Like you, maybe like you, all too late I discover a pile of news articles intended as fodder for the blog, but there are so many -- too many. So, today I decided just to throw out some headlines from recent weeks and, depending upon my May laziness factor, perhaps a comment is worthwhile here and there.
First, though, a word about North Korea's Kim Jong Un and his possible / apparent / rumored decision to dispense with a meeting with Trump: This is a surprise? To Whom? Since when does this pampered ass, his father or grandfather deal honorably with anybody from the West? Seemed good on paper, but taking a pathetic non-action figure from the page of a June calendar to the world stage takes a lot of exertion and expectation. This manipulative sociopath with the brain and looks of a bloated road kill toad will never raise his status higher than that of a common thug, and if he wishes to reach into North Korea's traditional treasure chest of lies in the face of Trump's best efforts, this particular Kim and his associates deserve whatever will follow. Nor, of course, is China innocent in this matter, all the while pulling puppet strings.
Now, from the desk of things:
Climate change dials down Atlantic Ocean heating system. (BBC News): This is good, yes?
Dying Gulf Stream may trigger a global nightmare. (Fox News): This is bad, yes?
Creating clouds to stop global warming could wreak havoc. (USA Today): Good, bad, whatever -- I lost track of my senses after the first climate change article.
Climate skeptics more eco-friendly than global-warming alarmists: Study. (Washington Times): Yes, the difference between rationality and bat-poop nuts is quite obvious.
Department of Homeland Security to establish monitoring system that tracks journalists in live time. (The Blaze): Intended primarily to track foreign journalists who say bad things? Hmm. I think it comes down to, you speak out with the wrong words, you're on the scope. Thanks a lot, DHS, nothing shouts First Amendment freedom like a "monitoring system."
Conservative news tycoon Matt Drudge, a prominent supporter of Donald Trump, hit out at the president Wednesday following a tweet in which he suggested that journalists' credentials could be revoked. (Newsweek): Please, Mr. President, banish this thought from your mind. We've already been inundated with enough "help" from the Democrats regarding ways to manage news reporting.
Germany set out to delete hate speech online. Instead, it made things worse.
(Washington Post): Angela Merkel and her fellow dolts should have seen this one coming. You can't delete "hate speech" without deleting the good stuff, too. But what should one expect from a government which welcomed every terrorist and loon available with open arms?
Iran Threatens to Restart Nuke Enrichment Program in Matter of Days. (Washington Free Beacon): Old news by now, but just another dirty fingerprint left over from the fine diplomatic work performed by the Obama bunch. Period.
Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles. (The Guardian): At last, great news, and maybe we can make this enzyme eat other things, too. Political entities come immediately to mind, of course.
A team of scientists says it has created a pig that can be used in transplantations in humans. (The Yomiuri Shimbun): I live for the day when animals no longer sacrifice their lives for us, but that day will commence after I'm long dead, if ever. We are what we are.
Soros-Funded Group Launches App to Help Illegal Aliens Avoid Feds. (Judicial Watch): Why sacrifice pigs, when one can pick and choose among traitors and international criminals, some may ask?
Students storm library to denounce conservative 'hate speech.' (Campus Reform): Ah yes, Columbia University, like so many other fine institutions sucking money from parents who assume an education is what they're paying for as their kid's mind transforms into a swamp creature's thinking process.
BLOODIED AND CHAINED Thailand zoo horror revealed in sickening snaps showing emaciated animals shackled in tiny cages. (The Sun): How could one ever believe our role is to care for the animals, when we obviously don't? There are people who need to die on the planet, and a good share of them include those who mistreat animals.
Weed killer found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. (The Guardian): Hmm, and all this time I thought that funny taste was caused by the trans-fats and perhaps a few fingernail clippings.
Whistle blower leaks harrowing footage of sheep baking to death on board overcrowded slaughter ship. WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: The suffering animals were crammed together on the boat which was bound for the Middle East. (The Mirror): Ditto re abused animals. The Middle East? Of course.
Yale College braces for expected influx of student ’emotional support animals.’ (The Blaze): Kinda makes one wonder whether we should reinitiate the military draft just so these young combo snowflakes / emotional train wrecks -- mostly caused by liberally progressive upbringing, natch' -- can experience a few weeks of basic training. May I suggest intensive "blanket parties" as an added benefit? Then the poor "support" animals can return home and be animals again, rather than enduring the role of stuffed teddy bears.
