i survived last week! this year, i managed to successfully avoid carnival, or fasching, as we call it. i escaped from maastricht just before the whole city turned into a gigantic lunatic asylum, but with the difference that mental and challenged people are allowed to move freely in the streets. not my piece of cake. i had a good talk with kai about the phenomena of simply just feeling totally pissed by all this carnival-rubbish. firstly, we were not born and raised into this culture. i remember dressing up rediculously and going to the kid’s carnival party, but just because everybody else went there. later, carnival was something for sissies. even later, we had unlearned to behave totally nuts for a couple of days. second, having to take the car for every party or event you wanna go to, carnival and coke simply don’t go together. you gotta be at least as drunk as your next neighbor in order to tolerate this crazy business. third, endurance is the key. how are you supposed to party in a decent manner, when you have to get up next morning? fourth, our area is simply not a carnival area, no matter how hard they try. going to cologne is not an option, since they call it karneval and shout alaaf. going to mainz is neither an option, since they have a strange sense of humor i at least don’t understand. fifth, all this shit they broadcast on tv already weeks before makes you so damn tired of this t?t???? t?t???? t?t????-bullshit that you yourself can’t get into the right mood to join these idiots. i could never go to a dedicated carnival party – i would need to punch someone’s face every now and then… concluding: we are not made for european carnival -or- european carnival is not our kind of party. period. i guess we would have fun in rio……
news from the ‚imperium americanum‘george „diabolo“ bush continues to present himself as the world’s leading terrorist. yes, terrorist i said. he is no better that any of the dictators whose throwns he is preparing to sweep clean. the us lineup is completed they say. last week, someone bright remembered the importance of a northern front. after the negative voting of the turkish government on troop lineup in turkey, the mr rumsfeld has no scruple to override this decision an sort of invades this country with a shipload of tanks, trucks and machinery. unbelievable. meanwhile, saddam has signalled cooperation and started scrapping his rockets. well, given all circumstances, is that nothing? apparently not, since newspapers already state march 13 as the first day of us attacks. speculation or not, it is a fact that us troops already started cutting the border fence from kuwait to iraq, which is of course not allowed by international law. meanwhile, saddam has had talks with iranian mullahs, whether they shouldn’t team up against georgie, since as a matter of fact, iran is supposed to be the next playhouse on bush’s world-tour. -or north korea, since the us were really pissed about two north-korean intercepters getting as close as 15m on to a us intelligence aircraft. well, what the heck are they doing in north-korean territory in the first place? i will not advocate the possession of nuclear weapons, but i can understand the north-korean point of view of simply not being willing to obey every compelling act of big brother united states anymore. the world’s greatest nation is on the path to some strange form of world leadership, but in the negative sense, thus being better called world-dictatorship. after the fall of the sowjet union, and with the absense of the eastern block threatening the ‚free world‘, the us can and will exercise power in every way it wants to. does it make sense to have supra-national organizations like the un/uno or nato which were put in place to ensure peace on a long-term basis and balance power, if countries like the us are allowed to have prize idiots like bush trying to rule the world and giving a shit about what un decides? no mr bush or mr rumsfeld will ever end up in the hague for being criminals of war. the world and especially those countries supporting the criminal actions taken by the us must not forget about its responsiblities: to ensure freedom and peace. i read in an article that history has proven that regardless what country, what religion, what economy, all attempts to force a nation on democracy and free markets have failed. the authors pointed out that the time for change has to come – it doesn’t fall out of the skies together with bombs. besides, saddam wouldn’t have his weapons of mass destruction if the us and other nato-members hadn’t delivered them. one shouldn’t forget that those economies made good bucks from deals with those countries on the ‚axis of evil‘. right now, as the economies hold breath wherever you go, it seems funny that there are still some sectors heavily booming. i am not referring to the arms industry, or the biochemical industry, for they are terribly busy producing enough placebo that will keep the masses quiet about the threat of b- or c-weapon attack. rather, the number one booming sector is the banking industry. you would say the opposite is true, but as a matter of fact, us sperm banks are running extra shifts to freeze all the spunk of frightened marines fearing they could return impotent or in a body bag from the gulf….
thank you so much! after the „axis of weasels“ website that has attracted lots of attention lately, the world’s greatest nation has more wise citizens who have brought up another site that is stoking the hatred against germany and france. the title couldn’t be more direct, it’s germanystinks.com. now, whereas the axis of weasels simply helps morons multiply their stupidity, gemanystinks.com goes one step further and provides advise how best to demostrate the deep antipathy to germany. people can even find a list of products to be avoided there. (although i believe they forgot some of the -let’s say- less convenient products.) i won’t talk about this site too much, go and see for yourself, but i must declare, that in the name of my european ancestors, i deeply regret that „old europe“ ever discoverd america. a point often made on the websites mentioned is that germany should be grateful to the us. i know that history and geography does not belong to the strengths of the world’s greates country, but there are quite some people in germany not having forgotten what the allies did for us in ww2: