Wow, what a difference a year makes! I surely would be remiss as a resident of Unicorn City if I didn’t mention what’s going on in this here town. Just about a year ago, I was inside Crystal Palace with some of the mayor’s minions, who were planning the launch of “Cluj Days”. This was the first time that this festival was being held and … Continue reading Cluj Daze
I don’t know if Skeletor is finally reigning in his fellow band of pirates or whether there’s some kind of internal feud going on but the last 24 hours have been a wild ride. Just yesterday, his boy retired Colonel Constantin Adrian Balaban Grajdan pulled the plug on a major component of the ongoing corruption trial against former Prime Minister Adrian “I’m Smarter Than You” … Continue reading Brinkmanship
Just yesterday I wrote about yet more shenanigan’s from Ponta’s cabinet, which prompted a predictably uncivil response. Today however I also saw happened to notice that now Ponta thinks TV stations shouldn’t report the fact that the Romanian currency is in the toilet. Obviously he’s worried that people are going to connect his government’s actions (or inactions) with the weakening currency. All in all, I … Continue reading Sinking Like a Stone
You know, pretty soon I’m going to have to make a new category of posts, one called “Twilight Zone” or “High Weirdness” or “WTF Shit That Happens In Romania Damn Near Every Day”. Certainly today’s post will fall under that heading because after I read this, I almost lost it. If you don’t speak Romanian, Mariana Campeanu accused Roberta Anastase of hiding thousands of bicycles … Continue reading Bicycles In The Basement
Well you’ll be happy to know, as confirmed by the White House during the NATO summit, the Romanian taxpayers will be chipping in some 30 million euros for five of these state of the art baby killing machines, otherwise known as “drones” or “unmanned aircraft”. Yeehaw! Continue reading No One Kills ‘Em Better
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