NYT: Boeing Was Certifying Its Own Safety For the 737 Max - Slashdot

NYT: Boeing Was Certifying Its Own Safety For the 737 Max - Slashdot
"Boeing's 737 Max was built with "effectively neutered" oversight, writes the New York Times, citing interviews with over a dozen current and former employees at America's Federal Aviation Agency. 
Their damning conclusion? 
The agency "had never independently assessed the risks of the dangerous software known as MCAS when they approved the plane in 2017."The regulator had been passing off routine tasks to manufacturers for years, with the goal of freeing up specialists to focus on the most important safety concerns. But on the Max, the regulator handed nearly complete control to Boeing, leaving some key agency officials in the dark about important systems like MCAS, according to the current and former employees...The company performed its own assessments of the system, which were not stress-tested by the regulator...
The article ends by describing the days after the first 737 Max crash, when Boeing executives visited the regulatory agency's headquarters in Seattle. 
"The officials sat incredulous as Boeing executives explained details about the system that they didn't know."
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Democrats Denied Transgender Athletes Have Advantages In Women’s Sports. Science Says They’re Wrong | The Daily Caller

Democrats Denied Transgender Athletes Have Advantages In Women’s Sports. Science Says They’re Wrong | The Daily Caller:

Suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes isn’t enough to eliminate their natural advantages over female athletes, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
The paper’s findings contradict congressional Democrats’ claim that male athletes who identify as transgender don’t have an inherent advantage over their female competitors.

The Morning Briefing: It's the Trump Card vs. the Race Card, Who Will Win? | Trending

The Morning Briefing: It's the Trump Card vs. the Race Card, Who Will Win? | Trending
"...Trump's a racist

It's an evergreen title, isn't it? 
The latest kerfuffle involves Trump's attack on Rep. Elijah Cummings who wants to dish it out and not take it. 
Cummings was snarking off on the border, a favorite talking point, and Trump responded about the hot mess that is his Baltimore district.

"Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. 
If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place," Trump tweeted.

And that's racist. 

Because Cummings is black and you aren't allowed to say anything to certain people who are protected. 

The protected crowd are designated minorities who are Democrats. 

Women, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, LGBTQ  etc. who are NOT leftists are allowed and encouraged to be attacked..."

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Who Cut the Balls Off San Francisco? - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine

Who Cut the Balls Off San Francisco? - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine
"...So now San Francisco is banning e-cigarettes, because a City Council member discovered there are still people making personal decisions about what to do with their lives. 
They’ve been trying to eliminate these people for three decades now, but some individuals just refuse to learn.

It’s been a year or so since I wrote about San Francisco’s ban on the sale of fur in a move that does nothing for animals but destroys businesses that have been established there since the 19th century. 
Unfortunately I can’t really devote 52 columns a year to cataloguing products banned by San Francisco. 

In the past they’ve outlawed 

• plastic bags, 
• clove cigarettes, 
• Coke machines, 
• bottled-water machines, people playing stickball in the street, 
• people playing chess in the street, 
• pet stores, 
• goldfish, 
• masked balls, and 
• the practice of letting your dog stick his head halfway out the window while you’re driving. 
• Long ago they banned toys being given away with Happy Meals at McDonald’s. 
• There are several states that have been under sanction by San Francisco at various times, with city employees forbidden from traveling on official business to Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota, or my home state of Texas. 
• ....It’s illegal to ride a Segway in San Francisco, 
• to package food with Styrofoam, 
• to declaw a cat, or to s
• erve chocolate milk in schools. 
• No one in government is allowed to make any contract with any company that uses tropical hardwood—“Get the rugs out! The floor inspectors are coming over!”—and 
• no school is allowed to offer Junior ROTC because young people who want to follow their families into military service are probably deranged. 
• Don’t try to walk more than eight dogs at a time—even if they’re toy poodles and Chihuahuas—and 
• don’t give your 5-year-old a slingshot for his birthday, because that’s an illegal weapon.

...Juul is a San Francisco company, so once again the city is eating its young, trying to legislate out of existence a $2 billion local firm that employs 1,500 people. 
...In some ways San Francisco’s descent into madness is self-correcting, because eventually so many groups will be pointing fingers at so many other groups, demanding lifestyle alterations designed to create healthy specimens of Correct Living, that the whole peninsula will devolve into something resembling the Soviet Union in 1965, if they’re lucky, and Venezuela in 2019 if they’re not..."

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Why Do Democrats Run All Of The Dangerous And Rodent Infested Cities?

