Huma Ejects Weiner, Russia Hacks the Vote
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Vol. 5, No. 241
Tony and Huma’s Wedding: Reader, she dumped him. In a campaign season that couldn’t be stranger, Hillary Clinton’s closest political aide, Huma Abedin, announced that she’s separating from her troubled husband Anthony Weiner after he was caught once again sending lewd Twitter messages to a woman he doesn’t know. Weiner deleted his Twitter account yesterday; a little late.
The NY Post reported over the weekend that, “the disgraced ex-congressman has been sexting with a busty brunette out West.” One picture he sent was crotch shot of his underwear with his infant son lying next to him on the bed. Today’s Post headline says “Huma Cuts Off Weiner.”
Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 when he was caught sending messages and crotch shots under the nom de sext, “Carlos Danger.” He said he went to therapy. Abedin stayed with him, and stuck with him when he was caught once again while running for Mayor of New York, an episode captured by documentary makers filing the picture “Weiner.” This time, Abedin gave up.
Donald Trump was quick to use Abedin’s troubles against his opponent. He issued a statement saying, “I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information.” He said, “Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment.
The Russia Hack: The FBI says Russian hackers have breached the voter registration information in two states in an attempt to manipulate election results. The feds have not identified the states, but Yahoo News reports that they are Arizona and Illinois. Senate Minority leader Harry Reid wrote a letter to the FBI saying Russian tampering “is more extensive than is widely known and may include the intent to falsify official election results.”
The Great Migration: About 6,500 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya in a single operation that involved 40 missions, according to Italian authorities. The migrants, who had set sail with only enough fuel and water to reach rescue boats, cheered and in some cases swam toward their rescuers. On Sunday, 1,100 were rescued as the flood of people fleeing North Africa continues into Europe.
Siri Shocked: Apple owes Ireland $14.5 billion in back taxes according took a ruling by the European Commission. The commission ruled that Ireland gave Apple illegal tax breaks, allowing the company to pay a corporate rate of just 1 percent. The US government has fought European tax clawbacks from American companies … they want the taxes paid to the US government instead.
Nation: In response to the Stanford University rape case, the California legislature passed a law calling for a mandatory three-year prison sentence for raping an intoxicated or unconscious woman. The Stanford rapist, Brock Turner, is set for release Friday after just three months in jail.
The Obit Page: Gene Wilder, the comic actor who played the absurd with a straight face and got big laughs in the movies “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Stir Crazy,” and “Young Frankenstein,” has died of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease at age 83. To millions of children he was Willy Wonka from “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.”
Wilder had a talent for getting the laughs without playing for them. With his curly hair and wide eyes, he did the story of Frankenstein for humor rather than horror. Pompously correcting someone on the pronunciation of his name his character says, “that’s Frahnk-ahn-SHTEEN.”
Herd Instinct: Norwegian authorities were at first mystified when a hunting warden found 323 dead reindeer on a rocky plateau. The bodies were close together, or on top of each other. Environmental authorities now believe the reindeer instinctively huddled together in a violent lightning storm and were electrocuted.
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