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-Great Cultural Revolution
Martha's Vineyard declares a HUMANITARIAN CRISlS over influx of just FIFTY Venezuelan migrants. Republicans slam liberal island's 'pathetic' reaction and ask: 'What about the THOUSANDS arriving in Texas every single day?'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Gov Ron DeSantis bragged about flying in 50 migrants over to Martha's Vineyard with no warning

  • County Commissioner Keith Chatinover has branded the Florida Governor as a 'fascist'

  • Chatinover previously said that he would 'love' for the affluent area to become a 'haven' for migrants

  • He is now saying that DeSantis is 'inhumane' for failing to give the Democrat-run area appropriate warning
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 09/16/2022 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: badanov || 09/16/2022 0:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Rommel Alinsky, I read your book!
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/16/2022 1:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Literal "turf wars" among the landscaping crews soon.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 6:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Imagine the influx of people who actually want to do manual labor. I hope the locals can handle that.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/16/2022 6:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Gov. Newsom calls on Justice Department to investigate shipping of migrants

SQUEAL, Piggy. He's running for POTUS. It's too obvious
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2022 6:58 Comments || Top||

#7  It's amusing in a grim way to see the libs mumbling about treating what DeSantis and Abbott are doing as crimes. The only differences between what they are doing and what Joe's DHS is doing are:

a) The are not Joe.
c) The destinations are not lib approved.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 7:15 Comments || Top||

#8  c) should have been b) of course.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 7:17 Comments || Top||


#10  But remember, the powers-that-be won't be happy until your neighborhood looks like a horizontal version of Cabrini-Green.

And they say you are rayciss if you don't agree. So what does that make them?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#11  @#8 - c) All of the above
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/16/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Do what Donks have always done. Build some slave workers quarters (trailers may be tacky but will do till the concrete blocks show up) and tool sheds. Tell them their work will just pay for their room and board.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2022 7:57 Comments || Top||

#13  Section 9 the island.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/16/2022 9:39 Comments || Top||

#14  If illegal aliens were valuable, the elites would be hoarding them for themselves. It's what they do with everything else that's worth something.

But no, illegal aliens have to go to US. Must! If we share our diversity with them it's a hate crime. 100% evidence that illegal aliens are a punishment, and that they hate our guts.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 || 09/16/2022 9:45 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ Astute analysis, Sonny!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 10:16 Comments || Top||


#17  Apparently they are using the "Tourism Board" as their mouth of xenophobia.

How I imagine being greeted by the Martha's Vineyard Tourism Board after driving around aimlessly for five minutes:



*Fifty isn't even a kegger. I think you can do bigger Martha's Vineyard.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2022 10:33 Comments || Top||


#19  If illegal aliens were valuable, the elites would be hoarding them for themselves.

Oh, they have value. They turned California from a red state to a blue state in just the eight years of the Clinton administration. That's an obvious value for the Dems. The problem is that Martha's Vineyard doesn't need any more blue voters.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/16/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#20  All the 'replacement people' confined to Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and Florida? Where's the 'equity' in that ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2022 11:35 Comments || Top||

#21  Can't speak for Texas, Georgia or Arizona, but they won't be on the voting rolls in Florida.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#22  That was quick. Can't have the "beautiful people" inconvenienced. The National Guard moved them out to Joint Base Cape Cod. I guess no Section 8 housing next the Obama compound.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/16/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#23  If illegal aliens were valuable

Jingle from 2030


Soylent crackers are tasty,
they are good for you ♫
Soylent food is healthy,
Soylent is there for youuuu ♪


Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/16/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#24  The expulsion of the unclean from Martha's Vineyard might be the most efficient governmental operation since Inchon.
Posted by: Matt || 09/16/2022 13:07 Comments || Top||

#25  Martha Vineyard: We don't have the resources.

The property taxes on Obama's $12 million compound alone would feed and clothe 50.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/16/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||

#26  They don't like wind farms. They don't like tourists and sightseers. They don't like MAGA. They don't like replacement people. WTF do they like ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2022 14:58 Comments || Top||

#27  Someone please post this.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2022 15:00 Comments || Top||

#28 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/16/2022 15:03 Comments || Top||

#29  Optics are for the hoi polloi. The Marthas Vinyard crowd is made up of people who are positive they are better than everyone else and nothing they actually do changes that. Think Peyton Place.

Also, there's "La la la la I can't hear you..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 15:06 Comments || Top||

#30  Should’ve flown them to Nantucket.
Posted by: Beavis || 09/16/2022 15:49 Comments || Top||

#31  The Bible is literally a hate book!

