Category Archives: USA

US to blame for Irish NO?

This is so funny, that MUST be a joke: Remember the Irish having said NO to EU? And now guess who is being blamed? US military and secret service circles! Don`t believe me?
Read yourself in Financial Times Deutschland, Sep 25, 2008: „Irlands Nein-Kampagne - USA sollen EU-Vertrag sabotiert haben“ von Wolfgang Proissl (Brüssel):
Hochrangige Europapolitiker [...]

“He must be stopped.”

And here is the great speech Sarah Palin would have held if the Stop Iran Now Coalition had let her:
“Palin on Ahmadinejad: ‘He Must Be Stopped’” by Sarah Palin, September 22, 2008, The New York Sun
I am honored to be with you and with leaders from across this great country — leaders from different faiths [...]

Palin disinvited from Iran rally

“Palin disinvited from Iran rally” by Ben Smith, Thu Sep 18, 2008:
The organizers of an anti-Iran rally Monday rescinded their invitation to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin after Democrats protested that her presence would turn the event into a political rally, McCain campaign and Jewish community sources said.
The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations [...]

Sarah Palin on ‘Hannity & Colmes’

Sean Hannity sat down with the Alaskan governor for FOX News` Hannity & Colmes 9/17/08.
Read the rush transcript and find the links to watch the interview here:
Exclusive: Gov. Palin on ‘Hannity & Colmes’, Part 1, Thursday , September 18, 2008, FOX NEWS
Exclusive: Gov. Palin on ‘Hannity & Colmes’, Part 2, Friday , September 19, 2008, [...]

„Indian Summer“ or „Altweibersommer“?

Weather was gorgeous today! Too cold for September of course (3 degrees in the morning) but in the afternoon it heated up to 15 degrees under sunny blue skies. So I was able to sit outside without my winter-coat ;-)
By the way, in German we call the Indian Summer “Altweibersommer” which means “Old-Women`s-Summer”. That does [...]

“Men in trees”

Today is „Men in trees“ day, 22:05 h on VOX. I mentioned earlier that all I know about Alaska is from watching this TV-series ;-) For those of you who do not know “Men in trees”, here is the plot I found on the Internet Movie Database:
A relationship-advice guru, upon learning that her fiancé is [...]

Line dance im Westerwald

There is a funny background story to how I got to know about line dance:
I actually did not know anything about it until I saw this movie: “Willkommen im Westerwald!” (“Welcome to Westerwald!”) on German TV this summer (August 6th).
The movie is about Ahmad, an Iraqi who worked as a translator for the American [...]

Veni-Vidi-Vici-Sarah

I know she has a lot of nicknames: “Barracuda” because of the way she played basketball at high school, Sarahcuda, … and on bumper stickers in Alaska you can read: “Coldest State, Hottest Governor.” That`s a nice title! But I`d like to add another one: VVV-Sarah. Because that is the feeling I got when she [...]

McCain voters = Al Qaeda?

German actor Til Schweiger likened US Republican voters with the al-Qaeda terror organization. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on September 11th (!), Schweiger said, “Fanatics whom I put on the same level with al-Qaeda, vote for the Republican party.” … “The religious right in the Midwest (of the US) is as pig-headed (as [...]

Sarah Palin Speech at RNC

Excerpts:
(…) I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. I was just your average hockey mom and signed up for the PTA. (Cheers, applause.)
AUDIENCE: (Chanting.) Hockey moms! Hockey moms! Hockey moms!
GOV. PALIN: (Laughs.) I love those hockey moms. You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and [...]