Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The Truth About Border Walls' Effectiveness
The Truth About Border Walls' Effectiveness:
Insisting that walls are “ineffective” over and over again doesn’t make it true. The facts on the ground—both in the U.S. and around the world—not only don’t support that opinion, they decisively refute it.
Walls along four Customs and Border Protection sectors—El Paso; San Diego, California; and Tucson and Yuma, Arizona—have reduced illegal immigration “by at least 90 percent,” according to the Republican National Committee’s Borderfacts.com page.
Insisting that walls are “ineffective” over and over again doesn’t make it true. The facts on the ground—both in the U.S. and around the world—not only don’t support that opinion, they decisively refute it.
Walls along four Customs and Border Protection sectors—El Paso; San Diego, California; and Tucson and Yuma, Arizona—have reduced illegal immigration “by at least 90 percent,” according to the Republican National Committee’s Borderfacts.com page.
Video Venom: 33 TV Shows in Jan. Slam ‘Terrorist’ Trump, Praise Abortion
Video Venom: 33 TV Shows in Jan. Slam ‘Terrorist’ Trump, Praise Abortion
"Entertainment TV is far worse than news when it comes to progressive bias and hatred for conservative people and views.
A cross section of nightly programming on major networks, cable TV or popular streaming services is loaded with anti-conservative, anti-Trump propaganda. January features at least 33 separate entertainment programs that attack conservative values and/or President Donald Trump while promoting a hardcore progressive agenda.
"Entertainment TV is far worse than news when it comes to progressive bias and hatred for conservative people and views.
A cross section of nightly programming on major networks, cable TV or popular streaming services is loaded with anti-conservative, anti-Trump propaganda. January features at least 33 separate entertainment programs that attack conservative values and/or President Donald Trump while promoting a hardcore progressive agenda.
This aggressive lefty programming calls
- President Donald Trump a “racist,” and a “terrorist” who is holding America “hostage,”
- ridicules Second Lady Karen Pence and her husband’s “BDSM late night kink sessions,”
- insinuates that Democracy has “died” in America,
- joked that the president watches Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show with his “pants off,” and trashed proponents of border enforcement.
Here are the worst from January:
The January 24 episode of Comedy Central’s Broad City involves the show’s main protagonists melting down in a disgusting and degrading tantrum in front of NY’s Trump Tower.
During the scene Ilana Glazer stands in front of the doors next to some unassuming bystanders and begins yelling, “Suck it!” and “Fuck You!” as if she was possessed.
She gestures violently with both middle fingers, and yells to Trump, “Everybody’s laughing at you, fucking clown!”
Broad City’s other star Abbi Johnson gets in frame and then tosses up her own set of middle fingers, which the ladies have edited in post to be shooting lightning bolts.
Vulgarity is power.
Another really nasty one involves a character from Episode 9 of the last season of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt having sex with Donald Trump in a dirty commercial airliner bathroom.
Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) has to be talked into the deed by Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) because obviously it’s disgusting and beneath her.
Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) has to be talked into the deed by Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) because obviously it’s disgusting and beneath her.
Jacqueline apprehensively walks over to the Trump caricature who is shown stuffing a hamburger into his face and saying things like “My biggest accomplishment?
Not getting AIDS from Roy Cohn.”
After Jacqueline leaves the bathroom, the flight attendant finds Donald prone in the lavatory, having suffered a heart attack.
Not getting AIDS from Roy Cohn.”
After Jacqueline leaves the bathroom, the flight attendant finds Donald prone in the lavatory, having suffered a heart attack.
The very clearly LGBTQ flight attendant is delighted upon the discovery and gleefully says, “God, I love my job.”...
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Middle America's distrust of the major media isn't Trump's fault
Middle America's distrust of the major media isn't Trump's fault
JEFFERSON, OHIO — The banner headline in the Ashtabula Star Beacon the day after the President’s annual State of the Union Address was pretty straight forward. “Trump: End investigations; President calls for rejection of resistance politics in Washington.”
There were other critically important stories on that front page.
One piece announced a new police chief for a local village.
