Kathryn Morris

A new addition that however managed to get to a place where I have to admit if forced to choose I’d put her into my top 5 and if again forced to choose even in my top 3 (which means I’d have throw one of my sacred ones out and I’m not even sure who those are, so please don’t make me choose). Lilly Rush, hero of the crime show Cold Case, makes my heart melt. When she smiles I smile. When she’s in pain my heart breaks. Those eyes are marvelous. She manages to put so much concern into them I want to cry. And that smile. When she smiles the sun rises. So, she’s quite perfect.

Eliza Dushku

I was 15 and Faith on Buffy was the hottest thing on TV and oh so gorgeous and oh so bad. The story of the cold, badass and evil vampire slayer who is able to snap a neck with one hand, played, you guessed it, right into my fetish, since underneath she was nothing more than a soft, lost core. Her other shows unfortunately were both cancelled. Tru Calling & Dollhouse however are still worth watching. Especially because the Lady is pretty. And of course it’s always great to watch Season 3 of Buffy again and watch the story unfold. It was the best season after all. Not much is sexier than a woman with a stake in her hands.

Jennifer Aniston

Oh my. Through how many bad movies have I suffered because of you my dear Jennifer? Too many. But how much I love Rachel Greene I can’t even start to explain. Such a great character full of comedy. Her relationship wit Ross is the one I shipped most in all my life and today still I scream: Did she get off the plane? While, you guessed it, crying. (Really need to see someone about that.) Her character developed from being spoilt rotten to building her own successful career and finding the love of her life including a baby. The way she did it was a bit melodramatic at times (just so we’re clear: Ross? It’s called cheating) but I love love love the Lady and the same goes for Aniston. And she totally rocked the business woman look. Oh my. (A quick line about her costar Courtney Cox: Have never seen such a transformation from rather geeky, bland, ordinary woman into a zomgwtfstfubbq hotness. The hair, the attitude, the shoes, the clothes in the end? Chapeau!)

Lucy Lawless

Something might be hotter than a girl with a stake and that’s a warrior wearing leather up to her breasts and using a chakram to cut throats. I was probably around 10 and had no idea what a ship was (in the non Titanic way) but I did ship them, the tiny blonde and the big, bad wolf, uh warrior. I don’t need to mention my fetish, right? Xena, once evil, belonging to Ares, destroyed countless of lives is now redeeming herself, working for the good, saving countless of lives. Her absolution is that tiny blonde next to her. Lucy Lawless then later was on Battlestar Galactica and there too, pretty and mostly perfect and just one more reason to watch that wonderful science fiction show.

Keira Knightley

Admittedly she’s too skinny and if I’d meet her I’d probably take her out to shove food into her mouth. But my God is she pretty and the British? See, watching Bend It Like Beckham was quite a thing for me, I had sever troubles following the story since I went from British accent heaven into British accent heaven and never quite managed not to drool, had to change sweater afterwards. But, she was pretty and perfect and cute and all kinds of beautiful and I never really recovered from that crush. Pirates Of The Caribbean, Bend It Like Beckham, Atonement, Domino, Pride & Prejudice, The Jacket, Love Actually, The Hole (especially The Hole) all worth watching because of her. That woman has the perfect face.

Stay tuned for the fourth and last part.

Lena Olin

She plays the wonderful and deadly and simply amazing Irina Derevko. The one where people go ‘you will love her’ before you start watching Alias, the one where you will go ‘that lying bitch? Never’ for a few episodes until you’re like ‘oh, that one, I get it now.’ Best character ever on TV (next to Sheldon Cooper, because Sheldon Cooper is my little geek hero) and the way she played it was just smashing. I have seen her in nearly everything else she did, only a couple of films are missing. She was great in Hollywood Homicide along with Mr. Ford. She played the Devil next to Johnny Depp in the 9th Gate. And she had a small role in The Reader. She’s 55 years old and one of those women that were beautiful when they were young but simply beyond words now. She’s Swedish and the trace of accent she has in her English is for me reason enough to melt on my couch. I do hope somebody will end up doing something with that Lady in the coming years. There wasn’t enough Alias, did you hear me JJ? There wasn’t enough Alias. She also delivered a great performance on Romeo Was Bleeding, however that movie was many different kinds of strange.

