Team Obama: Screw Those Americans Stuck In Yemen

By William Teach April 22, 2015 – 3:11 pm

Just remember, The Obama Administration really like super cares about Americans

Americans Trapped in Yemen? U.S. Says ‘Good Luck’

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Yet, the tone from White House and State Department spokespeople when asked by reporters about the lack of action has often seemed dismissive; the official response has been to point to previous State Department travel warnings about the dangers in Yemen, which seems like blaming the U.S. citizens for being there in the first place. Many of these people are Yemeni immigrants or the children of immigrants who returned to see their families.

“We are giving Americans opportunities — information about opportunities, I should say — to use other methods of leaving Yemen, and that’s why we have been very clear since the mid-1990s that people should not travel to Yemen,” State Department acting spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters Monday.

A reporter pointed out that one of the State Department’s absolute highest responsibilities is protecting U.S. citizens abroad.

“Absolutely,” Harf responded. “That’s why we have been telling them not to go to Yemen.”

The actual information that the State Department has been sending U.S.-citizens in Yemen has been spotty, vague and unhelpful, according to Ayoub. Random alerts have pointed Americans to travel great distances for opportunities to leave the country without any assurances they would be successful when they get there.

On one hand, one has to point out and understand that there are consequences to actions, and sometimes those consequences are not good ones. These people should have known that being in Yemen is a Bad Idea, going back into the late 1990’s. On the other hand, these are American citizens, and one would expect the American government to do whatever they can to rescue them.

Ace notes

The WH and State Department do not care about US citizens stuck in Yemen; they only care about having to answer questions about their lack of action. That is, they only care about themselves, as they only cared about themselves during the Benghazi attack; those killed in Benghazi were not important as human beings, but merely as headaches and complications for Obama and Hillary.

Unfortunately, their narcissism leads them to making the wrong choice in fixing these “headaches”.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 22, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is wine, cheese, and bread which will be harmed by climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post Obama’s clean energy plan skyrocketing your power bill.

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NFIB: “We’ll observe Earth Day when the EPA observes the law”

By William Teach April 22, 2015 – 10:13 am

Sadly, Earth Day has shifted from caring about real environmental issues…clean air, clean land, clean waters…to the idiocy of “climate change”. Cult of Climastrology member John Kerry (who owns multiple fossil fueled vehicles, several McMansions, and takes lots of fossil fueled flights) links the two in an opinion piece at USA Today. But, not all are happy campers in following the CoC

(MRC) “We’ll observe Earth Day when the EPA observes the law,” the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), which represents 350,000 small and independent business owners, said today. “The President could do something meaningful tomorrow by sending the Waters Rule back to the EPA to be analyzed for its impact on small businesses,” said NFIB Senior Manager of Regulatory Policy Dan Bosch.

The EPA recently submitted to the White House its final rule expanding the Clean Water Act, adopted by Congress three decades ago to protect navigable waterways like rivers and bays.  Under the rule, the agency could have jurisdiction over virtually any water no matter how local, including backyard streams, farmers’ ponds and even creek beds and depressions that are only wet for a few days a year.

Regulatory agencies are supposed to assess how new rules will affect small businesses.  In this case, however, the EPA bypassed that step, arguing that the new rule is merely a definitional change and does not, therefore, require a small business impact study.

The EPA rules, like so many other Big Government rules, are designed to give the Central Government, and, in this case the EPA, more and more Power over the lives of Americans and private entities, regardless of any negative impacts.

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Warmist Bill Nye Super Happy To Take A Fossil Fueled Flight For Earth Day

By William Teach April 22, 2015 – 8:20 am

Yet another case of “do as I say, not as I do”

(Daily Caller) Bill Nye believes global warming is the greatest threat humanity faces — but apparently not great enough to make him think twice about taking an awesome Earth Day ride on Air Force One.

The self-proclaimed “science guy” took to Twitter Tuesday to brag to his over 2 million followers that he will be polluting the atmosphere with more carbon dioxide by joining President Barack Obama on an Earth Day trip on the presidential jumbo jet.

