LA Times Seems Shocked That Foreigners Are Buying Homes In America At Record Pace Despite “Immigration Crackdown”

By William Teach July 19, 2017 – 6:36 am

Apparently, all these foreigners buying homes in the U.S. are smart enough to understand that the crackdown is not on immigrants, but on illegal aliens

Foreigners buy record number of U.S. homes despite fears of immigration crackdown

Foreign home buyers scooped up a record number of residential properties in the United States in the last year, despite a rising dollar and political uncertainty, according to a survey released Tuesday.

The National Assn. of Realtors said foreigners bought 284,455 properties in the 12 months that ended March 31, about a third more than a year earlier. Dollar volume surged nearly 50% to $153 billion, also a record for the survey first taken in 2009.

Chinese nationals were the biggest buyers, purchasing $31.7 billion worth of property, up from $27.3 billion a year earlier and more than ever before, the Realtors said.

But the largest increase came from a surge in buyers from Canada, where prices have skyrocketed in recent years, partially due to Chinese investment there.

Rather than this being a straight story on how foreign purchases jumped from 4% to 5%, despite talking points that were worried about the opposite, the silly people have to make this about Trump and his immigration policies

The dramatic jumps come despite a higher U.S. dollar that has made properties more expensive for many foreigners.

In addition, the survey period includes the U.S. presidential campaign and the beginning of the administration of President Trump, who has a history of divisive rhetoric against immigrants and has called for restricting both legal and illegal immigration.

For the most part, Trump has only called on restricting legal immigration from areas which are known terrorist hotbeds. As far as restricting illegal immigration, Trump’s not doing that on a whim: it’s something that’s actually baked into, get this, federal law.

“The political and economic uncertainty both here and abroad did not deter foreigners from exponentially ramping up their purchases of U.S. property over the past year,” Yun said. “Foreigners increasingly acted on their beliefs that the U.S. is a safe and secure place to live, work and invest.”

Must have hurt to put that quote in the story, which blows out the narrative of Trump’s words and actions harming legal immigrants (technically, they wouldn’t be immigrants, but temporary residents, since most are not looking to stay here permanently). These foreigners are smarter than the unhinged supporters of illegal immigration, since they know that they aren’t illegals and that the Trump admin is not coming after them.

Is anyone particularly concerned with Chinese or Canadians going on jihad?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Surprise: 90% Of Americans Don’t Care About ‘Climate Change’ As An Issue

By William Teach July 18, 2017 – 4:42 pm

Yet another poll that blows up this political issue

(Daily Caller)  Only one in 10 Americans say global warming is the most important issue facing the U.S., according to a new Bloomberg poll.

Even though 90 percent of Americans did not say global warming was the country’s most pressing issue, climate concerns topped other categories. Only 6 percent said the U.S.’s relationship with Russia was a top concern, and only 4 percent said taxes.

The Bloomberg poll found that health care was by far the top concern for Americans. Thirty-five percent said health care was their top concern and 13 percent pointed to unemployment and jobs.

The results shouldn’t be that surprising. Polls consistently find only a fraction of Americans rank global warming as their top concern. A 2016 YouGov poll, for example, found only 9.2 percent of Americans listed global warming as their top concern.

If we look at the metrics in the Bloomberg poll (page 1 bottom),l we do find that, for a change, it’s not dead last or next to last. It does better than

  • taxes (4%)
  • trade (2%)
  • other (4%)
  • none of these (2%)
  • not sure (2%)

Oh, and this “relationship with Russia” 6%. So, two of the main things Democrats yammer about are low hanging fruit.

In all fairness, immigration is at 10%, as well.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible evil meat which Other People should not be allowed to eat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on feminism’s excuse factory.

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Guardian: Stop Fighting ‘Climate Change’ Personally And Take On Corporations Instead

By William Teach July 18, 2017 – 11:14 am

I’ve been taking on the whole anthropogenic climate change scam for a decade in a manner noting this is all about politics, not science. And things like this keep proving me right

Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals
Stop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power

Hmm, isn’t the UK Guardian a company with lots of corporate power?

While we busy ourselves greening our personal lives, fossil fuel corporations are rendering these efforts irrelevant. The breakdown of carbon emissions since 1988? A hundred companies alone are responsible for an astonishing 71 percent. You tinker with those pens or that panel; they go on torching the planet.

