Sunday, June 30, 2019

Trump Steps Into North Korea, And Other Stories

Yesterday, after leaving the G20 summit, "Dotard" stepped into North Korea to make a very brief visit with "Rocket Man", becoming the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in that country.

Read more at CNN, USA Today, CBS News and ABC News.

As could be expected, some Democratic presidential candidates were not pleased.

Read more at CNN, Politico and The Hill.
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In other stories:



From The Washington Free Beacon, the lifetime of George Orwell's 1984.  (As some have stated, 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a guidebook or an instruction manual.)



From American Thinker, "how do you know that you are no longer a Democrat?"  (In my case, it's "how do you know that you've never been a Democrat?")


From NewsBusters, ABC gives 17 seconds to ProFa thuggery and goes Sgt. Schultz on the journalist they sent to the hospital.  (For anyone unfamiliar with Sgt. Schulz, listen to him here and read about him here.)









From ANI, heavy security is in place for the start of Amarnath Yatra.  (The Amarnath Yatra is a pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave, which is a Hindu shrine.)

















From Novinite, police in Athens, Greece arrest a Bulgarian and a Syrian for allegedly selling fake documents to migrants.  (While illegal aliens are sometimes called "undocumented", some are in reality falsely documented.)


From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albanians vote in municipal elections.


From SwissInfo, what should be done with foreigners who went to join ISIS?  (Whatever is the normal penalty for treason in whichever country the foreigners come from would be my answer.)

From Morocco World News, a 65-year-old Moroccan athlete starts a bicycle trip from Casablanca to Mecca.  (He thus gets this blog's "badass" label.)




From the Evening Standard, tennis fans line up for Wimbledon.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. prime minister candidate Boris Johnson claims that a remark he made in 2002 about black Africans having "watermelon smiles" was satirical.  (In other words, Boris offers the latest version of the "it was a joke" excuse.)


From the Irish Examiner, a U.S. fighter plane from World War II is excavated in County Monaghan, Ireland.  (Ireland was officially neutral in WWII.)











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