Autumn Comes to the Country...

 I like that sound, acorns plunking to the ground. and leaves falling on your shoulders like snowflakes.  It's here, and every day is different as beauty is fleeting. Enjoy while we can!

All That, and a Jar of Jam !

 Good writing!

If You Like Special Teams, This Was Your Day

For special-teams dorks, this N.F.L. Sunday was ecstasy, wrapped in nirvana, inside a bucket of puppies.

What a weekend in the sports world...

Diana Taurasi's Phoenix Mercury beat Sue Bird's Seattle Storm, playing without the injured Breanna Stewart.  The Chicago Sky comfortably beat the Minnesota Lynx, playing at home.

Bears lost, Vikings won one, tonight the Packers play.

Notre Dame and Alabama looked good, White Sox took 3 of 5 from Cleveland and clinched the division.  Best of all, the weather has been wonderful here. Not an Indian summer, as we haven't have a good cold spell yet, but sunny, warm afternoons with beautiful light and skies.

I like to move it move it, indeed.  Not just a football up the field, or a basketball nicely heaved upcourt to score in the closing seconds of the half...

Got Speed? ~Jameson Williams of Alabama do!

 

God bless the players who bring it out, instead of settling for 25... if you're fast, you can put up points to make for an exciting game!

It was a nice shot.

 

Wisconsin... Nice band!

 #Sportsmanship.

"I Like to Move It Move It..." ~Chris Tyree, Notre Dame

to counter Wisconsin's "Jump Around".

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Hold tight d/Defense, Hold Tight...

Free Chinese Heiress Elizabeth Thanos Holmes...

 We just did~!  Diplomacy. Heh. (... and she knows it too. ;-)

 

If Fiscally Conservative Americans are Wary of Biden's Big Spending Bills...

 and I think, fiscal conservatives cross many color and class lines, then how do you think they will... feel .... when you tell them the Big Spending Bills are not being financed by taxing inherited wealth and "passive" income, but by taxing the cars, trucks and gas needed daily to get them to work?

* Not my place to advise, but if you want to tank the bill on an unpopularity thing, tell working folks the richy riches need free daycare so we are imposing a "carbon" tax to pay for it...  Viva la Revolucion!, indeed.

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ADDED:  This is when you can tell, for all the ... diversity .... the Dems have promised to let into the room, they're carefully selected.  I wonder honestly, for example, how many lawmakers -- even the young colorful ones -- still drive?

It's telling that they don't realize how many Americans, young and old, still do, and how funding the Big Spending, subsidizing things White People Like... with cigarette and gas taxes is realistically not gonna do it...  (Not enough money in sin taxes alone, and driving a car or truck is not a sin, even by today's shabbily rewritten rule book.)

If you're afraid to touch the Third Rail of Financing taking on non-worker ... rentier ... income, why bother unless we are actively trying to discourage people from working. You just artificially cost shift, subsidizing out-of-home personal preferences of the ... professionals ... for government institutional care like nursing homes and daycare/schools and asking people who don't choose those services to pay for those who do?  Not those who need them, financially, but those who prefer to outsource homecare to lower paid, often non-citizen ... others.  (ie/ "They work for us M-F while we are "working", but they are not part of our home communities and we don't really ... see ... them, or their daily needs in our hometowns, thank goodness."

By trying to help, the Dems once again contribute to the White Privilege and inequality that lets people in inheritance roles, like Hunter Biden, advance despite his lack of skill set and continual poor choices and mistakes, over the working black, brown and white man down the street...  Sadly, by admitting select Blacks and browns to the mix, professionals all, the system creakily perpetuates the privilege, albeit with some colorful new faces, not all called upon to share their ethnic cuisines in the community either, as we saw so many encouraging new Afghan refugees to come settle .... here .... .

Happy Saturday, and remember:  If you're gonna do it, do it right!  

Integrity, intrinsic value and intelligence.  All "I" words.  Nothing wrong with that on an autumn Saturday. (Sample for yourself:  "I, I, I, Ai!" vs. the childish "Me, Me, Me, Me!"  Can you hear it?  No contest.)

Onward and Upward...

 In a one-game WNBA elimination playoff bracket last night, the Phoenix Mercury hung on in the final seconds to beat the New York Liberty 83 - 82.  The Mercury will take on the Storm in Seattle on Sunday at 3pm CST.

Cunningham, Turner lead Mercury to 83-82 win over Liberty

PHOENIX (AP) — Sophie Cunningham hit 6 of 9 3-pointers for a career-high 21 points and Brianna Turner made the winning free throw with less than a second to play, giving the Phoenix Mercury an 83-82 win over the New York Liberty in a first-round WNBA playoff game on Thursday night.

The upstart Liberty had tied the game on Betnijah Laney’s long 3-pointer with 2.7 seconds left, but the Mercury got the ball to Turner underneath the basket on the ensuing inbounds play, forcing Sami Whitcomb to foul with 0.4 seconds remaining.

Turner’s first free throw rimmed out but she calmly made the second, moving the fifth-seeded Mercury into the second round.

In the earlier game yesterday, the Chicago Sky ended the Dallas Wings' season with an 84 - 61 win and will play the Minnesota Lynx at 5pm CST Sunday in Minneapolis.  

