{"id":2298,"date":"2010-11-14T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2010-11-14T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T15:22:35","slug":"german-nuclear-power-update-a-bizarre-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/germany\/german-nuclear-power-update-a-bizarre-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"German Nuclear Power Update:  A &#8220;Bizarre&#8221; Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the ultra-stereotyped world of Germany&#8217;s Spiegel Magazine, the three most common words used to describe anything going on in America are &#8220;Fiasko,&#8221; &#8220;Debakel,&#8221; and &#8220;Bizarr.&#8221;\u00a0 As it happens, on rare occasions, &#8220;bizarr&#8221; things happen in Germany, too.\u00a0 In my last post I described the fine anti-nuclear posing of that country&#8217;s activist peacocks.\u00a0 Well, according to Spiegel, another rare bird has just outdone them all.\u00a0 Author and TV moderator Charlotte Roche has just offered to jump in the sack with Christian Wulff, president of the Federal Republic, if only he will refrain from signing a law to keep Germany&#8217;s nuclear power plants on line.\u00a0 Apparently her husband <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/leute\/0,1518,729009,00.html\">has agreed<\/a> to the deal, and Charlotte has assured the President that, &#8221; I have tattoos,&#8221; just like his wife.\u00a0 So far no one has reported seeing Wulff rushing to the drugstore to stock up on Viagra, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/0,1518,729053,00.html\">a commenter <\/a>on the article demonstrates that the good, old German spirit isn&#8217;t dead:<\/p>\n<p>Super! Now the President can show what kind of balls he really has by 1) Accepting the agreement, and 2) then signing the law anyway.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2301\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Roche.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2301\" title=\"Roche\" src=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Roche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlotte Roche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=German+Nuclear+Power+Update%3A++A+%22Bizarre%22+Twist\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/germany\/german-nuclear-power-update-a-bizarre-twist\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ultra-stereotyped world of Germany&#8217;s Spiegel Magazine, the three most common words used to describe anything going on in America are &#8220;Fiasko,&#8221; &#8220;Debakel,&#8221; and &#8220;Bizarr.&#8221;\u00a0 As it happens, on rare occasions, &#8220;bizarr&#8221; things happen in Germany, too.\u00a0 In my last post I described the fine anti-nuclear posing of that country&#8217;s activist peacocks.\u00a0 Well, according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/germany\/german-nuclear-power-update-a-bizarre-twist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;German Nuclear Power Update:  A &#8220;Bizarre&#8221; Twist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-nuclear-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-B4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}