Another noted the closing of an iconic grocery store known for selling milk, eggs, and ammunition in its heyday.
There was also a photo of the local high school boys’ basketball team.
The story on President Trump’s speech was an Associated Press story penned by Washington-based reporters: It took nine paragraphs before one positive nugget from the speech was mentioned in the story.
...It painted a dark and foreboding picture of the risks posed to Americans by illegal immigration.
I suspect had a local reporter from Ashtabula County traveled to Washington to report the story, the viewpoint of the story, not the facts, would be different.
...Local reporters for the majority of the remaining small and medium newspapers don’t attend these types of speeches anymore..."
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JEFFERSON, OHIO — The banner headline in the Ashtabula Star Beacon the day after the President’s annual State of the Union Address was pretty straight forward. “Trump: End investigations; President calls for rejection of resistance politics in Washington.”There were other critically important stories on that front page.
One piece announced a new police chief for a local village.
Another noted the closing of an iconic grocery store known for selling milk, eggs, and ammunition in its heyday.
There was also a photo of the local high school boys’ basketball team.
The story on President Trump’s speech was an Associated Press story penned by Washington-based reporters: It took nine paragraphs before one positive nugget from the speech was mentioned in the story.
...It painted a dark and foreboding picture of the risks posed to Americans by illegal immigration.
I suspect had a local reporter from Ashtabula County traveled to Washington to report the story, the viewpoint of the story, not the facts, would be different.
...Local reporters for the majority of the remaining small and medium newspapers don’t attend these types of speeches anymore..."
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China's space debris cleanup may be cover story for arms against U.S. satellites, Pentagon says | The Japan Times
China's space debris cleanup may be cover story for arms against U.S. satellites, Pentagon says | The Japan Times
WASHINGTON - China is developing sophisticated space capabilities such as “satellite inspection and repair” and debris cleanup — “at least some of which could also function” as weapons against U.S. satellites, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The increase in what’s essentially orbiting garbage that could damage or destroy a satellite “has implications for policymakers worldwide and is encouraging the development of space debris removal technology,” the agency said Monday in an unclassified publication on threats to U.S. satellites.
But “this technology is dual-use because it could be used to damage another satellite,” it said..."
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The increase in what’s essentially orbiting garbage that could damage or destroy a satellite “has implications for policymakers worldwide and is encouraging the development of space debris removal technology,” the agency said Monday in an unclassified publication on threats to U.S. satellites.
But “this technology is dual-use because it could be used to damage another satellite,” it said..."
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Grocery chain: 'Heaven has a wall ... Hell has open borders' - WND
Grocery chain: 'Heaven has a wall ... Hell has open borders' - WND:
In a time when virtually everything is being politicized, now even food shopping has joined that club.
A family-owned Christian grocery store in Arkansas has ignited controversy with flyers connecting the national debate over border security to the beliefs of millions of Christians.
The message from Mac’s Cashsaver that’s more sizzling than a summertime barbecue states:
“Heaven has a wall, a gate and a strict immigration policy. Hell has open borders. Let that sink in.”
A family-owned Christian grocery store in Arkansas has ignited controversy with flyers connecting the national debate over border security to the beliefs of millions of Christians.
The message from Mac’s Cashsaver that’s more sizzling than a summertime barbecue states:
“Heaven has a wall, a gate and a strict immigration policy. Hell has open borders. Let that sink in.”
INCONVENIENT TRUTHS:NY Times: Tech is Splitting the Workplace in Two.
Instapundit Blog Archive INCONVENIENT TRUTHS
"NY Times: Tech is Splitting the Workplace in Two.
The article focuses on Phoenix, Arizona, as an example of a city in which high-tech is prominent, but the percentage of workers in low-skilled, low-wage jobs hasn’t move for forty years.
The implied solution, of course, is government intervention.
You might think it would be impossible to write a lengthy article of this sort *without even mentioning* the huge influx of low-skilled labor from Mexico to Arizona in that timeframe, well over 50% of whom have been undocumented since 1990.
You might think so, but you’d be wrong.
