If All You See…

By William Teach April 12, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a fish that will soon swim in the Arctic Circle due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on scary chicken sandwiches.

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Bummer: Immigration Crackdown Leads To Illegals With Minor Crimes And No Criminal History Being Arrested

By William Teach April 12, 2017 – 10:30 am

Are they unlawfully present in the United States? Then they are criminals

NEW TRUMP IMMIGRATION ORDER HAS LED TO THE ARREST OF HUNDREDS OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FOR MINOR CRIMES

U.S. immigration officers arrested 367 undocumented immigrants in a country-wide blitz spanning several weeks in March and April. While many of those detained have criminal backgrounds, many are also not the “bad hombres” President Donald Trump said he was going to prioritize getting out of the country, raising concerns among civil rights groups who argue immigrants are being forced to live in fear.

A series of press releases issued in the first week of April show the large-scale coordinated efforts by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to round up immigration offenders in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New York and Washington, D.C. Yet of the 75 people arrested during a three-day raid  in North Texas and Oklahoma in the first week of April, 23 did not have criminal pasts. Of the 31 arrested in New York the same week, the most dangerous offense committed by 12 of them was driving under the influence. And 16 of the 153 people arrested during a two-week operation in southern Texas had no criminal history.

Those who had committed offenses faced charges on everything from aggravated assault, burglary, drug trafficking, child abuse, human trafficking and sexual assault. But many others had been charged with fraud, driving under the influence or marijuana possession, in other words, not exactly the dangerous criminals Trump said he would go after.

Perhaps they aren’t the ones that Trump said he would go after, but, he’s not sitting their approving each and every illegal who ICE goes to detain. Furthermore, ICE typically picks up the low and no crime illegals because they have outstanding deportation orders already on the books. Double furthermore, this same thing happened under Obama. Because Obama was only going to micro-manage ICE operations so much.

Just because Trump said he would “prioritize” does not mean ICE won’t pick up those with other crimes or no crimes. And, really, is DUI not a serious crime? When you drive under the influence, usually alcohol, you are drastically increasing the danger to other people. Fraud usually involves stealing legal citizen’s information, which can ruin their lives. Oh, and none should be here in the first place.

But under the Trump administration, the priority has become all undocumented immigrants, no matter their criminal past. The Department of Homeland Security will no longer “exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement,” explained Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly in a February 20 memo. Immigrants who had overstayed a visa were also a priority, he said.

What part of “unlawfully present” is not understood?

Following the raids in Washington, D.C., La ColectiVA, a local rights group, protested Monday in front of ICE headquarters in Virginia. “We are here to say that we are watching, we are vigilant and we will not let our community members live in fear of deportation and of being abducted and separated from their communities,” the group wrote in a Facebook post. They said families in the surrounding area were being “forced to live in fear” of being deported.

And the more they fear, the more they voluntarily self-deport. The more they live in fear, and the more the media tells us they are living in fear, the more refuse to come illegally, as well as overstay visas. The media and all these illegal alien supporting groups don’t even realize they are helping to stoke the fear, and, in doing so, helping Team Trump reduce illegal immigration.

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Team Trump Blows Off G7, Won’t Sign Statement Endorsing Paris Climate Agreement

By William Teach April 12, 2017 – 7:19 am

This has made many a Warmist very upset

(Daily Caller) The U.S. refused to sign onto a statement with other G7 countries to commit to the implementation of the Paris climate agreement, which President Donald Trump promised to withdraw from on the campaign trail.

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said the U.S. “is in the process of reviewing many of its policies and reserves its position on this issue, which will be communicated at a future date,” Italy’s industry and energy minister Carlo Calenda said in a statement.

Calenda said other G7 members “reaffirmed their commitment towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement to effectively limit the increase in global temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial level.”

The Trump administration would not sign onto a statement mentioning Paris, since the president is still deciding whether or not to keep his campaign pledge. Perry also wanted the G7 to include support for coal and natural gas in its statement.

Italy, which was hosting the G7, had pushed for nations to sign a policy statement which included support for the Paris Climate Agreement (which won’t actually do anything but limit warming by hundredths of a degree Celsius, per Warmists). Since Rick Perry said “nope”, no nation signed.

