The Mexico Earthquake Is ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach September 8, 2017 – 10:30 am

In case you missed it

(ABC News)  At least 15 people were killed as a magnitude-8.1 earthquake rocked Mexico late Thursday night, leveling buildings in southern Mexico, triggering tsunami warning in several countries and causing people to flee into the street, buildings to sway and lights to go out in Mexico City, some 650 miles from the quake’s epicenter.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who said the quake was 8.2 in magnitude, called it the strongest the country has seen in a century. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it at 8.1 magnitude.

The powerful temblor occurred some 50 miles southwest of Pijijiapan, Mexico, off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, at 11:49 p.m. local time (12:49 a.m. ET), according to the USGS. The depth of the earthquake was 43 miles, the USGS said.

You know what’s coming, right?

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It’s Again Time For The “Climate Change Denial Should Be A Crime” Memes

By William Teach September 8, 2017 – 7:19 am

Is it actually “science denial” when 95% of the climate models are wrong? Is it science denial when virtually every prediction that the Cult of Climastrology makes falls apart? Is it science denial when Skeptics note that the data is massaged, manipulated, spun, and/or manufactured?

This little bit of nuttiness was written by Brian Merchant

Hurricane Harvey has drowned the paved, populous sprawl of Houston to an extent that, to most Americans, is all but inconceivable. Our fourth-largest city is now a sunken, subdivided ghost ship. Tens of billions of dollars of damage done. Countless homes, the vast majority uninsured, lost. Thirty-eight people killed (so far).

In such a storm’s wake, we are often reminded that it’s time to band together, to persevere, and to rebuild. Now we are also reminded, correctly, that this is what climate change looks like. These are the two guiding mantras of modern natural disaster recovery: Come together; global warming is here and now and we’d best get to work. Neither is sufficient.

We are not as often reminded that homes and lives may have been saved if officials and policymakers had incorporated the recommendations of sound science in their outlook and preparedness plans. Which is why we need to add a third response to our evolving national post-catastrophic storm mourning ritual: Identifying and investigating the negligent officials who put the public in harm’s way by repeatedly ignoring crucial data and scientific evidence that can help prevent disaster.

Would a carbon tax have stopped Harvey? How about having your cost of living artificially increased by government and losing some of your liberty? If you were forced to have a smart meter? Not allowed to use a hair dryer? Had to purchase carbon offsets?

Scientists knew a disaster like Harvey was coming….

Of course they did. Because hurricanes happen, there’s a yearly hurricane season, and storms make landfall

…Those in power who refused to listen — who refused to use the best available data to do their jobs of protecting their constituents from disaster — should be held accountable. Mike Talbott’s department could have acted on sound evidence and saved lives. They did not. They repeatedly favored development over public safety, going so far as to allow 7,000 homes to be built in low-lying, flood-vulnerable areas since 2010. It is impossible to determine how many have died as a result of any official’s refusal to appropriately prepare the city for disaster, but there is little doubt some of the blame for the scale of this calamity is theirs. The Washington Post generously calls it “ignorance.” But it’s high time to start taking this pointed refusal to prepare, this refusal to observe the basic tenets of science seriously — and call it what it is: Negligence. Criminal negligence, even.

According to the Texas penal code, “A person acts with criminal negligence, or is criminally negligent… when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise….”

All right, you have the idea, Brad is recommending that all officials who have Wrongthink on ‘climate change’ be prosecuted and jailed. Much like in the old Soviet Union, Mao’s China, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy, and hardcore Islamic nations like Iran, among other examples.

And, of course, Brad wants Trump prosecuted. Heck, he even alludes to the notion that every Tea Party member, and perhaps almost every Republican voter, should be prosecuted for this Wrongthink. Because people have died during Harvey. Unlike the 6,000-12,000 (no one is really sure) that died during the Great Galveston hurricane in 1900 when CO2 was below 350ppm.

