NY Times Digs Deep To Assault Trump Over (Spins Wheel) Census

By William Teach July 17, 2017 – 7:38 am

I remember an old story, deep in my archives somewhere, about a leftist blogger who would wake up each day in a fit of Bush Derangement Syndrome. She’d grab her non-alcoholic beer at 7am, get her smokes out, and think about how she could be apoplectic over Bush. This seems to much the same as the NY Times Editorial Board goes after President Donald Trump. Oh, and while they’re doing this, they manage to hit previous President Barack Obama in the face

Save the Census

An administration uninterested in staffing federal agencies, at war with facts and eager to help Congress cut the budget is further endangering a cornerstone of American democracy: the duty to count all who live here.

The Government Accountability Office already put the 2020 census on its list of high-risk projects early this year, due to uncertainty about its budget and technology, and Americans’ increasing distrust of government data collection.

Then, the Census Bureau’s director, John Thompson, who was expected to remain on the job until at least the end of the year, resigned in June. Mr. Trump has not named a permanent replacement. The agency’s deputy director, Nancy Potok, an experienced statistician, left in January, and she also has not been replaced.

Sounds nefarious! Or, it could be that he had worked for the Census since 1975, and decided it was time to retire.

The bureau — criticized in the past by government watchdogs and Congress for cost overruns and management missteps — is strapped for cash in a critical preparation year. The bureau could need an increase of more than $300 million to its $1.5 billion budget to install new technology and conduct a comprehensive test in time for 2020, according to an analysis of bureau budget requests and projections by Terri Ann Lowenthal, a census expert. So far, the Trump administration and Congress are recommending an increase of about one-tenth that amount, according to the Census Project, a nonpartisan census advocacy group.

OK, so, the Census is in desperate need for a technology update. These issues have been known since the last census in 2010. Remind me, who was president during the majority of time since the last census? This is the kind of thing that would have had all the media outlets, including the NY Times Editorial Board, Blaming Bush back in 2009 and 2010 (and beyond).

The census has always been vulnerable to political attack, and is especially so now. In 2009, Tea Party conservatives in the House tried unsuccessfully to kill off the bureau’s annual American Community Survey, a continuing tracking of respondents’ occupations, education, homeownership and other topics, as a supposed intrusion on privacy. A joint study by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution this year calls the survey data “indispensable” in helping local governments plan.

And citizens call it intrusive and overbearing, asking for more data on our private lives that government has no right to ask. Hence the reason quite a few people refused to provide details beyond the basics.

Mr. Trump poses an additional threat: His repeated efforts to discredit voter registration data and government employment numbers leave census officials worried that a random tweet from him could discourage more people from participating. Census professionals worry that the administration’s efforts to deport undocumented immigrants could make them wary of providing information about themselves and where they live.

Aww, are the people living unlawfully in the U.S. worried? Good. They should be.

The census begins on April 1, 2020, and it must be completed in the summer for congressional reapportionment and redistricting to take place. Any failure would be immediately apparent — and it would tar Republicans at the height of the 2020 primary campaign season. Perhaps that reality will help inspire congressional leaders to support an accurate count, demonstrating to Americans that, even in the age of Trump, facts matter.

Good lord, it’s not that hard to count where people live. Which is one of the main points of the census, to count the population to apportion the House of Representatives. Which Progressives no longer like, because people keep moving to Republican states.

But, see, when we’re talking about the money, well, there have been massive cost over-runs and poor spending choices. Like most government. And, in fact, there is an acting director. The NYTEB forgot to mention his name, Ron Jarmin. But, this is all about Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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Climate Alarm Today: Maize, Rice, Wheat Totally In Danger Or Something

By William Teach July 16, 2017 – 3:40 pm

Today’s bit of scaremongering from the Cult Of Climastrology, because they haven’t pulled this food crops are doomed story recently

climate change joke

Maize, rice, wheat: alarm at rising climate risk to vital crops

Governments may be seriously underestimating the risks of crop disasters occurring in major farming regions around the world, a study by British researchers has found.

The newly published research, by Met Office scientists, used advanced climate modelling to show that extreme weather events could devastate food production if they occurred in several key areas at the same time. Such an outcome could trigger widespread famine.

The scientists, led by Chris Kent, of the Met Office, focused their initial efforts on how extreme weather would affect maize, one of the world’s most widely grown crops. Heat and drought were the prime risks, although flooding was also included in the analysis.

