NY AG Sues Trump Over Rolling Back Obama Fuel Efficiency Standards

By William Teach September 12, 2017 – 10:43 am

Excitable Eric Schneider, who loves investigating people for Wrongthink on Hotcoldwetdry, is unhappy

(Daily Caller)  New York’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump for rolling back his Democratic predecessor’s fuel efficiency standards.

Eric Schneiderman, who many believe to be one of Trump’s most bitter critics, is suing the president for delaying a rule forcing automakers to meet or exceed fuel efficiency standards. He is joining a slew of his Democratic counterparts in the lawsuit.

“Fuel efficiency standards are common sense, protecting Americans pocketbooks and reducing the emissions that undermine public health and drive climate change,” he wrote in a press statement announcing his decision. (snip)

The Trump administration took the initial steps in August toward rolling back former President Barack Obama’s vehicle emission standards. The auto industry celebrated the decision to reopen the emission standards rules.

Industry stakeholders have argued the rules place an undue burden on auto manufacturers struggling to meet emission standards amid low gas prices and lagging biofuel production. They believe the standards could potentially destroy thousands of jobs.

Most of the car manufacturers have complained about the idiotic and arbitrary requirement to double fuel efficiency standards to 54.5 MPG by 2025. It’s bad for business, bad for jobs, and, let’s not forget, bad for safety, as lighter cars put people in danger. And, it could add $3,000 to the pricetag of each vehicle sold. Which is bad for the middle and lower classes, harming both new and used sales.

Furthermore, just like earlier today, this is about an executive order, not legislation. Incoming administrations can do away with previous EOs. It’s constitutional.

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Bummer: Hurricane Irma Not Converting People To The Cult Of Climastrology

By William Teach September 12, 2017 – 7:44 am

The Warmists at the UK Guardian, a paper that has long given up on journalism in favor of activism, seem a bit upset that some people are not converting to Warmism after Bad Weather

Floridians battered by Irma maintain climate change is no ‘big deal’
On Marco Island, widespread destruction in Irma’s wake is not enough to make believers out of some climate change skeptics

They sat through hours of pummelling by Hurricane Irma, with winds pounding them at up to 115mph and rain driving in a solid white sheet as bright as a snow blizzard. Then on Monday, Floridians woke up to survey the damage, begin the cleanup and get back to carrying on regardless.

By noon, the jet skiers were back on the water, buzzing around the west coast waterways under a blue sky where only hours before Irma had shaken the trees and put fear in people’s hearts.

In other words, back to life as usual.

For its lucky escape, the US has Cuba to thank, given that the northern coast of the island soaked up an important part of Irma’s energy before the storm reached Florida. Not that the debt of gratitude will be repaid by the current incumbent of the White House.

Apparently, the Cuba weather machines saved Florida. Al hail Castro and Authoritarianism!

The question now is whether local residents, Floridians and by extension America writ large will ponder the lessons of Irma, consider its portent of intensifying extreme weather in the wake of climate change, and decide to do something about it. The early message coming from Marcos Islanders on Monday was crystal clear.

No.

Chris Roche, 52, a real estate lawyer, was taking a long hard look at the damage to his home. Three trees were down in the yard, some tiles had come off the roof and there were signs of grey mud on the road – Irma’s calling card, dredged up from the seabed and deposited right outside his door. (snip)

As for climate change? “I don’t think climate change is such a big deal.”

That was quite a striking comment just hours after a massive hurricane of terrifying force, some of which may have been the gift of global warming, tore through his home.

“I don’t think man is the tipping point. I think it’s more natural than that. We’re not experiencing historically close [to] high temperatures, not even close to it.”

And, the Guardian apparently had a tough time finding an new Converts (Warmverts?), because absolutely zero are mentioned. In fact, many were wondering why the damage wasn’t as bad as expected, which was mentioned in the Cuba paragraph. There are headlines for stories like

One has to wonder where the actual hurricane force winds were. Check the screenshot of the article, as the website for the article is down. 46mph. That’s not hurricane force winds (the measure is the windspeed over 1 minute, not gusts). And of the ground data. You can check ground data here (go to Florida, and check the stations). The pressure was very low, what one would expect with a major hurricane, but, where were the readings for hurricane force wind speeds? The vast majority of stations do not show them. Yes, there is damage, but, you could get the same damage from tropical storm force winds. I’d love an answer for this from a weather expert.