Obama and Nye will be flying Air Force One down to the Florida Everglades Wednesday to highlight what the White House believes is the threat global warming poses to the national park. As The Daily Caller News Foundation reported last year, a presidential visit to New York City on Air Force One to attend a United Nations summit likely contributed nearly as much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as 22 Americans emit in an entire year, when you take into account all that goes along with a presidential visit.

This kind of hypocrisy is, sadly, about as routine as reading about an illegal alien committing a serious crime. They want Everyone Else to be forced to give up use of fossil fuels, primarily by making fossil fuels very, very expensive, along with their whole “divestment” movement. But, hey, at least they don’t make messes during an Earth Day concert, right?

https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/589566199119351808

They actually put their trash (which includes many things, such as plastic bottles and styrofoam, which are proclaimed as being Bad for “climate change”) around the garbage cans this time, so progress! Much more at Twitchy.

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Obama Admin Admits Mistake In Granting Executive Amnesty To Murderous Gang Member

By William Teach April 22, 2015 – 8:04 am

Have you heard what has happened with Blue Bell? Apparently, some of their ice cream products have made people sick. A total of 10 people have been contaminated with listeria, leading to three deaths. This occurred between 2010 and 2015, and it was enough for the Centers For Disease Control to get involved. Blue Bell has issued a recall for all its products in 23 states. This is Big News.

What does that have to do with illegal aliens? Let’s consider, they are streaming over the borders, and many, many, many are criminals. Yet, our federal government is incompetent and accepting of these criminal aliens, where, when it comes to food that makes a few people sick, they jump in with both feet

(Breitbart) The Obama administration is admitting it granted executive amnesty protections to a known gang member — one charged with four counts of murder — and is now reviewing prior approvals to double check that other gang members have not also been approved for deferred status.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) dated Friday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Leon Rodriguez explains that Emmanuel Jesus Rangel-Hernandez’s request for deferred status under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program “should not have been approved” based on standard procedure.

Rangel-Hernandez is currently charged with the murder of four people, including former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant Mirjana Puhar.

Rangel-Hernandez’s alleged crimes took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) called the administration’s confirmation “chilling.”

“For some time, the administration has promised Americans that those who qualify for their executive order would fully meet a set of guidelines meant to keep criminals out of our country,” Burr said Tuesday. ”We now know that isn’t true and that the agency tasked with implementing the President’s edict cannot effectively carry out the rule without compromising the safety of Americans.”

USCIS is essentially saying “our bad

USCIS added that it would be offering refresher training to its officers on these matters and “is in the process of completing a review of prior DACA approvals to determine if requests from known gang members were processed in a manner consistent with standard protocol. USCIS has identified certain cases that merit further review and it therefore undertaking a review of each of these individual case files.”

Perhaps there is a reason that Presidents shouldn’t rule by executive order. Perhaps there’s a reason for most illegals to not be given any sort of amnesty.

(Houston Chronicle) Two men avoided a potential federal death-penalty trial on Friday by pleading guilty in Houston to their roles in a 2013 gang-ordered revenge killing.

Cristian Alexander Zamora, 22, and 19-year-old Ricardo Leonel Campos Lara each admitted to one count of aiding and abetting murder on federal property in connection with the near-decapitation of a Klein Forest High School student with a machete and bat in the Sam Houston National Forest.

A third man, Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero, is also charged for the murder. He was 17 at the time. All three are illegal aliens.

(American Thinker) As a “pencil protrusion” reinforcement is about to be placed on the top of the fence encircling the White House, far off on the other side of the enclosure an illegal immigrant from Guatemala was arrested for exposing himself to an eight-year-old girl in Pennsylvania.

The Obama DREAMer type spent the morning cruising Bensalem, a working-class community usually considered safe. When Juan Perez-Juarez approached a child outside her home and tried to entice her to get into his car, the little girl refused and told him that she wasn’t allowed go anywhere with him.

That’s when Juan emerged from the vehicle and exposed himself. Then, just like many illegal immigrants have done on America’s laws, Perez-Juarez disrespectfully urinated on the street.

25-year-old Hermes Rivera has admitted to police that he raped a 10 year old girl multiple times in Kenner, La. He’s also an illegal. And would be of the right age for Obama’s amnesty. Many of those “kids” streaming across our border recently are criminals and are committing crimes.

