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This year's tax filing season will begin on Jan. 24, 17 days earlier than last year, the Internal Revenue Service announced Monday.

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Well, They DID Ask For It....

And the Bay Area Cities of Oakland and San Francisco are getting it good and hard. Now the cities' "leaders" hope to reverse the course they've set. Rots a ruck with that, kids! But we're getting a lot of it, as well:

https://www.courthousenews.com/bay-area-mayors-push-to-reverse-police-cuts-and-expand-surveillance-tools/

The mayors of Oakland and San Francisco once championed diverting police funding to social services. Now they both want to hire more officers and give police more tools to investigate crimes.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed talks to reporters inside the community room of the city's newest Navigation Center, built to house homeless people near the Embarcadero.

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — More than a year after moving to cut and redistribute police funding in the wake of racial justice protests, two city leaders in Northern California are now pushing to hire more officers, crack down on crime and expand police surveillance powers.

The mayors of San Francisco and its across-the-bay neighbor Oakland recently unveiled proposals to increase police presence in their cities and broaden law enforcement’s ability to use surveillance tools, such as license plate readers and access to private security camera networks. The proposals come as both cities struggle with an increase in homicides and violent crime and a recent spate of brazen robberies targeting high-end retailers and cannabis dispensaries. 

Across the bay in Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf recently asked for city legislators to approve money to hire more officers. The request came after department staffing fell below 678, the threshold the city must meet to keep collecting a special tax approved by voters in a 2014.

On Tuesday, Schaaf penned a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom calling for the state to continue sending California Highway Patrol officers to enforce traffic laws in Oakland and to install license-plate readers around highway ramps and major city arteries. The request comes amid a recent spike in homicides, car jackings and robberies in Oakland this year.

Meanwhile, here in Orygun, it's beginning to dawn on some folks that while feeling all good and touchy-feely may be one thing, the results are definitely another:

Major cartels, including ones from China, Mexico, Russia, Argentina, Bulgaria and other countries, are now growing marijuana year-round and committing other egregious crimes, such as human trafficking and slavery, to support their illegal activities because Oregon has made it hard for police and farm inspectors to do their jobs.

Illegal marijuana operations run by domestic and international cartels are expanding throughout Oregon thanks to the state’s liberal laws and inadequate regulations, which impact the legal and illegal drug industries as well as law enforcement’s ability to address drug crimes.

For example, police in Oregon are prohibited by law from asking about nationality or immigration status, according to a report by The Epoch Times. In addition, legal hemp farmers are not obligated under Oregon law to allow inspectors onto their property to search for illegal marijuana cultivation operations on their farms.

Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel confirmed that drug traffickers are now coming to Oregon. He told The Epoch Times:

“Drug traffickers have flocked here from every state in the nation and nearly a dozen countries.”

Oregon’s Jackson County has declared a state of emergency as cartels have stolen water, intimidated residents and enslaved more than 10,000 illegal immigrants.

Oregon math: sanctuary state for illegal aliens + legalized pot=Mexican drug cartels + human slavery.

Albany Police Captain Brad Liles told The Epoch Times in a separate report that Chinese operators had major and sophisticated indoor growing operations: Portland , Oregon 800 murders. Drug cartels setting up in “ open borders” move. More undocumented migrants coming in daily. https://t.co/mrOjDWfMOc

In the small town of Philomath, one illegal operation took place in a two-story warehouse structure with 11 rooms and 5,000 square feet. According to Philomath Chief of Police Ken Rueben, the warehouse contained 4,000 plants in varying stages, from starters to fully-grown plants ready to harvest.

The sophisticated facility even used generators, air filtration devices and electronically controlled temperature and humidity based on the age of the plants.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/oregon-attracting-international-drug-cartels-that-use-narco-slaves/

Five suspects allegedly connected with a Chinese organized crime group headquartered in New York were arrested during the raid, according to Chief Rueben.

Just a few blocks further up the hill from my place, there used to be a small grocery and deli. It's now a pot shop. Same story down the hill; that place used to be a small massage studio/health food shop. It all happened in the space of just a couple of years.

Transformation, dude!

 

 

 

Better Than Expected

Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti had a tearful day in court on Monday as he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort footwear giant Nike to the tune of possibly as much as $25 million.

I'd assumed that, being a lawyer and all, he'd be allowed to simply walk. Apparently, not so. That's good; prison seems like a good thing for him - although he still should have received a longer sentence, it's still better than expected.