Elizabeth Mitchell

Oh, how I loved thee. She jumped onto my TV years and years back, must have been 10 years ago, playing Dr. Kim Legaspi on Emergency Room at the side of Kerry Weaver and I fell for the blonde psychiatrist head over heels. When the channel let her go I actually wrote them, that’s how much I loved her during my teenage years. Then she came back to Lost and the flatmate will tell you that I squeed for a full 5 minutes when she finally showed up and I was like it’s Mitchell, squeee, it’s Mitchell, oh my God, I love her. It was quite pathetic. I will have to start watching V now. I went to see Santa Clause in theatres because of her. That’s how pathetic this got.

Mary McDonnell

Yes, she was on Donnie Darko. Yes, she was Carter’s mother on Emergency Room. But mostly she was President Roslin on Battlestar Galactica. A clever science fiction show that I loved like no other show in that genre and mostly because of the characters. She was brilliant. She was beautiful. She was strong. She had power, she had attitude and she wasn’t afraid to airlock anybody. In fact Mrs. Airlock was quite scary sometimes. 58 years old and also one of those women that were quite pretty young and turned absolutely stunning a few years later. There are a few scenes and episodes where she reduced me to a pathetic sobbing mess that needed tissue after tissue after tissue.

What’s that you say? I might have something with older women? Oh. Didn’t know that. Thank you for pointing it out.

Crystal Chappell

Does it need words? Does it need explanations? Does it need anything? She created Venice, she was half of Otalia and she’s my most beautiful Goddess. She currently has a role on Days Of Our Lives and sometimes I must admit I have troubles catching up. (I’m like 6 months behind, I think but I am watching.) But she’s brilliant and she was brilliant on Guiding Light where she played the wonderful Olivia Spencer. Her bench slide might have nearly made me faint. And the eye-sex that was going on? Hot. Love her commitment to her work and to her fans. Wonderful Lady.

Tarja Turunen

Oh, that voice. The first voice that has managed to make me cry. She has sung the first songs that have made me cry. Of course it was Tuomas that wrote them and it was Nightwish as a whole that delivered them but it was her and her voice that made my stomach turn and my tears flow. (If one reads these posts, one might start thinking the author is crying quite often, which might or might not be the truth.) When it was announced that she was leaving Nightwish my world crumbled for a few seconds (until I realised that the world does not revolve around a band) but it did make me, you guessed it, cry that she left and Nightwish in my humble opinion has never been the same again. I follow her solo career and I quite liked her first album and I will buy the second one that just came out, too. But it’s not the kind of music I listen to for hours, not like Nightwish.

Without anything else to add I present you the first 5.

Meryl Streep

She's my one and only that I will always reserve the first spot for, simply because she's all kinds of brilliant. Whether it be during her interviews where she's marvellous and most of the time bloody hilarious or as an actress, where she's simply brilliant, I love that woman to bits. She's also beautiful, 61 and keeps on going making films, receives nomination after nomination and even proved several times that she can sing. A nice little jewel, you should watch, if you like her is Prairie Home Companion. And of course, my favourite role is her as Miranda Priestly, the Devil wearing the Prada. Of course Miranda Priestly is part of my fetish revolving around strong, cold and dominant women. She's all kinds of perfection. Other recommended films: Sophie's Choice, The Hours, Death Becomes Her, Julie & Julia and also everything else she was in.

