a lot of good questions about Italy....Prime Minister Staller is working on an answer....I will say that Italy has had some wild swings since Mussolini stepped down in 1943...Since '43 Italy has had Mussolini Lite, Francisco Franco-lite, Corporatism, Communism, Enzoism, Francesco Guccini (no kidding, he ran the government for 2 years), the Era of Common Sense (Il Avvocato), The came the confusing 1990s....leading to Berlusconi, The Vatican "Eviction", the "Slap Heard Around Italy", "SuperLuca"...and coming up to the 2012 dead heat that put a Porn Star in charge....but check it...the porn star did a pretty good job, and won another General Election in 2015.
Land Of Confusion: The Wild Ride of the 2012 IRNA Presidential Election
- Thread starter Chipperback
- Start date
Re: Mafia
I wanted to keep my words in careful terms, as the succeses against the Mafia sounded to me a bit like "at least they built the Autobahn". But the idea that the possibilities of joining Fascist organisations would also dry up the traditional clan-structures. I remember how Jan Weiler wrote about his extended Italian Family, and in this case about his grandfather-in-law something like "of course, he had been a Fascist. There was nothing better he could do, growing up in Campobasso. And he remained grateful for the chances he received back then."
Re: Hare-brained
I stand corrected. Hair-brained makes some funny sense, too, you have to admit.
Re: Prime Minister Staller
That'd make a very Hedonist and left-wing Italia and I don't mind that. I wonder why the Propaganda Channels in Atlanta haven't had their heads exploding yet....
I wanted to keep my words in careful terms, as the succeses against the Mafia sounded to me a bit like "at least they built the Autobahn". But the idea that the possibilities of joining Fascist organisations would also dry up the traditional clan-structures. I remember how Jan Weiler wrote about his extended Italian Family, and in this case about his grandfather-in-law something like "of course, he had been a Fascist. There was nothing better he could do, growing up in Campobasso. And he remained grateful for the chances he received back then."
Re: Hare-brained
I stand corrected. Hair-brained makes some funny sense, too, you have to admit.
Re: Prime Minister Staller
That'd make a very Hedonist and left-wing Italia and I don't mind that. I wonder why the Propaganda Channels in Atlanta haven't had their heads exploding yet....
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Probably because they NEVER mention her unless they have to, and when they do, they just say "The Prime Minister of Italy..."
Bummer. I was going to speak for you and say that you had finished writing it, and was busy translating it into English
Teaser:
FACT: Nous parlons français au Québec!
FACT: Unless you live in the First Republic of North America, or you're a Nordiques or Maroons fan, it's ALL about the Habs [1] in Quebec
FACT: The Expos never left Montreal
FACT: Quebec is a friend to Free North America and not a friend to the Cissie Pact [2]
[1] a.k.a. Montreal Canadiens
[2] one of my nicknames for the Orlando Pact
FACT: Nous parlons français au Québec!
FACT: Unless you live in the First Republic of North America, or you're a Nordiques or Maroons fan, it's ALL about the Habs [1] in Quebec
FACT: The Expos never left Montreal
FACT: Quebec is a friend to Free North America and not a friend to the Cissie Pact [2]
[1] a.k.a. Montreal Canadiens
[2] one of my nicknames for the Orlando Pact
i'm working on the factbook. But I'm trying to update this week..including playing a championship game at the Rose Bowl... and we have to consider.....The 2018 RGC Elections....who shall take to the torch from Jerry Brown?
Some of Quebec is....But some prominent Quebecois have known to have leanings for Atlanta.
and there is the pro-Atlanta Solidare....who hold seats in the Quebec Parliament
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What kind of TV channels do they have in Quebec? Do they also show reruns of William Shatner's Space Quest?
The Game...From London -- Monday January 22, 2018
A pub near the IRNA Embassy -- London, UK -- 2:00am GMT Tuesday January 23, 2018
Lorilei Huntley, Analysts for the IRNA State Department. Oneida, New York IRNA
"2nd down and 7 at the 28... Stick throwing left caught be Wentz...breaks open... stopped at the 36...First down the Bison move forward for the first down.."
"C'MON ORANGE! WE GOTTA STOP THAT PLAY!" Lorilei Huntley shrieked amid the roar of the crowd of personnel from both the IRNA and GPUR embassies who got together at the Embassy Row watering hole for the game.
For Lorilei Huntley, this game is a special one. As a little girl in upstate New York, her dad took her to see the Orangemen play when she was little. Her dad met her mom as undergrads at Syracuse. When it was time to pick a college, there was little doubt when Lorilei would go. Orange and Navy was in her blood, and in her bones.
She studied communication there, but at a job fair her junior year, she looked into the IRNA State Department, and did an internship there. Ten years later, she's in London as a lead analyst for the IRNA State Department working directly with the Undersecretary for European Affairs and the IRNA's ambassador to the United Nations.
At that moment was a fan watching her favorite team...and only on she wasn't happy..The North Dakota State quarterback struck another pass that made the Plainsians watching the game smile including one of Lorilei's besties.
"OH YEAH! EASTON!!!!!"
Wendi Gilbault, Policy researcher. GPUR Foreign Affairs Directorate, Moorhead, Minnesota GPUR
"OH NO EASTON!!!" Lorilei wisecracked.
