Friday, September 30, 2016

HuffPost Politics

Gee-what a surprise!
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The New York Times

Yes he can - because nasty is his nature. He has no choice because narcissistic paranoia is not his fault. He was born with it along with the silver spoon up his ass. Poor thing. Wah wah.
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HuffPost Politics

Well, he could hardly appear in a hardcore movie because of a physical disability.
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Trump Foundation lacks the certification required for charities that solicit money

Gee - what a surprise - once a cucking fruck, always a cucking fruck.The Tumpeter is a plague that keeps on giving.
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Tablet Exclusive: The Final Interview With Shimon Peres

The political forces on the right in the USA want to change this: "“Why is America great?” I asked him. “Because they were givers. Why is Europe in trouble? Because they are takers. America is giving; people think it’s because they are generous. I think it’s because they are wise. If you give, you create friends. The most beneficial investment is making friends." Words from a great man.
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HuffPost Politics

Does it not occur to anyone other than I that these people in Congress are too stupid to hold public office? "You vetoed the bill and we did not ask why so it's your fault we overrode your veto it" - that's a Trump line that I could expect from a two year old!
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Daily News Bin

Bizarre behavior...
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Consumer Reports

None of these steps are as effective as ignoring the election in the USA.
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A principled option for U.S. president: Endorsing Gary Johnson, Libertarian

The Tribune's inability to operate its core business does not lead me to trust their judgement regarding which candidate's policies would be best for business.
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‘I Guess I’m Having an Aleppo Moment’: Gary Johnson Can’t Name a Single Foreign Leader

Libertarian: Defending the right of every individual to be ignorant - even the leader of the USA 😱
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The New York Times

When both parties agree almost unanimously, disaster often ensues.
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The LAD Bible

Our next candidate for President 🙀
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ScienceAlert

This is how many science fiction novels start. Has he registered the company "General Space"?
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In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue

Who does this remind you of. Don't flame me - you made the connection yourself.
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The Dali Museum

An amazing maize maze
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Daily News Bin

"considering how badly Donald Trump is now losing the election, and how much his refusal to produce his taxes appears to be further harming his chances, it suggests that Trump would rather lose the election than risk exposing whatever he’s hiding."
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

FactCheck.org

That's over $60,000,000 in current dollars.
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Monday, September 26, 2016

Donald J. Trump on Twitter

Retweeted Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton): "I never said that." —Donald Trump, who said that. #debatenight
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How To Watch A Debate Without Bias

Not many people want to watch without bias 🤓
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Opinion: Donald ‘Wrong Way’ Trump

"He says so many ridiculous things that it’s hard to know when he’s displaying abysmal ignorance and when he’s deliberately lying. This ambiguity holds across the board, on virtually all issues and even on basic facts"
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Saturday, September 24, 2016

First Lady Michelle Obama greets former President George W. Bush.

Retweeted Jeremy Art (@jeremyart): My favorite little moment today: @FLOTUS greets former President George W. Bush at @NMAAHC Opening. https://t.co/CGcQubCL2z #APeoplesJourney
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NancyA on Twitter

Retweeted NancyA (@npa222): President Bush tapping President Obama to take a picture #NMAAHC https://t.co/Z7KbOMIOWr
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Daniel Dale on Twitter

This is news? It is business as usual!
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Feds: We can read all your email, and you'll never know

"Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent regular people and public officials scrambling to delete entire accounts full of messages dating back years. " How dumb. Every email ever sent exists at your email provider (where you can delete it but it often hangs around for 30 days ), on your provider's backup and archives (where you can't touch it), on the other parties' providers, provider's backups, local backups and archives (from which you can't delete it). To completely remove an email from the world is close to an impossible task. The only thing that preserves privacy is that nobody (quite often not even the intended recipient) actually wants to read the mail :-)
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Trump’s Pro-ISIS Foreign Policy

My three year old granddaughter knows more about ISIS than does Rump.
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Snapchat Announces Spectacles: $130 Camera Sunglasses

Dang! They don't make clip-ons for old folk who wear glasses.
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Leica and Huawei to create joint R&D center

This is consistent with Leica kick-starting the small camera segment almost 100 years ago
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The Atlantic

"Nationalism, of course, discounts the rights, interests, and moral value of “the Other", but this disposition is inconsistent with our fundamental moral teachings and beliefs."
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Friday, September 23, 2016

andrewgelman.com

More insight into the variance of polls (not pols)
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Andy Borowitz

It's so unfair. The whole thing is rigged. If it wasn't, how the hell did Rump get this far?
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What is your life quote?

