SARAH HOYT CAN’T LOAN OUT HER SHOCKED FACE TO EVERYONE AT ONCE: D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 17, 2019
HUH: Study finds marijuana motivates people to exercise, smashing lazy stoner stereotype.
Most people who use marijuana report that consuming before or after exercising improves the experience and aids in recovery, according to a new study. And those who do use cannabis to elevate their workout tend to get a healthier amount of exercise.
Researchers at the University of Colorado surveyed more than 600 marijuana consumers in states where it is legal to assess how people use cannabis in relation to exercise. Their results, published this month in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, poke yet another hole in the lazy, couch-locked stoner stereotype.
Almost 500 participants said they endorse using marijuana one hour before, or up to four hours after, exercising. And based on data from the questionnaire, those who did use cannabis in that timeframe worked out longer than consumers who didn’t pair the activities. Specifically, those who engaged in co-use worked out an average of 43 minutes longer for aerobic exercise and 30 minutes longer for anaerobic exercise.
I’m going to have to see more studies before I buy into this, because in my experience there’s at least something to the stereotype.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Unmanned Surface Vessels Will be Significant Part of Future U.S. Fleet.
PLUS: A Bomber for the Navy.
It was in this spirit of disruptive thinking that, at a CNAS-hosted panel discussion titled “A New American Way of War,” former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work casually offered up a fascinating bit of heresy:
“If the Air Force is getting rid of the B-1 bomber, I’d say ‘You are out of maritime strike.’ We’re going to give the B-1 to the Navy, we’re going to load up with 3,000 LRASMs, and we’re going to base them in Guam and all over the place, and in the first 72 hours [of a conflict] they are going to go out and hunt down and kill every ship in sight.”
Amateurs gush disruptive ideas all the time, but when an industry heavyweight like Robert Work speaks out, it’s prudent to explore his opinions. Work’s conjecture was nested in a broader discussion, beginning around the 53-minute mark, lamenting the self-imposed limitations of “jointness” in driving procurement decisions. Rather than treating land-based strike as a proprietary mission of the Air Force, Work suggests that the Navy revive its concept of the Patrol Bombing (VPB) Squadron, which employed land-based aircraft to sink enemy ships in WWII. A force of LRASM-equipped naval patrol bombers, Work contends, could destroy an adversary’s fleet from the air without tangling with its anti-ship missile systems.
Between drone ships, the increasing versatility of attack subs, and this potential use for the B-1, how many manned surface combatants (apart from aircraft carriers) will the Navy end up needing?
A LITTLE, BUT MOST OF THE FUN OF TAKING PICTURES IS SHARING THEM. Consumer Reports: Do your photos put your privacy at risk?
AGAIN: ‘I knew the officers were lying’: Another drug case dismissed in fallout from botched raid.
The police involved in the arrest came under scrutiny earlier this year after investigators accused 54-year-old Goines of lying on the search warrant affidavit used to justify a no-knock raid at 7815 Harding Street. When officers burst in the home that evening in search of a heroin dealer, they kicked off a gun battle that left dead Dennis Tuttle, his wife Rhogena Nicholas, and a pit bull they’d been dog-sitting.
But the raid netted no heroin and only a small amount of cocaine and marijuana, and the slain couple’s friends and neighbors have repeatedly maintained that they weren’t drug dealers.
Days later, as Goines lay in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the neck, investigators realized they couldn’t find the confidential informant behind the alleged heroin buy that started it all.
When asked for details, Goines first named one informant and then another – but, according to court filings, police couldn’t find anyone who admitted acting as the confidential informant before the raid. Instead, all of Goines’ informants said they’d never met the Tuttles.
Stories like this one are entirely too common.
SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Maryland Man in MAGA Hat Beaten and Robbed in Latest Politically Motivated Attack. “The victim is a legal immigrant from Togo.”
April 16, 2019
TEACH TEACHERS NOT TO DO THAT: Substitute Teacher in Kentucky Accused of Downing 4 Shots of Vodka in Class, Endangering Kids.
32-year-old Brook Ellen West was arrested Monday on charges of public intoxication and endangering the welfare of a minor.
Scott County Sheriff’s deputies say she told authorities she had four shots of vodka while teaching a class at Royal Springs Middle School in Georgetown. They say she smelled of alcohol, was unsteady on her feet, yelled and cursed at the children, and had a blood alcohol content level of .317.
That’s four times the legal limit for driving.
CYBERSECURITY: Microsoft’s Web-Based Email Services Breached.
Some users of Microsoft’s web-based email services including @msn.com, @hotmail.com, and @outlook.com have had their accounts breached, with the accounts remaining in a compromised state for more than two months.
As TechCrunch and Motherboard report, an email sent out by Microsoft late last week explains that access to its system was gained through compromised Microsoft support agent credentials. Email accounts were then accessed and information including each account’s email address, folder names, subject lines, and the other email addresses communicated with could be viewed.
That was the extent of the breach for most compromised accounts, but around six percent of affected users didn’t get so lucky. The information accessed in their accounts extended to the body of emails, their date of birth, calendar activity, admin center, and their logon history.
What a mess.
DAVID FORSMARK: Lori Loughlin Merely Took Advantage of a Government-Incentivized Title IX Scam: Women’s Rowing. “Women rowing is the perfect place to pad women’s scholarship numbers to satisfy Title IX demands.”
REPORTS FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: Police detectors to warn mobile phone-using drivers.
The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones.
A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile – but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone.
Flashing signs to distract drivers who might not be the ones using their phones? What could go wrong?
HMM: Secret tapes linger over Buttigieg’s meteoric rise.