"The strength of the herd is the Bison, baby." Wendi shot back.
Wendi was brought into the GPUR embassy two years ago. Her and Lorilei are about the same age and have become good friends. Like Lorilei, Wendi grew up not far from her alma mater. She lived right across a bridge and border from Fargo, North Dakota in neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota.
And like Lorilei, her love of school and team ran deep. For Wendi, the ties ran ever deeper. She played football for the Bison women's team for three years.
And The Herd was about to make her cheer louder..
"The Plainsian Champs continue the march..1st and 10 at the 46... Stick under center with Cambridge in the trips set....Stick back to pass has time....throw down the middllllllllle, looking for Williaaaaaams....HE CAUGHT IT!!!! AT THE TEN....CAUGHT IT OVER DIXON.....TOUCHDOWN NORTH DAKOTA STATE!!!!"
The big pass play and Brent Musburger's excited tone sent Wendi into a happy frenzy...Her boys were up 7.
"BISOOOOOOOON, WOOOOOOOOO!"'
"Oh hush, Wendi. It's only one touchdown."
"Well there's more where that came from, girl!"
The Bison got an interception on the next series and marched again...
"Stick on the spread option...pitch to Simdorn....daylight around left end...TOUCHDOWN BISON!!!"
"DARN IT!"
NDSU added a field goal to make the score 17-7, but then Syracuse's best player picked up his game....and led the Orangemen down field. to the Bison 8-yard line.."
"2nd and goal at the 9...Watson,...throwing...wide open Cunningham!!!! TOUCHDOWN SYRACUSE....The Orangemen fight back!"
"THAT'S RIGHT!" Lorilei exclaimed. "Hey Wendi, this is far from over!"
The first quarter ended with the Bison leading 17-14, but the Orangemen had the momentum.
2nd quarter 7:25 left -- NDSU 20, Syracuse 14 -- Orangemen ball 1st and 10 at the Bison 33.
"Orangemen in the shotgun, trailing by 6, but Watson is working his Heisman magic... get the snap, handsoff to Orville Kearney....and HE HAS ROOM TO RUN!..30....25...FIRST DOWN....breaks free at the 15.....Its a foot race now!!! 10.....VEGA SHOVES HIM OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 3....AND A HUGE RUN FOR THE SOPHOMORE FROM THE MAINE REPUBLIC!!"
"Kearney's been the change of pace guy for Syracuse all season. And he's got world class speed.."
"Yes, a great story for this kid, Kirk...He was a sprinter on the Maine Republic Olympic Team...Because of the turmoil there, he fled Maine...Some of his family detained there.. Ran at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Kansas City under the Olympic Refugee banner...a great run sets up first and goal..."
"My granddad says Maine could be our generation's Crimson Wall, "Wendi said.
"Yes it is," Lorilei answered. "My cousin is with the Red Cross. He's working in a refugee camp in Quebec. The stories he hears really makes me think the Ontario PM has the right idea.."
"Watson HANDOFF TO BENSON AND THE BIG FELLA FROM BALTIMORE WILL CARRY IT IN TOUCHDOWN SYRACUSE!!!"
"Well check it out, Great Plains. Look who's in the lead now!!!"
"Whatevs, RustyGirl. We didn't win four straight on our looks."
But the bulk of the second quarter was saw both defenses regain control. Gains were harder to come by for both teams..
The Bison defense was determined keep Watson's running in check. The Orangemen defense was containing the run-pass option game the Bison love best..
With less than three the Orangemen had the ball, and Watson was using passes to make his move.
As they pushed closer, the SU backfield took over. Orville Kearney converted a fourth down-and-inches play for seven yards. Otis Benson gained 7 more off tackle as they got down to the 11 before the drive stalled out...
Syracuse salvaged a field goal to increase the lead to 24-20 with :47 left.
The Bison offense found a rhythm they had been missing. Three passes got them to the Syracuse 27....and then they crossed up the Orangemen and snatched the game back
2nd quarter :17 left -- Syracuse 24, NDSU 20 -- Bison ball 1st and 10 at the Orangemen 25.
"1st down 10...The Bison running that BisonCat, switching in Taylor at quarterback...True Freshman from the capital of the Plainsian state of Nebraska...his father was a successful college and pro quarterback...Sprint option...pitches to Cambridge...and HE CAN REALLY GO...15...10...5 NOBODY TOUCHES HIM...TOUCHDOWN NORTH DAKOTA STATE!"
"AW MAN!" Lorilei said in disgust.
"WOOOOO. What was that Lorilei? HOW ABOUT THAT HERD!"
"Oh, shut it!"
NORTH DAKOTA STATE 27, SYRACUSE 24 -- HALF
TO BE CONTINUED
Lorilei Huntley, Analysts for the IRNA State Department. Oneida, New York IRNA
"2nd down and 7 at the 28... Stick throwing left caught be Wentz...breaks open... stopped at the 36...First down the Bison move forward for the first down.."
"C'MON ORANGE! WE GOTTA STOP THAT PLAY!" Lorilei Huntley shrieked amid the roar of the crowd of personnel from both the IRNA and GPUR embassies who got together at the Embassy Row watering hole for the game.
