Steady as she goes

I blogged on "an abundance of caution" 7/27/18.  Recently, I prepared a draft blog on "Risk Management" a few days after Kobe Bryant and his daughter had been killed in a helicopter crash.

Consumer Confidence was at an all time high recently.  The Trump administration has done a good job of addressing

A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.

Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus. Symptoms can be mild to severe. The most common symptoms include: high fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle and joint pain, headache, coughing, and feeling tired.

"The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions." 

Life

I wrote https://dr2h.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-i-could-vote-for-christine-odonnell.html to prove to myself that I could write as an advocate.

In recent days, I've decided that life is not created at birth, it is "passed on" at conception.

The state of Journalism

On the YouTube link at the end of this post, Megan Kelly relates what Univison person told her.  "You have to be a partisan hack, you have to choose sides."

Now that The Democrats have seen "Hamilton" on Broadway (courtesy of Speaker Plosi), journalism has returned to its proper place.  It became a respectful occupation because of The Watergate Scandal.

My The American Way blog of  Thursday, September 19, 2019 is entitled "Journalism".

I agree with  YouTube Tucker Carlson interview with Megan Kelly

plagiarism - good or bad

When a Democrat, such as Joe Biden, plagiarizes I know its bad.

When David Petraeus can't think of words his mission other than the words given him by "W", I realize that meaning matters.

a long way from Pittsburgh

In the days after Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked and crashed four commercial jetliners on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop, without warrants, on American citizens and foreign nationals within the United States. His action represented the biggest shift in U.S. intelligence gathering in American history. But the true architect of that secret program, code-named Stellarwind, was a former Air Force intelligence officer who’d been picked to run the NSA two years earlier: General Michael Vincent Hayden. What a long way from Pittsburgh, where Hayden was born in 1945. His youth was western Pennsylvania through and through: Dad was a welder, and the family lived for Sundays, when they would attend mass and Steelers games. In college at Duquesne University, Hayden even worked at the Steelers’ summer training camp to help pay his tuition. He studied history, joined ROTC and started active duty in the Air Force in 1969.

A registered Independent with no political background, Hayden came up through the ranks of Air Force intelligence, and in 1999 President Bill Clinton selected him to run that secretive organization nicknamed No Such Agency. When Hayden arrived, he found the NSA struggling to keep up with the technological tide. Two years later, 9/11 jolted him into unprecedented action, and he implemented rapid, transformational measures. Hayden’s Stellarwind program circumvented the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and even went beyond the authority of the Patriot Act passed by Congress.

After The New York Times exposed the operation in 2005, Hayden still moved forward—but another, more damaging exposure lay ahead. Bush made him principal deputy director of National Intelligence and then promoted him to director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2006. Hayden’s new position as top spy coincided with another CIA hire: Edward Snowden. The then 23-year-old computer tech later went to work for two NSA contractors, and in 2013 Snowden released confidential information on the spy program established by Hayden. The resulting firestorm implicated both the Bush and Obama administrations.

Today, General Michael Vincent Hayden is recovering from a stroke which came out of nowhere.  It happened on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving 2018.

CNN National Security Analyst Michael Hayden, a retired four-star US Air Force general, formerly headed the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. His daughter-in-law, Jessica Powley Hayden, helped him to focus his thoughts and put them on paper. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own; view more opinion at CNN.

44's failings

Were many.  May be worse than VP44's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEF2Fjc4QeE

Impeachment of 45

The DEMOCRATS are at it again they modified the rules to allow HEARSAY EVIDENCE to be a part of a Whistle-blower's complaint.

They called acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire to testify Sept. 26, 2019.  Maquire testified before the House Intelligence Committee after a whistleblower complaint about Trump.

“I believe that this matter is unprecedented,” said acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire in his opening statement to the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday. It’s hard to argue with that. And the testimony he gave made clear — perhaps unintentionally — just how thoroughly infected with...

The first page of the complaint said, "I have no direct knowledge of these events".

I heard Jay Sekolow say the form used to say on the front "I have first hand knowledge of these events."