Ukraine gets another $400 Million just like that. SNAP!

Breitbart: Biden-Harris Pentagon Sends Another $400 Million to Ukraine for ‘Immediate Needs’.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday during a surprise visit to Ukraine announced $400 million in U.S. military aid to Kiev — the second approximately $400 million aid package sent within one week.

Austin told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he was “honored” to be back for his fourth visit to Ukraine.
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Just six days ago, the White House announced a package of military support of $425 million, after Biden spoke to Zelensky via phone.

UnF'gbelievable. Americans who've lost everything in hurricanes, floodings, tornadoes and fires - they have to apply and wait for federal money.

But Tiny Z just phones The Corpse and The Corpse says, "sure thing, Jack." And  Lloyd Autism happily flies the cash over to Tiny Z.

Remember this all you die-hard, neocon, warmongers who are devoid of discussing ceasefire and peace talks: when time comes to rebuild in Ukraine and Israel because you say, "both are our great allies", and when time comes to rebuild in Gaza, Lebanon, etc  - you're part of the bankrupting of America. We'll be paying for all of it. You're the ones who should have every asset confiscated first for the initial down-payment. "Muh 'Kraine!" "Muh Israel!" "Our great allies!" Then you pay for it all.

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Breitbart: Ukraine’s Nazi-Linked Azov Brigade Urges South Korea to Invade North.

Nazis fighting in and for Ukraine? This can't be ture because the Gews on sooooshulllll meeeedeeeah repeatedly told us for years there aren't any Nazis in Ukraine. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ What business is it of Ukraine Nazis to stir up an uprising between North and South Korea? Who could be behind this global chess game of endless wars, deaths and genocide?

FAA Admits ‘Unintentionally Deleted Files’ Caused Jan 11 Mass System Failure, Nationwide Flight Chaos.

Breitbart: Oops: FAA Admits ‘Unintentionally Deleted Files’ Caused Jan 11 Mass System Failure, Nationwide Flight Chaos.

A red faced U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) admitted Thursday its staff “unintentionally deleted files” in a key computer system causing the January 11 commercial airline ground stop, which affected more than 11,000 flights and caused mayhem for travelers.

Reuters reports the FAA said the human error occurred while personnel were working “to correct synchronisation between the live primary database and a backup database”, and it had “so far found no evidence of a cyber attack or malicious intent.”
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Last week, a group of 120 members of Congress demanded answers from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the FAA about the system fiasco.

The lawmakers, led by new House Transportation Committee chairman Sam Graves, a Republican from Missouri, called the computer outage “completely unacceptable.”

So...it wasn't 30-Year old software like the FAA originally said?

30-Year old software blamed for FAA outage. Or...something else.

MSN: The software blamed for FAA outage is three decades old and years from an upgrade.

The software that failed and forced the Federal Aviation Administration to ground thousands of flights on Wednesday is 30 years old and not scheduled to be updated for another six years, according to a senior government official.

This system was installed in 1993 and runs the Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, which sends pilots vital information they need to fly, the official said.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told NBC News that he has asked the FAA, "to make sure that there are enough safeguards built into the system that this level of disruption can't happen because of an individual person’s decision or action or mistake."

Is Petey saying someone F'ed Up? But - but - the senior official said it was software. 

Another un-named "senior government official." Do these people have names? Can we know who they are? They are on government payroll.

The MSN story and coverage of this story at NBC and CNN are copy/paste versions of the same story. Why, it's almost like they're parroting talking points handed down from Leni Riefenstahl's DNC Narrative Central!

Yet, al-Reuters reports the problem was a "procedural error."

The FAA said its preliminary analysis "determined that a data file was damaged by personnel who failed to follow procedures. The system is functioning properly." The FAA did not answer more questions about the specifics of the problem.
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The same file corrupted both the main system and its backup, said people familiar with the review, who asked not to be identified.

Enter, "people familiar with the review, who asked not to be identified."

So, we really don't know and it's unlikely we'll have a, or any, specific reason(s) for this fiasco.

Biden: No evidence FAA outage is a hack. Buttigieg: We're not ruling out a hack.

The Daily Dot: Biden says no evidence of cyberattack in FAA outage that grounded flights.

Breitbart: …Buttigieg Doesn’t Rule Out Hack Attack…

FAA computer outage or Russian hack?

NBC: Flights across the U.S. affected after FAA experiences computer outage.

Flights across the United States were affected Wednesday morning after the Federal Aviation Administration said it experienced a computer outage.