For Lorilei Huntley, this game is a special one. As a little girl in upstate New York, her dad took her to see the Orangemen play when she was little. Her dad met her mom as undergrads at Syracuse. When it was time to pick a college, there was little doubt when Lorilei would go. Orange and Navy was in her blood, and in her bones.
She studied communication there, but at a job fair her junior year, she looked into the IRNA State Department, and did an internship there. Ten years later, she's in London as a lead analyst for the IRNA State Department working directly with the Undersecretary for European Affairs and the IRNA's ambassador to the United Nations.
At that moment was a fan watching her favorite team...and only on she wasn't happy..The North Dakota State quarterback struck another pass that made the Plainsians watching the game smile including one of Lorilei's besties.
"OH YEAH! EASTON!!!!!"
Wendi Gilbault, Policy researcher. GPUR Foreign Affairs Directorate, Moorhead, Minnesota GPUR
"OH NO EASTON!!!" Lorilei wisecracked.
"The strength of the herd is the Bison, baby." Wendi shot back.
Wendi was brought into the GPUR embassy two years ago. Her and Lorilei are about the same age and have become good friends. Like Lorilei, Wendi grew up not far from her alma mater. She lived right across a bridge and border from Fargo, North Dakota in neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota.
And like Lorilei, her love of school and team ran deep. For Wendi, the ties ran ever deeper. She played football for the Bison women's team for three years.
And The Herd was about to make her cheer louder..
"The Plainsian Champs continue the march..1st and 10 at the 46... Stick under center with Cambridge in the trips set....Stick back to pass has time....throw down the middllllllllle, looking for Williaaaaaams....HE CAUGHT IT!!!! AT THE TEN....CAUGHT IT OVER DIXON.....TOUCHDOWN NORTH DAKOTA STATE!!!!"
The big pass play and Brent Musburger's excited tone sent Wendi into a happy frenzy...Her boys were up 7.
"BISOOOOOOOON, WOOOOOOOOO!"'
"Oh hush, Wendi. It's only one touchdown."
"Well there's more where that came from, girl!"
The Bison got an interception on the next series and marched again...
"Stick on the spread option...pitch to Simdorn....daylight around left end...TOUCHDOWN BISON!!!"
"DARN IT!"
NDSU added a field goal to make the score 17-7, but then Syracuse's best player picked up his game....and led the Orangemen down field. to the Bison 8-yard line.."
"2nd and goal at the 9...Watson,...throwing...wide open Cunningham!!!! TOUCHDOWN SYRACUSE....The Orangemen fight back!"
"THAT'S RIGHT!" Lorilei exclaimed. "Hey Wendi, this is far from over!"
The first quarter ended with the Bison leading 17-14, but the Orangemen had the momentum.
2nd quarter 7:25 left -- NDSU 20, Syracuse 14 -- Orangemen ball 1st and 10 at the Bison 33.
"Orangemen in the shotgun, trailing by 6, but Watson is working his Heisman magic... get the snap, handsoff to Orville Kearney....and HE HAS ROOM TO RUN!..30....25...FIRST DOWN....breaks free at the 15.....Its a foot race now!!! 10.....VEGA SHOVES HIM OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 3....AND A HUGE RUN FOR THE SOPHOMORE FROM THE MAINE REPUBLIC!!"
"Kearney's been the change of pace guy for Syracuse all season. And he's got world class speed.."
"Yes, a great story for this kid, Kirk...He was a sprinter on the Maine Republic Olympic Team...Because of the turmoil there, he fled Maine...Some of his family detained there.. Ran at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Kansas City under the Olympic Refugee banner...a great run sets up first and goal..."
"My granddad says Maine could be our generation's Crimson Wall, "Wendi said.
"Yes it is," Lorilei answered. "My cousin is with the Red Cross. He's working in a refugee camp in Quebec. The stories he hears really makes me think the Ontario PM has the right idea.."
"Watson HANDOFF TO BENSON AND THE BIG FELLA FROM BALTIMORE WILL CARRY IT IN TOUCHDOWN SYRACUSE!!!"
"Well check it out, Great Plains. Look who's in the lead now!!!"
"Whatevs, RustyGirl. We didn't win four straight on our looks."
But the bulk of the second quarter was saw both defenses regain control. Gains were harder to come by for both teams..
The Bison defense was determined keep Watson's running in check. The Orangemen defense was containing the run-pass option game the Bison love best..
With less than three the Orangemen had the ball, and Watson was using passes to make his move.
As they pushed closer, the SU backfield took over. Orville Kearney converted a fourth down-and-inches play for seven yards. Otis Benson gained 7 more off tackle as they got down to the 11 before the drive stalled out...
Syracuse salvaged a field goal to increase the lead to 24-20 with :47 left.
The Bison offense found a rhythm they had been missing. Three passes got them to the Syracuse 27....and then they crossed up the Orangemen and snatched the game back
2nd quarter :17 left -- Syracuse 24, NDSU 20 -- Bison ball 1st and 10 at the Orangemen 25.
