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Author: Ex-PH2

  • No Nork War Just Yet

    Here’s more news about Norkiland, including a reference at the end to the solar storms generated by a large sunspot (a cluster?) going on right now.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/08/north-koreas-next-missile-launch-could-come-saturday-as-it-plays-chicken-with-us.html

    The article references changing the angle of the missile’s guidance system to a flatter trajectory to hit a specific target. Guam was his last threat (here) which means that he’s still peeved at not getting quite enough attention, and it’s all out fault.

    It’s mostly rehashing what was on the news last night, but since Irma is more of an attention hog than the Cheeseslayer, the reports on Noriland’s chief Numbnuts were slim.

    However, Pres. Trump did indicate that while warfare is a possibility, it will be a sad day if it does come to that. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-system/trump-sad-day-for-north-korea-if-u-s-takes-military-action-idUSKCN1BI07P?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

    Here’s a reminder from a couple of days ago that Kim Cheese does have some big boomers.  From 09-06-2017 – a Google Earth shot of landslides at Nork nuke test site: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41170940

    And in case anyone thinks it was just another possible false flag, this is the USGS’s seismic report of an explosion in that area, followed by a 6.3M quake on 9-4-2017:

    https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000aert#executive

    Well, really, if ND:tBF is that anxious about getting attention, he needs to lawyer up, hire a disbarred sloppy attorney from Florida to represent him and sue Pres. Trump because he’s not getting enough attention from us. They have similar personalities and Fatty Kim da T’ird has a lot of cash from his suspected theft of Bangla Desh’s $81 million deposit account in the New Yok  Federal Reserve Bank earlier this summer

  • Post-Combat Drunken Orgies Okay

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    6th Victrix Tribune (Ret.) Fabius Flatulus Maximus was kind enough to give me some of his time in retirement for another interview. He’s been fascinated by the game of golf, but can’t imagine anyone chasing a little white ball around a mowed lawn with holes in it.

    I did explain to him that it was a game invented by the Scots, who used to be known as the Pictish tribes.

    “Oh! Those birdbrains! Why didn’t you say so!” He laughed. “Yeah, we just called all of them Gauls or Galicians and ignored their tribal cacaisms. Pissed them off no end. We built the Antonine Wall under Antoninus Pius, after ol’ Hadrian built his wall to keep them on their side of the fence. Ours was bigger. And longer. Kept the troops busy, too. How can I help you?”

    I explained the whole business of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct in the units, and he stopped me right there.

    “Whoa! Misconduct?” He shook his head and snorted. “Sexual misconduct?”

    I nodded.

    “I did not know there was such a thing,” he remarked.

    I gave him a copy of the latest bit of tight-as-a-drumhead lecture on ‘look but don’t touch, and don’t look, either’. He let out a bellow of laughter, which went on until his eyes were watering and he finally caught his breath.

    “Who wrote this nonsense?” he asked. “What is he? Castratus? Oportet mihi te cacare!1”

    I answered ‘No, it seems that it has to do with a lack of understanding of things like the fight or flight response and human nature’s need to breed, once territory is confirmed in friendly hands. The modern military is very, very uptight about such things. They don’t like the troops patronizing prostitutes, either.”

    His response to that was quite straightforward.

    “There is nothing wrong with having a little post-combat orgy, as long as too much wine isn’t spilled and no one gets into knife fights. It’s okay if they have chest bumping contests for amusement, too,” he said, “or a javelin throw using leftover skulls as targets. Relieves stress, you know.  And no patronizing prostitutes? How are those girls supposed to make a living? About all they have is their good looks, you know.  But you’re putting women in combat?”

    I nodded.

    “Must be wretchedly mulierii ieiunio2. Carnarius sum, sed pinguiarius non sum3. If they’re really worried about this misconduct issue, they could try recruiting women from the Isle of Lesbos over near Greece. But are these Amazons any good at killing the barbarians?” he asked.

    I assured him they were trained properly for the job. But the general concern was that post-combat stress would lead to improper and inappropriate sexual conduct.

    He stared at me for a moment, then burst into more raucous laughter.

