McCain, Coons, Set To Release Amnesty Plan

By William Teach February 5, 2018 – 6:46 am

You never know what you’ll get with John McCain. One day he’s an immigration hawk, such as when he was running for President or Senate re-election in 2010 (when he said to “complete the danged fence” across Arizona), the next he’s pushing for amnesty for illegal aliens with no offsetting border security. This is the latter

(The Hill) Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Christopher Coons (D-Del.) will introduce immigration legislation on Monday in an effort to reach a budget deal before the federal government’s current funding runs out on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported. (it’s behind the paywall)

The bipartisan piece of legislation provides recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, commonly known as “Dreamers,” an opportunity for citizenship while ordering a study to figure out what border security measures are needed, according to the Journal.

DACA aimed to protect from deportation certain immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally when they were children.

Senate aides told the Journal that the plan would provide people who have resided in the U.S. since Dec. 31, 2013, with legal status and a path to citizenship.

There is no funding for the border wall. There are no changes to chain migration or anything else. This is a plan to quickly give un-earned citizenship to people who are illegally present in the United States, with a promise “wink wink” to take a look at what might be needed for border security. As if we didn’t already know. This is a Democrat plan: they get all the benefits, while nothing will be done to deal with border security and stopping illegal immigration.

And, many thought Trump’s idea with 1.8 million illegals was bad? Supposedly, this McCain/Coons plan will legalize even more.

It’ll be DOA, but, the media will discuss it a lot as “bipartisan” and something that we “really need to do.” Just watch.

Update: Team Trump is already saying “no”, and of course CNN is calling this bipartisan

The White House is dismissing an immigration deal brokered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers as a non-starter just hours before it is expected to be formally introduced in the Senate. (snip)

A White House official rebuffed the effort, telling CNN that it takes “a lot of effort” to write up a bill worse than the Graham-Durbin immigration bill, but somehow “this one is worse.”

Trump tweeted about the latest immigration efforts Monday, writing, “Any deal on DACA that does not include STRONG border security and the desperately needed WALL is a total waste of time. March 5th is rapidly approaching and the Dems seem not to care about DACA. Make a deal!”

Just put it in the shredder.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 4, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from atmosphere cancer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Way, with a post saying good morning.

It’s ladies of summer week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 4, 2018 – 9:14 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America, which will be even more gorgeous if the Eagles lose to the Patriots today. Not that I love the Patriots, I couldn’t care about them one way or the other. But, as a Giants fan, I despise the Eagles, of course. Anyhow, this pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Weasel Zippers notes Best Buy giving bonuses due to the tax cuts
  2. This ain’t Hell… notes the Democrats saying a former military man isn’t Democratic enough
  3. The Right Scoop covers Canada changing its nation anthem to be less masculine
  4. The Lid discusses what happens when Trump raised tariffs
  5. The First Street Journal covers what’s happened to Sally Yates
  6. The Daley Gator discusses kidnappings and illegal immigration
  7. Raised On Hoecakes notes the IRS evading oversight
  8. Powerline covers Politifact exposed
  9. Pacific Pundit notes that all 2016 FISA requests were signed of by Loretta Lynch
  10. Moonbattery discusses Islamized Germany from the inside
  11. Legal Insurrection covers auto makers trapped in the middle
  12. Jihad Watch notes how the police have to protect police stations in Sweden
  13. Five Feet of Fury has the Pocahontas Effect
  14. Doug Ross @ Journal covers American Coup
  15. And last, but not least,  Creeping Sharia notes the terrorists let in by chain migration, visa lottery scams

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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Imaginary FBI Employees Have Anger, Worry, And Fears Of Lasting Damage

By William Teach February 4, 2018 – 7:51 am

The Washington Post’s Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett have written another fantasy story, chock full of anonymous sources and unnamed people, which is leading the Sunday edition on both the web and dead tree versions on the top of the front page

Inside the FBI: Anger, worry, work — and fears of lasting damage

In the 109 years of the FBI’s existence, it has repeatedly come under fire for abuses of power, privacy or civil rights. From Red Scares to recording and threatening to expose the private conduct of Martin Luther King Jr.to benefiting from bulk surveillance in the digital age, the FBI is accustomed to intense criticism.

What is so unusual about the current moment, say current and former law enforcement officials, is the source of the attacks.

The bureau is under fire not from those on the left but rather conservatives who have long been the agency’s biggest supporters, as well as the president who handpicked the FBI’s leader.

Republican critics charge that the birth of the investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and agents of the Russian government was fatally infected by the political bias of senior FBI officials — and President Trump tweeted Saturday that the release of a memo on the issue “totally vindicates ‘Trump.’ ”

Bureau officials say the accusations in the document produced by House Republicans are inaccurate and — more damaging in the long term — corrode the agency’s ability to remain independent and do its job.

