The Plague.

Oh dear, just looked away for a couple of minutes and they'd all go bazerk and freak out all over the place. September 18th 2005 was the day that German voters went out to make their voice be heard, and it was a shy, maybe tired, tiny little voice that couldn't decide between pestilence and cholera. And dysentery maybe. [If you wonder what that is - it's a severe form of diarrhea] Admittedly, a hard decision to make. Basically, the votes casted were like 222 seats for the Social Democrats (SPD), and 226 for the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU). And some for these, some for those. I won't go into further details, but it's obviously a vote for a so-called big coalition, as no other combination of political parties were ready and/or willing to talk to each other. So that's what they think democracy should look like. Now when I checked the news today, I learned that Edmund Stoiber (chairman of the CSU) packed in his soon-to-be job as minister in the still to be formed new government (yes, you're right it's like six weeks after elections), because (officially) Franz Müntefering - chairman of the SPD - refused to stand for another term in office. Now why is that, you might ask, and you are not alone here! Well, there was a new secretary general to be elected, and Münte's preferred candidate (proposed by him) lost against Mrs. Nahle (female power dawning on Germany). Those were only preruns, as the candidate still has to be approved by the SPD, but Münte obviously was so pissed about the fact that his preferred choice didn't make it, that he sort of quit. Now, coalition negotiations still aren't finished, far from, and both the frontmen of Social Democrats and Christian Socialists (hahaha, really funny naming we have, no?) - the latter being sort of a splinter party of the Christian Democrats - acting funny. In fact, making it quite possible that we're facing re-elections in March. Now the last elections had been announced - and made possible by some clever, smart even, trick chancellor Schröder performed - in May. So because of election campaigns and all that being prepared shortly thereafter, we're sort of without a proper government since then.
And now this. Political future in Germany is pitch black, dears, and hardly anybody in charge up there in the Bundestag cares to notice. It's a farce, a burlesque, and those well paid polit-clowns give a shit. Now everybody is "surprised", "concerned", "speechless", some even think this is a good thing for the SPD to happen so the party could be restructured and maybe work on a new orientation (as they had lost a significant number of votes). Hello?!? Anybody home??? This country is close to filing bancruptcy and some knuckleheads consider restructuring and new orientation to be top of the list? Worse even, people sit there in agony, afraid of the future, while all the well (over?) paid managers and whatnots declare Germany (well, the Germans) as worldchampion in complaining (actual wording!). If you'd ask any of them, they couldn't tell you what a liter of milk, a bread roll, or potatoes would cost, let alone a flat or how much an average worker has left of his paycheck after paying all his bills. It's no exception, though, corruption and incompetence rules all over the world. That's why there's still wars and poverty, while world production exceeds what is needed to feed everyone on this planet. Good night, everybody. Really. Gebauer - wo bleiben die Nutten?