Sunday, March 19, 2017

Explaining Ghetto Europe

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Ghetto is the least defined term in the English language. Most folks think that the term 'ghetto' started up in Italy in the 1500s...

The Costco Change Coming to Iceland

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We are almost within sixty days of a significant change in Icelandic commerce.....a Costco (the first on the isle) will open.  For those who...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Problem of Too Much Success

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A decade ago....there were a total of seventeen North American and European cities which had some flight access into Keflavik, Iceland.  Tou...

Explaining Trump to a German

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I would suggest that sixty to seventy percent of Germans have simply moved on, and generally accepted the fact that Trump is the US Presiden...

The Reparations Story

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It's typically not a story which gets brought up in a German high school environment for a history lesson.....but roughly a century ago ...

Erdogan and the Five-Kid Suggestion

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About every other day, Erdogan of Turkey makes some comment that you kinda shake your head over, and wonder where that idea came from. Yes...
Friday, March 17, 2017

The Reality of Tunisia

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About every two weeks, you hear about some episode in Germany involving some Tunisian immigrants, drug trafficking, or some German state gov...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

The NEIN, DANKE Story

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From today's German BILD, an odd layout.  Two entire pages....pictures of the individuals, and a major headline.....page 8 and 9. Erd...