Lawmakers Agree On Border Deal That Will Probably Cause Trump To Declare Emergency

By William Teach February 12, 2019 – 6:48 am

The deal includes money for barriers that might as well be speed bumps

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS REACH ‘AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE’ ON BORDER SECURITY

Democrats and Republicans in Congress have reached an “agreement in principle” on President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall funding, as the government is days away from a potential shutdown.

The agreement reportedly includes $1.375 billion for physical barriers, which would be bollard, or basically a concrete-filled barrier that protect office buildings and shopping malls across the U.S. There would also be nearly a 17 percent drop in ICE beds, bringing the number to 40,520 overall, over 8,000 beds, in which Republicans have pushed back against, saying more criminals will be on the streets if they are not in ICE custody. 

“We need to listen to the border security and law enforcement professionals as we negotiate an agreement on border security funding. The National Sheriff’s Association has warned against the Democrats’ proposal to limit ICE’s ability to detain violent criminals. We need to listen to the law enforcement professionals so that we can reach a result that protects our national security,” North Dakota Republican Sen. John Hoeven told The Daily Caller News Foundation Monday afternoon.

Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby told reporters on Capitol Hill that he believes Trump will approve of the agreement, according to Fox News. This comes as both House and Senate lawmakers met at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.

How is this a good deal? Or even a serious one? Bollards? How will this stop illegals? And, yes, it is true. Multiple outlets are reporting it, including the NY Times, in which tehy note “the agreement would allow for 55 miles of new bollard fencing, with some restrictions on location based on community and environmental concerns…” In other words, worthless. They also report that the number of beds is at the same level as the previous budget.

“Republicans in Congress have zero excuses if this sham makes it to Trump’s desk. No one who supports real border security can be for it. Republican negotiators didn’t even get Democrats to support what they have voted for in the past!,” a senior a GOP aide told TheDCNF after the news broke Monday night.

Previous deals had 65 miles of pedestrian fencing. This has bollucks, er, bollards.

If Trump does not agree with lawmakers he could declare a national emergency, in which lawmakers such as South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham have been pushing for.

At this point, just sign the thing, then declare the emergency or use some other type of legal method. Hey, since the governor of California does not want border protection, take parts of the border walls in his state and move it elsewhere.

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A Tesla In Every Driveway For The Green New Deal Won’t Cut It Or Something

By William Teach February 11, 2019 – 4:35 pm

Hey, did you know there’s a big problem with the Green New Deal? No, not that one. Nope, nor that. Uh huh, not that one, either. The uber-lefty Mother Jones sees something else, originally published at the used-to-not-be-deranged-lefty Slate

This Is the Green New Deal’s Biggest Problem

There might be no better monument to the limits of American environmentalism in the climate change era than a parking garage in Berkeley, California. It’s got “rooftop solar, electric-vehicle charging stations and dedicated spots for car-share vehicles, rainwater capture and water treatment features”—not to mention 720 parking spots. It cost nearly $40 million to build. At night, it positively glows. And it’s a block from the downtown Berkeley BART station.

That America’s most famous progressive city, one where nearly everything is within walking distance, spent $40 million to renovate a parking garage one block from a subway station suggests that progressive Democrats remain unwilling to seriously confront the crisis of climate change. America’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is transportation. In California, the proportion of CO2 from transportation is even higher: above 40 percent. Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín anticipates that the Center Street Parking Garage will out-green all others in the state with a LEED Silver rating, making it a perfect example of our approach to climate change: glibly “greening” the lives we live now, rather than contemplating the future generations who will have to live here too.

I would think that high ranking disciples of the Cult of Climastrology being utter hypocrites would be a big problem, but, that’s not it

But the Green New Deal has a big blind spot: It doesn’t address the places Americans live. And our physical geography—where we sleep, work, shop, worship, and send our kids to play, and how we move between those places—is more foundational to a green, fair future than just about anything else. The proposal encapsulates the liberal delusion on climate change: that technology and spending can spare us the hard work of reform.

