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  1. The Washington state Supreme Court recently ruled that lawyers no longer need to pass a bar exam to practice law, “arguing that the exam “disproportionally and unnecessarily blocks” marginalized groups.”

    If that wasn’t enough, the legislature just passed a law allowing illegal immigrants to work in certain fields requiring a certificate or license.

    Illegal immigrants will now be able to obtain those certificates or licenses to work jobs that include: Nurses, Teachers, Sex offender treatment providers, Architects, Pharmacists, Dentists, and dental hygienists/Home care providers.
    For optometrists, notaries, bail bond agents, money transmitters, and currency exchangers, the requirement to be a United States citizen in order to qualify for licensure is also removed.

    To make sure the state isn’t snitching, “State agencies and regulatory authorities may not disclose the Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number of an applicant or licensee for any purpose except tax purposes, licensing purposes, and enforcement of an order for child support payments.”

    Citizenship is so 20th century.

  2. Another day, another “Biden” scandal…
    “GAO: Biden admin hid ‘susceptible’ programs from total of $236B improper payments for 2023;
    “The programs in fiscal year 2023 that went unreported to the government watchdog, which has tracked trillions of payments made in error in 2003, fell under the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.”—
    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/gao-biden-admin-omitted-programs-susceptible-significant-improper-payments-236b

    But that’s OK.
    How else can “Biden” be expected to trash the country?
    Seriously!

    (Gotta love the “made in error” part, though…)

  3. Thanks for the info, Brian E. We Washingtonians are now living in a one-party state. Unless something can be done to reform our elections, a Republican will never win a statewide office again.

    Most of the illegals are on the east side of the mountains where all the agriculture jobs are. I was in a McDonalds near Yakima a few months ago. I was the only native English-speaking person in the place. Felt more like Tiajuana than Yakima. With all those new “voters” even the east side of the state will go blue.

    It’s all a well-crafted plan.
    1. Change to all mail voting with same day registration.
    2. Import as many non-citizens as possible.
    3. Erase citizenships qualifications for important jobs.
    4. Erase the need to pass a bar exam to be a lawyer.

    What’s next? Legislation requiring hiring quotas by race?

    I’m too old to move. My last years will be spent in a one-party state that cares not one whit for my needs or concerns.

  4. The aluminum-mercury ‘experiment’ is fine for gaping at (barring the useless ‘music’), but it omits the whys and wherefores – the essence of science and education. Is science being reduced to mere gawping spectators?

  5. Jimmy J.
    I wouldn’t assume all the Latinos are illegal.
    For the most part Mexicans/Central Americans are industrious/hard working people that do the jobs we don’t/won’t do.
    My beef isn’t with them. It’s with the woke culture that encourages multiculturalism where immigrant groups are discouraged from assimilating. We need immigration and I wish conservatives were coming up with a plan to increase legal immigration based on economic conditions to counter the open border plan the leftists are running with.
    My beef is with policies that don’t seek immigrants from around the world so we maintain a balance of skills/cultures– recognizing that not all cultures are conducive to integration in our value/civic/legal system.
    We need to re-capture our education system requiring a civics education that teaches the benefits of Western culture– the system that provides all the opportunities we have.

    Why do we need more immigrants? Baby boomers retiring and the declining birth rate among young people. If we are going to try and grow an economy at 3% we’re going to need workers for those jobs a new re-elected President Trump will be trying to bring back to the US.

  6. I think what Washington state has done is more virtue signaling than anything– signaling solidarity (raised fist type) with the open borders/globalist crowd.

    I’m disappointed that all three of my representatives from our rural/mostly conservative district voted for the bill. I haven’t had a chance to ask them why they supported it yet.

    The court ruling removing the bar exam is just DEIism/Wokeism/Cultural Marxism at work. It’s possible that the left has gone too far with transism/Wokeism and those liberals who base their views from compassion will realize their compassion is being misused.

