Beard Team USA wins big at 2013 worlds!

Why a Beard?

Because when you shave you deliberately want
to look like a 12 year old boy. 

Hundreds of competitors from 20 countries gathered in Germany for the World Beard and Moustache Championships.

Entrants from around the globe travelled to the southern town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen, outside Stuttgart, to compete for the best facial hair in a range of four categories and 18 sub-categories, including moustaches, chin beards, whiskers, full beards and trendy bears.

The championships were officially watched by the German Association of Beard Clubs and all entrants were subject to a pre-screening to determine their beard category by a separate jury.

American contestants proved to be the biggest beard fans as Beard Team USA scooped nine trophies.

Organiser Juergen Burkhardt  said the turnout was much better than expected.

See more at Spiegel.de - international. and also at World Beard Championships.com

Bart-Weltmeisterschaft Leinfelden-Echterdingen

World Beard and Moustache Championships 2013

America’s team 2013
Bassist Burke Kenny flaunts his intimidating facial display. Kenny's victory in the
"Full Beard Styled Moustache" category brought his tally to three world titles.

America’s team 2013
Dennis Dickerson

America’s team 2013
Jeffrey Moustache

America’s team 2013
Andy Longtine

Dieter Besuch's combination of small and large curls wowed the judges,
allowing him to clinch victory in the "Freestyle Sideburns" category.

Three hundred men and 13 women from 20 countries took part in this
year's competition, which was organized by the Beard and Culture Club
"Belle Moustache," a group of beard enthusiasts. Shown here,
German Karl-Heinz Hille, who won this year's "Imperial Partial Beard" category.

Palestinians Fly Nazi Flag Over Road Used By Jews

How not to win friends or influence people

• An impossible problem.  Neither the Muslims nor the Israelis have any respect for each other.
• The Israelis have stolen Arab lands and redistributed it to Jewish settlers.
• The Muslims, doing what Muslims do best, have engaged in terrorism and war against non-believers. 

The war that never ends.

For at least the second time in five months, Arab residents of Beit Umar in the Palestinian Authority (PA) have placed a Nazi flag over a major thoroughfare where Jews pass in their vehicles.

 Beit Umar is located between Halhoul and the Etzion Bloc, not far from Hevron.

Soldiers from the Haruv battalion in Kfir Regiment tried to take down the flag Saturday, but encountered difficulty because it was placed very high up reports Israel National News.

A similar event took place at Beit Umar in May, when hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion who drove down Highway 60 were astounded to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town.

In a recent key seech, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu quoted numerous historical sources showing that the leader of the Palestinian Arabs in the first half of the 20th century, Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, was “one of the initiators of the Holocaust of the Jews of Europe,” and that he was constantly encouraging the Nazi leadership to annihilate the Jews, throughout the war. He cited evidence that the Mufti even visited the gas chambers at Auschwitz with Adolf Eichmann.

“The Mufti is still a greatly admired figure in the Palestinian national movement,” said Netanyahu.

“These are the weeds that need to be uprooted,” he said. “The root of the conflict is the deep resistance among a hard core of Palestinians to the right of the Jewish people to its own state in Israel.”

Haj Amin al-Husseini - Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
Al-Husseini was the scion of a family of Jerusalemite notables. After receiving an education in Islamic, Ottoman and Catholic schools, he went on to serve in the Ottoman army in World War I. At war's end, he positioned himself in Damascus as a supporter of the Arab Kingdom of Syria.
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Following the Franco-Syrian War and the collapse of the Arab Hashemite rule in Damascus, his early position on pan-Arabism shifted to a form of local nationalism for Palestinian Arabs and he moved back to Jerusalem.
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He actively opposed Zionism, and in WWII looked to Hitler to help free the Arabs from British and French imperialism.

Muslim Waffen SS Troops
November 1943 al-Husseini greeting Muslim Bosnian Waffen-SS volunteers with a Nazi salute. At left is SS General Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig.
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A lesser told story of World War II is the large number of allies Germany had.  There were those who believed in Fascism, but many others were oppressed minorities who looked upon Germany as a liberator against Communism or Western Imperialism.
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The Germans fielded many ethnic based units:  Muslims, Cossacks, Croatians, Armenians, Georgians, Flemish, Dutch, Bulgarians, Ukrainians, Danes, Estonians, Finnish, French, Indians, Latvians, Romanians, Hungarians and more.
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See Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts.

