Court Upholds Majority Of Texas’ Anti-Sanctuary Jurisdiction Law

By William Teach March 14, 2018 – 8:12 am

At least while the lawsuits play out

(Texas Tribune) A panel of three U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges ruled Tuesday that most of the state’s immigration enforcement legislation, Senate Bill 4, can remain in effect while the case plays out, handing a victory to Gov. Greg Abbott and Republican supporters of the law.

As passed, Senate Bill 4 allows local law enforcement officers to question the immigration status of people they detain or arrest and punishes local government department heads and elected officials who don’t cooperate with federal immigration “detainers” — requests by agents to turn over immigrants subject to possible deportation — in the form of jail time and penalties that exceed $25,000.

The one part of SB 4 that is still on hold is a provision that punishes local officials from “adopting, enforcing or endorsing” policies that specifically prohibit or limit enforcement of immigration laws. The judges kept that injunction in place, but said it only applies to the word “endorse.” The bill, as passed and signed, would have made elected and appointed officials subject to a fine, jail time and possible removal from office for violating all or parts of the legislation.

So, any who adopt or enforce sanctuary jurisdiction policies can be punished. This has give the ACLU, who was suing, a big sad, because they very much like to protect people who are unlawfully present above lawful U.S. citizens

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, which represents some of the plaintiffs in the SB 4 case, said it was considering how to move forward.

“The court made clear that we remain free to challenge the manner in which the law is implemented, so we will be monitoring the situation on the ground closely,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

You do that, chumps

The law, one of the most controversial in recent Texas Legislature history…

It’s only controversial to Leftists, who support illegal aliens and illegal immigration. The rest of us find it to be a common sense law protecting Americans over illegals.

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NY Times: We Should Let Generation Tide Pod Lead On Gun Control Or Something

By William Teach March 14, 2018 – 8:02 am

Every teenager thinks they Know It All. I bet you thought that when you were in high school and college. I bet I did too. And, we all did dumb stuff when we were young. And every adult generation made fun of the dumb stuff kids did. But, I don’t remember my generation doing things like eating Tide Pods to the point where the detergent had to be put in locked boxes. We also weren’t as touchy and Offended by everything. We lived by the rule “sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.” So, yeah, let’s totally let people who earned the moniker “special snowflakes” lead

Editorial: America Has Failed Its Kids on Guns. It’s Time to Let Them Lead.

Adults are supposed to take care of children — not only keep them safe, but make them feel safe. Schools are essentially an extension of the home, in that sense, providing sanctuaries of learning, of nurturing and care. But after years of attacks by people with weapons of war, students cannot feel safe and are demanding that adults end years of complaisance and act. They are not asking for their schools to become armed garrisons. Rather, they want those weapons to be brought under control. And unlike too many adults, the young people leading Wednesday’s walkout at schools around the country — inspired by angry, motivated students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed by a former student with an assault weapon — have had the courage to take on the industry responsible for blocking every reasonable measure to limit access to guns, including those that make it all too easy to commit mass murder.

As Stoneman Douglas junior Florence Yared said in front of the Florida State Capitol late last month, “You adults have failed us by not creating a safer place for your children to go to school. So we, the next generation, will not fail our own kids. We will make this change happen. If not today, then tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, next year. Take it from us. You created a mess for us, but we will make this world safer for our children.”

So, if memory serves, it was a complete and utter failure of the process, of people who work for government at the local, county, and federal levels not doing their jobs. Heck, even their radios failed. That’s what the kids should be upset about. Instead, it looks like they are in gun banning/grabbing mode, which is surely being pushed by adults.

With Wednesday’s demonstration, and their March for Our Lives movement on March 24 in Washington, young voices are being heard. How will the nation’s adults respond? Hopefully, by amplifying their demand: Never again.

Following that are all sorts of quotes from these worldly Tide Pods eaters (OK, they don’t all do that. Many just take a gazillion selfies and videos of themselves involved in inappropriate, risque, and stupid behavior), but, hey, if the NY Times Editorial Board is totally behind safety, why are they not concerned with children walking out of school? Shouldn’t adults be stopping them? Those adults are charged with safeguarding and watching these children during specific hours of the day.