One law enforcement official summed it up bluntly: “There’s a lot of anger. The irony is it’s a conservative-leaning organization, and it’s being trashed by conservatives. At first it was just perplexing. Now there’s anger, because it’s not going away.”

It continues on in this manner, only quoting big shots like Christopher Wray and James Comey, and not in direct relation to the article.

If there’s any anger in the FBI, it’s surely by career FBI agents who know that the people Republicans and President Trump are referring to are those who have damaged the FBI’s reputation. Those upper level employees who turned the FBI into a political arm of Team Obama and Team Hillary. You’d be angry too if your fellow employees were doing things that made your company look really, really bad. That made it hard for people to trust. Especially in light of the knowledge that several other federal agencies, notably the IRS and DOJ had also been weaponized to go after the political enemies of the President while protecting the allies of the President.

FBI employees know that justice should be blind. That there should be no partisan politics involved in uphold The Law. And know that the opposite happened in their agency. And they surely fear the results of this, that happened under the watch of Barack Obama.

The public attacks from the president have diminished morale inside the FBI, according to current and former officials. Among themselves, senior officials and rank and file frequently debate the best way forward. Several law enforcement officials said they agreed with Wray’s low-key approach, as a means of what one called “getting back to Mueller’s FBI.”

Again, assuming these people are real, those who are just doing their job as it is meant to be done know the attacks aren’t on them, and surely prefer that those issues be resolved. They know the attacks have merit, but do not involve them.

Oh, and BTW, considering that Leftists like those at the Washington Post are constantly attacking American citizens and companies, often for just being rich, they should shut the hell up about attacks on people in a federal agency which weaponized itself as a political attack dog.

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Turned On Comment Likes – And Off

By William Teach February 3, 2018 – 5:07 pm

There’s a new feature in Jetpack which allows comment likes. Not sure if I’ll keep it active or not, as this could take up storage, but, let’s see if people like it and if it brings value for a couple of days.

2/4 Was messing with the server for uploads. Turned off

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Doom: Hotcoldwetdry Could Be Maybe Possibly Poisoning Be Your Food

By William Teach February 3, 2018 – 3:17 pm

Another day, another scary fable from the Cult

Climate change could be poisoning your food

The old adage about not eating oysters in months that contain the letter “R” may have to be updated.

Two foodborne pathogens — Vibrio and Cryptosporidium — are becoming more prevalent as a result of climate change, according to a report from Nutrition Action Healthletter, the flagship publication of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy nonprofit. (Snip)

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Typically, Vibrio becomes more common in the summer months between May and October, and health experts generally recommend avoiding raw shellfish during those times.

But because the bacteria are so sensitive to temperature changes in water, they’ve been spreading further north and increasing in prevalence over the last 50 years.

There’s zero scientific proof that this is your fault, but, we’ll blame you anyhow. And we can solve this with a tax, you know.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 3, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded from too much carbon pollution atmosphere cancer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on the Yoga Industrial Complex.

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Illegal Alien Teachers Are Girding For The Worst Or Something

By William Teach February 3, 2018 – 10:30 am

Apparently, they’re just doing the jobs that Americans won’t do

With DACA in Limbo, Teachers Protected by the Program Gird for the Worst

Karen Reyes spends her days teaching a group of deaf toddlers at Lucy Read Pre-Kindergarten School in Austin, Tex., how to understand a world they cannot hear.

For the first time in her four-year teaching career, Ms. Reyes, 29, is at a loss. One of nearly 9,000 educators protected under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, Ms. Reyes has struggled to explain to her students, through sign language and pictures, the uncertainty of her future.

When President Trump rescinded the program in September, he gave Congress until early March to find a replacement before deportations are set to begin for the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children who gave their names to the government and were granted work permits. Ms. Reyes’s teaching days may be numbered — to 119 to be exact.

This brings up a few questions: DACA was only initiated in 2012. How was it possible that an illegal alien made it all the way through college to receive a teaching degree, when it is against federal law for them to be here?

Second, why is it OK that illegal aliens are taking 9,000 jobs away from American citizens?

Educators played a crucial role in helping young unauthorized immigrants realize DACA’s potential. The National Education Association, for instance, held clinics at which it encouraged eligible families to apply for the program, and worked with school districts to declare themselves “safe zones” for undocumented students and their families.

In other words, they were all violating 8 U.S. Code 1324 in sheltering and harboring, protecting, illegal aliens, and placing the welfare of said illegals over that of U.S. citizens and those who are lawfully eligible to be present.

“Every day, educators are being told to forget about the fact that at any given moment the rug will be pulled out of your lives and you may lose your job,” said Lily Eskelsen García, the president of the N.E.A., the nation’s largest labor union. “To see them treated in this despicable way, to see them treated as pawns, is just not fair.”

Why? People who have committed crimes could have that rug pulled out from under them at any time. Law enforcement catches up to people all the time. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. And don’t take jobs away from Americans and then complain that you’re not being treated fairly.

