OMG: Immigrant Arrested By ICE While Bringing Wife To Deliver Baby!

By William Teach August 19, 2018 – 8:31 am

When Donald Trump and Conservatives call out the news media for fake news, this is one of the things we’re talking about. This story was all over the news yesterday, positioning how utterly horrible it was that this happened. But, there’s a problem. This CBS NY article is emblematic of most

ICE Detains Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Hospital To Deliver Baby

A California woman says her husband was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while he drove her to the hospital to deliver their baby this week. Joel Arrona was arrested Wednesday in San Bernardino, California, and remains in custody pending “removal proceedings,” the federal agency said in a statement.

Arrona was driving his wife, Maria del Carmen Venegas, to the hospital for a scheduled cesarean section when they stopped to get gas. She said two ICE agents approached them and asked for identification, CBS Los Angeles reports.

Venegas showed the agents her ID, but said her husband did not have his with him. When the couple offered to get his ID at their home nearby, Arrona was taken into custody. Venegas said she was left at the gas station by herself and she was forced to drive herself to the hospital.

“I feel very bad right now,” Venegas told CBS Los Angeles in Spanish at the hospital as she held her baby boy. “My husband needs to be here. He had to wait for his son for so long, and someone just took him away.”

Then this

This has created a wealth of people tweeting and commenting about how disgusting this is, how horrible America is, how mean ICE is, and I’m sure lots of Useful Idiots are donating to the GoFundMe page. Idiots like this

The CBS LA story was updated with a bit of uber-relevant information that’s buried deep, for those who missed it in the updated headline (you can tell the original was different from the URL text)

ICE Detains Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Deliver Baby, Says He Is Wanted For Homicide In Mexico

Maria told CBS2 Arrona-Lara, who is from Mexico, has never been stopped by police, and that he’s never been in trouble with the law, not even for a ticket. However, ICE said Saturday Arrona-Lara was picked up because he is wanted by law enforcement authorities in Mexico on an outstanding homicide warrant.

An attorney representing Arrona-Lara on behalf of the nonprofit San Bernardino Community Service Center said those charges are unconfirmed. Emilio Amaya Garcia told CBS2 he has been in contact with the Mexican consulate who said it currently has no information about ICE’s claim.

That’s right, he’s wanted on a murder charge. The Handford Sentinel goes a step further from the usual use of “immigrant”, “migrant”, or “undocumented immigrant”

The Latest: US says man was arrested on outstanding warrant

Their original story did not mention murder, but, they did update for their article about a “U.S. man” being detained by ICE.

If you look through the #AbolishICE hashtag on Twitter, you’ll see that there are lots who did not get the information on the murder charges, and this is still going on this morning. Rep Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass) wrote “There’s heartless and then there’s whatever the hell this is.” He has yet to update noting the murder charges.

And this is what we call fake news.

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Climatruther: Let’s Put A Price On Other People’s Carbon Output

By William Teach August 18, 2018 – 2:08 pm

This is one of those small things, but, when you have lots of small things they add up to a big thing. Kinda like that change jar with pennies, nickles, and dimes, which suddenly has $100 in. And this small thing is a Warmist wanting to put his beliefs on Other People

Letter: Put a price on carbon pollution

Unfortunately this summer’s weather reminds me of last summer’s weather — hot, hazy, and dry. Climate scientists tell us that the atmosphere will continue to warm with additional carbon dioxide. This dangerous trend can be changed by putting a price on carbon pollution.

Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s fee and dividend plan proposes to place a steadily increasing fee, a price, on the carbon content of fossil fuels at the source: mine, well, or port of entry, then to distribute the net revenue collected via a monthly dividend check to households. For most households the monthly dividend will exceed increased energy costs. Together, a price on carbon pollution and the resulting dividend will prompt households to choose products and services that are less carbon-intensive, thereby taking responsible action to reduce carbon pollution.

Most Americans favor a type of fee and dividend model. The Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2018 were updated this month showing that an “estimated 68 percent of adults support taxing fossil fuel companies while equally reducing other taxes.”

