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Open-Border Scumbags Call Out CNN, Demand Republicans 'Tone Down Rhetoric' on Illegal Immigration

Fortunately, I expect CNN's jonesing for some huge ratings, and will likely go all Lou Dobbs on these despicable "migrant advocates," a.k.a. far-left reconquista open-border thugs.

At LAT, "Advocates ask CNN to help tone down Republicans' rhetoric on immigration":

A large coalition of immigrant rights groups is calling on the moderators of this week's Republican presidential debate to help tone down the heated rhetoric on illegal immigration that has dominated the GOP primary race.

In an open letter to CNN, which is hosting the debate, 62 pro-immigrant organizations from around the country voice concern about "the increasing hatred and vitriol being directed towards both people of color and the immigrant community by certain presidential candidates."

"The upcoming presidential debate will be a test as to how much leeway can be given to the language of hate," the letter says, while calling on moderators "to help bring back a civil debate."

Republican front-runner Donald Trump soared in the polls this summer after making immigration a focus of his campaign. Trump has drawn attention to several immigrants in the country illegally accused of committing crimes and has vowed to build a border wall and end automatic citizenship for children born to immigrants without legal status. He has called Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists.

The letter cites a recent attack on a Latino man in Boston in which the suspect may have cited Trump as an inspiration. That and other recent episodes are evidence that "these harmful words will turn into violence against our communities," the letter says.

Signed by groups including the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, the National Immigration Law Center and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles, the letter also suggests a hashtag for those who will be tweeting the debate: #NoHateDebate.

When the crowded field of GOP candidates descends on Simi Valley for the debate Wednesday, they will be met with protesters from both sides of the immigration issue.

About four dozen organizations that support immigrants plan to rally outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where the debate is being held, according to Jorge-Mario Cabrera of CHIRLA.

They will be competing with protesters who have likely been happy with the tone of this summer's debate.

The second rally, organized by tea party and anti-immigration groups, will be centered on the need to revoke birthright citizenship, according to organizer Ted Hilton. He said he and others had been working for years to end the practice, which most believe is a right protected by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, with little results...

La Raza scumbag communists. Fuck 'em.

Still more.

Donald Trump Speaks at USS Iowa (VIDEO)

Full coverage at the Los Angeles Times, "Trump zeroes in on immigration in national security speech aboard battleship."

And watch, at Fox News 10 Phoenix, "Donald Trump speaks on the USS Iowa."

Hungary Arrests Migrants in Border Crackdown (VIDEO)

It's pretty interesting, at NYT, "Hungary Detains Migrants in Border Crackdown."

The crackdown is almost continent-wide at this point, because compassion!

Plus, video at Euronews, "'First arrests made' as Hungary cracks down on immigration."

Lady Gaga at Brandon Maxwell's Debut Show in New York (VIDEO)

At London's Daily Mail, "Lady Gaga displays extreme cleavage in black pantsuit as she and designer pal Nicola Formichetti hit up Brandon Maxwell's NYFW show."

And watch, at AP, "Gaga Supports Brandon Maxwell."

At Least 15 Killed in Southern Utah Flash Floods (VIDEO)

Most reports indicate that 12 people died, like the CBS Evening News video below.

But see the Los Angeles Times, "At least 15 killed, including nine children, in southern Utah flash floods":

Before they turned deadly, the storms were a wonder.

Waterfalls spouted from the sides of the mountains. The rain came down so hard that some residents in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. -- most famously known as the home of a fundamentalist Mormon sect -- had trouble seeing their backyards.

"It's crazy!" Lydia Wyler, 38, said as she shot video of the wind and rain thrashing the trees outside her Hildale house, laughing a little as her kids gaped in amazement.

The joy didn't last. At least 15 people -- including at least nine children -- were killed in flash floods that struck southern Utah on Monday.

In Zion National Park, at least three visitors were killed while exploring Keyhole Canyon when more than half an inch of rain fell in less than an hour, park spokeswoman Aly Baltrus said Tuesday.

“It would have flashed right after a rainstorm,” said Baltrus, who added that the group had a canyoneering permit for the area.

Four others who were exploring the canyon were missing Tuesday, and Baltrus said rescuers wouldn’t be able to go into the small canyon until conditions improved.

Tragedy also struck Hildale and Colorado City, the border cities together known as Short Creek.

Officials say that as two families were returning Tuesday from a visit to a nearby park, the group of three adults and 13 children stopped to watch the floodwaters that had blocked their path back to town. A wall of water suddenly came from behind and swept their vehicles away, killing at least 12 members of the group.

Three children survived, including one who was hospitalized overnight. One person is missing, and it's not clear whether the person is an adult or child. The youngest child in the group was 4 and the oldest a teenager.


