Crazy: Judge Rules Against Ending Shield Program For Illegal Alien “Dreamers”

By William Teach April 25, 2018 – 7:55 am

The Trump administration needs some better lawyers. Or, did they not even bother to try on purpose?

Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applications

A D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and — for the first time since announcing it would end — reopen it to new applicants.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates on Tuesday called the government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program “virtually unexplained” and therefore “unlawful.” However, he stayed his ruling for 90 days to give the Department of Homeland Security a chance to provide more solid reasoning for ending the program.

In his decision, Bates said the decision to phase out the program starting in March “was arbitrary and capricious because the Department failed adequately to explain its conclusion that the program was unlawful.”

It’s actually worse than that, as the Immigration Prof highlights two big passages from the ruling which provided the material for the above, and other news stories, one of which is from the summary

“Here, the Department’s decision to rescind DACA was predicated primarily on its legal judgment that the program was unlawful. That legal judgment was virtually unexplained, however, and so it cannot support the agency’s decision. And although the government suggests that DACA’s rescission was also predicated on the Department’s assessment of litigation risk, this consideration is insufficiently distinct from the agency’s legal judgment to alter the reviewability analysis. It was also arbitrary and capricious in its own right, and thus likewise cannot support the agency’s action. For these reasons, DACA’s rescission was unlawful and must be set aside.”

Apparently, it’s difficult for the administration lawyers to explain that even Obama stated that implementation of a program like DACA is un-Constitutional, and that these so-called Dreamers are present in contradiction of federal law. Furthermore, these illegal aliens are being given a break that others aren’t, and sucking up resources and money that should go to citizens and those who are lawfully present in the U.S.

Perhaps it was that Trump ended it with the thought that this should be turned over to the duly elected lawmakers, tasked by the Constitution to make the laws. It’s an insane ruling overall

The Trump administration said it is reviewing the decision. In a statement, the Justice Department pointed out that a similar Obama-era program for immigrant parents failed to survive a court challenge, and said ending DACA was part of its efforts to protect the border and enforce the rule of law.

Then they should use different lawyers. One also has to wonder if they were intentionally trying to spike Trump’s ending of DACA order.

(Front Page) The entire premise of DACA was that deportation was selective. The President has the power to decide whom to deport and whom not to deport. Now we’ve had multiple rulings by Federal judges which state, effectively, that Obama had the power to selectively deport illegal aliens, but not Trump.

And we have a court once again ruling that a unilateral move by Obama, with no legislative support, somehow has the rule of law. So that Trump not only has to abide by Obama’s selective deportation policy, but that he has to perpetuate it, thereby giving Obama authority over deportation policy in the Trump admin.

It may have been a George W Bush appointee who ruled this way, but, there were plenty of illegal immigration supporters in his administration, since Bush 43 was himself. Regardless, it looks like the Trump admin lawyers just aren’t putting the effort in. Yes, it should be easy: “your honor, these people are here illegally. Federal law says so. We have no legal rationale to protect them.” But, it’s not that easy in court.

Bates called the move “particularly egregious” given the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients, young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children, protected under the program over its five years. Given how many people’s lives were built on the protections from DACA, Bates said, “its barebones legal interpretation was doubly insufficient.”

That’s not a legal decision. It’s a political argument.

We’ll see where this goes from here. Of course, this wouldn’t be necessary had the Democrats played ball in Congress doing something on DACA. But, they wanted all the reward without giving up anything.

Crossed at First Street Journal.

Read: Crazy: Judge Rules Against Ending Shield Program For Illegal Alien “Dreamers” »

Posted in Illegal Immigration | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

Democrat Pushing ‘Climate Change’ Action For Campaign Drives A Whole Lot

By William Teach April 24, 2018 – 9:11 pm

Reason #2 why the Cult Of Climastrology is full of mule fritters

(Daily Caller)  Democratic House candidate Gareth Rhodes has made climate change a campaign issue while simultaneously driving hundreds of miles in a 1999 Ford Winnebago.

