August 17, 2011
— Ace Europe as a whole recently came in at 0.2% "growth;" now Germany -- the engine of Europe -- comes in at 0.1%.
Meanwhile, Obama declares we're in no danger of a second recession.
Allah just wrote on Twitter: Who wants to be the one to tell him?
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Posted by: GuyfromNH at August 17, 2011 02:30 PM (kbOju)
Posted by: Some old German guys at August 17, 2011 02:30 PM (qiOph)
Do they have a Tea Party over there? Cuz this must be their fault.
Posted by: California Red at August 17, 2011 02:31 PM (7uWb8)
Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at August 17, 2011 02:31 PM (f8XyF)
Posted by: mpurinTexas, Evil Conservanatrix, supports Rick Perry, bitch at August 17, 2011 02:31 PM (J4Pnx)
Posted by: fluffy at August 17, 2011 02:32 PM (O6q63)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at August 17, 2011 02:32 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: joeindc44 at August 17, 2011 02:33 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2011 02:33 PM (FcR7P)
In the end, there will be only chaos.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 17, 2011 02:34 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: The Czech Republic at August 17, 2011 02:35 PM (QKKT0)
I think we all know the consequences of failed socialism in Europe.
Fascism will envelope Europe in the coming decade.
It's already begun.
Posted by: Dave at August 17, 2011 02:35 PM (HPcQF)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 17, 2011 02:36 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: toby928™ at August 17, 2011 02:36 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Dr. Varno
I'm pretty sure it the same as it is in Austrian.
Posted by: Pres. Obaka at August 17, 2011 02:36 PM (DEcmU)
Posted by: USS Diversity at August 17, 2011 06:31 PM (KbEJl)
11th ACR, baby !!! Best / maybe second-best Officer's Club in West Germany ( back in the day )
Ze Germans always seem to find a way to solve their problems; the solutions might get a lotta people around them killed, but......
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, Secretary of Jobs Dept at August 17, 2011 02:36 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2011 02:36 PM (FcR7P)
Fulda Gap, here we come!
Posted by: USS Diversity at August 17, 2011 06:31 PM (KbEJl)
I did the Meinegen Gap in 1988, I'm not going back.
God, I hated the Fulda fog too.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 17, 2011 02:37 PM (HUZDZ)
Posted by: Sonnyspats off filthy skeezer sock at August 17, 2011 02:38 PM (I/MzF)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 02:38 PM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Barack Weimarbama, SCOAMF at August 17, 2011 02:38 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at August 17, 2011 02:38 PM (gsK8B)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 17, 2011 02:40 PM (7wmOW)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 02:41 PM (ZDUD4)
German economic growth slowed to a near standstill in the second quarter of this year, dealing a further, unexpected blow to the crisis-hit eurozone.
It must be tough being an economist, what with so much of the world around you consistently behaving in such unexpected ways.
I wonder if economists are surprised when cloudy skies are followed by rain.
Posted by: Warden at August 17, 2011 02:41 PM (BwDyb)
Posted by: Vic at August 17, 2011 02:42 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 17, 2011 02:42 PM (7wmOW)
I wonder if economists are surprised when cloudy skies are followed by rain.
Unexpectedly, rain started to fall from the sky after huge gray clouds covered the sky...
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 17, 2011 02:43 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 17, 2011 02:43 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 17, 2011 06:40 PM (7wmOW)
Pfft. 12th SS Division ( Hitler Jugend ). The model for KosKids and DU
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, Secretary of Jobs Dept at August 17, 2011 02:43 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: toby928™ at August 17, 2011 06:36 PM
Hah!
I denounce you!
RAAACIST!
Posted by: Rick "racist" Perry at August 17, 2011 02:44 PM (rFdqZ)
I have an idea! Let's have the Germans bail us out!
They're super efficient, dependable, and always show up on time. Let's let them carry the load--it's only fair to have the people who are most cut out for this kind of thing take the lead, right?
Ever noticed how much they like work? Heck, we'd almost be doing them a favor!
Posted by: Statist Eurofag at August 17, 2011 02:44 PM (BwDyb)
So why is the German population being so quiet about this imposition upon them?
Or are they being quiet?
Posted by: Dave at August 17, 2011 02:44 PM (HPcQF)
Do they have a Tea Party over there? Cuz this must be their fault.
Posted by: California Red at August 17, 2011 06:31 PM (7uWb
They used to have a Manischewitz party.
Whatever happened to those guys anyway?
Posted by: AmishDude at August 17, 2011 02:44 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: didnt read all the comments yet at August 17, 2011 02:45 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: eastvalleyphx at August 17, 2011 02:45 PM (qiOph)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 02:46 PM (ZDUD4)
Or are they being quiet?
Posted by: Dave at August 17, 2011 06:44 PM (HPcQF)
Hasn't Merkel's party been suffering at the polls lately? I doubt they are being quiet, I bet the media simply doesn't report it.
