Month: January 2018

Are we really in 2018?

World’s Most Expensive Vodka Bottle Recovered Empty But Intact

Photos courtesy The Local News, Denmark.

A high-value vodka that was stolen from a bar in Copenhagen earlier this week has been found at a construction site on the outskirts of the city – with its contents emptied. The bottle itself is intact and will be examined by police.

The stolen Russo Baltique vodka, reportedly the only one of its kind and worth eight million kroner (1.1 million euros), was found by a private citizen, Copenhagen Police confirmed on Twitter.

Denmark’s TV2 said the bottle of Russo Baltique is made of 3 kilograms (6.6. pounds) of gold and the equivalent amount of silver with a diamond-encrusted cap.

The hole in the display at the bar from where the bottle was stolen. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen, Polfoto, Ritzau.

Milo Teases New Book Exposing Hollywood

Despicable by Milo Yiannopoulos

How did it become more dangerous in Hollywood to be a Republican than a child molester? Harnessing an exclusive network of high-profile sources, America’s most dangerous and provocative commentator takes readers on a journey into the sordid, sexually-abusive, hypocritical world of Hollywood. DESPICABLE paints a horrific picture of men, women and children abused and intimidated by the richest and most powerful people in America. Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author MILO tells readers what he saw while living in Beverly Hills in the 2000s and shares the untold stories of actors, musicians and other friends in his address book who will, in DESPICABLE, finally name their abusers. 

DESPICABLE maps out the links — financial and otherwise — between Hollywood power players and the Democrat Party. Conservatives in Hollywood lay bare the difficulty in getting their projects off the ground — and the ostracism they suffer for their political and religious beliefs. DESPICABLE explains how an industry that once inspired the world became a cesspool of moral decrepitude, lecturing the rest of us on how to live while turning a blind eye to appalling abuses on its own doorstep. Most revealingly of all, in this new book, MILO shows how the movie business’s recent box-office disasters stem from the same cancerous center as its constant finger-wagging: a collapse of moral foundations. 

Hollywood, like American liberalism in general, has become nihilistic, writes MILO. Whether it can survive will depend on this ossified, narcissistic and ideologically homogenous industry’s ability to accept the only diversity that matters: diversity of opinion and belief.

Milo Responds to Critics by Announcing Next Book; Posting Private Texts

Pre-orders are available. Autographed copies also offered. Scheduled release will be around May Day 2018. 

Gorilla Channel Highlights: Twitter Funnies

As folks killed time waiting for the release of Fire and Fury, this parody suddenly appeared on Twitter, leading to some very fun posts imagining just what a Gorilla Channel might be like.

Penis Bleaching Warning Issued in Thailand: Plastic Surgery Fad Not Worth Risks

Photo courtesy Atittayapa Photiya, Lelux Hospital, Facebook.

Courtesy Thai News Agency, Facebook:

Facebook’s English translation:

Dangerous warning doctors! The Laser, the male penis, does not control it because it is infected and affecting the reproductive system.

In Flag of chai -, Deputy Director of health service (,) ) reveals the social media publishing case about making laser. Male organs from black are white, warned because of very dangerous, since such areas are areas where the skin is relatively delicate, and the laser-making will cause the skin to be inflamed easily or dry and. There is a chance to lose irritation easily, and the opportunity is easily infected when the time fuck and also close to the scrotum may affect the male reproductive system. Think there is no use to go to make the genitals the area is white, not worth money,

 

Courtesy Thai News Agency, Twitter.

English Translation Courtesy Bing:

Listen closer! Deputy Director General of Chai. SOP sat warned Thailand that men think the treatment changes the color organ. Males may be not worth spoiling the risk of inflammation. Infection and affect reproductive systems. Remove all advertisements, medical and nursing With share online media alert press might. Khomphiotoe Act

The procedure has been promoted on Facebook by the Lelux Hospital in Bangkok:

Want to Join Impeachment March DC on Jan 20? You Can’t, Because it’s Not Really Happening

Full text:

*** PLEASE NOTE: *** Impeachment March Worldwide has NOT scheduled ANY January 20 Impeachment March. A recently circulated, anonymous Facebook notice promoting a Jan. 20 impeachment march was traced to a commercial meme site, produced either to generate interest or to confuse impeachment supporters. HOWEVER, Sister City Impeachment March organizers are encouraged to REACH OUT to local Jan. 20 WOMEN’S MARCH Groups, and to ask whether they can fold our message into theirs. Impeachment March – Los Angeles is doing this, and we understand that other Sister Cities are making the same effort. Some will say “Great!” and some will say “Another Day.” The bottom line is that we are STRONGEST when we embrace our UNITY in DIVERSITY.

While Impeachment opens the door to saving our democracy, we ask that all supporters respect the needs of Sister City Jan. 20 Women’s Marches and join in solidarity on that day with their broad message (and some will surely welcome ours!). We are all moving FORWARD in the SAME DIRECTION, so please STAY TUNED for more updates, which we’ll continue to post for your review and action.

