Latest Sob Story: Brothers Deported For Telling ICE One Was Going To College

By William Teach August 3, 2017 – 8:14 am

Violating federal laws by coming to the United States illegally has consequences, much like trespassing does

He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college. Now he and his brother have been deported.

Two brothers from Gaithersburg were deported to their native El Salvador on Wednesday in what their attorney says was the fastest deportation process he has ever seen.

Lizandro Claros Saravia, 19, is a standout soccer player who had secured a scholarship to play college soccer in North Carolina. His brother, Diego, 22, took extra classes to graduate from Quince Orchard High School on time and “has a heart of gold,” a former teacher said.

They entered the country illegally in 2009, however, and although they initially won reprieves from deportation, their efforts to renew those stays were repeatedly denied.

The brothers have no criminal records and would not have been a priority for deportation by the Obama administration, said Matthew Bourke, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

What the Washington Post is saying here is that we’re supposed to ignore the fact that they are here unlawfully. I’m betting writer Rachel Chason wouldn’t be so cavalier about people sneaking into her domicile and deciding to just stay. She would surely call the police and want them removed and prosecuted, even if they had “no criminal records.”

On Friday, the brothers were detained by ICE agents in Baltimore after a regular check-in. Lizandro Claros Saravia told the agents that he was planning to attend college on a scholarship, said Nick Katz, senior manager of legal services at CASA de Maryland, who is representing the pair.

“The ICE agents told me they were deporting the kids because Lizandro got into college, and that showed they intended to stay in the U.S.,” Katz said.

Bourke said that is not how ICE conducts enforcement actions.

“They were issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2012. That’s why they were removed,” Bourke said. The brothers were granted a stay of removal in 2013, but subsequent applications for stays were denied.

So, a lawfully empowered judge ordered them deported, they were granted one stay, and then further stays were denied, and Team Obama violated the ruling by not deported them. Shouldn’t the Obama administrations failure to uphold the law be the story?

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said his office had been working to secure the release of the Claros Saravia brothers and that he was “very upset” to hear about their deportation.

“Shame on President Trump for tearing apart hardworking immigrant families,” he tweeted Wednesday evening. “We should be focused on MS-13, not scholarship winners.”

So, a duly elected federal Senator is taking the side of people who have violated our laws, and was taking a spot at college that could go to a U.S. citizen. Again, I bet he wouldn’t be so cavalier if it was his home that was being invaded. Perhaps he should reconsider his oath to support and defend the Constitution and our laws.

Illegal migrants get deported. That’s true around the world. What is so shocking in the US is that people are shocked that people who are in the US illegally are made to leave.

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We Can Solve Hotcoldwetdry If Everyone Eats Beans Instead Of Meat

By William Teach August 2, 2017 – 5:35 pm

All Warmists are up for this, right? Right?????

From the article

Ecoanxiety is an emerging condition. Named in 2011, the American Psychological Association recently described it as the dread and helplessness that come with “watching the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts of climate change unfold, and worrying about the future for oneself, children, and later generations.”

It’s not a formal diagnosis. Anxiety is traditionally defined by an outsized stress response to a given stimulus. In this case, the stimulus is real, as are the deleterious effects of stress on the body.

OK, we can stop there. These people are nuts.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 2, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is the need for hats due to carbon pollution making the sun stronger, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on a Calexit campaigner wanting to replace the middle class with “immigrants”.

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‘Climate Change’ To Massively Increase Deaths In The Future Or Something

By William Teach August 2, 2017 – 10:30 am

Today’s doomathon story, because, having given up on actual science and watching their cult lose influence, attempting to scare people is all they have left

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths massively by 2100

Climate change is set to increase the amount of ground-level ozone and fine particle pollution we breathe, which leads to lung disease, heart conditions, and stroke. Less rain and more heat means this pollution will stay in the air for longer, creating more health problems.

Our research, published in Nature Climate Change, found that if climate change continues unabated, it will cause about 60,000 extra deaths globally each year by 2030, and 260,000 deaths annually by 2100, as a result of the impact of these changes on pollution.

