infobits - infopalat

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Song lyrics, including Finnish songs
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"It was almost three hours of screaming, door-slamming and accusations, according to the report I received," said Marianne Wargelin, honorary Finnish consul for the Dakotas and most of Minnesota, which has the second largest Finnish-American population in the nation.
Source: http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1513926.html

Perhaps the most damning comment on the incident was delivered by the Finn [J. Karjalainen] who was strip-searched. On a couple of occasions prior to 1991, he was detained by the KGB and interrogated. Compared to the ICE agents here in the Twin Cities, the KGB operatives, he says, "at least acted like human beings. Not a bunch of animals."
Source: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog-entry/2007/10/11/
welcome-america-now-spread-em.html

Keep handing over information and we ("Americans") will have no rights soon. To comply mindlessly and carelessly is to repeat history. Our willingness to dish over information is a dangerous theme by which to live, as is our blinding sense of entitlement.

What do you suppose the tempo marking should be?

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I had a violin lesson today and it went very well despite feeling quite burnt out and feverish for part of last week. So the time has come to jump back onto the focus train. Good thing, because second-year Chinese starts tomorrow. Thus far, I have received an A in all four Mandarin Chinese classes. Let's make it five!