    “Inappropriate what??? Whoever comes up with this stuff,” he said, “has to be psychotic! Iignosce mihi4, but we always approved drunken orgies after a battle. Spoils of war and all that. It relieves the troops’ stress as long as no one really overdoes it. Takes the cork out of the amphora, so to speak. We let ‘em party until they pass out. Then they get to work hard the next day, doing things like armor repair and carpentry and building stone walls. In the sun. Under really bad-tempered centurions.”

    “Well, what about the rape of the Sabine women?” I asked.

    “Hey, I had nothing to do with that! It happened six hundred sixty years before I was born. My granny told me it was half and half. Some of those Sabine women were desperate for real men, so when the Romans showed up, off they went. Those flabby Etruscans like to lie their asses off about everything, you know, and they didn’t want to lose their monopoly on trade with local farmers. When we showed up, we brought competition. That, and muscles.”

    “Well, I’m glad we got that straightened out,” I said. “So Livy was wrong?”

    “Mostly. And anyway, who cooked up this nonsense? Some pig-eyed male virgin with a squint?”

    I said no, it was purported to have been the fault of some jug-eared guy with a big nose who talks to himself a lot.

    “Figures,” he said. “Sounds like something Little Boots would do. Or Commodus.”

    Rough Latin translations below:

    1 A eunuch? You gotta be shittin’ me!

    2 Bony broads

    3 I’m a meat lover, not a fat lover.

    4 Excuse me, but…

  • A Slap In the Face

    On 9/3/2017, an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council was requested by he United States, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Korea Request

    Here’s the press release:  https://usun.state.gov/remarks/7952

    This is a link to the transcript of Amb. Nikki Haley’s address at the Emergency UN Security Council Briefing on 9/4/2017:   https://usun.state.gov/remarks/7953

    You must read it before you react.  She is not mincing words in this address at all.  To quote her final sentence: “Twenty-four years of half measures and failed talks is enough. Thank you.”

    Here is a transcript of her additional remarks https://usun.state.gov/remarks/7954

    Ambassador Nikki Haley

    U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

    U.S. Mission to the United Nations

    New York City

    September 4, 2017

    AS DELIVERED

    Mr. President, due to the urgency of the situation with the nuclear test, as well as the announcement by North Korea that they are planning for another ICBM test, we want to urge the Council to move very quickly on this.

    I think that North Korea basically has slapped everyone in the face in the international community that has asked them to stop, so the United States will be circulating a resolution that we want to negotiate this week and vote on on Monday. So just wanted to let the members know.

    I know that some are going to Addis, but we wanted to make sure that we will do that on Monday when we can get those negotiations finished. Thank you.

    ” slapped everyone in the face” is not mincing words at all.

    Fatty Kim da T’ird is itching for a fight. As Amb. Haley says, he wants a war. That much is as clear as a bell.  Anyone who thinks that, because I point and snicker at him, I don’t take him seriously, is badly mistaken.

    I grew up under the constant implied threat of nuclear war with Red China and the Soviet Union. Our house was barely 10 miles from ground zero in a target city, with a heavy equipment factory, a grain processing plant, an electronics factory, a tire factory and a sizable railyard.  Those are still in place today, as well as an additional grain processing plant. Both of these companies process corn and soybeans for the fuels industry. In addition to these, the  hospital where my mother worked is now a major medical teaching hospital, and the university that I graduated from has expanded its curriculum exponentially into current events, as well as adding two new master’s degree programs some time back.

    Any large city was a target city, whether it was New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, or Washington, DC, and whether or not it was near a military base. Pensacola, FL, was and still is home to Navy tech schools and ships, and a naval aviation training command.  It was a target city then and still is today.

    I think it’s far past time we got (Vlad Putin) Russia and (Xi Jinping) China, along with Japan, France, Israel and South Korea, into the White House for another kitchen table conference. And maybe it’s time someone put the screws to Iran, once and for all.  Vlad Putin (smooches) has stated that sanctions do not work on North Korea.  http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/850109/north-korea-news-latest-war-usa-trump-nuclear-bomb-missile-test-launch-south

    I miss the Cold War more than I thought I would.

