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Wait what???...my gosh they gonna blame Trump for EVERYTHING???...they have truly flipped their wigs...weren't they seriously looking to leave the Union???...Form their own Country???...yes please but keep the kukoos there... In September, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined the U.S. cities of Imperial Beach, Chula Vista and the Port of San Diego in suing the Trump administration over sewage spills and other toxic flows coming from Mexico.
The lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. government to upgrade the capacity of pumps in the river and catch basins in nearby canyons.
Who knew the importance they played in daily life...LOL
Dammit...I KNEW I should have had popcorn for breakfast...too funny...yet sadly she will keep her job...might even get a raise and off the camera ^5
Damn...I'll look into getting in on it....Damn
All I can say is...watch out for low flying planes...
No snow YET...they keep revising the forecast...NOW only down to 39...Baby It's cold outside...
I'll grab my WSJ on the way out to work and read it...way too cold to get it now...
I tell you what...if Apple support is as dumb as Amazon...it would be a shoein...last night I had to help the Amazon support agent with Alexa for their customer...Alexa did sound pretty sexy though...
Morning EZ...according to my pill case...it is Thursday...time for MORE coffee...
“For two reasons. Number one, President Trump has not looked to me like he was bluffing or is bluffing. And number two, I don’t think Speaker Pelosi is going to agree to anything because she’s worried about her speakership,” the Louisiana senator told CNN.
It should get interesting when they refuse to give the funding for the wall and Trump lets the nation know that Pelosi and Schumer care more about Illegal Immigrants than they do about American citizens...after all that has gone on in Tijuana they can't even say it is racist...
Oh yes...time for another camera...
I knew from day 1...just took me 5 years to get over there to make sure and another 6 months to ask...
Combo Rottie and a Chihuahua companion...my Shadow (Rottweiler) was a fantastic dog...Rosie made him feel like a kid again...they can pair...Chihuahua can bark and give them a false sense of security...after they come in the yard...face to face with a Rottie...hehehe need a photo of that.
My driveway...someone came through my open gate and took them from my car.
I have never locked my car in my drive...I will from here on out...and close the gate after I park...just a damn shame.
Pssstttt...don't look now but Winter is arriving in Texas the next few days...dare I say it???...the dreaded S word Friday morning???
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/powerful-storm-to-bring-high-wind-possible-snow-thursday
LOL
I'm still trying to go through my camera footage to see when it happened...but the car was parked out of sight of the camera...NOW...might finish clearing ont one side of the carport and park under there...in full view of the camera
Howdy AJ...hope all is well in The Sunshine State
Thing is...I have coats and jackets slated for Goodwill or the Salvation Army...would have gladly let him choose one...that one was from Dianna.
Might rig an electric circuit attached to the passenger door handle and a metal plate on the ground for them to stand on...grins
Now I'm pissed...someone stole the black hoodie Dianna got me when I was in England and my sunglasses from my car...left the door open and the glovebox open...it is parked to where the camera wouldn't catch them...
My pleasure...now...off to work...have fun...
They gave the consulate 72 hours to respond.
Why wait???...HELL NO
P.S. two things...if they are willing to go home fr 50G...they really aren't seeking asylum...
second...get the 50G from big daddy Soros and just go home.
Trump sprang three traps on Pelosi and Schumer yesterday
By Thomas Lifson
President Trump clearly shocked House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer yesterday with his televising of the Oval Office sit-down over his demand for $5 billion funding for border security, including funding of critical mileage for his border wall. Knowing well that Pelosi had already vowed publicly that “transparency and openness” would characterize the Democrat-run House starting next month, her plaintive request to speak in private scored points for Trump and revealed her hypocrisy before any substance at all was considered.
The remarkable body language during the meeting tells the story of Trump’s dominance. Here is the full video of the press gaggle, via Grabien:
That was merely the first of three traps Trump had prepared for the Democrats’ congressional leadership.
Trump’s second trap is his bold declaration of ownership of any “government shutdown.” Democrats have convinced themselves that what is called a “shutdown,” but really means furloughing non-essential federal workers, is a tragedy, a scar on the nation’s psyche. The fact that federal workers are now a major and solid constituency for Democrats skews their perception of the public’s concern. Aside from cancelling sleigh rides in national parks and other such photo dramas, the fact is that life goes on very well for nearly all Americans during the furlough. They learn that there are a lot of non-essential government workers.
