The California Version of The Green New Deal and anOctober 16, 2020, EPA Settlement With Transportation isWhat's Creating The Container Shipping Backlog — Working CA Ports 24/7 Will Not Help, Here's Why

Hundreds of requests for details on the specifics of the container shipping backlog. So, I spent 3 days calling sources, digging for details and gathering information on the substantive issue at hand. The epicenter of the problem is not what is being outlined by financial media, corporate media and politicians who have a specific interest in distracting from the issues at hand. This has nothing to do with COVID-19.

The issues being discussed today relate to events that happened a long time ago. As a matter of fact, it was so predictable that Amazon, Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Samsung, The Home Depot and Target all had taken actions years ago -long before COVID- because they knew this day would come. It was not accidental that those companies showed up at the White House to discuss the issue, because there’s now a full court press to hide it. There is one very specific regional issue driving the problem. Read on:

The trucking issue with California LA ports, ie the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), is that all semi tractors have to be current with new California emissions standards. As a consequence, that mean trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports. This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in/out of the port. Operating the port 24/7 will not cure the issue, because all it does is pile up more containers that sit idle as they await a limited number of trucks to pick them up. THIS is the central issue.

On October 16, 2020, the EPA reached a settlement agreement with California Air Resource Board (CARB) to shut down semi tractor rigs that were non-compliant with new California emission standards:

2020 SAN FRANCISCO – “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced settlements with three interstate trucking companies imposing $417,000 in penalties for violating the California Air Resources Board’s federally enforceable Truck and Bus Regulation, Drayage Truck Regulation and Transport Refrigeration Unit Regulation.

“As trucks are one of the largest sources of air pollution in California, EPA will continue to ensure these heavy-duty vehicles have the needed pollution-control equipment and operate in compliance with the rules,”said EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator John Busterud. “These companies have agreed to bring their trucks into compliance and operate more cleanly in all communities they serve.”

As noted, years ago the private sector predicted this would happen, and they started taking actions to protect their supply chains. What these massive corporations did to reduce their exposure to supply chain disruption was to immediately formulate plans to divert their goods to other ports. This was a very expensive shift in supply chain and logistic efforts for these massive corporations, which includes: Amazon, Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Samsung, The Home Depot and Target.

A long time before and during the era of the Trump administration, those massive multinational corporations knew they would need to redirect their import cargo quickly to avoid the bottleneck caused by California’s new emission standards. They began organizing new destination ports for their products and began setting up new hubs and distribution networks to avoid the predictable California port bottlenecks.

Obviously, for politically correct reasons; and in an effort to avoid the woke mob of environmentalist jackboots, the corporations didn’t publicly share any of the issues they could foresee coming – they just worked independently and quietly to avoid the issue.

No amount of extra productivity in working the docks to off-load ships will solve the issue of trucks that cannot pick up the containers and distribute them toward manufacturing or warehouses.

Via. Sundance of TLR

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So, California is now allowed to bottleneck the entire nation’s goods, with their demented regulations. There is nothing that this administration does that they do not screw up. This is not bad management; this is the state of California and the Biden Administration inflicting pain on the rest of America. Why cannot federal laws be used to fight this problem; it is an attack on interstate commerce. Blue states create problems so they can transform this country fundamentally.

Look at any liberal city and you realize they cannot govern, California, New York, Chicago they are all disasters economically and because of crime. These people pride themselves on being the first to institute moralistic, heroic-sounding ideas, as if they are saving the planet. But, they never consider the ramifications, outcome or even what will replace the common sense practices. So many Democrats are devoid of logic or reality.

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Today’s Editorial Cartoon by A. F. Branco

Conservatives Campaign To Draft Jim Jordan For Speaker...

Conservative lawmakers and leaders have started a campaign to draft former House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for Speaker of the House.

Forty prominent conservative leaders sent a letter to Congressman Jordan on Friday, urging Jordan to replace Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the next Speaker of the House.

In the letter, the conservative leaders argued that the current House leadership has “utterly failed” and “proven that it’s part of the Swamp.” The conservatives believe that Jordan is the solution to the current House leadership.