The freedom of these corporations to pollute – and the fixation on a feeble lifestyle response – is no accident. It is the result of an ideological war, waged over the last forty years, against the possibility of collective action. Devastatingly successful, it is not too late to reverse it.

Really, you should read the entire screed in full from start to finish to get the true sense of derangement here, but, it boils down to a few points

  • Excusemaking for the failure of Warmists to do more than make token changes in their own lives
  • Their hatred of corporations (while failing to note all the clothes, devices, food, etc that Warmists/Progressives refuse to give up)
  • Wanting to invest tons of power in centralized government
  • Forcing people out of their vehicles and into mass transit, preferably moving everyone to big cities where it is easier to control them
  • Putting the entire economy under the full control of centralized government
  • Putting companies under the control of centralized government
  • Putting people and private entities fully under the control of centralized government.

Interestingly, Warmists/Progressives never seem to realize that this will all negatively affect their own lives.

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McConnell To Push Repeal Only After Collapse Of Healthcare Bill

By William Teach July 18, 2017 – 7:20 am

What a shame, the Senate’s terrible, no good, does-not-actually-repeal-Obamacare plan, similar to the House’s does-not-actually-repeal-Ocare plan, has collapsed, as it has not garnered the necessary support. Talking Point Memo’s Tierney Sneed plays it straight in reporting what comes next (interestingly, the article from the hardcore left site is more straight news than most of the Legacy Media outlets)

Not long after the defections of two more Senate Republicans made the GOP Obamacare replacement bill dead in the water, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Monday night he would let members vote for a “repeal only” amendment, if they are able to get the base health care legislation that was passed in the House onto the floor.

Under the plan laid out by McConnell’s statement Monday, if the Senate Republicans are willing to advance the repeal-and-replace bill passed in the House in a procedural vote, they will get a chance to vote on an amendment to replace it with a “repeal only” approach, similar to a 2015 bill Congress passed that was vetoed by President Obama. It’s unclear what the next steps would be if the vote on the amendment failed.

This should be very interesting. The GOP did this numerous times while Obama was POTUS, especially in the House. But, not, they know that if a repeal bill passes Congress, POTUS Trump will sign it. So, it’s not for show. Will the squishier members show their true squishiness? If the GOP does not get a repeal bill through, you can bet that they can kiss Congress goodbye over the next one to two election cycles. McConnell is taking a big risk here, but, you can also bet he’ll be letting members know what will happen to their majorities and individual seats if they do not vote to kill Ocare.

But, is this really repeal? Sundance explains

Correction, I just noticed McConnell’s trickery, the 2015 bill was a defunding bill, not a repeal. McConnell is just tricking people into thinking this was going in the direction of a repeal. It’s not.

The GOP have never, ever, voted for a repeal. That would take 60 votes. They voted in 2015 to defund it using the 51 vote threshold of ‘reconciliation’. They’ve never once had a repeal vote on Obamacare.

Therefore, if this actually goes to a vote, this appears to be constructed simply as an exercise to prove a vote was taken. ObamaCare remains and the implosion continues. McConnell’s political calculation here is trickery. Nothing more. O-Care remains.

An interesting point. Does McConnell go this route, or does he actually go for repeal, which would require either some trickery or the nuclear option?

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37 Countries Are Against A U.S. Border Wall With Mexico Or Something

By William Teach July 18, 2017 – 7:05 am

This is cute. As John Schick writes, “Our national interests are not determined by foreign nations” (via Twitchy)

From the Pew article

Trump’s proposal to erect a wall along the border between Mexico and the U.S. generates the greatest opposition in the countries surveyed. Globally, a median of 76% disapprove of building the wall, while only 16% approve. Publics in Europe and Latin America are the most negative, with a median of about 85% in both regions voicing disapproval. In Mexico, 94% oppose building a wall on their border.

The idea of building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico receives the greatest support among Jordanians (44% approve) and Israelis (42%), but even in these countries, public opinion is split on the issue.

In North America and Europe, men are more likely than women to support building a physical wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Australia has the largest gender gap in approval ratings for the border wall: 26% of men vs. 12% of women support Trump’s announced intention.

I bet a bunch of countries, particularly in central Europe, wished they had had walls in the late 1930’s.

A lot of those countries are ones which no one actually wants to move to legally, much less illegally. Seriously, Kenya? Nigeria?

Several, such as the UK and Australia, are actually islands, so have no need of walls. Australia will deport an illegal in a heartbeat. Japan will not allow people to practice Islam.

