Monthly Archives: August 2007

“Remember me”

“Remember me” is a very beautiful and very touching video by Lizzie Palmer about American soldiers, their families and what they are dreaming of and fighting for. At the end it says:
I do my job.
I don`t ask for much.
Some people hate me.
But I don`t complain.
All I want
is for you to say,
“I`m proud of you.”
“I remember.”
“I [...]

“God`s Warriors” on CNN

Thanks to American re-education I learned at school that the so-called “Jewish World Conspiracy” never existed and that it has just been an invention of the Nazis to demonize Jews. But after having seen CNN`s “3-days television event” about “God`s Warriors” I have to come to the conclusion that in fact it exists. Even worse, [...]

Appeasement and Global Cooling

Last night was a sleepless night. And it is not world politics that kept me awake. No, it is martens on, or more precisely somewhere in the roof of my house. And I do not exactly know what they are doing up there, but they are making a lot of noise.
It all started years [...]

Infidelitiy and carbon offsets - any difference?

I have just discovered the “Cheatneutral” website and this really made my day. Of course it is a joke! Excerpts:
What is Cheat Offsetting?
When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere.
Cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be faithful and NOT cheat. This neutralises [...]

“Boycott Ours, Too!”

One more reason to love the US. And where are the German universities following the good example?
“U.S. university heads slam U.K. boycott of Israeli academe” by Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz.com, 09/08/2007
Three hundred U.S. college and university heads signed a petition denouncing the call by Britain’s University and College Union to consider a boycott of Israeli [...]

Willing, but unable?

I have recently read in my local newspaper “Darmstädter Echo” that in my Bundesland Hessen 50 policemen are going to be trained to fight Internet crimes. 50! Only 6 years after 9/11 – wow!
Now I understand better what I experienced last summer at my local police station in Hessen:
You have to know that I [...]

I love Heidelberg!

Last Saturday I have been to Heidelberg. And I loved it. 25 degrees, blue and sunny skies, the castle beautiful as always …
But do you know what has been the most remarkable event of that day?
After having taken pictures at the castle, - I might post some later -, Michael and I descended to [...]

The Good Guys are leaving Germany

And where do they go? To America. Where else?
My dear friend, Hannes Stein, member of the “Axis of Good” has won a Green Card and is moving to the U.S. this month. But at least, he is going to have his own blog on WELT-DEBATTE: “NYC - diary of an emigration”. I will link [...]