OPERATION MOUNT HOPE: How the CIA stole a Russian Hind-D gunship in the dead of night.
Archive for 2019
October 9, 2019
INSIDE JOB: Byron York: Whistleblower had ‘professional’ tie to 2020 Democratic candidate.
Related: End Impeachment Secrecy. Not a chance. They’ve learned from the Kavanaugh experience not to tell stories that can be checked.
PRIVACY: Senator proposes mandatory labeling for products with mics, cameras.
The bill, dubbed the Protecting Privacy in our Homes Act, would mandate a new kind of labeling on goods that include Internet-connected microphones or cameras. The proposed law does not define what kind of labels would need to be appended but rather would order the Federal Trade Commission to put in place specific regulations “under which each covered manufacturer shall be required to include on the packaging of each covered device manufactured by the covered manufacturer a notice that a camera or microphone is a component of the covered device.”
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) introduced the bill to the Senate. “Consumers face a number of challenges when it comes to their privacy, but they shouldn’t have a challenge figuring out if a device they buy has a camera or microphone embedded into it,” Gardner said. “This legislation is about consumer information, consumer empowerment, and making sure we’re doing everything we can to protect consumer privacy.”
The buyer can’t beware if the buyer is unaware.
AT AMAZON, Deal of the Day, Waste King L-2600 Garbage Disposal with Power Cord, 1/2 HP.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Comeback: Study Shows Universities Denying Admission Based on Race.
IF I RECALL, THERE’S A SCENE EXACTLY LIKE THIS IN ISAAC ASIMOV’S FOUNDATION:
CHANGE: Elizabeth Warren Leads Joe Biden For First Time in RCP Polling Average.
Related: Donors express frustrations over Biden.
I’ll have more on this later over at VodkaPundit.
KEEP THIS UP AND PEOPLE WILL START TO THINK THAT ACADEMIA IS A RACKET: The rise of “coercive citation.”
Eric A. Fong’s manuscript had been conditionally accepted. The editor said Fong needed to ensure it conformed with the journal’s style and to shorten it to meet the word limit. That was easy enough. But the third condition gave Fong pause.
He’d cited only one source from the journal he’d submitted the article to. The editor wrote in an email that that was “unacceptable,” and told him to “please add at least five more.”
Adding citations to articles in the same journal, as the editor had requested, would inflate the journal’s impact factor, which often dictates a journal’s importance. It’s a phenomenon some scholars call “coercive citation,” but Fong, then an assistant professor of management at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, had never heard that term.
Sad!
HARSH, BUT FAIR.
THIS IS TO BE EXPECTED: Forget Facebook, Google. Now your work could also follow you in secret.
OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Not Even Mar-a-Lago Is Safe: Trump Org Bows to Far-Left Demand to Cancel Conservative Event.
TODAY IN SUPREME COURT HISTORY | 10/9/1954: Justice Robert H. Jackson dies.
NEARLY 800,000 PG&E CUSTOMERS BRACE FOR LARGEST POWER SHUT-OFF EVER.
Nearly 800,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers are preparing for their power to be intentionally cut for what could be the largest deliberate power shut-off in California’s history.
A Red Flag Warning is being issued over the next few days with strong winds expected to make the risk of wildfire extremely high.
The outages are expected to start as early as Wednesday at midnight and could last until mid-day on Thursday. They may affect millions of people living in 34 counties.
I’m so old, I can remember when California was an aspirational place, and not a warning to the rest of America.
October 8, 2019
WHEN YOU CHASE PEOPLE DOWN IN YOUR CAR AND POINT A GUN AT THEM, it’s not self-defense.
LISTEN: Jacqueline Du Pré – Bruch: Kol Nidrei, Op. 47. Speaking as a cellist, she was always my favorite cellist.
IT BEGINS: Dog named Molly shoots an Oklahoma woman who was in the car.
Are we sure it’s a real dog? It could be a time-travelling Vargr, you know.
NOW OUT FROM DEAN REUTER: The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil. “He’s the worst Nazi war criminal you’ve never heard of.” (Bumped).
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: World on brink of unavoidable ‘black swan’ apocalypse, security panel warns.
Perhaps it has something to do with this:
SMOD’s original platform had much to recommend. I hope he (it?) doesn’t turn into the Harold Stassen — or Hillary — of cataclysmic meteors.
(Classical reference in headline.)
JULIETTE OCHIENG unveils the anonymous “whistleblower.”
DISPATCHES FROM GROUND ZERO OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Oberlin College hires high-powered DC lawyers to appeal Gibson’s Bakery verdict.