Month: August 2017

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30 Illegal Aliens Detained At Hidden Tunnel Spanning US-Mexico Border

ICE is no longer the welcoming committee.

Via KNSD:

Thirty undocumented immigrants suspected of trying to cross into the United States from Mexico through a hidden tunnel spanning the border were detained by authorities in San Diego early Saturday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent Eduardo Olmos told NBC 7 that U.S. Border Patrol agents spotted the large group at around 1:30 a.m. near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in south San Diego County, near the border crossing bridge off Britannia Boulevard and Otay Pacific Drive.

When the suspects realized they had been seen by the agents, many of them tried to flee by going back into the mouth of a tunnel that investigators said had been constructed for the purpose of illegally smuggling undocumented immigrants from Mexico into the U.S.

Border agents followed the group and detained several on the surface of the tunnel at Drucker Lane and Siempre Viva Road; others were detained inside the tunnel, officials said.

Of those detained, 23 were Chinese nationals and seven were Mexican nationals. They are now in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol pending further questioning.

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‘Texan’ Defined: ‘I’m Gonna Try to Save Some Lives,’ Says Volunteer Rescuer

HOUSTON, Texas — As a volunteer rescuer from Texas City prepared to launch his boat on a Houston freeway, a reporter asked him what he was going to do. His answer revealed much about the attitude of being a Texan.

An unidentified reporter approached a man as he began putting his boat into the flooded river that yesterday was an interstate highway. The Independent Journal Review reports he asked the man, “You guys here to help out?” The man responded “Yessir!”

He then asked the man what he “is about to do.”

The man responded, “I’m gonna go try to save some lives.” He then went on about his business of doing good for the flood victims in the Houston area.

The video below was posted by KARK4 Meteorologist Austin Kellerman:

It appears the reporter was not from Houston, as a Texan would likely have asked, “What are you fixin to do?”

In another video shown on Fox News, a Good Samaritan waded into a flooded roadway to rescue three people in distress.

Former Dallas Quarterback “Dandy Don” Merideth reportedly once said, “Never ask a man if he is from Texas. If he is, he’ll tell you. If he isn’t, don’t embarrass him.”

Follow complete coverage of Hurricane Harvey and Houston Floods on Breitbart Texas.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Gab, and Facebook.

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Arpaio Pardoned, RINOs melt down

What on earth has happened to the moral and political sensibilities of Paul Ryan, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Jeb Bush, etc.?  All of those RINOs who are attacking President Trump for pardoning Joe Arpaio are simpering, whining traitors to the party they allegedly represent.  They should declare themselves Democrats and be done with the masquerade. 

Perhaps they should remind themselves of all the criminals and thugs that President Obama pardoned, or that President Clinton pardoned.  Trump made it clear at his rally in Phoenix that he was going to pardon the beleaguered sheriff.  The audience there was thrilled, as were the millions of people watching on television, the citizens who want our immigration laws enforced.   If there was ever anyone who deserved a pardon, along with Scooter Libby, it is Joe Arapio.   This was a no-brainer!  The man has enforced both federal and state laws for his entire career.  Arpaio was found in contempt of court after a Clinton-appointed judge, Susan Bolton,  ordered him to stop enforcing the law, detaining people he suspected (or knew) to be illegal immigrants.  It was the judge who broke the law as so many of our activist judges have over the last decade.   They do not want laws that protect our borders enforced.   Such judges are traitors to the nation as well. 

How have we come to the point at which the Republican leadership in Congress is so consistently on the wrong side of their stated  principles?  They have made common cause with the likes of the odious Sen. Chuck Schumer and the rest of the left.  They despise Trump.  That is clear to everyone.  They intend to continue their sabotage of the president, even if it means they lose their majority, even if it means they contribute to the further takeover of the country by the totalitarian left.  They are apparently just fine with the increasing restriction on free speech and the failure to identify Antifa and BLM as the terrorist groups they are.  They seem to be fine with the criminal nonsense perpetrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

They seem to be fine as well with the many corruptions, past and ongoing, by the Clintons, the Obama holdovers and the crimes of George Soros since they are not interested in getting to the bottom of their many crimes.  They are not bothered by the Robert Mueller witch hunt being conducted by him and his band of leftist brothers bent on taking Trump and/or anyone in his inner circle, down and out.  We all know by now that these traitorous Republicans will cheer if Mueller finds something to tarnish the President.  Do they not realize the contempt the millions of Americans who voted for Trump feel for each and every one of them?  If they do and they do not care.  They do not honor their oath of office to represent the people who elected them and to uphold the Constitution.   