"1st down 10...The Bison running that BisonCat, switching in Taylor at quarterback...True Freshman from the capital of the Plainsian state of Nebraska...his father was a successful college and pro quarterback...Sprint option...pitches to Cambridge...and HE CAN REALLY GO...15...10...5 NOBODY TOUCHES HIM...TOUCHDOWN NORTH DAKOTA STATE!"
"AW MAN!" Lorilei said in disgust.
"WOOOOO. What was that Lorilei? HOW ABOUT THAT HERD!"
"Oh, shut it!"
NORTH DAKOTA STATE 27, SYRACUSE 24 -- HALF
TO BE CONTINUED
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The Game...From London (con't) -- Monday January 22, 2018
IRNA Embassy -- London, UK -- 4:07am GMT Tuesday January 23, 2018
"Watson's third touchdown pass of the game put Syracuse up, but now NDSU is trying to work downfield 3rd down 11 at their own 45."
"4 Years ago, NDSU was in the same spot, needing a score....and getting one on a deep pass..."
"Stick looking......Stick throwing......Down the Middlllllllle....CAUGHT TOUCHDOWN NORTH DAKOTA STATE!!!! Williams was on the seam route deep....and just like they did to win the first CCS Championship, NDSU gets a late touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl to stay alive!!"
"YEAAAAAAAAH!" Wendi screamed. The Plainsians in the building were all fired up.
A lot of people rooting for Syracuse not so much.
"Overtime..." Lorilei said. "Unless Watson comes up with one more big play"
"Overtime, girl," Wendi said. "You know what that means. That's our time."
Another Syracuse fans said. "We aren't Havana. We aren't losing to you Plainsian hicks!"
Wendi smiled at the person...and then stuck her tongue out at him like she was 10.
The Syracuse quarterback tried one last hail mary pass down the field...It fell incomplete.
The North American Championship would go into overtime.
"Syracuse has won the toss..."
"Well take the ball first!"
"The overtime rule in college football is that teams takes the ball starting at the 25 yard line. If they score the other team must score to continue the game or go for the win. After the third overtime period a team that score a touchdown MUST make an attempt at a two-point conversion... Syracuse will take the ball first."
overtime --- 1st and 10 at the Bison 15
Lorilei: "Lets take this in!"
Wendi: "OMG, I can't look"
"Watson back to the pass looking...FLUSHED...He'll run...he's at the 10....hit by Currier....BALLS LOOSE! FUMBLE!!!.....picked up by Deion Sanders Jr....at the 15.....He if scores the Bison win!!"
"Oh shit!!! CATCH HIM!!!"
"Sanders 20....25....he's the fastest player on the field if he scores the Bison win the CCS Championship...a Rose Bowl Miracle for the North Dakota State Bison -- Touchdown NDSU...85 yards and a North American Championship!!!"
"Heartbreak for Syracuse, you can see the hurt on Deshaun Watson's face...on the other side elation of Deion Sanders Jr. and the North Dakota State Bison, their first straight CCS Championship in another classic at the Rose Bowl."
"In the first CCS Championship, a miracle touchdown pass won the game....today a fumble return of 85 yards brings another frantic end to a great game....Congratulations North Dakota State...the streak continues!"
Wendi hugged her bestie. "Great game....but you know there's North Dakota State...and then there's everybody else."
"OH SHUT UP!"
--- Click BBC ----
BREAKING: BBC FAR EAST SERVICE REPORTS AERIAL CLASH BETWEEN PRC AND KOREAN WARPLANES AT NORTHERN KOR-PRC BORDER DEVELOPING
to be continues
"Watson's third touchdown pass of the game put Syracuse up, but now NDSU is trying to work downfield 3rd down 11 at their own 45."
"4 Years ago, NDSU was in the same spot, needing a score....and getting one on a deep pass..."
"Stick looking......Stick throwing......Down the Middlllllllle....CAUGHT TOUCHDOWN NORTH DAKOTA STATE!!!! Williams was on the seam route deep....and just like they did to win the first CCS Championship, NDSU gets a late touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl to stay alive!!"
"YEAAAAAAAAH!" Wendi screamed. The Plainsians in the building were all fired up.
A lot of people rooting for Syracuse not so much.
"Overtime..." Lorilei said. "Unless Watson comes up with one more big play"
"Overtime, girl," Wendi said. "You know what that means. That's our time."
Another Syracuse fans said. "We aren't Havana. We aren't losing to you Plainsian hicks!"
Wendi smiled at the person...and then stuck her tongue out at him like she was 10.
The Syracuse quarterback tried one last hail mary pass down the field...It fell incomplete.
The North American Championship would go into overtime.
"Syracuse has won the toss..."
"Well take the ball first!"
"The overtime rule in college football is that teams takes the ball starting at the 25 yard line. If they score the other team must score to continue the game or go for the win. After the third overtime period a team that score a touchdown MUST make an attempt at a two-point conversion... Syracuse will take the ball first."
overtime --- 1st and 10 at the Bison 15
Lorilei: "Lets take this in!"
Wendi: "OMG, I can't look"
"Watson back to the pass looking...FLUSHED...He'll run...he's at the 10....hit by Currier....BALLS LOOSE! FUMBLE!!!.....picked up by Deion Sanders Jr....at the 15.....He if scores the Bison win!!"
