The real story here is that Democrats sincerely wanted to kill this legislation. But Newsom realized that would hamper his run for the White House so he had to twist some arms. These people really are sick.
[Sacramento Bee] California lawmakers revived a bill to enact harsher punishments for child sex traffickers after Democrats blocked it earlier in the week, prompting involvement from Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leadership.
Members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 14 from Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, during an emergency meeting Democratic leaders called during a dramatic floor session Thursday. SB 14 now goes to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, its last stop before the full body will consider the measure.
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Newsom campaign preps continue.California logic now allows you to kill the kids and sell their parts, but it’s a serious felony if you traffic them.
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"This is another attempt to revive a version of the three-strikes mentality of mass incarceration, which was a failed policy. We need to look at ways to reform our criminal justice system while advocating for diversion and rehabilitative programs that end crime cycles of all categories."
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GOPe won't do, but Trump will - label loudly that the neo-commies are the anti-child party. They've given him so much ammunition; killers, mutilators, exploiters. Show no mercy, cause they have shown you none.
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/\ USCIT children are evil. Uneducated, Federally dependent border crossing children (future house maids, sex trade, and grounds keepers) sent here by the cartels are good-to-go.
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I have to wonder if the customers in this business are all just low life perverts or if wealthy and powerful members of society are involved. I have to wonder if the resistance to this legislation comes from 1) a profit motive and/or 2) a desire by wealthy and powerful individuals to enslave these children so they can live out their sick fantasies.
It's kinda the same with fentanyl. Logic would dictate the government do everything possible to stem the flow of this poison into our country and yet the government does nothing. I strongly suspect either profit or else government officials have succumbed to plata o plomo.
But then, if the cartels are engaged in sex trafficking, plata o plomo could come into play in this case as well.
At any rate, the resistance to measures like SB 14 seems astoundingly counter-intuitive unless there is some kind of hidden agenda...something the Democrat legislators are not telling us.
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He may not own it, he does however fly in it, gushing all that carbon...
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I don't own a private jet. I personally have never owned a private jet.
That's not exactly right - the jet was nicknamed The Flying Squirrel. Technically it wasn't his - it was bought by his second wife's first husband's trust fund.
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I think some flying enthusiasts own their planes. John Travolta, for example. Dweebs like Kerry have leases through LLCs or whatever, so he can technically say he doesn't own a jet.
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Owning , Leasing, Co-Opt, Donated air time, or Renting are semantics if his A$$ in in the seat and it is doing what he is peaching against for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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^ Agreed. But it's important to remember that these mealy-mouthed stooges believe that the semantics matter. Just like they believe they are important.
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Any bets he has interest in the company he leases the jet from?
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry lashed out at House lawmakers during a committee hearing on Thursday over the criticisms of his use of a private jet that has emitted hundreds of metric tons of carbon, even as he battles climate change.
"I just don't agree with your facts, which began with the presentation of one of the most outrageously persistent lies that I hear, which is this private jet," Kerry said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. "We don't own a private jet. I don't own a private jet. I personally have never owned a private jet. And obviously it's pretty stupid to talk about coming in a private jet from the State Department up here. I just honestly, if that's where you want to go, go."
Kerry, who did not deny traveling on a private jet, was responding to Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., who told Kerry that he hoped "it wasn't too problematic for your operational team and your private jet to get here."
Kerry has been widely criticized for advocating for drastic climate change rules while also traveling to events on a private jet that was owned by Flying Squirrel LLC, a charter company owned by Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, and in which Kerry reported owning a more than $1 million stake on a financial disclosure.
[PJMEDIA] Thus far, I have been using phrases like "whisper-thin majority" or "red-trickle majority" to refer to the Republicans’ advantage in the House of Representatives. I think I may begin to refer to them as the "Pit Bull Majority." They may not have overwhelming numbers, but they have been a tenacious and aggressive lot.
Some of the more unsavory characters from our ongoing Biden nightmare have been forced to answer some tough questions of late. Sure, they lie and deflect a lot, but at least the questions are getting asked.
Federal Bureau of Investigations Director Christopher Wray spent some quality time with the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, and it was both interesting and frustrating to watch.
Wray is as slippery as they come. He also doesn’t mind playing stupid when it is convenient for him. This is from an exchange Wray had with Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) about whether there were federal agents planted in the protest crowd during the Jan. 6 non-insurrection, which Paula covered:
"Would you agree with him that it was ’filled with federal agents’ on January 6?" Biggs asked.
"I would really have to see more closely exactly what he said and get the full context to be able to evaluate how many agents, or actually agents or human resources, were present at the Capitol complex and the vicinity on January 6," Wray said. "It’s gonna get confusing because it depends on when we were deployed and responded to the breach that occurred anywhere under federal agents."