Please take a few minutes to call Rep. DeFazio (202-225-6416), Sen. Wyden (202-224-5244), and Sen. Merkley (202-224-3753). Ask them to act on the present and future danger of uncontrolled climate change by putting a price on carbon pollution. Future generations will thank you for making these calls.

The point here is that the letter by Jim Holm to the Corvallis Gazette-Times shows what all these little Warmists have been told to believe: we’ll place taxes on things like fossil fuels companies and everything will be fine. That That Guy should pay. Yet, again, these little boob members of the Cult of Climastrology never offer to do anything in their own lives. And then they’ll be the first ones caterwauling when they’re cost of living skyrockets. And this shows that it is all about things other than science. To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis in their own lives.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 18, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a beautiful, calm day that will soon be replaced by horrific doomy storms, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on someone else who had their security clearance pulled.

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‘Climate Change’ To Make Danger Of Tsunamis Greater Or Something

By William Teach August 18, 2018 – 10:30 am

This is your fault for taking a fossil fueled trip to the beach and riding fossil fueled boats and jet skis

New tsunami risk for Hull as experts say ‘absolute worst case’ predictions weren’t bad enough
Hull has already been hit by tidal surges but climate change means it is at greater risk from huge waves

With much of Hull lying below sea level and with the East Yorkshire coast eroding at an alarming rate the risk of more tsunamis is not good news.

The risk of the devastation caused by the huge waves is bigger than previously estimated because of climate change, according to new findings.

Tsunamis are destructive fast-moving waves that can be triggered by earthquakes, mountain slides, or meteor impacts.

But now because of sea-levels rising the risks for coastal communities around the world are growing, Plymouth Live reports.

OMG, this is horrible!

It is not clear if Hull has ever been affected by a tsunami throughout its history, but the city has been badly affected by tidal flooding.

So, it’s never happened going back thousands of years, but, a town that’s below sea level has been affected by flooding? Shocking!

But a new study by researchers suggests what was previously assumed to be the ‘absolute worst case’ regarding tsunamis now appears to be ‘modest’ for what is predicted in some locations.

The new findings show the likely increase of flooding would also move further inland than previously estimated from tsunamis following earthquakes.

Stop. Just stop.

For the study, Dr Weiss and his colleagues created computer-simulated tsunamis at current sea level and with sea-level increases of 1.5 feet and three feet in the Chinese territory of Macau.

You had me at “computer-simulated.” Not to be outdone, we have this from an Irish paper

Tsunamis will become more common and more ferocious with global warming, scientists warned after a study found that worldwide sea-level rises will increase the risk of coastal cities being wiped out.

Smaller earthquakes that currently pose no serious tsunami threat could unleash waves capable of decimating coastal cities.

It’s all about linking naturally occuring events to the Cult of Climastrology and predicting doom, yet, these same people won’t make their lives carbon neutral. Go figure.

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Bummer: Immigrant Ordered Leave U.S. Is Not An “Object For Removal” Or Something

By William Teach August 18, 2018 – 7:33 am

According to the law, he is. And, perhaps he shouldn’t have violated the law, which has made his wife, Amy Gotlieb, write this cute little opinion piece

A message to ICE: My husband is not an object ‘for removal’

This month, my husband, Ravi Ragbir, received a new appointment letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The reason for the appointment, the letter said, is “for removal.”

“For removal,” as if Ravi, a prominent immigrant-rights activist and the person I love and have chosen to spend the rest of my life with, were a broken vacuum cleaner set out in the trash with a note for the Department of Sanitation to take him away.

An immigrant from Trinidad, Ravi has lived in the United States for almost 25 years and has faced the threat of deportation since 2006, when his green card was taken away after he completed a sentence for a wire-fraud conviction (which he is challenging in court). Under the Trump administration, the threats of deportation have escalated. In January, he was detained during a routine check-in with ICE and was incarcerated for 18 days in a detention center under threat of immediate deportation. It was only because of massive amounts of community pressure and quick work by his lawyers that he was released. He remains in the United States because of the federal judges who recognize that he should be here with his community as his case continues.

Let’s go back to that part about a conviction for wire fraud. Ravi actually came to the United States illegally, but somehow earned a green card. His green card was taken away, meaning he has no lawful status in the U.S. He could have taken the time to apply for citizenship prior to that wire fraud conviction (he can challenge it all he wants, it was back in 2000), but, not, he didn’t. We have laws in place, and, if he and his wife do not like them, too bad.