Most Republicans who voted for Romney and Ryan in 2012 now realize why they did not win: they were and are utter wimps, willing to subjugate themselves to the prevailing media sentiment.  This is the tragedy of our time.  We are assaulted by a corrupt media conglomerate twenty-four hours a day.  They are, as Trump says, purveyors of fake news.  The DNC is now a mere appendage to the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc.  CNN is pathetic; it has transformed itself into the Jerry Springer Show, broadcasting a relentless parade of angry slaves to identity politics who only see people not as individuals but as units to be categorized by race, class, and a myriad of newly-minted genders.  This is the cabal to which the Republican leadership has attached itself.  They are cowards.  Their constituents are disgusted with them all and these turncoats deserve their derision.

What on earth has happened to the moral and political sensibilities of Paul Ryan, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Jeb Bush, etc.?  All of those RINOs who are attacking President Trump for pardoning Joe Arpaio are simpering, whining traitors to the party they allegedly represent.  They should declare themselves Democrats and be done with the masquerade. 

Perhaps they should remind themselves of all the criminals and thugs that President Obama pardoned, or that President Clinton pardoned.  Trump made it clear at his rally in Phoenix that he was going to pardon the beleaguered sheriff.  The audience there was thrilled, as were the millions of people watching on television, the citizens who want our immigration laws enforced.   If there was ever anyone who deserved a pardon, along with Scooter Libby, it is Joe Arapio.   This was a no-brainer!  The man has enforced both federal and state laws for his entire career.  Arpaio was found in contempt of court after a Clinton-appointed judge, Susan Bolton,  ordered him to stop enforcing the law, detaining people he suspected (or knew) to be illegal immigrants.  It was the judge who broke the law as so many of our activist judges have over the last decade.   They do not want laws that protect our borders enforced.   Such judges are traitors to the nation as well. 

How have we come to the point at which the Republican leadership in Congress is so consistently on the wrong side of their stated  principles?  They have made common cause with the likes of the odious Sen. Chuck Schumer and the rest of the left.  They despise Trump.  That is clear to everyone.  They intend to continue their sabotage of the president, even if it means they lose their majority, even if it means they contribute to the further takeover of the country by the totalitarian left.  They are apparently just fine with the increasing restriction on free speech and the failure to identify Antifa and BLM as the terrorist groups they are.  They seem to be fine with the criminal nonsense perpetrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

They seem to be fine as well with the many corruptions, past and ongoing, by the Clintons, the Obama holdovers and the crimes of George Soros since they are not interested in getting to the bottom of their many crimes.  They are not bothered by the Robert Mueller witch hunt being conducted by him and his band of leftist brothers bent on taking Trump and/or anyone in his inner circle, down and out.  We all know by now that these traitorous Republicans will cheer if Mueller finds something to tarnish the President.  Do they not realize the contempt the millions of Americans who voted for Trump feel for each and every one of them?  If they do and they do not care.  They do not honor their oath of office to represent the people who elected them and to uphold the Constitution.   

Most Republicans who voted for Romney and Ryan in 2012 now realize why they did not win: they were and are utter wimps, willing to subjugate themselves to the prevailing media sentiment.  This is the tragedy of our time.  We are assaulted by a corrupt media conglomerate twenty-four hours a day.  They are, as Trump says, purveyors of fake news.  The DNC is now a mere appendage to the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc.  CNN is pathetic; it has transformed itself into the Jerry Springer Show, broadcasting a relentless parade of angry slaves to identity politics who only see people not as individuals but as units to be categorized by race, class, and a myriad of newly-minted genders.  This is the cabal to which the Republican leadership has attached itself.  They are cowards.  Their constituents are disgusted with them all and these turncoats deserve their derision.