Candace Parker nears triple-double

Candace Parker, playing in her first playoff game with her hometown team, was on triple-double watch from the first quarter and finished with 11 points, 15 rebounds, seven assists and three steals. During her postgame interview on the broadcast, she rightly gave the credit to sixth-year guard Kahleah Copper. Copper scored a game-high 23 points, 12 of which she dropped during the pivotal first quarter.

Both games Sunday are also single-elimination with the second-round winners advancing to play the Las Vegas Aces or the Connecticut Sun in the third-round, best-of-5 series.  The finals start Sunday, Oct. 10.

A Confederacy of Dunces... *re-upped*

 or, "GloryDays, Glory days, gory days!"

This crew -- with their track record of wasteful wars and big bailouts -- makes Team Biden look super smart still...  

Somebody tell the cheney-bush confederacy of dunces, like with Team clinton, they can't go home again...

{Liz Cheney} raised $1.5 million in the first three months of the year and $1.9 million in the following three.

John Boehner and Paul Ryan, both former GOP House speakers, have helped raise money for her, and Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mitt Romney of Utah have all contributed to her campaign from their respective political committees.

Mr. Bush’s fundraiser {in Dallas} is scheduled for Oct. 18. 

Co-hosts for the event include Karl Rove, a longtime political adviser for Mr. Bush who also consulted with Mr. Trump during his 2020 re-election campaign, and former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas), who served as U.S. ambassador to NATO under Mr. Trump.

Other co-hosts include former Hunt Oil Co. Chief Executive Ray Hunt, former Bush White House counsel Harriet Miers and former Bush White House counselor Karen Hughes.

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We can't affords these kinds of Whi'Peoples in leadership anymore.  The plantation/ranch been overrun just like the city streets... They're just slow to notice how the country is ch-ch-ch-changin'.  (Remember:  Liz Cheney had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into accepting her sister's marriage as legit...  Why is she still in office again? I know who her Daddy is, but she has piss-poor leadership qualities, even when the issues are upfront and close to her heart...  Let her join the aging lobbyists on the sidelines now; the past is blowing away, new times are here.  Even in Wyoming, friends.)

Wyoming and Utah, and Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas too!, best get with the times.  This is not your father's America anymore.  (*Thanks be to God.  Go in peace to love and serve the Lord...)

White People Can't Criticize White People on behalf of their Whiteness, Now? *

Megan McArdle Retweeted

Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

White people dismissing other white people's views on the basis of them being white is really a trend I could do without.

 Oy.  Some White people use their whiteness in wiley ways... 

Other white folk notice this, and call out their pretentiousness.  Don't be afraid.  Just... don't use your Whiteness, or membership in da club, to advance yourself. Because it is going to get cold, and critical, out here for many who are not used to those things, I am afraid...

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* Stuff White People Like...~Christian Lander (a white)

ADDED:  Dr. MLKing Jr. wrote Letter from a Birmingham Jail.  But I bet some of his white Christian brothers who read it, enthusiastically, might have penned similar thoughts.  A minority, surely. Hypocrisy knows no color boundaries. And God knows, we've been calling out the hypocrites in shared societies since time immemorial...

A Confederacy of Dunces.

This crew -- with their track record of wasteful wars and big bailouts -- makes Team Biden look super smart still...  

Somebody tell the cheney-bush confederacy of dunces, like with Team clinton, they can't go home again...

{Liz Cheney} raised $1.5 million in the first three months of the year and $1.9 million in the following three.

John Boehner and Paul Ryan, both former GOP House speakers, have helped raise money for her, and Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mitt Romney of Utah have all contributed to her campaign from their respective political committees.

Mr. Bush’s fundraiser {in Dallas} is scheduled for Oct. 18. 

Co-hosts for the event include Karl Rove, a longtime political adviser for Mr. Bush who also consulted with Mr. Trump during his 2020 re-election campaign, and former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas), who served as U.S. ambassador to NATO under Mr. Trump.

Other co-hosts include former Hunt Oil Co. Chief Executive Ray Hunt, former Bush White House counsel Harriet Miers and former Bush White House counselor Karen Hughes.

We can't affords these kinds of Whi'Peoples in leadership anymore.  The plantation/ranch been overrun just like the city streets... 

Wyoming and Utah, and Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas too!, best get with the times.

Good Night!

 

A.P.: Haitian Asylum Seekers Being Resettled in the United States by the Thousands

 Out of control. * :

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.

Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large scale” in recent days, according to one U.S. official who put the figure in the thousands. The official, who has direct knowledge of operations, was not authorized to discuss the matter Tuesday and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Many have been released with notices to appear at an immigration office within 60 days, an outcome that requires less processing time from Border Patrol agents than ordering an appearance in immigration court and points to the speed at which authorities are moving, the official said.

The Homeland Security Department has been busing Haitians from Del Rio to El Paso, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas border, and this week added flights to Tucson, Arizona, the official said. They are processed by the Border Patrol at those locations.

A second U.S. official, also with direct knowledge and speaking on the condition of anonymity, said large numbers of Haitians were being processed under immigration laws and not being placed on expulsion flights to Haiti that started Sunday. The official couldn’t be more specific about how many.

U.S. authorities scrambled in recent days for buses to Tucson but resorted to flights when they couldn’t find enough transportation contractors, both officials said. Coast Guard planes took Haitians from Del Rio to El Paso.

The releases in the U.S. were occurring despite the signaling of a massive effort to expel Haitians on flights to Haiti under pandemic-related authority that denies migrants an opportunity to seek asylum.

