German Irony   It's ironic when the Germans pass a law banning the import of seal products because the methods used to kill seals are brutal while German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with and dined with Vladimir Putin two days after the political assassination of a reforming journalist in Russia.   At the dinner, Putin predicted a bloodbath in Georgia, but that wasn't brutal enough to discourage Germans from buying Russian gas and oil.   After all, gas and oil is, well, money!