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California Sues Trump Over Ending DACA

By William Teach September 12, 2017 – 7:00 am

This one is amazing. You have a program that was started under executive order. EO’s are not laws. They are subject to cancellation by any chief executive with the stroke of a pen, or by Congress passing a law and getting the president to sign it (along with a few other methods, Government 101). Especially since there was no long rule making process. Yet, we get this bit of insanity

(LA Times) California on Monday sued the Trump administration, challenging as unconstitutional the president’s plan to rescind a program to protect young immigrants brought to the country illegally from deportation.

The lawsuit comes a week after 15 other states, led by New York and Washington, filed a similar legal challenge.

California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said Monday he decided to file a separate suit because the state and its economy will be especially harmed by the president’s action because it is home to a quarter of the 800,000 people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.

“I think everyone recognizes the scope and breadth of the Trump decision to terminate DACA hits hardest here,” Becerra said after the other states sued.

There’s certainly a lot of discussion as to whether DACA is even lawful, much less Constitutional. It’s a major reach to say that cancelling an EO is un-Constitutional.

Becerra’s lawsuit says the DACA program approved by former President Obama is legal and that its repeal violates due process rights and will hurt the state’s economy.

Again, it matters zero whether Obama signed an EO that is legal, because EOs have always been subject to being turned over by an incoming president. Heck, even the same president can override his own EO. Repeal due process? Due process was wiped out in that prosecutorial discretion was dumped to provide 2 year legal statuses that could be renewed in perpetuity. The Law says the Dreamers are unlawfully present in the United States. Obama made it so none could be deported unless they did something really egregious.

California is welcome to them. They have much lower college graduation rates than the general population. California’s budget is a mess, and low wage workers do not help, especially when paired with good jobs moving out to states with better working laws and lower taxes. Their jails are filled to the brim with illegal aliens. Hey, here’s one of his great Dreamers

Obama ‘dreamer’, 23, ‘raped 19-year-old woman and tore off her EAR after attacking her with a kettlebell at the gym on the same day he assaulted a 14-year-old girl’

AG Becarra should wait to see if Congress does anything, because Trump has a 6 month expiration on the program. This is just self-serving, and will probably get tossed. It does show California’s concern for illegal aliens over actual citizens, though.

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Interesting: Illegal Alien Loving Canada Is Deporting Lots Of Illegal Aliens

By William Teach September 11, 2017 – 3:23 pm

Canada asked for all the illegals to come to Canada. They’ve been overly inviting. And the consequences of unfettered illegal immigration has smacked them in the face with the dead mackerel of reality (via Hot Air)

(Reuters)  Canada has deported hundreds of people to countries designated too dangerous for civilians, with more than half of those people being sent back to Iraq, according to government data obtained by Reuters.

The spike in deportations comes as Canada faces a record number of migrants and is on track to have the most refugee claims in more than a decade. That has left the country scrambling to cope with the influx of asylum seekers, many crossing the U.S. border illegally.

Between January 2014 and Sept. 6, 2017, Canada sent 249 people to 11 countries for which the government had suspended or deferred deportations because of dangers to civilians.

That includes 134 people to Iraq, 62 to the Democratic Republic of Congo and 43 to Afghanistan, the data shows.

Now, these illegals do tend to be the dangerous types. But, if you’re going to act like an open border country, you’ll get treated like an open border country, and reap the problems associated with this. Furthermore, one has to wonder how many others are unlawfully present in Canada and haven’t been caught yet.

The Law Of Utterly Anticipated Unintended Consequences.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 11, 2017 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Climate Skepticism, with a post noting that a climate change landfall looks just like a normal hurricane landfall.

The photo that got wacked is below the fold

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I’m Convinced: Miss America Says Trump Wrong To Pull Out Of Paris Climate (Scam) Agreement

By William Teach September 11, 2017 – 10:57 am

Well, this has changed my position completely!

From the link

Miss North Dakota, a 23-year-old who said President Donald Trump was wrong to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, was named Miss America 2018 Sunday night in Atlantic City.

Why, yes, that is the first paragraph of the article.

Cara Mund topped a field of 51 contestants to win the crowd in the New Jersey seaside resort, where most of the 97 Miss Americas have been selected.

In one of her onstage interviews, Mund said Trump, a Republican, was wrong to withdraw the U.S. from the climate accord aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

“It’s a bad decision,” she said. “There is evidence that climate change is existing and we need to be at that table.”

I wonder how much in the way of fossil fuels, electricity, hair dryers, and such were required to get us to the point of having a Miss America? The carbon footprint must be enormous.

