{"id":3984,"date":"2002-09-29T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-29T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/29\/news-from-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2002-09-29T02:03:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-29T02:03:00","slug":"news-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/29\/news-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"News from around the world."},"content":{"rendered":"

So in the news this weekend, the U.N. has come out in support of a ban on dwarf throwing<\/a>. Yes you read that right. I guess they don’t have anything more important to do with their time. There are no madmen with personal grudges and nuclear weapons trying to start wars.<\/p>\n

oh wait.<\/p>\n

In a speech to the Senate, George W. Bushe said: ‘After all, this the guy who tried to kill my dad’<\/a> refering to Saddam Hussein. Does this not worry everyone?<\/p>\n

Speaking of, it is a shame that the picture of G.W. holding a book<\/a> upside down is a fake. It gave me a good laugh when I first saw it.<\/p>\n

Accoring to some research in Germany; Natural Blondes ‘to die out in 200 years’ <\/a>. hmm I have never actually dated a blonde girl, I tend to prefer brunettes or dark black.<\/p>\n

Go check out this MetaFilter thread<\/a>, and the links involved. To sum up:
\nOwner takes car to dealer.
\nTech takes car on joyride at 140 mph.
\nTech writes up experience and posts to internet.
\nOwner reads tech’s post.
\nHilarity ensues! <\/p>\n

Before I actually do the Which lesser-known Simpsons character are you?<\/a> quiz, I suspect we can all guess the result.<\/p>\n

If you got this wrong, you are in fact a moron \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n


\n
\n\u201cThere lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man to hope, and then to believe, that nature has given himself something peculiar to himself.\u201d
\nSamuel Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So in the news this weekend, the U.N. has come out in support of a ban on dwarf throwing. Yes you read that right. I guess they don’t have anything more important to do with their time. There are no madmen with personal grudges and nuclear weapons trying to start wars. oh wait. In a … Continue reading “News from around the world.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}