"We're just greatly humbled by this, but we realize this is an act of God, and this is something we can’t control," said Hildale Mayor Philip Barlow. "We have to take what we receive and do the best we can."

But after describing the thousands of phone calls the community has received and the arrival of more search dogs to look for the missing, Barlow fell silent a few moments.

"Just never experienced this before," Barlow said softly...

More.

And at USA Today, "Death toll rises to 12 in Utah flash flood; 1 still missing."

ICYMI: Morton Kondracke and Fred Barnes' Definitive Biography of Jack Kemp

So, I've finished The Devil's Pleasure Palace, which was excellent.

I've got a lot on my plate, with all these great books, but I'm going start tearing into Morton Kondracke and Fred Barnes' new book today.

Check it out, Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America.

More blogging tonight!

'We're So Sorry, Uncle Albert...'

I haven't been posting the drive-time music segments much, since Mark in the Morning premiered last year at the Sound L.A. It's a talk show. He doesn't play that much music. I'd much rather have Uncle Joe Benson on, but he's moved to the afternoons.

Oh well. Go with what you know, I guess.

From last Thursday's drive-time, "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey."

Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
6:57 AM

The Boys of Summer
Don Henley
6:46 AM

Hey, Hey, What Can I Do
Led Zeppelin
6:32 AM

Dreams
Fleetwood Mac
6:13 AM

America's Reckless Refuge for Jihad

Yeah, here's a follow-up, and corrective, to Julia Ioffe's entry, "America Can — And Must — Do More to Help Europe's Migrants. Really?"

From Michelle Malkin:

On the anniversary week of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Obama is rolling out the welcome mat to tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees. What could go wrong?

There’s no need to hypothesize. Our nation remains utterly incapable of screening out legitimate dreamers from destroyers, liberty-seekers from liberty-stiflers. Indiscriminate asylum and refugee policies rob the truly deserving of an opportunity for freedom — and threaten our national security.

It’s shameful that our leaders in Washington, sworn to uphold and defend our Constitution and our people, suffer chronic amnesia about the fatal consequences of open borders. I’ll keep reprinting my reminders. Maybe someday someone in a position of power will pay heed, throw political correctness out the window, and stop hitting the snooze button...

Keep reading.

Plus, buy Michelle's first bestseller, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores.

Bernie Sanders Is Now the Democrat Party Frontrunner (VIDEO)

Well, Grandma Clinton's still ahead in national polling, but those first-in-the-nation caucuses and primaries are campaign killers. Remember, Hillary's getting clobbered in New Hampshire especially. Sanders could come off with so much momentum that he ends up mowing her down in South Carolina and beyond.

From Stephen Miller, at National Review, "Bernie Sanders Has an Inconvenient Message for the Democratic Party":

At Bernie campaign rallies, media almost always report crowd sizes like they’re reporting on a U2 concert, but the second he opens his mouth the tweets and the stenographing magically stop.

There is little to no curiosity among our media elite about how a Democratic candidate for president is able to campaign on a shrinking middle class, record highs of unemployment, record lows of workforce participation, record wage stagnation, and record entitlement dependency, while a Democratic president simultaneously travels around the country touting his economic success on all counts. How is it allowed to go unnoticed that this candidate suggests that economic growth was better under Richard Nixon than under Barack Obama?

Last week, Obama administration officials took victory laps on social media and cable news over a new low in unemployment of 5.1 percent (a lower rate, they claim, than at any point during Reagan’s presidency). Meanwhile, Sanders, as a routine part of his campaign stump speech was lamenting that the real unemployment level is 10.3 percent, and that youth unemployment, including African-American youth unemployment, is hovering around 50 percent. How can both be true? It’s simply which rates the administration chooses to report, and more important, which rates the media choose to cover — or in Sanders’s case, not to cover. 


It seems newsworthy that in the run-up to a pivotal election, a presidential candidate is not only actively campaigning against the record of a sitting president of the same party, but gathering auspiciously large crowds by doing so. Of course, if the media were to report on the fiery John Reed–inspired rhetoric Sanders is blasting out to his zombie hordes at sold-out arenas, the carefully crafted Hollywood script of Barack Obama’s successful presidency would come tumbling down.

Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Funny too, come to think of it.

More here.

And yesterday's full Liberty University speech is here, "Bernie Sanders FULL SPEECH at Liberty University (C-SPAN)."

Katy Perry Handprint Ceremony at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood (VIDEO)

Big photos at PuffHo, "Katy Perry Leans In and Busts Out at Hollywood Handprint Ceremony."

And watch, at AFP, "Pop star Katy Perry has hands imprinted in Hollywood."