  • Newest Nork News

    From USA Today:  U.S. Geological Survey data showed that a magnitude-6.3 seismic event was detected Sunday in North Hamgyeong Province. Later, the the geological survey said a magnitude-4.1 event was recorded eight minutes after the initial quake, “possibly a structural collapse” caused by the larger seismic event.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/09/02/north-korea-nuclear-test-seismic-activity/629486001/

    If it was that big an explosion, the yield is  now estimated at 100 kilotons. A photo in the USA Today article shows ND:tBF looking at what may or may not be the subject of his claim that he has been testing a thermonuclear device, aka a hydrogen bomb. The unconfirmed test he says he conducted in June registered as a 5.1 seismic event, which was the strongest explosion he’s carried out so far. That is if he conducted such a test. His stated objective in this case is to get a warhead tacked onto a Hwasong-14 missile, which has a longer range than the Hwasong-12 he launched last week. He’s still aiming at Guam and other US territories.

    For comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 15 KT. Nagasaki was larger at 20 KT. Tsar Bomba was 50 megatons and could be dropped from an airplane. Castle Bravo, the highest yielding thermonuclear device the US tested, was supposed to be 5 MT, but that was a miscalculation. It was actually 15MT. http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/page06.shtml

    A reality check? Once this rocket scientist gets a missile that does not go to pieces en route, the probability of his launching one or several at other countries – specifically the USofA – is high on his list of priorities. I don’t have a copy of his list of ‘things to do today’, but I’m sure he’s ticking off each test as he goes.

    Why Fatty Kim da T’ird is threatening only the US is beyond me, but he is making a lot of noise. His daddy used to threaten the South, and then occasionally launch missiles and fire tank ammo at them. As others have indicated before, his conventional weaponry isn’t particularly accurate, or up to date.

    His trading partner, China, is not happy with him, and hasn’t been for some time. They still have troops stationed at the Jilin border, still keeping an eye on their bullying neighbor. They’ve restricted their trading with him for several months now. His trading deal with Moscow failed.

    If he’s getting parts or help from Syria or Iran, that should be looked into. No, it should be stopped altogether.  However, I’m quite sure that the current administration under the sitting president is much more on top of these things than the previous admin.

    A joint bombing air exercise last week was a targeted response to Norkiland’s Hwasong-12, which cracked up and fell into the Pacific after it flew over Japan’s north island and worried people.

    It’s probably the reason behind this latest explosion. He’s showing us again!

    Dropping nukes on that place, as others have indicated before me, would be a waste of weaponry. The entire Korean peninsula north of the DMZ is extremely rugged and hilly. There is very little flatland north of the DMZ, which makes successful agriculture more difficult, but also presents a poor target zone for effective nukes. The nuke explosion’s damage comes from the heat and the blast wave. If it washes up a hillside or a mountain, it will fall back and incinerate the target zone again. Nukes are more effective in flatland, unless you want to make a profound statement such as: “Ours are nastier than yours are, Fat Boy.”  In addition, Fatty Kim da T’ird has been busily digging into the granite mountains of the North, to provide shelter from bombs for himself and his favorites, not those who mean nothing to him.

    Maybe it’s time someone just takes the bull by the horns and shoots the next Nork test missile to shit.

  • Yeah, I Think We Can Handle This….

    The following is a link to ABC’s news story about US/Japan/South Korea joint air bombing exercise held on Wednesday, 08-31-2017.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-01/us-bombers-drill-over-korean-peninsula-after-latest-north-launch/8862072

    The explosions indicate that the precision was quite good. I would not want to be on the receiving end of that stuff. Watch the video, enjoy the still shots and the article.

    Now for the real question: what to do about that Fat Basterd?

    Of course, CNN, the clowndog news network, is suddenly awash in self-importance and expertise on this subject, because they all know so much more about what is going on than the White House does. They’re handing out advice as if they think someone’s asleep at the switch.  http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/opinions/north-korea-deterrence-opinion-cordesman/index.html

    Not likely.

    It’s apparent that they seriously underestimate Pres. Trump, and do not have a clue about his capability.  But then, none of them have ever had to run a business in their lives.  All they do is read copy they didn’t write, gossip over Mrs. Trump’s shoe, and sit on their butts. But now, well – they’re experts.  I’m just waiting for them to trip over their own feet.

    Excuse me while I fall off my chair laughing.

    Enjoy the bombing run videos. There are probably more to come. From what little I’ve seen so far, it appears that Fatty Kim da T’ird is upset with our display of arrogant bombing practice.