More: Newsbusters points out that the contestants were being asked to condemn Trump. Can’t we just get talented, pretty women wearing swimsuits and being talented?

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The ‘Climate Change’ Threat Is Here Or Something

By William Teach September 11, 2017 – 8:24 am

Excitable Bill McKibben is being excitable. It wasn’t all that long ago that Warmists were proclaiming that the threat from anthropogenic climate change was something that would be coming in the next 50-100 years. They also used to say that weather events were not climate. Now, though, they are switching to say with Absolute Moral Certainty!!!!!! that every bad weather event is due to you driving a fossil fueled vehicle. Interestingly, one has to wonder why ‘climate change’ can’t be responsible for Good Weather

Stop talking right now about the threat of climate change. It’s here; it’s happening

For the sake of keeping things manageable, let’s confine the discussion to a single continent and a single week: North America over the last seven days.

In Houston they got down to the hard and unromantic work of recovery from what economists announced was probably the most expensive storm in US history, and which weather analysts confirmed was certainly the greatest rainfall event ever measured in the country – across much of its spread it was a once-in-25,000-years storm, meaning 12 times past the birth of Christ; in isolated spots it was a once-in-500,000-years storm, which means back when we lived in trees. Meanwhile, San Francisco not only beat its all-time high temperature record, it crushed it by 3C, which should be pretty much statistically impossible in a place with 150 years (that’s 55,000 days) of record-keeping.

How about we compare it to previous warm periods? How about during the Holocene?

Oh, and while Irma spun, Hurricane Jose followed in its wake as a major hurricane, while in the Gulf of Mexico, Katia spun up into a frightening storm of her own, before crashing into the Mexican mainland almost directly across the peninsula from the spot where the strongest earthquake in 100 years had taken dozens of lives.

Did Bill just link the earthquake with Hotcoldwetdry?

Leaving aside the earthquake, every one of these events jibes with what scientists and environmentalists have spent 30 fruitless years telling us to expect from global warming. (There’s actually fairly convincing evidence that climate change is triggering more seismic activity, but there’s no need to egg the pudding.)

Yes, yes he did. BTW, why no mention of the fact that the climaweenies models failed for over 18 years, fail when applied to the past, and that there was extremely low landfalling hurricane activity for almost 12 years? If Bill want to talk 150 years, well, the major hurricane landfalling dearth record shattered that from the Civil War era years.

Maybe it was too much to expect that scientists’ warnings would really move people. (I mean, I wrote The End of Nature, the first book about all this 28 years ago this week, when I was 28 – and when my theory was still: “People will read my book, and then they will change.”) Maybe it’s like all the health warnings that you should eat fewer chips and drink less soda, which, to judge by belt-size, not many of us pay much mind. Until, maybe, you go to the doctor and he says: “Whoa, you’re in trouble.” Not “keep eating junk and some day you’ll be in trouble”, but: “You’re in trouble right now, today. As in, it looks to me like you’ve already had a small stroke or two.” Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are the equivalent of one of those transient ischaemic attacks – yeah, your face is drooping oddly on the left, but you can continue. Maybe. If you start taking your pills, eating right, exercising, getting your act together.

That’s the stage we’re at now – not the warning on the side of the pack, but the hacking cough that brings up blood. But what happens if you keep smoking? You get worse, till past a certain point you’re not continuing. We’ve increased the temperature of the Earth a little more than 1C so far, which has been enough extra heat to account for the horrors we’re currently witnessing. And with the momentum built into the system, we’re going to go somewhere near 2C, no matter what we do. That will be considerably worse than where we are now, but maybe it will be expensively endurable.

And that’s why people tune out: over-wrought hysterics pushing apocalyptic doom, just like the mentally disturbed people on street corners screeching about the end of the world. And, just like the wackos on the street corners, the Warmists cannot prove their assertions. Just because there has been warming does not mean it is primarily/solely caused by Mankind.

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Why Is Government Giving “Sanctuary Businesses” And Government A Pass?

By William Teach September 11, 2017 – 7:57 am

Have you heard of the term “sanctuary businesses” yet? Perhaps it’s something we should be paying attention to, along with sanctuary jurisdictions

(LA Times) As part of its tough stance against illegal immigration, Texas has been one of the few states requiring state agencies to use a federal system known as E-Verify to check job applicants.

The system checks Social Security numbers to make sure a prospective employee can legally work in the U.S.

But despite the state’s determined use of technology, it has no one in charge of making agencies comply with the law. It also does not require private employers to use the system if they are not working with the state.