Ms. Reyes resents that she has to prove her worth, beyond her use of her newfound freedom to teach in America’s classrooms.

“There’s so much pressure to be a perfect immigrant,” Ms. Reyes said. “They basically want us to save babies from burning buildings, have a 5.0 GPA and become doctors. But I’m just teaching these tiny humans to be great Americans.”

Cry me a river. And get out. What little sympathy I have for the plight of the Dreamers is going down the drain.

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Say, When Will This Warmist Shut Up About ‘Climate Change’?

By William Teach February 3, 2018 – 7:40 am

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/959409259506274305

Joelle Moses has found a great way to lose friends

I recently woke up at my family’s cabin, hung-over, and got into a car with some friends to embark on our journey home. Somehow, I got talking about climate change.

Although I didn’t expect a complete consensus from my friends, I hoped that they would at least acknowledge what I had said. Instead, I was met with not-so-subtle hints to shut my trap, and complaints that it was ‘too early in the morning to have this type of conversation’.

I wish I could say that this was an isolated incident. I wish I could say that usually, when I bring up this issue, people are keen to learn and talk about it. However, that is not the case.

Although I can understand that my friends may not want to engage in this conversation first thing in the morning, it seems like there is never a time and place that people want to talk about climate change.

Believe me, I don’t always want to talk about it either (yes you do). Acknowledging the realness and the urgency of this issue is terrifying. Understanding the fact that us Westerners are primarily responsible for it is equally unpleasant.

Of course, most people find ‘climate change’ to be a very low ranking issue, and really do not want to be lectured. Despite all the time I spend writing posts about the issue, and commenting at other sites, it isn’t something that comes up very often in Real Life. Because most people really do not care. It’s just a small group of unhinged Progressives who are using the issue to push for taxes, fees, and more and more Governmental control of people, private entities, and economies.

I mean it when I say that I wish that I didn’t have to talk about climate change so much. So then, why do I?

I talk about it because I am genuinely petrified of the future that awaits my generation. I talk about it because I sense that most people around me have not internalised how serious and how immediate this issue really is.

In other words, she’s going to nag the hell out of people, including when she’s taking fossil fueled trips (“got into a car”) with her friends.

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Obligatory Nunes Memo Post

By William Teach February 3, 2018 – 7:26 am

On the surface, the memo doesn’t seem all that bad. But, when you search across the progressive outlets, including the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBC, and so forth, (and blatant lies from MSNBC and blatant lies from CNN) and see the attempts to minimize the impact, you realize that it is worse than you think. Byron York explains it

The House Intelligence Committee has released its controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points:

* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.

* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.

* The four FISA surveillance applications were signed by, in various combinations, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein.

* The FBI authorized payments to Steele for work on the dossier. The FBI terminated its agreement with Steele in late October when it learned, by reading an article in Mother Jones, that Steele was talking to the media.

* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.

* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.

Essentially, the FBI and DOJ relied upon an un-sourced political hitjob document, then used a news media article about the memo to back the document. Michael Isikoff, who wrote that article, was shocked to learn that it was used to get that surveillance warrant.

However, a lot of this is inside baseball, major league level, which allows for Leftist to spin the weaponization of the DOJ/FBI for political purposes.

(Politico) Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) said on Friday that the House intelligence memo on alleged FBI malfeasance showed “clear and convincing evidence of treason” by law enforcement officials, despite lingering concerns in the intelligence community over its credibility. (snip)

“The full-throated adoption of this illegal misconduct and abuse of FISA by James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein is not just criminal but constitutes treason,” Gosar wrote in a statement.

Gosar said he would urge Attorney General Jeff Sessions to seek “criminal prosecution against these traitors to our nation.” Treason under the Constitution is punishable by death.

Perhaps that’s too much, but, it was clearly a 4th Amendment violation, and is just one example of the political weaponization of what should be two neutral agencies, and just adds to the list of what Obama/Holder/Lynch did to turn the DOJ and FBI into political organizations acting on the behalf of the Democratic Party.

(Weekly Standard) Friday’s FISA memo may not be the last.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes says that the panel plans on releasing more memos in the future. His remarks came hours after the committee released a GOP-drafted document alleging politically-motivated surveillance abuses against the Trump team, amid objections from the FBI and Department of Justice.

“This completes just the FISA abuse portion of our investigation,” Nunes told Fox News’ Bret Baier, using an acronym for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “We are in the middle of what I call ‘Phase Two’ of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the State Department and some of the involvement that they had in this.”

He does explain later that it would be done via normal methods, rather than in the unusual (but lawful) method of the FISA warrant memo. In fact, there should be lots of releases. We should get to see the Democrats one, when they’ve removed the sources and methods that it contained. We should see as much of the underlying documents that go to the Nunes memo. We should see a ton of documents on what government was doing. We are supposed to have transparency in government. There was too much secrecy during the Obama years. News outlets used to be all for transparency.

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