…is a hazy day caused by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on the Star Spangled Banner.
Doubleshot under the fold, so, check out Animal Magnetism, with a post on Rule 5 Independence Day
Read: If All You See… »
She refused to vote for any funding for the packed illegal immigrant centers, and has refused to demand a vote for her own Green New Deal, so, yeah, this should be good
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unveils 4-Point Immigration Plan (Point #2: Climate Change)
Ocasio-Cortez, who toured facilities Monday where migrants are held after being caught crossing the border illegally —  and which she refers to as “concentration camps†— unveiled her plan via Twitter on Wednesday.
The plan begins by calling for more aid to the countries of the “Northern Triangle†in Central America — El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — on the apparent theory that more cash will address what Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calls the “root causes†of the migration.
Next, Ocasio-Cortez — echoing presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke — demands action on climate change and the implementation of her “Green New Deal,†which she says will reduce the flow of “refugees.â€
Following that, Ocasio-Cortez calls for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, making illegal immigration a “civil†matter.
Finally, she calls for massive spending by the government to stimulate the economy — though the U.S. economy is already growing quickly, and is at the lowest unemployment levels in nearly half a century.
Do you ever feel just the slightest bit sorry for Nancy Pelosi who has to deal with this (but not too sorry, because she and the other elder Dems brought about this type of lunacy)? I wonder if her staff makes sure she doesn’t see AOC’s tweets, constantly deflecting her.
2. Climate change: There is broad consensus from military to activists that resource strains (droughts, famine, etc) & nat disasters are drivers of refugees.
People are fleeing places that were once livable &are no longer. It will get worse the longer we do nothing #GreenNewDeal
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 3, 2019
It’s not much of a plan, just some ramblings written on Twitter instead of a sticky note. And, if they are natural disasters, then why the need for the Big Government Modern Socialist Green New Deal, which she refuses to demand a vote on? Oh, and how is she going to force her GND on these other countries, and how will it stop natural disasters? She’s all yours, Democrats.
Read: AOC Reveals Her Immigration Plan, Which Includes ‘Climate Change’ Idiocy »
Many more patriotic pinups below the fold
Remember, Los Angeles is being woefully negligent in keeping its streets clean, instead spending on money on lawyers and other things for illegal aliens. The garbage in the streets problem is continuing to grow, and rats are making huge inroads, even causing problems in City Hall and police stations. The homeless are streaming into LA. Drug use is rampant. Yet
LA forms first-ever climate emergency mobilisation office
The United States city of Los Angeles has institutionalised the first Climate Emergency Mobilization Department – and the first Climate Emergency Commission – on the planet.
On Wednesday, by a vote of 13-0, the city council unanimously passed legislation to hire a Climate Emergency Mobilization Director and plan the next moves for a citywide climate emergency implementation blueprint that environmental justice groups helped craft through a series of community meetings.
The department will address the local impacts of climate change, including wildfires and floods. It will also take up concerns surrounding pollution and the effects of toxic waste. In addition, people displaced by climate change will be able to seek employment assistance from the government.
“The adoption of a Climate Emergency Mobilization programme represents a major step forward for the city of Los Angeles…in taking urgent action to fight back against this accelerating global crisis,” said Margaret Klein Salamon, founder and executive director of The Climate Mobilization – the group that put the idea of climate mobilisation into the public consciousness a half-decade ago.
“The Climate Mobilization applauds this important step and encourages the City Council to quickly adopt the full proposal submitted on March 15 by Councilmember Koretz and the Leap LA Coalition,” said Salamon.
“Addressing our climate emergency in urgent fashion not only preserves our planet for the next generation, it presents a tremendous opportunity to do so in ways which are equitable, inclusive and just for all communities,” she added.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, in April released a Green New Deal for the city, putting the metropolis on course to become carbon neutral by 2050.
First, this is pretty much all about left wing politics, and has little to do with the climate. Second, good luck with both it and the GND offered by Garcetti. LA is an area that runs on fossil fuels, if we’re considering the broader area we think of as LA, which would include Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Malibu, Burbank, Glendale, and others. Hollywood could not do its thing without fossil fuels. Nor could the sporting teams. Nor most businesses. The roads are jam packed every day with commuters. People take fossil fueled trips to the beach. There are lots of airports, including LA International. People visit from all over the nation and the world.