Rhodes — who is mounting a challenge for GOP Rep. John Faso’s seat in New York’s 19th congressional district — has joined other Democrats in calling for more action to combat climate change. Rhodes believes humans don’t have time to wait when it comes to saving the environment, and he is striving for a “fossil-fuel-free future,” according to his campaign website. The New York Democrat, who is currently in a primary battle for his party’s nomination, consistently makes environmental issues a part of his campaign theme.

However, the environmentally conscious candidate has adopted a seemingly contradictory form of travel. After officially jumping into the race, Rhodes has vowed to visit all 163 towns within New York’s 19th district, not in a Tesla Model 3 or Nissan Leaf, but in a 1999 Ford Winnebago. Footage of him crisscrossing the district in the RV has become a mainstay of his campaign.

Something like that gets around 8-15 MPG, but, hey

Rhodes, however, argues that the emissions his campaign doles out are negated because he purchases carbon offsets through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The program allows Rhodes to fund green energy initiates elsewhere, but do not stop the pollutants emanating from his RV road trip.

That’s like continuously speeding then paying the tickets because you do not want to give up your lifestyle of speeding. And demanding that Everyone Else be forced to stop speeding by having a device put on a vehicle that limits Them to the speed limit.

But, even if we accept his hypocrisy in purchasing carbon offsets (many say they’re just a racket), he’s the one calling for an end to fossil fuels. But doesn’t for himself.

Read: Democrat Pushing ‘Climate Change’ Action For Campaign Drives A Whole Lot »

Posted in Climahypocrites, Global Warming | Comments Off on Democrat Pushing ‘Climate Change’ Action For Campaign Drives A Whole Lot | Trackback URL

If All You See…

By William Teach April 24, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded by atmosphere cancer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on Maine Democrats voting in favor of female genital mutilation.

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

Good News: Paris Hilton Totally Solves The Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach April 24, 2018 – 10:27 am

We should all be listening to someone who got famous for releasing a sex tape and takes lots and lots of fossil fueled trips, you know. But, this really shows the absurdity of the climate cult, when this is actually a thing

Paris Hilton Solves Climate Change in 7 Words

I love celebrity wisdom. It can be so succinct and yet so revealing and deep. Take Kanye’s tweets lately. They’re at times Art of War-esque, inspirational, thought-provoking and then he’ll throw in a random thought.

(silly Kanye tweet here)

Which is what Twitter is for.

So, it’s great that Paris Hilton, former IT girl and current fake DJ, boils down the answer to climate change in seven words. Tattoo these on your Sierra Club tote bag.

*tents fingers* Ahh, yes. Very true. I imagine these words rolled into Hilton’s head one by one and so she strung them together as a tweet.

You know who Paris reminds me of? Sophia the AI Robot but with with less soul.

I’m not quite positive if Blemish writer Chuck Liddle is making fun of her or agreeing. It is the kind of silly thing Warmists would do.

But the peeps at the tweet love her

https://twitter.com/silvervss/status/988053613120376835

Plenty more like that.

Read: Good News: Paris Hilton Totally Solves The Climate Crisis (scam) »

Posted in AGW Idiocy, Global Warming | 3 Comments | Trackback URL

Net Neutrality Is (Mostly) Officially Dead As Of Monday

By William Teach April 24, 2018 – 7:15 am

This is a good thing. Brainwashed net neutrality supporters have been gnashing their teeth for months now, proclaiming future doom, despite the Internet having grown from the tiny thing with slow speeds and little content to the massive, fast, find anything you want behemoth it is now without these big government controlling type rules. There was no need to turn the Internet into the same type of regulated entity like old school phones, rules used against Ma Bell in the 1930’s.

