Tuesday, June 22, 2021

CALIFORNIA - WHERE YOU WATCH AND SEE HOW BAD THE DEMOCRAT PARTY CAN MAKE IT - Bill Maher Threatens to Leave California: You ‘Love to Be Up Everybody’s Ass’ But Can’t Manage Droughts and Wildfires

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14 Migrants Rescued in California Wilderness near Border

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El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued 14 migrants who became lost in the Jacumba Wilderness after illegally crossing from Mexico into California. The rescues occurred in separate incidents during a four-day period ending on June 20.

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents received multiple 911 distress calls between June 17 and 20 from lost migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico Border, according to information provided by El Centro Sector Border Patrol officials. The recuses took place in the Jacumba Wilderness region in separate incidents.

During the four-day period ending on June 20, El Centro station agents responded to multiple 911 calls and carried out search and rescue operations. Three of the four incidents took place during the afternoon of June 17 where agents rescued six migrants lost in the mountain ranges located southeast of Ocotillo, California, officials stated.

On Friday, agents rescued two more migrants in separate incidents in an area west of Ocotillo, the report continued.

The agents carried out rescue operations again on Saturday leading to the saving of three more lives. The agents rescued another three on Sunday.

In total, the agents apprehended 14 migrants who became lost in the Jacumba Wilderness after illegally crossing the border. Two of the migrants required transportation by EMS personnel to nearby hospitals for heat-related illnesses. The remainder appeared to be in good health. Agents transported the healthy migrants to a processing station.

“CBP’s message for anyone who is thinking of entering the United States illegally along the Southern border is simple: don’t do it,” a CBP spokesperson told Breitbart Texas in response to an email inquiry. “When migrants cross the border illegally, they put their lives in peril. The terrain along the border is extreme, the summer heat is severe, and the miles of desert migrants must hike after crossing the border in many areas are unforgiving.”

“Individuals who cross illegally into the United States through the desert risk facing difficult terrain, unpredictable weather, dangerous wildlife, and abandonment by callous smugglers,” the CBP spokesperson said. “After crossing the border, smugglers often pack as many migrants as they can into locked houses with little to no sunlight, poor ventilation, and unsanitary conditions, making the houses a breeding ground for contagious diseases.”

The number of migrant deaths along the entire U.S.-Mexico border through the end of May stands at 203 — just 37 short of the 250 known deaths for all of Fiscal Year 2020.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

Bill Maher Threatens to Leave California: You ‘Love to Be Up Everybody’s Ass’ But Can’t Manage Droughts and Wildfires

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Comedian Bill Maher has not-so-jokingly threatened to leave California, arguing that the state continues to mismanage its water supply in the face of chronic droughts and wildfires.

On Friday’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the Los Angeles-based comedian launched a tirade against California’s water mismanagement as well as the state’s tendency to over-regulate businesses and the lives of its residents.

“For a state that just loves to be up everybody’s ass all the time, water management might be a better place to direct that instinct,” Maher said. “When it comes to regulations, either go big or go home or I’m going to find a new home because my house is one gender reveal party away from burning down while I’m asleep.”

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Indeed, Democrats, who’ve held power in the Golden State since 1970, currently hold veto-proof supermajorities in both houses of the state’s legislature. Still, Maher, who’s donated millions to Democrats, took issue with the state’s almond growers for cultivating the crop while the state contends with perennial droughts. Almonds require more water per pound than most other fruits or vegetables.

Maher used the subject of almonds to crack a joke about transgender star Caitlyn Jenner, who is running for governor.

“Californians can live without nuts. Just ask Caitlyn Jenner.”

Maher also excoriated the state for its tendency to over-regulate businesses and the daily lives of its residents.

“We are the most regulated state in the nation with more than 395,000 regulatory restrictions,” he said. “It is a constant nightmare of inspectors and permits and fees. In this state, if you get to your car ten seconds after the parking meter expires, it’s already gone and you’ll never see it again.”

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Nolte: Democrat-run California So Mismanaged Weed Business Requires $100 Million Bailout

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“The California Legislature on Monday approved a $100-million plan to bolster California’s legal marijuana industry,” reports the far-left Los Angeles Times.