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The releases come amid a quick effort to empty the camp under a bridge that, according to some estimates, held more than 14,000 people over the weekend in a town of 35,000 people. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, during a visit Tuesday to Del Rio, said the county’s top official told him the most recent tally at the camp was about 8,600 migrants.

The criteria for deciding who is flown to Haiti and who is released in the U.S. was unclear, but two U.S. officials said single adults were the priority for expulsion flights.  The Homeland Security Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Tuesday night.

**   It's Biden's Waterloo -- the dominoes have started falling, and PR spin cannot pick them back up...

ADDED: 

Around Ciudad Acuña, Mexican authorities were stepping up efforts to move migrants away from the border. There were detentions overnight by immigration agents and raids on hotels known to house migrants.

“All of a sudden they knocked on the door and (yelled) ‘immigration,’ ‘police,’ as if they were looking for drug traffickers,” said Freddy Registre, a 37-year-old Venezuelan staying at one hotel with his Haitian wife, Vedette Dollard. The couple was surprised at midnight.

Authorities took four people plus others who were outside the hotel, he said. “They took our telephones to investigate and took us to the immigration offices, took our photos,” Registre said. They were held overnight but finally were given their phones back and released. Authorities gave them two options: leave Mexico or return to Tapachula.

On Tuesday afternoon, they decided to leave town. They bought tickets for a bus ride to the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, planning to continue to Tapachula where they had already applied for asylum.

Others left without being told. Small groups arrived at Ciudad Acuña’s bus station to buy tickets to Veracruz, Monterrey and Mexico City. The same bus lines prohibited from selling them tickets for rides north through Mexico, sold them tickets to head south without issue.

In Haiti, dozens of migrants upset about being deported from the U.S. tried to rush back into a plane that landed Tuesday afternoon in Port-au-Prince as they yelled at authorities. A security guard closed the plane door in time as some deportees began throwing rocks and shoes at the plane. Several of them lost their belongings in the scuffle as police arrived. The group was disembarking from one of three flights scheduled for the day.

"The fall is ultimately America's best season."

See now, when you state it like that, it's rather heartening.  America's current decline and decay can rather beautiful -- and quite natural.*  To every thing, there is a season. . .

Jonah Goldberg

Look, I’m not gonna speak in sweeping generalizations. Some parts of the country have lovely summers, with friends and noodle salad down by the lake. But summer in DC is evil. And I’m glad it officially dies today. Meanwhile, the fall is ultimately America’s best season.

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*Not really kidding, or cheering this one, just observing the decline.  Jonah Goldberg and I are both post-Boomers, we weren't raised by Boomers either.  Douglas Coupland tagged those born in our times Gen X, (mid 60s to early 80s).  

In our times,  America has always been slowly settling back from its peak as WWII victor and winner of the world, to figuring out how to be just a regular guy on the world's block, affluent and a leader sure, but one of many, not always the dominant leading player when we're not best suited to serve in that role...

I only speak for myself, but I don't fear this period in America's timeline. There's work to do, and the people now in charge will turn over the torch in time, and what we ... "inherit" be less overall than those gifts given to the Boomers.  Ideally, this is better because by making the playing field even a bit more level, we'd like to think those leading us have actually earned their way up, not networked, cheated, or bought their way in...

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Further musings:   I don't think generational attitudes necessarily can be broken down by timeline, so much as lifestyle though.  Independence factor.

Guys like Hunter Biden?  They're not GenX, as their survival owes to the attachment to the host body that nourishes them, of an earlier generation.  They're not an independent life form really.  Something like a barnacle, that will be scraped off in time.  I do think those comments of his to his attorney, the racial ones, coupled with more and more of his laptop memory leaking out, plus the non-due process treatment of the Haitians who have crossed the American border, will lose his father's party -- if it hasn't already -- the working black vote.  Blacks in non-White liberal society are realists:  there's clearly no cavalry coming...

The Congress -- they had it, and held it -- is proving fickle in paying back their promises to the voters who gave the Dems the presidency and both branches.  They are so unused to really working, they can't get the job done on time, ever it seems.

Button up your overcoats then... I think it is going to be a long hard winter in this country, and take care:  you might even feel it, the bitter cold, in D.C. too this year.

Equinox!~

 It doesn't get as much attention as the Solstice Sisters, or even the Spring Equinox, but autumn is here -- the best time of year.  Sunny and bright, but not baking hot. Best time of year to be out, in the long afternoons and cool mornings and evenings, if you have fair skin and like a cooler temperature to exert in...

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* I guess officially, it is tomorrow, and the Harvest Moon was last night... I'm celebrating both today.

"Call It Sleep..."

 On the record:  I will maintain to my deathbed that Henry Roth is a better writer than Philip.  Weightier themes, more inclusive...

Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.…

~1 Kings 19:5

"Happy Tuesday."

 "You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat..." *accents on.

Make it a great week, then. Friday is only a few days away, if that helps.

Sign O' the Times... Skimming Headlines...

This one makes me think of George Floyd's death.  (ie/He might have lived on for years with those elevated, potentially lethal levels in his system, due to increased tolerance -- here, for an urban rodent diet that likely have elevated levels of poison in their systems too.  Maybe the poison impaired performance, but the ultimate cause of death is the immediate impact of the blunt confrontation with the truck.  Here, Chauvin would be the truck.)  RIP.

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High levels of rat poison were found in Barry’s bloodstream, according to veterinarians who performed a necropsy on him.