Biggs called him out for obfuscating: "You and I both know that we’re talking different things here, and please don’t distract here because we’re focusing on those who were there in an undercover capacity on January 6. How many were there?"
Wray played dumb: "Again, I’m not sure that I can give you the number as I sit here. I’m not sure there were undercover agents on the scene."
So...the Director of the FBI is unaware if he had anyone working during the event that the Democrats have turned into a high holy day? The sad thing about 21st-century America is that half of the country is dumb enough to believe him.
[American Thinker] Current corrupt FBI director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. The man is as unscrupulous as his predecessor James Comey, as disingenuous and as willing to dissemble. He answered no questions in a straightforward manner but, as he has done before, replied evasively with the arrogance only a psychopath might have under duress.
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He channeled Sgt Shultz. Hillary could not have testified better. By his testimony Wray knows less about what the FBI is doing than Peter Butt does about what is going on throughout the American transportation network.
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The sad thing about 21st-century America is that half of the country is dumb enough to believe him.
That's no surprise because MSM won't say a word about these hearings. The past few days it's been all about the heat wave and "climate change". Nary a peep about Wray. Half the country is totally unaware the hearings are even happening.
Is it too much to hope that things at ABC will change after Disney has to sell it? Or will they sell it to the CCP?
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[BREITBART] Democrat politicians in Massachusetts are looking to give foreign nationals on green cards the right to vote in municipal elections. They keep trying to do that.
A series of bills filed by Democrat politicians in the Massachusetts House and Senate would open municipal voting rights to foreign nationals living in the state on green cards. Thereby nullifying the difference between a citizen and a resident.
In practice, the policy would mean foreign nationals could cast deciding votes in Massachusetts towns and cities for mayor, school committee, city council, town council, board of selectmen, select board elections, school committee referendums, local ballot referendums, or other municipal races. The assumption being that the non-citizen residents would be more likely to be Social Democrats, Socialists, Commies, or Fascists.
The bills, all of which must go before House and Senate committees on election laws, are being sponsored by Democrat politicians like James Eldridge, Samantha Montaño, and Mike Connolly. I thought these had all been struck down in the courts, but I guess this is more poop flung against the wall to see if it’ll stick.
"Immigrants colonists are essential to our communities ... many are on the path to citizenship but lack the ability to apply, but they need to have a say in how public services are funded and governed," an official with the group MassVOTE told politicians during a hearing on the bills last month. My Spanish is pretty rusty, but shouldn't that be "Vota aqui?"
My Vietnamese is even rustier but shouldn't that be "Bau cu day?" with the appropriate diacritical marks? I don't think TAIJ is an appropriate replacement for OWR which would be omitted colloquially used in that sense, and all the signs I recall referencing voting used "BAAUF CUWR." I could be wrong that. It's been fifty plus years.
(Sorry for the tech transliteration. I don't think I have a Vietnamese font.)
Well, by garlic. Found an example they coulda plagiarized in a minute or less.
Trung tam = "Center." The trung by itself means "in" or "inside."
Bau cu is "vote," just as I remembered except for the tone mark.
Chinh thuc is "Official." So there, Taxachussetts.
Elsewhere in New England, particularly Connecticut and Rhode Island, Democrat politicians have tried desperately to get legislation across the finish line this year that would not only give legal immigrants colonists the right to vote but also illegal aliens. I doubt that appeals very much to South Vietnamese, who're here legally.
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These assholes already gave illegals driver's licenses a few months ago, so this was the next 'logical' step.
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If they let non-citizens vote in federal elections their Congressional representatives should not be seated and their delegates to the Electoral College should not be allowed to vote.
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IMHO, this serves to highlight the difference. Citizens have pledged themselves to the US Constitution which is problematic to Powers That Be, whereas the migrants are just here for the boodle, thank you very much. Helps to clarify target groups.
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[Hot Air] So was Joe tired by the time the dinner rolled around? I have no doubt about it. Joe Biden sleeps a lot, as indicated by the occasional CPAP marks on his face when he emerges from the basement. But we should also remember that those official dinners are generally scheduled for fairly late in the evening, well after the formal business of the day is concluded and the attendees have had time to go get ready for the feast.
Why is that important? As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve had to deal with issues of cognitive decline in my family and I’m familiar with the symptoms. And it’s almost impossible to argue that this is what we’re seeing with Joe Biden. But since I’m not a doctor, you don’t need to take my word for it. The NIH has long recognized that people dealing with dementia, Alzheimer’s, or other forms of cognitive decline perform noticeably worse in the evening than they do in the morning or early afternoon. Those conditions also frequently affect the patient’s sleeping patterns. The Alzheimer’s Association has documented the reality of "sundowning," saying that it "occurs in late afternoon through the night, causing confusion and sleep issues."
