City Of Cary, NC Increases Taxes To Pay For Government Incompetence

By William Teach June 27, 2026 – 3:00 pm

And no one seems to be asking relevant questions like

  • “Why don’t you tighten your belt?”
  • “How about spending the forcibly taken citizen money responsibly?”
  • “How about an independent audit on previous spending?”

These are questions that the Credentialed Media should be asking, and asking hard, rather than writing a rather sanitized article

‘Breach of trust’: Town of Cary mayor blames former town manager for 2026-2027 fiscal year budget make up

On Thursday, the Town of Cary approved the 2026-2027 fiscal year budget at $579 million.

This budget is a 12.2% increase compared to last year’s budget and $6 million more than the recommended budget set in May.

Mayor Harold Weinbrecht said the town is playing catch up after the former town manager’s alleged misuse of funds.

“I mention the breach of trust because that’s the context in which this budget was developed,” Weinbrecht said.

A criminal investigation was opened by the Wake County DA in January into former town manager Sean Stegall’s actions, but, so far, nothing has come of it

Stegall is accused of allocating money for luxury hotel rooms, two land deals totaling more than a million dollars, and tens of thousands of dollars towards a master’s degree for Mayor Pro Tem Lori Bush, who later reimbursed the town.

So, why does that require $6 million more?

Weinbrecht said the Cary Police Department is understaffed by 89 officers, and Cary Fire response times are increasing as the town grows.

What were the mayor and town council doing when this was occurring?

Cary residents will see an 8% tax increase set at 2.75 cents (this is for property owners, hitting them up)

Doesn’t seem like much, but, it all adds up

The budget also includes 55 new Town of Cary jobs, including a budget director and two audit focused finance positions to create more transparency and accountability into the towns finances.

CBS17 asked the Town of Cary what those roles will consist of and what the base salary is for the position, but we were told the town could not address those questions.

Other than 3 mentioned specifically, what are the other jobs? Per WRAL, there will supposedly be a bunch of money to hire dozens of police, fire, and 911 workers. If you or I overspent, did stupid things, who do we go to and forcibly take money from? It just goes to show that even at the local level government is insane.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 27, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a field perfect to be taken by government for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is GeeeZ…, with a post on crazy Gavin Newson’s taxing the rich.

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California State Workers Freaking Out Over Return To Work Mandate

By William Teach June 27, 2026 – 10:30 am

I’m actually on Gavin Newsom’s side here, though, good grief, it’s halfway through 2026, and a return to work mandate is kicking in now?

Gavin Newsom’s delivers brutal message to workers fighting July 1 return to office mandate

Gov. Gavin Newsom is barreling ahead with forcing California state workers back to the office, flatly rejecting calls to soften a return-to-work mandate that unions warn could trigger a “mass exodus” of employees.

Starting July 1, roughly 100,000 state workers will be required to report to the office or the field four days a week, leaving just one day for telework under Newsom’s long-delayed executive order.

Despite mounting backlash from organized labor and state employees, the governor made it clear there will be no retreat.

Asked directly whether he’d consider easing the four-day in-office requirement, Newsom didn’t blink.

“No chance.”

He doubled down moments later, on a call with KCRA saying, “It’s ridiculous, four days a week.”

ZOMG, 4 days a week! How horrible to have to go into the office you were hired to work at! Let’s be honest, most of the jobs are Theater Kids jobs, no real work required and no accountability, does the People’s Republic Of California actually need them? Would PRC residents be better off without them?

The showdown is already escalating with SEIU Local 1000, the state’s largest employee union, which has warned the mandate could spark a wave of departures if enforced.

Union leadership argues workers have successfully kept state government running under hybrid schedules since the pandemic and see no justification for the stricter requirement.

Yeah, they’ve done a bang-up job, what with all those people Escaping CA.

I don’t think it’s particularly helpful to take part in a remote work event at the beach, either for the current job or for future jobs. There are multiple photos of people at the event. No one really thinks they are actually working except for the photos, right? It’s hilarious the situations that Democrats and their voters manufacture, eh?

