Archive for the month of February 2010

Cologne: flooding due to high water

Saturday 27 February 2010

Who these days along the Rhine walking, it can, as every year, observed at this time: almost every hour we see the water rising and raging are, you can the river almost watch the swell, a light brown tide over simmering and is poised to to reach the water fronts, with a vast amount of plastic waste is a leader: Snow melt, rain ...

"We currently have a groundwater level of 37.9 meters. At 39.5 meters flood we want. "(GA Bonn v. 26.02.2010). This refers to the subway construction site in Cologne's old town. Tomorrow, on Saturday, it will then be ready with a water level of 6.50 meters.

Metro driving is stupid: bored, because you see nothing inconvenient, because you have just everything laboriously down and then drag to the top, tote bags, if not, then at least to himself, and it is dangerous, especially late in the evening and at night scary. If in doubt, despite surveillance cameras is a nobody to help. (more ...)

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Margot Käßmanns resignation: Background.

Thursday 25 February 2010

If you look at what topics Margot Kaessmann, (newly retired) Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Lutheran Bishop of Hanover in the last few weeks was in the headlines, one could know that they are on the "Red List" of those who did distribute publicly through the media "grades" and blow the hounding disgraced person; Margot Kaessmann had to be extra careful from now on. Obviously it was not confident enough ...

A church that does not interfere, and leads a pious custom zeitgeist wallflower, kissing the feet of the policy and everywhere holds itself incompetent in the evaluation of current affairs, no one needs. She even goes to their otherwise important function, the State party to put at least a certain counterbalance. Such a tame, rückratgebrochene, despondent church is certainly not in imitation of Christ and falls to the right more and more into insignificance. What is shown not least to leave the church.

A sigh of relief went through Germany, because for the first time in years was a senior church representative who is not only to Christmas in hostilities verfranste feeling, but with a few words also about Afghanistan - nudged public debate - long overdue.

Typical representatives of a politically correct, docile churches (one) direction is a certain Mr. Klose (SPD), the good news does not know God is written on the face.

Of course, he complained in IMAGE sharp Kaessmann for what she had said to her much-discussed Christmas in Christmas sermon and demanded that she should be confined to the preaching of the Word of God.

Limit? Limit? How should we be limited to refer to something as comprehensive limitation? What about time with this word of God: "Thou shalt not kill", Mr. Klose. Is it for a limited statement? Woe to the policy if the churches would take it seriously again suddenly, what stands in the Gospels! (more ...)

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Ssänk ju for träffelling wiss doitsche ground

Thursday 25 February 2010

Want to help? Yes? Who? The Deutsche Bahn, here again to speak German, and thus to become more customer friendly.

After many years of "Denglish" you are there, however, become unsure of how the individual services were called in German yet. Therefore, it may be helpful to engage the customer in a public back-translation with appropriate, relevant translation proposals. click here.

Especially looking for the following terms to the appropriate German translation:
Service Point
Service Hotline
Call a bike
Kiss & Ride
Park and Rail
Call-a-bike
Sleep-on-train

Please get involved! Help the Deutsche Bahn here, again to be more customer friendly.
THANK YOU. You can expect as a reward for your troubles: A lot of free ride tickets to the Green and Blue!

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Dresden, 13.-15. February

Wednesday 17 February 2010
Dresden am 15.2.1945; Quelle: Wikipedia Commons

Dresden on 02/15/1945, Source: Wikipedia Commons

The demonstrations yesterday in Dresden on the 65th Anniversary of the utter destruction of this city of art at the same show with a huge number of deaths:

Germany is sick mentally and emotionally disturbed.

Because there is obviously no longer the lowest common denominator: mourning. Dead to mourn, mourn war, mourn the demise of a city.

In Germany it is seen to be impossible, and civilized together to celebrate with dignity the anniversary commemorating the destruction but also the resurrection of a city. Without exception, all cooked on this day some soup.

The right wing wanted to show presence, as always, swing flags, knock pithy sayings and find it important, "no remedy - no forgetting." The leftists and anarchists, as always for the right to prevent Nazism claiming wanted, either for or against trash cans set on fire and overturning cars of rights. The Germans were anti-Israel banners waving call "Bomber Harris do it again," Never again Germany "and" no victims, but perpetrators "and the officials wanted to be do-gooders. But they made a human chain with prayers for peace and put a "character": "For equal rights of all people," "for tolerance and justice" and "Against Anti-Semitism and extremism".