All flights in the U.S. were grounded following the incident, a source with knowledge of the situation told NBC News.

The FAA said in a notice on its website that its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system had "failed" Wednesday morning. A NOTAM is a notice containing information essential to workers involved in flight operations.

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CNN: US grounded planes as a ‘precaution’ after a North Korean missile launch.

Updated 1:37 PM EST, Tue January 11, 2022

Washington (CNN Business) - An unusual ground stop was issued to some pilots for a short period of time following a North American Aerospace Defense Command alert of a launch of a North Korean missile, a US official said Tuesday.
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“No warning was issued by NORAD HQ,” regarding a potential threat to the US, according to Captain Pamela Kunze, the chief NORAD spokesperson.

The Federal Aviation Administration, responsible for the nation’s air traffic control system, said the ground stop was to err on the side of safety.

The failure and incompetence of the Biden Admin conveniently always has Russia to blame.

Biden ready to give South Korea nukes.

Newsweek: Joe Biden to 'Enhance' North Korea Deterrence After Kim Jong Un Nuclear Vow.

Biden issued a joint statement with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol early on Saturday during his first visit to Asia since becoming president in January last year.

Yoon and Biden reiterated their commitment to the South Korea-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty, while Biden affirmed the U.S. deterrence commitment to its ally "using the full range of U.S. defense capabilities, including nuclear, conventional, and missile defense capabilities."

It's amazing the pretzel-like twists and turns that liberals contort themselves into when the opposite political party is in charge. Remember the John Kerry "we have to talk to our enemies," line of bullshit? It was fine when he met with Syria's Bashar al-Assad. But URRRMUHGAWD - when former President Donald Trump met with Kim Jong Un - - - oh, that's different.

Hillary and other dems pretend Heaven rolled out a red carpet for Madeleine Albright.

AP via Archive: Madeleine Albright honored by Biden, other world leaders.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A veritable who’s who of Washington’s political and foreign policy elite gathered Wednesday to pay their last respects to the late Madeleine Albright, a child of conflict-ravaged Europe who arrived in the U.S. as an 11-year old girl and became America’s first female secretary of state. (Sounds like a covid superspreader event to me. Don't these people know there's a deadly virus, with serious sub-variants, out there? - DD)
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“The angels better be wearing their best pins and putting on their dancing shoes,” [Hillary] Clinton said. “Because if as Madeleine believed there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women, they haven’t seen anyone like her yet.”

Yeeeeeah...I think there's plenty of people in Iraq and Bosnia who believe there's a special place in hell for Albright.

 

Bubba looking rough.

Reports "say" coroner drove wooden stake through Madeleine Albright's heart just to make sure she doesn't come back to life.

Allegedly...I read it somewhere...4Chan, I think...maybe...I forget...

  (Not the actual coroner. Simulation only.)

Madeleine Albright; Butcher of Bosnia, dead at age 84.

"I have had a great deal of satisfaction over many obituary notices that I have read." - Clarence Darrow 

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright died Wednesday, according to an announcement from her family. NBC News

Madeleine Albright crawls out from under her rock to sell her latest book.

Has she converted to Islam, yet ?

This portly, vicious, blood-lusting wide-load chunk of adipose tissue waddles back into the limelight to hawk her latest book.

NPR: Human Moments, Nuggets Of Reflection Are True Treasures In New Albright Memoir.

"What is there for a former secretary of state to do?" That's the question Madeleine Albright asks and answers in her latest memoir Hell and Other Destinations.

Good for her. She has a map. Not sure about how many other destinations ahead of her after that first one, though.
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Flashback: The price is worth it when DEMS kill 500,000 Iraqi Children. Just ask Madeleine Albright.

Civilian deaths, especially children, is a specialty of the DEMS. Under the Clinton-Gore-Albright Admininstration 500,000 Iraqi children were killed. The Left didn't care at all.

The Algemeiner: Madeleine Albright’s Other ‘Undiplomatic Moments’

During the 2014 Gaza War, Albright told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Israel’s anti-terrorism actions were “disproportionate” and that Israel has lost its “moral authority.”

This is the same Madeleine Albright who was asked on “60 Minutes,” on May 12, 1996, if international sanctions against Iraq were worth the cost, because “we have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died.” Albright replied, “We think the price is worth it.”

Another example of Albright's altruism, compassion and humanity was in February 2016, who, while campaigning for Hillary Clinton, said, there's a "special place in hell for women who don't help each other out." There is little doubt she was speaking about women who didn't support, and weren't voting for, Hillary.