So, why will this occur? Well, they state that it will change the air currents and cause stagnant air (wait, I thought it was going to increase air flow? No? Warmists are actually all over the place, calling for faster and slower winds) which will leave actual air pollution near to the ground along with more ozone. How did they arrive at this conclusion?

This is the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of climate change on global air quality and health. Researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan and New Zealand between them used nine different global chemistry-climate models.

Most models showed an increase in likely deaths – the clearest signal yet of the harm climate change will do to air quality and human health, adding to the millions of people who die from air pollution every year.

Sigh. More models. And it looks like they completely discounted the ones that disagreed with their preconceived notions.

Using multiple models makes the results more robust than using a single model. There is some spread of results amongst the nine models used here, with a few models estimating that climate change may decrease air pollution-related deaths. This highlights that results from any study using a single model should be interpreted with caution.

Unlike the caution shown in stating that ‘climate change’ will cause all these deaths.

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Abortionistas Rage At DCCC For Suggesting There Should Be No Litmus Test For Candidates

By William Teach August 2, 2017 – 8:26 am

Abortion is the be all end all of the Democratic Party. It is the #1 commandment, the first thing on their list of beliefs

(Washington Examiner) The Left is not taking well to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Lujan’s comments this week that the House Democratic campaign arm will not withhold funds from Democratic candidates who do not pledge full allegiance to abortion on demand without apology.

And it isn’t just the groups explicitly about abortion that are upset. Democracy for America, a left-wing group spun off long ago from Howard Dean’s unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign, reacted with an especially strident statement that really jumps out at you. It kind of blows the doors off the nation’s consensus position on abortion — that whether you’re for it or against it being legal, it is something we recognize as not good, and we generally take sides on it based on whether we want to abolish it or tolerate as a necessary evil.

The portion of the DFA statement that I have marked in bold here is actually highlighted in yellow in the original statement via email:

“It is profoundly disturbing to hear the person tasked with helping Democrats take back the House suggest that our party can credibly talk about confronting economic inequity, while turning a blind eye to candidates who want to limit women’s right to control their own bodies. Abortion rights are inextricably tied to the fight against economic and racial inequity, full stop, and until all leaders of our party fully understand that we’re going to keep losing.

There is rage all around. Head Planned Parenthood Ghoul Cecile Richards went on a long Twitter rant, and this response is a standout

https://twitter.com/roseamund/status/892537516254838784

Rosie O’Donnell is up for fracturing the Dem Party and creating a women’s only one over this. Over at the NY Times, we see this screed from Lindy West

Of Course Abortion Should Be a Litmus Test for Democrats

Democrats will fund anti-choice candidates in conservative districts, Representative Ben Ray Luján, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in an interview this week, citing the party’s need to build “a broad coalition” to win control of Congress in 2018. “There is not a litmus test for Democratic candidates,” Luján told The Hill. “As we look at candidates across the country, you need to make sure you have candidates that fit the district, that can win in these districts across America.”

Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, expressed a similar sentiment in April, after he was criticized for supporting the anti-abortion Democrat Heath Mello in a local Nebraska race: “We have got to appreciate where people come from and do our best to fight for the pro-choice agenda,” Sanders told NPR. “But I think you just can’t exclude people who disagree with us on one issue.”

I relate to the flailing panic that is no doubt undergirding such a morally putrescent idea. Nineteen hyenas and a broken vacuum cleaner control the White House, and ice is becoming extinct. I get it. I am desperate and afraid as well. I am prepared to make leviathan compromises to pull us back from that brink. But there is no recognizable version of the Democratic Party that does not fight unequivocally against half its constituents’ being stripped of ownership of their own bodies and lives. This issue represents everything Democrats purport to stand for.

To legislatively oppose abortion is to be, at best, indifferent to the disenfranchisement, suffering and possibly even the death of women. At worst it is to revel in those things, to believe them fundamental to the natural order. Where, exactly, on that spectrum is Luján comfortable placing his party?

How did it come to this, that abortion is the only thing that really matters to the Democratic Party? That no other issue is as important? That this is what they stand for above all else?

