[Times] President Jacob Zuma shocked many on Tuesday night when his office announced that he deployed 441 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers to Parliament.
Showerhead Zuma having a bit of a problem with Afri-Democracy, Trevor Noah comes to the rescue:
The DailyShow's Trevor Noah tweets:
People need to stop hating on President Jacob Zuma. Of all our democratically elected presidents he's easily in the top 3!#SONA2017
8:19 AM - 7 Feb 2017
Dankie my boet (thanks brother). As you and your kommunis media whore colleagues continue to shit yourselves over Trump, your comic irony is indeed welcomed.
h/t Instapundit
...A few progressives have been wondering aloud this week why it is that Democrats have stirred themselves to oppose, with steely resolve, the nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education, while more or less going along with the nomination of Jeff Sessions as attorney general. DeVos (a friend of this magazine) may have ideas about school choice that don’t comport with the views of some Democrats (though they comport very much with the views of other Democrats, particularly those of the black urban middle class), but she is a relatively anodyne figure, a philanthropist and activist who has made a career out of doing what she can to look after the interests of children who don’t have the advantages enjoyed by her own. Sessions, on the other hand, is -- their view, not mine -- a racist as well as a radical who as attorney general would be empowered to do real damage to all that progressives hold dear.
Apparently I am nearly alone in seeing this judicial revolt as a true constitutional crisis, fully deserving impeachments by the House even though Senate convictions are unlikely. I am not arguing the wisdom of Mr. Trump’s immigration executive orders, other than to say they are hardly unexpected given his campaign; but their legality is manifest. Even those disliking them say so. The Constitution gives Federal authorities control over immigration; not states. That’s the Congress and the President; there might be room for judicial mediation if these two branches were in serious dispute on this, but they have not been asked.
Black letter law gives the President authority to suspend or delay admitting any class of immigrant he sees fit if he declares it a matter of national security. That law has been in effect for a long time. Mr. Obama used it in reverse to admit migrants and refugees; he did not see them as a threat to national security. That was his prerogative as President, whether we agree or not. A judge could not have ruled that he was wrong. Congress could impeach him, or strip him of the power (although he could veto that legislation; a simple majority ruling would not be sufficient). Neither was done and his rulings stood. The same is true now with Trump: he has black letter law on his side.
Mr. Trump does. This decision might be questioned by Congress, but even Congress has no authority to stop his actions without considerable more procedure than we have seen, and as a matter of fact it will not do so. So the President takes an action that his predecessor says is wrong, and the Courts suspend the order, because they do not find that this is a national security issue. That is not for them to find. That is a matter for the President and Congress.
This is a grave constitutional crisis, and it does not look like ending well.
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I personally see it as a bureaucrat rebellion - the functionaries at INS know perfectly well that these judges overstepped their authority, and their restraining orders have no legal power.
#3
For the sake of the security of the American people, on 22 Oct in 1962, President John F. Kennedy announces to the American people that he has ordered a blockade of Cuba in response to the discovery that Soviet missiles were being installed on the island.
The President of the United States can order a blockade of an entire county but cannot delay the visas of foreigners wishing to come to the U.S. ?
#4
If anyone chooses to look at crime in Southern border states they will see the US as a target of raiding parties of illegal aliens.
Here is how it works. Two, three or more Mexicans will come into the US seeking work. Once they know everything about the business they go back to Mexico to drop off the local radar. They then return to break in and ransack the business.
#5
This judge knows that nothing bad will happen to him. The 9th Circus is dragging this out as long as possible before they overturn. This is the Left. This is who they are and what they do.
#6
What is the number of judges in Federal Supreme Court?
There are currently 874 authorized Article III judgeships: nine on the Supreme Court, 179 on the courts of appeals, nine on the Court of International Trade and 677 for the district courts. United States federal judge - Wikipedia
Do we have 874 Judges, or thereabouts, that feel that they have veto power over Executive Branch actions whenever they feel like it? Checks and Balances my rosy red posterior.
#7
It sits for life and has achieved non-accountability - in other days, that's call an aristocracy. Otherwise you need to impeach a few every couple of year 'pour encourager les autres'.
#9
Here is how it works. Two, three or more Mexicans will come into the US seeking work. Once they know everything about the business they go back to Mexico to drop off the local radar. They then return to break in and ransack the business.