  • A Crumpet! My Kingdom for a Crumpet!

    A short while ago, there was an unfortunate incident in Portland, OR, a fracas over two women who started selling breakfast burritos out of a food truck.  It was because they had “stolen” a recipe from local women while on a vacay in Cabo San Lucas. The so-called food protest in Portland, OR, was not about culture or ethnicity or inclusion. No, it was about separation. Division. Distances.

    When those SJW busybodies went to the trouble of making a chart of which restaurants were owned/run by ethnically-correct owners, it was a slap in the face of that slacker metrosexual president they lusted over, who whined in public: “Can’t we all just get along?” before he had that ‘meet & grumble’ episode in the Rose Garden. Remember that one?

    Yeah, I’m quoting Obama, the guy who looked good in a suit but couldn’t have done more than he did to be divisive. Not going to waste time on that, because he’s gone for good, but he did have a point there.  Uh, yeah, can’t we all just get along?

    After these two silly women came home from their stay in the Baja, they tried to duplicate the buttery stretchy flatbread produced by the women down there and sold as wraps with fillings. When they bragged about it, they were slammed by the self-important divisive twits whose argument was that if those two women “stole” the recipe, they were “stealing culture” somehow. That doesn’t make any sense at all. Forcing those women to shut down, and then going around Portland to demand that restaurant owners stop producing and selling food that wasn’t in their “ethnic group” (whatever that is), shows a complete disconnect from the reality that there are Japanese chefs running restaurants that serve Nigerian cooking, and Italians cooking Chinese food and running sushi restaurants. Should Wolfgang Puck stop selling French onion soup?

    I can cite dozens of similar examples, but the point is that this imbecilic protest was not about how diverse we are. It was about divisiveness, controlling what other people do, and making sure we all know that there is a vast gap between “you” and “me”, whoever we are. Instead of doing something constructive, the self-important birdbrained authoritarians not only shut down a thriving street vendor business, which generates tax revenues, they also deprived the owner of the street vendor truck, a Mexican fellow, of rental income.

    How’s that for being blind and stupid all at once?

    But you see, that doesn’t matter to these narrow-minded little snots, because They Say it’s not politically correct to be a unified species. And yes, they go by skin color. My skating coach was Polish, her husband was Chilean. They were both European in appearance, as is a huge population group of Latinos.  But we have to note our vast differences and never bridge that gulf, not because the distance between me and my Latino/Chicano and black neighbors is so great, but because The They said so. They have said it. It is an order. Thus it shall be.

    Uh, no. Not just ‘no’ but ‘N-O’ NO!

    First of all, if you want to come up with a product you can sell, do a better job of doing your homework. Those two bimbos who got slammed didn’t bother with that. They really were/are a pair of numbskulls. They could have found at least six flatbread recipes online to use and developed their own from those instructions. The same buttery, stretchy flatbread that had them all ga-ga in the Baja is a universal food item, not something special from Cabo San Lucas housewives. They were incredibly lazy and dumb.

    Flatbread is the oldest human-produced food on the planet. The grain emmer, for instance, came into use around 17,000 BC. The use of emmer as a cereal food is considered to be contemporary with that of einkorn. Similar to einkorn, the earliest civilizations initially consumed emmer as a porridge prior to developing the process of bread making.  It’s still in use today.  The history of bread and cake starts with Neolithic cooks and marches through time according to ingredient availability, advances in technology, economic conditions, socio-cultural influences, legal rights (Medieval guilds), and evolving taste. The earliest breads were unleavened. Variations in grain, thickness, shape, and texture varied from culture to culture.

    Beer was developed in Mesopotamia during the production of bread using grain that had been sprouted and dried, and subsequently letting the water ferment. The addition of yeast to flour was probably accidental, but yeast is also used in brewing beer. In ancient Egypt, women were the producers of both bread and beer. The Egyptian process was to bake the bread, then break up the loaves and put them in the sprouting water and allow them to ferment, and then drink the fermented liquid. – – Source: http://www.foodtimeline.org/

    And what do we have now? Glad you asked.