South Korea has a massive amount of military might along a zone between North Korea and South Korea. It’s quite a bit more than a wall.

Sweden should worry about its own Islamist rape crisis first. Venezuela has their own issues. Brazil should worry about clear-cutting the Amazon rain forest and the squalor within their big cities.

They can all piss off. Bunch of wankers.

There are also polls about people not liking the U.S. pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership, and Trump’s travel ban. The whole thing is about trying to slam Trump from a world view. Looks like we can add them to the Sore Losers Club, as well.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Illegal Alien Detentions Up, Deportations Down

By William Teach July 17, 2017 – 3:45 pm

Trump needs to put aside a lot of his social media stuff and spend the time getting people in place

(USA Today)  Arrests of undocumented immigrants by federal agents increased in June, but deportations fell to their lowest point this year as the nation’s court system sees bigger backlogs, according to data released Monday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE agents arrested 13,914 people last month, following a trend since President Trump took office in January and his campaign promise to crack down on illegal immigration.

In the final three months of the Obama administration, ICE averaged 9,134 arrests per month. That number has steadily increased under Trump, with the agency averaging 13,085 each month from February through June.

The Trump administration has not turned those arrests into more deportations, however, as those numbers keep falling.

In the final three months of the Obama administration, the agency averaged 22,705 deportations per month. That number has consistently fallen under Trump, with the agency averaging 16,895 from February through June, reaching its lowest point in June.

One has to wonder if a lot of judges are slow-walking cases.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution fueled grill, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is America’s Watchtower, with a post on an admission from Demonitwit Adam Schiff.

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“Scientists” Are Getting Better At Linking (Non-existent) Extreme Weather To ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach July 17, 2017 – 10:58 am

Extreme weather is not getting worse. In fact, many events linked to climate have decreased. But, that never stops a good talking point

Scientists are getting better at linking extreme events, such as wildfires, to climate change

climate change joke

The largest B.C. city between Kamloops and Prince George has been evacuated because of wildfires.

As people have fled Williams Lake, a massive fire still rages out of control in the Ashcroft area.

Ten kilometres north of Princeton, there’s another huge wildfire. And 100 Mile House is close to another massive wildfire that’s simply called Gustafsen North.

Then there’s the sudden grassfire that grew to 30 hectares in Lake Country, which burned a few homes.

In total, up to 37,000 British Columbians have been evacuated from their communities.

Yet in the midst of all of this, there’s been very little mention of climate change in national and provincial media reports about these blazes.

Why is that?

Primarily because there’s no scientific proof that the fires were caused because Someone Else drove a fossil fueled vehicle. And, if you actually spend some time looking them up, they think that in most cases the fires were caused by humans doing stupid things, rather than a tiny increase in the average global temperature

Last year, a paper published by the World Meteorological Organization addressed this communications gap.

“While scientists have known for decades that changes in some classes of extreme weather would result from climate change, the science of attributing individual extreme events to global warming has only advanced significantly in recent years to cover a greater number of extremes and achieve a greater speed of scientific analysis,” the paper states. “Unfortunately, the communication of this science outside the extreme event research community has, with a few notable exceptions, not fully reflected these advances.

In other words, their scare-mongering talking points have gotten better, and tend to be disseminated by the Credentialed Media.

It’s worth noting that one local meteorologist, CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe, has diligently tried to educate the public about the consequences of climate change. But by and large, B.C. media reports about the wildfires have rarely brought up the relationship between rising greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and the high likelihood of more forest fires, such as those that we’re seeing in the Cariboo and Kamloops forest centres.

It’s all a bunch of mule fritters. Wild fires have always happened, and will always happen. It has nothing to do with rising greenhouse gas emissions. Of course, wildfires have been going down.

Do you know what doesn’t help? When the enviro-wackos refuse to allow brush, otherwise known as “highly flammable tinder”, to be cleared in areas that could effect homes.

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Reebok Goes Political, Goes After Trump For His Compliments To Macron’s Wife

By William Teach July 17, 2017 – 7:59 am

Here’s a good idea: a shoe and apparel company going political, taking a silly shot at President Trump

(Mediaite) This was an obvious jab at President Trump for his remarks to Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, when he said that she was in “such good shape” and called her “beautiful.”

They captured a few pushback tweets, which look like this

(More tweets in the single post)

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