South Florida Has A Nightmare Scenario From ‘Climate Change Or Something

By William Teach April 20, 2017 – 5:40 pm

Yet another in a long line of carnival barker prophesies

The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners
Demand and financing could collapse before the sea consumes a single house.

On a predictably gorgeous South Florida afternoon, Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason sat in his office overlooking the white-linen restaurants of this affluent seaside community and wondered when climate change would bring it all to an end. He figured it would involve a boat.

When Cason first started worrying about sea-level rise, he asked his staff to count not just how much coastline the city had (47 miles) or value of the property along that coast ($3.5 billion). He also told them to find out how many boats dock inland from the bridges that span the city’s canals (302). What matters, he guessed, will be the first time a mast fails to clear the bottom of one of those bridges because the water level had risen too far.

“These boats are going to be the canary in the mine,” said Cason, who became mayor in 2011 after retiring from the U.S. foreign service. “When the boats can’t go out, the property values go down.”

If property values start to fall, Cason said, banks could stop writing 30-year mortgages for coastal homes, shrinking the pool of able buyers and sending prices lower still. Those properties make up a quarter of the city’s tax base; if that revenue fell, the city would struggle to provide the services that make it such a desirable place to live, causing more sales and another drop in revenue.

And all of that could happen before the rising sea consumes a single home.

Oh noes, doom! Even before doom!

Of course, what’s missing from this very long thinly veiled press release from the Cult of Climatology is the data on actual sea rise, which is standard operating procedure. The best data for long term sea rise comes from Mayport, Florida,  which shows just 2.55mm a year, equivalent to .83 feet over 100 years. That’s low for a Holocene warm period.

In fact, it’s damned hard to find any hard measurements on sea rise in the South Florida area, especially long term. It’s almost like they don’t want anyone to know. Realistically, the S. Florida coast isn’t that far above sea level, some reports put it around 3 feet. So, if one is going to build, one might want to think about where they are building.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 20, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plastic water bottle causing global temperatures to spike in the future, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on looking for transgenderism everywhere.

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Excitable Bill McKibben: Everyone Should Take Fossil Fueled Trips To Protest In Climate March

By William Teach April 20, 2017 – 11:06 am

Yes, you know that climate march which is supposed to be all about science, which has become a hotbed of everything Progressive

On April 29, We March for the Future
We’ll either save or doom the planet during the Trump administration. Don’t sit the Peoples Climate Mobilization out.

March for the future, because all their computer models and prognostications have failed up to now, so, they have to make them for end of the century and further out.

It is hard to avoid hyperbole when you talk about global warming. It is, after all, the biggest 
thing humans have ever done, and by a very large margin. In the past year, we’ve decimated the Great Barrier Reef, which is the largest living structure on Earth. In the drought-stricken territories around the Sahara, we’ve helped kick off what The New York Times called “one of the biggest humanitarian disasters since World War II.” We’ve melted ice at the poles at a record pace, because our emissions trap extra heat from the sun that’s equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima-size explosions a day. Which is why, just maybe, you should come to Washington, DC, on April 29 for a series of big climate protests that will mark the 100th day of Trumptime. Maybe the biggest thing ever is worth a day.

Awesome! Fossil fueled trips for everyone! Because we must create massive amounts of carbon pollution to save future people from carbon pollution. And, at the end of the very long screed, Bill wants people out in the street all the time. Which would require lots of fossil fueled trips.

As Instapundit is fond of writing, I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis in their own lives.

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NJ Supreme Court Justice Doesn’t Want Immigration Law Enforced In Place Of Law

By William Teach April 20, 2017 – 8:41 am

Seriously, why would we want to enforce The Law in a courthouse? Not this Democrat, appointed by another Democrat

(AP) Another high-ranking judge on Wednesday asked Republican President Donald Trump’s administration to avoid immigration arrests at state courthouses.

New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner noted in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly that federal immigration officials recently arrested two people in New Jersey courthouses. The arrests, Rabner said, could cause witnesses to stay silent or domestic abuse victims to avoid court.

“A true system of justice must have the public’s confidence,” he wrote.

Rabner wants Kelly to add courthouses to a list of sensitive locations, including houses of worship and schools, recognized by immigration officials.

He went on to say that for years state officials have cooperated with federal detainer requests, but he said the practice of publicly arresting possible immigration violators “sends a chilling message.”

