In Other News

[PLATO]

There is a limit to intelligence but stupid has no bounds

[BeBMan]

A US family caused a bomb scare at Israel's main international airport after presenting an unexploded artillery shell at a security check.

They had picked up the ordnance on a visit to the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, site of wars between Israel and Syria, according to authorities.

Video footage on social media showed people running from the scene in panic.

(snipsnap)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61267265

[BeBMan]

Errm...what to do (or better: not to do) when bored in parliament:

Tories should act now over MP accused of watching pornography in chamber, says Keir Starmer – as it happened

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/apr/28/westminster-sexist-culture-boris-johnson-ben-wallace-jacob-rees-mogg-ukraine-visas-latest-updates-politics-live

[pchang]

I am ahead of my time. I have held Trump in contempt for years.

[pchang]

I heard there will be an opening soon for a nice cushy US Government job in Slovakia.

[BeBMan]

[Uncle Sparky]

France and Slovenia both reject far right candidates.

[Bereta_Eder]

keep it up and we'll get along marvelously

[Bereta_Eder]

I'mhappy to say, I'm glad to report
that the germans next door seem the quiet sort

[Broken_Erika]

Two black bears caught wrestling on backyard trampoline in Coquitlam, B.C.

Expert says bears more likely to wander as they emerge from winter hibernation

A video of two black bears wrestling on a backyard trampoline in Coquitlam, B.C., has prompted a wildlife expert to advise caution as the animals emerge from hibernation and often move closer to humans.

The video, taken last Sunday by Coquitlam resident Rose Waldron, shows a no-holds-barred cage match between two young bears, doing their best professional wrestler impersonations as they duke it out on her trampoline.

Doug Waldron, Rose's husband, says bears regularly visit the family's backyard, which is located near a lake close to the Coquitlam River.

"That's their bathing spot and their fishing hole. It's their country," he said. "They can come and go as they please. They don't bother anybody."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coquitlam-backyard-bear-wrestling-1.6422159

[BeBMan]

Witch Hunt! /Kid

[Wezil]

This saddens me to no end.

Infowars files for bankruptcy protection as founder Alex Jones faces defamation lawsuits

What kind of society are we when a decent man like Jones can't tell slanderous lies about people's dead children?

[Wezil]

Heh-heh-heh-HEHHHH-heh

[Broken_Erika]

Woodpecker forces removal of Centennial flagpole in Montreal's West Island

Baie-D'Urfé has no choice but to bring down 30-metre pole that's flown Maple Leaf since 1967

A ravenous pileated woodpecker has put an end to a flagpole that's flown the Maple Leaf in Baie-D'Urfé for decades, after puncturing the fir log incessantly in its quest for burrowing insects.

The bird's pecking caused so much damage that it forced officials to remove the Canadian flag from the 30-metre pole in Bertold Park last week. The area around the pole has been cordoned off, for security reasons.

"It's been a remarkable landmark, but its time has come," said Baie-D'Urfé Coun. Stephen Gruber. "Unfortunately, that's the end of that era."

The pole began life as a fir tree on Canada's West Coast more than 500 years ago.

MacMillan Bloedel and Domtar Ltd. jointly donated the pole as a gift to Baie-D'Urfé and paid for its transport, according to an account of the town's history by Thomas R. Lee, Baie-D'Urfé's mayor from 1957 to 1961.

The landmark is one of the tallest flagpoles in eastern Canada — so long that it took three rail wagons to transport it from B.C. to Montreal 55 years ago, in time for Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/woodpecker-west-island-baie-durfe-centennial-flagpole-1.6420792

[pchang]

They get penile implanted?