Tea Party Patriots President Jenny Beth Martin and Richard Viguerie of ConservativeHQ.com signed onto the letter.

Jenny Beth Martin told Axios, “Our supporters want to see Jim Jordan be the Speaker, and they’ve wanted that for several years. We’ve also called for Paul Ryan to step down as Speaker prior to him announcing he would not run for reelection.”

Speaker Paul Ryan announced in April that he will not seek reelection. However, he added that he will stay on as the leader of the House until after the midterm elections. Reports suggest that many lawmakers question the strategy of staying on as a lame duck Speaker going into the November election.

Ryan endorsed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to become the next Speaker, although many lawmakers wish to see Jordan take the top House leadership position.

One Republican Study Committee (RSC) lawmaker told the Hill, “That might be the perfect job for Jim Jordan because of his fighting attitude and his fighting spirit; he doesn’t back down.”

Any Roth, vice president of government affairs at the Club for Growth, said, “Jim Jordan is a proven conservative. One of his fundamental tenets for governing is that you should do what you promised voters you would do. His candidacy to lead the House GOP is refreshing and much needed.”

When asked about the conservative letter urging him to run for Speaker, Jordan said, “The American people want results, and I’m committed to bringing that change. It’s as simple as this — doing what we told the voters we would do.”
(Via: Breitbart)

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Blog Author's Comments: I agree, Jim Jordan is the man for the job. We need this to happen if the Republican Party wants to continue to strengthen and remain in control. He is an excellent choice for speaker and bad for the democrats. The chain of RINO’s continues if Kevin McCarthy is next in line. If Jordan is not the next Speaker of the House the 'Swamp' wins. We have come too far to let the RINO’s continue to be relevant.

If you haven't been paying attention we are not where we need to be as a nation. People like Ryan and McCarthy are still admissible or important. This has to stop. And the longer Paul Ryan hangs on as a lame duck, the more damage he will do to the party. If Jim Jordan was Speaker and Ted Cruz the Majority Leader of the Senate, the GOP could set back the leftists for a very long time.

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Donald Trump: 'I Am Considering A Veto Of The Omnibus Spending Bill'

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Friday that he was considering a veto of the omnibus spending bill. “I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday morning.

Trump’s statement counters his White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, who told reporters yesterday that the president would sign the bill, even though it was not perfect.

“Let’s cut right to the chase: Is the President going to sign the bill? The answer is yes,” Mulvaney said on Thursday.

But the president appears to have second thoughts after the bloated $1.3 trillion spending package passed the Senate in the middle of the night. Many members of Congress already leaving Washington, DC for their break or on foreign travel.

Trump has repeatedly questioned the bill’s failure to fund the wall, frustrated that Democrats refused to budge on his funding priority.

On Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan traveled to the White House with Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to discuss the bill, and felt comfortable that they had the president’s support.

“The President supports this bill. There’s no two ways about it,” Ryan said on Thursday.
(Via: Breitbart)

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Blog Author's Comments: I hope President Trump hears his base and knows this bill would be the end of his presidency and any hope to Make America Great Again. This is an alignment between the Republicans and Democrats to stop Trump's ability to give the people the agenda he campaigned and won on. This bill does not give him or his voters what they want, but delivers so much to the Democrats without them having to do anything. It is over 22 hundred pages and you can bet that no one has read and understands it, yet both the Republican House and Senate have passed it.

The Democrats and Republicans would rather have an uninterrupted stream of illegals and facilitate arms and drug trafficking over an unsecured border than give the DACA people somewhat of a solution. On top of that, we shouldn't need to negotiate, exchange anything, to secure our borders. The physical and economic security of our citizens should be the unquestionable priority of every one of our representatives, yet it apparently is not.

Threatening to veto the bill and actually doing it are entirely two very different things. Trump has to veto it, this bill is meant to tear President Trump from his base and torpedo his presidency. The Democrats know exactly what they are doing and the Rhino's don't care. We have not moved, it is back to government politics as usual if the bill is signed.

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An Update To This Post. President Trump has said he will sign the bill which I believe will effectively will make him a one term, lame duck president and the Democrats will again regain some power. This should never have happened and we have the Republican Party to blame. The voters will remember this at the mid-term elections and some of them will not even bother to vote. I and many others are tired of being disappointed.

