Swedish Woman Protecting Illegal Alien From Deportation Might Want To Rethink That Position

By William Teach August 1, 2018 – 4:11 pm

Remember this?

https://twitter.com/jazz_sleeper/status/1022777625675280384

She was oh so celebrated. She was totally brave

https://twitter.com/BaselAlhasan4/status/1022451571265863680

Um, yeah, about that

Afghan migrant whose deportation was thwarted by ‘hero’ Swedish student was actually sentenced for assault

The Swedish student who was branded a “hero” and captured worldwide attention after she stopped the deportation of an Afghan migrant by refusing to sit down on a plane instead prevented the extradition of a man sentenced for assault and whose asylum application was rejected.

Elin Ersson, a student at Gothenburg University, was subjected to fawning media coverage over her stunt earlier this month when she refused to take her seat on the plane until the 52-year-old Afghan deportee was released. She was successful and authorities weren’t able to deport the man.

However, Swedish Police confirmed to Fox News that the man whose deportation Ersson prevented had received a prison sentence in Sweden for assault. The police spokesman declined to go into more details about the crime the migrant has committed. His asylum application was also rejected.

We already know he’s from Afghanistan, and most likely brought his 3rd world beliefs to Sweden, and most likely assaulted at least one woman.

An annoyed passenger tried to grab the phone from Ersson, saying she’s upsetting others. To which the student replied: “It’s not my fault that he’s getting deported. I’m trying to stop this.”

“I’m trying to change my country’s rules. I don’t like them. It’s not right to send people to hell,” she added.

She was attempting to protect a criminal. Oh, and he was deported shortly thereafter. They should have made Ersson house the man in her own home.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible rising sea, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Frakking Consensus, with a post on plastic straw ban memes.

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Surprise: California’s ‘Climate Change’ Board Is Unelected And Unacountable

By William Teach August 1, 2018 – 10:38 am

What was supposed to be about transparency has essentially created a monster, but, then, transparency and accountability are things mostly missing from the Cult of Climastrology

California’s climate change regulator chooses self-preservation over transparency

When the next governor is sworn in January, he will have the opportunity to shape policy by filling the many state boards and commissions with his appointees — except, apparently, to the powerful agency charged with overseeing California’s ambitious climate change program.

Last week the California Air Resources Board approved a plan to set new, staggered six-year terms for the board’s 14 voting members, 12 of whom are subject to gubernatorial appointment. The terms were required by a bill passed by the Legislature in 2016.

Previously, board members were all at-will appointments who could have been replaced at any time — or as often happened, remain on the board for years and years. Now, members will serve fixed terms and can’t be replaced until their term is up. And under the distinctly backloaded schedule adopted by the board, most of governor’s appointees won’t come up for review until December 2020 and December 2022. (snip)

Even worse, though, was the secretive way the Air Resource Board handled the change. Board members had the plan for phasing in the new terms for nearly two weeks, yet the agency refused to make the plan public on its website until a few hours before the vote. That left little opportunity for advocacy groups to weigh in.

Well, that’s perfect, because they’re pretty secretive on how they spend all the money forcibly taken from Californians and California businesses.

Yet one of the reasons lawmakers overhauled the board as part of Assembly Bill 197 in 2016 was to give lawmakers and the public more say over this powerful panel, which sets environmental policies that often become the template for the nation. The measure allowed the governor to continue filling most of the seats on the board, but imposed six-year terms to give the Legislature some oversight when seats came up for review and confirmation.

It appears as if once a person is confirmed to the board, they cannot be dismissed till the end of the term. There’s almost no accountability, and they can pretty much do what they want. Who regulates the regulators?

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Woman Who Didn’t Want Gender Confused Men In Locker Room Wins Suit Against Planet Fitness

By William Teach August 1, 2018 – 7:36 am

In the Real World, as opposed to SJW World, most females would prefer that their locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms remain separate from men. It’s a safe space for them (as opposed to the Safe Spaces SJWs want. Capitalization matters). They would prefer not to be subjected to peeping and such. In fact, women have filed many lawsuits against men peeping at them. And then there’s this one (via Twitchy)

From the loopy, unhinged article

It all started back in 2015, when Cormier saw a trans woman in the locker room. She went around warning other gym members about someone who “totally looked like a man” in the women’s locker room and telling them they were “unsafe.”

Planet Fitness responded by terminating membership on grounds of “inappropriate and disruptive” behavior, saying Cormier violated their “judgement-free zone” policy with her transphobic outburst.

As many point out, in response to the article, this isn’t about hate, it’s not gender deranged-phobic, er, transphobic, it’s about consent. And respect. Planet Fitness is a private company, and can make their own policy on allowing the gender confused to allow whichever side they want to use. But, they should have told the people who pay the bulk of the dues that members of the opposite sex would be allowed in to their locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms. As Twitter user Chad Felix Greene writes

No.
Consent wins.
The woman was not informed physical males could enter the women’s locker room.

