Angstzeit: Up from the fœtid Comment Sewers beneath Ciudad Vleeptron
after: Bienvenido a América
...... (Danbury Connecticut style)
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DespicableTeacher said...
hmmmmm.....
grrrrrrr....
arrrrghhh
8:01 AM
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VLEEPTRON NOTES: She speaks 4 or 5 or n » 5 languages fluently. Yet this is, to date, the most eloquent post Vleeptron has ever seen.
(Except maybe: "Nazi de merda apodrece no Inferno!" coincidentally by the same Author.)
[ sincerity: ON ]
Where are her Memoirs? Where is her Autobiografia? Where is her Novel/Roman? Where is the next great classic of Portuguese-language Theatre? Where is the Poetry?
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Bob Merkin said...
At all times the Poor Earth! Poor Earth! has human beings fleeing, escaping, running for their lives, carrying their babies, abandoning their most precious possessions, just two steps ahead of monsters with guns and swords and torches.
There's nothing special about the United States of America. Before we tried to become The Mother of Exiles (largely because we needed a lot of cheap, desperate labor), the Netherlands opened its doors and its arms to the desperate refugees and fugitives and escapees of Europe.
Someday, when we've all calmed down a little from TERRORISM! TERRORISTS! MUSLIM TERRORISTS! we will all look back on This Moment in Earth History and be very ashamed -- Netherlands AND the USA -- that we were afraid to give safety and sanctuary to the desperate Boat People and Funny-Thinking People and Gays and Lesbians and Turks and Arabs and Moluccans ... oh yes, and Jews, there are still lots of places from which Jews are desperately trying to escape.
I have to stop now, in 15 minutes a dentist will be torturing me. I have contacted Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, but they say they don't do Dental Torture cases. And I don't want to be late.
10:33 AM
Bob Merkin said...
ADDENDUM:
No human being should ever be ashamed of being frightened, of being afraid, of being terrified. Fear is as human, as normal, as healthy as having to flee for your life.
But the political choices, the way we vote in Times of Fear, the scoundrels whose rabble-rousing speeches of hate and fear and scapegoating we listen to ... these are the mistakes, if we let ourselves make Fear Mistakes, that will come back to haunt us in ten years. These are the mistakes we will be deeply ashamed of for the rest of our lives. These are the mistakes which will haunt our children and make them wonder about their parents.
Someone asked Albert Einstein what happened in his homeland Germany during the 1930s and '40s. Germany, land of Schiller and Goethe, land of Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" ...
... land of Göttingen, Heisenberg, Hilbert, Quantum Mechanics, land of the exquisite Dresden and Meisen porcelain figurines, land of Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach ... someone asked Einstein what happened. He said:
"An empty stomach
is a poor political adviser."
12:02 PM
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posted by Vleeptron Dude | 18:29
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I said Goethe.
But you remind us of Kant, who was born and died in Königsberg Ostpreussen (now under a New Name). As a professor of Philosophy, his comings and goings from his house to the university and back were so regular the neighbors set their clocks by him.
A century before Edwin Hubble, Kant guessed that the Fuzzy Things in the night sky were Other Galaxies, just like the Melkweg and Dwingeloo-2 and Dwingeloo-1.
Germany, Land of the 7 Bridges of Königsberg -- a puzzle so difficult that only the Suisse Mathematician Leonhard Euler could solve it (and create 2 important new branches of mathematics at the same time).
I have actually Taken These Chill Advice Tips in the last half hour. (No Brian Wilson, aber Geoff Muldaur's "Private Astronomy," okay? If nicht okay, buy or freedownload diese, Jungemuskikpirate.)
But I cannot ignore these terrible Sticky Food Terrorism Threats to our Homeland Security. All our lives are in danger from melting Giant Popsicles! And this winter, if the Molasses Tanks should burst ... Vote Condaleeza Rice!
MAN ON THE GROUND IN HELVETIA: ... u got that cheap digital camera yet? Are you anywhere near Berne where Einstein's Swiss Patent Office Building was? ("Those were wonderful days ... nobody expected me to lay Golden Eggs.") Does this building still stand?
Or do you know anybody named Anika or Cunegonde or Lois Lane who has a digital camera?
Bring back Gessler! He was a Strong Man! He knew how to deal with armed Terrorists!
FROM:
Beloved Altekaker Havanaraucher Vleeptron Intergalactic News (VIN) Editor
TO:
Man On The Ground In Helvetia
I request the Swiss Patent Office / Einstein story, with the digital fotos. Bitte. Danke.
Ja, Google the 7 Bridges thing, let me know if you come back with St. Petersburg. Who knows, maybe Beloved Altekaker Junior Geezer VIN Editor is Wrong, Falsche, nicht korrect, terribly mistaken about this.
PizzaQ will follow immediately Man On Ground in Land of Euler tells me I got the cities mixed up.
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