BY STEW DAVIDSON
MARCH 16, 2024 “The Biden administration is allocating $1 billion to enhance the environmental sustainability of U.S. border ports as illegal immigration increases. “The move aims to refurbish numerous federal ports of entry across America's borders with Canada and Mexico, integrating eco-friendly innovations. “This initiative, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, intends to mitigate operational emissions and establish cleaner energy usage at these crucial gateways.” … https://washingtondigest.com/biden-administration-funnels-1-billion-to-make-federal-ports-of-entry-climate-friendly/?utm_source=WD&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=WD2&utm_content=WD2A I could not find the above information on any other news site. Meanwhile… WASHINGTON DC - FBI Director Christopher Wray, in a recent hearing with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, highlighted concerns regarding the escalation in potential threats against the U.S. Intelligence officials have observed a troubling trend: known or suspected terrorists exploiting the southern border by utilizing fake identification. https://lawenforcementtoday.com/fbi-warns-of-suspected-terrorists-infiltrating-u-s-with-fake-ids-via-southern-border One story is dated March 16, and the other is dated March 15. This is the definition of at cross-purposes. Should we be spending money on making everything pretty and green, or enforcing the law?
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Can't answer and doesn't know. SEIU is Service Employees International Union. Another senator revealed that there were pre-dispute, non-disclosure agreements. The Catholic Church did the same thing with all the sexually-abused targets, whether boys, girls, or women.
Berner says she is LGBTQ+. By the way, the alphabet keeps shapeshifting. Some say LGBTQIA2S+... My geometry is failing me: I can't keep track of shapes. A blogger is charged with knowing all sorts of things. Note: the Forbes videos give no commentary. Can't answer and doesn't know. From its own website: "The mission of the Department of Justice is to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights."
I will say what the congressmen won't say out of politeness: "You, Kristen Clarke, are another political appointee evading the questions of elected officials thereby allowing our republic to recede into history." “In 2015, Clarke opened an investigation into the Boy Scouts to look at the national group’s ban on openly gay adults and alleged hiring rejections based on sexual orientation in New York. The investigation was about ‘ensuring equal protection under the law for all New Yorkers, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals who live and work in New York.’ “In July 2015, her office secured an agreement with the Boy Scouts of America to end their policy of excluding openly gay adults from serving as leaders in the organization. The terms of the agreement applied nationally.” Wikipedia [I added color] “Membership for the BSA’s flagship Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA programs dropped from 1.97 million in 2019 to 1.12 million in 2020, a 43% plunge, according to figures provided to the Associated Press. Court records show membership has fallen further since then, to about 762,000. “The Girl Scouts say their youth membership fell by nearly 30%, from about 1.4 million in 2019-2020 to just over 1 million this year.” https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-health-coronavirus-pandemic-7afeb2667df0a391de3be67b38495972 I would not want any of my students, currently two boys 10 and 15, to be led by a so-called transgender person. People can lead their lives the way they want but not when it comes to having authority over children. That is a red line. A pro-Palestine activist completely destroyed Philip Alexius de László's 1914 unprotected portrait of Lord Balfour at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, March 8, 2024. Lord Balfour played a key role in the creation of Israel. Palestine Action admitted responsibility. The painting is irreplaceable; this is grand larceny. No one tackled her. The artist was of Jewish origin, and his painting of Pope Leo XIII earned him a Grand Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1900, the same year he married Lucy Madeleine Guinness, a member of the banking branch of the Guinness family. They had six children and 17 grandchildren.
10 Times the Apocalypse Didn’t Happen
Can't answer and doesn't know. https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/02/xavier-becerra-california-record/
The appointed, unelected bureau---crat with no medical background leads health and human services. What he excelled at as California AG was bringing Trump to court 110 times and spending $41M of taxpayer money doing it. Catholic Becerra defends abortion. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that since the 1st century the Church has affirmed that every procured abortion is a moral evil; the Catechism states that this position “has not changed and remains unchangeable”. See Paragraphs 2258 through 2317 and the Didache (1st century). The manuscript is commonly referred to as the Didache. This is short for the header found on the document and the title used by the Church Fathers, "The Lord's Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”. Can't answer and doesn't know. Senator Rand Paul, MD, confronts a state department official. She is either unprepared or lying, either of which is unacceptable, and because appointed, unelected people from the executive branch refuse to give information to elected officials, one must conclude that she is a pre-programmed, robotic, condescending obfuscator.