Why yes, it does send a chilling message to people who are unlawfully present in the United States and are in court to face charges of other criminal wrongdoing that they should get out of the United States. And, yes, a true system of justice must have the People’s confidence that The Law will be upheld in government places of Law. Like courthouses. Where Law is supposed to be practiced and enforced. And where criminals have to go through security, meaning most will have no weapons on them, making it safer for law enforcement to take the illegal in question into custody.

If Judge Rabner was following his oath, he’d have the illegals detained himself. If he doesn’t want to send a chilling message, he could separate the illegals away from the public, then have them detained and contact ICE himself.

As for DHS Secretary John Kelly

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Tuesday bluntly challenged members of Congress critical of the Trump administration’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement to either change the laws or “shut up.” (snip)

“They (DHS employees, especially ICE) have been asked to do more with less, and less, and less,” Kelly said. “They are often ridiculed and insulted by public officials, and frequently convicted in the court of public opinion on unfounded allegations testified to by street lawyers and spokespersons.”

Kelly said the public and public officials should err on the side of assuming that the agency’s employees are acting within the law. And for members of Congress who don’t like the laws, Kelly said they “should have the courage and skill to change the laws. Otherwise they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines.”

You tell them, John! You should surge ICE agents to NJ, and arrest lots of illegals as they have their day in court for breaking laws.

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Washington Post: Trump Is Hollowing Out America’s International Leadership Or Something

By William Teach April 20, 2017 – 8:16 am

Apparently, leading from behind is passe’

The risks of the Trump administration hollowing out American leadership

On the surface, much of President Trump’s foreign policy seems to be reverting to the mainstream upon first contact with reality. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s horrific use of chemical weapons produced a quick military response, applauded across partisan lines in Washington. Relations with Russia have settled to predictably adversarial depths. The administration is full of appropriately reassuring words about NATO, and the one-China policy was safely back in place for the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Senior national security appointments have been mostly traditionalist, with radical voices in retreat. In a Washington always impatient for sweeping judgments as a new administration wraps up its first 100 days, it is tempting to conclude that convention is ascendant.

Beneath the surface, however, lurk more troubling trend lines. Through policy incoherence and not-so-benign neglect, the Trump team risks hollowing out the ideas, initiative and institutions on which U.S. leadership and international order rest.

The idea of America has been at the heart of our success in the world for 70 years. For all our imperfections, we have embodied political and economic openness, respect for human dignity and a sense of possibility. The power of our example has mattered more than the power of our preaching, and enlightened self-interest has driven our strategy.

Who wrote this schlock? That would be William J. Burns, who was deputy U.S. secretary of state from 2011 to 2014 under President Barack Obama. First, let’s consider that Trump has only been in office for three months. These things take time. We were exorted to give Mr. Obama time in 2009.

Second, a guy who worked for Obama shouldn’t be yammering about foreign policy failures. Here’s a few, with some additions from myself

  • Lack of solidarity with Israel
  • Disaster with the Arab Spring
  • Crimea
  • Leaving Iraq too soon and letting ISIS take over
  • Handling of Syrian Red Line
  • Calling ISIS “JV”
  • Returning the bust of Churchill to the Brits
  • Signing a Disastrous Nuclear Deal with the Mullahs of Iran
  • Paying ransom to Iranian for hostages- and using foreign currency in unmarked plane
  • Obama trashed America 18 times on Asian Tour
  • Released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority in last few hours
  • Leading from behind
  • The Russian “reset” button
  • The Asian reach-out
  • Blowing off Poland on missile defense
  • Blowing off our traditional relationships in favor of new ones with extremist regimes.

There’s plenty more for that list. It’s the “power of example.” And, that example included spying on our own people, going after journalists, using the IRS to attack citizens and groups, etc. Mr. Burns, and Mrs. Clinton, btw, were part of the Obama administration for a goodly chunk of those failures. And, Mr. Obama ended his presidency with a 56% disapproval rating for his foreign policy. 55% disapprove of his handling on terrorism. 61% disapprove of his handling of ISIS.

A second crucial asset has been American initiative — our willingness and ability to mobilize others to deal with shared problems. From regional challenges to wider global dilemmas such as climate change and trade, U.S. leadership has been critical to the unprecedented peace and prosperity of the post-World War II era. Of course we got a lot of things wrong, sometimes at grievous cost, most painfully in Vietnam and Iraq. And of course we need to make significant adjustments in a world in which the United States is no longer dominant but still preeminent.

