Articles by Dietrich Fischer

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The Black Hole
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2015

When Johan Galtung, widely recognized as the founder of the academic discipline of peace research, founded the first International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959, he and his colleagues sent copies of their working papers regularly to about 400 social science institutes around the world, including the Institute for World Economy and International Relations in Moscow.

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Blessed Ambiguity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2015

King Louis XI of France was superstitious. One time, his astrologer predicted nice weather.

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Security versus Peace Discourse (after Johan Galtung)
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2015

The prevailing discourse used by governments today is the security discourse, which briefly is the following: “We have a problem, our enemies. Through military superiority we can deter or prevent their evil designs and achieve security–and through this peace.”

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Flying Lessons
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2015

A flock of birds that could not fly met in a nice hotel on top of a cliff overlooking the sea for a training workshop on flying.

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Replacement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2015

An attorney telephoned the governor just after midnight, insisting that he talk to him regarding a matter of utmost urgency.

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Peace Journalism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2015

The time has come for “peace journalists” to write not only about war, but also about its causes, prevention, and ways to restore peace. They need not invent solutions to conflicts themselves–in the same way as health journalists need not invent cures for diseases themselves; they ask specialists.

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How Haiti Abolished Its Military
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2015

A soft spoken, retired Quaker couple from Troy, New York, took a crucial step that led to the complete abolition of Haiti’s army, which in 1991 had violently overthrown the democratically elected government of President Aristide and arbitrarily arrested, tortured and murdered many Haitian citizens.

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Easter Dress
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2015

Towards the end of the Sunday morning service, a pastor invited all the children to come forward for a children’s prayer.

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Insurance
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2015

Three retirees were sitting on a bench in Miami.

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Detail
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2015

The difference between philosophy and theology…

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A Binational Zone
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2015

We need a UN Agency for Mediation, with several thousand professionals, who can detect emerging conflicts and help transform them peacefully before they lead to war. That would be an excellent and inexpensive investment for a more peaceful world.

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Sheherazade
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2015

A cruel prince in 8th century Baghdad returned early from hunting and surprised his wife in the company of another man. He ordered both of them executed.

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Nonviolent Communication
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Mar 2015

Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg (born 1934) was invited to speak at a meeting of a group of young Palestinians in a refugee camp on the West Bank. The Israeli police had recently entered the camp to quell protests. The ground was strewn with tear gas shells labeled “Made in USA”.

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Saint Francis and the Wolf
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Feb 2015

We must understand the causes of violence, in our own interest, to prevent it in the future. In no way does this justify violence, or blame the victims.

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Retraction
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Feb 2015

A member of the United States Senate, known for his hot temper and acid tongue, exploded one day in midsession and began to shout, “Half of this Senate is made up of cowards and corrupt politicians!”

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Good News!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Feb 2015

During Cheney-Bush’s reign of terror in Iraq many many people were taken to Abu Ghraib and to rendition flights never to be seen again.

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An Irish Ghost Story
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2015

This story happened a while ago in Dublin, and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it’s true.

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Not Again!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2015

A wife and husband lived in a third floor apartment. One day, the husband died.

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Exactly!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2015

A reporter asked an American,

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Faith
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2015

A mountain climber slipped down a slope and barely got hold of a small branch at the edge of an abyss.

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Before & After the Fact
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2015

Before marriage…

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Monks & Politicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2015

A politician was campaigning for reelection and visited all kinds of people, trying to be folksy.

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The Jump
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2014

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were watching TV in the evening.

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Surprised?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2014

A little boy got lost at the gym and found himself in the women’s locker room.

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Right!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2014

A beggar walked up to a well‑dressed heavy woman shopping on Fifth Avenue in New York and said,

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Relativity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2014

Albert Einstein asked the conductor,

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New Arrivals
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2014

A pope arrived at the gate of heaven.

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Competition
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2014

On the last day of school before summer, when all children were itching to go home and play, a teacher promised that those children who could answer her questions correctly could leave earlier.

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Briefing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2014

Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing.

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The Genie
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2014

A New Zealander, a South African and an Australian were the only survivors of a shipwreck on a small South Sea island, surviving on coconuts.

