Say, Did Obama Actually Sign Immigration Executive Order?

By William Teach December 5, 2014 – 9:08 am

I’ve had this article by Jerome Corsi sitting in the Pocket folder for a few days now, which asks an interesting question

(WND) Did President Obama just set up Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to be a candidate for impeachment instead of himself if conservatives convince the Republican majorities in the House and the Senate that his “executive actions” on immigration are unconstitutional?

The inquiry begins with the question: Where are the executive orders Obama supposedly signed to permit up to 5 million parents of young illegal aliens to remain in the United States for three years?

The White House appears to have engaged in administrative sleight of hand, changing U.S. immigration law not by executive order but by a memorandum “exercising prosecutorial discretion” Johnson signed the day of Obama’s Nov. 20 nationwide address that so far has not been filed in the Federal Register.

So, um, where, exactly, is the order? Was this not part of Obama’s executive action? Was there not supposed to be an order from Obama? Corsi follows up

It’s common knowledge President Obama signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to forgive millions of illegal aliens for their past violations of immigration law, right?

Wrong.

Today the National Archives and Records Administration, responsible for such maintaining such filings, said no such executive order was ever signed or filed, confirming WND’s report Wednesday.

A National Archives librarian, Jeffrey Hartley, made the confirmation in an email Thursday to WND.

“As I indicated, it would appear that there is not an Executive Order stemming from the President’s remarks on November 20 on immigration,” Hartley wrote.

Hartley said that neither of the executive orders Obama signed in Las Vegas the day after his announcement fulfill his plan to defer deportations and grant work permits to up to 5 million illegal aliens.

DHS head Jeh Johnson has no legal nor Constitutional authority to tell law enforcement officers to stop enforcing the law as duly passed by Congress. Not that Obama really does, either, but it seems that Obama hasn’t actually signed any orders to that effect, either. If he did, where are they?

BTW, here’s some more great illegal aliens.

The list can go on and on and on.

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If Eric Garner Where White, Would There Be A Tea Party Crusade?

By William Teach December 5, 2014 – 8:27 am

That’s what The Atlantic’s Peter Beinart whats to know

If Eric Garner Were White
His death would be a Tea Party crusade.

Imagine that Eric Garner had been white. Imagine that he’d been living in Idaho. Imagine that the law-enforcement officers who killed him had been federal agents.

His death would be a Tea Party crusade.

Think about it. The police hassled Garner because he had a history of selling untaxed cigarettes. It’s the kind of big-government intrusion that drives Tea Partiers nuts. One of the events that helped launch the Tea Party, in fact, came in January 2009, when activists from Young Americans for Liberty donned American Indian garb to protest the soda taxes proposed by then-New York Governor David Patterson.

Garner responded to being hassled with a statement of “don’t tread on me” anti-government defiance: “I was just minding my own business. Every time you see me you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it. It stops today!”

Um, no. It wouldn’t. Because we believe in that little thing called “law and order”, and Garner was clearly breaking the law (no matter how ridiculous). There were those 30+ times he’s been arrested, often for the same offense of selling cigarettes without tax. Oh, and, by the way, many conservatives/Republicans were dismayed that the Grand Jury decided not to forward a charge for a court trial.

But, the point of the article is simply to paint the Tea Party as raaaaacist. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. This is racial politics at its worst.

To imagine how Fox News would be reacting right now had Garner been white, rural, and facing the feds, you need only imagine how it would have reacted had a BLM agent shot Bundy dead.

But Fox and the rest of the pro-Tea Party right aren’t reacting that way. Yes,some conservative pundits—noting the video that shows Garner being choked to death—have condemned the grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who killed him. Rand Paul has denounced the high cigarette taxes that Garner flouted.

One has to wonder whether Beinart, and other liberals, actually give a damn about Eric Garner. Same with Michael Brown. Or Trayvon Martin. Because they immediately turned the situations into a hardcore political issue. Yet, when it comes to Black on Black crime, when Blacks are being killed by the dozen in Chicago, when Blacks are suffering in the welfare and crime ridden plantations Democrats created, Liberals tend to be silent. Because they do not care about the people, they care about the political issue.

