California Gives Even More “Rights” To Illegal Aliens

By William Teach August 12, 2015 – 3:04 pm

Why not just give California to Mexico at this point?

California gives immigrants here illegally unprecedented rights, benefits, protections

It started with in-state tuition. Then came driver’s licenses, new rules designed to limit deportations and state-funded healthcare for children. And on Monday, in a gesture heavy with symbolism, came a new law to erase the word “alien” from California’s labor code.

Together, these piecemeal measures have taken on a significance greater than their individual parts — a fundamental shift in the relationship between California and its residents who live in the country illegally. The various benefits, rights and protections add up to something experts liken to a kind of California citizenship.

Democratic lawmakers and immigration activists, with diminishing opposition from the GOP, continue to seek new laws and protections. These measures include cracking down on employers withholding pay from low-wage workers and expanding state-subsidized healthcare to adult immigrants without papers.

It’s not like at least a third of California prisons are holding violent criminal illegal aliens or something.

A few comments from Californians

  • Does anyone find it odd that an American citizen who wrote a bad check at age 18, cannot get a license to cut hair or clean teeth ? In the meantime, an illegal alien with multiple murders in Mexico, can become a lawyer, get a home loan, and of course a California Drivers License. Have you noticed the increased traffic in LA, while the hit-and-run rate is rarely reported in the press and hovers above 50%, because illegal aliens can now get a drivers license without buying insurance. Instead of carefully driving to and from work because they are unlicensed and their car will be impounded, they now can go anywhere, anytime with their worst penalty from a nasty officer being a $25 fix-it ticket for failure to provide proof of insurance, when in fact they are uninsured. Welfare checks and full union membership is coming.
  • Wonder if the DOJ will go after Brown and legislative Democrats as they went after Arizona for legislating against federal law?
  • It does not mean much to be a American Citizen anymore in California. Everything the D’s do here in CA are to benefit them. This insures the votes to keep them in office. This also insures they have a cheap work force to cut the grass, clean the office and cook them dinner. Ever notice where the sanctuary cities are they are heavily D’s? Again there are no benefits to be a citizen. Sad really.

Of course, what California does will end up costing the taxpayers in the rest of the country.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 12, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will rise up hundreds of feet and erase the east coast, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moe Lane, with a post on top secret emails found on Hillary’s server.

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Warmists Decide Sunspots Are Inconvenient, Change Up Data

By William Teach August 12, 2015 – 12:01 pm

The sun has always been one of the prime drivers for the weather, which creates climate in the long-term. This has been inconvenient for the Cult of Climastrology. So, what is a good little cultist to do?

(CBS News) Sunspots have long been used by climate skeptics to explain away a rise in global temperatures.
They argued that solar activity appeared to trend upwards over the past 300 years, on pace with global temperatures, peaking in the late 20th century. This, adherents say, demonstrates that the sun has played a significant role in modern climate change.

But now a group of scientists has found that one method for counting sunspots — as a measure of solar activity — was wrong. Called the Group Sunspot Number, this method showed a rise in sunspots from 1885 to 1945 culminating in what is called the Modern Grand Maximum.

By recalibrating that method in what they call Sunspot Number Version 2.0, Frédéric Clette, director of the World Data Centre, Ed Cliver of the National Solar Observatory and Leif Svalgaard of Stanford University, concluded that sunspot activity had been relatively stable since the 1700s and that there was no Modern Grand Maximum.

The team, which presented its results at the International Astronomical Union in Hawaii, said the findings closely mirror another historical record for sunspot activity, the Wolf Sunspot Number.

The latest findings make it difficult to explain the observed changes in the climate that started in the 18th century and extended through the Industrial Revolution to the 20th century as being significantly influenced by natural solar trends.

Surprise!

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Say, Where Do Presidential Candidates Stand On The Subject Of Hotcoldwetdry?