They’re just going to spend a lot of taxpayer money on this climate mobilization department to do Social Justice Warrioring things, trying to tell people how to live their lives. And trying to get those things embedded in law. While they drive to and from the office in garbage covered streets in their own fossil fueled vehicles.
Read: LA To Form “Climate Emergency Mobilization Office” Or Something »
Here's another from the WP going all the way back to 1776 https://t.co/pBLDyBIwxA
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) July 3, 2019
At least in the Era Of Trump, news organizations must find ways to hate on America, so, the NY Times editorial board gives it a shot
America the Beautiful
Taking stock of the state of the Republic on Independence Day.
America in 2019 is a nation that locks up migrant children after separating them from their families. And yet it is also a nation that gives sanctuary and charity to tired, poor people as they seek to join this community, built by immigrants.
It’s a nation that walked out on its commitment to help preserve a livable planet for future generations. And a nation whose engines of ingenuity are working to make the planet healthier and safer.
Its underpaid women’s World Cup soccer team competes wearing the national colors, even as the nation’s symbols and traditionsare fiercely contested back home.
Despite the mention of Hotcoldwetdry and the soccer team, this is mostly about illegal immigration
Anyone curious about the effects of anti-immigration policies of the Trump administration needs look no further than the sad faces on the pictures of jailed children drawn by jailed children. For the strong of stomach, photos from the government’s own inspectors are even more disturbing.
Again, these people put themselves in this situation by coming illegally. Though, certainly, illegal aliens supporters like the NYTEB are complicit in telling them to come illegally. Further, where were the complaints when Obama was doing this? The condemnation rings hollow
Yet there are also stories from the border that showcase this country’s virtues.
After reading about the conditions inside detention facilities, Austin Savage and a group of friends walked into a store in Texas. They walked out, having spent hundreds of dollars on diapers, wipes, soaps and toys. When they arrived at a Border Patrol station that was holding children in Clint their donation was refused. While at the station, they also found a bag in the lobby holding soap, toothpaste and a note: “I heard y’all need soap + toothpaste for kids. Maybe more will be on its way soon.â€
Of course, that whole soap and toothpaste thing started under, yes, Mr. Obama! This schlock continues on and on, finally delving into other subjects
It may seem odd that a country so prosperous, so powerful and so free would at the same time be so anxious and angry, so riven by factionalism. It’s even more puzzling — and not unrelated — that this same country, with such resources to draw upon, would nevertheless tolerate such high levels of poverty and homelessness, of addiction to pharmaceutical drugs, of inequality in wealth and application of justice and quality of education.
Well, perhaps if we weren’t spending so much money on illegal aliens we’d be able to spend the money on those other things. But, hey, rather than celebrating America and all its great things, the NY Times has to shit on it. Because this is Liberal World
https://twitter.com/Caliicoder3/status/1146251228566867968
Read: It’s Independence Day, So, Of Course The NY Times Tries To “Take Stock” Of America »
Yet, somehow, it is Republicans who are the Fascists
Florida Democrat says those ‘making fun’ of members of Congress online should be ‘prosecuted’
Democrat Rep. Frederica Wilson said people who are “making fun†of members of Congress online should be “prosecuted.â€
The Florida congresswoman made the comments on Tuesday outside of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in her home state.
“Those people who are online making fun of members of Congress are a disgrace, and there is no need for anyone to think that is unacceptable [sic],†Wilson said.
“We’re gonna shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down, and they should be prosecuted,†she added. “You cannot intimidate members of Congress, frighten members of Congress. It is against the law, and it’s a shame in this United States of America.â€
Wilson’s comments came amid a controversy over a Facebook group that includes Border Patrol agents and where they allegedly mocked and posted graphic content about members of Congress, including New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
It is not OK to make threats towards Congress members, the same way making threats towards any citizen is against the law.
However, the main point of the Freedom Of Speech clause was to safeguard citizens from reprisal from members of the federal government, particularly Congress, for speaking their minds, having different viewpoints, disagreeing with them, and, yes, making fun of them. It was all about politics, not about being free to call someone else a jerk. What Wilson calls “intimidating” is what the Constitution calls “free speech” and “petitioning for redress of grievance” and “peaceably assembling.”
But, members of Congress should be intimidated by The People. They are not our masters. They are there to do the job WE tell them to do. Wilson simply highlights the Fascist views of the Democrats.
