[Breitbart] California Governor Jerry Brown told religious leaders gathered at the Vatican Saturday that the world needed a "total ... brain washing" to convince leaders of the seriousness of the threat of climate change.
Brown, who burned tons of carbon in jetting to Vatican City as part of a 14-day visit to Europe, spoke to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
According to the Sacramento Bee, Brown said that while President Donald Trump’s election was a problem for the cause of climate change, it was not the main challenge.
He called for "brain washing" among the world’s leaders:
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Because the facts are unconvincing as they don't match the claims, and the manipulated facts keep getting spotted, and so far the brain washing has worked well with the typical liberals and children.
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We need an import tariff on stuff that California pretends to make, on top of no longer subsidizing stuff like Teslas. They practice economic warfare against us and make us pay for it.
[AP] In a park in the middle of a leafy, bohemian neighborhood where homes list for close to $1 million, a tractor’s massive claw scooped up the refuse of the homeless - mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, an outdoor propane heater. Workers in masks and steel-shanked boots plucked used needles and mounds of waste from the underbrush.
Just a day before, this corner of Ravenna Park was an illegal home for the down and out, one of 400 such encampments that have popped up in Seattle’s parks, under bridges, on freeway medians and along busy sidewalks. Now, as police and social workers approached, some of the dispossessed scurried away, vanishing into a metropolis that is struggling to cope with an enormous wave of homelessness.
That struggle is not Seattle’s alone. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region’s success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. All along the coast, elected officials are scrambling for solutions.
"I’ve got economically zero unemployment in my city, and I’ve got thousands of homeless people that actually are working and just can’t afford housing," said Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien. "There’s nowhere for these folks to move to. Every time we open up a new place, it fills up."
The rising numbers of homeless people have pushed abject poverty into the open like never before and have overwhelmed cities and nonprofits. The surge in people living on the streets has put public health at risk, led several cities to declare states of emergency and forced cities and counties to spend millions - in some cases billions - in a search for solutions.
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"....and counties to spend millions - in some cases billions - in a search for solutions...."
The fail is strong in these counties. Here's a big, fat, hairy clue - money is not the answer. Why iffin it were, problem woulda done been solved by now.
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Trickle down economics works if you are a panhandler.
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"I’ve got economically zero unemployment in my city, and I’ve got thousands of homeless people that actually are working and just can’t afford housing," said Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien. "There’s nowhere for these folks to move to. Every time we open up a new place, it fills up."
Cause the property tax on a 20 million dollar home brings more revenue to the apparatchiks than a block of affordable housing. Not to mention campaign donations.
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P2k, you're never gonna get affordable housing with the property tax rates in California. It simply ain't gonna happen. I've seen condos, glorified apartments, going for $1 million. The solution is in the graphic for this post (see above). Put these people on the next freight train to flyover country. That's most likely where they came from anyway. You don't have any friends or family in California? No contacts? No job? No money? No prospects? Time to move along then.
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De-industrialization and the importation of low skilled immigrants both legal and illegal has consequences. The idea of total globalism as an economic model brings with it the lower standard of living that the rest of the “globe” knows far too well.
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Put these people on the next freight train to flyover country.
We don't want'em and that makes no sense.
Greater populations provide more tax dollars for social services. Sparse, scattered populations already can't handle the volume of natives.
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P2k, you're never gonna get affordable housing with the property tax rates in California.
Cali is well beyond the point of no return. Largely a self inflicted wound made ever more possible by allowing mortgage interest rate deductions that are well beyond just the the income of 95% of Americans. Them prices wouldn't have gone up if it wasn't for that welfare for the rich.
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NOT a self inflicted wound. I've said this over and over again: The influx of illegal aliens into California was a federal failure. George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Baraq Obama inflicted this scourge upon us thereby ensuring the preeminence of the Democrat party here. I've told you all before: California used to be a Red State producing presidential timber such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, senators like George Murphy, Sam Hayakawa and Pete Wilson. Sadly, those days are gone. We didn't have any homeless freaks back then. We didn't have exoctic, sub prime mortgages back then. If you couldn't put 20% down, you either rented or moved outta here. Those weird mortgages were responsible for the skyballing price of housing.
