Clive's Blog: December 2014

"And the main effort of military leaders through the past decade, under the Republican leadership of the Bush administration and the Democratic leadership of Obama, has been to get rid of the A-10 so as to free up money for a more expensive, less reliable, technically failing airplane that has little going for it except insider dealing" Only the Holy Military can get away with this nonsense. The Corporate Welfare State run amok.

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The Septuagint - Torah Musings

News you could have used about 2,000 years ago...

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A Drone Flew Over A Pig Farm To Discover It’s Not Really A Farm. It’s Something Much More...

Leviticus 11:7 is ignored - but Leviticus 20:13 is the center of their lives, I bet!

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The Great Firewall keeps growing, as China blocks all Gmail access

This Communist dictatorship is OK to do business with, but business with Cuba is a threat to our conscience and security??? GMAFB.

See: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/the-great-firewall-keeps-growing-as-china-blocks-all-gmail-access/ Cross-posted from Facebook via IFTTT

Gadget of the Year 2014: WD 1TB MyPassport Wireless

Great choice. I have one - it is really useful.

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xkcd: Phone Checking

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Purple Heart Recipient Gunned Down By Police After Calling 911 For Medical Emergency (VIDEO)

The police seem to regard all civilians as a threat. Again, with cops like this, who needs criminals? I sympathize with the police who are rightly always scared that a situation could get out of control, and that they may be in danger - but can't they shoot to maim, not kill?

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Our top stories of 2014

"The faith’s claim, promoted by many of its leading lights, to combine spiritual and earthly authority, with no separation of mosque and state, has stunted the development of independent political institutions" from #1.

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

The true true size of Africa

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Mr Turner: the fine art of historical biography

We watched this today - every scene could have been a painting. Too long, but visually fascinating.

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GOP's New House Majority Whip Was 'Honored Guest' At 2002 White Supremacist Convention

Just in case you were wondering...

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Sir Winston Churchill’s family begged him not to convert to Islam, letter reveals

“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralizes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”

See: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/sir-winston-churchills-family-begged-him-not-to-convert-to-islam-letter-reveals-9946787.html Cross-posted from Facebook via IFTTT

How To Gauge Brain Health And Stroke Risk

Well, I passed this one. Not a high bar, but...

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Legendary Photojournalist Ted Grant: Those Who Can, Teach | The Tyee

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When the doctor’s away, the patient is more likely to survive

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Friday, December 26, 2014

Seattle Cops Drag 68-Year-Old Woman Off Plane, Jail Her For Three Days For Trying To Change...

?????

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Research Says A Cocktail Could Be Better Than A Flu Shot | VinePair

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And That's How Rice Paper Is Made

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Pediatric Politics: How Dire Warnings Against Infant Bed Sharing ‘Backfired’

News you can use ,,, thanks to the law of unintended consequences

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Comic for December 24, 2014

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Protective Mother Kangaroo Punches Camera Drone Out of the Air

:-)

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Answering The Beit Yosef's Famous Hanukkah Question - FailedMessiah.com

The rest of the story...

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This is why you're so hangry, according to science

So next time you want to yell at someone, eat something. Weight loss advice to follow.

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers | WIRED

In case you worry about what mathematicians worry about, consider this. "What does a drowning number theorist say? “Log log log log … ”

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Unsubscribe from emails, instantly.

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Internet crashes in North Korea

It was either us (as in US) or Anonymous.

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Obama Spoke Softly on Sony Hack, Now North Korea's Internet is "Toast"

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Bring On The Dumb! 10 Of The Stupidest Things Said in 2014

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MidEast PeaceNotes December 2014 - Invititation for Action: Spread the Light of Peace

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Modern nomads: Why the smartest among us wander

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Remembering Mandy Rice-Davies, the 'queen of Tel Aviv nightlife'

Huh!

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Conservatives Freak Out Over Black Cop Killer, Forget About White Conservative Cop Killers

What more can I say?

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How Naive is Elizabeth Warren?

The law of Unintended Consequenses is relentless.

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North Korea Threatens To Attack U.S. If Obama Retaliates Over Sony Hacking

Has he given birth yet? He looks to be about 7 months in this picture.

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Anonymous Vows To Release 'The Interview' On Christmas Day, 'Operation RIP North Korea' Is On

Cool...

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I really belong in the 1960s! Which decade do you really belong in?

