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Some mores

Hiya everyone. Just arrived from across the Atlantic, which
means I'm still here in Europe but taking a glance. First of all I find that also here I'm getting into all kinds of
american palabras, like I see in every movie from your side of the water, and I really never see where that gets ME. Big story anyway that everyone finds to talk about, what?!
Never mind, at least I have some decent connections to the US - a great uncle of mine lived in Rhode Island at the begin of the recent century. He apparently didn't do too well. Also, a cousin of mine has spent his life in Chicago. I don't rightaway know what made me look for Philadelphia -
I guess I've heard something good about the place before. Also, there's many folks about there of german descent. So, since I can show up with some material of literary nature, written in German, I reckon on some reconnaissance by people who still speak this language and who would like to
read something decent (philosophical literature, latest issue) that even people in Germany not yet get to read that
directly. Since in a blog I cannot put questions rightaway,
I can only put forth some remarks or propositions.
We never get to see more about your political theatre than
the big fuss getting a president set. As for me, I'd prefer
McCain who seems a decent guy, not as squeaky and cracky like the Democrat's. But this is just a passageral opinion. With what you have rightaway, one wonders...
Shit, really, I do not know one little thing that people really have to care about over there - apparently, american society exists anyway in just two layers, doesn't it - folks like that and a class of governors - seen from Europe, this is very simple, no things of old standing that are existent besides that, since olden times. Wrrrr!

Anyway - here, I have a little proposition that may use some
venting in the public mind, something damn physical: states
and industries everywhere have considerable problems with nuclear and toxic waste, they do not rightaway know how to guarantee the ten thousands of years of good conduct until these matters will have lost their dangerousness. However,
some states have experience with subsurface detonations of
nuclear ordnance, in caves and so on. I just reason a bit -
would it be so far off to perhaps create a program of nuclear and dangerous waste disposal by just digging some giant caves somewhere in the rocky wilderness of, say, Canada or somewhere in Asia, in order to get all superfluos waste there, pile it up and then detonate a nuclear machine
over it? This would burn nuclear and chemical waste on the spot, one would never see any more of it but glass that will not spoil any water...

And here's another subject I'm venting: People like to know where whine and cheese are from - one can precisely point to the special place they are from. Now, I'd also like to know where the alien vegetables and fruit are from, as precise as possible, in order to wisen my taste for the world that nourishes me. I guess it would not take much to institute a data bank, paid for by advertising of just those
firms who, now, give data of the most precise origin of this and that food to this bank, add a small decal to their ware with a reference number by which one could identify this peace of food (or other) in this bank. This would be wholly free to partake in, firms can better their name by providing good information like this, and no government would have to force comparable gestures. Wouldn't that be fine, with all the refrigerators and computers that we have?

Well, so much for today. For germanspeakers who might be there and who could use a whiff of honest great spirit,
here's my literary address: https://books.google.com, searchword "Leo Hoeninger". I'm hungry for brains that I can feed, do you see that??

Greetings for now from Leo Hoeninger in Düsseldorf, Germany

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