Brandon Admin Says Arizona Is Trespassing With Border Barrier

By William Teach November 1, 2022 – 7:00 am

It’s rather a problem when the U.S. government owns 42% of the land in the state of Arizona. Also, when the U.S. government, which is required to secure the U.S. borders per the Constitution and duly passed law, won’t

Biden admin accuses Arizona of trespassing by building barrier on US-Mexico border

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was accused this week by the Biden administration of trespassing as the Republican governor makes efforts to fill gaps along the U.S.-Mexico border with shipping containers.

Ducey announced last week that he would have crews install shipping containers along a section of the border to fill gaps not covered by a wall. The announcement came two weeks after federal officials ordered him to take down containers he had placed in the southwestern part of the state.

The Republican governor then sued and requested the courts allow Arizona to keep 100 shipping containers, double stacked with barbed wire on top, in place near Yuma.

The containers were put in place in August to fill gaps in the border, which Ducey said was pushing back against “the inaction of the Biden administration in stopping migrants from entering the state from Mexico,” according to the Associated Press.

All Ducey wants, and the citizens of Arizona, especially in the border towns want, is blocking a 10 mile section of the border. Brandon, though

But the Biden administration continues to demand Ducey remove the barriers, with claims that the state is trespassing on federal lands.

“The unauthorized placement of those containers constitutes a violation of federal law and is a trespass against the United States,” Jacklynn Gould, regional director for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Basin said in a letter to Arizona. “That trespass is harming federal lands and resources and impeding Reclamation’s ability to perform its mission.”

Arizona should simply negate the ownership of land granted to the federal government under the Enclave Clause, as the Constitution states that the land belongs to the state. Period. That’s it. They can cede it, but, the states have the power to take it back. The federal government has no Constitutional authority to take state property.

Also, Reclamation is not actually, you know, performing it’s mission

Gould’s department falls under the Department of Interior, and in her letter, she stated a contract was awarded by the Department of Homeland Security to close gaps near Morelos Dam.

But, they aren’t.

“They say this is federal land, and it is, but it would be trespassing supposedly to put these containers on there,” Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls, also a Republican, said in an interview with Fox News. “Well, my contention is that 300,000 people that have come through this year alone, they’ve been trespassing, and I don’t remember seeing a letter going out to anybody to try to stop any of that.”

And, despite all those illegals trespassing, and violating U.S. sovereignty, the Brandon admin will allow them to stay.

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Gen Z Voters Have Climate Crisis (scam) At The Top Of Their Minds

By William Teach October 31, 2022 – 3:39 pm

Aren’t these the same people who were eating Tide Pods? And cannot get a coffee without taking a selfie?

For Gen Z voters, combating climate change is top of mind

Shaped by frequent flooding, extreme heat waves and increasingly destructive hurricanes, Generation Z is serious about taking bold action to tackle climate change. And, they are aiming to fight for it when they make their way to the polls next week.

So, they’ve been brainwashed into thinking things like this have never happened before. Can they explain how the prediction was for 14-20 storms, 6-10 being hurricanes, and 3-5 being major, when, in reality, there were just 12 storms, 5 hurricanes, and only 2 major?

“As time moves on every single moment becomes more and more of a critical point for climate action,” said Iris Zhan, an 18-year-old from Maryland who is voting for the first time this November and considers climate a top priority. “That’s where the politics and the legislation need to be to make a difference.”

In 2020, the most recent presidential election-year, 53 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds cast a ballot, a nine percentage point jump from 2016.

At that time, youth-led environmental organizations such as the Sunrise Movement mobilized millions of people to vote in record numbers, with organizers as young as 12 and 13 making countless phone calls to talk to community members about what’s at stake and registering eligible peers to vote.

The midterm elections on Nov. 8 are set to determine if young climate activists will be able to continue to throw their political weight around at a time when control of Congress is up for grabs and a majority of the top youth issues are on the ballot, including climate change, abortion, gun control and LGBTQ rights.

“If we think about what’s coming with the climate movement, when we see, you know, the young people who are protesting, who are getting trained in civil disobedience … that’s happening as the planet warms up and we experience substantial climate shocks,” said Dana Fisher, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland who studies protest movements. “So I think what we’re going to see is that come together to push for social change.”

