Guy Who’ll Probably Win In California Gov Race Wants Universal Healthcare For Illegal Aliens

By William Teach August 29, 2018 – 10:30 am

Remember this one?

To the editor: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Hilda Solis in December announced the creation of a $10-million legal aid fund to “hire lawyers to defend local immigrants without legal status.” (“A $10-million fund will help immigrants fight deportations. But should it help those with violent criminal convictions?” April 17)

My street hasn’t been swept for years. When I tried to find out why, I was told that my area is not “on the list” because there are no longer enough machines and people to drive them. Services that I continue to pay for have been stopped.

If there is enough money around to help illegal immigrants, surely there is enough to begin sweeping my dirty street again. Shouldn’t citizens come before illegal residents?

Oh, and here’s California Senator Kamala Harris

So, it looks like California is having a wee bit of a problem with maintaining the state and all the municipalities (welcome to poopy San Francisco!) along with housing issues. So, hey

(The Hill) California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is running for governor, said in an interview released Tuesday that he would like to see the state pay for universal healthcare for all illegal immigrants.

“I did universal healthcare when I was mayor — fully implemented, regardless of pre-existing condition, ability to pay, and regardless of your immigration status,” Newsom told the podcast Pod Save America, referencing his stint as San Francisco’s mayor. “I’d like to see that extended to the rest of the state.

“San Francisco is the only universal healthcare plan for all undocumented residents in America. Very proud of that,” Newsom added, “And we proved it can be done without bankrupting the city.”

Newsom said the effort needs to be led by the “governor’s office” not the state legislature.

Yes, San Fran, a city where people poop and urinate wherever they feel like it, as well as opening shoot up drugs, leaving their used needles, which could be swimming in diseases, all over the streets. It’d be nice if all this money spent on illegal aliens went to actual U.S. citizens, wouldn’t it?

And, remember, California just shot down Medicare for all because they found out that the cost would be well above the overall budget for all California operations. Like twice the state budget.

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Super “Green” California Seems Pretty Reliant On Imported Fossil Fuels

By William Teach August 29, 2018 – 7:29 am

This is the same state in which multiple cities and counties sued Exxon-Mobile and other fossil fuels companies over ‘climate change’

(Daily Caller) There’s a growing call for California Gov. Jerry Brown to stop issuing oil and natural gas leases in the state, with some even arguing that all state fossil fuel production should be shuttered.

Yet continuing the current trend of dwindling in-state crude production wouldn’t mean California stops using oil. The state, ranked as one of the “greenest” in the country, would still use lots of oil, it would just come from other countries.

In fact, more than 56 percent of the crude oil received by California refineries were extracted in foreign countries, according to California Energy Commission data. California, once the third-largest oil state, is now more reliant than ever on foreign oil.

The biggest share of California’s oil imports come from Saudi Arabia, which makes up 29 percent of foreign crude flowing into the state. More than 70 percent of foreign oil imports to the state come from OPEC members, including Iraq, Kuwait and Ecuador.

California’s share of oil coming from foreign sources has ballooned since the late 1990s. Decades of state policies restricting drilling played a role, as did declining production in Alaska

All this while banning new offshore drilling and drilling in California, with production having dropped 56 percent since 1985.

Two San Francisco Bay area officials wrote an op-ed calling on Brown “to make a plan to phase out oil and gas production in California, to clean up our cities, towns and agricultural lands, and protect our people.”

Mayor Elizabeth Patterson of Benicia and Vice Mayor Melvin Willis of Richmond joined 183 other local officials from 31 California counties asking Brown to end fossil fuel production in the state.

These cities should lead the way and ban all gas stations, and only use renewables and 100% electric vehicles for the city. And for their own personal vehicles. Walk the talk.

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Student Arrested For Going Unhinged Over MAGA Hat

By William Teach August 29, 2018 – 7:15 am

Funny how it always seems that the ones who start the violence are Leftists

(Fox News) A high school senior in California was arrested Monday after she went on a profanity-laced tirade against a classmate for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.

Union Mine High School student, Jo-Ann Butler, 17, was suspended for one week and faces two counts of battery: one against her classmate for grabbing his MAGA hat and the other against her English teacher, whom she slapped as he escorted her out of the classroom in an altercation captured on a cellphone, according to CBS Sacramento.

“That’s a racist and hateful symbol,” Butler said, adding she took out her anger at the student to “wake people up in some type of way, because it’s not cool the environment our classroom is in.”

The school district’s policy allows students to wear political gear.

According to El Dorado Sheriff’s Sgt. Anthony Prencipe, Butler started “verbally berating” her classmate for wearing the pro-President Trump hat.

She went on to grab the hat and throw it on the ground, at which point the teacher told her to leave. She did, then came back and started arguing again with the student with the hat. Then she decided that slapping the teacher would be a good idea when he got between them. She was then escorted off the property to a juvenile hall, and formal charges are expected this week.