And that, some immigration experts say, highlights a flaw in how states and the federal government combat illegal immigration. (snip)

Some immigrant rights activists complain that governments, though eager to target workers in the country illegally, protect the employers who hire them. Texas Democrats have come up with a term to describe this situation — a twist on the phrase “sanctuary cities” — that JoAnn Flemming, executive director of the conservative group Grassroots America, says she can agree with.

“It’s called ‘sanctuary businesses/industry,’” she said. “That makes a lot of Republicans mad when you use that term, but the fact of the matter is that there is a strong cheap labor lobby in Texas, and they give a lot of money to candidates and they have a lot of influence.”

Ms. Flemming has a point, and it’s a darned good one. Why are the companies and governments who hire illegal aliens given a pass? Sure, Los Federales will often raid businesses, but that’s coming from separate agencies. The federal government requires all contractors to us E-Verify. Some states require everyone to use it.

Not much has changed since the map was created back in 2010. California passed AB-1236, which prohibits jurisdictions from passing laws that would require the use of E-Verify. The people even tried to override that with a ballot referendum, but, it didn’t make it.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has long criticized government officials about the tendency to crack down on people in the country illegally while largely giving a pass to those who illegally hire them.

In March, she questioned the president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council during a congressional hearing about immigration enforcement.

“Why aren’t we going after the employers who are knowingly cheating?” McCaskill asked. “They are in fact a magnet that is in fact helping draw people over the border. I mean, most of these people aren’t coming for a vacation. They are coming to try to find work.”

Sen. McCaskill has, again, a great point. I’ve long, long recommended that a primary focus should be on those who hire illegals, along with those who give them shelter. The penalties should be severe and painful (monetarily) to the point that businesses, individuals, and government now, apparently, that no one would hire an illegal unless the illegal completely spoofed the system. Which illegals do, through things like identity theft. But, if everyone did their due diligence in hiring, they would be safe from fines and potential criminal sanctions.

It wouldn’t solve everything, but, it would certainly decrease the flow of illegals into the U.S. who are looking to work, as well as cause quite a bit of self-deportation as the jobs dry up.

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9/11 Sixteen Years Later: Remember The Horror (Sticky For Day)

By William Teach September 11, 2017 – 7:13 am

Today marks the 16th anniversary of that dark day, when Islamic jihadis killed 2,996 of our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. In the years since, many more have died of diseases from the pollutants. In the years since, Islamic jihadis have killed and wounded tens of thousands, many of who are other Muslims who haven’t bought into their cult of death. Four years ago, the USA Today wondered if 9/11 is becoming just another day, similar to Pearl Harbor Day. Based on the limited coverage by some news outlets, it may be.

People wonder why we should Remember the day in an overt fashion, unlike, say, Pearl Harbor day. Well, we defeated the Japanese within a few years. It was a different type of war. 9/11 was when we were attacked on our continent by people who will not stop anytime soon, an enemy that is not centralized by a nation, who spread according to their religious tenets. Al Qaeda is still around. Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram, the rise of ISIS. There are numerous Islamist groups out there. And we cannot forget that it is not just about the violence, but about those who use our own laws, founding documents, and societal mores against Western nations to slowly infiltrate and change our nations. The 9/11 Commission chairman has stated that the threat from Islamic terrorism is worse now than in 2001.

Why should we never forget? Things like this (click the more tag)

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinups Photos Question

By William Teach September 10, 2017 – 8:18 pm

Right now, I’m betting no one can see any of the previous Patriotic Pinup pictures, as well as a bunch of photos that I host in my Gallery site, because Photobucket kept wacking them, though they are a small number compared to the PP ones. Consider that today’s post was the 666th one, and there are plenty of others not using the PP tag that use those photos.

I have permissions for which sites can embed them. I’ve added the https version of my site, hopefully that will propagate and show them soon. Today’s I simply uploaded into the WordPress admin folder.

I can see all the photos, weirdly, if I access the posts in Firefox, which is what I use mostly to write new posts and access the Gallery site. But, I do not see them using Chrome nor Comodo Dragon. Nor on several browsers via my Android phone and tablet. I tried a test in my test site, did not show, either. But, worked just fine at Right Wing News (I did a quick test then deleted it).

Can anyone else see them in Firefox or another browser? This secure website thing is a work in progress.

More: I should qualify: this Sunday’s is in my Pirate’s Cove database, rather than Gallery, so, can anyone see the photos here and here?

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