It’s Oktoberfest time!
According to Best Oktoberfest Songs of All Time for a Traditional Party (timeout.com)
Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit
A staple of German beer halls and Oktoberfest tents, this short ditty falls into a quick crescendo. When the marching drums start, everyone stands, claps their hands and sings along—then chugs at the very end of the song (it’s rude not to). This song plays on a pretty constant rotation, partially to keep those mugs keep full and the good cheer plentiful.
Here’s to you, Jack!
sample verse in “ein prosit” song translation:
A toast, A toast to fellowship!
A toast, A toast to fellowship!
[…]
Schnapps, it was his last word
Then the angels carried him away
Schnapps, it was his last word
Then the angels carried him away
And so he went to heaven
And someone served him milk
The clod, he protested
Against this foul act
Schnapps, it was his last word
Then the angels carried him away
Schnapps, it was his last word
Then the angels carried him away
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ein-prosit-toast.html
in the alternative
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) | Painter: Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) | Pianist: Vadim Chaimovich (live recording) The Seasons, Op. 37a | October: Autumn Song #Tchaikovsky #Seasons #October #Chaimovich #Чайковский #Октябрь The Seasons is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in the northern hemisphere. Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 – 1890) was a major Post-Impressionist painter. He was a Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. (from Wikipedia)
EINS! ZWEI! DREI! G’SUFFA!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/china/china-party-congress-overseas-students-protest-intl-hnk/index.html
“Anti-Xi protest spreads in China and worldwide as Chinese leader begins third term”
“Life not zero-Covid policy, freedom not martial-lawish lockdown, dignity not lies, reform not cultural revolution, votes not dictatorship, citizens not slaves,” it read, in English.
“The day before, these words, in Chinese, had been handwritten in red paint on a banner hanging over a busy overpass thousands of miles away in Beijing, in a rare, bold protest against China’s top leader Xi Jinping.”
“Another banner on the Sitong Bridge denounced Xi as a “dictator” and “national traitor” and called for his removal – just days before a key Communist Party meeting at which he is set to secure a precedent-breaking third term.”
“In China, the slogans were scrawled on walls and doors in public bathrooms – one of the last places spared the watchful eyes of the country’s ubiquitous surveillance cameras.”
“As China’s online censors went into overdrive last week to scrub out all discussions about the Sitong Bridge protest, some social media users shared an old Chinese saying: “A tiny spark can set the prairie ablaze.”
https://apnews.com/article/iran-middle-east-berlin-europe-united-states-c191fc5925e69d4375f565704f648b71
“Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country’s morality police.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-atomic-energy-organization-says-e-mail-was-hacked-state-media-says-2022-10-23/
“Iran’s atomic energy organization said that an e-mail server belonging to one of its subsidiaries had been hacked from a foreign country and information published online, state media reported on Sunday.”
“An Iranian hacking group, Black Reward, said in a statement published on Twitter that it had released hacked information relating to Iranian nuclear activities, declaring the action an act of support for protesters in Iran.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/middleeast/iran-teachers-nationwide-strike-students-intl/index.html
“A teachers’ union in Iran called for a nationwide teacher strike in protest over the recent deaths and detention of students in the country, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA) said in a statement on Telegram on Thursday.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252613/pontifical-academy-for-life-member-criticizes-overturning-roe-v-wade
“Roberto Dell’Oro, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has criticized the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade’s strong protections for legalized abortion.
Dell’Oro is a moral theology professor and holds the O’Malley Chair in Bioethics at Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit institution.”
“He contends that the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abortion case violates norms of democratic personal freedom and respect for women’s basic autonomy in a way that verges on the “totalitarian.”
“….full moral agency defines a citizen’s status in “a secular, democratic polity,” and so failing to recognize “dimensions that are essential to women’s freedom”” risks curtailing “full democratic participation” for more than half of society.
“To impose a choice on women over matters that belong to their most intimate sphere threatens to compromise their integrity, bodily and otherwise, as persons,” he said.
Any man who demands otherwise should be relieved of his nutsack.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/22/donald-trump-election-republicans/
victory.
“This Nov. 8, the MAGA movement is going to deliver another Texas-sized landslide…” -Orange Adolf
(A “red tsunami”? Ya mean like in Uvalde?)
“Every Hispanic American in Texas … we welcome you to our party and our movement with open, open, beautiful and strong arms…” – Orange Adolf
(Until the Repugz turn our country into a fascist state and throw non-European, white folks to the ground.)
“Nearly two years after he lost reelection, Trump remains a polarizing figure in Texas. A University of Texas poll released Friday found that 44% of likely voters in the November election had a favorable opinion of him, while 47% had an unfavorable opinion.”
60 years ago today
Boris steps out, not running
Boris: “This would simply not be the right thing to do. You can’t govern effectively unless you have a united party in Parliament”
I’m on Cape Cod until the end of the week. Nice time of year to be here.
Gonna eat some great fresh seafood!
June 6 2019 LP, Mrs. P and I had dinner and beer in the Munich Hofbrauhaus. It wasn’t Oktoberfest but you’d never know it. With the oompah band, all the traditional tunes and beer (Hofbrau dunkel) and wiener sausages and pork and dumplings I wish I could get here.
Remember throwing spare change into the tuba at the dinner in Vegas?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/uk/liz-truss-resignation-allowance-intl-gbr/index.html
“Liz Truss quit her post as Britain’s prime minister just 45 days into the job, but she will be able to claim expenses of up to £115,000 ($129,000) a year for the rest of her life.”
Not bad for six weeks in a job you were terrible at doing.
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