Nothing can dissuade them from this. They will accept no restrictions in the least. I’ve gotten into debates with them on this, and, since most are also gun grabbers, I’ve said things like “OK, you give me banning all late term abortion expect where the mother’s life is truly in danger, and I’ll give you closing the so-called gun show loophole” and “you give me parental notification, with the rare exception of going to a judge in certain situations, and I’ll give you “comprehensive background checks” (which is a stand-in for the government knowing about every gun you own and the ability to easily deny permits)”. And other tit for tats. Every time I’ve been told “no.”

These are people who had utter meltdown over states, such as North Carolina, requiring abortion facilities to have the same standards as other medical facilities. Seriously, they want abortion facilities to have lower medical standards than veterinarians. That talking point, which was prevalent during that debate, is actually wrong. Vets have lots of medical standards, because it’s the law and vets love animals. Abortionistas actually want lower medical standards than tattoo parlors. Even tattoo places get inspected by the state. Abortion lovers do not even want inspections.

How did it come to this?

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Say, How Do You Explain Immigration Law To Fifth Graders?

By William Teach August 2, 2017 – 8:03 am

That’s a great question. Elizabeth Keyes gave it a shot, and proves once again that some people are seriously disingenuous on the subject

(PRI) The challenge: Bring immigration law to life for a room of fidgety fifth-graders.

Specifically, I need to bring it to life for fifth-graders who have already heard from a dozen other parents on Career Day in May — including an actual rocket scientist. I am an immigration lawyer and professor. The room is warm, and the kids sit at their desks, sets of four scattered around the room. The looks on their faces are tired and skeptical. My daughter at her desk is alternately hopeful and nervous that I will embarrass her.

My plan? Talk about Pokémon.

The Rules

I write Pokémonlandia on the board and announce that we are going to create the rules for who could come live in that imaginary place. What kinds of people do we want?

The boy with glasses who had been bouncing in his seat calls out “Pokémon trainers!” After a couple more Pokémon-related suggestions, a quiet girl whose head had been in a book when I walked into the class raises her hand and suggests “kind people.”

I ask the class if they want people who could play sports or who liked pizza. They agree with the pizza idea and specify that we should have soccer and basketball players. I ask if we should let people in who liked “Hamilton.” Half the class gets worked into a frenzy in favor of this idea. The other half shares defeated looks, clearly not part of the craze.

Once Ms. Keyes has the rules in place, she heads into the evidence, which is finding out what kind of people those who are in certain classes can be. Interestingly, Mr. Trump and a few Senate Republicans are going to reintroduce the RAISE Act today, which would limit legal immigration while focusing on people who can help the country, versus continuously allowing people with few skills, who will be on the public dole, do not speak the language, and won’t assimilate, into the nation easy peasy.

Ms. Keys then jumps into the complexity of allowing people in. Following the byzantine rules, that it’s easy to make mistakes. That some are more acceptable than others, that some rules require this and that and the other. Sounds just like the legal immigration system, does it not?

I did not get into all of this with these kids that day. For me, it was enough to introduce in a palpable way that it is a complicated system to navigate, hoping that if they hear simplistic slogans like “Which part of illegal don’t you understand?” they will remember that it’s harder than that.

In other words, what Ms. Keyes, like so many illegal immigration supporters do, was conflating legal immigration with illegal immigration, mixing the two, in order to make the law breaking by illegals seem to be just part of the system, in an attempt to accept them all.

But, if you really want to explain illegal immigration to 5th graders, let me modify the explanation I have for adults.

Let’s say you and your parents go on a week long vacation to someplace fun during spring break. When you come back, you walk in and there are people in your backyard. They have tents set up, they’re using the pool and grill, and you can’t understand a word they’re saying. Some of them look like cool people, and are working on the hedges, others are wearing saggy pants, all the same color shirts, and have scary tattoos.

So mom and dad call the police. The police are good people, they help citizens in trouble. They stop by, and tell mom and dad that there’s nothing they can do. Had mom and dad called within a few hours of the people coming onto the property they could have taken them away, but, since it had been a week, well, they will bring it up to a judge, who might do something in a few weeks. Besides, the people came from the poor section of town, and are just looking for a better life.

