Small Wisconsin Town Complains About Inflow Of Illegals

By William Teach January 8, 2024 – 10:30 am

For a chance, Whitewater, Wisconsin, is not a sanctuary city (or is it?). This town of 14K Americans is now over-run. Greg Abbott wasn’t shipping the illegals there, so, who did?

Wisconsin city asks Biden for help with 1,000 migrants that put ‘great strain’ on resources

Americans before illegalsA small city in Wisconsin is appealing to the White House for help with the influx of approximately 1,000 migrants who have come in since 2022, with issues ranging from housing to crime affecting the small community.

City leaders of Whitewater, Wisconsin, have prepared a letter to President Biden, saying they have seen a “rapid increase in the population of immigrants arriving from Nicaragua and Venezuela.”

“Each individual has a different reason for coming here; some are fleeing from a corrupt government, others are simply looking for a better opportunity to prosper. Regardless of the individual situations, these people need resources like anyone else, and their arrival has put great strain on our existing resources,” the letter, led by Police Chief Dan Meyer, states, according to Wisconsin Radio Network.

Well, that sounds like the city approves of all the illegals, they just want lots of money, because, surprise, services for actual taxpaying citizens is strained.

They note that some of the migrants are in the country illegally, while others are not.

“As a municipal government, our focus is not on legal status, but rather ensuring we are providing the resources expected of a municipality to all residents of the City. Unfortunately, we are increasingly finding it difficult to do that,” the letter adds.

So, if the city is not going to do anything about those there illegally, then they are a de-facto sanctuary city

“Finally, our law enforcement staff have responded to a number of serious crimes linked to immigrants in some manner, including the death of an infant child, multiple sexual assaults and a kidnapping.”

This is what you get with unfettered immigration, regardless of whether they came illegally or showed up at the border demanding asylum at which point the Biden regime let them in and shipped them off. The proper response is to arrest the illegals and deport them, and require all asylum seekers to apply outside the U.S.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Sanctuary City Chicago says Texas shipping illegals/migrants to Sanctuary City Chicago is “evil-spirited”

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Youts May Abandon Biden Over The ‘Climate Change’ Issue Of The Gaza War

By William Teach January 8, 2024 – 7:00 am

No, no, this is definitely not a cult, how dare you suggest that!

Young voters helped Biden to victory. They may abandon him this year

Elise Joshi stumped for Joe Biden as a college freshman, motivated in no small part by her sense of urgency about climate change. The environmental policy student campaigned before the 2020 election as part of TikTok for Biden, in hopes of persuading other young people to show up to the polls. (snip)

But as the Israeli bombing of Gaza has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians to date, Joshi is feeling disillusioned with the president she once “happily” voted for. She’s not alone. With US military support for Israel holding steady, Joshi says that the White House’s current handling of the situation in Palestine is alienating young people – the very demographic Biden will need to win re-election in 2024.

“My generation is appalled. There’s a lot of people who are not willing to put their votes towards this administration as a result of their actions in Gaza,” she said. (big snip and here we go)

While many big green groups and climate-focused news organizations in the US have been slow to address Israeli attacks on Gaza, the youth climate movement globally has overwhelmingly expressed solidarity with Palestinians, and staunchly rejected the idea that criticizing the actions of the Israeli government is inherently antisemitic. From Greta Thunberg posting a picture of herself holding a “Stand with Gaza” sign to activists at COP28 staging pro-Palestine rallies, climate-focused youth have made clear that they see the war as an environmental justice issue.

For climate activists used to raising the alarm about the ways that climate change is causing displacement and forced migration, increasing food and water insecurity and ravaging beloved landscapes and ecosystems, it’s not hard to draw a parallel to the way that Israel’s bombing is having the same impacts on Gaza and its inhabitants. That’s not to mention the emissions associated with military operations, nor the symbolic connection many environmentalists, whom some call “tree huggers”, might feel to Palestinians who have been photographed hugging olive trees after their orchards were attacked by Israeli settlers.

