During her New Year’s address. After her infamous Merkel Migrant Meltdown.
She’ll probably be grinning from ear to ear tonight. Go 2020! Geh mit Gott (go with God) but go!
Let’s all have a Happy New Year. Please.
Category Archives: Hurt Feelings
How To Identify Hackers
They always wear dark leather gloves while hacking.
And they also knock out the wrong news organizations. Hasn’t anybody ever told them about CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post and all the rest?
Germany: ‘Colossal’ cyberattack knocks out Funke news group – Hackers knocked out one of Germany’s biggest news organizations over the Christmas holiday. Such criminal attacks, which often come with ransom demands, have become a lucrative business model.
What? We Could Have Been Worrying About This Weeks Ago!
The Panic Police are simply not what they used to be, folks. There’s just too much to panic about these days, I guess.
The new coronavirus variant discovered in Britain seems to have been present in Germany since November as doctors detected it retrospectively in samples of an older patient who later died, Die Welt daily reported on Monday.
Specialists at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) were able to determine the virus variant B1.1.7 in samples of the patient who had medical preconditions, the newspaper said, citing the regional ministry of health in the state of Lower Saxony.
Corona-Mutation schon seit November in Deutschland.
Have A Merry 2020 Christmas!
Give Me Your 30,000 Jobs Or I Crush You!
Tesla’s German gigafactory held up by sand lizard – Court halts work cutting down trees because of conservation fears for the protected species.
This is how Germany works, folks. Or doesn’t work. Take your pick it’s both.
Some commentators have warned that the court decision to stop the forest clearance was a bad omen. Marcel Fratzscher, head of the DIW, a think-tank, said it highlighted the “heavy bureaucratic burden and high regulatory uncertainty, which make it costly and time-consuming for companies to realise investment projects” in Germany.
“German law is too often held hostage by vested interests so that Germany is at risk of becoming less attractive as a location for businesses,” he said.
“Like most Humans,” said Captain Kirk. “I seem to have an instinctive revulsion to reptiles. I must fight to remember that this is an intelligent, highly advanced individual, the captain of a starship like myself.”
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
How heartwarming or something.
Germany brings home ‘Islamic State’ brides, children from Syrian camps – Humanitarian reasons have been cited for flying home several ‘IS’ brides and children from internment in Syria. At the height of the civil war, the women allegedly traveled to join the Islamist militia…
Leonora went to Raqqa, then a IS stronghold, and became the third wife of Martin L., a German in IS’ notorious intelligence network. For a time she held a Yazidi woman and two children as slaves in her apartment until selling them.
All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
“Only the green light from the European Union is needed for Germany’s largest single vaccination site to spring into action.”
With a stress on spring. As in maybe by next Spring.
Germany’s largest Covid jab site ready for business – Spaces to queue up are already marked out on the way to the 64 miniature doctors’ offices where thousands of people per day will be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Hamburg.
Only the green light from the European Union is needed for Germany’s largest single vaccination site to spring into action, the brand-new equipment sitting ready in the vast congress centre of the northern port city.
Hard Lockdown, Lockdown Light, Christmas Lockdown…
Did Germans flock to the stores and through the crowds yesterday to get their Christmas shopping done before the big Christmas lockdown?
And to get their COVID19 infection while they were at it? Of course they did. They had to. But they know that their government is only locking them down for their own good so they are thankful that they were allowed to Christmas shop for as long as they did.
Germans flocked to the shops to get their Christmas shopping done. Now it’s forced them into lockdown for the holiday.
“The people are fed up with the situation.”
Not fed up enough, it seems. Happy Holidays!
This Surreally Happened
Art for Art’s sake. You know Art, don’t you? From the cleaning crew?
We need surrealism to deal with surreality, people. Or maybe we don’t. Hard to say for sure.
A Surrealist Yves Tanguy Painting Was Tossed in Trash at a German Airport – The painting, worth an estimated $340,000, was left behind by a traveler at Düsseldorf Airport and scrapped by a cleaning crew.
Loser Of The Year
That’s how a major German news magazine labeled these two (in German, Loser is also used for the plural form).
In his memoirs, Biden bluntly describes his disappointment with the German chancellor, who in his opinion was far too lax with Putin. In the book “Promise Me, Dad,” he mocks Merkel’s “passive voice” while at the same time praising his own speech as his having been his best ever. A meeting on the margins of the event with Merkel and the Ukrainian president apparently wasn’t particularly harmonious, either. “Merkel seemed frustrated with me,” Biden wrote of the meeting.