Social change, eh? Why does it always come down to politics? It’s almost like this isn’t a science? When do these Gen Zers give up their own big carbon footprints and practice what they preach in their own lives?

“Gen Z overall really pushes for gun safety, climate change, the right to choose. And, that’s all kind of backfired,” said Kate Fraser, a 17-year-old from Florida who is not old enough to vote during this election cycle but has been working to register hundreds of her peers to vote on a climate platform.

“I think it could absolutely be big if we actually get people registered, and we actually get people to the polls,” she said.

Just science, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 31, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a wall that looks like it was flooded from carbon fueled Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on a report stating that COVID most likely came from a lab.

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Democrats Spend $2 Million To Build A 150 Foot Long Bike Lane That Took 18 Months In L.A.

By William Teach October 31, 2022 – 10:30 am

You heard about the $1.7 million San Francisco toilet, right? It still hasn’t been built, and may not be built. The bike lane was built

Column: A $2-million ‘bike lane to nowhere’ symbolizes L.A.’s outrageous dysfunction

On a short stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood is a sidewalk cutout that was billed as a bike lane.

A short half-block long, it took about 18 months to complete and cost roughly $2 million, and yet it is not marked as a bike lane and does not connect to one.

“It’s a bike lane to nowhere,” said Stephen Burn, general manager of building services at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, which was required to complete and pay for the project as a condition of approval.

Burn apologized for calling it a stupid waste of time and money that delayed the opening of badly needed supportive housing and social services, but no apology was necessary. He said he honestly wanted to pull his hair out at times when dealing with various government agencies, and after he shared the details, I wanted to pull my hair out. (snip)

Burn and I paced off the supposed bike lane, which is about 150 feet long, starting mid-block and ending at McCadden Place. There’s no bikeway just east of there, outside a 7-Eleven strip mall, and no bike lane just west of there, where there’s a pawn shop and a doughnut shop.

This is what happens when Democrats are in charge. But, the Liberals in L.A. shouldn’t complain about this, or all the homeless encampments (which are mentioned in the piece), because they keep voting Democrats into office, and each one is just a bit further to the Left. And each year the unelected bureaucrats in the city government are just a bit more to the Left.

Burn told me the land for the center was purchased in 2012, with full support from local officials and the community, and yet 10 years later, the paperwork is not complete. The first snag was a zoning change requirement, and Burn said that turned into a $1-million process.

Construction didn’t begin until 2016, and that’s when the bike lane came up. Burn said that stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard is technically a state road, and he was told that Caltrans and the city wanted a bike lane there, and that the property owner would have to foot the bill.

Then they had to pay to have the electric cables buried, and get some power poles removed. But, the power poles are also running internet lines, and no one took responsibility for them, so, the poles would be right in the “bike lane.”

Months passed. Insurance costs rose. Financial juggling was required, even though Dusseault dug out some public money to help defray the cost of the project. Permits expired and applications had to be resubmitted. Aspects of the overall development of the center were delayed.

Dozens of housing units for seniors and youths, along with an array of social services, were finally in place by last year, and the LGBT Center is helping to save and rebuild lives on a daily basis. But full operation was delayed by close to a year, Burn said, and when people are shocked to hear the high cost of homeless housing units and how long it takes to put people into beds, it’s because of just what the LGBT Center has experienced.

Yay, government?

The saddest thing is that these kinds of problems are not the exception in Los Angeles; they’re the rule. I hear about them all the time from service providers and developers who say it’s not this bad in other cities. They speak in tortured tones about what Burn called a “Kafkaesque” experience in managing the often conflicting demands of multiple agencies.

Government is inherently a pain in the butt and slow. Now make it all run and staffed by Democrats, and it is worse. Then enter the People’s Republik Of California, and we are at peak Moonbattery. And then the citizens who keep voting for Democrats wonder why things are so bad and their taxes are going up.

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LA Times Seems Surprised That PRC’s Gas Phase-Out Will Harm Small Businesses

By William Teach October 31, 2022 – 7:00 am

The majority of gas stations across the country are owned either by single store owners or small businesses with a bunch of locations, who are licensed as franchises. Just like most fast food places. Will these small business gas station owners be able to survive only as convenience stores? Maybe they could have a few EV chargers, but, those really won’t pay the bills unless they mark the price up….hmm, did not one ever consider that companies will install charging points and mark the cost of energy up?

