Weird: Illegals Shift Crossing From Texas To California And Arizona

By William Teach February 4, 2024 – 7:00 am

What could have possibly precipitated this change in illegal alien behavior?

Large majority of illegal border crossings shift to Arizona and California, pivoting away from Texas

A large majority of illegal crossings at the southern border are now happening in Arizona and California, shifting away from Texas counties.

Sources with U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Fox News that over the last week of January, Border Patrol apprehended 32,809 illegal immigrants.

Per CBP sources, 23,576 of them – 71.8% – were in Arizona and California. Notably, the numbers in Texas’ Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, have fallen off a cliff. In December, the sector saw days of 3,000-4,000 illegal crossings per day. Over the last week, it has averaged around just 200.

The shift could be attributed to two reasons.

Is it because of the food in California and Arizona? Perhaps they prefer the climates? Maybe the Grand Canyon and Yosemite?

Texas has locked things down on their side of the border, and Mexico has increased enforcement against migrants arriving in the Mexican state of Coahuila following Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Mexico in December.

Mexico is now suddenly stopping migrants from boarding trains, and is removing migrants from their northern border down to their southern border following that meeting.

And the migrants who do cross there now find a very unwelcoming posture from the state of Texas with legions of soldiers, troopers and razor wire, as well as the threat of arrest. It is unknown what the U.S. offered Mexico in return for this cooperation.

Weird. It’s almost like deterrence works. Like telling illegals “don’t come here” and blocking them makes them change what they’re doing. Now, imagine doing this from Texas through California. And telling any other illegals that if they come by boat or plane anywhere else they will be sent packing and we’ll take any of their assets to pay for it. That they are not getting healthcare, money, housing, food, education, or anything else.

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ZOMG: Coastal Cities Brace For Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach February 3, 2024 – 3:04 pm

Sigh. This again? I wonder if the NY Times consulted with all the rich folks, like Barack Obama and Al Gore, who’ve purchased homes in low lying coastal areas, and seem to be in no hurry to sell them

Coastal Cities Brace for Climate Change

Over the past few weeks, flooding from storms has battered cities in the South and the East Coast, from Louisiana to New Jersey. Overlapping atmospheric rivers over the West Coast have brought heavy rains that are likely to come back in the next few days.

So far this week, Californians have not seen the kinds of weather-generated disasters that struck last winter, with flooding in Ventura County in December and in San Diego in January, my colleague Jill Cowan reports.

Storms are part of the natural cycle that replenishes the water supplies that several states will rely on during the drier months to come, Judson Jones, The Times’s meteorologist, told me.

Buuuuuuut, cult

“The problem comes when there’s too much at one time,” he said.

Climate change makes that a lot more likely. Warmer air holds more moisture, which means storms in many parts of the world are getting wetter and more intense, as my colleague Ray Zhong explained during deluges last year.

Coastal areas are especially vulnerable to climate change, not just because of storms and floods, but from rising seas and erosion. These factors put a tenth of the world’s population, the 896 million people who live near the oceans, at risk. That includes one-fifth of Americans.

And t’s all your fault. But, we can fix this with lots and lots of taxpayer money

The good news is that there is a lot we can do. Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank that promotes environmental policies for coastal cities, has designed a framework that lays out dozens of solutions that governments and communities can implement.

See? And lots and lots of “legislative and regulatory options”, as that link shows. All for a mostly mythical problem. The natural part would be around simply because warm periods happen. If the anthropogenic part, and, heck, the natural part, were so concerning you wouldn’t have so many rich people building/buying homes in low lying areas.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 3, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a river turned muddy from Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Hot Air, with a post on CNN being stunned over illegal alien crime in NY vs Florida.

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Biden Finally Orders Strikes On Iran Backed Terrorist Groups

By William Teach February 3, 2024 – 10:30 am

Well, give him credit for allowing the strikes. There are probably a lot of people who lost money in the betting pools that there would be no retaliatory strikes

US hits hard at militias in Iraq and Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack

The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.

The massive barrage of strikes hit more than 85 targets at seven locations, including command and control headquarters, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites and other facilities that were connected to the militias or the IRGC’s Quds Force, the Guard’s expeditionary unit that handles Tehran’s relationship with and arming of regional militias. And President Joe Biden made it clear in a statement that there will be more to come.

The U.S. strikes appeared to stop short of directly targeting Iran or senior leaders of the Revolutionary Guard Quds Force within its borders, as the U.S. tries to prevent the conflict from escalating even further. Iran has denied it was behind the Jordan attack.

It was unclear what the impact will be of the strikes. Days of U.S. warnings may have sent militia members scattering into hiding. With multiple groups operating at various locations in several countries, a knockout blow is unlikely.

And therein lies the issue: did the strikes hit anything of consequence and did they kill the Iranian backed terrorists, or, did they amscray with their weapons? And, really, if Iran wants to get frisky the U.S. needs to strike them back directly. The only thing they know is Islamic extremism and nations pushing their power. And the U.S. can do way more damage to Iran then then go do back.

“Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing,” Biden warned, adding, “let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.” He and other top U.S. leaders had been saying for days that any American response wouldn’t be just one hit but a “tiered response” over time.

Of course, he did this while taking an early weekend, spending time in Delaware again since Thursday, then heading off to Los Angeles today.

Double of course, the naysayers who are upset that Biden used the military to strike back are Concerned

Biden’s retaliatory strikes in Middle East come with significant political risk: Experts

With U.S. retaliatory strikes underway Friday after three American troops were killed in a drone attack by an Iran-backed militant group, President Joe Biden faces a turning point in the Middle East conflict that carries significant risks of escalation and heavy election-year political consequences.

Yeah, well, if Iran doesn’t want some they shouldn’t start some. Now it’s time to wait for Biden’s wacko base, including the crazies like those in The Squad, to decry the airstrikes as they protect Iran, Islamic terrorists, and all those who hate Israel and Jews.

But, I will give Biden credit for ordering the large scale airstrikes.

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Washington Post: Kids Won’t Know Snow The Way Their Parents Did

By William Teach February 3, 2024 – 7:00 am

It’s not full on

but, it’s close! Because cults never give up on ideas to scare people. The subhead tries to soften the wackadoodleness of the headline

What is winter without snow? Our children are finding out.
This generation won’t remember winter the way their parents do

When Celerah Hewes remembers the winters of her childhood, growing up in Albuquerque in the ’80s and ’90s, she recalls at least one or two significant snowfalls every season. She can still picture pulling back a curtain to see the world blanketed in white, then racing outside to spend a day building snow forts with neighborhood kids, or heading to the foothills of the Sandia Mountains to go sledding. She remembers those days as free, untethered from the rhythm and routine of daily life.

Hewes’s 11-year-old daughter, Evelyn, is also growing up in Albuquerque, but her experience of winter is very different from her mother’s. The last big snow came when Evelyn was just 2 years old — “too small to take advantage of it,” Hewes says. Since then, there have been only occasional dustings, an inch or two perhaps; when Evelyn flops to the ground to make a snow angel, her wing-prints reach the wet earth below. “She’ll bundle up and go outside in almost no snow, and she’ll try so hard to play, and come back muddy and disappointed,” Hewes says, “and that’s heartbreaking.” A few years ago, Evelyn asked for a sled for Christmas. It has never been used.

Well, that’s rather inconvenient

Anyhow

This past December saw snow at a record low across the country. Last month, a new study confirmed that climate change has altered snow patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, bringing certain parts of the United States closer to a “snow loss cliff,” at which point snow loss will only accelerate. In the D.C. region, where I grew up and am now raising my children, a recent January snowfall marked the end of a nearly two-year-long snow drought; a few weeks before the December holidays, I had folded last year’s snow pants — never worn, already outgrown — and put them in a pile to give away

The thing is, this is what should be expected during a Holocene warm period. Of course, the same people will also blame all the snow in January on ‘climate change’.

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SCNY To Give Illegals $53 Million In Pre-Paid Cards

By William Teach February 3, 2024 – 6:45 am

Well, gee willikers, I wonder why the Sanctuary City Of New York could do with $53 million to help the legal residents of the city? Perhaps hire a lot more police to reduce crime? Do better with sanitation? Work on the rat problem? Feed and house the homeless?

NYC launches $53M program to hand out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will soon start handing out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families being put up in Big Apple hotels, The Post has learned.

The $53 million pilot program, run by the New Jersey company Mobility Capital Finance, will provide asylum seekers arriving at the Roosevelt Hotel with the city cash to help them buy food, according to city records.

It’ll start with a group of 500 migrant families in short-term hotel stays and will replace the current food service offered there, according to City Hall.

The cards can only be used at bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores — and migrants must sign an affidavit swearing they will only spend the funds on food and baby supplies or they will be kicked out of the program.

How many of them have babies, and how many are young, single, military age men?

The amount on each card will vary depending on the size of the family and whether any income is coming in, according to the details of the contract.  A family of four, for instance, could be provided nearly $1,000 each month, which comes out to $35 per day for food. Cards will get refilled every 28 days.

I hope the low income residents of SCNY do not complain, because they surely voted for Democrats who enable all the illegal aliens. Otherwise they might have received the money themselves.

“Not only will this provide families with the ability to purchase fresh food for their culturally relevant diets and the baby supplies of their choosing, but the pilot program is expected to save New York City more than $600,000 per month, or more than $7.2 million annually,” Adams spokesperson Kayla Mamelak said.

First, it should not save them anything, because they shouldn’t have to deal with feeding illegal aliens. But, hey, irony is a bitch. Second, why culturally relevant food? Do they not want to learn what it is to be an American? Or, do they just want to take advantage of America and never assimilate?