Ravi is my family — loved and respected by so many. But according to ICE — the same agency that faces accusations of abuse, racial profiling and violations of civil rights — he must be removed. Removed from his community and removed from the people he loves.

Go with him. And next time alert him to the fact that wire fraud is against the law. This rests squarely on his shoulders. And, it’s not ICE ordering deportation: it’s a judge that approves this.

I have been an immigrant-rights attorney for 20 years, but the cold, annihilating language of “removal” chills me now more than ever. The word replaced “deportation” in 1996 as part of a large and ultimately devastating overhaul to our immigration laws signed by President Bill Clinton. The legislation made it both easier to deport people and more difficult for people to adjust their immigration status legally. It created mandatory detention and deportation, and drastically limited the authority of immigration judges to consider a person’s good qualities when deciding a case.

As an immigration lawyer and immigrant-rights activist, I have been advocating for the repeal of those laws and have regularly spoken out about their impact on immigrants. In the past, I have refused to use the word “removal.” It has always seemed so flat and distant from what deportation really means: exiling someone from their family and their community.

She’s more worried about the word than people who have consciously broken U.S. federal law.

As anyone who knows Ravi would agree, my husband is the type of person this country should be welcoming. To do that, we need to abolish the agency that has stripped immigrants of their dignity. And we need to repeal laws that tear apart families and create an immigration system that supports our values of love, respect and community. Because, after all, no one should be treated as if they were disposable.

So, we should be welcoming people who come to this country illegally, commit actual crimes which hurt other people, then demand we legalize him and others? No. And the Second Circuit Court of Appeals agrees, refusing to issue a stay of deportation on August 15th.

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NY Times: Was It Illegal To Revoke Brennan’s Security Clearance?

By William Teach August 18, 2018 – 7:16 am

The headline asks the question. The subhead and opinion piece by Jeffrey H. Smith, former general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, state it was

Was It Illegal for Trump to Revoke Brennan’s Security Clearance?
The president not only violated the former C.I.A. director’s First Amendment rights but also made it harder for the government to draw on his expertise.

President Trump’s unprecedented decision to revoke the security clearance of John Brennan, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency — and his publicly stated intention to consider revoking clearances of a list of other administration critics — raises fundamental questions about national security, presidential authority and the First Amendment.

I believe the president has grossly abused his authority and violated Mr. Brennan’s First Amendment right to speak freely. The president’s actions are therefore unconstitutional and demand a response from Congress.

He can feel this way all he wants, but no one has a 1st Amendment right to a security clearance, and taking his away now that he’s no longer in government doesn’t stop him from expressing his opinion in the least. This is just another crazy, manufactured bit of idiocy from the same people who had zero problem with the IRS targeting Conservative groups. And then there’s this

https://twitter.com/KrisParonto/status/1030229119722835968

Trump is shutting down Brennan’s ability to speak so much that he’s all over Twitter, Facebook, the network #resist shows. And

https://twitter.com/KrisParonto/status/1030278280719544320

Back in 2014, everyone was saying that Obama should fire Brennan for doing things like spying on members of the U.S. Senate, trying to prosecute them, and a host of other things.

The president’s statement on why he ordered the revocation of Mr. Brennan’s clearance is based on the assumption that the former C.I.A. director holds a security clearance only as a courtesy so that current senior officials may consult with him. That may be one reason, but it may not be the only one: For example, someone with Mr. Brennan’s experience may be employed in a position that requires a clearance.

So revocation might make it harder for Brennan to parlay his security clearance into making money? Not much of a rationale, eh?

Obviously the president needs to be able to revoke security clearances, when justified: The First Amendment does not protect an individual holding a clearance who discloses properly classified information without authorization — even if done in the course of criticizing the president or his policies. Mr. Trump’s statement justifying his revocation of Mr. Brennan’s clearance makes no such allegation.

Just because it’s not justified to Liberals, who wanted Brennan fired in 2014, doesn’t mean you’re right.