America is a nation of sprawl. More Americans live in suburbs than in cities, and the suburbs that we build are not the gridded, neighborly Mayberrys of our imagination. Rather, the places in which we live are generally dispersed, inefficient, and impossible to navigate without a car. Dead-ending cul-de-sacs and the divided highways that connect them are such deeply engrained parts of the American landscape that it’s easy to forget they were, themselves, the fruits of a massive federal investment program.

Can you see where they’re going with this?

Environmentalists know transportation is the elephant in the room. At first blush, the easiest way to attack that problem is to electrify everything, and that’s largely what the Green New Deal calls for, with goals like “100 percent zero emission passenger vehicles by 2030” and “100 percent fossil-free transportation by 2050.” The cars we drive feel more easily changeable than the places we live.

But electric vehicles are nowhere near ready for widespread adoption—and even if they were, “half of the world’s consumption of oil would remain untouched,” Bloomberg reports. A Tesla in every driveway just won’t cut it.

What do they really want to do?

In Alissa Walker’s exhaustive report in Curbed on why electric vehicles won’t save California, she argues that even with breakneck advances in renewable energy and electric cars, the country must still reduce the number of vehicle miles traveled. EVs won’t save the rest of America, either.

But the good news is that if we do account for land use, we will get much closer to a safe, sustainable, and resilient future. And even though widespread adoption of EVs is still decades away, reforms to our built environment can begin right now. In short, we can fix this. We build more than 1 million new homes a year—we just need to put them in the right places.*

A Green New Deal must insist on a new, and better, land use regime, countering decades of federal sprawl subsidy.

There’s lots more, and the author attempts to beat around the bush a bit, but the idea here is to force people to live in big cities, rather than in suburban and rural areas. And the author and other Warmists think that government should force people to do this. To control where people live. How they travel. Where they work.

But don’t say they’re Fascists or anything.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 11, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible burger, full of evil bacon and lettuce that will soon be wiped out by ‘climate change’, you just might be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post noting that the “unwilling to work clause” in the GND was an admission, not a mistake.

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Illinois Democrats Pushing Bill To Search Social Media For Firearm Permits

By William Teach February 11, 2019 – 10:30 am

It’s so bad that even the ACLU has a problem with the law

Illinois Dems introduce bill requiring gun buyers to reveal social media accounts before getting firearm license

Illinois Democrats are introducing a bill forcing gun buyers to reveal their public social media accounts to police before they are given permission to get a firearm license.

The new legislation is sponsored by two state Democratic lawmakers, in an effort to block people from acquiring guns if they have made some troubling comments on social media.

State Rep. Daniel Didech, a Democrat who’s pushing the bill, told CBS 2 Chicago: “A lot of people who are having mental health issues will often post on their social media pages that they’re about to hurt themselves or others,” adding that these people need “the help they need.”

The bill’s proponents point to Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland High School shooter, saying he posted “very disturbing” images on social media before going on a rampage and killing 17 people last year.

Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooter, also posted numerous troubling comments about the Jewish people on social media.

On the one hand, it seems common sense, since so many people use social media to make threats these days, right? On the other

A similar bill was introduced last year in New York that would require people looking to buy a gun in the state to submit their social media profiles and search history prior to purchase. The bill was met with criticism, but it was approved by the new Board of Legislators last month, though it remains unclear when the lawmakers will vote on it.

The proposal in Illinois facing similar criticism, with Rebecca Glenberg of ACLU saying the bill doesn’t address what the police could do with the data, in addition to the First Amendment concerns.

“A person’s political beliefs, a person’s religious beliefs, things that should not play a part in whether someone gets a FOID card,” Glenberg told the station.

What would they be looking at to determine if someone can be denied their Constitutional Right when they haven’t actually committed a crime? They do not say. Nor does the bill, just like with New York.