Mr. Burns forgot to mention ISIS, Libya, the Arab Spring, the Iranian Green Uprising, and so many others. When you’re leading from behind because Obama just can’t be bothered to chill on the vacations, golf, and fundraisers, well….

Maybe Trump fails. Maybe he doesn’t. Time will tell. But, people who were bigshots during the terrible foreign policy of Obama shouldn’t complain. Especially when so many of the problems were not only left over from Team Obama, but created by Team Obama’s reckless and feckless foreign policy.

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What Say To An Adorable Squirrel Eating Ice Scream?

By William Teach April 19, 2017 – 8:48 pm

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 19, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a haze created from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on Dems spending $8 million to lose.

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Proposal To Tow Cars With Unlicensed Drivers Deemed Anti-Immigrant Or Something

By William Teach April 19, 2017 – 10:44 am

What seems pretty darned common sense saw Liberals say “hold my beer”

(WRAL) A state House committee this week will debate a proposal to require vehicles driven by unlicensed drivers to be towed away from a traffic stop unless a licensed driver can be quickly found to drive the car away.

House Bill 341, sponsored by Rep.George Cleveland, R-Onslow, is scheduled to be heard in the House Judiciary I Committee on Wednesday.

Under the proposal, any driver found at a traffic stop to be driving on a suspended, revoked or expired license or having no license at all would not be allowed to drive his or her vehicle away after being charged. The driver would have one hour to produce a licensed driver who can legally drive the car away. If that’s not possible, the car would be towed and impounded.

The owner of the vehicle would be able to reclaim it by bringing a valid driver’s license and, if the owner didn’t know the driver was unlicensed, a written acknowledgement to that effect, and would have to pay all towing fees and storage fees of no more than $10 per day. If the vehicle isn’t reclaimed within 90 days, the tow service operator would be free to dispose of it.

Is there any need to discuss how common sense this is? Sure, they could just leave the vehicle there, but, then, that vehicle could be getting in the way of traffic and all sorts of other things. So, what’s the problem?

The proposal has been denounced as “anti-immigrant” by immigrants’ rights activists, who say it’s intended to target undocumented immigrants who are not permitted to get driver’s licenses. However, the likely effect of the bill would reach far beyond the immigrant community. In fiscal year 2015-16, law enforcement agencies around the state reported issuing more than 125,000 citations for driving with a revoked license.

Sigh. Sadly, previous Democrat administrations, along with a General Assembly controlled by Democrats, allowed illegals given executive amnesty by Obama to obtain legal driver’s licenses, though they do say “Legal Presences No Lawful Status”. And, in fairness, Republicans attempted to pass a law providing all illegals with licenses, but, as far as I can determine, it never made it out of committee, much less signed into law.

Regardless, this is typical fear-mongering by Useful Idiots.

My one other complaint here has nothing to do with illegals. It’s that sometimes you forget your wallet/purse/ID carrier. It happens, right? You get to the store and realize you forgot everything, and have to head home. What if you get pulled over on the way and haven’t realized that you do not have it on you? Yes, we’re all supposed to have that DL on us, but, come on, things happen. No one is perfect. You may not be able to rectify this in an hour.  Certainly, law enforcement has you in their database, and can most likely pull up your photo associated with your DL. In NC, most can renew their license on-line without getting a new photo. That’s what I did. So, DMV has that info.

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The Nation: Know What’s Worse Than Chemical Weapons Used On Children? Carbon Pollution!

By William Teach April 19, 2017 – 8:09 am

Salon: no one can touch our crazy piece on Trump’s post chemical weapon bombing.

The Nation: hold our fancy pants wine glass. (via Twitchy)

Here’s Excitable Juan Cole’s insanity

The gas attack in Syria on April 4 consumed the world’s attention and galvanized the Trump White House, leading to the launch of 59 cruise missiles on a small airport from which the regime of Bashar al-Assad has been bombing the fundamentalist rebels in Idlib Province. The pictures of suffering children, Trump said, had touched him. Yet the president and most of his party are committed to increasing the daily release of hundreds of thousands of tons of a far more deadly gas. And that is carbon dioxide. Climate scientist James Hansen has described our current emissions as like setting off 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs each day, every day of the year.

