How Cold Is It Today?

It's so cold today, I saw something I haven't seen before:

A Democrat Politician with his hands in his own pockets.

Time To Sing The Cold Song

With the temperature now at -1 with a wind chill of -25 at the moment  -- and still dropping, it is time for the cold song:

It's Cold.  Cold.  Cold, Cold, Cold.

Colder than the frost on a champagne glass.

Colder than the hair on a polar bears a$$.

Colder than the nipple on a witches' t!t.

It's Colder than a pile of penguin sh*t.

Dress appropriately for the weather, and stay warm out there today folks. 

Yep, She's Going To Be Running

The Democrats so far have a rather thin and likely unelectable nation-wide field of candidates for 2028.

Kamala is just not going to win on a second attempt. 

Walz is neck-deep in corruption. 

Newsom may lead in California but his policies would make even most mid-western Democrats run away. 

Shapiro can't get past the anti-semites in his own party to make it to a VP slot, much less advance in the primaries. 

So it seems our own governor is prepping to throw herself into the ring creating a "social media empire" and laying the groundwork for a run:

The Detroit News:  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says U.S. is 'ready for a woman president'

She's running, bet on it. 

More On Progressives And Airplanes

So progressives in  Michigan are rather against ICE flying illegals out of the state.  

Possibly they are angry they'd prefer the illegals be bussed or even better taken by train out of the state, as progressives do love their trains.

We will note they didn't raise a peep when the Biden administration was flying illegals into the state. 

The Detroit News: Deportation critics target 'ICE Air' flights out of Willow Run airport

 Now, local activists are organizing a campaign to pressure the airport's authority from allowing detained immigrants to fly out of the historic Wayne County airport, even though legal experts say the authority is powerless to stop the flights. Activists oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and argue that Wayne County resources shouldn’t support the federal government’s goal of deporting 1 million people each year. 

No it really does not work that way.  You can't discriminate about flights from airports like that, especially federal flights at a federally funded airport.  This is just more leftist activists trying to get some publicity demanding something that they know or should know cannot be done - but it does get them some media coverage for their latest cause.

A New Flight School in Minneapolis

Apparently a new flight school has been opened in Minneapolis:

 

While a normal Airline Transport Pilot needs 1,500 hours to get their ticket, since this flight school isn't going to be training their students how to land, they may just get it done in eight weeks. 

Not Nearly Enough Time For The Crime

Yet again, soft-on-crime judges are not punishing bad behavior sufficiently.

What do you get for phoning in two bomb threats to a school? All of 11 days in jail and probation, and an impulse control class.

 The Detroit News:  Detroit woman sentenced for phoning in fake bomb threats to Lake Shore High School

 A Detroit woman was sentenced to a short jail stint followed by probation for phoning in two fake bomb threats to Lake Shore High School because her daughter was not allowed to participate in a school play, prosecutors said Thursday.

Phoning in a bomb threat is uncivilized and unacceptable behavior. 

So much so you can be jailed up to 4 years for doing so. 

If you want to discourage behavior like this you need to crack down on it and make the punishment be a deterrent both to the moron that phoned it in and to others contemplating doing the same thing.

Just 11 days in jail and probation for two felonies with a maximum time of 4 years in jail after disrupting 700 students and parents is almost a joke rather than a deterrent.  She got off far too lightly.

Nothing Says That's Detroit For Ya

Like having felons  . . .  on their Police Commission. 

The Detroit News:  Convicted felons on Detroit police board work on legal issues as video emerges

Yep not just one felon on the Detroit Police Commission but multiple. 

Note one of the felons, who has since resigned when it came to light he had outstanding charges for being a felon in possession of a firearm and had threatened a police officer had been placed on the commission. 

Interesting how the Democrats keep saying they are against gun-related crimes and gun ownership in general, but keep placing criminals who have used guns in crime or committed other felonies in positions of authority. 

Funny, that.

No, Signs Really Don't Work That Way

Had a call from a person looking for a lawyer.

He had quite the request:

He wanted me to draft up a sign that could be posted on his property all legal-like alerting all persons including federal law enforcement most specifically ICE, that if they came onto his property without a warrant they would be met with deadly force.  

As you may suspect, I politely declined to acquiesce to his request.

In other words, I said "Hell No". 

Such a sign has no legal effect at all, and basically will help send the moron to jail if someone is ever shot by him on his property.

Apparently, the latest trend is thinking a sign magically stops ICE from enforcing immigration law, and the idiot thought he could get on the bandwagon with a clever sign.  

Some people think that so long as you post a sign with some legalese, or otherwise use some legalese you find on the internet (especially if it uses Latin for some reason) then you can do a dumb and illegal thing with no consequences. 

You cannot. 

In Michigan you can use deadly force for only three reasons.

Someone trespassing on your property, federal agent or not, is absolutely not one of them. 

1984 Was Not Supposed To Be A How-To Guide

But leftists keep using it as such.

Yet another example of them doing it at Instapundit. 

Minneapolis Mayor Tries To Straddle The Fence

Mayor Frey is now walking back some of his prior rhetoric that helped overheat the situation. 

Fox9: Minneapolis ICE shooting: Mayor Frey says city is being put in 'impossible situation'

"We're in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street," Frey said.

The reaction from the Police Chief when he says that (about 12 seconds in on the video at the link) is rather priceless.

That Frey didn't immediately say that is absolutely bonkers as an idea, is all a part of the Democrat's on again/off again encouragement of rioting and bad behavior. 

The mayor is now sort of toning down his rhetoric after his fiery words that helped push the riotous conduct to begin with - not to mention his refusal to have MPD assist ICE in securing scenes and preventing situations where rioters are blocking federal agents doing their lawful jobs and the potential for incidents when "peaceful protestors" block vehicles and resist arrest leading to bad outcomes.

This call for the MPD to intervene is rather funny in a way. 

 After all, these residents asking police officers to fight ICE agents are the same activists that were calling for the defunding of the police not long ago, and likely still are calling for the police to be defunded. 

Calling for the MPD to take on ICE is rather insurrection-y, isn't it?