Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Wednesday Whatnot And Weirdness

From the mundane to the strange, here are some things going on:

From Fox News, California will require new houses to include solar panels.

From the Huffington Post, for its philanthropic summit, a magazine decides that it can't have both Mr. Bill and Ms. Monica.  (Yes, I'm citing the left-leaning HuffPo.  Yes, it's that Monica.  The story comes via The Daily Caller.)

From The Federalist, Taylor Swift calls a truce with Katie Perry, but not with Kim Kardashian.

From The Washington Post, the Mormon Church and the Boy Scouts Scouts BSA go their separate ways.

From Philly(dot)com, a Russian firm pleads not guilty to a charge of conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 election.

From the Washington Examiner, Representative Daniel Donovan (R-NY) submits a bill to require post offices to display pictures of the president and vice president.

From Breitbart London, the U.K. will hire more private police.

From the Express, E.U. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's speech to the Flemish Parliament provokes an angry response.

From the NL Times, Dutch politician Geert Wilders gets 11 days in court to appeal his hate speech conviction.

From Voice Of Europe, Hungarian President Janos Ader asks Prime Minister Victor Orban to form the country's next government.

From Russia Today, a forum on fake news in Madrid is evacuated due to a gas leak.

From The Local SE, Sweden, Finland and the U.S. agree to cooperate more closely on defense.

From Sputnik International, the French foreign minister says that the Iran nuke deal is not dead.

From The Mercury News, Iranian officials react to President Trump's withdrawal from the nuke deal as you'd pretty much expect.

From The Brussels Times, training manuals at the Grand Mosque of Brussels advocate jihad.

From the Daily Mail, a bogus asylum seeker in the U.K. gets five years - one for each fake identity.

From the Daily Post, two teenage Nigerian suicide bombers kill only themselves.

From Gatestone Institute, a proposed "deal of the century" would give the PA control of four Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

From National Review, the Catholic Church won't win any respect by allowing its symbols to be mocked.

From Townhall, "sombreros, qipaos and Catholic cosplay, oh my!"

From CNET, Reddit's Q&A with the Jack In The Box mascot gets weird.

From the New York Post, Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man suit has been stolen.

From Jalopnik, the "founding family" of NASCAR deals with rumors about selling their stake.

From Cincinnati(dot)com, a mesoscale convective vortex is on the way.

And from ResistanceHole, here's your newest nightmare, Mr. Drumpf.  (The story comes via HotAir.  I'd say that this new organization has done a good job choosing its name.  "Drumpf" is a form of the president's last name used a few generations ago in his ancestral Germany.)

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