….Ok Halle….I’ll do that tonight….it might freak Nicole out….but if you say it’ll help me stay “perky”…..I’m all for it!….Perky?
PETA DEMANDS NAME CHANGE FOR TURKEY…..Wait!…..are we talking about the bird…..or the country?
GERMAN DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE CHIEF WARNS OF RAPIDLY GROWING “SALAFIST” SCENE…..For those of you who don’t know.….Salafism…..is the most widespread form of Islamist extremism in Germany…..they call for a return to the way Muslims lived during the Prophet Mohammed’s era.….the recruits are normally men between the age of 18 and 30…..they say there should be at least 7,000 members by the end of the year…..they often come from migrant backgrounds and have struggled with social adjustment…..so let me guess…..by forcing “YOUR” way on others…..is supposed to help you adjust to a different society?…..the Government has barred its citizens and legal residents from joining the fight in Iraq and Syria…..even though over 450 have already left to join the fight.….there has been growing concern in Berlin that most might return from the fighting and carry out terrorist attacks in Germany.
INDIA SPURNS U.S. OFFER AND PURCHASES GUIDED MISSILES FROM ISRAEL FOR $525 MILLION…..Big deal…..they’re the same missiles!
OLDEST HIGH-ALTITUDE HUMAN SETTLEMENT DISCOVERED IN ANDES……They found a rock shelter with traces of Ice Age campfires and rock art……open-air workshop with stone tools and located nearly 14,700 feet above sea level….and were occupied roughly 12,000 years ago…..that just 2,000 years after humans first reached the continent…..the puzzle is how these early settlers physically adapted to sky-high living.
COCKROACH DISRUPTS PEST CONTROL CHIEF’S TESTIMONY…..What,…..the roach stood up in court and objected to his testimony?
REYHANEH JABBARI, IRANIAN WOMAN WHO KILLED HER RAPIST, HANGED BY IRAN……This was so wrong in so many ways……and it happened right when an Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was detained for protesting against acid attacks on women.
HOUSTON MAYOR SAYS DAUGHTER WAS DENIED DRIVER’S TEST BECAUSE SHE HAS TWO MOTHERS….Ok,….so let me see if I get this.….now her birth certificate states…..she has two mothers…..because Mayor Annise Parker married her longtime partner Kathy Hubbard this year in California…..her daughter has all the needed documents….some in “Mom Annise”……and some in “Mom Kathy’s” name…..and her birth certificate has both of their names listed as “Mom”…..but the Dept. of Public Safety says…..there can only be “one mom”…..and then DPS goes on to say….. “the initial decision to rejects Parker’s daughter’s application had nothing to do with her parent’s marital status”…..the hell it didn’t!….. “SHE’S THE MAYOR OF HOUSTON”……everybody knows she has a daughter!….and who cares if she has two moms?…..what are you going to do when a kid applies and he has two dads?
HOLIDAY THRILLS FOR THE ADVERTUROUS…….You can visit the world’s coldest town.….Oymyakon in Eastern Siberia.….where the temperatures can reach anywhere between -40C and -71C……or travel along the world’s most dangerous road…..Bolivia’s North Yungas Road…..is also known as “Death Road”…..around 300 people a year die on this 40-mile stretch…..it has no barriers…..and if you “Oops” over the side.….2,296ft seer drop…..splat!…..you want to get away from it all?…..try Mount Khuiten in Mongolia…..14,350ft…..one of the least accessible mountains on earth…..you hurt yourself……you’re on your own……or zip-line at 1,000ft…..South Africa’s Sun City will zip you down a wire at 75mph…..while hanging 918ft in the air attached to a thin piece of metal string……and if you would like to save on your electric bill……try Chernobyl, Russia…..the place where the world’s worst nuclear disaster happened.….and don’t worry…..the tour organizers say radiation levels now are no higher than an X-ray.….why not base jump into a cave…..The Cave of the Swallows in the rainforest of San Luis Potosi, Mexico will let ya…..it’s deep enough to house a high-rise building…..the opening is only 157ft wide…..but then opens into a 980ft by 390ft cave……which is just big enough for a parachute to fit in.….without one…..it would take you 10 freefall seconds to splat…..this one is not for me…..raft down 275 waterfalls…..The Iguazu Falls…..which boarders Argentina and Brazil…..is taller and double the width of Niagara Falls…..has 275 waterfalls along a 1.6 mile stretch…..Cage-less Shark Diving……really Fiji?
DARTH VADER NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE IN UKRAINE ELECTIONS…..And who is going to be stupid enough to tell him he can’t?