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are hardly the first two weeks of the new year has passed and hardly even my completely crazy neighbor finally freed from his house four tons of Christmas (see last post from 17:12:07) you feel even as a German exile already with the next spawn German madness faced, namely the carnival. This year, the Jecke bustle seems, however skewed, because it do not, as usual, the speakers in the tub with to bad jokes and stupid skits about politicians here, the same seem to have decided, as a kind of good intent, this year even withdraw any competence. No wonder, they have fantastic success with it. Although I understood sense and politics has always been a contradiction in terms, at the moment, however, break all barriers and you wonder seriously whether the picture was from the land of poets and thinkers ever corresponded to reality. No.1 unbeaten
lifted out and in my personal rankings at number Hessen Minister President Ronald Schill's, uh, Roland Koch (Freudian slip). This amazing product provincial Hessian petty bourgeoisie seem at the moment the effects of decades of marriage hell to be felt, unlike the verbal gaffes and confused idea of the hobbits from Eschborn not explain everything. Personally, I would have released the neat Mr lawyers already in the course of the CDU campaign contributions to political shot, unsustainable but it is in any case not later than he claimed in the property tax debate, the publication of names of the wealthiest Germans was a "new form of star on the chest ". This act Koch's verbal acrobatics for an apology was the same noise planted with grass, (you see it through in relation to Wolfgang Thierse comment Hannelore Kohl). One thing is clear, considering the ever no serious consequences of Roland's derailment or financial affairs: The man has powerful friends - and he can squirm like a worm in the mud hole. When Christian Wulff cheats on his wife or the construction of a port facility mitmischte illegal, yet somehow you can forgive him, probably because it seems his son smiles make everything good again. Roland Koch, however, has the charm of a GEZ employee on a bad trip. Although his populist inclinations not new, but rarely cook is encountered so much opposition even within his own party, as in the current election campaign. Man wants it jubilant cry out: "Thank you egghead just now the last straw have knocked, now select yourself the Hessians not do that again", but remains a risk that exactly meets this polemic on receptive ears in dubious circles of right-wing scene. Koch has a far been proved excellent, namely its inability to identify the problems of his state to address effectively. One pinch myself when I in this regard as the fact interpreted incorrectly, that the national average of youth violence is falling, while it thrives in Hessen, such as mold in a public swimming pool.
Neat one is on top then last but not least even the editor of the lubricating leaflet "PICTURE" and rings with his literary masterpiece finally complete the fifth season of the year. Those who had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Diekmann some years ago in the main auditorium Paderborn promote the tremendous value of his paper, comes with laughter probably not to sleep, at least not if "the great self-deception" is as bedtime reading on the bedside table. I would like to hear what Reich-Ranicki has to say, that just takes Kai Diekmann the attempt to make Günther Grass to dispute his place as the moral conscience of the nation by Dieter Bohlen [sic] as a guardian valuable German virtues describes. "The still says what he thinks, of course, Mr. Diekmann, the Roland Koch does eventually, I would, however, on the other hand advise to consider first whether what you think the public would also expect .
In summary, it should be noted from the island of exile following: