Bobby. wrote on Sep 8^th, 2024 at 3:05pm:

It IS commensurate with his mental acuity.

Bobby. wrote on Sep 8^th, 2024 at 3:12pm:


Baron Münchhausen (born May 11, 1720, Bodenwerder, Hanover [Germany]—died February 22, 1797, Bodenwerder) was a Hanoverian storyteller, some of whose tales were the basis for the collection The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.


Münchhausen served with the Russian army against the Turks and retired to his estates as a country gentleman in 1760. He became famous throughout Hanover as a raconteur of extraordinary tales about his life as a soldier, hunter, and sportsman. A collection of such tales appeared in Vademecum für lustige Leute (1781–83; “Manual for Merry People”), all of them attributed to the baron, though several can be traced to much earlier sources.

The baron recovering his silver casket, which had bounced up to the Moon, illustration from a 19th-century edition of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe.
Münchhausen, however, was launched as a “type” of tall-story teller by Rudolf Erich Raspe, who used the earlier stories as basic material for a small volume published (anonymously) in London in 1785 under the title Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. Gottfried August Bürger freely translated Raspe’s volume back into German in 1786, and it was Bürger’s edition that became the most widely known in German. Later and much enlarged editions, none of them having much to do with the historical Baron Münchhausen, became widely known and popular in many languages. They are generally known in English as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Brian Ross wrote on Sep 9^th, 2024 at 10:07pm:

Now forget even to yawn.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-10/north-korea-to-increase-number-nuclear-we...










48m ago

In short:

Kim Jong Un has vowed to redouble efforts to make his nuclear force
fully ready for combat with the United States and its allies,
according to state media.

In a speech marking the 76th founding anniversary for his government, Kim said North Korea faces "a grave threat".
What's next?

South Korea will hold a defence ministerial meeting with the member states of the United Nations Command.

While Mr Kim has repeatedly made similar pledges,
his latest threat comes as outside experts believe he will perform provocative weapons tests
ahead of the US presidential election in November.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country is now implementing a nuclear force construction policy
to increase the number of nuclear weapons "exponentially,"
according to state media.

In a speech on North Korea's founding anniversary on Monday, Mr Kim said the country must more thoroughly prepare its "nuclear capability and its readiness to use it properly at any given time in ensuring the security rights of the state", said KCNA.