Orange County Votes To Ignore California Sanctuary Laws While AG Threatens To Take Action

By William Teach March 28, 2018 – 7:32 am

The dominoes are starting to fall in California in resistance to California’s sanctuary state laws

(LA Times) The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to move against the state’s “sanctuary” laws, adding a powerful voice to a growing backlash in some conservative parts of California to the state’s pro-immigration policies.

The board voted 3-0 to join a federal lawsuit against California’s sanctuary laws.

SB 54, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed after the Legislature passed it last year, prohibits state and local police agencies from notifying federal officials in many cases when immigrants potentially subject to deportation are about to be released from custody.

Other cities in the county, including Yorba Linda, Buena Park, Huntington Beach and Mission Viejo are also starting to take action to voice their grievances against the state’s sanctuary laws.

This has made many pro-illegal alien criminal supporting California Democrats Very Upset

State Sen. Kevin de León, who wrote SB 54, warned cities going against the state’s sanctuary laws.

“Pushing a racist and anti-immigrant agenda devoid of facts or supporting legal analysis is a pretty sad use of taxpayer resources, especially when it could result in crippling legal costs for cities that rush to join this dead-end effort,” he said in a written statement.

So, a threat to do something against the jurisdictions which are resisting the California law, which is itself resisting federal law. Say, doesn’t federal law take precedence over state law, at least in the case where the Constitution gives Los Federales primacy? The Constitution does give Los Federales primacy when it comes to immigration. The 10th Amendment, States’ Right, doesn’t apply here. That’s also what illegal alien supporters told us vis a vis the Arizona illegal alien law, SB1070.

(Fox News) California Attorney General Xavier Becerra would not rule out taking action of his own against officials who fight the laws, including the sheriff.

“State law is state law. It’s my job to enforce state law and I will do so. We want to make sure that every jurisdiction, including Orange County, understands what state law requires of the people and the subdivisions of the state of California,” Becerra said at a news conference. When asked if that meant an arrest or lawsuit against the sheriff, Becerra responded, “I think I just answered that.”

Perhaps US Attorney General Jeff Sessions should remind Mr. Becerra what federal law says. Especially if Becerra takes action. Sessions should have Becerra arrested and charged with violating multiple federal statutes on illegal alien “harboring”.

Orange County Undersheriff Don Barnes told Fox News in an interview that Becerra’s comments “were threatening,” but the sheriff’s office was not doing anything that the law did not allow.

“My hope would be that he would read the language of the law that was passed,” he said on “Hannity.” “It very clearly says in there what we can and cannot do.”

Barnes added that the law has put Californians at risk by returning dangerous individuals back into the communities and that by making this information public, the sheriff’s office was trying to help the community be safer.

“They’re very serious crimes and they’re being return back into the community, and quite honestly back into the communities in which they preyed upon and committed their crimes to begin with.”

Illegal alien supporters say they don’t want to keep the bad ones, just the good ones. Yet, they are doing all they can to shelter the bad ones.

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Good News: Asthma Inhalers Are Bad For ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach March 27, 2018 – 3:30 pm

So, on one hand, the Cult of Climastrology claims Hotcoldwetdry will cause asthma to get worse. On the other…

Your asthma puffer is probably contributing to climate change, but there’s a better alternative

I breathe all the way out. There’s a quiet puff of gas from my inhaler, and I breathe all the way in. I hold my breath for a few seconds and the medicine is where it needs to be: in my lungs.

Many readers with asthma or other lung disease will recognise this ritual. But I suspect few will connect it with climate change. Until recently, neither did I.

Because only nutjobs think that way.

The one most often found in asthma metered dose inhalers, norflurane, is 1,430 times more potent than the best-known warming culprit, carbon dioxide. Another, apaflurane, is 3,220 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Such warming power explains why even the small amounts in an inhaler are significant. Globally, tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent are attributable annually to these inhaler gases. (snip)

A person using a preventer inhaler monthly, plus the odd reliever inhaler, could easily release the annual equivalent of a quarter of a ton of carbon dioxide — that’s like burning 100 litres of petrol.

But, just to make sure The Conversation and writer Brett Montgomery do not get sued

If metered dose inhalers are a better choice for you, please don’t panic or quit your medicines. These gases probably won’t be the biggest contributor to your personal carbon footprint. Asthma control is really important, and these medicines work really well. But consider changing if it’s an option for you — when it comes to reducing our footprint, every little bit counts.