Funny how liberals are constantly showing their tolerance.

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ClimaScare Today: ‘Climate Change’ Will Make Your Food Less Nutricious

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 3:21 pm

It’s always something with these people

Climate change will make hundreds of millions more people nutrient deficient
Crops grown in a high CO2 atmosphere are less nutritious, containing less protein, zinc and iron

Rising levels of carbon dioxide could make crops less nutritious and damage the health of hundreds of millions of people, research has revealed, with those living in some of the world’s poorest regions likely to be hardest hit.

Previous research has shown that many food crops become less nutritious when grown under the CO2 levels expected by 2050, with reductions of protein, iron and zinc estimated at 3–17%.

Now experts say such changes could mean that by the middle of the century about 175 million more people develop a zinc deficiency, while 122 million people who are not currently protein deficient could become so.

This is essentially a reprint of the previous article (link in the excerpt) with added Doom, which assumes that CO2 levels will hit 545-585 by 2050, and this occurs even if world governments put in all the measures the Warmists have been pushing

However the study had limitations, including that it assumed diets would stay constant over the coming years, while it did not take into account that rising CO2 levels might increase the rate of plant growth. The authors note that even if individuals were able to eat more of the plants to get the same nutrient intake, they might end up with other issues like obesity, while climate effects such as increased temperatures and water stress could actually result in an overall decrease in crop yields.

All about hedging the bets, you know.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution created snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on having questions on the suicide of a 9 year old gay boy.

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‘Climate Change’ Is World War III Because You Had A Cookout

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 10:31 am

At some point you’d think that the Cult would get the notion that the constant doom and gloom, apocalyptic type stories are not helping their cause. People tune out. It’s no wonder that 25+ years of spreading awareness has failed

Climate change is World War III, and we are leaderless

“World War III is well and truly underway. And we are losing,” writes environmental activist Bill McKibben, so when Malcolm Turnbull implied that the insurgency that demolished his government was based on climate ideology, what lessons are there for Scott Morrison?

As a child in Britain during WWII, I lived in a street of mothers and children. Every father was away fighting. Each house and garden was surrounded by a metal palisade fence. (blah blah blah)

Two of the world’s highest per capita carbon emitters, the United States and Australia, have deserted the trenches of WWIII by trading ideology for human lives and health.

The US response to the climate threat has been withdrawal from the Paris agreement and a full-frontal attack on the US Environmental Protection Authority, a national defence against climate change, pollution and ill-health — as irrational as if the Germans had demolished their “Siegfried Line” of WWII. (snip)

But leadership by an emerging Churchill or Roosevelt is much more difficult than in WWII. Leadership will need to explain the pots and pans needing to be sacrificed today.

Mr Churchill’s stirring “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds”, an easily understood message of WWII, has to become equally inspirational on changes in lifestyle, personal commitment to curbing rampant consumerism, energy transition, efficient recycling, modifying diet and conserving biodiversity and, ultimately, a sharing of finite resources and economic sacrifice.

In other words, they’re looking for some leader to step up to force people to accept even more government rule over their lives. They should be careful what they wish for: they just might get it. And then wonder where all their liberty went.

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Poll: Majority Do Not Want To Abolish ICE

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 8:22 am

This is going to hit the pro-illegal alien, pro-no borders crowd hard, like these nutters

That’s not even getting to the really wacky ones, including from blue checks, some of which are elected officials (and all Democrats)

Abolish ICE? Most Americans Want To Keep U.S. Immigration Agency: Poll

Most Americans do not want to see the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency abolished, despite growing calls for the agency responsible for enforcing federal immigration laws to be dismantled, a new poll shows.

In a poll released on Monday by the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago, only 24 percent of voters said they were in favor of abolishing ICE, while 40 percent of participants disagreed with the proposal and 34 percent said they had no opinion on the matter.

The survey included 1,055 adult participants and was conducted between August 16-20. It found that there was little difference in opinion on calls to abolish ICE across partisan lines, “with similar minorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans favoring abolishing the agency.”

One thing you can take from this is that a lot of people really do not care about the issue. It’s not something they’re concerned about one way or the other. You can also attempt to read in that they really do not care about illegal alien families being separated, which was really the Border Patrol, but, the nutters on the Left attempted to blame ICE.

Despite widespread protests calling for ICE to be abolished, only 37 percent of participants in the August survey said they hold an “unfavorable” view of the immigration agency. Thirty percent said that they had a “favorable” view of ICE, while 33 percent said they had no opinion of the agency at all.

57 percent of Democrats said they viewed ICE unfavorably. The same percentage of Republicans said they did view the agency favorably. Independents were most likely to say they had “no opinion,” with 46 percent of Independents stating that view.

