Bummer: ICE Agents “Pounced” On Illegal Alien

By William Teach November 29, 2017 – 10:30 am

This has made many pro-illegal alien supporters very sad

(NY Post) Federal agents dragged an illegal immigrant out of a Brooklyn courthouse Tuesday, prompting a wild scuffle between his Legal Aid lawyer and court officers.

The plainclothes US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pounced on Genaro Rojas Hernandez as he sat on the bench, speaking to his lawyer, Rebecca Kavanaugh, outside a criminal courtroom awaiting a hearing in his misdemeanor assault case.

Hernandez, a 30-year-old father of two originally from Mexico, is facing charges for allegedly assaulting his wife. He has lived​ ​in the states​ illegally​ for 15 years but has no prior arrests.

He was ​cuffed and dragged off by the ​ICE ​agents — but not before court officers pushed Kavanagh out of the way, she said.

Kavanaugh, and several other Legal Aid lawyers, were dragged out of the way by the court officers because they were interfering with a lawful arrest by federal agents. They are now Very Upset that the court officers “helped with the arrest of an illegal alien”, which they are supposedly not supposed to do. The lawyers are actually lucky that, according to State courts spokesman Lucien Chalfen, they weren’t “arrested for obstructing governmental administration.”

“They were pushing and shoving me out the door,” Kavanaugh said. “It was a silly misdemeanor case … on track to be dismissed.

Apparently, in Liberal World assaulting one’s wife is silly when performed by an illegal alien.

Court officers said Kavanagh yelled for Hernandez to “run,’’ but she adamantly denied this.

“The idea that I was attempting to interfere with an arrest is crazy. I’m an officer of the court. I’m a lawyer. I would never attempt to interfere on an arrest,” she said.

I’ll trust the court officers over someone who refers to domestic assault as “silly.”

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Climate Ethicist: Flying Is Killing Humans Of The Future Or Something

By William Teach November 29, 2017 – 7:50 am

But, good news, it’s OK if you take a fossil fueled flight that kills future humans if you’re going to a climate conference

(NoTricksZone) At Swiss SRF public broadcasting, Yves Bossart recently interviewed philosopher and ethicist Dominic Roser of the Institute for Ethics and Human Rights of the University of Fribourg. Roser is also the author of the book “Ethics of Climate Change“.

In the interview Roser tells the SRF that whenever people fly, they are in fact “killing humans of the future“, and thus there is a moral obligation to abstain from flying. He says:

A single holiday flight can warm up the climate more than driving a car and heating a home with heating oil for an entire year.”

When asked if he himself flies, Roser says he does all he can to avoid taking holiday trips, because he is aware that “flying kills“.

In other words, he takes fossil fueled flights. In fact, he says, per the translation “I am not a better person than others. But I would like to at least renounce holiday flights, because I am aware: flying kills.”

When asked to explain what he means by that, he tells the SRF, citing an estimate from John Nolt:

“People of the future generations die through our flights. To put it bluntly, the jetliner in which I sit is like a rocket that is aimed at future humans.”

So, he’s sitting in that jetliner? Huh. He goes on to say that, per that estimate, that each American’s greenhouse emissions kill one to two people. Of course, he states that sometime flying and killing future humans is A-OK

“But sometimes one has to fly, for example if your mother is dying far away, or when I as a politician have to go to a climate conference.”

Why not take a bike? You can leave early. Same if the conference is far away. Take a sailing ship. Just leave early. Kinda like what your boss says if you keep being a few minutes late, right? But, hey, know what the solution is (this comes from the article cited)

Should the state make a CO 2 tax on flights and force us to do so?

Yes, but unfortunately this is politically very difficult, because that requires global solutions. That is the big challenge of climate change. No country can solve the whole problem single-handedly. There is hope only if we stand together across borders and choose global thinking politicians.

As usual, the answer is more taxes and more Big Big Government. Globalism. Which is funny, because, on the flip side, Warmists blame globalism for climate change, in all the consumerism, capitalism, and people moving around the globe.

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House To Vote On Mandatory Training For Something They Should Already Know Not To Do

By William Teach November 29, 2017 – 7:30 am

Virtually every single large company out there requires mandatory sexual harassment training. Now this could possibly be coming to Congress

(AP) Rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct, the House is moving ahead on legislation to require anti-sexual harassment training for all members and their staffs.

The vote comes amid a wave of accusations against lawmakers that has thrust the issue of gender hostility and discrimination on Capitol Hill squarely into the spotlight, and prompted calls for the embattled lawmakers to step down.

The measure would require lawmakers, their staffs and interns “to complete a program of training in workplace rights and responsibilities each session of each Congress” that includes anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training.

The Senate unanimously adopted a similar measure earlier this month. That vote came as titans of media, entertainment and sports faced swift punishment after allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior.

One would think that people of the age of those in Congress would know better. As we can see from plenty of incidents, they do not.

Will this make a difference? It might make it much more likely for staffers and interns to report the conduct. But, will they report? The story we kept hearing when the allegations came to light was that they did not want to ruin their careers, that the opportunity was too great. This might be the biggest part of the article

Next week, that committee (story doesn’t say which one) will hold another hearing to review the Congressional Accountability Act, and propose reforms to the way in which harassment complaints are filed and handled on Capitol Hill.