Yep, the far-left state of California, which is governed solely by far-left Democrats, is so mismanaged the legal marijuana business is in trouble.

Let me restate that for emphasis: The legal marijuana business is in trouble in … California.

Nothing would make me happier than to learn the weed business is in trouble due to a lack of interest. But that’s clearly not the case. The reason the weed business is faltering is solely due to the state’s insanely burdensome tax and regulatory policies.

To legally sell marijuana in California, you have to obtain a state business license. So, by this time, after voters legalized weed in 2016, the state expected (and counted on for the tax revenue) at least 6,000 licensed cannabis shops to be up, running, licensed, and pouring revenue into the state’s greedy tax coffers.

But instead of 6,000, there are only 1,086 licensed stores. Which is a miss of over 80 percent, and the taxes and regulatory state are to blame.

“Many cannabis growers, retailers and manufacturers have struggled to make the transition from a provisional, temporary license to a permanent one renewed on an annual basis,” reports the Times, “a process that requires a costly, complicated and time-consuming review of the negative environmental effects involved in a business and a plan for reducing those harms.”

The Times adds, “Supporters of legalization blame the discrepancy on problems that they say include high taxes on licensed businesses, [and] burdensome regulations[.]”

“As a result, about 82% of the state’s cannabis licensees still held provisional licenses as of April[.]”

The ability to sell weed with only a provisional license is about to expire in January of 2022. And this is where things get hilarious…

In response to this epic failure, a sane state would realize it is over-regulated and make the necessary moves to decrease, simplify, and streamline the regulatory process required to obtain a business license. But California is not sane, so…

This $100 million is being spent to help cannabis stores navigate the regulatory state. I know how absurd that sounds, so read it for yourself:

“The funds, including $22 million earmarked for L.A., would help cities hire experts and staff to assist businesses in completing the environmental studies and transitioning the licenses[.]”

“Other cities that will get grants include Long Beach, San Francisco, Oakland, Commerce, Adelanto and Desert Hot Springs.”

Even so, Jerred Kiloh, president of the United Cannabis Business Association, says it’s too little too late. “It is a significant amount of money, he told the Times, “but I don’t know that it actually answers the problem of provisional licenses making it through CEQA [The California Environmental Quality Act] analysis in a timely manner to get an annual license.”

Things are so difficult, he says, some firms will need two to four years to complete the paperwork.

“The real problem is CEQA analysis is a very arduous process,” he added. “I think it would be good to have more reform of the licensing system instead of just putting money to it.”

California voters legalized weed in 2016, and Democrats create a regulatory and tax burden so cumbersome that five years later, fewer than 20 percent of the expected cannabis shops have been able to open up.

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California Will Use $5.2 Billion Federal Coronavirus Funds to Bail Out Delinquent Renters

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Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) will use $5.2 billion of federal coronavirus stimulus aid to bail out California’s delinquent renters.

“That appears to be more than enough to cover all of the unpaid rent in the state, according to Jason Elliott, senior counselor to Newsom on housing and homelessness,” the Associated Press reported.

But California says it may not be able to compensate landlords with the sum of money before June 30, when state and federal eviction moratoriums will expire from coronavirus-related measures.

The AP reported California’s “Department Housing and Community Development showed that of the $490 million in requests for rental assistance through May 31, just $32 million has been paid.”

“That doesn’t include the 12 cities and 10 counties that run their own rental assistance programs,” it continued.

State leaders are mulling how to allocate the $5.2 billion with the June 30 deadline approaching.

Meanwhile, property manager Keith Becker told the AP his “14 tenants are more than $100,000 behind in rent payments,” placing large financial strain on him to continue to pay the mortgage so the delinquent tenets have a roof over their heads.

“We should do our best to get back to the starting point where we were in December of 2019. Anything other than that is taking advantage of a crisis,” he said.

San Francisco Democrat and chairman of the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Assemblyman, David Chiu, told the AP, “It’s challenging to set up a new, big program overnight.”

“It has been challenging to educate millions of struggling tenants and landlords on what the law is,” he added.

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