  7. The “Biden” Scandal of the Day?
    Well today it looks like today there’s a bonus… (even if anyone sufficiently sentient KNEW the numbers were bogus…)
    “Philadelphia Fed Admits US Payrolls Overstated By At Least 800,000”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/philadelphia-fed-admits-us-payrolls-overstated-least-800000

    (But just HOW did such sufficiently sentient people KNOW the numbers had to be fake? Simple: because they were reported by “Biden” and crowed about with full-throated reverence by the Mainstream Uber-Corrupt Media.)

    File under: Transitory Truths.

  8. Open borders Phase II:

    From gellerreport.com:
    Biden Moves To Grant Amnesty, Hand Out Green Cards To Illegals

    Names->ballots->votes

    BTW, my ‘Banned Lizard’ handle was bestowed by Pamela Geller in a conversation where we reminisced about our days as commenters at a blog that we were banned from when its political perspective pulled a 180 and the blogger purged dissenters. Her remark: “Banned lizards are the best kind.”

  9. Banned Lizard,

    I think Washington state is just trying to get ahead of the curve. What I read is Biden is also thinking of rewarding cities that get on the illegal band wagon.

    “One idea the administration has mused is increasing support to states and cities that have taken in a high number of illegal immigrants, such as Denver, Colorado and New York City, according to Politico.”

    I have no doubt he will implement the plan if he loses in November, especially the provision that would give green cards to illegal immigrants who have been in the country for more than 10 years, making the legal permanent residents.

  10. I will not be posting for awhile. I am going to Mexico, losing all my ID’s, cross the border and go to NYC. The living is Good, and Very Easy.
    Maybe that is the only way to survive is to be an Illegal and get all the handouts.

  11. My Swedish sister-in-law had to remain outside the country while they processed her permanent residency request. It took six or eight months. She being married to a citizen with a child that is a citizen. She lived in Canada. It was terribly hard on her.

    Not too hard really though. My parents put her up in their multimillion dollar ski chalet in Whistler BC. A real slum it wasn’t.

  12. The intro to the video states the experiment is extremely dangerous. How dangerous?

    I know one is not supposed to allow mercury to touch bare skin. Never mind that in my sixth grade someone bought a big glob of mercury to school and it was passed around to the entire class to push around on their desktops. Fun.

    Probably not a good idea. Nonetheless, I se?m tt hve avodd sid-effts ov merc poisnng.

    I had more fun growing rock candy. Takes a lot longer but safe and you can eat the results. Yum!

    –“How to Make Homemade Rock Candy”
    https://www.thespruceeats.com/rock-candy-521016

  13. The liarcrats rage about Inserection. But some governments deserve to be removed. So much for the guarantee a republican form of government

  14. Re: Relax… Pop a Schadenfreude!
    ____________________________

    Hollywood Contraction Hits Entertainment Executive Jobs: “This Is A Full-Scale Depression”

    LinkedIn is usually used by professionals for networking with people in their field, posting updates when they get a new job or congratulating friends on their promotions.

    These days, as one former industry type put it, “it’s become a therapy site for unemployed entertainment executives” who share their frustrations over the lack of opportunities in Hollywood amid a major contraction.

    “I’ve seen lots of downturns, lots of job losses but I’ve never seen anything like this,” one veteran top TV executive said. “This is a full-scale depression for the entertainment industry.”

    Over the past year, there have been waves of layoffs at Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Amazon MGM Studios, Lionsgate (which acquired eOne), Netflix, Sony, Fifth Season and most talent agencies including CAA and UTA.

    The dire situation, “bordering on worst-case scenario,” the seasoned TV executive said, was created by a perfect storm of Covid, strikes and “poor management decisions coming home to roost” driven by short-sighted moves by media companies aimed at goosing their quarterly reports to appease Wall Street.

    https://deadline.com/2024/03/hollywood-job-losses-executives-full-scale-depression-1235841674/
    ____________________________

    Note the careful lack of mention of Go Woke / Go Broke. And I’m pretty sure this didn’t become a depression until executives started losing their jobs as opposed to the Little People in Hollywood.

    At least the Titanic blundered into its iceberg. Hollywood is steering into it.

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