You need to read The Bible so you can do better, Christians!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2022 15:55 Comments || Top||

#32  They are making a bigger deal out of this than need be. Based on my experience in California, if they have a Home Depot, all 50 will line up in the parking lot there automatically. In the evening they will disperse to various laundry mats as long as you don’t roust them for drinking beer that they bought at 7-11. That covers all hours between 8AM until 10PM. Two-thirds of the humanitarian crisis is solved right there.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 20:57 Comments || Top||

#33  Send moar! Should be a weekly event in all sanctimonious sanctuary cities.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/16/2022 21:56 Comments || Top||


Soros-backed Texas prosecutor slammed over 'unfathomable' 10-day jail sentence for fatal DUI crash
[FoxNews] Austin area sees surge in crime, record homicide levels under District Attorney Jose Garza.

Austin, Texas is one of the major U.S. cities that has been afflicted by rising crime and a soft-on-crime district attorney.

Austin Police Retired Officer's Association president Dennis Farris joined "Fox & Friends First" Thursday to discuss a George Soros-backed district attorney charging a defendant with a misdemeanor in a fatal DUI crash, leading to a 10-day jail sentence.

"This is what this D.A. does. He truly believes that people should get the minimum amount of time in jail for any crime they commit. As long as he thinks it's keeping Austin and Travis County safe, which the statistics are showing, that's not happening," Farris told Carley Shimkus.

Leo Anthony Carreto-Lopez, 19, was originally charged with intoxication manslaughter in May after driving drunk at a high speed before crashing into a tree in a fiery accident that killed his 19-year-old passenger, Teresa Gonzales.
Citizens? Aliens? Illegal aliens?
Court records reviewed by Fox News Digital show that the office of Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza negotiated a plea deal with Lopez that sentenced him to a misdemeanor and 10 days in jail in a move that has drawn criticism from law enforcement.

Last year, a man who was arrested in 2019 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was charged with committing two murders while free on bond via Garza’s office without any bail conditions such as a GPS monitor or curfew. Garza’s office did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment from Fox News Digital about the case.

Farris said Garza does not believe in harsh punishments for criminals, including passing on prosecution for drug crimes.

"He is low bail, or no bail at all for even some of the most violent, horrible crimes that you can imagine. Murder, rape. He's pled out a first-degree murder case to 15 years in jail for first-degree murder. It's just on and on," said Farris, describing officers making arrests and seeing the suspects being set free before their reports are finished.

Farris warned these policies only make Austin and Travis County less safe.

"We've got a problem where our homicide rate for the third year in a row is going to be at record levels."
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My mom used to say to me when I was a kid, "you don't get a medal for doing the right thing. You just do it." Now, with no consequences for doing wrong, society is well on its way down the crapper.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 6:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Soros DAs believe in harsh sentencing and pre-trial indefinite sentencing for Patriotism and other thought crimes like misgendering.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 10:43 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Facebook Spied on Conservative Users And Tipped The FBI-Conversations Copied Are Being used As Evidence In J6 Trials.
Hopefully including my personal admonitions not to go.
[NYPost] Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of American users and reporting them to the FBI if they express anti-government or anti-authority sentiments — or question the 2020 election — according to sources within the Department of Justice.

Under the FBI collaboration operation, somebody at Facebook red-flagged these supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months and transmitted them in redacted form to the domestic terrorism operational unit at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, without a subpoena.

“It was done outside the legal process and without probable cause,” alleged one of the sources, who spoke on condition of ­anonymity.

“Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena.”

These private messages then have been farmed out as “leads” to FBI field offices around the country, which subsequently requested subpoenas from the partner US Attorney’s Office in their district to officially obtain the private conversations that Facebook already had shown them.

But when the targeted Facebook users were investigated by agents in a local FBI field office, sometimes using covert surveillance techniques, nothing criminal or violent turned up.

“It was a waste of our time,” said one source familiar with subpoena requests lodged during a 19-month frenzy by FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, to produce the caseload to match the Biden administration’s rhetoric on domestic terrorism after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

‘RED-BLOODED AMERICANS’
The Facebook users whose private communications Facebook had red-flagged as domestic terrorism for the FBI were all “conservative right-wing individuals.”

“They were gun-toting, red-blooded Americans [who were] angry after the election and shooting off their mouths and talking about staging protests. There was nothing criminal, nothing about violence or massacring or assassinating anyone.

