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ThinkProgress Senior Editor Is Scared of His Plumber
Why Uber lost $2.2 billion in 9 months
The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman
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Stupid knives, stupid movie. But cool method of making them in “real life”.
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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.
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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.
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What happens when you put a nerd in the body of a giant? A half hour long discussion on how to dead lift.
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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.
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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.
Koolova Ransomware Decrypts for Free if you Read Two Articles about Ransomware
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The Clinton Foundation Stories
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Because Tomorrow is Monday.
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.
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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?
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College Football’s Top Teams Are Built on Crippling Debt
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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About that bogus claim that North Carolina is no longer a democracy . . .
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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
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The Failure of Public Schooling in One Chart
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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.
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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.
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.
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Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid
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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 Battle for Jalawla Never Ends
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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.
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