It’s the 4th paragraph above that causes concern, and leads to this

The White house is split on whether or not to keep Trump’s campaign pledge. On one side, Ivanka Trump, White House aide Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson support remaining in Paris.

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt oppose the Paris agreement.

Will he or won’t he? If he hasn’t done so by, say, July, you can surely put that promise in the “broken” category. Of course, Trump could also just let it ride and ignore the requirements, since, for one thing, they have no force of law.

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Syria Strike Fails To Follow Progressive Playbook, Leading To Unhinged Op-Eds

By William Teach April 12, 2017 – 6:36 am

While the attached headline for this Washington Post opinion piece by uber-leftist Katrina Vanden Huevel is technically linked to the piece, it might have been better to call it “Trump Did Something Good, And That’s Not Something Progressives Should Agree With!!!!!”

Syria strike follows Washington’s failed foreign-policy playbook

“There’s a playbook in Washington that presidents are supposed to follow,” then-President Obama said last year, defending his decision not to unilaterally strike Syria in 2013. “It’s a playbook that comes out of the foreign-policy establishment. And the playbook prescribes responses to different events, and these responses tend to be militarized responses. Where America is directly threatened, the playbook works. But the playbook can also be a trap that can lead to bad decisions.”

Obviously, Katrina cannot place blame at Obama’s feet for 6 years of inaction, dithering, leading from behind, and general fecklessness. Nope. Trump

Last week, by impulsively ordering a military strike against a Syrian air base, President Trump both followed the playbook and fell into the trap. To be clear, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians in the town of Khan Sheikhoun is a heinous crime. Almost six years of civil war in Syria have led to nearly half a million dead and millions more displaced, a humanitarian crisis worsened by the Trump administration’s cruel and senseless attempts to ban Syrian refugees. The human suffering has been horrific to watch. Yet despite the fervor of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, which fetishizes the purported “credibility” that accompanies the use of force, it remains folly to think that Trump’s military action will help end the carnage.

A heinous crime, but, since Trump responded, and because he said something and attempted to do something to limit the people coming from a war torn area replete with ISIS members and Islamic extremists, it’s all his fault. Seriously, who was president the past 6 years? That’s what worsened the humanitarian crisis.

It is a testament to the absurdity of the presidential “playbook” that perhaps the most irresponsible act of Trump’s madhouse presidency has also been one of the most widely applauded. Suddenly, much of the same media and political establishment that has routinely portrayed Trump as an unstable and inept authoritarian are ecstatic that he decided to drop bombs in the Middle East. Airing footage of the assault, MSNBC anchor Brian Williams admired the “beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments.” Five major newspapers collectively published 18 pieces that endorsed the strikes or argued they were insufficient, according to media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.

Irresponsible. Obviously, it would have been better had Trump stated that Assad not cross the next red line, or used a strongly worded letter or a hashtag with a sad face.

But there is little evidence that the strike accomplished anything beyond a temporary popularity boost for a flailing president. If Trump’s goal was to punish Assad for using chemical weapons, the punishment was effectively nothing more than a timeout, as Syrian warplanes resumed use of the targeted air base less than 24 hours after it was hit. And if Trump has a coherent strategy for what happens next, he has failed to communicate it to the American people or the international community.

Maybe it’s better to not broadcast war-plans to dictators and wackjobs at the United Nations. Because Obama’s method of telling everyone his plans, then backing off those plans, hasn’t worked out so well. But, hey, Trump!

Katrina whines some more, using the same talking points as other Leftists who just can’t acknowledge that Trump do something good, ending with

Despite the clamoring of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, the unfortunate reality is that their “playbook” does not contain a path to victory in Syria. Rather than agitating for more U.S. military intervention in a war that cannot be won, we should be calling on our government to lead a diplomatic effort to end the war once and for all. And for those who recognize that Trump cannot bomb his way to peace, it is time to revive and mobilize an antiwar movement to keep the United States from getting entangled in another Middle East war with no clear strategy and no end in sight.

Perhaps Katrina could illuminate us on how to go about ending the war diplomatically? What could the parties be offered? How to get to that peace? What are her plans? Bueller? You have the Assad regime, the regular folks of Syria, the rebels, and then the Islamic extremists, particularly ISIS. What does peace look like between the four?

And why didn’t Katrina’s god, Barack H. Obama, lead a diplomatic effort to end the war once and for all? He was the guy In Charge for the last 6 years, was he not?