FOIA is Freedom of Information Act, 1967. Wendy Sherman can talk this way to a United States senator because she is a protected employee. I thought that the original idea of having a state department was to issue visas and grant people American citizenship. We’re so far from originalism that we’re dead. There are three doctors, not undertakers, in the Senate: John Barrasso (R-WY)2007–present Bill Cassidy (R-LA)2015–present Rand Paul (R-KY)2011–present Sherman was director of EMILYs List, a political action committee aimed at electing Democratic female candidates who favor abortion. BY STEPHEN BRAUN
Published 3:05 AM PDT, July 10, 2019 WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, took in more than $15 million since leaving the Obama White House … “Since leaving the White House, Biden and his wife signed a multibook deal with Flatiron Books valued at $8 million [this included a ghost writer], according to Publishers Weekly … “Biden earned $540,000 as a professor and namesake of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Jill Biden made at least $700,000 in her own speaking engagements, the disclosure shows.” He earned between $40K and $190K per speech during this time. [summary] https://apnews.com/article/4e07a4374953496194a7086d880d29a2 Joe and Jill cannot write their own books or speeches, yet they have become millionaires. Jordan Peterson exposes 700M cameras and the social credit score that people in or from China have. Do you know anyone in or from China? I do. (A congressional inquiry discovered that through a secret portal Bank of America gave the FBI and Domestic Security Alliance Council the names of customers who bought guns with B of A debit or credit cards. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-exposes-massive-government-surveillance-americans-financial-data) Google asked me today if I wanted to use AI. I said no. If you don't know who Peterson is, know this: he is a Canadian psychologist who interacts quite often with us Catholics.
The claims are verifiable. Jerry attended the same high school as my brother and I, and he did enter the Jesuit novitiate but left.
In California, obtaining a Carry Concealed Weapons (CCW) license is difficult. The sheriff has broad discretion whether to grant you the license. You must complete an application and a firearms safety course. A friend took the course, and the list of places in California where one cannot carry a gun is so long that he and the others wondered why they sought a permit. "Nevertheless," said Thomas More. “I do none harm, I say none harm, I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live,” sanctified July 6, 1535, upon his beheading at Tower Hill and proclaiming himself to be “the King’s good servant but God’s first”. Roatán, Honduras Good reporting. No thanks to living north or south of the United States. Justice in these countries is bribery and corruption. The goal of working-class republican monarchists, as opposed to old, monied country-clubbers, is to keep the USA clean. Let’s hope the USA stays clean. Where is religion in this hedonism? No sign of the FSSP, SSPX, ICKSP, IBP, or French Benedictines. There are two modernist churches on the island. Memento mori. Money is not king. Charles I 1887-1922 declared blessed on October 3, 2004 the children of Charles and Zita
Red states...banned! As of Feb 26, 2024, the average salary of a San Francisco city supervisor is $10,400/month, the only job I can think of with no qualifications. There are 11, seven men and four women.
Supervisors are elected on non-partisan ballots, but all are registered Democrats. It was not always a one-party city: realtor Barbagelata was the last Republican elected, 1973, half a century ago. I was at 7-11, and the man in front of me paid with his government debit card. You and I paid. If you can walk into a store on your own, talk, and and use a debit card, you are able-bodied. The estimate is that thirty percent of illegals passing through Mexico test positive for syphilis and other STDs. Testing was done by an NGO. For more information read https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2018/08/29/williams-reality-illegal-immigration-public/10899072007/
We know where fire departments and police departments stand across the country. Accumulating interest charge: $1M every nine days. Read TR’s speech, “Man in the Arena”.
During his State of the Union address, Biden mistakenly referred to Laken Hope Riley, 22, as 'Lincoln Riley' while discussing the border crisis. She was murdered.
