He can't leave office soon enough (well, so long as he takes Kampallawalla Ding Dong with him)

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ronnie montoya shows an admirer his artificial boobs

Priorities: X User Bonchie Notices Who Does and Doesn't Get an Invite to the Biden White House

The Biden White House shows you what its priorities are on a daily basis. American citizens? We come last. The economic concerns? They lie and gaslight us. Biden's mental state? They tell us the videos are 'cheap fakes'. 

Back at the start of his presidency, Biden oversaw the botched withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan. One that saw a lot of Americans left behind and 13 service members killed at Abby Gate.

But one Gold Star father -- Steven Nikoui, whose son was killed at Abby Gate -- did get arrested at the State of the Union address, so we guess that's kind of the same?

Related, in so far as it sums up these dreadful people:

I've been pointing this out ever since the "rural high speed" boondoggle began in the states years ago

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NOT A SINGLE HOME CONNECTED: Americans still waiting on Biden broadband plan; rural high-speed internet stuck in Dems’ red tape.

Residents in rural America are eager to access high-speed internet under a $42.5 billion federal modernization program, but not a single home or business has been connected to new broadband networks nearly three years after President Biden signed the funding into law, and no project will break ground until sometime next year.

Lawmakers and internet companies blame the slow rollout on burdensome requirements for obtaining the funds, including climate change mandates, preferences for hiring union workers and the requirement that eligible companies prioritize the employment of “justice-impacted” people with criminal records to install broadband equipment.

The Commerce Department, which is distributing the funds under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, is also attempting to regulate consumer rates, lawmakers say. This puts them at odds with internet providers and congressional Republicans, who say the law prohibits such regulation.

The slow pace of funding allocation and compliance will push the project start dates for modernizing rural internet access to 2025 and 2026, according to a timeline officials outlined in a House budget hearing.

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr said the program’s goal of providing high-speed internet to most underserved areas will not be fully realized until 2030, nine years after its enactment.

This is happening across the country, wherever graft bucks are available (that would be everywhere). Maine has been shoveling millions of federal and its own taxpayer’s money to subsidize cable companies, and thanks to the Inflation Rocketing Act, it pulled in an additional $110 million in 2022 and $272 million this year In 2022, the Governor stated that it was her goal to have ”high-speed internet connections available to all by the end of 2024” Practically nothing’s been built since she made that statement, so she’d better get busy.

That's $165,385 per INDIVIDUAL charger

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ev charger line

Maine to Spend $8.6 Million Installing (fossil-fueled) 52 EV Chargers Across 17 Locations Statewide

Cumberland and Penobscot Counties received the bulk of the new charging stations, coming in at seven each. The remaining three stations are to be located in Franklin, Oxford, and Piscataquis Counties.

And the folly continues:

One business is projected to see an increase of 1,600% in its annual solar tax costs

Maine’s businesses (and residents) are about to be hit with massive cost increases — in some cases of more than $50,000 for 2024 — thanks to a scheme devised by state lawmakers to subsidize solar power.

According to letters sent to customers by Versant Power, Maine’s second largest electrical utility, the portion of small business’ electrical bills described as “stranded costs” is set to increase from 2023 to 2024 anywhere from 20 percent to as much as 1,644 percent.

“A new, fixed monthly stranded cost dee is under review and would capture expenses and incentives to develop Maine’s renewable power generation and net energy billing programs,” Versant Power informed businesses in the rate hike letters.

Under the net energy billing program, Maine’s electrical utilities collect increased fees from residents and businesses, and that money is then used to subsidize the installation of so-called “community solar.”

In practice, the net energy billing scheme turns the utilities into tax collectors for the state — and bill collectors for the solar industry.

The price hikes coming for Maine businesses vary according to the customers rate class and level of electricity usage, but a review of several of the Versant letters shared with the Maine Wire shows that one business will see the stranded cost portion of their annual electrical bill spike from $24,419 to an estimated $77,261 — a 216 percent increase.

A smaller business with far less annual power consumption is looking at an increase from $196.75 to an estimated $3,432 — an increase of 1,644 percent.

Those costs only account for the annual increases in stranded costs, which is a small slice of the total annual electrical costs.

[RELATED: Solar Industry Wins State House Fight to Protect Windfall Profits…]

According to the Office of the Public Advocate (OPA), which was created to advocate on behalf of rate payers, the solar subsidizes may increase electricity costs state-wide by as much as $220 million in 2025.

