HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Unteachables.
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February 6, 2020
FORTUNATELY, MITCH MCCONNELL RESPECTS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AS A VALUABLE COMPONENT OF HIS PHARMACEUTICAL IMPORT BUSINESS: House Democrats to vote to take controversial California ‘gig economy’ regulations national.
SHE HAS ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES: Pelosi unloads on Trump in private meeting after SOTU standoff.
Pelosi, addressing her caucus Wednesday morning, said she felt “liberated” after defiantly ripping up Trump’s speech for the world to see, tearing up each page as she stood behind the president after he concluded his annual address.
“He shredded the truth, so I shredded his speech,” Pelosi told House Democrats, according to multiple sources in the room. “What we heard last night was a disgrace.”
Democrats gave Pelosi a standing ovation after she concluded her remarks, coming just hours before the Senate will vote to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial.
A standing ovation for a pre-planned public temper tantrum? Classy.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Pelosi keeps saying that Trump’s speech was full of lies, and that not one word was true. So the tremendous economic growth didn’t happen? Black workers aren’t doing better? The bottom quartile hasn’t progressed faster than the top 1%? Gen. McGee wasn’t really a Tuskeegee Airman? If you’re going to denounce lies, maybe name one? If we had an actual press, maybe someone would ask her about that.
CHANGE: New Arizona bill seeks to mandate ideological diversity on campus. “Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, argues in National Review the bill could represent a ‘new wave of state-level legislation directed toward reforming public universities.’ Last year, Kurtz authored a model campus intellectual diversity act that served as inspiration for the Arizona legislation. He writes that similar bills in other states are soon to follow, and adds he is cautiously optimistic about the effort in the longterm.”
It’s clear that we need some adult supervision on a lot of campuses.
THINK OF THEM AS DNC OPERATIVES WITH A CABLE NETWORK AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: CNN Excludes Tulsi Gabbard From Town Hall That Includes Lower-Polling Candidates.
WHAT IS SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN: Harvey Weinstein jurors shown naked photos of movie mogul.
IMPEACHMENT WAS NEVER SERIOUS: It was Democrat Fan Service All Along. “If you look at it this way—and you should—you can see why Democrats didn’t mind the haste and sloppiness and refusal to pursue the Ukraine matter with serious and deliberate focus. It wasn’t actually about Ukraine. It was a way of keeping the Russia-collusion fantasy going. They had been forced to surrender it when Mueller issued his report, and they couldn’t bear to do so.”
Related: Flashback, March 2017: “Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.”
BUT THE COMPANY IS CONNECTED TO ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE: An ‘Off-the-Shelf, Skeleton Project’: Experts Analyze the App That Broke Iowa.
Motherboard asked six cybersecurity and app development experts we trust to analyze the app. The app was built on top of React Native, an open-source app development package released by Facebook that can be used for both Android and iOS apps, according to Kasra Rahjerdi, who has been an Android developer since the original Android project was launched, and Robert Baptise, a white-hat hacker who has exposed security flaws in many popular apps and reviewed the code. Rahjerdi said that the app contains default React Native metadata and that it comes off as a “very very off the shelf skeleton project plus add your own code kind of thing.”
“Honestly, the biggest thing is—I don’t want to throw it under the bus—but the app was clearly done by someone following a tutorial. It’s similar to projects I do with my mentees who are learning how to code,” Rahjerdi said. “They started with a starter package and they just added things on top of it. I get deja vu from my classes because the code looks like someone Googled things like ‘how to add authentication to React Native App’ and followed the instructions,” Rahjerdi said.
“The mobile app looks hastily thrown together,” Dan Guido, CEO of cybersecurity consulting firm Trail of Bits, told Motherboard.
Heads should roll, but they’ll circle the wagons instead.
TRADE WARS ARE FUN AND EASY TO WIN: China to cut tariffs in half on $75 billion of U.S. goods.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, THE ENEMY WITHIN EDITION: Another medical research prof with secret ties to China.
AT LEAST THEY’RE STARTING TO ACT GUILTY ABOUT THEIR OVERWHELMING HYPOCRISY: Elizabeth Warren accused of hiding while getting off private jet.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Hey Democrats — Cocaine Mitch Is ‘Judging’ You. “With almost blinding speed, McConnell filled the Senate schedule with confirmation votes for more judges. It was a brutal and most effective gesture, letting Nancy ‘Rip the Transcript’ Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats know that their stunt had fallen flat.”
Cocaine Mitch, what is best in life?
COASTAL RIVERINE SQUADRON 1: Three patrol boats from the U.S. Navy’s Coastal Riverine Squadron 1 conduct anti-terrorism force protection operations in the Gulf of Tadjoura. The squadron is forward-deployed with Combined Task Group 68.6 at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. The small boats carry a variety of weapons, including .50 caliber machine guns. This photo shows sailors (aboard a cruiser) firing a .50 caliber machine gun in a live fire exercise.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: China’s ‘grand gestures,’ propaganda aim to calm fears about coronavirus.
Newborn becomes youngest person diagnosed with coronavirus as infections near 30K.
More Princess cruise ship passengers have coronavirus.
Russia Blocks OPEC Response to Coronavirus: The rejection of the Saudi plan is a setback for the OPEC-Moscow alliance. Russia can’t afford to cut production. Thanks, frackers!
Coronavirus cases in US likely to rise but ‘no reason for considerable anxiety,’ says NIH Director Francis Collins. We’ll know if he’s right in a couple of weeks.
All 645 Indian evacuees from Wuhan tested negative.
Record 73 dead in China in 24 hours as death toll rises to more than 560.
QUESTION ASKED AND (POSSIBLY) ANSWERED: Impeachment is over. Where do the Democrats go from here?
THAT THERE’S A WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY STILL IN LOVE WITH CHAVISMO SAYS A LOT: Trump Set Up The Fight Against Bernie — And Split The Democrats — With Guaidó Shout-Out.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: Democrats speechless as scandal engulfs Virginia’s leaders.
With Virginia’s top three elected officials engulfed in scandal, fellow Democrats were rendered practically speechless, uncertain of how to thread their way through the racial and sexual allegations and their tangled political implications.
Gov. Ralph Northam’s career was already hanging by a thread over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook when a woman publicly accused the lieutenant governor of sexually assaulting her 15 years ago, and then the attorney general admitted that he too wore blackface once, as a teenager.
But they made it go away, by pointing out to the media that if they resigned, a Republican might wind up in power. Once that happened, the press coverage vanished overnight.
I EXPECT ROMNEY TO FACE A PRIMARY CHALLENGE: Trump More Popular Than Romney in Utah.
COCAINE MITCH CAME HERE TO CHEW BUBBLEGUM AND CONFIRM JUDGES, AND HE’S ALL OUT OF BUBBLEGUM: After Trump’s Acquittal, Mitch McConnell Went Right Back to Work Confirming More Judges.
LEAVE THE USB CABLE AT HOME: Welcome to the Era of Supercharged Lithium-Silicon Batteries. “Batteries with silicon anodes promise to make devices last more than 20 percent longer on a single charge.”
NH GOV. SUNUNU: WE’RE NOT IOWA. “You can’t hack pen and paper.” Do tell.