German Of The Day: Schlecht

May 26, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Heconomy, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: EU, Exports, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Merkel, Trade, Trump Leave a comment

That means bad. Or böse. That means worse. You know, like in “bad, very bad.”

President Donald Trump has reportedly reignited tensions with his EU counterparts after calling the Germans “very bad” for their trade surplus with the U.S. The president vowed to block German car exports to the U.S. during a meeting with top EU leaders on Thursday, according to German news magazine Der Spiegel.

I don’t know, folks. Whether this is true or not, I have a very böse feeling about all of this. Not.

“The Germans are bad, very bad. Look at the millions of cars they’re selling in the U.S. We will stop that.”

It’s Not Just About The Two Percent We Promised To Spend On Defense As A NATO Country

May 25, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Brussels, Defense, Defense Spending, Merkel, NATO, Trump Leave a comment

And still aren’t spending (1.3 percent the last time I checked), Angela Merkel explained to Donald Trump.

It’s also about “what a country makes available to NATO and what capabilities we have,” whatever that means. The Oktoberfest and world class table tennis talent or what?

Citing this week’s attack in the English city of Manchester, Trump told fellow alliance leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel that NATO should focus its efforts on combating terrorism. Yet of the 28 member nations, 23 “are still not paying what they should be paying and what they’re supposed to be paying for their defense,” he said.

“Wir freuen uns auch, dass in Zukunft nicht nur gefragt wird, wie viel wird für Verteidigung ausgegeben, sondern auch, was stellt man als Land der Nato zur Verfügung, welche Fähigkeiten haben wir und welche Beiträge leisten wir. Ich glaube hier kann sich Deutschland sehen lassen, und das werde ich auch hier deutlich machen.”

But Germany Would Defend Its NATO Allies If US-Amerika Attacked

May 24, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: Defense, German, Germans, Germany, NATO, Polls, Russia, Surveys Leave a comment

This just in: Majority of Germans wouldn’t support defending NATO allies in Russia conflict. Why doesn’t that surprise anybody?

According to the US think tank, which interviewed people in European countries, the US and Canada, “NATO’s image is improving on both sides of the Atlantic.” The Alliance enjoys high approval ratings in Poland and the Netherlands (both on 79%). Germany ranks third in the list on 67%, followed by Canada (66%), the US and United Kingdom (both 62%), France (60%) and Spain (45%)…

The results showed that Germany would support military intervention by NATO less than any other country. Only 40% of respondents would back military support for a partner in “serious military conflict” with Russia.

Auch in Deutschland stehen die meisten Befragten hinter der Allianz – bei einem Konflikt mit Russland würde jedoch nur eine Minderheit ein Partnerland verteidigen.

German Of The Day: Was wir wissen

May 23, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hate, Helplessness Tags: German, ISIS, Islamist Terror, Language, Manchester, Media, Terror, Terrorists 1 Comment

That means what we know. You know, as in what we know and what we don’t know about the attack?

We know everything already, of course (it was the Buddhists again). And we’ve heard all the reactions before. What will the hash tag be this time? It’s a ritual now. So why be so careful with formulations like that? We don’t want to jump to conclusions, or what? That’s just part of the ritual, I guess.

Der mutmaßliche Täter ist tot. Sein Motiv für den Anschlag auf ein Popkonzert in Manchester ist weiterhin unklar, die Polizei sucht nach möglichen Komplizen.

Suspicious Object Found At SPD Headquarters

May 22, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Humor, Hurt Feelings Tags: Berlin, Bombs, Elections, Faces, German, Germans, Germany, Humor, Police, Political Parties, Ralf Stegner, SPD 1 Comment

And it wasn’t the Schulz effect, either.

German police gave an all-clear on Monday at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin after it was evacuated due to a suspicious object found in the mail room.

