It’s Monday, May 1st, 2023…but before we begin, how bad is it when the insensate in the Oval Office can’t even provide the answer to a pre-screened question from a little girl…
A very confused Joe Biden gets fact checked by a little girl after forgetting about one of his own grandkids pic.twitter.com/Ie70v0spaS
And what is it about Progressives repeatedly pretending the internet isn’t forever?!?
.@ScottJenningsKY to @rweingarten: “I am stunned at what you have said this week…I think you’ll find that most parents believe you are the tip of the sphere of school closures…I hear no remorse whatsoever about the generational damage that’s been done…” pic.twitter.com/gVCDgpP3dN
“The gunshots rang out just before midnight in mid April — pop, pop, pop, pop. Joel Coplin and his wife, Jo-Ann, were sleeping in their home above their downtown Phoenix art gallery when they were awakened by the loud blasts in front of their building. But they did not rush to the window to see what was happening. They didn’t call the police. “It’s gotten to the point where you just roll over and put the pillow over your head,” Coplin said of living on the edge of “the Zone,” one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments.
More than 1,000 people now call this site of drugged-out bacchanalia their home. In the Zone, addicts freely shoot up heroin and smoke meth and fentanyl, littering the grounds with needles and foil packets. They wander the streets like ghosts, lost in their delusions, and trade pills for sex, often in plain sight. They relieve themselves where they please, filling storm drains with human waste, rotten food, and garbage that flushes into the Rio Salado River Parkway (Oh, the environmental calamity!!!). They beat one another, rob one another. Sometimes they kill one another — at least four people were killed in the Zone last year, according to news reports. There have been multiple burned bodies in the encampment, including the burned body of a newborn found dead in the street.
Police rarely enforce the law. Instead, they provide vagrants around Phoenix with “courtesy rides” into the Zone, allegedly to get services at a Human Services Campus on the grounds. It’s become so bad over the last several years — the gunshots, the misery, the death — that Coplin and his wife, both painters, shuttered their gallery. They can’t risk bringing groups of people to the neighborhood for shows, even if they wanted to come.
Coplin and his wife are among the plaintiffs who sued the city last year, seeking to force Phoenix leaders to clear the Zone. In late March, Arizona Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney released a preliminary ruling in their favor; the city has until July 10, the next court date, to clean up the mess that it helped to create and to perpetuate. But lawyers who spoke to National Review said Blaney’s ruling could have implications outside of Phoenix and far beyond Arizona’s borders. The reasoning in his 23-page ruling, they said, could serve as a legal pathway for addressing the massive homeless encampments sprouting in parks and on sidewalks in big cities across the country, particularly on the West Coast.
The ruling, they said, is significant for two reasons: One, it makes the case that the city can legally take action to enforce anti-camping laws, despite a 2018 ruling out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that put limits on enforcing camping bans on the homeless. And two, it makes clear that the city must take action to “abate the nuisance” it has allowed to grow.
In his ruling, Blaney declared that the city of Phoenix is illegally “maintaining a public nuisance in the Zone” — a biohazard where crime is rampant and laws are enforced arbitrarily. He also took aim at one of the city’s prime excuses for not clearing the camp — Martin v. City of Boise, a Ninth Circuit ruling that concluded that prosecuting people for sleeping or camping on public property when they have no home or shelter to go to is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment…”
“Oregon Democrats have put forward a bill that would decriminalize camping despite calls for help from residents already exasperated by the homelessness crisis in the state. Oregon House Bill 3501, known as the Right to Rest Act, states that homeless individuals will have “a privacy interest and a reasonable expectation of privacy in any property belonging to the person, regardless of whether the property is located in a public space.” The bill also allows homeless individuals to sue for up to $1,000 if they are “harassed” or told to relocate.
The bill says that “persons experiencing homelessness” will “be permitted to use public spaces in the same manner as any other person without discrimination based on their housing status” and states that homeless individuals have a right to “move freely in public spaces without discrimination and time limitations that are based on housing status.”