Perhaps if they news media did their job with things like

ICE does more than capture people who are illegally present in the United States. But, yes, they do that as well. Because we have laws.

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Net Neutrality: Government Must Take Control To Make Sure You Get The Content You Want Or Something

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 8:05 am

The Net Neutrality supporters just won’t give up in their attempt to make the Internet the same type of public utility as the 1940’s phone system. Here’s Andrew Zwicker, an assemblyman and Democrat in New Jersey giving it a shot, and, you just have to wonder what’s in it for people like Andrew

N.J. and Congress must stop internet providers from blocking content you want | Opinion

Last spring in the Statehouse, many of my colleagues and I were working hard to pass net neutrality legislation here in New Jersey. Over 30 states have similar bills pending, and three states have already passed their own version of net neutrality rules.

Under net neutrality, when consumers pay an internet service provider (ISP) a monthly fee for accessing the internet, whether it is to check email, watch a movie, post a photo with friends on social media, or research a topic, they are in control, not the ISP.

Last year, however, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) changed the rules and allowed ISPs to engage in content-based discrimination, specifically, speeding up, slowing down, or blocking access to lawful online content based on the ISPs’ political view or business interests.

There have been claims emerging throughout the country of ISP’s throttling their customer’s internet connection. Whether it was the slowing down of Skype calls, a FaceTime video chat, or even more recently, a slowed internet connection used by emergency responders during the worst fire in California’s history, each of these examples clearly shows the critical demand for the internet to remain free and open.

In fact, most, if not all of these claims involved consumers going over their allotted highspeed bandwith. For instance, the firefighters plan they signed up for gave them unlimited Internet, but only 25gb of highspeed. They went over that. Many people have wireless phone plans that work exactly like this. The Obama era Net Neutrality would not have stopped this.

I wish we didn’t have to take the time to address this common-sense issue, but unfortunately the FCC has taken this anti-consumer position against the wishes of a clear majority of Americans.

Right. Like it’s pro-consumer putting the government in charge of the Internet much like the wired phone system. How much innovation was done? Very little. It wasn’t till regulation was massively eased that things started to really change in the late 1980’s. The wireless phone system sure wouldn’t be were it is with all that regulation.

As a science educator, I’ve seen first-hand how important an open internet is to intellectual growth, discovery, and the free exchange of ideas. If internet service providers are allowed to discriminate against content based on ability to pay, small businesses and community organizations will find it difficult to compete with websites and apps that have the financial power to pay for internet fast lanes.

That’s interesting, considering how often Left-leaning companies are censoring Conservatives. Regardless, Net Neutrality would not stop that, either. Nor will it stop content from being withheld. Look at television. Do you want the NFL package? You have to get DirectTV. No one else has it. Want the NHL package? You won’t get it on AT&T’s Uverse.

None of the arguments matter. None of what the supporters say matters. Because this is all about their typical belief of Government being great and wanting Government in charge.

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Climate Ghouls Seem Pretty Upset That Warmer Weather Isn’t Causing More Deaths

By William Teach August 27, 2018 – 6:48 pm

It doesn’t help their narrative when people are not dying in droves, and they seem pretty bummed out that people are not keeling over in droves

So far, more heat waves do not mean more heat deaths

More Americans die from the effects of heat than of any other form of severe weather, and this summer has seen one heat wave after another. Some places in the U.S. and elsewhere have recorded their highest temperatures ever. In fact, the average temperature around the planet over the past four years has been the highest ever recorded, and nine of the 10 hottest years were all in this century. (The other was 1998.)

All of this would suggest that more people must be experiencing heat-related illness or death. But it’s more complicated than that.

In the U.S., in fact, heat-related illness appears to be declining.

A team of researchers led by Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at Harvard University, studied heat-related deaths in 105 U.S. cities from 1987 to 2005. They found that the risk of death from heat declined significantly even at very high temperatures.

“The population has become more resilient to heat over time,” the authors concluded.

Wait, people adapt? How is that possible?

Anyway, doom may not be here now, but it’s coming!

A particularly warm year doesn’t always bring severe heat waves with it. But climate scientists say that over time, a higher average global temperature means that we’ll see more — and more extreme — heat waves.

In fact, climate scientists have now stated that at least some heat waves from the past several years were likely or very likely the result of climate change.

As the climate continues to warm, scientists warn that the incidence of heat-related illness will rise. A new study projects a big increase in the number of emergency room visits for heat-related illness. Based on two scenarios (moderate warming vs. severe warming), there will be 21,000 to 28,000 more visits every summer by 2050. That increase is not related to a higher population; it’s strictly the result of more intense heat waves.

It’s always some sort of scary prognostication of doom with these people.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 27, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible, evil plastic water bottle causing drought and flood, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark, with a post on Democrats exiting stage left.

Remember to recycle, kiddies.

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