What's in the news?

[Missy]

Republicans remain distrubingly disinterested in Russian interference

[TheGlyphstone]

I think your copy-paste messed up there, that link is still to the one about firing Comey.

[gaggedLouise]

A news bulletin:  Trump fired Comey.

Mmm. Quite logical if you consider how much he gloated over Comey a week or so before the election, when the FBI boss made the unusual "Hillary probe alert" - and how he's gone on to slam Comey afterwards when Comey refused to pander to Trump's and Conway's invented stories, made chop suey of the idea that Obama had ordered a wiretap of some of Trump's campaign, and also refused to drop the Trump/Russia investigations. Trump must have become exasperated with the man.

[Missy]

Republicans remain distrubingly disinterested in Russian interference

Correct Link

[Missy]

Mmm. Quite logical if you consider how much he gloated over Comey a week or so before the election, when the FBI boss made the unusual "Hillary probe alert" - and how he's gone on to slam Comey afterwards when Comey refused to pander to Trump's and Conway's invented stories, made chop suey of the idea that Obama had ordered a wiretap of some of Trump's campaign, and also refused to drop the Trump/Russia investigations. Trump must have become exasperated with the man.

No surprise, Trump wants everyone to be a yes-man.

[Iniquitous]

Correct Link

Still linking to the firing of Comey.

[Trigon]

And here's the contents of the firing letter to Comey itself: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/9/15601218/trump-james-comey-fired-letter

Now then, here's an very interesting couple of sentences from it:

While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.

Who wants to bet that it's related to Trump's connections with Russia?

[Missy]

I must have pasted the old url into the other article by mistake.

Anyway

I kind of chuckle though, look at the url at the top, I swear that 'r' is a typo.

[Blythe]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/south-koreans-go-to-the-polls-to-elect-new-president-after-months-of-turmoil/2017/05/08/1f9b5620-342a-11e7-ab03-aa29f656f13e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.2b22b7d1abb9

South Korea elected a new president--Moon. The last one, Park, was embroiled in some pretty hefty scandal, the most recent having been the massive Choi Soon-sil issue that lead to her impeachment.

[Missy]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/south-koreans-go-to-the-polls-to-elect-new-president-after-months-of-turmoil/2017/05/08/1f9b5620-342a-11e7-ab03-aa29f656f13e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.2b22b7d1abb9

South Korea elected a new president--Moon. The last one, Park, was embroiled in some pretty hefty scandal, the most recent having been the massive Choi Soon-sil issue that lead to her impeachment.

Ah goodness just mention of Trumps retarded racket in an article makes me wish it was 2018 already.

[Missy]

Frankly, I thin kwe should call him "Frankenly"

[Lustful Bride]

Nuclear Reactor tunnel collapses in Washington State, the tunnel contained contaminated materials but the damage seems to be contained.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hanford-nuclear-site-tunnel-collapse-causes-workers-to-%e2%80%98take-cover%e2%80%99/ar-BBAWNtK?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[Oniya]

Frankly, I thin kwe should call him "Frankenly"

And gosh darn it, people like him. 

[elone]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/south-koreans-go-to-the-polls-to-elect-new-president-after-months-of-turmoil/2017/05/08/1f9b5620-342a-11e7-ab03-aa29f656f13e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.2b22b7d1abb9

South Korea elected a new president--Moon. The last one, Park, was embroiled in some pretty hefty scandal, the most recent having been the massive Choi Soon-sil issue that lead to her impeachment.

Her father was president when I was in Korea. Declared Marshall Law during the elections. I went over to the Presidential palace and went to take a picture of a tank on the street there. The tank machine gunner jacked a round in a .50 caliber. pointed it at me and said "No pictures". Needless to say I put the camera down. The man was a brutal dictator propped up by the US. No surprise she was corrupt.

[gaggedLouise]

And here's the contents of the firing letter to Comey itself: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/9/15601218/trump-james-comey-fired-letter

Now then, here's an very interesting couple of sentences from it:

Who wants to bet that it's related to Trump's connections with Russia?

*raises her hand as she pulls on a pink tee with "Dump Trump!" on it*

Also, I bet he was musing as he wrote the letter: "U R Fired!" 

[AmberStarfire]

This is about US universities/colleges, but still quite an interesting read to me:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/missing-middle-class-college-campuses-jeff-selingo

[Twisted Crow]

'Mexico's government is contesting a new international report that says the country saw 23,000 homicides in 2016 — a level surpassed only by Syria.'

The government said violence from organized crime extends well beyond Mexico, into its neighbors the U.S., Guatemala, and Belize. And it said the armed conflict report had attributed all of Mexico's killings last year to drug cartel violence.

The armed conflict report also describes the militarization of Mexico's criminal gangs, which it says has both helped them grow and fueled a recent spike in killings.

Hmmmm... 

[Lustful Bride]

Cop fired after not shooting a suicidal person ends up suing city.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cop-fired-after-not-shooting-suicidal-man-sues-city/ar-BBAXH9c?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[Beguile's Mistress]

   
Before Comey's firing, Trump's animus toward the FBI director boiled over into fury, according to more than 30 officials' accounts

[Iniquitous]

   
Before Comey's firing, Trump's animus toward the FBI director boiled over into fury, according to more than 30 officials' accounts

A quote from that news story just had me choking on my tea so bad I honestly thought I was going to die....

"As Trump, who had retired to the residence to eat dinner, sat in front of a television watching cable news coverage of Comey’s firing, he noticed another flaw: Nobody was defending him."

[Blythe]

A quote from that news story just had me choking on my tea so bad I honestly thought I was going to die....

That quote about nobody defending him put me in mind of the narrator from the show Arrested Development. Then it reminded me of this parody. >_>

[Lustful Bride]

I feel bad for the kids in this case. Every divorce always puts a great amount of stress and fear on children. With one so politically charged as this one, it must be worse. :(


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lesbian-couple-get-divorce-after-politically-charged-battle/ar-BBAZg8O?li=BBnb4R7&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[Lustful Bride]

Cyberattack Cripples UK hospitals. (At least 36 were affected with doctors unable to access patient information and people being turned away from Emergency Rooms).  11 other nations experienced an attack in some form or another. And it seems that they were all done using the NSA hacking tools that were leaked to the internet some time ago.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hackers-hit-dozens-of-countries-exploiting-stolen-nsa-tool/ar-BBB450m?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

And this is why I am against leaks like that. Unforseen consequences.

If you are in an affected area be sure to have hard, physical, copies of all your medical records as a precaution.

[Missy]

Former CIA doesn't take Trump seriously

[Lustful Bride]

Woman abused via Munchausen's By Proxy, ends up killing her abusive mother.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/inside-the-online-romance-that-led-an-abused-girl-to-kill-her-mom-and-escape-her-life-of-lies/ar-BBB5Pqf?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

My heart goes out to her but...she still committed murder.