[FoxNews] Biden will give his State of the Union address at the Capitol Tuesday.
A fence is being put up around the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., ahead of President Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday, despite Democrats halting construction of the wall at the southern border.
The Biden administration and congressional Democrats called the southern border wall costly and ineffective, as well as a sign of xenophobia, and have strongly opposed construction of a barrier to control the influx of illegal migrants pouring into the U.S. from countries like Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
Biden is expected to give his second State of the Union address at the Capitol on the House floor, where most members of Congress in the House and Senate will attend in-person. Despite objections by Democrats to a barrier on the southern border, a large fence started being constructed Sunday around the Capitol complex.
Republicans say Biden must address the number of crises that developed over the past year, including the migrant crisis at the southern border.
The fence is not the first wall to be built for the president's protection.
Biden recently began construction of a wall around his Delaware vacation home, which is expected to cost taxpayers $490,324 because it is being funded through a government contract via the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
"There will not be another foot of wall construction in my administration," Biden said during an interview while campaigning for the 2020 presidential election.
After declaring "not another foot" would be built at the border, the Biden administration approved resuming construction of the border wall along Yuma, Arizona, in July 2022.
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I would say at least we won't have to watch Monkey Lady Pelosi's antics as she cheers him on from behind but I probably won't watch anyway because I can't believe a word that feeble old fool says.
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Last year was an absolute gas.
Think I'll watch to see how stoned Science! can get somebody and still be functional.
Unless its all high-tech manga, then jokes on me har har.
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There are no threats or scheduled protests to justify the fence. J6ers are scared shitless and the rest don’t care enough to protest. All this is for the media.
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I can’t imagine any rational person tuning in to watch Biden delivering a State of the Union speech will expect answers to the serious issues facing our country. No one would watch Tonya Harding defend a thesis on molecular biology and expect anything other than incoherence and possible calamity depending on her sobriety.
Joe will try to gas light and will likely fumble around unless they have perfected a higher level of anamotronics than we have seen so far on his fake set performances. Theoretically, the administration will not have control of the venue so we may hear Nancy banging on trash can lids if Joe slips off script.
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[FoxNews] Texas became the latest state Monday threatening to sue the Biden administration over a conservation rule that could harm landowners, farmers and energy producers across five states.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office filed a notice of intent with the Department of the Interior (DOI) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) over a recent regulation protecting the Lesser Prairie-Chicken, a species the rule lists as threatened in some parts of Texas and endangered in other regions in the state. The attorney general alleged that the regulation violates federal law, fails to consider the state's conservation measures and would prove to be onerous for state property owners.
"I will not tolerate the Biden Administration’s efforts to run roughshod over the property rights of Texans and to stop our conservation efforts aimed at protecting Texas wildlife," Paxton said in a statement.
"This rule was a targeted attempt to implement an unlawful, top-down federal approach aimed at advancing a radical environmentalist agenda, which would crush the type of economic development that aids in providing funds for conservation," he continued. "This isn’t going to fly in Texas."
According to a release from Paxton's office, the Endangered Species Act requires the FWS to take a series of steps, including conducting an impact study and considering a wide range of variables, before classifying a species as threatened or endangered. Such federal requirements were never taken before listing the Lesser Prairie-Chicken, according to Paxton.
The rule also threatens "considerable conservation efforts" that stakeholders, led by Texas, private landowners and private groups, have already put in place to protect the chicken species.
"Combining this disregard for federal law, the overly vague nature of the rule, and the failure to abide by the legally-required notice of proposed rulemaking, the new rule constitutes yet another example of the Biden Administration’s willingness to prioritize executive overreach over state-directed management and conservation of wildlife and natural resources," Paxton's office stated.
Last week, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach similarly announced that he would sue the Biden administration over the rule, saying it was illegal and would have a "devastating impact on Kansas ranchers, Kansas oil producers, and Kansas wind farms."
In November, the FWS, a DOI subagency tasked with managing the nation's wildlife populations and habitats, announced that it would list the Lesser Prairie-Chicken after a "rigorous review of the best available scientific and commercial information."
"The lesser prairie-chicken’s decline is a sign our native grasslands and prairies are in peril. These habitats support a diversity of wildlife and are valued for water quality, climate resilience, grazing, hunting and recreation," FWS Southwest Regional Director Amy Lueders said at the time.
The listing sparked concerns among lawmakers, farmers and energy developers that the listing — which effectively locks up millions of acres across five states to protect the species — could negatively impact business. The Texas-based Permian Basin Petroleum Association previously won a lawsuit against the FWS during the Obama administration arguing that a rule protecting the chicken didn't properly factor in local conservation efforts.
Tens of millions of dollars have been spent in recent years to protect the species, the group's president said at the time.
"The Biden Administration has chosen to continue their assault on Texas energy and agriculture producers by classifying the lesser prairie-chicken as an endangered species. This decision will wreak havoc on our local and state economies and make it even harder to produce oil & gas in the midst of an energy and economic crisis," said Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"President Biden needs to get out of the business of over-regulating and focus on unleashing American energy dominance," he added. "The federal government must do so in a balanced manner through ongoing local and state conservation efforts. We can protect important species without devastating our local and rural communities."
In response to pressure from industry groups, state officials and lawmakers like Pfluger, the FWS delayed implementation of the rule from late January to March 27, 2023. The agency explained the delay was to "avoid confusion and disruption for landowners, federal partners and industry."
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delayed the rule to list the lesser prairie-chicken as an endangered species, giving our farmers more time to prepare and be recognized for their conservation efforts," Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, said on Jan. 26.
