Right in the middle of winter, too.
Die fast flächendeckend über Deutschland liegende Schneedecke wird wegen der erwarteten weiteren Schneefälle bis Mittwoch auf ein Gewicht von sechs Milliarden Tonnen ansteigen.
Category Archives: Hysteria
We Don’t Do Dirty Work
Yet again (this time not in Mali).
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle: “The deployment of German combat troops is not an option. And I have to mention just one more point. We Germans are highly involved in Afghanistan, where the French are hardly involved at all.”
The French are not alone in their criticism of Berlin. Political leaders in the US and Britain also find it aggravating that Germany presents itself as a peace-loving power and leaves all the dirty work to the others. Mistrust of Berlin has been especially strong since the German government abstained in the United Nations vote over the Libya intervention two years ago — the only Western country on the Security Council not to support the measure — and refused to provide its NATO allies with military aid. “As is usually the case these days, Germany … is keeping its head down,” wrote the British daily Guardian last week. Westerwelle’s “mealy-mouthed statements leave a bad taste,” commented the newspaper.
“We never explain what we want to achieve, we always talk about how we can stay out of things.”
No Contradiction Here
Just move along, folks. Nothing to look at here.
While German dedication to saving the German environment by ridding the country of nuclear power is in full swing (sort of), the German government has absolutely no problem using public money to guarantee the construction of nuclear power plants in other countries at the same time.
It’s not a contradiction really, though. Honest. Environment Minister Peter Almaier’s current ministry slogan is “high time that something changed” and they are even trying to set up an international club of countries who have done/will do away with nuclear energy. And that’s the main thing. So something has changed, sort of. The countries Germany is helping to build atomic energy programs for just won’t be allowed to join their club, that’s all.
“It is a gross contradiction, that we are pushing forwards with the change in energy generation while supporting atomic energy abroad.”
More Breathtakingly Beautiful Berlin Fashion Week Fashion!
If you like edgy, untraditional, eclectic, weird-ass, stupid as shit fashion, this is definitely the place for you!
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
The Joys Of Aging
Helmut Berger starts out as Dorian Gray,
only to end up as Dorian Gray (the painting),
throwing in the sweat-drenched towel on day two of RTL’s Dschungelcamp (The Jungle Camp) in Australia.
“Das klingt jetzt blöd, aber ich bin auch nur’n Mensch.”
Germans Stingy With Their Organs Too
Even after they’re dead, I mean.
Organ donations have dropped sharply in Germany following a scandal over alleged corruption at several transplant clinics. The German Foundation for Organ Transplantation says the number of organs donated fell almost 13 percent to 3,917 last year, the lowest figure in a decade.
Which reminds me of a joke…
An elderly patient needed a heart transplant and discussed his options with his doctor.
The doctor said, “We have three possible donors; tell me which one you want to use.
One is a young, healthy athlete who died in an automobile accident.
The second is a middle-aged businessman who never drank or smoked and who died in his private plane.
The third is a hospital administrator who just died after 30 years of service at a large medical center.”
“I’ll take the administrator’s heart,” said the patient.
After a successful transplant, the doctor asked the patient why he had chosen the donor he did. “It was easy,” the patient replied. “I wanted a heart that hadn’t been used.”
Doing Business With Communist Regimes R Us
You won’t regret it, Pyongyang! Germans have always been the one-stop experts when it comes to laying the groundwork for foreign investment in crumbling shithole communist states!
And here are just a few of the bennies your North Korean “companies” will soon be getting out of the coming deal:
We have absolutely no problem validating communism – we’ve been doing it for decades!
Our proven track record of indifference to the suffering populations under oppressive totalitarian regimes is virtually unmatched in the Western World!
Our economists and lawyers are all “can do will do” when it comes to selling expensive stuff to bullies of all varieties, no matter how bizarre, deranged or absolutely wacko they may be!
That is why you know that we support your latest master plan wholeheartedly – and we Germans KNOW a thing or two about master plans, too.
So remember Kim Jong: We are the pros when it comes to helping you help ourselves to help you help ourselves while helping you help us in the process.
“There is a master plan. They want to open up this year.”
Saudi A.
Beautiful German weapon sale of the week.
Because somebody has to admire them.
PS: Beautiful German scam of the week (of the decade?): “Burnout and Depression: Mental Suffering Forces Ever More Victims Into Early Retirement.”
1.4 Will Get You 5.5
Just in case you wondering about the virtues of stringent gun control laws in a country like Germany…
It turns out that there are 1.4 million Germans who legally own weapons. There are about 5.5 million weapons in circulation, however.
This is a so-called Widerspruch (contradiction), isn’t it? No German would/should own more than one weapon, (and one bullet) would/should he/she? I, for one, feel that German lawmakers should waste no time or effort in passing even more stringent gun control legislation immediately to well, uh, clear this Widerspruch up ASAP real pronto like already.
Die Deutschen haben rund 5,5 Millionen Waffen im Privatbesitz. Legale Besitzer gibt es aber nur 1,4 Millionen.
Euro Crisis Is Over Or Something
So have a Happy New Year already.
Germany’s finance minister says the worst of euro area’s debt crisis appears to be over after three years of worries over Greece and other members of the group of 17 European Union countries that use the single currency.
Meanwhile…
Berlin’s mantra about spending cuts in the eurozone is bringing unemployment and spreading hopelessness across Europe.
So take your pick, it’s both.
“I think we have the worst behind us.”
Observing Hermann 