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NC Democrats Have Typical Meltdowns Over Proposed Sanctuary City Crackdown Legislation

By William Teach April 11, 2017 – 3:01 pm

Apparently, Democrats are not big fans of The Law. Let’s start out with a quote from deep in the article

(WRAL) “We’re sitting here debating whether to obey the law or not. That just amazes me. In a judiciary committee of this state, does that make any sense that we would be debating that?” asked a clearly frustrated Sen. Harry Brown, R-Onslow.

One would think, but, Democrats do not care about the law, at least when it impedes acquiring new voters who are dependent on the Government.

A proposal to crack down on local governments over immigration led to raised tempers and voices Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee before being approved on a party-line vote.

Senate Bill 145 would withhold state funding from cities or counties that adopt a so-called “sanctuary” policy or ordinance regarding undocumented immigrants in any respect. It would open up an anonymous complaint process for any citizen with a “good faith” belief that a local government is not following immigration laws. The Attorney General’s Office would then be required to follow up and investigate within 45 days.17

Any local government with a sanctuary policy could be sued by anyone who was injured by the actions of an undocumented immigrant.

Obviously, this would make sanctuary cities, which are 100% run by Democrats, a bit antsy. The bill further restricts any University Of North Carolina school from limiting any federal immigration enforcement, and would disallow law enforcement from recognizing banned forms of identification. This is all about government, but, of course, Democrats are throwing monkey wrenches in the works by bringing up private entities, like churches (where was their concern when Charlotte was trying to force private entities, like churches, allow the gender confused in bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms of the opposite biological sex?)

Sen. Paul Lowe, D-Forsyth, said his church provides food and other humanitarian assistance to the community.

“The folks that need help and that are coming for help, we know they’re illegal,” Lowe said. “We know they’re here because they have nowhere else to go and they’re just trying to get some basic help. You don’t advertise it, but you just know.”

So, if you know they’re illegal, then you are breaking The Law. Intentionally. However, the law wouldn’t apply to private entities, hence, the quote from the beginning of the post, which was in response to this Democrat idiocy. Some Dems were worried about cities losing funding that they need.

Easy solution? Don’t be sanctuary cities. Do not harbor illegal aliens. Follow the law.

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If All You See…

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

…is a lake frozen over due to climate change when it should be warm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here, with a post on LGBT groups having a hissy fit over the Army Secretary nominee.

BTW, I never mentioned that it is fishing week.

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James Hansen: Government Has To Make People Care About Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach April 11, 2017 – 10:30 am

James Hansen, who takes lots and lots of fossil fueled trips, really loves the thought of a carbon tax that will hurt the middle and lower classes. And he’s legendary!

Legendary Climate Scientist Likes a GOP Proposal on Global Warming

Pres. Donald Trump issued a major executive order last week that, if successful, could undercut the nation’s fight against global warming. In particular, the order kicks off an attempt to dismantle the Clean Power Plan, which regulates carbon emissions from the power sector. While Trump’s move represents a big blow to U.S. climate efforts, the renowned scientist James Hansen sees a different—and, he argues, better—way forward on global warming. “The problem is the Clean Power Plan is really not that effective,” says Hansen, former director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, who brought climate change to the U.S. public’s attention in his famed 1988 congressional testimony. “It’s a tragedy that [the Obama administration] continued to pursue a regulatory approach.”

I’m getting the feeling Hansen doesn’t care for the CPP. Anyhow, Hansen goes on to say how much he loves the notion of a carbon tax, which he won’t call a tax, but a fee, one which would see refunds back to the citizens. Which would barely happen, but, would also make people more dependent on Government. He likes that silly plan some silly Republicans came up with a few months back. And this would totally stimulate the economy!!!!!! Because we’ve seen how well this works in other countries.

Here’s where it gets fun, as Hansen responds to a question (first paragraph)

You’ve been focusing your energy on helping people understand the urgency of global warming. Are you hopeful that the public will demand major action from the government soon?

Climate change is not going to register on the public’s list of priorities, so we need the help of an intelligent government system. Even though the fossil fuel industry money has been able to distort the climate science in Congress, the judicial branch can come into play. That’s why I’m a plaintiff along with 21 young people in a lawsuit against the federal government [suing it for having taken—and continuing to take—actions that support fossil fuel production and create greenhouse gas emissions].* We now have a really bulletproof case, which I think will win even with a conservative Supreme Court.

