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.
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
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
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
Sunday, February 16, 2020
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.
When David Petraeus can't think of words his mission other than the words given him by "W", I realize that meaning matters.
Monday, December 16, 2019
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.
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.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Saturday, September 28, 2019
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."
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."
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Cyrus Vance role in Epstein Case
https://www.vox.com/2019/7/11/20690320/jeffrey-epstein-new-york-manhattan-nypd says
"But local officials, particularly those in New York, do in fact have serious questions to answer about the handling of Epstein’s case. A New York prosecutor tried to keep Epstein from being registered as a high-level sex offender, and the NYPD looked the other way when he didn’t show up to court-mandated check-ins required by his sex offender status — and did so for eight years."
AOL reports under the headline: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/07/12/harvard-professors-kept-meeting-with-donor-jeffrey-epstein-despite-his-sex-offender-status/23768608/
Despite his sex offender status, the disgraced hedge fund manager was attending on-campus meetings as recently as 2014.
Donated millions to prestigious school
WASHINGTON — Disgraced hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was attending on-campus meetings as recently as 2014 with professors at Harvard University, a school he had supported with at least one multimillion-dollar donation, even though the registered sex offender's ties to the school had already raised questions.
Epstein, who donated $6.5 million to Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics in 2003, had phone calls, meetings and meals with members of the Harvard faculty at least six times in 2014, according to the online personal calendar of Dr. George Church, a renowned geneticist who holds professorships at Harvard, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
On April 22, Epstein met with Church at the Harvard Medical School's Genetics Department building, according to the calendar. The two had a phone call the next day. He had lunch with Church on June 21, according to the calendar. The entry for the note also includes the notation "Martin Nowak's Institute."
Nowak, a Harvard professor of biology and mathematics, is the director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, the project to which Epstein donated. The program, which Nowak runs from an office suite at 1 Brattle Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, applies math to genetics to seek cures for cancer and other diseases. Epstein has represented himself as a co-founder of the program.
On Sept. 12, Epstein and Church had another phone call, which was followed by a teleconference call Oct. 21 between Epstein and Church that also included James Clement, an independent biomedical researcher who specializes in longevity.
On Nov. 30, the calendar lists a dinner with multiple attendees: "Dinner w/ Jeff Epstein, Joi Ito, Reid Hoffman and Martin Nowak, 8pm, Martin Nowak's institute, 1 Brattle Square, Suite 6, Cambridge, MA." The address matches the address for the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
Ito is an entrepreneur and journalist. Hoffman is a venture capitalist and the co-founder of Linkedin.
Church, Ito, Nowak and Clement did not respond to requests for comment. Church did not respond to questions about who else might have attended the meetings and whether "Martin Nowak's institute" refers to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Hoffman declined to comment.
All the meetings were presumably related to genetics research. It is not known whether any of the participants were aware of Epstein's status as a registered sex offender.
Epstein is now facing separate federal sex trafficking charges in New York.
Lawyers for Epstein did not respond to a request for comment.
Church's 2014 calendar, which was attached to his personal website, was temporarily removed from the internet after NBC News made inquiries to Harvard. It was then restored to the site but in a less prominent position. The calendar link on the site now defaults to a current 2019 schedule.
A Harvard official told NBC News the university does not control whom faculty members meet with or whom they talk to.
In 2006, after the public learned of state and federal investigations into Epstein's alleged sexual contacts with minors, a Harvard spokesperson told a reporter for the campus newspaper that the university would not be returning Epstein's $6.5 million gift. The Harvard Crimson article also noted that when Epstein made his initial donation, he had "agreed to consider raising his total contribution to $30 million after a review of the program's progress." As of 2006, according to the Crimson article, the University said that review had not occurred.
Epstein touted his affiliation with Harvard long after agreeing to federal and state plea deals, pleading guilty to a single state charge and registering as a sex offender in 2008. A bio published on the web in 2014 by Epstein's foundation said, "Mr. Epstein is the founder of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University… the Program has developed critical mathematical models of how viruses and cancer cells evolve." In a 2003 Vanity Fair article that referred to "the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics" at Harvard, Epstein said he was reluctant to have his name attached to the program, but Harvard President Larry Summers "persuaded" him.
A Harvard source said the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics has never borne Epstein's name.
Epstein's press releases have repeatedly referred to a $30 million gift he made to Harvard in 2000. A Harvard source familiar with Epstein's donations was unaware of any significant gift to Harvard other than his initial $6.5 million donation in 2003.
A Harvard spokesperson said that the university does not comment on specific gifts.