As Eric Worrall notes

As a lifelong asthmatic I’m familiar with different inhalers. I can tolerate the powder inhalers, but I know people who can’t – powder inhalers can irritate the airways. It would be unfortunate and harmful if this stretch of a climate warning develops into a movement to ban HFC propellent in asthma inhalers, or makes such inhalers more difficult to obtain or more expensive.

Heh. Climate warning.

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If All You See…

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

…are horrible evil cans of beer full of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on the March For Disco…wait, what?

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Bummer: Paris Climate Agreement Is A Failure, And Will Lead To 25 Holocausts

By William Teach March 27, 2018 – 10:30 am

If only there was something Warmists could do, like giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their lives carbon neutral. Anyhow, for something so groundbreaking and historic, it sure seems as if it was worthless, and vindicates Trump for (sorta) pulling the U.S. out

The Paris Climate Accords Are Looking More and More Like Fantasy

Remember Paris? It was not even two years ago that the celebrated climate accords were signed — defining two degrees of global warming as a must-meet target and rallying all the world’s nations to meet it — and the returns are already dispiritingly grim.

This week, the International Energy Agency announced that carbon emissions grew 1.7 percent in 2017, after an ambiguous couple of years optimists hoped represented a leveling off, or peak; instead, we’re climbing again. Even before the new spike, not a single major industrial nation was on track to fulfill the commitments it made in the Paris treaty. To keep the planet under two degrees of warming — a level that was, not all that long ago, defined as the threshold of climate catastrophe — all signatory nations have to match or better those commitments. There are 195 signatories, of which only the following are considered even “in range” of their Paris targets: Morocco, Gambia, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, and the Philippines. This puts Donald Trump’s commitment to withdraw from the treaty in a useful perspective; in fact, his spite may ultimately prove perversely productive, since the evacuation of American leadership on climate seems to have mobilized China, eager to claim the mantle and far more consequential to the future of the planet because of its size and relative poverty, to adopt a much more aggressive posture toward climate. Of course those renewed Chinese commitments are, at this point, just rhetorical, too.

Much like with the Kyoto Protocol, which was long on words and celebrations and almost none of the signaturies achieved their goals.

How not good? Another new paper sketches in horrifying detail what this failure would mean, though its findings are smuggled in under cover of rhetorical optimism. In the new issue of Nature Climate Change, a team lead by Drew Shindell tried to quantify the suffering that would be avoided if the planet were kept below 1.5 degrees of warming, rather than two degrees — in other words, how much additional suffering would result from that additional half-degree of warming. Their answer: 150 million more people would die from air pollution alone in a two-degree-warmer world than in a 1.5-degree-warmer one.

Numbers that large can be hard to grasp, but 150 million is the equivalent of 25 Holocausts. It is five times the size of the death toll of the Great Leap Forward — the largest non-military death toll humanity has ever produced. It is three times the greatest death toll of any kind: World War II. The paper’s math is speculative, of course, and there will surely be those who take issue with its methodology. But it also looks at deaths solely from air pollution — not from heat waves, drought, agricultural failure, pandemic disease, hurricanes and extreme weather, climate conflict, and more. And the paper reaches that figure, 150 million, only for a world that is two degrees warmer, when everything we are seeing now tells us that two degrees, always an optimistic target, is becoming more and more of a long shot.

These people. Always ramping up the scaremongering, yet, strangely, taking no action in their own lives. Replacing an incandescent lightbulb with a CFL or LED doesn’t count.

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California AG To Sue Trump Admin Over Citizenship Question Or Something

By William Teach March 27, 2018 – 7:10 am

The same People’s Republik Of California Attorney General who does all he can to protect illegal aliens who have committed serious crimes, while also attempting to take away people’s 2nd Amendment Rights, is Very Upset that the question of citizenship will be asked

(Fox News) California on Monday promised to sue the Trump administration over its decision to ask the 2020 census respondents if they are citizens of the United States.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the suit against the administration late Monday on Twitter, saying the measure would be unlawful.

“Filing suit against @realdonaldtrump’s Administration over decision to add #citizenship question on #2020Census. Including the question is not just a bad idea — it is illegal,” Becerra wrote.

