Thursday, September 14, 2023

It's not fun being a sanctuary city anymore

  Silvio Canto, Jr.   "Once upon a time, it was so much fun being a sanctuary city.  It made you popular with immigration activists and the self-declared "enlightened" class.  Suddenly, sanctuary cities are about dealing with migrants who accepted your invitation.  As someone said on the TV, it's like inviting a bunch of people for dinner and then realizing that you can't pay the bill."


. . ."What is unfolding in New York City regarding immigrants is "a prime example of what happens when you combine bad local policies with poor enforcement of federal immigration laws," according to Republican strategist Lanhee Chen.

" 'NYC's policies have created a permissive environment where, unsurprisingly, migrants have fled to seek shelter," Chen, policy director of Sen. Mitt Romney's (R-UT) 2012 presidential campaign, told the Washington Examiner. "Even blue-state governors like Maura Healey in Massachusetts have decried the 'crisis of inaction' within the Biden administration when it comes to enforcement of federal immigration laws." . . .

Biden weakens USA abroad; Obama's dream of emasculating America comes true

  Don Surber (substack.com)  (Video added by TD)

. . ."Meanwhile, Biden went to India and made an ass of himself. First, he messed up the name of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, then he went to Vietnam and messed up an international press conference.

"Earlier, he accused the crown prince of murder — and then asked for him to cut the price of oil. The prince almost laughed in his face. After 80-plus years of being a trusted ally, the House of Saud is aligning with Russia and Red China.

These mistakes are deliberate. Biden is weakening America and ending its post-USSR status as the world’s only superpower. The world tires of dealing with a bipolar America that one year is the leader of the free world and the next year a doddering old fool.

"Trump held NATO accountable and forced our allies to live up to their commitments to spend money on their militaries. Biden made an Irish exit from Afghanistan without telling our allies. The Council on Foreign Relations cheered.

"It also cheered him in 2018 when he told them: “I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn’t." . . .

Oh, by the way....Some interesting sidenotes to Larry Sinclair’s tale of sex and drugs with Obama -Andrea Widburg

. . ."Last night, Tucker Carlson released his interview with Larry Sinclair, the man who alleges that, in 1999, while in Chicago, he did cocaine with Obama (who preferred to smoke his) and then performed oral sex on Obama. This is a tale that Sinclair has told before. It’s worth noting because it reminds us of the partnership between the media and the Democrat party. There were also some interesting details about big tech and a strange death (or maybe a few strange deaths)." . . .

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

When a comic strip gets to the heart of (old) America

 . . ."The brain child of a Jewish Connecticut Yankee named Alfred Caplan (AKA Al Capp), Li'l Abner took place in a backwater hillbilly village called Dogpatch.  The drawing was superb, especially of the ladies.  But the significance of the strip was that it is concrete evidence of a broader political environment that used to describe mainstream American media.  Political correctness had not yet stifled creative endeavors.  For example, the Soviet Union, during departures from life in Dogpatch, was renamed Lower Slobovia.  In that environment, everybody was drowning in snow and living in misery." . . .

. . .Capp stopped drawing the strip in 1977, after it ran for 43 years.  He died two years later.  Other strips have outlived their creators, either by recycling the archives or by being inherited by a next generation of cartoonists.  Not so for Li'l Abner.  As such, the strip kind of serves as a bench mark for American culture and establishes the point of departure from what used to be its broad-based tolerance for biting satire.  Since then, political correctness has been closing our minds.  None other than Jerry Seinfeld has warned us that comedy can be considered dead since we can no longer make fun of the "wrong" people." . . .


. . ."Capp stopped drawing the strip in 1977, after it ran for 43 years.  He died two years later.  Other strips have outlived their creators, either by recycling the archives or by being inherited by a next generation of cartoonists.  Not so for Li'l Abner.  As such, the strip kind of serves as a bench mark for American culture and establishes the point of departure from what used to be its broad-based tolerance for biting satire.  Since then, political correctness has been closing our minds.  None other than Jerry Seinfeld has warned us that comedy can be considered dead since we can no longer make fun of the "wrong" people." . . .