Liberal Love. It keeps runnething over.

Trump, Kim cross DMZ. Historic moment.

The Independent: Trump becomes first sitting US president to enter North Korea as he shakes hands with Kim Jong-un.

Donald Trump has become the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea, stepping over the demilitarised zone to shake hands with Kim Jong-un.
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Mr Trump stunned the world when he walked towards Mr Kim, shook hands and greeted him, and then stepped back across a line marking the North Korean border.
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The two leaders then walked back over into South Korea for a meeting. Originally supposed to be a brief exchange of pleasantries, the encounter turned into private talks stretching to about 50 minutes.

Kimmy accepts Trump's invite for DMZ meeting.

The National: North Korea's Kim Jong Un accepts Donald Trump's invitation for meeting at DMZ:

President Donald Trump will meet on Sunday with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the demilitarised zone separating the North and South, a day after he issued an unprecedented invitation and expressed willingness to cross the border for what would be a history-making photo op.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced that Mr Kim accepted Mr Trump’s invitation to meet when the US president visits the heavily fortified site at the Korean border village of Panmunjom.

Mr Moon praised the two leaders for “being so brave” to hold the meeting and said: “I hope President Trump will go down in history as the president who achieves peace on Korean Peninsula.”

The Libs would be drooling like thirsty dogs or teething babies, falling all over themselves, fawning and praising Any DEM president doing what President Donald Trump is doing. Good. I'm glad the president is meeting with Kimmy, if for no other reason than it pisses of The Libs. But this is much more than that. This is a historic moment.

Baby Joe Biden hurt by NK's Kimmy comment that he's a, “fool of low IQ” and a “snob bereft of elementary quality as human being.”

Gropin' Joe, Sleepy Joe, Creepy Joe, Uncle Joe, Pervy Joe.

Add Baby Joe. If there's one thing we can agree on, it's that Baby Joe always takes the diplomatic route in his behavior.

Baby Joe Biden

Bloomaberg: Kim Jong Un refers to Joe Biden, " “fool of low IQ” and a “snob bereft of elementary quality as human being.”

I'd say Kimmy hit a Grand Slam, especially with the "snob" lob.

NY Post: President Trump agrees with Kimmy.

Baby Joe's feelings were hurt by Kimmy's comment and that Trump agreed. Oh, Dat's. So. Sad.

Big League Politics: But it's okay for Baby Joe, three months ago in Germany, to call America an embarrassment because of Trump.

It's normal behavior for U.S. Liberal politicians to defecate on The United States when they're on foreign soil. They can't help themselves.

Biden: "I was wondering where that thumb went. It was up my ass so long I thought I'd lost it forever."

And let's not forget Baby Joe's little on-off-on again-BFF love-affair with Vladimir Putin and his numerous policy contradictions flip-flops on Russia and Putin.

May 2019 - MSN: Biden declares, "dictators and tyrants like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin[.]".

November 2017 - Newsweek: Biden says he doesn't believe Putin; that Russia meddled in our presidential election.

April 2019 - Washington Free Beacon: Biden Defended Russia During 2012 Election, Denied It Was a ‘Major Adversary’.

March 2011 - The Pitt News: Biden, Putin; Best Friends Forever.

...according to CNN, Putin shocked Biden by opening up their meeting with a proposal that “his country and the United States abolish visas between them.”

Naturally, without thinking, Biden answered, “That it was a good idea,” and then — after realizing exactly what he was agreeing to — he quickly backtracked.

March 2011 - CS Monitor: Biden in Moscow, reaffirms US-Russia "Reset".

US Vice President Joe Biden, the man who coined the phrase "push the reset button" in reference to US-Russia relations, stopped by the Kremlin this week to check how the program was loading and propose some upgrades.

And, just last month, April 2019 - Conservative Review: Biden wanted to establish a ‘Biden-Putin commission’ to cozy up to the Kremlin.

Do you get the feeling that Biden will say and do anything, pander and contradict his own words, whenever it is politically expedient for him and his family? Like, if you met him and told him vanilla was your favorite flavor for a milkshake, he'd agree with you. If another person told him chocolate was their favorite flavor of milkshake, Biden would immediately concur. That kind of thing.

Menacing, Ominous "Baby Hillary Blimps" are appearing all over the world, terrifying onlookers.

Appearance of "out-of-the-blue" threatening and ominous Baby Hillary Blimps are appearing all over the world terrifying onlookers.