Mommy and Daddy are furious. They explain to the police with their cool uniforms that “the people are trespassing.” You quickly whip out your iPhone and look up the meaning. One of the links explains this is a crime. The police are not impressed, because the city tends to ignore these situations, because it is accepting of diversity of people just looking for a better life.

The police then go on to explain that mom and dad will forthwith be responsible for providing clothing, education, healthcare, food, and money to the trespassers. Furthermore, mom and dad have to let the trespassers use the house for things like bathing, cooking, and sleeping. You find one with tattoos up in your room going through your toys, and see one of the nice looking ones coming out of your parents bedroom holding cards with mom and dad’s pictures on them and others that are a nice shade of blue with a long string of numbers on them.

When you come back outside, some other guy in a suit and tie is explaining to mom and dad that they cannot build a big fence around the property, and, furthermore, they have to allow the relatives of the people in your yard to come and stay. You just don’t get it. You remember when old crabby Mr. Jones chased you and your friends off his property when you were riding dirt bikes in the woods. Mom and dad explained that it was his property, and he’s in charge (and crabby). So, why can’t they evict (you learned the word while looking up trespassing” these people? It’s your property. You live there. You just don’t get it. Why are these people treated differently? Trespassing is trespassing. And why does that guy have your book of expensive Pokemon cards peeking out of his pocket?

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LA Gets 2028 Olympics, Paris 2024: Who Pays The Carbon Offsets?

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 5:18 pm

So, this happened

(Washington Post)  Los Angeles has decided its Olympic aspirations can wait four years, which means Paris is poised to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

The two cities had both been awarded hosting rights by the International Olympic Committee and have been negotiating for the past three weeks on which city would go first and which would wait until 2028. On Monday afternoon, a deal between the three parties was announced, with Los Angeles agreeing to stage the 2028 Summer Games.

Hooray? The NY Times wonders what an LA Olympics would look like, with events such as

  • A shortest shower competition.
  • Fastest to extricate your car from stacked parking.
  • Santa Monica Boulevard slalom.
  • Food truck drag racing on Silver Lake Boulevard.

Well, those are cute, but, one wonders what all the “green” stuff will look like. Remember, the past few Olympics tried this, and didn’t do so well. On the bright side, they intend to use many existing structures in California for the games and housing the contestants. On the other hand, what’s the carbon footprint of all the fossil fueled flights and vehicle trips from all over the world? How about all the fossil fuels used to build lots of things? Will California require athletes, trainers, media, etc, to purchase carbon offsets? What about all the food and energy that will be used?

This goes towards Paris, the home of the silly Paris Climate Agreement, as well. Hosting the Olympics cannot be carbon neutral.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an opera house that will soon be flood from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on Obamacare’s continuing death spiral.

BTW, since someone asked, the “jokes” before the picture are mostly based on things I’ve read from Warmists in stories, comments, and on Twitter. I’m not making those things up out of the blue.

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‘Climate Change’ Blamed For Nearly 60,000 Indian Farmer Deaths

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 10:30 am

You refuse to buy local, stop using a hair dryer, take showers longer than 2 minutes, and don’t unplug your cable box when not in use, so, you’re to blame

Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers linked to climate change, study claims

Climate change may have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades, according to new research that examines the toll rising temperatures are already taking on vulnerable societies.

Illustrating the extreme sensitivity of the Indian agricultural industry to spikes in temperature, the study from the University of California, Berkeley, found an increase of just 1C on an average day during the growing season was associated with 67 more suicides.

An increase of 5C on any one day was associated with an additional 335 deaths, the study published in the journal PNAS on Monday found. In total, it estimates that 59,300 agricultural sector suicides over the past 30 years could be attributed to warming.

Could be. May. Their computer models and preconceived notions to create Blamestorming tell them so.

Worse than the parched crops were the bank loans that loomed over many farming families, said Rani Radhakrishnan, one of the protesters.

In February, owing 80,000 rupees (£945), her husband stood outside his bank branch in the city of Trichy, and consumed a toxic concoction. He died on the spot.