New Mexico Governor Loses Control as Armed Citizens Roll Into Albuquerque

 Western Journal   "What did she think was going to happen?

"New Mexico’s Democratic governor has been making headlines around the country since she decided her election to a statewide office gave her the power to suspend the Constitution of the United States.

"Over the weekend, her home-state constituents sent a message of their own.

"Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday signed an executive order temporarily banning guns from being carried — openly or concealed — in Bernalillo County, home to the city of Albuquerque, or in Albuquerque itself." . . .


Thank Judge Noreika for stopping DOJ from pulling a fast one

 


Thank Judge Noreika for stopping DOJ from pulling a fast one (nypost.com)   "Judge Maryellen Noreika caught the Biden Department of Justice red-handed: It’s been lying through its teeth about probing the first son further.

"At Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal over tax and gun charges Wednesday, Noreika asked how DOJ could still be investigating him yet at the same time agree to grant him immunity for anything it turns up.

"What would be the point of an investigation if he can’t be prosecuted?

"The obvious answer: Justice had no plans to probe him further." . . .

How A Federal Judge Turned The Tables On Hunter's Plea Deal (thefederalist.com)

Judge Noreika knew lawyers were trying to paint her into a corner and hide the ball while forcing her to rubber-stamp their absurd bargain.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Democrat Bidens report card

Peter Doocy Reveals White House's SHAMEFUL Excuse For Joe Biden Skipping 9/11 Memorial Ceremony (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit  “It’s no surprise to me that he’s not coming to Ground Zero or any of the 9/11 sites,” Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Donald Arias, who lost his brother Adam during the attacks, told “Fox & Friends First” Monday.

“And quite frankly, I prefer he stay away anyway. We will be spared one of his stories of how he can relate, like he did with the people of Lahaina, how he can relate because of a kitchen fire. We can do without that.”

"Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked White House staffers why Joe Biden won’t be attending the 9/11 ceremony." . . .


The Lesson of 9/11 Is a Warning That Biden's Declining Physical and Mental Ability Could Get People Killed – PJ Media   . . ."Enter President Joe Biden. A president who has taken more vacation days to recover from fewer hours worked than any president in living memory. A man who is the barely breathing role model for the 4-day 32-hour work week that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is now advocating. A man who, in rambling, almost incoherent appearances with other national leaders, keeps referring to his aides as the people telling him what to do.

"Joe Biden’s cognitive ability, never great, has declined over the last year to the point where even many Democrats are admitting he is too old to do the job. His insurance policy has been Vice President Kamala Harris, whose flitting forays onto the national stage have only served to highlight that Joe Biden is the brains of the operation." . . .

 OUTRAGE: The Biden Gang Preparing to Wire $6 Billion to Iran in Prisoner Swap This Week | The Gateway Pundit "

"When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as next week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will see as many as five detained U.S. dual nationals leave Iran and a similar number of Iranian prisoners held in the U.S. fly home, according to eight Iranian and other sources familiar with the negotiations who spoke to Reuters.

"As a first step, Iran on Aug. 10 released four U.S. citizens from Tehran’s Evin prison into house arrest, where they joined a fifth, who was already under house arrest. Later that day U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the move the first step of a process that would lead to their return home.

"They include businessmen Siamak Namazi, 51, and Emad Sharqi, 59, as well as environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, 67, who also holds British nationality, the U.S. administration has said. The Tahbaz and Shargi families did not respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for the Namazi family declined to comment.

"The identities of the fourth and fifth Americans, one of whom according to two sources is a woman, have not been disclosed. Reuters couldn't establish which Iranian prisoners, in turn, would be swapped by the U.S." . . .