Did you know that a Black female Sergeant supervised Garner’s arrest? No? Here’s the report, via Ace and Gateway Pundit

(PIX11) Another female sergeant, Kizzy Adoni, made a similar statement in the report. She “believed she heard” Garner say he was having difficulty breathing. Adoni also said “The perpetrator’s condition did not seem serious and he did not appear to get worse.”

The NY Daily News, not exactly a right leaning news outlet, confirms that Sergeant Adoni was present, and is Black. Oh, and then there is this

(Mediaite)  Eric Garner‘s daughter Erica appeared on CNN tonight to discuss her father’s death, the grand jury the declined to indict the officer responsible, and the national uproar over his case. Garner toldDon Lemon she’s glad to see people of all races and backgrounds coming together to protest the decision.

Lemon asked her a question that’s been on everyone’s minds the past day: is this about race? And Garner actually said, “This is not a black and white issue.”

Liberals would prefer that it be a raaaaacism issue, in order to push their own narrative for their own petty reasons. And the more they do, the more they should that they do not care about individuals like Eric Garner.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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NY Times International: Cold Is Caused By Warming

By William Teach December 4, 2014 – 5:12 pm

Yet another Warmist dives into Fantasy Land (didn’t I mention Warmists and their stories earlier?). Here’s Celestine Bohlen in the international version of their fish wrap

Adjusting the Tune on Climate Change

For a week in November, people across the United States were complaining bitterly about the cold. Record low temperatures were experienced in 43 states; in some northern regions, residents had to dig tunnels to get out of houses engulfed by as much as seven feet of snow.

The freakish cold snap hardly rates in comparison with the devastating floods, fires and droughts that have recently afflicted other parts of the world. But it is another example of how extreme weather has become a global reality, one that is putting the contentious issue of climate change squarely in the middle of everyday conversations.

So, according to Warmist Doctrine, the Little Ice Age, the Dark Ages, heck, the last glaciation period and Snowball Earth were all caused by warming.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 4, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil wood burning fireplace, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on the search for racism.

Since I messed up yesterday and used the same photo I did on Monday, a double-shot featuring Grace Park is below the fold.

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Know What’s Really Needed To Win Over Skeptics? Stories!

By William Teach December 4, 2014 – 10:51 am

Quite frankly, I think we’ve already hate quite enough stories over science from the Cult Of Climatology, thank you very much

Science won’t win over the climate change sceptics – we need stories

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In COIN’s latest report, Young Voices, we spoke to young people in the UK aged between 18 and 25 about their views on climate change. Most were not interested in fighting a battle against organised scepticism. Debating solutions, rather than the science, was deemed a much higher priority.

Interesting, because their “solutions” will increase unemployment and low paying jobs, decrease affordable energy, and increase governmental control. In other words, these youths are screwing themselves. Oh, and they, like so many Warmists, aren’t quite sure what they are actually discussing

Interestingly, though, a study conducted in Canada suggests that people don’t necessarily need to know much about climate policies in order to support them. There is no direct relationship between policy knowledge and support for them.

Well, that sure fits Warmists. They don’t have to actually know anything in order to be Believers.

More important than the actual solutions are the stories that grow around them, and the meanings people attribute to different technologies and ideas. The success of #ItsHappening is most likely driven by a sense of social momentum rather than anything inherently ‘likeable’ about the projects shared.

See? Stories! Fables! Let’s jump back in the article for a moment

This insight is also reflected in 10:10’s #ItsHappening campaign, which promotes creative ways of tackling climate change from across the globe on social media. The logic of the campaign is simple: show people that solutions are not only possible but already proliferating, and a powerful sense of momentum will grow.

