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GERMAN CALLOUSNESS: Kicking Hurricane Victims While They're Down
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| August 31, 2005
| Claus Christian Malzahn
Posted on 08/31/2005 10:00:20 AM PDT by wolf78
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To: Billthedrill
The last paragraph is awesome.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:19:03 AM PDT
by
Eagle of Liberty
(Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind - Einstein)
To: Arpege92
Needs to be repeated:
At any rate, the words spoken by these idiot Germans was uncalled for!
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:24:12 AM PDT
by
Michael81Dus
(Venimus adorare eum - Immanuel, Gott ist mit uns!!)
To: wolf78
"Nice words to be sure, but that was it. No pledges of aid money, no announcements of immediate help -- although finally, two days later, the German interior minister did manage to come out with a hesitant offer of assistance."
This sounds like the complaints that the US govt. was being selfish the week after the tsunami flooding. Typically governments are never the quickest to respond to emergencies. All that bureaucratic incompetence and inertia makes it surprising they ever get anything done.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:24:42 AM PDT
by
monday
To: wolf78
Take ALL our troops out of Germany now.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:44:56 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Save the whales. Redeem them for valuable prizes.)
To: Peach
Nice to know that both Germany and Russia have offered help. Danke schoen and bolshoe spasiba!
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:47:26 AM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
To: wolf78
This out of control US capitalist monster says heartfelt thanks to 'Spiegel'.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:49:19 AM PDT
by
hershey
To: wolf78
However, that standard German spelling is "Katharina". As in Katharina Witt, the East German figure skating star from the 80's.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:50:20 AM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
To: wolf78
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:50:42 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Proud "Free Traitor" & Capitalist Pig)
To: wolf78
Maybe we should have hit Dresden harder in 1945.
To: wolf78
The Krauts, Surrender-Monkeys and the rest of the EU should be pulling their weight in Iraq, and free us up to take care of our own. Whazoo apertures.
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posted on
08/31/2005 12:13:02 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Liberals...they're so quixotic...)
To: wolf78
Good thing we have elections here in Germany on September 18, and right now it looks as if we will finally get rid of that bunch of idiots (quite a few of them are criminals, IMO).
Oh man, I hate them!!!
What do you expect from a chancellor who calls Putin a "picture book democrat"?
Best wishes to all you folks in LA, MS, AL, GA and FL! My thoughts are with you!
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posted on
08/31/2005 12:22:49 PM PDT
by
flieger
(Go Angie!)
To: clyde asbury
Sorry to say that, but Dresden couldn't have been hit any harder, period - there wasn't anything left to hit.
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posted on
08/31/2005 12:27:08 PM PDT
by
flieger
(Go Angie!)
To: Berosus; blam; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Do not dub me shapka broham; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
|
"The American president has closed his eyes to the economic and human damage that natural catastrophes such as Katrina -- in other words, disasters caused by a lack of climate protection measures -- can visit on his country." Who wrote this? None other than Jürgen Trittin, Germany's minister of the environment... It's not the American people's fault that the storm hit and they couldn't have stopped it. The Germans, on the other hand, could have done a lot to prevent World War II. And yet, care packages still rained down from US troops. Trittin's know-it-all stance is therefore not only tasteless, it is also historically blind. |
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posted on
08/31/2005 12:38:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: wolf78
My dear
Herr Trittin:
Be advised that the United States intends to institute repossession procedures stemming from the Marshall Plan. Accordingly, please take steps to disassemble your infrastructure and ship it back to us -- c/o the Port of New Orleans.
Screw you very much, a$$hole.
The American People
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posted on
08/31/2005 12:40:36 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: flieger
.. Dresden couldn't have been hit any harder, period - there wasn't anything left to hit.
Fair enough, but the same could have been said about the rest of the country.
To: Proud_USA_Republican
Goes to show the luancy of the left and green party wackos in Germany who have been put in charge.
Perhaps, but we have far too many Jürgen Trittins in charge in the US.
To: wolf78
This makes me not want to buy any German products.
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posted on
08/31/2005 4:18:33 PM PDT
by
optik_b
(follow the money)
The Biotech Boom
by Karen Lowry Miller
[original, dead link]
When Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker started out as a biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, he could assume that if he worked hard, he would eventually win recognition from his peers and perhaps a science prize or two... Protesters were calling him a murderer and harassing his kids on their way to school. The police found his name on a terrorist hit list. He had to install a security system in his home and travel with bodyguards... One of the protest leaders who helped demonize Winnacker was Joschka Fischer, a Green-party minister from the state of Hesse. Like many radical groups at the time, the Greens were fervently against anything that smacked of Nazi-style eugenics -- just about anything with the word "gene" in it. That also included a new plant for manufacturing a genetically engineered protein for hemophiliacs, which Winnacker strongly supported. In the end, the protesters got their way. Pharmaceutical giant Bayer decided to build its plant in the United States, taking 1,300 new jobs abroad.
That was 12 years ago. These days the prevailing attitude toward biotechnology couldn't be more different. Fischer is still a Green, but he also happens to be Germany's foreign minister and a cabinet member in the government. The Greens, now part of the political mainstream, are no longer against genetics. On the contrary, they are presiding over a dizzyingly rapid expansion in Germany's biotechnology industry.
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posted on
09/01/2005 5:29:45 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: wolf78
When the going gets tough-the tough get going. Our fair weather friends and leeches around the world know who the tough are.
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posted on
09/01/2005 5:36:12 AM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Hell may well seem heavenly, to those whose mortal lives were ruled by Islamic tyrants.)
To: SunkenCiv
The only difference between France and Germany these days is that the French have been backstabbing the US longer than Germany.
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