Yes, yes the climate cultists are expressly linking the war that the designated terrorist group Hamas started with the climate crisis (scam).

“We are a nonviolent movement that is fighting for the safety and well-being of all people in their communities,” said Michele Weindling, the political director of the Sunrise Movement. “We feel a direct link and a stake in what’s happening in Gaza in that we believe that no people should lose access to life-sustaining resources like water.”

And their wacko cultish beliefs have made them side with a terrorist group, which would do terrible things to the cult members with their beliefs in LBGTQ, feminism, abortion, and many other things. None of them dare go there. Have you noticed that none are showing up to be human shields, like happened 20 years ago?

If Biden wants to lure more young people back to the voting booth come November, he may still have time to course-correct, the young activists said, but he needs to act decisively, and soon.

“The first step toward preventing a Trump administration is calling for a ceasefire right now,” said Joshi. “Climate voters and voters that care about Palestinians – they’re one and the same.”

Wackjobs.

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Fears Of Tripledemic Are Surging Or Something

By William Teach January 8, 2024 – 6:45 am

The Credentialed Media and their authoritarian lockdown Comrades are still trying to make this happen

Why fears over a ‘tripledemic’ are surging

Cases of three major respiratory viruses — the flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are surging in the U.S., pushing the country toward a feared “tripledemic” during its first post-pandemic respiratory viral season.

Optimism was high this autumn as the U.S. headed into the viral season. The national arsenal against these viruses had vaccines against RSV for the first time, newly updated COVID-19 vaccines, and the flu “immunity debt” that plagued children in 2022 was history.

But now, confidence is waning. Accessing the vaccine for RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, has been a struggle for many, and enthusiasm for the new COVID-19 vaccines turned out to be abysmal. COVID-19 hospital admissions have been rising since November and wastewater detection indicates most sites — 69 percent — are seeing large increases in virus levels.

Flu activity across the country is currently “elevated and continues to increase in most parts of the country,” according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And vaccine uptake for the flu seems to be lagging, with the CDC saying nearly 8 million fewer people got the shot by mid-December compared to the same period in 2022.

Most do not care. COVID was just the flu for most people. The flu happens. RSV is a concern, but, because of they way The Powers That Be pushed COVID vaccines there is low trust in them. Most are not getting the COVID vaccine, because it doesn’t work. It does not stop people from getting COVID, which is the point of a vaccine. I get the flu vaccine every year (I got the RSV one at same time, giving it a shot, no pun intended) because it stops me from getting what they think will be the prevalent flu versions. COVID is no big deal for most people, just like the flu is no big deal. You feel bad for a time, then move on. You are more likely to spread the flu or a cold from touching stuff than COVID.

Only about a fifth of U.S. adults say they’ve received the newest COVID-19 shot, according to polling from KFF. Uptake for the previous bivalent shots was similarly low and many Americans likely haven’t been immunized since receiving their first doses in 2020 or 2021.

I suspect the actual numbers are lower. They should ask those some people around 6 months later if they contracted Wuhan Flu.

And RSV vaccine uptake among seniors appears rather lackluster, with CDC data suggesting only about 10 percent of nursing home residents had gotten immunized against the virus by mid-December.

“The numbers are not looking good,” said Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, of the three circulating viruses.

People do not trust it, because the Bat Soup Virus “vaccine” destroyed trust. I only got mine because I was getting the flu shot because I was at the doctors for what turned out to be a ear and chest infection, they had RSV, I said “why not?”

Masking has also become rare once again, though Plescia noted many hospital systems are bringing back mask requirements amid the rise in respiratory viruses. These hospital-enacted requirements may be more easily accepted by communities than those issued by the government, and Plescia expects to see more like them in the future.

