Former US President George W. Bush made an embarrassing gaffe, perhaps a Freudian slip, when speaking on the importance of democracy and threats to democracy from abroad, and taking aim specifically at Russia.
“Russian elections are rigged,” he said. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
Then Bush brushed the mistake aside and said, “Iraq, too,” insinuating that Russia was somehow involved in Iraq – which is obviously not true.
Meet Britain’s most prolific cat burglar—a cheeky feline who brings
home stolen items including toys, cutlery, glasses, and even toy
skateboards.
Charlie, dubbed ‘Klepto Cat’, pinches a random array of swag such as rubber ducks and plastic dinosaurs.
Owner, 41-year-old Alice Bigge, spends her time trying to reunite her one-year-old pet’s victims with his stolen loot.
She has even set up a shelf on her outside wall where she leaves the bizarre items he brings home.
A sign says, ”Our cat Charlie likes taking things, do any of these things belong to you? If they do please help yourself!”
Alice, of Bristol, first realized her cat was a thief when she woke
up one morning and came face-to-face with a toy diplodocus on her
pillow.
Alice, who teaches A-Level film at St Brendan’s sixth form college in
Brislington, said, “He’s well into clothes pegs at the moment.
“He brought back a rubber duck recently, which was quite large and I
have no idea how he managed that—and got it through the cat flap.
“He went through a phase of coming back with those little mini-skateboards too.”
Charlie brings all of his ‘finds’ back to the Bigges, who took him
and his sister Smudge in as rescue cats after were abandoned as kittens.
Alice admitted, “He wasn’t allowed out for three months or so. But it
was almost as soon as he was allowed out that he began bringing things
back. Over the course of a week or so, loads of toy dinosaurs kept
appearing in the house which was really weird. I saw a green stegosaurus
one day and wondered if one of my mate’s kids might have dropped it
here.
”The following day, I saw a red stegosaurus, and they just kept coming!
“I woke up with a diplodocus right next to my head on my pillow—which made me think of that moment from The Godfather. Charlie just sat there looking proud of himself.”
Alice says she has discovered Charlie was nabbing the toy dinosaurs from a kid’s nursery at the end of her road.
She said, “It turned out he’d been going there and picking them all up and bringing them back here one by one.
”He has never caught a bird or a mouse or anything like other cats do… he just goes off and finds whatever he can.”
Her 11-year-old daughter Martha has now made a sign for their wall headlined ‘Klepto-Cat’.
Alice said “I think there’s something about the quest that he enjoys.
Whether it is discovering something new or just wanting to please me
and bring his family a present. It’s so funny now that people are loving
his story because we’ve been laughing about him for over a year.
The Namibia Airports Company (NAC) says it is looking into the behaviour of an employee who was photographed sitting with her bare feet resting on an airport check-in counter.
The NAC employee was photographed with her feet on a counter in the presence of travellers at Hosea Kutako International Airport.
NAC spokesperson Dan Kamati told The Namibian on Monday that the NAC's management is looking into the matter for the necessary action to be taken.
"We do not condone such behaviour,” said Kamati, adding that the company is committed to efficient and friendly customer service ethics.
Shocking footage from a CCTV camera in China has emerged online, showing a buffalo charging into a restaurant and attacking one of the customers.
In a video that was apparently filmed on the last day of December and has since gone viral on social media, two men can be seen standing inside a restaurant. While one of them is opening a drink and another is busy with his smartphone, a huge and apparently ravaged buffalo emerges through the entrance with its horns down, and sends one of the customers flying out of view of the camera.
Around 20 seconds later, the buffalo returns through a different entrance, smashing furniture with its horns and hooves. It then leaves through the door where it initially entered.
A rope can be seen dangling from the animal, leaving commenters to wonder whether it escaped slaughter by a butcher.
The incident reportedly took place in the city of Taizhou in eastern China. The man who was attacked was hospitalized with leg injuries.
President Joe Biden repeatedly got the name of Medal of Honor recipient Alwyn Cashe wrong during a White House ceremony on Thursday.
“To the family of Sergeant First Class Alwyn Chase, this has been 16 years in coming,” Biden said, appearing to read from his teleprompter.
Later in the ceremony Biden again called Cashe, “Chase” while saying it was his “great honor” to ask for the citations to be read to honor the medal posthumously.
The president was also 37 minutes late for the ceremony.
Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe is the first the black service member to be awarded the Medal of Honor since the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Cashe was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic efforts and ultimately sacrificing his life to rescue his fellow soldiers from a burning military vehicle while serving in Iraq on October 17, 2005.
During the ceremony, Biden gave the medal to Cashe’s widow, Tamera Cashe.
Biden’s verbal flub was not the only mistake in the ceremony.
As the narrator read Biden’s citation, he announced the Medal of Honor was being awarded to Master Sgt. Earl Plumlee “posthumously” even though he was standing right next to the president.
The Duchess of Cornwall has reportedly been telling close associates President Joe Biden made his own contribution to global supplies of natural gas when he farted “loudly” in front of her at the Glasgow COP26 climate conference.
Camilla was apparently blown away by the smelly incident and “hasn’t stopped talking about it” since: “It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,” an insider told the Mail on Sunday.
Ironically he has earlier pledged that one of the most important things society faces in the near term is to “reduce our methane emissions as quickly as possible.”
At the diplomatic reception, which was originally supposed to have been hosted by the Queen until she was ordered to rest by doctors, Biden was seen sharing a joke with Prince William, at one stage placing a hand on his shoulder.