Read: Rep Frederica Wilson (D-Fla) Says People Making Fun Of Congress Members Should Be Prosecuted »
…are evil Bad Weather clouds caused by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on a new paper showing that human activities are not responsible for the observed CO2 increase.
Read: If All You See… »
This is actually a fantastic idea (even though this reads like something from a more modern Communist Manifesto)
Opinion: A Green New Deal can start with local communities
The Green New Deal is capturing people’s imaginations and reframing the climate debate in a way that builds a groundswell of support for a major social and economic shift.
A Green New Deal for all will ensure that transformation is carried out equitably, that it is rooted in climate justice, that it respects the rights of Indigenous peoples, and that it creates over a million jobs in the process.
To build the necessary political pressure for federal parties and the federal government to implement a Green New Deal, we need to build as much momentum as we can everywhere we can. And federal parties are starting to respond to the groundswell of support for a Green New Deal with more ambitious climate plans.
But, what if we didn’t need to wait to win a Green New Deal until after the federal election? What if we could start building it, right here, right now, from the ground up?
The Council of Canadians is launching a campaign to win local Green New Deals in communities from coast to coast to coast. Making your community a Green New Deal Community is a way of both advancing a Green New Deal locally, while also applying upward pressure to ultimately win a federal Green New Deal.
I think you get the point, namely that the Cultists want to make this happen at the local level. This is, in fact, a great idea. They should give it a whirl in many of the more Modern Socialist cities. NYC is, of course, sort of going to give it a whirl with their own version. But, really, they should try implementing the entire thing. That’s the only way it works. Do the whole thing.
Why would we want this? Because it will highlight to Canada, and America, just how horrible the ideas are from the Cult of Climastrology, and how bad the Green New Deal is. How much it will hurt the lives of citizens. So, yes, implement it. Sometimes having a visual of things is much better than talking about it, right?
Read: Good News: A Green New Deal Can Start With Local Communities »
While not a new thing, the amount of articles about people having mental issues over a tiny increase in the Earth’s average temperature has grown quite a bit as of late, especially as it relates to children, so, some sort of talking points memo must have gone out, because here comes another
The Barrage of Bad News About Climate Change Is Triggering ‘Eco-Anxiety,’ Psychologists Say
When news about the environment becomes grim, you might be overcome by an urge to hide or collapse.
On last week’s episode of HBO drama “Big Little Lies,” 9-year-old Amabella did both. The character’s metallic boots were found sticking out of a classroom closet following a lesson on climate change, and the internet collectively nodded in recognition.
It seems that the big talking point is that episode of a fictional TV show has been causing this, because most of the recent articles mention it.
It turns out that anxiety, grief and despair about the state of the environment is nothing new. It even has a name: eco-anxiety. And according to psychologists, it’s incredibly common.
According to a Yale survey conducted in December 2018, 70% of Americans are “worried” about climate change, 29% are “very worried” and 51% feel “helpless.” Despite these striking statistics, most people don’t realize how widespread eco-anxiety is, one psychologist told Live Science.
“[Ecoanxiety] is often hidden somewhat under the surface,” Thomas Doherty, a clinical psychologist based in Portland, Oregon, told Live Science, “people aren’t taught how to talk about it.” (snip)
“It’s a rational reply to a really serious problem,” Maria Ojala, a psychologist at Örebro University in Sweden, told Live Science. That, she says, is why it could be dangerous to make it a clinical diagnosis.
“We have to ask, Is it more pathological for someone to be so worried about climate change or is it actually more pathological that people are not more worried about it?” Austern said. Anxiety is precisely the emotion that’ll propel us to do something, he added. Conveniently, taking action Is also one of the most effective coping mechanisms for eco-anxiety, Ojala said.
Got that? It might be more pathological to not be worried about a minor 1.5F increase in global temperatures since 1850, something that is minor during the Holocene.
But, hey, anyhow, perhaps the news media is complicit in making Warmists major league nut jobs.
Read: Psychologists Are Very Concerned About News Of Bad Weather Causing “Eco-Anxiety” »
If they’re having to argue that they totally aren’t for open borders, then they are for open borders. Uber-leftist Peter Beinart takes a crack at convincing people at the uber-leftist The Atlantic that their policies are not open borders, they just don’t want to sound like Trump!
