My name is Hartmut Mehdorn, and my 'soul' is 100% 34CrNiMo6 steel.
Mehdorn[de:] offers to step down.
Finally.
I cannot be polite here. This man is, or was, the human equivalent to a really huge pile of shit, fecal matter of all different colours and flavas rolled into one.
He was a Schröder plant, replacing Lacklustre Ludewig[de:]. Ludewig was Kohl’s man, second in the post since German Rail was formally privatized in ‘94 (though as of yet hasn’t IPO’d due to stauch resistance of … read more
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The Con supreme-mayoral candidate of Cologne announced today that he’ll quit the race for re-election (elections due August). Starting March 9th, indices have adopted a new pattern, one not seen since long. The N225 bottomed out at 7k, and since has risen to above 8.5k-ish, rising again not quite 23% from the lowstand. via the good anonymi at 4chan. Indices bounced back, jerking, stuttering up steeply — about as steep as they, on average, had fallen throughout most of February, though the volatility is decidedly less. The DJIA has already made good 50% of its Feb loss; the N225 goes alongside. …not really. But the difference is about as much as fluctuation, with Citi stock dropping to about a buck a hit. Now, here we have a document titled The encryption password is progress, which perhaps reflects the Pentagon’s desire to stay on-message, even to itself. Said “password” also “encrypted” the three other documents. Note that Wikileaks is intelligent enough not to submit the password of one Chris Riley, to whom the … read more Indices cavorted all over the place, settling in for a solidly red week, though today — as did the DJIA a few days ago — the N225 manages to make a near spot landing with plusminus zeroish change. The last 3 weeks’ bumpy bounce, tumbling down a broken and rough slope, shaved some 12.5% off the DJIA, while the N225’s losses could well (for a while at least) be limited to just below another 10%. The DAX, in spite of … read more Bank runs! And I was almost missing them… On Antigua, PM Spencer calls upon the populace to maintain calm. Most of his native citizenry … read more Whatever. “The Terminator is an end-of-line model, little more fit for reality than Detroit’s Big Three.” If you understand German, the article gives you … read more … our Federal Minister for Economics and Technology threw the towel rag[de:] this weekend. “I had no idea of the Ministry of Economics’ address [til I was picked as their big kahuna].” We get some faceless 37-year-old übernerd named Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg. The last bit is “Baron of and at Guttenberg”, meaning that his clan did not just legally own that fief, but also resided there. Roman Catholic, married … read more At the 2009 EU parliamentary elections, you may well be able to vote for a CIA enterprise. “I know the [pResident] will want to convey to President-elect Obama his sense of how to deal with some of the most important issues of the day. …” wat “… But exactly how he does that, I don’t know, and I don’t think anybody will know.” n-tv put up some Forsa poll data[de:] today. Forsa are opinion-making bigwigs; supposedly they randomly chose people for those polls and call them up or so. I have been called up once for a political poll — I think even by Forsa. But IONO whether it was for this kind of poll; they usually ask whom one would vote for if there were parliamentary elections next Sunday, and I can’t remember being asked that. “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy — tonight is your answer.” I hope he will be better than the last one. Compare: (Thanks to “FuckYouBush” for keeping up the good work) I was wrong about the “friends” of Pakistan. The formal name is “Friends of Democratic Pakistan Initiative”; in any case it is not a bunch of Quran students. Still, I guess an informal transnational group containing the EU, the PRC, the UAE, the UN, and the US is interested in applied heavy atom physics too. Everybody likes nukes. Anyway, in this case Steini is likely to be part of the team too. Pakistan… oh well, Pakistan. And Afghanistan. And Taliban. And tawhid. OK, one thing after another. So… It is such a gem that it deserves to be said once again. For posteriority: Ayn Rand on how Good Sex ought to be: “…an act of scorn. Not as love, but as defilement…” Hilarious Ayn Rand quote (compare to the above) where she claims to “know” stuff: My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. Ludwig von Mises after doing some pretty good rock on profits: The greater the … read more Alan Greenspan admitted today yesterday that he “found a flaw [...] in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works”. Found a Flaw: Alan G. (82) Not much going on; as expected The Vote passed in both houses. Greens and Socialists against, all other parties in favor — though there are two MPs which don’t belong to any parliamentary party and don’t get reported about: one ex-Socialist who left in scandal because he made some extra bucks as a pimp, and one ex-Christian Democrat, a guy called Henry Nitzsche who left after vowing to fight the “cult of guilt [for the Nazi's crimes]” and other things. … read more As already indicated yesterday, stock markets resumed their global decline today. The Nikkei ended up with a small plus, but it is lagging one day behind this week and does its best to catch up with its lame-ass friends’ nosedive. The Harper minority government in Canada won the general elections, but fell short of the absolute majority. Voter turnout was an abysmal 60%, meaning that his party’s parliamental (relative) majority represents less of 30% of the Canadian electorate. Al-Jazeera’s report has sparked an interesting discussion about the whys and hows, and that allows a deep peek into the diverse mindset of Canadians in these days. This is not about Oliver L. North, convicted Reaganite criminal, drug pusher, and for reasons ill-explained still a VIP and so-called “pundit”. |
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