U.S. President Joe Biden (C) greets Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (R) at a reception to mark the opening day of COP26 on the sidelines of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1, 2021.(ALBERTO PEZZALI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The 78-year-old leader was also snapped falling asleep before his untimely release in front of the wife of Prince Charles.
His eyes closed for 30 seconds, and he was woken up by a man in a suit at the conference on Monday afternoon sparking the U.S. leader to quickly uncross his arms and began to clap for the opening speaker, as Breitbart News reported.
This was not the first time the president has been accused of being less than economical with wind.
In May 2020 he was accused of audibly farting during a campaign livestream.
On that occasion Biden was appearing with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and as the candidate was speaking, he shifted in his chair, and a strange noise was heard.
The White House declined to comment last night, the Mail reports.
Is this the world's heaviest potato? New Zealand couple accidentally grow a titanic tuber
A couple in New Zealand may have grown the world's largest potato without even trying.
Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, from Ngāhinapōuri in the country's Waikato region, found the tuber growing in their garden when they were getting ready for the spring planting season.
"It was literally one of nature's pleasant surprises," Colin Craig-Brown told CNN affiliate Radio New Zealand. "Had no idea it was growing there, and I don't know how long he was there, because I was walking over the top of him all last cucumber season."
The spud, named "Doug" by the couple, may be the largest in the world, weighing in at a whopping 7.9 kilograms (17.4 pounds). The current record is held by British vegetable grower Peter Glazebrook, who registered a potato weighing 4.98 kilograms (just under 10 pounds) in 2011.
Although the Craig-Browns are still waiting for an update from the Guinness Book of World Records, Doug has already lost a kilogram in the freezer, where he is staying for the meantime.
"He's happy in the freezer," Craig-Brown told Radio New Zealand's Jesse Mulligan. "Pull him out every now and then chuck him in the sunshine and let him see the outside world."
However, Doug's existence itself was initially a bit of a shock, as the couple didn't set out to grow a giant potato at all -- and his appearance is also rather peculiar, with Craig-Brown describing him as a "nasty-looking thing."
"I didn't know what he was till I jammed the garden fork into him and dragged him out of the ground and gave him a bit of a scratch and a poke and tasted him," Craig-Brown said.
The large potato sits on a toy truck at Donna and Colin Craig-Browns home.
The interest in Doug has been huge and somewhat unexpected, leading to a "crazy" week for the Craig-Browns.
"Once we'd dug him up and everybody had a look and a poke and a fiddle and a squeeze and all that sort of thing, we showed him around and put him on Facebook, it just went a little bit silly," Craig-Brown said. "They call it viral."
Once Doug's celebrity dies down, the plan is to turn him into some vodka, in a move Colin says is a "fitting departure."
"We'll have a wake for him and we'll all toast Doug with the vodka that I'm going to make out of him," he said.
A parish councillor said that this unfortunate situation must have resulted from aircraft failure or a failure to adequately service the plane toilets.
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A man was sitting in his backyard in Windsor, England, when raw sewage suddenly fell from the sky.
According to a local councilor, his "whole garden, garden umbrellas, and him" were "covered" in poop.
The councilor said that frozen sewage falling from the sky isn't unheard of, but this unfortunate ordeal is much rarer.
A man was enjoying the sun in his backyard in Windsor, southeast England when a passing plane dropped toilet waste over him and his garden furniture, a local councilor said during a recent meeting.
"His whole garden was splattered in a very unpleasant way," said Karen Davies, ward councilor for Clewer East, during the October 14 meeting. "He was out in his garden at the time and it was a really horrible, horrible experience," the local lawmaker continued.
The "whole garden, garden umbrellas, and him" were "covered" in poop, Davies explained. "It's absolutely dreadful," she said during the meeting.
Davies said that there are several incidents every year in which "frozen sewage" is dropped along flight routes. Windsor is on the flight path to London's Heathrow Airport, which is about 8 miles away from the historic town.
In June, The Sun reported that Portsmouth, in southern England, locals were left "terrified" after "frozen poo" fell from the sky.
But, Davies said that raw sewage landing in someone's backyard is much rarer. Another councilor suggested that the summer's warmer weather might have contributed to it.
Whitfield parish councilor Geoff Paxton, who has worked with airlines for four decades, said what happened was "so rare" and one he had not seen in a long time. He added that modern toilets on planes are vacuum secured and are normally reliable as they rely on pressure suction to work, so this unfortunate situation must have resulted from aircraft failure or a failure to adequately service it.
According to the Maidenhead Advertiser, the Windsor resident was unable to claim any insurance from the ordeal as the cost of the damage was relatively low.
This lady was very likely born under a lucky star, only suffering a little shock and a bit of dust on her face as a result of the incident. Well, she will also have to pay for the roof repairs in case she doesn’t have insurance.
A miracle apparently occurred when a woman in British Columbia, Canada, woke up to a meteorite lying next to her after it crashed the roof and landed on a pillow on her bed.
Ruth Hamilton from Golden thought she was being attacked by gunmen (or something like that) the first second she heard the ”boom”, before realizing it came from the sky, local media reported.
”I was shaking and scared when it happened, I thought someone had jumped in or it was a gun or something. It’s almost a relief when we realized it could only have fallen out of the sky,” Hamilton told Victoria News.
On that day, local residents reportedly watched a shooting star above Lake Louise.
You can see the supposed pictures of the miraculous event below.
Hamilton reportedly said she wants to keep the rock as a keepsake for her grandchildren.