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Berkeley officials paint transgender person’s ‘anti-Marxist’ march as rally for white supremacy

The city of Berkeley, California, denied a permit to hold an anti-Marxist rally over allegations from elected officials that the rally’s real purpose is a march for white supremacy.

According to KPIX-TV,  Berkeley Deputy City Manager Jovan Grogan told  “No to Marxism” rally organizer Amber Cummings that her rally was denied because her permit application “was late, incomplete and doesn’t include critical information.”

Cummings rally was scheduled at Berkeley’s Civic Center Park from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. According to Grogan, permission for rallies in major parks must be submitted 10 days before the rally is to take place. Cummings submitted her paperwork seven days before the rally’s intended date.

Grogan told Cummings her permit ran into other problems, according to KPIX, including lack of arrangements for emergency medical services, and amplified sound permits.

“Given the totality of circumstances, we cannot issue a permit to you for the use of Civic Center Park on August 27, 2017,” Grogan told Cummings.

KPIX reported city officials believe the rally will occur anyway, despite the denial for a permit. Berkeley police told KPIX they are planning security measures for the rally and will intervene if things get violent.

City officials have pegged Cummings’ rally as an event for white supremacy and have spoken out against it.

Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin characterized the event as a white nationalist rally during a news conference on the steps of Berkeley’s City Hall on Tuesday. Arreguin claimed that social media posts promoting it contain “hate filled messages,” and that people who became violent in Berkeley protests earlier this year said they planned to attend.

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who represents Oakland, said the rally “represents a fundamental challenge to our community values, regardless of how the organizers are characterizing it.”

On the “No to Marxism” rally’s Facebook page, however, Cummings rejected violence, promoted diversity, and bluntly told white supremacists they aren’t welcome:

In Addition to the discription of the event i would like to add this caveat to my event page. I do not invite or condone anyone showing up to this event with the intent of starting violence. I also want to add I do not stand with any racist groups like the KKK , Neo Nazis, or any form of racist groups. You are not welcome at this event and please stay away. I myself am a transsexual female who embraces diversity and loves diversity. This event is not a event of hate speech it is a event about concerns of Marxism in America.

This event has people of all races, genders, and sexualities. This event is as diverse as it gets. We are all coming together in unification and to speak about the growing concern of Marxism. I will stress again I DO NOT STAND NOR CONDONE RACISM and if you are RACIST your not welcome at this event. Also I stress we want a peaceful NONE VIOLENT event that is my overgoal [sic]. Thank you so much and hope to see you there.

The rally’s Facebook page indicates that it has more than 300 people claiming they will attend at this time.

Will the rally get violent?

It’s possible — but not in the way Berkeley officials think.

The anti-Marxist rally will probably gather, chant, hold signs, then go home if left alone. The media would either ignore it, or — depending on the source — find a bad apple or two among the crowd and use them to represent the rally’s entire demographic.

However, the DailyWire reported on Thursday that a Marxist Antifa group called By Any Means Necessary plans to intercept Cummings’ rally in order to “counteract” a “white supremacist rally.”

Antifa is habitually violent against any group it comes across, even Black Lives Matter, or its own members. Their tactics to harm, or intimidate their opposition has driven many to sign a petition for Washington to legally qualify them as a terrorist organization.

Seeing as how Antifa is a group that actively promotes violence against those they disagree with, the safe bet is that violence will occur between Cummings’ rally and By Any Means Necessary, but it likely won’t be started by the former.

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REPORT: Some Patients Treated For Putting Sunblock On Their Eyeballs During Eclipse

Sometimes, people are dumb. And sometimes, they’re very dumb.

Following the nationwide eclipse that occurred on Monday, there have not been too many reports of people suffering severe eye damage by looking directly at the sun. There were reports of people breaking limbs while walking around wearing those very dark eclipse glasses, and some people “built last-minute pinhole projectors and looked through the pinhole at the sun.” Dumb.

But all in all, the information campaign before the eclipse seemed to have worked for the most part.