Barry The Owl Was Poisoned Before Central Park Truck Hit Her

 

The beloved barred owl who died last month in Central Park  in New York Ciy, had a potentially lethal level of rat poison that could have impaired her flying abilities before her crash, according to a state necropsy...

thecity.nyc

Et tu, U.N.?

 All the issues in the world you'd think they might help take a lead on and no, they are busy listening to K-Pop.  What in the world is going on in this world?!?

BTS Took Center Stage at the U.N. Over One Million Fans Watched Live.

The boy band’s seven members accompanied President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, who designated them as special presidential envoy for future generations and culture.

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"Magic Is Fun... You're Dead!"

 Just learned recently that that creepy late 70s or early 80s ventriloquist doll movie* starred Anthony Hopkins (really, the doll.)  I never saw it, but oh, they ran those ads enough for it to stick in the craw... Creepy.

The other scary line you knew from the movie or show you didn't see?  "The calls... are coming... from INSIDE the house!!"   Sometimes in our country today, that warning seems apt, and it's a crazy sign of our times that half the country thinks it's cool one of our military guys called up... China, of all places, post pandemic even when it's clear they are developing biological weapons in addition to ramping up their firepower, to assure them he would pre-warn them of a military attack from our side...

Failsafe this is not.**

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* 1978.  I was 10, and coming up in the not-yet rusted Rust Belt, with the factories just startinug to close down...  the inflation, gas prices, but Iran hadn't taken the hostages yet.  Scary times, in retrospect.  God Bless America again, indeed.

** Got to watch that one on class time in high school.  A conservative, Reagan-loving male teacher who taught with the newspaper as well as the history books... Mr. Chapelle. Richard Chapelle. Dick.  Coast Guard due to bad hearing in an ear, but he was a Marine at heart... They need more like him in the classrooms today.  He knew and lived American history. A thinker, who wanted us to think, not to tell us which thoughts were better than others, like they seem to school you in on campus today... where everybody's an expert, but in reality, few of them know any real-life shit.

I'd get somebody on this, ASAP.

 It is unclear how such a large number amassed so quickly. The number of Haitian arrivals began to reach unsustainable levels for US officials in Del Rio about two weeks ago, prompting the acting border patrol sector chief, Robert Garcia, to ask for help, according to a US official.

We have pretty shitty people working in our intelligence services it seems.  I suppose we can't outsource that work, or bring in foreigners or too many first- or second-generations who are more driven, by necessity, to succeed, but still...

Can they get anything right?  Ever since we learned, post-9-11, that the FBI ignored warnings that foreigners were taking flight lessons with no interest at all in learning how to land a plane, just control it, that we've got piss-poor results from our brains in charge.

Remember Parkland too?  Didn't a concerned family friend reach out to alert the FBI before those killings too?  Again they dropped the ball.

There's no excusing the whole 20-year military fiasco in Afghanistan either.  Turns out, our soldiers weren't actually training an army, but making promises:  "You get me out of this alive, translator, when the country falls, I'll get you and your extended family out too.  Deal?" Nothing doing though.  The taxpayers were paying our military to keep the problems over there.  That was the Bush Doctrine promise.  Let the U.S. military test out their new techonological weapons in the desert sands "over there", kill as many civilians / terrorists as necessary (*cough, cough), and we can pretend that these killings are "protecting" our people at home, done in the name of national security...

The military served it up, the media glorified the killings.  Every drone strike was a success, and the military was serving to save lives over here, by slaying terrorists who were imminently plotting to strike us... from over there.

Imagine if for the past 20 years, we'd been investigating ever drone strike on a wedding party that killed civilians the way we did the final drone assassination of the innocent family in Kabul.  Instead, our media got in bed with the military (formally "embedded") and swallowed every explanation they were fed.  Heck, it's hard to be critical or form independent opinions, I suppose, if you realize you've put your own life and safety into the hands of the military people surrounding and protectin you during your period of embedment. (That's why, once she took that first airplane ride up, Martha Raddatze -- for one, and a most visible one -- could no longer be trusted as a reliable news source.  She was in the military's pocket, gushing about their work ... "over there".  I suspect more print journalists than we know took up this special U.S. military invitation too, and "served" their craft, and their careers, right alongside the men and women serving the country.  That's noble, not non-neutral necessarily!, they probably protest.  Funny thing is, nobody in the embedded media detail either seemed to realize over the course of 20 years the futility of the military promises... People back home were safe and protected, afterall, thankful for the military for their service in killing the bad terrorists "over there" so our own children were safe here at home...

 Could honest coverage have ended the war sooner?  Do many Americans, other than myself, simply accept that America must be like Israel -- continually killilng, children included, and pretending such actions have to be taken to protect people?  It makes no sense, and Americans are wising up...

We are a moral people.  We do share Christian-Judeo values, and not everybody thinks that Israel's leaders should be leading America's, instead of vice versa.  

Just imagine, for a moment, that a foreign power had invaded our country, during President Trump's presidency say, and declared him an evil that must be eradicated.  Would our citizens rebel and fight back if our leaders were shot down, and a foreign army encamped on our soil for 20 years?  What if OUR nuclear scientists and researchers were being assassinated by drones, because they knew too much... science?  What if... Iran as well as Israel were able to cheat the non-proliferations treaties and secure nuclear status?  Honestly, I think that might bring more parity to the region.

