Festivities

This weekend there are festivities in the city I live in, because a street(!) there now exists for 1,000 years. Well, if you don´t have a real reason to party, I guess you can always come up with something if you look hard enough.

It was a really nice atmosphere with with a lot of actors in more ore less medieval costumes and some booths being set up.

The guy in black and blue is our mayor.

If you want to see and hear them in action:

Legislation strikes back

So we had some unfortunate events here earlier this year when several persons ran amok and shot some people.

The usual public demand for more security after such events lead to the typical reaction of politicians. Instead of admitting to the public that there is a risk you just cannot minimize anymore with a halfway intelligent legislation they plan to.....

outlaw paintball games. The given explanation is that you can practice for killings in this way. It will probably take just some more killing sprees to outlaw water pistols as well.

I once learned that when it is not necessary to enact a law it is necessary to not enact a law. This simple concept seems to have gone out of fashion.

I know of no one who claimed that any of the shooters ever attended paintball games. There simply is no good reason to pass such a law. It´s pure populism.

Exclaimer: I don´t play paintball games myself and probably never will. It just pisses me off that my personal freedom is curtailed more and more for no good reason.

Happy Labour Day

A very normal Labour Day. In some big cities there were the traditional riots. When formerly the motto was proletarians unite, today it´s just idiots unite.

On a day dedicated to the workers, all the people who appear in the news belong to the lazy ones who probably not even once held a job.