So, it could possibly be something else? Like backbreaking debt?

The crime bureau found that more than half (58 per cent) of the 12,602 farmer suicides in 2015 were driven by bankruptcy, indebtedness and other farming-related issues.

“Suicides occur due to extreme economic despair,” said M S Swaminathan, a geneticist who has studied India’s agriculture industry

Of course, that’s blamed on Hotcoldwetdry, as well.

There have actually been record harvests in India, leading to price drops, which leads to less money, leading to banks wanting money that farmers do not have. Na. Climate change. And this politicized social psychology study is being pimped in news outlets around the world, with nary a paper saying “is this really correct?”

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Latest Game Of Thrones Was A Coded Message To Black People And About ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 7:16 am

Seriously, the show can’t just be a show, can it? Nope, there has to be some incredibly deep and super secret message

Sunday’s Game of Thrones Was a Message to Black America

For three weeks, we have preached about how Game of Thrones teaches us everything we need to know about white America. So, this week, you might expect us to joke about how Sansa should’ve cooked for Bran when he came home from that long road trip, or how Euron Greyjoy is turning into Anthony Scaramucci. I bet you just knew we would have an extended discussion about the scene where the official from the Iron Bank lamented how its investments in the slave trade were doing poorly. (and we could probably mention how the same people who preach about racism and stuff are making what they would consider unacceptable racist jokes)

Instead, this week, the Game of Thrones writers created an episode that spoke in coded language, dropping jewels only black people could pick up. While there are too many to name, here are the major keys dropped by episode 3 of this season of Game of Thrones:

Race baiter Michael Harriot goes on to mention three things: Beware of White Allies, We Need Black Leaders Like Jon Snow, and The Black Imagination Is Too Small, all of which complain and smear white people. And include mentions of Trump, Republicans, Scaramuchi, and lots of political whining. We get things like

What happens when you mix white feminism with white privilege and add a dash of white allyship? You get Daenerys Targaryen—the physical embodiment of the word “problematic.”

While it might be true that she is the “breaker of chains” (notice how she rattled off every one of her titles when our play cousin Jon Snow walked into her living room at Dragonstone, while Davos simply introduced Jon Snow as … well … Jon Snow), we must remember that Daenerys’ much-ballyhooed benevolence is tied to her obsession with winning the presidency Iron Throne.

and

Many people have criticized Jon Snow. Because of his mixed heritage, some say he’s “not really one of us.” Others say that since he left our neighborhood and started hanging out with those white boys at the wall and the rednecks Wildlings, he can’t be trusted.

Is it acceptable to make that joke with the strikethrough? What if it was the “N” word instead, written by a white writer? Would that be OK? I think we all know the answer. There’s lots more Idiocy throughout, if you’d like to give a Jack Sparrow look for a bit, ending with

Game of Thrones teaches us that if we are to remain alive, we must always remember that even when they are offering a kiss, there might be poison in their mouths.

Sigh. Then we have this

‘GoT’s’ White Walkers Could Be a Metaphor for Climate Change

The White Walkers are an undeniably evil force in Game of Thrones, but the above video argues that they’re not just senseless monsters — they’re actually a metaphor for climate change, an issue that George R.R. Martin has spoken about before.

While it may sound a little strange at first, it’s actually a very convincing argument. Despite being such an existential threat to humanity, the White Walkers are generally not taken so seriously. Stories about them come through grim secondhand accounts, and are often dismissed as fake by people like Tyrion Lannister and Ned Stark. Sound familiar?

Like climate change, the wealthier characters in the show can ignore the White Walkers, as the poor and vulnerable are affected first. Watch the video above.

This is not the first time that the ‘climate change’ nutters have made comparisons, and probably won’t be the last, even as the show is scheduled to wrap up in three more episodes. But, I do like the schtick about “wealthier characters”, as that is a great allegory for all the ‘climate change’ leaders, like Gore, Obama, Sheldon Whitehouse, Tom Steyer, etc and so on, who refuse to practice what they preach while attempting to force the middle and lower classes pay the penalties, in the form of taxes, fees, higher cost of living, and lost of freedom.

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