Why Do Democrats Run All Of The Dangerous And Rodent Infested Cities?
"Congressman Elijah Cummings may honestly believe that his district in West Baltimore doesn’t stink.
But it does.
I’ve been there, I’ve seen and smelled it.
Bernie Sanders called it “the third world" back in 2016.
Sometimes the truth hurts. 
Especially to those bathed, clothed, and dipped in the intoxication of corrupt power, but that’s why sunlight is so helpful.
And disinfecting!
Rep. Cummings, while being very obsessed with Russia, seems utterly bewildered with the idea that anyone could dare question why so many billions of federal dollars flow to places like West Baltimore when they are obviously doing no good.
Look at other cities in similar dilapidation and there holds a unique truth: 
Democrats run them all.
...For Baltimore it’s been this way for decades.
And the only reason that Elijah Cummings got passionate about the issue, isn’t because it’s true. 
It’s because he got called out on it, by someone who is working to make America better for everybody. 
...But Democrats who lives in these cities already know that.
They live in the land of corrupt squander every waking day."
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Woman set to replace Puerto Rico's governor doesn't want job

Woman set to replace Puerto Rico's governor doesn't want job
"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The woman who is supposed to replace Puerto Rico’s embattled governor announced Sunday that she doesn’t want the job as the U.S. territory reels from political crisis.
Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez said in a Twitter post that she hopes Gov. Ricardo Rosselló will appoint a secretary of state before resigning Aug. 2 as planned.
Former Secretary of State Luis Rivera Marín would have been next in line as governor, according to the U.S. territory’s constitution.
But he is one of more than a dozen officials who have resigned in recent weeks
Marín’s resignation had left Vázquez as next in line to be governor.
But she said she has already told Rosselló about her wishes not to get the job, creating a chaotic scenario about who will be Puerto Rico’s next leader.
If Rosselló’s choice for a secretary of state is not approved by the island’s House and Senate, Puerto Rico’s law dictates the treasury secretary would be next in line if the justice secretary doesn’t become governor.
But current Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés is too young at 31 years old.
The constitution dictates the person would have to be at least 35, so that would leave interim Education Secretary Eligio Hernández next in line.
He replaced former education secretary Julia Keleher, who resigned in April and was arrested July 10 on federal corruption charges.
...Vázquez’s comments came less than an hour after Public Affairs Secretary Anthony Maceira resigned.
...The announcement comes a day before Puerto Ricans planned another march, this time against Vázquez, who is accused of not ordering an investigation into the alleged mismanagement of supplies for hurricane victims, among other things.
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Ex-Miss Michigan Kathy Zhu Joins Trump Reelection Board | The Daily Caller

Ex-Miss Michigan Kathy Zhu Joins Trump Reelection Board | The Daily Caller:

“I think that everything I’ve said is considered free speech because it is backed up by statistics, facts, something I have experiences or my opinions,” she continued, according to The Detroit Free Press. “I don’t have a racist bone in my body. I don’t think I am Islamophobic, but I am going to criticize something that doesn’t fit within my morals when I see it.”

Scientists Stunned By 'City-Killer' Asteroid That Just Missed Earth On July 25 - Slashdot

Scientists Stunned By 'City-Killer' Asteroid That Just Missed Earth On July 25 - Slashdot
"A "city killer" asteroid whizzed past earth Thursday that "would have hit with over 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima," according to one astronomer professor.

Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike shared a Washington Post story that begins with a reaction from Alan Duffy, lead scientist at the Royal Institution of Australia:"I was stunned," he said. "This was a true shock." 

This asteroid wasn't one that scientists had been tracking, and it had seemingly appeared from "out of nowhere," ,,,Read on.

AM Fruitcake

History for July 29

History for July 29 - On-This-Day.com
Booth Tarkington 1869, Benito Mussolini 1883, Melvin Belli 1907


Marcel Bich 1914 - Manufacturer and co-founder of Bic., Ken Burns 1953, Martina McBride 1966


1914 - The first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York, NY and San Francisco, CA.


1968 - Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control.

GOP calls to cancel House recess until ICE is funded

GOP calls to cancel House recess until ICE is funded:

A letter signed by 34 House Republicans was delivered to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday that called for the cancellation of the August recess.
In the letter, the group of GOP lawmakers led by Texas Rep. Chip Roy, says that the scheduled break for lawmakers in the lower chamber would be inappropriate without first securing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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MIGHT AS WELL START SMOKING AGAIN AND HAVE LOTS OF UNPROTECTED SEX

Instapundit Blog Archive MIGHT AS WELL START SMOKING AGAIN AND HAVE LOTS OF UNPROTECTED SEX:
"We don’t have 12 years to save the climate. 
We have 14 months.

Previously:
Where’s the press after a century of bad climate predictions?
Al Gore’s 10 Global Warming Predictions, 13 Years Later — None Happened!
Climate Alarmists Have Been Wrong About Virtually Everything.
Yeah, but this time…---"Posted by Stephen Green

Why isn't this BIG NEWS?-----Bombshell study: ‘NO evidence’ white cops ‘show bias’ in shooting black suspects

Bombshell study: ‘NO evidence’ white cops ‘show bias’ in shooting black suspects
"(NationalSentinel) The Left is succeeding in demonizing the honorable profession of police officer to the point where cops are getting so fed they’re quitting and departments are plagued with officer shortages because fewer Americans want to subject themselves to the abuse.
Police officers are racist, the Left screams. 
They ‘prey’ on young black men. 
After all, we have to believe that because Colin Kaepernick, Mr. Black Privilege, says so.
But a new study by researchers from Michigan State University not only debunks that myth, it blows it out of the water with this bombshell conclusion: There’s just no evidence to support the Left’s claims..."
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