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Pony Mayor Barred From Pub — In news from across the pond, Patrick, the pony mayor of Cockington, U.K. has been barred from imbibing Guinness at The Drum Inn, which had been his favorite haunt.
The action was taken by village council. Was it revenge for Patrick not backing their obviously stupid policies?
We can’t say albeit the The Guardian vehemently denies such.
Patrick, a therapy Shetland pony, was elected to the post after the previous mayor died.
Hat tip Bob Small
Pennsylvania Supremes Laugh At Constitution With Mail-In Decision — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, yesterday (Aug. 2), declared that mail-in voting as per Act 77 is allowed under the state Constitution.
The vote was 5-2 with all Democrats voting yes and the Republicans dissenting.
Here’s the wording regarding absentee voting in the State Constitution:
§ 14. Absentee voting.
(a) The Legislature shall, by general law, provide a manner
in which, and the time and place at which, qualified electors
who may, on the occurrence of any election, be absent from the
municipality of their residence, because their duties,
occupation or business require them to be elsewhere or who, on
the occurrence of any election, are unable to attend at their
proper polling places because of illness or physical disability
or who will not attend a polling place because of the observance
of a religious holiday or who cannot vote because of election
day duties, in the case of a county employee, may vote, and for
the return and canvass of their votes in the election district
in which they respectively reside.
Either our Supreme Democrats are illiterate or they just don’t care about the rule of law.
The process for amending the Pennsylvania Constitution requires approval in consecutive legislative sessions followed by a referendum. A law like Act 77 doesn’t suffice.
When judges say round is square and black is white and can’t tell the difference between men and women, whitecaps are on the water.
The case decided was Doug McLinko vs Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State et al. No. J-18A-2022, J-18B-2022, J-18C-2022, J-18D-2022, and J-18E-2022
Pending EAGLE Act Subverts Tech Workers
By Joe Guzzardi
Beware media-promoted bipartisan immigration bills. Strictly speaking, such legislation is bipartisan because a Republican and a Democrat introduce it. In reality, however, the Republican is often as much of an immigration expansionist as his Democratic colleague.
Such is the case with the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022, or the EAGLE Act, which Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) introduced. Proponents claim EAGLE benefits the U.S. economy by allowing American employers to focus on hiring immigrants based on their merit, not their birthplace. The current 7 percent per-country limit on employment-based immigrant visas would be phased out over a nine-year period, and the 7 percent per-country limit on family-sponsored immigrant visas – Green Cards – would more than double to 15 percent. This would mean that Mexico, the country with the highest backlog of family-based immigrant visa petitions would get the largest share of the pie at the expense of other countries. Population-busting chain migration would accelerate.
The bill doesn’t directly increase the total number of Green Cards for the employment-based category, but it does speed the adjustment of mostly already-present Indian nationals on H-1B and L-1 visas, while slowing the rest of the world’s arrivals.
Kramer and Hickenlooper trotted out familiar excuses to defend their bill. Kramer: “It’s no secret that our immigration system is broken….” Hickenlooper: “Fixing our immigration system will help fix our workforce shortage and spur economic growth.” In the U.S. House of Representatives, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) introduced a similar bill that has eight Republican cosponsors and 75 Democratic cosponsors.
Country caps prevent one nation from dominating the number of employment-based visas that the U.S. federal government issues. If the caps are eliminated, the majority of employment-based visas would be awarded to Indian nationals. The proposal of Cramer and Hickenlooper would harm Americans workers and reward those who have abused the H-1B visa program to displace American workers with Green Card holders. Most significantly disadvantaged are African Americans, Hispanics and women, who are largely underrepresented in most science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) occupations.
Cramer’s and Hickenlooper’s constituents elected them to the Senate to protect their best interests. Yet getting rid of country caps or expanding in any way employment-based visas directly harms U.S. workers and recent university graduates seeking employment. Millions of working-age (16 to 64) U.S. residents are detached from the labor force, either unemployed or underemployed. On the other hand, flooding the labor pool with international workers helps corporations and business elites.
In his Senate career, Cramer has voted four times to increase H-2B visas, a nonimmigrant category that allows those other than agricultural workers into the U.S. Included are workers in landscaping, forestry, hotels, seafood processing and lifeguarding – all jobs that Americans would do either part-time to defray expenses or pay university tuition. The U.S. Government Accountability Office found the H-2B program rife with fraud and abuse. Like Cramer, who has a cozy friendship with Microsoft, Hickenlooper has turned his back on his constituents in favor of his donor class, and voted in favor of more H-2B visa workers. Both voted to increase EB-5 visas, the so-called citizenship-for-sale visa.
Hickenlooper’s push for more immigration has an interesting twist. Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs have been named among the premier tech hubs in the U.S., and would be obvious destinations for overseas H-1B visa workers. Yet the Colorado River reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts will be necessary next year to reduce the risk of the water supply reaching perilously low levels. Increasing the state’s population, which has grown five-fold since 1950, would recklessly imperil Colorado’s fragile environment, and put its residents’ access to water in peril.
Increasing already record immigration levels by adding more employment-based visa holders won’t help unemployed and underemployed Americans. The U.S. doesn’t have a labor shortage. Black, Hispanic and other minority workers represent an underutilized segment of the employment market. Senators Cramer and Hickenlooper should represent Americans instead of advocating for more foreign-born cheap labor.
Generally Act According To Custom William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-3-22
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
The average life span of a major league baseball is seven pitches.
Europe Rejecting Transitioning? Is Sanity Returning? — Lisa Selin Davis reports that European nations are starting to question the wisdom of turning children into the opposite sex.
She says the British National Health Service is closing for good the Gender and Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic in London.
The clinic has administered puberty suppressants, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to thousands of children. Many of these treatments led to irreversible effects.
There was a 4,000-percent increase of referrals for girls in the last decade.
Sweden has released new guidelines saying that “gender-affirming” medical interventions “outweigh the possible benefits, and the treatments should be offered only in exceptional cases.”
Finland’s Council for Choice in Health Care, last year, “In light of available evidence, gender reassignment of minors is an experimental practice . . (Gender reassignment medical interventions) must be done with a great deal of caution, and no irreversible treatment should be initiated.”
Meanwhile American doctors are advertising surgeries to children on Tik Tok and legislation has been introduced in California that would allow any child to come to California to medically transition without parental knowledge or consent.
“America is increasingly becoming an outlier among Western countries in failing to demand better evidence for the consequences of irreversible youth gender transition,” Ms. Davis says.
Read her entire article on Substack
Last messenger of misery William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-2-22
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
Henry Rollins
This month was called Sextilis unti 8 B.C., when the guy running things decided a name change was in order. His name? Augustus.
He also added a day because the previous man in charge — Julius — named a month for himself that had 31 days.