The screed really doesn’t get any better after that first paragraph. Cole attempts to lay the blame, or at least link, the ongoing war and refugee crisis to Mankind’s output of CO2. And that the CO2 is causing all sorts of problems around the Middle East, and, shockingly, causing drought in an area that is known to be rather hot and desert-like. Props to Cole, though, for at least consistently referring to it as CO2, rather than the un-scientific “carbon pollution”.

The crazy continues, ending with

As Representative Keith Ellison has pointed out, some two-thirds of Syrian refugees are women and children, and fully one-third of them are under the age of 12. The world was shocked in September 2015, at the image of little Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach, having failed to make it to a Greek island. Aylan was a Syrian refugee, not only from war, but from climate change. Trump and the climate-destroyers he brought into office with him such as Rex Tillerson and Scott Pruitt are not driven by compassion for victims. They are animated by a callous and rapacious search for profits for themselves and their cronies. If they cared about children killed by noxious gases, they wouldn’t want to ban Syrian refugees like the Kurdis from the United States. Nor would they want to spew ever more tons of the most noxious gas of all into the blue skies of the only planetary home the human race has.

Noxious! Plants, trees, bushes, and plankton I interviewed all said “preposterous!”

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USA Today Runs Big Story On DREAMer Getting Deported, Gets It Wrong

By William Teach April 19, 2017 – 7:48 am

USA Today writers Alan Gomez and David Agren thought they had a Big Scoop regarding the Evil Trump Administration deporting a DREAMer, with the breathless headline

First protected DREAMer is deported under Trump

Of course, their little update, down near the end of the story, rather destroys their narrative

(Daily Caller) USA Today reported Tuesday that an illegal immigrant protected by Barack Obama’s amnesty was deported in February after spending an evening with his girlfriend. However, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman told The Daily Caller that this story is false because Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez did not receive amnesty and was caught climbing over a border fence when he was detained.

The USA Today story said that Bojorquez, 23, was apprehended by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents while he was waiting for a car ride to pick him up.

According to the article, he told the officers he left his wallet in his friend’s car and because he didn’t have his ID or proof of his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, he was deported.

“Within three hours, he was back in Mexico, becoming the first undocumented immigrant with active DACA status deported by the Trump administration’s stepped-up deportation policy,” the USA Today reporters wrote.

He may have been a DACA recipient at one point, but

David Lapan, a DHS spokesman, told TheDC, “Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez was apprehended by the Calexico Station Border Patrol after illegally entering the U.S. by climbing over the fence in downtown Calexico. He was arrested by BP just minutes after he made his illegal entry and admitted under oath during the arrest interview that he had entered illegally.”

The spokesman added, “His DACA status expired in Aug. 2015 and he was notified at that time. In addition, he has a conviction for theft for which he received probation.”

USA Today states that he received a DACA renewal in 2026. Obviously, they’re wrong. And they sure seem to be quite accepting over Juan’s 4 convictions, one for shoplifting and three for driving without a license. I guess he’s just part of the “non-criminal” element among illegal aliens, right? This, of course, sent leftists into apoplexy

This incorrect story from USA Today received a swift reaction on Twitter. Sean McElwee, a policy analyst at Demos Action, said it was “absolutely horrifying.” MSNBC host Christopher Hayes said, “This is profoundly messed up.” Gizmodo staff writer Libby Watson tweeted, “the lack of due process and basic decency for immigrants is really astounding. can’t be covered enough.”

What USA Today is now trying to claim is that Juan was picked up and dropped off across the border in Mexicali. After friends brought him his wallet and clothes, he was supposedly mugged, then proceeded to climb a rope going over the border wall, where he was caught again. DHS disputes him being deported the first time he states he was, only being caught climbing over the wall. Most people read the first 3 paragraphs or 30 seconds when it comes to web articles, so, they wouldn’t make it to DHS disputing, being the 4th to last paragraph.

You have The Hill, New York Magazine, Mediaite, NBC News, The Guardian, New York Times, and so many other news outlets having hissy fits about this.

The Hill runs a similar story with the headline Report: First protected ‘Dreamer’ deported under Trump. The headline is disputed by the actual content of the story, but, hey, the point is to be clickbait. It’s all about slamming Trump.

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