Donald Trump in 1989: 'Bring Back the Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!'

Via Ann Coulter, who just loves her some Donald Trump.

And see Dana Pico, "#DonaldTrump and the White Working Class Voter."

Read this DJT full-page ad from 1989 and tell me @realDonaldTrump is a Johnny-Come-Lately "fake" conservative: pic.twitter.com/WF9ruXQkAS

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 14, 2015

Hillary Clinton's Obsessively Stage-Managed Campaign Events (VIDEO)

Shoot, it's not even a campaign. It's a holding pattern.

Watch, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, "Halperin, Heilemann Poke Fun at Clinton's Obsessively Stage Managed Events."

They're the authors of Double Down: Game Change 2012.

Holly Williams Update on Greek Authorities Sabotaging Refugee Boats at Sea (VIDEO)

The Greek government is "investigating." But they won't confirm if it was their personnel who attacked refugee boats last week.

Watch, "Migrants attacked at sea: Migrants attempting the perilous crossing to Europe must now also risk harassment and sabotage. Holly Williams has the latest."

Russia's Land Grab in the Arctic

Boy, Russia's make land grabs, and power grabs, all over the place, heh.

At Foreign Policy, "Searching for Leads in the Opening Arctic: Disappearing ice, Russia’s newest land grab, and a new great game at the top of the world":

The Arctic is opening. Can the U.S. play in a new arena? http://t.co/ZpzQR6kdz0 pic.twitter.com/6rq1I37Fey

— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) September 14, 2015

ABOARD THE COAST GUARD CUTTER HEALY, IN THE ARCTIC–When you plow into a 4-foot-thick chunk of sea ice at 3 knots, even in a 16,000-ton state-of-the-art icebreaker like the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy, it’s hard not to notice. The whole ship shudders and seems to lurch sideways. Metal cabinets rattle. Californians swear it sounds and feels just like an earthquake, with deep rumbling booms and tremors. Others say it’s like hitting turbulence on a jetliner, the shivering and rattling accompanied by the overdrive whine of 30,000 horsepower. If you’re down in the galley, right on the waterline, what you hear is the nerve-wracking scraping of shattered ice along the side. Five stories up, on top of the bridge, you feel the bump of the collision over the strain of the engines pushing the ship through a sea of drifting white, blue, and dirty gray ice.

That’s when there is ice. But thanks to rising global temperatures, especially acute in the Arctic, there’s less of it now than there used to be. And that creates its own problems for a ship that seeks out the stuff.

“I just wish there was more ice. It’d be good training for this crew,” said Chief Warrant Officer Tim “Tugboat” Tully, the Healy’s bosun. The 85-person crew could use it. This month, they attempted something the ship had never done before: smashing through solid ice to the North Pole itself, unaccompanied by any other vessels. The July trip would have been an ideal time to get the crew used to plowing through some heavy stuff, but the ice was patchy much of the trip. We steamed north through the Bering Strait, passed the Diomede Islands, and got near the northwest tip of Alaska before we spotted our first chunks of ice in mid-July. “Ten years ago, this was heavy going,” the bosun said.

The Arctic is melting. Summer sea ice that used to cover the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Strait isn’t there, where it used to be. Summer ice coverage in the Arctic hit a record low in 2012; this past March, it registered an all-time winter low. As the ice recedes, something new is popping up in its place: oil rigs and commercial ships. Whatever the debate about climate change looks like in Washington, it’s sadly clear up here. At least for part of the year, thanks to rising temperatures, a once-closed ocean is now open for business.

That doesn’t mean it’s always easy sailing. Less ice is more ice, the Alaskan natives say: As ice melts, it opens things up just enough to get you into trouble.Less ice is more ice, the Alaskan natives say: As ice melts, it opens things up just enough to get you into trouble. That’s as true for native whalers and seal hunters as it is for specialized drilling rigs that are starting to head north for a few months each year. Polar seas are not like other oceans. You need a survival suit just to work on deck, even in the summertime. “Man overboard” drills in freezing water have a uniquely sickening undertone; the ship’s pipe’s intonation “Man has been in water for six minutes” becomes a virtual epitaph. Communications and navigation equipment that works fine at other latitudes doesn’t near the pole. And, even if there’s less ice than there used to be, there’s still plenty of it bobbing and knocking and crashing around; what sank the Titanic is constantly looming out of the fog, posing a mortal danger to ships that aren’t ice-hardened.

“Everybody thinks you can do up here what you can do in the Lower 48, and it’s just not so. It’s a whole different environment,” says Capt. Jason Hamilton, 44, a 22-year Coast Guard veteran who just took over command of the Healy, one of two operational icebreakers the United States has. The other, the heavy icebreaker Polar Star, operates in Antarctica.