If you’re going to use the despicable 10:10 as your basis for stories, you’re off the edge of the map. Remember, they were the ones who did the “No Pressure” video, where they thought that the execution of skeptics, including children, was a wonderful idea.

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Has Obama’s Police Body Camera Policy Taken A Hit?

By William Teach December 4, 2014 – 7:14 am

Let’s start off with the Eric Garner case

(NY Post) A Staten Island grand jury cleared an NYPD cop in the chokehold death of Eric Garner during his caught-on-video arrest for peddling loose cigarettes, the Staten Island district attorney confirmed Wednesday.

The panel voted a “no-bill” and dismissed all potential charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo.

The blockbuster decision capped weeks of investigation by the special grand jury, which was empaneled in September specifically to review evidence in Garner’s racially charged death.

A lot of people are trying to link this to the Ferguson case, but they couldn’t be more different. Garner may have been involved in a minor instance of breaking the law (peddling cigarettes), but, unlike Michael Brown, he didn’t just assault a store clerk, didn’t assault a police officer, didn’t try and take an officer’s gun, and didn’t charge the officer. Furthermore, Officer Darren Wilson, in the Ferguson incident, was alone. The police in Staten Island where there in force. To me, the video clearly shows the chokehold, and perhaps overzealous police officers. And possible criminal conduct.

But, Garner was also resisting arrest.

What we really do not have are the facts as presented to the Grand Jury, along with their reasoning for the “no-bill”. What about the use of body cameras for police

With Eric Garner, Obama’s body camera argument just took a big hit

President Obama announced this week that, in response to Ferguson and other cases of cops killing unarmed black men, the White House would call for $75 million to make 50,000 body cameras available to police departments across the country.

But on Wednesday, a grand jury declined to indict New York police officers in the choking death of Eric Garner — a case in which there was footage. And the timing couldn’t really be worse for the White House.

The Washington Post goes on to note

Proponents of expanding the use of body cameras point to Rialto, Calif., where complaints against police officers fell by 88 percent a year after they were put into use in 2012. And more than anything, the use of technology to prevent more Fergusons has been something plenty of people with very different views of what happened could agree upon.

So, they can actually be helpful (it should be noted that it wasn’t a body camera used in the Eric Garner case, just someone filming). The Atlantic’s Uri Friedman goes deeper into saying that the policy of body cameras might be a bad one

Barak Ariel, a criminologist at the University of Cambridge, isn’t so sure about body cameras, either.

The technology is “surely promising, but we don’t know that it’s working,” Ariel told me. The Food and Drug Administration doesn’t approve drugs until they’ve been studied extensively, he explained, and governments should take a similar approach with body-worn cameras. It’s a solution that has yet to be proven.

There’s lots more where that came from.

But, are the cameras worth the price-tag? In my opinion, heck yes. They surely won’t be perfect. Incidents will still happen. Let’s not forget that the Rodney King incident was filmed during the time of everyone getting their own video camera. The use of police car dash cams has reduced complaints against officers, has given police proof of their conduct during stops and other incidents, has shown the conduct of those stopped by police, and has also shown police engaged in illegal and/or over the line conduct. When the last happens, most police officers are held responsible.

Having body cameras is better than not having them. They cause police and citizens to generally act in a better manner. Not always. This is one Obama policy that Conservatives should get behind.

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North Carolina, 15 Other States Join Texas In Suing Obama Over Illegal Aliens Order

By William Teach December 4, 2014 – 6:50 am

Obama’s unlawful executive order telling the government to not enforce the law when it comes to illegal aliens in the U.S. has gotten him sued again

(WRAL/AP) North Carolina is part of a 17-state coalition suing over President Barack Obama’s recently announced executive actions on immigration, arguing in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the move “tramples” key portions of the U.S. Constitution.

Many top Republicans have denounced Obama’s unilateral move, which was designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation.

But Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott took it a step further, filing a formal legal challenge in federal court in the Southern District of Texas. His state is joined by 16 other mostly conservative states, largely in the south and Midwest, such as Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana and the Carolinas.