By William Teach August 12, 2015 – 8:22 am

Now, many Conservatives and Republicans may be thinking “this whole climate change issue is meaningless, and better left off the agenda for the debates”. At surface level, they seem correct. When it comes to polls on what Americans care about, climate change is almost always dead last or next to last. However, the Cult Of Climastrology will never give up on their push, because it is not about science, or protecting the environment, or limiting the temperature of the Earth to no more than a 2C increase (interestingly, none of their proposals would address this). This is about politics, and implementing regressive, authoritarian policies, being the Progressives (nice fascists) that they are. Policies that would control the lives of citizens, private entities, and economies, shifting more and more power to a centralized governmental system.

So, it is important to understand where candidates stand on this issue

(NPR) Last week, President Obama released a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants. Climate change has also been cropping up on the presidential campaign trail — both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have released their own proposals.

Nearly three-quarters of Americans now favor government action on climate change, but the candidates — and big donors who support them — still range widely in opinion. Some call it a hoax and oppose government action, while others have called for sweeping change.

Many are for action, until they learn of the cost of living increases and loss of freedom associated with those policies.

“It’s actually quite remarkable how stable opinions have been,” said Jon Krosnick, a Stanford professor who has surveyed Americans about global warming for the past two decades. “The vast majority of Americans have said they think the planet’s been warming over the past 100 years and attribute that, at least partly, to human activity as the cause.”

Count me, and most Skeptics, in that majority. It’s just that we say that mankind only plays a small role, and quite a bit of that is from land use and the Urban Heat Island Effect (not to mention massaged data).

Despite the fact that the majority of Americans believe in climate change, only around 4 out of 10 Americans said Obama and Congress should view global warming as a top priority in 2015, according to a Pew Research Center poll. Most Americans thought the economy and fighting terrorism were top priorities.

In that poll, climate change came in next to last.

As for where the candidates land, well, hit the link for the full details, being a huge layout. There are six questions

  1. HAS SAID CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL
  2. HAS SAID CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAN MADE
  3. HAS CALLED FOR SOME DEGREE OF ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
  4. HAS EXPLICITLY SAID HE/SHE WILL COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE IF ELECTED
  5. HAS MADE SPECIFIC PROPOSALS TO REDUCE EMISSIONS
  6. OPPOSES KEYSTONE XL

Climate change is real. That is not the debate. It’s about causation. Again, Mankind does play a small role. And there is nothing wrong with reducing some emissions, particularly from methane and several other strong greenhouse gases. But, giving massive control to the federal government, along with policies that increase the cost of living, which primarily harms low and middle income citizens, are bad ideas.

For Republicans, would you guess that Bobby Jindal’s record as a Warmist is worse than Lindsay Graham’s? Neither seems to be gaining traction. Jindal could, potentially, but Graham is going nowhere fast. George Pataki’s record is pretty bad, as well, but, he’s not a front runner, and won’t be. John Kasich is, and he has called for some measures on Hotcoldwetdry. He just doesn’t want any that could negatively affect the economy. People need to ask him some very pointed questions. This goes for Jeb Bush.

For Republican voters, whether a candidate believes Mankind plays a role is immaterial: it’s whether they would institute policies. And, BTW, none are against Keystone XL.

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Team Obama To Push Iran Deal Hard During His Vacation

By William Teach August 12, 2015 – 7:43 am

I’m sure many elected lawmakers will appreciate a call with the “thwack” of golf balls being hit in the background

(The Hill) The White House and its allies are redoubling their efforts to win support for the Iran nuclear deal during President Obama’s two-week vacation at Martha’s Vineyard.

Obama’s vacation represents an opportunity of sorts for opponents, since the president’s bully pulpit will be relatively silent.

Over the break, opponents are blanketing TV airwaves with commercials attacking the deal as they seek to raise pressure on lawmakers to oppose it.

To counter that effort, Obama is expected to make additional calls to undecided lawmakers to get them to support the deal during his vacation.

White House officials are also calling lawmakers over the five-week congressional recess.

One has to wonder: if this deal is so darned good, why the need to convince people on its merits?

Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz — the top two U.S. negotiators with Iran and the administration’s most active salesmen — convened a rare roundtable with reporters from regional newspapers on Monday to talk up the agreement.

