AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS WERE PRIVATE? Google’s “Project Nightingale” is accessing patient medical records across twenty one states. And they didn’t get permission from the patients! Or their doctors, apparently.

You can thank ObamaCare's electronic medical records requirement for facilitating this atrocity.

More here. Note that CNN chose not to address the patient/doctor permission aspect.

DON SURBER: The liberals are preparing for Turkey Talk 2019.

I'd suggest responding by having all the TV's in the house being 'hardwired' to Fox News....

SMART MOVE: Airport revenues soar after allowing travelers to pay to turn off CNN.

And for the betterment of mankind....

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Here’s what you need to know if you missed Season 2, episode 1 of the Impeachment Follies:

1. The optics were awful. There were two old, dusty bureaucrats speaking gobbledygook, diplo-gibberish reporting what the derp state gossip was around the water cooler. They offered no first hand knowledge, neither of these men had ever met or spoken to the president.

2. This hot mess is not easy to understand unless you’ve been following it from the beginning. If a regular normie wanted to tune in to see what the president did to merit an impeachment inquiry, they were out of luck. This was no Law and Order episode with a gotcha moment.

3. Bill Taylor, an acting Ambassador to the Ukraine dropped a rumor we had not heard before: Taylor said he heard from a staffer that the staffer had overheard a phone conversation where Ambassador Sondland said Trump cared more about the investigations than he did about the Ukraine. Or something like that. Anyway, this staffer will get to testify in a secret tribunal about what he overheard, it won’t be for public consumption. If he has a successful audition, he might be allowed to speak in public.

4. Derp state bureaucrats Taylor and Kent seemed to really, really care about the Ukraine. I mean like super deluxe care. And they were super deluxe worried that Trump’s foreign policy and demand for investigations into corruption would be dangerous for Ukraine, the Russians would move in, people would die. But where were these clowns when Obama refused to send lethal aid to the Ukraine and instead sent them Kotex and Luna Bars? Did they run and squeak to Congress about that? Did they speak up when Obama kicked back while Russia invaded Crimea?

This is the Deep State: We are the [self-appointed] governing class. We alone have the knowledge, skills, and intelligence to govern and you mere mortals and your elected officials cannot be allowed to challenge our superiority.

The 'wizards of Oz' are fighting desperately to keep that curtain tightly closed lest they be revealed as the arrogant, narcissistic idiots they truly are.

5. Schiff said he doesn’t know who the whistleblower is. If so, how would he know if the whistleblower’s name was revealed at the hearing?

6. I don’t think Wednesday’s events changed any minds and that’s bad news for the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi is going to have to put this to a vote and if the public support isn’t there to impeach the president, her members will have to make a choice to risk their seat if they want to support the Democrat party or watch another impeachment attempt fail.

From Liz Sheld's Morning Greatness post over at the American Greatness website, which I highly recommend you bookmark.

UPDATE: Instapundit agrees with what I just wrote (in italics) above.

MIKE ROWE ON WARREN'S WEALTH TAX: "It's not a new thing. It's as old as hate."

And the 'free stuffers' in America will swallow it hook, line, and sinker.

IS HILLARY RUNNING AGAIN? "Let’s just hope we don’t find ourselves falling down the rabbit hole into Hillaryland."

CAPITOL BUILDING to be decorated as giant circus tent for duration of impeachment hearings. It's only a one-ring circus, though; Adam Schiff isn't sufficiently competent to manage three rings.

UPDATE: See the clown.

GOOD RIDDANCE: Greta Thunberg to set sail back to Europe sooner than expected.

AUSTIN [TX] half-asses its homeless problem.

I read the whole post - and watched the videos. As a former Austinite, I am saddened by what has happened to my former home and extremely grateful that I left when I did.

ELIZABETH WARREN is not a tough smart woman. And certainly not presidential timber.

HERE'S HOW NBC NEWS COVERED THE IMPEACHMENT HEARING: Drag queen sashays into Trump impeachment hearings.

And that's our mainstream media....

AN OPEN LETTER to Greta Thunberg.

Here is a hard truth to ponder, Greta: if the great producers of this world whom you excoriate were to withdraw their productivity, wealth and talents—in short—their minds from the world today, your generation would simply perish. Why? Because as children you have done nothing as yet, with your lives besides being born. This is what we expect of children until such time as they can be producers by learning from their elders. You are understandably social and ecological ballast.

Now read it all.

CANADA’S SELECTIVE CULTURE OF FORGIVENESS: "If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can be forgiven for his habit of wearing blackface, why can’t Don Cherry [a Canadian sportscaster] be forgiven for a ham-fisted rant on patriotism?"

THE SCHITT SCHIFF SHOW: "We are witnessing constitutional government dissipating before our eyes."

SCRATCH THEM FROM MY LIST OF FUTURE CELL PHONE PROVIDERS: T-Mobile forces its employees to use ‘transgender language’.

10:00 AM: The Adam Schitt Schiff Show has begun.

OCASIO-CORTEZ calls for boycott of 'Sesame Street' after discovering show is sponsored by numbers.

UC BERKELEY INSTRUCTOR calls rural Americans 'bad people' who deserve 'uncomfortable' lives.

We need to quit subsidizing these deranged self-appointed 'elitist' twits.

HMM. USAF wants the F-35 and F-22 to link with the X-37B space plane.

DISGUSTING. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING: California woman claims homeless man dumped bucket of hot feces on her.

Heidi Van Tassel said that the disgusting incident took place near the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Tassel said she was getting into her car when a man, who appeared to be homeless, attacked her.

"It was diarrhea. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes," Van Tassel said. "Paramedics who came to treat me said there was so much of it on me, that it looked like the man was saving it up for a month."

She added that the feces got inside her car as well.

"He just kept pouring it and splattering it all over me," she told NBC4.

Van Tassel was rushed to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and tested for infectious diseases caused by contact with feces — something she will have to do every three months.

The man who attacked her was identified in court records as Jere Blessings, a transient with "schizophrenia and psychotic disorders."

It's time - past time - to bring back mental institutions.

UPDATE: He's back on the street already.