(Yahoo Finance) Net neutrality’s protracted, multi-phase death scene is finally coming to an end with a whimper as the FCC rules proposed in May, voted on in December and entered in the Federal Register in February finally come into effect today. But as before, don’t expect some big fanfare by broadband providers and a sudden ratcheting up of prices. Things are going to stay quietly tense for a while.

Update: Although new rules do indeed take effect two months after entering the Federal Register (i.e. today), those taking effect are only part of the full package. The Office of Management and Budget still has to sign off on the new rules, after which time there will be yet another delay as they are filed in the Register again before taking effect. So although the new rules have taken partial effect, they are are still awaiting final final approval.

Should you be worried? No. But you should stay angry.

Stay angry? Really? People should be angry that rules that stifle innovation and investment and opened the doors to massive government control of the ‘net, along with all sorts of taxes and fees (look at your phone bill and ask what all these taxes and fees are, and how far back they go), have been done away with? Only in Progressive World.

But, I have to wonder: so many of these tech companies lean Liberal/Progressive. Why are Leftists so concerned that companies on their side might possibly maybe we’re not sure so let’s regulate them just in case implement all sorts of crazy fees and “fast lanes” and stuff?

Really, any Bad Conduct by companies should be dealt with by the Federal Trade Commission. That’s where this belongs.

That’s why consumers must be vigilant. Do you see something new and weird in your new terms of service? Do you notice a suspicious bandwidth issue on certain sites or services? Tell us, or tell one of the advocacy organizations that has been fighting on your behalf all these years. We only had net neutrality for a short, sweet time and there’s no reason we should let it slip away without a fight.

It barely took effect, there was a problem with a reduction in investment because of it, but, for the rest of the time there was no Net Neutrality, and things were fine. Certain people are essentially freaking out over things that didn’t happen and won’t happen, all because they’ve been brainwashed into think that Government control is the bee’s knees.

BTW, here’s the fun graphic from a Mashable article on same

Food for thought on who these people really are.

Read: Net Neutrality Is (Mostly) Officially Dead As Of Monday »

Posted in Liberal World, Web/Tech | Comments Off on Net Neutrality Is (Mostly) Officially Dead As Of Monday | Trackback URL

Who’s Surprised That The Washington Post Uses Waffle House Shooting To Call For Gun Banning?

By William Teach April 24, 2018 – 6:52 am

Who’s also surprised that the Washington Post Editorial Board forgets to include an important bit of information?

Why did the accused Waffle House shooter get back his guns?

THERE WERE plenty of warning signs about Travis J. Reinking. He once told police that music superstar Taylor Swift was stalking him and hacking into his phone. Another time, he barged into a community pool, jumping into the water wearing a woman’s pink housecoat and challenging lifeguards to a fight. Then there was his arrest by the Secret Service for breaching White House security because he wanted to meet with the president.

Yet there he allegedly was early Sunday morning — just nine months after his White House arrest — at a Waffle House outside Nashville, in possession of an assault-style rifle that authorities say was used to kill four people and wound several others. That the AR-15 semiautomatic, along with three other guns, had once been confiscated from him by Illinois authorities who recognized the danger only compounds the failure — indeed the absurdity — of policies that make it far too easy to get guns. And that allow weapons designed for war to become everyday commodities.

Liberals love that talking point about weapons of war. You’d have to be an idiot to bring a semi-automatic rifle to a battlefield, but, then, liberals writing about guns usually do not actually understand guns.

“Let’s be honest,” said Nashville Mayor David Briley (D). “Some people see these weapons as having a purpose of terrorizing other people. It’s happening too much. Enough is enough.” Indeed. The same type of weapon was used at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed; it was used in the 2017 slaughter of 25 worshipers at a rural Texas church; it was part of the arsenal used by the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58, and the shooter who killed 49 at an Orlando nightclub.These are not weapons needed for self-defense or hunting. They are designed to kill as many people as quickly and efficiently as possible.

However, the Constitution means that this is none of the WPEB’s business. And, they are used for self defense.

