Friday, June 15, 2018

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The “Bakke story” to FAA diversity danger.

 
One mistake by an air traffic controller can easily cause hundreds of deaths, and that grim reality has prompted the highest hiring standards for any federal workers. That all changed during the past administration when Federal Aviation Administration boss Michael Huerta accepted hiring standards that were politically correct rather than aeronautically correct.
“A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA, the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, determined that the workforce was too white,” attorney and air traffic controller, Michael Pearson recently told Tucker Carlson of Fox News. “They had a concerted effort through the Department of Transportation in the Obama administration to change that.”
Carlson invited FAA bosses to come on the show or be interviewed but they declined. According to Pearson, the new FAA questionnaire and biographical assessment “was made to screen out people with experience,” but it was actually worse. Carlson had a copy of the assessment and the way FAA drones scored it.
Applicants get 10 points for being bad at science, and 10 points for not working. On the other hand, those who can demonstrate knowledge about air traffic control get only five points, and trained pilots two points. “We’re not talking about hiring a sociology professor or some other totally irrelevant job like that,” said Carlson, who called the test “insane.”
According to Pearson, who boasts 27 years experience, “they’re sacrificing, and have sacrificed, safety at the altar of political correctness.” This has happened before, as a landmark case demonstrates.
“Affirmative action is not about promoting or hiring unqualified women and minorities, admitting unqualified students, or awarding contracts to unqualified businesses,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy in April, 1996. “Affirmative action has paid enormous dividends,” said Kennedy, and he had a “perfect example,” in mind, Dr. Patrick Chavis.
“He is the supposedly less qualified African-American student who allegedly ‘displaced’ Bakke at the University of California-Davis in the landmark case. Today Dr. Chavis is a successful ob-gyn in central Los Angeles, serving a disadvantaged community and making a difference in the lives of scores of poor families.”
Allan Bakke held a GPA of 3.51 with a 3.45 in science. On the quantitative part of the MCAT he scored 94, with a 97 in science and 72 on the general information section, higher than the average for regular admits. Despite such distinguished qualifications, UC Davis twice rejected Bakke but admitted Chavis. His scores were much lower, but the establishment media made him a big star.
In June 1995, Chavis made the cover of the New York Times Magazine, and in a feature by Atlantic correspondent Nicholas Lemann, Chavis heroically posed under surgical lamps holding a newly delivered child. The Los Angeles Times had billed Chavis as a star who had overcome prejudice, and he landed a spot in the award-winning documentary Eyes on the Prize.
On June 22, 1996, not long after Kennedy’s tribute, Patrick Chavis performed liposuction on Tammaria Cotton, a 43-year-old court clerk and grandmother. Several hours after surgery, Mrs. Cotton was dead, and three other black women suffered at his hands. The California board suspended Chavis’ license, citing his “inability to perform some of the most basic duties required of a physician.” To allow Chavis to continue practicing medicine, an administrative law judge ruled, “will endanger the public health, safety, and welfare.”
Unqualified air traffic controllers pose a greater danger, but the FAA is still good with it. As Pearson explained, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA)  “controls a large PAC and they fund a lot of politicians, and nothing will get past in aviation without the blessing of the controllers union.” During the previous administration, they got what they wanted, including lower standards.
The notion that air traffic controllers are“too white” does not invoke the Constitution or case law. It reflects the diversity dogma that all professions must reflect the ethnic proportions of the population. If they don’t, according to this orthodoxy, the cause is always deliberate discrimination and the remedy a government program of hiring or admission quotas.
Because of factors such as personal differences, effort and choice, as Thomas Sowell has shown, statistical disparities between groups are the rule rather than the exception. It is now a matter of record that diversity dogma can have deadly consequences.
Meanwhile, last year President Trump announced a plan to privatize the air traffic controllers system. That would take control from the federal government and hand it to a nonprofit corporation. The president might do the same with the National Transportation Safety Board.
In 2009, pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger safely landed his stricken airliner on the Hudson River, preserving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. After that miraculous event, National Transportation Safety Board bosses thought the veteran pilot should have attempted a return to LaGuardia. Had he done so, in all likelihood, 155 lives would have been lost. For review, check out the 2016 Clint Eastwood film Sully.