Even though they know that the masks make little to no difference. How do we trust them? But, folks will still try and scaremonger, because scared people are easily controlled by government.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 7, 2024 – 1:19 pm

…is horrible heatsnow because Other People will not give up their fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on how much power is lost when charging an EV.

It’s snow week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 7, 2024 – 9:38 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once And Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the ducks are quacking, and I’ll no longer have to watch the Giants play for a long time after today. This pinup is by George Petty, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Chicks On The Right features Israel drone striking Hamas’ #2
  2. Cold Fury covers Shameless Biden
  3. Common Cents Blog notes Hillary’s name in the Epstein documents
  4. Da Techguy’s Blog discusses a Navy desperate to keep everyone
  5. Geller Report highlights the Supreme Court taking up the case of removing Trump from the ballot
  6. Legal Insurrection covers the pro-Hamas road shutdown in Seattle
  7. Moonbattery discusses the media burying the Dylan Butler school shooting
  8. neo-neocon notes something else Claudine Gay liked to do
  9. NoisyRoom covers a terror plot in South America
  10. Pacific Pundit shows the loon at Bass Pro taking a swim with the fishies
  11. Powerline notes that it’s always January 6th somewhere
  12. Shot In The Dark covers the horrible, unconstitutional Minnesota red flag law
  13. Sultan Knish notes commie lawyers trying to get Hawaii to secede
  14. The First Street Journal shows someone who will not do well in prison
  15. And last, but, not least, Climatism covers heatsnow and heatcold stranding thousands of vehicles in Sweden

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Colorado Mayors Having A Lot Of Problems With Illegal Alien Inflow

By William Teach January 7, 2024 – 7:00 am

But, we have two different situations in a state that is a de-facto sanctuary state, since Governor Polis signed a bill stating that the state would not cooperate with federal immigration officials in certain circumstances, such as detaining someone with an immigration detainer, nor can any state or local officials provide information to federal immigration authorities

Denver mayor pleads for nationally coordinated effort on migrant crisis as city nears ‘breaking point’

Democratic leaders in sanctuary states and cities are pleading for help as record-breaking numbers of migrants are entering the country.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is the latest sanctuary city Democrat to speak out. Though he proposed a number of solutions on “America’s Newsroom” Friday, Johnston ultimately echoed calls from other Democrats, insisting “more federal aid” is urgently needed.

Johnston previously warned that the border crisis will “crush city budgets around the country,” as he expects 10% of Denver’s entire budget to go toward aiding migrants.

“I have called the White House,” Johnston told hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. “We’ve told them we need more federal aid. That’s why there’s dollars in that supplemental budget to do that.”

No, what’s needed is for the border to be secured as much as possible and every illegal and asylum seeker without a rock solid case be sent packing. And that asylum seekers apply outside the U.S. and wait. And, really, immigration needs to be shut down for a few decades to allow assimilation, and this includes bringing in refugees.

‘We can’t handle more’ | Carbondale mayor shares update on migrant response

Carbondale’s mayor stressed they have reached their limit to help unhoused migrants. Over the last few months about 125 people have arrived into town, many with no place to stay. The migrants increased the unhoused population by 500% when they began arriving looking for work.

A nonprofit initially created a shelter within a community center but since then plans have changed. Mayor Ben Bohmfalk said they do not have any more room for any additional migrants. He spoke to 9NEWS about their latest humanitarian efforts to keep people out of the cold.

Carbondale is a small community of about 6,400 way west of Denver, out in the mountains just to the north of Aspen. The county it’s in, Garfield, just barely went for Biden over Trump in 2020. There’s only about 30K residents in the county. Who sent those illegals there? It wasn’t Greg Abbott. Was it the mayor of Denver? Or did Biden send them? Think about it, just 125 pushes them over the edge. What do border towns have to deal with? If they have complaints, they should address them to the Biden regime, which is leaving the border open as much as possible.

