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Biden: Citizenship for 11 Million Illegal Aliens, Miners Should ‘Learn to Code’

Posted on | January 1, 2020 | Comments Off on Biden: Citizenship for 11 Million Illegal Aliens, Miners Should ‘Learn to Code’

 

At a time when unemployment is at an all-time low, the Democrat front-runner offers a nostalgic return to Obama-era policies:

Democrat presidential contender Joe Biden said that coal miners can learn how to code, reviving a promotion of retraining blue-collar workers for positions in the technology industry.
On the campaign trail in Derry, New Hampshire, on Dec. 30, Biden said: “Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well.”
“But we don’t think of it that way. Even my liberal friends don’t think of it that way,” he added.
Biden was talking about the changing economy and the “jobs of the future,” telling the crowd that “six out of 10 jobs today, today, today, require more than a high school degree.”
“Does anybody think that you’re going to be able to stay in the middle class in the ’20s and ’30s of the 21st century without better education? Now brawn is no longer the measure. I come from a family, an area where it’s coal mining in Scranton,” he said, before making the comment about coal miners learning how to code.
Biden later touted the Obama administration helping Detroit recover, discussing how “anybody who had any talent in terms of technology left” when bankruptcy hit and claiming there was “no one who knew how to turn on the street lights” or “the sewer system.”

In the same appearance, Joe promised citizenship to illegal aliens:

[T]he candidate made it clear at a campaign rally in Derry, New Hampshire that not only will he work to establish a path to citizenship for those in the country illegally, but that he will issue them driver’s licenses.
The issue came up during a Q&A session when an attendee said: “I wanted to ask you about getting driver’s licenses for our undocumented immigrants. Do you have a plan in the works for working on that, as I believe it would help them establish residency and the first step towards possible citizenship.”
“Actually, yes and yes,” Biden answered. “And, by the way, I’m going to fundamentally change the immigration policy we have.” . . .
“The first thing I will do is send — I mean within the first couple of weeks, we already have it written — a bill to the U.S. Congress providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people,” Biden said.

Don’t you just love that word “undocumented”? These are foreigners who have violated federal law, but Democrats want us to believe it’s just a paperwork error: “Oops! I forgot my documents!” And Joe’s reaction is, “Here you go — have a driver’s license and a ‘pathway’ to citizenship!”



 

Category: Economics, Immigration, Joe Biden, New Hampshire

#MyWishForTheNewDecade

Posted on | January 1, 2020 | Comments Off on #MyWishForTheNewDecade

by Smitty

Category: Uncategorized

Report: Leader of Attack on U.S. Embassy Met With Obama in 2011

Posted on | December 31, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Violent mobs in Baghdad:

Iranian militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of several identified as leading an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, reportedly visited the White House in 2011 during the presidency of Barack Obama.
On Tuesday, a mob in Baghdad attacked the U.S. embassy in retaliation against last weekend’s U.S. airstrikes against the Iran-backed Shiite militia Kataib Hezbollah (KH), responsible for killing an American civilian contractor. KH is one of a number of pro-Iran militias that make up the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF/PMU), which legally became a wing of the Iraqi military after fighting the Sunni Islamic State terrorist group.
President Donald Trump has since accused Iran of having “orchestrated” the embassy attack and stated that the government would be “held fully responsible.” . . .
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that among those agitating protesters in Baghdad on Tuesday was Hadi al-Amiri, a former transportation minister with close ties to Iran who leads the Badr Corps, another PMF militia.
In 2011, both Fox News and the Washington Times noted that then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki brought his transportation minister, al-Amiri, to a meeting at the White House. . . .
At the time, the outlets expressed concern that al-Amiri had ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the FBI has stated played a role in a 1996 terrorist attack that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. President Donald Trump designated the IRGC a foreign terrorist organization, the first time an official arm of a foreign state received the designation. . . .
In 2016, Obama secured a deal with Iran which included a payment of $1.7 billion in cash.