COMEY: "I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I KNEW" WEINER WAS MARRIED TO HUMA ABEDIN

 
James Comey doesn't know a whole lot. Whenever he's asked to testify, out spill a lot of Clintonesque claims of ignorance. But even by the standard of things that Comey doesn't know, this section from the IG report is truly impressive.
James Comey doesn't know what he knows.
Act 1: Comey plays really dumb.
"Comey told the OIG that he recalled first learning of the presence of the additional emails on the Weiner laptop at some point in early October 2016, although Comey said it was possible this could have occurred in late September. Comey explained: I was aware sometime in the first week or two of October that there was a laptop that a criminal squad had seized from Anthony Weiner in New York and someone said to me that—and I’m thinking it might have been Andrew McCabe, but someone said to me kind of in passing, they’re trying to figure out whether it has any connection to the Midyear investigation. And the reason that’s so vague in my head is I think—I never imagined that there might be something on a guy named Anthony Weiner’s computer that might connect to the Hillary Clinton email investigation, so I kind of just put it out of my mind."
Aww shucks. You can't expect a small town sheriff to stay on top of all this big city stuff. Who knows which aspiring politician the chief gatekeeper to Hillary Clinton is married to? Not an outsider like Jimbo Comey.
Act 2: Comey plays really, really dumb
"Comey described himself as having a “reasonably good memory” and speculated, “[T]he reason I didn’t index it is, it was a passing thing that almost seemed like he might be kidding, and so I don’t think I indexed it hard." 
Which FBI bigwig hasn't dropped a joke about a presidential candidate's classified emails illegally ending up on a sex offender suspect's computer? Wait till you hear the one about the engineer and the stolen atom bomb plans. Or the one about the Muslim terror plot against a Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas.
"And I think it was the beginning of October and then I think it disappears from my memory. And then I remember for certain when Andy emails me, I think it’s the 27th [of October] saying, the Midyear team needs to meet with you urgently or right away or something.”
It's funny how Comey's funny memory improves when the thing he's fudging is documented. It's.... Clintonesque.
Act 3: Comey doesn't know what he knows.
"We asked Comey to explain why this initial information about the Weiner laptop did not “index” with him given that Abedin was closely connected to Clinton. Comey stated, “I don’t know that I knew that [Weiner] was married to Huma Abedin at the time.” 
Comey doesn't know what he knows? I hadn't realized that a Higher Loyalty was meant in a Cheech and Chong way.
This is what you claim when you know there may be documented evidence of you knowing what you claim not to know.
There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. Also Comey unknowns. 

NETFLIX BANS CREWS FROM LOOKING AT EACH OTHER FOR 5 SECONDS

 
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The left's response to corruption in its own ranks is never character or values. Instead it's insane totalitarian regulations that predictably bypass the lefty abusers and land on the heads of ordinary people.
Netflix has introduced new anti-harassment training in the wake of the #metoo movement that rocked Hollywood and seriously disrupted production on its House of Cards show.
The disruption seemed to have much more to do with Kevin Spacey choosing to live his life as a creep.
New rules imposed on set reportedly include no looking at anyone for longer than five seconds, no lingering hugs, no flirting and no asking for a colleague's phone number.
“Everyone was spoken to about #MeToo," an on-set runner currently working on the new season of Black Mirror told The Sun.
"Senior staff went to a harassment meeting to learn what is and isn’t appropriate. Looking at anyone longer than five seconds is considered creepy.
The irony of living in a Black Mirror episode while working on Black Mirror is sublime. 
Is the 5 second rule going to apply to the director? Obviously not. The producers? Don't bet on it. But the grip is going to have his glances timed.
“It has sparked jokes," they added, "with people looking at each other, counting to five, then diverting their eyes.”
Everything the left does sparks jokes. But they're more like Soviet anecdotes about living under an insane totalitarian system.

