Cars,Travel and Military in Germany

Here’s some interesting photos of Catholic priests in supprt of Hitler. I see photos like the ones below of the German Catholics supporting Hitler and it just makes me sick to my stomach.  Did Hitler make them do it ?  Did the Catholics put up with it out of fear, or simply because they also wanted to wipe out the Jewish people?

Here are some Catholic priests giving Hitler the a-okay salute during a Youth Rally in Berlin, Germany (August 1933)

As a chairman of the German bishop conference the Breslauer Cardinal Bertram plays a crucial role in shaping the attitude of the German bishops in relation to the National Socialist state.  THis is the funeral procession of Bishop Bares in Berlin (1935)

(Ablove) Cardinal Secretary of State, Eugenio Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius XII) signs the Concordat between Nazi Germany and the Vatican at a formal ceremony in Rome on 20 July 1933. Nazi Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen sits at the left, Pacelli in the middle, and the Rudolf Buttmann sits at the right.

The Concordat effectively legitimized Hitler and the Nazi government to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world.

Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler.

And the Cry Baby award goes to: Murat Kurnaz, A turkish citizen was arrested in Afghanistan a couple months after 9/11. He was taken to Guantanamo bay in Cuba. He claims that some German elite military members had abused him. Kurnaz gets the cry baby award!

During his term in Guantanamo, Kurnaz claims he was repeatedly mistreated, psychologically tortured and kept undernourished. That sounds like a typical day at work to me ; )

“They asked me if I knew who they were and then they said ‘We are the KSK’,” he told Euro MPs, adding that the men had German flags on their uniforms and spoke German with him.

“I thought they would have some questions and that they could help me, but they told me I had chosen the wrong side,” Kurnaz said. 

What the heck was a German -Turk doing in Afghanistan is all I want to know? And why has it taken him almost 6 years to file a suit? Like my Father always told me ” You are judged by the company you keep” If you hang out with terrorists, you will get burned.  Read the full story

If you are a contractor or other American living in Germany or abroad, you are no doubt aware of recent tax hike in May that was imposed upon us (probably so congress could free up funds to give themselves yet another raise).  There may be a chance for a repeal, now that Democrats are taking over (and thank God for that)

Democrat offices were highly critical of the tax hike on overseas Americans indicating general support for overseas Americans. It was suggested that repeal of this tax hike should be given first priority, as an immediate objective. The new Democratic leadership will aim to reach bi-partisan agreement on certain issues early in the 110th session of Congress. All budgetary decisions will be made on a “pay as you go basis”, i.e. no tax decreases will be allowed unless a compensating tax revenue or expenditure cut is made.

Please write to your Senetors and Representatives who will be present in the 110th Congress.  Sned hard copies since many emails from abroad are blocked or ignored.

There are template letters here for your convenience.

A post by a friend who recently had an unsettling experience in Alsace, France in the vicinity of Strasbourg.

What happened would make the hairs on your arms stand up at attention. The only difference was that the hairs couldn’t talk or shout SIEG HEIL!  Yes, boys and girls, neo-Naziism is alive and well in Alsace. The only trick is knowing where and what to avoid. 
 
We started out on a cloudy ,overcast day with  the goal of purchasing some exquisite Alsatian Wines and were at the same time doing market research about possibly exporting wines to America. The vineyard in question and its village was discovered when we accidently encountered a traveling wine salesman who was trying to hit on a modest pension in a crumbling Alsatian village with the remnants of a ruined castle.

Like the witch in Hansel and Gretel, the old crone man with the hatchet face gave us a brochure with the prices and the location of the vineyard. The wines were very cleverly described as to aroma, bouquet etc. And the prices were really reasonable. A phone call to the vineyard in advance resulted in a time for meeting and tasting.
 
The owner of the vineyards name was “Damien” (Like in the Omen). Much laughter and merriment was made of this fact on the journey to the vineyard which was mirthfully named the Satanic Vineyard. Looking at my guide to Alsace, I discovered that the population of the village was 666. Mark of the Beast! The entire village had a creepy pallor as though it were enveloped in a fog. Not one shred of Christmas decorations were in evidence although the Alsatian Christmas season was already in full swing. .
 

