Tuesday, July 25, 2017

#News on a Nailhead 7/26

Tom Brady needs to stand down from the NFL as in immediately.  (Science Daily:  High prevalence of evidence of CTE in brains of deceased football players)

Note:  "Top Gun" Rules as it's better to retire and save the aircraft than push a bad position.  It's a bad gamble to keep playing, mate, don't do it.


A whole lotta people want to save Snopes fact checking.  (Phys.org:  Snopes meets $500K crowdfunding goal amid legal battle)


CNN couldn't even beat The Discovery Channel.  They should get a special award for reducing the world's first global news network to this.  Well done.  (The Hill:  MSNBC finishes first in primetime basic cable for first time ever)


We thank Debbie Wasserman Schultz for the glories she has brought to the Democratic Party.  (Fox News:  Feds arrest IT staffer for Wasserman Schultz trying to leave country)


Richard Dawkins was fired so maybe he could pray for forgiveness.  (RT:  Richard Dawkins hits back at ‘abusive speech against Islam’ allegations)


Call Uber since other taxi companies don't provide in-car sex shows.  (Mirror:  Uber passenger filmed driver 'receiving oral sex from prostitute' at the steering wheel on journey home)

Note:  was the filming necessary?  Isn't it the protocol to avert one's eyes at such times.


Cop goes for some variety and shoots himself.  Tip:  wound is not life-threatening.  (NJ.com:  Officer shoots self in leg during firearms training)


Congress will reap what it sows, most likely from outraged Bolsheviks.  (CNN: Senate advances health care bill as McCain makes dramatic return, Pence breaks tie)


As usual, Mark Zuckerberg brings a knife to a gun fight.  (Phys.org:  Musk, Zuckerberg duel over artificial intelligence)


Start the countdown until Jeff Sessions is sent back to his Drone Master, Harry Anslinger.  (CNN:  Trump 'disappointed' in Sessions, won't say if he wants him out)

Note:  Harry Anslinger started the Reefer Madness in the early Forties and he was the one who gave us the vision of marijuana makes black men crazy and then they rape white woman.  Yah, that Anslinger.


WTF, Rep. Farenthold is quite obviously fat and unattractive (shrug).  (Fox News: Sen. Susan Collins apologizes to Rep. Blake Farenthold for calling him 'fat' and 'unattractive')


The damnable Adobe Flash will disappear by 2020.  (Macworld.  Adobe Flash will die by 2020, Adobe and browser makers say)


Ivanka Trump misquoted Einstein but he just laughed and said, "I call her President Sugar Tits."  (RT:  Alternative facts: Ivanka Trump called out by Einstein estate for misquote)


When you find yourself trying to buy coke from a cop, it may be time to review your life plan.  (Yahoo:  Police: Men arrested trying to buy drugs at police station)

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