Harvard declined comment in December 2018 when the Crimson again asked if the school would return Epstein's money.
Epstein, who has been photographed wearing Harvard gear, did not attend the university. He attended Cooper Union and New York University without graduating.
Epstein died August 10, 2019.
"But local officials, particularly those in New York, do in fact have serious questions to answer about the handling of Epstein’s case. A New York prosecutor tried to keep Epstein from being registered as a high-level sex offender, and the NYPD looked the other way when he didn’t show up to court-mandated check-ins required by his sex offender status — and did so for eight years."
AOL reports under the headline: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/07/12/harvard-professors-kept-meeting-with-donor-jeffrey-epstein-despite-his-sex-offender-status/23768608/
Despite his sex offender status, the disgraced hedge fund manager was attending on-campus meetings as recently as 2014.
Donated millions to prestigious school
WASHINGTON — Disgraced hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was attending on-campus meetings as recently as 2014 with professors at Harvard University, a school he had supported with at least one multimillion-dollar donation, even though the registered sex offender's ties to the school had already raised questions.
Epstein, who donated $6.5 million to Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics in 2003, had phone calls, meetings and meals with members of the Harvard faculty at least six times in 2014, according to the online personal calendar of Dr. George Church, a renowned geneticist who holds professorships at Harvard, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
On April 22, Epstein met with Church at the Harvard Medical School's Genetics Department building, according to the calendar. The two had a phone call the next day. He had lunch with Church on June 21, according to the calendar. The entry for the note also includes the notation "Martin Nowak's Institute."
Nowak, a Harvard professor of biology and mathematics, is the director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, the project to which Epstein donated. The program, which Nowak runs from an office suite at 1 Brattle Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, applies math to genetics to seek cures for cancer and other diseases. Epstein has represented himself as a co-founder of the program.
On Sept. 12, Epstein and Church had another phone call, which was followed by a teleconference call Oct. 21 between Epstein and Church that also included James Clement, an independent biomedical researcher who specializes in longevity.
On Nov. 30, the calendar lists a dinner with multiple attendees: "Dinner w/ Jeff Epstein, Joi Ito, Reid Hoffman and Martin Nowak, 8pm, Martin Nowak's institute, 1 Brattle Square, Suite 6, Cambridge, MA." The address matches the address for the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
Ito is an entrepreneur and journalist. Hoffman is a venture capitalist and the co-founder of Linkedin.
Church, Ito, Nowak and Clement did not respond to requests for comment. Church did not respond to questions about who else might have attended the meetings and whether "Martin Nowak's institute" refers to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Hoffman declined to comment.
All the meetings were presumably related to genetics research. It is not known whether any of the participants were aware of Epstein's status as a registered sex offender.
Epstein is now facing separate federal sex trafficking charges in New York.
Lawyers for Epstein did not respond to a request for comment.
Church's 2014 calendar, which was attached to his personal website, was temporarily removed from the internet after NBC News made inquiries to Harvard. It was then restored to the site but in a less prominent position. The calendar link on the site now defaults to a current 2019 schedule.
A Harvard official told NBC News the university does not control whom faculty members meet with or whom they talk to.
In 2006, after the public learned of state and federal investigations into Epstein's alleged sexual contacts with minors, a Harvard spokesperson told a reporter for the campus newspaper that the university would not be returning Epstein's $6.5 million gift. The Harvard Crimson article also noted that when Epstein made his initial donation, he had "agreed to consider raising his total contribution to $30 million after a review of the program's progress." As of 2006, according to the Crimson article, the University said that review had not occurred.
Epstein touted his affiliation with Harvard long after agreeing to federal and state plea deals, pleading guilty to a single state charge and registering as a sex offender in 2008. A bio published on the web in 2014 by Epstein's foundation said, "Mr. Epstein is the founder of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University… the Program has developed critical mathematical models of how viruses and cancer cells evolve." In a 2003 Vanity Fair article that referred to "the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics" at Harvard, Epstein said he was reluctant to have his name attached to the program, but Harvard President Larry Summers "persuaded" him.
A Harvard source said the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics has never borne Epstein's name.
Epstein's press releases have repeatedly referred to a $30 million gift he made to Harvard in 2000. A Harvard source familiar with Epstein's donations was unaware of any significant gift to Harvard other than his initial $6.5 million donation in 2003.
A Harvard spokesperson said that the university does not comment on specific gifts.
Harvard declined comment in December 2018 when the Crimson again asked if the school would return Epstein's money.
Epstein, who has been photographed wearing Harvard gear, did not attend the university. He attended Cooper Union and New York University without graduating.
Epstein died August 10, 2019.
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