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Dream Act 2017 Is Pretty Generous On Allowing Dreamers To Commit Crimes

By William Teach September 8, 2017 – 7:01 am

The normal process for applying for citizenship is pretty burdensome, and requires that people have good moral character, ie, do not commit crimes. Certain crimes will immediately knock a candidate out, no matter how long they’ve resided in the U.S. Other crimes will most likely knock them out. What about with the Dream Act? Byron York delves in

Commentary on the DACA controversy frequently notes that the nation’s nearly 700,000 so-called Dreamers are a law-abiding group. But a new bill to give DACA recipients full legal status, sponsored by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake and Democratic Sens. Richard Durbin and Chuck Schumer, would allow newly legalized Dreamers to have many run-ins with the law — arrests, charges, convictions — and still receive benefits. Schumer, the Democratic leader, is demanding quick passage.

(Discussion of the leniency via Obama’s DACA Executive Order for crimes committed by Dreamers)

The Dream Act would exclude anyone who has been convicted of “any offense under federal or state law, other than a state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status, that is punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of more than one year; or three or more offenses under federal or state law, other than state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status, for which the alien was convicted on different dates for each of the three offenses and imprisoned for an aggregate of 90 days or more.”

The phrase “other than a state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status” could excuse a lot of criminal activity. “It would grant status to illegal aliens who have been convicted of felony ID fraud or other crimes that could be considered to be related to their immigration status,” noted Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tighter restrictions on immigration. “You could say human smuggling, document fraud, benefits fraud, false claims to citizenship, illegal voting, and many other felonies have an essential element that involves immigration status.”

Furthermore, the multiple dates issue would mean that an illegal wouldn’t be knocked out of Dreamer status by being prosecuted for multiple misdemeanors on the same court date, only if they were prosecuted on at least three different court dates.

And maybe not even then, because Graham, Flake, Durbin, and Schumer would also allow the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive any denial of legalization for those crimes, or for more serious crimes, “for humanitarian purposes or family unity or if the waiver is otherwise in the public interest.” In other words, Department of Homeland Security can legalize whomever it chooses.

Which would probably not happen under current DHS Secretary Elaine Duke, but, could easily be done under future squishy DHS Secretaries.

The 2017 Dream Act also raises the age of when the illegals came from 16 to 18, which would vastly increase the number who are eligible, as well as decreasing the time in country from 5 years to 4 years.

There is no requirement for the illegals to be present in the U.S. at the time the Dream Act is passed, unlike with Obama’s DACA, which required they be present prior to June 15, 2012. This would mean there is every reason for illegals to keep streaming in at young ages.

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Warmer World May Bring More Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

By William Teach September 7, 2017 – 3:40 pm

Or something

Warmer world may bring more local, less global, temperature variability

Many tropical or subtropical regions could see sharp increases in natural temperature variability as Earth’s climate warms over coming decades, a new Duke University-led study suggests.

These local changes could occur even though Earth’s global mean surface air temperature (GMST) is likely to become less variable, the study shows.

“This new finding runs counter to the popular notion that as the climate warms, temperature variability will increase and weather will get more volatile everywhere,” said Patrick T. Brown, a postdoctoral research scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, who led the study while he was a doctoral student at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.

“Our research suggests a different scenario: Global unforced temperature variability will actually decrease, not increase, as Earth warms, but local decade-to-decade variability could increase by as much as 50 percent in some places,” Brown said.

Breaking it down, because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle and binge-watched Game Of Thrones, along with using an ice-maker and hair dryer, not buying locally, and not giving up more of your money and freedom to Government, there’s going to be a whole lot of Hotcoldwetdry but not Hotcoldwetdry but variability buy not variability.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 7, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…are awesome trees whose only purpose is to mitigate carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on paying gang members to not break the law.

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Seahawk Michael Bennett Claims Police Threatened Him, Racism

By William Teach September 7, 2017 – 10:30 am

This is one that is all over the news this morning, both regular and the sports sites, which I’ve caught in multiple places while perusing the same

(Daily Caller) Bennett released a statement Wednesday morning claiming he was the target of racism and police brutality after being detained by Las Vegas police officers. He also claimed police threatened to shoot him in the head.