A ferociously barking dog greeted their arrival (Cerberus ?) as we were suspiciously and reservedly invited into the Winestube for tasting. After a lively conversation in German and French about wines and the Americans appreciation for fine wines, the pros and cons of Affiliate Programs, drop shipping, tax advantages of both systems, we were without warning told that there was no interest and to get out NOW. 

We were forbidden to pee in the bathroom. We were then followed out to their car and the owner of the vineyard menacingly told them never again to appear in THIS REGION  and if they did he would pass the information on to others his Nazi friends. 

The strangest part of all was in parting he told us “You know exactly why I ask you to leave.” We dont’ have a clue why we were rushed out, however we had our suspicions, because when we searched Google for “Neo-Nazis in Alsace”. Seems that its alive and well in parts of Alsace.  FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED.

Post by: Annonymous  Name withheld

Here’s an article about the Nazis in Alsace
http://rhineriver.blogspot.com/2004/08/alsace-hate-watch-2-updated.html

I drove up to Amsterdam this weekend.  I love the city, and have a few friends from the states who go there to maintain DNS servers for Verisign, so when they are there I usually take a ride up to visit. It’s cheaper than flying back to the states to visit ; )

The last time I was there, I got stopped by the German border patrol on the way back in to Germany. They put on rubber gloves and searched every bag, strorage bin and crevice in my car. I’m sure they were looking for drugs since marijuana is legal tolerated in Amsterdam and a few other cities in Holland. Once they were finished searching my car, they told us (I had a friend from work with me) to have a nice day and sent us on our way.

This weekend though, I got stopped by the Netherlands Border Patrol on the way in! It was one of those motorcycle types.  Pretty cool actually.  That’s a picture of one to the left.  They wait on the side of the autobahn, take a look at you and if they want to check you out, they speed up in front of you on the motorcycle, and little sign flashes “Follow me”  “Follow me”  I followed him off to a side area where a whole polethra of police vehicles were waiting.  They had vans, cars, motorcycles, 8 or so uniformed cops and even a little Japanese guy waiting for me. I handed over my passport, and another cop came over and started talking to me in Dutch.  I asked if he could speak English, and he said yes.  He wanted me to roll my window up a little.  What he was doing is checking to see if my car had window tinting installed.  He said it’s illegal in the Netherlands. He asked if it was there when I bought it and I said yes.  He told me that he wouldn’t make me remove it on the spot (ha ha) and let me go. 

The point is that I had to go through all that hassle just because of the window tinting. I’m getting it removed before my next trip, that’s for sure. Even though I don’t do anything illegal, I still hate getting pulled over by the cops - Who doesn’t?

Window tinting is also not legal in Germany any longer. I just had a new car inspected only 5 months ago, and the car I bought had window tinting.  They passed the car for the inspection, but the guy told me that it would no longer be legal after a couple months.

The moral of the story: Get your tinting removed if you are going to be smuggling drugs across the German border don’t want to be hassled by the Polizei or Politie.

I almost lost my mind today.  I have had a couple of house flies that have been acting sort of not like house flies at all.  More like Horse Flies.  I’d be sitting there quietly at my computer, and they would come right up to my face and buzz all around my head. Swat swat….I kept missing them.  Then he would go away for a few minutes, then sneak up behind me and buzz my ear (actually touching it) GOD is there anything more annoying?  bzzzzzt bzzztt.  It send chills up my spine thinking aobut it.

After about 3 hours of me jumping up with my paper trying to kill the little bastard, my dogs pretty much thought I was out of my mind.  It would be all quiet, dogs sleeping at my side, when I would get kamikaze bombed in the ear again.  I would yell out “GODDAMNED FLIES”  Then the dog would jump up and almost have a heart attack and look at me like I was out of my mind.  I finally gave up and decided to go to bed.  On the way up the stairs, the same awful fly attacked my ear again.  At that point I had to laugh.  I have honestly never seen anything like this….  I’ve never been attacked by house flies.  I am wondering if it is only the flies in Germany…….or if they got into something, or if they were just really hungry….