According to an analysis of electricity prices in paid for June 2024 by USA Today, Maine already has the sixth highest electricity costs in the country.

According to a 2023 analysis of Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) records, the vast majority — 88 percent — of the companies profiting from the solar subsidies were headquartered outside of Maine.

If the rate hike requests are approved, businesses and residents will begin paying more for their electricity beginning in July.

Just as Biden cancelled the XL Pipeline on his first day in office to signal the start of his war on oil, it wasn’t surprising that Maine’s new Democrat governor also signalled her intentions on taking office by ordering the removal of her predecessor Paul’s LePage “Open for Business” signs along Maine’s highways.



In any sane society, these people would be thrown in jail for a year and upon release, taken directly to the airport and tossed out on their asses.

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In Europe and America, however, they’ll be put on welfare and cosseted in free apartments while awaiting their citizenship papers.

Migrant mob pummeled NYPD cops checking on unattended children outside NYC homeless shelter: sources

A mob of migrants are facing gang assault charges after allegedly pummeling two NYPD cops outside a Queens hotel shelter, prosecutors and law enforcement sources said Tuesday.

Four men were busted after they attacked two of New York’s Finest shortly before 4:30 a.m. Monday as the cops were checking on three unattended children outside the converted Long Island City hotel that now houses asylum seekers, according to authorities.

“At that point, a group of approximately five adults began punching, kicking, and shoving the officers – with two assailants throwing bikes and striking the cops,” Katz said.

When they asked about the unsupervised kids the men allegedly pounced on them.

“In an effort to check on the children’s safety, they approached a nearby group of adults to make sure that the children were being supervised,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement.

Law enforcement sources told The Post that all four suspects – Juan Munoz, 25; Alejandro Munoz, 42; Karina Navarro-Chavez, 42; and Miguel Chiluisa, 23 –are migrants housed at city-funded sites.

All four were arraigned Tuesday before Judge Edward Daniels on charges of assault, attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration.

Juan and Alejandro Munoz and Navarro-Chavez were also charged with child endangerment, while Chiluisa – who was tracked down and nabbed nearly an hour after fleeing the melee – is additionally charged with second and third-degree escape, prosecutors said.

A fifth suspect, a woman, hit one of the cops with a child’s bike but fled the scene.

“4:30 a.m.”

The GAR offices are closed today in honor of the white men who freed the slaves (UPDATED)

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Battle of antietam, september 17, 1862. Pennsylvania 161st Volunteers were there

Although it slipped by my attention when Biden signed it into law last year (2021 — who knew?) today is apparently now a national holiday called “Juneteenth”, a day, I assume, for honoring and remembering the brave Union soldiers who fought and died to end slavery in this country. Great-grandfather Caldwell would be so pleased.

Can we now restore the statues of Lincoln that have been vandalized and removed from our public spaces?

UPDATE: As it turns out, the blacks are also celebrating … something today, and some of them don’t want us at their party. I’m happy to oblige.

Some Blacks on Social Media Don't Want White People Celebrating Juneteenth

My first reaction to this headline was a lack of sympathy — you borrowed the money, you owe the money. But the details, if true, put me on her side

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Nurse shocked to find family home of 17 years sold behind her back - due to mysterious loophole that could affect vast numbers of Americans

So-called 'zombie mortgages' are coming back to life across the US as home prices rise, experts are warning.

In the run up to the housing crash in 2008, millions of Americans took out second mortgages on their homes that they then defaulted on during the crisis.

Lenders didn't pursue foreclosure because the home price crash made it unlikely they would recoup the money. Homeowners often assumed the debt was cancelled.  

But these dormant loans are now coming back to life - hence the term 'zombie mortgage'.

The forgotten mortgages had been bought for pennies on the dollar by debt collectors who have patiently waited for house prices to rise to record levels - to make it worthwhile chasing the money.

Now, having tacked on retroactive fees and interest, they are coming to collect the money, and this often means foreclosing on the homes to grab a huge slice of the rise in value.

Karen McDonough, from Quincy, Massachusetts, believed her second mortgage had been written off. That was until she stumbled into a foreclosure auction on her front lawn.

