This is my friend Luiz at the Vetrotex plant in Alcala de Henares, Spain. He worked security. Luiz admired the cowboy version of America. He was proud of his rifle, and brought it to work to show me.
It’s a BB gun.
Spaniards were a naive, carefree people. “What could happen?” was the typical response when I asked about some common activity like running the bulls or letting a toddler try descending ceramic tile stairs.
They better dummy up in a hurry.
Uncertainty lingers for Springfield’s Haitian community ahead of TPS expiration
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WSYX) — Worry and uncertainty is growing in Springfield as an estimated 15,000 Haitian immigrants could be affected by the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) on Monday.
The Haitian community makes up roughly one-quarter of Springfield’s population, meaning the impact could be felt across the entire city.
“91% of the Haitians that are in the United States came here under the Biden era,” Moreno said. “They came here illegally filed false asylum claims and they were granted amnesty by Biden that was for five years ago. It’s temporary.”
The population of Springfield, Ohio grew by 25% in the last 4 or 5 years, by adding people from the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. In Haiti, people speak Haitian Creole and French. How could they possibly improve the lives of Springfield natives?
About a quarter of the Haitians receive federal assistance through Medicaid, TANF (welfare), SNAP (food stamps) or refugee assistance. That is federal money streaming into a small town. Recipients send some of it back to Haiti as remittances and some is spent for goods and services in Springfield. Some business owners care more about the money than about the disruption to the community.
Medicaid and food stamp fraud are ongoing issues. Governor DeWine is happy to have an influx of immigrants because it camouflages problems with his leadership.
Gov. Mike DeWine has criticized the decision to end TPS for Haitians, calling it a mistake and saying it will hurt Ohio’s economy.
Increase the population by 25% in a few years by adding low skilled, low ability people who don’t speak English, and the community and economy will be skewed. Housing prices go up because they need a place to live, wages stagnate because they will work for lower wages in poorer conditions, hospitals and government offices are swamped.
Imagine the school system. Enrollment increases by 25% by adding students who don’t speak English and are completely unfamiliar with an American education system. The average IQ in Haiti is 70. Virtually all Haitian students would need remedial education and would probably have learning disabilities.
Haitian immigrants are expensive. Even if it’s the federal government footing the bill, they are a burden on our country and the local community. I don’t blame them at all, but it’s time to go back to Haiti.
State and local law enforcement will avoid a lot of drama and tragedy by assisting immigration officials with repatriation.
While Sparky and I were groveling in place to avoid getting emphysema from the Great Canadian Dumpster Fire, somebody mowed my field.
I’ve heard these incidents referred to as “chimp outs”. That term is disrespectful and may be hate speech. When a large mob behaves like a pack of aggressive animals, normal people hate the disruption and don’t respect the participants.
Two years ago today, a George Washington-level miracle or good fortune saved presidential candidate Trump from being assassinated.
How did the Secret Service get so shitty? It must have taken decades to degrade so thoroughly. You’d think every president would make sure the Secret Service upheld the highest standards.
The final report of the incident by the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General, explains what went wrong and how to fix it.
That afternoon, the assassin, Thomas Crooks, flew a drone over a crowded event to survey the area. The Secret Service had no idea. That’s nuts.
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
That’s my advice for people, and for countries. This is America’s 250th anniversary. Everybody else is saying something about it, so I thought I should. I’ve got nothing profound, just a bunch of little thoughts.
German prosecutors accuse Kyiv of ordering 2022 Nord Stream sabotage
Kuznietsov allegedly entered Germany via Poland on 4 September 2022 using a forged Ukrainian passport, the prosecutors said.
Shortly afterwards, he is alleged to have boarded an ocean-going sailing yacht with the other members of the group. The vessel had previously been chartered from a German company in Rostock using fake IDs, according to the prosecutors’ case.
Kuznietsov and his accomplices allegedly transported large quantities of weapons-grade explosives to a site near the Danish island of Bornholm and the group “affixed explosive devices fitted with timers to the gas pipelines running along the seabed”.
Authorities have specific information about how the mission was conducted, so it sounds legit. I’m glad the US had nothing to do with it.
The Nord Stream pipeline supplied half of the natural gas that Germany needed, so blowing it up was a devastating attack on German infrastructure. If Germany had not abandoned it’s nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster, their energy supply would not be so vulnerable.
Supreme Court to Hear Case of Orthodox Jew Ordered to Get Permit to Host Prayers at Home
The petitioner, Daniel Grand, is an observant Jew who lives with his family in University Heights, Ohio…
In January 2021, Grand emailed a dozen friends, inviting them to pray at his house on the upcoming Sabbath. Shortly after, one of the neighbors informed the mayor, asking him to “put a stop to this.” Within a day, the city demanded he “cease-and-desist” from using his home as a place of religious assembly without first obtaining a permit.
This is surprising. University Heights was always liberal, but that may have evolved to being Progressive, and that leans to being intolerant and antisemitic.
Maybe there is more to the story, but so far, the mayor looks like a dick.
Breaking down the birthright-citizenship decision
The Supreme Court has affirmed birthright citizenship. At least the issue is decided. It’s strange that birthright citizenship is almost entirely a policy in the Americas.
Pick an enemy. Russia, China, Hamas, it doesn’t matter. Send a million pregnant women to the US to give birth to American citizens, then bring the babies back home to be raised as operatives or fanatics. These indoctrinated and trained American citizens return to the US to implement the nefarious plot.
Chinese strategic oil reserves are missing.
China’s strategic oil reserve, to the surprise of the government officials who went to verify the reserves in May, was instead composed of water, sludge, various debris and overflow from nearby sewer lines.
That’s awkward.
China used to circumvent sanctions to buy oil from Iran and Venezuela, but the US has instituted management disruptions in those countries. The Strait of Hormuz is also critical. China might want to help out the US in keeping that open.
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