Of course he’s worried that illegal aliens will refuse to answer

In a San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece published Monday, Becerra and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla wrote that the inclusion of a citizenship question would be “illegal” and “an extraordinary attempt by the Trump administration to hijack the 2020 census for political purposes.”

“California, with its large immigrant communities, would be disproportionately harmed by depressed participation in the 2020 census,” they wrote. “An undercount would threaten at least one of California’s seats in the House of Representatives (and, by extension, an elector in the electoral college.)”

Nowhere in the article do they lay out the case that the question is illegal. And, it’s a real shame that they added this brand spanking new question to the census

According to the Commerce Department, “almost every decennial census” between 1820 and 1950 “asked a question on citizenship in some form.” The department also said the citizenship question would be “the same as the one that is asked on the yearly American Community Survey (ACS).” The ACS is sent to a much smaller percentage of American homes than the actual census.

All this is about is an attempt to protect illegal aliens and to get more money for California by inflating actual population (illegals should never count). Regardless, California will waste a lot of money on this frivolous lawsuit.

If only they cared as much about federal law when it comes to illegal aliens. Here’s the Commerce Department press release on the census.

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It Begins: NY Times Pushes Piece Calling For Repeal Of 2nd Amendment

By William Teach March 27, 2018 – 6:55 am

The NY Times has given retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stephens, a Nixon appointee who turned more and more left as his time went on, a platform to make the argument, and they even provide a cute graphic showing a musket and a scary looking assault rifle!

John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement school children and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of school children and others in our society.

That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.

So, because people have Feelings, and support banning all private ownership of semiautomatic weapons….wait, they were telling us that it is just “assault weapons” they want to ban. Now it’s all semi-autos? Huh…we should repeal the 2nd? Rather a far jump.

Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.”

Law abiding citizens aren’t against reasonable restrictions: even the NRA is for them. Or, at least were, until Leftists made it quite clear that their intention was to nickle and dime gun ownership to the point were almost no law abiding civilians could own, possess, and carry a firearm, all while being soft on criminals who wouldn’t follow the laws. And an op-ed like this makes it even more clear that the Left’s idea is to disarm all law abiding citizens, removing their ability to protect themselves from criminals and tyrannical government.

In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger’s and others’ long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment’s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters.

That decision — which I remain convinced was wrong and certainly was debatable — has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power. Overturning that decision via a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple and would do more to weaken the N.R.A.’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option.

Go for it. Give it a shot. I think all Democrats should trot out the repeal of the 2nd as a major campaign theme. Let’s see how far that gets you.

BTW, I bet these leftist bed wetters would get Very Upset if we all openly walked around carrying muskets and pistols from that era.

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Democratic Sheriff Candidate Suggests Literally Prying Guns Out Of People’s Dead Hands

By William Teach March 26, 2018 – 3:31 pm

There’s no doubt that R. Daryl Fisher, a candidate for Buncombe County sheriff, and a Democrat, has a lot of experience as a law enforcement officer. But, then there’s this

https://twitter.com/RealRedElephant/status/977667911811719169

Any weapon that is designed for use by the military I think we should ban. You’ve heard people say you have to pry my gun from my cold dead hands. (shrugs) OK.

Video also available at Pacific Pundit.

He’s attempted to counter this with two posts, here and here, the latter being the big one, and has even told people discussing this in the Facebook comments to watch the whole video.

The video he ended up removing from his Facebook page. So brave!

And, in the latter one, we find this typical “oh, shit, I got caught” line

If you want to know what my statements were, listen to all of the videos in their entirety. There is one statement that many up to now have taken offense to. That statement starts out with language similar to, “Don’t believe the scare tactics,” and I say that some gun enthusiast might say, “You will have to pry my gun from my cold dead hands.” This is also a movie quote. The crowd laughed and I made a joke. I admit the joke was a mistake and I should not have joked. But I go on to relay that the government cannot take away any guns or any items that were legally sold before any new laws take effect. To do this would be unconstitutional because that would constitute what is called an ex post facto law. Responsible gun owners have nothing to worry about. We have to do something different because what has been done is not working.

Just a joke, people!

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 26, 2018 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on what the March For Life reminds him of.

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Good News: We Can Stop Global Warming By Seasoning The Atmosphere Like A Fine Steak

By William Teach March 26, 2018 – 10:49 am

Remember, though, you should have that steak, because it is Bad for ‘climate change’

From the link

Faced with a planet that is on average 1.2C hotter than it was before the industrial revolution, scientists have been nothing if not ingenious.