Just like, sadly, it might take foreign drones dropping explosives on a few mini-vans here, picking kids up from school, or returning home from work, to recognize that whoever erred in our own military or intelligence services must be disciplined and held accountable.  Your actions killed innocents. 

So long as Biden is content to keep morally compromised men like Milley in power though, America will remain fractured.  Some of us relate more to the humans killed, no matter their race or ethnicity, than we do the powerful who continually pull the trigger with no accountability.

 Intelligence over weapons and force wins in the end.  Always has.  America would do well by her people to acknowledge this before it become a free-for-all deathtrap where might makes right...  Jesus, no!

This is when it gets ugly, friends...

Hell no, we won't go, indeed! Honestly, nobody saw this coming?  If they refuse to voluntarily get in the buses to take them to the airport to fly them "home" to Haiti, how will we... convince them?  What levels of force will be used to expel the migrants/invaders from American soil, where thousands remained camped under a bridge refusing to leave?

(I've seen local "dismantling" of the homeless camps here in the Cities when cold weather is approaching and authorities understand they have a duty to protect the people in these makeship homeless communities against the elements, drug use, and even occasional crimes and deaths in camp.  It's not pretty.  I suspect the Biden's are trying to figure a way to get this done with no media coverage or pictures at the scene.  If the Haitian people push back, and physically fight back, refusing to be taken away, it will be an even bigger crisis.  This is why Trump's policies -- harsh as they might have seemed -- was actually saving lives by refusing to deny reality and promote false hope to the poor and struggling.  You can't buy bread with false promises, afterall.

Texas

Haitian migrants intend to remain at Texas border despite plan to expel them

Where Will These People Live? Who Will House Them?

 If they get government vouchers, doesn't that drive up the costs of housing for working Americans already here?  Hm.  Maybe we should build it first, then invite the poor to come?  What is Congress waiting for again?  Christmas?  The American people will have fully turned on their "good intentions" by then.  

Reality is knocking at our borders, and on our city streets.  How long will the wealthy turn their heads, aided and abetted by a soft media that has all the good intentions in the world, but very little experience living in non-safe places where reality intrudes?  They report from a distance.  They don't live here.

The Biden administration will raise the cap on refugee admissions to 125,000.

The move indicates the president’s intention to open the country’s doors after four years in which the Trump administration sought to prevent refugees from settling in the United States.

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Chicago mayor pitches $500 monthly payments to poor families...

Wait, wait... we might have an answer.  Chicago is promising $500 checks for poor people to move there?  As if they don't already have enough.  Trust me:  this is a cultural problem, not anything the Dems will "fix" by throwing even more money at it...  Also, it wasn't so long ago Chicago was having troubles paying the pensions of the city workers who put in years of service;  where is this $500 stipend going to come from?  Working Chicagoans?  hahaha.  They're leaving already in droves.  

I really don't think these spend, Spend, SPEND plans of the Dems will go over well with the people trying to live within their means, and work for their daily bread.  We vote, you know.  And you can't fix every election, even in Chicago.  Anybody out there listening?  Anybody know any higher ups in Congress -- got a friend in Nancy Pelosi, maybe?  Tell her please... the time is running out  Think of the Wicked Witch's overturned hourglass and the great chase through the Castle?

If Nancy Pelosi still wields the power some say, even late into her 80s, then let her bring her people to town and put them to work already.  I do not understand what this Democratic Congress is waiting for... If there is a legislative "fix" to any of this, for God's sake get in there and address the nation's problems.

And please?  A lack of daycare subsidies for the two-worker families with children is honestly not in the top 10 of our pressing needs right now.  1) Secure the border. No immigration amnesties, no big social-spending bllls will be embraced out here until you can show us you honestly have plans to address that.

Good luck.  If you can't get it done, retire already.

 

Today's Top News: Expulsion of Haitian asylum-seekers at the border, and coming Dem breakdown on passing Biden's Big Spending Bills...

 Poor Dems.  They never strike while the iron is hot, stay in town while they have a majority, and work together to get something passed that they've promised the people.  Now, with the Afghanistan pullout debacle, the continued concern that the economy is not all that for everyone yet, and the obvious crisis on our Southern border, I do not think many Americans are eager to see a Big Spending bill passed that Americans as a whole cannot afford.  Biden can't even get his crew to up the debt limit, meaning we might have to start living on what we've actually got...  Instead of more federal spending, you'll likely see  push under the next administration to curtail the current benefits, and can we be honest?  Somebody really should be working on shoring up the Social Security system so that we don't have hungry and indigent elders on our streets in years to come, along with today's younger homeless crowd.

Almost end of day:  here's what the AP has to show for their reporting:

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants have been removed from an encampment at a Texas border town, U.S. officials said Monday as they defended a strong response that included immediately expelling migrants to their impoverished Caribbean country and using horse patrols to stop them from entering the town.

Calling it a “challenging and heartbreaking situation,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a stark warning: “If you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned. Your journey will not succeed, and you will be endangering your life and your family’s life.”

Mayorkas and Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said they would look into agents on horseback using what appeared to be whips and their horses to push back migrants at the river between Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, and Del Rio, Texas, where thousands of migrants remain camped around a bridge.

NYT wires are moving only light fare of late...

Surely they'll have a team at the border soon too, as this story is right up their alley at the intersection of politics and race.  Nobody is clapping for the Biden administration's actions right now, I don't think, and you know they'll be damned before they credit former President Trump, and his voters, with introducing a note of reality to the country today, before local inland resources are overwhelmed.  We just don't have the wealth here they have on the coasts to support charitable projects.  And nobody seems too interested in helpng these Haitians, calling to resettle them say, in Prince George County, or on Cape Cod, for some reason...

