All DACA Plans Fail, Leaving Plight Of Dreamers In The Air

By William Teach February 16, 2018 – 7:08 am

Let’s start deporting them and put American citizens first

(NPR) The Senate failed to pass any immigration legislation before a self-imposed Friday deadline, leaving lawmakers with no plan to address the roughly 700,000 immigrants who stand to lose legal protections as early as March 5.

The defeat follows a rocky 24 hours of negotiations on a bipartisan bill that failed following a veto threat from President Trump. By a 39-60 vote, senators rejected a White House-backed plan that became a partisan lightning rod after Trump insisted his plan was the only one he would sign.

It’s rather shocking that only 39 Republicans voted for the plan. I suspect we’ll find that they were all the usual pro-illegal alien squishes like Lindsay Graham. But, what NPR is failing to say is that these were votes to end debate and go to an actual vote on passing the bill, which is the the same with the next one

Republicans abandoned the bipartisan plan following the White House veto threat. That plan, negotiated by a group of roughly 22 Republicans and Democrats, would pair a 12-year path to citizenship for all immigrants eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program with $25 billion in border security spending and limits on which family members the beneficiaries can sponsor for citizenship.

The bill failed 54-45, with all but three Democrats voting in favor. Among those voting against the bill was California Democrat Kamala Harris. A large share of the DACA population lives in California and Harris was under intense pressure from immigrant rights activists to oppose the bill.

It is shocking that 51 Republicans would vote to end debate and move forward with a passage vote for this terrible bill which would have given Democrats eventual citizenship for Dreamers in exchange for a slight possibility that a wall might be built in the future. Also that Democrats mostly blew this bill off. It was the best they were going to get. There’s no chance of a “clean” immigration bill, not even one that simply codifies DACA and never allows them to be permanent residents or citizens.

Tensions were high as senators began to rally around Trump’s demands on Wednesday. A visibly frustrated Grassley vented to reporters that Democrats needed to drop their opposition to the family-related portions of the bill and embrace the only offer Trump has embraced.

“The Democrats have been pleading for months and months and months for justice on this,” Grassley said. “Now you’ve got a compassionate president who has gone way beyond what they ever thought he would do. Why would they turn it down?”

Because 1) they want to keep this going as a wedge issue, and 2) if something is fixed, they want to make sure that more illegals will come into the nation, and push for them to be give free citizenship. Democrats put illegal aliens over U.S. citizens on a constant basis. They want open borders. They do not care about criminals coming into the nation, nor that so many illegals steal the identities of citizens and damage the lives of citizens.

If Democrats are refusing to accept significant requirements from Trump in exchange for significant legalization of Dreamers, then let’s move on. The Dreamers and their parents shouldn’t be here in the first place. If they had snuck into Disney, they’d all be escorted out. They wouldn’t be allowed to stay, and be given food, merchandise, shelter, and free rides.

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So, Of Course The Washington Post Is Calling For The Ban Of “Weapons Of War”

By William Teach February 16, 2018 – 6:49 am

This is all they know how to do. This is what they want to do. Ban “assault weapons”, then move on to banning other weapons and ownership. Because it works well in California and Chicago

Ban these weapons of war

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That the suspected 19-year-old gunman in the Florida shooting was able to legally purchase an AR-15 rifle despite concerns about his mental health, a social media fixation with guns, alleged involvement with a white-nationalist group and boasts about killing animals underscores the complete failure of America’s political class to come to grips — or even to try to come to grips — with gun violence. Said teacher Melissa Falkowski, who sheltered 19 students in a classroom closet during the shooting, “The frustration is that we did everything that we were supposed to do . . . and still to have so many casualties. . . . I feel today like our government, our country has failed us and failed our kids and didn’t keep us safe.”

No question there were several factors contributing to Wednesday’s shooting. The accused shooter is a troubled young man with a history of discipline problems. Those who knew him, as well as people in law enforcement, appear to have responded inadequately to signs of danger.