In other words, you stupid people are being stupid, so, Government must force you to care.

It’s going to be a combination of using the judiciary branch of the government and then using the democratic process to shape the policy that’s accepted. Between those two, I’m optimistic we could get on a path that would then influence the world.

And using the courts to force you to care. Because, obviously, their 25+ years of spreading awareness and scaremongering hasn’t worked out so well. But, then, this isn’t about saving Gaia or the environment or anything, it’s about applying Progressive political power, which includes more government and control over people and private entities.

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“Experts” Warn Border Wall Will Harm 800 Species

By William Teach April 11, 2017 – 7:20 am

Today’s fear-mongering is provided by an interesting source, which surely has a stake in making sure that Mexican citizens are allowed to enter the United States unlawfully whenever they want

Experts warn 800 species, many endangered, affected by border wall

A study by Mexico’s top university has revealed that at least 800 species of wildlife will be adversely affected by President Trump’s planned 2,000-mile border wall with Mexico.

Huh.

Research published by ecologists from the Mexican National Autonomous University has shown that an impassable physical barrier placed into ecosystems inhabited by jaguars, black bears and bighorn sheep will so disrupt patterns of migration as to cause a “natural catastrophe.”

“The U.S.-Mexico border is made up of mountains, jungle, coastline and many other diverse ecosystems,” Professor Gerardo Ceballos, who led the investigation published last week, told Fox News. “Wildlife has populated these regions for millions of years, and has always had freedom of movement to hunt, reproduce and migrate. To make these animals suffer as a result of man’s political agenda is entirely immoral.”

Sounds more like a political study and statement rather than a research paper, does it not?

Let’s consider jaguars

Environmental groups are now voicing opposition to President Trump’s proposed border wall because they say it could interfere with jaguar migration between Mexico and the United States.

On an entirely unrelated note, please raise your hand if you live in Arizona and have ever seen a jaguar. No? ‘Kay.

In a move that smacks of its anti-oil efforts to “save” the lesser prairie chicken, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service actually proposed the creation of a critical habitat zone for jaguars across parts of Arizona and New Mexico back in 2012. But, seeing as jaguars aren’t known to inhabit the area, the Arizona Game and Fish Department pushed back, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch.

“[The] habitat essential to the conservation of the jaguar as a species does not exist in either Arizona or New Mexico under any scientifically credible definition of that term,” Arizona argued in their response.

“Occurrence records for recent history (i.e. post 1850s) fail to show that AZ or NM has never been occupied by a jaguar ‘population,’” the department added.

So, no jaguars. Back to the original story

Of the 800 species that will be affected by President Trump’s border wall, 140 are in danger of extinction, including the bald eagle, grey wolf, armadillo and jaguar, a big cat of which remain only 10 in the highlands of the Sonora Desert that straddle Arizona. Those animals whose range will be halved by the border wall’s construction will be impeded in their ability to reproduce with other members of their species, thereby creating a shallower gene pool and heightening the chance of inbreeding.

Eagles can, get this, fly. For the most part, grey wolves barely inhabit the border area. What this is really all about is fear-mongering, which has been pushed with an environmental idea for months now.

Leonora Esquivel is the founder of AnimaNaturalis, Mexico’s leading animal rights organization, which recently succeeded in banning the use of animals for performance in circuses throughout the country. She says her organization will fight the process of construction at the border wall should U.S. Congress approve it in the federal spending bill this month.

“Animals have no concept of political boundaries created by humans, and to impose a physical barrier that impedes their movement is entirely wrong,” she told Fox News.

Stop sending your people illegally across the border, and we won’t need a wall.

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TDS: Cable TV President Launches Cable TV War Or Something

By William Teach April 11, 2017 – 6:58 am

Hey, remember the days when opinion writers at America’s news outlets complained about our previous celebrity president was constantly on talk shows, cable shows, going Between Two Ferns, chatting with a Youtube personality who does shows bathtubs full of milk and cereal, all while discussing policy and even launching air strikes and starting wars? Remember when they complained about our golfer-in-chief briefly making a statement about a U.S. citizen being beheaded by ISIS before heading back for some fun? Or any of the numerous things Mr. Obama did? No? Huh.

