Nature Boy 2.0

Texas Judge Releases Illegal Immigrants Who Rioted and Clashed With National Guard at Southern Border
 
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/03/31/texas-judge-releases-illegal-immigrants-who-rioted-and-clashed-with-national-guard-at-southern-border-n2172151

= one of the all-time great names, and looks like words from any one of NB's posts

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/botswana-threatens-to-send-20000-elephants-to-germany-in-trophy-hunting-row
 
Botswana’s president has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies.
Earlier this year Germany’s environment ministry raised the possibility of stricter limits on the import of hunting trophies over poaching concerns. But a ban on the import of hunting trophies would only impoverish Botswanans, Mokgweetsi Masisi told German daily Bild.
 

Thoughtful piece by Julie Kelly.
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Aileen Cannon:  Portrait of a Judge in the Fractured Double Reality of American Justice
 
[...] When Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a sprawling indictment against Trump that included 32 counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly taking national defense records when he left office, he not only put the 43-year-old judge in the spotlight – he also put her in the crosshairs.  [...]
 
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/03/portrait_of_a_judge_reflected_in_the_fractured_double_reality_of_american_politics_1021972.html

Oh, gosh.  Unless I posted it here previously, it would be pure luck to find it again.  Regardless, will try.

Great article.  A few weeks back, I read something like this, albeit a lot more technical.  It needs to be understood by these simplistic Chicken Littles.

With 'Friends' Like Mexico's Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un and the Ayatollahs?
 
In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—who prefers to be known as AMLO for short—issued to the Biden administration blackmail demands that sounded more like existential threats.
 
AMLO warned the U.S. that the current influx of some 10 million illegal aliens through the southern border will most certainly continue—unless America agrees to his ultimatums.  [...]
 
https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/01/with-friends-like-obrador/

EXPOSED: White House Sends Different Messages on English- and Spanish-Language Accounts
 
[...] It was so vital Trans Visibility was on Easter, but not vital enough to be on the Spanish-language account.  [...]
 
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/04/01/white-house-different-messages-n2394614

Buyers Now Need Six-Figure Income to Afford Typical Home in 22 States — Up From Just Six States in 2020
 
[...] A new analysis from Bankrate.com found that in 22 states and Washington, D.C., homebuyers now need a six-figure household income to comfortably afford a typical median-priced home — up from just six states and D.C. in January 2020 before "you know who" was inaugurated.  [...]
 
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/04/01/buyers-now-need-six-figure-income-to-afford-typical-home-in-22-states-up-from-just-six-states-in-2020-n2172176

Looks Like One of Biden's Tall Tales About His Background Just Got Called Out...by Joe Biden
 
[...] I wanted to note what Joe Biden has said about his alleged Puerto Rican connection.  We covered that back in 2022 and I wrote about how he said he was "raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically."  [...]
 
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/04/02/looks-like-one-of-bidens-tall-tales-about-his-background-just-got-called-outby-joe-biden-n2172214

'I Didn't Do That':  Biden Gaslights America On 'Trans Day of Visibility'
 
[...] Biden could have just issued a friendly, supportive statement without a proclamation and avoided much if not all of the pushback.  [...]
 
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/04/02/i-didnt-do-that-biden-gaslights-america-again-n3785731

Biden and Xi Hold First Call Since 2022, China Promptly Deploys Ships and Warplanes Around Taiwan
 
[...] Communist Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping has zero respect for besieged President Joe Biden — and fears the cognitively declining president even less.
 
The latest example of proof of the above rings clear as a bell.
 
Biden and Xi held their first phone since July 2020 on Monday.  Within hours, dozens of Chinese warplanes and multiple naval vessels were reported around Taiwan, the largest coordinated display (implied threat) of 2024.  At least 30 planes and nine ships were detected in Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) by the country's Ministry of National Defense (MND).  [...]
 
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/04/03/biden-and-xi-hold-first-call-since-2022-china-promptly-deploys-ships-and-warplanes-around-taiwan-n2172245

What about asking Ukraine for the necessary funds?
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'Too Expensive':  Biden Cancels Plan to Refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve
 
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that, for now at least, it was abandoning plans to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the president drained the emergency supply to its lowest levels since the 1980s in a transparently political move to artificially push gas prices down.
 
