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The Saga Continues - And Gets Deeper

A British family currently held in U.S. immigration custody was arrested for making what U.S. agents believe was a deliberate attempt to enter the United States illegally from Canada, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said Tuesday.

The arrest and detention of the Connors family has received extensive coverage in the United States and Britain after their attorney described them as tourists who accidentally drove across the border and ended up jailed with their small children in what they called squalid conditions. The family’s attorney, Bridget Cambria, said her clients were driving near the U.S. border south of Vancouver on Oct. 2 when they swerved to avoid an animal and veered into the United States inadvertently. The family members said they were stopped by a U.S. agent, were denied a request to return to Canada and instead were sent to a family detention center in Pennsylvania, where they are being held pending deportation.

Well, I've been up there, and what they did was no "accident" - the parallel roads along each side of the border have numerous signs declaring the existence of the international boundary. Moreover, in many places there are fences, while in other areas there are ditches. Oh, and lots of CCTV cameras as well....

CBP officials disputed the family’s version of events and said the Connors were spotted via video surveillance “slowly and deliberately driving through a ditch onto Boundary Road in Lynden, Washington,” between parallel roadways on the U.S. and Canadian sides. The roads are not connected by cross streets, and the only legal way to traverse between the countries is through staffed border stations throughout the region. The CBP statement said U.S. agents also determined that two of the family members had applied for travel authorization to visit the United States and were denied.

“Attempts were made to return the individuals to Canada, however, Canada refused to allow their return and two attempts to contact the United Kingdom consulate were unsuccessful,” the CBP statement read.

BUT the tale grows deeper:

The Irish travellers were accused of scamming and stealing their way around Brisbane allegedly used their children to steal designer shoes, police revealed. Most of them are believed to have fled Australia at the weekend after their images were released, while four remaining suspects are being closely monitored by Queensland police and border force officers. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was asked about the Irish scammers on Wednesday, insisting people who commit crimes in Australia should be hauled before the courts.

Looks to me as though our border patrol folks did a good job, here.

As to why Canada declined to have them back: they likely talked with Aussie authorities - the "family" has been banned from returning to Australia.

 

Good Points

It's curious that these folks have apparently never heard of teleconferencing. Nope, they have to fly to "climate conferences" in Copenhagen or Brazil or wherever. Unfortunately, they also fly back.

 

The Nutty Professor

A former university professor in Philadelphia spent tens of thousands of dollars in federal money for local strip clubs and sports bars over a 10-year period, the Justice Department says. Dr. Chikaodinaka D. Nwankpa misused $189,062 of government grants from July 2007 through April 2017 while working at Drexel University, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The grants were supposed to be spent on research related to energy and naval technology, but an internal audit revealed Nwankpa used the money for personal iTunes purchases and for “goods and services” provided by Cheerleaders, Club Risque and Tacony Club.

Well, I guess he stretched the definition of "research" a bit.

 

Lieowtha Strikes Again

Much like she did in the questionable ancestry claim, Warren is proving to be just as stubborn in standing by her tale of woe that she was fired from teaching children with special needs after becoming “visibly pregnant.”

Adding to Warren’s problem is that the Washington Free Beacon obtained the minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting that showed the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a “2nd year” contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job.

“That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was ‘accepted with regret,'” the Free Beacon reported.

Yet, Warren insisted in an interview Monday with CBS News that she lost the job due to sexual discrimination.

She faked her Indian heritage, not just to benefit personally from an affirmative action slot against actual Native Americans for whom the Ivy League law slots were intended, but also to browbeat whites about racial discrimination from her ancestors' supposed racially mixed marriage.  That never happened in her home state of Oklahoma, where whites and Native Americans intermarry more frequently than any other state in the country and most longtime Oklahomans actually can claim some Native American ancestry, although, as Warren's case shows, not all of them.  

Time and again, Warren has this worldview that is premised on the lefty idea of everybody being a victim.  She's using that a lot on herself, claiming to be a victim in two instances now, as a means of advancing, and she's used phony victimhood in research to advance her career in a third.

Why anyone pays attention to her remains a mystery.

She lies about everything, as she's repeatedly demonstrated.

 

 

Update: September Snow

Global Warming Update - "Unprecedented" Winter Storm Emergency. Record Breaking Snowfall in September. Dumps 4 ft of Snow around the West.