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The NIH has long recognized that people dealing with dementia, Alzheimer’s, or other forms of cognitive decline perform noticeably worse in the evening than they do in the morning or early afternoon.
...and he's just plain awful in the daytime; hard to imagine how bad it is at night, shitting himself like he's back in jolly 'ol England. Just another example why he shouldn't have the job.
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If he sat at the dinner table they'd have to provide an extra seat for his caretaker to cut his meat and wipe his chin.
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He's been talking to phantasms for over a year. His pizza party in Poland almost had his mouth fall out. The Americas Summit he was purposefully ignored at dinner so he wouldn't talk.
That being said. Glad to see the warmongers have time off from Operation Atlantic Resolve...ugh...to do some blow and stay up late enough for 6 star food and cocktails.
Public-Private partnerships need to be scrutinized carefully. Fortunately, someone is doing that. Not the Biden administration, to be sure, but someone.
[HotAir] A new Biden administration rule aimed at reducing carbon emissions would give approval authority over large U.S. defense contracts to a little-known British environmentalist group that just incorporated two weeks ago.
Under the White House’s proposed rule change, a London-based group called the Science Based Targets Initiative that is funded by the Democratic Party’s main dark money network would be responsible for approving the carbon emissions reduction plans of large federal contractors.
The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) is a fee-based service that helps companies set emissions reduction targets in line with the Paris Climate Agreement and verifies their progress. But its foreign status and murky financial background raise questions about the Biden administration’s decision to outsource its vetting process to the group. Critics say the proposal would give SBTi enormous veto power over American defense contracts and access to potentially sensitive data about U.S. military suppliers.
[Congress should intervene on this rule change ASAP. The House has standing to sue to block this, and Republicans should get together to prepare a legal challenge if the Biden administration goes forward with this on the basis of the major-questions doctrine. If the US plans to hand off veto power over military contracts to foreign entities, that decision has to come from Congress and not an executive branch rule change. — Ed]
The rule change is expected to impact 671 large contractors across multiple federal agencies, and steer an estimated $1.2 million in mandatory fees to SBTi each year, according to the proposal, which is still awaiting approval from government administrators.
Although SBTi publicly launched in 2015, the organization didn’t officially exist until June 26, when it filed incorporation papers in London, according to United Kingdom business records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The group is not registered in the United States. SBTi didn't respond to a request for comment.
Before its incorporation, SBTi was a partnership co-managed by five activist groups, including the "We Mean Business Coalition," a front group for a $900 million left-leaning dark money organization called the New Venture Fund. The off-the-books arrangement allowed SBTi to operate without filing financial disclosures for nearly a decade.
In 2015, the New Venture Fund, which promotes Democratic policies through an array of unincorporated shell organizations, helped launch and fund SBTi through the We Mean Business Coalition.
"Since its inception, [the We Mean Business Coalition] has been funding SBTi and mobilizing business towards science-based targets. One of our earliest milestones was reaching 150 corporate commitments to SBTi in 2016," said the We Mean Business website, where it also described itself as a "project of the New Venture Fund."
SBTi's connection to the New Venture Fund could raise questions about its political leanings. The New Venture Fund is facing scrutiny over its charity status, after the Free Beacon reported this week on a trove of internal documents and whistleblower allegations that indicate the group engaged in prohibited political activities during the 2020 elections. The documents also show that the liberal network maintains a high level of involvement in groups that it funds.
“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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Thank you. There is a darkness to these globalist guys.
BTW, I did not realize that it is the one year anniversary of the bombing of the Georgia Guidestones that are totally unrelated to these creepy eugenicists.
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[FOXNEWS] When one of the most significant left-wing columnists, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , writes an opinion piece titled, "It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President," you know that President Biden has made a huge mistake.
Dowd was referring to Navy Joan Roberts, the daughter of Hunter Biden (as was confirmed in a 2019 DNA test).
There is something particularly cruel about a president and a grandfather who, with his unavoidable media presence, constantly reminds this little girl of her "unperson" status.
Reportedly, the Biden staff has been told to publicly say that there are only six grandchildren.
This is both a lie and is emotionally contradictory to every decent feeling we should have toward children.
What harm would it have done to the president to put up a seventh Christmas stocking, to invite Navy Joan to the White House for cookies and a photo, or to treat his granddaughter and her mother with dignity?
As Sen. Tom Cotton of the Roberts’ home state of Arkansas tweeted, "Remarkable that Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... hangs a Christmas stocking for his dog but won't acknowledge his granddaughter."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJMEDIA] Thus far, I have been using phrases like "whisper-thin majority" or "red-trickle majority" to refer to the Republicans’ advantage in the House of Representatives. I think I may begin to refer to them as the "Pit Bull Majority." They may not have overwhelming numbers, but they have been a tenacious and aggressive lot.
[BREITBART] Democrat 
...46th president of the U.S. S 