Ideas for slowing the pace of global warming include filling the oceans with iron filings, flying a giant mirror into space and lofting ice-spraying gondolas into the stratosphere on balloons.

The latest notion, proposed at a scientific conference in Texas, would involve dusting the atmosphere 11 miles above the Earth’s surface with a fine layer of table salt.

What could possibly go wrong?

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NY Times Unintentionally Exposes The Astroturfing Of The March For Taking People’s Guns Away

By William Teach March 26, 2018 – 7:38 am

It never was really hard to figure out what the March For Life really wanted: restrictive gun control used against law abiding citizens, versus getting tough on criminals who use guns, the people who shouldn’t have guns because of criminal backgrounds and issues that make others a danger to others/themselves, as well as fixing the problems that occurred due to government problems as we saw with the local police, sheriff’s department, school, and FBI in the Parkland shooting case

In Gun Control Marches, Students Led but Adults Provided Key Resources

They were rallies that would not have happened without the fervor of the students: teenage survivors of last month’s massacre in Parkland, Fla., frightened high schoolers in the Midwest, unnerved university students in the Northeast.

But the March for Our Lives demonstrations that unfolded on Saturday, from Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to the streets of Salt Lake City to a small town in north Georgia, ultimately represented twin triumphs: of organic, youthful grass-roots energy, and of sophisticated, experienced organizational muscle.

Although the events, which together drew hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across the country, were inspired and often led by students, many protests simultaneously benefited from groups with more financial resources and organizational skills than the teenagers had on their own.

“We definitely teamed up,” said Madison Knoop, 18, who organized a rally of 2,500 in Montpelier, Vt., with the support of groups dominated by adults. “They were so helpful for the entire process.”

Of course, the NY Times’ Jess Bidgood, Alan Blinder, and Vivian Wang attempt to explain all this astroturfing away, then shooting the explaining away down

Skeptics of the marches seized on the roles of major interest groups, suggesting that the students were unwitting participants in political warfare that should be reserved for adults. But organizers and supporters of Saturday’s events have done little to disguise that millions of dollars and thousands of hours were directed toward the weekend’s protests.

Then there’s this

Everytown for Gun Safety, which was founded and financed by Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York mayor, proudly declared that it had doled out more than $1 million in grants to local organizers. A nonprofit led by former Representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, arranged for more than 200 people from the Parkland area to attend Saturday’s march in Washington, and said it had worked with the owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, to use the N.F.L. franchise’s plane to bring some people to the capital.

Not really mentioned in the article is the sure notion that the left wing teachers in their schools were placing gun grabber thoughts in their heads, telling them to use their 1st Amendment Rights to get rid of their 2nd Amendment Rights, the very ones which help protect the 1st, 4th, 5th, and most of the others from government tyranny.

“The kids did everything,” said Jenn Hoadley, 36, who helped students organize a march in Anchorage. “All I did was say, ‘You want a stage? Cool. I’ll find one for you. You need a sound system? Cool. I’ll find one for you. You want to march in the park? I do paperwork to help you get that done.’ They planned it all, and they should be given credit for that.”

So, the kids did everything except for most of the stuff. Who booked the buses? Who payed for them? Drove them?

Certainly, some of the older “kids”, including those in college, did stuff. We can’t completely short-change them. But, most seemed directed by the big leftist groups

Ms. Knoop said Women’s March officials shared their organizing skills and spreadsheets with contact information for politicians, media outlets and other organizations that might want to help out. Ms. Knoop applied for a permit to hold a rally on the steps of the gold-topped, Greek Revival State House in Montpelier and said a group called the Peace & Justice Center handled the liability insurance. And Ms. Knoop worked with Gun Sense Vermont, which advocates tighter gun laws in the state. The group also helped with planning and managed the event’s finances, including one of the grants Everytown issued.

“They handled the finances, any donations we got, they were paying for everything, which was really, really helpful,” Ms. Knoop said.

Oh, good, they were taking direction from a group that is big on gun grabbing (rather than letting women have firearms to protect themselves) as well as being heavily anti-Semitic.

Anyone who wants to give up their Constitutionally guaranteed Rights to government voluntarily is a dumbass. Period.

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