Sounds more like a problem with the person, not the gun. Oh, and it’s interesting that blame was placed on the people who knew him.

But here is the key fact: This country has no monopoly on troubled young men. We have no monopoly on hate groups. We aren’t the only place where people miss signs of danger in troubled young men. What distinguishes the United States from the developed world is our open market in the weaponry of war — in weapons whose chief purpose and selling point is their obscene ability to kill as many people as possible in the shortest burst of time.

Should we ban six shooters? How about bows and arrows? Knives? Swords? They are all weapons of war. The burst thing is cute, an attempt to make people think that the guns are automatic. Citizens are mostly forbidden from having the types of gun actually used by the military, ones which can shoot more than one bullet with each pull of the trigger.

Is it any surprise that the weapon used in this week’s carnage was the same style of semiautomatic assault rifle that was used with deadly efficiency at a concert in Las Vegas, a Texas church, an Orlando nightclub, a Connecticut elementary school? These weapons designed for combat, accompanied by multiple ammunition magazines, have become the weapons of choice for mass shooters. It is time for a national ban on their sale and possession. Now, before the next set of parents face the unimaginable agony of the phone call that never gets answered.

All weapons are designed for combat. That’s why they’re called “weapons.” The last assault weapons ban did not work. The latest incarnation wouldn’t, either. And people could still get the exact same gun in a separate form. Just because it’s not scary looking doesn’t mean it won’t fire the same bullets at the same rate of fire (one per trigger pull).

Say, maybe if the Washington Post’s buddies in Hollywood and the entertainment industry could stop glorifying the use of assault weapons in gratuitous ways in their movies and tv shows. Oh, and perhaps the Democratic dominated education system could stop destroying morals, start teaching responsibility, stop teaching “if it feels good, do it”, and end the idiocy of teaching kids to take great action when one is Offended.

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Climate (scam) Scientists Have Grim New Warning Or Something

By William Teach February 15, 2018 – 4:34 pm

Don’t they always have some sort of grim new warning? Or grim warning based on talking points that haven’t yet appeared but Totally Will Any Day Now?

Scientists Just Issued a Grim New Warning on Climate Change: ‘We Are Not Prepared’

New research shows that countries around the world are falling short of greenhouse gas goals in the Paris climate deal, and the consequences will likely be unprecedented extreme weather.

Published in the journal Science Advances this week, the study found that the likelihood of extreme heat, dryness and precipitation will increase across as much of 90% of North America, Europe and East Asia if countries do not accelerate their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“We are not prepared for today’s climate, let alone for another degree of global warming,” says study author Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford University professor of earth system science.

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Super New Warmist Idea: Carbon Neutral Mortgage

By William Teach February 15, 2018 – 10:30 am

But, should Warmists actually be buying homes? Perhaps a tiny home (I actually love watching those tiny home shows. The end product is pretty cool), but, say, anything over 700 square feet certainly is a no no.

From the link

While sustainable finance has largely focused on providing financial products and tools to investors and businesses, we’re beginning to see more opportunities arise for consumers to support and shape the development of a more sustainable economy. One example of this is the emergence of the so-called “green” mortgage, a loan product that allows borrowers to reduce their utility bill costs by allowing them to finance the cost of incorporating energy-efficient features into a new housing purchase or the refinancing of existing housing.

Building on this concept, Carbon Credit Capital (CCC) and Residential Home Funding Corp. of America (RHF) have developed and brought to market a new mortgage product that mirrors its generic counterparts save one key difference. The Carbon Neutral Mortgage ensures that the fees borrowers typically pay to banks and underwriters upon closing their loans are instead put towards carbon offset projects to fully mitigate the projected carbon footprint of owning and operating the home, for the life of the loan.

CCC and RHF put together a package of carbon credits for borrowers equal to the estimated amount of carbon emitted by a similarly sized house over the course of one year, and subsequently, the life of the loan. Calculations are based on square footage and state energy data. The Carbon Neutral Mortgage is currently available in New Jersey, and is expected to expand to more states later this year.

