Friday, October 4, 2019

Friday Fuss - Part 1

As the first Friday of October arrives, here are some fussy things going on:

From National Review, the effort to impeach President Trump is still about Russia.

From FrontpageMag, under the Medicare-For-All which Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) advocates, he would have waited a while for his recent arterial operation.

From Townhall, "the truth about impeachment".

From The Washington Free Beacon, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) makes an impeachment "bank shot".

From the Washington Examiner, Trump is right that supporting Medicare-For-All is "totally crazy".

From The Federalist, Trump is right to believe that the federal agencies are against him.

From American Thinker, is running for president a "get out of jail free" card for Democrats?

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Louis Gohmert, the Democrats are doing what they accuse Trump of doing.

From LifeZette, Ukraine's top prosecutor decides to audit the investigation of the gas company on whose board Hunter Biden once served.

From NewsBusters, CBS turns to a former Obama administration official to defend former Vice President Biden.

From The Conservative Woman, a primer on the Ireland-U.K. border question.

From the Express, the E.U. has plans to fill the "Brexit hole" with new member states.

From the Evening Standard, according to Prime Minister Johnson, the U.K. will leave the E.U. "without delay".

From the (U.K.) Independent, Extinction Rebellion plans to shut down roads in London for a second time.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Irish Taoiseach Varadkar, Johnson's "two borders" Brexit proposal is not supported by anyone.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Tánaiste Simon Coveney, getting a Brexit deal is not "mission impossible".

From France24, French prosecutors do not rule out any motive for the knife attack which killed four people yesterday at police headquarter in Paris.

From RFI, according to the attacker's wife, he "heard voices".

From Free West Media, the attacker reportedly converted to Islam 18 months ago.

From VRT NWS, the new Flemish government wins a confidence vote.

From the NL Times, Dutch Prime Minister Rutte regards U.S. President Trump's criticism of E.U. defense spending as "justified".

From Dutch News, name tags from 260 World War II soldiers are dug up kn a garden in Schoorl, Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, men at Oktoberfest, please behave yourselves.

From EuroNews, a museum in Bonn, Germany examines how Germans view the British.

From the CPH Post, passengers on Copenhagen's new City Ring Metro line might have to wait before getting relief.

From Polskie Radio, President Trump agrees to allow Polish tourists and businesspeople to visit the U.S. without needing a visa.

From Radio Prague, two NHL teams will start the upcoming season in Prague.

From The Slovak Spectator, for the first time, a freight train from China arrives in Slovakia.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian spokesman Gergely Gulyas calls for a conservative turnaround in the European People's Party.

From Daily News Hungary, a 78-year-old Hungarian Catholic priest makes a parachute jump.

From Hungary Today, pilots at the Budapest airport complain of lasers disrupting takeoffs and landings.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From About Hungary, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjaryo calls for the rights of Hungarians living in the U.K. to be upheld.

From Sputnik International, the Moscow City Court upholds a blogger's five-year sentence over a Tweet that was regarded as threatening.

From The Moscow Times, according to Russian President Putin, blaming Stalin for World War II is "cynical".

From Romania-Insider, according to a Romanian parliamentcritter, over 7,000 criminals, rapists and thieves are at large in Romania.

From Novinite, Bulgaria and Austria call for a revival of the Danube strategy.

From The Sofia Globe, North Macedonian Prime Minister Zaev expects Greece and Bulgaria to not block his country's desire for Euro-Atlantic integration.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Parliament takes new steps against soccer hooliganism.

From Ekathimerini, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Athens for a two-day visit.

From the Greek Reporter, archaeologists will resume their survey of the Antikythera shipwreck.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Pompeo become the first American Secretary of State to visit Montenegro.

From Total Croatia News, a film about the Dubrovnik Riviera is put on a short list for the world's best tourism video.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at HRTurizam.)

From Malta Today, according to a Maltese commission gender-based violence, sex offenders should be given "effective" prison sentences.

From ANSA, according to Italian Foreign Minister Di Maio, a new decree will result in migrants getting repatriation decisions in four months.

From SwissInfo, a wolf protection group condemns a decision to allow four wolves in the canton of Graubünden to be hunted.

From El País, members of a Spanish interrupt a screening of a movie about the Spanish Civil War with Franco-era slogans.

From The Portugal News, Portugal has become a country of choice for immigrants.

From Euractiv, the E.U.'s new policy on migration is a gift to the "far-right".

From The Stream, when it comes to global warming, I mean, climate change, which data do you believe?

From Fox News, according to a former U.S. envoy to Ukraine, the Ukrainians never regarded Trump's concerns about Biden being a quid pro quo.

From the Daily Caller, Democrat presidential candidate Julian Castro says that he would end the "remain in Mexico" policy.

From Accuracy in Media, according to Slate, Trump could be brought down by his belief in conspiracy theories.

From Reason, Donald Trump the Younger and former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle will receive a total of $50,000 to speak at the University of Florida.  (The term "free speech" means that we can say what we want, but not that we can't get paid for it.)

From The Baltimore Sun, due to 25 Baltimore police officers being discredited, prosecutors start nullifying 790 convictions.

And from The Peedmont, a bride-to-be in Church Hill, Virginia crosses off people who moved to Midlothian from her list of wedding guests.

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