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Hekate

(91,055 posts)
1. There's a great wave of nationalism washing over the world right now, just when we need to ...
Wed May 8, 2019, 06:16 PM
May 2019

...save the planet. I'm a Californian, not an ex-pat, but this is what I see and we are not immune to this disease.

DFW

(54,527 posts)
2. Here in Europe, all I hear is Frank Zappa's line from his first album, "Freak Out!"
Wed May 8, 2019, 06:39 PM
May 2019

"Suzy Creamcheese, what's got into you?"

Except in Switzerland. I was down in Zürich ion Monday. Down there (I'm "up" in the German Rheinland), all my Swiss friends (in the German-speaking part, anyway) greet me with a smirking "America First!"

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