I've told you this too: There will never, ever be affordable housing in coastal California because the demand for apartments and even little granny shacks is so high. Maybe most Rantburgers wouldn't want to live here but the demand for real estate here is world class. You might pay more in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Tokyo or Singapore but hardly anywhere else.
If you can't hack it here, it's time to move on.
I don't care where these people go. I just want our politicians to enforce the vagrancy laws. No more coddling. No more handouts. No more tent cities. No more hepatitis A. No more urine and feces on the sidewalks. Just get them outta here.
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The only reason they pushed those 'homeless' out of the rich neighborhood is that 'donations' mean more than the mere dozen-or-so democratic votes of the homeless - who would most likely just go bother some other 'not so rich' neighborhood anyway.
And isn't Seattle sponsoring a 'safe zone for drug users' so they have a 'safe place' to shoot up their junk without fear of being harassed by the cops? And then they will wonder why crime is spiking in those neighborhoods (which, BTW never seem to be in the rich urban areas....).
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I lived and worked in Westminster, Irvine, Costa Mesa, Garden Grove and often flew out of LAX and Burbank. I volunteered for every out of town and offshore assignment because I enjoyed the Real Estate appreciation but couldn't stand to live there, exactly because of that Abu, and I grew up on Chicago's south side!
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funny how all the socialist west coast cities are suddenly inexplicably experiencing mass homelessness. Seattle,Portland,San Fran,Los Angeles, San Diego.... all run by entrenched leftists who are convinced socialism is the cure
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We didn't have exoctic, sub prime mortgages back then. If you couldn't put 20% down, you either rented or moved outta here. Those weird mortgages were responsible for the skyballing price of housing.
Another federal failure, BTW, invented by denizens of the DC swamp and not inflicted upon Californians by themselves.
And good for you, Skidmark. If I wasn't so hung up on the ocean I'd move to a small town in the Midwest myself. For the money I'd make on my house I could live like a king back there.
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746, San Diego has a Republican mayor. The way he talks about the homeless you might think he's a donk but he's not.
Again, many if not most of California's problems are a result of federal policies that could just as well impact all of the rest of you.
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homelessness is UP across the board from what I've seen traveling this summer. not aware of the San Diego Mayor, thanks for the heads up
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In addition to the standard homeless, and the addicted/mental problems homeless, we now have millennial homeless that choose the lifestyle. They tend to migrate more than the other types but I've heard claims of fairly large yearly salaries from panhandling.
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Solution is for companies to move their ops to mid america.
However, even when the finances say to move, a lot of the CEOs won't do so because they like where they are.
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Minimum lot size requirements and regulations with respect to multi-unit complexes are probably an issue, cost-wise. If the state did away with those, developers would find a way to shoehorn fairly cheap, but spartan multi-level complexes into small spaces. Of course, property owners next to these complexes could see their property values crash.
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scooped up the refuse of the homeless - mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, an outdoor propane heater. Workers in masks and steel-shanked boots plucked used needles and mounds of waste from the underbrush.
I'm waiting for the first Cholera epidemic. What do you think the response will be of the pampered elite children then?
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scooped up the refuse of the homeless A few years ago a homeless man sleeping in a New Mexico bosque with overgrown grass, was turned into "refuse" by a huge lawnmower / bush hog machine. The operator stopped when huge chunks of fresh red human came out of the discharge chute, but -- he was too late.
Dr. Janet Haas, president-elect of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, said the outbreak is unusual for the U.S. because the spread of the liver infection has been blamed on a lack of basic hygiene and sanitation, not contaminated food.
That means public health officials can't solely rely on previous containment methods.
and...
In San Diego, where nearly 85 percent of all confirmed cases are located, cleaning crews are hitting the streets, attacking them with high-pressure water mixed with bleach to sanitize any surfaces contaminated with feces, blood or other body fluids.
