Americans wanting to be Romanians
https://twitter.com/Dalmaghi/status/348649667606740993 God bless Twitter (and Vine) is all I’m saying ;) Continue reading Americans wanting to be Romanians
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Die Stadt Bukarest ist von meinen Truppen besetzt
In working on my iPad book (which had some technical errors and needed to be re-submitted – should be ready soon!), I was reminded of the curious fact that Iaşi was the capital of all of Romania from 1916-1918. That’s an interesting piece of trivia but quite frankly I never knew why the government left Bucharest for two years and moved en masse to Iaşi. … Continue reading Die Stadt Bukarest ist von meinen Truppen besetzt
Constitution Hill
Well yesterday the parliamentary commission on modifying the Romanian constitution submitted their proposed changes, with all of the Romanian members voting “aye” (in favor) and the lone Hungarian voting “nay” (against) because the proposed changes did not frame the issue of regionalization the way the UDMR (Hungarian party) wanted nor was there any wording about the rights of minorities. You can click on the link … Continue reading Constitution Hill
Mr. Saxo Beat
Well I imagine you’ve heard by now that the singer Alexandra Stan was savagely beaten by her boyfriend a few days ago, landing her in the hospital. The English-language reports decline to show the graphic photos and videos of the injured Alexandra, which are quite disturbing. I happen to follow her on Twitter and saw the original message, posted in fucked-up English, that she had … Continue reading Mr. Saxo Beat
What’s it good for?
I saw with only a modicum of surprise that Romania signed the papers to buy 12 F-16 fighter planes from Portugal the other day for a cost of 638 million euros. This plan has been in the works forever as the United States has been pressuring Bucharest hard for years to buy these planes and move away from their current inventory of Mig-21 Lancers. In … Continue reading What’s it good for?
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