Notice, this is all about scaremongering in the future using computer models. In fact, all three crops, along with most crops, have been doing just fine, and in many cases hitting records. Can you guess which crops have had trouble? That’s right, the ones which have been hit with freezes, like tomatoes…oh, right, right, cold is now blamed on greenhouse gases now.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 16, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil barbecue featuring evil meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on American Eagle Outfitters selling hijabs.

It’s barbecue week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 16, 2017 – 9:10 am

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous summer day in America. The sun is shining, the bunnies are hopping, the Dodgers keep winning. This pinup is by K.O. Munson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Powerline wonders about junk insurance or junk reporting
  2. Climate Etc covers alarm about Alarmism
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That notes the rising emissions from the other G20 members
  4. Chicks On The Right discusses the hypocrisy at the anti-gun feminist march
  5. Creeping Sharia covers the banning of pork in Austria
  6. Gay Patriot discusses a few deaths where the Clintons pop up
  7. Geller Report notes a police offer brutally attacked by Muslim refugees
  8. Jihad Watch covers Facebook being cool with rape threats from Muslims
  9. Michelle Malkin notes the new class of Victims
  10. Moonbattery covers feminists saying you shouldn’t gender your pet
  11. Pacific Pundit notes a leftist “male” crying like a baby because he couldn’t use the women’s room
  12. Patterico’s Pontifications shows why the media is losing credibility
  13. Right Wing News (McIntosh) notes consequences for the kid who played “F*ck the police”
  14. The Daley Gator has your Marxist moron of the day
  15. And last, but not least, The Last Refuge covers the U.S. withdrawing from a refugee resettlement scheme

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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The U.S. Should Be A Welcoming Place Or Something

By William Teach July 16, 2017 – 8:00 am

The Editorial Board of the Santa Fe New Mexican has decided to take a stab at immigration issues, more specifically one specific refugee, while mixing its metaphors

The U.S. should be a welcoming place

Tighter U.S. security and greater scrutiny of foreign visitors are not stopping the world from coming to Santa Fe this weekend in a glorious show of global harmony.

The International Folk Art Market | Santa Fe is the antithesis of a U.S. that fears the world, desires to remain in isolation and keeps out Muslims and other “different” types of visitors and immigrants. What has happened in Santa Fe for the past 14 years — the coming together of master artists from all over the world — is a better version of the United States than one where foreigners are viewed as suspect.

The market shows that the U.S. can be an exception in the best way, by being the place where people of all cultures gather and share knowledge and their common humanity. Artists and musicians from Cuba are here, building relationships that can only help our two countries. Considering our past with Cuba — and the recent thawing of relations and the current president’s disavowal of closer ties — those relationships are crucial to the future.

This goes on for a bit, and you can see where it is going, right? The problem here is that these people are legally allowed in the United States, they’re here on vistors permits, much like if a U.S. citizen travels to other countries. Get this, though: if any of them commit crimes, they can be immediately escorted to the airport and sent packing. The Editorial Board uses this art exhibit as an excuse to attempt to protect another immigrant

As the folk art market was getting underway, this is what has been unfolding in Albuquerque. Kadhim Al-bumohammed, an Iraqi man facing detention and deportation, instead decided to seek sanctuary. Al-bumohammed, 64, had been told to report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials with a packed bag, likely to be sent back to his home country of Iraq. He has not lived there since 1994. His family believes he would face persecution in Iraq because he aided the U.S. military during the Persian Gulf War in 1990-91 and later taught language and cultural awareness at California military bases. In Iraqi eyes, he is a collaborator.

Al-bumohammed can be deported — he has misdemeanor convictions on domestic violence charges — and the U.S. is pushing to kick out foreign residents with any criminal black marks. Such a blanket action, though, does not leave room for human compassion or even for rewarding those who risked their lives to help our troops overseas. Al-bumohammed faces serious health conditions, including having limited kidney function. He takes oxygen because of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and must take medicine daily.

Just a few black marks. Well, per the AP

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement Thursday that 64-year-old Kadhim Al-bumohammed (kah-DHEEM al-boo-MOH-HAH-med) was convicted in San Diego, California, in 1996 of a assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest in 1994.

The agency says Al-bumohammed also was convicted of domestic violence in Merced County, California, in 1997. ICE says that domestic violence made him eligible for removal under U.S. law.

Hey, beating your wife isn’t really a black mark, right? Right? Back to the editorial

Immigration policy can be a set of broad goals and principles, while still leaving leeway for common sense and compassion. Such a policy could leave in place those who are no risk to their neighbors and who, like Al-bumohammed, need medical care they likely will not receive in their home country. He has a wife who is a naturalized citizen and four U.S.-born children. We do not need to tear this family apart in order to keep the United States safe.

