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    The News Kraut

    Konrad Werner digests today's top Teutonic news and regurgitates it as a pellet.

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    Nite Life/Nite Death

    D. Strauss' insomnia = the depletion of your trust fund. Good luck.

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    Amok-Mama

    Jacinta Nandi's gonna trample on your beliefs on a daily basis.

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    Vexed & Perplexed

    And you thought you hated Berlin? Here's a bit more to complain about.

The News-Kraut
Friday, 26 Feb 2010
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The Incredible Westerwelle

  This was the cover of the Spiegel last September, when our new foreign minister was rampant. Above that, you can see what the Spiegel makes of him now - a freakish, metabolically-inflated mons ... read more
Tuesday, 09 Feb 2010
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Jack off, Hartz!

Sorry, best I could do with the pun title there. You just have to go round one corner. Hartz IV, Germany's social welfare system, has been deemed unconstitutional, by the people who know - Germany's c ... read more
Wednesday, 03 Feb 2010
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Groundhog Day

Neither Clare Short shit-kicking on the Iraq Inquiry, the Academy announcing its nominees, or the French judiciary opening the Concorde trial cared much that their big news day would be overshadowed b ... read more
Wednesday, 30 Dec 2009
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If only more of this would happen in Germany

If only more of this would happen in Germany. It probably does, and we're just not aware, or the police doesn't release it as an end of year gag. I think it would be even funnier in Germany. "Hallo? ... read more
Wednesday, 02 Dec 2009
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Missing The Punchline

It's not true when people say that Germans don't have a sense of humour. They do. They are full of humour. They are laughing all the time at everything you do. It's just quite deep and nuanced. Like a ... read more
Tuesday, 24 Nov 2009
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Amusing Headlines

The other day, I was minding my own business - drinking green tea and idly sniggering at my pet dwarf - when I hit upon this headline. Have you noticed there seem to have been a lot of headlines recen ... read more
Friday, 13 Nov 2009
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More Animal News

Well, if you didn't find that interesting - not even the Russian spam machine bothered to comment on my dinosaur thing - how about this?  It's a shark giving another shark a caesarian section. Th ... read more
Saturday, 07 Nov 2009
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Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaurs, to quote the quiet poetry of Wikipedia, were the dominant terrestrial vertebrate for 160 milion years. Humans have been the dominant backbones on the planet for maybe 200,000 years, and we ... read more
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009
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New Parliament

So Germany got a new government today. The Bundestag was inaugurated. Because of their devastating election loss, the SPD lost 75 seats, including two of its front row ones, which, according to media ... read more
Sunday, 18 Oct 2009
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German Inequality

It's nice when your blog attracts many comments. It puts that extra spring in your cockles when you go out in the morning. The best is when people have terrible storming rows and abuse each other bitt ... read more
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