Pelosi Was Totally Enthused To Speak For Eight Hours On Dreamers

By William Teach February 8, 2018 – 7:30 am

She cares more about illegal aliens than Americans

(CNN) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for a little more than eight hours to oppose the budget deal to lift spending caps and avert a government shutdown — because the plan does not address immigration issues.

The House Historian’s office told CNN that Pelosi’s speech is the longest on record on the House floor, according to their records.

Pelosi started speaking shortly after 10 a.m. ET, and wrapped the speech a little after 6:10 p.m. ET.

“I have had the privilege of reading the testimony from Dreamers, I still have more,” she said, receiving applause in the chamber. “I thank all of you.”

Afterwards she sent this out

Do you know who truly matters? American citizens. People who are here lawfully. People who should be getting the jobs, rather than illegal aliens. People who should be getting money for college, rather than illegal aliens. People who should always come before illegal aliens.

She was apparently “filibustering” a bill she helped craft

Still, some viewed Pelosi’s gambit as window dressing for DACA. After all, Pelosi was purportedly part of the talks with other top House and Senate leaders.

“I don’t understand if you have four leaders agree to a bill why do you get to negotiate if you’re not going to vote for the bill?” asked House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

Many Democrats thought it was a silly stunt

“There’s all kinds of ways, I assure you, that leadership exercises its influence — the least of which is a floor speech,” said Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), an unabashed critic of leadership on immigration issues.

He’s one of the biggest supporters of criminal aliens.

In interviews will nearly a dozen House Democrats, many who requested anonymity to speak candidly, several called the speech an attempt by Pelosi to shore up support with the progressive base angry by congressional inaction on Dreamers. By agreeing to the spending caps deal, Gutiérrez and others argued, Democrats gave up all their leverage to force Republicans into serious negotiations to shield Dreamers from deportation. (snip)

Some centrist-minded Democrats said Pelosi’s daylong protest could — by calling attention to the failure to provide relief for Dreamers — make it that much harder for vulnerable members to vote for the budget deal.

“This stunt … had nothing to do with protecting vulnerable members who have to take a difficult vote,” said one moderate lawmaker who asked not to be named. “Working out this deal and then saying she’s not going to vote for it? Come on. She was at the table.”

If only Democrats cared as much about American citizens and our military as much as illegal aliens.

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Trump Has Declared War On The Climate Or Something

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 3:25 pm

It’s a 350.org kind of day. First they’re yammering on about how great it would be if Paris sued fossil fuels companies, and they want cities to divest from fossil fuels, and then they were given a platform at The Hill. This bit of nuttiness is by May Boeve, the executive director

Trump has declared war on our climate — we won’t let him win

President Trump declared recently in his State of the Union that his administration had “ended the war on American energy and clean coal.” In fact, what Trump actually did was declare war on our climate. We won’t let him win.

Hiding behind rhetoric about our nation’s “crumbling infrastructure” isn’t a plan that makes America great. It’s a plan that makes America more polluted, worse off, and less prepared for the difficult century ahead.

Listen to mayors and governors across America and they’ll tell you that climate change is one of the greatest threats facing their communities. Whether it’s sea level rise in Miami or drought in Phoenix, the climate crisis is eating away at the foundational stability that our cities, states and country depend on.

Blah blah blah. Liberal mayors of liberal cities love the notion of taxing their citizens more, while also having the power to control their citizens more. Here’s the most amusing part of this whole bit

A truly visionary president would propose a “Green New Deal,” a massive federal investment to create a new renewable energy economy that works for all of us. A Green New Deal would improve on the original New Deal with worker training programs, grants for local communities, and a call to action for our young people to create a more just and sustainable world.

Um, didn’t someone already try that? I can’t quite remember his name. And didn’t other world leaders give this a shot? And it failed?

Together, we can provide the vision that our president lacks. Our parents’ generation raced to the moon. Our generation is racing to make sure we can survive on our planet. This isn’t something that can wait, we need it fast. Without real leadership in Washington, we must turn to one another and build the fossil free world we deserve.

When will 350.org pledge that its members will stop using fossil fuels?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a building aging badly due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bizzy Blog, with a post wondering if the media will cover the “Obama wants to know everything” text messages.