Historical Reenactment Of 1813 Battle Of Leipzig

Reenactment of the Battle Of Leipzig

200th Anniversary of the battle

Members of historical clubs prepare to reenact the 1813 Battle of Leipzig during the Napoleonic War on October 20, 2012 near Leipzig, Germany.  The re-enactment of the battle involved around 6,000 people.

The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations was fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, at Leipzig, Saxony.

Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine.

The battle marked the culmination of the autumn campaign of 1813 during the German campaign and involved over 600,000 soldiers, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I.

There were over 114,000 causalities in only four days.

Being decisively defeated for the first time in battle, Napoleon was compelled to return to France while the Allies hurried to keep their momentum, invading France early the next year. Napoleon was forced to abdicate, and was exiled to Elba that spring.

Battle Of Leipzig Memorial

See more photos at http://www.zimbio - Historical Reenactment 1813 Battle Leipzig

and Battle of Leipzig  and  Spiegel.de/international

Angela Merkel Suffers Historic Collapse in Election

Are you really a "conservative" if you are bailing out failed socialist
policies all over Europe?

"Conservatism" gets a kick in the teeth.

• Angry about European bailouts and high taxes, German voters make Angela Merkel's CDU a minority party.
• Merkel's partner, the conservative Free Democratic Party, lost 93 seats and was completely thrown out of parliament.
• Socialist parties now have the majority of seats in parliament.

The Collapse of Conservatism  -  To read the Internet or watch TV one might think that Chancellor Merkel won some huge victory in this week's elections.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  She suffered a crushing defeat.

In state election after state election, angry German voters have defeated Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and thrown out her conservative partner the Free Democrats.

The national elections made the Conservatives a minority party and the socialist parties the majority.  It is possible Merkel might be cut out with a socialist elected as Chancellor.

Germany's conservative business-oriented Free Democratic Party on Sunday headed out of parliament for the first time in postwar history.

"It is clear this is the worst result the FDP has ever experienced," Rainer Brüderle, the party's lead candidate in this year's parliamentary election, told a crowd of deflated supporters in Berlin.

For decades, the FDP has been a bastion of Germany's conservative establishment and a political kingmaker, participating as a junior partner in German government for 46 of the past 64 years, including for 16 years during the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl reports the Wall Street Journal.

The party's apparent collapse reflects the recent fracturing of Germany's party landscape, including the recent emergence of an anti-euro party. Squabbling among its leadership and the party's failure to achieve major tax cuts also have hurt its standing since its strong showing in national elections four years ago.

 

Philipp Rösler, Germany's economics minister and the party head, called it the "most bitter and saddest" night in party history.

 

A significant outside factor contributed to the FDP's bad night: the rise of a new anti-euro party, the Alternative for Germany, which polls showed drew some voters away from the FDP.

Bizarre Germany election ad

Hot German babes masturbating, naked men, farting women in hot tubs, crying politicians, and shit-stained outhouse bungee jumpers; all in less than 3 minutes.

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My personal favorite is a bungee launching of an outhouse into the air.

Conservative Free Democrats kicked out.

The Free Democratic Party's main candidate, Rainer Bruederle, left, with chairman Philipp Roesler after the party was punished by voters in Germany's election.

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"It is clear this is the worst result the FDP has ever experienced," Rainer Brüderle, the party's lead candidate in this year's parliamentary election.

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Right-of-center parties went from a majority to a minority

in the new German Bundestag.  The three socialist

parties now have the majority.

Seats	630

Political groups	CDU (255)      SPD (192)      The Left (64)      The Greens (63)      CSU (56)

 

YES! - Latvia and Honduras back Obama in Syria

"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

Mark Twain

(1835-1910)

The Mysterious Stranger, Ch.9

Coalition of the willing on Syria includes such

superpowers as Albania, Estonia, Honduras

Bullshit Alert  -  The political Bullshit is flowing deep and heavy.  Here is my latest theory.  Obama does not care if there is a war or not. This has all been a cynical ploy to keep the Police State NSA and IRS scandals off TV and the media.

If war "breaks" out, fine for Obama.  War crushes scandal stories.  But a threat of possible war could be dragged out for months accomplishing the same thing.

In any case, Obama goes on playing the game of war for TV.  He is telling the weak of mind about all the "allies" we have in attacking Syria.  None of these countries are sending their military to help, but don't worry, we are in their thoughts.

The White House announced Monday that Albania is on board with the Obama administration’s plans to punish Syria.