So this is what the app came up with after carefully assessing my Facebook posts and responses and generating a random answer? Clck here and get your own...
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WATCH: Trump’s ‘taco truck on every corner’ guy gets chance at redemption — and utterly fails

“When asked how he views Mexicans Gutierrez admitted he sees them as “stubborn, arrogant, false pride, intolerant, selfish.”” This poor guy is getting shat on because he is honest about his own group identity. Unfortunately his assessment is accurate about every group that people identify with. Consider your own and assess thoughtfully and honestly. For those of my ilk, consider the Viduy. I don’t agree with his politics, but this is an unfair attack on his honest assessment of his own group every group I have ever heard people identified with - including Patriots, Americans, Cubs Fans, Patriots Fans, Chicagoans, BMW drivers, Porsche drivers, Prius drivers, Leica owners, Bread Bakers, you get the picture…
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We Gave Four Good Pollsters the Same Raw Data. They Had Four Different Results.

Why you should take polls with a Scotch on the rocks no matter what your politics are. Stop fretting.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Donald Trump still doesn't understand how the internet works

When politicians and technology mix, the result is unpalatable.
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Right Wing Watch

Not a bad prediction. Looks like the Satanic attack has succeeded and Satan has indeed taken him over.
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mental_floss

After November, interesting...
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Biker Rear-Ended By Own Mom: 'Fuck, Mom. Fuck!'

For insight into the other idiots with whom we share the road ...
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Sumo - Aki Basho 2016 Day 7 - September 17th

Still the best and purist spectator sport. Simple rules - no holds barred. Money does not count.
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Depicting imbalance, straying from the standard chart

Interesting data. Draw your own conclusions.
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Sunday, September 18, 2016

YOU Magazine

Contact me for translations...
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Grouchy's Grumbles

If you want to vote Libertarian, consider this:
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Fact Checker

Or he is a typical Rump supporter - one step below an athletic supporter...
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Patrick Desbois

Listened to his presentation this afternoon. A passionate person doing important work.
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Nicholas Irving on Twitter

Retweeted Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom): Trying to get people to understand the difference between "intentional" and "terrorism" is pissing into a blizzard.
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Friday, September 16, 2016

mental_floss

Me INTP every time I was tested.
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Andy Borowitz

Sadly they will be proven wrong.
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Epson Unveils World's Fastest Photo Scanner, Scans One Print Per Second

Hmmm .. could be cheaper than scanning all my old prints. Waiting for the tests.
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Why Donald Trump’s ‘Birther’ Lie Collapsed

Every time i think the Rump can sink no lower - he does! How can he look at himself in the mirror? But wait - he does not look at himself - the brilliance would blind him. Besides, if he did look at himself he would kill his hairstylist.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Trump just released a statement about the Obama birther conspiracy. Almost every word in it is a lie

I heard the CNN announce this. They treated it as if it was actually news! No historical laughter, no "No shit, Sherlock", nothing! Next tRrump will announce that he made a major scientific discovery - "the Sun rose yesterday" and they will cover it with respectful awe concerning his brilliant insight and willingness to pivot and act Presidential. What a fucking egotistical joke he is - and he may still become President :-(
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And now, a case of really bad Republican timing

Keep your hand on your wallet when if they get elected.
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Donald Trump Jr. posts meme of himself grouped with alt-right symbol Pepe the Frog - U.S. Election 2016

"Pepe is a cartoon frog who has been ubiquitous on the internet over the last decade, but who in the last year or so has become popular as the flag-bearer of the alt-right, which advances an insular conservatism favoring white people." The nut does not fall far from the tree.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

What Trump Supporters Want You to Believe

"I can just imagine Trump in Reagan’s place, standing in Berlin and yelling “Mr. Gorbachev, nice wall!”"
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Sam Bee Mocks Lauer, Hits Media For Inability To 'Call A Liar A Liar'

