LESS REGULATION AND LESS DEPENDENCY: That’s what Wayne Crews suggests should be the 5 word theme of tonight’s SOTU.
Archive for 2019
February 5, 2019
ENDORSED: “Virginia should do the right thing now” and appoint Mary Katharine Ham governor. We need to shut down all the Virginia politicians until we figure out what the hell is going on.
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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: It’s SOTU day and much, much more. “Here is a run down of the guests invited by the President. One of the guests is a young boy who shares the same name as the president and was bullied. People are animals. The Democrats also bring a pageantry of weirdos to the event. AOC has invited the “activist” who acted out a scripted encounter confronted former Senator and CBS’s newest contributor Jeff Flake in an elevator during the Kavanaugh circus. Do you plan to watch?”
Watch? I’ll be drunkblogging it along with the rest of the PJM live blog crew.
MAYBE THEY SHOULD GO WHOLE-HOG AND ELIMINATE THE FACULTY ENTIRELY: Should Law Schools Try To ‘De-Bias’ Faculty Recruiting By Eliminating CVs, Interviews?
HARRIER OVER THE GULF: Yes, there are still a few around. A USMC AV-8B Harrier refuels over the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
MISSING FROM THIS INSIDE HIGHER ED STORY: ANY INDICATION THAT RALPH NORTHAM IS A DEMOCRAT. Racist Histories: Colleges and universities in Virginia and elsewhere, struggling with histories tied to slavery and the Confederacy, are forced by the scandal involving the governor’s yearbook to consider the spewing of hatred in contemporary times. Which is especially weird since, in contemporary journalistic and academic usage, “spewing of hatred” only comes from Republicans.
ALLIES: Erdogan says Turkey will not ‘turn its back’ on Palestinian cause.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkey will not “turn its back” on the Palestinian cause or people, adding that Ankara will share “all means available” for ending the occupation and establishing peace.
Erdogan made the remarks during his meeting with the visiting Palestinian members of the Israeli parliament in Istanbul.
He thanked the Knesset members for their service of representing the Palestinian will in Israel’s legislative body against Tel Aviv’s “oppression” in Gaza as well as its “Jewish State” law and “baseless rhetoric” against Turkey.
It wasn’t that long ago that Turkey and Israel acted as de facto allies. And I wonder if Erdogan appreciates the irony that Israel is the only Middle Eastern country where Palestinians are free to elect their own representatives to parliament.
WELL, THEY TOLD ME IF MEN COULD BECOME PREGNANT, ABORTION WOULD BE A SACRAMENT. AND NOW WE HAVE “PREGNANT MEN” . . . AND ABORTION IS A SACRAMENT. Ralph Northam And Kathy Tran Revealed The Future Of Abortion Politics.
PRIVACY: Google pulls 29 photo apps that stole pictures and promoted scams.
The apps went out of their way to disguise their malicious nature. They’d use multiple compression archives (aka packers) to prevent analysis, and layer on thick encryption for their remote servers. Users would also have trouble removing them, to boot. They’d hide from the standard app ilst (you couldn’t just drag them out to delete them), and would make sure they weren’t linked to the ads.
This wouldn’t be as much of an issue if it weren’t that the apps were popular before Google removed them. All told, 11 of the apps had been downloaded over 100,000 times, and three of those over a million times — that’s a lot of victims. Unless Google can find a way to catch these apps sooner, it may be up to users to keep an eye out for suspicious apps.
Android’s openness can be a real boon to those who need or want it, but it is a two-edged sword.
OF COURSE HE WON’T: Booker Won’t Say How Much Medicare for All Will Cost.
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#JOURNALISM: Ted Frank Makes The Kavanaugh Comparison:
Democracy dies in lying weasels who’ll do anything to help the Democrats’ narratives. Okay, it’s not as catchy a slogan but it has the advantage of being true.
OVERREACTION: Boy arrested for ‘joking’ about shooting up school on social media.
The boy, who attends nearby Chesterton Middle School, reportedly told Siri “I am going to shoot up a school.” Siri helpfully responded with a list of schools in the Valparaiso area, where the boy was at the time. The boy took a screenshot and posted it to social media.
Some of his contacts alerted the police in Chesterton, who in turn notified Valparaiso cops.
The boy said that the post was a joke, and subsequent investigation revealed that he had no access to weapons. There was no sign that the boy had any particular school in mind when he made the comment.
“The threat is not believed to be credible at this time,” Valparaiso Police wrote in their Facebook post.
The kid did something not-too-smart, but I hope this doesn’t follow him around for years.
CORN, POPPED: Covington Boy’s Lawyers Send Preservation Letters to Over 50 Media Entities. “Including NYT, WaPo, CNN, NPA, TMZ, Elizabeth Warren, Alyssa Milano, Kathy Griffin, Maggie Haberman, Ana Cabrera, David Brooks…”
February 4, 2019
GUN CONTROL IS JUST ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR GRAFT: Brooklyn real estate agent allegedly brokered gun permits known as ‘a de Blasio special’ in corrupt NYPD License Division.