When it comes to small problems with food safety, it is a big deal. As it should be. Yet, when illegals are killing, raping, exposing themselves, and committing other crimes, the US government seems to welcome these people. Strange world.

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NY Comptrollers: Force Companies To Make “Climate Change” Disclosures

By William Teach April 21, 2015 – 3:20 pm

Hey, you know how I constantly write that “climate change” is really about Progressive politics, which requires bigger and bigger centralized government with more and more control over our lives, over private entities, and over economies?

New York comptrollers call on SEC to enforce climate change disclosures at companies

New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer on Friday said the SEC should “consider enforcement and other actions” to make fossil-fuel companies improve disclosure of “material risks” that climate change “poses to their business.”

Mr. DiNapoli is the sole trustee of the $181.7 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, Albany, and Mr. Stringer is the fiduciary for the $163.4 billion New York City Retirement Systems, which consists of five city pension funds.

“The silence of fossil-fuel companies on the risks they face from climate change is a red flag for investors,” Mr. Stringer said in a news release issued by both comptrollers.

“It’s time for the SEC to step in and, through regulatory or enforcement action, require these companies to provide complete and accurate information to protect investors and the broader marketplace,” Mr. DiNapoli said in the news release.

Huh. More Big Government. Weird, right?

Interesting that neither comptroller is willing to divest their funds from fossil fuels, as well.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is awesome wine which will be devastated by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is House Of Eratosthenes, with a post on 5 answer liberals never give us.

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We Totally Need Market Based Solutions To Solve “Climate Change”

By William Teach April 21, 2015 – 11:19 am

I love when hardcore Progressives start yammering about market economics, because it’s easy to see that they often do not understand free markets, and are interested in free markets. Here’s Kyle E. Thomas at Syracuse.com, who is the group leader for the Syracuse chapter of the (astroturfed) Citizens’ Climate Lobby

This Earth Day, let’s take on climate change, and improve our economy (Commentary)

Since its beginning in 1970, Earth Day has become an internationally celebrated, yearly recognition of the Earth and the need for protection of our environment. In the intervening decades, however, despite our good intentions and individual actions, our environment has continued to suffer degradation, with climate change representing the most intractable and overarching of our challenges. And as evidenced by Secretary Paulson’s “Risky Business Project” report, the business community is beginning to quantify the possible financial risks associated with climate change, and they are enormous.

In reality, our environment is doing much, much better. The air is much cleaner, as is the land and waters.

The good news is that a solution exists that corrects the market failure that climate change represents, by being firmly grounded in the principles of market economics. That solution is a revenue-neutral carbon tax, endorsed by such prominent conservatives as former Secretary of State George Schultz, former U.S. Representative Bob Englis, and President George W. Bush’s former economic adviser Greg Mankiw as well as very recently by the Niskanen Center a Libertarian think tank.

What are those “market economics”?

“Carbon Fee and Dividend” is such a revenue-neutral proposal advocated by the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, an international volunteer-based organization. The proposal consists of a gradually rising fee beginning at $15 per ton fee on CO2 equivalent fuel sources, and increasing by $10 per ton annually until specific, identified emissions goals are achieved. As a frame of reference, $15 per ton CO2 equivalents translates roughly to an increase of 15 cents per gallon of gasoline, a variability we often see monthly at the filling station. Border adjustment tariffs are placed on imports from nations that do not have an equivalent measure in place to provide a level playing field for American businesses.

In an actual free market, the price of carbon offsets and such have collapsed in virtually every case, achieving junk bond status. What Warmists are pushing in no way resembles free market principles. Instead, this would be government setting the price and continuously raising the cost. Which would, of course, artificially raise the cost of virtually everything, meaning citizens would pay more thanks to Warmists, who refuse to currently practice what they preach.

Expressed numerically and assuming implementation beginning in 2015, REMI forecasts that by 2024 U.S. GDP will increase $840 billion over the baseline and $150 billion regionally. Jobs are projected to increase over the same period by approximately 2 million for the U.S. and by 250,000 for the Mid-Atlantic region.

In the real world, these jobs have been stagnant, despite dumping tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars, into “climate change” initiatives, including “green energy”. Seemingly, most of the jobs are simply about spreading awareness and raising money for “environmental” groups, which accomplish little. It’s been shown time and time again, with real world data, that for every 1 “green” job created, at least 2 jobs are lost.

