Punday Night & Some Extras
wo painters, one an old man and the other a youngster, were painting a very large home. It was getting late in the day when they reached the second floor. There ahead of them was a very long corridor. The older painter said, “I’ve had enough for one day, I quit. How about you?”
The younger painter headed toward the corridor and said, “Not me. I’m in this for the long hall.”
Nawaz Sharif has returned to Pakistan and registered for their elections. He says he’s there to “save Pakistan and democracy”.
Vladimir Putin is cranky, because he says the US is fiddling with the Russian Elections.
President Vladimir V. Putin today accused the United States of trying to taint the legitimacy of upcoming Russian parliamentary elections by pressing a group of prominent independent election observers to abandon their attempts to monitor the campaign.
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The election-monitoring arm of the O.S.C.E., the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, or O.D.I.H.R., announced on Nov. 16 that it was canceling its mission to Russia, saying that restrictions imposed by the Russian government had made it impossible for it to carry out its work. The State Department and European diplomats supported the decision.
Finally, the United Nations’ IPCC is urging “deep cuts” in global emissions to prevent the worst effects of global warming: UN Climate Change Body Urges Cut in Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, R.K. Pachauri, says that steps taken by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions “are totally inadequate” to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Pachauri addressed reporters in New Delhi after a recently released IPCC report stated the evidence for climate change is “unequivocal.”
The IPCC report says there is 90 percent chance that climate change is caused by human activity. It warns that millions of people could be affected by more heat waves, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and smaller harvests.
At New York’s Kennedy Airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and a calculator. Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious al-Gebra movement.
He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
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