Happy birthday, suesworld2003!!! *Smooch*

Also, yesterday Germany voted. And right now Germany is puzzled. We have something that comes very close to a stalemate. We have no clue what will happen next. Due to the death of one of the (lesser) candidates, there will be a small election on October 2nd in which another 200.000 or so votes may be cast. But I doubt that will make a great difference. Overall there has been a move to the left, obviously people are scared that the social net will be further eroded, but neither the conservative camp nor the socialdemocrat-green camp are able to run the country the way they'd hoped. Can't wait to find out what will happen.
I found a post in the forum of Spiegel.de that pretty much sums up my thoughts. It's in German and it's ( behind the cut... )

There are also other voices in Germany. ( Like this one... )

Fortunately, that disgruntled poster received a lot of flak and very little agreement. A lot of posters answered ( like this: )

The entire thread can be found here. Alas, it's in German...

And here's a politics quiz that I gacked from peasant_'s LJ.( Read more... )