Archive 31. July 2003

Draft for Genetic Engineering Law Presented

What utter nonsense. Do these lunatics actually believe that plant pollen will stick to any separation areas and protective hedges? Has none of them ever gotten hay fever from rye pollen in the city? This stuff spreads with the wind, it doesn't care about silly regulations.

The whole thing can have fatal consequences for, for example, organic farming, because genetically modified plants might mix into organic stocks and thus make organic farming nearly impossible. And all this for junk that consumers reject anyway.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Law Separates Israeli-Palestinian Couples

There is no idea stupid enough that politicians won't push through anyway - and apparently this applies all over the world. Open racism in an Israeli law.

Here's the original article.

Panorama rules ...

... even though Kohl accuses them of treason

Teufelsgrinsen

Today there were details about the consulting contract between Kohl and Kirch in the broadcast. Nice how all sorts of shady dealings around Kohl are coming to light. A contract that consists only of Kohl not having to do anything, except not reveal anything, while Kirch pays diligently. Well, the contract is at least making its way into a book - Die Korruptionsfalle, by Hans Leyendecker. It's a shame that he's never really held accountable for it - apparently nobody has a real interest in looking into it and ending it in court. At least one has to interpret the prosecuting attorney's egg dance around Kohl's donation problems this way.

It's quite a wonderful feeling knowing that you're living in a banana republic ...

Vatican mobilizes against same-sex marriage

|KK| Well, great. Just stay intolerant, that seems to be the motto of the head of the Catholic Church and his henchmen.

Yet the Church itself is a far greater danger to society than marriages between homosexual people. Just think of the very fatal stance against contraception, which makes life difficult for those in developing countries trying to promote birth control. Or the still absolutely misogynistic attitude of the Catholic Church. Or the absurd claim to exclusive truth. Or, or, or ...

The absurd claims that adopted children growing up in a family with homosexual parents would need more police and psychologists is, however, an absolute cheek. The appeasing sentence that one doesn't fundamentally reject homosexuals doesn't help either. No, one doesn't reject them, one just wants to exclude them from society and deny them what every member of society wants for themselves - to have a family.

And then one immediately calls for incitement against homosexuals - because that's exactly what it is when politicians are called upon to actively oppose laws for equal rights for homosexuals. There we go, the next scapegoat when society is doing badly and finally the dumbest politician has realized that foreigners aren't the reason - always attack the homosexuals, they're all perverts anyway.

But what should one expect when someone like Ratzinger is in charge ...

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.