{"id":73396,"date":"2017-07-17T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73396"},"modified":"2017-07-17T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:18:36","slug":"mondays-bits-of-this-n-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73396","title":{"rendered":"Monday&#8217;s Bits of This &#8216;n&#8217; That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC0140-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC0140-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC0140-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC0140-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems that Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird\u00a0\u00a0is getting too froggy for Pres. Trump, who is increasing efforts to cut off his cash supply\/flow ASAP, by sending US Ambassador Joseph Yun to SEAsia to get some cooperation from those countries in cutting off their aid to the tinpot dictator while Secy\/State Rex Tillerson asks for global action to stifle the little twerp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/829457\/north-korea-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-usa-missile-sanctions-money-finance-china\">http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/829457\/north-korea-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-usa-missile-sanctions-money-finance-china<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Embedded in the article are two links to other articles regarding JoyBoy\u2019s attempts to weaponise diseases, and the USA\u2019s increase of cash for missile defense against the Norks.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a link to a brief article about Boris Johnson\u2019s reaction to the Norks. He wants to \u2018make them see sense\u2019.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/829535\/North-Korea-Kim-Jong-un-Boris-Johnson-Syria-Assad-EU-sanctions\">http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/829535\/North-Korea-Kim-Jong-un-Boris-Johnson-Syria-Assad-EU-sanctions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a giggle: make a psychotic megalomaniac see some sense? Okay, sure, Boris. I know you mean well, but I\u2019m stuck over here in Reality Land. Li\u2019l Kim will tell you \u2018Sense? Okay, Brit guy.\u2019 and wait until your back is turned, then plunge that blade of his deep into your back. (Boris is now the UK\u2019s Foreign Secretary.)<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, Angela Merkel is \u2018stunned\u2019 by Brexit, and more determined than ever to make the EU work. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/829523\/Angela-Merkel-Brexit-European-Union-Germany-France-Emmanuel-Macron-Theresa-May\">http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/829523\/Angela-Merkel-Brexit-European-Union-Germany-France-Emmanuel-Macron-Theresa-May<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s quite sure that \u2018the decades of peace and stability would not have been possible without the European Union\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Angela, you ignoramus, the Common Market (shortly thereafter known as the EEC) was formed in\u00a01957. \u00a0It was <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> the EU. Its purpose was to regulate development of nuclear power and trade relations in Europe. It was not meant to create a &#8216;One Europe&#8217; nation. That&#8217;s what Hitler wanted, but he used tanks and infantry and missiles to try to do that, and he failed. The Common Market worked a whole lot better.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union <strong><em>did not exist until 1993<\/em><\/strong>, following ratification of the Maastricht Treaty. You need to bone up on history a little bit\u2026 no, bone up a LOT. <strong><em>Almost all<\/em><\/strong> of what\u2019s wrong with Europe now is your complete lack of understanding anything about Europe, at all. Thanks to you and your imbecilic ideas, people in Germany are going without heat and electricity because they can&#8217;t afford it any more, and the entire European continent is awash in Very Bad Guys who want to slaughter you in your sleep, among many, many other things.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Venezuela is still imploding. Not sure how long before it becomes a true black hole in the physics sense, but it&#8217;s close.<\/p>\n<p>And Santiago, Chile reports an early snowfall and some serious cold moving in, which means that the ski resorts will probably open early. Chile has become a mecca for ski bums and other snow-loving peeps, as has New Zealand. I&#8217;m waiting for someone to propose a cross-country ski race on \u00a0Larsen C, that big chunk of ice\u00a0that finally cut loose from the Antarctic\u00a0peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>And it looks like more rain in my kingdom by Tuesday. My sunflowers look good. \u00a0Y&#8217;all have a good week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird\u00a0\u00a0is getting too froggy for Pres. 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