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Your Fault: European Heat Wave Impossible Without ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach June 27, 2026 – 7:15 am

This piece of cult propaganda is all over the Credentialed Cult Media, many using this AP article, some writing their own like the NY Times and UK Guardian. They’re all apoplectic and doomy

Europe’s extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say

The record-breaking heat that’s scorching Europe day and night this month would not have been possible without climate change, according to a new study.

The World Weather Attribution rapid study released Friday found that the heat would have been virtually impossible just five decades ago, and is 200 times more likely today than it would have been 20 years ago.

Millions in France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe are experiencing extreme temperatures and humidity this week associated with a heat dome. Daytime temperatures have topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in many places, while high nighttime temperatures have also made it harder to cool down and recover.

The scientists estimated that a heat wave with similar characteristics occurring in the climate of June 1976 would have been about 3.5 degrees Celsius (6.3 Fahrenheit) cooler during the day and about 2 degrees Celsius cooler (3.6 Fahrenheit) in 2003. The nighttime temperatures would have been about 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 Fahrenheit) cooler in June 1976 and about 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 Fahrenheit) cooler in 2003.

Back in 1976, when the media was worried about a coming ice age? Say, can they compare this to things that happened during previous Holocene warm periods? Without that knowledge and direct observation this is all just cultist claptrap.

Oh, and, of course, because they are running this it means that the weather in Europe will soon be cool, like when they yap about permanent drought and the weather soon turns wet (and then they also blame ‘climate change’).

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Washington Post Super Upset Over Loss Of Employees For Nursing Homes, Factories

By William Teach June 27, 2026 – 7:00 am

The two AWFLs writing this screed, Maria Sacchetti and Lauren Kaori Gurley, miss the obvious conclusion that if a business depends on labor from illegals, fake asylum seekers, and TPSers who can be booted at any time they’re bad at it

Nursing homes, factory owners and immigrants brace for fallout from Supreme Court ruling

Immigrants began making plans to sell or rent their homes, secure bank accounts and figure out thorny issues like child custody arrangements. Business owners started calculating how many days they can continue to employ workers whose legal status is set to expire. And nursing home leaders warned they would have fewer beds to offer if health aides are forced to leave the country.

Panic rippled through communities from Florida to Ohio and beyond in the hours after the Supreme Court cleared the Trump administration Thursday to strip humanitarian protections from Haitians and Syrians — and potentially all 1.3 million immigrants from over a dozen countries who had been previously shielded from deportation.

“The residents will be losing caregivers that they really have become attached to,” said Colin O’Leary, executive director at Laurel Ridge Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Center in Boston. Managers at the facility were racing to figure out how much longer staff members from Haiti with temporary protected status could continue taking care of patients. “That’s a lot for our residents to handle.”

Attorneys said Haitians and Syrians could lose work permits in little more than a month, but the deadline remained unclear because lower court judges must issue orders to implement the decision. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters Thursday that Haitians and others with temporary protected status should be detained and deported once they lose the benefit.

It’s always some sort sob story with these people, always forgetting that the law is, in fact, the law. It should mostly be devoid of emotion. But, um, hey, what’s this claptrap about “lower court judges”? The Mullin v. Doe ruling pretty much said the lower courts need to stay the hell out of it: Congress gave the Executive the power to grant TPS and cancel it, and courts have nothing to do with it.

Some of those immigrants have lived in the United States for decades and said they feared being sent back to conflict-ridden homelands that they barely know and whose languages some do not speak.

And that is a problem, because the T stands for temporary.

Harlaine, 38, a registered nurse in Florida, said she hasn’t been to Haiti since she left for the U.S. at age 7 and had never visited because everyone told her it was too dangerous. She spoke on condition that only her first name be used because she fears being targeted by immigration authorities.

She’s been here 31 years and hasn’t attempted to get citizenship? Or even Permanent Resident status?

