THE STUPID PARTY: Will GOP Commit Political Suicide With Bipartisan Amnesty Bill? “Ever since last month’s red trickle election, it seems as if the Republicans are trying to prove to the electorate that they shouldn’t have won big anyway.”
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December 6, 2022
PUSHBACK IS NEEDED IN MANY AREAS: A PLAN TO PUSH BACK AGAINST CHINA’S FISHING PRACTICES.
The Soviet fishing fleet was once a near-permanent fixture on America’s Pacific coast, hauling in an estimated 1.2 million tons of fish until the two sides reached an agreement to limit the Soviet catch in exchange for a relaxation of rules on Soviet port visits. Moscow’s fishing fleet dwindled in the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, only to be replaced by China’s large fleet — and maritime militia — that Beijing now uses to encroach on the sovereignty of its neighbors. The environmental and economic challenges of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing are clearly a threat to the global fish supply, but also represent a more direct and significant threat to national security.
The vast expansion of China’s illegal fishing fleet has made large, capable vessels readily available to its maritime militia, which it uses for coercive influence in contested areas from the Spratly Islands to oil and gas standoffs with Malaysia and Vietnam. More importantly, it represents a clear example of how China refuses to accept the rights of coastal states and their claim on the resources of their economic exclusion zones.
The U.S. Coast Guard is well positioned to work with countries to push back against China’s fishing practices, and to take the lead on this issue.
Somebody should. I think China should have to give up fishing for a decade as partial reparations for Covid.
FROM CELIA HAYES AND JEANE HAYDEN: Luna City 11th Inning Stretch (The Chronicles of Luna City).
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,460, give or take! Chef Richard Astor-Hall has decided to become an American, take on a new job, and marry long-time girlfriend, Kate Heisel. His visiting parents are off on a quest for a vineyard of very special grapes, and Miss Letty tells the story of what happened when an émigré scientist from Russia found a refuge with his family in Luna City during the 1930s. Another chapter in the doings of the most perfect small town in this eleventh outing to the most perfect small town in Texas.
MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE: How Corrupt Is a Corrupt Media?
THERE WAS NEVER A CASE FOR MASS MIGRATION: The Culture Transplant Shatters the Case for Mass Immigration.
Take it from someone who has done it: acculturation is difficult, painful and makes you feel like you’re going insane. Even when you are alone and purposely isolate yourself from your birth language and cultural influences and work like heck at acculturating.
When you’re surrounded by thousands come from the same homeland? It might be impossible. And while race is fairly meaningless, culture means a lot more than you can imagine. And seems to have a life of its own.
Mass immigration is a really bad idea. Unless you desperately want to import the other culture. Looks to the border. And, you know? I’d say no. Hard no.
SOME DAYS I’M LESS OPTIMISTIC THAN OTHERS: Consent and Perception.
WHAT EVEN IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? Today’s blacklisted American: Pernicious anti-white bigotry controls the government in Seattle.
IT’S BEEN GOING ON SINCE OBAMA CARE CAME IN: Who is John Galt, medicine edition? The “Great Resignation” in healthcare. Bonus: Canadian “compassionate care” outrage of the day.
The response of various health service providing institutions is to treat the remaining doctors like rented mules.
IF IT WERE ONLY THIS! That stench from Arizona grows.
WHAT EVEN IS WRONG WITH HER? An English teacher proudly hates the English language.
DO TAKE THEIR WARNING SERIOUSLY, PLEASE.
Note that a friend who knows this better than I says this is par for the course for “transgressive modern art.” From the little I know, I think he’s right. Does that mean all these people are crazed pedophiles and psychopaths? Well, no. But the people in search of the next cool thing pour epater les bourgeois are enabling next level monsters. And rich people enable and collect these because… I don’t know. Do not ask me what is wrong with these people. Words are my profession, but I don’t have words to describe this.
AND ANY KID WHO DOESN’T FIT IN: How the Transgender Industry Targets Victims of Autism.
Every one of my friends — and myself — are convinced we’d have been convinced we were transgender if we were going to school now. It’s a genocide of my people.
AT THIS RATE, MY SHOCKED FACE IS GOING TO BE WORN DOWN TO A FRAZZLE: Scientist With Ties to Wuhan Lab Claims Covid was Genetically Engineered, Leaked From Lab.
BUT NOT NANCY PELOSI? Egyptian Petition Demands British Museum Return the Iconic Rosetta Stone.
I guess they can’t collect every single runaway mummy.
WHAT DO PARENTS EVEN HAVE TO DO WITH EDUCATION, AMIRITE? Biden Education Dept. Dissolves National Parents and Families Engagement Council.
Parents and families: it’s high time we dissolved the Dept of Education.
THE BORDER IS TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL! Karine Jean-Pierre Confirms Biden Won’t Visit the Border During Arizona Trip.
December 5, 2022
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Team Biden is using the IRS to attack the gig economy.
MAYBE THEY HOPE ELON WILL BUY THEM TOO: YouTube Censors Rasmussen Reports – What did they not want you to see?
OPEN THREAD: You kids have fun!
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: I’m gay, I support gay marriage, and I don’t think the ‘gay rights’ side should win in this Supreme Court case.
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case called 303 Creative LLC v Elenis. The case centers around Lorie Smith, a Christian who owns a website design business. She wants to expand her business and start designing custom wedding websites, but due to her religious beliefs, is unwilling to create them for same-sex weddings, as she would be forced to do under current Colorado civil rights law. Smith is challenging the Colorado statute on First Amendment grounds, arguing that she has a free speech right (note: the case is not about religious liberty) not to be forced to create messages she disagrees with.
No, she’s not suing because she wants to put a “no-gays allowed” sign in her window. In fact, she has served many LGBTQ clients and offers her general services to all. Smith is simply unwilling to create a custom wedding website, which inherently endorses said wedding, for a ceremony she does not agree with. She says she would seek to make the same refusal to other custom websites that violate her beliefs, including those which denigrate gay people or feature a heterosexual couple in violation of other tenets of her Christian faith.
The state of Colorado, on the other hand, argues that her religion does not grant her an exemption to a neutral civil rights law. The government argues that if Smith is going to offer wedding websites, she must offer them to all.
Related: Justice Gorsuch Leaves CO Solicitor General Stammering During Oral Arguments on Religious Liberty.
For understandable reasons, Gorsuch wasn’t really interested in hearing such obvious nonsense, noting that Jack Phillips had been put through a re-education program for honoring his religious convictions. That left the solicitor general stammering in an attempt to explain how it wasn’t a re-education program even though its purpose was to re-educate.
Listening to that, Gorsuch is pretty obviously going to side with the web designer, and that’s the proper decision given that the basic tenets of religious liberty are at stake here. It’s not hard to judge where Barrett is going to end up either, and Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are slam dunks if history is any guide. That really just leaves Justice Kavanaugh as the swing vote because Justice Roberts will do what he always does, which is be a coward who attempts to carve out some unworkable middle ground.
When the Jack Phillips case was decided four years ago, the court chickened out, essentially giving him the win on a technicality that didn’t address the root issue. Unfortunately, the harassment of Phillips and others continues to this day. Hopefully, the Supreme Court is ready to put an end to the insanity with a decisive ruling.
Colorado’s population is 5.81 million. Given that the state apparently has only one cake maker and Website developer, this is seems like a remarkable opportunity for the entrepreneurial-inclined individual.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX rolls out new business line focused on military satellite services.