Texas Ballot but Not ‘Grandma’ By ERIC O’KEEFE | Published: July 11, 2006 NYT

Secretary of State Roger Williams ruled that the musician Kinky Friedman could be listed on the ballot in the November election for governor as Richard “Kinky” Friedman. Mr. Friedman has used the nickname in publishing and on stage. […]

US Citzens Living Abroad

American Citzens living abroad can vote.

Please visit Vote From Abroad for details.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Crazy Election News

Ok, beyond the wierdest news of all from this election cycle, I have a few other news items to share.

1) Alabama faces recount over segregationist laws

2) Will the Elected one show up? (via Obscure Store)

3) Nevada’s Tie-Breaker (Via Obscure Store)

Randomly, I want to note that CNN International has moved on […]

Elections

You can fool a minority of the people all of the time, and a majority of the people some of the time, but you can not fool a majority of the people all of the time.*

Unfortunately it looks like “some of the time” has probably happened November 2nd.