"Time for the mind"

Archive for September 2009

"What just pick this weekend?" Ask not currently few, especially against the background, as a continuation of the grand coalition seems to be almost a done deal. Do we want the citizens as well? And: What alternatives are there?

In my role as publisher, editor and journalist, I feel the obligation dokumentatorischen neutrality and therefore wish to express any concrete recommendation to vote. I am, however, lies at the heart, major issues and trends in society and the consequences of possible choices to show that love you, dear reader, reader, may ease the agony of choice. read this post »

"Yes we yawn," "Duet, but not a duel," or "And the winner is: Stone Merkel," commented media and bloggers to TV duel Merkel - Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday, which was quote technically despite the profile neuroses of the four moderators of expectations . Be sure, not mine. Because it is a real opposition in the Bundestag at the same switched parties long gone. They have become interchangeable - without a profile. I still remember the glorious mission a few years ago, in which said television journalist a CDU member of parliament, the SPD program read (or was it vice versa?) And those politicians, it was the his party's ... Steinbrueck reiterated today the camera to be interested in continuing the great Koalititon because the goals of the two "major parties" closer together than ever stood. It could not be clearer.

A significant other grievance, however, itself owned by "critics" under the table: more of this entry »

That campaign is absurd in itself something that I had in an earlier post running. Particularly bizarre is (pp Lisbon Treaty, bad banks, Abwrackirrsinn etc..) Against the background of recent government policy misdeeds, if the party representatives now try a few weeks very close to the people (or at least pretend as if) to stand as a good guy (even the that got us into the whole mess), or to make naive promises (which polls show that while 80% believe no longer , but still fall for it again to be).

Since we have such as the SPD candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the main election promises than full employment program point. In all seriousness. Class, in this unworldliness it takes no more cabaret, this is satire.

Or the CDU: this entry »