This is just more proof that Warmists, part of the overall Progressive movement, want Government control of economies.

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Team Rubio: Amnesty Before Border Security

By William Teach April 21, 2015 – 7:17 am

This is surely the position of the Republican Establishment, and when debate and primary voting time comes around, Team Rubio will surely flip in order to get the votes

(Breitbart) The chief spokesman for the presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said in an on-record interview with Breitbart News that the senator, if elected president, would not require a secured border before he gives legislative and permanent amnesty to recipients of President Barack Obama’s first executive amnesty, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“No,” Alex Conant said when asked if the border would need to be secured before a President Rubio’s legislative amnesty for recipients of Obama’s 2012 DACA would replace that executive amnesty.

Rubio intends to, if elected to the White House—as he laid out in a Spanish-language interview with Univision’s Jorge Ramos this weekend and was subsequently confirmed by Conant—eventually undo DACA. But he would not do so until there is a legislative replacement that provides the legal status—or amnesty—to DACA recipients on a permanent basis.

“For the sake of argument let’s deal with the kids separately,” Conant said. “We wouldn’t repeal the executive order for the kids on day one, and we would work to replace it with legislation—well, he wouldn’t work to replace it, he would replace it with legislation that gave them a permanent legal solution to their status.”

If Conant is willing to go this far regarding amnesty, you know that the reality is much, much worse

Conant argued that Rubio’s belief that it’s okay to grant the amnesty to so-called DREAMers—people who came to the United States as minors illegally “through no fault of their own”—before the border is secured is something he has always believed. Conant points to a bill Rubio was working on in 2012 to do just that—a bill that was upended when Obama moved forward with DACA without consulting Congress.

Giving them amnesty means giving their parents (and potentially grandparents, cousins, etc) amnesty. Despite all the talk about eventually getting a “legislative solution” and so forth, Rubio is all for amnesty, and said amnesty will simply entice more illegals to come to the U.S., and play the child card.

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Warmist Cornel West: Not Divesting From Fossil Fuels Is Like A Planetary Selma Or Something

By William Teach April 21, 2015 – 7:03 am

Some Warmists have called for others in the Cult Of Climastrology to tone it down, stop being so over-the-top with their alarmism. Cornel West apparently didn’t get the message

(UK Guardian) The outspoken civil rights activist and academic Cornel West said Harvard University risked being on the wrong side of a “planetary Selma”, culminating a week-long campaign by students and prominent alumni campaigning for the most prominent university in the US to divest from fossil fuels.

The sit-in protest shut down the campus building that houses the president’s office for the entirety of so-called “heat week”, and forced the closure of another administration building for two days.

Funny that the UK Guardian, which has decided to forgo responsible journalism in favor of being activists for Hotcoldwetdry, would publish this article, considering they haven’t divested their own portfolio and still use fossil fueled vehicles to deliver their paper edition.

“It’s climate justice, more than anything,” McKibben said in an inteview with the Guardian. “And no one has stood on the side of reason and justice more than Cornel West.”

Strange how so much of Warmist language sounds like Progressive language, wouldn’t you say?

West, in a final protest organised by the student group Divest Harvard, pushed even further on (Harvard University president David) Faust.

“Ecological catastrophe is as evil as white supremacist catastrophe, anti-Jewish catastrophe, anti-gay catastrophe, anti-Muslim catastrophe,” West said to loud applause on Friday. “Doctor Faust, we now have a planetary Selma. We want you on the right side.”

Someone ask Mr. West if he still drives a fossil fueled vehicle and takes other modes of fossil fueled travel. This goes for Bill McKibben, and all the others mentioned within the article. Ask them if they have divested all their own portfolios from, as the Guardian petition asks at the link, the 200 fossil fuels companies. I bet there will be quite a bit of ums and ahs and hemming and hawing.

Someone should also ask all the snowflakes attending Harvard and this protest if their parents, most of whom are probably well off, have divested from fossil fuels.

Oh, wait, sorry, my bad, I forgot that things like divestment and giving up the use of fossil fuels is for Other People.

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