It’s my Partei, and I’ll cry if I want to
The German phrase for being spoilt for choice is, "die Qual der Wahl" (kvahl dare vahl)―the torture of the selection. After Germany’s leader (claiming inadequate support) called for general elections to be held a year early, and the President gave the go ahead some weeks later...the question of an upcoming Wahl is still in the hands of Germany’s legal system.
This Länder’s my land, this Länder’s your land―
Von Kalifornien, to the New York Inseln.
Actually that’s not technically correct, as Länder is plural (and the apostrophe 's' is a bastardization regardless), das Land refers to a state or country in German. Here’s where the German states―or Länder―stand on the soon to be or not to be plebiscite:
You can pick out Bavaria, because we have our own special brand of conservatism...it’s shown there in Bavarian blue, which is really sort of turquoise. Politics are color coded here, kind of like the George W. Bush national security gauge. The conservatives are actually all considered black (not navy blue or turquoise as shown here, for some odd reason), the middle of the road SPD (Schröder’s Partei) is red, the Green Party is―well―green...und so weiter. Governments are formed by creating coalitions to achieve a majority, or Mehrheit (moreness) as they say here. Should there be an election next month, black and yellow will be running against red and green (really red and green―inspired by the surprisingly popular 'ostalgie' [a play on the word nostalgie, nostalgia, alluding to the desire to bring back the Staatssicherheit―East German Secret Police, or 'Stasi'―and all the warm, fuzzy charm that went with it...basically, nostalgia for the DDR] seems to have been more or less ruled out, but one can never tell here...they still love a wildcard). Black and yellow, red and green―guess it hasn’t occurred to anyone that all of these combinations make...
...brown.
This Länder’s my land, this Länder’s your land―
Von Kalifornien, to the New York Inseln.
Actually that’s not technically correct, as Länder is plural (and the apostrophe 's' is a bastardization regardless), das Land refers to a state or country in German. Here’s where the German states―or Länder―stand on the soon to be or not to be plebiscite:
You can pick out Bavaria, because we have our own special brand of conservatism...it’s shown there in Bavarian blue, which is really sort of turquoise. Politics are color coded here, kind of like the George W. Bush national security gauge. The conservatives are actually all considered black (not navy blue or turquoise as shown here, for some odd reason), the middle of the road SPD (Schröder’s Partei) is red, the Green Party is―well―green...und so weiter. Governments are formed by creating coalitions to achieve a majority, or Mehrheit (moreness) as they say here. Should there be an election next month, black and yellow will be running against red and green (really red and green―inspired by the surprisingly popular 'ostalgie' [a play on the word nostalgie, nostalgia, alluding to the desire to bring back the Staatssicherheit―East German Secret Police, or 'Stasi'―and all the warm, fuzzy charm that went with it...basically, nostalgia for the DDR] seems to have been more or less ruled out, but one can never tell here...they still love a wildcard). Black and yellow, red and green―guess it hasn’t occurred to anyone that all of these combinations make...
...brown.
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