snafuEdmonds will still be around, though.
snafuAnd in other news, Trump gets binned…
A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with bulging belly and elaborate yellow hair, caused laughter and merriment in New York on Thursday until it was demolished by park wardens…
…New York’s department of parks and recreation was unimpressed. Wardens ripped the statue from its base before using shovels to smash its feet and foam base to smithereens, and pry its metal platform from the ground.
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“NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small,” a spokesperson told AFP in an email.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/18/naked-donald-trump-statue-leaves-new-york-in-giggles/
snafuProbably the same tubular place that will let you in on the secret of napalm and a form of plastic explosive?
snafuAn ‘anonymous’ actor, famous for being a robot…
The British actor who played R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has died at the age of 83 after a long illness.
Kenny Baker, who was 3ft 8in tall, shot to fame in 1977 when he first played the robot character.
He went on to play the character in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, as well as the three Star Wars prequels from 1999 to 2005.
Baker also appeared in a number of other much-loved films in the 1980s, including The Elephant Man, Time Bandits and Flash Gordon.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/13/kenny-baker-r2-d2-dies-star-wars
snafu(It’s just the booze talking…)
snafuNo, nonono no. Spanish only, please.
snafuYeah, like a red rag to a bull.
snafuHmm, can you imagine… John Green, matador? Olé!
snafuJust come across this one.
A New Jersey homeowner is in critical condition after he was shot multiple times by state police responding to the wrong address Friday night.
Police dispatchers received a 911 call from a cellphone in Cumberland County at about 11:30 p.m., but the caller hung up without providing a location. The call appeared to have come from a house on Centerton Road, and two uniformed state troopers responded to what was later determined to be an incorrect address, authorities said in a statement Saturday, NJ.com reported.
The troopers knocked on the door, but the homeowners, 76-year-old Gerald Sykes and his 80-year-old wife, didn’t answer, authorities said. The troopers then moved to the back of the home and knocked on a sliding glass door, shining flashlights into the home and announcing that they were responding to a 911 call, according to the attorney general’s office.
According to longtime family friend and attorney Rich Kaser, Mr. Sykes and his wife were asleep when the troopers arrived. Mr. Sykes “felt intruders were trying to get in and he was yelling to his wife to call 911,” Mr. Kaser told NJ.com. The 76-year-old then approached the back door with his shotgun, Mr. Kaser said.
There was an exchange of gunfire through the sliding glass door, in which one of the troopers fired four rounds from his 9 mm handgun and Mr. Sykes fired a single round from his shotgun, NJ.com reported. Mr. Sykes was struck by multiple rounds, according to the attorney general’s office.
Asked who fired first, a spokesman for the attorney general said it’s part of the ongoing investigation, NJ.com reported.
Mr. Sykes‘ attorney said his client was hit three times, once in the chest, before firing off his shotgun. He said Mr. Sykes was then ordered to come out of the house with the aid of his wife, and was ordered to lay face-down on the ground to be handcuffed.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/1/gerald-sykes-76-year-old-armed-homeowner-shot-by-n/
Remarkable.
snafuLike I said, I don’t believe that is what Trump intended to imply, but others did take his words as incitement. Nice to see you got that ‘inflammatory comments on this forum’ quip in too. Good for you.
While you shoot the messenger here is what others have said:
Campaigners for gun control expressed outrage at his off-the-cuff remark. Po Murray, chair of the Newtown Action Alliance, said: “Donald Trump continues to pander to the corporate gun lobby and the gun extremists who thrive on fear and rhetoric.
“Any suggestion that gun violence should be used to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing supreme court justices is dangerous and reckless. It’s no surprise that 50 GOP national security experts have signed a letter making a pledge to not vote for him.”
Mark Glaze, former executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety, said: “It may well be an incitement to violence, but understand it’s the basic theory on which the modern gun industry is built. Their core audience is people who hate the government and believe they’re going to have to take up arms against it. My guess is this is a deliberate dog whistle to that significant number of people.
“There are people out there who hear this kind of thing in a certain way, and if they’re already inclined to hatred of government and Hillary Clinton and see guns as a public policy solution, who knows what could happen?”
The concern was echoed by Paul Begala, a former adviser to Bill Clinton in the White House. “This is not something that should be joked about,” he told CNN. “I hope in the best case you could say he was joking. It didn’t seem like a joke to me. Tony Schwartz, the guy who wrote [Trump’s book] The Art of the Deal, says Trump never jokes.
“I fear that an unbalanced person hears that in this inflamed environment and, God forbid, thinks that was a threat. I certainly take it as a threat, I really do, and Trump needs to apologise.”
Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and National Security Agency, said on the same channel:
“Well, let me say, if someone had have said that outside the hall he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the secret service questioning him.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/09/trump-gun-owners-clinton-judges-second-amendment
(A) former Secret Service official said they would ask a U.S. attorney to see if Trump broke any laws with the comment.
“Look, this guy is coming pretty close to the edge here,” the official said.
The official added that the Secret Service would have to consider the value of having agents interview Trump. But “if this was some guy off the street and they made that statement, you’d go out and interview them,” the source told TIME. “He’s not gonna act on this. But you don’t know what you’re encouraging other people to do.”
http://time.com/4445735/former-secret-service-official-donald-trump-is-pretty-close-to-the-edge/
“He makes it harder every day to continue to support him,” said Ryan Williams, a former aide to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns who now works for the New Hampshire GOP. “It’s almost like he wants people to denounce him. He’s basically asking for it at this point. Donald Trump saying something crazy is becoming a daily occurrence like the sun rising or the weather.”
snafuSee first post.
In other news…an Irish musician.
Padraig Duggan, musician and founding member of Clannad has died at 67.
The musician, songwriter and founding member of Irish Celtic music pioneers, Clannad, died early today in Blanchardstown Hospital, following a recurring illness.
Padraig, who played guitar and mandolin, was one of the founding members of Clannad, having formed the group in the early 1970s with his twin brother Noel.Their breakthrough, and the beginning of worldwide acclaim, came in 1982 when their theme song for the TV mini-series, Harry’s Game became a UK hit.
snafuI don’t believe Trump advocated the assassination of Clinton, even he couldn’t be that stupid, could he? But in a country where some gun owners will have more bullets in their guns than brain cells between their ears you have to wonder about the sanity – or suitability for office – of a man who says “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. But the Second Amendment people maybe there is. I don’t know.”
So a mentally unstable Hillary Clinton hater, who believes anything said about the possible abolition of the second amendment, decides to exercise his right to bear arms and prevent her from taking office? All too believable.
Republican Donald Trump has sparked anger by suggesting his supporters could stop his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by exercising their gun rights.
He said that Mrs Clinton would put liberal justices on the Supreme Court if she wins, threatening gun ownership protected by the Second Amendment.
Speaking at a rally in North Carolina, Mr Trump hinted that gun rights advocates could stop her taking power.
That sparked an online backlash, admonishing him for inciting violence.
But his campaign team said he was actually talking about getting gun rights supporters to the ballot box to enact change politically.
snafuThe man with a handkerchief during Bloody Sunday…
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The Catholic cleric who waved a white handkerchief to protect civilians during the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry in 1972 has died.
Dr Edward Daly, who later served as bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993 was battling cancer in recent weeks. He was 82.
snafuIndeed, I agree. But I was thinking of the hazard to shipping and the potential for damage to vessels and nets from the wreckage – if a yacht gets holed or (probably unlikely in this case) a trawler snags its nets and capsizes – as much as the recovery of the pilot and establishing what happened.
snafuAnd the search is not continuing; although this isn’t a Malaysian airliner, is this usual?
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