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At the age of 22, I looked upon Germany from the USA. Then I came, I saw and I stayed.


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Rudolf Halbensinn
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Munich, Germany
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Rudolf Halbensinn

But he's very charismatic.

Rudolf Halbensinn

"if you're not hated, you're doing it wrong"

Quite true. 

I tell my English language students here in a far away non-English-speaking country : 

"If you don't make mistakes, you are not working hard enough."

And there truly are types who come to the school to learn English and when asked to repeat a sentence, refuse to utter a syllable.  Born losers.

People on our side must bring people to understand that if it doesn't take a little extra effort, the goal isn't worth reaching.

P.S.

I also tell my students : "Please make mistakes, otherwise I have nothing to do."

Edited on April 10, 2013 at 8:40am

Re: The Debt

Rudolf Halbensinn

Aside from the fact that it flies in the face of all common sense in handling any normal person's affairs and aside from the fact that others must pay for your spending now and aside from the fact that those who must eventually pay are receiving nothing at all for what they are paying for and aside from the fact that the advantages of spending other people's money have in the last 4 years still not appeared,

well, as Hillary said "What difference does it make?"

Edited on March 14, 2013 at 10:16am
Rudolf Halbensinn

"These kids can't comprehend what they are doing..."

Calling the teaching and administrative staff of this school 'kids' would normally not be an acceptable descriptive term here, but this time I'll let it go.

Rudolf Halbensinn
I've always thought of "Latin is to French as Greek is to German" in terms of exceptions and variant forms.  · 13 hours ago

Sorry, but Latin is the bedrock of romance Languages and French is a romance language, and German is anything but related to Greek.  And your statement knocks the wind out of me after speaking German for 45 years.  "A cat is to a dog as a wombat is to a female crocodile in terms of exceptional behavior and variant perspectives."

Honestly.

Rudolf Halbensinn

I have a fantastic idea ( if I may use the  degree of inflated self-worth our president employs).

Use his words.

Any Republican congressman, when asked about raising the debt limit in 6 weeks, should use the exact words that Senator Obama used when he voted against Bush's request for raising the debt limit.

This applies to any other issue where Dear Leader displays hypocrisy.  And we know this happens on a regular basis.

Using the same words as Obama will certainly be decried by the mainstream media.  After the cries of plagiarism the public will be rightly informed of the president's hypocrisy.

Rudolf Halbensinn

Is this a new concept in the USA?

Some people have been accused of 'over-thinking'.  It sounds like a policy the Thought Police employ.

Similar to 'over-using', a current policy from the the EPA (Everything Police Authority).

Edited on January 9, 2013 at 7:14am
Rudolf Halbensinn

He thinks you suffer the gravest indignities working?  Has he ever had a job?

Rudolf Halbensinn

Walmart is not sending the FBI into my home to arrest me for critisizing Dear Leader. 

What did Reagen say? "A government big enough to give you everything is a government big enough to take everything away."

Is Walmart telling me what my children must eat at school?

Rudolf Halbensinn

Look at history.  Remember when an ivy-league president ran on "He kept us out of war," and after he won reelection the country entered the war.

Hmmm. When was that?

And after his 8 years were up the opposition party won in a gigantic landslide.  In a short time just as then we'll be repeating that old saw about 'fool me twice....'.

Edited on November 7, 2012 at 8:44am
Rudolf Halbensinn
Peter Robinso    What is there to say to these people?

You say :

a) "You've listed his errors. How about some achievements?"

b) "Put down the violin, please and spell 'Benghazi' for me."

c) "Sleazy come, sleazy go."

d) "Those 7 states you named don't have delegates.  Sorry."

e) "Feeling like a corpse, man?"

Edited on October 31, 2012 at 12:06pm
Rudolf Halbensinn
Jager: This maybe because there polling is D+7.

Maybe you should explain the significance of D+7.  And for each poll explain the outcome of the poll and the election.  I'm not sure what the several lines are supposed to imply.

Example :  Saturday was Q+5 and it snowed, but Sunday was Q+1 and it only rained. Amazing, isn't it?

Rudolf Halbensinn

J.D. get in contact with Oliver Stone.  You've got a goldmine here.

Rudolf Halbensinn

The left wing has lost the election.
The evidence is overwhelming. Obama would not be throwing all of his past positions overboard if he though the nation were ready to endorse the full-throated liberalism he embraced to win the 2008 election.  If liberalism were winning does anybody doubt that Obama would be running as a liberal? Obama is offering an echo, not a choice. His strategy at the end is to try to stay in the White House on a chorus of me-toos. 

Too many conditional sentences. If you were to do this, the world would end, so do the opposite.

Such conditionals don't convince--better to use clear evidence and history. Back then he did this and the world improved, so do it now.

Rudolf Halbensinn
Red Feline: I happen to be a blonde and LOVE blonde jokes. In fact, at a book fair, I was laughing as I was reading a book of blonde jokes, when the operator of the stall said to me, also laughing, that he ought to pay me to stay there all day. :-)

Good for you and your healthy, sturdy and commendable backbone. If I could give you 10 likes, I would.

Rudolf Halbensinn

Potter, have you noticed that the more advanced civilization becomes, the more sensitive the people become? This is the Princess and the Pea effect.

A person complains that his mattress is not soft enough. Fine. However when he starts to rail against all people because his mattress is not soft enough, then this person must be sent back to the year 1150 AD to broaden his perspectives. He can sleep on the cold earth in a mud hut and exercise tolerance with his fellow human beings.

You say you understand that it's "culturally accepted", but you cannot accept it. You feel obligated to rein in Ms Coulter. Do you feel the same way about what Bill Maher said about Sarah Palin?

"They should have the decency to know what's right" you say. Well, put your list of forbidden phrases in a Language Manifesto and nail it to the office door of HBO, if your idea of "what's right" is not written in stone. There are many, many different levels of acceptable language depending on who you talk with.  Have you ever visited a truck stop?

Try exercising tolerance.

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