I live in the midwestern US and they're already more brazen than that here. They work by day as landscapers and roofers, and conduct surveilance the entire time they do so. They then return in the middle of the night to steal whatever they can take. A co-worker found all 4 (chrome) rims from his Hummer stolen one night--"paving stones" like those used by landscapers were used to put the Hummer up on blocks.
Letter to the Editor at the Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, Feb. 7th.
Since Trump's 90-day affecting U.S. entries from seven Muslim-majority countries took effect, several federal courts have issued emergency stays against portions of the executive order and dozens of lawsuits were filed against it.
I fully support President Donald Trump's executive order that temporarily halts admissions from the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and bans travel from nationals of countries that potentially pose a security risk to the United States; however, I don’t think the action goes far enough. Further, I believe there are many people throughout the country who feel the same way.
As a recently retired 25-year veteran of the U.S. Department of State who served almost eight years as a refugee coordinator throughout the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Cuba, I have seen first-hand the abuses and fraud that permeate the refugee program and know about the entrenched interests that fight every effort to implement much-needed reform. Despite claims of enhanced vetting, the reality is that it is virtually impossible to vet an individual who has no type of an official record, particularly in countries compromised by terrorism. U.S. immigration officials simply rely on the person’s often rehearsed and fabricated “testimony.” I have personally seen this on hundreds of occasions.
As a refugee coordinator, I saw the exploitations, inconsistencies and security lapses in the program, and I advocated strongly for change. Nonetheless, during the past decade and specifically under the Obama administration, the Refugee Admissions Program continued to expand blindly, seemingly without concern for security or whether it served the best interests of its own citizens. For instance, the legally questionable resettlement of refugees from Malta to the United States grew substantially, despite the fact that as a European country with a functioning asylum system, “refugees” should have remained there under the internationally accepted concept of “the country of first asylum.” Similarly, the “special” in-country refugee programs in Cuba and Russia continue, although they are laden with fraud and far too often simply admit economic migrants rather than actual refugees.
As an insider who understands its operations, politics and weaknesses, I believe the refugee program must change dramatically and the courts must allow the president to fully implement the order.
— Mary Doetsch, Wheeling
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[THEHANSINDIA] The arrest of key suspect in Kanpur train mishap, Shamshul Hoda, and his aides in Nepal is certainly a big breakthrough.
His alleged connections to the ISI have been under India’s glare for some time. It is very much distressing that Pakistain should be able to make use of Nepalis to foment trouble in India.
The November 21 Indore-Patna Express derailment claimed 140 lives. NIA is already probing a sabotage angle.
It believes Hoda is also behind the failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to blow up tracks in East Champaran in Bihar. India, hence, should leave no stone unturned to unravel the truth and pin down Pakistain.
Speaking of evil activities of our neighbour, a private bill has just been introduced in parliament to declare Pakistain a terrorist state.
A valid argument is that if ‐ despite killings of over 14,000 civilians in various terror attacks since 1998 ‐ India refrains from declaring its neighbour a terrorist state, who else will.
Practicalities and sensibilities apart, the bill points to the burgeoning anger in India at Pakistain.
Unambiguously, the demand for passage of the 'The Declaration of Countries as Sponsor of
Terrorism Bill, 2016,’ tabled by Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar, is a far-fetched idea.
Nevertheless, a debate on it helps Indian parliament to signal a warning to the world to act against the fountainhead of terrorism.
Pak Parliament recently unanimously rejected that Kashmire is an integral part of India. As the world is getting increasingly vexed over terrorism, India should seize this opportunity to direct global outrage at Pak’s policy of terrorism in Kashmire and Afghanistan.
The house arrest of Jamaat-ud- Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... by Pakistain is only a tactic to duck US visa sanctions already slapped on seven Moslem-majority nations.
As long as it can bank upon China and does not feel pressed to improve its international status, things may not look up for India from Pak angle.
Also, given the overt Chinese support to Pakistain, its blockage of India’s move to get into Security Council or get the Council to designate Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... founder Masood Azhar a terrorist, India has to ramp up its strategic capabilities in Asia, besides keeping the West apprised of terrorism emanating from Pakistain.
India should also impress upon new US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to strongly rein in Pakistain. Trump is keen to join forces with even arch-rival Russia to decimate ISIS and go after other terrorist organizations.