According to Bennett

USA Today says that his treatment is a reason for all the protests. Colin Kaepernick said it was disgusting and unjust. There are all sorts of people saying all sorts of things in solidarity with Bennett and hating on the police. But, as the DC links to a TMZ Sports report

Sources connected to the investigation tell TMZ Sports … when cops responded to the club for a possible shooting, they ordered everyone to get down and not move so they could properly search and investigate.

We’re told Bennett did not stay put — instead, he ran — and a cop outside the club stopped him and ordered him down to the ground at gunpoint.

Our sources say Bennett was detained until cops could determine he was not involved in any possible criminal activity … and he was released.

You can watch the video at TMZ yourself. It does start, let’s remember, after he was already cuffed. And, yes, it is a possibility that the officer was a complete moron and said he’d shoot him in the head. But, just because a cop detains you when you run doesn’t make it racism.

But, you can bet that the reality of what happened will not make it past the Narrative, much like the completely phony Michael Brown hands up don’t shoot garbage.

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NY Times Knocks Down Hurricane Irma Is Climate Change Stories

By William Teach September 7, 2017 – 7:22 am

An early shot from the NY Times, which somehow made it through Climate Justice Warrior editorial review. Of course, we’ll be sure to see many stories from the NY Times in future days blaming ‘climate change’ for Irma, because that’s what they do

First Harvey, Then Irma and Jose. Why? It’s the Season.

First came Hurricane Harvey, which barreled into Texas on Aug. 25. Now Irma, one of the most powerful hurricanes on record, is battering the Caribbean and has Florida in its sights.

Jose, currently a tropical storm, trails behind in the mid-Atlantic. And early Wednesday, a coalescing weather system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico became tropical storm Katia — the fourth named storm in two weeks.

What’s going on?

Hurricane experts say that the formation of several storms in rapid succession is not uncommon, especially in August, September and October, the most active months of the six-month hurricane season.

“This is the peak,” said Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with the Climate Prediction Center, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “This is when 95 percent of hurricanes and major hurricanes form.”

This is why we have something called “hurricane season.” I forget who the meteorologist was, but, right after Harvey they Tweeted that this was also bound to happen sooner or later. Because this is hurricane season.

Dr. Bell said his group does not consider climate change in developing its forecasts.

Instead, he said, they consider longer-term cycles of hurricane activity based on a naturally occurring climate pattern called the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, which affects ocean surface temperatures over 25 to 40 years.

“We’ve been in an active era since 1995,” Dr. Bell said, as ocean temperatures have been generally higher. But from 1971 to 1994, he said, temperatures were generally lower, and hurricane seasons were quieter.

But, this bit of Science will not stop climatemongering like

What caused Hurricane Irma? Did climate change cause this Category 5 tropical storm?
Climate change didn’t cause the deadly hurricane. But it did make it more horrifying

Hurricane Irma, like Hurricane Harvey, was not caused by climate change. But the horrifying destruction it has sent across the Atlantic might have been.

Scientists say that asking whether global warming was the reason for the extreme weather is the wrong question. Instead, we should be focusing on how global warming has helped turn the hurricanes into even more destructive forces than they ever would have been before.

Well, considering there were more powerful hurricanes making landfall all the way back into the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, I don’t think we can blame fossil fuels. Furthermore, without an actual full record of hurricane activity back over at least the last 500 years for comparison, heck, what happened during the previous warm period, there’s really no way to make a proper scientific comparison.

But, Warmists aren’t about science: this is politics.

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LA Times Unintentionally Admits That Dreamers Aren’t Americans

By William Teach September 7, 2017 – 7:03 am

An interesting headline and article from LA Times Kate Linthicum, report from Mexico City

Another thing Trump stripped from ‘Dreamers’: The chance to visit home

Last month, California college student Miriam Juan stepped off a plane in Guadalajara, Mexico, and hugged her grandparents for the first time in 17 years. She had no words at first, just smiles and tears.

An immigrant brought to the U.S. from Mexico at age 4, Juan was able to make the trip thanks to a little known perk of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era initiative that shielded 800,000 “Dreamers” from deportation.

