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Turkey detains stand-up comedian for allegedly insulting religious values

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Thursday detained a comedian whose stand-up routine drew complaints that it insulted religious values after it was widely viewed online.

Deniz Goktas was detained for questioning at Istanbul’s main airport on his return from a trip abroad, the state-run Anadolu agency reported, days after prosecutors launched an investigation into possible charges of “publicly insulting religious values.”

https://apnews.com/article/turkey-stand-up-comedian-detained-097a68c5bc49d3b9381ded5b23d8fccf

Our control and restrictive measures have dealt a strong blow to the prestige of the Americans and British in Germany. The Americans have admitted that the idea of an airlift would be too expensive. Once Berliners realize the West abandoned them, they will turn to our glorious workers paradise and Berlin be ours.

There have been lots of posts about cooking while camping. This article includes recepies and preparation ideas.

https://apnews.com/article/healthy-camping-food-nutrition-7284878c073effc6072f40401df236cf

Two movies tell the story of Henry Hill in completely different ways. My Blue Heaven focuses his life in the Witness Protection program, and Goodfellas is based on his life leading up to that point.

One was based on a book written by Nicholas Pileggi, the other a screenplay written by his wife, Nora Ephron.

In My Blue Heaven, Danny DeVito was supposed to play Henry Hill. When he declined, Steve Martin expressed interest. Heaven was released a month before Goodfellas.

I was walking near Levi’s and the substation when I tripped over nothing and fell! Maybe there is something to the Levi’s substation debacle. There isn’t, but I will tell 49ers fans this is totally the reason I fell and not because I am clumsy

I plan to return November 29, have a few beers to see if it happens again.

Good news everyone! Charles Lindburgh has flown from New York to Paris nonstop. It only took him 33 1⁄2 hours. Imagine a future where you do not spend a week on an ocean liner, you just get on an aeroplane and fly to Europe and in under two days, you are walking the streets of Paris!

Dearest Caroline,

After months of delays, the Donner–Reed Party is headed for California. We shall follow the Oregon Trail, since it is considered safe for wagon travel. There will be nine wagons containing 32 mostly hardy folk. We hope to team up with others along the way. George Donner, the leader is confident that if we can manage the Wasatch Mountains, the Great Salt Lake Desert, we will make our destination. He's not sure about crossing the Sierra mountains, but we will be crossing through the Fremont Pass, which has lakes and rivers. So long as we can fish, we know we will not starve. This could be the last you hear from me, since mail service is spotty along the route. Forever yours, Stanton.

"Asa, you have to try this. I mixed cocaine and kola nuts into a wine. I think this is the taste Atlanta has been waiting for. I shall call this, Pemberton's French Wine Coca nerve tonic."

'John, that name is too long and we can't sell a product in Atlanta with wine in it.'

"Ok, we remove the wine and add carbonated water. Right now everyone thinks that is healthy. But we're keeping the sugar, kola nuts and cocaine."

'I agree, we need the cocaine. But we need a name we can use that contains cocaine, but we can't trademark the word cocaine. How about "Yum Yum" or "Koke"?'

*thinks for a moment* "Asa, see if Coca-Cola works."

*looks up trademarks* 'Winner winner, chicken dinner!'

'Let's try selling it at Jacob's Pharmacy. They have a whole counter for carbonated medicines. Let's see if it sells.'

We better telegraph our travel agent. I don't think the Hindenburg is going to make our connecting flight in Frankfurt on time.

I told you we should have booked on the Queen Mary. But no, you insisted you get sea-sick, so we had to fly the Zeppelin.

"Guys are you really sure this is safe?"

'What's the problem now, Alan? We've gone over this. The best minds in rocketry designed this ship. The chimp came back just fine, you'll come back just fine.'

"Yeah, but they spent months repairing things and problems are still creeping up. I can't shake the fact that this rocket was built by the lowest bidder. Oh, and I have to pee."

'No time to pee, you should have thought about that before you got in the rocket. You can't chicken out now, America is watching.'

"Alright, good point, it will either work or not. Let's light this candle."

Hey everyone,

I added a new calendar event. Tim Berners-Lee is going to demonstrate his new "universal linked information system". For those of you that missed the proposal, it is a new way to eliminate the organizational tree in UNIX and instead adopt the "hypertext" model proposed by Ted Nelson.

With Tim's approach, documents can be linked in unconstrained ways through hyperlinks associated with "hot spots" embedded in the text. This new system will utilize the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that Tim has been working on in addition to his new viewing tool. That tool, WorldWideWeb, will be demonstrated. Part of it's appeal is that unlike the current Gopher server, CERN plans to make this protocol open source in hopes somebody might find a niche use and adopt it.

Join us in the cafeteria for cake and coffee following the demonstration.

BART Police like to think they have a sense of humor. Or at least the recruiting arm.

I was not at a recruiting event, I am not interested in becoming a BART cop. I was in fact sitting in a bar when I received these.

If I ever have to detain a leprechaun, now I have the handcuffs for the job.

Comrade,

We had a slight oopsie during a safety test at the V. I. Lenin Power Plant. I have been told a fire broke out after a routine buildup of hydrogen ignited, causing a minor release in radiation. I have been assured the leak amount is 3.6 roentgen—not great, not terrible, but far below the emergency safety threshold of 25 roentgen. If you have Iodine pills, it would be wise to take a daily dose, as recommended for the next few days. Better to be safe than sorry.

There is no way a man can cause a serious accident with an RBMK reactor. We feel this could be Western sabotage to place the Soviet Union in a bad light. A cleanup is underway and the fire has been extinguished. The people in the area are fine, some are celebrating a wedding, others are gardening, and others are fishing in the Pripyat River.

A commission will be formed with Comrade Boris Shcherbina leading the investigation. If this was sabotage, he will get to the bottom of it. I do not expect you will hear any more details because the Council of Ministers would like to keep this quiet to stave off any unnecessary widespread panic.