That they are easy to acquire is made obvious by the ease and speed with which Mr. Reinking managed to get his guns back. Illinois authorities transferred ownership of the rifle and other weapons to Mr. Reinking’s father. They said they did so because the father had a legal claim and promised to keep them away from his son. Clearly the father has some soul-searching to do. But it is ludicrous that law and process would not give law enforcement more authority to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a danger. There is no law in Tennessee, where Mr. Reinking moved from Illinois, that would have barred him from owning guns.

What’s missing, as the WPEB goes on to recommend voting for candidates who are super in to gun grabbing, including banning “assault weapons” and magazine size restrictions, along with their buzzworthy “comprehensive gun reform”, is the fact that Reinking had his state firearms card revoked by the Illinois state police in 2017. The Post spins this, and spins this disingenuously. The law did give the police the authority to keep the guns out of Reinking’s hands. Is the Post suggesting that his father should have had his 2nd Amendment Rights stripped, as well, because of his son being a wackjob? In retrospect, it seems the answer is “yes,” but, you couldn’t have known this beforehand, and we aren’t supposed to punish people who’ve done nothing wrong under the law.

But, that’s exactly what the gun grabbers want to do. Punish the law abiding for the actions of criminals. But, I’ll tell you what: I’ll give you gun grabbers an assault weapons ban and a maximum magazine size of 12 (both on new purchases) with a 5 year sunset to see if it makes a difference, and you allow inspections of abortion clinics

https://twitter.com/APCentralRegion/status/988474230277922817

Perhaps abortion fanatics can explain why treating abortion clinics that perform medical procedures like a clinic that performs medical procedures and inspecting them for medical standards sends you into a rage.

Read: Who’s Surprised That The Washington Post Uses Waffle House Shooting To Call For Gun Banning? »

Posted in 2nd Amendment, Journalistic Malpractice | 8 Comments | Trackback URL

‘Climate Change’ (scam) To Cause Flooding And Droughting In People’s Republik Of California Or Somethin

By William Teach April 23, 2018 – 3:30 pm

Yes, I know droughting isn’t a word, but, then anthropogenic climate change is mostly not real, either

California’s wild extremes of drought and floods to worsen as climate warms

Over the past couple of years, California lurched from its worst drought ever to disastrous, record flooding.

Now, a new study suggests the frequency of these rapid, year-to-year swings from extreme dry to wet conditions — which the study authors dub “precipitation whiplash events” — may become more common in California’s future as a consequence of man-made global warming.

The study authors say the frequency of whiplash events — in which the region transitions suddenly from very dry to very wet conditions — “will double in southern California by the end of the century.”

That would mean such whiplash events would occur around eight times per century in a warmer climate versus four times per century in a more stable climate, said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, lead author of the study.

Please define “stable”, because there have been numerous warm and cool periods throughout the Holocene, much less the previous 4.5 billion years on Earth. Furthermore, how do they know? Can they prove that what’s going on now (remember, they used to say California would be in Permanent Drought before it started getting wet again) is any different from the previous Holocene warm periods? With actual measured data?

Swain and his team of researchers used computer model simulations to predict the future climate patterns in California.

Read: ‘Climate Change’ (scam) To Cause Flooding And Droughting In People’s Republik Of California Or Somethin »

Posted in Collapsing Science, Global Warming, New Climate Deniers | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

If All You See…

By William Teach April 23, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an awesome low carbon mode of transportation once the world is flooded next year, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on a woman being found guilty for posting rap lyrics on her Instagram.

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 3 Comments | Trackback URL

Good News: College Kids No Longer Allowed To Go Outside

By William Teach April 23, 2018 – 10:30 am

It begs the question: which came first: the Special Snowflakes or the enablers of Special Snowflakes?

Penn State’s 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside

What’s more dangerous: rugby, or a walk in the woods? At Pennsylvania State University, the administrators apparently think it’s the latter.

