Five Things

 1.  Explaining Joe Biden's dilemma of 'exiting' the race to a German?

Well....you only survive as a candidate....if you have donor-money coming in to support your campaign.  Presently (since early June)....a fair amount of the donor  situation has dropped off.  They (the rich guys) aren't buying into the idea that their money will make a difference.  

So, yeah....this whole exit thing is mostly about a lack of confidence by the big-pockets donors.  

I know.....Germany's election situation doesn't function this way....but the US system has been this way for decades.

And before you ask....VP Harris met Friday with the big donor guys, and she didn't get much of a pat on the back....so don't count on her being the pick to replace Biden.  

2.  Any truth to the 'talk' that in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, that some 11-year old migrant 'kid' has  committed 70-odd burglaries?

Well...yeah, The cops say this kid (from Morocco) is actually the head of some gang  in the Hamburg area.

Part of this story is that  the 'kid' entered Germany unaccompanied and the cops each time.....after catching him....release him back to the social system.

Germans read this sort of stuff and just start asking how is this possible.

3.  Mass killing of pigs in Hessen?

State gov't has determined that off this one pig-farm....close to 1,100 pigs have to be slaughtered (real quick), because of the Africa-swine-flu business. Lot of fear building up.....may sweep across the whole state.  Lot of wild boars doing the spreading.

State paying for damages?  Yeah....one of the positives (they also pay for the slaughter service).

4.  REWE (the German grocery) running a pick-up service?

What they suggest is that 50-percent of the stores will have some type of pick-up service developed in 2024....you order in the morning, and drive by in the afternoon....where 'Huns' will scan some card and load your grocery bag into the back of the car.  

Older Germans accepting this?  I doubt it.  

5.  Upgrading the whole German railway network to a 'modern' system?  

Topic came up this week, and the Bahn guys say if you just give us 69-billion Euro....we can make the whole network ULTRA-modern.

How we survived for the past hundred years with a railway system that was not ULTRA-modern?  I just don't know.

They are convinced in some way....all this late-stuff would get fixed....if they just spent this money on the 'problem'.  

I'm a bit skeptical.