Except for some very dumb people — who, because they didn’t have the special protective glasses, decided to put sunscreen protection DIRECTLY INTO THEIR EYES!

Nurse Practioner Trish Patterson told TV station KRCR in Redding, CA, that no one came into her health clinic with eye damage from the eclipse, but a few had pain from putting sunscreen on their eyeballs.

“One of my colleagues at moonlight here stated yesterday that they had patients presenting at their clinic that put sunscreen on their eyeball, and presented that they were having pain and they were referred to an ophthalmologist,” Patterson said.

Warning labels on sunscreen containers warn to avoid having the substance on the eye. If a person gets sunscreen in their eye, it is advised they run their eye under water while blinking for 15-20 minutes. Afterward, people are encouraged to call Poison Control.

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Ohio Veterans Group to Boycott Cleveland Browns Over National Anthem Protests

The ongoing travesty of multi-millionaire football players choosing to spit on the flag and dishonor our veterans with their silly national anthem protests isn’t going over well with many.

Around one thousand leftist agitators descended on NFL headquarters in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday to demand that the league give a job to their supreme leader and martyr Colin Kaepernick, the scruffy bum who started all of this nonsense last year.

A number of identity obsessed organizations including chapters of the NAACP are calling for boycotts of this season’s games if the league doesn’t bend to their bullying and make what would essentially be an affirmative action appointment of Kaepernick.

It is almost always the case that a loud and angry minority gets the most attention – especially from the liberal media – but the rapid expansion of protests is not sitting well with patriotic Americans who are the silent majority and have had just about enough of the horseshit over Kaepernick.

One of those is the Strongsville, Ohio chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars which finally reached the breaking point when twelve members of the local Cleveland Browns – including the first white player – chose to take a knee during the rendition of the Star-Spangled banner during this week’s Monday Night Football preseason game.

According to Cleveland NBC Affiliate, WKYC 3 “Veterans of Foreign Wars in Strongsville takes stance against Cleveland Browns”:

Over the years, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Strongsville 3345 post has become accustomed to large gatherings for Cleveland Browns games.

That might soon change.

After multiple members of the Browns roster opted to kneel during the national anthem prior to the team’s preseason victory over the New York Giants, VFW Strongsville 3345 decided to take a stand against its hometown team. Earlier this week, the post erected a sign announcing a new policy.

“We like our Browns – we love our flag more,” the sign reads. “Your games will no longer be shown here. God bless America.”

The sign has since gone viral on social media, having been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook.

“For us, it doesn’t sit real well,” Tim Zvoncheck, the commander of VFW Post 3345, told WKYC by phone Thursday night. “We understand that everybody has the right to free speech. Everybody has a right to their specific feelings. But we don’t feel they have the right to disrespect… we’re not going to stand for this anymore.”

AND

While Zvoncheck said he respected the Browns’ right to protest, he said that he didn’t appreciate the manner in which the players went about it.

“We fought for the rights of everybody in this country. We joined the military to fight for the freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. We respect that,” Zvoncheck, who served in the US Navy and Navy Reserve from 1983-1997, said. “But it has to be in a manner that we feel is respectful to us as well.”

Zvoncheck said his post has received “100 percent support” since creating its sign, which has also received attention on local radio. He also noted that VFW Strongsville 3345 wouldn’t rule out airing Browns games again in the future — although only if certain terms were met.

“In order for us to change our mind, the Browns have to come up with a formal apology for what has taken place,” he said. “They’re going to have to show us that they respect this country and what that flag stands for.”

You have to salute the members of VFW 3345 for their taking a stand because God knows that they aren’t the only ones who are tire of having to watch a pack of privileged malcontents who have never worn a uniform that didn’t include cleats and a jockstrap wiping their ass with the flag – metaphorically speaking of course.

Even if at this time they are only boycotting the Browns, it is encouraging to see veteran’s groups take a stand against the corrosive anti-Americanism that is being promoted by the Browns and the NFL itself.

This humble author is encouraging that pro-Americans boycott at LEAST the first week’s slate of regular season games to send a message that enough is enough. I mean ALL games.

To the national anthem protesters, shut up and go get a real job, you lousy ingrates!