I bet everybody belongs in the decade when they were in their 20s. Too bad we had to leave :-(

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Every goddamn day: 12/21/14: "Will you be taking bread service with us today?"

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Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains

This supports what I have always said. Insanity is inherited. One gets it from ones' children.

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What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?

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Saturday, December 20, 2014

F#king Awesome Science Studies Affirm That Swearing Is Good For Us -- So Let Your F#k Fly (VIDEO)

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What the fuck is the “the” in “the fuck”?

This exemplifies my assertion that trying formulate general rules of grammar is a fool's errand. If a sentence is understood - it is grammatical. The grammar you employ signals all kinds of things about you to your listeners/readers, but if a sentence is understood, it is grammatical.

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Fox News Host: Colbert Owes Us Money Because Our Stupidity Made His Career (VIDEO)

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Sokal: "science is not merely a bag of clever tricks . . . Rather, the natural sciences are...

",,,the underlying philosophy: namely, to constrain our theories as strongly as possible by empirical evidence, and to modify or reject those theories that fail to conform to the evidence..."

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Friday, December 19, 2014

‘Get A Lovely Bust For Christmas’: 1930s Tips For How To Be A Festive Woman

Ducking and running for cover....

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Glenn Greenwald: Dick Cheney Belongs 'At The Hague Or In A Federal Prison'

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Worrying About Stuff Is a Sign of Intelligence

Does this worry you?

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The People Have Spoken: This Is The Most Brazen Lie Of 2014

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Bruce Lindner

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To Build Character In Kids, Forget Focusing On Self-Esteem

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

There Was No 'Paleo Diet' - Ancient People Ate What They Had

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600613 | bit-player

Cool - if you are a little odd.

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When Opera Singers Groove to the Motown Sound

Every attempt I have heard by classically trained singers trying to do "popular" music has been awful. Can anyone offer examples of success?

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Response to Nonsense - Torah Musings

Thoughts to think before commenting on the Interwebs...

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The Perfect Wine to Drink With Your Latkes

Champagne and latkes. Who knew?

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Israel Police Raid Homes Of Racist Right-Wing Neo-Kahanist Group, Arrest 10 - FailedMessiah.com

If only the governments on the other side would take action against their extremists the world would be a little better off.

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WATCH: Why people don't believe in climate science

I know some of you out there do not believe that the climate is changing and we are causing it. Watch this.

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Syrian rebel Yarmouk Brigades ditch US and Israel allies, defect to ISIS

This is why choosing sides in Syria is fraught with dangers.

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Scott Adams Blog: Boring Little Story About My Windows Computer 12/17/2014

Everybody does this sooner or later.

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Americans Are Ready to End the Cuban Embargo

About time!

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Watch: The 1994 Video Dick Cheney Doesn't Want You to See

20 years ago he was not senile. Now, he should be put in a home. What, wait! There are no homes for the mentally challenged. Thank you Saint Ronnie.

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Analysis: Over Half of All Statements Made on Fox News Are False

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Science says you can fight the common cold with booze.

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Those $10m Photos May Not Be Art—and Now There Are Doubts About the Truth of the Sales

Now it makes sense.

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Unwrapping presents.

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Ignorance Of The Law Is No Defense For You, But According To The Supreme Court, It Is For The...

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Court urged to wait on immigration review

Arizona and Nebraska are mean-minded bigots. Have they forgotten how their forefather stole the land?

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Dick Cheney waves his bloody hands

Nails it.

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Monday, December 15, 2014

Taking the Christmas out of Hanukkah - My Jewish Learning

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Schmaltz Latkes Recipe

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Scott Adams Blog: Ineffective Government 12/15/2014

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In The Face Of A Siege In Sydney, Australia Shows Us All How To Deal With A Terror Attack...

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26 Jokes That Only Geeks Might Find Funny [Pic]

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Jon Stewart’s favorite king

Everybody needs an autocrat...

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Ted Cruz Slammed By Republicans After He Handed Democrats A Series Of Victories -

The Law of Unintended Consequences is relentless. This may go down in the lore of the Senate as "Pulling a Cruz"

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Breaking: Sydney On Lockdown as Dramatic Siege Unfolds

Coming soon to a city near you...

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For the Love of Schmaltz

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The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart

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South Dakota Rubs Out 'Don't Jerk and Drive' Campaign After It's Yanked in Wrong Direction

An unnecessary infringement on personal liberty.

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Weather Forecast and Weather Forecast Accuracy for Your City

If you want to confirm just how bad weather forecasts are, check here.