Free political speech is at the very apex of constitutional protections. Disagreement and dialogue are at the heart of our democracy. As Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in a 1988 opinion, the Supreme Court has “been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

No one has a right to a security clearance. Otherwise, where’s mine? Where’s yours? And no one is saying Brennan cannot say what he wants.

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Your Carbon Pollution Infused Beer Is Killing Off Bloody Mary’s Which Help With Your Beer Hangovers

By William Teach August 17, 2018 – 3:24 pm

This is simply horrible. Horrible. What are we going to do?

Bloody Marys Kill Hangovers, but Climate Change May Kill the Bloody Mary

Grub Street went deep on the impact of climate change on the surprisingly large number of ingredients that go into a Bloody Mary on Wednesday. It’s an great piece but the news isn’t good for enthusiasts of the drunk’s favorite soup.

The experts Grub Street spoke to agreed that the ingredients that make up Bloody Marys may be threatened by our changing climate, as tomatoes, vodka, Worcestershire sauce, and more could be impacted by climate change, which would in turn impact a bartender’s ability to make a half-decent Bloody Mary if your goddamn hangover won’t subside and can someone tell me why the sun is so fucking bright?

Perhaps the news will be enough to get out the brunch crowd vote — one bar manager that Inverse spoke with says Bloody Marys and other drinks with produce could increase in price by about 15 percent in her location due to a rise in produce and vodka costs for the establishment.

(blah blah blah)

Clearly, if we want to continue enjoying Bloody Marys, the beloved boozy brunch beverage, we’ve got to get serious about climate change before it’s too late to save the booze.

These people. Sheesh.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 17, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on NY State’s first clown.

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The Climate Is Totally Changing Because You Wear Clothes Or Something

By William Teach August 17, 2018 – 10:30 am

Do you wear clothes? Do you like fashion? Well, all that extreme weather is your fault!

From the screed

With the help of the UN, the world’s USD 2.5 trillion USD fashion industry is shifting to more sustainable business models which can help fight climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The fashion industry, including the production of all clothes which people wear, contributes to around 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions due to its long supply chains and energy intensive production.  The industry consumes more energy than the aviation and shipping industry combined.

Shifting practices in the fashion industry to reduce carbon emissions is key to limiting warming to as close to 1.5°C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

In addition to its carbon intensive supply chain and production processes, the fashion industry consumes a great deal of other precious resources.

See? It’s all your fault….wait, 1.5C? The Paris Agreement was on 2C. Did they just arbitrarily decide to change it? Anyway, not your fault for buying and wearing clothes, it’s the fault of those who make them.

From a truly environmental point of view, changing practices is not a bad idea, because there is a lot of water and material waste in production, along with the waste of used clothing going to landfills. But, that’s environmental, and has very little to do with anthropogenic climate change.

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Louisiana Punishes Two Anti-2nd Amendment Banks Over Road Project

By William Teach August 17, 2018 – 7:04 am

Will other 2nd Amendment supporting states follow along and do similar things?

(Washington Times) A Louisiana commission voted Thursday to block two banking giants from taking part in a new highway project, moving to punish the companies for gun control policies they adopted after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting this year.

Citigroup and Bank of America had said they would work only with retailers who agreed to new restrictions on gun purchases — rules stricter than what federal law requires.

Louisiana’s bond commission said it wouldn’t tolerate that kind of bullying over a constitutional right and voted 7-6 to block the companies from gaining a piece of the financing for a $600 million highway plan.

The vote was a win for pro-gun advocates looking to make inroads in a debate that is increasingly spilling into the corporate arena, and comes as major service companies and social media giants move to adopt anti-firearms policies.

“If you have zero respect for the U.S. Constitution, then you don’t need to do business with the state of Louisiana,” said Sen. John N. Kennedy, a Republican who cheered his state’s move from Washington.

Good for them to step up and fight back for the Rights of law abiding U.S. citizens. Perhaps companies will sit up and take notice. Because Democrats are not giving up on their anti-gun stance

ms and overwhelmingly supports expanded background checks.

“Generally.” Yet, these same Democrats are seemingly against all crackdowns on those who possess and use firearms illegally, most often in Democratic Party run cities and states. They’re soft on criminals, but tough on law abiding citizens.

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