Yes, it's that time of year again:
Poppies in the fields!
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Same old, same old"
All 34 Bishops of Chile resigned and asked the Pope to
"judge them individually".
Several of them had protected several clerical Pedophiles for years, shuffling them from one Diocese to another. That's a little like sending a constantly hungry man from one buffet to the next, so he may find more delectable goodies.
... to judge them individually?
what is the matter with those boobs?
Don't they know themselves if they are guilty or innocent of this hideous charge?
The guilty ones should 'fess up, speak the truth, quit the Order and be charged in Criminal Court with "aiding and abetting"!
If they need a little help in deciding their guilt or innocence, I'll be glad to help them:
If you even just suspect, or actually know the perpetrator, or perpetrators of such crimes, and you looked the other way and said nothing, you are guilty!
The innocent ones should give second thoughts to belonging to such an organisation.
Bertstravels
prefers to write about Harry and Meghan.
"judge them individually".
Several of them had protected several clerical Pedophiles for years, shuffling them from one Diocese to another. That's a little like sending a constantly hungry man from one buffet to the next, so he may find more delectable goodies.
... to judge them individually?
what is the matter with those boobs?
Don't they know themselves if they are guilty or innocent of this hideous charge?
The guilty ones should 'fess up, speak the truth, quit the Order and be charged in Criminal Court with "aiding and abetting"!
If they need a little help in deciding their guilt or innocence, I'll be glad to help them:
If you even just suspect, or actually know the perpetrator, or perpetrators of such crimes, and you looked the other way and said nothing, you are guilty!
The innocent ones should give second thoughts to belonging to such an organisation.
Bertstravels
prefers to write about Harry and Meghan.
Theee Wedding!!!
This surely was the Wedding of the Year!
No, it must have been the Wedding of the Decade or the Century,
or of all- and ever-time..
The Bride was gorgeous,
The groom was handsome
Every guest was beautiful and elegant
The flower girls were as cute as buttons,
The hats were funny
some of them "very funny" and
The Queen was royal.
The only thing which was kind of dumb,
Was that Meghan Markle
a very pretty second string actress
from Los Angeles
all of a sudden, became:
Her Royal Highness, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.
So the Queen decreed.
Bertstravels
was not actually there, because he was not invited
but he grabbed these shots and some more off the TV.
No, it must have been the Wedding of the Decade or the Century,
or of all- and ever-time..
The Bride was gorgeous,
The groom was handsome
Every guest was beautiful and elegant
The flower girls were as cute as buttons,
The hats were funny
some of them "very funny" and
The Queen was royal.
The only thing which was kind of dumb,
Was that Meghan Markle
a very pretty second string actress
from Los Angeles
all of a sudden, became:
Her Royal Highness, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.
So the Queen decreed.
Bertstravels
was not actually there, because he was not invited
but he grabbed these shots and some more off the TV.
Harry
Meghan
Harry and Meghan.
(make up your own titles.)
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Two Holidays in One
Is it Mother's day or is it Bert's Birthday?
Across the street and up a bit is the "Geniesserei"... (translates easily to English "Enjoyery.)
Every year on this date we have had a Festival there.
So here are some pix of this year's party. Tonc Feinig, the absolute master of the keyboard and Stefan Thaler, a Genius on the Bass. What music they make!
A 6 course lunch and some excellent wine.
The Lunch lasted from 11AM to 3PM.
The food was great, the music fabulous...
Wed had the "Lunch to end all Lunches."
Across the street and up a bit is the "Geniesserei"... (translates easily to English "Enjoyery.)
Every year on this date we have had a Festival there.
So here are some pix of this year's party. Tonc Feinig, the absolute master of the keyboard and Stefan Thaler, a Genius on the Bass. What music they make!
A 6 course lunch and some excellent wine.
The Lunch lasted from 11AM to 3PM.
The food was great, the music fabulous...
Wed had the "Lunch to end all Lunches."
Tonc (pronounced: Tontsch) Feinig.
Stefan Thaler
Stefan is normal size, about my size,
Tonc is a Giant, 6 foot something.
Ustascha vs Partisans
Yesterday, on the 12th
May, an annual meeting was held, in a meadow, just outside the town
of Bleiburg. It was attended by about 11,000 visitors from Croatia,
to commemorate the murder of many thousands of members of the
“Ustascha.”
Who were the so-called
“Ustascha?” Even a perfunctory look into the history of this
organization reveals this:
“The Ustascha was a
Croatian Revolutionary movement, supported by Nazi Germany and by the
Roman Catholic Church.
It was, in fact, a
fascist, racist, ultra nationalist, terrorist, Nazi supported
organization, who ruled in a German-protected area of Croatia.
Between 1939 and 1945 the
Ustascha had established a number of Concentration and Extermination
camps, the most notorious of which was in/near Jasenovac, an
Extermination Camp in which low number estimated 60,000 victims were
murdered. They were mostly Serbians, Jews, Roma and anybody else who
did not agree with this National Socialist (Nazi) philosophy.
Now, of course, came the
8th of May 1945, the day in which the end of WWII was
documented by the signing of the unconditional surrender of the
German Army.
The Tito-friendly
so-called “Partisans” now moved to get their revenge, killing as
many of the Ustascha as they could.
