Power restored in SF after blackout shuts businesses, cable cars
Are French pollsters cheating? The jury is still out
The below is a follow up to the last video I posted and well worth watching particularly if you don’t know a lot about World War II history.
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Nothing for today
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Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics
South Indian frog oozes molecule that inexplicably decimates flu viruses
Extremists on Left and Right Push France to the Brink
Not In The News But Should Be
This kind of reminder of how commanders of day were looking at things is sadly lacking in today’s historical education.
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Nothing for today.
Um… NY Governor Cuomo made nearly $800K on a book that sold 3K copies?
The West Virginia Productivity Miracle. Really!. Headline tries a little too hard to contrarain but still some interesting thoughts.
‘They’re just hiding’: Experts say Puerto Rico may be underreporting Zika-affected births
Kevin O’Brien. So sad in a very selfish way. One of the few good military bloggers down.
Bogus News Story Of The Day
The tone deafness of the above sentence was really jarring to me. Technically the above link is for an opinion column so I should not be calling it a bogus news story. But its complete tone deafness exemplifies the reason that people in the New York Times don’t get the political trends that are sweeping the western world. France has double the unemployment of the US and a very high youth unemployment rate (around 25%). But the author says that those things can’t be the main problem because France is such a cool place to live. And it is if your are wealthy or upper middle class who have good jobs. But those are not the people fueling the anger he is trying to understand.
In The News
Against all odds, a leftist soars in French election polls
Navy SEAL drug use “staggering,” investigation finds
Not In The News But Should Be
Nothing for today.
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All right wing news for today. Except I guess for the Bloomberg article but even that is just admitting that the sudden concern on the part of liberals for congressional authority has no liberal legal theory to support it.
Trump Doesn’t Need Congress to Strike in Syria. And that is a problem far bigger then Trump himself.
Yet Another Hoax: KKK Trump-Supporter Who Made Racist Threats Turns Out To Be … Black
All the large chunks of oak tree are off the lawn and waiting to be split. In other less important news….
‘They Taught Us How To Decapitate a Person’
The U.S. Dropped a MOAB in Afghanistan and You’ll Never Believe What Happened Next! The amount of bad news stories about this bomb drop from both right wing and left wing sources is staggering. I never would have guessed that such a routine bomb drop would become such big news. Granted, it is probably not a good thing that the US is dropping ordnance all over the globe without it getting reported on, but the amount of misinformation by ignorant regarding this particular ordnance drop is staggering. Anyway, the link above will at least give you accurate numbers to put the bomb in context with other bombs and explosives the US drops all the time. Maybe some other day when I am not so tired I will link to a good over view of the military reasons that the US military sometimes uses MOABs.
You won’t believe how much money colleges make on rejected applications
Flights From Syrian Base Fell Sharply After U.S. Strike. I don’t know what I am more tired of, the pro-war crowd acting like this was some great thing or the anti-war crowd buying every thing the Russians say. Most of you probably don’t read much of the anti-war crowd so you most likely don’t know what I am talking about. If I can ever find a somewhat verifiable account of the Russia side of the story I will link to it. But mostly the Russians seem stuck on saying things that are provably not true and thus give the pro-war crowd a chance to write articles like the above.
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI. All I could think when reading this story that is doing its best to scare you is when is the technology going to come to computer games?
Bogus News Story Of The Day
To feed Upstate NY beer industry, state’s barley growers need U.S. aid, Schumer says
In The News
Toshiba warns it may not survive crisis
Japan’s population to shrink by a third by 2065
Two Days Inside the Battle for West Mosul
Idaho’s $4.3 Million Solar Project Generates Enough Energy to Run ONE Microwave Oven
Not In The News But Should Be
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