Tiny Estonia, too, has agreed that Syria must be held accountable for using chemical weapons. And Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania and Morocco.

And let’s not leave out Qatar, Romania and the United Arab Emirates.

They are the latest countries to sign on to a statement condemning the Syrian regime and calling for a “strong international response,” although not necessarily the missile strikes proposed by Obama. A total of 25 nations support the statement, including the U.S. and Great Britain.

(Washington Times)


Bullshit Alert  -  Politicians are talking.



Zero?
How many divisions will Albania send to Syria when Obama goes in to "protect" the chemical weapons sites he just bombed?  If your number is near zero you win our grand prize - a one week vacation in beautiful Lebanon. (Kevlar vest not included.)

Random Thought
Saudi Arabia is all hot to trot to get Syria.  I say let the Saudis send in their own air force.  Keep the U.S. out of the Middle Eastern insanity.  The Royal Saudi Air Force maintains the third largest fleet of F-15s after the USAF and the JASDF.
(Royal Saudi Air Force)

Germany Imports Thousands of Chechen Muslims

The Truth Hurts.
German Muslims were upset at how they were
portrayed at a German Carnival.

The Death of the West  -  The corrupt Left and Right Ruling Elites of Germany and the other Western nations eagerly import millions of Muslims into their countries.  Many come from hot beds of terrorism.  What could possibly go wrong?

Thousands of Muslims are making their way to the West, in a mass exodus from Chechnya. It is the third wave of refugees triggered by the two Chechen wars in the 1990s. What makes the current exodus so eerie is that it is not accompanied by fighting.

In the first seven months of this year, more than 10,000 Chechens applied for asylum with German government offices, almost three times as many as in all of 2012. The small republic in the North Caucasus, with a population of one million, is suddenly appearing at the top of German asylum statistics.

More people are coming to Germany from Chechnya at the moment than from Syria and Afghanistan combined, two countries racked by civil war.

According to Russian state security estimates, some 600 families have left Argun, a provincial city of 30,000 people, where Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov is having glass-and-steel office buildings erected that resemble the structures in London's Canary Wharf commercial district reports Der Spiegel International.


Radical ISLAM spreads in Germany

Sharia Law District declared in Norway

Putin values Kadyrov, because he has brought a funereal calm to Chechnya. Moscow waged two devastating wars to prevent the republic from seceding. But it was only Kadyrov who managed to wrestle down the Chechen rebels, albeit with brutal methods.

In return, the Kremlin provides him with virtually unlimited credit, including more than €1.6 billion ($2.14 billion) in annual subsidies. Moscow also pays for the despot's escapades without blinking an eye. They include Kadyrov's private stud farm, worth millions of euros, and a giant new mosque in Grozny, which he built in honor of his father.

The Chechens pose a difficult challenge to German authorities. In their offices in Berlin and elsewhere, they must evaluate which refugees are merely in Germany for financial reasons, whether the refugees include Islamists prepared to use violence and which asylum seekers truly deserve protection, because they became innocent victims of the Kadyrov regime.

Chechen President Kadyrov claims that such descriptions are pure fiction. His spokesman characterizes the reports on refugees as an "invention of German journalists." Chechnya is "safer than Great Britain," says Kadyrov, noting that the Chechen economy is the most effective in all of Russia.

Under the eyes of his patron Putin, Kadyrov has established a feudal system, more of a medieval sultanate than a modern state.

The Kremlin is practicing a dangerous laissez-faire policy in the Caucasus. It lets Kadyrov do as he pleases, even when this includes establishing his own paramilitary force, the black-clad "Kadyrovtsy," as Chechens call them.

 

Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov
Muslims "fleeing" Chechnya claiming asylum are fleeing from their own pro-Russian Muslim ruler looking to restore law and order and prevent Islamist terrorism.  One might conclude that many of those leaving Chechnya were sympathetic to Islamists.  And the West lays out the welcome mat for them.

The Chechen Boston Bombers
The dim bulb American politicians of both parties think it is a great idea for the U.S. to import Muslims from the terrorist hot bed of Chechnya.  The Russians even warned us.  But those warnings were ignored on purpose or due to incompetence.  I vote for on purpose.  After all, a terrorist bombing on U.S. soil gives the state the excuse to attack the Bill of Rights in order to "protect" us.

Racists
The Elites of both the Left and the Right call you a racist for daring to believe that your language, nation and culture have a right to exist and not be overrun by foreigners..