Posted by: KG at August 17, 2011 02:46 PM (LD21B)
We never got out of the first one.
Kinda like my childhood.
How can I have a second one if I never got out of the first one?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 17, 2011 02:47 PM (d0Tfm)
Saw it. Was charmed by its depiction of hobos.
Posted by: eastvalleyphx at August 17, 2011 02:47 PM (qiOph)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, immer ausgezeichnet at August 17, 2011 02:48 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: Edith in her Bunker at August 17, 2011 02:48 PM (WCm02)
@50
I can't imagine the Germans being too happy about propping up other failed European states.
Yeah, they're socialist, but they are an industrious lot, no?
Posted by: Dave at August 17, 2011 02:48 PM (HPcQF)
Posted by: palerider at August 17, 2011 02:50 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 17, 2011 02:51 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: Wolfgang von Heimlichpuken at August 17, 2011 02:52 PM (A1Zmj)
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at August 17, 2011 02:52 PM (ijjAe)
Posted by: Vic
Technically no. This one's all Obama.
That is unless you're interested in hearing more about how it's still Bush's fault...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2011 02:53 PM (DEcmU)
Yup. As bad as our media is, theirs is worse.
Posted by: pep at August 17, 2011 02:53 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: eastvalleyphx at August 17, 2011 02:54 PM (qiOph)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2011 06:53 PM (DEcmU)
Its all the Democrat party's fault since Carter.
Posted by: Vic at August 17, 2011 02:54 PM (M9Ie6)
Because the Russkies will be Muslim by the 21st century.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 17, 2011 02:55 PM (LH6ir)
Nope, there aren't enough of them left to make a credible scapegoat. They'll have to look elsewhere for someone to blame.
Posted by: Turks looking furtively over their shoulders at August 17, 2011 02:55 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 17, 2011 02:56 PM (7wmOW)
Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 17, 2011 02:56 PM (s7mIC)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 02:56 PM (ZDUD4)
I don't know. The Europeans have an alarming tendency to lash out at people who are different, especially when the economy is not wonderful. Luckily most of my relatives missed the festivities last time.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 17, 2011 02:58 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 06:56 PM (ZDUD4)
Wait, what?
Posted by: The Turks, Confused in their Mosques at August 17, 2011 02:58 PM (QKKT0)
Meanwhile, Obama declares we're in no danger of a second recession.
Again, aside from the general idiocy of the whole thing, why would anyone even think of taking seriously the words of a man who spoke of "profit and earnings ratios" and "reduce your health care premiums by 3000%"? In high school, when people show themselves to be that stupid, normal folks wouldn't bother listening to them - certainly not for any help on the test!. We'd just laugh at those sorts. And, if they were as obnoxious and arrogant as the Indonesian Imbecile is - being as dumb as he is - we'd tape his ass in the locker room or stuff him into a hall locker.
But, people actually let this retard babble on as if he could figure out anything that required more sophisticated mathematics than he can do with his fingers ... it's been absolutely infuriating to watch over these years, frankly. Pathetic.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 17, 2011 02:59 PM (N49h9)
Posted by: Spiker at August 17, 2011 06:56 PM (nVW1M)
A spaetzle in your face! Dumkopf.
Posted by: Barbarian at August 17, 2011 02:59 PM (EL+OC)
Posted by: Mentat-Emperor Barry I the Munificent at August 17, 2011 02:59 PM (b+Qud)
Posted by: Turks looking furtively over their shoulders at August 17, 2011 03:00 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 03:00 PM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 17, 2011 03:00 PM (7wmOW)
Posted by: Barky O'Genius, Bus Tourin' and Creatin' Jobs Everywhere He Goes at August 17, 2011 03:01 PM (QKKT0)
Why would Germany want to stay in the EU? Financially it's all heavy obligation and zero benefit.
The PIIIGS governments have engaged in fraud all along. The contract could resonably be considered null and void.
There is an army of government internationalists and bureaucrats in Germany who claim to be on-board with things that benefit other countries at Germany's expense. How long until the German people throw the bums out?
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at August 17, 2011 03:02 PM (w41GQ)
Yeah, a black bus with God knows what unspeakable things happening inside. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Black Maria at August 17, 2011 03:02 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at August 17, 2011 03:03 PM (k8WvF)
Its all the Democrat party's fault since Carter.
What am I? Chopped chicken in a pot?
Posted by: FDR at August 17, 2011 03:03 PM (DEcmU)
Posted by: Colonel Hessler at August 17, 2011 03:03 PM (KbEJl)
Posted by: FDR at August 17, 2011 07:03 PM (DEcmU)
I was referring to the current collapse.
