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[kittydesade]

Accusative case. I know what the accusative articles are, den (masc), das (neuter), die (feminine), die (plural) so this will just be going through and doing vocab with the articles.

das Eis - ice cream
das Geschäft - business
den Laden - store
das Haus - house
die Tablette - pill
die Tasse - cup
den Markt - market
das Aspirin
das Brot - bread
den Kaffee - coffee
den Kamm - comb
den Salat - salad
die Wurst - sausage
den Saft - juice
den Tee - tea
den Wein - wine
die Milch - milk
das Wasser - water
die Gurke - cucumber
die Karotte - carrot
den Apfel - apple
die Traube - grape
den Käse - cheese
den Fisch - fish
die Butter - butter
die Torte - cake


This is about as coherent as it's going to get at the moment. Earlier today I read a news article (A local newspaper in TN) about how a non-profit organization calling itself the Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation paid somewhere between 3 and 4 million to the for-profit SAE productions (not sure what that stands for). This is nearly all of the IPTF's income. Both companies are owned and run by the same person and located at the same address. The non-profit generates funds by telling people they're in danger from Muslim terrorists and the owner of both says and seems to believe that 80% of the US mosques are run by terrorists. He also cites as proof of the evil of Islam their treatment of and denial of rights for women, and that it has no music and no art. Or that it denies both to its followers. This is apparently outlined in a book he wrote. A representative for SAE says it does not discuss its financing, but at least one foundation that only gives money to non-profits has given money to the Investigative Project... on the presumption that it was going to non-profits. There may also be tax-fraud involved. My extent of the law on this is fairly thin.

My original point from the earlier post was that when I read this article, my response was less of shock and more of oh, this again. Jerks. I wasn't surprised. I wasn't shocked so much as mildly surprised that they haven't been brought up on charges, either because there are no charges to bring or because no one can find the evidence. Which wouldn't surprise me. I certainly wasn't surprised to find vitriolic anti-Islamic sentiment based on incorrect presumptions connected to shady financial practices.

Which led me to wonder, why doesn't this surprise me anymore? Why doesn't this shock me? Why do these people, the bigots and the conservatives (social more than economic I think), provoke this response at least in me if not in others of, oh here we go again. Why are we no longer surprised or shocked when one of the loudly anti-gay religious/political/both figures turns out to be carrying on a sordid affair with a person of the same sex? Why do we react with more disgust to a Democratic senatorial candidate telling Obama to shove it than a Republican?

Do I just think this because I'm tired? Magic 8 Ball says It Is Very Likely.

It feels like liberals or Democrats or or people who are seen to hold these positions are held to higher standards because we're supposed to be the idealists. We're supposed to be the ones who are better because we believe people can be better. Or we believe in peace and love and everyone holding hands and loving each other. It feels like we don't get to be corrupt. We can be stupid or erratic, we can be tired and emotional (heh) but we don't get to be corrupt, greedy, or just plain bastards.

I don't know. Maybe I'm tired. Maybe there really is a liberal media bias, unless you're talking about the national (?) branch of Fox News, and they don't want to believe that their own can do wrong. More probably I'm tired.

Really, I think I'm just tired of being disappointed over and over again by humanity. And I need to go sit in my cave with my spinning wheel and be an old witch for a little while.

Oh, someone explain to me why football has opening credits, complete with music. I mean, really. Why?