Putting aside what one thinks of immigration, legal or otherwise, it seems rather obvious that if a city is consistently importing poorly-educated workers who don’t speak English, most of whom have no legal residency status and cannot work legally, the percentage of workers in low-skilled, low-wage jobs is going to stay high.---Posted by David Bernstein"
"NY Times: Tech is Splitting the Workplace in Two.
The article focuses on Phoenix, Arizona, as an example of a city in which high-tech is prominent, but the percentage of workers in low-skilled, low-wage jobs hasn’t move for forty years. The implied solution, of course, is government intervention.
You might think it would be impossible to write a lengthy article of this sort *without even mentioning* the huge influx of low-skilled labor from Mexico to Arizona in that timeframe, well over 50% of whom have been undocumented since 1990.
You might think so, but you’d be wrong.
Putting aside what one thinks of immigration, legal or otherwise, it seems rather obvious that if a city is consistently importing poorly-educated workers who don’t speak English, most of whom have no legal residency status and cannot work legally, the percentage of workers in low-skilled, low-wage jobs is going to stay high.---Posted by David Bernstein"
History for February 13
History for February 13 - On-This-Day.com
Bess Truman 1885, Grant Wood 1892, Tennessee Ernie Ford 1919
Chuck Yeager 1923 - United States Air Force General, test pilot, Kim (Marilyn) Novak 1933 - Actress, Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) 1942 - Actor, musician (The Monkees)
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.
1935 - In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
It's Time to Rise Up and Defeat the Socialist Left - The Rush Limbaugh Show
It's Time to Rise Up and Defeat the Socialist Left - The Rush Limbaugh Show:
“You gotta get rid of abortion! You gotta…” And every time it happened — be it on a golf course, I don’t care where — I would say to them, “If we don’t get a handle on this, it’s gonna get to the point someday where we’re gonna be killing anybody who is inconvenient, not just babies. If we don’t stand up for life… You’ve gotta stop looking at this as some sort of Religious Right issue and thinking you can’t be part of it because you don’t want to be lumped in with a bunch of Christians or a bunch of religious zealots in your mind.
“This is about the fundamental thing we all only have one of, and it’s a life, and we have a political party which is pushing every day for the right to kill whoever they think is inconvenient — and they’re gonna do it one way or the other. They’re gonna do it with law. They’re gonna do it with health care,” and every time I would point this out, they would pooh-pooh me and say that I was being paranoid and irrational, and abortion was a standalone issue that didn’t have any growth features. It just was what it was.
“This is about the fundamental thing we all only have one of, and it’s a life, and we have a political party which is pushing every day for the right to kill whoever they think is inconvenient — and they’re gonna do it one way or the other. They’re gonna do it with law. They’re gonna do it with health care,” and every time I would point this out, they would pooh-pooh me and say that I was being paranoid and irrational, and abortion was a standalone issue that didn’t have any growth features. It just was what it was.
NYT-How the "think"-----Opinion | Our Brains Aren’t Designed to Handle the Trump Era - The New York Times
Opinion | Our Brains Aren’t Designed to Handle the Trump Era - The New York Times:- Or mine isn’t, anyway.
Was it when Twitter began?
With the internet itself?
Certainly by this current presidency.
I know that much.
I know that much.
I think, for instance, of Fridays, often slow days in the news business, when journalists catch up on email and sneak out for haircuts and therapist appointments.
Hard to do these days..."
Read on ...if you can stomach their pathetic bleating.
Hard to do these days..."
Read on ...if you can stomach their pathetic bleating.
Was climate change alarmism always about fears of overpopulation? | Watts Up With That?
Was climate change alarmism always about fears of overpopulation? | Watts Up With That?
"...Numerous population control advocates have linked anthropogenic climate change to population growth, or tried to revive interest in invoking anthropogenic climate change as the key negative outcome of continued economic growth linked to, foremost among causes, an increasing population. ...
We argue that no specific trigger events were necessary to spark the anxieties of these activists as they already espoused a neo-Malthusian eco-catastrophist mindset that is part of a wider pessimist perspective.
