US President Donald Trump has outraged French opinion by suggesting the 2015 attacks on Paris could have been stopped by giving people guns.
He mimicked gunmen summoning and shooting victims one by one, saying "Boom! Come over here!" and using his hand to imitate a gun being fired.
In reality, the attackers sprayed many of their 130 victims with semi-automatic fire and set off bomb belts.
The French foreign ministry called for the victims' memory to be respected.
"France expresses its firm disapproval of the comments by President Trump about the attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris and asks for the memory of the victims to be respected," the foreign ministry said."
Seriously guys, you do have the advantage of easy gun ownership.
Have you run out of grassy knolls though?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
The US has generally played the role of international security guarantor, but Donald Trump’s America has just become a rogue nation.
To now, the US President has broken American commitments on a wide range of trade deals, climate change promises and other matters.
But his announcement withdrawing the US from its international nuclear agreement with Iran and five other countries plus the European Union makes the US an active disruptor of international security.
The agreement, enshrined in UN Security Council resolution 2231, runs until 2025. The European signatories – Britain, France and Germany and the EU – say they want to keep the deal alive despite the US walkout.
“This agreement remains important for our shared security,” said Britain’s Theresa May, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel in a joint response to the Trump announcement.
Critically, the international nuclear weapons inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have attested formally as recently as last month that Iran has not breached the deal.
Even Trump’s own Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, in his then capacity as CIA director, confirmed in a Congressional hearing just last month that Iran has complied with the agreement.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
White House diplomacy has dipped to a new low after it emerged that Donald Trump’s luxury golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, has banned the sale of Irn-Bru on the premises.
The ban came to light after guests asked for Scotland’s favourite non-alcoholic beverage to be supplied at an event but were refused because staff were concerned about potential spills.
The combination of colourants that give the fizzy drink its distinctive luminous orange hue are believed to be responsible for its notorious indelibility.
The five-star resort on the Ayrshire coast has recently benefited from a £200m upgrade, which is believed to have included hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on carpets.
Turnberry’s general manager, Ralph Porciani, told the Ayrshire Post: “We can’t have it staining when to replace the ballroom carpet would be £500,000 alone.
“We have villas here with Irn-Bru stains in the carpets which I can’t let.”
The latest affront comes after a change in recipe cut the sugar content of the drink by almost half following the introduction of the UK government’s sugar tax, prompting fans to stockpile cans of the original version.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
The combination of colourants that give the fizzy drink its distinctive luminous orange hue are believed to be responsible for its notorious indelibility.
Apparently, Stormy was sipping an Irn-Bru one day when....
It takes a spillage
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
More from the 'You can't Make this Stuff Up" department. Apparently P45 is making friends in Israel by using the preacher who gave us "All Jews are going to hell" to bless the new embassy in Jerusalem.
Fresh protests against Israel are expected in the Palestinian territories on Tuesday, a day after Israeli troops killed 58 people in the Gaza Strip.
Monday was the deadliest day since a new wave of protests began at the Gaza border fence seven weeks ago. Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of what Palestinians call the Nakba - the mass displacement of Palestinians in the war following Israel's creation.
Renewed tension is expected in Gaza, as the dead are buried in the enclave. Monday's violence came as the US inaugurated its first embassy in Jerusalem, a controversial move which has incensed Palestinians.
Kushner described the move as boosting the prospects for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. "I am confident that as a result our nations will be stronger, our peoples more prosperous, and our future filled with even greater promise for peace."
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
ex-khobar Andy wrote: Apparently P45 is making friends in Israel by using the preacher who gave us "All Jews are going to hell" to bless the new embassy in Jerusalem.
In the UK a P45 is what you are given when you are sacked. We live in hope.
In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a P45 is the reference code of a form titled Details of employee leaving work. The term is used in British slang as a metonym for termination of employment. (The equivalent slang term in the United States is pink slip.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Gee, moving the embassy to Jerusalem caused a lot of protest and tension between the Israelis and Palestinians, even a lot of violence and injury. Who could have guessed that? Anyone without his head up his ass?
And so we spend a lot of money to move our embassy (like we need that expense) for what? To give Jefress a platform? Maybe to bring on the apocalypse? Or does the Trump chain own a hotel near the new embassy?
The real sad thing is that the story is true, and that someone is actually minting this sort of coin with Trump's puss on it. I wonder what he charged for the house?
In the ghost-written 'Art of the Deal' Trump declare the secret of his success was always using other people's money, never sink your own into any project. It the project works, you keep the profits, if it fails, the lender is left holding the bag. But all that changed, says the WaPo, when American banks walked away with their empty bag and no more loans to Donny.. He paid cash for that golf course in Scotland, and for that winery in Virginia. Did he have a change of philosophy? Now he assumes all the risk? Inquiring minds want to know. Follow the money still brings the answer.
Will the special federal prosecutor get Donny's tax returns?