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The Usual Angry Senate Republicans Demand Tillerson Spend More Money In State Department

TLR -- Senator John McCain joins Senator Bob Corker demanding that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spend more money or face being hauled up to congress for Senate investigative hearings on his excessive streamlining and productivity efforts.

According to their arguments, Secretary Tillerson has the audacity to think he is allowed to run the state department. Exactly who does he think he is?

If he doesn’t start spending more money, the Republicans in the Senate might just impeach him.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Two senior U.S. senators asked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday to explain “questionable management practices” at his department that they believe are weakening the country’s diplomatic power, adding to a chorus of concern in Congress.

Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen delivered a letter to Tillerson asking him to begin consulting with lawmakers on decisions that have an impact on recruiting, retaining and staffing the State Department, removing a hiring freeze and resuming promotions.

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Blog Author's Comments: Senator 'lame duck' Bob Corker says he won't support tax reform because it will add to the budget deficit, yet he is upset that the State Department wants to cut spending, I am glad he will not be back in office after the 2018 elections. And John McCain who will not be returning to the Senate after this term is over, is using his existing time to attack anyone and anything that has any ties to or agrees with President Trump. We have these professional politicians lecturing Rex Tillerson who ran Exxon Mobil for many years, on how he should run the State Department. From what I have seen, he is doing an excellent job as the Secretary of State. I would prefer, and I am sure Trump would concur, he would like for his other cabinet positions to function as well.

I have little doubt that if over 30 percent or more of the government employees were out on the streets tomorrow, we would see a better functioning government. President Trump should have had the people he appointed to cabinet posts, reduce the size of their departments within the first three months in office. This would have, without a doubt, removed many of the 'leakers'.

(If Sec. Tillerson would send a message to those upset with his performance) Secretary Tillerson to Sen McCain, Corker, et al: “What experience or expertise do you possess that qualifies you to question the way I run my department?” There would be total silence and Tillerson would not hear from them again. And what could these fools possibly impeach Tillerson for, performing his job and running his department too efficiently?

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Tim Kaine: Vegas Attacker Stopped 'Because He Didn't Have A Silencer'

Breitbart -- Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) claims the attacker who opened fire on Las Vegas concert goers was only stopped “because he didn’t have a silencer on his weapon.”

According to the Washington Post, Kaine asked, “Can you imagine what this would have been if he had silencers on those weapons?”

His use of the word “silencer” is an echo of other leftists like Rosanne Cash and Gabby Giffords, both of whom use the word “silencer” to describe suppressors. “Silencer” is misleading insomuch as it gives the impression that suppressors silence firearms in real life the way they do in movies. But they do not. Rather, they simply muffle the initial, ear-piercing sound wave created when the bullet is fired.

Kaine’s former running mate, Hillary Clinton, made a similar claim about suppressors on October 2. She tweeted:

Hillary Clinton "The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get. 10:03 AM - Oct 2, 2017

On October 3, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) took a position closer to Kaine and Clinton than to the pro-Second Amendment community by shelving legislation containing suppressor deregulation.

The bill–the Hearing Protection Act–was expected to come up for a floor vote soon.

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Blog Author's Comments: I was not aware that one could survive outside the womb without a brain, but there are many people in politics and the media who are examples of this. Tim Kaine could have been the Vice-President of the United States if it were not for Donald Trump. I truly want to break out laughing every time I see a photo of Kaine. In comparison to mental capability Kaine is on par with the Governor of Ohio, John Kasich.

So now some dangerous people, meaning politicians and most of the members of the media, are talking about 'silencers' (suppressors) and 'bump-stocks' and they had no idea they existed a week ago. I will be quite surprised if we do not see many members of the GOP Congress side with the Democrats in a push to ban both items. Will this have any impact upon the next person who wants to go out and kill a lot of people? The Las Vegas shooter has essentially given a prize to the Democratic Party, letting them again attempt to chip away, a small piece at a time, the items that make the Second Amendment what it now is. And, do not doubt me on this, the leftists would rewrite or totally abolish the amendment if given the chance.