If those reforms do not involve making sure there is no retaliation against accusers (unless the accusation is false), that the accusation will be taken seriously, and that the offender is punished, then the reforms are useless. Furthermore, the reforms need to involve not using the forcibly taken tax money of the citizens of the United States to payoff the accusers. Typically, if someone is found to have committed sexual harassment in a private company, they are terminated. What recourse is there for elected members of Congress? Any reform should involve publishing the outcomes of the investigation, which would include the name of the Congress critter. But not the accuser. And then there should be mandatory impeachment hearings. They need to be held accountable for their actions.

I think we all know that this will end up being watered down, though, right?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Killing Net Neutrality Will Be A Death Blow For Innovation Or Something

By William Teach November 28, 2017 – 2:41 pm

Which is why all the really big tech/Internet companies who already have all their own power and stuff really, really want to keep Net Neutrality around. This comes from the insane people at Salon who are oh-so-supportive of the free market, you know

Killing net neutrality is a death blow for innovation

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On Cyber Monday more than 200 internet companies and businesses including Twitter, Reddit, AirBnB and Tumblr sent a letter to the FCC imploring them to keep net neutrality intact. It stated, “An internet without net neutrality protections would be the opposite of the open market, with a few powerful cable and phone companies picking winners and losers instead of consumers.” This followed Pai’s release of a plan to kill the Obama era rules if he gets the support of the rest of the commission in a vote that is scheduled for December 14.

Net neutrality is an attempt to keep the internet on a level playing field. Without the rules, advocates worry that Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) will use tricks like paid prioritization, charging websites and companies more for speed and essentially creating fast and slow lanes online.

And, that’s pretty much their entire case. Which is surprising, since Salon articles tend to go on and on and on and on and on. But, then, Lefties have been given their marching orders, so, they really do not need any pesky details. Just slogans to screech in the streets and on Facebook and Twitter.

There’s really just one question they need to answer: how did the Internet innovate all those years prior to 2015, when there was no NN?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 28, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a glacier melting due to Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on Trump Vs. Pocahontas.

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Judge Dismisses Motion By Illegal Aliens Separated From Their Kids

By William Teach November 28, 2017 – 10:41 am

This is actually a pretty darned by precedent

El Paso judge denies motion of immigrant parents separated from children

U.S. Magistrate Judge Miguel Torres denied Monday an unprecedented motion to dismiss criminal charges against four Central American parents and one grandmother for illegally crossing the border and who were separated from their accompanying children as a result.

The Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Texas argued that prosecuting potential asylum seekers and removing their children violates the U.S. Constitution because they are pleading guilty under duress to be reunited with their kids.

The government contended that the separations had nothing to do with the criminal accusation at hand of entering the country without authorization. Dismissing such charges could encourage adults to bring minors simply to avoid such prosecutions, it said.

Immigrant advocates say criminal prosecutions for crossing the border enable President Donald Trump’s administration to bypass a landmark 1997 federal settlement, known as the Flores Agreement, that bars the prolonged detention of migrant children even when they are with their parents. Critics say the settlement has led to a practice of arresting and releasing migrants with no consequence, encouraging illegal immigration.

At the end of the day, they came to this country illegally. They blew off our laws intentionally. As such, they should be processed quickly, and all should be deported without delay. The government is exactly correct: dismissing the charges would entice more illegals to use their kids as props to avoid prosecution. And then they disappear into America, scofflaws from justice. Then whine when they are caught. It’s time to put our foot down hard on illegal aliens. And those who hire them and shelter them.

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Processed Food Is Bad For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach November 28, 2017 – 8:01 am

It’s a global health crisis, you guys

Processed food is a global health crisis

One of the most potentially far-reaching agreements at the UN’s COP23 summit on climate change in Bonn was the decision to link farming methods to climate change, and to explore a framework of solutions.

It was a “notable, yet low-profile outcome”, according to Carbon Brief. The international community agreed to work on the links between agriculture and climate change, and to agree which issues should be included by March 31, 2018. Future technical talks on the two issues will take account of each strand.

The decision is not just a huge step towards tackling greenhouse gas emissions from farming. It also offers hope for future breakthroughs in sustainable diet, because poor diet and environmentally damaging agriculture are linked, as a new paper from New York based policy thinktank Brighter Green shows.

This part of the article is probably the most concerning, as we see that the Cult of Climastrology is coming after control of food production. They aren’t just simply pimping their notions of going vegan or giving up meat a few days a week, they want significant control of overall food production in the hands of government, well beyond simply making sure it is up to quality controls.

“The ‘Western-style diet’ – replete with salt, sugar, cheap vegetable oil, and animal fat – is inextricably linked to the fast-rising increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs)” in low and middle income countries,” it says.

Dietary changes are taking place at “unprecedented speed,” and people in emerging economies such as South Africa, Brazil, and Mexico are suffering a rise in what used to be “diseases of the rich” – diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and cancers.