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Polar Bears Invade Russian Town, ‘Climate Change’ Blamed

By William Teach February 11, 2019 – 7:59 am

First they were telling us that polar bears were going extinct, and would starve to death. Now they’re doing well and running around in gangs

From the link

Fences have risen around kindergartens. Special vehicles transport military personnel to their work sites. Residents of the island settlement are afraid to leave their homes.

Novaya Zemlya is a Russian archipelago stretching into the Arctic Ocean. It once played host to Soviet nuclear tests, including the largest-ever man-made explosion, when the so-called King of Bombs detonated in 1961, releasing 50 megatons of power and deepening an arms race that threatened to turn the Cold War hot.

Today, the barren landscape is under siege — from dozens of polar bears locked in their very own sort of hot war. Marine ecologists have long been sounding the alarm about the peril posed by global warming for the vulnerable species. In the far reaches of Russia, the situation has suddenly become traumatic for humans, too.

Officials in the Arkhangelsk region, where the archipelago lies, on Saturday declared a state of emergency because of the marauding mammals. Polar bears are typically born on land but live mostly on sea ice, where they hunt and feed on seals. But as arctic ice thins, which is linked to the acceleration of climate change, the animals move ashore, ravenous. They scavenge, sometimes coming into contact with human populations.

At least 52 bears were massed near Belushya Guba, the main settlement on the island territory, which is still used as a military garrison, with restricted access to the public. The town had a population of about 2,000 as of the 2010 Census.

Of course, there’s no scientific proof that the warming is mostly/solely caused by Mankind and “carbon pollution.” The thing is, polar bears have been in the town before, they’re just getting a much bigger population this time. And there could be a better reason than the mythical man-caused climate change

(Siberian Times – which has some really great photos and videos) Former resident Anastasia Bondarenko said the bears are no longer scared of man and have become ‘insolent’.

She said: ‘There are no more enemies. That is  they became  insolent. This is scary. When they walk under your window at night, it is creepy.’

And they are hitting up the dumps. They are searching for free, easy meals. Just like we see with so many other types of animals around the world. Just like raccoons like hitting up your garbage can. So, yes, it is pretty much the fault of mankind, but nothing to do with ‘climate change’.

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Border Protection Talks Break Down As Open Borders Dems Demand Cap On Beds For Illegal Aliens

By William Teach February 11, 2019 – 7:32 am

President Trump should say that ICE will no longer have anything to do with a few certain areas that are sanctuaries for illegal aliens, and watch them stream into those places, over-burdening the health system, education system, social safety nets, and legal system. Watch the crime spike. If Democrats love illegal aliens so much, let them take care of the resulting fallout

Time Running Out to Avoid Government Shutdown as Talks Falter

Time is running out to avoid a second partial government shutdown, as congressional talks about border-security funding broke down during the weekend in the latest dispute over detention beds for immigrants.

Negotiations could still get back on track in the next 24 hours, and negotiators may decide that a stopgap funding extension past Friday is necessary. But the prospect of getting an agreement by Friday’s deadline seems to have derailed, just as negotiators had hoped to unveil a deal Monday to set up votes in the House and Senate this week.

The sticking point is over the number and purpose of immigration detention beds. Democrats are seeking a cap to force U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to detain criminals rather than undocumented immigrants with no criminal history. Republicans are resisting a limit on grounds that criminals shouldn’t count toward it and ICE should have discretion.

They are all criminals for simply crossing the border illegally/overstaying their visas. The minimum penalty is a small fine and deportation, per federal law. How many of them are involved in identity theft in order to work? How many commit misdemeanors like driving while intoxicated? Driving without a license and/or insurance? The very fact is that federal law says they shouldn’t be here.

You can bet these same ICE deranged Democrats would have you arrested if you trespassed on their own property.

There are currently 40,520 ICE immigration detention beds funded by Congress. Heading into the talks, the White House sought to increase the number to 52,000, while Democrats wanted a reduction to 35,520. Democrats have proposed a 16,500 cap on beds to be used for interior enforcement, with the rest to be used for those captured at the border, according to people familiar with the talks.

