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Most people realize that Trump has an uneasy relationship with the truth, to use the great comment from Kellyanne Conway he uses ‘Alternative facts’. A good example of this was, twice twice this week he claimed that his father Fred Trump was born in Germany, This is complete rubbish, Fred Trump was born in New […]
British BBC and German Deutsche Welle (DW) offer superb coverage in English of Ukraine’s slide toward a repressive state. Too bad America’s voice abroad, Voice of America (VOA), is not, and has left the field to RT (Russia Today). A guest analysis by Ted Lipien, a global media analyst and former Voice of America associate […]
The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. Do more guns mean more murders and suicides? A Harvard study of European countries may surprise you. Or cause you to yawn in recognition of something we’ve long understood. Is the stem cell debate — embryonic vs adult — now […]
Welcome to the First Virtual Church of Our Lord and Savior, Steve Jobs. As you enter the sanctuary, please do not make eye contact with anyone. Keep your eyes focused on the screen of the mobile device of your choice. We are relevant and practice diversity here, which is easy since no one will even […]
The outbreak of E Coli induced Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome by those who ate salads in northern Germany is still a puzzle. First they blamed Spain for dirty cucumbers (implications: Spaniards are not as clean as Germans). This has caused a lot of financial problems for Spanish farmers, and it doesn’t help that it’s now found […]
The following is an article by Fathers & Families Board Member, Robert Franklin, Esq.: Last year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Germany’s law requiring the mother’s approval for a single father to be granted parental rights violated the European Union’s charter prohibiting discrimination. Now Germany’s highest court has followed suit declaring the […]
The Taliban did it again. Killed a medical team whose only crime was to travel into isolated areas to treat eye disease. Their “crime”? They were supposedly being “spies”, even though only a few of the medical team were Americans. Oh yes: And they were (gasp) Christians. Can’t have that, can we. Kill the infidel. […]
The following is an article by Fathers & Families Board Member, Robert Franklin, Esq.:At least in Germany they admit it. In 2003, Harshad, a British citizen of Indian descent, had a baby daughter with his German girlfriend. Knowing nothing of Germany’s idiosyncratic custody laws, Harshad went along with his girlfriend’s suggestion that they skip the […]
The Berlin Marathon, first initiated in 1974, is a major marathon. The official marathon distance of 42.195 kilometers (26 miles 385 yards) is set up as a city-wide road race where professional athletes and amateur sportsmen jointly participate. First initiated in 1974 the event takes place on the last weekend in September. This year 40,827 […]
Quick. Name the most dangerous terrorist organization in the US, organizations that are responsible for 47 of the53 most destructive terrorist attacks in the US. Muslims? No. Right wing Militias? No. The Christian fundamentalist types? No. It’s the Animal rights extremists. Via SecondhandsmokeBlog, quoting from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision U.S. v Christianson: […]
President Obama was brought up in Asia, yet he seems clueless about Afghanistan, and of the geopolitical problems in this area. The press is even worse, preferring the simplistic out of date explanations of the “Afghanistan is Viet Nam” meme, or the “Stop the war” meme, or stressing civilian casualties “reported” by Taliban linked sources […]
In his new book, Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian response to the “gay†agenda, author Scott Lively repeats his claim that the rise of Nazi Germany was animated principally by homosexuals. In his first book, The Pink Swastika, Lively chronicles a long line of people who he claims influenced National Socialism and were gay. However, […]
MEMO TO: Richard Feducci, Overlord of Finance FROM: E Pluribus, Wondergod SUBJECT: Five Year International Finance Plan DATE: January 1, 2005 Happy New Year, Rich. Got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: We’re going to let the American economy crater. The good news: Everybody else’s will, too. The best news: By […]
After the reports that melamine contaminating baby formula in China had sickened thousands of children there, some parents felt that soy products for their beloved children was safer. Well, think again. As early as mid December, Health Canada was noting trace amounts of melamine in soy products, including some that were labled “organic”. The level […]
Despite the initial predictable calls for a political solution to a military conflict and justified concerns that Israel’s retaliation to Hamas rocket attacks will only create a new wave of martyrs eager to attack the Jewish state in the future, Germany openly defends Israel’s right to defend itself and puts the blame squarely on those […]