You just know that there’s a scam there, and someone is making more money off gullible Warmists.

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In Wake Of Florida School Shooting, Gun Grabbers Immediately Call For Grabbing Guns

By William Teach February 15, 2018 – 8:55 am

The bodies of the the kids and adults murdered (murder is illegal) at a school in Parkland, Florida weren’t even cool when the Usual Suspects started clamoring for gun control. NBA coach Steve Kerr (who is protected by armed security) had a meltdown. Chelsea Handler (also protected by armed security on-set) railed against the NRA. All sorts of elected Democrats immediately went on Twitter to say we need to Do Something and grab guns. Even a sports reporter got in on the act. Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla) has been repeating the talking point that automatic assault rifles need to be banned (they actually are, and it seems the guns used by Nikolas Cruz were semi-auto)

And then there was the Sun Sentinel, a paper out of Florida’s Broward County covering South Florida news. Parkland is in Broward County, and the Editorial Board immediately jumped to gun grabbing rather than sympathy

Heartbreak of Parkland school shooting must bring action | Editorial

Students hiding in classrooms. Police officers surrounding a school with guns drawn. Parents racing to the scene, fearing the worst.

The national epidemic of mass shootings came home to South Florida on Wednesday afternoon, when shots rang out at a high school in Parkland.

This time, the heartbreaking images of children on stretchers and others scurried to safety with arms raised were broadcast from a community we know.

The wailing ambulance sirens and flashing police lights headed toward a school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we trusted as a safe place to send our children.

Many are recommending that schools have armed security, that some teachers be allowed to be armed. Instead of keeping schools as gun free zones, otherwise known as easy targets of opportunity.

Protecting gun lovers’ ability to buy assault-style rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines proved to be more convincing than the rising number of dead students.

Even requiring tougher background checks for people trying to buy guns wasn’t considered a political fight worth facing for elected leaders unwilling to defy the wishes of the National Rifle Association.

Outside of schools, the 2016 killing of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando wasn’t enough of a body county to prompt tougher limits on rapid-fire weapons or high-capacity magazines.

It’s not the fault of “scary looking” guns. The NRA has no problem with background checks. It likes background checks. It doesn’t want guns in the hands of those who shouldn’t have it. Interestingly, the editorial board blames the guns, rather than the religions, namely, hardcore, gay hating Islam, responsible for the Pulse shooting. Which, BTW, was against the law, just like the shootings at Parkland. Strange how criminals refuse to follow the law, eh?

Amid the despair, we can also expect to be uplifted by stories from survivors of heroic acts that helped others live through the gunfire.

Then, perhaps most importantly, it will be up to us as a country to decide whether we will take action ourselves.

Take action to finally stop these mass shootings from becoming so routine that we sometimes just change the channel when reports of more deaths come from yet another town.

It’s not “politicizing” someone’s death to do something to try to prevent even more deaths.

OK, what are their ideas? Because it seems that the gun grabber ideas are always aimed at the law abiding citizens, rather than the criminals.

Maybe we could pass a law where it’s illegal to shoot people in a murderous manner.

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Squishy Senators Reach Bipartisan Agreement On Amnesty Bill

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

In essence, this is almost the same as the Gang Of Eight amnesty bill, in that “Dreamers” are given a pathway to citizenship in exchange for almost nothing when it comes to border security. Thanks, squishy Republicans

Senators Strike Bipartisan Deal on Immigration Despite Veto Threat

A broad bipartisan group of senators reached agreement Wednesday on a narrow rewrite of the nation’s immigration laws that would bolster border security and resolve the fate of the so-called Dreamers, even as President Trump suggested he would veto any plan that does not adhere to his harder-line approach.

Their compromise legislation sets up a clash pitting the political center of the Senate against Mr. Trump and the Republican congressional leadership.