"Oh shit!!! CATCH HIM!!!"
"Sanders 20....25....he's the fastest player on the field if he scores the Bison win the CCS Championship...a Rose Bowl Miracle for the North Dakota State Bison -- Touchdown NDSU...85 yards and a North American Championship!!!"
"Heartbreak for Syracuse, you can see the hurt on Deshaun Watson's face...on the other side elation of Deion Sanders Jr. and the North Dakota State Bison, their first straight CCS Championship in another classic at the Rose Bowl."
"In the first CCS Championship, a miracle touchdown pass won the game....today a fumble return of 85 yards brings another frantic end to a great game....Congratulations North Dakota State...the streak continues!"
Wendi hugged her bestie. "Great game....but you know there's North Dakota State...and then there's everybody else."
"OH SHUT UP!"
--- Click BBC ----
BREAKING: BBC FAR EAST SERVICE REPORTS AERIAL CLASH BETWEEN PRC AND KOREAN WARPLANES AT NORTHERN KOR-PRC BORDER DEVELOPING
to be continues
The Empire Awakens -- Sunday January 28, 2018
"I am staying in consultation with various Olympic committees, the governments of Korea, Japan and California and stay abreast of the situation obviously.
But let me make the position of the International Olympic Committee clear. We will have these Olympics.
The region of PyeongChang. The Republic of Korea and 8,000 athletes have worked too hard for too long to not have these games. We will not let threats from pariah nations deter these games.
I ask the People's Republic of China to consider soberly the course of action they are taking, and a encourage all sides in the current situation in the north Pacific to follow the path of the ancient Greeks.
I call for all sides to stand down and honor an Olympic truce starting immediately.
For all I care, they can have their negotiations here in PyeongChang, I fact. I'D WELCOME THEM. See the festival and celebration of sport and peace and humanity that will happen here.
See this. Feel this, and see why this push for war is folly."
10 Downing Street -- London, UK -- 10:05am GMT Sunday January 28, 2018
12:05am Sunday January 28, 2018 IN MAIN CONFLICT ZONE
"Seb Coe called me not long after he spoke to the press," Prime Minister Michael Portillo said. " Phillip, they are scared and so am I."
Philip Hammond, the Minister of Defense shook his head soberly. "The Red Chinese threats continue and intensify, and sir, they've also increased their forces in the South China Sea."
"Dear God," Portillo muttered. "That's not playing well in Hong Kong isn't it."
"President Chao has heightened the start of naval alert in their forces. The Thatcher battle group is there and they are mission ready if needed. And we may need them with what our people in the Foreign Service are telling me in regards to the Californians."
Portillo gave his MoD a quizzical look. "What are they considering."
"Our Ambassador passed a note to Iain," the MoD said. "He says that the Japanese have serious evidence that certain weapons we'd prefer not the reach Alaska are reaching Alaska in merchant vessel from China and from Confederate holdings in Central America."
Portillo's quizzical turned to a frown.
"They fall in line with what the Japanese captured a few weeks ago."
"California chief of staff, General Maybank, is suggesting a NIPKORCAL blockade at the entrance of the Aleutian chain towards Kodiak Island."
"I hope President Brown dismissed it."
"The ambassador doesn't know, but be sure this is 'on the table' as the Californians would say."
"I need to talk to Iain," Portillo said. "Phillip, have Royal Navy Hong Kong maintain at BLACK SPECIAL. Normal patrol sequences stay in contact with the Free Chinese Navy and we work from there."
"Breaking news from BBC News 24...10 Downing Street has issued a statement supporting the earlier press statement from IOC President Sebastian Coe.
The statement from the Prime Minister reads, 'The British Government affirms the hopes of the IOC and Her Majesty's diplomat and military assets stand resolute to protect our athletes and their supporters as we head into this special time of sport and festival that will start this week in Korea.
The United Kingdom stands with our allies in the Far East and the Pacific, but moreso we seek to find peaceful alternatives in a situation that need to brought to heel.
We encourage the Orlando Pact to stand down in the north Pacific and honor an Olympic Truce."
to be continued.
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ENTSCHEIDUNG BEI DEN SOZIALDEMOKRATEN. Frankfurt/Saarbrücken. It was close and it ended with a long re-count collecting all local ballot boxes in the party headquartes in Frankfurt on the Main. But the SPD of Federal Germany has found a chairman in Heiko Maas. The Federal Secretary of Justice can now prepare his election as Bundeskanzler given that DFK and Green Party have signaled that they respect the outcome of the party members‘ vote.
In the early hours of the morning, Andrea Nahles conceded with the words „After all, 49.8 isn’t 50.2...“ And that exactly was the close result, which was apparently a consequence of the third rival, Olaf Scholz, withdrawing mere days before the vote. This certainly cost Nahles the chairmanship and the Kanzleramt.
However, Maas won‘t be able to ignore either of his rivals- be it as future allies or as eternal Foes.
Cold shoulders: Maas and Nahles.
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I don't mean to pressure you @Chipperback but will the Quebec fact book come up soon?