Lauren Graham

I think she plays into the same fetish as Miranda Priestly. Since Lorelai Gilmore from Gilmore Girls is a woman that keeps people at a distance and that spends most of her time not letting people close. However she is a tad less dominant and a tad less dragon-like. Gilmore Girls is all kinds of wonderful, love the humour, the closeness between mother and daughter and the wit in the dialogue. She hasn't really done anything else that I'd recommend or that I've seen to be honest but Lorelai Gilmore has always had a place in my heart.

Tina Fey

She is not only beautiful but she might also be the funniest person the world has ever seen and that's saying a lot, since I've just degraded a lot of people I find to be hilarious beyond words. But what she created with her show 30 Rock is simply brilliant. Her and Alec Baldwin on screen? Sizzling. But mostly I just keep on cracking up and the insanity and the creativity that is to be found in this show? Marvellous. Watch it in English if you can, because I doubt they managed to translate any of the wordplays in an accurate manner. Before 30 Rock she was a writer for SNL (Saturday Night Live) and must have been pretty good at it from what I've heard. So, what can I say? I admire that woman.

Rachel Shelley

She played Helena Peabody on the L-Word and while being introduced as quite the bitch during the second season, I could never ignore her, since her English was a perfect British and as we all know I'm a sucker for British. She rocks a suit and high heels combined with money and power like the perfect Brit she is and plays straight into my fetish with all these things.

Gillian Anderson

Was Dana Scully my first love? Or was it Xena? I don't quite remember, but one of these two ladies sure was and I'm pretty certain it was Dana. Of course, you've guessed it by now, cold, powerful, owns a gun, has an attitude and therefore feeds my fetish like the good agent she is. I love the X-Files. One of my favourite shows, if not in my humble opinion the best show there ever was. And Dana Scully was perfect in every way. Especially when she was rocking those shoulder pads during the first season. Those were the days. Together with Duchovny she was part of a perfect couple and I love watching them interact on screen. I was very little when I caught the first glimpses of the X-Files and I must admit it always scared me, still does sometimes. She kicks ass.

Was fordert die Initiative? Rechtskräftig verurteilte Täter die eine Person im Zusammenhang mit einem Sexualdelikt getötet haben, sollen mit der Todesstrafe bestraft werden und somit 3 Monate nach dem endgültigen Urteil hingerichtet werden.

Es gibt genug Seiten im Internet, die sich mit der Todesstrafe befassen und ich glaube kaum, dass ich erwähnen muss, dass es immer wieder passiert, dass Unschuldige verurteilt werden, ich muss wohl kaum auf die Kostenfrage hinweisen und ich denke darauf hinweisen, dass die Todesstrafe laut der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention verboten ist, muss ich auch nicht.

Abschreckend soll sie wirken, aber dies ist auch nicht bewiesen, viele Studien zeigen sogar, dass dem nicht so ist (natürlich gibt es auch mehrere Studien die zeigen, dass dem so ist) und dementsprechend ist die abschreckende Wirkung umstritten.

Aber jetzt möchte ich mal als Schweizer Bürgerin, die sich in letzter Zeit vermehrt fragen musste, was zum Teufel geht hier vor.. einfach in die Runde rufen: Was zum Teufel geht hier vor?

Rückschritte, nichts als Rückschritte. Religionsfreiheit ist nicht mehr gewährt, die freie Meinung wird glaub’s knapp noch gewahrt, bin aber auch da teilweise am zweifeln und jetzt sollen wir noch blatanter gegen die Menschenrechte verstossen?

Ist es wirklich unser Ziel von einer freien Demokratie zurück zu einem Staat der mit Angst und Schrecken herrscht und es gut heisst, dass Menschen (MENSCHEN) hingerichtet werden?

Sind wir wirklich wieder beim Alten Testament gelandet, welches postuliert, dass ich mir das Auge meines Feindes holen darf, wenn der mir vorher mein Auge entwendet hat? Ich dachte mit der Zeit kommt Zivilisation und mit der Zivilisation verschwinden die Barbaren die à la Sandkasten zurück schlagen, mit voller Wucht, wenn sie getroffen wurden?

