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News for Today (2/2/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Oh, Okay: Man Who Claimed Mother Died In Iraq Due To Travel Ban Lied
In The News
Researchers break data transfer efficiency record
Why the sound of noisy eating fills some people with rage
Making America’s ICBMs Great Again
North Dakota wants hired pipeline protesters to pay state income taxes
Trump Files With FEC For 2020 Election Bid, Outmaneuvers Nonprofit Organizations. If true (and I am not confident of the source) this demonstrates the problem with campaign finance laws.
Not In The News But Should Be
Immigration, Obamacare, Unintended Consequences
Entertainment of the Day
Two links for today. First one is for Dad because we were talking about it.
And the youtube is for me because I think it is fascinating stuff.
News for Today (1/31/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
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.
In The News
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
Not In The News But Should Be
Nothing for today.
Entertainment of the Day
I have read experts tell me the exploding bullets were a myth and did not really work.
News for Today (1/30/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
BMA warns against using ‘expectant mothers’ for pregnant women as it ‘may offend intersex men’
In The News
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
Not In The News But Should Be
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
Nothing for today
Light Link Friday
A viral Washington Post story about State Department resignations is very misleading. Main thing about this story is the Washington Post is getting so bad they are embarrassing other liberals.
News for Today (1/26/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
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.
In The News
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
Not In The News But Should Be
Entertainment of the Day
Nothing for today.
News for Today (1/25/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Media Covers Fake Mike Flynn Story, Ignores Bombshell on Secret Obama/Iran Meetings. The Flynn story is bogus.
In The News
Judge Slams Obama DOJ’s ‘Unethical Conduct’ in Amnesty Case
Valerie Jarrett’s daughter will cover Justice Department for CNN
Saddam Hussein Seriously Feared a U.S. Nuclear Strike During the Gulf War
Not In The News But Should Be
Nothing for today
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.
https://youtu.be/hThaVpNpOmw
News for Today (1/24/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
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.
In The News
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.”
Not In The News But Should Be
Chicken Feet And China: Back to the Future
Entertainment of the Day
Not bad for and old man even granting all the movie tricks they had to pull
News for Today (1/23/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
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.
In The News
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).
Not In The News But Should Be
Nothing for today
Entertainment of the Day
Nothing for today
News for Today (1/22/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Nothing for Today.
In The News
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.
Not In The News But Should Be
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.