If All You See…

By William Teach March 6, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil gas fired stove spewing out carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Goodstuffs Cyber World, with a post on Trump’s allegation of wiretapping.

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Bummer: California Won’t Meet It’s Climate Goals Unless People Are Forced To Live Like Rats In Warrens

By William Teach March 6, 2017 – 10:30 am

Well, now, this is interesting

California won’t meet its climate change goals without a lot more housing density in its cities

To meet the bold new climate change goals put in place last year, California will work to put millions of electric cars on the road, revolutionize its dairy industry and generate half of all power from solar panels and other renewable sources.

But those efforts will come up short, warn state regulators, without dramatic changes to how Californians live and travel.

I’m shocked that people will be forced to make changes to their lives by Governmental decree

The state has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. To do so, Southern Californians will have to drive nearly 12% less by that date than they did five years ago, cutting their miles on the road every day from 22.8 to 20.2, according a Los Angeles Times estimate based on data from state and regional climate and planning officials.

These driving reductions mean that Californians will have to walk, bike and use mass transit much more frequently than they do now. By 2030, residents will have to travel by foot four times more frequently than they did in 2012, alongside a nine-fold increase in bicycling over the same time, and a substantial boost in bus and rail ridership, climate officials say.

The only way this happens is by the force of government. If all these uber-Warmist Californians refuse to practice what they preach now, force is the only option.

Getting people out of their cars in favor of walking, cycling or riding mass transit will require the development of new, closely packed housing near jobs and commercial centers at a rate not seen in the United States since at least before World War II, according to a recent study by permit and contractor data analysis website BuildZoom.

So, people will be forced into these high density housing how, exactly? It’s funny how so much of what the Cult of Climstrology pushes revolves around limiting freedom of behavior while forcing people into high density areas where it is easier to control them.

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President Obama Was Apparently A Slave Driver Of Illegal Aliens

By William Teach March 6, 2017 – 7:18 am

The Washington Post apparently thinks they’re pulling a big slap out of their pocket aimed squarely at President Trump, and as a way to stop his orders on illegal immigration. But, as the saying went while George W. Bush was president, and during the early years of the Obama admin when trying to Blame Bush, who was president then?

Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws

Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all — a violation of federal anti-slavery laws — a lawsuit claims.

The lawsuit, filed in 2014 against one of the largest private prison companies in the country, reached class-action status this week after a federal judge’s ruling. That means the case could involve as many as 60,000 immigrants who have been detained.

Wow, who knew the Obama administration was behind a forced labor scheme.

At the heart of the dispute is the Denver Contract Detention Facility, a 1,500-bed center in Aurora, Colo., owned and operated by GEO Group under a contract with ICE. The Florida-based corporation runs facilities to house immigrants who are awaiting their turn in court.

The lawsuit, filed against GEO Group on behalf of nine immigrants, initially sought more than $5 million in damages. Attorneys expect the damages to grow substantially given the case’s new class-action status.

At the end of the day, it was the Obama administration which entered into the contracts, and allowed the behavior to occur. It was the Obama administration which was rounding up the illegal aliens.

The original nine plaintiffs claim that detainees at the ICE facility are forced to work without pay — and that those who refuse to do so are threatened with solitary confinement.

Specifically, the lawsuit claims, six detainees are selected at random every day and are forced to clean the facility’s housing units. The lawsuit claims that the practice violates the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which prohibits modern-day slavery.

Who was president while this was occurring?

The class-action ruling by Kane, a senior judge in the U.S. District Court in Colorado, came at a critical time, DiSalvo said, noting President Trump’s pledge to deport 2 million to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Advocates say private prison companies that have government contracts stand to benefit significantly from the president’s hard-line policy of detaining and deporting a massive number of immigrants

“That means you need to round up and detain more people in order to determine whether they have the rights to stay in this country before you deport them,” DiSalvo said. “More people could be moving through, not just in the Aurora facility. More people could be subjected to GEO’s forced labor policy.”

DiSalvo is Nina DiSalvo, executive director of Towards Justice, a Colorado-based nonprofit group that represents low-wage workers, including undocumented immigrants. There’s no mention in the article as to whether or not her group has anything to do with the actual suit. But, notice this had to be turned into something about Trump. Because Trump Derangement Syndrome runs strong at the Washington Post, and they couldn’t find it in themselves to slam Obama. The word “Obama” barely appears in the article. It’s like they forgot who was president from 2009 up to when the suit was filed.

The suit itself alleges this behavior going all the way back to 2004, and includes since 2009.

This is not to take sides on the suit. It’s just meant to highlight the media hysteria and partisanship. That said, there’s an easy answer: stop holding illegals in detainment, and simply fastrack their deportation. They don’t belong here. Send them on their way.

