September 21, 2007

• …makes sense to me.

  

  Gabriele Pauli is a member of the German parliament, representing Bavaria.  She is running for the top office in Bavarian politics.  She has proposed that marriage contracts should automatically expire after seven years unless the parties opt to renew, to prevent all the acrimony, fuss and expense of divorce.  To me, this sounds like the best idea in the marriage arena since the prenup.

  Most of the time, the insanities and inanities of our local politics and the campaigns at Alaska state and U.S. national levels are more than enough for me.  I cannot truthfully be called apolitical, but much of the time I tend to withdraw quietly unless I run screaming from the idiocy and hypocrisy that run rampant in the political arena.  I don’t go out of my way to seek to keep up with what’s going on in other countries unless the media bring something interesting to my attention.

  This morning on KTNA, the Talkeetna public radio station, I heard a BBC story about Ms. Pauli’s proposal.  In the piece, she was called a “redhead” and of course that intensified my interest.  I spent several hours loading web pages through my slow dialup connection and translating several pages from the German language magazines Stern and Park Avenue, and from her own website, informing myself about this woman.

  

  If she is a natural redhead, she has no loyalty to her hair color.  I found images of her with hair in many shades from reddish blond to dark brown.  An image that has stirred up a lot of buzz shows her in an auburn wig and gloves that most sources identify as “latex,” although they look more like vinyl to me.  She has posed provocatively in sexy clothes, and about six months ago she received a lot of press because a magazine article accompanying some of those photos revealed that during the shoot she had removed her underpants to eliminate the panty lines showing through her skin tight leather.

  Writers speculated that she had alienated conservative religious Bavarian constituents from her own party by participating in the sexy spread, and went on to alienate progressives by making an issue of the magazine’s having revealed her pantilessness, and her threat to sue the magazine over the article.  The voters she needs to win over to gain the position she is seeking are predominately conservative Catholics.  I marveled at her apparently heedless political suicide in the service of good sense and social progress, until I learned her age and had a look at her natal chart.  She is fifty years old.  I remember what I was going through when I was fifty.

  
  Thème astral, carte du ciel et planètes pour
  Gabriele PAULI,
  née le 26 juin 1957 à 08h57 à Schweich (Allemagne)
  Soleil en 4°26 Cancer, AS en 24°17 Lion,
  Lune en 14°08 Gémeaux, MC en 12°37 Taureau
  Astrologie chinoise : Coq de Feu
  Numérologie : chemin de vie 9

  

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