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Veteran Expediter
I really admire the Germans with their Teutonic attitude and their ability to face adverse things and have a positive outcome. (A side note, they can come together and rebuild their country that was destroyed but the people of New Orleans can’t get it together after how long and with how much help?)
Well two things of late make me wonder what the h*ll is going on over there.
The first thing is here is a country that eliminated the death penalty and they have gone from a true democracy to something that is rather offensive. In Berlin there is a zoo, actually one of the best zoos in the world but never the less a zoo. In this zoo they had a birth, Knut the polar bear cub was born but there was a problem his mother rejected him. So the good German people at the zoo took it upon themselves to handle him – big mistake. It seems that there is a number of animal rights, well I will quote Bild;
"Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws," animal rights activist Frank Albrecht was quoted as saying by the mass-circulation Bild daily, which has featured regular photo spreads tracking fuzzy Knut's frolicking.
"The zoo must kill the bear."
Many people over there are not happy with the fact that there are thousands of polar bears that drown every month but here is a chance to save one polar bear and have a chance to save the species and there are animal rights activist who want to kill him.
I don't think that Knut was damaged by hand feeding him, see the picture.
But that is not all,
For the women rights people out there, this is really disturbing. Here is the quote from the AP;
BERLIN - Politicians and Muslim leaders denounced a German judge for citing the Quran in her rejection of a Muslim woman's request for a quick divorce on grounds she was abused by her husband.
Judge Christa Datz-Winter said in a recommendation earlier this year that both partners came from a "Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife," according to the court. The woman is a German of Moroccan descent married to a Moroccan citizen.
The judge argued that her case was not one of exceptional hardship in which fast-track divorce proceedings would be justified. When the woman protested, Datz-Winter cited a passage from the Quran that reads in part, "men are in charge of women."
The judge was removed from the case on Wednesday and the Frankfurt administrative court said it was considering disciplinary action.
I wish we could remove judges this easily.
Well two things of late make me wonder what the h*ll is going on over there.
The first thing is here is a country that eliminated the death penalty and they have gone from a true democracy to something that is rather offensive. In Berlin there is a zoo, actually one of the best zoos in the world but never the less a zoo. In this zoo they had a birth, Knut the polar bear cub was born but there was a problem his mother rejected him. So the good German people at the zoo took it upon themselves to handle him – big mistake. It seems that there is a number of animal rights, well I will quote Bild;
"Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws," animal rights activist Frank Albrecht was quoted as saying by the mass-circulation Bild daily, which has featured regular photo spreads tracking fuzzy Knut's frolicking.
"The zoo must kill the bear."
Many people over there are not happy with the fact that there are thousands of polar bears that drown every month but here is a chance to save one polar bear and have a chance to save the species and there are animal rights activist who want to kill him.
I don't think that Knut was damaged by hand feeding him, see the picture.
But that is not all,
For the women rights people out there, this is really disturbing. Here is the quote from the AP;
BERLIN - Politicians and Muslim leaders denounced a German judge for citing the Quran in her rejection of a Muslim woman's request for a quick divorce on grounds she was abused by her husband.
Judge Christa Datz-Winter said in a recommendation earlier this year that both partners came from a "Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife," according to the court. The woman is a German of Moroccan descent married to a Moroccan citizen.
The judge argued that her case was not one of exceptional hardship in which fast-track divorce proceedings would be justified. When the woman protested, Datz-Winter cited a passage from the Quran that reads in part, "men are in charge of women."
The judge was removed from the case on Wednesday and the Frankfurt administrative court said it was considering disciplinary action.
I wish we could remove judges this easily.