News for Today (1/9/17)

Posted on January 9, 2017 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Jeff Sessions should have been a tough sell in the Senate, but he’s too nice. This is slander masquerading as news. If you read the article, you will find out that a Kennedy left a young girl to drown and this is likened to Sessions because he made racists comments in the past. Except that you are never told what Sessions actually did. It is always implied that he has this terrible dark past, but we are never given the details even though they had space in the story to recount Ed Kennedy’s most famous misdeed.

In The News

A 24-year-old North Carolina man accused by federal prosecutors of hacking into CIA Director John Brennan’s personal AOL email account. I would find the 24 year old innocent and throw Mr. Brennan in jail. He was a CIA director and he had an AOL email account?

AP Exclusive: Diplomats: Iran to get natural uranium batch

Newspaper Loses Mind over Millionaires’ Jobs Ending. This link goes along with the story for reference.

Not In The News But Should Be

Nothing for Today

Entertainment of the Day

What happens when you put a nerd in the body of a giant? A half hour long discussion on how to dead lift.

News for Today (1/8/17)

Posted on January 8, 2017 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Trump Might Be Thinking About a Moon Base. Here’s why that’s a bad idea. All I can say about this article is that Trump has driven the media to unprecedented levels of insanity.

In The News

TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ – guess what happens next

House Democrats fail to muster support to challenge Trump’s Electoral College win

Winter is a dangerous time to drive.

Rule of Men, Not Law

Koolova Ransomware Decrypts for Free if you Read Two Articles about Ransomware

Not In The News But Should Be

The Clinton Foundation Stories

Entertainment of the Day

Because Tomorrow is Monday.

Short Links on account of wedding.

Posted on January 7, 2017 by ape man

Ishmael Jones: From Russia with doubt

Japan’s new business language – English

In Lithuania, Learning How to Block Tanks With Trees Is Back in Fashion

Light Link Friday

Posted on January 6, 2017 by ape man

The bill restricts individuals who already have a higher education degree from pursuing a degree in another field at the same or a lower level.

Declassified: How India Tracked Pakistan’s Development of a Nuclear Device

Woman Unsure Why She Needs Jesus After Preacher Spends 30 Minutes Telling Her How Amazing She Is

Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to “check out” endangered titles

News for Today (1/5/17)

Posted on January 5, 2017 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Dirty Money. Ever heard of door knobs? Hand shakes? Money is the not the primary victor of disease and nobody sane claims it is. But people who want to bring us into the brave new world will grasp at any straws.

In The News

In Turkey, U.S. Hand Is Seen in Nearly Every Crisis

Angry protests erupt across Mexico after 20% hike in gasoline prices

Nascent anti-Trump coalition already fracturing?

Why Did Germany Fail to Stop Terrorist?

Not In The News But Should Be

College Football’s Top Teams Are Built on Crippling Debt

Entertainment of the Day

Not the best production values, but a reasonable reconstruction of the 1986 Miami FBI Shoot Out. Note how different it is from a normal movie shoot out.

News for Today (1/4/17)

Posted on January 4, 2017 by ape man

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

Nothing for today.

News for Today (1/3/17)

Posted on January 3, 2017 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day

About that bogus claim that North Carolina is no longer a democracy . . .

In The News

Former Employee Sues Google, Claims It Maintained an Internal Spy Network That Encouraged Workers to Snitch on Each Other

How big can a tsunami really get?

Schumer: I wish we hadn’t triggered ‘nuclear option’

Chicago Gun Violence So High It Is Skewing National Murder Figures

Not In The News But Should Be

The Failure of Public Schooling in One Chart

JC in transition

Entertainment of the Day

Nothing for today.

News for Today (1/2/17)

Posted on January 3, 2017 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Respect the paella: Rob Schneider’s culinary debacle was just the latest insult to this great Spanish dish. Just a reminder that these people are insane.

In The News

Ukraine Hates Its New Donated American Drones. The problems are being blamed on the fact that they are old and outdated. But drones are only useful against a technological competent foe if they don’t have to phone home. We have forgotten what it is like to fight people who are not goat herders.

How Did the Houthis Manage to Lob a Ballistic Missile at Mecca? I personally think that while the missiles were not supplied by Iran (being in country before the current conflict), they had to be the ones supplying the engineering to modify them to fly further. I don’t think that is something the Houthis could have manged on their own.

The New Middle Ages

Unexpected Risks Found In Editing Genes To Prevent Inherited Disorders

Archbishop who smuggled arms for Palestinian jihad killers dies in the Vatican

Mysterious Marijuana-Related Illness Popping Up In Emergency Rooms

The Golden Era of Hedge Funds Draws to a Close With Clients in Revolt. Left unstated is why the pensions funds were going to Hedge Funds in the first place. In this era of low returns, hedge funds were their last best hope to keep them solvent.

Not In The News But Should Be

Nothing for today

Entertainment of the Day

2016 Man of the Year: American Men

News for Today (1/1/17)

Posted on January 1, 2017 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid

In The News

Eight Facts on the “Russian Hacks”

Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won’t Recommend Apple’s MacBook Pro

As Chicago backs off policing, its murder rate skyrockets ever higher

The Ferguson Effect Lives On

The Battle for Jalawla Never Ends

Not In The News But Should Be

Cornell student assaulted for being Republican speaks out: Attack ‘pushed me further to the right’. Article is not all that interesting really. In the sense that it don’t tell you anything you don’t already know. But by the same token, it is never reported and a lot of people would think you are making it up.

Entertainment of the Day

The best and most honest recap of 2016 that you will read.