From The Eritas County Ledger International Edition:

From populated cities such as London, New York and Tokyo to remote areas such as the Grand Canyon and Area 51, giant, ominous, terrifying Baby Hillary Blimps have been spotted around the world. No one knows when or how they appeared.

"There it was, in the blink of an eye," said London resident Scotwood Havershaam on Wednesday afternoon. I was out on me midday stroll and this huge shadow falls over me and I glance up and there's this enormous Baby Hillary Blimp wearing a diaper on its bum with 'Hillary 2020'. I thought we was being attacked."

The UK Ministry of Defence was flooded with calls from panicked and frightened people fearing the apocalypse had begun. "We are asking people to remain calm and be cautious, until we know more.  Know that authorities are on full alert," according to UK Undersecretary of Security Yorral Dunnisenn.

Baby Hillary Blimps have appeared at various times over the past 24 hours all around the world. No one seems to know how, why, or when the exact time of these sightings began.

Former Democrat presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, reached by telephone, replied, "it's obvious a Trump-Putin Pys Ops hologram designed to make me appear as some maniacal, crazed blimp." Her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton could be heard from the background saying, "you got that right," just before the phone call mysteriously ended. Attempts to reach the Clintons since then have been unsuccessful.

Sttevnn Andrrrsnn, of Calgary, was traveling back home on Canadian Air Flight EH9 after a vacation that included sight-seeing trips to the Grand Canyon. He spotted the Baby Hillary Blimp from the window of his plane. "Couldn't say how long it was there, it all happened so fast. I took some pictures with my phone and then the blimp vanished."

Others from around the globe have posted pictures of the Baby Hillary Blimp on their social media pages. The Baby Hillary Blimp has been seen in Washington DC (above), Area 51, the Kremlin, Tokyo, Chicago and New York City.

A high-ranking Pentagon official who spoke only on condition of anonymity said, "if Area 51 exists, and I'm not saying it does or doesn't, but if it does, there have been either no reports of a Baby Hillary Blimp appearing, or reports of a Baby Hillary Blimp appearing somewhere that doesn't exist are inaccurate and the product of someones overactive and wild imagination."

The dooms day clock advanced one minute closer to midnight after Russian Military Commander Sergei Novikinov said, "this unprecedented attack on Soviet air-space is considered a hostile act of aggression and a direct threat to our national security and we will respond with the appropriate force and action."

Traffic came to a standstill all around the Chicago metro area on Wednesday afternoon when the Baby Hillary Blimp floated above the city for over four hours.

"It kept drifting back and forth and up and down," said Chloe Masterson, one of hundreds of people waiting in line to hop onto the Loop. "Children were screaming, 'we scared, we scared', and we all tried to take shelter under something. It was the most insidious things I've ever seen."

Residents in downtown Tokyo ran and took cover in stores, under awnings, anywhere they could. The Tokyo appearance of the Baby Hillary Blimp lasted for six hours, bringing the city to a stand-still.

International, national and local law enforcement agencies urge caution and advise people not to approach the Baby Hillary Blimp. The Baby Hillary Blimp should be considered dangerous, and presumed armed until proven otherwise. Take no action on your own and instead contact your local law enforcement agency, said Adjunct Commander of INTERPOL Lord Calvert Sinclair.

The only comment from the Trump Administration was a tweet from President Donald Trump: "Blimp huh? Busy. ESPN & cartoon net. Need DietCovfefe."

World News Links - September 30, 2017

From the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights:

[In] 39 months of its “Caliphate”, the “Islamic State” organization executes about 2750 civilian citizens in its controlled areas in Syria[.]
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[The number of executions] reached 2747, the number of civilians, including 105 children and 148 women, who were executed by the “Islamic state” organization by shooting, beheading, stoning, throwing off high place or burning[.]

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The Guardian:  Boris Johnson, UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, accused of "incredible insensitivity".

...he recited part of a colonial-era Rudyard Kipling poem in front of local dignitaries while on an official visit to Myanmar in January.
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Britain colonised [sic] Myanmar from 1824 to 1948 and fought three wars in the 19th century, suppressing widespread resistance.

Johnson’s impromptu recital was so embarrassing that the UK ambassador to Myanmar, Andrew Patrick, was forced to stop him.
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In London last year [Johnson] stood alongside former US secretary of state John Kerry and was asked about describing Hillary Clinton as looking “like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.