The Ustascha, men, women
and children fled to Austria where, on the 14th day of May
1945, they reached a field in Loibach, near Bleiburg, where they
encountered the British arm of the Allied victorious liberation
forces, who, in accordance with International Law returned them to
the Jurisdiction of the then Yugoslavia.
This is when the Partisans
took over, and commenced with the killing of the Ustaschas right
there on the “Loibach Field,” continuing during a forced death
march, where those, who, exhausted, could no longer walk, were shot,
their bodies littering the side of the road. Men, Women and Children.
The number of victims
killed during this “death march” is under dispute and varies
widely. It may be believed that tens of thousands were murdered
during this episode.
Many of the Ustaschas fled
to South America, where they were supported by right wing local
Governments and by the Catholic church.
What, finally, have we
left?
A pastoral scene of flower
strewn meadows, a lovely country side of rolling hills reaching for
the mountains and...
….....A History of
Killers killing Killers.
Bertstravels
thought a lot about posting this or not posting it.
It is, after all, ancient History and should probably be buried and forgotten.
But, since this fascist ideology, saturated with the blood of the innocent and the guilty, is still very much in evidence, Bertstravels thinks that it must be told again and again, so that the deeds of criminals in power should never be forgotten, and, it may be hoped, not be repeated.
Kindergarten Icecream day
On my travels I reached a "Konditorei" (sweet bakery) somewhere in the countryside, invaded by an entire group of beautiful children.
Like all kids, myself included, they simply loved Ice Cream. Vanilla, Strawberry, Raspberry, Chocolate. You make it, we eat it.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Vespa rules the Motor World
at least for today, in Bleiburg.
The "Vespa Meeting" attracted about 200 Vespa owners with their Vespas to Bleiburg.
It was a quiet meeting, with loud music and spinning of tires.
Altogether peaceful.
The "Vespa Meeting" attracted about 200 Vespa owners with their Vespas to Bleiburg.
It was a quiet meeting, with loud music and spinning of tires.
Altogether peaceful.
Just a small part of the total number of Vespas in Bleiburg today.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Yes, it's that day again
It is the 8th day of May 2018.
73 years ago, on this day, World War 2 officially came to an end by the signing of some documents.
With this affixing of names on a piece of paper, Germans and Austrians were allowed to forget over 72 Million victims.
We were allowed to speak of an Occupation of our land by the Allied Forces and it took, it is almost unbelievable, fully 40 years before the then German Federal President, Richard von Weizsäcker, in 1985 for the very first time spoke of "the day of Liberation from the inhuman yoke of the brutal dictatorship of the National Socialist Party."
Can you imagine this? For fully 40 years no leading Government official spoke of a "Liberation."
It seems they all were quite happy to live under a regime which murdered in excess of 17 Million people in various ways, not including in military combat.
What, you do not believe this number? Let me repeat here a previously listed summary:
People murdered by the Nazis:
Gypsies: 220,000
Jehovah's Witnesses 2,000
Institutionalized disabled 250,000
Serbian Civilians 312,000
Polish Civilians ( non Jewish) 1,800,000
Soviet Prisoners of War 3,000,000
Soviet Civilians, (non Jewish) 5,700,000
Jews 5,900,000
Total 17,184,000
===============================
By all means, let us celebrate this 8th day of May, as the day on which Europe, all of Europe, was officially liberated from the yoke of Nazi Germany.
Bertstravels.
73 years ago, on this day, World War 2 officially came to an end by the signing of some documents.
With this affixing of names on a piece of paper, Germans and Austrians were allowed to forget over 72 Million victims.
We were allowed to speak of an Occupation of our land by the Allied Forces and it took, it is almost unbelievable, fully 40 years before the then German Federal President, Richard von Weizsäcker, in 1985 for the very first time spoke of "the day of Liberation from the inhuman yoke of the brutal dictatorship of the National Socialist Party."
Can you imagine this? For fully 40 years no leading Government official spoke of a "Liberation."
It seems they all were quite happy to live under a regime which murdered in excess of 17 Million people in various ways, not including in military combat.
What, you do not believe this number? Let me repeat here a previously listed summary:
People murdered by the Nazis:
Gypsies: 220,000
Jehovah's Witnesses 2,000
Institutionalized disabled 250,000
Serbian Civilians 312,000
Polish Civilians ( non Jewish) 1,800,000
Soviet Prisoners of War 3,000,000
Soviet Civilians, (non Jewish) 5,700,000
Jews 5,900,000
Total 17,184,000
===============================
By all means, let us celebrate this 8th day of May, as the day on which Europe, all of Europe, was officially liberated from the yoke of Nazi Germany.
Bertstravels.
Monday, May 7, 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Talk about being stubborn
Yes, talk about being stubborn.
This takes the cake.
There is this little Violet, (I think it's a "Dog-Violet")
It's got the whole lawn of our garden in which to spread its roots,
and grow as tall as it wants.
But Noooo,
It grows in between the stone blocks of the little walkway.
I'd swear that there isn't even a speck of decent soil
in which a self-respecting little flower could grow.
Well, welcome to you, little flower!
You will be protected here
like the rarest ot Orchids.