Ambassador Dennis Rodman

[Nitro Express]

More proof of the strange world we live in where entertainment and sports seem to be valued more than institutions that should bear substance. More proof the political game has nobodies confidence anymore. Save the world Dennis. Save it!


The U.S. State Department had no involvement in the visit, and officials say they have no plans to debrief Rodman after his meeting with one of the world's most mysterious leaders. Col. Steve Ganyard, USMC (Ret.), a former deputy assistant secretary of state and ABC News consultant, told ABC's Martha Raddatz the State Department's decision is "ridiculous."
"There is nobody at the CIA who can tell you more personally about Kim Jong Un than Dennis Rodman, and that in itself is scary," Ganyard said.


http://news.yahoo.com/dennis-rodman-kim-jong-un-172606764.html

[FORD]

The real question here is did Lil' Kim even know who the Hell he was?

Can't imagine the NBA has a lot of fans in North Korea, and I'm sure they never saw his "reality" TV appearances.

[chefcraig]

One of the stranger episodes of Sports Center was on this morning, featuring the George Stephanopoulos interview from ABC's This Week. Stephanopoulos was clearly irked by Rodman's spaced-out behavior, and said so.

You can read more and see the clip here: BusinessInsider (http://www.businessinsider.com/dennis-rodman-kim-jong-un-george-stephanopoulos-north-korea-this-week-abc-2013-3)

[Nitro Express]

The real question here is did Lil' Kim even know who the Hell he was?

Can't imagine the NBA has a lot of fans in North Korea, and I'm sure they never saw his "reality" TV appearances.

Apparently much of the world watches our shit. One entertainer said they went over to Iraq on a USO show thing and when they were in the Kuwait airport all sorts of people there were coming up to them knowing who they were. They had no idea they were that popular in the middle east. I knew someone serving in Iraq and they used to send their wife pirated movies on DVD that hadn't even released here yet. The street vendors were selling them and they were pirated in China.

So it's a small world from a media perspective. The only thing slowing it down is language barriers. If more people could understand each other there would be more players in the game.

[FORD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=57cfV4FbTyY&feature=endscreen

[Nitro Express]

One of the stranger episodes of Sports Center was on this morning, featuring the George Stephanopoulos interview from ABC's This Week. Stephanopoulos was clearly irked by Rodman's spaced-out behavior, and said so.

You can read more and see the clip here: BusinessInsider (http://www.businessinsider.com/dennis-rodman-kim-jong-un-george-stephanopoulos-north-korea-this-week-abc-2013-3)

I have no idea why people waste their time with make believe story lines. The real world is much more fascinating than anything anyone can make up. Everyone is trying to escape reality when reality is the shit.

[Dr. Love]

I thought Rodman was in prison for tax evasion?

[Dr. Love]

Or was that Wesley Snipes?

[ELVIS]

It was Wesley "Stoopid" Snipes...

[Nitro Express]

Could you think of a better place to hide from the IRS than North Koera? You have Kim Jong Un as your best friend and he has nukes. It's not exactly like they are going to come in and drag your ass to jail. :biggrin:

Shit. I can think of a whole bunch of celebrities that should go over there and stay there. Sammy Hagar being the first that comes to mind.

[Hardrock69]

Here is the crazy scenario:

Li'l Kim says to Dennis: "We stay in touch! Here email box! You write!"e

And they do. And Dennis makes comments to Kim once in awhile like "Yo, man, why you do that? All you do is hurt your own people!"

Even occasional commentary like that between people can sometimes take root in the subconscious mind.......might actually do some good.

You would think the State Department would want to debrief at least SOMEONE from the Globetrotters or Rodman, but they know so much about stuff in NK that none of those guys would have anything of value to say. The NK secret police would be ensuring they did not see anything they were not supposed to anyway.

[Nitro Express]

I always thought just having some open communication beats no communication. How many times have we discovered the government propaganda is completely wrong on something or someone once enough time goes under the bridge? Governments, religions and even parents tend to demonize their opposition.

A good example of it is the christmas truce that happened during World War I. The soldiers exchanged presents over Christmas and became too friendly with each other. The potential of peace on the front lines horrified the upper command so they had to put a stop to that and get them fighting again. Somewhere up and usually behind the scenes there is a motive for the madness. It's usually a banker loaning money to both sides making money off of other people's suffering. Everything bad that has ever come to power usually has bankers behind it and the cleverness of it is some of what they create claim they are going to save us from the bankers while they take everything.

[Nitro Express]

Sometimes you do find something good in the comments section. This guy nailed it.


Rodeman went to stay revelant , considering he's a washed up former attention star there is no thing such as bad press . Both Kim and rod got they wanted which was free PR and ABC also got what they wanted which was ratings ....

No one cares about the people in the prison camps because they are not contributing to anyone .

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dennis-rodman-kim-jong-un-george-stephanopoulos-north-korea-this-week-abc-2013-3#ixzz2MWmhULcj

[Nickdfresh]

The real question here is did Lil' Kim even know who the Hell he was?

Can't imagine the NBA has a lot of fans in North Korea, and I'm sure they never saw his "reality" TV appearances.

I guess he and his late dad were big basketball fans...

[BITEYOASS]

I wanna know what happens to that North Korean team if they lose to the Harlem Globetrotters. Does Kim Jong-Un tell them afterwards: RHOOPS! Jarst keeding, I ras goring to execute you anyray! I knew you rer rall goring to roose. You rill awrl be executed in tomorrow morning.

:fighting10: :confused10

[ELVIS]

That's racist...

[twonabomber]

I guess he and his late dad were big basketball fans...

Fans of the Jordan-era Bulls, an article said. They're probably bandwagon fans of the Heat now.


Apparently much of the world watches our shit. One entertainer said they went over to Iraq on a USO show thing and when they were in the Kuwait airport all sorts of people there were coming up to them knowing who they were. They had no idea they were that popular in the middle east.


Friend of mine is contracting in Kuwait. She was home a couple weeks ago and said pretty much the same thing.

[Nickdfresh]

We better get Rodman on this, stat!

North Korea threatens to scrap armistice ending war

Jack Kim and Louis Charbonneau Reuters

10:24 a.m. CST, March 5, 2013

SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea threatened on Tuesday to scrap an armistice that ended the 1950-53 civil war and sever a military "hotline" with the United States if South Korea and Washington pressed on with two-month-long war games.

It was a notable sharpening in the North's often bellicose rhetoric and followed word from U.N. diplomats that the United States and China had struck a tentative deal on a draft U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution that would punish North Korea for its third nuclear test, which it conducted last month.

"We will completely nullify the Korean armistice," the North's KCNA news agency said, quoting the Korean People's Army (KPA) Supreme Command spokesman.

"The war exercise being done by the United States and the puppet south Korea is a systematic act of destruction aimed at the Korean armistice."

The two Koreas remain technically at war since the 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.

...the rest of the story here. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-korea-north-unbre92404s-20130304,0,4920858.story)

Decent Fox News Korean War montage/overview here. (http://news.yahoo.com/video/north-korea-threatens-cancel-1953-142643667.html)