What is wrong with the people of Virginia that they lack the mental caliber and vote to make Tim Kaine a Senator? And what bothers me is that if there are bills banning suppressors and bump-stocks that appear on President Trump's desk, would he sign them? If Trump did sign them into law, I would consider this a win for the Democrats in their continual effort to take away our Second Amendment rights. If the Democrat or Republican politicians - want to have a conversation about guns - fine, but make no mistake, you don't ever get to disarm us, not ever.

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Ann Coulter: No Amnesty Is A Good Amnesty...

Breitbart -- Donald Trump is being told that amnesty for “Dreamers,” or DACA recipients, will only apply to a small, narrowly defined group of totally innocent, eminently deserving illegal immigrants, who were brought to this country “through no fault of their own” as “children.” (Children who are up to 36 years old.)

Every syllable of that claim is a lie, and I can prove it.

To see how DACA will actually work, let’s look at another extremely limited amnesty that was passed in 1986.

Farmers wanted temporary guest-worker permits for their cheap labor, so that they could continue pretending that the Industrial Revolution never happened and refuse to mechanize. (And, boy, did that work! We haven’t heard a peep about “crops rotting in the fields” since then.)

The agricultural amnesty was supposed to apply to — at most — 350,000 illegal aliens. It would be available only to illegals who were currently in the country doing the back-breaking farm work that no American would do. Without them, crops would wither on the vine. They were saving us from starvation!

Talk about deserving. Are any Dreamers saving us from starvation?

But instead of guest-worker permits, then-Rep. Charles Schumer — from the lush farmland of Brooklyn — decided to grant full amnesty to any illegals who had done farm work for at least 90 days in the previous year.

That’s pretty restrictive, isn’t it?

In the end, “up to 350,000 farm workers” turned into 1.3 million.

Oh well, what are you going to do? No use worrying — let’s just move forward and get all these people voter registration cards!

This innocent little amnesty for a small, clearly defined group of illegals quickly became amnesty for anyone who applied. The same thing will happen with any other amnesty, no matter how strictly the law is written. (And it won’t be written strictly.)

In the first few years of the agricultural amnesty, internal Immigration and Naturalization Service statistics showed that 888,637 legalization applications were fraudulent. According to immigration agents, “farm workers” stated in their interviews that cotton was purple or that they had pulled cherries from the ground.

Of the 888,637 fraudulent applications, guess how many our government approved. Answer: More than 800,000.

The agricultural amnesty was so carefully administered that not one, but TWO of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers were in this country because of it.[...]

For two decades after the 1986 amnesty, the federal courts were tied up with dozens of class-action lawsuits brought on behalf of illegal aliens — regular illegal aliens, farm worker illegal aliens and still-in-Mexico illegal aliens — challenging every aspect of the law.

Is that how American tax dollars should be spent? On endless litigation, brought by America-hating activists on behalf of people who have no right to be in our country and decided by Democrat-appointed judges? (Who are also America-hating activists.)

And when their work is done, there will be a lot more Democrat-appointed judges because there will be a lot more Democrats.

Lawyers sued over everything — the absence of Creole interpreters, the requirement that illegals have proof of prior farm work and the rare denials of amnesty. Congress desperately tried passing laws that would prevent courts from hearing these cases — all to no avail. Left-wing lawyers just had to pick the right judge, and they won.

In 2005 — nearly 20 years after the 1986 amnesty — the Ninth Circuit was still granting amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who claimed they had been unfairly denied because they were not in the country for the first amnesty. Seriously.

No matter how the law is written, as long as anyone is eligible for amnesty, everybody’s getting amnesty.

President Trump is the last president who will ever have a chance to make the right decision on immigration. After this, it’s over. The boat will have sailed.

If he succeeds, all the p@ssy-grabbing and Russia nonsense will burn off like a morning fog. He will be the president who saved the American nation, its character, its sovereignty, its core identity. But if he fails, Donald Trump will go down in history as the man who killed America.
Read entire column...

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Blog Author's Comments: Amnesty for all is not what Americans voted for. Any talk of amnesty is a deal breaker with the American people. We already have rules concerning people who attempt to or come here illegally, they are breaking the law. Ann Coulter is correct as usual. Hopefully, Trump is trolling the Democrats.