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Trump imposes “strong new financial sanctions” on “Maduro dictatorship” in Venezuela

When Mike Pence said that the US would not stand by while Nicolas Maduro turned Venezuela into a catastrophe, he and Donald Trump meant it. Until now, the US has taken care to target individuals within Venezuela’s evolving dictatorship. Today, Trump issued a new set of sanctions on the government as well as its state-owned oil company PDVSA, and warned that more may be coming if Maduro doesn’t change course:

Trump signs executive order imposing new Venezuela sanctions from CNBC.

The U.S. imposed its first economic penalties against Venezuela on Friday, hitting the South American country’s financial sector in an attempt to starve President Nicolás Maduro’s government of cash.

The Trump administration banned trades of Venezuelan debt, prohibiting Maduro’s government and its state-run oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA, from selling new bonds to Americans or in U.S. financial institutions. President Donald Trump signed an executive order approving the sanctions Thursday.

It’s not like Mike Pence didn’t warn Nicolas Maduro this was coming, as he himself noted on Twitter. Pence also attached the executive order for the sanctions in full:

These new sanctions target Maduro’s ability to defray his growing debt problem, and will have an impact on the ability to sell oil too, once the sanctions go into effect after a 30-day “wind-down” period:

Barring Venezuelan debt purchases could cripple Caracas’ ability to raise money to pay off interest on its growing national debt, as the oil-producing country has been doing in the middle of an unprecedented economic collapse. The U.S. suspects PDVSA, the source of most of the government’s funding, has become a corrupt, money-laundering enterprise.

Most existing Venezuelan debt traded in the U.S. was issued by PDVSA. The sanctions don’t prohibit the resale of those bonds, only purchases and trades of new PDVSA debt.

But trades of existing bonds issued by the Venezuelan government — which are different from PDVSA bonds — will be barred, a move intended to harm and sow discontent among Maduro’s inner circle. Much of that debt is held by high-level Venezuelan government leaders, who will now be forced to turn to other so-called secondary markets (say, in China or Russia) to sell.

Maduro accused the US of imposing a “financial blockade” on Venezuela earlier this week. That came in apparent answer to Pence’s cryptic comment about “more to come”:

Maduro said earlier this week that Venezuela is prepared for any U.S. sanctions and that the Trump administration is trying to create a “financial blockade” against the South American nation. He called relations with the U.S. the worst in history. …

The measures to be announced on Friday would come days after Vice President Mike Pence met with Venezuelan exiles in Florida.

“The United States of America will continue to bring the full measure of American economic and diplomatic power to bear until democracy is restored in Venezuela,” Pence said in remarks on Aug. 23 at a Catholic church in Doral, Florida. He noted the sanctions already imposed recently and said “there’s more to come.”

USA Today reports that these sanctions are designed to cut off some loopholes in earlier sanctions by targeting the government and PDVSA directly. That, they hope, will force Maduro to either back down from its illegitimate efforts to create a rubber-stamp parliament or perhaps even foment some cracks among Maduro’s inner circle. So far that seems unlikely, if only because any disunity now would put all their backs up against the proverbial wall. Clearly, though, Trump and Pence have stopped worrying about subtlety and are going to get more and more assertive in South America.

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And Here We Go: CNN Host Wonders If Hurricane Harvey’s Rainfall Totals Are Due to Climate Change

<p>This was inevitable, folks. It was only a matter of time before the liberal media started suggesting climate change was to blame for Hurricane Harvey. Friday morning’s <em>CNN Newsroom</em> went there as co-host John Berman wondered aloud to a guest if the potentially-devastating rainfall predictions are do to climate change.</p>

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In WashPost Column, Retired NPR Star ‘Looking for Generals to Save Us From Democracy’

<p>Recently retired NPR star Garrison Keillor may have stepped away from <em>A Prairie Home Companion,</em> but he rages weekly against President Trump as a columnist for <em>The Washington Post.</em> This week, he joined the cavalcade of Democrat hypocrites who suddenly want a military <em>junta</em> to take the government away from Trump before he vaporizes tens of millions of people.</p>

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