 

 

Glenn K. Beaton

I like this man's commentary. He says what's on his mind, with no mincing around, and it's easy to see why many agree with him.

As an example, he recently published the following:

A fawning “report” in the Aspen Daily News breathlessly announced more federal COVID funds for Glitter Gulch, otherwise known as Aspen, Colorado. You know the place. It’s where the house pictured above just sold for $72 million, and houses routinely go for $3-5,000/sq ft. Where insiders such as newspaper reporters and city council members get slope-side multimillion dollar homes for dimes on the dollars under the taxpayer-subsidized housing program.

The fed money this time is for Aspen’s vagrants. Er, I mean “homeless.” Er, I mean “persons experiencing homelessness.” Whom, we’re told, are camping on the sidewalks and pooping in the gutters because they’re afflicted with something called “shelter-resistance.”

Aspen already has a “homeless shelter” for people who say they can’t afford a roof over their heads but nonetheless choose to live in one of the most expensive places in the world.

As he so often does, Beaton gets right to the root of the "problem", there. He doesn't simply "flatten the curve"; he pretty well nukes it.

 

 

Long Overdue!

SEATTLE (KOMO) — Alaska Airlines announced Tuesday it will no longer accept emotional support animals in the passenger cabin on its flights.

It's about time that sanity finally bites these babies in their collective behinds!

Beginning Jan. 11, 2021, Alaska will only allow service dogs, which are specially trained to perform tasks for the benefit of a qualified individual with a disability. Airlines argued that passengers abused the situation to bring a menagerie of animals on board including cats, turtles, pot-bellied pigs and, in one case, a peacock.

Those animals were never trained to do anything useful; they were simply pets - and often problematic ones at that.

 

Joe Goes Off The Rails Again

Not only doesn't answer a CBS News reporter's question regarding his son's shady dealings, he lambasts the reporter for daring to ask.

Democrat presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at a reporter who asked him about the New York Post reports about his son Hunter Biden’s alleged emails that reportedly detail corrupt foreign business dealings by Hunter that implicate Biden while he was vice president. According to a pool report, Biden said, ““I knew you’d ask it. I have no response. Another smear campaign. Right up your alley.”

Next thing you know, he'll be calling them Fake News.

And of course, the law enforcement expert is one again calling for cops to shoot armed perps in the leg. You've gotta love it when a guy who's never worked a day in his life is nonetheless perfectly fine with telling people who do train and work how they should do their jobs.

It never ceases to amaze that some actually favor the guy.

 

This Just In

Golly, I wonder if this is a scam...actually, I don't wonder at all.

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Great language skills, no?

 

Yet Another Reason To Avoid Google Whenever Possible

Rather than create entirely on its own all the parts of the mobile operating system that has now come to be known as Android, Google elected to use more than 11,000 lines of coding from Oracle’s Java to make it run.

They didn't bother with stuff like licensing; they just lifted it. In executing this theft, they willfully violated a number of laws - not the least among which was federal copyright law, which covers computer code in addition to most other works.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Google v. Oracle on Oct. 7. The case involves several legal issues, all of which boil down to one principal question: Did Google cheat and steal its way to the top? 

While a decision on the case isn’t expected for a few months, the justices’ pointed questioning at the Big Tech giant points to the answer being a clear and resounding yes.

Personally, I don't use Google; I use DuckDuckGo for searches. Google tracks everything you do on the internet, DDG doesn't. While I don't do anything nefarious, I prefer privacy to snoops, so DDG is my default engine. I also use a virtual private network that tells anyone snooping that I'm in Seattle.

It's been ten years of legal wrangling between Google 's parent company and Sun Microsystems (which did the original Java coding before disbanding and turning the code over to Oracle), but it seems that the ducks have finally come home to roost at SCOTUS. It couldn't happen to a more deserving company.

 

The AARP Scam

AARP finances its operations by overcharging members for health care policies and through its billion-dollar relationship with UnitedHealth Group, according to a new public policy report.

“AARP works against its members in many respects,” Chris Jacobs, founder of consulting and analytics firm Juniper Research Group and author of the report, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. He continued: “They’ve built a marketing empire that they use for compensation for their executives and their staff.”

They keep sending me stuff urging me to join. I haven't, and won't. Their mailings go straight into the recycle bin.

AARP doesn’t just use its profits for large executive payouts, but for lobbying many “liberal causes.”

AARP is able to spend 35% of its income from such policies on administrative costs like executive salaries and marketing.