In The News...

[Levi]

Breaking: The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in killing Harambe the gorilla, according to officials briefed on the matter.
Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and others, including Harambe’s own caretaker, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost the nearby Columbus Zoo and
Aquarium’s profits.
“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one zoo over the other,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”

In case you haven't seen it.... there is a fake news thread.... did you make that one up yourself or cut and paste?

 

[FireFighterZero]

thats great! can I open up a strip mine? are you not sure if your land is 8,000 or 10,000? thats a nice problem to have I suppose.

Quite a lot of it is leased and the owner won't show us the maps.

No, you can't open a mine and any further questions like that won't get you invited back.

 

[treetx]

So they are cool about tearing their ancient lands up with strip mining, but balks at having a pipe line go through them.

Follow the money. Indians are people too and motivated just the same as all the rest.....

 

[stig]

That was a rhetorical question.

 

[Mick!]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-birds-italian-luciano-ponzetto-a7476441.html


Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

 

[FireFighterZero]

What nonsense. I suppose that will be seen as karma? Grow up.

 

[Mick!]

I don't believe in karma.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I have no desire what so ever to travel the world and be the first kid on my block to kill exotic animals. I sure as hell would not send someone death threats for doing such a thing legally though.

Nor would I send death threats to people who spend all their money at casinos, even though casinos are a bigger threat to society than some rich asshole shooting a lion.

 

[Mick!]

The death threats are irrelevant to the story.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Not really. He is dead, basically a no body.

But he did shoot a lion once and the world fell out its own ass.

 

[Mick!]

What's your point? (seriously)

 

[FireFighterZero]

No point really. Just wondering if this is an entertainment story of if its really considered news?

I guess bad things happening to good people and social controversy seems more newsworthy than in the past.

 

[Mick!]

Fair enough.

I guess it's what's known as a "feel good" story.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Damnedest thing I ever saw.

 

[stig]

If that is true, you must have lived a very sheltered life.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I saw two rattlesnakes make love one time.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Ha! Me too!!!

Small world...

 

[cory]

I saw two rattlesnakes make love one time.

Clearly, you have lived.

 

[gf beranek]

Did they smoke afterwards?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nah, they had enough lubrication.

 

[Levi]

Of course...

 

[gf beranek]

Ah, snake oil...

 

[MasterBlaster]

 

[Maximalist]

Interesting news - http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/16/politics/chinese-warship-underwater-drone-stolen/index.html

 

[woodworkingboy]

They gave it back, but Trump told them that if they wanted the drone so bad that they would seize it out of international waters, they should keep it. Off the shelf technology, apparently.