A History of Kentuckiana -- Sunday January 28, 2018
St. Elmo's Restaurant -- Indianapolis, Indiana IRNA -- 7:05pm Eastern Daylight Time Sunday January 28, 2018
The common myth is the Free North America doesn't pay much attention to any pro sports in the Confederate States.
In Indiana, that isn't quite true. Just like Kentucky people like the Pacers, Clowns and Racers, people in Indiana people root for the Colonels and the Brecks.
This upscale restaurant in Downtown Indy is also a meeting place for the Hoosier Brecks Club. Indiana fans who root for Louisville's favorite football team.
The mood was already a happy one. That afternoon, the Pacers downed their hated rivals the New York Knicks that afternoon at Hoosier Tire Market Square Fieldhouse in a resounding 124-97 win. Some think the Pacers could reach the CNAB SuperTournament. They certainly have the team for it.
But this night, Indianapolis' big, beautiful and important turned out to watch the team in what people call "The Sister City".
Indiana and Kentucky have had a kinship really seen in post-breakup North America.
There has been a sentiment on both areas since the "Lexington Spring" protests in the 1960s towards both areas coming together as "Kentuckiana". A merger in spirit, if not in actuality.
Since the 1920s, Indiana has had its own racial history. The Klu Klux Klan was at it height more than 200,000 strong. After the breakup, the Wendell Wilkie government went after the Klan, calling them "A vulgar affront to a free American people."
Still, The Klan even in the underground was a force in the western states in what would be the IRNA, at least until the 1945.
People here call 1945 "The Year of the Indiana Civil War". The Klan and an armed anti-Klan resistance fought battles in the rural areas and even in the streets. When the Declaration of Southern Intent was signed in 1946, many of those Kluxers moved south to the CSA.
But a reluctant and rebellious Kentucky didn't want the overt racists in their state, just as some didn't want a CSA that would also make race a cornerstone of policy.
Kentucky's reluctance wasn't lost on Richmond. The Confederate government of the day, the Strom Thurmond era always sought to "punish" Kentucky. Punish it for trying to moderate the Second Confederate Republic during the Constitutional Debates of 1946 and 1947.
Much of the scorn centered around Happy Chandler and Alben Barkley. Barkley, the powerful U.S. Senator from Kentucky pre-breakup. Chandler who Kentucky's "Emergency Governor" after the breakup of the United States forced a special election in Kentucky.
Both men at first were prominent unionist voices, urging for Kentucky and the greater south to reunite the remnant IRNA in what Barkley termed "A new American Commonwealth"
But Chandler had bigger goals, like perhaps becoming President Barkley of a "new American Commonwealth".
The cooperation between Chandler and Barkley became a competition that divided Kentucky into rival factions, straddle between unionism and independence. At the same time, there were the worries of the situation in the IRNA and in Indiana.
Two other competing factions gathering force in the American South with Huey Long's socialist push to form a "Democratic Republic of the South", and a growing movement for southern independence centering around a revival of the past.
"The best option for our southron peoples is the return to our ways. To rebuild our social systems. To fight for our birthright, our heritage. It did not die at Appomattox. It was delayed. Now is the time. We shall end this delay, and build a new Godly nation from the ashes of the old. These are the works we shall keep for ourselves and our children." -- Strom Thurmond at the Third Birmingham Conference on Southern Intent, 1945
Alben Barkley, seeing the storm clouds, tried to steer Kentucky's delegation toward some sort of independence or staying with the union. The pro-Thurmond forces in Kentucky, led by Orie Solomon Ware succeeded and swung a Kentucky delegation to a narrow vote supporting Kentucky's entry into a new Confederate nation.
Barkley and Chandler played one more card, calling for a plebiscite of Kentuckians in November 1946.
Unfortunately the infighting of the two rivals gave Thurmond and his faction the opening they needed to do something the newly former Confederate Democratic Party would do throughout their history, find way to fix the vote in their favor.
The push for a new Confederacy narrowly won the day, but they couldn't fix enough vote to prevent Barkley and Chandler for taking the top seats in a new Government. Something the dueling duo would hold until the 1960s.
In response, Thurmond applied subtle forms of economic and political pressure designed to bring Kentucky to heel, and to send a message to the rest of the Confederate States as well.
The bitter roots have lingered in Kentucky, through the anti-Klan, and anti-secret police stance in the 1950s. The protests in the 1960. The rise of the city of Louisville as the center of "loyal resistance" in the 1970s, 80s...Kentucky leading the push for Lamar Alexander's "New Frontier in the 1990s, to Kentucky fierce, if fractured, resistance today.
Sports provided a piece of that resistance, Beginning with the agitation of the "Baseball Committee for Free Kentucky", led by sportswriter Ford Frick and Kentucky ex-pat baseball Hall of Famer Pee Wee Reese through the 1950s. Both men demonized by the Richmond Regime.
In the 1960s, the call of opposition came from hardwood floors. Kentucky's love of basketball entertwined with their distaste for the ConFedDems and in the 1970s galvanized the kinship of Kentucky with sympathetic Hoosier voices in Industrial American Indiana.
In between was the Brecks, who's greatest claim to resistance was the beginning of an effort they tried time and time again in Louisville.
