Monthly Archives: December 2016

News for Today (12/10/16)

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Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish. “Wow” says I, “How did they pull that off?” To be fair, the answer is in the article but I still think the article is bogus.

In The News

Situational Unawareness

US Army Orders Advanced Night Vision Optics from DRS Technologies

A Decade Into the Drug War, Mexico Is Still Burning

Not In The News But Should Be

Don’t have anything for this category today.

Entertainment of the Day

If you made a corny book category, this would win the best opening and best first chapter of any corny book currently written. Sadly, the rest of the book is not quite as good (although the author has gotten better with practice I have been told). Still, if you have to find out how the rest of this corny story goes, you can download the book for free from here.

News for Today (12/9/16)

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Fake news: fake boos. The blog post is not bogus, but the false story it is highlighting is. But they took it down when they got found out so I have to link to the blog post.

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DNA From 17th Century Mummy Of A Child From Lithuania May Rewrite History Of Smallpox

Giuliani pulls name from contention for secretary of state

Geert Wilders is convicted of saying unpopular things

Poland after a Year of Populist Rule

Barack Obama, Donald Trump Forge an Unlikely Rapport

Not In The News But Should Be

Desperate Chicago School System Looks to Shield Debt from Potential Bankruptcy

Entertainment of the Day

One of the better free movies on youtube.

News for Today (12/8/16)

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Algorithms Can Help Stomp Out Fake News

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Poll: Trump now viewed more favorably than unfavorably, 50/43

U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993

French National Assembly approves bill outlawing some pro-life websites

France Returns to Its Conservative Roots

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Faithful Electors: If Every State Split Electoral College Votes, No One Would Be President-Elect

Entertainment of the Day

Same song, but played live…

News for Today (12/7/16)

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Don’t have nothing for this today.

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Light therapy could break down Alzheimer’s brain deposits

Pentangle Blew $125 Billion (a Year). Another perspective here.

The Death Strip at the Turkish-Syrian Border

Not In The News But Should Be

Divesting the Trump commercial holdings how about Congressional insider trading?

Entertainment of the Day

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Pre-Alpha Footage Here is hoping that it don’t suck. Not very good odds of that but at least they made it heavy and not arcadey. Still to early to tell what it is really going to be like though.

News for Today (12/6/16)

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Lazy coders are training artificial intelligences to be sexist

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Huge Cobra Terrorizing Apartment Complex Toilet Be sure to watch the video.

Black Workers’ Suit Accuses Job Agency of Favoring Hispanic Applicants This is how the democratic collation starts to come apart.

Supreme Court sides with Samsung in its patent fight with Apple

Birds flying through laser light reveal faults in flight research

Last-ditch IS tactics in Sirte, Libya

Not In The News But Should Be

Saudi Arabia Surrenders To U.S. Shale. See also How Russia Outsmarted OPEC

Entertainment of the Day

The Trump campaign briefly turned this song into a theme song after the deplorable comment.

News for Today (12/5/16)

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To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn banned from schools in Virginia for racism . I guess I should not really call this news story bogus. But it has no other purpose then to reveal the sickness of the times. In any sane world, this would be parody.

In The News

Day of Reckoning for Renzi

US health care tab hits $3.2T; fastest growth in 8 years

Cargo Pockets. Article only for those interested in the design of things.

Not In The News But Should Be

‘We’re teaching university students lies’ – An interview with Dr Jordan Peterson

Entertainment of the Day

Don’t have anything in this category for today.

News For Today (12/4/16)

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I don’t have noting for this category today.

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Saban says Keith Ellison’s DNC win would bring ‘disaster’ to relationship between Jews and Dems

USB Killer, yours for $50, lets you easily fry almost every device

Italian Constitutional Reform: A Choose Your Own Adventure . Seems like it lost so now I guess we get to find out what the fall out really is.

Not In The News But Should Be

Democratic Party Operative Robert Creamer Used Terror to Wage War on Honesty. Rhetoric is just slightly over the top but this really should be looked into more. What we know for a fact about Robert Creamer is bad enough. Moreover there is general pattern of reporting every nasty tweet done by a trump supporter as representing the dawn of a new dark age while ignoring nasty things being done and said by liberals. For example, Liberals Mock Victims of Wildfire in Tennessee Because They Voted for Trump.

Entertainment of the Day

This is well done and a rare example of a liberal mocking their own kind. Self deprecation is the best form of humor.

City Attorney Spraying Anti-Trump Graffiti While Drinking Wine Is All We Have Left

News for the Day (12/3/16)

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Trump and the Taiwan Call. Scott Adams’ idea that Trump is a master persuader does not even pass the laugh test. If he truly was a master persuader, he would not have so much of the country hating him. This is what a master persuader looks like. And he managed to get much larger percentages of country to like him even though he faced a media that thought his election was going to bring about nuclear war.

In The News

The iPhone Case: How Companies Deliver When They’re Not Certain of Specs

BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani Failed His Own Team’s Vetting Process, Out Of Running For Secretary of State

Is it only ‘fake news’ when a Trump voter says it?

Unclaimed Dead To Be Buried In Mass Grave Noteworthy because this is bleeding heart California. I guess nothing says you matter like a mass grave. I don’t really think it is worth getting all outraged about this in particular. The dead don’t care. But the hypocrisy of California does get under my skin.

The real reason for New York City’s traffic nightmare Supposedly California has similar ideas.

Not In The News But Should Be

Dramatic decline in dementia seen among older adults in the US I think the most likely reason for the decline is that there is some medication that is being commonly given out that has a protective effect. I think research should be focused on finding that. I don’t believe that more education has a protective effect and I don’t believe that obesity itself has a protective effect. I think it is more likely that some third factor is the key.

Entertainment of the Day

I have never seen a better example of trash talking in a movie then this.

If your curios, there is a translation of the Latin under the description at the Youtube site.

News For Today (12/1/16)

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First Draft. This is probably more Orwellian then it is bogus, and it is not really a news story. But maybe it should be.

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China’s Vision for a Regional Trading Block Has its Own Challenges. Bottom line: As long as China is economically dependent on exporting to the US, it will never exceeded the US economically.

What Will Replace Obamacare? I don’t believe anything like this will actually come to pass. But I have been wrong before.

Deaths in Immune-Therapy Trials Haunt Promising New Cancer Treatment

How Some US Athletes Obtain Permits for Banned Medication

Not In The News But Should Be

I don’t have anything for this category today.

Entertainment of the Day

I remember reading about sterling engines when I was a teenager because Dean Kamen was going to use them to change the world (And yes, I knew who Dean Kamen was before the Sigway came out. For that matter, he was working on sterling engines before then as well). But in spite of hearing about them and having them stick in my memory, I never had a good grasp of how they worked until I watched the video below. As far as I know, Kamen has never brought out a product that actually uses them in spite of his infatuation with them. But at least Sweden is using them to make really quite submarines.

If that is to cerebral for you, watch some Mas-wrestling. It is something we would have come up with when we were young.