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Photography(1) On the 30th of August, the election in the German state “Saarland” will take place. As it looks like at the moment, it will be quite a close call. Considering this, it’s very interesting to look at the design of the ballot:
(2) Angela Merkel explains the tax-concept of her party in 90 seconds:
(3) Fefe sent a petition to the German Bundestag requesting a three-strike-rule: as soon as a delegate votes for the third anticonstitutional bill (s)he should lose his/her seat in the Bundestag.
The petition was declined – delegates are only “indebted to their conscience”, as the German constitution states. Which is, of course, ludicrous: common practice in the German Bundestag is using so-called whips for elections, meaning that every delegate of a specific party X has to vote the way the party X decided they have to.
So much for conscience. For some more thoughs on this topic, check out Malte.
(4) The German conservatives are so afraid by the Pirate Party that they actually started abusing their financial superiority and pasted over Pirate Party election posters with conservative ones.
(5) The conservatives gave a small election party where local media were invited. When a team of the magazine Spiegel turned up, they were not let in, and after they got in, they were thrown out by Zensursula herself!
The video is hilarious, watch it!
(Sources: spiegel.de, malte welding, fefe, spitblog.de)
August 23rd, 2009 at 15:53
Das Video is ja mal wunderbar. Hätt ich doch bloß ne Stimme….
August 25th, 2009 at 23:08
(2) In my opinion, this SPD spot is quite stupid. Even from the presented fragment of her speech, I understood what she was talking about. And it’s not even a relevant part of the tax concept. What is the SPD going to tell us? Either that the concept of the CDU is too complicated or that we are too stupid to understand it. And judging from that spot, it seems to me that they want us to believe the first option, but themselves believe the latter.
(4) If you look closely, you will notice that the pirate party’s poster itself is pasted over another poster.
August 25th, 2009 at 23:27
ad (2):
I’d rather put it that way: anti-campaigns are always a indicator that you don’t have to say anything worth an advertisement yourself. That’s very sad, and the SPD has been doing it for quite a while now. You will always find some rather dull statement, as you will also find dumb faces from people where many photographs or videos exist …
Then again, I simply find the spot hilarious. I think it’s allowed to laugh about our dear Chancellor when she says something rather incoherent, as it is ok to find her awesome when she tells Putin to watch human rights a little bit more.
ad (4):
Every poster is always posted over another, that’s the way those poster-walls work (at least for 99% of the time).
Then again, I’m not very happy with election-advertisements anyway. They should inform people, which they don’t do (on either side) … the way it is done, we should cut the tax money and put it into eduction.