“We may be young but our voices are louder than you can imagine.”

Screaming babies are loud, too. Kids denied their cookie can get pretty loud. I don’t take advice from people who spend more time on social justice idiocy than STEM, history, and real world subjects, and think that there are more than two genders. But, what this all is is the NYTEB using kids as human shields to attempt to get their gun grabbing rules and laws passed.

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Say, Should ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Be Called Murder?

By William Teach March 13, 2018 – 3:40 pm

On the heels of Schwarzenegger idiocy, the Washington Post’s unhinged Tom Toles takes his own stab

Should climate change be called murder? What do you call knowingly killing people?

This seems like as good a time as any to shift the climate argument from the debate club to criminal court, and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger intends to do just that.

“I don’t think there’s any difference: If you walk into a room and you know you’re going to kill someone, it’s first-degree murder; I think it’s the same thing with the oil companies.”

Murder. Yes, it’s about time somebody started to use language that captures the actual effect of deliberately delaying the transition to carbon-free fuel. Will people really die as a result of climate change? They already have, from the amplification of the power of storms, to more intense drought, wildfires and flooding. The World Health Organization estimates that between 2030 and 2050, 250,000 people will die from climate change. EVERY YEAR. From malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress.

So, um, when will Tom Toles demand that Washington Post stop using fossil fuels and killing trees for their operations?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 13, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plane which spews atmosphere cancer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post on Hillary’s opinion and $7.50 getting her a latte’ at Starbucks.

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Climahypocrite Schwarzenegger Plans To Sue Big Oil Or Something

By William Teach March 13, 2018 – 10:21 am

What’s that old saying? “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a climahypocrite than to speak and remove all doubt”

(Politico) Arnold Schwarzenegger’s next mission: taking oil companies to court “for knowingly killing people all over the world.”

The former California governor and global environmental activist announced the move Sunday at a live recording of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast here at the SXSW festival, revealing that he’s in talks with several private law firms and preparing a public push around the effort.

“This is no different from the smoking issue. The tobacco industry knew for years and years and years and decades, that smoking would kill people, would harm people and create cancer, and were hiding that fact from the people and denied it. Then eventually they were taken to court and had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars because of that,” Schwarzenegger said. “The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people’s lives, that it would kill.”

Schwarzenegger said he’s still working on a timeline for filing, but the news comes as he prepares to help host a major environmental conference in May in Vienna.

“We’re going to go after them, and we’re going to be in there like an Alabama tick. Because to me it’s absolutely irresponsible to know that your product is killing people and not have a warning label on it, like tobacco,” he said. “Every gas station on it, every car should have a warning label on it, every product that has fossil fuels should have a warning label on it.”

Uh huh

https://twitter.com/jerome_corsi/status/973278937097949184

https://twitter.com/HousatonicITS/status/973410282042216448

And there will be another Terminator movie with Arnold. I wonder what the carbon footprint is in making a major movie?

He argues that at the very least, this would raise awareness about fossil fuels and encourage people to look to alternative fuels and clean cars.

He added, “I don’t think there’s any difference: If you walk into a room and you know you’re going to kill someone, it’s first degree murder; I think it’s the same thing with the oil companies.”

Schwarzenegger was at SXSW for an extensive discussion of lessons he learned in his seven years as governor

Will he sue himself for first degree murder? Because you can bet he used fossil fuels to travel to Austin, Tx, where SXSW was held.

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NPR: Gun Rights Advocates Are Unhappy With Trump For Pushing Red-flag Laws Or Something

By William Teach March 13, 2018 – 8:38 am

NPR host Ari Shaprio held a round table with a few people, including gun grabber Senator Richard Blumenthal (Dem), into the subject of red-flag laws

(NPR) ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We begin this hour with a look at President Trump’s first formal policy response to last month’s deadly shooting in Parkland, Fla. He’s created a new commission to make recommendations on school safety. We’ll hear more about that in a moment. He’s also endorsed federal legislation to improve background checks, and he’s renewed his call for letting teachers carry guns and act as volunteer marshals. Gun control advocates generally have slammed the president’s plan, but they do like one piece of it – a push for so-called red-flag protection orders. NPR’s Scott Horsley has details.

SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Red-flag orders allow police to temporarily take guns away from people who’ve been found by a judge to pose a threat to themselves or others. Connecticut adopted the nation’s first such law nearly two decades ago. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal says it’s worked.

RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: The Connecticut experience over the last nearly 20 years has been that these extreme-risk protection orders or red flag really save lives.

HORSLEY: So far, only a handful of states have followed Connecticut’s example – California, Oregon, Washington, Indiana. Florida passed its own red-flag law last week. Now President Trump is urging every state to do so. Kristin Brown of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says without such laws, police are often powerless to stop a would-be killer like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

KRISTIN BROWN: It’s really a slap in the face – the idea that there were so many signs associated with this individual that should’ve meant that he was not able to possess or purchase firearms.

Um, the thing is, there was zero need for these red-flag protection order laws in the case of nutjobs Nikolas Cruz. There were more than enough things going on that he should have been picked up in the first place, that he should have been denied all gun permits through the NICS background check system.

HORSLEY: Red-flag laws are still controversial, though, with some gun rights advocates.

DUDLEY BROWN: Well, we call it gun-confiscation orders because it’s largely confiscating firearms for people without due process.

HORSLEY: Dudley Brown heads the group Gun Owners of America. People whose guns are taken away do have an opportunity under red-flag laws to challenge the move in court, but Brown insists that should happen before their guns are seized, not after.

BROWN: Otherwise, a family member whose angry at a uncle or ex-boyfriend or something can go to a court and have someone stripped of a constitutional right without ever even knowing it. And we think that’s fraught with danger.

HORSLEY: The NRA did not respond to requests for comment today, but in the past, it’s opposed these laws. Still, some prominent Republicans, including the president, are now speaking out in support of red-flag legislation. Researcher Jeffrey Swanson says that makes sense.

And therein lies the problem: the guns are seized before anyone is allowed to make their case in court. Due Process, as written in the 5th and 14th Amendments, is turned on its head. And they essentially make people guilty until proven innocent. And they can, as mentioned, easily be used to for wrong purposes. And seriously abused. What if government doesn’t like your stance on something? Think that can’t happen? Give government officials a chance with their over-blown sense of power.

Can they be beneficial in stopping threats? Sure. But, we already have plenty of laws where it’s not the guns taken, but the person detained. At that point, a court hearing can occur, and a judge can require that all firearms be taken for a period.

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Colorado Sheriff’s Office Totally Investigating Why ICE Was Alerted An Hour After Illegal Alien Released From Jail

By William Teach March 13, 2018 – 8:15 am

We already know that the Denver Sheriff’s Department refused to honor an ICE detainer on an illegal alien charged with vehicular homicide, which is nothing new, as Denver is a sanctuary jurisdiction. Now we learn

(Coloradoan) The Denver Sheriff’s Department has said it is investigating why immigration authorities weren’t notified of the release of a jail inmate until about an hour after he had already left.

Ivan Zamarripa-Castaneda of Mexico, 26, is charged with vehicular homicide in a hit-and-run crash that killed truck driver John Anderson, 57, on Interstate 70 on March 3. He was released from Denver’s jail at 5:28 p.m. Saturday after posting $25,000 bond but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified until 6:33 p.m., the sheriff’s department said.

“This is unacceptable and the Sheriff has ordered an immediate internal review to determine why established notification processes did not take place before Zamarripa-Castaneda was released,” the department said Sunday in a statement.

In a statement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Denver Field Office Director Jeffrey D. Lynch said the agency was notified Saturday that Zamarripa-Castaneda would be released at an unspecified time.

He said deportation officers arrived at the jail less than two hours later to take him into custody and discovered he had already been released. The agency now considers Zamarripa-Castaneda an “immigration fugitive.”

