East Berliners are Free!! So what else is new you might ask? Thanks to Mr Jaeger who opened the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing between East and West Berlin on the night of November the 9th 1989.
Euphoric East Germans had massed there flooding into the West and so peacefully bringing down the Iron Curtain after 28 years of Berlin's division.
Mr Jaeger, now 71, still recalls the disbelief he felt hearing the words that drew the crowd there in the first place. On Tv someone, some communist official announced that East Germans could now travel abroad almost immediately.
I nearly choked on my bread roll! And didn't believe my ears!
Thank God he did but not until after he had rung a superior. And so, down with the wall!!
"I had never seen such euphoria and I've never seen it since."
Yes the reality is quite different for everyone...EAST or WEST!
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
One for the West newspaper and the World!!
Who said only the word quiz is worthwhile opening the West Australian for each morning? I did! And I take it all back ... today anyway ...Saturday Nov-8/9 2014.
I might be bogged down in writing my novel (is 28000 words being bogged down?) for the NaNoMoWri or some such but this article stirred me up.
New York- TRIO ARRESTED FOR FEEDING HOMELESS Page 50.
Yes can you believe it? Two pastors and a 90 year-old have been arrested in Florida for feeding the homeless in public violation of a new law banning food sharing (500.00 dollars fine and 60 days in jail) .
Is this saving the 'poor' residents of Florida from seeing the shameful state of their country? There are 10,000 homeless people in Florida. Mr Abbott, the 90 yr old arrested, who runs a not-for-profit organisation called LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR said homeless people were drawn to Fort Lauderdale because of the climate (they were less likely to freeze there).
You the reader can be sure that this MR. ABBOTT is not the same as our MR. ABBOTT as our MR ABBOTT although not far off 90 in his looks could never be seen to run a not-for profit organisation.
But cynicism aside, Fort Lauderdale has become the 13th city to impose restrictions on feeding the homeless.
Can we see this sort of LEGISLATION move on to our wonderful country? I don't know why not. We copy everything else from overseas!
BUT DON"T TELL MR ABBOTT!!!
I might be bogged down in writing my novel (is 28000 words being bogged down?) for the NaNoMoWri or some such but this article stirred me up.
New York- TRIO ARRESTED FOR FEEDING HOMELESS Page 50.
Yes can you believe it? Two pastors and a 90 year-old have been arrested in Florida for feeding the homeless in public violation of a new law banning food sharing (500.00 dollars fine and 60 days in jail) .
Is this saving the 'poor' residents of Florida from seeing the shameful state of their country? There are 10,000 homeless people in Florida. Mr Abbott, the 90 yr old arrested, who runs a not-for-profit organisation called LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR said homeless people were drawn to Fort Lauderdale because of the climate (they were less likely to freeze there).
You the reader can be sure that this MR. ABBOTT is not the same as our MR. ABBOTT as our MR ABBOTT although not far off 90 in his looks could never be seen to run a not-for profit organisation.
But cynicism aside, Fort Lauderdale has become the 13th city to impose restrictions on feeding the homeless.
Can we see this sort of LEGISLATION move on to our wonderful country? I don't know why not. We copy everything else from overseas!
BUT DON"T TELL MR ABBOTT!!!
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