 

Category: Barack Obama, Iran, Iraq, Terrorism

‘Cosmic Justice’ in New York City

Posted on | December 31, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Steven Haynes is a street thug who punched a cop last week:

The man who was arrested for sucker-punching an NYPD cop in Brooklyn was back at his old stomping ground Sunday — just two days after being released without bail despite a slew of charges.
Steven Haynes, 40, returned to Livingston and Court streets in Downtown Brooklyn — where police say he slugged and brawled with one of New York’s Finest on Thursday — after being cut loose, irritating local merchants who say he’s been a troublesome presence on the block for months.
“No bail. Three hours, he was back in the same spot,” Michael Vitiello, general manager of an Italian restaurant two doors down, told The Post. “They had a cop sitting there, just watching him. He got his own security ‘cuz he’s a celebrity now.”
“They could have locked him up in Bellevue last night, but they didn’t do it,” he continued. “Now he’s back in the street causing problems.” . . .
His scuffle with the cop Thursday, which was caught on video, came after police got complaints he was sitting on the sidewalk drinking and blocking pedestrians.
He allegedly punched the officer and wrestled him to the ground, sending a nearby trashcan flying into the street.
The cop’s partner and other officers eventually subdued Haynes and took him into custody.
Haynes, who has at least 24 prior arrests, was charged with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct and an alcohol violation.
He was cut loose on supervised release Friday, records show.
City judges have begun to release many defendants who are charged with lower-level crimes — in anticipation of a state bail reform measure due to take effect Jan. 1.

If assaulting a police officer is classified among “lower-level crimes,” one wonders what an upper-level crime might be. New York’s “bail reform” legislation is part of a left-wing initiative nationwide based on the belief — widespread among “social justice” activists, and popularized by the #BlackLivesMatters movement — that the criminal justice system is inherently racist. Academia’s embrace of “critical race theory” has helped promote the idea that any statistical disparity between social groups is evidence of “structural inequality”; thus, the fact that black people constitute a disproportionately large share of the prison population is blamed on “white supremacy.” This gives rise to the kind of “reform” agenda that results in criminals — even repeat offenders like Steven Haynes — being turned loose to wreak havoc against innocent people.

This is what Thomas Sowell described as The Quest for Cosmic Justice, where a fanatical commitment to equality justifies policies that often harm the “oppressed” people liberals say they want to help. After all, what could do more to promote racist stereotypes of black people as dangerous and violent than to adopt a policy that puts more violent black criminals on the streets?

A Brooklyn miscreant accused of slapping three Orthodox Jewish women last week struck again on Sunday and was busted for assaulting another woman, police said.
A day after she was released without bail on charges stemming from the Friday attack, Tiffany Harris was charged with assault for slugging a 35-year-old in the face on Eastern Parkway near Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights at about 9:15 a.m., according to police.
It’s unclear if Sunday’s victim is Jewish — and police weren’t treating the incident as a hate crime. The victim suffered swelling and bruising to her right eye from the pummeling, police said.
On Friday, Harris allegedly assaulted three Orthodox women on Eastern Parkway near Kingston Avenue — one of at least eight anti-Semitic incidents in the city last week.
“Yes, I slapped them. I cursed them out. I said ‘F-U, Jews,’” Harris admitted to cops after that attack, according to a criminal complaint.

It’s almost as if liberals are trying to incite a race war in America. Maybe soon they’ll start issuing free machetes to Jew-haters in New York.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

Category: Crime, New York

FMJRA 2.0: Do It

Posted on | December 31, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Just got out of the VA hospital last night after being admitted on Boxing Day morning for gastrointestinal issues best not described. Going to try and get as much done this afternoon as I can.

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Feds Say Hanukkah Attacker’s Journals Referenced Black Hebrew Israelite Cult

Posted on | December 30, 2019 | Comments Off on Feds Say Hanukkah Attacker’s Journals Referenced Black Hebrew Israelite Cult

 

This seems so predictable:

The New York man accused of stabbing five people at a rabbi’s home during a Hanukkah celebration this past weekend was charged Monday with federal hate crimes as details are emerging about a series of handwritten journals found at his home that the FBI says appear to “express anti-Semitic sentiments.”
Grafton Thomas is now facing five counts of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by attempting to kill with a dangerous weapon and causing injuries. The 37-year-old already was charged with five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary following the incident that unfolded Saturday night in Monsey, N.Y., which officials have described as an anti-Semitic act of “domestic terrorism.” Thomas’ bail has been set at $5 million and he is scheduled to appear at a federal court Monday afternoon.
Law enforcement officials who searched Thomas’ home in Greenwood Lake found handwritten journals that appear to “express anti-Semitic sentiments,” an FBI agent wrote in a federal complaint filed Monday.
The journals question “why [people] mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide” and claim the “Hebrew Israelites” took from the “powerful [people] (ebinoid Israelites).” They also contained references to “Adolf Hitler” and “Nazi Culture” on the same page as drawings of symbols such as the Star of David and a swastika, the complaint says.
“The term ‘ebinoid Israelites’ appears to be a reference to the ‘Black Hebrew Israelite’ movement, in which groups of African-Americans assert that they are the descendants of the ancient Israelites,” the FBI agent wrote in the complaint. The male suspect in a recent mass shooting at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, N.J., was a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite group, NBC New York previously has reported.
A phone recovered from Thomas’ car also contained Internet searches for “Why did Hitler hate the Jews” and “German Jewish Temples near me,” the agent wrote. . . .
Thomas’ family, through a statement issued by his attorney, said he has “a long history of mental illness and hospitalizations” yet has “no history of like violent acts and no convictions for any crime.
“He has no known history of anti-Semitism and was raised in a home which embraced and respected all religions and races,” the statement added. “He is not a member of any hate groups.”