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NY Times: Say, Democrats Are Pretty Darned Sexist Towards Kellyanne Conway

By William Teach March 6, 2017 – 6:56 am

In a surprising move, the NY Times, per writer Susan Chira, is appalled as she notices the sexism against Kellyanne Conway, which, quite frankly is the norm for the way Democrats treat Conservative women. In fairness, both sides can be nasty towards women, but, Democrats have always made it a point to patronize women and say how much they love them (as long as they support abortion on demand), then immediately turn around and smear Republican women at every turn. Chira notes the sexism towards Conway, while also bringing Hillary into the mix

Sexist Political Criticism Finds a New Target: Kellyanne Conway

What powerful political woman is mocked for her clothes, is the target of pictures on Twitter depicting her as haggard and is routinely called a witch and a bitch?

If you guessed Hillary Clinton, you’re right.

But if you guessed Kellyanne Conway, you’re right, too.

Misogyny, it seems, remains a bipartisan exercise. Whatever legitimate criticisms can be leveled at each woman, it’s striking how often that anger is expressed using the same sexist themes, from women as well as men.

Ms. Chira provides plenty of examples of misogyny towards both, ones that note how they look and what clothes they wear. What they did with their hair and what they’ve done with their makeup.

Ms. Conway has drawn scorn, and been disinvited from some news programs, for her references to a “Bowling Green massacre” that never took place and her defense of claims about the size of the crowd at Mr. Trump’s inauguration as “alternative facts.” Yet some of the criticisms have taken on a distinctly sexualized tone.

Witness the furor over her sitting on her knees on a couch in the Oval Office during a reception for presidents of historically black colleges. While she drew fire for disrespect, some of the criticisms included digs about her spreading her legs and raunchy allusions to oral sex, Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Representative Cedric L. Richmond, Democrat of Louisiana, told a now-notorious joke that hers was a “familiar” position in the Oval Office of the 1990s, drawing a rebuke from none other than Chelsea Clinton. (Mr. Richmond apologized Sunday evening.)

A “Saturday Night Live” skit riffed on Ms. Conway as a “Fatal Attraction” stalker, breaking into the CNN correspondent Jake Tapper’s house to seduce him into having her on his show.

SNL, unshockingly, since they apparently have a problem writing funny, original material, made fun of Conway throughout this past Saturday’s show, using the kneeling bit. Liberals apparently find it hilarious to feature a Republican woman on her knees.

As for Rep Richmond, he probably didn’t mean for his comment to have that nasty, sexist tone, but, hey, we’ve all said things that came out different from what we envisioned, have we not? The first rule of holes is to stop digging, though, and it would have been worthwhile, and easy, for him to simply apologize from the get-go. Instead, he yammered for days before finally apologizing, which is a case of being a bit too late.

The question through all this comes to “when is this just political attacks, which always occur, and politics is a nasty business, and when is it actual sexism?” Another question is “why does the media and the Democats immediately defend any leftist woman attacked as always being a sexist attack, while rarely come to the defense of any Republican woman?”

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Surprise: Climate Aid Tends Not To Get To Recipients

By William Teach March 5, 2017 – 4:09 pm

As you surely know, one of the Big Things about ‘climate change’ is the application of typical Progressive doctrine, redistribution of (Other People’s) wealth. Unshockingly, like so many other “aid” programs, the money tends to get lost

Less Than 10% of Climate Aid Reaching Poorest: Researchers

Less than 10 percent of funds spent to help poorer communities adapt to climate change impacts and adopt clean energy are reaching the people most in need of the money, finance researchers say.

In part, that is because international climate funds, under pressure to get donated funds into action, are opting to work with development banks and other big international agencies that can quickly spend millions – rather than with smaller-scale local governments and projects, said researchers at the London-based International Institute for Environmental and Development (IIED).

Weak local ability to design and evaluate projects, and to fill out complicated forms to access money are another problem, the report said, as is the smaller scale of local projects, as vetting each one takes more time.

Another obstacle is the lack of a specific target in the Paris Agreement on climate change to spend more finance at the local level, the researchers said in a report released this week.

“Understanding how to get money where it matters is the challenge of the moment,” said Clare Shakya, climate change director at IIED and one of the report’s authors.

This isn’t even getting into how the funds get wasted on silly programs for 3rd world nations as developed by people from 1st world nations who already got theirs, but want to deny those in developing nation the same. It’s just typical of the waste of taxpayer money that never really does anything even approaching what it’s supposed to do that we constantly see, based on a misguided sense of social justice, and, in this case, based on junk science.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 5, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible gas fired stove which is linked to earthquakes from fracking which is climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Liberty Zone, with a post on Vegan crazy.

