Monday, January 16, 2023

In the news....

There were many memorial events today to celebrate MLK Day and rightly so.  There was also a deadly plane crash in Nepal and Gina Lollobrigida has died.  But the bit of news I found most interesting today was announced on DW news, one of my favorite news programs on PBS (9:30pm on 39.4 locally).  Like BBC it's an international broadcast with a US branch.  DW is from Germany and the news event first in their broadcast this evening was the fact that the defense minister of Germany has been ousted.  Evidently she has demonstrated her ineptitude several times in her year in office.  I suspect it was her bad luck to begin her term as defense minister just before Russia invaded Ukraine.  In peace time she might have had more time to learn about her job but not so this past year.  The two errors they mentioned on the news show were her inability to explain a weapon, explaining that it had a 'long tube thingy' (the English translation) and suggesting that they send helmets to the Ukraine forces rather than weapons.  As a mother I understand her concern but it wasn't really a very helpful suggestion.  Weapons and helmets would probably have been good.  Of course her title was "defense" minister.  

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