Posted by
Bob B on Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:22:20 AM
Travel
I am back from Europe, specifically Bavaria and Prague. For those in Rio Linda Bavaria is south western Germany, and Prague is no longer in Czechoslovakia. They didn’t move the city they just changed the nation. That happens often in Europe.
The B in Bavaria must stand for Beautiful because it certainly is. Prague is another story. It is Bohemia, you see it and sense it. Bohemia is the northern part of the Czech Republic. Unsophisticated wretch that I am, for years I thought Bohemia was, like Transylvania, found only in Bela Lugosi movies. As anywhere, many of the people were delightful, but if I were asked to describe the Czechians in one word the word would be "rude".
Politics
Europe is moving to the Right with the likes of Merkel, Sarkozy and that guy in Italy while the US has just chosen to be led to the Left. Like nations on opposite escalators I believe we have past each other. We, of cours, are on the Down escalator.
Why is Europe finally rejecting Socialism? Could it be because they have experienced the results and chose “change”?
More perplexing is the question, why did the US choose the Left turn? Do the voters realize they have chosen to elect the most Liberal government in the history of the country? Could it be the demographics have changed so much that this direction is now our destiny? Could it be due to the media having become so biased that it's the media that really determines the outcome? Or...?
On the poignant side
Rick Monday saves the flag,
a video. When the web page displays click on the word “video” under heading Rick Monday saves the flag.
Better yet, just hold Ctrl and click on this horrendously long URL
mms://a1503.v108692.c10869.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1503/10869/v0001/mlb.download.akamai.com/10869/library/open/features/monday_flag_350.wmv?media_type=wms&av_type=video&event_pk=486348&product=gen_video