 

 

 

 

Sloppy Steve? That One’s Gonna Stick: Twitter Funnies

Jumos? What the heck does it mean? Drunks?

Koreas agree to hold high-level talks Jan 9; First since 2015

SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Yonhap) — South and North Korea agreed Friday to hold high-level talks next week to discuss Pyongyang’s potential participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics and ways to improve ties.

North Korea notified Seoul that it has accepted South Korea’s latest offer for talks next Tuesday, according to Seoul’s unification ministry.

“The two sides decided to discuss working-level issues for the talks by exchanging documents,” Baik Tae-hyun, ministry spokesman at the ministry, told a press briefing.

The move comes as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed willingness to send a delegation to the Olympics to be held in the South next month and said the country is open to inter-Korean talks over the matter. The South proposed Tuesday for a high-level meeting in response.

The agreement came as the South and the United States agreed late Thursday to delay their joint military drills during the Winter Olympics.

North Korea has long denounced the military drills as a war rehearsal and used them as an excuse for its provocations. But the South and the U.S. said that the exercises are defensive in nature.

Next week’s talks will be the first inter-Korean dialogue since December 2015.

North Korea sent a document to the South under the name of Ri Son-gwon, the head of the North’s state agency in charge of inter-Korean affairs. The receiver is South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, the ministry said.

After a nine-year rule of two conservative governments, liberal President Moon, who favors engagement with Pyongyang, took office in May last year. But the North’s nuclear and missile threats have prompted him to maintain the dual track of seeking sanctions and dialogue.

Seoul hopes that better inter-Korean relations can help pave the way for the resolution of North Korea’s nuclear issue and broader talks between the U.S. and North Korea.

Some experts said that the North’s overture to South Korea may be aimed at weakening the united front in enforcing sanctions on Pyongyang and driving a wedge in the decadeslong alliance between Seoul and Washington.

 

Black Lives Matter Advocate Terminated: FIRE sues college for ignoring records requests

Saying it was “inundated” with complaints, New Jersey’s Essex County College terminated an adjunct professor after she defended a Black Lives Matter event.

Fox News/Modified from original.
  • Saying it was “inundated” with complaints, New Jersey’s Essex County College terminated an adjunct professor after she defended a Black Lives Matter event in a segment on Fox News.
  • After 174 days and five extensions of its deadline, Essex failed to produce a single record in response to FIRE’s public records request for information about the professor’s firing.
NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 4, 2018 — The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed a lawsuit yesterday in the Superior Court of New Jersey against Essex County College for ignoring multiple open records requests in violation of state law. FIRE requested information after an adjunct professor was fired following an appearance on a Fox News segment in which she defended Black Lives Matter.
“This lawsuit is not just about a public institution ignoring its obligation under state law to release certain information to the public,” said FIRE Staff Attorney Brynne Madway. “This suit is also about Essex County College’s responsibility to be transparent about its termination of an adjunct professor who simply voiced her opinions publicly.”
On July 13, FIRE requested information under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act about the questionable termination of Lisa Durden, an adjunct professor at Essex, two days after her June 6 appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” On the program, Durden debated Carlson on whether it was appropriate for a Black Lives Matter group to hold an event and request that white people not attend.
On June 23, Essex President Anthony Munroe issued a statement about the matter, saying the college was “immediately inundated with feedback … expressing frustration, concern and even fear” about Durden’s views — even though Essex was not mentioned during the appearance. Munroe acknowledged that Durden “was in no way claiming to represent the views and beliefs of the College,” but nevertheless asserted a “right to select employees who represent the institution appropriately,” and terminated her employment.
For more than a month, Essex ignored FIRE’s initial request — as well as a subsequent request — for information about the feedback the college allegedly received. After receiving a letter from FIRE Director of Litigation Marieke Tuthill Beck-Coon, Essex finally responded, asking for the first of five eventual requests for extensions of time to respond to FIRE’s records requests. In November, Essex said it “anticipated” being able to provide a response by Nov. 20.
FIRE hasn’t heard from Essex since.
“Here’s a New Year’s resolution for Essex: Follow state law,” said Madway. “The public deserves to know how Essex administrators handled reaction to a professor’s participation in a political debate.”
Ari Cohn, director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, analyzed the First Amendment issues involved in Durden’s firing and said that even if Essex was “inundated” with complaints, its administrators violated her constitutional rights by firing her.
“The law under the First Amendment is clear: A public college cannot terminate a professor simply because she engaged, in a personal capacity, in a debate about matters of public concern and some were offended by her perspective,” he said.
Bruce S. Rosen of McCusker, Anselmi, Rosen & Carvelli, P.C. in Florham Park, N.J. is serving as co-counsel in the suit.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending liberty, freedom of speech, due process, academic freedom, legal equality, and freedom of conscience on America’s college campuses.