NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: A former American Airlines mechanic admitted he tried to sabotage a plane at the Miami airport. “Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, admitted that he intentionally tried to damage or disable an aircraft’s air data module (ADM) system, which reports aircraft speed, pitch and other critical data, on July 17.”
Three years in prison seems like an awfully light sentence for an action that could have killed a planeload of people.
THE BULL SEES THE CAPE, NOT THE SWORD: As House votes to impeach Trump, McConnell pushes 13 judge nominations through Senate. Quoth Cocaine Mitch: “My motto for the remainder of this Congress is ‘leave no vacancy behind.'”
SEXIST MOM-SHAMING AT THE WAPO: WaPo Called Out for Publishing Column Attacking Martha Roby for Bringing Son to Impeachment Articles Vote. “One wonders if McWhorter, a civil rights historian for the state of Alabama, will ever understand the irony of her lamenting the supposed death of civility and southern grace in the age of Trump while at the same time shamelessly using a Republican Congresswoman’s 10-year-old son as a tool to attack her with?”
If Democratic congresswomen had brought their kids in as some sort of PR stunt, she would have gushed. Because she’s a hack.
STRATEGYTALK: Freedom not dead yet in Hong Kong.
NORTH AMERICA’S ENERGY DIPLOMACY: Fracking pays off.
Iran, Russia and Venezuela provide current cases where the North American energy edge damages the dictators.
Read the entire column. And tell that scold Greta Thunberg she’s a totalitarian tool.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: New Jersey education official Joan Terrell-Paige not sorry for calling Jews ‘brutes’ after anti-Semitic shooting.
NIGHTHAWKS: Three USN F/A-18Es fly in formation over the Pacific Ocean.
THE MAIN REASON NOT TO LEAVE ALL OUR EGGS IN THIS ONE BASKET: Earth has had more major mass extinctions than we realized.
THE PR CAMPAIGN IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Two-thirds of voters say Democrats want to impeach Trump more than help Americans.
WAPO DROPS THE MASK: Party Time! WashPost Reporters Wish Everyone a ‘Merry Impeachmas.’
Democracy dies in gaslighting:
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WELL, THAT’S ONE WAY TO PUT IT: Jesus KOs Santa Again This Year. “For sizable majorities of Americans, it’s no contest again this year: Jesus wins over Santa, and ‘Merry Christmas’ beats ‘Happy Holidays’.”
GIVEN UNIVERSITIES’ INCREASING WILLINGNESS TO VIOLATE PROMISES TO DONORS, I THINK YOU’LL SEE MORE PROVISIONS LIKE THIS: Hillsdale College receives $4.6M after it sues Mizzou for ignoring donor’s wishes. “Hibbs, realizing that the University of Missouri may not follow through with his wishes, had stipulated the university check in with Hillsdale every four years as to how the money was being spent. If Mizzou wasn’t honoring the terms, the funding would revert to Hillsdale.”
It sounds like the false certifications that Mizzou engaged in should be prosecutable as fraud.
NOW OUT FROM BEN BARTON: Fixing Law Schools. I blurbed it, so you know it’s good!
I REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS A BIG LEFTY HERO: California bar: Avenatti stole from client using ‘deceit.’
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DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Israeli student is subjected to sickening, foul-mouthed anti-Semitic tirade on New York subway by passenger ‘annoyed at being asked to move her bags. “Lihi Aharon was riding the train from Manhattan to Brooklyn when New Jersey resident Zarinah Ali, 38, began hurling racist abuse.”
RELIABILITY: Amazon Blocked Sellers From Using FedEx And Now We Know Why.
A supply chain software company called Convey has done an analysis on 2.5 billion shipping events relating to tens of millions of packages shipped from over 500 thousand locations since Thanksgiving and the results are troubling to any FedEx shareholder: FedEx on-time delivery performance has dropped to 68.3% from 77.5% in the same period in 2018. And FedEx is not alone. The same analysis shows UPS’ on-time stats are down too, from 86% to 80%. Most likely, the increase in the number of packages and the higher percent going to consumers’ homes is overwhelming the companies’ systems and accounts for the decline in on-time performance.
Although these poor performance numbers from FedEx and UPS are bad for Amazon’s customer service in the short-term, this may be a big opportunity for Amazon in the longer term. Amazon is now leaning on these poor performance numbers to continue to build its own delivery business.
Here in the Front Range exurbs, Amazon’s homegrown delivery service had a rocky start. But we’ve found their delivery in recent months to be more reliable than anyone else. They also tend to deliver earlier in the day, which is nice since I’m usually home.
CHRISTINE ROSEN ON the casual misandry that masquerades as criticism of men and boys.
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