Here’s the problem: there is always some sort of sob story with people facing deportation, be they illegal aliens or refugees allowed in lawfully. At the end of the day, this is all on them. Not us. Illegals chose to come illegally/overstay their visas. Refugees are guests in our nation. And, if either group does something to end up on the radar of immigration officers, well, that is on them

Al-bumohammed’s case caught federal attention in 2004 when, federal agents likely renewing his green card found his misdemeanor violations and flagged him for deportation. Al-bumohammed lost three rounds of appeal to stay in the country and was ordered deported in 2010. But Iraq wasn’t accepting deportees, so he was allowed to stay as long as he checked-in annually, which Kitson said he has. He was scheduled for his annual check-in in September.

You can see in the editorial that they’re quietly trying to Blame Trump, but, the case started back under Bush, and the deportation order occurred on Obama. ICE agents are simply following the law. And everyone has their sob story. Try using a sob story with your employer when you’ve missed enough days to be terminated. See how that works out.

The United States is the most welcoming nation in the world. Too often, people take advantage of that.

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Gail Collins Descends Into A Perfect Storm Of Sore Loser Syndrome And TDS

By William Teach July 15, 2017 – 4:15 pm

Full throated barking moonbat syndrome

Couldn’t We Just Trade Presidents?

Why can’t Emmanuel Macron be our president?

American citizens watching Donald Trump’s visit to Paris must have wondered how we got the wrong guy. Macron seemed so smart, so charming. The fact that he didn’t father any children would not normally be a big selling point, but right now we are yearning for a president with no offspring.

The screed goes into all the normal whines about Russia Russia Russia, but, hey, if Gail loves Macron so much, she’s welcome to move to France. Hillary lost. She was a terrible candidate. Had the Democrats run someone better, they might control the White House, and even the Senate.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 15, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous water intensive golf course causing climate destruction clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post showing more evidence that Hillary used the State Dept to enrich herself.

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‘Climate Change’ Could Make The World “Practically Ungovernable”

By William Teach July 15, 2017 – 10:45 am

You have to know that this is one of the scariest outcomes of the climate change scam, because Warmists/Progressives are all about authoritative governance

(Science Alert) Former NASA climate chief James Hansen believes climate change’s most dangerous effect will be a continuous rise in sea levels and not necessarily the increase in temperatures.

Because so many people live in coastal cities, the mass migrations inland that will follow this rise could leave the world in ungovernable chaos. (snip)

In a paper published last year, Hansen warned that continuous reliance on fossil fuels could increase sea levels by several meters in just a period of 50 to 150 years. (snip)

Coastlines are home to more than half the world’s large cities, so a significant portion of the population will be affected by these rising sea levels.

“The economic implications of that, and the migrations and the social effects of migrations … the planet could become practically ungovernable, it seems to me,” said Hansen.

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NY Times Editorial Board Is Upset That Trump Is A Climate Change Loner

By William Teach July 15, 2017 – 7:34 am

The things the NY Times wastes time on. Things that tend to be at the bottom in polls of issues that Americans care about

Mr. Trump, the Climate Change Loner

President Emmanuel Macron of France tried this week during President Trump’s visit to Paris to get him to reverse his decision to take America out of the landmark global agreement on climate change, struck in December 2015 and since ratified by 153 nations. It was a futile exercise, as he must have known it would be.

At one point, Mr. Trump seemed to leave the door open for some unspecified compromise. But nobody knows what that would be. And in any case it is likely to be meaningless, because there is zero chance that he would reaffirm President Barack Obama’s commitment to make meaningful reductions in America’s greenhouse gas emissions, or seek to re-establish the leadership role that Mr. Obama occupied and that Mr. Trump has now abdicated.

And it’s wonderful how all those leaders run around the world using vast amounts of fossil fuels, isn’t it? And, yes, this does matter. If these leaders of a movement that polls low are unwilling to make changes in their own lives, why should we think this is anything but political?

What changes has the NY Times made? Over all these years of reading the primary talking points organization of the Democrats I’ve yet to see one article or opinion piece stating that the Times has made changes to reduce their own carbon footprint, especially in regards to the vast amounts of fossil fuels to distribute its dead tree editions.

