music to recount votes by

[Otto Sell]

Can't believe it, such a good Zappa-song on the radio! In the sixties the
stations didn't play it and over here in Europe we only get the nasty and
discriminating "Bobby Brown" on the radio.

Take a day
And walk around
Watch the nazis
Run your town
Then go home
And check yourself
You think we're singing
'bout someone else

With such a crazy voting system how can you be sure that any of the former
presidents has been elected legally?

I was very pleased to read that assumingly most of the p-listers are green
voters. Even if Mr. Nader maybe will have helped Bush jun. into the Oval
Office in the end someone has to try a third way in the US. It was hard over
here, even with our system of splitting the vote between candidate and party
(which has helped our Greens) - it will be much harder for you within a
voting system that includes the possibility of making someone elected
president who's got less votes than his opponent. No wonder that so many
people don't vote at all. I hope that this theater will speed up
discussions.

I have stopped watching parliamentary debates on TV a long time ago but when
the German Green Party was discussing the Nato-war against Yugoslavia (and
heavily criticizing and one even hurting fresh Foreign Minister Joschka
Fischer, the greatest success the party ever had in their short political
history) I watched the convent on Phoenix-TV.
Never before I saw such a lively and good discussion of politicians and
delegates in Germany, a lesson in democracy. The other parties and parts of
the media criticized the Greens for the way the discussions were hold, they
called it chaotic. I was very proud of it (though not being a member of the
party), proud that this was possible within a ruling party in Germany.

Don't forget that our Greens came out of the 68-generation which got parts
of their major impulses from the anti-Vietnam movement, the Civil Rights
Movement and the Hippies, thus from the USA.

looking forward to Sesame Street tonight

Otto
"The Count"

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: music to recount votes by


> Try "Plastic People" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention,
> from the Absolutely Free album, I think.  They're playing it on KPFA
> in Berkeley right this minute.
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