Arto, lest you lose lutenistic perspective: I have made an arrangement of a Swedish political folk-song http://turovsky.org/music/Tungor2.ogg by the immortal Fred Åckerström, for your lutenistic benefit: http://www.polyhymnion.org/lieder/scandinavian.html #12. This way you (or anyone) could have the best of both worlds, and fulfill both duties- cultural and civic. RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Arto Wikla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:32 PM Subject: [LUTE] VERY OFF TOPIC! (political?) > > Dear all, > > it is going bad! Mr. Bush - the winner of the USA elections, the man > chosen by (nearly) half of the Amercians, has managed to produce a > civilian war in a country, where he sent his military. Tens if not > hundreds of people are killed EVERY day! Human beings like you or me. > This is one the very rare cases of a superpover sending its military to > occupy a state after the second world war... > > The guy and his country is bound to that mess for a long, LONG time. And > the same guy took care of taking the USA out of the so called "western > values" by his concentration camps and accepting the torture. Even in the > legistlation of the USA there seems to be something like "light > torture" nowadays... Horrible! > > To me the modern USA represents a new historical period of gettig out of > the the times of the so called Enlightment, the time where human rights > were taken seriously. And now we have come back to the Dark Ages again? > Or? > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