Please. No more trips overseas for Joe Biden – HotAir

9/11 families to President Biden: Don't come to our memorial events (nbcnews.com)  . . ."Nearly 1,800 Americans directly affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are opposing President Joe Biden’s participation in any memorial events this year unless he upholds his pledge to declassify U.S. government evidence that they believe may show a link between Saudi Arabian leaders and the attacks.

"The victims’ family members, first responders and survivors will release a statement Friday calling on Biden to skip 20th-anniversary events in New York and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon unless he releases the documents, which they believe implicate Saudi officials in supporting the acts of terrorism. The group says that as a candidate Biden pledged to be more transparent and release as much information as possible but that his administration has since then ignored their letters and requests." . . .

Joe Biden visited Ground Zero on 9/12/2001--in his own mind – HotAir  . . ."At least he didn’t compare his kitchen fire or the perils his Corvette found itself in to the troops, most of whom wouldn’t be old enough to remember the events of that fateful day. Instead they can remember that time a president visited them in Alaska to recount a Walter Mitty fantasy.

"So where was Joe Biden on September 12th? “Exactly where he wanted: in the U.S. Senate.”. . .

"The Biden Administration also had the good taste to announce a deal with Iran today of all days, despite the fact that Iran has admitted its complicity in the terrorist attacks. Why, of all days, would they put this out in the news?

 "The Biden Administration is like a social science experiment in which researchers are testing the tolerance of a population to incompetent and occasionally hostile leadership.

"How many insults to our intelligence can a population take? How much gaslighting will people tolerate? Can a political party survive a policy of disparaging its citizens and destroying the social fabric of a nation?

"So far the answer has been yes, it can.

"That doesn’t speak well for Biden’s supporters, in my view. The guy isn’t just senile, which would be bad enough. He oozes contempt for us and apparently revels in insulting us." . . .

The Lawyer on the Playground: the price we pay for a litigious society

 Intellectual Takeout

Tony Christopher, executive director of the National Institute for Play, said playgrounds post these signs hoping to “mitigate the liability of the entity responsible for the playground (school, municipality, etc.) in the event they are sued.”

“Welcome! Play Safe” reads the sign at a Fairfax County Public School playground in Virginia just outside of Washington D.C. It goes on to list a few simple rules — 21, by my count.

"First off, the playground should never be used when it’s frozen. Or wet.

"There can be no climbing on things like the safety rails (which are… fences?). And kids must not wear any clothing with drawstrings, hoods or toggles when playing — because these could get caught on something. (Ponytails seem grandmothered in.)

"On the slide, children must “take turns,” “sit in an upright position,” and “not climb.” There also must be “No loitering at slide entry or exit.”

"Loiter not, little ones!

"While she has seen this same sign at a playground for kids ages 6-12, Katie Courtney, a 32-year-old mom of four who brought this sign to my attention, says: “This is literally a playground that’s for 2- to 5-year-olds.” The slide there is about “as tall as an adult.”

"Nonetheless, when a child gets up to the top, legally they must hustle their butt right down. This disturbs Coutrney, who has her master’s in education and used to teach pre-school.

“ 'Part of the fun of being on the playground is that for three seconds you’re at the top of the slide — you have one moment of being in charge.” And if another kid is right behind you? “How hard is it for a 4-year-old to negotiate, ‘You need to move! You’re blocking everyone else!’?”

"Without legal counsel? That’s crazy." . . .

Biden Does the Unthinkable To Gold Star Mom After Marine Son’s Death -

  Analyzing America

The attack was a horrific tragedy that took the lives of many innocent people. It also highlighted the chaotic and dangerous situation in Afghanistan as well as deadly consequences of President Biden’s incompetence and poor leadership

Gold Star mother Kelly Barnett lost her 31-year-old son, Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, during the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal of U.S. service members from Afghanistan.

Crying during a forum held from the families, Barnett opened up about the “disrespect,” “lies,” and “hatred” from the Biden White House. Republicans have launched an investigation into the botched withdrawal.

