tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71421688800997434282024-02-19T03:00:33.694-05:00Der AnfangDer Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-77074609418271473432010-02-14T21:47:00.002-05:002010-02-14T21:49:30.151-05:00And the Rest of the Story . . .Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995 By Jonathan PetreLast updated at 5:12 PM on 14th February 2010 Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missingThere has been no global warming since 1995Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes Data: Professor Phil Jones admitted his record keeping is 'not Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-66263189212305272252009-12-11T11:44:00.002-05:002009-12-11T11:47:30.092-05:00Ein bemerkenswertes Angebot von Ukraine hat TalentThis is just Amazing . . .Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-35801315429102094842009-12-09T17:59:00.004-05:002009-12-09T18:33:54.589-05:00Und Sie dachten, dass Sozialismus… tot war. HA!Glücklich als Made im Speck, dass dieses schließlich zur vordersten Reihe kommt!This just in from the folks at Big Hollywood. Thought I'd pass it along as the discussion continues . . . Kids to Meet Marx in School – Care of Hollywood and The History Channelby Patrick CourrielcheChildren are uniquely malleable beings, readily convinced of magically colorful tales – Santa Claus and the Tooth FairyDer Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-79996624548367285072009-11-19T07:04:00.014-05:002009-11-19T15:32:58.758-05:00SAKI ! ! !Sometime ago in these pages, I introduced a good friend of mine from the 16th century, Michel d'Montaigne. I thought it might be of interest to introduce to readers another of my favorite authors, Saki (nee' H. H. Munro) through a series of his short sketches. Munro (Saki) captured the essence of an era long gone - the pristine yet portly period of Victoriana through the Edwardian Age. Things Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-23694348582833953352009-10-27T23:45:00.002-04:002009-10-28T00:05:13.135-04:00Verkaufen Sie den Vatican…. Ein was für Konzept!This, just passed on to me, HAS to be the most brilliant bit in recent history. It's a slice of what passes for pure Art in the school of Clear Thinking. Next to allowing Heath Insurance procurement across state-lines as a cure all for our Health Insurance woes, this bon-mot is nothing short of delicious in it's simplicity.">Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-81053270237192378152009-09-29T20:39:00.009-04:002009-09-29T21:34:40.980-04:00Tragödie gegen WirklichkeitWorking in a library brings a lot of odd/bizarre/touching experiences. One never knows, from day to day, what one will encounter. F'instance: 1) the isolated patron who comes in and delivers an excuse for her overdue items: "I RENEWED THESE ONLINE . . . . . WHY DO I HAVE LATE CHARGES? " Well, of course, they were renewed AFTER the grace period and so they have late/overdue charges. 2)"Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-36373839837305383582009-09-19T09:32:00.023-04:002009-09-19T10:36:42.812-04:00Die einfachen Freuden an einem landwirtschaftlichen vegetabe Standplatz kommen SCHLIESSLICH nach Washington….Zu markt, zu markt, um ein fettes Schwein zu kaufen….Ah, the simple, unfettered joy of a breezy stop by your local fruit stand. This, just in, from the Washington Post . . . . of all places . . . Hi-Ho, the Derry-OBy Dana MilbankFriday, September 18, 2009 Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do? Here's Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-47071549410877167652009-09-16T21:52:00.005-04:002009-09-16T22:04:45.032-04:00Welcher Patrick Swayze wirklich ganz ungefähr war:From one of my favorite Artists who recently [and too soon] Translated, I offer you this Gem. ( Thanks to my beautiful sister for the heads up) Watch and be moved. A wonderful and gifted aspect of God visited us and gave us such a gift.Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-89370689767728026922009-08-15T04:58:00.005-04:002009-08-16T20:57:57.680-04:00Etwas Furchtsame Warnungen von der VergangenheitFrom 1961, a short clip from former President Reagan before he was president. Back in those days, when we needed a doctor we just got in the car and went to his office, saw him and then were either billed or paid it then and there. When I was a very young child back in the '50s, I became seriously ill and wasn't expected to live. The doctor would come over to the house [whenever mom or dad Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-80019837221091325622009-06-01T14:45:00.006-04:002009-06-01T15:32:21.450-04:00Dieses Gerade Innen von PravdaThe following, published on 27 April, 2009, is from our friends at Pravda over in Mother Russia . . .American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper . . . It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-3685875034085883022009-05-11T22:25:00.008-04:002009-05-11T23:28:43.234-04:00Eine SchwingungsrückkehrGroße Göttin! Wie lang ist er gewesen, da ich geschrieben habe?It's been 3 months since my last entry. Well, never mind. Things have been a-poppin' around here, some good, some bad. We're still a one-income household but hopefully that will change with the upturn in the economy. We're holding our own but it is, after all, a matter of time. The last time this happened it happened to both Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-61118201164181555932009-02-19T00:58:00.005-05:002009-02-19T01:40:00.318-05:00Persönliche Kreation und SieI belong to several online groups. Periodically, small but powerful shots of brilliance are fired across my bow and I just sit here and ponder over the beauty sent my way. The following is one of these. Please consider:""At the end of knowledge there is a question that only imagination may answer."-or alternately-"At the end of learning there is a question that only the Artist may answer."Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-37853045272613545002009-01-19T02:24:00.011-05:002009-01-19T04:06:10.999-05:00Palm Beach & FireMy beautiful sister, as you know from previous posts, is involved with an ashram out in Crestone, Colorado. This year, they had their semi-annual meeting in the Palm Beach area of Flahridah and I was invited to attend. Having a four-day weekend, I, of course, said yes!It was wonderful. Great energy the evening preceding the Fire Ceremony. I stayed at a friend of my sisters home in Palm Beach, Fl.Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-71290149018857658052008-11-15T08:08:00.006-05:002008-11-15T09:49:06.976-05:00EndeavouringAnyone who thinks that Magnificent Magick isn't out there for anyone to see just isn't looking. At all. Last night I suggested to Other Half (here-to-fore known as OH) that we arm ourselves with adult beverages and walk up to the golf course to watch the space shuttle zoom off into the sky. One of the rewards of living in Tampa is that we have a golden vantage point to witness such wonders. Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-25072882733046360062008-10-22T19:41:00.014-04:002008-10-23T07:18:45.634-04:00Eine Andere Democrat-AnsichtI don't, as a rule, comment publicly on civic matters. But, I have to pass on this column from a Democrat in North Carolina. He is no friend of the Republican party and has written many articles against the stands that party has taken. However, this piece should be presented far and wide and I'm posting it here because it fearlessly stabs to the heart of this election year. The columnist is a Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-74780498381620422322008-10-19T08:57:00.020-04:002008-11-19T07:47:54.969-05:00Feen, Elfe und die Kleinen Leute in den WollenThe current state of affairs in the financial markets have oozed their miasmal stench all the way down to the humblest levels of life. We think of the huge houses of commerce and the Gnomes of Zürich industriously brewing mercantile magic without any concern whatsoever for what may come to pass for the rest of us. It's unseemly, really.Well, long ago things were different. Normal, everyday peopleDer Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-6705003640860940592008-10-01T21:33:00.006-04:002008-10-01T22:03:00.424-04:00Willkommen zurück, Herr Marx <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Been away for quite sometime but this seemed a good time to check in again. While things at the homefront have been in great flux, things at the national level have been at an even greater flux. I feel you'll find the following a remarkable item of note . . .Bailout marks Karl Marx's comeback Posted: Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-44836021576383042782008-02-28T09:12:00.012-05:002008-03-01T08:39:53.983-05:00Joyeux 475 Anniversaire, Michel !Around noon on this day, a wondrous thing occurred. A very dear friend of mine was born. He has kept me in good company and council for years and has been an inspiration to me beyond what words can convey.His friendly manner, his honesty and penchant for clarity instantly won me over. He spent his life engaged in a close examination of his own life and, thankfully, set those pursuits to pen and Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-79321541067312660772008-02-22T15:05:00.016-05:002008-02-28T12:41:41.988-05:00Haidakhandi Aarati auf der StraßeThe Kirtan Hall at CrestoneSome years ago, my amazing sister Melinda became involved with an ashram out in Crestone, Colorado. It is a sister ashram of the mother ashram in the north of India In the Kumaon foothills of the Indian Himalayas, That ashram was/is the home of Sri Babaji who, in an earlier incarnation (1861), brought us Kriya Yoga, a meditative & spiritual form of yoga that I Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-21793190918277309242008-01-01T09:23:00.000-05:002008-01-02T21:10:43.300-05:00Und, Ein Wunderschönes Erfolgreiches Neues Jahr!Upon arising this morning I was greeted by:4 champagne corks on the counter, three empty bottles of some very competitive wines, three nearly empty glasses of what appears to be Sambuco and Frangelica, a trail of a brown 'something' on the carpet leading from the dining room to the guest bathroom (?), and the remaining slips of paper containing clues from a rather spirited session of Charades.ItDer Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-80483018078126432242007-12-25T09:41:00.000-05:002007-12-25T10:02:26.361-05:00Frohe, Fröhliche Weihnachten Zu Allen!The sun has finally come out on this glorious Christmas morning. Santa, somehow, managed to find his way through the fog and yuck to deliver many goodies here in Tampadorf. And now the morning has burned away the mists and everything seems to be smiling.What I am calling my Christmas Orchid, is in full bloom. Just one flower but what a show! I've been waiting for around 3 years for it to Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-80567620398056059612007-12-22T12:10:00.001-05:002008-02-28T12:42:25.808-05:00Seasonal Joy from Nearly All Over . . .Nothing says Christmas like Good News from Nigeria.The following appeared in my email box this morning (in what surely must be the most interesting example of English apart from the package instructions for Taiwanese condoms) announcing I'm apparently a very rich man. Here is the exact spelling and wording of that missive:*************************************************UNITED NATIONS (WORLD Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-60645826245281789812007-12-13T21:56:00.002-05:002008-02-28T18:40:35.353-05:00It's All But Over!In order to further the ongoing crusade to shame all of us into submission of accepting our personal role and guilt toward Global Warming, here then is a list compiled by another dweeb who collects useless trivia: in this case, on that very subject. It seems it is only a matter of time that 'thems in the know' will include nearly everything that we humans (read: Americans) do to contribute to Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-48372288259738236122007-11-24T09:43:00.000-05:002007-11-24T12:07:53.203-05:00Eine Note des Winter-Schnees im Kansas CityAs if to punctuate our absence of nearly 20 years, my beautiful Kansas City has managed to welcome us back into her ample bosom with quite frigid air and light dustings of perfectly gorgeous snow off and on since we've arrived - a nice taste of what was our life here in the mid-west.The layover in Minneapolis' airport was very relaxing. What a wonderful airport: lots of high-end shops, great Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142168880099743428.post-50322197924684865432007-11-11T08:45:00.000-05:002008-01-01T21:23:18.350-05:00Die Einzige Sache, Die Konstant Ist, Ist Änderung.While this site has been a model of deadly silence for the past month, behind the scenes the author has been busier than a hooker working two bedrooms. My wonderful position as a cataloger for Tampa's library system has come to a close due to managerial re-direction and, at my own request, I have been re-assigned to the library situated but two or three blocks from Das Schloß.It was a simple Der Geezer von Tampadorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116375220185376021noreply@blogger.com7