He has become frustrated with many members of his own party and their inability to do anything. He cannot do it all by himself. He does not and many of us don't want his election and total control of the government to go to waste. The Republican Party may not have control for quite a while if there are not some very positive results and many of the President's campaign promises fulfilled.

Many executive orders, increased ICE activity, military support, and the new Justice of the Supreme Court, none of those would have played out the way they did if Trump wasn't president. I would also argue that economic and job gains are also because of him. But, there many items on his to-do list that have not been addressed because of the GOP leadership and many party members.

It's the enemy within that is hardest to fight. The homegrown Marxists will never stop their endeavor to push us Left. The bottom line is that Trump has to say no to any amnesty and find a way to build the wall. I believe in Trump's word but DACA must be dead and buried and the Dreamers deported.

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AP Poll: Even Democrats Losing Faith In Obama's Big Government

Truth Revolt -- A new poll shows that Americans have little confidence in President Obama's administration to protect them from terrorist attacks or mass shootings, and even less faith that the federal government will improve the flagging economy.

Just 2 percent are "extremely confident" the government can handle the unstable job market, which this month saw worker participation rates drop to the lowest level in history. The same paltry percentage expressed optimism that Team Obama could handle "economic uncertainty on Wall Street."

According to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll, Americans also have little confidence that Obama and the federal government can reduce racial tensions, despite the fact that the president is the first half-black, half-white man ever elected.

The poll found that "Democrats tend to express more faith in the government's ability to protect them than do Republicans," the AP reported. "Yet even among Democrats, just 27 percent are confident the government can keep them safe from terrorist attacks. Fewer than 1 in 5 say so on each of the other issues, including climate change."

"Urbanites tend to be more confident the government will keep them safe from terrorist threats than do people living in suburbs and rural areas. Younger Americans are more confident than older people that the government can minimize the threat of mass shootings. When it comes to quelling racial tensions, Hispanics are more confident than are blacks and whites.

The AP-GfK Poll was conducted September 25-29, before a man returning from Liberia was diagnosed as the first case of Ebola in America.

Meanwhile, the AP also released a story Sunday that painted the Ebola scare in its most favorable light. Headlined "PEOPLE SCARED, BUT OUTBREAK UNLIKELY," the story quotes Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who said it's "extraordinarily unlikely" the United States will have an outbreak.

"CAN YOU CATCH IT ON A BUS OR PLANE? It's very unlikely," the story says.

"WHAT HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE DOING

"The CDC is overseeing multiple layers of response:

-The Ebola-hit African nations are checking people at airports for fever, and asking them about any contact with an infected person, before allowing them to board planes out of the country.

-Airlines are required by law to watch for sick travelers and alert authorities before landing."

Hmm, that didn't work out too well last time.

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Blog author comments - I don't believe that the Democrat supporters have lost faith in Obama; this will never happen no matter what he does or does not do. We will see just how many will continue to support the Democrats in the upcoming midterm election in November. The 2014 midterms will be very interesting. The Democrats are going to be using all the nastiest tricks they have leading up to the midterms. Voter fraud will be rampant during the elections, the Democrats do not want to lose the Senate. Just 2 percent are “extremely confident” the government can handle the unstable job market, which this month saw worker participation rates drop to the lowest level in history. This is what happens when you punish the rich and businesses because it's the rich and businesses that create jobs.

The only way the government can help with the job market is to lower taxes and cut regulations. Last week the delusional mainstream media outlets were celebrating new government data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed that the unemployment rate declined to 5.9 percent. But, what was reported was wrong. The reported 5.9 percent unemployment rate is because the labor force participation rate dropped to a 36 year low. And while according to the Household Survey, 232,000 people found jobs, what is more disturbing is that the people not in the labor force, rose to a new record high, increasing by 315,000 to 92.6 million!

It is very important for the Republicans to win the Senate in 2014. In 2010 the Democrats lost the House because of what Obama did during his first two years in office, mainly the Stimulus and Obamacare. The voter backlash cost the Democrats the House. By winning the Senate in 2014 the Republicans would have the opportunity for two years to demonstrate that they can govern, but they can't govern with only the House.