Mayorkas said 600 Homeland Security employees, including from the Coast Guard, have been brought to Del Rio, a city of about 35,000 people roughly 145 miles (230 kilometers) west of San Antonio. He said he has asked the Defense Department for help in what may be one of the swiftest, large-scale expulsions of migrants and refugees from the United States in decades.

He also said the U.S. would increase the pace and capacity of flights to Haiti and other countries in the hemisphere. The number of migrants at the bridge peaked at 14,872 on Saturday, said Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a labor union that represents agents. ...

The rapid expulsions were made possible by a pandemic-related authority adopted by former President Donald Trump in March 2020 that allows for migrants to be immediately removed from the country without an opportunity to seek asylum. President Joe Biden exempted unaccompanied children from the order but let the rest stand.

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Meanwhile in Chicago, more black bodies pile up this weekend.  If we don't much care about controlling violence in our own black communities, and choose to accept those numbers, why would we admit into this country even more poor and undereducated black people when black immigrants and native American black culture is so incompatible and clashing when the groups encounter each other already?  

Maybe for the sake of the black schoolchildren already here, it really is safer to deport the newcomer Haitians and focus on the needs of the poor black communities already here, who clearly need cultural fixes that our current urban leaders are powerless to provide...

I mean, it's great for diversity that Chicago has a non-glamorous, black woman --  a married lesbian with a daughter, even -- at the helm, but if the city isn't working with her there, maybe it is better to elect to office an offensive white man even, who can control the streets, enforce the laws, and get the job done for the working people who want to follow the rules, work, and get home safely to their children -- who have had a safe and productive day at school.

Rahm couldn't do it either.  We don't like strongmen in politics necessarilly, but when the gangs are running the city and driving the good out, well at some point, you have to put people in who know the job they are being paid to do, and get it done.

(Can I get some white hands clapping?  Black ones clapping even -- isn't there an emoji for that?)

 

Sistahs, Doing It for Themselves...

When Jayme Closs' parents were killed and she was kidnapped in Barron Co., Wisc., investigators initially were stymied.  They put in booku OT hours investigating every "tip" that came in, but their independent investigation came to naught.  Eventually, they pulled back the hours, and asked for the public's help and prayers to find the missing girl.  At the courthouse, at Christmas time, they put up a memorial tree for Jamie, to let her know -- if she was alive out there, that she was not forgotten. 

She was however, on her own.  They were clueless to help her.

Jayme was being kept under the bed of her abductor, a young man -- one of ours -- who had graduated local public school in the northwoods.  She eventually freed herself and ran, into the arms of a social worker out walking her dog that winter day, who recognized the girl, took her in, and with the help of neighbors protected her until police arrived...

This weekend, another woman worked with law enforcement to provide the missing clue that brought the body of another missing young woman home.  She went through video she and her husband had captured on their dash-mounted GoPro camera, and found footage of Gabby's travel van, where it was parked that day at a remote campground...

From this video, police were able to focus their search, locate the body and bring some comfort to the family, having her "home" in one piece at least. (The poor parents of the service members killed in Afghanistan sadly did not even get that... they got body parts, not all intact either.)

It's not the fault of law enforcement, but a gentle reminder that sometimes information is more valuable than big men with guns, being masculine but needing help in solving crimes, or better: preventing crimes before they happen.  Now, the hunt is on for Gabby's killer...  Let's hope the police fare better at finding him alive.  White women deserve justice too.

Outside the Street's on Fire...

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of a knife, they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland 

~Springsteen, (1975)

„Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be. And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead Tonight in Jungleland.“ — Bruce Springsteen "Jungleland"