After multiple shutdowns, including the last one that bore the label “Schumer Shutdown” and was quickly conceded by the Democrats, the public is no longer afraid of non-essential services (roughly 25% of the government) being temporarily suspended.
Chuck Schumer took the bait on the second trap, and after the Oval Office meeting, he employed triumphantly the term “Trump shutdown” as if he had won a victory through Trump’s surrender. Thus fortified, he is more likely to take Trump’s dare and refuse funding for adequate border security, and metaphorically throw Bre’r Trump into the briar patch.
The third trap is maneuvering the Senate Democrats into standing for open borders, or at least ineffective border security. The current House of Representatives will pass the funding. It is in the Senate, where is 60 vote filibuster could be employed, that would be the obstacle.
Never forget that Trump was the most successful producer of reality television in the history of the medium. He understands drama and a story arc. Chuck Schumer leading a Senate filibuster right before Christmas to stymie border protection is exactly the story Trump wants the nation’s TV viewers to absorb.
He is immeasurably aided in crafting his third trap narrative by the Democrats’ acceptance of and belief in the narratives peddled by their allies in the mainstream media. Just as they believe that the voters share their own horror over a “partial government shutdown,” they also believe their own rhetoric about a wall being “immoral” (Pelosi) or “wasteful” (Schumer).
But the arrival of the Central American caravan and the reaction of Tijuana’s political leadership and citizens, has changed the game. The “race card” (more properly, the “ethnicity card” for Hispanics) no longer trumps (pun intentional) the hand being played by Trump. It is obvious that a substantial portion of the populace of Central America would like to enter the United States and take advantage of our free schooling for their children, food stamps, the refundable tax credit (which doesn’t refund taxes but sends a check to poor families who file tax returns without owing any taxes), Section 8 housing, and when their kids are ready for college, race preferences.
Trump knows that he would win in the court of public opinion, by making the point that the Democrats want to let more illegals into the country, and that failure to reinforce the border will mean more caravans, more terrorists, and more welfare clients entering our country.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/trump_sprang_three_traps_on_pelosi_and_schumer_yesterday_.html#ixzz5ZU0eGxie
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I hear you EZ...and I agree...NOW I just want the damn wall built...
NOW...even better than Pookie time...it's Di time...
Yes...that was the meeting I heard clips from...and Pelosi kept saying...not in front of the Press...LMAO
Agreed...if he doesn't hold out for the wall...no second term...but Lordy...PLEASE never Hillary...or...BETO
He should have a chat to the People from the Whitehouse like Reagan did...directly to the people and ask them to call their Congressman
We would get one major gift from Santa...the rest from Mom and Dad and each other...we didn't sit on any stinkin laps...we wrote a letter to Santa...gave it to Mom and MOM would mail a group letter.
Lots of candy in the stockings AND...we left our Christmas cookies and Milk on the fireplace and guess what??...in the morning...it was GONE...further proof of Santa
I really don't care either...gives the Porn Channel (CNN) something to report...LOL
I listened to clips of Mr T giving Chuckie boy and Nancy girl an earful on my way home last night...loved it...where the Hell has THAT Trump been??
In a snowbank??
Morning EZ
Any day I get to talk with dianna is a swell day...
Pffttt I say bring me Santa...parents today have no imagination...no spirit...
MY DAD climbed the roof and stomped around so we thought Santa was here...them fell OFF the roof but still made it in the house to finish the act...I argued with classmates for years...Santa was...REAL
Yep...LOL
Now THAT is funny as hell...wonder what the lamestream will have to say about that???
She better get to work to be able to cover...
Wait...wait...I'LL drink the damn Vodka...
ROFLMAO....NOW I would have loved to have seen that...well done Lily...good girl...or was it you??...
Indeed it is SKiz...