Posted by: Vic at August 17, 2011 03:04 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Dick Soetero at August 17, 2011 03:04 PM (k8WvF)
For the same reason people do something so stupid as to vote for Obama. It is necessary to distance oneself from the common man by endorsing idiotic things.
Posted by: pep at August 17, 2011 03:04 PM (6TB1Z)
Gib mir die Hand, ich bau dir ein Schloss aus Sand.
(Germany: Telling you what's really going on since 1984.)
Posted by: FireHorse at August 17, 2011 03:04 PM (gTGz3)
Posted by: Dick Soetero at August 17, 2011 03:05 PM (k8WvF)
You are underestimating how much of a relief it is to know that all the bananas you buy will have the correct curvature.
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 17, 2011 03:06 PM (b+Qud)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 03:07 PM (ZDUD4)
Dick Soetero's exciting plan this September will include requiring all Republicans to sew a gold star on their clothing.
Not until we win the MLS Cup.
Posted by: FireHorse at August 17, 2011 03:07 PM (gTGz3)
Now, when you say bananas, do you really mean......?
Posted by: Sigmund Freud at August 17, 2011 03:08 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 03:08 PM (ZDUD4)
Dick Soetero's exciting plan this September will include requiring all Republicans to sew a gold star on their clothing.
Not until we win the MLS Cup.
Oooooh, those stars.
(By the way, do Chinese people call that a checkerboard pattern?)
Posted by: FireHorse at August 17, 2011 03:09 PM (gTGz3)
Say, would you look at that ... I've just shat into my underwear and now I am detecting a distinctly unpleasant odor.
How ... unexpected, this odor.
To the chalkboard! I must build a model to explain this!
Posted by: Ivy League Economist at August 17, 2011 03:09 PM (BwDyb)
Posted by: Barky Von McFucknut at August 17, 2011 03:11 PM (WCm02)
Posted by: The Czech Republic at August 17, 2011 06:35 PM (QKKT0)
FTFY
Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at August 17, 2011 03:12 PM (UrPTC)
Posted by: Barky Von McFucknut at August 17, 2011 07:11 PM (WCm02)
LOL
Posted by: Barbarian at August 17, 2011 03:13 PM (EL+OC)
How.......disturbing.
Posted by: pep at August 17, 2011 07:10 PM (6TB1Z)
But quite believable.
Posted by: KG at August 17, 2011 03:14 PM (LD21B)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at August 17, 2011 03:14 PM (GKQDR)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 17, 2011 03:16 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: Spiker at August 17, 2011 03:16 PM (nVW1M)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Camellia Sinensis Operative at August 17, 2011 03:16 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 17, 2011 03:17 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 17, 2011 07:16 PM (kUaEF)
Hear, hear. They deserve each other. And the ONLY reason they birthed that idiotic Euro, anyway, was as an attempt to kill the dollar. It was a shot at us, and many of them were proud to announce that (being the idiots that they are).
That's gratitude for you, Eurotrash-style.
Fuckers.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 17, 2011 03:19 PM (N49h9)
That's gratitude for you, Eurotrash-style.
Yeah, but they did give the world the Spider Murphy Gang.
Posted by: FireHorse at August 17, 2011 03:21 PM (gTGz3)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at August 17, 2011 03:21 PM (k8WvF)
Posted by: Draco the Athenian at August 17, 2011 03:21 PM (le5qc)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 03:22 PM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Germany at August 17, 2011 03:22 PM (7wmOW)
Posted by: Dick Soetero at August 17, 2011 03:22 PM (k8WvF)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 17, 2011 03:23 PM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Fritz at August 17, 2011 03:24 PM (+KjE2)
Their current decadence notwithstanding, I have little doubt that if it comes to a battle, the Germans will come out the winners and the losers will really know that they are losers.
Posted by: pep at August 17, 2011 03:25 PM (6TB1Z)
People who depend on the state for handouts in order to survive, and have never known anything else, will become less numerous rather precipitously when the system crashes to the ground in ruins.
The sponges need the producers. The producers do not need the sponges.
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at August 17, 2011 03:26 PM (w41GQ)
Posted by: Dick Soetero at August 17, 2011 03:26 PM (k8WvF)
Posted by: Mrs. Hitler, but call me Eva at August 17, 2011 03:26 PM (STTZD)
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at August 17, 2011 03:28 PM (w41GQ)
Posted by: The EuroZone at August 17, 2011 03:29 PM (c0A3e)
@78: "Luckily most of my relatives missed the festivities last time."
Oh sure, more Jews who knew it was coming. Just like 9/11.
Posted by: It's on the Internetz, it must be troof! at August 17, 2011 03:31 PM (xy9wk)
Posted by: chalres montgomery burns at August 17, 2011 03:31 PM (oUG6f)
"I'm gonna do well, my vegetables, cart off and sell my vegetables"
/sock off
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 17, 2011 03:32 PM (PcoXF)
If there's any consolation for Europe's economic woes, if the US gets it's economic and energy act together by tossing our Blue-Green Obama out in 2012 and the Euro tanks even more compared to the dollar, Europe may become a cheap trip for all us retiring Boomers.
