PROGRESSIVE GOVERNANCE: San Francisco Police Got a Warrant to Monitor a Journalist’s Phone Before Raiding His Apartment.
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June 5, 2019
WOW: ‘Pumping heart patch’ ready for human use.
Sewn on to the heart, the 3cm (1in) by 2cm patch, grown in a lab from a sample of the patient’s own cells, then turns itself into healthy working muscle.
It also releases chemicals that repair and regenerate existing heart cells.
Tests in rabbits show it appears safe, Imperial College London experts told a leading heart conference in Manchester.
Patient trials should start in the next two years, the British Cardiovascular Society meeting heard.
Researcher Dr Richard Jabbour said: “One day, we hope to add heart patches to the treatments that doctors can routinely offer people after a heart attack.
“We could prescribe one of these patches alongside medicines for someone with heart failure, which you could take from a shelf and implant straight in to a person.”
Two years is a long time to wait for anyone who’s suffered a heart attack, so… faster, please.
June 4, 2019
MAKE TEXAS GREAT AGAIN… ER, MORE GREAT: “I just signed a law allowing you to order beer and wine from retailers to be delivered to your home.”
IT’S EASY IF YOU TRY: AOC Imagines a World Where Everyone Lives in ‘Luxury’ Public Housing as a ‘Human Right.’
SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Leftist Thug Parks Car in the Middle of the Street to Attack Trump Supporters in LA.
TAQIYYA: Qatar bans homosexuality as Al Jazeera in English marks LGBT Pride Month.
Al Jazeera is headquartered in Qatar.
WELL, YES, THAT’S THEIR ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL: Facebook lawyer says users ‘have no expectation of privacy.’
According to Law360, Facebook attorney Orin Snyder made the comment while defending the company against a class-action lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
“There is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy,” Snyder said.
In an attempt to have the lawsuit thrown out, Snyder further claimed that Facebook was nothing more than a “digital town square” where users voluntarily give up their private information.
“You have to closely guard something to have a reasonable expectation of privacy,” Snyder added.
Although Snyder said that the social media site would be focusing more on privacy in the future, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria reportedly pushed back on Facebook’s argument.
“What you are saying now sounds contrary to the message that Facebook itself disseminates about privacy,” Chhabria said, according to Law.com.
Or as tech blogger John Gruber quipped, “Get them in court and all of sudden they’re honest.”
IT ISN’T ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY: ‘Are you on crack???’ Lefty GQ writer’s hot takes on Dem vs. GOP approaches to SCOTUS give the Onion a run for its money.
CORN, POPPED: Socialism debate roils Democratic primary.
A fierce debate over socialism has erupted among Democrats, with several centrist presidential candidates warning that progressive proposals on health care and the environment that have dominated the primary are a surefire way to get President Trump reelected.
Three low-polling contenders — former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.) and former Rep. John Delaney (Md.) — are unloading on socialism or taking shots at “Medicare for All” and the Green New Deal, which have gone mainstream in the Democratic Party since being embraced by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.).
Hickenlooper and Delaney made waves with their warnings about socialism and Medicare for All at the California Democratic Party convention over the weekend in San Francisco, where they were booed mercilessly by the liberal crowd.
I wonder how much of the response is due to True Believers in socialism, and how much is because it’s Old White Guys warning against it.
HUH: Which Country Smokes the Most Weed? It’s Probably Not Who You Think.
I’m referring to national cannabis consumption rates, AKA the percentage of residents in any one country who consume cannabis.
With our rapidly expanding regulated cannabis programs and national high anxiety, it must be the US, right? Everyone I know is high, so USA #1!
Nope.
Nor is it Canada, even with their recent national legalization of cannabis, and easy access to Tim Hortons.
The place with the highest rate of cannabis consumption isn’t who you would think, nor is it someplace many ‘muricans could find on a map — Nigeria.
I would have guessed Jamaica long before getting to Nigeria.
AGENDA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM: NYT Avenges Attacks on Biden’s Relationship with China By Going After Chao’s.
THE CAMPAIGN SEASON IS YOUNG: Eric Swalwell’s Diaper Video Is ‘The Dumbest Campaign Tweet of All Time.’
BLUE CITY BLUES: Chicago Police ‘Reform’ Going Well: 50 Shot Over the Weekend.
GOOD LORD: Mexican government admits 80% of its populated territory is run by cartels, including key border areas. “Mexico looks awfully similar to Afghanistan in terms of how much is controlled by insurgent groups. The map of Mexico shows the districts in red fully controlled by the cartels, the ones in yellow in dispute, and the ones in green in control of the Mexican government. They all represent priority enforcement areas for a new Mexican National Guard operation against the cartels proposed by the AMLO regime.”
OH: Former Democratic Congressional Candidate Saira Rao Says She Hates White People And America. “After her primary defeat, Rao said that she was ready to ‘give up’ on white people, blaming them for her loss. Before her loss, Rao also wrote an open letter to the Democratic party in the Huffington Post, ripping them for not doing enough to combat racism.”
The lack of self-awareness is strong in this one.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Contempt-o-palooza Set for Next Week. “Once this clown car passes a contempt vote they will be cleared to take legal action in subpoena battle, ‘sources’ told Politico. Both McGahn are Barr are being tormented with nuisance subpoenas because the White House has claimed it is exercising executive privilege and refusing to let them testify. In McGahn’s case, he was White House counsel. In Barr’s case, he is prevented from turning over the unredacted portions of the Mueller report because the law prevents him from doing so. The House can certainly take this issue to court and have the court decided if the public interest is worth violating the promised anonymity of grand jury testimony, but they aren’t doing this. Why? Well, because the court will probably not side with congress and this isn’t about getting the redacted version of the report, it’s part of the congressional street theater operation.”
Sounds like there’s a real story in there for some enterprising mainstream media reporter.
KAROL MARKOWICZ: School shooter drills terrorize our kids pointlessly.
These “soft-lockdown” drills, ostensibly to prepare kids for a potential school shooter, require kids to hide in their classroom, sometimes in a closet, and remain quiet and out of view.
It would be one thing to prepare teachers and school staff for this kind of rare emergency. But having children hide in a closet and practice being quiet is at best a waste of time and at worst a way to emotionally scar the children we’re trying to shield. Holding these drills four times per year is ludicrous.
Anyone who has ever played “the quiet game” with kids knows they are generally terrible at staying silent. And even if the kids somehow manage to remain quiet for an entire practice drill, there is no guarantee they will do the same in an actual lockdown situation.
Then there’s the question of why we subject the kids to these drills at all. Despite the wall-to-wall hysteria over school shootings, it is extremely unlikely for any student to experience such an event.
They’re being conditioned to properly respond, not to a shooting situation, but to official scaremongering.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Catholic Nun Beheaded By Muslim Militia.
The ongoing purge of Christians and Jews from the non-Israeli parts of the Middle East (ie, almost the whole region) is a story for some reason the press just isn’t much interested in reporting.
APPARENTLY, YES SHE WILL: NRA takes a dig at Gillibrand: ‘She’ll say anything’ to get ahead.
“Gillibrand called us the worst org in the country, but when she represented NY20, she wrote us: ‘I appreciate the work that the NRA does to protect gun owners rights, and I look forward to working with you for many years,'” the NRA tweeted. “Now that she’s looking to crack 1%, she’ll say anything.”
Following its tweet, the NRA released an adulatory letter Gillibrand sent to the organization more than a decade ago. In it, Gillibrand expressed her appreciation for their work on protecting gun owner rights.
Oof.