Migrants’ pricey cars towed outside controversial NYC shelter in same area where they begged door to door

These migrants appear to have better rides than some Brooklyn families they’ve been hitting up for cash, food and clothes.

Authorities on Friday night towed at least five unregistered vehicles apparently being used by migrants that were illegally parked outside the city’s controversial tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, according to Assemblywoman Jaime Williams (D-Brooklyn)

The wild scene – which Williams caught on video and shared on Facebook — included a white pickup truck with no plates being towed from a grassy lot that is federal parkland to the dismay of at least one migrant seen pleading to gain access to the vehicle.

Where did they get the cars? Where did the money come from? Almost no lenders will lend to an illegal/migrant. Do they have a driver’s license? They surely have no credit. Do they have earnings? Can they provide stips (documents like proof of income, residence, insurance)? Who’s going to give them proper insurance? Where’s the money coming from?

Over the past few weeks, residents in Marine Park – a predominantly working class, blue-collar neighborhood  — have openly complained about asylum seeker families showing up on their doorsteps asking for spare change and other aid. Some previously told The Post they fear for their safety.

How many people in that neighborhood voted for Biden and other Democrats?

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Giant California Waves Finally Blamed On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Did you read about those huge waves that have been hitting California since the last few days of 2023?

Seriously, there are some wild videos out there, and I watched some of this on the webcams (Swellmagnet and Webcamtaxi are great sources). Did you know that this is your fault?

Huge waves are crashing on the California coast, in part due to climate change

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Giant waves are crashing along the California coast for the second time in two weeks thanks to stormy weather and high sea levels due in part to human-caused climate change. Tides are lower this week, so the waves are smaller, but they’re still forecast to get as high as 20 feet through the weekend. That is thrilling for surfers, but, as member station KQED climate reporter Ezra David Romero explains, all these waves are also eroding the state’s beaches.

EZRA DAVID ROMERO, BYLINE: When big waves happen, pro surfers drop everything and flock to them. On December 28, pro surfer Bianca Valenti caught the biggest wave of her life at Mavericks Beach, about an hour south of San Francisco. Forecasters had projected waves over 40 feet tall, but Valenti says this was bigger. (big snip)

ROMERO: Last week’s giant waves resulted from a few things – high tides, a storm giving them extra speed from the Gulf of Alaska and higher seas due to climate change and the climate pattern El Nino.

GARY GRIGGS: Waves are getting bigger.

ROMERO: UC Santa Cruz oceanographer Gary Griggs has studied the California coastline for decades. He says that human-caused climate change will force seas to rise in the future, making waves even bigger. A Scripps Institution of Oceanography study from last summer found that California waves have grown, on average, a foot taller in the last 50 years as climate change has heated up the planet.

GRIGGS: All the indications are that the water is going to continue to warm. It’s going to drive stronger winds, probably higher-intensity storms, greater wave power, bigger waves hitting more often.

Things are always happening with the weather and Earth systems, no need to assign witchcraft. But, let’s say that this is happening because it is a Holocene warm period: that doesn’t mean it is mostly/solely Mankind’s fault, just that the climate on Earth changes. In the doomsday cult word, this is all your fault.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Average Bubba, with a post on Biden’s AmeriKa.

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USA Today Wants Arnold Schwarzenegger To Run For President, And Says It’s Allowable

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 10:30 am

Young voters really do not want a Trump-Biden rematch. They do not want either running. Yeah, I think that’s most of us. But, USA Today screedster Joe Matthews thinks he has the answer, and it’s probably the dumbest thing you’ll read so far this young year

Schwarzenegger for president? Arnold should run – and not just because he’d beat Trump.

Dear Arnold,

In Netflix’s new action series, “FUBAR,” you’re compelling as a retiring CIA agent pulled back into intelligence madness because he didn’t realize his daughter is also a secret agent.

You also may not realize that, in real life, the door just opened for you to be pulled back into the FUBAR (“F’ed Up Beyond All Recognition”) of our national politics. I’m writing to ask you to walk through that door, and run for president for the good of our country.

