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		<title>&#8220;Dreesch, darr rait on fair mekunam!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://taide.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/dreesch-darr-rait-on-fair-mekunam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sichten und Vernichten &#8211; sort of the equivalent to search and destroy &#8211; was a slogan in our training at the antitank squad, more than twenty years ago. It has since been replaced by some nicer wording.
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the German Bundeswehr (i. e. military forces) top-ranking soldier, is quoted by German paper Die Tageszeitung (taz) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=1061&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conciseness</title>
		<link>http://taide.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/conciseness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One shouldn&#8217;t try to say everything. That would quiesce the reader&#8217;s imagination, which in turn creates boredom.&#8220;
In German:
&#8220;Man muss nicht alles sagen wollen. Dadurch wird die Phantasie des Lesers in den Ruhestand gesetzt, und dadurch wieder wird die Langeweile geboren.&#8220;
Theodor Fontane, German Poet, in a letter to his publisher Wilhelm Hertz, June 17, 1866
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s best Revenge: go to Berlin</title>
		<link>http://taide.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/obamas-best-revenge-go-to-berlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama visits Germany, but skips Berlin. A roundmail about the president&#8217;s itinerary, sent around by the White House, didn&#8217;t even mention Germany: it was from Cairo right away to France.
Former concentration camp Buchenwald and U.S. Landstuhl Military Hospital are Obama&#8217;s destinations here &#8211; not Berlin, although he might have got the Brandenburg Gate this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=1041&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verdener Aller Zeitung reports Three Recoveries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 09:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Verdener Aller Zeitung, a local paper, reports plans which are currently discussed at the city council. One goal is to make new use of an area close to the Aller River. So far, there is a flat building encased with washed-out concrete which houses a supermarket and which mayor Lutz Brockmann says is ugly, according [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=1021&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Problem, and a Recommended Solution</title>
		<link>http://taide.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/a-problem-and-a-recommended-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 21:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://taide.wordpress.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every day, it&#8217;s the same picture around Verden&#8217;s hospital, on the Burgberg and other neighbouring roads: cars seemingly cruising around &#8211; if only it was for fun. They are people with business to do, but searching for a place to pull in their cars instead. People who come to the hospital, car-owning students who attend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=986&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six Kinds of Crap, Footnote</title>
		<link>http://taide.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/six-kinds-of-crap-footnote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 09:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taide: No, Heidi Klum would have been a lousy porn actress.
Justrecently: She was successful as a model. I&#8217;d say she&#8217;d have been about as successful as a porn actress.
Taide: No way. Being a model is worlds apart from doing porn. If Heidi Klum sat in a shop window in the Stahlstraße in Essen, and a [supermarket [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=976&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Showtime: Six Kinds of Crap</title>
		<link>http://taide.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/showtime-six-kinds-of-crap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 17:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s got something to do with casting. If you don&#8217;t know what I mean, it&#8217;s explained here. Everything you need to know about Germany&#8217;s Next Top Model, Heidi Klum&#8217;s search for the most beautiful girl, on one of Germany&#8217;s ugliest television channels.
One of Klum&#8217;s pearls of wisdom when coaching the babes:
&#8220;You have implemented this look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=960&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consul General&#8217;s Latest Status</title>
		<link>http://taide.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/consul-generals-latest-status/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hakan Kivanç may be suspended. Then again, maybe he&#8217;s only on a holiday. Either way &#8211; if he left, it&#8217;s not because of German pressure. No German will hurt the honour of a Turkish consul general. Let there be no misunderstanding.
Posted in civil service, customs, diplomacy, Germany, society, Turkey Tagged: bigotry, customs, education, Europe, Germany, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=955&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now, Thailand&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 11:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://taide.wordpress.com/?p=946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; A fine mess you&#8217;ve made of that! How inhumane! You incarcerated Annice Smoel for several days and threatened her with a real court case for alledgedly stealing a bar mat!
OK, according to the owner of the Aussie Bar, she called the investigating policemen names. And according to the police station itself, she kept yelling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=946&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Represents: Exposing Justrecently&#8217;s Lies</title>
		<link>http://taide.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/eight-represents-exposing-justrecentlys-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 08:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justrecently wrote another biased and distorted post yesterday. He comments on the new bilingual Hualan Magazine&#8217;s story on The Eight Represent Ordinary Women, and by commenting on one of the photos he suggests that The Eight Represents were no real Represents, because the furniture wasn&#8217;t ordinary enough. No, he doesn&#8217;t say that, he only viciously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taide.wordpress.com&blog=3250134&post=925&subd=taide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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