    Malaysian crisp, pulled flatbread: Roti Canai (Malaysia) or Roti Paratha (Singapore)

    Roti: buttery Indian flatbread

    Agege flatbread: stretchy Nigerian flatbread

    Naan bread: a tandoor bread , baked in a tandoor oven on a ghee-lubed baking sheet; or just buy it at the grocery store

    Tortillas: hard or soft; made with wheat flour or maisa (corn flour), but  not all that difficult to make. It’s simpler to just buy them at the grocery store, too.

    Parotta or paratha: south Indian layered flatbread

    Rghaif: Moroccan flatbread

    Markouk saj: paper-thin Lebanese flatbread, stretched on a pillow

    Pita bread: Greek flatbread, just thick enough to cut in half and split into pouches

    Malawach: Yemenite Jewish flatbread

    Jachnun: another Yemenite Jewish flatbread, rolled into sticks and fried

    Crepes: thin eggy pancakes: France

    Pancakes: your grandma’s kitchen and the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook; but very old and European in origin; made for Shrove Tuesdays.

    – and last but certainly not least:

    PIZZA! Yes, the pizza crust is a light, stretchy dough that can be thrown into a large, flat disc shape, loaded with sauce (make your own!), cheese, pepperoni, olives, mushrooms, garlic, hamburger, ham, sausage, extra cheese, extra pepperoni, and extra extra pepperoni. And the honorable modern pizza? It supposedly started in Italy with focaccia bread made by a Neapolitan baker named Esposito for King Umberto and his wife, but in reality, pizza was first documented in AD 997 in Gaeta. Basically, it’s flatbread with toppings, just like the others, but if you want a Neapolitan pizza, it must meet certain specific standards. And it isn’t just Napoli, either, it’s a universal European flatbread.

    I was almost ready to set up a roach coach and start selling the Premium McWrap, which I dearly love, because McD’s quit selling it. Why? Simple. They have higher revenues from their all-day breakfast offerings than they got from the McWrap, so they did what all businesses do: they followed the cash flow. The McWrap isn’t so hard to put together, either: big flour tortilla, crispy chicken tenders, lettuce, shredded cheese, some diced tomato, ranch dressing. How hard is that?

    All of this info comes from sources available online, including the recipes.  Now, if those two dumb broads had bothered to do their research for the 45 minutes that it took me to find these resources, they might still be in business, and that ridiculous, petulant, butthurt, not-your-ethnic-group crap in Portland might not have happened.

    Instead, we get more divisiveness, more anger over imagined, nonexistent wrongs, and more online articles about how butthurt someone is about it all.

    To make it clear just how I feel about the screechingly idiotic Social Justice Warrior Howler Monkeys (thanks, Nicki!) , I’ve come up with a list of foods that they can have, and they must not stray from this list, or suffer the consequences.

    Here we go: Oreos (now made in Mexico); Lifesavers; Hostess cupcakes; Baby Ruth, Oh Henry!, Mounds, Mr. Goodbar, Mike and Ike, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Butterfinger, Heath Bars, Nestle Drumsticks (1920s); Twinkies; Snickers, Tootsie Pops, Fritos, 3 Musketeers, Ritz Crackers, Frito corn chips, 5th Avenues, Krispy Kreme donuts (1930s); Girl Scout Cookies; Cheetos; Pop Tarts; hot dogs; hamburgers; Doritos; Campbell’s condensed soups; Sunbeam white bread, well-known for its rubbery texture and bland flavor, and finally, peanut butter and jelly made with high fructose corn syrup, which is now quite well-known for causing cirrhosis of the liver.

    The SJW Howler Monkeys absolutely must not stray from this list. The consequences will be horrendous if they do: a prolonged line of Republican presidents will rule the roost and ignore their howling, and they will be forced to find real jobs instead of living off their doting parents.

    Teh HORROR!

  • And the Beat Goes On….

    Russia is nervous about the Norks? So it seems. It appears, per this Reuters article, that Russia’s somewhat doveish approach to Norkiland is not doing so well. The Russian government is continuing trade with the Norks, but in a more moderated way.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-northkorea-trade-idUSKCN1B81BO

    According to Galushka’s statement, the Russian government is sticking to the guidelines of its trade agreement with North Korea. But there is an alternative side to this, from HuffPo, which deserves a view. And once in a while, HuffPo publishes something worth looking at.