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An Ebola Orphan’s Plea in Africa: ‘Do You Want Me?’

This is so sad

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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Unmasked: the man behind top Islamic State Twitter account

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ScanMyPhotos Can Scan Your Prints a Priority Mail Boxful at a Time

Get your heirloom pics scanned before they finally face to sepia...

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This Just In: Peter Lik's Record-Breaking Photo Sale May Constitute Torture

Indeed

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Tick, Tick, Bull, Shit

"more than two dozen people tortured by the CIA were detained in error. In some cases, they were victims of simple cases of mistaken identity." If you still think that torture was OK - it could be you next time.

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Friday, December 12, 2014

There's been a fatal school shooting every 5 weeks since Sandy Hook

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TED-Ed | Periodic Videos

I have never heard of Scandium. Now I must find a Scandium mining company and buy shares.

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CRomnibus Disaster Signals a Sad New Normal in D.C.

And the corruption continues…

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

How 'Extreme Racist' Ronald Reagan Re-Enslaved Blacks And Got Taxpayers To Foot The Bill (VIDEO)

Think about it...

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Dick Cheney Imputes George Bush… On FOX (Gotta Love It)

Bizarre!

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Andy Borowitz

Borowitz at his best!

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Schmaltz Finds a New, Younger Audience

This old fart supports the move!

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Apple Introduces New Guidelines Requiring iPhone Cases to Protect Phones From 1 Meter Drops

Thar's a good idea!

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Peter Lik’s 'Phantom' photograph breaks world record with $6.5 million sale

Very odd. Collectors are strange people.

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What Having White Privilege Looks Like In One Cartoon

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Dilbert comic strip for 12/11/2014 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

Rock. Hard place. Caught.

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The CIA Is Still Running Amok

"People being tortured might say anything to stop the pain, including invented and imaginary information. And false intelligence is worse than no intelligence at all." Why are people still arguing about it?

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The Dogma of Torah Mi-Sinai: My Personal Struggle with Unreasonable Belief - TheTorah.com

An unusually open and personal discussion of belief systems.

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SFSBM Report upsets naturopaths. We’re fine with that.

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Watch The Navy Destroy A Drone With Lasers

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Dick Cheney: CIA Torture Report Is 'Full of Crap'

I think it is time to have this (I almost said man) thing up in front of a grand jury.

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England Has Avoided Eric Garners and Michael Browns by Doing What the U.S. Won't

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How I Shot a Time-Lapse of a Large Thunderstorm Rolling Through Sydney

David Ligoff Darrilyn Greenberg Ligoff What you have been missing :-)

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Stop sharing that Facebook copyright status thing

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The Senate, the CIA and the torture report

Between the CIA and the torture report, police shootings, and the size of our prison population (largest in the world) it is not clear how we differentiate ourselves from Russia and China. We speak a good game, but do not always act on it.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Harvard Business Professor Loses His Mind When He's Overcharged $4 For Chinese Takeout

It is scary to think that this guy is actually "teaching" at the business school.

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Harvard Business Professor Loses His Mind When He's Overcharged $4 For Chinese Takeout

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Screaming Giraffe Toy Blessedly Shuffles Towards Its Own Demise

Meet your new Congressman…

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George W. Bush Knew He Was Too Stupid to Keep the CIA's Torture Secrets

That is a level of self-knowledge to which many politicians should aspire.

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Schmaltz Finds a New, Younger Audience

“There’s nothing quite like a slivovitz-gribenes high,” she said. “It turns out our ancestors were quite wise.” Yee Hah!

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McCain: CIA Torture 'Stained Our National Honor'

This may get him past the Sarah Palin debacle.

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Tostones for Hanukkah

Very tempting...

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This is What Photos of the Night Sky Would Look Like if the Andromeda Galaxy Were Brighter

"NASA scientists announced back in 2012 that our Milky Way is actually on an unavoidable collision course with Andromeda (the gap is closing at 68 miles per second)." Get your survival kits ready

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U.S. Top Court Rules No Worker Pay For Security Screening

This is pretty mean minded.

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Even diehard Apple haters will love this video of Steve Wozniak tinkering with an Apple I

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Monday, December 08, 2014

The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps | WIRED

This is why Google Maps beat Tom-Tom and and the rest. The street I live on is mislabelled by Tom-Tom. I have reported the error several times over the last 5 or more years. It never gets fixed.

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