“As soon as a subpoena was requested, within an hour, Facebook sent back gigabytes of data and photos. It was ready to go. They were just waiting for that legal process so they could send it.”

Facebook denied the allegations yesterday.

In two contrasting statements sent one hour apart, Erica Sackin, a spokesperson at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, claimed Facebook’s interactions with the FBI were designed to “protect people from harm.”

In her first statement, she said: “These claims are false because they reflect a misunderstanding of how our systems protect people from harm and how we engage with law enforcement. We carefully scrutinize all government requests for user information to make sure they’re legally valid and narrowly tailored and we often push back. We respond to legal requests for information in accordance with applicable law and our terms and we provide notice to users whenever permitted.”

In a second, unprompted “updated statement,” sent 64 minutes later, Sackin altered her language to say the claims are “wrong,” not “false.”

“These claims are just wrong. The suggestion we seek out peoples’ private messages for anti-government language or questions about the validity of past elections and then proactively supply those to the FBI is plainly inaccurate and there is zero evidence to support it,” said Sackin, a DC-based crisis response expert who previously worked for Planned Parenthood and “Obama for America” and now leads Facebook’s communications on “counterterrorism and dangerous organizations and individuals.”

The DOJ sources have decided to speak to The Post, and risk their careers, because they are concerned that federal law enforcement has been politicized and is abusing the constitutional rights of innocent Americans.

They say more whistleblowers are ready to join them.

Unrest has been building among the rank and file across the FBI and in some parts of the DOJ for months. It came to a head after the raid last month on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

“The most frightening thing is the combined power of Big Tech colluding with the enforcement arm of the FBI,” says one whistleblower. “Google, Facebook and Twitter, these companies are globalist. They don’t have our national interest at heart.”
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looked innocent enough to some, but old 'Green Door' people knew better.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2022 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/16/2022 5:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Eventually, nothing short of some making shocking examples of a few tech oligarchs will solve this.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 6:28 Comments || Top||

#4  It would be interesting to see what Facebook was referring to the FBI. It is probably lame stuff. All quality insurrections are organized via Pinterest.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 7:18 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Ow!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 7:19 Comments || Top||

#6  a high school classmate of mine was visited by the FBI recently and asked if he knew anyone at the capitol building on January 6. He didn't. Now I think it's because of his Facebook posts critical of that election. So does he
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/16/2022 8:02 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Wouldn't the feebs just assume a no answer constituted "lying to the FBI?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 8:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Best not to tell them anything except to get the hell out.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/16/2022 11:46 Comments || Top||

#9  This is the key point:

But when the targeted Facebook users were investigated by agents in a local FBI field office, sometimes using covert surveillance techniques, nothing criminal or violent turned up.

“It was a waste of our time,” said one source familiar with subpoena requests lodged during a 19-month frenzy by FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, to produce the caseload to match the Biden administration’s rhetoric on domestic terrorism after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.


Still, all that focussed effort kept both Facebook staff and the FBI from jointly busying themselves more effectively, and therefore more harmfully.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/16/2022 15:36 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ I'm sure both organizations are trading ideas on how to make the searches more effective.

It's all wrong, but, at the same time, I really don't want people dumb enough to communicate on FarceBork overthrowing even our current corrupt gummint.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 15:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Wait... I thought all the J6 Collaboration was done on Parler. Wasn't that the reason Big Tech kicked them on their platforms?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/16/2022 17:26 Comments || Top||


Durham Investigation Grand Jury Term Ends - Anyone Surprised?
[CitizenFreePress] When John Durham was assigned by the Justice Department in 2019 to examine the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, President Donald Trump and his supporters expressed a belief that the inquiry would prove that a “deep state” conspiracy including top Obama-era officials had worked to sabotage him.

Now Durham appears to be winding down his three-year inquiry without anything close to the results Trump was seeking. The grand jury that Durham has recently used to hear evidence has expired, and while he could convene another, there are currently no plans to do so, three people familiar with the matter said.

Durham and his team are working to complete a final report by the end of the year, they said, and one of the lead prosecutors on his team is leaving for a job with a prominent law firm.

Over the course of his inquiry, Durham has developed cases against two people accused of lying to the FBI. The recent developments suggest that the chances of any more indictments are remote.

After Durham’s team completes its report, it will be up to Attorney General Merrick Garland to decide whether to make its findings public. The report will be Durham’s opportunity to present any evidence or conclusions that challenge the Justice Department’s basis for opening the investigation in 2016.

The Justice Department declined to comment.