…”I love Portland and I love where I live,” Portland homeowner Jacob Adams told Fox & Friends in February in a plea to elected officials to do something about a homeless encampment next to his house, where fires and drug activity have terrorized his family. “I’m asking you to please do something, so the people of the city feel safe.”
Armand Martens, an 83-year-old Vietnam veteran who also lives next to Adams, told a local outlet he felt safer walking down the streets of Saigon than he does in Portland…”
Here’s the juice: There isn’t a “housing” crisis, nor are all but a tiny minority of these individuals (think the percentage of the population who are truly suffering from gender dysphoria!) transitorily homeless. This “crisis”, created by Progressive politicians and policies, is almost exclusively comprised of the drug-addicted and mentally-ill who refuse to follow rules or be subject to any restrictions on their behavior whatsoever.
Case in point:
Any questions?!?
And in today’s installment of the EnvironMental Moment, this forward from Richard Colt offers a cold, harsh dose of…
“Where is Don Quixote when we need him? His fantasy was to slay giants (in reality, windmills) in his quest to fight injustice through chivalry. Green energy proponents have a carbon dioxide “net zero emissions” fantasy of powering civilization through green energy windmills and solar panels.
Green energy advocates are for building windmills with trillions of taxpayer dollars and displacing existing energy and transportation industries. The result is weakening America and aiding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) quest for world domination.
Don Quixote’s quest was a fantasy. Green energy advocates’ quest for “net zero” power emissions is also a fantasy — a dangerous fantasy for America…”
We’d suggest not just dangerous, but deadly.
Moving on, we present another sextet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
(3). Jonathan Turley is dead-on balls accurate in his assessment…
The viciousness of the Biden family in dealing with this little girl is only matched by that of the media. Reporters who profess to support women and denounce deadbeat dads have either ignored this story or belittled her mother… https://t.co/pKkQprJXac
“Despicable” doesn’t BEGIN to describe this clan of contemptible criminals.
(4).In relating how Democrats have dropped the mask about what the ERA would really mean for abortion and women-only spaces, NRO‘s John McCormack recalls when Phyllis Schlafly warned Americans back in the 1970s, among other things, the Equal Rights Amendment would mean the end of bathrooms exclusively for women, advocates insisted for decades the charge was absurd. Imagine our surprise…or complete lack thereof…when last week Mazie Hirono of Hawaii tweeted the ERA would provide equal rights to “trans women & non-binary people.” Yeah, and TO HELL with BIOLOGIC women!!!
…thrilled Rosa DeLauro, the Connecticut State Witch.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from the lovely Shannon…
…and Balls Cotton:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of an enterprising citizen of the Sunshine State:
“Florida law enforcement officials arrested a six-time convicted felon last week, who was allegedly in possession of enough fentanyl to kill 7,000, with his 4-month-old baby in the vehicle.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested Ricardo Guyton Jr. for armed trafficking of fentanyl, possessing a firearm as a felon and child neglect. The sheriff’s office said detectives with the department’s Opioid Overdose Investigations (OOI) investigated Guyton’s activities for two weeks before he was arrested.
When deputies arrested Guyton on April 27, a press release from the sheriff’s office read, he was allegedly in possession of 14 grams of fentanyl, which is enough to kill 7,000 people, and a loaded handgun that was reported stolen from an unlocked vehicle in Temple Terrace in 2021. The release also said Guyton’s 4-month-old infant was in the vehicle during the arrest, which led officers to charge the suspect with child neglect…”
Reports what REALLY incensed Progressives wasn’t the repeat felon’s possession of fentanyl or a weapon, but the fact the little tyke wasn’t secured in a child safety seat remain unconfirmed…but absolutely believable.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Texas AG Ken Paxton offers up the facts regarding election fraud; NOT “stolen elections”, but election fraud.
Tales of The Darkside
Prager U. puts Progressive snowflakes on the spot with a cold splash of reality.
On the Lighter Side
Buddy Brown reveals what REALLY happens when you put your “pronouns” on your resumé!
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