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, characterized the decision as “a mistake” and said it is too dangerous to deport people to Haiti, including the more than 10,000 Haitians living and working legally in his state. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) vowed to fight the ruling, even as the path to challenging it is unclear.

Yes, let’s bring in all these people who are dangerous.

“I’m telling you it’s going to cripple our health care system,” Hochul told reporters. “Who’s going to show up tomorrow to take care of grandma? Who’s doing that? Who’s stepping up?”

And here’s the thing, Democrats have been telling the kiddies that they should get highfalutin degrees, ones which sound great but have little value in the real world, that jobs like caretakers and nurses and such are beneath them (even though they can earn some good damned money). They tell even those Dem voter kiddies of lower status that jobs working with your hands are for chumps, so, they rack of tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt for garbage degrees that let them feel Entitled. Because all the imports will do them.

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Venezuela And Japan Have Big Earthquakes, Climate Wackos come out

By William Teach June 26, 2026 – 3:00 pm

This one is pretty unhinged

Her glasses, clothes, belt, nail polish, phone she’s taking the video with, etc, are all made of petroleum. More below the fold

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 26, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea turning rough from fossil fueled boats, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on Supreme Court striking down Hawaii law restricting concealed carry.

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Credentialed Media Wonders Why Trump Is Missing From World Cup

By William Teach June 26, 2026 – 10:30 am

The same media who tells Trump to stay away from events, such as the NBA finals, wonders where Trump is

How much longer can Donald Trump go missing from the World Cup?
The person who shaped the tournament in his image has been invisible since it started.

Some of soccer’s biggest names have come to play at the World Cup: Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Vinícius Júnior and now even Cristiano Ronaldo have left their mark on the score sheet.

But one key player who loomed over just about every step of pre-tournament preparations has been notably invisible: Donald Trump.

Pre-tournament fears that the American president would trample on the soccer jamboree have, so far, proved largely unfounded after the first two weeks of competition. Trump has yet to attend a match, and even as the U.S. team mounts its best World Cup performance in decades he has done little to claim the success as his own.

So he’s not super involved and the media complains.

Aside from persistent complications surrounding the Iran squad’s entry and exit to the U.S. for games, and the ban on a Somali referee from entering the country before the tournament started, political incidents involving the Trump administration and soccer — or leaders of other World Cup countries, including the neighboring co-hosts with whom he often spars — have been few and far between.

Because Trump specifically picked out that 1 ref and said “not him”

No ICE arrests around matches. No heavy-handed policing like soccer fans sometimes suffer in Western Europe. No beef between Trump and Democratic leaders of cities and states where some of the tournament’s highest-profile matches have been played.

So, ICE is not rounding up illegals? They are there to stop human trafficking, drugs, and other issues, as are members of foreign agencies. Policing is a light touch unlike in Europe? No beefs with wacko Dems? It’s almost like Politico’s writers are whining that they have nothing to complain about with Orange Man Bad so they will be mad that there is nothing to complain about with Orange Man Bad

In an interview last week with POLITICO, Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey said her administration had worked with the U.S. government “around transportation funding, security funding. That’s the way it should be. There should be that kind of work and coordination.”

Trump allies are on the same page as the tournament progresses serenely through the group stage, beyond continued griping about high ticket prices and transport to and from some stadiums.

“Why won’t Trump do or say something Mean! There are no Mean Tweets! Arrglebargle!”

This week, FIFA chief Gianni Infantino confirmed what many have expected: Trump plans to attend the final on July 19 and help present the winner’s trophy. Can a president who loves the spotlight stay away till then?

Can these Credentialed Media folks not write in TDS? Really, I don’t think Trump, like most Americans, cares about soccer.

As for transportation, how’s things going?