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Paris Considering Whether To Sue Fossil Fuels Companies Over Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 10:36 am

This has made the climahypocrites at 350.org giddy (via Watts Up With That?)

Paris explores climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

The City of Paris decided today to explore possibilities to sue the fossil fuel industry for causing climate damages, following the example of New York and other US cities.

The city council also decided to lobby other major cities such as London to ban fossil fuels from their investments through the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, of which the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo is president. The council also announced that it will release an update on the progress that has been made since it pledged to divest from fossil fuels in 2015.

“It’s fantastic news that cities like New York and Paris are stepping up to protect their citizens and hold fossil fuel corporations accountable for the harm they cause. This is a major breakthrough for divestment campaigners around the world that have been pushing cities to take a stand against the polluters wrecking our climate,” comments 350.org France Campaigner Clémence Dubois. Fossil fuel companies like Total, Shell, BP, and Exxon are the driving forces behind more and more severe flooding and summer heat waves in Paris, as well as droughts, wildfires, unpredictable seasons and rising sea levels hitting people across the globe.”

This winter, Paris has been hit once more by severe flooding, which the mayor saidwas, alongside recent summer heat waves ‘clearly a question of the town adapting to climate change’. Studies found that the flooding that submerged Paris in May 2016 was made almost twice as likely by human-made climate change. (snip)

The moves by New York and Paris, paired with mayor Hidalgo’s pledge to increase efforts to persuade other major cities to divest, raises the pressure on the London where mayor Sadiq Khan has so far disappointed campaigners to take a strong stand against the fossil fuel industry and deliver on his election pledge to divest London City Hall.

Major cities such as Sydney and Cape Town as well as numerous European capitals including Berlin, Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm have already pledged to ban fossil fuels from their investments.

For all this divestment talk, what’s missing is…..can you guess? Of course you can. I write it enough. You think it enough. They aren’t calling for each Warmist to give up their own use of fossil fuels. What the fossil fuels companies should do is refuse to sell fossil fuels to the city governments if they want to play this game. Let’s see how those cities are able to operate without fossil fuels.

And they should call out the leaders of those cities as being hypocrites, telling them to give up their own use of fossil fuels, along with most, if not all, of the leadership of 350.org and all its subsidiary groups.

Watts Up With That highlights this photo credited to Julian Knez

Well before CO2, er, atmosphere carbon, broke 350ppm.

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Plight Of DACA Recipient Parents Causing Issues With Immigration Discussions

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 7:59 am

This should be very simple: we’ve been told time and time again that the “Dreamers” who were brought to the U.S. as children shouldn’t be punished for the sins of the parents. If it’s being admitted that the parents “sinned”, ie, knowingly entering the United States in contradiction to the law, then the parents must pay the penalty. They should have to self-deport prior to any legal status is given to their children

Immigration Talks Stymied By Question Of What To Do About ‘Dreamers’ Parents

The Senate is slated to begin a floor debate early next week on some kind of an immigration bill, though what exactly will be included in that bill remains a mystery. Lawmakers meeting nearly every day to hammer out a compromise say they have yet to reach consensus on any piece of the puzzle, from how many young immigrants known as Dreamers will be granted a path to citizenship to how much funding will go to building new walls on the U.S.-Mexico border to what changes, if any, will be made to the nation’s legal immigration system. Amid this tangle of issues, several senators have told TPM, one piece has emerged as particularly difficult: the status of Dreamers’ parents.

“That’s where I think most of the disagreement comes from,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) told reporters. “If you’re going to have the DACA kids addressed, you’re going to have to find a way to address the parents. And you cannot simply say, ‘Well, since you brought your kids in illegally, this gives you a leg up on all the millions of other people who are in line waiting to get in here who have not violated the law. That’s the issue.”

It shouldn’t be. They broke the law. It’s being admitted they broke the law. We would we reward them? Obviously, because, for Democrats and a few Republicans, this is all about legalizing all illegal aliens. Not just the “Dreamers”. They do not care if this is bad for Americans. Bad for wages. Bad for low wage workers. If it displaces Americans from jobs. If it costs American citizens more money. If Americans have had their lives destroyed from identity theft. Nothing matters more than adding over ten million new voters who’ll voted Democrat.

