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.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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We’re Saved: Climate Change Stories Have Power!!!!!!!

By William Teach April 20, 2015 – 3:36 pm

Of course, not stories about climate hypocrites running around the world using vast amounts of fossil fuels. Oh, no

(UK Guardian) This week we’re focusing on the biggest story in the world – climate change. The planet is reaching crisis point and time is running out to make the changes that are crucial if our planet is to survive (such as keeping fossil fuels in the ground).

Yet, the Guardian still hasn’t divested their own portfolio from fossil fuels, and still uses fossil fuels to deliver their paper.

But what on earth have books got to do with the environment? Stories. The power of a story. As TheBookAddictedGirl blogs:

“It makes climate change interesting. It makes us understand how vital environmentalism is. It makes us think. It makes us act. We need to look at all the mistakes made in books that lead to these dystopian worlds and we need to change them.”

So this week we’re celebrating the positive power of stories, whether dystopian YA fiction, picture books, poetry or classic reads, to bring home what we risk losing – and what we can do about it. And it’s International Earth Day on wednesday 22 April too.

In case you didn’t see the actual permalink, here it is: http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/apr/20/eco-climate-change-themed-week-an-overview. That’s right, this is about indoctrination of kids.

And they will spend all week giving kids the propaganda books needed to make them good little Cult Of Climastrology members. Meaning spreading awareness, pushing for more Government, and refusing to practice what they preach.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 20, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is wonderful, wonderful wine which is necessary to discussing climate change and will be destroyed by climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on people fleeing states where Elizabeth Warren’s policies have been tried.

Below the fold is a wine photo I snagged, uploaded, then realized that it’s a bit NSFW

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Jeb Bush Endorses UN Climate Change Treaty Process

By William Teach April 20, 2015 – 10:30 am

A big supporter of Common Core? Check. A big supporter of amnesty for illegal aliens? Check. A big supporter of Doing Something about “climate change”? Check

Via Climate Depot, which notes his comments: ‘The climate is changing and I am concerned about that.’ – ‘Be cognizant of the fact that we have this climate change issue and we need to work with the rest of the world to negotiate a way to reduce carbon emissions‘.

Jeb Bush was praised by Warmists

(Tampa Bay Times) The remarks at a “Politics & Eggs” event brought praise from billionaire Tom Steyer’s group NextGen Climate, which has spent millions in recent elections blasting Republicans on climate change.

“Jeb Bush demonstrated leadership today on the issue of climate change—distancing himself from the other Republican presidential hopefuls and demonstrating why climate change doesn’t have to be a partisan issue,” the group said in an email to reporters. “Today in New Hampshire, Bush expressed his concern about the fact that the climate is changing and pledged to “to work with the rest of the world to negotiate a way to reduce carbon emissions. This is a critical step forward for the Republican candidate, but it can only be the beginning if America hopes to truly lead the world in combating climate change once and for all. In the coming weeks, we urge Jeb Bush to outline his specific plan to reduce carbon emissions and tackle the greatest challenge of our generation. Providing strong solutions to reduce carbon emissions will not only mitigate the impacts of climate change but also strengthen our economy and create good-paying jobs across the country.”

If Bush really cared, he would drop out of the race to be the Republican nominee now, because running a campaign uses lots and lots of energy and lots and lots of fossil fuels.

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Iran Foreign Minister: We’re Totally Ready To Move On And Discuss The Wider “Persian Gulf Region”

By William Teach April 20, 2015 – 8:15 am

The NY Times has decided to give Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a platform to discuss Iranian objectives, which would not be such a bad idea, as this exposes what Iran really wants. Of course, Leftist fools highlight their American hatred and blamestorming of America in the comments, but, let’s move on

Mohammad Javad Zarif: A Message From Iran

TEHRAN — WE made important progress in Switzerland earlier this month. With the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, we agreed on parameters to remove any doubt about the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program and to lift international sanctions against Iran.

But to seal the anticipated nuclear deal, more political will is required. The Iranian people have shown their resolve by choosing to engage with dignity. It is time for the United States and its Western allies to make the choice between cooperation and confrontation, between negotiations and grandstanding, and between agreement and coercion.

Perhaps Mr. Zarif should have a conversation with all the Iranians chanting “death to America” and “America is the devil…Israel is the devil, England is the devil…”. Perhaps Mr. Zarif could have a conversation with other Iranian leaders who have pledged to wipe Israel off the map.

Iran has been clear: The purview of our constructive engagement extends far beyond nuclear negotiations. Good relations with Iran’s neighbors are our top priority. Our rationale is that the nuclear issue has been a symptom, not a cause, of mistrust and conflict. Considering recent advances in symptom prevention, it is time for Iran and other stakeholders to begin to address the causes of tension in the wider Persian Gulf region.

Well, it certainly doesn’t help that Iran has been, and still is, the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world, and clearly supports terrorist groups throughout the Middle East.

One cannot confront Al Qaeda and its ideological siblings, such as the so-called Islamic State, which is neither Islamic nor a state, in Iraq, while effectively enabling their growth in Yemen and Syria.

Of course, Iran has been implicated in much of the violence occurring within the Middle East, including Yemen and Syria

On a broader level, regional dialogue should be based on generally recognized principles and shared objectives, notably respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of all states; inviolability of international boundaries; noninterference in internal affairs; peaceful settlement of disputes; impermissibility of threat or use of force; and promotion of peace, stability, progress and prosperity in the region.

In other words, Iran wants influence in the “Persian Gulf region”, and wants everyone else to butt out.

The world cannot afford to continue to avoid addressing the roots of the turmoil in the wider Persian Gulf region. This unique opportunity for engagement must not be squandered.

What he surely means as the “roots” is the existence of Israel, and the “interference” of the US and European countries. He surely won’t mention that a good chunk of the roots points right back at Iran, as well as the ever increasing role of extremist Islam. Iran isn’t particularly happy with many of the Islamist groups, who aren’t under the control of Iran.

This is also meant to say “hey, let’s just move on from this nuclear weapons kerfuffle, OK?” On the NY Times front page, the blurb that accompanies the op-ed piece is “We’re ready to talk about ISIS, Syria and Yemen, not just our nuclear program.” Iran will not give up their quest to create nuclear weapons.

As someone in the NY Times comments points out, Iran has been the arsonist throughout the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, and now wants to be the fireman. Huh.

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