January 13, 2019
AOC learning about daily criticism -- and doesn't like it one bit! Poor thing!
Good comments. Do you suppose she'll read any of 'em?
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Dems Are Partying With Lobbyists In Puerto Rico While Government Employees Are Losing Their Homes
Apparently Democrats decided to hold the retreat in Puerto Rico to help draw attention to the destruction Hurricane Maria caused back in 2017. They brought 250lbs of donated medical supplies. But the trip is lavish. BOLD PAC chartered a 737 for members, their families, and chiefs of staff to attend for the weekend.
No one knows exactly which members are in attendance. Speaker Pelosi was rumored to be in attendance but one of her staffers said she was unable to make the trip.
Read it all at Townhall!
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From Eddie. I'm liking this new Brazilian president more and more/
How Brazil's New President Will Prove, Yet Again, That Gun Control Is
A quick word from Tim:
Brazil has some of the highest gun violence rates on Earth, and those rates skyrocketed when Brazil banned guns. Go figure...
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The guy's sure got big ideas!
I'm not sure what Billy-Boy is talking about is legal, but I believe that's never stopped him before.
Nww York native Jack Kemp adds:
Bill thinks he's running for President, going to Iowa - and he's already packed the Supreme Ct. He really has no idea about what he can get away with. He is like Ocasio-Cortez without the long hair and red lipstick.
And Dana replies:
You've got THAT right, Jack. The Donkeys are engaged in one massive power grab. I really don't know what makes 'em think they can get away with it, unless it's the example of the federal courts, who have taken unto themselves the job of writing our laws and telling the President what he can and can't do, in cases when it is totally the President's job, not the courts', to decide.
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My brother Brian takes on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch again, this time pointing out the hypocrisy of said litter-box liner on the issue of illegal migration:
Dear Mr. Patrick,
Briefly, Briefly, you mention that ICE agents arrested Martin Vargas-Avalos, Cristobal Vargas-Avalos, Juan Manuel Vargas-Avalos and Sandy Francisco Portillo-Hernandez for using forged documents to obtain drivers licenses. They used Jose Manuel Barradas-Geron and Omar Fernando Ortiz-Granados as their intermediaries.
You might argue that the Spanish names prove nothing, and that these men might have been of Iberian descent. The fact is, however, that Senor Portillo-Hernandez carries a Honduran passport. ICE reports that all of the men are in the country illegally, coming from Mexico,  and the men were also carrying false banking statements, utility bills, and a computer, printer and scanner in their car.
Again, the Post-Dispatch claims that there is no illegal immigration crisis, and that Donald Trump is Chicken Little, trying to manufacture a crisis. After reading your article, sir, I wonder whether the President might be right, and the Post-Dispatch might be lying?
Brian E. Birdnow
Aviary readers may remember I wrote about this topic back in February 2018. This is one of the dirty little secrets the media and their Democratic (and GOPe) allies do not want you to know. They keep trying to claim illegal aliens committ few crimes. They are lying - as I pointed out here.
Does anybody remember Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf aka Baghdad Bob? He was Saddam Hussein's information minister who, when the American forces were entering the city, told the media Iraqi forces had driven the Americans out. The disconnect with reality was hysterical, and yet the disconnect with the reality of the alien invasion and the attendant crime is just as ridiculous.
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'Do It All, Including the Wall'
Mark Morgan, who led the U.S. Border Patrol during Barack Obama's presidency, said Saturday that he's in total agreement with President Trump's proposed border wall.
Morgan echoed President Trump's message to America by saying the current situation at the southern border is a "national security and humanitarian crisis."
We have a massive Humanitarian Crisis at our Southern Border. We will be out for a long time unless the Democrats come back from their "vacations†and get back to work. I am in the White House ready to sign!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2019
He said on Cavuto Live that the same language about border security from President Trump was used in years prior to his presidency on both sides of the aisle.
"It's absurd, the arguments that are being made right now," he said.
He said that, starting in 2014, the demographics of the people coming across the U.S. border started to change.
"Meaning, we saw an influx in family units and unaccompanied minors," Morgan said. "It was then, also, across the aisle on both sides that referred to that as a humanitarian crisis."
He added that "nothing has changed" regarding governmental strategy on border security for years.
One more voice of reason. Read the whole thing here: https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/01/12/obama-era-border-chief-mark-morgan-hits-back-absurd-border-wall-arguments
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January 12, 2019
The Special Counsel law does nothing but help Democrats and needs to be ended. But the GOPe won't have that.