"If this rule is passed, the Texas agricultural community would be devastated, hurting an industry that has already been scrutinized by Biden's radical green agenda. This victory is a direct result of relentless efforts from Republicans to defend the livelihoods of our farmers. We will continue to stand strong, fighting first for the well-being of our country against a power-hungry regime."
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I propose expanding their habitat to include my crockpot.
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[PJMEDIA] Transportation Secretary and Chasten’s wife — er, husband, Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. A Secretary of Transportation in the Biden administration he he was on maternity leave when the supply chain fell apart... , went on NBC’s Meet the Press on Feb. 5 to preview Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan... ’s State of the Union address. During that appearance, Buttigieg claimed that Joe Biden is just so wildly successful as president that his accomplishments cannot be easily distilled — hence Biden’s low approval ratings. Yes, Mayor Pete actually said Biden is extremely unpopular because he’s too good at his job.
Buttigieg rambled out a justification of the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... allowing an apparent Chinese spy balloon to cross the U.S. before shooting it down over the ocean (where, quite conveniently, no one can pick up tell-tale debris as enlightening evidence). Buttigieg also claimed Biden was bringing jobs back to America and that if the U.S. isn’t in a Cold War with China, it is in a "kind of great power competition" (if that’s the case, someone should tell Biden he ought to show power against the Chinese every once in a while). But Buttigieg’s most dumbfounding claim came during a discussion of Biden’s upcoming State of the Union Address.
Host Chuck Todd gushed, "Look, he’s got a lot of things to tell. Why do you think that it has not penetrated the American public?" Buttigieg immediately had the least probable explanation ready.
"Well, look. These things don’t sell themselves. And it’s one of the reasons I’m really looking forward to that State of the Union address. I will say that there have been so many accomplishments under this administration. It can be difficult to list them in a distilled way," Buttigieg claimed. If only Biden were less competent, right? Buttigieg compared bumbling Biden to four other presidents to paint Sleepy Joe as a historic achiever in the fields of war, the economy, infrastructure, and health care. "But one of the things that we found is that this is happening simultaneously with some of the toughest circumstances ever," Buttigieg said.
Chuck Todd agreed, mourning, "Well, that’s the thing. Nothing seems to accrue to his benefit." So strange, when "this president has exceeded expectations again and again, politically and functionally," as Buttigieg put it. As you pay exorbitant amounts for gas and rent this month, remember to appreciate poor old Joe. The transportation secretary also had a brilliant defense of Biden’s efforts to cover his classified documents scandal, "Coulda, woulda, shoulda is not the strategic direction or focus of this administration. There’s too much on the line." Buttigieg slammed "MAGAnomics" while painting Biden as an economic genius. All of us Americans who can’t buy eggs take leave to doubt that.
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Both Biden and Buttigieg are highly successful at destroying our country. It is just very hard for us to distill that a president or his controller would make that the goal.
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"Too successful?" Yeah, that's it (sarc). Buttigieg must be competing for the Baghdad Bob award.
Maybe this should be in OBITS.
[FoxNews] Some Democrats are leaking their disdain for Vice President Kamala Harris to the press, with a few political bigwigs arguing openly that Harris is a major liability for 2024.
Harris is struggling to "define her vice presidency. Even her allies are tired of waiting," the New York Times headlined in an article Monday.
That's because one of the few issues that some Democrats are in agreement on — whether they're allies of the vice president or not — is that she is a disappointment at best, the Times reported.
"But the painful reality for Ms. Harris is that in private conversations over the last few months, dozens of Democrats in the White House, on Capitol Hill and around the nation — including some who helped put her on the party’s 2020 ticket — said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country."
Even some Democrats who were supposed to be supporters of Harris "confided privately that they had lost hope in her," according to the Times.
Democratic fundraiser John Morgan was one of the few voices to speak out on the record against Harris, arguing that her weakness as vice president will be "one of the most hard-hitting arguments against Biden."
The argument only becomes stronger because of the president’s age, Morgan said.
"It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘Look, with his age, we have to really think about this,’" he argued.
Joe Biden is already the oldest president ever to serve in office at 80 years old.
Morgan also took aim at Harris’ record of achievement as vice president.
"I can’t think of one thing she’s done except stay out of the way and stand beside him at certain ceremonies," he said.
Multiple polls reflect Harris’ general unpopularity with voters, with roughly 39% of Americans saying they approve of the vice president's job performance, according to polling site FiveThirtyEight.
Harris has gained a reputation for flubbing speeches and speaking vaguely. One recent speech that Harris gave in honor of two former NASA astronauts was savaged on social media for sounding "like a 5-year-old" wrote it.
"They strapped into their seats and waited as the tanks beneath filled with tens of thousands of gallons of fuel," Harris told the audience.
"And then they launched. Yeah, they did," she added with a laugh.
Harris was similarly roasted for a video she put out last year of her telling children about space.
"You’re going to literally see the craters on the moon with your own eyes," Harris said.
"With your own eyes. I’m telling you, it is going to be unbelievable."
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I remember a furnace tech. If you wanted to know if a tube endcap was quartz or pyrex, all you had to do was hand it to him. If it was quartz, he'd drop it.
#8
I think her penetration into our culture is extensive when compared to all previous VPs based on metric of memes and TiKTok video clips. Al Gore might be her only challenger.
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A key bit of predictive analysis for me would be the online purging now of any video connecting the Cackle-Jackal and Big Mike. Obama 4.0 requires some runway prep and keeping the idea of another Black, female, Marxist in sheep's clothing as fresh requires the current VP to be deep in the dustbin memory-hole.
Kamala was chosen to be VP because she has 2 X chromosomes and because her skin is somewhat darker than most people's. I think those things are both still true. So what is all the fuss about?
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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.
...knaves, footpads, and 
