Random News and Notes 13 September
It’s been one hell of a week. Lots of bad stuff went down. You all know about that already so today’s edition of RNN will try to focus on other parts of the news.
It appears that President Autopen is having trouble raising funds for his Presidential library. Things are so bad Dem donor and Florida trip-and-fall shyster John Morgan stated, “I want an $800,000 refund. I don’t believe a library will ever be built unless it’s a bookmobile from the old days.”
I hear tell the design of the exterior looks like a giant platen for an automatic signature machine. . .
There’s a story out of Nepal that has gotten lost in the sauce this week. The Marxist-Maoist government there has been overthrown by a bunch of kids. And I mean that in a literal teenagers sense.
. . . – people get more pissed off, start protesting
– government cant handle the protests, lift social media ban
– doesn’t do anything, people just organize further
– burn down parliment building, pm’s house. beats the shit out of the finance minister in the streets, kills the pm’s wife.
– kids elect their own new PM on their discord server, ex-chief justice of the supreme court who was part of the 1990 revolution that ended the monarchy
– army head ackowldges the validity of the discord vote and is meeting the new interm PM to discuss elections for new leadership going foward
It seems that the claim about the former PM’s wife is incorrect, a community note was appended stating she was alive but being treated for severe burns.
As much as I consider myself well informed on international political news, I had no idea this was brewing in Nepal. I don’t think the former Nepalese government did either. Regardless, there is a change at the top of the world.
I have to wonder how the CCP views this. Nepal borders Chinese occupied Tibet. This revolution – and it cannot be called anything but – overthrew a Chinese aligned, Maoist led government. I expect Xi is not particularly happy about this.
In a Lawfare note, an appellate panel from the 1st Circuit stayed a district court ruling forcing the Trump administration to fund Planned Parenthood. All 3 of the judges on the panel were Biden appointees.
I do not understand how Judge Indira Talwani – the district judge – made the ruling she did in the first place. The funding block was not due to an EO but rather a duly enacted part of the OBBB.
A Dutch freighter, the MV Thamesborg, ran aground in the Northwest Passage 6 September. The 172.28 meter long ship was enroute to Baie Comeau, Canada from Lianyungang, China when she ran aground in the Franklin strait.
The Canuck Puddle Pirates are on-scene and the company that owns her, Wagenborg, has contracted with a salvage company to unstick the Thamesborg.
I should probably note that the Thamesborg is a class 1A ice hulled vessel. That means she could handle medium ice conditions all by herself and would only need icebreaker aid in the most severe ice conditions. What that means for her grounding, I don’t know, but it does explain the route she was taking.