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Two dimensions: a) the country has experienced a deep depression but the consequences have been deliberately removed from public discourse (aka "media") so far because the president for the last 8 years was a Democrat; b) Americans tolerate the indecent and criminal behavior of homeless people because the political and intellectual classes tell them that is the right thing to do.
The already-started re-growth of the economy will help (whatever Trump has been doing is less than 1% of what ought to be done, and some of his anti-free-trade ideas are not great). But we also have to destroy the anti-American ruling class of moochers and looters.
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[AmericanThinker] Conrad Black, writing that the Russian collusion story was blowing up, suggested that Wasserman-Schultz had engaged in skullduggery before former DNC head Donna Brazile threw this week’s latest bombshell at the DNC and in particular Hillary Clinton, whom the party appears eager to yank off the stage. Brazile charged that the DNC was nearly bankrupted by Obama and was saved only by cash infusions from Hillary Clinton, but in return for the lifeline, Clinton took control of the party and used that power to cheat Bernie Sanders out of the nomination. More, Brazile argued that the victory fund which was to be used to fund party races down ticket was instead grabbed by Hillary for her own campaign, with very little dribbled out to other candidates.
John Hinderaker, over at Powerline Blog, notes Brazile’s charges amount to a claim that Hillary and the DNC engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” Read the whole thing...
[Ynet] As the Middle East keeps producing uncertain situations with a potential for a regional crisis, Israel made a strategic decision Friday that its ‘covenant of blood’ with the Druze community is more important than its strategic support for the rebels working to drive the Syrian army away from the Golan Heights.
This was also one of two basic demands Israel presented to the Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights as a condition for humanitarian aid: You must not harm the Druze community. The second demand was that Islamic State fighters and other radical Islamist forces won’t be allowed to act against Israel from the Golan border.
Is the enemy of my enemy my friend? Not when it comes to Friday’s incident in the Syrian village of Hader and Israel’s relations with the Druze in the Golan Heights.
Israel made a strategic decision over the weekend that its “covenant of blood” with the Druze community is more important than its strategic moral and humanitarian support for the groups of rebels who are working to drive the Syrian army away from the Golan Heights. As a result, Israel warned in public that it would target the anti-Assad rebels if they were to harm members of the Druze community in the Golan, in spite of the fact that the Druze support Bashar Assad’s regime and have encouraged him to take over the Israel border area.
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[Al Jazeera] The snap resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. over the weekend reflects a push by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to openly confront Iran, its longtime regional adversary, and Iran's Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, analysts say.
It will also likely plunge Leb into a fresh political quagmire, as the country's fragile coalition government suffers a severe blow and general elections set for May appear increasingly uncertain.
Joseph Bahout, a visiting fellow with the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, noted that tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been building for some time, and the Saudis have recently shown "a will [to confront] Iran and Hezbollah in Leb".
Hariri, a Lebanese Sunni politician and longtime ally of the Gulf kingdom, announced his resignation from Riyadh, the Saudi capital, on Saturday.
In a televised speech, Hariri said he believed he faced threats to his life.
He called out Iran for sowing "disorder and destruction" in Leb, and criticised Hezbollah, a Lebanese political and armed resistance movement allied with Tehran, for building "a state within a state".
"I say to Iran and its allies - you have lost in your efforts to meddle in the affairs of the Arab world," Hariri said, adding that the region "will rise again and the hands that you have wickedly extended into it will be cut off."
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I expect China won't mind Iran's progress to completing the Shiia Crescent.
[Townhall] The National Football League’s colossal failure to properly handle a public relations disaster stemming from league wide National Anthem protests as a way to draw attention to police brutality has led to dismal ratings throughout the season. Thousands, if not millions of fans, have tuned out the NFL this fall, with #BoycottNFL a popular Twitter feature on any given Sunday.
But, so far there has not been quite exactly any legendary sports figure to jump aboard and disavow the NFL for allowing players to kneel during the anthem. That changed last night when Vin Scully, one of the most popular sports announcers for the better half of the past century, pledged to never watch an NFL game again.