Even here in Portland it's been unseasonably cold; nearly 10 ft. of snow is on nearby Mount Hood, and skiers are hitting the slopes, as are the avid snow-shoe folks. Click the link for an interesting brief video that shows what's been happening in the past couple of days in various parts of the West.

Amusing responses, as well:

Maybe they can get that confused kid-Greta--to do a pumped up crisis report on it. She could look up at the snow and say, How dare you!"

hey al...wanna tell me again how snowfall will be a thing of the past by 2010..no 15...no 20

Only 12 years left to achieve my perfect 300 game. But NOOOOO! I have to take time to scoop out from several feet of global warming in the first week of autumn.

Here in Portland, we got cold, but not snow - we got rain downpours instead. The dog was bugging me, wanting to go outside. So I opened the door to let him into the back yard. He took one look, asked if I was nuts, then turned around and went back to his spot on the couch. He doesn't do downpours.

Adherents to the Religion of AGW had no comment.

 

Funny Phone Call

Guy with a thick accent called to tell me he can fix my problem with my Windows computer. I love a good laugh!

Apparently, they're still trying that old ploy.

 

The THC Vape Biz

Two Kenosha County brothers were charged Monday in a massive counterfeit THC vaping cartridge operation.    

Tyler T. Huffhines, 20, and his 23-year-old brother, Jacob D. Huffhines, of Paddock Lake, face numerous charges including possession of THC with the intent to deliver, maintaining a drug trafficking place, identity theft, possession of a firearm by a felon and cocaine possession. Tyler Huffhines admitted starting his THC vape cartridge business on Jan. 28, 2018, the same day he took a picture of his business to post on Instagram. He told detectives that he didn't smoke marijuana but saw a good business opportunity by purchasing THC vape cartridges in California for $2.50 each where they are legal and bringing them back to Wisconsin to sell for $15 apiece.

Eventually, Tyler Huffhines admitted he figured out he could boost profits by buying empty vape cartridges and jars of liquid THC and paying 10 workers to fill them. Initially, he paid his workers $20 an hour to fill vape cartridges but then realized if he changed his business model to pay them 30 cents per cartridge, it would increase their productivity and he could save more money.

Tyler and his pals pumped out as many as 5000 of these per day.

During searches of the Bristol condo and the Paddock Lake home where the Huffhines brothers lived with their mother, authorities found loaded guns, cocaine, 31,200 cartridges each filled with around 1 gram of THC, 98,000 unfilled cartridges, 57 glass jars filled with a total of roughly 12½ gallons of refined liquid THC, 18½ pounds of marijuana and three money counting machines.

The operation is believed to have been the largest one in the USA. It's not yet known as to whether or not it's related to the illnesses and deaths nationwide, but I'd not bet against it.

Oopsie

The protest organized by Greenpeace closed part of the Houston Ship Channel on Thursday. The Harris County District Attorney’s office said its charges were the first under a new law that makes it a felony to disrupt energy pipelines and ports. Those charged include 31 people who dangled on ropes off a bridge or who provided logistical support, said Teare. Most of the protesters were expected to appear Friday before a magistrate for a probable cause hearing, he said. All 31 face up to a $10,000 fine and two years in prison if convicted. The district attorney’s office plans to convene a grand jury to consider other criminal charges, he said. 

Greenpeace could face a $500,000 fine under the Texas law for supporting the protests, said Jennifer Hensley, director of state lobbying and advocacy for environmental group Sierra Club, which is contesting some of the laws.

Note to "Greenpeace": don't screw around with Texas. And no, I won't donate to you.

 

Organic?

(Natural News) Do you trust the “organic” label to really be organic? A U.S. farmer named Randy Constant killed himself to avoid a 10-year prison sentence after being convicted of running a massive organic fraud scheme that produced millions of bushels of “organic” corn and soybeans which were sold into the U.S. marketplace.

USDA doesn't really run any tests; they just essentially accept the grower's word and give them "organic" labels to slap onto their products. In this case, I guess you could say that Randy bought the farm....

 

One Born Every Minute

This device magnifies your phone to a mini TV size.

Yes, well - ₹ 219.00 for a Fresnel screen seems a bit steep. You can make your own for far less cash.

Scams are ubiquitous these days, and Amazon peddles them too.

It can be a nasty world out there.