There is no hate involved. Reducing women’s safety amd privacy to ‘hate’ in this one context is absurd and offensive.

The court ruled the company has a responsibility to inform.

And that’s what the court ruled

(Norwalk Reflector) A Michigan appeals court has ruled in favor of a former Planet Fitness customer who argued that her rights under Michigan’s consumer protection law were violated when the club did not disclose its unwritten policy and canceled her membership because she complained about a man in the women’s locker room. (snip)

The court’s opinion said, “The plaintiff was already a member of the gym when she learned of the unwritten policy and was thus subject to a financial penalty if she canceled her membership earlier than provided in the membership agreement. Plaintiff’s actions indicate that she strongly preferred a locker room and a restroom in which individuals who are assigned biologically male are not present, and it is thus reasonable to infer that defendants’ failure to inform plaintiff of the unwritten policy affected her decision to join the gym.”

Cormier alleged that Planet Fitness misrepresented the nature of its contract when it said that she would have access to a private women’s locker room while failing to disclose that includes “men who self-identity as women.” This unwritten policy would have affected her decision to purchase a membership, and Planet Fitness appears to have engaged in deceptive business practices.

Funny, liberals always support the right to “choice”, and that women should have control over their own bodies, and should not be harassed and shouldn’t feel unsafe (I think we can all agree on the last two, yet, it sure seems like this doesn’t happen in liberal areas like Hollywood), except where they put the rights of people with mental problems over those of real women

https://twitter.com/Melvin_Udall_/status/1024370814743977985

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As The Meltdown On 3D Printed (Garbage) Guns Continues, There’s Something Important To Remember

By William Teach August 1, 2018 – 7:13 am

When it comes to 3D printed plastic firearms, many are completely losing it over something that is almost never going to be created. Why would someone spend thousands on a 3D printer to make an inferior copy that is a whole lot more expensive and just as likely to blow up in the users hands as fire a bullet? One which won’t be able to fire many rounds in reality? You can purchase a quality rifle or handgun for a whole lot less. The worry is there over what will be undetectable “ghost guns”, but not to this degree

This obviously goes on and on and on.

Cody is, of course, the person who’s putting all these plans on-line. And there are all sorts of lawsuits in the works, along with legislation. But, um….

(Daily Caller) The National Rifle Association had to point out Tuesday that any untraceable gun is outlawed in reference to the recent legal settlement that will allow for the blueprints on how to print and set up a gun from a 3D printer to be available to the public.

“Many anti-gun politicians and members of the media have wrongly claimed that 3D printing technology will allow for the production and widespread proliferation of undetectable plastic firearms. Regardless of what a person may be able to publish on the Internet, undetectable plastic guns have been illegal for 30 years,” Chris Cox, the NRA-ILA Executive Director, said, according to Stephen Gutowski.

He continued, “Federal law passed in 1988, crafted with the NRA’s support, makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive an undetectable firearm.” (snip)

The federal Undetectable Firearms Act, which was passed in 1988, made it illegal to manufacture or possess a weapon that would not be detected in a properly functioning metal detector or x-ray machine.

Now, someone could make a blended weapon, putting some metal in them, but, why bother? It’s still not as good, or cost effective, as simply purchasing a manufactured firearm, produced to exacting standards, and won’t blow up on you.

Really, this is not a 2nd Amendment case, but a 1st Amendment, one in which government at various levels is attempting to stop the free exchange of ideas (that are not national security material). If you look, you can find all sorts of interesting things online. You could find bomb making plans if you wanted. Or plans to build a regular, not blow up on you firearm. Or your own airplane. So, it’s one thing to make the guns, which is already illegal. It’s another to block the spread of the plans. And it’s a third for a total freakout by gun grabbers who fear-mongering without knowing the law. Or, they could be purposefully not telling people the law.

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Sen. Mazie Hirona (D) Highlights Democrat Problem With Illegal Immigration

By William Teach July 31, 2018 – 4:54 pm

They don’t seem to actual understand what it is

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 31, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded by Other People’s carbon footprints, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is hogewash, with a post on medicating moonbats.

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Supreme Court Rules Kids’ ‘Climate Change’ Suit Can Go Forward, But…..

By William Teach July 31, 2018 – 10:30 am

Warmists are making a big deal out of this, but, they shouldn’t hang their hats quite yet

US Supreme Court Signals Serious Doubts About The Youths’ Global Warming Lawsuit Against Trump

The U.S. Supreme Court denied the Justice Department’s request to stay discovery in a lawsuit filed by group of youths and young adults that alleges a constitutional right to a “stable climate system.”

Justices, however, took the unusual step of expressing doubts about the justiciability of the plaintiffs’ global warming claims and urged a “prompt ruling” on the federal government’s dispositive motions.

“The breadth of respondents’ claims is striking, however, and the justiciability of those claims presents substantial grounds for difference of opinion,” the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

“The District Court should take these concerns into account in assessing the burdens of discovery and trial, as well as the desirability of a prompt ruling on the Government’s pending dispositive motions,” the court ruled.