Under the program, young immigrants without legal status could apply for permission to take short trips out of the country for humanitarian, educational or employment purposes, and then return legally to the U.S.

No longer.

That’s because those places they go as mentioned in the start of the story are their homes, regardless of how long they have resided unlawfully in the United States.

And Obama manufacturing this perk through an unlawful and un-Constitutional Executive Order was also unlawful. The Law states that if an illegal alien (that’s what they are called within the laws, aliens) leaves the country and then comes back, they are now felons.

President Trump’s decision Tuesday to strip deportation protections for DACA recipients beginning in March also restricts their ability to travel. A Homeland Security memorandum issued Tuesday said the department would stop approving new applications for travel permits, known as advance parole. The agency said it would honor applications that had been approved.

As it should be. Let me ask: if Trump created an EO that gave all those accused of committing sexual harassment, as long as it did not go beyond unwanted comments and looks, and there was no touching of the “naughty bits”, parole, where their companies could not fire them, would that be OK? I mean, they haven’t actually hurt anyone, there was no violence or actual criminal activity, right? They pay taxes, right, and contribute to the economy? Wait, you’re saying that it is not OK? Huh.

An estimated 40,000 DACA recipients used advance parole to get green cards since DACA was created in 2012, said Claire Nicholson, a spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

“It’s extremely troubling,” said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks to reduce levels of immigration. “President Obama said DACA would in no way lead to people getting amnesty or citizenship, and it turned out not to be accurate.”

Well, that’s weird. You have an official stating “this is what has happened”, yet, the Washington Post’s fact checker, Glenn Kessler, is trying to spin dispute the number.

Migrant advocates acknowledge the immigration benefits of advance parole; in recent years some advocacy groups have coached Dreamers on how to time their green card applications with advance parole trips. Still, many advocates insist the program’s biggest benefit was not potential access to legal status but the chance for tens of thousands of Dreamers to reconnect with their homeland.

Homeland. Tell you what: if all the parents who unlawfully brought their kids to the U.S. self deport, because they are the ones who “sinned”, then we can consider giving these “kids” (who have an average age of 22), some type of lawful status. Which will not including citizenship and voting rights. At least not for at least well over a decade.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 6, 2017 – 6:28 pm

…is wood cracking from too much heat from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogene’s Middle Finger, with a post on hurricanes being racist.

Super late today, forgot to set the time for posting while I was messing with the other stuff. Doubleshot in the more tag

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Blue States Are Looking To Sue Trump To Continue Violations Of Federal Law

By William Teach September 6, 2017 – 11:50 am

Well, this is a heck of a thing

(CNN) Conservative states may have boxed President Donald Trump into announcing an end for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — but Democratic state attorneys general are already fighting back.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson will announce multi-state legal action on Wednesday, according to separate releases from their offices. On Tuesday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra also announced he was prepared to sue the Trump administration over DACA. (snip)

Now, those state officials’ Democratic counterparts are hoping they can have the opposite effect, succeeding in the courts to reinstate the program that has protected nearly 800,000 young people in its time and currently has nearly 700,000 people enrolled.

So, let me see if I’m getting this right: Trump is essentially ending a program that even Obama admitted was against the law and the Constitution, which protects people from deportation counter to federal law, and Democratic states are suing to keep this lawless program, which wasn’t any more than an executive order? Really? On the bright side, it should be very interesting to see what happens when this ends up in court. Of course, in reality, they probably won’t actually take it to court. This is a spreading awareness type thing, and designed to raise money.

“President Trump has turned his back on hundreds of thousands of children and young Americans who came forward and put their trust in our government. But in terminating DACA, the Trump administration has also violated the Constitution and federal law,” Becerra said in a statement on Tuesday.

No, they put their trust in Obama. DACA was never law. It was never promised by anyone other than Obama. A promise that always had the potential to be overturned. It would be interested to understand how terminating an Executive Order from a previous president violates anything. We had an election. Hillary promised to expand DACA. Trump promised to get rid of it. Trump won.

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