It looks like a pro-science demonstration is going to happen. Organizers of a “Scientists’ March on Washington” said their Facebook group leaped from 50,000 to 350,000 members on its first day. Read story here. Photos: Crowd of climate change agitators (above); incendiary protest sign (below)�[...]
Archive for January, 2017
January 25th, 2017 - 6:01 pm § in Politics
Trump pulls the tarp off voting fraud
The word is out: Trump’s investigators have unmasked at least three — count ’em, three! — voters who are registered in multiple states: “A look into state records by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune revealed that Steve Bannon, Trump’s senior White House adviser, is in fact reg[...]
January 25th, 2017 - 5:06 pm § in Politics
Trump endorses torture
After signaling Wednesday morning he’ll reopen CIA black prisons, der Fuhrer Trumpen said Wednesday afternoon he’s “asked intelligence officials about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on terror suspects” and alleges they told him torture “works.” “I [...]
January 25th, 2017 - 11:47 am § in Uncategorized
Will WASTATE go for charters under Trumped Education?
The Donald’s choice of Betsy DeVos as the next secretary of education is momentous for the fight here WA over charters. Stripped of lots of rhetoric the fight here has two parts: 1. Who should control the tax money spent, under our Constitution, to provide public education? On one side, most[...]
January 25th, 2017 - 1:36 am § in Misc.
Science Hype: NASA Prepares for an alien pregnancy in space.
NASA sent a miniaturized DNA sequencer designed for microgravity, called the Biomolecule Sequencer, to the International Space Station as part of he cargo launched on July 18 aboard a SpaceX Dragon craft. According to NASA, the miniaturised equipment the Biomolecule Sequencer, , will allow astr[...]
January 25th, 2017 - 1:14 am § in Misc.
AFTER TRUMP: Media Responsibility?
“One-dimensional stereotypes fester where journalism fails to tread…” Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get w[...]
January 24th, 2017 - 11:39 pm § in Misc.
Russia arrests top manager at Kaspersky cybersecurity firm on treason charge
Ruslan Stoyanov, head of of Kaspersky Labs computer incidents investigations unit, was arrested in December. Stoyanov and a senior Russian FSB intelligence officer face charges of treason. U.S. intelligence agencies have accused Russia of meddling in the November presidential election through hack[...]
January 24th, 2017 - 5:28 pm § in Politics
Baghdad Bob 2.0 denies women marched against Trump
“At his first official press conference Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer claimed the Women’s March on Washington that drew millions of protesters around the world over the weekend wasn’t necessarily directed at Donald Trump. In particular, Spicer said, ‘A lot [...]