“We’re still working on how we deal with their family members,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told TPM as she entered an immigration negotiation meeting Monday night. “I think there’s a consensus that citizenship would not be part of that, for parents who brought them into the country against the law. But we’re working to try to figure out a way to make sure the Dreamers want to stay, because they’re not going to want their parents to be deported.”

I say “who cares what the “Dreamers” want?” People who are illegally present in our country do not get to choose nor dictate. People who get busted for petty theft do not get to choose their punishment, either. Nor are they rewarded for theft.

But several hardline Republicans in the House and Senate, many of whom also oppose President Trump’s call for a path to citizenship for Dreamers, say extending any form of legal status to parents would be intolerable.

“If you give legal status to the parents it undermines the entire rationale for the DACA program,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who broke his typical hallway silence to hold forth to reporters on the topic. “Children ought not to pay for the crimes of their parents, but surely the parents should pay for the crimes of their parents.”

“The people in the DACA program were brought here as minors through no fault of their own, before the age of accountability,” he added. “I think you can distinguish them from their parents or other illegal immigrants who made the decision to come here themselves.”

We’ll see if Republicans hold tough on this. If they allow the parents of the Dreamers to stay in the U.S. and get some sort of legal status, they’ll get mauled in the midterms, as Republicans will stay home. Furthermore, giving the parents legal status will simply open the floodgates to giving all the other illegals legal status, with voting citizenship the ultimate end point.

Interestingly, earlier in the article, Alice Olstein writes

The nearly 800,000 young immigrants who have been enrolled in President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program have never been able to sponsor any family members for legal status or citizenship. But if DACA holders are allowed to obtain green cards and eventually citizenship as part of a new immigration reform bill, they may in the future be able to do so.

And that’s exactly one of the reasons that chain migration needs to be ended.

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Excitable Adam Schiff Gets Pranked By Russians, Thought He Was Getting Collusion Material

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 7:42 am

Excitable Adam Schiff is on a Mission to prove their was collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians….even though that wouldn’t be against the law. Despicable, yes. Illegal? No. But, Don Quixote Schiff will continue tilting at windmills

(UK Daily Mail) The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee was the victim of a prank phone call by Russian comedians who offered to give him ‘compromising’ dirt on Donald Trump – including nude photos of the president and a Russian reality show star.

DailyMail.com can disclose that after the prank, his staff engaged in correspondence with what they thought was a Ukrainian politician to try to obtain the ‘classified’ material promised on the call.

On an audio recording of the prank call posted online, Adam Schiff can be heard discussing the committee’s Russia investigation and increasingly bizarre allegations about Trump with a man who claimed to be Andriy Parubiy, the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament.

The call, made a year ago, was actually from two Russian comedians nicknamed ‘Vovan’ and ‘Lexus’ who have become notorious for their phony calls to high-ranking American officials and celebrities, including UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John.

Its existence was first reported by The Atlantic but not how a staff member working for the minority on the House Intelligence Committee pursued the information after the call.

Schiff’s office said the congressman suspected the call was ‘bogus’ from the beginning and reported it to authorities afterward.

But in a recording of the eight minute conversation, Schiff appeared to take the call seriously – or at least played along convincingly – and emails from the Democrat’s staff to the fake politician afterwards said he had found it ‘productive’.

Schiff was willing to collude with Russians/Ukranians to get dirt on Trump to prove collusion.

Interestingly, most of the major media outlets seem uninterested in this story. They were interested when Haley was pranked. By not Schiff, a ranking Democrat deeply involved in accusing Trump of…nothing illegal. Just unsupported collusion. You’d think there would be proof by this time.

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Bummer: Global Temps Might Possibly Maybe Blow Past Paris Climate Agreement Limit Within 5 Years

By William Teach February 6, 2018 – 4:19 pm

I should put a reminder on this post for 5 years to see if it comes to pass

Global temperatures could pass limit set by Paris climate deal within 5 years

Global temperatures could surpass a limit set by the Paris climate agreement within the next five years, according to a new forecast by British scientists.

At least one year in the next five could exceed the threshold the deal set of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels, the forecast from the United Kingdom’s Met Office says. It’s now likely temperatures will exceed 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, as soon as 2022.