In other words, they’re saying the lawsuit will need some serious facts, figures, and science to prove the case. Also, that SCOTUS seems to be remanding the case back for the trial judge to make it go away.

The youths argue they have a right to “a climate system capable of sustaining human life,” and that the government had violated the public trust doctrine to the detriment of future generations.

The kiddies and their lawyers are going to have a hard time proving their case, which will be great when they end up losing. Especially since the case seems to be about the judiciary making law. First question from the government should be ” have y’all given up fossil fueled travel and made your lives carbon neutral? No? Huh. Guess you don’t believe that much.”

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Democrats Look To Add One More Crazy Idea To Midterms: Medicare For All

By William Teach July 31, 2018 – 7:18 am

What’s the Democrat agenda for November?

Along with some other crazy things. And now they are mainstreaming Medicare for all, otherwise known as Single Payer

Liberal Dems lay groundwork to push Medicare for All

Democrats are laying the groundwork to make a push for “Medicare for All” legislation if they win back the House in November.

More than 60 House Democrats launched a Medicare for All caucus this month, a sign of the popularity surrounding the concept of a government-run health insurance system for all that’s supported by liberal firebrands like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The caucus plans to hold briefings with experts as part of its efforts to revise a previous bill that will act as the framework for future legislation to establish single-payer national health insurance.

“We’re going to do what it takes to get health care for every American,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), one of the co-chairs of the new caucus.

This should work out well

That’s $32.6 trillion over 10 years. In a static universe. We’ll pay for this mumble mumble garble garble…oh, right, they’ll just raise takes on the rich (like all their Hollywood buds, athletes, and so forth). That’s always their solution. In reality, your taxes would go up as you no longer pay for health insurance through your work. You can expect your overall costs to skyrocket, though.

Leaders of the caucus are planning to revise a single-payer bill in January 2017 by former Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.). The measure has 123 Democratic cosponsors.

“The idea would be to introduce something that has a little bit more detail and is an actual legislative path,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), another co-chair of the caucus. (snip)

Adam Green, co-founder of Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said that if Democrats win back the House, his organization will push for a series of health care votes on legislation addressing single-payer and somewhat less-drastic ideas like a public option.

It’d be a hoot if Republicans would introduce the plan on the floor for a vote. Watch Democrat freak out and call voting on their beliefs a stunt.

And let’s not forget, if the government is in charge of your health care, they pretty much own you.

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Libertarian Lunatic Calls For Completely Open Borders

By William Teach July 31, 2018 – 6:56 am

Either the Cato Institute has moved far left in their Never-Trump status, or Libertarians are loons. Or they didn’t realize they had a far left moonbat in their midst, as Jeffrey Miron, director of economic studies at the Cato Institute and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, calls for open borders. Though, this isn’t that out of bounds when it comes to official Libertarians, who also want all drugs legalized

Forget the wall already, it’s time for the U.S. to have open borders

President Donald Trump’s recent tweets against open borders come as no surprise. Indeed, even fervent immigration advocates worry that open borders would lower the wages of low-skilled natives, erode national security, and overburden the social safety net. Trump doubled down, tweeting that he would be “willing to ‘shut down’ government” unless Congress approves funding for a border wall with Mexico.

Trump, however, has it exactly backwards: The solution to America’s immigration problems is open borders, under which the United States imposes no immigration restrictions at all. If the U.S. adopts this policy, the benefits will far outweigh the costs.

If we have no borders, we have no country.

Illegal immigration will disappear, by definition. Much commentary on immigration — Trump and fellow travelers aside — suggests that legal immigration is good and that illegal immigration is bad. So, legalize all immigration.

Government will then have no need to define or interpret rules about asylum, economic hardship, family reunification, family separation, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and so on. When all immigration is legal, these issues are irrelevant.

See? It’s so easy. We could totally save money!

Expenditure on immigration enforcement would shrink to nothing, because open borders means no walls, fences, screening at airports, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), deportations, detention centers or immigration courts. A 2013 report estimated that immigration enforcement cost more than $18 billion annually, and standard indicators suggest costs have grown further since then.

And they’ll send their best!

The government’s fiscal balance could actually improve with more legal immigrants earning income and paying taxes in America. And under open borders, any added immigration will plausibly come from those with even higher skills and incomes, who faced weaker incentives to immigrate when faced with the burden of current restrictions.

And Jeffrey tells us that there won’t be any bad consequences. They won’t flood into America (though, since we have no borders, there’s no need to name the nation), the won’t put down roots, crime won’t skyrocket, terrorists won’t stream in, but,

Open borders are not without risks. Social safety nets might come under pressure, and natives will face added competition for jobs (though the evidence on this is mixed).

If it’s “mixed” now, when they’re streaming in, natives (notice he doesn’t call us Americans. Very telling) will lose, and social safety nets will crash. I wonder if Jeffrey locks the doors in his car and home? Does he have a fence?

Here’s another lunatic

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