In 1969, the Brecks owner, John Y Brown Jr. meet with other businessmen, and the SEC Pro Commissioner at the time William Hartsfield Jr, with a plan to integrate SEC Pro, with an attempt to sign a hometown great, Leonard Lyles.
The attempt fell through in part due to resistance from the other owners and the demands of Lyles himself. Lyles wanted each team to integrate, not just one.
"What good is me at this point in my career to be held up as a trophy? Integration cannot be for show, it has to be real and lasting. To treat this as an experiment is not good enough. Integrate every team. Let our people in as full members, not show ponies. We can play and we can prove it." -- Leonard Lyle to SEC Pro Commissioner Williams Hartsfield Jr., 1969
The Brecks kept trying, and intensified their efforts when John Y Brown III took over day to day operations in 2007. When SEC Pro began integration three years ago, they looked to the underground talent in their backyard, backed up by the influential voices across the border such as Slick Leonard.
SLICK21: ARE THEY GONNA PLAY THE GAME
PROMO: MY PEOPLE SAYS THE BOYS ARE FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT, WITH SOME HELP FROM MISTER HERMAN
TO BE CONTINUED
The common myth is the Free North America doesn't pay much attention to any pro sports in the Confederate States.
In Indiana, that isn't quite true. Just like Kentucky people like the Pacers, Clowns and Racers, people in Indiana people root for the Colonels and the Brecks.
This upscale restaurant in Downtown Indy is also a meeting place for the Hoosier Brecks Club. Indiana fans who root for Louisville's favorite football team.
The mood was already a happy one. That afternoon, the Pacers downed their hated rivals the New York Knicks that afternoon at Hoosier Tire Market Square Fieldhouse in a resounding 124-97 win. Some think the Pacers could reach the CNAB SuperTournament. They certainly have the team for it.
But this night, Indianapolis' big, beautiful and important turned out to watch the team in what people call "The Sister City".
Indiana and Kentucky have had a kinship really seen in post-breakup North America.
There has been a sentiment on both areas since the "Lexington Spring" protests in the 1960s towards both areas coming together as "Kentuckiana". A merger in spirit, if not in actuality.
Since the 1920s, Indiana has had its own racial history. The Klu Klux Klan was at it height more than 200,000 strong. After the breakup, the Wendell Wilkie government went after the Klan, calling them "A vulgar affront to a free American people."
Still, The Klan even in the underground was a force in the western states in what would be the IRNA, at least until the 1945.
People here call 1945 "The Year of the Indiana Civil War". The Klan and an armed anti-Klan resistance fought battles in the rural areas and even in the streets. When the Declaration of Southern Intent was signed in 1946, many of those Kluxers moved south to the CSA.
But a reluctant and rebellious Kentucky didn't want the overt racists in their state, just as some didn't want a CSA that would also make race a cornerstone of policy.
Kentucky's reluctance wasn't lost on Richmond. The Confederate government of the day, the Strom Thurmond era always sought to "punish" Kentucky. Punish it for trying to moderate the Second Confederate Republic during the Constitutional Debates of 1946 and 1947.
Much of the scorn centered around Happy Chandler and Alben Barkley. Barkley, the powerful U.S. Senator from Kentucky pre-breakup. Chandler who Kentucky's "Emergency Governor" after the breakup of the United States forced a special election in Kentucky.
Both men at first were prominent unionist voices, urging for Kentucky and the greater south to reunite the remnant IRNA in what Barkley termed "A new American Commonwealth"
But Chandler had bigger goals, like perhaps becoming President Barkley of a "new American Commonwealth".
The cooperation between Chandler and Barkley became a competition that divided Kentucky into rival factions, straddle between unionism and independence. At the same time, there were the worries of the situation in the IRNA and in Indiana.
Two other competing factions gathering force in the American South with Huey Long's socialist push to form a "Democratic Republic of the South", and a growing movement for southern independence centering around a revival of the past.
"The best option for our southron peoples is the return to our ways. To rebuild our social systems. To fight for our birthright, our heritage. It did not die at Appomattox. It was delayed. Now is the time. We shall end this delay, and build a new Godly nation from the ashes of the old. These are the works we shall keep for ourselves and our children." -- Strom Thurmond at the Third Birmingham Conference on Southern Intent, 1945
Alben Barkley, seeing the storm clouds, tried to steer Kentucky's delegation toward some sort of independence or staying with the union. The pro-Thurmond forces in Kentucky, led by Orie Solomon Ware succeeded and swung a Kentucky delegation to a narrow vote supporting Kentucky's entry into a new Confederate nation.
Barkley and Chandler played one more card, calling for a plebiscite of Kentuckians in November 1946.
Unfortunately the infighting of the two rivals gave Thurmond and his faction the opening they needed to do something the newly former Confederate Democratic Party would do throughout their history, find way to fix the vote in their favor.
The push for a new Confederacy narrowly won the day, but they couldn't fix enough vote to prevent Barkley and Chandler for taking the top seats in a new Government. Something the dueling duo would hold until the 1960s.
In response, Thurmond applied subtle forms of economic and political pressure designed to bring Kentucky to heel, and to send a message to the rest of the Confederate States as well.
