Monthly Archives: January 2017

News for Today (1/31/17)

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The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement. What bothers me about this article is that it conflates conservative law enforcement groups with the clan and then complains that the FBI is too concerned about their civil liberties. I think you are going to see it referenced as gospel in a lot of places though.

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Hill staffers secretly worked on Trump’s immigration order. No doubt the left has gone crazy over the order. But one thing to few on the right acknowledged is that this order was never about making something that would work. Rather, they wanted something that would make people go crazy.

Russia Unleashes Artillery in Eastern Ukraine

This Is How You Should Read French Election Polls

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I have read experts tell me the exploding bullets were a myth and did not really work.

News for Today (1/30/17)

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BMA warns against using ‘expectant mothers’ for pregnant women as it ‘may offend intersex men’

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Poll Shows Only 33 Percent Oppose Trump’s Temporary Ban on Immigrants From Terrorist Havens

What Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration Does—and Doesn’t Do. If you are not tired of reading about this already.

Physicists have found a metal that conducts electricity but not heat

Greece has three weeks to deal with ‘potentially disastrous’ debt

Things Just Got Serious in Europe’s War on Cash

Chicago police detained more than 7,000 people at secret interrogation center: report. Old news but worth remembering when people are screaming end of the world about current political actions.

Yemen Raid: US Loses 1 SEAL & 1 MV-22 Osprey; 4 Injured

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FAMAS to Equip New 84,000 Man National Guard, Stay in Service Until 2028. This is posted mostly because of my own curiosity. I have not heard a lot about France standing up a new National Guard. I wounder what the rational is?

Entertainment of the Day

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News for Today (1/29/17)

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Two posts for today that are slightly related. WaPo’s Glenn Kessler explains difference between Obama & Trump bans, accidentally indicts MSM and Most claims about Trump’s visa Executive Order are false or misleading.

My own thoughts on this deal: I think the executive order was poorly conceived and done to make headlines and not accomplish anything. Most (All?) of the attacks on US soil came from countries not affected by this ban. That said, the media and politicians who stood by as it became US policy that you could put US citizens on “No fly lists” with no oversight and no notification do not exactly have the moral authority to proclaim the second coming of Hitler because Trump wants to ban people from coming into this country from war zones.

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Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms

‘You can’t live in a museum’: the battle for Greenland’s uranium

Retired Army Dogs Meant for Veterans Given to Company that Tried to Sell Them to Foreign Countries. The article focuses on the tear jerker side of things. I wish the corruption angle had been more thoroughly explored.

Pot meet kettle…

Electoral college reform (fifty states with equal population) Never going to happen. But it is an interesting thought experiment.

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A Crying Shame

Entertainment of the Day

Jason Statham proving that he can play more then a hard man (in this clip, he is petty criminal but spends most of the moive trying not to get hurt by the big bad criminal lord or ripped off by the Irish Travelers that he starts out by trying to buy a caravan from…..

And this is the bad guy that Turkish (i.e. Jason) is so afraid of…

News for Today (1/28/17)

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All bets off as French presidential race descends into unpredictable ‘ice-skating rink’ after horror week for Francois Fillon

Iron Workers pension cuts approved; retirees to get smaller checks

China’s Army of Global Homebuyers Is Suddenly Short on Cash

Norovirus tears across US; stomach bug causing widespread misery

How a dispute at Harvard led to a grad student’s forced mental exam and an extraordinary restraining order against a prominent scientist

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Obama’s administration made the “Muslim ban” possible and the media won’t tell you

Entertainment of the Day

When I was working a lot of overtime for snow removal it always seemed like this song would come on late at night as I was driving home. Helped me stay awake but it did not do a lot for my mood.

News for Today (1/26/17)

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Fake Headline: Mutiny at Foggy Bottom: State Department management resigns en masse. If past is any guide, by the time you read this the news stories about how “the entire leadership team of the department of state is gone” will have been moderated. But just in case it has not here is the REAL NEWS:.

Edit: If you want reasonably sane description of what happened, this is your best bet.

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Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich

Meet the leader of a billionaires’ club determined to stop Trump from destroying the world

What’s Causing Chicago’s Homicide Spike?

Youngest in class twice as likely to take ADHD medication

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Creating The White Tribe

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News for Today (1/25/17)

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Media Covers Fake Mike Flynn Story, Ignores Bombshell on Secret Obama/Iran Meetings. The Flynn story is bogus.

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Judge Slams Obama DOJ’s ‘Unethical Conduct’ in Amnesty Case

Valerie Jarrett’s daughter will cover Justice Department for CNN

What constitutes humane work? The issue has been the focus of a dispute between Bolivia and the international community since the country lowered its minimum working age to 10.

Saddam Hussein Seriously Feared a U.S. Nuclear Strike During the Gulf War

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Entertainment of the Day

The one of the problems with all the movies David Belle stars in is that it just does not seem credible that the thugs can stay with him for as long as they do.

News for Today (1/24/17)

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A Professor Claimed Video Games Make People Better Shooters — Then His Study Got Retracted. The only reason this study got the press that it did is that few people in the chattering classes play games and shoot guns.

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Consternation as Trump Starts Delivering on Campaign Promises While Making More Crazy Attacks on Critics

Was Snowden a Russian Agent? In the conservative press the answer is assumed to be yes. This article presents a different view. I think you have to be naive to think that he has not told them what they wanted to know now. But I doubt he was controlled all along. I don’t think the Russians would have wanted the drama from an agent they controlled.

Italy’s Growing Refugee Problem Main take away: Despite a warning from former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, other EU countries have shown little willingness to cooperate. Shortly before his resignation, he said his country “would not get through another year like this.”

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Chicken Feet And China: Back to the Future

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Not bad for and old man even granting all the movie tricks they had to pull

News for Today (1/23/17)

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Why Does the EU Get Such a Bad Rap? I don’t know if it is really fair to call this story bogus but its cluelessness is off the charts.

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The blog post is about a bad tv show. But the comments are bunch of army guys complaining about Seals.

Revealed: How CIA tried to gather intel before 1971 India-Pakistan war. Actually, all that is revealed is that they could not do it when they needed to meet the needs of the policy makers. Just a reminder that some things don’t seem to change.

The culture that is San Francisco

Praying for Death — Blood Sacrifice and Drug Cartels in Latin America

France & Germany Differ Starkly on Strong Leaders. For what it is worth (h/t Chickenman or whatever he goes by these days).

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News for Today (1/22/17)

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Nothing for Today.

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Tesla cleared in Autopilot crash

GMO grass that ‘escaped’ defies eradication, divides grass seed industry

The Second Act of the Great British Spy

Majority of 230 protesters arrested on Inauguration Day will face 10 years in prison and $25k fine as US attorney says they will be charged with felony rioting. They made the mistake of rioting in a place where important people were.

IT’S JUST CALLED FASCISM

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Speechless in 2017

Entertainment of the Day

The British Artillery and light horsemen helped and this was not quite as decisive as shown. But a bunch of Australian mounted infantry using bayonets as swords really did make one of the last successful mass mounted charges.