Senators in both parties have been racing against a self-imposed end-of-the-week deadline to write legislation that could win wide support by increasing border security while at the same time offering a path to citizenship for young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.

Members of the bipartisan group, which calls itself the Common Sense Coalition, said their deal does just that. They were working Wednesday evening to determine whether their bill could garner the 60 votes necessary to break a filibuster.

As you can imagine, Lindsay Graham is involved.

The bipartisan measure, sponsored by eight Democrats, eight Republicans and one independent, would appropriate $25 billion for border security, including construction of the president’s proposed wall at the Mexican border, over a 10-year period — not immediately, as Mr. Trump demands.

It would also offer an eventual path to citizenship, over 10 to 12 years, for 1.8 million of the young undocumented immigrants, but would preclude them from sponsoring their parents to become citizens. It would make no changes to the diversity visa lottery system, which Mr. Trump wants to end.

According to Marco Rubio, it could end up being way more than 1.8 million, since the cut off date was moved from 2007 to 2012. Regardless, the money for the border wall would be doled out slowly, meaning that it would never really get built. Nothing will happen to the parents who committed the “sin” of bringing the kids illegally, except they can’t get citizenship.

The proof will be in the details, which are rather light at this time. You’re finding the same info at Fox News and The Washington Post, as well all the other outlets. What will be the exact terms of amnesty for the Dreamers? Will it really take 10-12 years? Are there any measures that will knock them out, such as criminal activity, in the same way that people doing it the right way to gain citizenship had to follow?

At the end of the day, this benefits the Democrats and gives nothing to Republicans. And Trump has stated that he won’t sign a bill like this, which most likely wouldn’t pass the House even if it managed to pass the Senate. So, what’s the point? To show citizens that Republicans are as squishy on protecting the nation from foreign invaders as the Democrats?

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To The Surprise Of No One, Warmists Make Valentine’s Day About ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach February 14, 2018 – 4:35 pm

No matter what the holiday or event, the Cult of Climastrology will find a way to interject itself. Here’s loopy Pam Wright at the Weather Channel

Valentine’s Day Bummer: Climate Change Expected to Significantly Impact Chocolate, Champagne Production

There’s some bad news on the horizon for Valentine’s Day: Scientists say global warming and changing weather patterns are expected to significantly impact two staples of the holiday, chocolate and champagne.

For those who may be unaware, champagne comes from the Champagne region in northeastern France. Only sparkling wines that hail from this region are permitted to be called champagne. It’s the same for wines like Bordeaux that come from, well, Bordeaux, or Beaujolais, which comes from … well, you can probably guess.

And here’s one that merges Hotcoldwetdry with VDay and a real environmental concern

‘Endangered Species Condoms’ to be distributed for Valentine’s Day

Some 40,000 free “Endangered Species Condoms” will be given away across the country by the Center for Biological Diversity on Valentine’s Day to encourage people to consider population growth’s threat to wildlife before getting wild.

The colorful condom packages include species threatened by population growth and slogans like “Wrap with care, save the polar bear” and “When you’re feeling tender, think about the hellbender.”

“The habitat loss, resource depletion and climate change that come with rapid human population growth make it next to impossible for biodiversity to thrive. It’s important to bring population growth back into the environmental conversation,” Baillie said in a press statement. “’Endangered Species Condoms’ make starting that conversation easier, and they’re a more interesting gift than old standbys like flowers and chocolate.”

Some of that stuff is real. AGW isn’t.

How to Be a Vegan Teen Valentine

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Has it ever happened to you that you are stumped for ideas to talk about? Me too! A good conversation is key during a date night or when hanging out with friends, which is why I like to talk about exchanging cool vegan things we found on the internet or saw on YouTube, how our parents are dealing with us being veganism, the environmental benefits of being vegan, and sharing cool recipe ideas we can make together in the kitchen. Talking about taboo vegan topics—such as the impact the dairy and meat industries have on climate change and the ethics of not eating meat for the animals—is important, too, because it helps defend yourself when a non-vegan begins questioning you about veganism and nutrition.

