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Germans Respond to 'Katrina' Controversy
Spiegel Online ^ | September 1, 2005 | German Readers

Posted on 09/01/2005 5:00:41 PM PDT by Mon

Remarks by German Minister of the Environment Jürgen Tritten were not well received by many Americans who wrote in to let us know. Now, we give our German readers the chance to respond. We've posted a selection here.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372584,00.html These Letters were in response to letters from American readers you can see at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475176/posts


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: katrina
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To: Noumenon

haaaaa


21 posted on 09/01/2005 5:29:05 PM PDT by Mon
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To: ozarkgirl

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....and thanks :)


22 posted on 09/01/2005 5:29:52 PM PDT by Mon
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To: HungarianGypsy

"Und es heist.......boom, boom......Erika!"


23 posted on 09/01/2005 5:30:15 PM PDT by katya8
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To: ozarkgirl

**But at least the end is near. Elections will be held in three weeks and life will start get better for the German people. - Patrick Baumann, Pulheim**

From his keyboard to Gods ears.


24 posted on 09/01/2005 5:30:42 PM PDT by Sometimes A River ("The leaves have broken on Lake Ponktran" - WKAT 1360 AM Miami Newsreader)
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To: minus_273
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372584,00.html

These Letters were in response to letters from American readers you can see at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475176/posts
25 posted on 09/01/2005 5:31:25 PM PDT by Mon
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To: Mon
original remarks
26 posted on 09/01/2005 5:34:19 PM PDT by minus_273
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To: minus_273

Thanks, I don't know how to do that :) I hardly ever post


27 posted on 09/01/2005 5:35:48 PM PDT by Mon
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To: Mon
Jürgen Tritten doesn't speak for all Germans anymore than Dennis Kucinich speaks for all Americans.
28 posted on 09/01/2005 5:36:53 PM PDT by OESY
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To: Radix
" Yeah right, Germans lecturing Americans concerning SUVs."

This from the original Euro Stomp-and-Tromp School of Fuel Management. Anyone who has been to Europe has to be amazed at the burn-and-brake mentality of the Europeans. They don't burn as much gas because they live on a cute little toadstool that a person could walk across in half an hour. And now they want virtue points for living in a dinky land.

AND, in France they STILL sell leaded fuel at the pump. Those HDI and SDI deisels are kinda cool, but until 2 years ago, they were outlawed here. Why were they outlawed? ---because they couldn't pass US emissions standards!!!!

29 posted on 09/01/2005 5:40:16 PM PDT by cookcounty (Army Vet, Army Dad.)
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To: minus_273

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372425,00.html


30 posted on 09/01/2005 5:41:22 PM PDT by Mon
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To: OESY

Absolutely


31 posted on 09/01/2005 5:41:45 PM PDT by Mon
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To: ozarkgirl

Belongs to the SPD (Socialist Democrat Party) - Schroeder's Party.


32 posted on 09/01/2005 5:41:50 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: ozarkgirl

They call those CDU (Christian Democtratic Union)


33 posted on 09/01/2005 5:42:58 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: cookcounty
They don't burn as much gas because they live on a cute little toadstool that a person could walk across in half an hour.

That is an excellent point. I saw something on TV once where they put all of Europe in Texas (grabbed the map and pulled it over). It's way more tiny than we are (fits in one of 50 states!).

Could we possibly take an equivalent size and see how much gas is used and how much pollution is output?

34 posted on 09/01/2005 5:45:24 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: ozarkgirl
"Instead of wasting the last oil, causing deaths all over the world by increased hurricanes and flooding, instead of praying to middle-aged-gods and instead of dividing the world by the right and left, good and bad, why don't you sell your SUVs and try to intellectually enter the 21st century. - D. Mueller, Germany"..."hahaha, this one's a democrat:

(Q) "what's that word in German?."

(A) NAZI.

35 posted on 09/01/2005 5:45:24 PM PDT by norton
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>>hahaha, this one's a democrat (what's that word in German?)<<

Dumbkopf? (I think I spelled it right)?


36 posted on 09/01/2005 5:52:35 PM PDT by SerpentDove (In the shadow of the Almighty.)
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To: ozarkgirl

"...why don't you sell your SUVs and try to intellectually enter the 21st century.(sic)"

First, Herr Mueller, we use question marks at the end of interrogatories.

Second, let's review the following "steps to the 21st century" shall we?

Mercedes Benz Gelandewagen G500, ave 13 mpg; the VW Toureg mit W-12 zylinder engine, ave 14mpg (for the 8 cyl; no data for the 12 yet); the M-B ML500, ave 15mpg; the BMW X5, ave 15mpg; the 750L 12 cyl sedan, ave 15mpg; Mercedes Maybach 12 cyl, ave 12 mpg; to name a few.

All German, all less than frugal. Imagine the mileage on the Autobahn! Maybe we should just sell the inefficient German SUVs!! LOL! What was your point again, my Eurotrash friend?


To their credit, VW does offer some extraordinarily efficient TDI Diesels, but the liberals of our country will not let us "enter the 21st century" using them, because they are afraid of Diesel emissions.


37 posted on 09/01/2005 6:00:07 PM PDT by SpinyNorman (The ACLU empowers terrorists and criminals, weakens America, and degrades our society.)
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To: Mon

If Germany is so concerned, they can send us 10,000,000 bicycles as foreign aid.


38 posted on 09/01/2005 6:00:10 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (Proudly confusing editors and readers since 1981!)
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To: ozarkgirl

"I saw something on TV once where they put all of Europe in Texas (grabbed the map and pulled it over). It's way more tiny than we are (fits in one of 50 states!)."

You might want to do your own research on that.

I used to live in Europe, and did some driving. From Where I lived in Southern Germany, to a place in Southern Italy was 950 miles.

I will grant you the scale is smaller. But you can NOT fit Europe into Texas.

Texas is about 700 sq. kilometers.
Germany is about 347 square kilometers.
France is about 547 square kilometers.

So you see just these two alone, exceed the size of Texas.


39 posted on 09/01/2005 6:01:13 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: truth_seeker

how do you say yeehaw in french and german.

french: haw de yee?
german: some 40 letter long word


40 posted on 09/01/2005 6:04:05 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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