E20 Fuel?

Well, yeah....EU chatter has started up...they'd like to introduce a fuel above E10.

Where the bio product would come from?  I imagine sugar beets.

How much analysis has been done?  Well...no one says much.

Wouldn't shock me if they start taking E50 fuel.

3 Berlin Travel Tips

 1.  Use Google maps as much as possible...especially for subway or tram travel. 

2. The are probably 250 museums in the Greater-Berlin area....but 90 percent are crap.

3.  Homeless guys are friendly about it....seeing you are about to finish a beer...they will ask for the bottle for return value. 

How Bavarian King Ludwig II Died (My Belief)

 On the 13th of June....1886....King Ludwig II (age 40) of Bavaria died in a remarkable way. He was found drown in the shallowLake Starnberg area....with his psychiatrist, Dr. Bernhard von Gudden. 

What we can say....a week or two prior....he was 'deposed' (impeached in a way)....dumped-out of the king-job....over alleged insanity due to excessive spending on palaces like Neuschwanstein.

On the books....it was ruled suicide.  Oddly, they (the local doctors) did a autopsy and found NO water in his lungs.

The final hours 'story'?  At some point around 6 PM....on 13 June 1886....the king and his doctor....went for a walk along Lake Starnberg near Berg Castle.  Bodies are recovered 'later'.

Autopsy of the doctor?  Well...that's an odd thing.  He had injuries to the head (like he got 'whacked').  Walking cane? No one says that. But there's a 2nd injury....strangulation (chocked).

Odd factor?  Well....this entire area (in the water).....is mostly knee-deep to waist-deep. 

Conspiracy thriller?  Yeah.

Was he crazy?  I've read two books on the guy and would readily agree....he had zero grasp of spending or living a fragile lifestyle.

Finding an acceptable ending....for the king and doctor?  No.  I can believe that the king whacked the doctor on the trail....knocking him into the lake, and then feeling sorry for the doctor....jumping in and the doctor chocks the King....with both of them dying in knee-deep water (the doctor more-so dead from a concussion).

The value of the King today?  Well....there's tons of money off tourism....due to the  King's crazy nature of building castles.

Old German Reservists?

My German wife started a conversation over this impending German rule...allowing recruitment of reservists up to age 70.

Would I join (age 67 today)?  I pondered this.

First, boot-camp would to be non-rigorous....no push ups.  

Second,  I'd like a good mattress...no 1970s cot.

Third, this time around....I'd like to be tank guy...maybe even a driver.

Fourth, absolutely no marching.

Fifth, camping out for a weekend is no problem....but no 14 day long exercises.

Sixth, I'd prefer no indoctrination BS.  Don't spend six hours on a 8 minute subject. Shoot, reload...repeat.

Finally....don't bother issuing fancy parade uniforms...I'm  a weekend warrior or war guy, period.

Fuel Chatter

Around 1 May....German oil purchases from Kazakhstan will halt...due to Putin.

What it amounts to?  Seventeen percent of jet fuel, gas and diesel.

Control by Russia?  The pipe is theirs.

What the German say?  They have about 3 weeks of existing fuel around, and 90 days of a oil reserve.

End?  It's possible that Venezuela and the US step in, and deliver oil....but it'd be June before you start to see evidence. 

I'll just say it...May and June might be a bit chaotic.   Also, you wonder about fuel for the US army and requirements for Ramstein  and Spang.

The Sex Bill

I noted this AM....the German Green Party has offered up a draft bill....more or less....'no-means-no'.  If passed...the parties upon mee...have to agree on sex, or there is no sex.

I pondered over this.

It would seem to me...there has to be paperwork involved...a official form...2 pages.  First, it has to specify the 2, or 3, or4 individuals involved.

Then it'd have specify time involved....like a 6 minute quickie, a 16 minute regular,  or a 40 minute epic saga.

Then you'd have specify oral, regular, anal, bondage, or weird stuff.

It ought to be an App...so the government has a copy.

The AfD folks?  They'd probably be against it...saying too much information. 

The chief problem i see....data will start to show over age forty are mostly quickie folks.

Two Things

First, BKA...the federal police....says around 75 ISIS fighters are figured to be in Germany...hiding.  The war ended, and they quietly came back to where they were originally.  The law says...you can't come back...without jail time.

Working?  Well...I wonder about that. Maybe you have a uncle who let's you work...paying you under the table.

A threat?  After you arrived in Syria and realized this war BS was crap....your options were limited.  I think most would prefer to forget the experience. 

Second thing....the SPD party added a draft proposal...if you are on welfare...you are eligible for the 1k Euro tax free bonus.  Who would be paying you this?  They don't say...but it won't be the state or federal apparatus. 

My wife says some welfare folks have part time work...that maybe their boss would rig up extra pay....on top of the table.

Yeah, About That Tax-Free Bonus

 The one thing I've noticed over the past week...lot of Germans went to their bosses, and asked about this 1,000 Euro tax-free 'bonus' deal that the Chancellor  worked up between the CDU-CSU and SPD. The vast majority of bosses came back, and said the bonus from them is not going to happen....mostly because of the  economic woes going on.

Needless to say....whoever dreamed up this tax-free bonus concept....arranged for probably 75-percent-or-more of Germans to be fairly negative of the work-climate. 

I don't think they really understood things well enough....on how you can screw up morale within a company.

Various comments on social  media are laying there....openly harsh and critical....of the companies themselves, and the Merz coalition.

The other odd thing?  Well....public workers (city/state)....they kinda  want  the deal, and there's virtually no villeage/city with ample cash to hand out 1,000 Euro per employee.   

Just kinda funny how they met and created a four-star mess out of nothing.