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Goodness sakes.  Is China worried about a migration of millions of North Koreans crossing the NOKO-China frontier escaping a besieged Kim regime?  Believe me, no one will hear the machine guns a blazing in such an event. China may be worried about a ferociously armed Japan and South Korea, but a few million NOKO refugees is no problem at all. 

In that part of the world there are no good guys or bad.  There are only special interests. Power and  money top the list.  Destroy your enemy and seek revenge come next.   Human rights and human sanctity?  Hmm. What are they?

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Guinness Book of Records new category – the greatest time elapsed for raising a sexual molestation charge against a public figure.  Now held by Roy Moore of Alabama at 40 years.

Roy is toast, life is ruined.  

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I just heard the news about Senator Al Franken's miscalculation on groping.  And there's a picture - no less.  

So, I went to my German mug collection and pulled out my favorite, filled it with a quality Minnesota home brew, and invented a new drink: "The Al Frankenstein."

It quenches the thirst and tastes good to folks like AG Jeff Sessions and harassed Republicans everywhere.  This revelation, however, worries the Dems. 
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