Boris gets it right 50% of the time. Give him a break.
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IBT: Michael Bolton, no, not the singer, banished by entering over 1,400 UK supermarkets:

A 51-year-old man from Surrey has been banned from shopping in more than a thousand supermarkets across the UK after a magistrate found that he had "engaged in behaviour that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress" to others.
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On top of the ban, the criminal order also prohibits Bolton from exposing his genitals or urinating in public[.]

Heh - the wording of the story makes it sound as if, except for Bolton, it's okay for everyone else to do what he did.
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Metro: Female gangs going through garbage.

Gangs of women pictured going through people’s bins are suspected of trying to steal documents and paperwork.

Two women appeared to be working together (Picture: Terry Harris/PaperPix)

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The Daily Star: Guys, just click the link. You'll be glad you did.
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The Independent: Man beats daughter's boyfriend to death.

An Oklahoma man has been arrested for allegedly beating to death his daughter’s abusive boyfriend, police said.
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The victim’s family said the couple were expecting a child next month.

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Radio Australia:

Barcelona resembles a war zone ahead of banned independence vote[.]
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Thousands of national police are patrolling Barcelona's streets as the city prepares to defy the Spanish Government's orders not to vote in an independence referendum this weekend.

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The Telegraph: This shows the radioactive cloud if NK were to detonate a nuke in the Pacific.
 

"Hypothetical atmospheric burst" Credit: @SinaZerbo/Twitter

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Market Oracle: Is Bitcoin just Fool's Gold?

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The Independent: Ex Pres' Clinton, Bush & Obama avoid Trump at President's Golf Tourney.

Trump is scheduled to attend the multi-day event on 1 October but it is unclear if he was not invited to attend with the other presidents or busy with White House meetings.

If we don't know if Trump was or wasn't invited that day, it's really a stretch to claim the Ex Pres' avoided him.
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The Atlantic: The Software Apocalypse is coming.

It’s been said that software is “eating the world.” More and more, critical systems that were once controlled mechanically, or by people, are coming to depend on code. This was perhaps never clearer than in the summer of 2015, when on a single day, United Airlines grounded its fleet because of a problem with its departure-management system; trading was suspended on the New York Stock Exchange after an upgrade; the front page of The Wall Street Journal’s website crashed; and Seattle’s 911 system went down again, this time because a different router failed.

Our software (& a lot of hardware) infrastructure is old and needs to be updated.
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The humble Traffic Cone serves multiple purposes. From The Daily Mirror:

...a group of drunken male university students dressed just in their underpants try to break into a female-only halls of residence run by nuns.
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Earlier in the week freshers at the University of Leon in northern Spain were filmed stripping off and dancing naked during a mock student election.

Topless girls were videoed cavorting on stage with their hands covering their breasts.

Men also got involved, with one completely naked while others covered their modesty with traffic cones.

Dennis Rodman; The mediator for North Korea?

Can former NBA great Dennis Rodman  be the answer in reducing tensions between the U.S. and North Korean Dictator Kimmy?

Well...maybe. Stranger things have happened.

From The Star Telegram:

[Rodman] appeared on “Good Morning Britain” via satellite from Los Angeles on Wednesday and was asked about his relationship with Kim and the multiple trips to North Korea.

The majority of the conversation with hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid centered on their activities, such as singing karaoke, riding horses and just sharing laughs without discussing politics.

I must interrupt this post to note that, IMO, Piers Morgan is a total, unadulterated, complete piece of used and discarded butt-wipe.

Piers Morgan: News fabricator.

Why is Morgan used and discarded butt-wipe? Because, as editor of the Daily Mirror, he approved of, and published, a phony picture on the front page of the Daily Mirror in 2004. BBC:

Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake. 

This is the front page Morgan falsified:

Fake news; approved by Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan.

Ponder the motives behind an EDITOR of a MAJOR NEWSPAPER in approving FAKE NEWS.

Morgan also mocked President George W. Bush for falling off a Segway, and later, Pierszzzzzzz-zah fell to the pavement from his Segway ride.

Watch Morgan, two-hundreds pounds-of-shit-in-a-five-pound-bag, fall off his Segway...it's so precious:

I never get tired of watching that clip.

Pierszzzzzzz-zah broke three ribs from his fall; strangely - prior to that - he called riding a Segway "idiot-proof."

Welcome to The Idiots Hall of Fame, Pierszzzzzzzzzz-zah, where you are bestowed Chairman of the Board, CEO, CFO, COO, CIO and President of The Worldly Idiots Clubs.

