Fox News:
North Korea's foreign minister has said the Communist nation may test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean after dictator Kim Jong Un vowed he would take the "highest-level" action against the United States, South Korean media reported Thursday.Before you write this off, consider the potential damage here. If Kim were to activate a nuclear bomb high enough above the Pacific Ocean, the electromagnetic pulse could knock out electricity all the way to Alaska, Hawaii, or even the west coast of North America.
The Yonhap news agency reported on comments made to reporters by Ri Yong Ho on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
"We have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong Un," Ri was quoted as saying by Yonhap.
Such a test would be considered a major provocation by the U.S., South Korea and Japan. Ri was scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday, a day later than previously scheduled.
Even if he doesn't go for that kind of damage, the damage to wildlife in such an area would be extraordinary. Not to mention what could happen to unaware ships in the area.
In other international news...
PJMedia:
For decades, in both America and Europe, the gay establishment – gay magazines, gay rights organizations, and self-designated gay leaders – have been dictating politics to the gay multitudes. Those politics have been consistently left-wing and Democratic. Not all gays have played follow-the-leader, but most have, so that in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections Hillary Clinton won a far larger percentage of the gay vote than Donald Trump.
Even though Hillary had opposed same-sex marriage until 2013, had taken millions of dollars from governments that execute homosexuals, and was married to the man who signed the Defense of Marriage Act, the gay mafia had managed to depict her as gay-friendly while depicting Donald Trump, a longtime gay marriage supporter, as an enemy of gay rights.
...in fact, the Koran contains explicit condemnations of homosexual conduct, while the punishments for such conduct are spelled out in Islamic law.
...No ideology on Earth is more anti-gay. In ten Muslim countries, gay sex is punishable by death. To pretend that there's any way of reconciling homosexuality and Islam, or any chance of transforming Islam into a gay-friendly faith, is to encourage a menacing fantasy.
So it's promising to observe that as Islam plants its roots ever more deeply in the soil of Western Europe, more and more European gays are wising up, breaking ranks with the fools and liars in their midst who preach that the “gay community” and the ummah are natural allies, and casting their ballots for politicians whom they'd previously scorned.
In April, for example, Thomas Adamson of the Associated Press reported that although gay rights groups in France had not wavered in their fierce opposition to Marine Le Pen's Front National (FN), the party now enjoyed a higher level of support among gay voters than among straights.
... On September 14, CNN's website ran a story about gays in Germany who are supporting the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD). A middle-aged Bremen couple interviewed for the piece had been violently gay-bashed by “two locally known Muslim extremists” who “were never arrested and later fled to Syria.” After failing to receive justice from local prosecutors and the mayor's office, the couple had cast their lot in with AfD.There is much more in the article, but you get the idea. When it comes down to their lives, suddenly gay marriage seems less important.
“I don't like everything they say,” admitted one of the two gay men, a longtime leftist and former Green Party voter, “but this is too dangerous for gay people to live openly here, if we get attacked like that. We need a party that's talking openly about this.” Like FN, AfD opposes same-sex marriage – but also has gay people in its leadership, and is supported by a higher percentage of gays than of straights.
Sadly, politics forces such either/or choices. Even in Europe, where the political choices are much more granular, you have to vote for the most popular Right or Left party, or else you get little representation. Even if your 3rd/4th/5th party representative is elected, he/she ends up in some coalition dominated by the Right or Left. Admittedly, these coalitions allow third parties to at least get their main concerns addressed for a time.
Regardless, it is good to see some on the Left waking up to the dangers inherent in a diversity that doesn't recognize the anti-diversity aspects of Islam. Now it is up to the Right to find a way to compromise with these political refugees from the Left.
Finally, in other news...
The Telegraph:
Society's "stupidly politically correct" sensibilities will lead to the "death of comedy", the veteran Hollywood comedian Mel Brooks has warned.
Brooks, known for his plethora of acclaimed comedy movies, said political correctness was becoming a stranglehold on comedians.
"It's not good for comedy. Comedy has to walk a thin line, take risks," he said.
"Comedy is the lecherous little elf whispering in the king's ear, always telling the truth about human behaviour."Agreed.
The producer and director said that his iconic western parody Blazing Saddles could not be made in today's political climate.
The 1974 comedy western starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder featured a black sheriff in a racist town.
Brooks said it was the racial prejudice portrayed within the film that was the mechanism behind its cultural significance.
"Without that the movie would not have had nearly the significance, the force, the dynamism and the stakes that were contained in it,” he said.
There are some comedians like Wyatt Cenac who is quite funny, but the rules for black comedians and white comedians are very different. It is a greater shame that Wyatt Cenac has to be categorized as a "black comedian", instead of simply as a comedian.
On the other hand, there are also comedians like Bert Kreischer who push the PC envelope.
And yet, none of them rank with the "greats", such as George Carlin, who were more philosophers than comics. The true art of comedy is not only to make you laugh, but also to make you think. great comedians point out the foibles of humanity, and poke fun at them.
When we draw imaginary lines and say, "No, you cannot talk about this," we are cutting ourselves off from potentially making bad situations better. By ignoring our problems, we can never solve them.
But that leads us back to Mel Brooks:
The director said he could find comedy in almost everything but conceded there were areas even he would not mine for material.Three words for you Mel: "Springtime for Hitler".
"I personally would never touch gas chambers or the death of children or Jews at the hands of the Nazis," he told the BBC's Radio 4's Today programme.
"Everything else is ok."
From the movie, "The Producers", written and directed by Brooks, it shows that even Hitler can be a source for humor. Maybe Anne Frank is still a raw nerve for some, but a good comedian like Bert Kreischer can mine such sacrosanct topics for comedy gold (WARNING: The following is NSFW, and potentially offensive to some, but insanely funny to normal humans):
The problem isn't our PC society, but rather comedians being unwilling to challenge PC rules. Kreischer proves it can be done.
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