“For far too long, the Trump administration has been tearing communities apart with its cruel immigration policies,” said Democratic Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard of California, a member of the conference committee.

“A cap on ICE detention beds will force the Trump administration to prioritize deportation for criminals and people who pose real security threats, not law-abiding immigrants who are contributing to our country.”

Every day they’re here they’re breaking the law.

But Republicans are pushing back that Democrats are seeking to limit the number of beds available for violent criminals.

“That would incentivize illegal immigration and undercut anything you did on the wall,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Everything Democrats do is to incentivize illegal immigration. The thing is, that reduction in beds would actually mean that as many as 8,300 criminal illegal aliens, the ones who have committed serious crimes, would have to be released.

The letter warned, “Any legislation that reduces ICE’s detention capacity would hinder its ability to perform its national security and public safety missions, but also impact local law enforcement’s ability to protect the communities they serve. In order to meet the cap being tentatively proposed by Congress, ICE would be compelled to release thousands of aliens from custody.”

The correspondence noted, “Over 90 percent of ICE’s arrests are aliens who have a criminal conviction, have been arrested for a criminal, or have been previously removed. Placing a cap on ICE detention beds will undermine the efficacy of the immigration system and reduce the number of aliens who are removed from the United States.”

Release them at the homes of Democratic lawmakers.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 10, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible, evil, world killing burger, and the thing to do is get rid of all cows, you might just AOC a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Dry Bones Blog, with a post on BDS: terrorists in suits.

It’s burger week, in honor of AOC wanting to get rid of all cows.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 10, 2019 – 8:55 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dems are exposing themselves. This pinup is by Henning Ludvigsens, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That discusses EVs losing range in the cold
  2. 357 Magnum notes Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0
  3. Adrienne’s Corner covers an important point when conversing with liberals
  4. American Elephants has a chart that all Congress critters should see
  5. Brass Pills discusses the fame trap
  6. Chicks On The Right notes that the Green New Deal is more insane than you thought
  7. Creeping Sharia features a Muslim cleric saying what must happen with non-Muslims
  8. DC Clothesline covers another state wanting all social media from gun owners
  9. Diogenes’ Middle Finger notes some TDS in the Virginia racism/sexual assault scandals
  10. Geller Report covers the rising Jew hatred in Europe
  11. Jihad Watch notes what happened when a man converted to Islam (bombs)
  12. Legal Insurrection discusses the fail of socialism at Panera Bread
  13. Moonbattery covers when they came for the memes
  14. MOTUS A.D. discusses Dr. Economics
  15. And last, but not least, Pacific Pundit notes one of the new crazy Dems wanting to pay reparations to illegal aliens

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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Trump Wants Democrats To Embrace Big Government, Er, Green New Deal

By William Teach February 10, 2019 – 7:51 am

On one hand, there’s the old maxim about not interrupting your opponent when they are making a mistake, and the Green New Deal is a big one. We’d usually refer to it as a gaffe in politics, meaning that it says what the Dems really want to do and made the mistake of telling us. On the other hand, most of the media has virtually memory-holed the GND, because they understand how incredibly insane it makes the Democrats look to the average American voter

TRUMP TELLS DEMOCRATS TO EMBRACE OCASIO-CORTEZ’S GREEN NEW DEAL

President Donald Trump sarcastically tweeted that he believed Democrats should embrace Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” resolution.

“I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal,” Trump tweeted Saturday evening. “It would be great for the so-called ‘Carbon Footprint’ to permanently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military – even if no other country would do the same. Brilliant!”

Ocasio-Cortez released her highly-anticipated Green New Deal resolution Thursday. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey released a companion bill in the Senate, and both versions were sponsored by Democratic lawmakers eyeing a 2020 presidential bid. (snip)

The Green New Deal is meant to be a litmus test for Democrats running for president, but the bill has also got Republicans optimistic about their chances in 2020. The GOP cast the resolution as “socialist” because of its unprecedented expansion of government over people’s lives.