The mayor thought of some 25,000 victims, which again a few thousand less than in previous years, and described the human chain as a "sign against intolerance and stupidity," and Prime Minister thought Tillich, especially the war that came from German soil, as This would not be able to hear the other 364 days of the year. (more ...)

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S interior and protesting against the war inside (internal troops) in Afghanistan

Sunday 14 February 2010

I just got an invitation to a demonstration in Berlin on Afghanistan and most recently the promised surge through Germany. I read, all right so far - but something bothered me to the text ...

I can not for the first time the feeling that an overly zealous grammatical gender correctness, as used in this call, particularly grotesque, the content pushes into the background, so that even thwart.

One could get the impression that the authors more a demonstration of gender-correctness (a subdivision of political correctness) is, as to the ultimate goal of "peace".

I put it in the left camp in general, and in addition, more and more a cut and dried small-mindedness and philistinism korinthenköttelnde determined that conveys a sense of claustrophobic confinement. Yes, I even feel that this particular form of "Gutschreibs" the thinking and precise formulation is detrimental. (more ...)

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Ice Age or: Greetings from the Angora Rabbit

Saturday 13 February 2010
Hattu mal ein warmes Höschen?

Hattu times a hot pants?

Frowning, I look at the thick plastic bag with the inscription WAY! Ebay / second hand. Hmmmm.

I open the carefully tied together with an old woolen belt knot and begin to view the content. Next to me I put the camera and of course a little box with different unbearable Parfumpröbchen ready "Dunest", "Gloria anyway", "Gino Ginelli and" Bruno Babane "etc., to cover up the smell of mildew may occur / moth / spores before I ablichte the freshly sprayed product, pack and prepare for shipping ...

I pull out the first Wollpulover, all with high, tight collar, as they may suffer no more, but great quality, good old brand merchandise, where to hang out no threads, closely knit, hochmerzerisiert not felting, merino, etc., just from the good old time stopped sometime in the eighties, as a conquered eastern goods to market clothes.

Am I stupid, I think to myself. Since I buy because of the continuing cold woolen vests for 20-40 € a piece here and fine knits are in the bag. Simply cut out the narrow neck, snip-snap, clean cut a new, more comfortable neck and skirt with a quick zig-zag - done (more ...)

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"Rules of Deception" (The rules of deception) or: how to bring the war to write

Saturday 13 February 2010
Regeln der Täuschung

Rules of Deception

About three weeks ago I accompanied a friend in an English-Spanish bookstore of a large shopping center. While he collected books ordered, I strolled around easily bored and grabbed a book off the shelf: RULES OF DECEPTION (Rules of Deception) by Christopher Reich, an American author.

I opened it and read: "Switzerland was founded in 1291 and regards itself as the oldest continuously functioning democracy in the world ..."
The thriller of an American author that is played in Switzerland. That seemed interesting, and I bought the bright red thing.

Right from the first page of the book developed a vortex that prolog achieved even literary level. Consistently short chapters each comprising no more a half to two pages, so the book is cycled incredibly fast. Each new chapter is connected with a change of scene and perspective, which makes it extremely exciting. In such perfection, I had admired this narrative technique for the last time with Ruth Rendell's "Do not talk to strangers". Empire pursued weaving and not just two narrative threads, but up to seven!

Jonathan Ransom, an American physician who works with his wife for "Doctors without Borders" in Geneva, loses it by a fatal accident at a ski tour near the Swiss Furga north face, she suffered a broken leg, he must leave in the thick snow to get help, only to finally determine that it has in the meantime is trying to move on and has fallen into a crevasse ...
The distraught husband goes back alone to the hotel and found among the personal belongings of his wife also have a baggage claim ticket. And so begins the nightmare: (more ...)

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Irritation due to Persian Dictionary for the Bundeswehr

Thursday 11 February 2010

The army soon on the side of Israel against Iran? The Federal Office of Languages ​​publishes a Persian Dictionary for soldiers, where sentences are to be read as: "I was born in Cologne," "I belong to the UN peacekeeping forces", "Iran is a beautiful country." Furthermore, there is the Persian translation mliltärischer commands like "stop stop."

The reason for the Member of Parliament Inge Hoeger (The Left Party) to dig deeper. Thankfully is on youtube a video set to the questions and the answers of the woman Hoger Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Christian Schmidt (CSU).

What you hear in the sequence is hard to believe:

Schmidt winds up clearly, the question obviously felt as a single suggestion, even aggressive towards the end. The Geschwurbel can be found, however, that the phrasebook is designed to enhance the communication skills of the soldiers.

Then drop words like "Israeli President recently in Parliament", "threat of Israel", "Israel's right to exist", "Iranian threat".