Oh boy, tell the wife, time to start planning a couple trips across the pond... I always wanted to ski the Alps.... Play some red clay in Italy, ... Drive real fast on the autobahn... Play a round at St Andrews... You know, the simple things...
Posted by: drfredc at August 17, 2011 03:35 PM (iNKlO)
Posted by: x11b1p at August 17, 2011 03:36 PM (nVLlM)
128 I love the word Eurotrash. I love writing it, I love saying it. Eurotrash, Eurotrash, Eurotrash.
......but.....the word "Eurotrash" .......is redundant.
Posted by: MrObvious at August 17, 2011 03:37 PM (qwhLZ)
@144: "Oh boy, ... I can hardly wait until Germany goes green by shutting down it's nukes and starts relying upon aaaauummm BS for energy."
Aber doch! Ve haff all zorts huff exshpeerience mit alternativen fuels. Zynsetic petrol. Hydrogen peroxide. Um, zat *really* alternative shtuff ve um....exshperimented mit burning in Ost Europe.
Posted by: An "Argentine" Ja, dot's der ticket, Scientist at August 17, 2011 03:40 PM (xy9wk)
Posted by: Bob Hope at August 17, 2011 03:44 PM (STTZD)
Posted by: ErikW at August 17, 2011 03:47 PM (6W9ZH)
"Uhhhhhhhh, well, y'know, I'm thinkin' about that, and some say otherwise. Some say that kittens belong in a blender. Now that's not right. We can do better, and uuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I will insist that you do."
I beg to differ.
Posted by: pep at August 17, 2011 03:50 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: The 919 Hobbits at August 17, 2011 03:50 PM (cZYBb)
Posted by: model_1066 at August 17, 2011 04:02 PM (2j/Mv)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 17, 2011 04:06 PM (r4wIV)
The German language is by far the ugliest form of communication known to man. Gutteral coughs make me naseuous.
You're listening to people speaking in German. Try listen to people singing in German.
http://tinyurl.com/3l9g8jh
http://tinyurl.com/42nn72x
It's sounds much nicer.
Posted by: FireHorse at August 17, 2011 04:09 PM (gTGz3)
Posted by: model_1066 at August 17, 2011 04:10 PM (2j/Mv)
Posted by: SFGoth at August 17, 2011 04:11 PM (dZ756)
Posted by: model_1066 at August 17, 2011 04:11 PM (2j/Mv)
Posted by: model_1066 at August 17, 2011 08:02 PM (2j/Mv)
No, sounds like a bunch of annoying bullshit, to me.
Posted by: ErikW at August 17, 2011 04:12 PM (6W9ZH)
We refer to that as a learning experience.
Cheers!
Posted by: model_1066 at August 17, 2011 04:13 PM (2j/Mv)
Posted by: model_1066 at August 17, 2011 04:14 PM (2j/Mv)
//
That is an utterly asinine thing to say. Apparently all you listen to are Adolf Hitler's AUSTRIAN-accented German speeches. Normal Germans don't talk like that at all and it is NOT a terribly gutteral language. Besides where do you think English came from? Have you listened to any Chinese dialect? Vietnamese? Arabic? Farsi? Klingon?
Grow up and get educated.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 17, 2011 04:15 PM (dZ756)
@159: " I spent almost a month in Dresden in March. They hate having to pay for others' siesta lifestyles. They're also not fond of Obama, anymore."
Wait until they get a load of me!
Posted by: Arthur "Bomber" Harris at August 17, 2011 04:15 PM (xy9wk)
Posted by: model_1066 at August 17, 2011 04:16 PM (2j/Mv)
Posted by: steevy at August 17, 2011 04:24 PM (vldsC)
Posted by: model_1066 at August 17, 2011 08:14 PM (2j/Mv)
It's both, friend. Welcome to the world of lies.
Posted by: ErikW at August 17, 2011 04:24 PM (6W9ZH)
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 17, 2011 04:25 PM (N49h9)
In the fantastical land of the Left, correlation means causation, so I suppose it's only fair that we insist.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2011 04:30 PM (DEcmU)
Posted by: GrumpyUnk at August 17, 2011 04:36 PM (Hmarb)
Posted by: SFGoth at August 17, 2011 04:42 PM (dZ756)
I did the Meinegen Gap in 1988, I'm not going back.
God, I hated the Fulda fog too.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 17, 2011 06:37 PM (HUZDZ)
Were you 3ID? I was there '85-'88.
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We're not having another ground war in Europe...we're not.
Posted by: CanaDave at August 17, 2011 02:28 PM (IuNVR)