The object, being the face and attached body of SPD federal chairman and state chairman of Schleswig-Holstein Ralf Stegner (aka “the face of defeat”), was found loitering around the mail room, mumbling incoherently (even though there were no microphones in sight), apparently having been looking for fan mail. For hours and hours and hours on end, I assume.

“There was nothing found on Stegner that could have been termed dangerous,” a police spokesman later said as his colleagues led Stegner back outside to put him on a FlixBus to Kiel. “Other than that face, I mean.”

German Of The Day: Vortex

May 21, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Humor, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Donald Trump, Germans, Germany, Grman, Media, Polls, Surveys 5 Comments

That means vortex. And Germans are terrified by vortexes, you know.

But they shouldn’t be terrified by that one. According to this article, few Germans even expect President Trump to finish his four-year term in the White House anyway. So like sit back and relax already. And let the vortex be with you.

Less than 25 percent of Germans think US President Donald Trump will complete his four-year term in office, according to a public opinion poll released Saturday. More than two-thirds of those surveyed said categorically that they believe Trump will be out of office before his term expires in January 2021. The survey was conducted by Civey, an opinion research group, for the daily newspaper Die Welt.

Milka L.

May 20, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Hotness Tags: Milka Loff, Naked Attraction Leave a comment

Beautiful German of the week.

Because somebody has to admire them.

German Of The Day: Handkreissäge

May 19, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habeas Corpus, Horror, Hurt Feelings Tags: Crime, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Murder, Saws, Sex Leave a comment

That means skill saw or portable circular saw.

And you really need to have a lot of skill when you operate one of those things. Or you ought to. It’s hard to say whether this lady knew what she was doing when she was operating hers, though.

A court in southern Germany has convicted a 32-year-old woman of killing her boyfriend and severing his head with a circular saw. Prosecutors said she attacked her boyfriend while he was tied to a bed and blindfolded with blacked-out swim goggles, then decapitated him, probably after he died from wounds to the upper body.

My bet is she never saw sex like that before.

City Of Berlin Files Criminal Complaint Against City of Berlin’s Police Department

May 18, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habeas Corpus, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Anis Amri, Berlin, Corruption, Cover-Up, Crime, German, Germans, Germany, Police, Terrorism 1 Comment

Just another example of how Berlin works. Or doesn’t work, I should say.

German authorities are investigating explosive new allegations of a police cover-up over Anis Amri, the Berlin Christmas market attacker. The Berlin regional government has filed criminal charges against two of its own police officers alleging they falsified documents to cover up a missed opportunity to arrest Amri more than a month before the attack.

But seeing how absolutely nothing ever works here, there will be some legal technicality or something else along those lines that will screw up these criminal charges. But not to worry. Because seeing how absolutely nothing ever works here, the alleged cover-up will not have properly covered up what they were trying to cover up, either. The truth always raises its ugly little head. Even in Berlin.

“Es gibt keine Garantie, dass er auch in Haft gekommen wäre.”

Germany Not To Reach Its E-Car Goal

May 17, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking, Humor, Hurt Feelings Tags: Angela Merkel, Automobiles, Cars, E-Autos, E-cars, German, Germans, Germany, Renewable energy Leave a comment

Nope. Sadly, chancellor Angela Merkel has just announced that Germany will not be able to reach its goal of having at least 20 e-cars on German roads by the year 2020.

This extremely ambitious goal, mocked from the start by gas-guzzling German automobile experts everywhere (some 97 percent of the German population), has now been scrapped for a more realistic goal of a nice round non-dirty dozen.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany will likely miss the government’s target of bringing one million electric cars onto the roads by the end of the decade. The sale of electric vehicles (EVs) has remained sluggish in Germany despite discounts introduced last year and granted to buyers of green cars. In 2016, there were less than 80,000 electric cars on German roads. Experts say German consumers remain reluctant to buy EVs because of relatively high prices, limited driving range and restrictions due to the low number of charging stations.

Merkel: Ziel für E-Autos nicht zu schaffen.

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”