Even a blind chicken will find some feed some of the time.
Even small-tme crooks will get away with big-time money too.
Category Archives: Habeas Corpus
You got to know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
Bei einem dreisten Überfall machten Gangster rund 200.000 Euro Beute.
Are you sure you want to delete these files y/n?
Sicher ist sicher (better safe than sorry). At least when it comes to deleting data saved in Germany to combat terrorism and serious crime. Delete the stuff, in other words – can we delete the Street View stuff while we’re at it?
Germany’s highest court overturned a law that let anti-terror authorities save data on telephone calls and e-mails for a limited time. Now the big delete button has to get pressed – or maybe just the regular delete button, but lots and lots and lots of times.
This law is a “grave intrusion” into personal privacy rights or something and must be revised. Most likely because grave terrorism and serious crime never take place here, right? It’s nice living in Wunderland.
The ruling did not overturn the European Union anti-terrorism directive on which the law is based, but may lead to its reassessment later this year.
Teheran has visions of its own
And it hears voices too, for that matter. But just like with YouTube, it doesn’t do cinematic visions.
Nix Berlinale for you, buddy. The Berlin Film Festival is just too political, I guess.
“We are surprised and deeply regret that a director (Jafar Panahi) who has won so many international prizes has been denied the possibility to take part in our anniversary festival and to speak about his cinematic visions,” Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement.
On July 30, Panahi and members of his family were arrested in a Tehran cemetery at an opposition protest in memory of demonstrators killed in street violence after the election.
Welfare schmellfare
Oh boy, another non-issue that nobody here is ever going to tackle.
People are all up in arms here about a comment made yesterday by FDP boss/foreign minister Guido Westerwelle. They’re upset because he pointed out that nearly 60 percent of Germany’s federal budget is spent on Sozialausgaben (welfare/social-security payments) and that the whole damned system needs to be properly addressed and debated.
So why is everybody so upset? That’s easy: It’s because early 60 percent of Germany’s federal budget is spent on Sozialausgaben (welfare/social-security payments) and the whole damned system needs to be addressed and debated.
It’s just that they don’t like to be reminded of this, you see. This “debate” he’s talking about should have started some thiry years ago, of course (think, say, of what Bill Clinton did to welfare in the 90s). But it won’t be debated in Germany now either.
And this is just a proposed debate, mind you. Imagine the uproar if somebody here ever actually tried to change anything.
„Wir dürfen nicht zulassen, dass der, der arbeitet, der Dumme ist.”
More bad snow behavior
Or lack of it, I should say. The behavior, I mean. As reported earlier, snow punks recently took over the streets of Leipzig, kind of.
Now Jugendliche (have you ever noticed that it’s like always “young people”?) in Nürnberg are throwing snowballs from bridges at the passing cars below! How shocking or something. One of these snowballs even busted a windshield. Is nothing sacred anymore?
I think we’re dealing with manifestations of high sea fatigue here, only it’s more like high snow fatigue, if you stop and think about it. All this snow is slowly driving everybody here crazy.
Die Täter konnten zunächst von der Fußgängerbrücke im Nürnberger Stadtteil Langwasser entkommen.
From Copenhagen with Lust
Looks like negotiations are starting to get pretty hot and heavy up there.
Come on, everybody. Do what you can to bring down the planet’s temperature. NOW!
Global-warming summiteers have been told it’s uncool to buy hookers, but prostitutes have turned a trick of their own: heating up the atmosphere in Copenhagen by offering free sex to delegates.
German-US relations under strain again or something
“US President Barack Obama announced that he intends to seek the death penalty if the five defendants are found guilty. German law prohibits capital punishment, yet evidence provided by German investigators will play a key role in the trail.”
“This presents the German government with a dilemma. Berlin can either oppose the use of German evidence in a bid to protect the defendants from execution – and risk alienating a NATO ally in the process – or it can approve the use of the incriminating documents, which would contravene Germany’s position on the death penalty.”
No Capital Punishment in Germany
Boy are drinks expensive in Germany
Why drinks are so expensive in Germany that…
Uh, I dunno. But guys like Dennis Rodman don’t want to pay for them.
“Senior prosecuter Juergen Bauer says the game’s organizers had agreed to pick up the tab for Rodman’s overnight hotel stay, but not an additional $5,100 for beverages consumed at the party.”
“Relatively harmless support actions”
Terror doesn’t pay in Germany, not directly anyway. And not always.
That’s right. Justice has prevailed here once again. Two radical jihadists supporting the Sauerland Cell really pissed off German judges yesterday when it was revealed that they had tried to get their welfare and unemployment benefits transferred to a terrorist training camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border they planned to train at.
Clearly enraged by this, the court promptly convicted the two men to two incredibly severe 33 and 14 month jail sentences. German law clearly stipulates that you can only continue to receive your welfare and unemployment benefits while attending terrorist training camps here in Germany.
The “relatively harmless support actions” these two were involved in, helping to try and car bomb as many American targets in Germany as possible, was bad too, don’t get the court wrong, but blatant welfare fraud? That kind of thing practically never happens here in Germany and has to be nipped in the bud.
“Sie werden bald wieder draussen sein.”
Observing Hermann 