The grieving families of the fallen were “told lies” and given “incomplete” and “incorrect” reports. “I was told to my face, he died on impact,” Barnett explained. “That’s not true. The only reason that I know this is because witnesses told me the truth. I was lied to and basically told to shut up.” . . .

. . ."She said her son expressed concerns about how he witnessed “chaos, no communication, lack of leadership” during his final deployment.

“He lived for a little while… he was giving out his ammo,” the gold star mom said. “He tied a tourniquet at around his leg. I don’t understand the reasoning of that lie,” Barnett said. “It makes no sense other than the fact that, did they really even do an investigation? Did they talk to witnesses? I don’t know.” . . .

21 Fascinating Facts And Photos Of The Titanic That'll Be New To Pretty Much Everyone

 21 Fascinating Facts And Photos Of The Titanic That'll Be New To Pretty Much Everyone (msn.com)

7.And this life vest is one of only six (out of an original 3,500) that still exists in the world today. It was recovered from the field of debris by Robert Edwards, quartermaster of a ship chartered by the White Star Line to search for bodies.


Monday, September 11, 2023

Joe Biden - President's Public Schedule

 WATCH: Reporter Smoothly Corrects Karine Jean-Pierre Over Preposterous Biden 'Busy Schedule' Claim – RedState   "The explanation given by that White House official along with Biden's supposed salute to service that he is going to give in Alaska is not going to go over well, especially with those who are already worried that the day will one day be viewed as an afterthought. "

President Joe Biden - Public Schedule Calendar | Factbase

Schedule updates at midnight Eastern Time, or when pushed out via social media, whichever is earlier. Available as a Google Calendar . Calendar maintained in U.S. Eastern Time and may publish earlier when the President is overseas.

12:55 AM

Official Schedule
The President drops by a meeting of CEOs with Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính of Vietnam (11:55 AM Local)
Office of Government, Hanoi, Vietnam
Out-of-Town Pool Spray

2:00 AM

Official Schedule
The President meets with President Võ Văn Thưởng of Vietnam (1:00 PM Local)
Presidential Palace, Hanoi, Vietnam
Out-of-Town Pool Spray

2:30 AM

Official Schedule
The President participates in a State Luncheon with President Võ Văn Thưởng of Vietnam (1:30 PM L:ocal)
Presidential Palace, Hanoi, Vietnam
Out-of-Town Pool Spray

3:55 AM

Official Schedule
The President meets with Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue of the National Assembly of Vietnam (2:55 PM Local)
National Assembly Building, Hanoi, Vietnam
Out-of-Town Pool Spray

4:35 AM

Official Schedule
The President visits the John Sidney McCain III Memorial (3:35 PM Local)
John McCain Monument, Hanoi, Vietnam

Even the Liberal Press Noticed How Insane Biden's Vietnam Presser Was, and Democrats Are in Trouble –

  RedState

"As I've said before, they should have just let Gavin Newsom take the spot. I can't stand the guy and I think he's been absolutely horrific for California. But from a purely political standpoint, he would have much better appeal in 2024 than Biden. That ship appears to have sailed, though. It's Biden or Harris, and both are nowhere near a sure thing to win." . . .


"As RedState reported, Joe Biden gave a presser for the ages in Vietnam on Sunday. This time, it wasn't just his senility and references to "dog-faced poney soldiers" that raised eyebrows, though. 

"Instead, the big shocker was hearing Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, cut Biden's mic mid-sentence, even as he was trying to answer more questions. To make things even more awkward, the president then remained on the stage, rambling away. No one could hear him, though, because of the aforementioned muting of his mic. 

"It was bad. It was really, really bad. It was so bad that even CNN couldn't ignore what happened, and some of the framing in the liberal network's report is very telling. 

However, the president lingered on stage, responding to additional questions about what he said to Chinese Premier Li Qiang before he was interrupted by the press secretary.  

Throughout the presser, Biden acknowledged the demands of the whirlwind trip, joking at one point, “These five-day trips around the world are no problem.”  

