Ignorance is Bliss

Today is the end of Ignorance is Bliss Week.

TheEditor, in customary ignorance, didn't notice how special this week was until it was over. Declaring it ends on Sunday is also rather arbitrary but we had a good laugh about the Spanish Timezone/Calendar issue and will leave it at that.
Gosh, no, hold on. Do you happen to know what the older French generation called Daylight Saving Time when it was introduced on the Continent in the latter decades of the 20th Century?
"L'heure allemande" (German Time), and some of the older generation didn't like it at all.

The IPCC came out with another climate change report, and the reactions were as predictable as they were silly.

Why does it even matter whether humans are responsible? When someone goes into the ocean for a swim and gets carried away by the current, the first thing you do is? You stand on the beach debating who is responsible?

Human abuse of the planet is bad enough, why would you spend your hard earned money on expensive fuel when you can cut your heating bill by 80% and live more comfortably?

In Germany, voters enjoyed a week of bliss after the elections, and now the "we won't raise taxes" party is talking about, yep, raising taxes.

In the UK, a police chief called for an end of the war on drugs. Mere hours later -- Ignorance is indeed Bliss -- some of his peers warned about the wrong message to the youth.

Same country, the former head of GCHQ points out how little protest the surveillance revelations of this summer have stirred up. Which, of course, means people are not worried. The good man has never lived under an authoritarian government, it would seem.

In the U.S., a partial government shutdown is looming, and our friends in Congress passed a bill that ensures the military continues to get paid. Which makes perfect sense, you should always continue to pay the guys who have the guns.

In Italy, the ever entertaining Mr. Berlusconi is on another power trip, while just to the north, in Austria, anti-EU parties took about 30% of the votes in the general election. With Austria nicknamed "little Germany" by the K-Landnews, someone needs to start crossing fingers for the next German elections.

The K-Landnews TheEditor manifested some more ignorance in an effort to research how to officially become a journalist in Germany, with the intention of expanding into covering major trade shows.  Most of the big journalist associations do not accept people like us, bloggers and small time website operators, we'll see if two smaller bodies will.

The upcoming press card application process may yield a couple of fun posts...