Comments on: Time Machine http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/01/28/time-machine/ Personal website and weblog of the libertarian thinker Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:18:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joshua Thompson http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/01/28/time-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-9007 Joshua Thompson Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:30:45 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=2911#comment-9007 You make a fair point Austrian. The CDU with Koch are anything but ideal, and die Repulikaner are truly a scary bunch. I suppose I am not lauding the coalition as much as I was the FDP's vote totals. Moreover, the possibility of a schwarz-gelb Koalition later this year with Merkel and Westerwelle, would be a great improvement over the schwarz-rot morass currently governing the Bundestag. You make a fair point Austrian. The CDU with Koch are anything but ideal, and die Repulikaner are truly a scary bunch. I suppose I am not lauding the coalition as much as I was the FDP’s vote totals. Moreover, the possibility of a schwarz-gelb Koalition later this year with Merkel and Westerwelle, would be a great improvement over the schwarz-rot morass currently governing the Bundestag.

]]> By: Austrian http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/01/28/time-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-9005 Austrian Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:03:06 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=2911#comment-9005 Joshua, I am not really happy about the coalition in Hessen. The FDP will work with Roland Koch, a man who made his name bashing immigrants and whose xenophobic outburts are quite notorious and led to neofascists supporting him with a postcard campaign. See for example the homepage of the extreme right "Die Republikaner" who hailed him as "Super-Koch": http://www.rep-hessen.de/content.aspx?ArticleID=b0083fbe-89a4-4d9f-b1c2-b328bb7e5b9a It's rather sad that the FDP wants to work with this guy. Joshua, I am not really happy about the coalition in Hessen. The FDP will work with Roland Koch, a man who made his name bashing immigrants and whose xenophobic outburts are quite notorious and led to neofascists supporting him with a postcard campaign. See for example the homepage of the extreme right “Die Republikaner” who hailed him as “Super-Koch”: http://www.rep-hessen.de/conte.....28bb7e5b9a

It’s rather sad that the FDP wants to work with this guy.

]]> By: Joshua Thompson http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/01/28/time-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-9001 Joshua Thompson Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:46:38 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=2911#comment-9001 I just returned from a trip to Germany where a story was told me that fits well with your personal recollections. The mother of a friend was raised in the DDR, but once every five years or so her family was allowed to visit their relatives in the West. Aside from the questioning they had to undergo form the Stasi both before and after each trip, one story stood out. Every visit they would be amazed by some new invention: microwave, VCR, etc. During one visit, she saw her relative pull out a "calculator," she felt some momentary pride because she had seen "calculators" before -- they had those in the DDR too. When her relative suddenly turned on the TV with her "calculator," she only felt disappointment and shame. In happier news did you hear about the resounding victory of the FDP in Hessen? Guido Westerwelle koennte der naechste Aussenminister sein! http://www.faz.net/s/Rub606F7D1C907A4A7F9C506AE24D76B150/Doc~EE3D10AFA3FFA451BBC39CF0C21FA5A89~ATpl~Ecommon~Sspezial.html I just returned from a trip to Germany where a story was told me that fits well with your personal recollections. The mother of a friend was raised in the DDR, but once every five years or so her family was allowed to visit their relatives in the West. Aside from the questioning they had to undergo form the Stasi both before and after each trip, one story stood out. Every visit they would be amazed by some new invention: microwave, VCR, etc. During one visit, she saw her relative pull out a “calculator,” she felt some momentary pride because she had seen “calculators” before — they had those in the DDR too. When her relative suddenly turned on the TV with her “calculator,” she only felt disappointment and shame.

In happier news did you hear about the resounding victory of the FDP in Hessen? Guido Westerwelle koennte der naechste Aussenminister sein!

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub606F7D.....ezial.html

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