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David Dickinson adds:
My 40-something neighbor came over the other night to use my phone because she locked herself out of the house. I gave her my house phone (landline) and she punched in the numbers and then handed it to me and asked me how to "send" it. "Where's the send button?" I just handed it back and said it was ringing.
Not teenager, 40-something.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-slammed-for-hypocrisy-after-her-campaign-fi ned-for-not-providing-workers-compensation-coverage
Ocasio-Cortez slammed for 'hypocrisy' after her campaign fined for not providing worker's compensation coverage
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Ever since Lindsay Graham unloaded on Senate Democrats in the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings many Conservatives have seen him as the new Messiah, a guy who has seen the light, hallalujah brothers! But he's the same old Graham, and we shoud not forget that.
His latest was an attempt to end the government shutdown by caving. Thankfully Donald Trump had the good sense to decapitate that particular serpent.
From Politico:
Vice President Mike Pence and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney had been consulting with senators about the matter on Thursday. Pence and Mulvaney took the idea to the president, who shot it down, according to multiple people directly involved in the talks. While the congressional committees could still take up Trump's border wall plan, the president opposes the idea of opening the government before serious wall negotiations have begun, the people said. He told Senate Republicans he believes he is winning the fight and will not sign any stopgap bills at this point.
"I think we're stuck. I just don't see a pathway forward. I don't see a way forward," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who had been leading the effort. "I have never been more depressed about moving forward than I am right now. I just don’t see a pathway forward."
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January 11, 2019
If you thought the midterm elections had problems, wait until you learn about Nancy Pelosi’s plan to terminate state control over American elections.
Democrats in Congress have announced their top legislative priority, and it isn’t health care, immigration, or taxes. Instead, they want to centralize power over elections in Washington, D.C. H.R. 1 is number one on the legislative agenda because it is the number one priority of House Democrats, leftist groups, deep-pocketed dark money, and those who use election process rules to help win elections -- or at least to cause chaos.
The bill is a 571-page dreamscape of wild wishes and federal mandates on states. The Constitution decentralizes power over American elections and puts states in charge. H.R. 1 would undo that. [emphasis mine here]
Decentralization promotes individual liberty. When power over elections is centralized, it is easier for that power to be abused. When power over elections is decentralized, no single malevolent actor can exert improper control over the process. That is precisely why Democrats are so eager for Washington, D.C., to have more power over our elections.
H.R. 1 has 218 cosponsors. It forces states to implement mandatory voter registration. If someone is on a government list -- such as receiving welfare benefits or rental subsidies -- then they would be automatically registered to vote. Few states have enacted these systems because Americans still view civic participation as a voluntary choice. Moreover, aggregated government lists always contain duplicates and errors that states, even without mandatory voter registration, frequently fail to catch and fix.
H.R. 1 also mandates that states allow all felons to vote. Currently, states have the power under the Constitution to set the terms of eligibility in each state. Some states, like Maine, have decided that voting machines should be rolled into the prisons. Other states, like Nevada, have chosen to make a felony a disenfranchising event.
Leftist groups, and unfortunately some on the right, have fought for no-contrition re-enfranchisement for all felons. Florida voters just passed a constitutional amendment that mandates felon re-enfranchisement, no questions asked, no redemption needed, no contrition necessary.
This threatens the Republican Party’s viability in Florida because the number of felons it affects far surpasses the meager margin of victory for Senator Rick Scott and Governor Ron DeSantis in 2018. Felons vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, and exponentially more felons were re-enfranchised than the GOP margin of victory in 2016 and 2018.
This would forceably register the very people we do NOT want voting!
Please read the entire article, then watch the House and be prepared to call your Representative! https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/h-r-1-democrats-act-to-strip-state-powers-over-elections/
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The Earth's magnetic pole is moving at a rapid rate, and nobody knows why.
According to this article we are witnessing a rabid move of the pole from Canada to Siberia. (I suppose this was the deal Trump made with the Russians, that they get the pole if he got elected.)
From the article:
But, according to the science journal Nature, something strange is going on deep down below.
It’s causing the magnetic North Pole to ‘skitter’ away from Canada, towards Siberia.
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Here is more on California Governor Newsom's family and his wife who wants to be known as "First Partner".
Governor's wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom to go by "first partner"
Jack Kemp adds:
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My own reaction? Mild disappointment. I wanted Trump to go whole hog. To declare a national emergency. To announce that he would build a Wall along the whole length of the U.S. southern border using funds from the Pentagon. And the Army Corps of Engineers. And that he would defy any court ruling, up to and including one from the U.S. Supreme Court, telling him otherwise. That he’d fire any officers who wouldn’t cooperate. That he’d let the House impeach him — which it already promised to do, for trivial, partisan reasons. And count on the Senate to vindicate him, then the voters to reward him in 2020 with a second term and a GOP Congress. As I think in fact they would.
