I've been listening a lot to this lately - stuck in my mind and just won't go. It's the version from that worship scene in the 2nd Blues Brothers film that's my particular earworm.

Recent developments have also brought to a fore my view of Germany's no. 1 woman, who turned sixty yesterday and some say is now at her zenith...

... wrote the book of the seven seals
No-one knows what our chancellor really thinks, it seems. She's nominally conservative but she dumped nuclear power after Fukushima like a hot potato. She said all was okay with the North Americans doing what that Snow-something fella said - only to get seriously pissed off when her own mobile phone turned out to have been bugged by them. She backed Juncker as conservative candidate for the EU general election a few weeks ago, then dropped him a metre or so just after the election was done (conservatives ahead in the polls) only to catch him by the nape of his political neck before he landed in a heap down on the EU premiers' deadly verbal fight floor.

... had twelve apostles and three she led away
People who get in her way get dropped. Fast. That charismatic "blue-blooded" minister of defence. The young but outspoken minister for the environment. Others. She can be ruthless when she wants to be. Pity she restricts those times to securing her seat of power. Just like she learnt from Kohl. As if she wasn't able to be better than him.

Who's that writin'?
That's the point: It isn't her. She hardly ever publicly commits herself. There was no writing on the election posters of her or her party last German elections, except for some silly phrases like "we are strong". So, no one is writing. The message to everyone else is: Stay stupid, mom's here, let her worry. Duh.

Ashamed
Or just afraid? The US secret services have been behaving particularly badly since 9/11. And globally long before, basically determining foreign policy independent of any president. Now it turns out the members of the German parliamentary committee, to investigate US spying on all of us here (not just her & her phone), have been themselves spied upon. Want to guess by whom? Now would be the time to drop the ever-understanding stance she's taken all her life. Stop being the well-behaved vassal. Doing nothing is less and less of an option - the national attorney general will have to act. Will she take sides? Some doubts remain! ;-p

Hillary Clinton is a fan. But I would much prefer the great Moderator to do a little more for all of our personal freedom. Stand up to Big Brother across the Atlantic. Get out of the pocket of the big German arms manufacturers. Allow more dissent, and dissent more openly herself. If she's as popular as they say, she can afford it on the way to retirement. I like moderation. But in her case, I've had more than enough. Thanks, Angie.

Now get your boots on and start walking over the other premier brickheads! No excuses, please!

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