It’s ladies cooking week, so, have to start with the queen of TV breasts, er, cooking.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 5, 2017 – 9:18 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! A wonderful day in America. The sun stays out longer, you can feel Spring on its way, and baseball is almost back. This pinup is by Bill Randall, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Legal Insurrection discusses the Trump accusation about Obama wiretapping him
  2. Powerline comes to an interesting conclusion regarding the wiretapping and Russia
  3. Vlad Tepes notes that Canada’s liberal party has tipped their hand on advancement of Islamism
  4. This ain’t Hell… features another Democrat who slept through science class
  5. The Right Scoop covers liberals mad over a Hillary photo
  6. The Last Tradition notes the shameless Washington Post on WiretappingGate
  7. The Jawa Report features Princeton snowflakes freaking out over Star Wars stormtroopers
  8. The Daley Gator covers the whining whiner of the day
  9. Small Dead Animals has a quicky on the oh so tolerant Progressives at college
  10. Patterico’s Pontifications (Dana) is also covering those violent Progressives attacking women during Women’s Month
  11. Noisy Room discusses the deep state conspiracy against Trump
  12. Moonbattery also covers a loony tunes Democrat worried about rocks falling from the moon
  13. Michelle Malkin (Doug Powers) discusses sanctuary courtrooms
  14. Jihad Watch notes how things are going in Australia for the Islamists
  15. And last, but not least, The Geller Report covers more fake Islamophobia
  16. And one to grow on: Political Clown Parade wonders what would happen if dogs were treated with same “common sense” as guns

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. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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LA Faces A Moral Test On Illegal Aliens Or Something

By William Teach March 5, 2017 – 8:02 am

Arrests by Immigration And Customs Enforcement are causing great disturbances in the Leftist news rooms of America, starting with the NY Times, which is vexed by the detainment of an illegal ordered deported back in 2014, which I mentioned yesterday, and sees the Times’ Jennifer Medina throwing out strawmen

Deportation Arrest Highlights Tensions in Los Angeles on Immigration

(discussion of the arrest of Mr. Gonzalez blocks from the school in a sobby manner)

As news quickly spread of Mr. Avelica’s arrest, local activists and leaders responded with anger and dismay that an arrest could happen so close to a school and in front of a child. Outraged local officials said that the tactics showed a new kind of aggressiveness from immigration agents.

Parents and others are arrested in front of their kids all the time, because the parents broke the law. It’s 100% on the parents. They made unwise choices.

Mr. Avelica’s case is the latest example of the growing tension building in Los Angeles between federal immigration enforcers and local officials. The fraught relationship could continue to fray as the Trump administration ramps up arrests and detentions. Local leaders in California and other parts of the country are increasingly criticizing federal immigration agents, saying their actions threaten to erode the trust between local law enforcement officials and immigrants, whom they depend on to report crimes. California officials have for years declined to help enforce immigration laws, but they do not have the power to stop roundups of immigrants living in the United States illegally.

There’s an easy solution to this strawman: deport the illegals. Why are we concerned with trust between law enforcement and criminals? If you do not coddle those who are unlawfully present, there’s no problem. Instead of letting them reside in the U.S. for 25 years, you scoop them up and send them home.

L.A. faces a moral test: How will we respond to deportation threats?

Since election day, children are scared about what might happen to their parents,” says Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights of Los Angeles. “And parents for their children. We fill out at least 10 guardianship letters every day for [undocumented] parents who fear for their [U.S. citizen] kids if they — the parents — are deported.”

Los Angeles has rarely been a more fearful place than it is today. L.A. and Orange counties are home to roughly 1 million immigrants in the country illegally — more than any region except greater New York. That’s not counting the U.S. citizens in mixed-status families — like those American-born children losing sleep at the prospect of losing their mothers and fathers.

Business is off at stores with a predominantly immigrant clientele, Salas says. The possibility of stakeouts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has caused thousands of Angelenos to abbreviate their daily rounds.

With the Trump administration eliminating most of the legal distinctions between law-abiding, productive undocumented immigrants and their violent, convicted counterparts, the entire city is facing a test of character. “The question before us,” says Rusty Hicks, who heads the L.A. County Federation of Labor, “is how do we make this different from 1942, when Japanese Americans were carted away and no one lifted a finger to help them.”

That’s a pretty darned big strawman. Those Japanese Americans (who were detained by a Democratic Party president, BTW) were American citizens. The illegal aliens in question are not. There is no legal distinction between “law abiding” illegals and violent illegals. Bother are unlawfully present. And, as far as “law abiding” goes, beside being here illegally (it’s in the very word), each and every illegal scooped up recently that’s made the news has some sort of criminal issue involved.