The student “Outing Club,” which has gone backpacking, kayaking, and hiking in state parks over the course of its 98-year-existence, will no longer be allowed to host outdoor events after administrators conducted a risk assessment, according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“The types of activities in which [Penn State Outing Club] engages are above the university’s threshold of acceptable risk for recognized student organizations,” according to an official announcement.

Wait for it

A key issue for administrators was that the Outing Club frequently visit locations with poor cell phone coverage. This wasn’t an issue during the Coolidge administration, but now that cell phones exist, students are apparently expected to remain glued to them at all times.

The school has a solution

The Post-Gazette‘s Don Hopey reports that the administration is hoping to reform the Outing Club into some kind of movie-watching club:

Ms. Powers said meetings between the Outing Club’s student leaders and the university are “ongoing” about the club’s future role on campus.

Those talks are focused on the possibility of “forming a different kind of club,” [current club president Richard] Waltz said, one that still holds film festivals and hosts speakers, but can no longer lead students on walks in the woods.

Maybe they can take virtual reality walks in a padded room—provided there’s cell service.

What the of legal age kids should do is create their own group, separate from the school, and just go on their trips.

Read: Good News: College Kids No Longer Allowed To Go Outside »

Posted in Unhinged Tools | 2 Comments | Trackback URL

Warmist Wants To Unleash “Regulatory Hell” To Stop ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach April 23, 2018 – 7:39 am

It’s funny how Warmist solutions always seem to revolve around more and more Big Government controlling more and more of people’s lives, eh? Never things like “all Warmists should immediately give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral”. James Delingpole brings us

(Breitbart) Beneath the warm cuddly exterior of the bunny-hugging greenie beats the heart of a fascist. If you ever doubted it, check out this Vox interview with William T Vollmann.

Vollmann is an award-winning author and war correspondent once described as the most “ambitious, audacious writer working in America today” and tipped as a plausible Nobel Prize for Literature candidate. He claims once to have been a climate change ‘denier’ but not any more.

The climate change threat is so dire, he believes, that only the most drastic solutions will do:

It’s not just what some consumer does at home. It’s niggling little issues that add up. In Japan, roughly 50 percent or so of all the methane emissions — and that’s one of the three most dangerous greenhouse gases — are caused by rice growing. All this stuff that seems so innocuous. It seems to me that you have to drag people into some kind of regulatory hell, unfortunately. Maybe there’s a better way to do it, but I don’t see one.

I do. But, Warmists aren’t willing to give up their “comforts”, as Vollmann later goes on to discuss in the interview. They’re willing to attempt to restrict those same comforts from people in the “developing world”, especially in places where black people live.

I will disagree with Delingpole a bit

Still, it’s important to hear the thoughts of green thinkers and influencers like Vollmann now and again because that way we can be reminded of what it really is that motivates environmentalists. They dress their feelings up as love for the planet – but what it’s really about is hatred for technology, hatred of creature comforts, hatred of human achievement.

While Warmists and enviroweenies may dislike those, particularly the last two (and creature comforts for Other People), as I’ve noted time and time again this is about Progressive (nice Fascist) policies, always increasing the size and power of the government of citizens, private entities, and economies. And the little Progressive idiots have been brainwashed into forgetting that the bad parts of government controlling our lives won’t hit them in their own lives. They’ll be the first to complain when it does, acting all shocked. Remember this gem?

Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.

“I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today,” Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.

“I really don’t like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family’s pocket each year, that’s otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy.”

“Of course, I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.”

Obamacare is much like the ‘climate change’ push: increased costs, increased control of your life, and, guess what, Warmists? You’ll see the bad parts, too!

Read: Warmist Wants To Unleash “Regulatory Hell” To Stop ‘Climate Change’ (scam) »

Posted in AGW Idiocy, Global Warming | 11 Comments | Trackback URL
Pirate's Cove