California’s gas-car phaseout brings turmoil to mom-and-pop gas stations

unintended consequencesIt was hailed as a landmark decision for the environment: The California Air Resources Board voted in August to require that all new automobiles and light trucks sold in the state be zero emission by 2035.

The move, aimed at tackling climate change, has been cheered by many. Just not mom-and-pop gas station owners.

In interviews with The Times, independent gas station owners said the state mandate will expedite the demise of their businesses. And they make up a significant part of the state’s fueling infrastructure: A little more than 5,000 such stations are scattered across California, according to National Assn. of Convenience Stores data.

“Most of the independents will be put out of business — completely out of business,” said Charles Khalil, who owns two gas stations in the L.A. area and is bracing for a shakeout ahead of 2035. “We are all going to suffer through it.”

He and other owners predict many mom-and-pop operators will, in the years ahead, sell their properties to real estate developers or large gas station chains that can afford to upgrade the sites with electric vehicle chargers. Space limitations and the high cost of installing chargers — a high-capacity version can cost $150,000, including all associated expenditures — make it infeasible for some owners to update their properties for an electric future.

But, will they want to purchase those businesses? They probably have till about 2040-2045 for selling gas, because people will still have gas powered vehicles, plus, big trucks. However, there’s not guarantee that the People’s Republik Of California won’t mandate away all sales of gasoline. They are that bugnuts insane. Further, those big companies might offer pennies on the dollar for the properties.

How many mom-and-pop gas stations might California lose in the years ahead?

Using five years of annual data from the National Assn. of Convenience Stores, McDonald estimated that nearly half of the state’s 5,081 mom-and-pop gas stations would close by 2035. NACS defines these stations as those that include a convenience shop and are owned by a single-store proprietor — hence the “mom-and-pop” designation. (A caveat about the estimate: McDonald’s model assumes stations will begin closing at a rate of 3% annually, increasing to 6% a year — but over the next 13 years the loss of stations is unlikely to be linear.)

Which also means all those convenience stores go away. And it is not cheap to dig up the gas tanks to rejuvenate the properties. Big companies may do this. But, hey, it’s a small price to pay to save the world from climate doom, right?

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Surprise: Economy And Inflation Top Voter Concerns

By William Teach October 31, 2022 – 6:45 am

Poll after poll after poll show that Americans are concerned with these. Seriously, every election features economic issues at the top. People always worry about their money. So, why have Democrats been running on abortion and ‘climate change’?

Economy and inflation top public’s agenda going into midterm elections: POLL

surprise surprise surpriseAbout half of Americans say either the economy or inflation is the most important issue in their vote for Congress, making pocketbook issues by far the most dominant in the run up to the midterm elections, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.

Taken individually, 26% identify the economy as their single most important issue determining their vote while 23% cite inflation. Nearly three out of four Republicans point to the two economic concerns as a priority, compared to only 29% of Democrats per the ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.

Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to say abortion, gun violence and climate change are the top reasons for their vote, according to the poll.

Importantly, independents closely mirror the national numbers, with 49% having the combination of inflation and the economy above all others.

It’s that last one that’s a big problem for Democrats: Independents looking at Democrats and saying “food is expensive. Energy is expensive. Clothes for my kids are expensive. Just going away for a weekend is expensive. Housing is expensive. Cars are expensive. Many foods are unavailable. And Dems are yapping about abortion, trying to take guns away from law abiding citizens while going soft on criminals, and raising my cost of living with their ‘climate change’ fanaticism? Hell no!” And Democratic candidates could easily lose the votes of the middle ground Dem voters. They might not vote GOP, they’ll just not vote.

The top two reasons for vote choice vary little by race and ethnicity. Regarding the economy and inflation, 45% of Black Americans and 47% of Hispanic Americans prioritize the pair of issues, essentially the same as the general public.

Again, they might not vote GOP, they might just not bother voting. Perhaps some Blacks are starting to realize that the DNC patronizes them, telling them that abortion and climate affect minorities more than anyone else, assuming that Blacks cannot survive without the helpful hand of Government.