It should not be for nothing that India has given up its hallowed policy of non-alignment and forged defence ties with Americans.
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Time for Louisiana sized war games to practice the new Cold Start scheme. That'll get the Paks attention.
[Independent Journal Review] On Wednesday, Marine veteran Steven Gern posted a video to his Facebook page that outlined his thoughts on President Trump's recent executive order on immigration.
In the video, Gern stated that he currently works in Iraq and claimed that, just like America, there's a lot going on over there, too. We just don't see it.
His video was posted as a reflection on a conversation he had with Iraqis. First, he described their viewpoint:
"A lot of the Iraqis showed their displeasure in this executive order, and why they feel like they’ve been betrayed by the United States."
After he listened to their opinions, he said he got an answer, "without hesitation," to a simple question he had. He asked, "as an American, if I went out in town right now, would I be welcome?" They answered:
"Absolutely not, you would not be welcome."
When asked, "What would happen if I went in town?" The Iraqis provided him a timeline:
Locals would snatch him up
Torture him
Kill him within an hour - probably a beheading
It would be filmed for everyone to see
Gern highlighted that this isn't ISIS or al-Qaeda making these claims; it's the local populace. This led him to his final question:
"If you would do this to me, in your country, why would I let you in my country?"
His video's purpose was to inform Americans about what's taking place in one of the seven "banned countries" highlighted in President Trump's executive order.
By the next day, Gern's video had garnered over 35 million views, according to the Daily Wire. The viral video has since been taken down by YouTube for violating "hate speech" rules.
#2
Welcome to the world of gov't contracting. Never ask questions, question anything, or present an opposing view. You'll likely be on the next thing smoking out of town.
Unless there was a huge poker game up in business class, I'd say that empty airplane was sent specifically for him.
h/t Instapundit
Maryland therapist Steven Stosny described a condition he terms "headline stress disorder", a more virulent version of the "election stress disorder" that he detected prior to November 8, 2016. Ever since he won Donald Trump's been on the brain of his patients and it's not going away soon..
...If former vice-president candidate Tim Kaine can be believed, the condition is real. "Headline stress disorder" is particularly acute among liberals, some of whom are in a state of paroxysmal rage over Trump: over what he is, stands for, how he looks, etc. A kind of self-sustaining chain reaction may now be taking place. It is energy and anger looking for a place to go. How about we put them all on Ritalin - the way they've been doing to our (anybody who doesn't fit their criteria of a good girl) kids?
...With DeVos' accession the juggernaut has moved one step closer to investing the key liberal redoubt of education. The core fortress, the upstream of culture and politics -- may soon be under siege. It demonstrated, if further proof were needed, the growing inability of the old time Democratic bosses to slow, let alone stop the Deplorable advance. In a sidebar to the DeVos' story the New York Times sourly noted that Barack Obama was off kite surfing with Richard Branson, fiddling as it were while Rome burned.
...The more fundamental problem, as John Harris notes in the Guardian, is whether the left has a future in its current form. "All over the west, the left is in crisis," he writes. "It cannot find answers to three urgent problems: the disruptive force of globalization, the rise of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work."
...In his book the Road to Wigan Pier Orwell described the middle-class takeover of what was then a working-class movement:
Socialism, in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years’ time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. And that fact is the key as for how Trump should deal with the bureaucratic sabotage.
1. Trump erased all mentions on the White House web site of “climate change.” He did that within ONE HOUR of taking the oath of office.
2. Trump issued an Executive order to “ease the burden of Obamacare”
3. Trump returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the oval office
4. Trump withdrew America from the TPP treaty
5. Trump erased all Spanish language from the White House web site. It is now “English Only.”
6. Trump issued an Executive order starting the construction of “THE WALL.”
7. Trump issued an Executive order banning funding to foreign pro-abortion groups
8. Trump's new Secretary of Defense, James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, took the fight to ISIS by bombing them 31 times on his first day as the new Secretary of Defense
9. Trump announced temporary ban on refugees from Syria and Middle Eastern war zones
10. Trump imposed a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding new contracts or grants
11. Trump announced a ban on visas from dangerous Muslim-majority countries with inadequate screening
12. Trump announced the end of “Sanctuary cities” and the defunding of federal funds for any city that chooses to continue breaking the law
13. Trump announced the hiring of 10,000 new border agents
14. Trump signed an Executive order demanding the Secretary of Homeland Security publish a weekly list of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens
15. Trump signed an Executive order freezing the hiring of non-essential federal employees
16. Trump said out loud the words “radical Islamic terrorism.”
17. Trump stopped payment on Obama’s final hour giveaway of $220 million to the Palestinian Authority
18. Trump used Executive orders to give the go-ahead to the long-stalled Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines
19. Trump got the State Department’s entire senior management team to resign in frustration. Per AlanC's comment, please file under 'things hoped for but not yet seen.'
