Category Archives: Confessions of a Bad German

Shaming us all as Canadians

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Sabina Becker

I have this shirt, BTW. And there is a very good reason why I have it…As a Canadian, I am deeply ashamed. I am ashamed of how, for all that we pride ourselves on our multiculturalism, when push comes to … Continue reading →

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Stupid Sex Tricks: German announcer professionalism fail

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Sabina Becker

He makes a bad double entendre and grabs at her boobs. She calls him a “total idiot” on camera. And that’s not all she does.Atta gal!

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Fun with Wikileaks: US Nazis get popped

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Wikileaks has received a cache of “private” e-mails from a white-supremacist mailing list. There’s no shortage of hilarity on it (Book club night, anyone? How about a Nigerian-style scam e-mail from Bahrain?) and scary shit (they’re breeding! Alert Children’s Aid!) … Continue reading →

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Dame Vera commits a heresy! Oh noes!

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Sabina Becker

She’s most famous for “We’ll Meet Again”, as well as the translation of the German song in the video above. She’s 92 years old, and still clearly in possession of all her faculties–including an important and underestimated one called critical … Continue reading →

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Ratzi gets all medieval on our collective ass

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Translation:“There hasn’t been a German pope since the Middle Ages…and now, it’s the Middle Ages all over again!”

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The indigenous people’s holocaust

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Sabina Becker

AMERICAN INDIAN HolocaustHow did Hitler learn genocide and eliminationism? By taking his cues from what happened in North America. This concerns mainly what happened in the US, but in Canada it was not much better. Up here, we didn’t have … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Confessions of a Bad German, Fascism Without Swastikas, If You REALLY Care, Law-Law Land, Not So Compassionate Conservatism | 2 Comments

A few random thoughts on two Austrian tyrants

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“They Salute With Both Hands Now”, by David Low, 1934One thing I keep hearing, over and over again (and usually from people who really ought to know better than to ask, living as they do in very overpriced glass houses … Continue reading →

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Rosenmontag!

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Sabina Becker

It’s carnival time around the world! Here she is, folks, the lady you’ve all been waiting for, laid bare. The Chancellor of Germany (and latest Extreme Makeover recipient), Angela Merkel:Der Spiegel explains the meaning of those markings on her nude … Continue reading →

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For those who don’t mind being bored by the biographical…

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Here are 25 random things about me, from my Facebook page:1. I’m multilingual; my first language was German. Counting all the “dead” languages I’ve studied, I’ve got about a dozen under my belt.2. My first complete sentence in English was … Continue reading →

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The Bad German dares to hope…

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

…for what? Peacekeepers in Gaza! When? SOON! Germany has welcomed a proposal by Egypt’s President Hosny Mubarak for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also expressed satisfaction with Israel’s willingness to … Continue reading →

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