Nein, natürlich bin ich nicht dafür, die andere Wange hinzuheben. (Die andere Wange hinheben ist genauso dämlich wie Auge um Auge.) Aber… mehr Gefängnisse, strengere Gesetze, strengere Strafen, bessere Infrastruktur, weniger Freiheiten, bessere Verwahrung, all dies wird unterstützt aber sicher nicht töten.

Und auch wenn es die Todesstrafe gibt und diese vom Staat rechtlich durchgesetzt wird, es ändert nichts an der Tatsache, dass dies immer noch ‘töten’ ist.

Eine Person welche eine andere umgebracht hat, egal unter welchen Umständen gehört bestraft. Aber diese Person nun auch umzubringen ist genauso verwerflich wie die erste Tat, denn genau genommen wird das genau gleiche gemacht, wie bei der ersten Tat. Ein Mensch wird getötet.

Tolkien hat einen sehr schönen Satz in seinem ‘Herr Der Ringe’. “Viele, die leben, verdienen den Tod. Und manche, die sterben, verdienen das Leben. Kannst du es ihnen geben?” Niemand kann einer toten Person das Leben wieder geben, egal wie sehr sie es verdient, warum also sollten wir das Recht haben einem Menschen das Leben weg zu nehmen?

Bringt mir ein anständiges Strafmass bei dem ein Sexualverbrechen, egal ob mit oder ohne Mord aufs gröbste bestraft wird, von mir aus mit Brot, Karotten und Milch für den Rest des Lebens, ich unterschreibe sofort (sofern die ganze Initiative/Strafmass/Regelung Sinn macht natürlich).

Denke ich Menschen die ein Sexualverbrechen begangen haben verdienen den Tod? Natürlich. Viele Sexualverbrechen, egal ob das Opfer stirbt oder nicht sind so abscheulich, dass der Mensch der sie begangen hat, den Tod verdienen würde, auch in meinen Augen. Aber ich bin der Meinung, wir haben nicht das Recht diesen Menschen zu töten.

Niemand hat dieses Recht. Und in einem Land in dem so etwas praktiziert wird, kann und will ich nicht leben.

Also: Was zum Teufel soll das?

Deswegen habe ich mir vorgenommen noch ein bisschen zu warten aber jetzt muss ich meine Gedanken auch mal endlich los werden.

Katastrophen sind grausam, vor allem für die Angehörigen, die es nämlich nicht interessiert ob ihr geliebter Mensch Opfer eines Unfalls wurde mit 7 Toten oder ob nur er alleine gestorben ist.

Aber alleine sterben macht selten Schlagzeilen. Schlagzeilen machen Dinge wie ein Beben in Haiti, der Kollaps von Hochhäusern oder aber eine Massenpanik an einer Loveparade in Duisburg.

Klar verschlägt es auch mir erstmal die Sprache und klar spüre auch ich einen Moment des Mitgefühls. Aber die Schlagzeilen der Boulevard Presse am nächsten Tag lösen bei mir Brechreiz aus.

Je nach Anzahl der Toten sind mehr oder weniger Tage mit Schlagzeilen versorgt. Dramen, zerbrochene Familien, Einzelschicksale alles wird da serviert.

Dabei müsste die Hauptschlagzeile jeden Tag die gleiche sein:

Gestern 24’000 Kinder gestorben.

Das ist ein Kind all 4 Sekunden. 16 Kinder die Minute.

9 Millionen Kinder pro Jahr. Oder ein Beben wie in Haiti all 10 Tage.

Warum interessiert das niemanden?

Warum ist das nicht mal eine kleine Randnotiz unten links auf Seite 4 wert?

Sind wir so abgestumpft, dass nur die unerwarteten Dramen, die plötzlich auf uns stürzen wichtig sind?

Ist das, was täglich passiert nicht mehr dramatisch? Oder realisieren wir es einfach nicht mehr?

Denn auch heute sterben 24’000 Kinder. Und Morgen übrigens auch.