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Tree - brand logoQuotes of famous people Quotes Authors Topics Community Translations „Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be. And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead Tonight in Jungleland.“ — Bruce Springsteen "Jungleland" Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975) Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History Bruce Springsteen photo Bruce Springsteen102 American singer and songwriter 1949 Related quotes Dave Matthews photo „Now let's make this an evening Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight. Stay here with me, love, tonight. Just for an evening When we make Our passion pictures. You and me twist up, Secret creatures. And we'll stay here. Tomorrow go back to being friends.“ — Dave Matthews American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967 Say Goodbye Crash (1996) Night, Passion, Lovers, Secret Garth Brooks photo „Standing outside the fire; Standing outside the fire. Life is not tried, it is merely survived If you're standing outside the fire.“ — Garth Brooks American country music artist 1962 Standing Outside the Fire, written by Jenny Yates and G. Brooks. Song lyrics, In Pieces (1993) Life „Woman: Do come along quick, there's a house on fire. Fire Chief: A house on fire? Just a moment, lady – what's the address? Woman: Grimshaw Street. Fire Chief: Grimshaw Street – Grimshaw … now wait a minute, I know it as well as can be, and I just can't place it. Woman: Oh come along, it's only just round… Fire Chief: No, no, no – don't tell me, let me try and think of it for myself. Grimshaw St–… oh, isn't that annoying, I could walk straight to it, and I can't think of it.“ — Robb Wilton comedian 1881 - 1957 The Fire Chief Housing, Waiting, Thinking Eugène Edine Pottier photo „Stand up, damned of the Earth Stand up, prisoners of starvation Reason thunders in its volcano This is the eruption of the end. Of the past let us make a clean slate Enslaved masses, stand up, stand up. The world is about to change its foundation We are nothing, let us be all.“ — Eugène Edine Pottier French politician 1816 - 1887 Debout, les damnés de la terre Debout, les forçats de la faim La raison tonne en son cratère C'est l'éruption de la fin Du passé faisons table rase Foule esclave, debout, debout Le monde va changer de base Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout The Internationale (1864) Past, Change, World Maxine Kumin photo „Nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept.“ — Maxine Kumin American poet and author 1925 - 2014 Change, Wolf Billy Joe Shaver photo „The main thing is to make up your mind. If you're going to do it, do it, and if you're just going to halfway do it don't even try. This is a very demanding thing. I stay simple, I didn't get a whole lot of education, so most of it's just coming from what I gathered up. If you stay honest we've all got in common that we're all different. If you stay real deadly honest and write about some very interesting things then you'll be a good one. A lot of people just don't like to get honest but it's the cheapest psychiatrist there is. I think that's the way to look at it.“ — Billy Joe Shaver American singer-songwriter 1939 Statement made by Shaver when asked for an advice to young musicians A Conversation with Billy Joe Shaver (2014) Thinking, Way, Education, People Lionel Richie photo „Here we are out here, me and you. Reaching out to each other Is all that we can do. Here we stand trying not to fall. There's no need to worry, Love will conquer all.“ — Lionel Richie American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor 1949 Love Will Conquer All, co-written with Greg Phillinganes and Cynthia Weil. Song lyrics, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986) Love Scott Lynch photo „You’ve the presence of a mouse fart in a high wind. Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.“ — Scott Lynch, book The Republic of Thieves Source: The Republic of Thieves Dave Matthews photo „So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.“ — Dave Matthews American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967 One Sweet World Remember Two Things (1993) Sleep Jim Butcher photo „Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered.“ — Jim Butcher, book Grave Peril Source: Grave Peril Night, Hell Billy Joel photo „It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing. But sometimes a fantasy Is all you need.“ — Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949 Sometimes a Fantasy. Song lyrics, Glass Houses (1980) Tony Kushner photo „Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone… Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.“ — Tony Kushner American playwright and screenwriter 1956 Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches Learning, Way, People „Death is the only fantasy that becomes real for all humans.“ — Zaman Ali Pakistani philosopher 1993 "Humanity", Ch.II "Ideologies: A way to live", Part V Death Nicholas Sparks photo „It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.“ — Nicholas Sparks, book A Walk to Remember Source: A Walk to Remember Love „"Okay," Jerry had said. Now, standing here, one leg half asleep, nausea threatening his stomach, the night chilling his flesh, Jerry wondered if he hadn't lost the moment he said okay.“ — Robert Cormier, book The Chocolate War Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 236 Night James Dickey photo „A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.“ — James Dickey American writer 1923 - 1997 Hope Steven Erikson photo „Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.“ — Steven Erikson, book Deadhouse Gates Source: Deadhouse Gates Dead, Death „Don't try to sell me on death, Odysseus. I'd rather be a hired hand back up on earth, Slaving away for some poor dirt farmer, Than lord it over all these withered dead.“ — Stanley Lombardo Philosopher, Classicist 1943 Book XI, lines 510–513; spoken by the ghost of Achilles. Translations, Odyssey (2000) Dead, Death „All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.“ — Shirley Jackson, book The Haunting of Hill House Source: The Haunting of Hill House Thinking Bruce Springsteen photo „Hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window And let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, These two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real, To trade in these wings on some wheels. Climb in back, heaven's waiting on down the tracks. Oh come take my hand, We're riding out tonight to case the promised land. Oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road. Thunder Road.“ — Bruce Springsteen American singer and songwriter 1949 "Thunder Road" Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975) Night, Waiting, Chance Related topics Dead Night Death Try Tonight Street Standing Popular topics Quotes about a smile Quotes about sadness Quotes about love Quotes about family Quotes about life Quotes about happiness Quotes about friendship Sad quotes Motivational Quotes Funny quotes Wise Quotes About Life Latin quotes Popular authors Tupac Shakur Andrzej Majewski Kurt Cobain Cornelius Keagon Sukavich Rangsitpol Lil Peep Emil M. Cioran Michael Jackson Johnny Depp Tom Hiddleston Bob Marley Ninus Nestorović Quotes of famous people Home About us Contact Protection of personal data Terms of service Become verified author Add quotes Follow us Logo Beautiful quotes. Share your passion for quotes. Join us. CzechSlovakItalienSpanishPortugueseGermanRussianPolishFrenchEnglishHungarian

