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Dave Barry’s 2012 Year in Review-US sailors sue over Fukushima radiation-Native American Protest Mall of America-Drone War Spurs Militants to Deadly Reprisals-Amish clan awaits sentences for hair- and beard-shearing attacksDave Barry’s 2012 Year in Review-US sailors sue over Fukushima radiation-Native... more
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Many horrors! China microblog translate poorly English into. Say Beloved Successor of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un dead from dying after assassin kill. No verification. Checking.
OK, let’s not get all “Debbie Spenditnow” here… but the Chinese microblogging community is all agog over rumors about the alleged assassination of Kim Jong-un, the recently installed latest “Dear Leader” of North Korea, a promotion occasioned by the convenient death of long-time dictator Kim Jong-il, who became dictator of that reclusive nation after the convenient death of his father and the nation’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
Google Translate doesn’t do that good of a job with Chinese, but let’s see what they’re saying on the microblog. (Note, as Dave Barry is famous for saying, “I am not making this up.”)
http://deepbrainmedia.com/2012/02/11/kim-jong-un-is-he-dead-or-undead/Many horrors! China microblog translate poorly English into. Say Beloved Successor of... more
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He was singled out for a pat-down after authorities told him he had a “blurry groin” — meaning the detector was unable to get a clear picture of his body.He was singled out for a pat-down after authorities told him he had a “blurry... more
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