News for Today (12/13/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day.

Bipartisan Electors Ask James Clapper: Release Facts on Outside Interference in U.S. Election. People have such a hard time resisting obvious lies. In this case the lie is the word “bipartisan” (to be fair, I think there is one nominal Republican in the bunch but that would not make it “bipartisan” if the shoe were on the other foot).

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One Weight-Loss Approach Fits All? No, Not Even Close

Found: A Lost City in Greece. Nothing that noteworthy. Just a reminder of how little they know about even the areas that have been study to death.

Records: Too many votes in 37% of Detroit’s precincts. I have been beating this one to death. But the rumour mill has been constantly pointing towards fraud in this city long before it became somewhat “Official”. It will be interesting to see where the “Audits” go.

After their big election victory there is nothing to stop Republicans from dismantling Obamacare. So naturally they’re figuring out how to blow it.

Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women

Not In The News But Should Be

Exclusive: Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking – sources For all the fuss about the CIA saying the Russians waged cyber warfare to help get Trump elected, you have to read far and wide to figure out what the CIA thinks they actually did.

Entertainment of the Day

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News for Today (12/12/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Methane surge needs ‘urgent attention’. What makes this story bogus is the allegation that the sudden surge over the last few years in methane emissions comes from agriculture sources. They don’t even try to pinpoint those sources or explain why it suddenly spiked.

Why do they pick on agriculture as opposed to fracking or other sources that could produce a more plausible sudden upsurge? I have read in other sources that this is because fracking or pipeline bursts should be locatable. Since they can’t locate any obvious culprits, they blame agriculture solely on the ground that it is impossible to prove that agriculture did not cause the sudden increase in the last few years.

In The News

Europeans Debate Nuclear Self-Defense after Trump Win

As U.S. Shale Seeps Into Biggest Oil Market, Saudis Hone Defense

All These Spy Planes Over Tunisia — Where Are They Coming From?

Not In The News But Should Be

Mosul Dam collapse ‘will be worse than a nuclear bomb’ . This Dam was in the news when people thought that ISIS might blow it up. But the real problem is the dam itself. And if the descriptions of the problems with it are accurate, it can’t really be fixed. My personal bet on how it fails involves heavy rains that political pressure requires them to be held back (this does happen on occasion even in this part of the world).

Entertainment of the Day

I don’t have anything for today.

News for Today (12/11/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

I don’t have anything.

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Half of Detroit votes may be ineligible for recount

Italy Gets a New Prime Minister, But Not Yet a New Government, Let Alone a New Banking System

Chetty et al and the metamorphosis of the earnings curve

Venezuela seizes Christmas toys to distribute to poor

Shackles and Dollars. In my view, this is a debate that goes back to founding of this country. Southern leaders have always believed that slavery was crucial to the wealth of the entire country and that northern wealth was built on the backs of the south via tariffs and other political tricks. It was felt that if the south withheld cotton the entire industrial world would come to its knees and Europe would be compelled to intervene on the side of the south to bring the cotton back to market. In my opinion, history in the form of the civil war has already empirically demonstrated who was right. And it was the not the people who think that slavery was crucial to America’s wealth.

The economics of Theodor Herzl and his Zionist vision

Not In The News But Should Be

The Man Who Invented the World’s Most Important Number

Entertainment of the Day

News for Today (12/10/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish. “Wow” says I, “How did they pull that off?” To be fair, the answer is in the article but I still think the article is bogus.

In The News

Situational Unawareness

US Army Orders Advanced Night Vision Optics from DRS Technologies

A Decade Into the Drug War, Mexico Is Still Burning

Not In The News But Should Be

Don’t have anything for this category today.

Entertainment of the Day

If you made a corny book category, this would win the best opening and best first chapter of any corny book currently written. Sadly, the rest of the book is not quite as good (although the author has gotten better with practice I have been told). Still, if you have to find out how the rest of this corny story goes, you can download the book for free from here.

News for Today (12/9/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Fake news: fake boos. The blog post is not bogus, but the false story it is highlighting is. But they took it down when they got found out so I have to link to the blog post.