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Your Fault: Reflecting Pool Algae From Climate Doom

By William Teach June 26, 2026 – 7:15 am

I’m actually surprised we didn’t get this sooner (via Green Jihad)

Using a link you can read if you want

In his battle to clean the murky waters of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump has tried draining, painting, hydrogen peroxide and what the Interior Department describes as “high-tech nanobubble ozone technology.” But he has seemingly overlooked two of the most important factors that experts say are driving unsightly — and sometimes dangerous — profusions of algae: pollution and climate change.

Algae thrive in warm, still waters, causing populations to explode as global temperatures rise, said environmental engineer Steve Chapra, an emeritus professor at Tufts University.

Short-term measures like those Trump has pursued may temporarily reduce algae populations in some water bodies, Chapra said. But unless they grapple with warming and nutrient pollution, any efforts to address these blooms in the Reflecting Pool and elsewhere are doomed to fail in the long run.

The consequences could be profound, because the problems presented by blooms go far beyond aesthetics, he added. They can disrupt aquatic food chains, deplete oxygen in water bodies and even produce deadly toxins.

“It’s probably the biggest water quality problem in the world,” Chapra said. “The Reflecting Pool is the canary in the coal mine.”

Wow, that sure ramped up to Category 5 Doom, eh?

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Sniffles: Supreme Court Ruling Allows Ending Of TPS For Haitians And Syrians

By William Teach June 26, 2026 – 7:00 am

The Credentialed Media is not taking this well, as you could expect

Supreme Court undermines TPS program, putting 147,000 immigrants in Texas at risk of deportation

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can revoke Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti and Syria. The 6-to-3 ruling puts more than 1.3 million immigrants under TPS across the United States, including roughly 147,000 in Texas, at imminent risk of arrest and deportation.

Writing the conservative majority’s opinion in Mullin v. Doe, Associate Justice Samuel Alito said TPS functions entirely at the discretion of the president and is not subject to review by the courts.

“Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide short-term humanitarian relief for aliens who cannot safely return to their home countries,” Alito wrote. “Although designed to afford temporary relief, TPS designations in practice have often lasted for decades,”

Alito added that Haitian immigrants had received a TPS designation after the 2010 earthquake in the Caribbean country.

“The Supreme Court is signaling that lower courts should not interfere with the executive’s authority, that when Congress grants a broad discretionary power to grant temporary status, the president should also have the same power to revoke the temporary status,” said Josh Blackman, a professor of constitutional law at South Texas College of Law Houston. “I think this is a very important case of presidential power.”

First off, they are not immigrants: they are foreign aliens who were allowed into the U.S. temporarily. That’s the whole of their legal status. Second, how quickly till a wackjob federal judge comes out with a ruling which blocks ending TPS for some group in total avoidance of the SCOTUS ruling?

Seth Chandler, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Houston Law Center, said the ruling has dramatic consequences for Texas, which hosts one of the largest concentrations of TPS holders in the U.S.

“It basically streamlines the ability of the Trump administration to revoke TPS status, not just for the Haitians and Syrians who were litigating in the case the Supreme Court decided today, but with respect to Hondurans, Nepalis, Afghans, and perhaps critically for Houston, potentially Venezuelans as well,” Chandler said.

There does come a point when TPS ends, Democrats. It is not permanent.

The decision came down immediately after another immigration-related decision, which allows the Trump administration to enforce its “wait in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers.

As to that

(AIC) U.S. law provides that any person who is physically present in the United States or who “arrives in” the United States may apply for asylum. Congress further directed that immigration officers must “inspect” any noncitizen who “arrives in” the United States to determine if they should be admitted to the country — a function U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers carry out thousands of times per day at ports of entry. (snip)

Today, the Supreme Court blessed the practice of metering, overturning a 9th Circuit decision which had found that CBP had an affirmative obligation to process people who arrive at ports of entry but who have not yet stepped on U.S. soil after CBP officers have blocked their passage. The Court found that there was a difference between “arrives in” and “arrives at” the border, and declared that only those individuals who have physically set foot in the United States have a right to be inspected and apply for asylum.

In other words, we do not have to let them in no matter how loud they yet “asylum”.

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