Minutes before Jean-Pierre ended the press conference, Biden had delivered a lengthy answer that involved a rambling explanation of why he uses the phrase “lying dog-faced pony soldier” in an attempt to explain his feelings about politicians who deny the existence of climate change. 

"Yes, that is CNN describing Biden as "rambling" while noting that the trip appeared to have taken a mental and physical toll on Biden. Keep in mind he's only been on the road for three days, and he travels in the world's most luxurious airplane. When even the left-wing press can't spin the president's obvious senility, that says something big. 

"They can't let this guy be the 2024 nominee. They just can't. I know Democrats have no good options, with Kamala Harris, one of the most unpopular politicians in modern history, waiting in the wings. But what do they do when Biden has multiple episodes on the campaign trail next year? How do they explain that away when whoever the Republican nominee is appears to be far more capable in comparison? " . . .

Hanoi Joe is even worse than Hanoi Jane - American Thinker   "Joe Biden found himself in Vietnam on Sunday. Returning from the G-20 summit in India, he made a pit stop there, supposedly to improve relations with that country as a means of checking China's aggressions.

"Instead of saying 'Hello,' like normal presidents say, Biden greeted the Vietnamese with "Gooooood morning, Vietnam," rather shockingly bringing up a line from a movie that was all about the absurdities of the Vietnam War.

"His performance was so bad his staff cut his mic and whisked him off the stage. 

"According to the Daily Mail:" . . .

Masking, Vaxing, and Mail-In Ballots; Democrats use masking to make people fearful and willing, once again, to vote by mail.

I have swim trunks made from COVID mask material; I can go into a public swimming pool and relieve myself and it has no effect whatever on the water around me. not a joke. The Tunnel Dweller

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   "When a bipartisan congressional bill ending the COVID-19 national emergency was reluctantly signed by President Biden last April, most Americans hoped that the politicization of the virus was at an end. Those hopes dimmed two weeks ago when Dr. Anthony Fauci materialized on CNN, like Banquo’s ghost at Macbeth’s feast, to dispute a widely publicized study showing that masking doesn’t reduce the spread of COVID or any of its variants. After host Michael Smerconish described the study’s findings, Fauci brayed that it somehow helps “at an individual level.” This is nonsense, of course, but his return to the talking head circuit tells us something important about Democratic intentions in 2024.

"Those intentions became all too clear a week later, when Senate Democrats killed a bill introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) that would have banned mask mandates for public schools, domestic air travel, and public transit. The remarks of Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who led the charge against Vance’s bill, made it clear that the Democrats will bring back mask mandates and scare tactics to accomplish their goals: “[I]f in the opinion of public health officials, strategies can be adopted using masks that reduced the likelihood that more will die, we should give them that freedom to make those decisions.” Vance refuted the claim that masks reduce COVID transmission when he introduced his bill:

It’s not just that masks, according to randomized, controlled studies do no good. It’s that they can actively cause harm. We know that a generation of school children has suffered significant speech and developmental disabilities because this country panicked instead of using its brain and forced toddlers and small children to wear masks. We cannot return to the failed policies of the COVID pandemic. I’m not mad that we screwed up. I made mistakes, many people in this body made mistakes. What I do think that we should avoid is repeating the mistakes in 2023. Let’s learn from the mistakes that we made instead of just doubling down on them. . . .

 COVID-19 Has Forever Destroyed Americans' Trust in Ruling Class 'Experts'  Charlotte, NC — As even many casual observers of America’s fractious politics are aware, the overwhelming majority of lawmaking at the federal level no longer takes place in Congress as the Constitution’s framers intended. Instead, the vast majority of the “rulemaking” governing Americans’ day-to-day lives now takes place behind closed doors, deep in the bowels of the administrative state’s sprawling bureaucracy. The brainchild of progressive President Woodrow Wilson, arguments on behalf of the modern administrative state are ultimately rooted in, among other factors, a disdain for the messy give-and-take of republican politics and an epistemological preference for rule by enlightened clerisy.