In The News

DNA From 17th Century Mummy Of A Child From Lithuania May Rewrite History Of Smallpox

Giuliani pulls name from contention for secretary of state

Geert Wilders is convicted of saying unpopular things

Poland after a Year of Populist Rule

Barack Obama, Donald Trump Forge an Unlikely Rapport

Not In The News But Should Be

Desperate Chicago School System Looks to Shield Debt from Potential Bankruptcy

Entertainment of the Day

One of the better free movies on youtube.

https://youtu.be/uasbhm4GCeU

News for Today (12/8/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Algorithms Can Help Stomp Out Fake News

In The News

Poll: Trump now viewed more favorably than unfavorably, 50/43

U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993

French National Assembly approves bill outlawing some pro-life websites

France Returns to Its Conservative Roots

Not In The News But Should Be

Faithful Electors: If Every State Split Electoral College Votes, No One Would Be President-Elect

Entertainment of the Day

Same song, but played live…

News for Today (12/7/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Don’t have nothing for this today.

In The News

Light therapy could break down Alzheimer’s brain deposits

Pentangle Blew $125 Billion (a Year). Another perspective here.

The Death Strip at the Turkish-Syrian Border

Not In The News But Should Be

Divesting the Trump commercial holdings how about Congressional insider trading?

Entertainment of the Day

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Pre-Alpha Footage Here is hoping that it don’t suck. Not very good odds of that but at least they made it heavy and not arcadey. Still to early to tell what it is really going to be like though.

News for Today (12/6/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Lazy coders are training artificial intelligences to be sexist

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Huge Cobra Terrorizing Apartment Complex Toilet Be sure to watch the video.

Black Workers’ Suit Accuses Job Agency of Favoring Hispanic Applicants This is how the democratic collation starts to come apart.

Supreme Court sides with Samsung in its patent fight with Apple

Birds flying through laser light reveal faults in flight research

Last-ditch IS tactics in Sirte, Libya

Not In The News But Should Be

Saudi Arabia Surrenders To U.S. Shale. See also How Russia Outsmarted OPEC

Entertainment of the Day

The Trump campaign briefly turned this song into a theme song after the deplorable comment.

News for Today (12/5/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn banned from schools in Virginia for racism . I guess I should not really call this news story bogus. But it has no other purpose then to reveal the sickness of the times. In any sane world, this would be parody.

In The News

Day of Reckoning for Renzi

US health care tab hits $3.2T; fastest growth in 8 years

Cargo Pockets. Article only for those interested in the design of things.

Not In The News But Should Be

‘We’re teaching university students lies’ – An interview with Dr Jordan Peterson

Entertainment of the Day

Don’t have anything in this category for today.

News for the Day (12/3/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Trump and the Taiwan Call. Scott Adams’ idea that Trump is a master persuader does not even pass the laugh test. If he truly was a master persuader, he would not have so much of the country hating him. This is what a master persuader looks like. And he managed to get much larger percentages of country to like him even though he faced a media that thought his election was going to bring about nuclear war.

In The News

The iPhone Case: How Companies Deliver When They’re Not Certain of Specs

BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani Failed His Own Team’s Vetting Process, Out Of Running For Secretary of State

Is it only ‘fake news’ when a Trump voter says it?

Unclaimed Dead To Be Buried In Mass Grave Noteworthy because this is bleeding heart California. I guess nothing says you matter like a mass grave. I don’t really think it is worth getting all outraged about this in particular. The dead don’t care. But the hypocrisy of California does get under my skin.

The real reason for New York City’s traffic nightmare Supposedly California has similar ideas.

Not In The News But Should Be

Dramatic decline in dementia seen among older adults in the US I think the most likely reason for the decline is that there is some medication that is being commonly given out that has a protective effect. I think research should be focused on finding that. I don’t believe that more education has a protective effect and I don’t believe that obesity itself has a protective effect. I think it is more likely that some third factor is the key.

Entertainment of the Day

I have never seen a better example of trash talking in a movie then this.

If your curios, there is a translation of the Latin under the description at the Youtube site.