Sunday, April 30, 2017

Misc

Neanderthals or Denisovans may have colonized North America 130 thousand years ago.

Politics

Praise for Christianity for the civilization it produced.

Trump's outsourcing of policy to military generals makes the US a military junta.

Institutionalized corruption.

Immigration

NGO migrant rescuers working with human traffickers to flood Italy with migrants and destabilize it. They're probably funded by Soros.

War

Contradictory North Korea narratives.
"North Korea is either highly armed and dangerous or is weak, crumbling and filled with fake and broken weapons. It cannot be both."
Either way, the US should not have troops there.

Claim the US is preparing a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia and China. I'm skeptical.

Saturday, April 29, 2017

Environment

Despite outrageously wrong predictions, greens win awards.

Health Care

Socialized medicine cancer doctor in UK performed unnecessary breast surgeries to boost his income.

Economy

Investors turn picky, threatening worthless startups.

Foreign Policy

Turkey blocks Wikipedia. That could foreshadow something big.

Trump the flip-flopper.

Politics

Ohio Governor Kasich is right when he says the two political parties are collapsing.

Republicans still back Trump, but congressional Republicans don't.

Neither of the two parties which have ruled France since Charles De Galle made it to the national election.

Local

The $4 million River Run will bring nothing to Dayton, although I love it.

Friday, April 28, 2017

Misc

Thunderstorms produce gamma ray bursts from electrical activity.

Police State

NSA lies about stopping collecting data. It collects everything.

Wikileaks reveals CIA tool to track whistle-blowers called the Snowden Stopper.

Idiot claims putting a cop in every school and day care will stop mass shootings. Tell that to victims at Luby's.

Regulation

Apple and Tesla demand California change self-driving car rule.

The 800 startups which depend on net neutrality are rent seekers and should have to compete in a free market.

War

Interactive map shows all wars in progress.

US grows military presence in Africa.
"If you’re a reader of TomDispatch, then you know something of real importance about this country that most Americans don’t. As an imperial power, there’s never been anything like the United States when it comes to garrisoning this planet. By comparison, the Romans and imperial Chinese were pikers; the Soviet Union in its prime was the poorest of runners-up; even the British, at the moment when the sun theoretically never set on their empire, didn’t compare. The U.S. has hundreds of military bases ranging in size from small American towns to tiny outposts across the planet, and yet you could spend weeks, months, years paying careful attention to the media here and still have no idea that this was so. Though we garrison the globe in a historically unprecedented way, that fact is not part of any discussion or debate in this country; Congress doesn’t hold hearings on global basing policy; reporters aren’t sent out to cover the subject; and presidents never mention it in speeches to the nation. Clearly, nothing is to be made of it."
Wow.

Trump exaggerates the threat from North Korea.

Politics

I'm not surprised women rulers are more likely to wage war than men.

Trump puts the generals in charge.

Obama capitalizes on Clinton-esque speaking fees.

Economy

Rapid Fired Pizza plans to add 175 locations in more states.

Despite supposedly booming economy, Ohio's public pensions are cutting benefits.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Case pitting states rights and the second amendment against all federal gun control laws should end up at Supreme Court.

Economy

Six figure salaries are low income in the Bay area.

Health Care

Death panel case in UK proves under socialized medicine, the state owns you.

Environment

Because the greens undermined Britain's power grid, driving up prices, conservatives propose price caps. That'll work like Nixon's price caps on gas.

Former Obama official admits bureaucrats mislead about global warming for personal and political gain.

Strong correlation between solar wind speed and North Atlantic Oscillation.

So-called March for Science was not for science.