If you look around, most of the media outlets have already moved on from covering what was supposed to be the big Democrat bill on dealing with ‘climate change’. CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, etc, most have little to nothing on the GND just a few days later, except for some scattered opinion pieces.

Hilariously, the talking point now is that the original wacky draft released on Thursday was doctored, even though everyone got the same thing, and the link in a tweet from AOC went to the crazy one

Eventually, Ocasio-Cortez’s staff took the FAQ off her webpage. Green New Dealers then went into damage control mode, even claiming the FAQ was “doctored” by conservatives on social media.

Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti made the claim, but also admitted an “unfinished” FAQ “got published to the website by mistake.” Though, he did not explain why NPR was also given a gaffe-riddled FAQ.

All the other outlets received the same “doctored” one from AOC. The usually squishy Ross Douthat seems to be the lone voice at the NY Times, as he has One Cheer for the Green New Deal

The first major policy intervention from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the noted social-media personality and future dictator-for-life of the Americas (I believe she’s also a congresswoman of some sort), is a quite-extraordinary document: a blueprint for fighting climate change that manages to confirm every conservative critique of liberal environmental activism, every Republican suspicion of what global-warming alarm is really all about.

The core conservative suspicion is that when liberals talk about the dire threat of global warming, they’re actually seizing opportunistically on the issue to justify, well, #fullsocialism — the seizure of the economy’s commanding heights in order to implement the most left-wing possible agenda.

A conventional liberal, up until now, would dismiss that belief as simply paranoid, the product of Fox News feedback loops and the science-denying fever swamps. But the Green New Deal that Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey are sponsoring — and that four leading Democratic contenders for the presidency have already endorsed — responds by saying: Yes, that’s absolutely correct.

It’s, again, what I’ve been saying since even before I started blogging back in 2004: this really isn’t about dealing with a changing climate, it’s all about politics.

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‘Climate Change’ Is Making Cute Birds Crazed Murderers Or Something

By William Teach February 9, 2019 – 3:00 pm

Some Warmists: “We need to calm down a bit, our apocalyptic talk is scaring people off and making us look crazy”

Mother Nature News: “Hold our beer”

From the link

Climate change is having devastating effects on our environment, from rising sea levels to severe weather. Here’s one effect that scientists didn’t anticipate, however: murderous, brain-eating birds.

Great tits (Parus major) are adorable, beautifully-adorned birds common across Europe, North Africa and Central Asia. They typically build their nests in tree cavities in the spring, and once their young have fledged, they abandon their nests and go about their merry way.

This is a convenient pattern for another bird, the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), which migrates from Africa for the summer. Flycatchers are keen on taking over the abandoned nests of great tits; it certainly beats building their own nests, and after a long migration it’s nice to have a home ready-made and waiting for you.

Unfortunately, though, climate change is causing the nesting times of these two species to overlap. So when flycatchers come knocking, they find that many of the nests are still occupied, and that doesn’t sit well with the territorial, and much larger, great tits.

And apparently, the one thing you don’t want to mess with is a nesting great tit mama.

“When a flycatcher enters a box with a great tit inside, it doesn’t stand a chance,” said biologist Jelmer Samplonius from the University of Groningen, in a press release. “The great tit is heavier, as the flycatchers are built for a long migration from Europe to Western Africa and back. Also, great tits have very strong claws.”

Samplonius is one of the first to recognize this intensifying “war of the birds,” and has conducted the first study detailing some of the gruesome behavior that ensues. Not only do the great tits make short work of the unsuspecting flycatchers that wander into their nests, but they’re also developing a taste for their brains.

All because you refuse to give up your modern lifestyle, fossil fuels, and allow Government to tax the hell out of you and take away your freedom.

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