Sigh.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 14, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible carbon pollution clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on school being about signaling, not skill building.

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Denying ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Is A War On Humanity Or Something

By William Teach February 14, 2018 – 10:30 am

The real “war” is those who Believe in AGW yet refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels, washers and dryers, ice makers, plastics, synthetic clothes, don’t only buy local, don’t grow their own food live in anything but a tiny home, etc and so on, making their lives 100% carbon neutral, but, hey, you do you

Climate Change Denial Is a War on Humanity

There was no doubt that America would regress on multiple issues when it elected Donald Trump as its 45th president. While opinion is divided on his intellectual capacity and mental stability, the president himself opines that he is a stable genius. Yet with every action and tweet of his, he does his best to belie the opinion that he is stable, let alone a genius.

The most damaging of Trump’s egregious actions is the appointment of Scott Pruitt as the head of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Prior to assuming the leadership role as its 14th administrator, Pruitt had sued the EPA 14 times as Oklahoma’s attorney general. Time and again, Pruitt has refused to acknowledge the scientific consensus that human activity is a primary contributor to climate change. As attorney general, he had taken the position of a “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.” It is a travesty of justice that Pruitt is now heading the EPA.

OK, we can see this is just another unhinged Leftist diatribe based on feelings. Which continue on and on and on, till

Pulling out of the Paris accord with the excuse that it is a bad deal for America is an arrogant display of misguided nationalism. America is the largest consumer of resources in the world and the second largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. It is only fair and appropriate that in any reduction of excesses America leads the way by doing more than its share in the international community, not walk away from it.

The actions of the Trump administration in rolling back environmental regulations, pandering to business interests with flimsy excuses and shortsighted economic growth, is a brazen attack on humanity, not just Americans. It is a sad irony that the perpetrators will be long gone when the consequences of their actions are faced by the future generations.

If only Pruitt and Trump would reflect on this poignant Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote that “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — that is to have succeeded.”

Again, is it a crime against humanity to believe in something, and refuse to practice what you preach?

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Good Grief: Special Snowflakes Ban National Anthem As Raaaaacist

By William Teach February 14, 2018 – 8:00 am

This has happened in California, of course

(Washington Times) Student leaders at a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area have decided that the national anthem is racist and outdated and have banned it from school rallies.

According to multiple area news outlets, the Associated Student Body at California High School in San Ramon made that decision based on a phrase in the rarely-played third verse.

“It was brought to our attention that the national anthem’s third verse is outdated and racially offensive,” Ariyana Kermanizadeh wrote in an open letter. “We had nothing but good intentions by removing the song so that we could be fully inclusive to our student body.”

Yeah, the 3rd verse that no one knows and no one ever signs. This is all about virtue signaling and being Offended by all things American, yet, these same snowflakes won’t ever actually leave the U.S.

[Kermanizadeh] noted that “this song was written in 1814. That was written 204 years ago. Imagine all the traditions and laws that have changed … [and] so must our traditions.”

The Right to Free speech was written even longer ago: should we do away with that? Of course, Leftists would actually like to end free speech for people they disagree with.

Reaction ranged from bemusement among other students to disbelief among outsiders.

“It comes from a very disrespectful place,” Amir Udler, a senior at the school, told the Californian, the student newspaper that first broke the story last week. The decision “is disenfranchising the vast majority of the school who loves the country.”

That’s the way it work in Snowflake World, where anything that Offends them must be banned, regardless of whether it ruins it for the majority.

Fox News opinion columnist Todd Starnes asked rhetorically, “Where are the grownups in charge of this public school?” and admonished his listeners to contact the school board.

“The Star Spangled Banner may have survived the bombs bursting in air, but it may not be able to withstand the rampaging mob of politically correct inclusivists,” he wrote.

The grownups at the school are probably afraid of the kids, who would surely lob accusations of racism and sexism and stuff at them if the grownups don’t agree.

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