...at least two distinctive perspectives on the understanding of the nature, role, and future of humanity – the pessimist, and the Promethean or optimist ...
...The pessimists model people as bacteria that, in their Malthusian exponential growth, tend to quickly outstrip the resources of their “test-tube earth,” swiftly destroying both themselves and their environment.
Only – perhaps – the timely intervention of top-down expert planning may avert this preordained debacle.
The optimists see resources as limited primarily by human ingenuity and ability to utilize them, and humanity itself as a gathering of creative individuals, each capable of being much more than a mouth to feed.
...Thus, the Ehrlichs’ and Holdren’s preoccupation with human population numbers and their impact on global development or resource use did not need a specific cause or trigger.
Population and resource use anxiety were part of their pessimist perspective that had them always on the lookout for humanity’s confrontation with the inflexible natural limits of the finite earth..."
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"...Numerous population control advocates have linked anthropogenic climate change to population growth, or tried to revive interest in invoking anthropogenic climate change as the key negative outcome of continued economic growth linked to, foremost among causes, an increasing population. ...
We argue that no specific trigger events were necessary to spark the anxieties of these activists as they already espoused a neo-Malthusian eco-catastrophist mindset that is part of a wider pessimist perspective....at least two distinctive perspectives on the understanding of the nature, role, and future of humanity – the pessimist, and the Promethean or optimist ...
...The pessimists model people as bacteria that, in their Malthusian exponential growth, tend to quickly outstrip the resources of their “test-tube earth,” swiftly destroying both themselves and their environment.
Only – perhaps – the timely intervention of top-down expert planning may avert this preordained debacle.
The optimists see resources as limited primarily by human ingenuity and ability to utilize them, and humanity itself as a gathering of creative individuals, each capable of being much more than a mouth to feed.
...Thus, the Ehrlichs’ and Holdren’s preoccupation with human population numbers and their impact on global development or resource use did not need a specific cause or trigger.
Population and resource use anxiety were part of their pessimist perspective that had them always on the lookout for humanity’s confrontation with the inflexible natural limits of the finite earth..."
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Russia Exploits "Yellow Vest" Turmoil In France | The Heritage Foundation
Russia Exploits "Yellow Vest" Turmoil In France | The Heritage Foundation:
The Yellow Vest protests, which began late last year in rural areas, have spread throughout the country. They are now the most violent demonstrations central Paris has seen since 1968. And despite many concessions by the French government, there is no sign that the protesters will stand down any time soon.
The social, economic and political turmoil gives Moscow's operatives fertile fields in which to sow instability. Hybrid tactics work the best where people perceive poor governance, a lack of economic freedom and opportunity, and growing distrust between law enforcement agencies and the average citizen.
France today checks all three boxes to varying degrees.
The Yellow Vest protests, which began late last year in rural areas, have spread throughout the country. They are now the most violent demonstrations central Paris has seen since 1968. And despite many concessions by the French government, there is no sign that the protesters will stand down any time soon.The social, economic and political turmoil gives Moscow's operatives fertile fields in which to sow instability. Hybrid tactics work the best where people perceive poor governance, a lack of economic freedom and opportunity, and growing distrust between law enforcement agencies and the average citizen.
France today checks all three boxes to varying degrees.
"Apparently teaching 9 year-olds about sodomy doesn't seem weird to them."
Colorado Women For Trump
It's being advanced by LGBT activists and Planned Parenthood.
The activists of the LGBT "community" here and elsewhere in the country seek to inculcate the idea that all forms of sexual expression are of equal value.
"Sex Ed in Colorado: HB19-1032 is EXTREME.
Little wonder. It's being advanced by LGBT activists and Planned Parenthood.
To do that they need access to children at ever-earlier ages.
Apparently teaching 9 year-olds about sodomy (instead of teaching them to read and write in cursive, for instance) doesn't seem weird to them.
Planned Parenthood is an organization that has a profit interest in the premature sexualization of children and the promotion of sexual promiscuity.
Is this organization the best choice of influence on the formation character?
Not so much.