Three of the papers invited to attend are from New York, allowing top administration officials to rebut Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) argument against the deal to readers in his home state. Schumer, the only Senate Democrat to announce his opposition so far, has called on the administration to negotiate a better deal.

“It is absolutely mistaken for somebody to assert that ‘Oh, we’ll get a better deal,’” Kerry said, according to the Buffalo News.

At this point, they’re almost right. Kerry and his team, certainly with help from Obama, crafted this horrendous peace of garbage that provides almost nothing for the needs and wants of the United States, while giving the farm away to Iran. It only pushes the threat of a nuclear armed Iran down the road, provided they do not cheat. It fails to address the horrendous human rights problems in Iran (it is always strange that liberals, the self-described champions of gays and women, refuse to condemn Iran). Team Obama has created a situation where, if this bad deal is scuttled, Iran won’t bother with another.

Democrats are being asked for, and are giving, their support to the deal simply because Obama is a Democrat. They aren’t bothering to consider the negative implications for America’s security, nor the danger of an Iran flush with cash. If Obama was a Republican, they’d be dead set against this deal, some because it is a bad deal. And Republicans would be against the deal on the merits. At the end of the day, Democrats will own this disastrous deal. Every poll shows Americans are against this deal. Even in New York City.

But, even Democrats are coming to the conclusion that the deal is a bad one. In a Monmouth poll, only 41% of Democrats want this deal passed.

Fortunately, Iran would never use goods it can obtain once sanctions are lifted for oppression, torture, and terrorism. Right?

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Good Grief: Illegal Aliens File Tort For Being Detainted

By William Teach August 11, 2015 – 4:08 pm

OK, fine, ship them back to their home countries. Immediately….oh, hey, wait, this would be Obama’s fault, since he’s in charge

(AP)  Five immigrant mothers held in facilities with their children are seeking millions of dollars in damages from the U.S. government for what they contend is psychological and physical harm as a result of being detained, according to court papers filed Monday.

Andrew Free, a Nashville immigration lawyer representing the women, filed tort claims against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging the detained women and their children received inadequate medical care, suffered psychological trauma and in some cases were wrongfully imprisoned.

The tort includes Customs and Borders and ICE, both of which roll up to Obama.

But, seriously, they filed because they were detained because they are illegals.

But Free said that the reality of family detention is far different and that the government has “fallen below the standard of care that they owe to these detainees,” as well as violated their rights as asylum seekers by using detention as a deterrent.

Yet, they came illegally. They should have been deported immediately. From the comments

The nerve of these miscreants is beyond belief…you sneak into a country illegally, are fed and housed and receive medical care – all free – then have the unmitigated gall to complain and sue!

Boom.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 11, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is the name of an evil carbon polluting nation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jammie Wearing Fools, with a post on a mostly peaceful Obama special assistant.

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Climate Change Is A Demanding, Demurring Moral Question Or Something

By William Teach August 11, 2015 – 10:13 am

Maxwell, Dotson, who’s an “Activist, entrepreneur, millennial”, is totally concerned with Hotcoldwetdry, and finds it to be a moral issue, writing at the Huffington Post. After the standards whines, like

Throughout the United States, current problems and future concerns include droughts (like the current conditions in California), heat-waves, rising sea levels, floods (like the tragic flooding in Texas), increases in both the size and intensity of storms (think more Superstorm Sandys) among others. (see? Hotcoldwetdry!)

we get

We must call climate change what it is — a demanding, demurring moral question. While the calculus for effectively weighing this question is nebulous at best, the necessity of action is clear. The current state, according to Stephen Gardiner of Washington University, a leading voice in the discussion, is a “perfect moral storm” where a convergence of extenuating factors, incentive misalignments and environmental realities creates a system our current ethical and governmental structures are powerless to address.

If it’s so moral, why are Cult Of Climastrology members not making changes in their own lives?

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Obama Admits He’s Been Lying About Iran Deal Blocking Iran’s Nuclear Aspirations

By William Teach August 11, 2015 – 7:16 am

Remember when Obama said this (while putting those who are in opposition to the Iran deal in league with the hardcore Iranians)?