For Democrats, Health Care Is Easy, but Immigration Is Hard
The 2020 hopefuls aren’t for open borders—but they don’t want to sound like Trump either.
Among the many things we’ve learned so far in the presidential campaign is this: The Democratic candidates are talking more honestly about health care than about immigration. To develop a coherent approach to immigration in an era of rising asylum claims, Democrats need to explain—among other things—whom they would and wouldn’t let in. But Donald Trump has made that discussion extraordinarily difficult. In the shadow of his brutal policies and bigoted appeals, Democrats are wary of spelling out whom they would deport. That has led to a debate that’s evasive and vague. (snip)
But last week’s debates were less successful in clarifying how the Democrats differ on immigration. To be sure, the candidates offered policy proposals: They called for restoring DACA, reforming Immigration and Customs Enforcement, eliminating private detention centers, and giving undocumented immigrants health care and a path to citizenship. In the first debate, Julián Castro also declared his support for downgrading illegally crossing the border from a criminal to a civil offense, and then slammed Beto O’Rourke for disagreeing with him. But while O’Rourke has in the past argued against decriminalization, he wouldn’t defend that position onstage, and instead said he opposed criminalizing asylum seekers, thus evading Castro’s broader point. He was willing to play the centrist on health care, just not on immigration.
In the second debate, the moderator José Diaz-Balart asked for a show of hands on decriminalization. Eight candidates raised their hands; Biden—oddly—raised a finger. But the moderators didn’t ask him to explain. So while viewers were left with a sense that the presidential candidates have different views on decriminalization, they learned nothing about why.
Man, if only we had a Free Press to ask the candidates these questions!
At the debates, Democrats bellowed their opposition to Trump’s handling of the asylum crisis. And they rightly emphasized the need to help Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador battle crime, corruption, and poverty so that fewer of their citizens make the perilous journey north. Although they didn’t say so at the debates, the three candidates who have issued immigration plans—Castro,O’Rourke, and Jay Inslee—have also proposed pouring money into the asylum system so asylum seekers can get lawyers and interpreters, and a faster resolution of their claims.
The point is that there’s a trade-off. Make getting asylum easier, and you’re likely to increase the number of people who apply. When a surge of migrant children reached the U.S. border in 2014, the Obama administration answeredthat trade-off with a harsh message to desperate Central Americans: “Don’t come. And if you think you’re coming and once you’re here you won’t be returned, that’s not the case. You’re not going to be able to stay.†But in the Trump era, Democrats aren’t comfortable talking that way anymore. Private health insurance is something many Democratic presidential candidates are happy to support openly. Sending vulnerable mothers and children back to Honduras is not.
Everything pretty much says “Open Borders.” Obama might have talked tough, and deported lots of illegals. And separated children per the law as passed by the U.S. Congress. But, the Democrat base was actually rather upset about this. If the extreme policies from Democrats are simply due to Trump Derangement Syndrome, that tells us that they are dishonest and too immature to be in politics.
Regardless, none of this is new. They support sanctuary jurisdictions that are protecting illegal aliens, including criminal ones. They say they only want to keep the good ones, yet, these sanctuaries protect the ones with felonies on their records.
Make crossing the border not a criminal offense? Well, the law says the first offense is a civil crime with a small fine and deportation. After that, it becomes much more serious for each time caught. Democrats want to get rid of that? Sure sounds like open borders.
Health insurance for illegals paid for by U.S. citizens? That rewards bad behavior. And entices more to come illegally.
They do not want a border barrier of any type along the southern border. Many want to do away with ICE, and now are going after Customs and Border Patrol. They even are discussing doxxing and “shaming” members of both federal agencies.
Paying for even more lawyers to protect people who are here illegally? Entices more to come and give it a shot. Expanding the definition of asylum would mean more people showing up and crossing illegally.
They want to formalize DACA in what they call a “clean bill”, meaning not paired with any restrictions on people crossing the border illegally, which would mean more giving it a shot. They want comprehensive immigration reform, which means amnesty for tens of millions of illegals, which entices more to come, since they are not offering any measures to stop anything.
They call a border barrier immoral. They want the existing barrier torn down.
Did I mention that they want to decriminalize crossing the border illegally? If there is no penalty, there is no border.
But, no, no, they aren’t for open borders.
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