Aberlour10

did you kiss the ice? :)

Luckily we are here in the only thread with No Laws & No Rulings

German brewery companies advertise with solgans like.. hey dude buy a crate of our beer and you save 1 m2 of the rain forrest in Amazon. "Green" charity sells here. PS. I am not going to publish here how many m2 I have already saved this way :)

the innovation power in capitalism is unlimited :) ps>>>Jim Morrison was not a choice in this poll :angry: so I voted for Jerry Garcia

Screen>>>useful gadget protecting the bridge player from seeing at the grim visage of the partner and his sinister eye.

Talking about the real football,,, FC Bayern takes actually 11th position in the Bundesliga, and I am very pleased with it :(

WC hijacking is not a crime, its unorganized anarchy

hmmmm, It seems not to work :blink: not a single 1/2 posting with a cat in 3 days! shame on you hijackers :P

Some thougts about the ERP >> Marshall Plan...Surely, most of the Europeans appreciated this help from the USA and are thankful for it till today., but this was by far not a charity enterprise. The benefits for the USA were in economical and political regards enormous... -the war was over,the over-capacities in the american industries could bring the sitiuation similar to this one like in the 30's, ERP helped to boost exports, to establish the strong position of the US companies in the european markets, this has effects till today. -political cool calculated, ERP stammed the influance of the communists in the to this time very unstable Europe, espacially in Italy and France, no doubt a mile stone in the geopolitical strategy of the USA.

To bring more life in this thread... I think I will sponsor a bottle of Aberlour10 for this hijacker who will make the posting # 10 000 ;)

But did the USSR fall due to a people-led revolution? Communism in Poland did, look for stuff about the Solidarity Movement. This was only the beginning, but very very important

But did the USSR fall due to a people-led revolution? No doubt the Sovjet Union fell because enormous economic problems starting at the beginning of the 80's. They armed themselfs to economic death. This all is known. Western countries thought of course about how to help in this process. Interesting fact >>> They pressed Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to grow the oil production continuouselly in these years >>> oil price fell rapidly>>> the most important $ earnings of the SU too. Gorbatschov said later.. the Russians had to resolve all the reserves in valuta and gold due this this problem. Oil price High Low 1984 31,50 26,04 1985 31,82 24,66 1986 26,60 9,75 1987 22,76 14,90 1988 18,92 12,28

to be a rock and not to roll. amen.

This depends on the subject: economy : right social policy : right education: center-right domestic policy : center - left foreign affairs : center- left The FDP was the leading power in Brandt's goverment in creating the new policy of detente with the Sovjet Union (70's)... for example.

I use exclusively the WIN version with the same "entry screen" as 8 years ago (traditionalist!), No doubt, the web client has a lot of advantages, but the WIN has all the functions that I need and use, so I stay with it as long as it will be possible.

Are you Dutch? [off-topic]I am Pole living in Germany near Dutch border....this word in german expresses not the same as in the dutch language (now).

Usually Nescafe with a lot of milk....while visting Vienna from time to time >>>> all these traditional Viennese sorts through.

something forgotten? >>>np>>>fixing it for you is a pleasure

Next week another Saturday's Cooking with Aberlour B) with traditional polish Bigos on the agenda :D

Nice cover for today's waking up time in America: :lol:

I think these questions have never interested the Bush administration nor interesting Obama's goverment really in these days. What counts for both is geopolitical situation in the region... Iraq as US-dominated buffer zone between Syria and Iran . Why did the USA build in Bagdad the by far largest embassy world wide? More than thousend employees... for what? For learning Iraqis democracy and to make out visa? Or for leading and controling Iraq's puppet government.

Eg segi allt gott. Takk!...en Sjúkrahús = leiði ;)

Non-english-postings in WC are.... some kind of psyche bids :angry: You are wrong, If we (gwnn & me) talk together, then we prefer Icelandic for it.

tja, das wird schwierig sein, weil ich wahrschelnlich der einzige bridge spielende Pole bin, der vom WJ keine Ahnung hat. Ein Alien so zu sagen heh.

:D