[NYPOST] The City Council’s Committee on Immigration is mulling a bill that would bar municipal government workers from using the terms "alien," "illegal alien" or "undocumented Democrat" in official documents.
"I introduced this bill because words matter and the language we use or choose to use has power and consequences," said Councilman Francisco Moya (D-Queens) ‐ who first floated the proposal late last month ‐ in a Thursday committee hearing.
The legislation proposes the term "noncitizen" as an alternative.
"This isn’t about replacing one word with another," said Moya. "It is about treating the individuals these terms describe as human beings."
Not everyone is on board, though, with Councilman Joe Borelli calling it political correctness run amok.
"Here we are, it’s 2020 and we’re banning words," said Borelli (R-SI).
The push, however, actually comes on the heels of a city measure passed last year making it against the law to call someone an "illegal alien" or threaten to call immigration authorities on them when motivated by hate, under penalty of fines as high as $250,000.
Bitta Mostofi, commissioner of Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... ’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, at the hearing signaled support for banning the "offensive and dehumanizing term ’alien.’"
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Q: How do you "ban" a standard legal term that's enshrined in the statute, that's been used repeatedly in SCOTUS decisions, that is used and understood by every judge and lawyer, a term that is used repeatedly in the Constitution?
Victory Girls via Instapundit
Elizabeth Warren must be seeing her poll numbers slip into the abyss with no hope of recovery. The momentum she once had died when she revealed that "I have a plan for that" means taking all your money.
Warren’s numbers began to tank when the details of her Medicare For All plan were revealed. They sounded much better in catchy soundbites than on paper. Her arrogance in dismissing economists who told her that her plan sucked just added to the Warren aura of condescension.
So, the next career step for the senator who thinks she knows everything? Advice columnist! Seriously. Elle Magazine decided it would be fun to have Elizabeth Warren show off her brilliance by solving people’s personal problems. "Ima have myself a beer"
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So I'm scrolling through that article, Besoeker, looking at all the nice pictures of Gisele and thinking we should all follow Gisele's advice to hug a lot, especially if we can hug Gisele, and I keep scrolling and all of a sudden there is a picture of Elizabeth Warren and I did not want to hug anymore.
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"Hug a Cherokee" - Chief Spouting Bull
"Hug a hoodie" - D. Cameron
"Hug a wookie" - B. Soetoro
"Hug a woodie--please" - moi, a Gisele
Love is what guides me in my posts on Rantburg. Every time I'm going to post something I always say, Is this spreading love? Does this feel connected to a vibration of love? It’s the Rantburger's Guide I live by..
"Some of my best friends are Juice"
[Wash Examiner] A member of a Jewish temple in New Mexico says Valerie Plame, a former CIA officer and a Democratic candidate for a New Mexico congressional seat, lied about her membership.
How very unexpected of her.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, a senior member of Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe accused Plame, 56, of falsely claiming membership to the temple after she told the newspaper she had recently found out her great-grandfather was a rabbi in Ukraine and she had "always been drawn to that aspect of my Jewish heritage."
What particular aspect might that be? Surely she knew the family came from Ukraine, a bright girl like her who travelled all over the world doing secret things while posing for Vanity Fair. And surely the CIA had discovered that there were Jews in her background. Does she plan to study for the rabbinate if she isn’t elected?
Daniel Yohalem, a Santa Fe lawyer and a member of Temple Beth Shalom who is on the temple's board told the Albuquerque Journal that, after going through the membership lists, Plame was never a member. "I am deeply concerned about Ms. Plame's repeated apparent lack of candor on these issues," he said.
And when a lawyer is concerned about someone’s candour...
Plame's campaign said she was a member "at Temple Beth Shalom for years."
A stupid lie, too. Why would she have been a member for years, an expensive undertaking at her presumed salary level, when she only recently discovered she has a 1/8th connection to the faith? One does need to ask, gently, if that rabbi is on her father’s side (where the Jewish descent doesn’t count for inheriting the religious membership, even though it had equal effect genetically) or her mother’s and, if the latter, if all the mothers down to her own never converted out... and she also never converted or was baptised. Or has she always known of the Jewish descent, and only recently became interested when a rabbi was involved?
The former CIA officer first became a national figure during the George W. Bush administration after her name was leaked to Washington Post columnist Bob Novak in 2003.
In 2017, Plame was forced to apologize after sharing on Twitter an anti-Semitic article from the UNZ Review entitled, "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars." The article stated that Jews "own the media," that they should wear labels while on national television, and that their beliefs were as dangerous as "a bottle of rat poison."
Her initial response was: "First of all, calm down. Re-tweets don't imply endorsement. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish." She later added: "OK folks, look, I messed up. I skimmed this piece, zeroed in on the neocon criticism, and shared it without seeing and considering the rest."