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Wrong Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2014

A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley Davidson, when he spotted a world‑famous heart surgeon in his shop.

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Jesus!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2014

A burglar broke through a window and entered a pitch-dark room.

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Expensive?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2014

A foreign tourist’s car got stuck in a small Russian village.

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Examining
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2014

Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.

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American History
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2014

It was the first day of school and a new student named Yuki entered the fourth grade.

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Playing Bridge
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2014

Four women were playing bridge together every Friday afternoon for twenty years.

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Name Calling on the Road
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2014

A man was driving a car along a winding mountain road.

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May I Come In?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Servie, 11 Aug 2014

After a long illness, a woman died and arrived at the Gates of Heaven.

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IQ
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2014

A team of psychologists has developed a new measure of intelligence, a metric measure. The basic unit is the tary.

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Lawyers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2014

A woman called a lawyer in despair and explained, “I have never called a lawyer in my life.

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The Truth!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2014

A 10 year old boy asked his recently divorced mother, “How old are you?” The mother told him, “This is not a question you should ask, never ask it again.”

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Depends
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2014

A Chinese businessman arrived on his first flight to the United States.

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Honesty about Lies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2014

A reporter asked the mother of Jimmy Carter whether he ever lied. She said, “Maybe once in a while a white lie.”

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Successful Elections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jun 2014

President Carter was worried about his prospects for reelection.

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Good Care
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2014

Vice President Dick Cheney underwent surgery. When he woke up from his anesthesia, all shades were closed.

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Success Story
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2014

A retired mathematics teacher met the worst student he had ever had during his 40 years of teaching.

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Doing Math
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2014

A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, “Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven.

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School Compositions
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2014

Children at school must write a composition about the topic, “When visitors come.”

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Modeling
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2014

On a cold winter day, a model arrived at the painter’s apartment blue, almost freezing.

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Negotiators [not really a joke]
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2014

Albert Einstein compared the disarmament negotiations sponsored by the UN with…

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Ouch!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2014

Napoleon came to inspect his troops, and every soldier had to appear before him. They were a little nervous and intimidated.

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Secret Weapon
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2014

One day Satan challenged Heaven to a baseball game. Peter took a quick look at the rosters and accepted.

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Lawyer Good Samaritan
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2014

One afternoon a wealthy lawyer was riding in his limousine through the country-side when he saw a man along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out of his car.

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Welcome to Sweden
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2014

Condoleezza Rice was going to come to Sweden for a state visit. The Swedish foreign minister, who had to go and greet her on arrival at the airport, did not speak English.

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Safe!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2014

The head of a Mexican drug cartel recently took three suitcases full of money to a Swiss bank and demanded to see the bank president. He asked him,

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Poverty
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2014

Recently a zoo offered jobs to unemployed workers to disguise themselves as animals and play in the cages.

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Imelda Marcos Stamp
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Mar 2014

For Imelda’s 50th birthday, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines ordered as a surprise for her that a postage stamp with her picture be issued.

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Talking Roles
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Feb 2014

Daughter: “Mother, what is an ‘extra’ in the theater?” Mother explains,

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Computers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2014

A French teacher in the USA explained to her class that in French every noun is either masculine or feminine. A student asked, “How about a computer?”

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Be Careful What You Wish…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2014

A husband and wife, both sixty years old, were walking through a forest.

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Relax!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2014

On a flight from New York to Sydney, the pilot announced that they had engine trouble and would have to make an emergency landing at sea near a small uninhabited South Pacific island.

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Settled!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2013

A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3.

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Not Too Bad
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2013

An elderly man went to the doctor for his annual checkup.

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Laziness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2013

A foreman at a construction site told a new worker, “Your two colleagues carry two buckets of cement at a time…

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Gotcha!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2013

One evening, a husband brings his wife a glass of water and an aspirin.

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The Truth
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2013

Young Son: “Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of India and Middle East…”

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Precision
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2013

Three boys went into a drug store.

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If…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2013

Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun and Napoleon met in hell.