There’s no doubt that this is not good, right?

The report details how the agricultural needs of Big Food contribute to global warming, through increased production of meat production and feed for livestock. Vast tracts of land turned over to livestock, corn and soybeans have led to massive soil erosion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, it says.

Agriculture (including transport and packaging) contributes from 20% to 30% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHG); the global livestock industry produces 14.5% of all GHGs. Methane from livestock is less abundant than CO2 overall, but has a stronger greenhouse effect.

Palm oil, found in many products from snacks to toiletries, is a particularly worrying example as the trees thrive on peat-rich soil. Far more CO2 is released in planting them than is sequestered in the canopy, as the Union of Concerned Scientists warned in a 2013 paper ‘Palm Oil and the Environment.’ The nutrition transition is harming both people and the environment, the report says.

They consider Big Food to be the companies like McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, etc. And then they go down the rabbit hole of ‘climate change’, rather than letting the notion of “these foods aren’t particularly good for us and lead to obesity” stand on its own. Because these wackadoodles always have to bring ‘climate change’ into everything.

They even included palm oil, a pet environmental hatred of mine (and others). What they forgot to mention was the clearcutting of forests and the loss of biodiversity, as the animals, bugs, and reptiles are wiped out.

Interestingly, though, these same people who talk about obesity, and people just being overweight, are usually the same people putting forth the “body positive” yammering, who think it’s great that people who are overweight should celebrate their different body designs. Sigh.

Regardless, go back to the beginning, and be worried that these nutters are quietly attempting a full takeover of the agriculture sector.

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Trump Pumps Up The Christmas At The White House

By William Teach November 28, 2017 – 7:36 am

The Washington Post seems almost shocked that Trump would be going with “Merry Christmas” rather than “Happy Holidays”, as we saw with the previous president.

Trump vowed to end the ‘war on Christmas.’ Here’s how the White House is decorated this season.

The sparkle of the holiday season comes to the White House every year, but Donald Trump had promised the country more than twinkling lights and decked halls. As a candidate on the campaign trail, he pledged to end the perceived “War on Christmas.”

“You go to stores, you don’t see the word Christmas,” Trump said last year. “It says ‘happy holidays’ all over. I say, ‘Where’s Christmas?’ I tell my wife, ‘Don’t go to those stores.’ . . . I want to see Christmas.”

Melania Trump seemed to be taking cues from her husband’s desire for a traditional notion of Christmas when she unveiled the White House holiday decorations on Monday. It was all doused with an extra smattering of Trump-style cheer: (photo at the WP)

Gone were the “Season’s Greetings” that the Obama family placed on their Christmas cards. The Trump family’s official Christmas card reads: “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.” The dominant color scheme is an old-school red, green and gold. And the official hashtag? #WHChristmas.

It’s very nice

The decorations include natural details such as magnolia leaves, amaryllis and pine cones. More than 150 volunteers from 29 states helped to put up the displays. In the Green Room, framed presidential silhouettes are strung on garlands and placed on antique tables. Red-and-white peppermint candies fill jars in the Red Room, which also features two traditional cranberry trees — Nancy Reagan’s favorite holiday decoration.

And this

But first, the Trumps will host more than 100 open houses and other receptions at the White House. The first lady’s office expects more than 25,000 visitors will take part in public tours. But even in Donald Trump’s White House, it won’t be all Christmas all the time: There is an official Hanukkah celebration, too.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with “Happy Holidays”, because you have Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s. However, Progressives used Happy Holidays as a way to shame people into not saying Merry Christmas. They were apoplectic regarding the notion that Christmas is a Christian holiday (though almost none refused to not take the day off and/or refused holiday pay). They do not want anyone to see religion in public (well, the Christian and Jewish religions. They’re cool with Islam).

I’m betting there are no Chairman Mao, drag queen Hedda Lettuce, nor Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore ornaments.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ To Make Thunderstorms Larger And More Frequent

By William Teach November 27, 2017 – 3:32 pm

You know what this soothsaying by the AP’s resident hyper-Warmist Seth Borenstein means, right? That thunderstorm activity is going to immediately become much, much less

(News-Press Now)  Summer thunderstorms in North America likely will be larger, wetter and more frequent in a warmer world, dumping 80 percent more rain in some areas and worsening flooding, a new study says.

Future storms also will be wilder, soaking entire cities and huge portions of states, according to a federally-funded study released Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The U.S. in recent years has experienced prolonged drenchings that have doused Nashville in 2010, West Virginia and Louisiana in 2016 and Houston this year. The disasters cost about $20 billion a year in damage.

By the end of century if emissions aren’t curbed, these gully washers will be much worse because they will get bigger, said Andreas Prein, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, who led the study.

First, they still can’t prove this is mostly/solely man-caused/linked. Second, this is just another prognostication for which they cannot provide proof. These same as all the others. They can’t, and won’t attempt to, tell you what the weather will be like in the short term. But they’re sure in a bit over 80 years! When no one can backcheck them. It’s all such bullshit.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 27, 2017 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Bookworm Room, with a post on The Atlantic lying in regards to claims that Trump supporters are raaaaacists.

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