Last weekend, about 600 Angelenos — the majority, presumably, immigrants in the country illegally — attended a “Know Your Rights” forum convened by State Senate President Kevin de Leon in downtown Los Angeles. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell and LAPD Deputy Chief Robert Arcos sought to assure the assemblage, in McDonnell’s words, that “we focus on behavior, not who somebody is or how he got here.”

This is what’s it has come to: three high ranking public officials, two serving in elected positions, are providing aid and comfort to law breakers, and there’s no action against them.

A massive march in defense of immigrants, backed by the Service Employees International Union, is scheduled for May 1. Organizers hope it will combine the mega-turnouts of the immigrant legalization march of 2006 with the women’s march of this January. The organizations providing legal assistance — the most crucial determinant in deportation proceedings — need more funding, and some immigrants likely will need physical sanctuary, too.

Cities seldom get a moral test as defining as this one.

They’re failing to the moral test by condoning illegality. The march would be a good time for ICE to swoop in and scoop up lots of illegals, though.

Illegal alien supports are also apoplectic over the arrest of Juan Coronilla-Guerrero at the Travis County courthouse, which they claim is mean. Even the judge who presided over his charges (misdemeanor assault and possession of marijuana) is a squish

“We need agreement from ICE that administration of criminal justice is presumed to be a higher purpose than administration of immigration justice,” said Judge Sarah Eckhardt.

Immigration law is criminal law, especially in light of the ICE statement

“Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested Juan Coronilla-Guerrero, from Mexico, March 3 on a federal criminal arrest warrant. The warrant was issued based on a criminal complaint charging him with re-entry after deportation, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison, if convicted. Guerrero-Coronilla is scheduled to be in court March 6. No further details are releasable at this time.”

Huh. Another alien absconder. Just like this guy

Yennifer Sanchez says her father, Juan Carlos Fomperosa Garcia, went to a check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Phoenix on Thursday and was deported to Mexico the next day. The 23-year-old said she is left to care for her two younger siblings, including a boy who turned 17 the day Fomperosa Garcia was detained. All of Fomperosa Garcia’s children are U.S. citizens.

ICE says Fomperosa Garcia has been deported three times, was convicted of a federal misdemeanor and had a deportation order.

“ICE will continue to focus on identifying and removing individuals with criminal convictions who have final orders of removal issued by the nation’s immigration courts,” spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe said in a statement.

These are things that also happened under President Obama, just without the negative press coverage. But, the negative, apoplectic press coverage actually helps Trump’s attempt to deport as many illegals as possible, since it creates exactly the type of fear needed to not only get rid of the illegals, but creates a deterrence for those thinking of coming to the U.S. illegally. It’ll make them think hard about doing this.

What would certainly help is if those who just crossed the border recently are detained and quickly deported. And the Trump administration should also focus on those who have overstayed their visas, putting the fear of deportation on their heads. Once we have control of the borders and visa systems, we can then look at possibly creating some sort of pathway to citizenship for those who haven’t been doing bad things while unlawfully present in the nation.

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Chuck Schumer’s Favorite Visa Recepient Arrested For Child Sex Abuse

By William Teach March 4, 2017 – 4:14 pm

I wonder if Chuck regrets this. You should ask him

(Fox News) A snowshoe racer from India whose entry into the U.S. to compete was made possible by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer was being held Friday in a New York jail on a sex charge.

The U.S. embassy in New Delhi last month rejected Tanveer Hussain’s application for a visa so he could compete in the World Snowshoe Championship in upstate. Local officials then intervened on Hussain’s behalf, appealing for help to the offices of Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. Their offices reached out to the New Delhi embassy, which allowed Hussain to reapply for a visa and granted that visa.

“Obviously, this is a troubling matter for him — these are troubling accusations,” Brian Barrett, Hussain’s lawyer, told Fox News over the phone. “He is in good spirits and he looks forward to fighting these charges.”

Saranac Lake Police Chief Charles Potthast told Fox News that the charges, one of first-degree sexual abuse, a felony, and another of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, stem from Hussain “engaging in a passionate kiss” with a 12-year-old girl, and accusations of the athlete touching her over her clothing in an “intimate area.”

Both Schumer’s and Gillibrand’s offices replied, essentially saying “shit happens.” Perhaps they should be a little more cautious on who they back to enter the country.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 4, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled machine causing heat waves, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Fausta’s Blog, with a post asking Dems to give up their Russian fearmongering.

And we end military week with lovely ladies from Australia. Any recommendations for next week’s theme? As always, these posts are open to discuss what you want.

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