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Good Time in the Movies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2013

A young man told his girlfriend, “Tonight we will have a good time, I bought three movie tickets.”

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Smart Help
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2013

During a heavy rainstorm, you come with your car to a bus stop where three people are waiting:

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Skills
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2013

The radio announcer Daniel Shorr was considering working in television early in his career and asked someone what it would take to be successful there.

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Right!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2013

Someone was looking at a farm with the whole family working the field and said,

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Dentist Economics
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2013

Betty goes to a dentist and asks him how much it will cost to extract a wisdom tooth. “Eighty Euros,” the dentist says.

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Fairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2013

Two colleagues went to a restaurant and ordered fish. The waiter brought a plate with a bigger and a smaller fish.

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The Real Costs of Nuclear Energy
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Apr 2012

The only reason that nuclear energy now looks relatively cheap compared to other energy sources is that it receives huge subsidies from governments (that is from the people, without being asked). The operators of nuclear power plants are not held liable for accidents.

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From the East, Long Ago…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2012

Shortly after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, Hungary’s interior minister called the prime minister, telling him that his office had been burglarized.

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See you soon…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Dec 2011

A couple from New York agreed to take a week vacation together in Florida.

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Role Model
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Dec 2011

With a couple celebrating their 50th anniversary at the church’s marriage marathon, the minister asked Brother Ralph to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he managed to live with the same woman all these years.

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Classless Society
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Dec 2011

President Nehru from India was on a state visit in Moscow.

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Getting Even
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2011

A very loud, unattractive, mean woman walked into a market with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance.

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Beg Your Pardon
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2011

Saddam Hussein came to hell. The devil received him and said…

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Returning the Favor
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2011

A man asked his neighbor, “May I read your newspaper when you are done with it?”

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Stingy…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2011

Why did Adam and Eve have a perfect marriage?

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Two More
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2011

An Indian went with his wife on a trip to Jerusalem.

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Taking Offense
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2011

A man had been through a difficult divorce and been taken to the cleaners.

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Detail
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2011

Two girlfriends were married for ten years and still childless.

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Some Church
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2011

At an Irish bar, there was a contest for the best toast.

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Small Price
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2011

A pole goes to a bank with 100 zlotys and asks, “What is the safest thing to do with my money?” “Deposit it in a bank,” the teller says.

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Socialism, Communism…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2011

At a political meeting the chairman asks the audience, “Who is Gomulka?” There is silence.

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Last Wishes
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2011

A dying man asked his wife, “Are you going to marry again?” “If you wish, I will,” she said.

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Against Our Principles
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2011

A Rabbi, a Hindu and a lawyer are riding down the road when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere.

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Oops…!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2011

A Catholic priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish.

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Strategy Lesson at the Soviet War College
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2011

A general is a guest lecturer and tells the class of officers that the session will focus on potential problems and the resulting strategies. One of the officers in the class begins by asking the first question:

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Back in 1967… In Eastern Europe
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Aug 2011

Czechoslovakia announced that it was going to create a ministry of the Navy.

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The Dangers of Nuclear Energy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Mar 2011

Because insurance companies have refused to cover the risks of nuclear accidents, the Price Anderson Act of 1957 commits the US federal government to cover such risks. Other countries have similar legislation. This represents an enormous subsidy by the taxpayers to the nuclear industry… Solar energy is currently more expensive than electricity from nuclear plants. But this is only because of the huge indirect subsidy for nuclear power, and also due to the shortage of research into alternative sources of energy… If insurance companies, the experts in estimating risks, refuse to risk their money, why should people be forced to risk their lives?

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Quickies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Mar 2011

George W. Bush came late to a cabinet meeting.

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The Salary Theory…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2011

Dilbert’s “Salary Theorem” states that “Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people.”

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Schooling
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Feb 2011

A young cowboy from Wyoming went off to college, but half way through the semester, he had foolishly squandered all his money. He called home. “Dad,” he said, “You won’t believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here that will teach our dog, Ol’ Blue how to talk!”

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Drunks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Feb 2011

Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.

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Age Is Not the Problem
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2011

A fifty year old man went for his annual health check-up to the doctor.

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