"DEATH TO ISRAEL" AT SORBONNE

 
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Another snapshot from the moral death of Europe. The facilities once most associated with its enlightenment have instead become the poisonous sources of a moral malaise.
Welcome to the Sorbonne in 2018.
Ghozlan, the president of the French Jewish Students Union (UEJF), planned to attend a rally on March 28 with more than 10,000 others in response to the murder of Mireille Knoll, who was found stabbed 11 times in her Paris apartment a few days earlier.
Hours before the gathering, Jewish students at the University of La Sorbonne in Paris found that its UEJF chapter office had been vandalized, with materials tossed on the floor and stepped on and "Death to Israel" and "Zionist racist anti-goy office," written in French on the walls, according to videos of the office.
"At that particular time, it was very difficult to organize a gathering of the non-Jewish students," said Ghozlan. "They refused to release a public statement [condemning the vandalism] because they didn't want to be involved in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."
This same scene could have easily repeated itself at any other major Western academic institution with the same, exact results.
Anti-Semitism gets dressed up as anti-Zionism. And the same lefties who get furious over sombreros at a costume party have nothing to say about explicit calls for the death of Jews. Meanwhile their collaborators, like J Street, If Not Now and JVP, will suddenly rediscover the value of campus free speech and complain that a vast Zionist (Jewish) conspiracy is muzzling criticism of Israel.
But it doesn't end with Jews. It begins with Jews.
That's what the moral malaise has forgotten. And that is what Europe is relearning.  

THE 3 TRAGEDIES OF THE IG REPORT AND THE FBI

 
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There are three tragedies in the IG report. And they're three types of Feds.
1. There are the Strzoks. Guys who are so politically oriented that their duty and obligations mean nothing to them. They casually corrupt non-partisan institutions for what they consider to be a higher cause and in the process destroy the legitimacy and credibility of those institutions. (Think of Comey's A Higher Loyalty. It can just as easily refer to the corruption of institutions for partisan higher causes.)
2. There are the Comeys. Careerists who pick the safe side, while covering their fundaments, and then lecture everyone else on honor and duty. They don't believe in anything. They're out for themselves. They're absorbed the essential lessons of big government. They're cynical and apathetic beneath a false outer shell of false nobility to disguise their fundamental corruption.
3. Everyone else.
In a way it's the third category in the IG report, the agents who try to do their job, or don't even bother, because they know it's pointless. The system is corrupt. It serves hacks like Comey. It's political. Just ask McCabe and Strzok. If you want to get ahead, you keep your head down and make the right calls. And you run out the clock on some cases, you put in the time, but you know they're going nowhere.
And then whatever ideals you have die with you.
That's how men like Comey get made. Cynicism and apathy come from knowing how the system really works. It corrupts you and then you corrupt the next generation. That's the true rot of big government. And the imperial city where all this is taking place is filled with that rot from top to bottom.
Why shouldn't Strzok have believed that his political agenda was more important than the credibility of the FBI when he had no reason to believe in its credibility? Why shouldn't Comey have played his crooked games, and then tried to blame it all on McCabe? Why do anything if you don't believe that what you're doing is worthwhile? That's the true tragedy.

GERMANY: MUSLIM TERRORIST BUSTED IN RICIN WMD PLOT

GERMANY: MUSLIM TERRORIST BUSTED IN 

RICIN WMD PLOT

 
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It's hard to keep up with Muslim terror in Europe these days. I had just finished writing up an extensive article on the murder of a 14-year-old Jewish girl by an Iraqi Muslim in Germany. Then on the gay terror plot in France.
And now a Tunisian Muslim in Germany was busted in a WMD plot. But if I were to turn this into an article, I would note that in German, 'gift' means poison. Immigration from terroristans is the gift that is killing the West.
German authorities have thwarted a plot by a Tunisian man who created the deadly toxin ricin using castor bean seeds and planned to use the poison in an Islamic extremist attack in Germany, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Sief Allah H., whose last name wasn’t given in line with German privacy laws, was taken into custody Tuesday during a raid on his apartment in Cologne. The 29-year-old was formally arrested Wednesday after a judge reviewed the evidence.
Wir schaffen das!
In Europe, all terror suspects are considered innocent and anonymous until they kill someone. And then we blame mental illness and drug use.
Authorities are still investigating exactly how the suspect planned to use the toxin, but said he was working on a “biological weapon” attack in Germany.
The seeds of the castor bean plant are naturally poisonous and can be used to create ricin. The substance kills the body’s cells by preventing them from creating protein. A few milligrams are enough to kill an adult if it’s eaten, injected or inhaled. Early symptoms include chest pain, breathing difficulties and coughing.
Bild also reported that the suspect bought bomb-making materials and chemicals used in the production of ricin. It said the suspect lived in the Chorweiler neighborhood of Cologne with his wife, a convert to Islam, and four children. He supposedly used instructions to make a ricin bomb that had been posted online by the extremist Islamic State group.
German media outlets don't have that much more info on the plot. Except that they mention that the authorities noticed him when he ordered too much ricin.

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