Immigration officials say Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, entered the U.S. illegally and was allowed to stay. He unlawfully crossed into the U.S. in 2022. He faces charges including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call, and concealing the death of another. He’s being held in a jail in Athens, Georgia. Following is a chart of top searches before the State of the Union address last night. Google provided the chart. The issues were crime (magenta), social security (orange), health care (yellow), the economy (green), and unemployment (purple). Crime was #1. Mainstream media pretends to be unaware of trends. After the address, inflation (yellow) and the Supreme Court (orange) surged. Green IVF is in vitro fertilization, a procedure whereby an ovum is fertilized by a sperm in the culture medium of a lab dish against Catholic Church teaching. For eggshell ears, how does a man obtain stuff? Oh, and by the way, a wall was built around the Capitol building just for the address. Musk said that no wall at the southern border is akin to importing voters. New Mexico borders Mexico. What's up with the upper half of the state?
U think communist operatives are not active in the USA?
Listen to letters written by Roman soldiers just this side of the birth of Christ. We assume they were brutes. When you are through listening, tell me if you agree that the letters are better than our emails and texts, from stylistic and tone points of view. courtesy of Britannica
“The Biden administration has confessed to orchestrating covert flights to bring migrants into the United States, citing concerns over national security vulnerabilities if the flight locations were disclosed.
“This revelation came to light through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, initially reported by Todd Bensman, revealing that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had greenlit clandestine flights transporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants from foreign countries to at least 43 American airports between January and December 2023.” https://americandigest.com/biden-admin-flying-320000-migrants-into-us-to-reduce-border-crossing-numbers/?utm_source=AU&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=AU3&utm_content=AU3 That is the size of Cincinnati, OH. Who paid for it? You. ban on fossil fuels & nuclear energy
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-real-climate-crisis?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_9213235 Our impoverishment is the goal of the unlettered elite, Many more poor die from cold than heat. We are losing it, aren’t we? The city we came to love. San Francisco. We are losing it, bit by bit, day by day. The word that Macy’s is planning to close its flagship store on Union Square is another clear sign. The place we used to call the City, as if there were no other, is fading away. And we won’t see it again. Everybody knows the story by now — Macy’s, the New York-based chain, said it planned to close 150 “underproductive” stores across the country by 2026. The San Francisco store was on the list. The Chronicle called the news about the San Francisco store “a bombshell.” I’m not sure it was a bombshell at the 149 other doomed stores, but they’re not San Francisco. San Francisco, we thought, was special. And Macy’s, a huge battleship of a store, was special to San Francisco. The store takes up nearly a full block of valuable Union Square real estate — 400,000 square feet of merchandise, eight floors from cookware and a branch post office on the lower level to the Cheesecake Factory restaurant on the top floor, which offers dinner and lunch and 40 varieties of cheesecake for dessert. Macy’s is more than a big store. It’s the anchor of the Union Square shopping area, our Fifth Avenue, our Rodeo Drive, our Miracle Mile. There was an ice rink in the square in winter, and Macy’s put up a huge Christmas tree every season. One year the store advertised “the magic of Macy’s” and another year there was an uproar when the store fired the Santa Claus, the fella they had hired to spread magic to the kids. Macy’s firing Santa Claus? Holy Kris Kringle! That was almost as unthinkable as Macy’s leaving San Francisco. Macy’s won’t leave San Francisco right away. First, the company wants to find a buyer for the property. It’s economics, of course: property is worth more than the business. So, the store will stay open and gradually fade away, like an old photograph. That’s the way change happens to cities. Slowly, bit by bit, so you hardly notice. That’s what’s happening to San Francisco. San Francisco was all a myth anyway: Dashiell Hammett, Jack London, Bill Saroyan, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Norris, Jack Kerouac, Tony Bennett, and Herb Caen. They invented it. Writers said San Francisco was one of three story cities. New York and New Orleans were the other two. Film makers, too: Alfred Hitchcock, Garry Marshall, Chris Columbus, Wayne Wang. Filmed here were The Maltese Falcon, Dirty Harry, Woman on the Run, Bullitt, Superman, Hulk, The Wedding Planner, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Forrest