In a realization that Americans have been making regularly since Biden and his failed "build back better"-turned-"Bidenomics" agenda came to power, the White House has seemingly realized prices are just too darn high to fill the government's emergency supply.  [...]
 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/04/03/biden-cancels-plans-to-refill-strategic-petroleum-reserve-n2637317

'I Didn't Do That,' Insists Biden After Aides Ask Him Who Colored On The Wall Of The Lincoln Bedroom
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.-When asked by the press who drew in crayon all over the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House this week, President Biden answered with an emphatic, "I didn't do that" before quickly shoving a handful of red and blue crayons in his mouth.

"That's flagrant misinformation," remarked the President through a full mouth of colored wax.  "Mrwighphrggedgh.  I didn't do that."

Whitehouse Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was quick to condemn the accusations, reminding members of the press that [...]
 
https://babylonbee.com/news/i-didnt-do-that-insists-biden-after-aides-ask-him-who-colored-on-the-wall-of-the-lincoln-bedroom

Still waiting for signs that such status is desirable to retain...

best we can do is rhododendron

Small change in Nebraska election law could throw the presidential election to Trump
 
Yesterday, Nebraska's Republican governor endorsed legislation that could affect the presidential election and reinstall Donald Trump in the Oval Office.  [...]
 
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/small_change_in_nebraska_election_law_could_throw_the_presidential_election_to_trump.html

Hello, Wisconsin!  Cheeseheads Seem to Be Waking Up
 
[...] I was wondering what had hit these people, these Biden-voting people, and turned them into normies again.  One of the wokest states in the union went ahead on Tuesday and voted AGAINST Zuckerbucks (!) AND letting anyone other than election officials touch anything to do with running an election.  [...]
 
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/04/03/hello-wisconsin-cheeseheads-seem-to-be-waking-up-n3785887

This is an in-depth, but not lengthy, article.
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Gallup:  More Bad News for Biden
 
Time for a new pandemic or other crisis, because it's going to take a lot of rigging to get Joe Biden across the finish line this November.
 
I'm not making any predictions, mind you.  Crises and pandemics can be manufactured on demand these days.  It's not like the MSM is above putting its thumbs on the scales to move the needle.
 
But according to Gallup, Joe Biden's reputation among Americans keeps getting worse, while Trump is still doing pretty well.  [...]
 
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/03/gallup-more-bad-news-for-biden-n3785873

Years ago, I had a girlfriend who escaped Czechoslovakia with her family and went to Canada.  She said that, in school (taught only in English), she cried for 6 weeks and then caught on.  She would agree wholeheartedly with this piece.
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Teach Migrant Children English -- Bilingual Ed Is a Scam
 
New York City, Denver, Chicago and other cities are urgently recruiting bilingual education teachers as the children of migrants enroll in school.  Bilingual ed will doom most of these kids to failure.  All too often it's an educational ghetto, producing dropouts who can't speak English and face a lifetime of poverty.
 
Non-English-speaking students should be given intense instruction in English when they first arrive at school and then mainstreamed to classrooms where students are taught only in English.

The educational establishment says stressing English competency is "xenophobic."  [...]
 
https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2024/04/03/teach-migrant-children-english-bilingual-ed-is-a-scam-n2637280

Israel Intercepts Arms Shipment From Iran to Gaza
 
On Wednesday, Fox News presented a video of an arms shipment reportedly intercepted by Israeli forces.  The video was not accompanied by any narration or indeed any audio, but reportedly shows a cache of weapons and explosives headed for Hamas in Gaza, and supplied by Iran.
 
The video displays a wide range of arms and munitions, including mines, hand-thrown grenades, and other explosives, rocket-propelled grenade launchers (the infamous RPG-7 of Cold War infamy) what appear to be a variety of sidearms including Glock and Beretta pistols, and interestingly, what look to be AR-15 platform rifles, although whether they are the M-16/M4 version that has the full-auto or 3-shot burst capability is not discernible.  [...]
 
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/04/03/israel-intercepts-arms-shipment-from-iran-to-gaza-n2172249

Yes -- and these deaths were considered regrettable but necessary in bringing those enemies to their knees.

No doubt.  I wonder how many civilians were killed when the UK and US we’re carpet bombing Germany, or the U.S. was firebombing Japan.

Some enterprising PhD student could write his dissertation on the landmark ways in which the Israeli military is minimizing civilian casualties in ways never even approached before.