The bitter roots have lingered in Kentucky, through the anti-Klan, and anti-secret police stance in the 1950s. The protests in the 1960. The rise of the city of Louisville as the center of "loyal resistance" in the 1970s, 80s...Kentucky leading the push for Lamar Alexander's "New Frontier in the 1990s, to Kentucky fierce, if fractured, resistance today.
Sports provided a piece of that resistance, Beginning with the agitation of the "Baseball Committee for Free Kentucky", led by sportswriter Ford Frick and Kentucky ex-pat baseball Hall of Famer Pee Wee Reese through the 1950s. Both men demonized by the Richmond Regime.
In the 1960s, the call of opposition came from hardwood floors. Kentucky's love of basketball entertwined with their distaste for the ConFedDems and in the 1970s galvanized the kinship of Kentucky with sympathetic Hoosier voices in Industrial American Indiana.
In between was the Brecks, who's greatest claim to resistance was the beginning of an effort they tried time and time again in Louisville.
In 1969, the Brecks owner, John Y Brown Jr. meet with other businessmen, and the SEC Pro Commissioner at the time William Hartsfield Jr, with a plan to integrate SEC Pro, with an attempt to sign a hometown great, Leonard Lyles.
The attempt fell through in part due to resistance from the other owners and the demands of Lyles himself. Lyles wanted each team to integrate, not just one.
"What good is me at this point in my career to be held up as a trophy? Integration cannot be for show, it has to be real and lasting. To treat this as an experiment is not good enough. Integrate every team. Let our people in as full members, not show ponies. We can play and we can prove it." -- Leonard Lyle to SEC Pro Commissioner Williams Hartsfield Jr., 1969
The Brecks kept trying, and intensified their efforts when John Y Brown III took over day to day operations in 2007. When SEC Pro began integration three years ago, they looked to the underground talent in their backyard, backed up by the influential voices across the border such as Slick Leonard.
SLICK21: ARE THEY GONNA PLAY THE GAME
PROMO: MY PEOPLE SAYS THE BOYS ARE FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT, WITH SOME HELP FROM MISTER HERMAN
TO BE CONTINUED
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OTL me: I had always wondered about that period of time during the '40s, Chip. Thanks for filling in some of the details.
ITTL me: The part about interest in the other country's sports is true, at least in Kentucky and Indiana.
In Kentucky, the further you get away from the Ohio River, the lesser the general interest in the IRNA sports. The closer you get....
Owensboro has its share of IU fans, thanks to a long history of getting the Hoosiers from Evansville TV and radio. Like Louisville, there's interest in the Pacers and the other Indianapolis pro teams, even the Evansville Triplets lower-division baseball team. Believe it or not, there's some Kentucky Wildcat fans in Evansville. The friendship between Coach Hall and Coach Leonard, and the annual "event we don't talk about on Dixievision" that everyone knows about (the Indiana-Kentucky all-star high school basketball doubleheader) has helped bring people on both sides of the river together, at least from Owensboro to, say, Madison Indiana.
The Cincinnati area's a little different.
Up in the northern Kentucky counties of Boone, Kenton and Campbell, there's some interest in the Reds, Bengals and Royals, even in UC and Xavier and the BOSS soccer team. In Cincy, I'm told there's people who follow the Brecks, the Rivermen (the SEC Pro League Three team), NKU and UK. But a lot of potential interest is blunted by the Confederate Army "toys" pointing right at downtown Cincinnati, and by the IRNA Army "toys" pointing at the military base across the river in Newport, as well as the nearby communities of Covington, Erlanger, Florence, Fort Thomas, and on and on and on....
Also: there is some interest in Marshall University (huntington, WVa IRNA) in the Ashland, Kentucky area, and I'm told there's reciprocal interest in UK basketball and football in and around Huntington.
ITTL me: The part about interest in the other country's sports is true, at least in Kentucky and Indiana.
In Kentucky, the further you get away from the Ohio River, the lesser the general interest in the IRNA sports. The closer you get....
Owensboro has its share of IU fans, thanks to a long history of getting the Hoosiers from Evansville TV and radio. Like Louisville, there's interest in the Pacers and the other Indianapolis pro teams, even the Evansville Triplets lower-division baseball team. Believe it or not, there's some Kentucky Wildcat fans in Evansville. The friendship between Coach Hall and Coach Leonard, and the annual "event we don't talk about on Dixievision" that everyone knows about (the Indiana-Kentucky all-star high school basketball doubleheader) has helped bring people on both sides of the river together, at least from Owensboro to, say, Madison Indiana.
The Cincinnati area's a little different.
Up in the northern Kentucky counties of Boone, Kenton and Campbell, there's some interest in the Reds, Bengals and Royals, even in UC and Xavier and the BOSS soccer team. In Cincy, I'm told there's people who follow the Brecks, the Rivermen (the SEC Pro League Three team), NKU and UK. But a lot of potential interest is blunted by the Confederate Army "toys" pointing right at downtown Cincinnati, and by the IRNA Army "toys" pointing at the military base across the river in Newport, as well as the nearby communities of Covington, Erlanger, Florence, Fort Thomas, and on and on and on....
Also: there is some interest in Marshall University (huntington, WVa IRNA) in the Ashland, Kentucky area, and I'm told there's reciprocal interest in UK basketball and football in and around Huntington.
