I’m shocked!


Well, not really......

https://amgreatness.com/2018/12/22/a-stooge-leaves-congress-paul-ryans-career-in-perspective/

A guy decides to buy his new girlfriend a pair of gloves for Christmas. After all, they've only been dating for three weeks so it seems like the ideal gift - romantic, yet not too personal.

He asks the girlfriend's younger sister to accompany him to buy them then she can point out a pair she'd like. They go to the mall and the sister points out a pair of white gloves which the guy then buys.

The sister then picks up a pair of panties for herself and buys them.

But during the wrapping, the clerk mixes up the parcels without anyone realising. As a result, the sister gets the gloves and the guy takes home a gift box containing the panties.

Without checking, the guy rushes the gift to his sweetheart, but only after drafting this loving and helpful note to accompany it:

"I chose these because I notice you are not in the habit of wearing any when we go out in the evening. If it had not been for your sister, I would have chosen the long ones with the buttons, but she wears the short ones that are easier to remove.

These are a delicate shade, but the lady I bought them from showed me a pair she'd been wearing for the last three weeks and they were hardly soiled.

I had her try yours on for me and she looked really smart.

I wish I was there to put them on for you the first time. There's no doubt other hands will come in contact with them before I have a chance to see you again.

When you take them off remember to blow in them before putting them away, as they will naturally be a little damp from wearing.

Just think how many times I will kiss them during the coming year. I hope you will wear them for the coming Christmas Eve.

P.S. The latest style is to wear them folded down with a little fur showing."

Looks like those silly people are up over $14million now.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/21/new-york-times-editorial-syria/

http://hardnoxandfriends.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ssvid.mp4?_=1

Why San Diego? It could have been Texas 

 
1300 miles vs 2700 miles.....why the long route

 
It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. That is certainly true with
respect to the massive migrant caravan from Central America that has arrived in Tijuana.
 
In this case, the picture is the map below. The blue path is the one that the migrants took
to the San Ysidro Port of Entry at Tijuana/San Diego, CA.
 
The red path is the one that they could have taken to the Hidalgo Port of Entry at Reynosa/McAllen, TX:

Notice the difference? The path to McAllen is approximately 1,300 miles long; whereas
the path to San Diego is approximately 2,700 miles long. So the caravan travelled more
than twice as far as it needed to.
 
Why in the world would they do that? They didn’t have their own vehicles, and they
weren’t carrying enough food or resources to justify the longer journey.
There are two reasons. The first reason can be summed up in two words: Ninth Circuit.
The caravan members have been advised by liberal immigration attorneys all along.
Not only were the migrants coached on what to say when claiming asylum, they were
also evidently coached on where to go.
 
Traveling the extra 1,400 miles to Tijuana/San Diego would take the migrants to the
Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, with its numerous judges willing to minimize
the President’s statutory authority to restrict entry of aliens into the United States. And
the presence of similar federal judges at the district level in California would increase the
probability that the migrants’ attorneys would obtain an initial ruling in their favor.
 
And that’s exactly what happened. When President Trump exercised his authority under
8 U.S.C. 1182(f) to “impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate,” a federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order blocking the President’s action. The Ninth Circuit will likely agree with the district judge. Even if the Trump Administration prevails in any appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, it will take at least a year to reverse the district judge’s ruling.
 
The second reason for traveling twice the distance is that California is a sanctuary state with dozens of sanctuary cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Those jurisdictions will actively seek to protect the migrants who enter illegally from deportation.
 
On top of that, the state may interfere more directly with federal immigration enforcement. State Attorney General Xavier Becerra said recently that he might sue the federal government to stop the use of tear gas to defend the border or to stop the federal government from shutting down ports of entry. His argument is full of holes, but with the right judge that might not matter.

In contrast, in Texas, law enforcement agencies like the Texas Department of Public Safety cooperate with federal officials to improve border enforcement. To be sure, there are some sanctuary cities in  Texas too; but it’s nothing like California.
 
In short, the migrants’ attorneys made sure that the caravan went the extra mile—or extra 1,400 miles—to arrive where the rule of law is the weakest in the United States. And their advice appears to be paying off. Federal immigration enforcement personnel can still prevail, but the playing field is tilted against them.

Kris W. Kobach is the elected Secretary of State of Kansas. An expert in immigration law and policy, hecoauthored the Arizona SB-1070 immigration law and represented in federal court the 10 ICE agents who sued to stop Obama’s 2012 DACA executive amnesty. During 2001-03, he served as U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s chief adviser on immigration and border security at the U.S. Department of Justice. His website is kriskobach.com.