20. Trump announced his intention to withdraw From Climate & Environmental Accords Along With UN Funding Cuts of 40%
21. Trump tweeted “Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!”
22. Trump announced he’ll begin a major investigation into voter fraud in the 2016 election
23. Trump got the chief of the Border Patrol to leave the agency in frustration at having to actually do his job!
24. State Dept. Arms Control chief fired while on airplane; Trump, told to turn around and fly back!
25. Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties
26. Trump White House abruptly halts Obamacare ads.
27. Trump appoints Neil Gorsuch to U.S. Supreme Court, a Justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia
#4
You insist on missing the point, Besoeker. The point is that the federal agencies in charge choose to follow judges illegal rulings. And, I'm sure, they doing similar things - whenever they can - with the rest of your list.
[Breitbart] Monday at Stanford Law School, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she "would like to change," the Electoral College system.
Ginsburg said, "There are some things I would like to change, one is the Electoral College."
She added, "But that would require a constitutional amendment, and amending our Constitution is powerfully hard to do."
Ginsburg also bemoaned partisanship in Washington D.C. saying. "I wish there were a way I could wave a magic wand and put it back when people were respectful of each other and the Congress was working for the good of the country and not just along party lines."
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"I wish there were a way I could wave a magic wand and put it back when people were respectful of each other and the Congress was working for the good of the country and not just along party lines."
Translation: Why can't we just get rid of the center/right so those of us on the left can do what we want?
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Never forget Obama's admission as he left office, and I'm paraphrasing - "My greatest failure was I could never convince the Republicans to see my point of view..."
For eight years, he and the media were berating the Pubs for not compromising, when he meant, 'not surrendering to my superior point of view.'
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Three quarters of the small states are not going to surrender to one quarter of the major metro states. It'll require a SCOTUS coup to happen. That's the day you can scratch the name 'United States' from the books.
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I dislike her judicial opinions, but I rather like the old gal. You talk about Die Hard, Pancreatic and Colon Cancer! Her close friendship with Scalia weighs in on my opinion of her as well.
Dems are mad that she did not have the common decency to die when they wanted her to, so she's trying to show them through her dementia that she is still one of them.
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The four libs vote in lockstep. This is called "good jurisprudence". When the conservative judges vote in lockstep, this is "partisan gridlock". Shut up you partisan haggard old biddy
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Her nostalgia is for the FDR Coalition (Unions, Elitist Liberals and Southern Racists) stranglehold on the US Government, back before the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Act splintered their coalition? Heartwarming...
[Wash Times] A Utah-based coffee company is hitting back at Starbucks’ vow to hire 10,000 refugees in response to President Trump’s extreme vetting program, saying it will hire an equal amount of military veterans instead.
Evan Hafer, CEO of the Black Rifle Coffee Company, said the ubiquitous corporate chain is making a "political statement" designed to mock conservatives, and that its plans are a reach anyway, since Starbucks would need to somehow obtain lists of the displaced.
Mr. Hafer said it makes more sense to do what his Salt Lake City company does: hire American veterans who’ve shouldered a heavy burden and could use a leg up in the workforce.
"We have bigger fish to fry," he said in a brief phone interview. "The U.S. has been at war for 16 years, roughly."
In a Jan. 29 message to employees, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Starbucks was developing plans to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in the 75 countries where it does business.
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I think it was in reference to Starbuck's 'refugee' hiring. It's still a bit of a non sequitur, if SB's hiring plans are for "the 75 countries" where it sells its over-roasted product.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Times] President Jacob Zuma shocked many on Tuesday night when his office announced that he deployed 441 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers to Parliament.
[Independent Journal Review] On Wednesday, Marine veteran Steven Gern posted a video to his Facebook page that outlined his thoughts on President Trump's recent executive order on immigration.