Go Europe, leader in all things having to do with, uh, reduction (in this case CO2). The times and the rhetoric can sometimes climate-change on you faster than you would like, I bet. Are you already missing the good old days in the never-ending climate change story when the traditional villain (Dr. U.S. Evil) was […]
Well it is if you translate it into English. When Germans say Finanzkrise, they actually mean “financial crisisâ€. Of course I do see why they want to scrunch it up like that. They too, like the rest of us, want to get it over with as soon as possible. But that’s about where it stops […]
Germans love words like solidarity and consensus and agreement and uniformity and accord and stuff like that. But let’s face it. They don’t love them that much. In calling German Chancellor Angela Merkel “Europe’s Geisterfahrer†(the wrong-way driver on the freeway) – and a woman Geisterfahrer at that – German opposition politicians are turning up […]
Today is Veterans’ Day. So congratulations to all Veterans, including my husband Lolo (World War II) and my son in law John (Iraq) and my cousin Billy (Viet Nam). Veteran’s day started out as “Armistice Day” to celebrate the end of the “war to end all wars”, AKA “The Great War”, AKA “World War I”.A […]
Forget the bird flu. The real contagious stuff these days is German Bad Comparison Neurosis, or GBCN. The latest victim was one of Germany’s leading economists Hans-Werner Sinn who (rightly) said Germans should not search for scapegoats behind the current market meltdown – it’s systemic problems, stupid – and then (wrongly) referred to the 1930s […]
Despite the sore shoulder German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck has received by patting himself there so vigorously, he has expressed delight at financial markets’ reactions after Germany’s 500 billion Euro rescue package (in Europe it’s forbidden to call these packages bailouts) was endorsed by the Merkel cabinet, the biggest state intervention in the Germany economy […]
The glory days of “the mother of all airports†(British architect Sir Norman Foster) having long passed, the last few days on life support for Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport are about to run out now, too. Berliners are currently hurrying to say their goodbyes and hustling to get on one of the last sightseeing flights offered […]
Germany is renewing forces in Afghanistan? Which forces? It would be more accurate to say that Germany is extending its withdrawal there. Not having used the 100 German special forces soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, not once, in over three years time, the German government has actually decided to withdraw them while at the same time […]
Disillusion is perhaps the better word, come to think of it. This certainly isn’t the best way to start your week. Long believing, hoping that all of this is somehow only just a horror movie (it’s only a movie, it’s only a movie…), the reality bites from the financial crisis meltdown have now bitten Germany […]
How you figure? Those folks over at Reuters obviously don’t know what the hell is going on here in the land of Beschwerden (complaints) when one of them actually has the gall to entitle his/her piece “Choir full of moans a surprise hit in Germany.†Of course it would be a hit here. How could […]
As witnessed by the recent fascination with films about Hitler, refugee flights from East Prussia, the bombing of Dresden, the Berlin Airlift, the Woman from Checkpoint Charlie and, most recently, the Baader-Meinhof RAF terror era, German filmmakers are obsessed with addressing historical subjects from the recent past for an audience that clearly can’t get enough. […]
As an observant Stern journalist put it, German know-it-all Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück can lash out at the American failings that have lead to the current financial market crisis all he wants to, what he and other vocal German critiques of late are really doing is covering up their own grave shortfalls. Germany is sliding […]
In what almost seems to be a demonstration of her frustration at certain governments’ traditional opposition to stronger government regulation in national and international economic matters (but what really is the difference between national and international these days?), German Chancellor Angela Merkel will openly go head-on with the European Commission in Brussels and continue to […]
There will be nothing terribly complex about “The Baader-Meinhof Complexâ€, which will be released in Germany on September 25th. For one thing, with the deadline for foreign-language Oscar submissions looming on October 1st, a number of countries will be revealing their choices for the competition next week. For another thing, the repeated re-examination of the […]
Despite some recent excitement about the price of beer in Germany these days, not to mention a Bavarian politician’s provocative remarks yesterday about how German beer drinkers are still fit to drive after putting down two liters (or maybe precisely because of peculiar things like this), it might be about time for you to get […]
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