What this actually looks likes is some butt covering by the DSD, along with playing some games since this issue had been in the news prior to this accused killer and illegal alien being released. Ivan is gone. We all know it. The chance of him showing up for his April 2 court date approaches zero.

One thing I will say yet again is that ICE should start using warrants signed off by a judge in these sanctuary jurisdictions. They should have a few judges whose job it is to simply sign warrants. Let’s see what these sanctuary jurisdictions do then.

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‘Climate Change’ Needs Better Storytelling Or Something

By William Teach March 12, 2018 – 5:11 pm

Right. This is what they need

From the link

SINGAPORE: The story about climate change arguably got its first big public hit more than ten years ago with Al Gore’s documentary about global warming An Inconvenient Truth.

But maintaining public attention and keeping the heat on climate change action have been tough.

Well, when you’re holding up a movie riddled with lies and errors, along with failed prognostications, this is what you get.

People need to be excited and inspired to take action and change their behaviour, he added.

Why should they, when their Warmist betters not only refuse to do the same, but tend to have much higher carbon footprints than your average Warmist?

EXTREME WEATHER IN EARLY JANUARY

The start of 2018 has been marked by extreme weather with widespread impact on public safety, transport, energy and health around the world.

A major winter storm hit the United States Atlantic coast in early January, battering coastal areas with heavy snow, blizzards and strong winds and a drop in temperatures. (snip)

Flash floods, strong winds and hailstones in Singapore coupled with a bout of freakish cool weather, the longest cold spell experienced here in at least a decade showed we were not immune. (snip)

These extreme weather events were both signals of a dangerous, human-made shift in Earth’s climate as much as they were a natural stretch of bad luck.

First, who would have imagined that winter weather would occur in winter (there’s bit in the article about gasp summer weather occurring in summer in the Southern Hemisphere). That’s unheard of, right?

Second, these people are actually attempting to blame significant cold, such as the longest cold spell in at least a decade, on greenhouse gasses. It’s an unscientific cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 12, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a carbon pollution sea rising up, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on yet another wonderful undocumented person.

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An Early Spring Is A Dark ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Warning Or Something

By William Teach March 12, 2018 – 10:56 am

There’s an old term for when it gets really warm during the fall or winter: Indian summer. Because weather things happen. But, in Warmist World, this is doom

The Dark Warning of an Early Spring

(Margaret Renkl starts out with a bit about the recent warmth, and birds waking her up with singing, which is totally horrible)

Winter was brutal this year, highs in the teens day after day after day, torrential rains whenever the mercury rose into a more normal range for Middle Tennessee. A polar vortex prompted the president of the United States, who apparently does not know the difference between climate and weather, to tweet, “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!”

In this context, even a person who knows the difference between climate and weather might be forgiven for welcoming a warm day in February — a gorgeous day when birds are singing and little creatures are stirring in the brush, and all the sleeping turtles have crawled out of the deep mud at the bottom of the lake and lumbered onto the slick trunks of fallen trees. I paused to study them sunning themselves, all lined up in a row like prehistoric rosary beads.

But, doom is coming

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest,” Hemingway famously wrote in “A Movable Feast.”

But this, it turns out, was not a false spring. This was actual spring arriving very early.

The symptoms of climate change are well known, and its risks to some of our favorite creatures — tigers, sea turtles, elephants, giant pandas, mountain gorillas, monarch butterflies — are equally clear, though it’s easy to forget that in the comings and goings of our own daily lives. In December a National Geographic video of a starving polar bear went viral as people faced at a gut level the undeniable consequences of a phenomenon that can sometimes seem mainly theoretical.

Yeah, apparently spring wasn’t arriving, it was just a bit a warm up, which happens. But, not in Warmist World, where everything that happens is The Worst Ever, and a Harbinger Of Annihilation.

And if spring arrives earlier than expected in the Northern Hemisphere, migrating birds will show up, right on schedule, to find their typical food sources vanished, with terrible implications for the survival of their young.

We could fix this all with a tax, you know. And giving up most of your freedom to Big Government.

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