The Hoax of 'Climate Change'
By Allison Nichols
Obama knows. John Kerry knows. And Al Gore, the man who has made an enormous amount of money perpetuating the biggest hoax foisted on the human race, knows. Human-inspired “climate change” is a ruse. It is all a control-grabbing, land-grabbing, money-grabbing hoax. For instance, Al Gore, the king of carbon credits, whose home has a giant carbon footprint, and who flies all over the world in private jets, has raked in millions from his green investments and "sustainability research." This, after preaching (An Inconvenient Truth) that fossil fuel is the culprit in “global warming.”
The real inconvenient truth is that the earth’s climate has been warming, cooling and dramatically changing since the beginning of time. How many of us know that Chinese sea captains reported melting ice caps as far back as 1434? Mega earthquakes and tsunamis as well as blizzards, raging fires, crippling droughts, powerful storms, horrific tornadoes and scorching heat waves have been around since antiquity. “Climate deniers,” as the alarmists so lovingly refer to us, do acknowledge changes in the climate, but most of us do not accept the premise that human activity the cause.
Recently, the hoax has been ramping up. President Obama, who has been likened to “Spock” by his climate change cheerleaders, exhorts that slow “climate change” progress can be blamed on “confused, blind, racists shrouded with hate Americans.” Obama is a far cry from a cool, rational Spock character; his cynical rhetoric continues to divide Americans and cuts off debate.
The latest forecast from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adds fuel to the fire. Their scare tactic is to tell us that we are "doomed.” The panel decries that carbon emissions must fall 45% by 2030. Their forecast is, of course, more poppycock emanating from liberal progressives throughout the world. And on top of that, in the Federal Climate Assessment report just issued, out has come a dire warning to Americans that climate change will negatively affect Americans physically, socially, and economically. That fact is elementary. Horrible weather does and has had severe ramifications for humans throughout the world since the beginning of time.
“Rising sea levels,” “ocean change,” and “global warming,” (now referred to as “climate change”) have become part of the vernacular despite severely flawed global warming models. However, local and global foot soldiers of the liberal progressive Socialist agenda that was hatched at the UN Brundtland Commission in 1987 continue to foster this ruse about "sustainable development," its principal buzzword. And a word to the wise, changing code words faster than the weather does not change facts.
Liberal progressives very effectively created this giant hoax. The UN and its sycophants realized, brilliantly I might add, that to continue their agenda, they would have to go beyond the Brundtland Report, and would then require the targeting of private property with oppressive regulations, had to be established on a local level first, e.g., Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is not just a toothless socialist agenda, but rather, it is a radical extremist environmentalist agenda that poses a threat to our liberties.
Recognizing that local governments (Agenda 21) are agents of change, the UN began redrafting a so-called environmental constitution. This “covenant,” as they call it, gives the UN authority over the entire globe. Unbelievably, it is being enforced despite the fact that the science behind the ruse is seriously flawed. And, history affords us the inconvenient truth that historical facts put a giant hole in their “human inspired” climate change theory.
Environmentalists have been gobbling up land with regulations based on bad science and greed for years. Consider the fact that if we get rid of fossil fuels by making them non-competitive, radical environmentalists, with their sketchy green technology, are poised to sashay in to take unprecedented control over private property and pocket billions of more dollars: “climate change” hype is a giant cash cow.
I wonder, do these environmentalists gone crazy, who have outstripped the reasoned environmentalists of the past, truly believe that carbon emissions interfere with the cycles of nature? It is audacious to think that some of us, including a hefty number of scientists (whose numbers are shrinking) believe that humans, who are tiny in the scheme of things, have a whit to do with climate changes and sea-level rises and falls. The hubris here is mind-boggling.
Even James Lovelock, whose “Gaia Hypothesis” is the founding platform for global warming hysteria, and who predicted the death of billions of humans because of it, now admits that he was an alarmist and is debunking the entire cabal. Lovelock has stated that the idea that humans are responsible for changes in the climate is not credible. Lovelock further suggested that the modern green movement has become a religion that uses guilt to gain support.
The operative question is, do “We the People” of our great nation really want to be manipulated by the UN and its minions? Do we care that the UN invasion into our country will ultimately strip away our freedoms? Do we care that “climate change” hype is a sinister means of enforcing the idea that the collective takes a front seat to individual rights?
