as i read my online-newspaper today, one headline popped into my eyes: “gouverneur von illinois hebt alle todesurteile auf”. well, i did not bother too much with the rest of the german article, i moved on to cnn.com. of course, since this outgoing gouverneur is a republican, this was not an issue regarded suitable for the frontpage. instead, cnn was happily presenting the new architectural designs for ground zero. having navigated across multiple pages where i was offered to get the breaking news by email and thereby being among the first to witness the “showdown” -all this in a fancy box showing georgie and saddam- and still i could avoid puking, i finally arrived at the same message in the law section. here’s the quote of outgoing gouverneur george h. ryan:
“Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having? Because of all these reasons, today I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.”
wow, this man earned my respect and country-points! would only some more leading people in the US have the guts and stand up…. —- the us-army is heavily moving men and machine down to the gulf, preparing for warfare. saddam’s army, on the contrast, weighs almost a million men, plus countless fanatic schoolkids, mothers and grandpas who will not hesitate to grab a gun when they can get one. the more serious the US get with their world tour, the more building sites of warfare they open, the more i start thinking about my second career in the hills of new zealand. honestly, now with north-korea and their nuclear weapons programs, i feel more like going to hobbiton than anywhere else. — my personal terrorist attack was the results of my finance-class. once more, i did not pass. the only consolation is the average grade of 5.2 and the enormous amount of people not having passed as well. i really start doubting that i will ever pass this stupid course, where no aspect of finance is dealt with thoroughly but on a rather superficial level, but where one is expected to be an expert of international finance, management and financial accounting in the end. once again: stupid! — as the interested visitor might already have noticed, i am building the other pages as well - one after another. ‘about’ and ‘faq’ is ready, and i expect to be done with the rest more or less by the end of this week. so, as always, stay tuned and have a nice week wherever you are on this bad planet.