Is this organization the best choice of influence on the formation character?
Not so much.
1. Begins sex-ed in the 4th grade
2. Adds the "relational experiences" of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transsexual people to the curriculum
3. Forbids the teaching of Abstinence-Only curriculum
4. Forbids discussion of morality informed by religion in addressing the material..."
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Dumb as a box of rocks: Democrats suddenly realize their Maduro-love will cost them Florida in 2020
Dumb as a box of rocks: Democrats suddenly realize their Maduro-love will cost them Florida in 2020
They've always gotten away with it.
"For years, Democrats have fallen over themselves to defend Latin American communist dictatorships.
Who can forget Rep. Maxine Waters's apology to the Castro regime for the U.S. on her pilgrimage to Cuba or Rep. Jim McGovern's secret collaborations with Colombia's Marxist FARC terrorists or New York mayor Bill de Blasio's "help" to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas or Sen. Bernie Sanders's open praise for Hugo Chávez's Venezuela? And don't forget Joe Kennedy's Dial Joe-4-Oil, which was a gusher of propaganda praise for Venezuela's oppressive socialist regime.
They've always gotten away with it.
Until now.
They suddenly are realizing that the Maduro-lovers and Trump-resisters in their ranks, who happen to be some of their biggest "it" girls with the loudest voices — Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — have supported Venezuela's detested Maduro regime in recent weeks ... and it's not just them. Other Democrats are also in their tree - think of old dinosaurs such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was all worried about the U.S. invading Venezuela, and Silent Ted Deutch representing south Florida in Congress. Supporting a socialist regime just seems to come natural in the Democratic Party. And for that, they're all kissing the purple swing state of Florida goodbye for the Democrats in 2020.
The New York Times reports this as an alarming development for Democrats:
Venezuela, not Cuba, now dominates Miami's political conversation. A television anchor not long ago ended a somber segment with a promise to keep praying for the troubled South American country. Venezuelans in the city have gathered for demonstrations to coincide with protests back home..."
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Border Patrol catch 325 migrants who sneaked in via unsecured Mexico barrier, after group lit fire | Daily Mail Online
Border Patrol catch 325 migrants who sneaked in via unsecured Mexico barrier, after group lit fire | Daily Mail Online:
US Border Patrol said they stopped 325 Central Americans trying to illegally enter the country Thursday, spotting them after they were alerted to campfire started to deal with freezing temperatures.
The huge group surrendered to agents assigned to the Ajo Station in Pima County, Arizona who learned they'd crossed via an area only blocked off by a vehicle barrier designed to stop pedestrians crossing the road.
But the bunch – including 150 minors of which 32 were not accompanied by an adult - got caught as a US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations helicopter scanned the area.
The huge group surrendered to agents assigned to the Ajo Station in Pima County, Arizona who learned they'd crossed via an area only blocked off by a vehicle barrier designed to stop pedestrians crossing the road.
But the bunch – including 150 minors of which 32 were not accompanied by an adult - got caught as a US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations helicopter scanned the area.
VIDEO: Students all about Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal'...then find out what's in it
VIDEO: Students all about Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal'...then find out what's in it
"Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled her long-awaited “Green New Deal," a plan aimed at drastically reducing carbon emissions in the next ten years..."
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has released the contents of her "Green New Deal."
- Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips traveled to the University of Miami to find out what students thought of it.
- Most students loved the Green New Deal...until finding out what's in it.
"Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled her long-awaited “Green New Deal," a plan aimed at drastically reducing carbon emissions in the next ten years..."
Lest we forget-----Obama sent Palestinians $221M hours before leaving office
Obama sent Palestinians $221M hours before leaving office
WASHINGTON — Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.
A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning.
The official said former Secretary of State John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time Thursday.
The aides said written notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office.
In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama administration told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for UN organizations, the congressional aides said.
The aides and the State Department official weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity..."
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WASHINGTON — Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.
A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning.The official said former Secretary of State John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time Thursday.
The aides said written notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office.
In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama administration told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for UN organizations, the congressional aides said.
The aides and the State Department official weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity..."
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