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Tree - brand logoQuotes of famous people Quotes Authors Topics Community Translations „Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be. And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead Tonight in Jungleland.“ — Bruce Springsteen "Jungleland" Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975) Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History Bruce Springsteen photo Bruce Springsteen102 American singer and songwriter 1949 Related quotes Dave Matthews photo „Now let's make this an evening Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight. Stay here with me, love, tonight. Just for an evening When we make Our passion pictures. You and me twist up, Secret creatures. And we'll stay here. Tomorrow go back to being friends.“ — Dave Matthews American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967 Say Goodbye Crash (1996) Night, Passion, Lovers, Secret Garth Brooks photo „Standing outside the fire; Standing outside the fire. Life is not tried, it is merely survived If you're standing outside the fire.“ — Garth Brooks American country music artist 1962 Standing Outside the Fire, written by Jenny Yates and G. Brooks. Song lyrics, In Pieces (1993) Life „Woman: Do come along quick, there's a house on fire. Fire Chief: A house on fire? Just a moment, lady – what's the address? Woman: Grimshaw Street. Fire Chief: Grimshaw Street – Grimshaw … now wait a minute, I know it as well as can be, and I just can't place it. Woman: Oh come along, it's only just round… Fire Chief: No, no, no – don't tell me, let me try and think of it for myself. Grimshaw St–… oh, isn't that annoying, I could walk straight to it, and I can't think of it.“ — Robb Wilton comedian 1881 - 1957 The Fire Chief Housing, Waiting, Thinking Eugène Edine Pottier photo „Stand up, damned of the Earth Stand up, prisoners of starvation Reason thunders in its volcano This is the eruption of the end. Of the past let us make a clean slate Enslaved masses, stand up, stand up. The world is about to change its foundation We are nothing, let us be all.“ — Eugène Edine Pottier French politician 1816 - 1887 Debout, les damnés de la terre Debout, les forçats de la faim La raison tonne en son cratère C'est l'éruption de la fin Du passé faisons table rase Foule esclave, debout, debout Le monde va changer de base Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout The Internationale (1864) Past, Change, World Maxine Kumin photo „Nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept.“ — Maxine Kumin American poet and author 1925 - 2014 Change, Wolf Billy Joe Shaver photo „The main thing is to make up your mind. If you're going to do it, do it, and if you're just going to halfway do it don't even try. This is a very demanding thing. I stay simple, I didn't get a whole lot of education, so most of it's just coming from what I gathered up. If you stay honest we've all got in common that we're all different. If you stay real deadly honest and write about some very interesting things then you'll be a good one. A lot of people just don't like to get honest but it's the cheapest psychiatrist there is. I think that's the way to look at it.“ — Billy Joe Shaver American singer-songwriter 1939 Statement made by Shaver when asked for an advice to young musicians A Conversation with Billy Joe Shaver (2014) Thinking, Way, Education, People Lionel Richie photo „Here we are out here, me and you. Reaching out to each other Is all that we can do. Here we stand trying not to fall. There's no need to worry, Love will conquer all.“ — Lionel Richie American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor 1949 Love Will Conquer All, co-written with Greg Phillinganes and Cynthia Weil. Song lyrics, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986) Love Scott Lynch photo „You’ve the presence of a mouse fart in a high wind. Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.“ — Scott Lynch, book The Republic of Thieves Source: The Republic of Thieves Dave Matthews photo „So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.“ — Dave Matthews American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967 One Sweet World Remember Two Things (1993) Sleep Jim Butcher photo „Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered.“ — Jim Butcher, book Grave Peril Source: Grave Peril Night, Hell Billy Joel photo „It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing. But sometimes a fantasy Is all you need.“ — Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949 Sometimes a Fantasy. Song lyrics, Glass Houses (1980) Tony Kushner photo „Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone… Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.“ — Tony Kushner American playwright and screenwriter 1956 Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches Learning, Way, People „Death is the only fantasy that becomes real for all humans.“ — Zaman Ali Pakistani philosopher 1993 "Humanity", Ch.II "Ideologies: A way to live", Part V Death Nicholas Sparks photo „It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.“ — Nicholas Sparks, book A Walk to Remember Source: A Walk to Remember Love „"Okay," Jerry had said. Now, standing here, one leg half asleep, nausea threatening his stomach, the night chilling his flesh, Jerry wondered if he hadn't lost the moment he said okay.“ — Robert Cormier, book The Chocolate War Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 236 Night James Dickey photo „A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.“ — James Dickey American writer 1923 - 1997 Hope Steven Erikson photo „Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.“ — Steven Erikson, book Deadhouse Gates Source: Deadhouse Gates Dead, Death „Don't try to sell me on death, Odysseus. I'd rather be a hired hand back up on earth, Slaving away for some poor dirt farmer, Than lord it over all these withered dead.“ — Stanley Lombardo Philosopher, Classicist 1943 Book XI, lines 510–513; spoken by the ghost of Achilles. Translations, Odyssey (2000) Dead, Death „All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.“ — Shirley Jackson, book The Haunting of Hill House Source: The Haunting of Hill House Thinking Bruce Springsteen photo „Hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window And let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, These two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real, To trade in these wings on some wheels. Climb in back, heaven's waiting on down the tracks. Oh come take my hand, We're riding out tonight to case the promised land. Oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road. Thunder Road.“ — Bruce Springsteen American singer and songwriter 1949 "Thunder Road" Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975) Night, Waiting, Chance Related topics Dead Night Death Try Tonight Street Standing Popular topics Quotes about a smile Quotes about sadness Quotes about love Quotes about family Quotes about life Quotes about happiness Quotes about friendship Sad quotes Motivational Quotes Funny quotes Wise Quotes About Life Latin quotes Popular authors Tupac Shakur Andrzej Majewski Kurt Cobain Cornelius Keagon Sukavich Rangsitpol Lil Peep Emil M. Cioran Michael Jackson Johnny Depp Tom Hiddleston Bob Marley Ninus Nestorović Quotes of famous people Home About us Contact Protection of personal data Terms of service Become verified author Add quotes Follow us Logo Beautiful quotes. Share your passion for quotes. Join us. CzechSlovakItalienSpanishPortugueseGermanRussianPolishFrenchEnglishHungarian

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