Durham and his team used a grand jury in Washington to indict Michael Sussmann, a prominent cybersecurity lawyer with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign. Sussmann was indicted last year on a charge of making a false statement to the FBI at a meeting in which he shared a tip about potential connections between computers associated with Trump and a Kremlin-linked Russian bank.

Sussmann was acquitted of that charge at trial in May.

A grand jury based in the Eastern District of Virginia last year indicted a Russia analyst who had worked with Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was the author of a dossier of rumors and unproven assertions about Trump. The analyst, Igor Danchenko, who is accused of lying to federal investigators, goes on trial next month in Alexandria, Virginia.

In the third case, Durham’s team negotiated a plea deal with an FBI lawyer whom an inspector general had accused of doctoring an email used in preparation for a wiretap renewal application.

The plea deal resulted in no prison time.

Trump and his allies have long hoped that Durham would prosecute former FBI and intelligence officials responsible for the Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane. Trump has described the investigation as a witch hunt and accused the FBI of spying on his presidential campaign.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He was investigating someone? For what? Jaywalking?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/16/2022 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump and his allies have long hoped that Durham would prosecute former FBI and intelligence officials responsible for the Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane.

Say what ?



Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2022 2:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I call for instituting a shot clock on future special counsels. This grand jury didn't even indict enough ham sandwiches for a Catering Order. This is like one Jussie Smollet 3AM tuna on rye. We ordered a sandwich tray. I demand my BMT on wheat as a tax payer. Sean Hannity promised me full tick-tock justice.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 7:27 Comments || Top||


#5  Pretty much proof of institutionalized corruption of the DoJ/FBI. Shit rolls down hill, the lower level agents are just as corrupt.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 09/16/2022 10:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Durham and Mueller, chasing their tails for years on end, producing absolutely nothing, both equally disappointing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/16/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Durham probably has a boat named “No Indictments”.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/16/2022 15:58 Comments || Top||


Economy
Planes, trains and automobiles: Biden administration is a hub of transportation woes
[FoxNews] The simple act of traveling from place to place stalks the Biden presidency

Presidents begin their terms with grand visions of how they’ll uplift Americans with futuristic policy prescriptions, but often get mired in the more mundane task of making sure the old boring stuff still works.

For President Biden, there may be no better example of this reality than the historic rise in inflation, which has turned every purchase into a reminder that something is broken in Washington that Biden has yet to fix.

But a close second is obstacles that prevent people from the simple act of traveling from place to place. For the last several months, Americans have become dissatisfied with every major mode of travel and are increasingly lodging their complaints with an administration that sometimes has an answer and sometimes doesn’t.

PLANES
Americans were forced to wear masks on airplanes for more than a year until a U.S. District Court judge ruled the federal government had no authority to impose that requirement. But what should have been a joyous return to air travel only led to complaints about delays and rescheduled flights.

A nationwide pilot shortage is seen as a major reason behind these delays. In some cases, the problem has led airlines to end service to certain cities because they don’t have the staff to make the trip.
The pilot shortage that resulted from the No Vax - No Fly rule for pilots and crew. It turns out pilots are as uninterested in the Covid vaccine as doctors, nurses, and CDC researchers.
Over the summer, the airline industry said it was short 12,000 pilots and said fewer flights are taking off from most airports.

In a May Senate hearing, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took a stab at the problem by saying his department is trying to speed up the approval of "workforce development grants" that might be used to increase the supply of available pilots. But Buttigieg had no immediate answers for solving the problem.

"There won’t be a quick fix, but we’ve got to work on shoring up that domestic aviation workforce," he told senators. He later told Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., "We’re gathering information on how that needle is moving, and we’d be happy to stay in touch with your office about what we’re seeing and what resources we need."

Buttigieg said the problem is similar to the shortage of truckers that companies have faced,
...again, No Vax - No Drive, coupled with the vast increase in on-line shopping, and the disinterest in young drivers to put up with abusive work conditions for not nearly enough pay...
reminding lawmakers about another mode of transportation that is on shaky grounds.

In July, Buttigieg said he’s been speaking with airlines about the problem and will "continue using all of the authorities that available to us as a department," including working on air traffic control staffing issues.

But by August, Buttigieg said his department was working on the more achievable goal of making sure passengers are refunded the cost of their flight when it is canceled.

TRAINS
The Biden administration narrowly avoided a rail strike just this week, but not before Amtrak started to adjust its long-distance service. Amtrak said early adjustments had to be made to make sure trains can reach their destinations before a possible strike that was imminent this week.