In short, despite Mr. Macron’s efforts, the gap between Mr. Trump and the rest of the world on climate remains as wide and unbridgeable as it was at the Group of 20 summit meeting the week before, when the final communiqué contained a robust commitment from 19 of the world’s leading economic powers to fight climate change and one pathetic little sentence in which the United States said it would “endeavor” to “use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently.” Mr. Trump had apparently hoped for some support from other big fossil fuel producers, like Russia and Saudi Arabia. This was not forthcoming, heartening those who feared (and still fear) that Mr. Trump’s betrayal of America’s commitments would cause other countries to backslide as well.

It was not America’s commitments: it was Obama’s commitment. We didn’t approve the agreement: it was never put in front of the duly elected legislative branch. And Obama is running around the world using vast amounts of fossil fuels, a continuation of what happened while he was in office.

The unanswered question is whether the goals set in the Paris accord can be reached without United States participation. To recap briefly, the accord sought to limit the rise in atmospheric temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and 1.5 degrees if possible. To that end, Mr. Obama pledged to reduce America’s greenhouse gases by 26 to 28 percent by 2025, largely through greater fuel efficiency for cars and light trucks, limits on methane emissions from oil and gas wells, and new rules governing emissions from new and old coal-fired power plants.

Yet, not in his own life, where he’s hanging on yachts and traveling around the world on fossil fueled private jets. He’s fine with forcing the rest of us to make changes in our own lives, but not in his own.

It makes one wonder what could conceivably change Mr. Trump’s mind. He seems impervious to the broadly accepted science of global warming, and wholly unimpressed by evidence that the jobs he has promised his followers lie not in dying industries like coal mining but in renewables like wind and solar. Perhaps the giant iceberg that broke free of Antarctica will ring a little bell. The calving might or might not be related to climate change, and it will not by itself raise sea levels, since the shelf was already sitting in the water. But shelves hold back land-based glaciers, and when the shelves go, the glaciers tend to follow. In any case, nature has sent a message.

So much anti-science from the Times, which refuses to practice what they preach. Personally, I’m going to blame the iceberg on the carbon footprint from the production and distribution of newspapers from the NY Times. According to Warmist dogma, I don’t have to prove I’m right: they have to prove me wrong.

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Dreamer Deported Under Trump Files Court Briefing Admitting He Violated The Rules

By William Teach July 15, 2017 – 7:11 am

Young illegal aliens protected under Mr. Obama’s illegal DACA, deferred action for childhood arrivals, have been deported under Mr. Obama for violations of the law. But, that wasn’t a big deal then. When one is deported under Mr. Trump? Big deal. The case Juan Manuel Montes has gotten fun

First DREAMer deported under Trump files court documents disputing administration’s account

Lawyers for the only known DREAMer deported by the Trump administration filed supporting statements in court Friday from people on both sides of the Mexican border who corroborate Juan Manuel Montes’ account that immigration agents wrongly forced him across the border.

The court filings include statements from the last people to see the 23-year-old Montes in the U.S. and the first people to see him in Mexico after he was deported by Customs and Border Protection agents shortly after midnight on Feb. 19 from Calexico, Calif., where he lived with his family since age 9.

Montes, an undocumented immigrant who had protections against deportation under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), said he had just finished dinner with a friend and was hailing a ride home when he was seized by agents on the street and forced across the border.

Isn’t it illegal to lie in court documents?

The Department of Homeland Security said it has no record that agents deported Montes that night. Instead, the department said, Montes crossed the border into Mexico voluntarily, immediately revoking his DACA status, which shields undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.

When this issue first came up, and now with the court filings, there doesn’t seem to be any reason why CBP would snatch up Montes and drop him across the border with not court order on their own. That’s a pretty quick way to, at a minimum, losing their jobs and pensions.

Here’s where it gets really fun

Both sides agree on what happened next: Montes tried to re-enter the following night by jumping the border wall, was caught by Border Patrol agents and deported back to Mexico.

So, in the court filing, Montes admits he broke federal law by jumping the wall. That’s a pretty simple case.

Ever since he was deported, Montes has been living with relatives in western Mexico. In an April interview with USA TODAY, he said he was eager to get back home to continue his education and reunite with his family. And he said he was still shocked that he had fallen victim to Trump’s deportation machine.

“Some people told me that they were going to deport me; others said nothing would happen,” Montes said at the time. “I thought that if I kept my nose clean nothing would happen.”

Trump’s deportation machine. 365 were deported while Obama was in office. Here’s a hint: you’re in our nation illegally. Act like it. Don’t think you’re entitled to be here.

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