COVERING THE IMPORTANT STORIES: How The Autotuned ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ Explains Everything Wrong With Pop Music.
Archive for 2018
January 12, 2018
NEW FROM SIG SAUER: The P365 Micro-Compact Pistol.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: If “$#!+hole” Rings True, It May or May Not Be True.
FLASHBACK: Rolling Stone, defending Presidential vulgarity.
It’s different when Obama does it, because shut up.
WOW: Watch Chris Matthews Joke About His ‘Bill Cosby Pill’ Before Interviewing Hillary Clinton.
You just never know what will send a thrill running up Chris’ leg.
FROM THE HOME OFFICE IN SIOUX CITY, IOWA: The Top 10 Most Obsequious Comments Letterman Made to Obama During Their Netflix Interview.
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY PROOF THAT ALIENS BUILT THE PYRAMIDS: Incredible ‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System: The mysterious Egyptian rock contains micro-mineral compounds not found on Earth, in any meteorite or comet, or elsewhere in the solar system.
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TONI AIRAKSINEN: Feminist Prof Recommends Dangerous Drug to Make Men ‘Breastfeed.’
No.
I’M SEEING A REAL GENDER GAP HERE: These are the most dangerous civilian jobs in the United States.
BRAIN: Surprise: A virus-like protein is important for cognition and memory. “A protein involved in cognition and storing long-term memories looks and acts like a protein from viruses. The protein, called Arc, has properties similar to those that viruses use for infecting host cells, and originated from a chance evolutionary event that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago. The prospect that virus-like proteins could be the basis for a novel form of cell-to-cell communication in the brain could change our understanding of how memories are made, according to Jason Shepherd, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at University of Utah Health and senior author of the study publishing in Cell on Jan. 11.”
SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Terry McAuliffe says he’d punch Trump: ‘You’d have to pick him up off the floor.’
THAT’S A BAD SIGN, SINCE THIS ISN’T ANY SORT OF CATASTROPHIC OUTBREAK: Flu stomps the nation, overwhelming ERs and leaving 20 children dead.
MIA LOVE: President ‘Must Apologize’ to ‘Nations He So Wantonly Maligned’ with ‘Shithole’ Comment.
This writeup is by Bridget Johnson, whose unexplained and unacknowledged Twitter banishment remains unexplained and unacknowledged by Twitter management.
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NO SURPRISE HERE: Vaping a safer option, could help prevent smoking-related deaths: Study.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s how, and why, the Spectre and Meltdown patches will hurt performance.
This is a highly technical article, so I’ll give you the short version.
Normal desktop tasks and even gaming won’t be impacted much or maybe at all. But jobs with lots of input/output calls could face serious performance hits of 20-40%.
I was thinking of replacing my workstation this year, but I’m wondering if it would be smarter to wait the 18-24 months it might take chipmakers to sort out their security issues.
WILL CLINTON FOUNDATION FRAUD COST GATES FOUNDATION, WARREN BUFFETT BILLIONS? At LifeZette, Charles Ortel explains why if you are reading this and you are an attorney or accountant for a private foundation that’s donated to the Clinton Foundation, three phrases should come to mind: “Due Diligence,” “taxable expenditures” and “material changes.” Same goes for folks in places like Great Britain, France, Sweden and Australia (just to name a few of many).
SUMANTRA MAITRA: Trump’s Conservative-Realist Approach Will Outlast Trump.
It is foolish to imagine that the interests of United States will cause her to be aligned with the same countries with whom her interests were aligned in 1945, or even 1989. The European Union, for example, under the leadership of Brussels, Stockholm, and Berlin, consistently clashed with Washington on Iran, mass-migration, Jerusalem, Cuba, the Nord Stream gas pipeline, Russian sanctions, and China to name just a few. This rift will only continue to grow.
The failure to understand the simple fact that Trumpism is purely an effect of a failed imperial foreign policy, and not a cause, in incredible to observe. The United States now stands as a hegemon, and now faces what Great Britain faced during the Suez Canal crisis in 1956: massive debt, a disinterested public that wants to avoid any foreign entanglement, new growing peer rivals and structural realities, a bygone unipolar moment, and a new multipolar great power rivalry. In a way, Trump’s strategy simply reflects these structural changes and aspirations of Americans, who are tired of paying their hard-earned cash for this Wilsonian and imperial foreign policy. Conservative Realism is about strength at home and prudence and restraint abroad.
NATO funding remains a major thorn, and while Trump took credit for some countries increasing their funding for NATO, the strategy still makes it a point that countries should pay for their security. Trump is right about rich European countries living on American taxpayers. But it is not true that Europe is supposed to pay for Trump. That’s not how it works. And there’s no way Trump will be able to make Western European countries pay 2 percent of GDP for NATO, simply because there is no longer a Soviet Union to fear. American foreign policy at this stage is more aligned with East and Central European states, which are traditionally socially conservative and are wary of Russian military designs and EU social engineering. That is unlikely to change, and sooner or later, American policymakers will need to adjust to this new reality.
That last point is one Donald Rumsfeld was mocked for making 15 years ago, with his “Old Europe/New Europe” remarks.
IT WON’T BE THE LAST: First-Ever Drone Swarm Attack Has Struck Russian Military Bases, Sources Claim.
QUESTION ASKED: Was Fusion GPS Allowed to Run Unsupervised FISA-702 Queries?