As the Arctic melts, it is birthing a new global battleground, with huge economic, environmental, and geopolitical implications for the United States. Oil companies are moving north, even though cheap crude makes pricey Arctic drilling a tough sell for now. Shipping companies are eagerly eying a fresh northern route that can trim thousands of miles off voyages between Asia and Europe. Russia, which has a fleet of six nuclear-powered heavy icebreakers, with 11 more planned or under construction, is revamping scores of Cold War-era military bases inside the Arctic Circle. Moscow, eight years after planting a symbolic flag on the seabed at the North Pole, just handed the United Nations an expansive claim to almost half a million square miles of Arctic seabed potentially rich in oil, natural gas, and minerals. The United States would be hard-pressed to make a similar claim, since it has never ratified the Law of the Sea treaty, which codifies international maritime law. And China, which isn’t even an Arctic nation, is busy dipping its toe into the icy waters — launching its very own icebreaker, currently building a second, and for the first time sending navy ships into Alaskan waters...

Pretty fascinating, no matter what your take is on climate change.

Keep reading.

Bernie Sanders' Socialist Agenda Would Expand Government to the Tune of $18 Trillion (VIDEO)

Now that's impressive!

At the video, MSNBC's Chris Hayes is getting a woody!

At the Wall Street Journal, "Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion":

WASHINGTON—Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose liberal call to action has propelled his long-shot presidential campaign, is proposing an array of new programs that would amount to the largest peacetime expansion of government in modern American history.

In all, he backs at least $18 trillion in new spending over a decade, according to a tally by The Wall Street Journal, a sum that alarms conservatives and gives even many Democrats pause. Mr. Sanders sees the money as going to essential government services at a time of increasing strain on the middle class.

His agenda includes an estimated $15 trillion for a government-run health-care program that covers every American, plus large sums to rebuild roads and bridges, expand Social Security and make tuition free at public colleges.

To pay for it, Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent running for the Democratic nomination, has so far detailed tax increases that could bring in as much as $6.5 trillion over 10 years, according to his staff.

A campaign aide said additional tax proposals would be offered to offset the cost of some, and possibly all, of his health program. A Democratic proposal for such a “single-payer” health plan, now in Congress, would be funded in part through a new payroll tax on employers and workers, with the trade-off being that employers would no longer have to pay for or arrange their workers’ insurance.

Mr. Sanders declined a request for an interview. His campaign referred questions to Warren Gunnels, his policy director, who said the programs would address an array of problems. “Sen. Sanders’s agenda does cost money,” he said. “If you look at the problems that are out there, it’s very reasonable.”

Calling himself a democratic socialist, Mr. Sanders has long stood to the left of the Democratic Party, and at first he was dismissed as little more than a liberal gadfly to the party’s front-runner, Hillary Clinton. But he is ahead of or tied with the former secretary of state in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and he has gained in national polling. He stands as her most serious challenger for the Democratic nomination.

Mr. Sanders has filled arenas with thousands of supporters, where he thunders an unabashedly liberal agenda to tackle pervasive economic inequality through more government services, higher taxes on the wealthy and new constraints on banks and corporations...

Still more.

Donald Trump Supporters Line-Up 10 Hours for Dallas Campaign Event (VIDEO)

Gary Tuchman interviews Trump supporters who lined up for 10 hours in Dallas, at CNN, "Why are people waiting 10 hours to see and hear Trump?"

At at Fox News 10 Phoenix, "Donald Trump Dallas Rally FULL Speech."

And at Fox New 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, "Trump rally expected to draw huge crowds," and "Crowds arrive at AAC for Trump rally."

Jackie Johnson's Got Your Tuesday Weather Forecast

Watch, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Jackie Johnson's Weather Forecast (Sept. 14)."

It could rain today.

More here, "Southern California Preps as Weakened Cyclone Brings Rain."

Tony Abbott Makes Outgoing Speech as Australian Prime Minister (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Ousted in Liberal Party Revolt (VIDEO)."

Now, at CNN, "Tony Abbott makes final speech as Australian PM."

Also at ABC News Australia, "Tony Abbott addresses media for the last time as prime minister," and "Former Liberal Party leader John Howard pays tribute to outgoing prime minister Tony Abbott and congratulates new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull."

REO Speedwagon Guitarist Gary Richrath Has Died

Just saw this right now, at the New York Times on Twitter, "Gary Richrath, Guitarist and Songwriter for REO Speedwagon, Dies at 65."

Also at USA Today, "REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath dies."

I blogged REO in 2013, "'So if you're tired of the same old story...'"