Schmidt recalls the Merkel promised that "an attack on Israel as an attack on us".

What can we conclude? (more ...)

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Winter 2009/2010: Oh God, global warming does not blow off! (With bonus track)

Thursday 11 February 2010

♪ ♪ ♪ Listen to the audio track

Oh God, why do you
The winter so hard?
Oh God, have pity on
We are so cold.
Oh God, make the spring soon
For us, it freezes so much.

Oh God, why do you send
So much frost and ice?
Oh Lord, let it thaw
And do it quickly hot
Oh God, blow out the air-
From not warming!

Oh God, let it melt,
Lord send us `NEN hair dryer!
I can my car
Already many no longer see!
I do not want to freeze
Oh God wärm me!

Oh God, have a Einsehn
And get me out of here!
I'm coming for weeks
Do not leave the house!
Oh Lord, blow the air
From not warming!

Oh God, please let us
With ice age in peace,
I do not want to
A cold igloo!
Oh Lord please make me
My heart warm again!

The song is obviously inspired by the tune of Janis Joplin: Oh lord will not you buy me a Mercedes-Benz ...

(Sure someone somewhere knows someone who had the desire to implement the above construction with me musically. [Guitar / Keyboard]. About information I would appreciate it.)

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THE WORLD of criticism - Complaints against massive bombs on Iran-call

Tuesday 09 February 2010

Daniel Pipes, "studies"-director of the Middle-East Forum and self-proclaimed expert on Iran seems to be a certain Gegenwindchen to blow in the face: On his home page he writes under the title:

"Sarah Palin supports, Bomb Iran '"
My National Review Online column last week was the provocative headline: 'How to save the Obama presidency: Bomb Iran,' and that was provocative indeed.

Left-leaning websites like Think Progress and DailyKos responded quick-tempered and slightly crazy way, by my argument misrepresenting, even while they're me with unrepeatable names betitulierten. The German paper Die Welt published the article in a translation that came, however, so strongly to the criticism that the publisher withdrew my analysis. "

Then he describes the approval and encouragement he had received from the U.S. rights (including through Palin, Buchanan)

There follow passages from an interview with television channel Fox last Sunday with his declared favorite politician - the former vice presidential candidate of the U.S. Republican: Sarah Palin As a reminder, a Christian fundamentalist (Pentacostal movement) is. (more ...)

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Ludwigsburg gold robbery: the Cologne Higher Regional Court as a film studio for Xatar gangsta video

Sunday 07 February 2010

Swelling muscles, a Benz, "in which each wheel flashes," a Bold Clock on the wrist, a necklace as a driveway, women as bitches, which are moist when they see are the heroes of this clear-ordered world: Xatar or Giwar Hajabi , "Bonn" Gangsta Rappa, sponsored a Bonner parallel society, including the drug trade have become rich.

It belongs to the style of the Bonn newspapers make basically no information on the nationality of any offender, a pity really, by this misappropriated information is lost quite a bit of depth.

Xatar

Rapper Xatar

Xatar - the typical Bonner "young"? Hajabi is one thing above all: a fervent nationalist, Kurdish , which nothing can get to the flag with the yellow sun and its 21 jets.

Xatar mit Kurdenflagge

Xatar with Kurdish flag

Somehow it is almost understandable: A Kurd from a man's world in which there are many stories and tales of Kurdish oppression that clear rules known as "Glory," "respect," blood relationship "," extended family cohesion "," vendetta "and so on Germany got even born here? to not "arrive". Why should they? For this "gay", dishonorable, effeminate world he has left nothing but contempt, in Germany you can make quick money, drugs, pimping, interested for years no one how Hajabi comes to his money, nor that of the Kurdish sponsor any respect for his host country has (or has he been naturalized?).

The music industry has identified this angry, permanently excited young men with immigrant background as long clientele. Women play almost no role. They can be happy when they're admitted to the decals somewhere, otherwise they have to show respect, otherwise they'll get one on the face. German young men are not being taken seriously because they do not mind that their wives are "checked".

The young men snorting adrenalingestressten maintain their own aesthetics and fashion, mostly in black, white and gold (probably the future integration of national colors of this site).

Admittedly, I am in this theatrical "You--my-ear-offended types" do not speak very good - that together cling even with my high school, the other whom I extend my full understanding, no, not for their bad fate, either really German nor Kurds nor Turks to be, to have arrived not really and not such right degree to have, but I fully understand that it is about Germany just may make only funny -. they simply have no other choice ( read more ...)

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