Hollywood today is mostly a bunch of folks that aren’t worthy of being thought of anything more than dancing monkeys. Some are more than that. And, in the past, some movie stars were actually heroes.
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Successful Test-fire of Newly Developed Super-Large Multiple Rocket Launcher Held Under Guidance of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via GlobalSecurity.org
Pyongyang, August 25, 2019 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, guided the test-fire of newly developed super-large multiple rocket launcher on Saturday.
The Supreme Leader of the Party, state and armed forces learnt about the development of the super-large multiple rocket launcher system and issued an order to start the test-fire.
The test-fire proved that all the tactical and technological specifications of the system correctly reached the preset indexes.
He gave high appreciation, saying that it is, indeed, a great weapon, our young national defence scientists are so clever as to conceive out of their own heads and design and complete the weapon system at one go-off although they have never seen it, and they have performed a great work.
What made him happy today is that a contingent of young and promising talents who will shoulder upon the rapid development of the Juche-oriented defence industry grow in the course of the development of the new weapon, he noted, saying with pride that they are precious treasure and wealth of the country which cannot be bartered for anything and the Juche-oriented defence industry will steadily be developed by the talented national defence scientists and technicians faithful to the Party.
Each Juche weapon developed and completed by us reflects the greatness of the Workers’ Party of Korea which provided powerful war deterrent capable of firmly defending Korean-style socialism with the responsibility for the destiny and future of the country and the people and the noble loyalty of our national defence scientists who have unsparingly devoted their blood and sweats of patriotism true to the leadership of the Party, he said.
Saying August 24 is, indeed, an unforgettable good day, and that today three years ago we succeeded even in a few strategic submarine underwater ballistic missile test-fires which the world has ever seen, he together with his dear comrades-in-arms recollected the unforgettable days when he developed and completed strategic weapons braving manifold trials.
An important mission our defense industry takes up is to contribute to increasing national defence capabilities in every way so as to safeguard the Party, revolution, country and people, guarantee the final victory of the revolution and lead and promote the building of a powerful socialist nation, he said, underscoring the need to push ahead with an indomitable offensive campaign to put our strength onto the level desired by us to continue to step up the development of Korean-style strategic and tactical weapons for resolutely frustrating the ever-mounting military threats and pressure offensive of the hostile forces.
This “article” published earlier today by Mr. Harvey Olson is so egregiously false as to cause one’s head to explode with rage:
One day on the job and here I am dealing with such falderal! Have you no shame?
I have scoured reliable news sources and found no mention of such judgment against Proctor & Gamble or its subsidiary Gillette. As far as I can tell, Judge Roy Bean, who has been the subject of old movies and TV shows, passed away over 116 years ago in March, 1903!!!
Furthermore, they are perfectly right to criticize men for toxic masculinity, as it is a terrible scourge on our society and must be wiped out! $8 billion is a small price to pay for Social Justice!
Really, when are you going to realize you can’t get away with this clear disregard for The Truth™ any longer? Now, go to your room, Mister! You are getting a time out!!!
If you were a REAL man, you’d let Gillette insult you and still give them your money!
The court held that Gillette’s actions were “so egregious” that “no thinking man” could ever be expected to take such a grotesque insult “sitting down” and that Gillette “should have known” their products would “wind up on the ash heap of history”.
5th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Roy Bean’s ruling was a scathing indictment of what was termed “gross corporate malfeasance”.
“I’ve seen some pretty stupid things in my life,” said Bean, “and I’m generally of the opinion that you have to let stupid people do stupid things, and then make sure they’re punished for it, because otherwise they’ll never get any smarter. In this particular case, the defendant, Gillette, has already lost some 8 billion dollars – that’s billion with a ‘b’ – by going full Prince Hans regicide on their stunned and betrayed customer base, somehow surprise-swapping ‘the best a man can get’ for ‘you are a bully with harassment in your heart, and other men need to put a stop to you, your actions, and possibly your very existence. Now buy our razors.’ To not predict the resounding ‘no’ that followed was idiocy of the type that makes movie villains choose armor with helmets that have full face coverage. I mean full-on ‘TK-421, why aren’t you at your post?‘ level idiocy.”
“Now, some may ask why that punishment isn’t enough,” Bean said. “But I think this is only fair. If Gillette wants to live in their fluffy little PC world, they can play by ALL the PC rules. The men who shave with Gillette were in their safe spaces, but got their feelings hurt. They were triggered into throwing their razors away. They spent anywhere between dozens and hundreds of dollars on these items, and because of Gillette’s actions they couldn’t use them anymore without feeling beard-shamed. Under their own rules, how can Gillette possibly argue that the loss wasn’t foreseeable, preventable, compensable, and entirely their own fault?”
Taking their lumps gracefully, a Gillette spokesman apologized profusely to the victims of their hate crime and vowed to move forward as a wiser organization, who will think twice before insulting their customer base again.
Their new Venus ad campaign featuring irritable fat women who don’t shave their stubbly legs often enough is expected to roll out next Monday.
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Among the phrases that will get you banned from Facebook…
So this rumor came out that Trump proposed nuking a hurricane. As you know, I’m all for creative uses of nukes, and that sounds like an awesome idea. Trump has denied it, though, but maybe he’s just being modest.
So what would you like to nuke? I, obviously, would nuke the moon. I think Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars. What’s your creative use of a nuke? And you can’t nuke anything that has people on it; nuking people is wrong.
Joe Walsh Announces 2020 Presidential Run
Townhall.com | August 25, 2019 | Timothy MeadsFormer Congressman Joe Walsh officially announced his candidacy for the 2020 Republican nomination today, vowing to defeat incumbent President Donald J. Trump.
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Since exiting Congress, Walsh has been in the news for . . . being pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen into showing support for arming kindergarten students with guns.
Walsh claims he was tricked into showing support for a made-up Israeli defense program titled “The Kinderguardians.” He was invited by Cohen’s team to accept a phony award, and was asked to sit down for an interview. He was told to read from a teleprompter that the program was “an example of how Israel trains and arms preschool kids on how to use firearms, and boy shouldn’t we do that in America?”
In an interview on CNN regarding that stunt, Michael Smerconish asked, “Did an alarm go off in your head, congressman?”
“It did,” Walsh answered, “but it was too late.”
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet asked staff, “How do we write about race in a thoughtful way, something we haven’t done in a large way in a long time?”
Not sure if they can make that pivot to “thoughtful.”