The President looked like a police investigator who’d been sleeplessly interrogating sociopaths.
I hope that the above is his back-up option. It’s certainly better than the other alternative: caving to the Democrats who have renounced our right to have borders. Who want to tell the next Caravan, and the next, that they can drag their children through the desert to our borders, and gain free schooling and Medicaid for the price of showing up.
Such a concession, opening the government without a Wall? It would be tantamount to resigning. The Democrats would give him zero credit for making concessions. Instead they would simply smell the blood in the water from a floundering lame duck. Then continue gnawing on Trump until he shambled out office in the style of Jimmy Carter, not lamented nor even remembered. And of course, the ongoing influx of a million or so low-skill immigrants into a post-industrial economy with a massive welfare state would do the rest. We would never again have a pro-life (or pro-gun rights, pro-religious liberty, fill in the blanks) President. Or Congressional majority. Or Supreme Court justice, of course.
Trump Looks Traumatized
But my own feelings quickly subsided. I started resonating to Trump’s. I was struck by how little joy, fun, or even spunk the President displayed in his address. By the stark, almost gaunt earnestness with which he made his simple, accurate statements, and straightforward arguments. Gone was the bright-eyed dealmaker who’d found common cause with Al Sharpton and Vince McMahon — and so was sure he could find the sweet spot between himself, Pelosi, and Schumer.
When Trump spoke of the Democrats this time, the look on his face was starkly different. He no longer imagined that he was playing high-stakes poker, or even political chicken, with rational, patriotic opponents. Instead, his face was that of a man who had been staring down into the Void.
Read the rest!
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/01/californias-ongoing-suicide-attempt.php
The article discusses human poo aps, urine-resistant paints, dead varmints at MacDonalds, and a host of other Fourth World Problems (Tim's term for a First World place gone back to Third World.)
David Dickinson adds:
Yes, California is in trouble, we (or should I say they, the voters) just elected a new governor who makes Jerry Brown look conservative. A year ago they raised gas taxes by 40%, they raised auto registration fees by 32%, and I just learned that my homeowner's insurance increased 22%, not because the rates went up, no, but because new California fees raised it that much. The new governor extended a warm welcome of sanctuary to anyone anywhere who wanted to come, and by golly, bring your kids, even your adult kids because now illegal alien "children" will be given free health care all the way through the age of 25 (they are already covered from age 0-18). In fact, he's also going to give "free" health care for all "kids" through age 25, what a warm and generous fellow. Next up, universal healthcare for all. He's proposing new penalties for anyone that doesn't have health insurance in the meantime.
Free community college (and major investments in higher education, whatever That means), free and universal child care and early education programs. The new estimate for the wonderful train has just been bumped to $75 billion but not a single person with a functioning brain believes that nonsense, and most would not be surprised if it's twice that. But by golly, are we going to lead the way in other areas. Yes, California is going to ban paper sales receipts, banning straws simply was not enough virtue signaling. First responders are finally allowed to provide mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to distressed pets, something that previously was limited to licensed veterinarians.
But the big one that has a whole lot of people worried is what's known as Proposition 13, that limited the state property tax to 1% of value, they want to blow that up, and with Gavin "Getty" Newsome (he's joined at the hip to the Getty family) as governor and a Democrat super-majority in the legislature they can do it. A significant percentage of the homeowners in this state, and who knows how many businesses, still live and work here mostly because of that law, without it and with our high property values, increasing property taxes even a little will make this state unaffordable for many individuals and businesses alike.
No homeless people were available for comment.
Jack Kemp replies:
Ban paper receipts? That's an imposition on the poor and middle class elderly who don't have computers or smartphones. Without a smartphone, one can be accused of shoplifting without being able to produce evidence - until you get to your or a friend's home and print out your receipt as you call a lawyer to sue the store - successfully - for false arrest. This move - if it gets enacted into law - will be ended as being too impractical, even for California.
As for the illegals, after the Kate Steinle murder, the classic song "Walkin' With My Baby By the San Francisco Bay" has taken on a tragic new meaning.
To which Mr. Dickinson says:
Jack, they are going to allow a customer to opt for paper receipts, just that businesses will be forbidden from providing them until asked. I can see it now, undercover sales receipt police.
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January 10, 2019
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-attacks-fact-checkers-for-false-equivalency -bias-toward-her
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