"Maintaining the image of fairness requires them to portray Hillary and Trump as equally flawed candidates, even though they know that's incorrect," she noted. "On the one hand you have the most breathtakingly, unqualified, ignoramus to of heave his balls within striking distance of office. A race-baiting bully who, according to two carefully researched biographies, is a tax cheating, investor swindling, dictator loving, pathologically lying, attorneys general bribing, philandering, mobbed up, narcissistic serial con artist who hasn't got the attention span to read a fortune cookie much less a -- intelligence briefing." Using the perfect visual for this part, she concluded, "But on the other hand, Hillary Clinton used a private e-mail server. See? Perfectly even. Next up on the place for politics the neck and neck ..." As always comedians provide more insight than journalists and pseudo journalists and commentators.
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Grouchy's Grumbles

If you think tRump is good for anything, watch this.
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Thursday, September 08, 2016

CREDO Mobile

Briefing Trump will put American lives in danger. He can't keep his mouth shut.
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Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back

Not a new column - but still good analysis.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Mike Pence, Breaking With Donald Trump, Says Obama Was Born in America

I had to check several times that this was not a Borowitz satire. I am still not sure...
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Excel errors and science papers

Complex spreadsheets are software programs generally written by amateurs with no understanding of software development and testing. "Easy to use" is not the same as "easy to use well". It's not just a science problem. It's a business problem as well.
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How One Earthquake Erased an Empire and Changed the Course of Human History

"After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter ruin than to give the people a beautiful auto-da-fé; for it had been decided by the University of Coimbra that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking."
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Tamron Hall methodically destroys squirming Trump backer: ‘I realize you’ve come locked and loaded’

The Admirals and Generals endorsing Trump are the same folk that resulted in the USA not winning any wars since 1945!
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How non-English speakers are taught this crazy English grammar rule you know but have never heard of

I posted about this yesterday - but I did not know it was taught to non-English speakers. The hard wiring brains is weird (wierd?) "Learning rules doesn’t always work, however. Forsyth also takes issue with the rules we think we know, but which don’t actually hold true. In a lecture about grammar, he dismantles the "...commonly held English spelling mantra “I before E except after C.” It’s used to help people remember how to spell words like “piece,” but, Forsyth says, there are only 44 words that follow the rule, and 923 that don’t. His prime examples? “Their,” “being,” and “eight.”""
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This SMART Device Makes The Most Delicious DRINKS EVER

Interesting - but I will wait for it to go into production. Better than Nespresso?
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Remember that time the Bush administration lost 5 million emails — and Republicans shrugged?

“Republicans, from George W. Bush to Trump to Jindal, like their private servers and could not care less about preserving emails, and in fact have actively worked to evade transparency over and over again. But, today, it is only Clinton’s private server system that has sparked federal and congressional investigations, and whose core trustworthiness is now casually and hourly questioned from coast to coast—by some of the very men whose email hygiene habits are no better and who, furthermore, have demonstrated time and again that they believe rules about transparency were invented to be broken.”
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Monday, September 05, 2016

Big bad modifier order

One of the many things I have never really thought about...
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mental_floss

This could become a new Olympics event!
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Chicago Tribune

"We should be distraught at the recent uptick in violent crime. The 473 homicides last year and similar number already this year, prominently covered daily, have taken a terrible toll, especially in some neighborhoods on the South and West sides. But my contemporaries seem to have forgotten that when we were growing up here, playing kick the can in the streets, there were 970 murders (1974) in the city, and when we were raising our kids here there were 943 (1992). From 1994 to the early 2000s, the number of murders was cut almost in half to under 500, where it has stood, almost without exception, for a dozen years"
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10 Places You Needn't Visit in America

I can vouch for about half of these spots - and would add Las Vegas to the list.
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Friday, September 02, 2016

How Fox News Women Took Down Roger Ailes

To all who regard Fox News as news…
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The Raw Story

Joe Biden just ripped Donald Trump a new one in a speech delivered at a campaign stop in Warren, Ohio: "This is the guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth that now he's choking on -- because his foot's in his mouth along with his spoon"
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Thursday, September 01, 2016

Ava is busy at the Museum of Science and Industry
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Trump translated

A view from the other side.
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