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World Needs “Torrents” Of Cash To Solve Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach February 2, 2024 – 3:00 pm

How is illegally downloading books, movies, and music going to help?

“Torrents, not trickles”: UN climate chief’s vision for COP29

The UN’s next climate summit will be an “enabling COP,” focused on drastically scaling up climate finance and making bold emissions reduction commitments.

Why it matters: Top UN climate official Simon Stiell delivered a speech this morning in Baku, Azerbaijan, envisioning what will happen if the world meets the climate challenge and avoids devastating impacts of climate change.

Zoom in: The speech, delivered at ADA University, counters perceptions in some parts of the climate community that Baku will involve lower stakes and more technical work than COP28 did in Dubai.

Stiell instead makes clear how much work needs to be done to finance the transition away from fossil fuels to reliable forms of renewables in both industrialized and developing nations.

“Without far more finance, 2023’s climate wins will quickly fizzle away into more empty promises,” Stiell said. “We need torrents, not trickles, of climate finance.”

The money message was delivered loudly in Dubai, but countries like the U.S. committed little in the way of public financing, given the political realities in Congress.

Well, why not tell every Warmist to donate 30% of their yearly income and 50% of their net worth? We can start with all the rich folks telling us this who have massive carbon footprints. It’s just so wild that this always comes down to taking money away from Other People. Along with their life choices and freedom.

And, really, what assurances do we have that this “torrent” of money would solve anything? Please let me know of any government that truly spends the money they forcibly take from citizens wisely.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 2, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a hazy, humid day from carbon pollution bad weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on how bad it is for Fani Willis.

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Biden Decides Next Thing To Do Is Blame Grocery Stores For High Prices

By William Teach February 2, 2024 – 10:30 am

The question though, is, “will this work to get his young and stupid Democrat voters to come out and vote for him?” Because it’s not going to work with Republicans and Independents. Joe’s young and stupid voters are mad that he supports Israel

Biden takes aim at grocery stores for ‘ripping people off’ amid continued high prices: ‘Played for suckers’

President Joe Biden took aim at grocery stores, blaming them for “ripping people off” with high pricing amid the continued inflation blame game.

President Biden’s remarks came during a speech at the South Carolina’s First in the Nation Dinner in Columbia, South Carolina.

“Inflation is coming down. It’s now lower in America than any other major economy in the world,” Biden said. “The cost of eggs, milk, chicken, gas, and so many other essential items have come down.”

“But for all we’ve done to bring prices down, there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrinkflation,” the president continued.

Sadly, the rich leftists he’s speaking to are more than happy to cheer for idiotic lines like this, which are divorced from reality. Once prices go up they rarely come down. Y’all know why this has happened from the beginning of COVID. And has always happened. 2,000 square foot homes are no longer $30K like they were in the 60’s, right?

The president said that Americans are “tired” of being “played for suckers” by grocery stores across the country.

“Well, it’s going to stop. Americans, we’re tired of being played for suckers,” Biden said to resounding applause. “And that’s why we’re going to keep these guys — keep on them and get the prices down.”

Democrat voters will mostly fall for this claptrap, but, will some of them realize they are being patronized and treated as morons simply to get them to vote Biden? Because they are morons if they believe this. And the Democrat Elites do think the average voter is an idiot.

A recent Axios Vibes survey found that 59% of respondents felt “angry, anxious or resigned” while shopping for groceries, with anger being the most common emotion. Seventy-two percent of respondents also said that groceries are where they feel the most effects of inflation.

Though inflation has largely fallen from record highs in 2022, prices are still significantly higher than they were before 2020.

Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans must spend approximately $125.51 on groceries that would have previously cost $100 in December 2019.

The only way prices will come down is if there is serious disinflation, which would also require unskilled labor positions see their wages drop. Hey, maybe all those Democrat voters could be replaced by below minimum wage illegal aliens/migrants? That would help, right?

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Your Fault: Groundhog Predictions Less Accurate

By William Teach February 2, 2024 – 7:00 am

I’m going to do something I rarely do, give you a video as the post, as this is a new one for me. I’ve yet to see the Cult of Climastrology link Groundhog Day to their cult beliefs. Hopefully it will work, since I set this up Thursday night. Link here in case it doesn’t

The blurb at the link for the video reads

Punxsutawney Phil’s predictions are increasingly wrong as climate change shortens winter. A new analysis of the groundhog’s forecast shows he would be twice as accurate if he always predicted an early spring. National climate reporter Chase Cain digs-in to how winter warming is affecting the tradition of Groundhog Day.

Blah cult blah. Now let’s see the cult scientists predict how accurate Phil’s predictions will be 10-20 years from now. It’s super easy to Monday Morning computer model it. Also, there’s no real comparison to how Phil would predict during the Little Ice Age and previous Holocene warm periods. You know, doing science.

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