After two years of negotiations, we have achieved a detailed arrangement that permanently prohibits Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It cuts off all of Iran’s pathways to a bomb. It contains the most comprehensive inspection and verification regime ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program.

And we see this

And this, which the White House has been tweeting for weeks

Then there’s this

(The Hill) President Obama defended his landmark nuclear deal with Iran, but conceded the time it takes Tehran to acquire the material to build a bomb would shrink to “a matter of months” as the agreement expires.

Obama sought to push back against critics who argue the deal should be abandoned because it does not permanently cut off Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon. Critics say some of the strictest limits on Iran’s nuclear program go away after 15 years.

Asked by NPR’s Steve Inskeep what Iran’s “breakout time” will be 15 years from now, Obama said “it shrinks back down to roughly where it is now … which is a matter of months.” But Obama said that was no reason to reject the 15 years of limits on Iran’s program under the deal.

So, this temporary deal will make sure the hardcore Iranian regime will receive lots and lots of cash, which can be spent on their support of terrorism. There will be no credible way that any removed sanctions can be put back in place. Iran has cheated on a good chunk of sanctions already placed on the country and specific people.

And it most assuredly doesn’t permanently prohibit Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

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SJWs Freak Out Over “Blue Lives Matter Day” At Minor League Park

By William Teach August 11, 2015 – 6:59 am

The same people who profess their hatred for police officers will have a hissy fit if the cops aren’t there to help them when they’re a victim of crime in seconds

(Yahoo News) A New York Yankees minor-league affiliate says it was surprised by the controversy surrounding a “Blue Lives Matter Day” held at its ballpark Sunday.

Social-justice activists and left-leaning websites criticized the timing of the event, which took place on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Mo., but team officials insist it was simply a coincidence.

Blue Lives Matter NYC, a charity for the families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, hosted the fundraising event during a baseball game between the Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones at the Richmond County Bank Ballpark.

The families of NYPD detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos — who were shot and killed by a lone gunman in Brooklyn in December 2014 — were honored during the ball game. One of Liu’s family members threw out the ceremonial first pitch.

So, yeah, the SJWs, especially the #BlackLivesMatter(only in regards to when the cops shoot an unarmed black criminal, but not when Blacks are shooting each other in the streets with reckless abandon), are having a fit

Kirsten Savali, a cultural critic for the Root, an online magazine on African-American culture, said that with this event the baseball team “unapologetically spits” in the face of the Black Lives Matter movement.

“The Staten Island Yankees wanted to send a statement today, and they did: Black lives don’t matter to them or the Yankees organization,” Savali wrote. “On today of all days, they made it clear that not only is baseball ‘America’s Favorite Pastime,’ but it goes hand in hand with the continued dehumanization of black Americans.”

Who cares what day it was? Why the need to celebrate the killing of a young man, Michael Brown, who stole, assaulted, tried to take a police officer’s gun, then ultimately got the end he was asking for by coming back at a duly sworn police officer? Why support a criminal?

Similarly, Judd Legum, the editor in chief of the liberal blog Think Progress, argued that Blue Lives Matter is insensitive in that it draws attention away from victims of police violence.

“Like the refrain ‘All Lives Matter,’ it is used — online and elsewhere — to undercut the notion that there is a particular problem with police brutality against people of color,” he wrote.

Again, what of all the people of color brutality against people of color? It’s like SJWs don’t want to know about it. Or don’t care. Or approve of it. Baltimore saw its 200th murder for the year, after 211 in 2014. The vast majority of the victims were Black, as were most of the suspects. In Raleigh, 2 of the 3 arrested for the murder of Keyshawn Gregory (a 13 year old out riding around at 3am. Yeah, there’s been some interest in why this kid was cruising, which the local media refuses to ask questions about) are Black, as is Keyshawn.

In violent Ferguson, dozens were arrested after a state of emergency was declared. This was after all the looting and pilfering and gun shots and blocking streets and such. How much violence occurred during the Blue Lives Matter day? Oh, right. None.

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