    We can all view the contrasts between the two Koreas, North and South, in this series of photos by the tourist, who followed a strictly guided tour a year ago in Norkiland. It’s worth a few minutes of your time to see the contrast between the two, if you want to watch his video. His first image, of the contrast between the two Koreas at dusk, is indicative of the rest of the images he provides.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-korea-photos_us_59a07221e4b06d67e3377f37

    There are also, from South Korea’s NIS agency, indications that the Norks are going to engage in a 6th nuclear test at Punggye-ri. I don’t know how accurate CNN’s article is, but the link is here: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/28/asia/north-korea-missile-test/index.html

    Stock your pantry shelves.

  • We Gonna Show You!!

    It’s the usual stuff with Norkiland: we gonna bump up missiles, we gonna launch ‘em at you, we gonna show you we Da Big Cheeses. We gonna bomb Guam!!!

    So the threats toward Guam didn’t work. Guam went about its day-to-day business. Guamaians got interviewed by reporters who may have never heard of that US island territory until the week before last week. We did discover, however, that Guam has a lot of cuisine involving Spam and that they’re happy to be a territory of the U.S. They welcome tourists and want our business. I still don’t know why that birdbrained blowhard hasn’t threatened the Marianas, but maybe his maps are outdated??

    Yesterday (Aug. 25), he decided to up the scare tactics, by running his own drills.

    10.10am: Kim Jong-un prepares to invade South Korean Islands (Express.co.uk article:  http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/846077/North-Korea-v-USA-latest-news-live-updates-Kim-Jong-un-launch-missiles)

    “Kim Jong-un is preparing his soldiers to take over a South Korean island, North Korea’s state propaganda has revealed. In a series of simulated drills, warplanes and missile launchers bombarded a mocked-up war zone. Simulated attacks on South Korea’s border islands of Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong saw paratroopers leap from planes while others swept into position on dinghies. The DPRK state media said Kim “expressed great satisfaction” with the exercises.”

    He did launch three missiles yesterday. One of them exploded and the other two fell into the Sea of Japan. The Japanese indicated they knew and weren’t worried about it.

    Before that, he was making a nuisance of himself with his stated intentions to sell missiles and nukes to Syria and Iran.

    That pesky solar eclipse took up a lot of room on the news, so ND:tBF went on another tantrum binge, threatening this and that, and finally settled on selling his deadly stuff to Syria and Iran.  Ah, but wait! There’s more, isn’t there?  He was already doing that, wasn’t he?  http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/844704/North-Korea-news-United-States-sanctions-sell-weapons-Syria-Iran-Donald-Trump-World-War-3

    Well, the South is taking him seriously. They’re running drills on everything, which is not really new. They’re just broadcasting it more. I believe the Chinese still have troops at the Nork-China border, as a buttress against potential swarms of refugees fleeing the North. If the North did test an H-bomb in June, as Fatty Kim da T’ird has bragged, he’s pushing his agenda harder and harder. There was a seismic event in June located in northwestern Norkiland, registered at 5.1M. That’s either a massive quake over there, or he really did let off a big one.

    Per the 2nd and earlier article, he does intend to sell his products to Syria and Iran. I thought Iran was posting along nicely with its own nuke missile program, or was that just another hysterical, partial-truth report from the Clowndog News Network? While Norkiland is under UN sanctions to not do what they’re doing, they just keep on keeping on, moseying on down the trail to the launch button. He needs money, which he isn’t getting from China right now, to work on his hard-driving nuclear missile program.

    Ms. Emily Landau, from the Institute for National Security Studies, says ‘it’s all about money’, in regard to Fatty Kim da T’ird’s posturing. From the 2nd Express article: “Emily Landau, a senior research fellow and head of arms control program at the Institute for National Security Studies, warned Mr. Trump’s sanctions could force North Korea to sell its weapons if it is required to raise funds.”  Okay, but, Emily, weren’t the Norks and their Secret Squirrel Cage hackers the chief suspects behind the Wannacry virus a few weeks ago?  https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-link-suspected-north-korean-hackers/

    (I know, I know: those guys cashed in their chips.) And weren’t they the chief suspects in the theft of hu-u-u-u-uge sums of cash from the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City? She does admit that he will sell his weapons to anyone who will pay the price.

    I’ve got an extra $5 this month. Does anyone think he’d sell me a nuke missile for my home defense system? Anyone? Bueller?