She apologized and quit the board of the Ploughshares Fund, which provides grants for projects aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. But, in the space of three years, she had posted nine UNZ articles, including one titled, "Why I Still Dislike Israel," and another about "Dancing Israelis" on 9/11.
She must have been such a positive influence on her diplomat husband’s career.
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...a former CIA officer
Well duhhh. The wife of a Foreign Service officer (FSO) who worked at US Embassies. Anyone coming and going from a US Embassy (holding black passport/diplomatic immunity) is automatically assumed to have US intelligence connections. Yes, foreign intelligence services monitor our FSO's comings and goings. We do likewise.
Are these people... 'clandestine agents?' No, not for very long anyway. Media hype about Plame being "outted" as a secret agent is rubbish.
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Well, a lot of American Jews don't mind being used at all, as long as it's by the anti-Semitic left...
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Why should she worry, it's a safe Donk seat. Now if there was an opposition party to challenge her, she might have a problem dealing with a sea of Hispanic Roman Catholics who are pro-life. Play that card and most of the Donks are in real bind. However, like I said, there really is no opposition party.
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..same reason they were able to convince Obama to put his hand over his heart during the playing of the National anthem. Optic. Besides they already have enough radical Islamics making news. Need to add balance.
[BREITBART] New York State Senate Democrats have advanced a plan that will automatically register to vote all residents who apply for a driver’s licenses ‐ which now includes non-citizens and illegal aliens ‐ unless they "opt-out."
On Thursday, Senate Senate Democrats passed legislation that will automatically register all residents who obtain driver’s licenses through the New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMVs). As of this year, illegal aliens are able to obtain driver’s licenses in New York, indicating that illegal aliens and non-citizens will only be excluded from the state voter rolls if they check the "opt-out" box before applying for a license.
New York Democrats pitched the legislation as an effort to "reduce the incidence of voter registration fraud and voting fraud," as well as to "prevent erroneous disfranchisement of eligible citizens, promote greater participation of eligible voters in elections..."
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[Hot Air] Between this and last month’s weak-ass cop-out on the big impeachment vote, she’s repaying her righty fans richly for their inexplicable political interest in her.
There was suspense surrounding her vote on impeachment, though. There was no suspense as to whether she’d agree with Pete Buttigieg that moral culpability for the Ukrainian jet shootdown is shared between Iran and the United States even though it was Iran’s own negligence that brought the jet down, with not a single bullet fired that evening by the U.S. A rule of thumb that will stand you in good stead during Gabbard interviews: When offered an opportunity to deflect blame from Iran or its proxies (notably Bashar Assad) for the region’s problems, she’ll take it every time.
If it were a simple matter of her wanting to communicate that war inevitably leads to escalation and therefore should be avoided, she could have made that point without involving the jet. Their proxies attacked our embassy; then we attacked their general; then they attacked our air bases; then we sanctioned them; and now it’s their turn to retaliate for that. People have died and more people will. She could have bracketed the calamity with the jet as something different, an example of "the fog of war" and Iranian incompetence. But ardent doves like Gabbard are a mirror image of ardent hawks like Lindsey Graham in that their urgency to advance their position leads them easily into demagoguery of domestic opponents, even when those opponents are allies on unrelated issues. Graham votes with Mike Lee and Rand Paul on most business before the Senate but that didn’t stop him from accusing them of "empowering the enemy" by trying to assert Congress’s constitutional power over declaring war. Gabbard has become MAGA Nation’s favorite Democrat for her isolationism and her willingness to break with party orthodoxy on some issues (e.g., she believes in borders) but that doesn’t stop her here from endorsing the Buttigieg view of Trump’s culpability.
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I did like Tulsi because she didn't back down from attacks from the demoncrats.
But, no. This is a bridge to far.
Fuck you bitch. The US isn't responsible for this. Eat a dick and fucking choke on it.
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Anybody who is dumb enough to fly to Iran is responsible for their own misfortune. I accept none of it and resent anyone who suggests that I should. But the fact that Tulsi is a Democrat is all I ever needed to know about her.
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"She wants to take my gun last, I love her." People who talk like that I'm interested in hitting with a shovel.
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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.
[NYPOST] The City Council’s Committee on Immigration is mulling a bill that would bar municipal government workers from using the terms "alien," "illegal alien" or "
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
Ref #2: Obviously suffering the effects of the Gisele-Warran Paradox. Here, let me explain. 
[BREITBART] New York State Senate Democrats have advanced a plan that will automatically register to vote all residents who apply for a driver’s licenses ‐ which now includes non-citizens and illegal aliens ‐ unless they "opt-out."
/\ It may not be just the Democrats. 