Gump, What's Up Doc, A View to Kill, The Birds, The Candidate, Interview With the Vampire, and the list goes on. The city had character. And characters. Remember the NO SEX guy at Powell and Market? The sidewalk musician who called himself the Automatic Human Juke Box? The siren that went off every Tuesday at noon? The identical Brown Twins who graced downtown streets? The grand funeral at Grace Cathedral for Jose Sarria, the drag queen and gay rights pioneer? A ceremony “fit for an empress,” the Chronicle said. Only in San Francisco. We had all that and grand restaurants and destination stores as well: I Magnin, Nordstrom, the City of Paris, Macy’s. The Gap and Levi Strauss were founded here. There was something in the air in San Francisco. You could feel it. Then something changed, like the air going out of a balloon. Not all at once. Slowly. Surely you noticed. The homeless situation became a crisis, housing became a crisis, the city’s quality of life became a crisis: busted car windows, graffiti scrawls everywhere. The big drug stores started locking the shelves. One Sunday last month the Chronicle ran a huge front-page headline: 806. That was the number of drug overdose deaths in 2023. Nobody’s to blame. It wasn’t one thing. It was all things: drugs, the economy, a bad rap from the international media, a shift in style, the rise of the internet, the arrival of technocrats (X, formerly Twitter, and several more), the fall of retail, the decline of style in everyday life, the COVID breach, an ineffective city government. All those things. It has been a bad year, maybe a tipping point. A third of the retail space downtown is empty. Last summer Nordstrom closed and the Westfield mall on Market Street emptied out. Anchor Steam Beer shut down. And now Macy’s. When I heard the news, I walked through Macy’s. It felt the same as I remembered, the merchandise all new, glittering. The main floor has a distinct smell, part perfume, part department store. I walked past the jewelry displays, past the cases full of pretty watches, skipped the elevator, rode up on the escalator on the Geary Street side, a moving stair through a marketplace, elegant gowns, racks of men’s sport coats and suits, a floor full of beds and pillows and sheets. A department store like Macy’s is uniquely American. It’s our style. “The Look You Love” the sign says. I went to the wine bar on the third floor and looked out — at Saks Fifth Avenue, at Tiffany & Co., at the Apple Store, and at the Union Square shops around Macy’s — a busy afternoon in the center of the city. It was toward the end of the day, and I wondered how long this scene will be there after Macy’s is gone. Because it won’t last. Better go and enjoy the city we still have. Native Burrit Alley, a dark street roughly 75 feet long (I never actually measured it), is the spot where Humphrey Bogart finds his partner in The Maltese Falcon, photo courtesy of Weird California. RLS lived at 608 Bush, not far from Burrit.
Not that you want to know, but I can name the corner where the 'transistors' of the night hang out. The exquisite, tiny Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, where brother Tom Dunn married Laura, leans against a white eyesore inside my former patrol jurisdiction. Locate short stories in the Reading List. “First Minister [of Wales] Mark Drakeford has described local lockdowns as a ‘failed experiment’, the Covid inquiry hears.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-wales-68452566 Abortion is enshrined in the French Constitution. The French Revolution has begun again. This is what happens when a noble country loses faith, and a return to the bloody past gives our eBook rising and penetrating the USA and France more momentum. Psalm 9 Our fantasy fiction will turn back the foe from the inside out. Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA, via Shutterstock Pursuit of the New Jerusalem will be a proficuous endeavor.
“A growing demand for an FBI investigation into Governor Gavin Newsom’s actions reveals potential favoritism towards a major donor.”
… “[Billionaire Greg] Flynn, owning a vast network of restaurants including Panera Bread, reportedly benefited from a legislative carveout exempting his Panera Bread locations from a wage increase mandate. “This law required fast-food establishments to raise their minimum wage from $16 to $20. However, Panera Bread was spared due to a clause exempting chains that also sell bread as a standalone product.” https://washingtondigest.com/demand-grows-for-fbi-to-launch-criminal-investigation-into-gavin-newsom/?utm_source=HNA&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=HNA4&utm_content=HNA4B Red wine is #1 of the healthy alcohols. It has antioxidants, which have positive benefits for your blood, heart, and skin. Next are clear alcohols, such as tequila (fermented agave) and vodka and gin (fermented cereal grains or potatoes or grapes for gin). A googol is one followed by 100 zeroes...immoderate amount of alcohol. We’ve made mistakes before—Prohibition 1920 to 1933. Mistakes can be undone. (Sacramental wine was excluded.)
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