Peter
I don't know what prompted that digression but I can't hold back.
I grew up in the USA, although I've been an expat for 19 years.
People shouldn't underestimate what a huge step it was
to elect Barack Obama. They also shouldn't underestimate the
effect of the demographic turning point that the USA is approaching.
It would be making some people almost psychotic in places like Idaho and
the
Bible Belt and they will do crazy things, but no other country
can absorb change the way the USA can. Their kids will get over it at
least.
regards
Mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Schlumpf
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2010 11:45 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] The world still turns
>
> Hope all is going well for you. It has been interesting watching the
> political reaction here to the health care bill and the Tea Party
> phenomenon. A friend told me that it looks like the years
> leading up to the
> Civil War. I see something else: Germany in the late 20's
> and early 30s.
> It's easy to think that things like the Civil War, fascism or a real
> depression are all in the history books and can't happen
> today. Wrong!
> Maybe I read the news too much.
>
> On a brighter note, spring is definitely here. Getting
> warmer every day.
> Crocuses are up and daffodils are next in line. Today I saw
> a pair of hawks
> soaring together in the sky. It is reasurring to see that
> the world still
> turns and does its thing despite anything that people do.
> Some of my family
> from Switzerland will be over here for my niece's wedding in
> May. I look
> forward to that!
>
> Peter
>
Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 23:57:06 EDT