OK, let’s be clear about mental illness and motives: If some white psychotic with “a long history of mental illness and hospitalizations” had attacked a rabbi’s home during Hanukkah, nobody would hesitate to blame the “alt-right,” and everybody on CNN would be talking about the “climate of hate” for which Trump is allegedly to blame. But let a black psychotic commit such a crime and — hang on while I change the TV channel to CNN — no, there’s no connect-the-dots political blame-game, no “national conversation” attempting to shift responsibility onto Jew-hating Democrats like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

Any radical ideology that inspires violent acts of “lone wolf” terrorism will predictably appeal to crazy people. It doesn’t matter whether the ideology is Marxism or environmentalism or some kind of racial extremism, violent psychotics are always attracted to belief systems that furnish a pretext to justify their homicidal rage. Because we live in a society where the media elite are overwhelmingly partisan Democrats, however, the connection between crazy people and radical ideology is only considered newsworthy if the terrorist can be linked (however tenuously) to the “far right,” so that the accusing finger of blame can be pointed toward the Republican Party. The media will forget Grafton Thomas as quickly as they have forgotten Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson.



 

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Category: Crime, New York, Racism, Terrorism

UPDATE: Texas Church Shooter Identified as Homeless Criminal Keith Kinnunen

Posted on | December 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

More than 24 hours since he was shot dead:

At a news conference Sunday night, White Settlement Police Department Chief J.P. Bevering told reporters the gunman — who has yet to be identified — had sat down in a pew before getting up, taking out a shotgun and firing at a parishioner, who was killed.
FBI special agent in charge, Matthew DeSarno, said the gunman had been arrested multiple times in the past. He said he was “relatively transient” but had roots in the area.

So they know who he is, but they don’t want us to know. Very curious.

UPDATE: Crazy people are dangerous:

The man who fatally shot two people at a White Settlement Church on Sunday before he was killed by church security has been identified as a 43-year-old River Oaks man with a criminal record, according to two law enforcement sources.
Keith Thomas Kinnunen had a criminal record in Tarrant County including charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 2009 and theft of property in 2013. . . .
Kinnunen also was arrested in September 2016 for possession of an illegal weapon in Linden, New Jersey after he was found taking pictures outside an oil refinery, according to news reports at the time. . . .
At the time of his New Jersey arrest, Kinnunen also had a warrant for his arrest in Oklahoma for aggravated assault, mycentraljersey.com reported.

Another criminal psycho allowed to wander free.



 

Category: Crime, Texas

Report: Suspect in Anti-Semitic Terrorism May Be Linked to Earlier Attack

Posted on | December 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

The New York Post:

Authorities are investigating whether Grafton Thomas, the man charged in a machete attack on Hanukkah celebrants in Monsey, is tied to a recent stabbing near a village synagogue, a law-enforcement official told The Post on Sunday.
Details of the incident under investigation were unclear, but a 30-year man was beaten and repeatedly knifed while walking to the Mosdos Meharam Brisk Tashnad religious center in Monsey around 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 20, the Journal News reported at the time.
The victim, a father of four, was so badly brutalized that cops were initially told he’d apparently been hit by a car, officials said.
Ramapo Police Chief Brad Weidel told reporters that the man was “approached from behind by one or more individuals” and stabbed with an unidentified weapon that wasn’t immediately recovered.
The FBI joined that investigation and authorities were working to enhance low-quality surveillance video shot from afar, the Journal News reported earlier this month.

By the way, the targeting of this community in Rockland County was almost certainly not a coincidence. More than 30% of Rockland County’s population is Jewish, making it one of the largest Jewish communities in the United States. Grafton Thomas lived about 20 miles north of there, in Orange County, and obviously was aware of where these synagogues were located. People in Greenwood Lake, where Thomas grew up, said he was quiet and had played basketball as teenager. There are reports that Thomas played college football in 2005-2006, and that he later lived in Brooklyn before moving back home with his parents, but so far nothing to explain when or why he became a dangerous Jew-hater.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, liberals want to blame “right wing kooks.”

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Category: Crime, New York, Terrorism
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