You can bet that the Philadelphia Enquirer’s Inquirer’s Excitable Will Bunch doesn’t remember, either

Cable TV president launches cable TV war — and the reviews are boffo!

Sometimes in America, the rocket’s red glare is all the proof through the night that you really need.

The folks over at the Pentagon understand that well, which is why — even as the flames from 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles that struck a Syrian airstrip were still smoldering on Thursday night — the military brass made sure all of the TV networks were rapidly supplied with video of the Xbox-perfect launches from Navy ships in the Mediterranean Sea. The  reddish streaks of combustible fuel gave instant light and clarity to the muddled darkness of an Arabian night, and so they played over and over again on cable TV networks thirsty for pictures to illuminate the drama and importance of President Trump’s most high-profile miltary adventure since taking office.

So, news outlets were supposed to ignore the strike? Bunch does understand he’s slamming his employer, as well, which had plenty of ink about the strikes, along with the pictures, right? And that he’s slamming the U.S. Navy in an attempt to be the #Resistance to Trump, right?

Did Will have complaints about the photo op of Obama sitting around while our Special Ops folks where taking out Bin Laden? Or when we got all the pictures of Obama being Serious and Involved when we struck back against Islamic jihadis in Benghazi? Oh, wait, right. My Bad.

The pictures were beautiful, but the policy was a mess. No one understood exactly why the most politically inexperienced and most truth-challenged president in American history had just pulled a complete flip-flop in the world’s most volatile civil war. No one could explain on what legal authority Trump had launched the deadly missiles, whether our allies knew this was coming — or what happens next. There were no pictures showing the seven people said to be killed when those “fearsome armaments” slammed into the al-Shayrat airfield, the part of the video game we rarely see.

It’s not hard to understand, and I’d bet the majority, even unhinged liberals get it: Syria used Sarin on its citizens, Trump and his people said “can’t cross that red line without consequences”, and he put Assad on notice that the use of chemical weapons will get a quick response. It doesn’t have to be anything more. There doesn’t have to be a deep meaning, nor a change in the overall policy of Stand Off, which was set by Team Obama.

Three days later, it’s impossible to say how history books will view the U.S. missile strike on Syria — as a strange blip in a six-year civil war that’s killed 500,000 people and created millions of refugees, as just another nocturnal emission of cruise missiles from a nation that’s fired off more than 1,000 from Iraq to Libya to Somalia since 2001…or, less likely, as the Archduke Ferdinand moment of the 21st Century.

I think the history books will have more than enough time to discuss Obama’s fecklessness in regards to Syria rather than discussing Trump’s missile strike. Then again, if Assad never uses chemical weapons again, well, then, I wonder if Bunch will be happy to write “you know, that strike Made A Difference”?

But in the broader context of humanity — and this strange and sometimes, yes, beautiful world that we’ve created after millions of years of evolution — I believe that what we witnessed on April 6, 2017, marked a dangerous turning point. Vital decisions of war and peace, life and death, have been sucked into our vortex of around-the-clock entertainment.

And now the true derangement starts, and continues on for quite some time. Entirely too much to excerpt. But, let’s put it in context: can you imagine this derangement towards Obama? Or if Hillary Clinton, who thought there should be quick strikes against Syria for the use of chemical weapons, and approved of the strike, was president and did it herself?

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China’s Leading On Climate While America Launches Cruise Missiles Or Something

By William Teach April 10, 2017 – 3:00 pm

I’m choosing to ignore the Internet Rules, I believe it is Rule 1004.6, that states “Or Something may only be used once per calendar day” or something for this one

While America Launches Missiles, China Quietly Leads On Climate Change

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday for his first face-to-face meeting with President Trump, including a two-day summit and formal dinner. By the end of the trip, the two are set to discuss the North Korean threat and trade, before the Trump team retreated to launch Tomahawk missiles at Syrian airfields. Climate change isn’t on the agenda, which is unfortunate—if not surprising—because the two nations are now taking precisely opposite approaches to the global crisis.

Joe Flintosh (@jflintosh) asked if they were kidding. Sometimes, I have to wonder if this kind of bat guano insanity is really just Expert Level Trolling, because one would think this was too insane.

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