When she had purchased the property in 2005, she had taken out a 80/20 loan, which meant she had two mortgages - one covering 80 percent of the value of the home and another covering the remaining 20 percent. [WTF???!!!]

But two years later, her first mortgage adjusted and the monthly payments were suddenly $700 a month higher.

A year later, McDonough was able to get her loan modified to lower the interest rate and make it affordable again. 

“She said her mortgage company told her that as part of the modification, the second mortgage had been forgiven. 

She stopped getting statements on the second mortgage and assumed it was dead. 

Fast forward to 2022 when a group of men were gathered on her driveway for a foreclosure auction. 

McDonough had been receiving phone calls demanding money, but had thought it was a scam. 

She claims she was also told by her first mortgage company to ignore the calls as it was most likely fraud.”

It turned out her second mortgage had been sold off to a company within a batch of 600 others, rather than being written off as she had thought.

A few months after the auction, she got an orange eviction notice posted on her front door. 

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“One key detail that may be used against debt collectors is that in many cases they are adding years' worth of interest and late fees on top of the amount the homeowner initially borrowed. 

“While companies are allowed to do this under federal regulations, they have to send monthly statements to the homeowner detailing the added costs.

“In many cases like McDonough's, homeowners did not receive any information about the loans for years.”

And she is by no means alone. 

In New York, NPR found at least 10,000 old second mortgages that foreclosure activity had been initiated on in just the last two years. The loans originated back to during the sub-prime-lending housing bubble of 2004 to 2008. 

It also found at least 500 old second mortgages in Maryland where steps towards foreclosure had been taken.

'The numbers to me are very scary,' Andrea Bopp Stark, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, told the outlet.

The problem is feared to be widespread across America. 

'If you're looking at the number of these foreclosure filings, or at least the attempts to collect on this zombie debt, you're starting to see the numbers tick up dramatically into the thousands, if not more, in individual jurisdictions,' David Weber, a professor at the Creighton University School of Law told The New York Times. 

'That's a lot of activity.'

He attributed the increased attention in zombie mortgages to the rise in home prices. 

Rising property values build equity into a property, enabling a secondary mortgage holder to make money even after the first mortgage holder is paid, Weber said.

I don’t know whether the original bank’s negligence and misrepresentations can be extended to the secondary lender — they might be, especially if they’re still in business, and many aren’t — but the independent actions of these foreclosure vultures should make them vulnerable to the special defenses of laches (sitting on their cause of action) and unjust enrichment, as well as their failure to comply with federal regulations by neglecting to send monthly bills.

The loan purchasers bought those loans for pennies, and that’s what they should get, if anything.

I’ll note that it was the no-money down mortgages that caused the collapse of the housing market back in 2008, and now Biden and his handlers are bringing that same disastrous formula back; they probably intend to use taxpayer money to pay off the loans just before the next election cycle, just as they’ve done this year with their idiot student constituency.

How about "Glory Hole"?

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"Inclusive language in communications is essential to our union’s solidarity and collective strength and is an important factor in maintaining flight safety,"

Uh huh

Pilot union suggests phasing out masculine terms, says 'cockpit,' is offensive to DEI culture

The term 'cockpit' derives from 16th century bird fighting

The world's largest airline pilot union suggested airmen and women stop using terms purportedly offensive to women and LGBTQ individuals, calling out terms like "cockpit" as non-inclusive. 

Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, represents over 70,000 pilots worldwide and states that it collaborates with a United Nations agency on its policies. According to a diversity, equity and inclusion language guide released in 2021, the ALPA lists numerous terms and phrases to avoid — especially "masculine generalizations" — that it deemed to be non-inclusive.

"Inclusive language in communications is essential to our union’s solidarity and collective strength and is an important factor in maintaining flight safety," the guide states. "The purpose of this language guide is to offer examples of terms and phrases that promote inclusion and equity."

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Wall Street Journal columnist and linguist Ben Zimmer wrote that the term "cockpit" originated from cockfighting in 16th century England.

"The circular pit was surrounded by a barrier to keep the gamecocks from escaping, with spectators" who viewed the "bloody sport" as entertainment, he wrote in 2019.

The term evolved to describe a boisterous and tense atmosphere, according to Zimmer. And by the 18th century, it referred to the area on British warships where surgeons treated the wounded.

"The confined space, the noise, the blood and the fetid air evidently reminded people of the original cockpits," the reporter wrote.