I'm closing in on the hands from one photograph. It has the caption "President Trump met with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday," and is by Doug Mills at the NYT, where it is used to illustrate a Michelle Goldberg column with the kind of title that designed to hook someone who isn't me,
"‘Evil Has Won’/Pro-American Germans feel betrayed":
I know the NYT selected this picture, and I assume the stark hand positions were part of why it was chosen. But these look like positions that were locked into place and held, so I think we can look at them as meaningful. My interpretation:
Merkel: Here's my penis.
Trump: Here's my vagina. Aim it right here, Angela.
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Did they eat carrots and onion rings together?
Trump's tie is bigger and more engorged than Merkel's finger.
Get that woman some press-ons--a French manicure. Then Macron will chase her instead of Trump.
Grudge fuck.
I felt betrayed when the Germans elected an East German Communist as their unification President.
"Here's the church, and here's the steeple
Open the door and see all the migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa"
I'm getting a large picture of a pretty brunette in a bikini for Victoria 8 Genesis in Daz 3D, on the Althouse main page. I just might click it. She could be German so it's not off topic.
There are pro America Germans?
As for the hand positions, particularly your interpretation of them, wtf? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
-sw
It's the North African migrants that are causing the current troubles.
No Merkel-cleavage pictures?
Remember the SNL piece about how Putin was the bad boy Angela Merkel longed for?
Nobody’s writhing a sketch like that at 30 Rock anytime soon.
Your pituitary gland is being overworked by the in-rush of Cheerios and soy milk...
The Germans probably have a word for that.
Ralph L,
Why "north" Africans?
Why not just call them "Africans"?
As we were discussing in the thread on Obama's books.
Not criticizing you, that's the common description. I question whether it should be.
John Henry
When I see "evil" and "Germans" that close together, I am entirely distracted into thinking about World War II.
@johnhenry100
Ralph is reacting to Meade... the same way I did.
Okay. A re-write:
"Here's the church, and here's the steeple
Open the door and see the 'European Migrant Crisis'
which refers to an enormous and unprecedented wave of refugees from Syria
a flow that was immediately joined by a far larger number of economic migrants from the Near East and Africa"
"Here's the church, and here's the steeple
Open the door and become a Sheeple.
"Here's my hand, and here's my finger
Read between the lines, you evil Islamophobe"
I favor steepling, but it only works around a table. The highest steeple wins.
I've never seen a woman compete in this.
I read the article. What a heaping pile of shit.
Basically the Germanns want more from the hardworking us taxpayer. They are butthurt we won't give it to them.
We had no business getting involved in Ww1 or, starting in 1939, ww2. We have no business being in Nato and shouldn't be spending a nickel on it.
As Obama's gal said "fuck the EU"
John Henry
"I read the article."
So we don't have to.
(I sure didn't.)
Maybe Trump wants to get Angela to autograph his copy of her father's speeches.
Okay, I'll take the cheap shot.
Which hand is Trump's?
Trump always holds his hands like that. You see it all the time.
Why “north” Africans?
Why not just call them “Africans”?
As we were discussing in the thread on Obama's books.
Not criticizing you, that's the common description. I question whether it should be.
Why not simply “people” (or “foreigners” or “aliens”)? But if it makes sense to describe people by the large-scale body of land surrounded by a (mostly) isolating body of water, then historically, culturally, and genetically the enormous Sahara desert has been a bigger barrier than an ocean in its place would have been.
For instance, people on both sides of the Mediterranean (but not on both sides of the Sahara) all bear the genetic heritage of humans (Homo sap.) interbreeding with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years back — non-sub-Saharan descended peoples around the globe bearing approximately a 2.5% proportion of the latters' genes. Africans from south of the Sahara do not.
Genetic diversity is good and necessary to advance the species! Umm ... wait a minute.
We had no business getting involved in Ww1 or, starting in 1939, ww2. We have no business being in Nato and shouldn't be spending a nickel on it.
Have you read Pat Buchanan's book, "Unnecessary Wars?"
I disagree with a lot of his arguments, especially about WWII but it makes a lot of good points about WWI.
Somebody (Roughcoat maybe) got me reading Germany's Aims in the First World War," which seems to be the counterpoint to "Sleepwalkers."
I am just getting started on Fischer's book. I am pretty far along on "Sleepwalkers." It'
has been too hot the last couple of weeks to read outside so I will resume now that the monsoon has arrived.
So far, I am convinced that France had a lot to do with WWI and was trying to avenge the 1870 war.
I'm not convinced that Germany wanted WWI but maybe Fischer will swing me the other way.
What if...???
It's difficult to tell whether Merkel's finger is circumcised, without superhuman x-ray vision.
would giving them the finger have broken long-standing protocol?
From Michelle Goldberg's wrenching, drenching, hand-wringing article:
"...should every nation in Europe feel the need to significantly build up its military — and perhaps to nuclearize — the continent would likely become far less stable. There’s no reason to take for granted that most countries in Europe would remain open, pro-Western democracies."
I remember opponents of Iraq invasion invoking the Wisdom of the Europeans ("Our Allies are against this!"). With this astonishing paragraph, Goldberg is really saying it is the Americans who are the adults in the room. Odd that Dick Cheney thought the same thing in 2003.
Michael,
Unfortunately Fischer's book is unavailable in Kindle and I can no longer be bothered reading on paper. I did look at Sleepwalking and Buchanan and downloaded the samples since they look interesting.
Re WWI, last week I read CS Forester's novel "The General" about a British cavalry major who works up to major general commanding a Corps in WWI. One of the best books I've read in quite a while. Not much about the reasons why it was fought, mostly about the stupidity of how it was fought. In France at least.
I've read a fair amount of CS Forester over the years, including most if not all of his Hornblower series. I keep forgetting what a great writer he was in a number of genres. I'm thinking I need to get into his Pennisular war series which I've never read.
I was going to start Chernow's bio of Grant last night but decided to peek in on Grant's own memoirs. I only got up to his involvement with the annexation of Texas but am thoroughly hooked. Great writer.
Sherman's memoirs are excellent too.
John Henry
including most if not all of his Hornblower series.
I read all of his Hornblower books in one week. I was an intern and had one week vacation.
It rained cats and dogs all week so I stayed in and rad all those books. I've read them many times since.
His book, the Gun" is not bad although the movie made from it wasn't very good.
Another good Forrester book is "The Captain from Connecticut, which is set in the 1812 war and is about an American frigate.
This post made me curious about hand gestures and their meaning:
"Clasping and squeezing hands together is a self-pacifying gesture. A person who does this is uncomfortable, maybe even nervous or fearful. He’s trying to assure himself, “Everything’s going to be alright.” A variation of this is rubbing the wrist.
Clasped hands with interwoven fingers indicate great anxiety and frustration. That person is thinking, “Things are going really bad”. You better prepare yourself when you spot this."
This is just an FYI and to the best of my general knowledge -- Well, up until around 400 AD most north Africans were mostly Caucasians. All of the Pharoahs were Caucasians as was Jesus, etc. All of the peoples of the Mediterranean are of the caucuses line, at least back then. All Arabs and all Jews are Caucasian. The Colonial Powers of Europe did not even know or attempt to colonize there until the 1200's and 1300's . It's only in the last 600 or 700 years, when the Muslim politics and religion took over the Moors and Berber areas, that more actual sub-saharans have moved and taken over North African areas.
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