SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:

FRIGHTENING – From PJ Media:   According to The Register, a UK-based news site about tech security and related issues, “hackers infiltrated a water utility’s control system and changed the levels of chemicals being used to treat tap water.”  The hackers had “ties to Syria,” and the attack, although the location of the utility has not been revealed and its name has been changed in reports, seems most likely to have taken place in the United States.  This is yet another indication of how determined jihad terrorists are to murder Americans in large numbers.  Revelation of this attack comes from the March 2016 security breach report published by Verizon Security Solutions, which referred to the water plant that was attacked with the alias “Kemuri Water Company (KWC).” It explained how the hackers had been able to burrow deeply and repeatedly inside the workings of the company. They were only stopped from doing massive damage by their ignorance of how water plants actually operated.   That's a pretty chilling report, and probably a prediction of things to come.  The terror groups learn more every day.  ISIS is more sophisticated than Al Qaeda.  Flash forward 10 years...and imagine.

THE WAY THINGS WORK – From, of all places, London's Daily Mail:   The Florida-based prosecutor whose office will handle the battery case of Donald Trump's campaign manager is a Hillary Clinton supporter who once characterized the Republican frontrunner's rhetoric as 'divisive and inflammatory.'  Dave Aronberg, the 44-year-old State Attorney for Palm Beach County, was a former Democratic state senator and in November was named as part of Clinton's 'Florida Leadership Team.'  These political connections have caused Trump supporters to take to Twitter worrying that Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager who yesterday was charged with simple battery over an altercation with ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, wouldn't get a fair shake.  A representative for Aronberg's spokesman Mike Edmondson said the office would not be commenting on political matters.  An obvious conflict of interest.  Mr. Aronberg should recuse himself, but standards are low these days.

MAJOR CRISES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT – From legalinsurrection.com:   The idiocracy is upon us.  A woman in Hartford, Connecticut called 9-1-1 when she realized the pizza shop messed up her order. Fox61 reported:  “I just have a question,” the woman identified as Ashley said. “If I order pizza and they don’t want to give me my money back, can you guys do something?”  “Ma’am, that’s something you have to take up with them,” the dispatcher said. “But, that’s not something you would dial 9-1-1 for. 9-1-1 is for life threatening emergencies only.”  The dispatcher remains calm and patient through the call.  “Can you call the pizzeria or something?” Ashley asks again.  I regard a messed-up pizza as a major cultural insult.  This woman deserves the help of a compassionate nation.  I have advised her to call the diversity adviser at the local college.  This is big enough to bring in the best.

March 30, 2016