You’ve previously said that you would run for president, if not for two facts: that you were born an Austrian, and that Article II, Sec. 1 of the U.S. Constitution says “no Person except a natural born Citizen… shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

It’s pretty darned specific. Arnold is not natural born. He cannot be president. Period. 100% not allowed. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a hell of a thing, though

The article hasn’t changed, but American devotion to the Constitution and its provisions on presidential eligibility has.

Huh what?

For this, Donald Trump is responsible. Incredibly, he has inspired leading Democrats and Republicans to take the position that being constitutionally ineligible to serve as president is no longer a barrier to running for president.

A new consensus is emerging: Voters have the right to choose whomever they want as president, no matter what the Constitution says.

This is the product of Trump’s own ineligibility. The Constitution’s 14th Amendment bars any officer of the U.S. who took a constitutional oath and then “engaged in insurrection” – as Trump did – from holding another government office. Leading constitutional scholars, from right and left, have affirmed that Trump isn’t eligible.

Even if that was true (he has not been convicted of insurrection, and half the country doesn’t thing January 6th was an insurrection), that in no way allows Arnold to be president. The insanity continues a bit, to

In entering the race, you should emphasize that Republicans and Democrats, by keeping Trump on the ballot, have rubber-stamped the principle that voters should get to choose whomever they want. When opponents refer to that Article II requirement that candidates be natural born, you should make two arguments. First:  you’ve always felt American in your heart and soul – a “natural born” American, in fact. Second: If the Biden vs. Trump matchup is the best that native-born citizens can manage, then it’s high time to welcome foreign-born contenders.

Yeah, reality doesn’t work like that. This is the kind of muddle-headed thinking the Youts have this day, where reality is simply what’s in their mushybrains rather than real reality. This is delusional. I’ve never seen this so-called consensus. Probably some sort of newsroom yammering by the Youts with Ivy League journalism degrees.

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Federal Court Kills Berkeley’s Ban On New Gas Stoves

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 7:00 am

This should make Kamala Harris happy, if she decides to build in Berkeley. She loves her gas stoves….just not for you peasants

Federal Court Deals Knockout Punch To Blue City’s Biden-Backed Effort To Ban Gas Stoves

A federal appellate court ruled Tuesday that it would not reconsider an earlier decision that prevents the city of Berkeley, California, from enforcing its de facto ban on installing gas-powered appliances in new buildings.

Berkeley, one of the most liberal cities in America, enacted the policy in 2019, marketing it as a means of countering climate change while others railed against it as a de facto gas stove ban. The California Restaurant Association sued the city over the ordinance, losing its challenge in federal court initially before a three-judge panel vindicated the trade group in April 2023, a decision the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opted against revisiting on Tuesday.

“By completely prohibiting the installation of natural gas piping within newly constructed buildings, the City of Berkeley has waded into a domain preempted by Congress,” Patrick Bumatay, a circuit judge on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and member of the panel, wrote in his opinion. “The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), 42 U.S.C. § 6297(c), expressly preempts State and local regulations concerning the energy use of many natural gas appliances, including those used in household and restaurant kitchens. Instead of directly banning those appliances in new buildings, Berkeley took a more circuitous route to the same result.”

Interestingly, while I like that the 9th killed the ban, I’m torn: nowhere in the Constitution does it seem to give the Congress the power to be the only ones who can make this policy. Shouldn’t this be the domain of the States and The People? Where did this federal government power come from? Just because they say so doesn’t mean it is Constitutional, just like so many other powers they’ve taken.

And, really, the climate loons in Berkeley voted for the ban. Most of the restaurant owners complaining surely voted for the hyper-left wing moonbats on the city council. Anyone wanting a gas stove, well, you probably voted for this. They should have to suffer the consequences.

And don’t forget that Brandon has one

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