Biden’s Transportation Department was able to broker an agreement between unions and rail companies by early Thursday morning, a result that Biden hailed as a "win for tens of thousands of rail workers, and for their dignity and the dignity of their work."

But the deal came at a cost that could lead to higher costs for travelers in the near future. Rail workers won a 24 percent increase over the next five years, along with better working conditions and health care coverage, and paid time off.

The issue is not necessarily resolved. The tentative agreement still has to be agreed to by 12 labor unions, and one of those has already rejected the deal.
Already rejected? So much for the vaunted Biden Big Stick.
That union said it would delay a possible strike as other unions consider the agreement.

AUTOMOBILES
The near doubling of gasoline prices from the time Biden took office through June 2022 was a shock felt by everyone, and one that still stings even as prices have fallen from their summer highs. Even non-drivers felt the secondary effect of rising prices on groceries and anything else that gets trucked to its final destination.

Economists blamed much of the increase on rebounding demand for oil in the wake of the COVID downturn, but Biden was quickly viewed as a significant hurdle to price relief. His moratorium on new oil and gas drilling leases, the decision to stop accepting oil from Russia, and overall support for environmental protection and increased regulations on energy companies seemed to match his campaign pledge to eradicate the use of fossil fuels and led to complaints that he was oblivious to people shelling out more than $5 for a gallon of gas.
It isn’t a line in his personal budget — travel is a presidential expense — so why should he care?
As prices ratcheted higher, Biden’s team blamed Russia and energy companies and then tried rebrand Americans’ expensive new reality as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to buy an electric vehicle. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said buying an EV will "help break our reliance on fossil fuels."

In California, where the future happens, Americans got a sense that perhaps the EV future is bleak. Days after Newsom won headlines for banning the sale of gasoline-powered cars, his state was suddenly faced with an energy crisis that prompted Newsom to urge Californians not to charge their EVs as the state faced rolling blackouts.

Day-to-day, the nation’s transportation woes appear to be headaches for Biden, but there is something of a silver lining for Democrats in this cloud of despair. Each problem leads to increasing calls for government answers, and Biden appears to be all too happy to supply them.
Increasing Democratic calls for government intervention, anyway. The Republicans want the government to back away from causing the problems in the first place, so no further interventions would be needed.
By this week, Biden was announcing that his administration had approved funding for a vast EV charging network across the country, starting with 35 states, all thanks to the $1 trillion infrastructure bill he signed last year.
Goody. Counterproductive answers to unnecessary created problems — just where we want the nation’s funds to flow instead of leaving with those who eqrnt it, allowing Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand — or the wisdom of crowds, for a more recent formulation — to do what it does best.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2022 08:40 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Biden's dirty deal sold out Haitian democracy for migrant deportations, former envoy says
[NYPOST] The Biden administration scuttled Haiti’s plans for free elections and backed a de facto dictator in exchange for his willingness to accept deportees, America’s former envoy to the country says.

Daniel Foote, the Biden- appointed former US special envoy to Haiti, says the administration has supported Dr. Ariel Henry — who took power as both acting prime minister and acting president after the liquidation of President Jovenel Moise — because he was willing to accept Haitian migrants colonists who have rushed the US border.

Henry was supposed to have organized new elections by now. But in September 2021, a large group of Haitian migrants colonists camped in Del Rio, Texas, and images of the encampment — including border agents on horseback trying to prevent them from crossing the river — caused a political headache for President Biden.
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Certainly, it is a bad look to hand Haiti over to a new dictatorship for the purposes of shutting off one of 100 faucets of the flood of immigrants across our border. Still, you can't sell me on the fact that new Haitian elections are a step to a permanent solution to their corruption and poverty. Haiti has sucked forever. As a Cleveland area resident, we keep careful track of what sucks historically. It is our role in society like Guinness beer keeping track of world records. As a side question: why can't Haitians play baseball? Is their side of the island cursed to make it totally unable to birth a quality shortstop?
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Haiti is like Afghanistan in the sense that anyone hoping for "democracy" there is pissing up a rope.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Haitians have never been able to manage their own affairs and it doesn't look like they ever will. I would say the United States should annex it and administer it the same as we do Puerto Rico. But, on second thought, it was the French who made Haiti what it is. The French should own up to their responsibility.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/16/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||

#4  why can't Haitians play baseball? Is their side of the island cursed to make it totally unable to birth a quality shortstop?

I think it's the French language. Ever know any baseball stars from Quebec?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  They start running before the pitch.