Speaking to a crowd in California, Scully expressed his dismay and grievance towards players who kneel during the anthem as a sign of disrespect towards the military.
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You won't hear of this via MSM but Dallas Cowboy players went to military installations and signed autographs, during the game today coaches wore military style caps, players had military style towels and military and police joined them on the bench during the game. Their NFL announcers wore not one but two different style flag pins on their lapels. It was an all out patriotic effort by Jones and team.
#4
I miss football. But the owners have seriously screwed it up. Too timid to enforce a little bit of discipline on their players? If they want to quit because the owner makes them stand respectfully during the national anthem then LET THEM QUIT, DAMMIT! There are certainly at least a hundred guys waiting in the wings for a chance to play in the NFL for every one of these kneelers.
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The feel the burn where it counts, revenue projections and advertisers complaining. Don’t let them think for a moment they are forgiven. Some insults are forever.
#7
Raj is right, but once it moved beyond Kaepernick it became a problem. Owners didn't want to bench the best players and be non-competitive so they tolerated it far to long until the whole league began circling the drain. I'm not sure they can do anything now to save the NFL short of somehow taking College football off of the airwaves, firing protesters and replacing them with military folks.
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I tried to at least read about the weekend's NFL games this morning and just couldn't get interested, even though the home team won and is doing pretty well. I guess 14 months is long enough to break the habit.
Where oh where have the real sports casters gone? Heard a couple olde schoolers make the KSU/KU game actually interesting to watch. Morning news comes on and its gossip girl boy time talking about shoes and pretty things. Dedicated sports channels are even worse; local guy I can pass because local market guy, the sports channels have no excuse. Either two over the top personalities out yelling each other, pretty boys talking about personalities and nice hands, or a covey retired athletes who after drawing straws to pick a team mumble platitudes and generic stock phrases disguised as keys to the game.
[DAILYCALLER] Happy belated Halloween ‐ the only night of the year 14-year-olds willingly show up to Kevin Spacey’s house. As I write to you, more traumatized young men are spilling their guts to journalists about being fondled or seduced by Spacey. "I would call him a pedophile and a sexual predator," says a man who has come forward to describe a sexual relationship he had with Spacey when he was just 14 ‐ which ended, he says, with Spacey trying to rape him. If you have sex with a fourteen-year-old you're a pedophile, unless you're another fourteen-year-old.
I’m as disgusted as you are by Kevin Spacey’s transparent attempt to cloak himself in gay privilege as a way of distracting us from allegations he tried to fuck a child.
This is why identity politics is so poisonous: it seeks to establish separate rules for separate groups based on perceived, or more often simply imaginary, victimhood. Gay people should be held to the same standards as everyone else.
This is why identity politics is so poisonous: it seeks to establish separate rules for separate groups based on perceived, or more often simply imaginary, victimhood. Gay people should be held to the same standards as everyone else. An idea dating back to before Hammurabi, who was codifying previous codes. The idea of one law for everyone has been honored more in the breach than in practice ever since, but at least the idea's been given lip service.
The purpose of the Left’s categorization of us all into marginalized identities is to establish separate standards of behavior for everyone. If you read left-wing blogs you’d be forgiven for thinking that gay people are perfect paragons of upstanding moral rectitude and the worst thing a black person has done in the last 50 years is break wind at the DMV. The rest of us know better: we know people are messy and complicated, and that just because someone is a paraplegic lesbian Moslem DREAMer, it’s also possible for her to be a total prick. It might even be ‐ whisper it ‐ more likely!
I’m gay. I'm not.
I have been very drunk. Me too, though not recently.
It never made me want to touch kids. Me neither.
