This'll probably be the general politics thread in ten minutes, but it
is 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and so you should all probably watch these videos.
Leonard Bernstein, Beethoven Symphony #9, Berlin 1989Bernstein, Berlin 1989: Moar Freiheit
Bernstein changed the words so it's "Ode to Freedom" not "Ode to Joy." He cries like a baby. This is the most hopeful thing I have ever watched.
I'm not crazy about all the 20-years-later triumphalism floating around from people who think they're the heirs to Reagan. I just like the Beethoven, and the thought that there was a moment in my lifetime (barely) when things really seemed to be looking up for the world.
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He is sitting at the computer in his underwear with a ronald reagan mask on.
also
something something tort reform
also, he has an erection
complete with an inlaid speaker blaring Reagan's speech
they were handing out little leaflets and everything
while this 6 foot high 10 foot wide brown cardboard wall sits right in front of the campus cafeteria
Matches, throw matches
ne'er forget!
all hail Reagan
Hey, it's a big wall! It takes a while, okay?
yes it was yesterday.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zXiClnK8oE
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Asking my father "Dad, why are these people so happy?"
and he replied "Because they got their freedom back, son"
I don't remember much from that age, but this scene is forever burnt into my brain
I can remember how the living room looked, with the TV in it.
How my father woke me up, telling me "You've got to see this, son!"
Those people, in their trabants.
i actually wrote a poem about it that i should probably do something with one day
here it is, if anyone cares
I watched the Berlin wall dissolve
in stilted slow motion, pebble by rock,
from five thousand miles away.
Propped up on the kitchen counter
at my grandparents' house with feet
dangling, I asked my mother
why no one stopped them.
I thought it was vandalism.
She tried to explain how sometimes
people put up walls to keep things
separate, and after enough time
other people come to pull the walls down
and put everyone back together.
I didn't understand. My room had walls,
the house, the backyard, my school,
the playground where I ran around
pretending to be a super hero.
They kept me safe, I thought.
My grandmother watched, too,
stirring a pot of black beans,
waiting for oil in the big frying pan
to heat up enough for breaded steaks.
Her tears salted the food because
she knew something that I didn't,
that no one had wanted to believe
as they climbed portable stairs
into a small plane and watched the ground
fall away beneath them--sometimes,
you can't put people back together,
you never see the other side again,
you leave graffiti when you can but
it's only lines drawn in the sand.
Some walls are ninety miles wide
and made of water.
of course I was five at the time
I just wanted to watch my cartoon but my parents were all "NO, THIS IS IMPORTANT AND WE'RE WATCHING DAN RATHER"
but you can't help that she's terrible
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
"I'd Rather not"
Cause that would have been perfect
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
rather than what
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
I love to make fun of Peggy Noonan in front of her. She calls me sexist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CdqsUOCpfc
I got the news bug early.
At oh, age 10 or 12 I used to fight with my little sister over the remote. Cartoon Network vs. C-SPAN. I never won.
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I missed it because I didn't know but it looked pretty cool.
really it's for the best that you got to see interesting werewolves and aliens rather than listened to callers who were concerned by werewolves and aliens that had opinions about gross domestic product
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCpdCsj9Nqs
skip to 1:00
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
The quick cuts between Powerpuff Girls and Senate hearings were kind of surreal; it's a wonder I didn't grow up thinking the Speaker of the House was Mojo Jojo.
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He was also ridiculously awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZaKhw2XCw
From old person to crazy old person in less than 60 seconds
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
But I know quite a few stories about it.
My father worked on a ship back then and had just left us to do his job. My mother told him that the wall would be gone when he comes back.
He called her crazy.
Don't be daft, he's clearly a Republican.
took them a while to off him didn't it?
god i can barely remember him
I must admit I laughed at the 1st spoiler
I have a piece of the berlin wall!
its actually pretty speedy compared to other executions in virginia, i think. they put it on the "fast track" and all
If we all hated the guy down the street, there wouldn't be enough hate left over for other countries
This is a foolproof plan and will win the next nobel prize
and battlements
dude people went nuts in fairfax
to the point of hanging up tarps at local gas stations