We shall see in slightly over a week.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 30, 2022 – 1:30 pm

…is a fire extinguisher needed to put out carbon pollution induced fires, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Air Vent, with a post on people watching fraud happen and still denying it.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 30, 2022 – 10:08 am

Patriotic Pinup Halloween

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in the Once And Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Halloween is only one day away. This pinup is supposed to be by Albert Vargas, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The First Street Journal says that fear is the mind killer, so, don’t worry about masks
  2. The Gateway Pundit covers the new, pathetic military recruitment ad in the wake of Woke
  3. The OK Corral notes that being pretty won’t help you avoid charges
  4. The Other McCain breaks down what we know about the nutball who attacked drunk Paul Pelosi
  5. The Right Scoop covers MSNBC saying free speech is in danger from free speech
  6. This ain’t Hell… notes that Liz Cheney’s deranged anti-Kari Lake ad helps Kari Lake
  7. Weasel Zippers covers Elon Musk still firing people at Twitter
  8. White House Dossier discusses Biden caught trying to erode Israeli control over Jerusalem
  9. The American Conservative highlights boys just wanting to be girls in a Woke world
  10. Powerline covers Biden’s latest senior moment
  11. Pacific Pundit notes the Washington House race within one point
  12. Newsbusters features CBS News losing it after Musk’s Twitter takeover
  13. Moonbattery covers the media trolled by a fake fired Twitter employee
  14. Legal Insurrection says to cover the evidence, not the media spin, on Pelosi attack
  15. And last, but, not least, Geller Report discusses Florida banning sterilization, castration, and mutilation of “trans” kids

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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Climate Cult Art Protests Are Powerful Or Something

By William Teach October 29, 2022 – 6:14 pm

I’m betting MSNBC would be singing a different tune if the climate cult nutbags were going into MSNBC offices and gluing themselves to stuff, throwing food all around

Why the climate art protests are so powerful
How can we condemn the acts when their premise is sound and their cause is so righteous?

An angry scream. A pained moan. An astonished “Oh my gosh.”

Those were the first three reactions that could be heard after two British climate activists threw tomato soup on one of Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings at the National Gallery in London in a video that went ultra-viral earlier this month.

The emotional register of those reactions — rage, sadness, shock — were a preview of what was to come. They foreshadowed the most common responses countless people on social media had to the action, during which one activist queried: “What is worth more? Art or life?” (snip)

Since then, climate activists have carried out similar acts again and again. German activists tossed mashed potatoes on a Monet, and a climate protester glued his head to Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” in the Netherlands. While these acts have similarly targeted works of art with protective coverings, they have continued to evoke strong emotions of anger and shock.

Much of the discussion has focused on whether tampering with — and risking the damage of — beloved artistic artifacts does more good or harm for climate activists. Some political and climate-focused analysts have passed around studies arguing that the extremism of the acts could be effective by drawing attention to the issue and building more robust support for more moderate factions of climate activists. Others have flagged studies indicating that it could backfire by alienating potential supporters.

Really, it just shows that these people are unhinged wackjobs. Let them attempt to ruin their own property.

First, their fundamental premise is sound: We are sleepwalking toward disaster and something vexing and distressing must be done to wake us up. It’s imperative for those of us who live comfortably in the global North — and can afford, for now, to ignore climate consequences that are already taking a toll on people on the margins of society all around the world — to experience some kind of alertness-inducing discomfort. I cannot bring myself to feel anger toward activists who are causing people no harm for such a righteous cause at a time when there is nothing remotely close to a mass mobilization on behalf of building a sufficiently sustainable global economy and society.

Second, there is something brilliant going on here as a form of performance art. The actions are evocative because they act as a microcosm of the horror that awaits us. Rehearsing the destruction of what we cherish as most beautiful and most worthy of preservation is surely relevant to the question of whether we’re doing enough to deal with climate change. Because indeed, rising seas and superstorms and wildfires are going to eventually destroy so much of our world’s most magnificent cultural heritage. Simultaneously, in the anguish we experience at the specter of losing art documenting the real world, we are being graced with a more vital reminder: We must protect the natural world with the same zeal we protect beautiful art that captures it.

This is what a cult looks like. Let them go to Zeesham Aleem’s house, throw soup on it, glue themselves, or his fossil fueled vehicle, and see how he feels.

Seriously, does this look rational? Or batshit insane?

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 29, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are mountains which lost their glaciers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on listening to Real Clear Politics, not 538.

Double shot below the fold, check out Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on the top 20 tweets.

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