German Of The Day: Hauptverkehrszeit

September 12, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Habeas Corpus, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Humor Tags: Berlin, Exhibitionism, German, Germans, Germany, Humor, Satire, Sex In Public, Subway, U-Bahn 2 Comments

You know, the peak hour? The highpoint? Not to be confused with other kinds of public Verkehr (traffic) out there, however.

It usually takes place in the Berlin subway around have sex, I mean halb sechs (five-thirty) in the morning, maybe later. Sometimes the Hauptverkehrszeit comes earlier, though. Even when it’s in the evening. Or in the middle of the night.

Police said that charges could only be brought in such a case if someone felt disturbed by the couple’s display and reported it to the authorities.

Speaking Of The Energiewende…

September 11, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Coal Power, Economics, Electricity, Energy, German, Germans, Germany, Nuclear energy Leave a comment

Or German energy turnaround… It’s really working great!

The price of electricity for private households in Germany has gone up 38 percent since 2008.

It’s easy to do, all you other countries out there. Just follow Germany’s example and shut down all of your nuclear power plants in a panic and then force through the construction of renewable wind and solar energy plants that are neither energy nor cost-efficient enough and then have them heavily subsidized by these households. That turns things around in no time.

Der Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW) erklärte, der starke Anstieg der staatlich verordneten Steuern, Abgaben und Umlagen in den vergangenen Jahren sei der Grund für den Anstieg der Strompreise für Haushaltskunden. «Hinzu kommen die gestiegenen Kosten für den Netzausbau, der mit dem weiteren Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien notwendig ist», sagte ein Sprecher des BDEW in Berlin.

Russia Passing Less Gas Than Usual

September 10, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Energy, German, Germans, Germany, Natural Gas, Putin, Russia, Ukraine Leave a comment

To Europe, I mean. Do to a “technical disturbance,” it seems. Some 20 to 24 percent less natural gas than agreed to. All of a sudden-like.

Thank goodness countries like Germany thought ahead and only import a mere 35 percent of the natural gas they need from Russia. Otherwise a dangerous dependency might have developed that could have eventually even threatened the Energiewende itself!

Seit Montag seien die Lieferungen um 20 bis 24 Prozent geringer als in den Vereinbarungen mit dem russischen Energiekonzern Gazprom festgelegt.

What Goes Around Comes Around

September 8, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, History, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: German, Germans, Germany, Islamists, Propaganda, Salafists, Sharia Police, Soviet Zone, Terror, Wuppertal 1 Comment

I remember the old Soviet controlled zone here in Germany.

But now they want to introduce a Shariah controlled one?

In what government officials say is a blatant challenge to the rule of law and the democratic order in Germany, groups of young bearded Islamists — some wearing orange traffic safety vests emblazoned with the words “Sharia Police” — have declared parts of downtown Wuppertal to be a “Sharia Controlled Zone.”

“Sharia Police: Coming Soon to Your City.”

Time For The Next Lösegeld Payment

September 7, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Habeas Corpus, Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: German, Germans, Germany, Hostages, Iraq, ISIS, Ransom, Salifist, Syria, Terror, Terrorists Leave a comment

You know, ransom? And this time the German government will be paying to get back two Salifists.

ISIS is holding two German hostages in Syria they now see as being traitors. It seems these two fun-loving extremists felt the calling and flew down south to help the ISIS cause only to be shocked by the atrocities their ISIS heros commit (it wasn’t like this on the video game). They have now expressed their keen desire to leave the real world and return back home to Theme Park Germany.

Die beiden Personen sollen frühere Salafisten sein, die nach Gräueltaten des IS nach Deutschland zurückkehren wollten.

Special Interests At Their Best

September 5, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: German, Germans, Germany, Lufthansa, Pilots, Special Interest Groups, Strikes, Train Engineers, Unions Leave a comment

How many people do you need to shut down train and air traffic in a highly industrialized/globalized and totally efficient country like Germany?

A couple hundred locomotive engineers and a couple dozen airline pilots. And two unions, of course.

“As well as demanding a 10 percent salary increase, the union is demanding the reinstatement of a benefit that enabled pilots to retire early at 60 on partial pay. Lufthansa pilots can currently take paid early retirement from the age of 55, however the airline wants all fit pilots to keep flying until 65.”

Germans Aren’t Scaredy-Cats

September 4, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hysteria Tags: Angst, Fear, German, Germans, Germany, Humor, Satire, Studies Leave a comment

They’re Fear Rabbits (Angsthasen).

And what’s the number one angst in Germany these days? Ukraine? Ebola? Nope. Money. Money, the environment and health, in that order.

“The majority of Germans are afraid the Eurozone crisis will hit tax payers hard and that the cost of living is rising.”

Im westlichen Kokon scheint der Blick gelegentlich getrübt – ein wenig mehr Realismus könnte den Deutschen nicht schaden.

“If I Want, I Will Take Poland In Two Weeks”

September 1, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, History, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Hitler, Invasion, Kiev, Poland, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, WWII Leave a comment

Oops. I meant Kiev, of course

On September 1, 1939, the German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II.

Today, 75 years later, Hitler is regarded as one of history’s great villains. So it’s easy to forget how slowly and reluctantly the worlds most powerful democracies mobilized to stop him. France and Britain did declare war on Germany two days after the invasion of Poland, but it would take them another eight months before they engaged in full-scale war with the Nazis. The United States wouldn’t join the war against Hitler until December 1941, a full two years after the war began.

Algeria

August 25, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Hypocrisy Tags: Algeria, Arms Sales, Exports, German, Germans, Germany, Pacifism, Tanks Leave a comment

Beautiful German weapon sale of the week.

Because somebody has to admire them.

German Of The Day: Lösegeld

August 24, 2014 By Hermann Observer in Habeas Corpus, Habitudes, Hard Facts, Hate, Heconomy, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: German, Germans, Germany, Hostages, IS, Islamic State, James Foley, Ransom, Syria, Terror, Terrorists Leave a comment

That means ransom.

You know, like the ransom Germany just paid IS terrorists in Syria to free a 27 year-old German who wandered down there “not being aware of the threat posed there now by the ‘Islamic State.'”

The German government officially denies having paid the ransom, of course, but they have a long tradition of doing this. Paying the ransom and then denying that they did, I mean. And this is a very sound policy, I find, because by doing so they never have to deny that paying ransom to terrorists for German hostages only encourages them to take other hostages and then kill them later when the ransom is not paid.

Zahlte Deutschland Lösegeld? Does a bear scheißt in the woods?

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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