Monthly Archives: July 2011
Consensus me, please
Not when it comes to rising sea levels, there isn’t any. Consensus, I mean.
So maybe that’s why the Germans, trendsetters that they are, have forged ahead and decided to go with coal.
Go coal power!? Thanks for the link, Joe.
No Connection Here
Between shutting down 8 nuclear power plants and the blackout that just hit Hanover, I mean.
This just sort of happened. It happens here all the time or something. So keep on moving, folks. Nothing to look at here.
Green Glamour?
In Berlin green is glamourous (wow, that’s a no-brainer).
Makes sense, if you think about it. Green certainly isn’t what you would call a “power” color.
But I don’t know. Do you really want to walk around in sustainable clothes all the time? After three or four months of constant wear, that sustainable sweater of yours may not be biodegradeable any more.
It’s Heuling Time Again
Big girls do cry.
Sayonara, baby (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting).
It’s about time, really. Not even the German women can win them all. It’s probably because the Japanese women were all radioactive or something, though.
Contradiction?
No contradiction here.
“Its failure to support intervention in Libya but willingness to arm Saudi Arabia shows the contradiction in German foreign policy.”
Speaking of Heuling…
The current women’s soccer fest has shown me once again that women just aren’t as good at soccer as men are. When it comes to fake soccer injuries, I mean.
“As soccer fans, we are shocked, shocked to learn that some players might not really be injured when they flop onto the pitch. Now comes a study suggesting that women are less likely to fake soccer injuries than men.”
They’re just missing that killer instinct or something.
Heul doch!
“He who bids and heuls away, may live to bid another day.”
Thousands of people jeered in Munich when the International Olympic Committee’s decision to select Pyeongchang of South Korea over the German city as the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics was announced on Wednesday.
Heul doch , Heul doch!
wenn du damit fertig bist dan bitte geh doch
was,was,was,was wilst du noch?
Pirouettes and Unpredictability
We Germans call the shots here in Europe, sort of.
It’s just that we don’t know what we’re going to be calling next.
“Anybody out there still think Germany is running Europe — or for that matter can or will dominate it in time?
The question fits the moment after the German refusal to vote in favor of allied military intervention in Libya, the government’s pullout from nuclear energy largely for reasons of emotion and domestic political calculation, and its willingness last week to put off possibly decisive steps to end Greece’s debt misery.
Over a period of just about three months, that is a lot of unpredictability and policy pirouettes for allies who might have thought German leadership, on the upside, would be rational, competent and closely bound to the West.”
Germany’s Latest Contribution To The Arab Spring
These must be special Panzer for Peace or something, these 200 ultra-modern Leopard battle tanks Germany is now prepared to supply to Saudi Arabia.
This is a dramatic reversal of Germany’s decade-long policy of not furnishing that zany authoritarian kingdom with heavy weapons and is clearly designed to send a strong message to freedom-loving Arab protesters everywhere (the Saudi military recently helped put down protests in Bahrain, if you recall).
Whether that is the right message or not, that’s another question.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the main buyers of German weapons systems in the years 2006 through 2010 were:
Greece (with a share of 15 percent)
South Africa (11 percent)
Turkey (10 percent)
South Korea (nine percent)
Malaysia (seven percent)
SIPRI said that Germany advanced from fifth to third place among the biggest arms sellers between 1998 and 2009, even though a previous center-left government pledged in 2000 to pursue a “restrictive'” policy on exporting defense technology.
Observing Hermann 