Trump Factchecked by ... Deutschland

While Trump and his cult followers grouse about being fact-checked by debate moderators, he's also been corrected by a highly unusual source ... Deutschland. 

During the debate, Trump made this assertion about Germany:

""You believe in things like we're not going to frack, we're not going to take fossil fuel, we're not going to do things that are going to be strong, whether you like it or not," Trump said to Kamala Harris. "Germany tried that, and within one year, they were back to building normal energy plants."

Germany's Foreign Office reesponds, and with a bit of humor:

"Like it or not: Germany's energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables ... And we are shutting down – not building – coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest."

It concludes with this zinger:

"PS: We also don't eat cats and dogs."

Dent: Let's Not Piss Off the Germans

Congressmen Charlie Dent (PA-15) and Tim Ryan (OH-13), as co-chairs of the Congressional Study Group on Germany, have sent a joint letter to President Obama about the interception of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone calls.

According to a news release, these legislators told Obama that they viewed the alleged surveillance of the German leader’s phone conversation as a "serious error in judgment" – one which needs to be rectified.

Here's the way I would have put it:

"Seriously, what were you thinking? Are you out of your frickin' mind? You have a wife and two daughters and should know not to mess any woman's cell phone. But you decide to pick on the Chancellor of Germany, a country that decides to take on the world every forty years."

Dent and Ryan want President Obama to send an apology, telling her he thought she was Hillary. They also want him to give Merkel a brand new iPhone with hardly any spy gadgets at all. Last, they want him to offer Germany membership in the Five Eyes pact. That's a long-standing intelligence gathering and sharing arrangement convened between the United States Government and the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

So then I guess it would really be Six Eyes.

Dent, Gerlach To Welcome German Ambassador on Monday

Washington, D.C. – Congressmen Charlie Dent, a German-American Caucus member, and Jim Gerlach, co-chairman of the House German-American Caucus, will be welcoming German Ambassador Peter Ammon to Eastern Pennsylvania.


When:     Monday, November 19, 2012

Schedule:      12:30 – 1:30 PM

Visit to Kutztown University

McFarland Student Union Building, Room 223

15200 Kutztown Road, Kutztown, PA 19530

2:00 – 3:30 PM

Business Roundtable Discussion

Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum

432 West Walnut Street, Allentown, PA 18102

3:55 – 4:10 PM

Tour of Zion’s United Church of Christ, Home of the Liberty Bell Museum

620 West Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18101

4:30 – 6:00 PM

Walking Tour of the Historic Bethlehem

Start at Moravian Museum

66 West Church Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018

6:00 – 6:30 PM

Presentation by the Bach Choir

440 Heckewelder Place, Bethlehem, PA 18018