1. I'll just say it....from a non-German prospective...this Ulmen-Fernandes situation/scandal/exposition/affair....over a two week period....seems to be in a hype-up media (news) 'bubble'.
I suspect if you drag this up with a hundred working-class Germans....roughly 50 to 60 of them can't really explain the nature of the situation, And if you did package this into a 45-minute news-docu-type deal to explain the fourteen-odd details of the situation....they'd lose interest after eight minutes.
2. For about ten days, we've had this whale-problem in the Baltic Sea region of Germany.
The whale originally got so near up on the beach....that he lodged himself on a sandbar, and was 'stuck' (he couldn't wiggle out).
Germans....naturally good rescue folks....decided they could help him. A crew of characters....some science folks and some engineer types....got a vessel to dig around the sandbar and eventually got him 'loose'. So they thought....now, he'll swim off to safety.
Well...for a brief period....maybe eight to twelve hours, he lingered around and got sand-barred again.
Again, they pushed him out.
They've noted yesterday....he just ain't progressing out to sea.
Oddly, they haven't named him (something Germans do when they are hard-wired to linger on the animal).
3. Germany has a Construction Ministry. Over the weekend...the minister in charge suggested that at the federal level...they should be become a 'developer' (buying, designing, and hiring up construction teams to build the houses/apartment buildings).
On paper, it sounds like a marvelous idea.
The history of local, state and federal type projects? Pretty dismal.
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