News for Today (1/4/17)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

A lot of people would argue that the below clip is great journalism and not a bogus news story. It certainly speaks the truth so it does have that going for it. But the truth that it speaks is all things we already know, such as the Iraqi army is not the most competent or that journalists are the stupidest class of people on the planet. That truth was not worth the production of a video that contained this much shear stupidity. I was groaning before it had hardly got started and my blood pressure only went up as it went along.

Spare a thought for the soldiers though.They might not be the best in the world, but they are the only unit in the Iraqi army that will fight and so rumor has it they have been made combat ineffective by the amount of casualties they have taken in the fight against ISIS. Supposedly, this is one of the reasons the advance has stalled since this video was taken.

In The News

Liberal churches are dying. But conservative churches are thriving. Take the labels with a large pinch of salt. But it is true that when people talk about the massive drop off in church attendance, they are really talking about the old (and now liberal) mainline churches. To be sure, the “growth” of conservative churches is not enough to off set this and so America is becoming a country that by and large does not go to church. But you have to remember that this article is appearing in the Washington Post. So for that readership, it is a revelation that there is no benefit for a church to be “liberal.”

Doggie in the Gay Bar: A Christmas “Tail”

A massive volcano is rumbling…right under one of Italy’s biggest cities: Report

U.S. Quietly Drops Bombshell: Wall Street Banks Have $2 Trillion European Exposure

Not In The News But Should Be

Our Unfortunate Annual Tradition: A Look At What Should Have Entered The Public Domain, But Didn’t. Stuff like this should get more press. Current copyright law is a mistake from just about any political perspective (Conservative, Liberal, whatever). The only ones behind it are the entertainment industry.

Entertainment of the Day

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