/ducks and hides.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2022 13:14 Comments || Top||

#6  If the Clintons had bought gloves and bats they might have done some good there. Instead they just bought kids and sold uranium.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 21:03 Comments || Top||


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[The highlighted part, below, is troublesome but no surprise given this rag-tag Republic we live in now.]

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution [?] and the laws [?] of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1

Policy.

It is the policy of my Administration to coordinate a whole-of-government approach to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing towards innovative solutions in health, climate change, energy, food security, agriculture, supply chain resilience, and national and economic security. Central to this policy and its outcomes are principles of equity, ethics, safety, and security that enable access to technologies, processes, and products in a manner that benefits all Americans and the global community and that maintains United States technological leadership and economic competitiveness.

Biotechnology harnesses the power of biology to create new services and products, which provide opportunities to grow the United States economy and workforce and improve the quality of our lives and the environment. The economic activity derived from biotechnology and biomanufacturing is referred to as "the bioeconomy." The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vital role of biotechnology and biomanufacturing in developing and producing life-saving diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines that protect Americans and the world. Although the power of these technologies is most vivid at the moment in the context of human health, biotechnology and biomanufacturing can also be used to achieve our climate and energy goals, improve food security and sustainability, secure our supply chains, and grow the economy across all of America.

For biotechnology and biomanufacturing to help us achieve our societal goals, the United States needs to invest in foundational scientific capabilities. We need to develop genetic engineering technologies and techniques to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers; unlock the power of biological data, including through computing tools and artificial intelligence; and advance the science of scale-up production while reducing the obstacles for commercialization so that innovative technologies and products can reach markets faster....

[Brought to you by Pfizer]
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#2  in the same way in which we write software and program computers

Oh oh.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2022 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  High end Nvidia and AMD video cards that run the AI programs were recently banned from China.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/16/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  All sorts of fantasy shit goes into executive orders.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/16/2022 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Is it an executive order or a script for a dystopian horror flick? I am sure Fauci was signing a purchase order to his Wuhan Lab buddies before the ink was dry.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  "Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.". - Benito Mussolini who, as a side note, was a helluva lot smarter than the current vegetable in the White House.
Posted by: magpie || 09/16/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Yep, magpie, the 3 tenets of fascism from its founder. I've been saying this a lot since BO got in, more seriously since the Vegetable in Chief took over. That's what they all want official fascist tyrants.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/16/2022 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8  this would not be a problem if we had the limited gummint the Constitution calls for.

But where's the graft in that?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 11:12 Comments || Top||

#9  We need Mr. DNA from Jurassic Park doing Clippy things.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#10  "It is the policy of my Administration to dream big, think less, aim for lurid and reach nowhere."

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/16/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden will address a White House conference on “hate-motivated violence” in his latest bid to call out what he sees as a dangerous tide of extremism across the country
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hate the Baltimore Ravens, liver and Workplace Safety videos. Probably not enough material for a conference, but there could be some breakout sessions.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Remember when the media melted down over George H.W. Bush saying he didn't like broccoli?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Was an extreme view with respect to vegetables what lead to Dessert Storm? Can we ask Cindy Sheehan for an opinion?
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/16/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Well, Joe is edging hurtling into vegetable territory.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Well I do hate the demoncrats and the white tower elites running this country into the ground.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/16/2022 8:05 Comments || Top||

#6  a dangerous tide of extremism across the country

"Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.". - the father of fascism
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#7  All messaging by elites, to elites. They are sending the signal that Republican victory in November is illegitimate and will not be tolerated. Pull out all the stops. Cheat, as if Democrats have to be told that.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 || 09/16/2022 9:49 Comments || Top||

#8  When the usual sellout GOPe suspects are cast as dangerous extremists, you know the narrative has gone off the rails.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2022 10:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Do they crucify some Jan 6 protestors during the program?
Posted by: magpie || 09/16/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Speach was probably written to counter the violence they expected (but never occurred) following the Maga Republicans speech.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/16/2022 12:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Like the Ultra-Rich using The Army to round up, remove, and disappear poor refugees from their palatial estates?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2022 12:16 Comments || Top||


#13  H8RS!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2022 13:28 Comments || Top||

#14  Okay, why lie? Relative to mustard greens, I hate collards. Love 'em a lot less, anyway. Turnips? Midday between. Amaranth, now... I hate mustard greens! Still take that BMT, though.
Posted by: Blossom Omomonter3010 || 09/16/2022 23:19 Comments || Top||



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