"Hands off my sasuage please"



Size Does Matter in Germany

Conservatives strike back against Leftist proposals for

a vegetarian day once a week.

A group of Leftist Green German politicians is pushing for workplace cafeterias to institute an unpopular vegetarian day once a week where employees cannot eat popular Bavarian meats, such as schnitzel and wursts.

It’s not too different from Comrade First Lady Obama's goal of having liberal state approved "healthier" foods in U.S. school cafeterias.

The controversial proposal from the left-leaning Green Party — which could make even New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s soda ban look trivial — seems about as un-German as placing speed limits on the Autobahn reports the Washington Times.

Ahead of the national elections this fall, the proposal, which is unlikely to pass, is not sitting well with voters. And it’s created a bit of a headache for the Greens, the German magazine Spiegel reports.

The Greens‘ proposal has provided campaign fodder for their conservative opponents — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democratic Union, and their junior partner, the Free Democratic Party — who have used the issue to take the focus away from complaints about Ms. Merkel’s reluctance to come down harder on America for the NSA spying scandal.



But can he take all 12 inches?
In this 2004 photo, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
enjoys a typical Thuringian style Rostbratwurst sausage during
his visit in the eastern German village of Masserberg.

The firestorm started Monday, when senior Green politician Renate Künast told a tabloid about her plan for a healthier Germany, followed by a vegetarian recipe that she posted on Twitter.

“A veggie day would be a great opportunity to see how we can nourish ourselves without meat and sausage,” she said.

She received support for the idea from Katrin Göring-Eckardt, a top Green Party member: “One doesn’t need two burgers every day,” she said.

The rival Free Democrats were having none of that. They organized an impromptu street barbecue in front of the Green Party’s headquarters in Berlin to protest the move, carrying signs that read: “Hands off my sausage.”

The suggestion of limiting Germans’ sausage intake — on average they eat more than 130 pounds of meat each year — has been met with much backlash from the Greens‘ political opponents.

The FDP’s Rainer Brüderle also chimed in: “People are smart enough to decide on their own when they eat meat and vegetables and when they don’t. Constantly telling people what they do is not my understanding of freedom and liberty.”

The Green Party – which polls suggest will receive about 15 percent of votes and could become a coalition partner with the opposition Social Democrats - says lower meat consumption would reduce the impact of farming on the environment and improve dietary health.

A Freedom BBQ
Members of the youth wing of the liberal Free Democratic Party eat
meat in front of the Green Party headquarters in Berlin to
protest a proposed vegetarian day.

"Give me sausage or give me death."
Chancellor Angela Merkel takes a stand for dead
animal consumption in tube form.

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Current political party breakdown in the Germany
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Composition of the 17th Federal Diet of Germany

Christian Democratic Union   (Black)

Social Democratic Party of Germany   (Red)

Free Democratic Party   (Yellow)

The Left   (Brown)

Alliance '90/The Greens   (Green)

Christian Social Union   (Blue)

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WARNING TO AMERICAN READERS
Do not be confused.  The German Parliament has six different political parties represented.  That is called free elections . . . something the United States has not had for about 70 years.  But fear not, you will soon leave this page and return to the fantasy of "free" American elections and forget all about those silly countries overseas where voters have multiple real ballot choices.

How Americans and Europeans View the World

How Americans view the world.
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Each person has a different way of looking at the world, but these views are often bundled in the form of prejudices. In his new book, "Atlas of Prejudice," recently published in Germany, Bulgarian designer Yanko Tsvetskov, 38, has created satirical maps based on national and historical clichés.

In Germany, the book has been published by Knesebeck Verlag. An English edition is expected soon. In Germany, apparently, when people think of Sweden, it is IKEA that comes to mind.

How the Greeks view Europe.
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How the British view Europe.
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To the British, on the other hand, Europe's national boundaries fade, while where to get the best cake, beer, soup and shops remains abundantly clear.

How the Poles view Europe.
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And when Poles think of neighboring Germany, they think of a "Western Bully." It's perhaps not surprising given that Germany long tried to keep its labor market closed to its Eastern European neighbor. Oh, and then there was that war.

How the Germans view Europe.
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How the French view Europe
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Europe in 2022
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In the future, posits the Crystal Ball map, much of Europe will be divided into the mega-states of the European Union, Second Kalmar Union and Merkelreich, while China will own Greece and Portugalicia will have eaten all the fish.

(spiegel.de/fotostrecke)            (alphadesigner.com)