I'm not a big Hugh Grant fan, but just who the hell is Pierszzzzzzzzz-zah to call Grant a "tedious, little man." And as only a selfish, insecure two-year old would act, Pierszzzzzzzzz-zah banned Grant from appearing on his program. Pierszzzzzzz-zah - a fat, pie-faced, pseudo-intellectual gnome - is simply jealous of Grant, a handsome guy.

You may be asking, "where does a fired newspaper editor who engaged and fostered FAKE NEWS, get a job?"  Why, CNN, of course.

And it's clear that "Good Morning Britain"  has no journalistic code of ethics that applies to whom they hire. 

Back to Dennis Rodman. From MSN:

Rodman, 56, has made several trips to North Korea after developing a friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over their shared love of basketball. Kim is reportedly a big fan of the 90s Chicago Bulls. Rodman's last visit came in June.

As long as President Donald Trump has said, regarding North Korea, "all options are on the table," who knows if Rodman can make a difference? Maybe he can. We don't know. I don't see how Dennis can make things worse. Let's give him a chance.

Maybe Kimmy wants is his own NBA franchise?

Let Dennis do his thing. If what he does, in any way, helps bring about some type of détente between the U.S. and NK, it doesn't matter who or how we get there - only that we get there.

World News Links - September 4, 2017

The Telegraph: How other countries reported on Kimmy's nuclear missile test.

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Live Mint: China to Trump: "Stop threatening North Korea on trade."

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The Guardian: Annihilation of North Korea brings more problems than it solves.

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Bloomberg: North Korea's oil lifeline in the bulls-eye for destruction. 

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The Outline: Blame Imperialist America and Trump...for Everything.

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Raw Story: 'Morning Joe' - Supporters of Trump fed up with his antics.

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The Guardian: Another stabbing in London.

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YLE: Human chain prevents deportation of Afghan family.

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Times of Israel: French consulate receives envelope with mystery substance.

Several people near the consulate complained of a burning sensation in their eyes, according to reports.

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Daily Mail: A camera that sees through the body.
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YouGov: Majority of French approve of UK exiting the EU.
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BBC: Car crashes into Long Island laundromat.
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BBC: Do you call a plumber or animal control?  Finding a python...in your toilet.

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The Independent: Italy's cocaine king arrested after 23 years on the lam.

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The Independent: The predicted path...so far...of Hurricane Irma.

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Business Insider: A sauna made from snow.

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Energy Voice: Exxon Texas refineries restarting.

World News Links - September 1, 2017

Pravada: Americans want Trump to declare Soros a terrorist.

Tass: Russian pol warns designating Soros as terrorist will "shake U.S. foundations": 

"...declaring George Soros a terrorist and seizing all his property and assets would actually mean undermining the foundations of the United States itself," said [First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Federation Council (upper house) Defense and Security Committee Franz Klintsevich.

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Canadian Free Press: Federal judge tells FBI Hillary Clinton emails must be released. 
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Red Orbit: Study says self-help may be as effective as professional therapy.
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4Chan: Some big event coming in September?
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Zee News: One million displaced by Hurricane Harvey.
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Courthouse News Service: Trump Admin backs down from NY travel ban flights. 
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Al Jazerra: Kenyans hit social media over nullification of Aug. 8 presidential election.
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The Independent: At a Detroit, MI Wal Mart, 4 women fight over last Back-To-School note book...so one woman pulls out a gun.
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Fox News: Putin see 'Large scale conflict," between U.S and North Korea.
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Daily Beast: ISIS Syrian girl doesn't regret torturing women.

“We would imprison women in the cemetery with skeletons in a cage in the middle of the cemetery as a punishment[.] ["When we] we went back to the cage in the morning, the woman was crazy.”
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Washington Examiner: "Art of The Deal" ghostwriter Tony Schwartz says Trump will never actually donate the $1 Million pledged to Harvey victims.
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"We can rebuild him. We have the technology." Global News: Actor Richard Anderson, known for his role as Oscar Goldman on "The Six Million Dollar Man", has died at age 91.
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Spelling fix 9/4/2017

North Korea fires missile over Japan

From The Sydney Morning Herald:

North Korea fired a missile early on Tuesday from near Pyongyang that flew over northern Japan, the South Korean and Japanese governments said.

Public broadcaster NHK reported that the missile broke into three pieces and fell into the waters off Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands.

More here at Radio Australia.

And here at the BBC.

So...what's the deal with Kimmy? Childish Tyrant? Death Wish? Not enough bran?

Kimmy II