“It is the first time that such high values have been highlighted within these forecasts,” the Met Office said in a statement.

The Paris agreement aims to limit warming well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius by gradually reducing emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, which come from the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas.

Global average temperatures already have neared the 1 degree Celsius mark over the past three years. That combined with continued warming from greenhouse gases and natural variations in temperatures means it’s possible for the world to temporarily exceed the 1.5 degree Celsius mark in the next five years, said Stephen Belcher, chief scientist at the Met Office.

One does have to admire the constant scaremongering combined with an included out through weasel words like “could” and “might”. That’s not science.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 6, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil music player sucking up vast amounts of energy, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Ice Age Now, with a post on record snowfall in Moscow.

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Cult Of Climastrology: Cooling Sun Could Offset Warming By Mankind

By William Teach February 6, 2018 – 10:30 am

Could this become the next talking point from the CoC? Remember, many of them blamed natural variation for the Great Pause (when they admitted that it actually existed). Many of them blame natural variation when their prognostications fail to materialize. And there are many scientists, and, let’s admit it, some skeptic prognosticators, who are saying that the Earth is due for a dip in temperatures, and expect this to start by 2030. On that, we’ll see. Till then

Scripps: Cooling Sun May Partially Offset Climate Change by Humans

The Sun might emit less radiation by mid-century, giving Earth a chance to warm a bit more slowly but not halting human-induced climate change, according to a new study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Our star’s cool down would be the result of what astrophysicists call a “grand minimum,” a periodic event during which the Sun’s magnetism diminishes, sunspots form infrequently, and less ultraviolet radiation makes it to the surface of Earth. This last happened in the 17th century.

A team of scientists led by research physicist Dan Lubin at Scripps has created the first estimate of how much dimmer the Sun should be when the next minimum takes place, which could be by the middle of this century.

His team’s study, “Ultraviolet Flux Decrease Under a Grand Minimum from IUE Short-wavelength Observation of Solar Analogs,” appears in the publication Astrophysical Journal Letters and was funded by the state of California.

This sets the stage for a talking point that the cooling would be much deeper without people like you driving fossil fueled vehicles and daring to eat meat.

The reduced energy from the Sun would set into motion a sequence of events on Earth beginning with a thinning of the stratospheric ozone layer.

The cooling is not uniform. In the last grand minimum, during the 17th Century, areas of Europe chilled –the Baltic Sea froze — while Alaska and southern Greenland warmed correspondingly. (snip)

Lubin’s team predicts a significant probability of a grand minimum in this century because the downward sunspot pattern in recent solar cycles resembles the run-ups to past grand minimum events.

It’s always interesting that these Warmists can never admit that the Sun and natural variability could be mostly causing the warming, yet, are so willing to blame those same things for warming, sea rise, ice loss, etc, not going with their computer models.

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Canadian P.M. Trudeau Interrupts, Mansplains To Woman Over Use Of “Mankind”

By William Teach February 6, 2018 – 7:44 am

Usually, when feminists hear that a man has mansplained something to a woman, they become apoplectic. In this case, they all cheered

(Fox News) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau corrected a woman on her language when she asked a question during a town hall Friday.

The unidentified woman asked Trudeau whether the Canadian government could ease regulations on volunteering with religious organizations, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

“So, that’s why we came here today to ask you, to also look into the policies that religious charitable organizations have in our legislation so that it can also be changed because maternal love is the love that’s going to change the future of mankind,” said the woman, who was reportedly affiliated with the World Mission Society Church of God.

Trudeau immediately corrected her.

“We like to say ‘peoplekind,’ not necessarily ‘mankind,’ because it’s more inclusive,” he said.

The crowd clapped after Trudeau’s comments.

In all fairness, the woman showed appreciation to the change for inclusivity, because Canada.

The one thing I can’t seem to find anywhere is whether he actually answered her question.

Unfortunately, that’s not his worst gaffe of the week

The third gaffe was the absolute worst. Here’s what Trudeau said when asked about his government’s troubled relationship with many of Canada’s veterans: “Why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they’re asking for more than we’re able to give right now.”

That’s right. We’re able to give Omar Khadr $10.5 million and throw hundreds of millions into feel good green energy projects, but we’re not “able” to give veterans more.

Peak wokeness?

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