To make matters worse, liberal progressive socialists have very effectively (as they always do…a la Saul Alinsky) demonized and dismissed the canaries in the coal mine as wacky, racist, paranoid, conspiracy theorists. Not so fast. The canaries understand that the invasion of the UN agenda, with the help of liberal progressives socialists has ushered in abuses, controls and illegal appropriations that the Constitution of the United States has warned would strip us of our liberty and freedoms.
Enough is enough. Liberal progressive scientists and politicians, not science, are dictating our carbon regulations. These modern environmental extremists have shot way past stewardship of the planet. It is up to reasoned citizens of our great country to have our voices heard.
So what can we do? The best place to have the voices heard from those of us who understand that private property is the most important guarantee of our freedoms is by taking seats on local boards and commissions. Also of importance is to determine if your city or town is a member of Agenda 21. If yes, it is up to those who understand the ramifications of that to challenge the membership.
And most importantly, although it's a monumental task, the youth of our nation who have been indoctrinated since grammar school, must come to understand that much of what they were spoon-fed in school is liberal progressive “save the planet” moral masquerading. For their own edification, our youngsters might want to hear from the canaries exactly how the hoax will affect their future. Unfortunately, many of the youth in America suffer deep scars from years and years of indoctrination. Inanition, anger, and arrogance, are some of the lingering effects of the sinister propaganda inflicted on our youth by liberal progressive socialists. But we must not give up trying.
Allison Nichols has a M.Div. (Master of Divinity) degree.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/the_hoax_of_climate_change.html#ixzz5ZOjyPILJ
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December 11, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez goes full Fredo (and beyond)
By Thomas Lifson
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is upset that people don't appreciate her intelligence and depth. It turns out that people notice when she says stupid things, such as nattering on about the "three chambers of government" or not understanding that Pentagon accounting errors don't yield a pot of money available for her pet scheme of "Medicare for All."
Preparing to become a solon in the House of Representatives is not at all like being a hot chick working her previous occupation of bartending, where pretty much anything she said was eagerly appreciated by her male customers. Lots of generous tips, but few factual corrections in that environment for a slender, comely female with high cheekbones and a taste for fashionable clothing.
YouTube screen grab, cropped.
In my imagination, I hear her with a whiny voice, stomping her feet, as she tweeted:
If she doesn't want scrutiny, she shouldn't run for office, and then, after a victory that grabbed a national spotlight, shoot her mouth off over complex policy issues that she hasn't thought through. Whatever his faults, Paul Ryan has a well deserved reputation as a policy wonk and has never said anything remotely as stupid as her claim that "unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family."
If she doesn't want to be mocked, she should not venture into policy recommendations she must retreat from, admitting, "I am not an expert."
Her Twitter complaint is fully resonant with this immortal moment from one of the greatest movies in history, creating the expression "going Fredo" (hat tip: Kurt Schlichter):
I have to wonder if in addition to going Fredo, she is also "going Fauxcahontas" with this claim, which seems to be trading on the ethnic stereotype of Jews as smart. She certainly didn't emphasize this point during the campaign – and revealed it only now, when she is fighting back against charges of being stupid.
Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has claimed that she is descended from Sephardic Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism.
Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected last month to the US House of Representatives for New York State's 14th congressional district, told supporters at a Hannukah party organized by the left-wing Jews for Racial and Economic Justice that she has Jewish heritage.
"A very, very long time ago – generations and generations ago – my family consisted of Sephardic Jews," Ocasio-Cortez said.
"The story goes, during the Spanish Inquisition, so many people were forced to convert on the exterior to Catholicism, but on the interior continued to practice their faith and continued to be who they were, even though they were pressured to not be that on the outside world."
Her family later fled to Puerto Rico to escape persecution, Ocasio-Cortez said.
Hmm..."generations ago" might yield percentages similar to Elizabeth Warren's 1/643 to 1/1,028 Native American claim, which generated mockery. Just the thing for Ocasio-Cortez to stay in character.
Hat tip: Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/alexandria_ocasiocortez_goes_full_fredo_and_beyond.html#ixzz5ZObe9l7M
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Morning AJ...he's killing me big time...