Kevin Spacey is a disgrace to faggots ‐ and I say this as someone whose gay card has been ripped up, spat upon, set on fire and then put out with piss repeatedly. But whatever his crimes ‐ and I hope he pays for them in the most obscenely painful ways imaginable at the hands of LeRoy from Cell Block E ‐ Spacey has inadvertently done the conservative cause a massive service this week. Because his cack-handed damage control has permanently devastated identity politics. Doubtful he'll ever see Cell Block E. Roman Polanski hasn't.
Those of us belonging to so-called victimhood groups but whose politics align more closely with the Republican Party have known for some time that identity politics have never been applied agnostically. Specifically, the Left can’t stick by their own rules when a woman, a black guy or a fag does the unthinkable and expresses libertarian or right-wing political positions. Or says something nuanced about sex... Like, you look down the grocery aisle and you see soft golden hair and a curvaceous butt. Then the vision turns "her" head and he has a mustache. Does that mean you're a homosexual or that the guy looks like a girl from the back?
I take pride in being the most lied-about and censored man in America. Venue after venue has caved to public pressure, canceling my talks. Promoters talk a good game until furious liberals attack them on social media. Then they collapse into a sobbing heap quicker than a teenager in Spacey’s dressing room. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... I’ve sold out multiple auditoriums for the Australian leg of my Troll Academy tour; we’re adding more dates all the time. Despite all this, most Americans would prefer speech to remain free. A CATO poll this week revealed that 58 per cent of Americans have political views they’re afraid to share for fear of reprisal. For Republicans, that number rises to 73 per cent. Among "strong liberals," just 30 per cent feel the need to watch their tongues. The implication is clear: socially acceptable politics in America aren’t just left-of-center. They are violently left-of-center, and getting worse.
Once upon a time, a teacher might be fired for being gay. These days you’re more likely to be fired for being straight. The Washington Post reveals that a black lesbian called Camille LeNoir ‐ her real name, probably ‐ lost a job offer after coming out as straight. New Mexico State University told her to delete a video, in which she said homosexuality was "not worth losing your soul over," if she ever wanted to work in college basketball. LeNoir, 31, is suing. Since she’s now a former lesbian, LeNoir deserves a properly full-throated defense. Women’s basketball is 98 per cent lesbian, per Stanford player Candice Wiggins, so LeNoir should be grateful for her excommunication. The locker room stench must be ungodly enough on its own. Ewww! Too much imagery there! Imagination overload... Shutting down...
Imagine you’re a right-wing comedy writer. You come up with a scenario in which a Moslem immigrant, here in the United States on something called a "diversity visa" (I know it’s a bit rich, but bear with me) steals a Home Depot truck and kills 8 people. A school bus is hit. He yells "Allahu akhbar" while committing this act of ISIS-inspired terrorism, which CNN promptly explains is uttered "under the most beautiful of circumstances." A guy at his mosque says he "totally gets" why the guy did it. The Left-wing press nods along sympathetically to his incoherent criticisms of the Bush administration, and publishes stories warning against "Islamophobia." ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... His wife claims she is "shocked and horrified and scared and sad" and people believe her. You know what, never mind. It’s too implausible. It'd never fly. Too implausible. Better stick with cat-eating space aliens.
The Left’s gratuitous vandalism of American institutions and its hostility to the principles that have made this country great cannot be fought with essays in magazines. The Left can only win by forcing us onto the uneven playing field of political correctness and constructive dialogue. I choose war. By the way, how'd that Communist revolution go yesterday?
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.
[AP] In a park in the middle of a leafy, bohemian neighborhood where homes list for close to $1 million, a tractor’s massive claw scooped up the refuse of the homeless - mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, an outdoor propane heater. Workers in masks and steel-shanked boots plucked used needles and mounds of waste from the underbrush.
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
[DAILYCALLER] Happy belated Halloween ‐ the only night of the year 14-year-olds willingly show up to Kevin Spacey’s house. As I write to you, more traumatized young men are spilling their guts to journalists about being fondled or seduced by Spacey. "I would call him a pedophile and a sexual predator," says a man who has come forward to describe a sexual relationship he had with Spacey when he was just 14 ‐ which ended, he says, with Spacey trying to rape him.
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