An Indiana judge will rule soon on whether to release five cassette tapes of secretly recorded conversations between South Bend police officers that led to the 2012 demotion of Police Chief Darryl Boykins, the city’s first ever black police chief.
The South Bend City Council subpoenaed Buttigieg to win release of the tapes, which were at the center of a police department shake-up and a series of lawsuits.
Buttigieg’s critics say he’s gone to great lengths to conceal the contents of the tapes, which some believe could include racist language by white police officers.
There is roiling anger in South Bend over the allegations of racism. Black leaders in the city say that if there is evidence of racism, it could call into question scores of convictions that stemmed from white police officers investigating black suspects in a city that is 25 percent black.
There’s no telling yet if there’s any there there, but Buttigieg’s “meteoric rise” has so far been a media frenzy having very little to do with actual polling. His recent “bust out” in Iowa has him with single digits in a distant third place.
THAT’S… ENTERTAINMENT? ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ to run long Thursday for deep dive into Mueller report.
BLUE CITY BLUES: Mapping San Francisco’s Human Waste Challenge – 132,562 Cases Reported In The Public Way Since 2008.
San Francisco hosts an estimated homeless population of 7,500 people. Affluent sections of the city have become dangerous with open-air drug use, tens of thousands of discarded needles, and, sadly, human feces.
Since 2011, there have been at least 118,352 reported instances of human fecal matter on city streets.
New mayor, London Breed, won election by promising to clean things up. However, conditions are the same or worse. Last year, the number of reports spiked to an all-time high at 28,084. In first quarter 2019, the pace continued with 6,676 instances of human waste in the public way.
The last Republican mayor of San Francisco, George Christopher, left office in 1968.
THINGS MAY GET A WHOLE LOT WORSE BEFORE SUDDENLY FALLING APART: Blackouts threaten death blow to Venezuela’s industrial survivors.
The government said on April 4 that the power rationing plan meant Valencia would spend at most three hours a day without electricity.
But a dozen executives and workers there said outages were still lasting over 10 hours. Generators are costly and can only power a fraction of a business’s operations, they said, and many factories have shut down.
“The game is over. Companies are entering a state of despair due to their inviability,” said an executive of a food company with factories in Valencia, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Industrial companies this year are operating below 25 percent of capacity, according to industry group Conindustria. It estimated companies here lost about $220 million during the days in March without power, and would lose $100 million more in April.
Nestle’s factory, which produces baby food, halted production during the first blackout in early March and operations again froze two weeks later, with employees sent home until May, according to Rafael Garcia, a union leader at the plant.
Plus: “The outages have idled more than just factories. In the countryside, lack of power has prevented farmers from pumping water to irrigate fields.”
AND ANOTHER ONE: A Totally Different USC Scandal. “UCLA epidemiologist calls out USC med school professors on big money research used to establish EPA regulations.”
California Globe can report that a number of USC professors in the Department of Preventive Medicine have received at least $268 million in air pollution research funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, according to Dr. James Enstrom, who believes that this massive amount of research funding has influenced their research findings and their continuing support for the South Coast Air Quality Management District regulations.
Enstrom says his belief is reinforced by USC Preventive Medicine Professors Duncan C. Thomas and Kiros T. Berhane who have failed to respond to Enstrom’s January 2019 and June 2018 emails, which summarize the latest epidemiologic evidence that PM2.5 does not cause premature deaths and that there is no justification for new SCAQMD regulations.
PM2.5 refers to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) that have a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers, which is about 3 percent the diameter of a human hair and can only be detected with an electron microscope.
Dr. Enstrom says this matters because all Southern California taxpayers may be forced to comply with new unjustified South Coast AQMD regulations that will be paid for with a one-half-cent sales tax being promoted by SCAQMD, under Senate Bill 732 by Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica).
Why, it’s almost as though higher education and the regulatory state are just arms of the Democratic Party.
MATT MARGOLIS: Valerie Jarrett Accused of Manipulating Book Sales to Get On NYT Bestseller List. “My books have had better organic sales but I never got on the NYT bestsellers list.”
You might think a bestseller list was a ranked list of which books sold best in the last week, but you literally cannot trust anything the New York Times deems fit to print.
AGE OF AQUARIUS (REDUX): Presidential Hopeful Marianne Williamson Proposes Two New Federal Departments. “Williamson’s two new cabinet-level agencies would be dedicated to peace and children.”
My only remaining hope, should she be elected, is that listening to The 5th Dimension won’t become mandatory.
THAT IS, AND OUGHT TO BE, UP TO THE PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA: U.S. has no timeline for change in Venezuela government, official says.
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE: Man with Down’s Syndrome’s ‘cruel and horrific’ death after 19 days without food.
Giuseppe ‘Joe’ Ulleri, 61, had been neglected and wasted away in hospital.
His inquest earlier this month heard he lost 26lbs in weight and wasted away at Manchester Royal Infirmary .
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust since apologised and promised it would not happen again.
But Joe’s grief-stricken sister Ria Ulleri, who helped care for her brother, called his death “cruel and horrific”.
Speaking for the first time since her loss, the 48-year-old actress told Manchester Evening News : “Joe was a sweet and funny man, but he needed support. It is tragic that the people he relied on to care for him were the ones who let him down.
He’d become a burden to the State.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Qanta Ahmed Says Ilhan Omar is a disgrace to Islam and doesn’t represent my Muslim religion.
I don’t know if Islam can be reformed, but I do know its attempted reformers deserve encouragement.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Notre Dame, Mueller report and much, much more. “It doesn’t matter what Barr wrote or what Mueller’s bottom line is, the Democrats and the media are so invested in getting Trump, the response to the Mueller report will be as if he were found guilty.”