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HAL
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Pies4shaw 
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Tannin 
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Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | (not necessarily in that order). |
^ a nice little touch. 
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | Visa or AMEX? |
Places still accept Amex?
Next you'll say you have a Diners card as well. 
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Pies4shaw
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Pies4shaw wrote: | | Visa or AMEX? |
Places still accept Amex?
Next you'll say you have a Diners card as well. |
It's actually deeply important to me that all you other folk should indirectly subsidise my continuing use of an AMEX card - I only present it at places that don't charge a fee.  |
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stui magpie
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Good work, and I bet you have both of those places in your rolodex.
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David 
to wish impossible things
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They really are fixated on Germans, aren't they:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/28/russias-bizarre-proposal-to-condemn-west-germanys-1989-annexation-of-east-germany/?tid=trending_strip_1
| Quote: | Russian lawmakers will consider a new statement that would condemn an event that happened 25 years ago – the reunification of Germany.
According to Russian news agency Tass, State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin has asked the Duma's Committee on Foreign Affairs to look into condemning the "annexation" of East Germany by West Germany in 1989.
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Naryshkin is an ally of President Vladimir Putin, and it seems unlikely he would have made such a bold statement without the Russian leader's approval.
And while the events it concerns may be long in the past, the motivation is likely the present. The plan was originally put forward by Nikolay Ivanov, a Communist Party lawmaker, who has argued that the reunification of Germany was insufficiently democratic. "Unlike Crimea, a referendum was not conducted in the German Democratic Republic," Ivanov was quoted as saying, referring to the region of Ukraine that broke away to join Russia last year after a disputed referendum.
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Even if the proposal is just bluster, a direct comparison between the two events does seem a little hard to make. The reunification of Germany occurred after Hungary removed its border fence, allowing thousands of East Germans to escape to the West, and eventually helped to topple the Berlin Wall. After large protests, the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) later held free and fair elections in 1990, which led to the formation of a pro-reunification government that signed an agreement to dissolve East Germany and join the West. |
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