The states aren’t seeking monetary damages, but instead want the courts to block Obama’s actions.

“The president has exceeded the balance of power provisions clearly laid out in the U.S. Constitution and his unilateral expansion of power must be challenged,” North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said in a statement. “In North Carolina, the 10th most populous state, the president’s actions are likely to put even more financial strain on our state’s government services. It’s disappointing that the president has shown little regard for states which must shoulder the costs of his actions.”

And bear those costs the States will, unless the order is blocked. More on that in a moment

The lawsuit raises three objections: that Obama violated the “Take Care Clause” of the U.S. Constitution that Abbott said limits the scope of presidential power; that the federal government didn’t follow proper rule-making procedures; and that the order will “exacerbate the humanitarian crisis along the southern border, which will affect increased state investment in law enforcement, health care and education.”

Abbott said Obama’s actions “directly violate a fundamental promise to the American people” and that it was up to the president to “execute the law, not de facto make law.”

But, when has Obama ever cared about executing the law? Of course, the lawsuit has annoyed those who support illegal aliens

“Gov. McCrory continues to send a clear message that immigrants are unwelcome in North Carolina,” Angeline Echeverría, executive director of El Pueblo, said in a statement. “His blatant disregard for the positive contributions of North Carolina’s immigrant community is short-sighted and fails to recognize that this executive action will benefit community members who are already contributing to North Carolina’s economy, cultural diversity and civic life.”

Well, yes, if you are here in this country illegally, you are unwelcome. What are the positive contributions? Would they be the spike in violence at the schools the illegal kids have been placed in? Or the people, at least one of whom has an ICE detainer, who engaged in a high speed chase with a Wake County sheriff and shot at his cruiser? Or the illegal alien who kidnapped a Baltimore girl? Those are just a few of the hits of “positive contributions”.

Now, regarding costs, here’s something I never got around to posting from November 29th. The NY Daily News had been a massive cheerleader for Obama and progressive causes. But, even they have a problem with Obama’s lawless illegal alien “amnesty”, noting that there is a cost to good intentions (personally, I don’t think Obama had good intentions, just hard core political ones. He couldn’t give a crap about illegals personally.)

Obama defended his overhaul of U.S. immigration policy by declaring that he had gone beyond an exercise in executive power.

“What you’re not paying attention to is the fact that I just took an action to change the law,” the President told hecklers — who wanted him to go further than he already has in shielding 5 million people from the threat of deportation and issuing them work permits.

Even Obama acknowledged his own lawlessness.

In fact, his solo approach is about to hammer New York taxpayers. That’s because many of the immigrants affected by Obama’s executive order will also become eligible for Medicaid health coverage under state law.

Under a 2001 court ruling, New York must also offer Medicaid to immigrants with lawful status, regardless of whether federal aid is available or not — something most states don’t do.

New York has 250k- 300k illegals, all of whom the state will have to pay for. You know what? Tough sh*t. This is the fall out of progressive policies in NY, where there are enough Democrat voters to win elections, and then coddle illegal aliens. When other illegals realize this information about the state paying, they’ll stream further into the state. Hoist. Petard.

NY doesn’t want to be part of this suit. Let them, California, and other liberal states have the illegals. Let them deal with the crime and other costs.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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DHS Head Jeh Johnson Has A Bit Of A Problem Explaining How Amnesty Helps Americans

By William Teach December 3, 2014 – 3:06 pm

But, then, it isn’t meant to help Americans overall, just the Democrat Party

Of course,  Obama’s pick for ambassador to Hungary is also pretty darned pathetic.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 3, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fire killing off trees and causing the Earth’s temperature to increase wildly sometime in the future, you might just be a Warmist

Yeah, this one might be a little more risque than normal, but, eh. The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post noting that French jihadis aren’t finding jihad to be as fun as they thought.

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Oops: Japan Uses $1 Billion In Supposed UN Climate Change Funds To Build Coal Plants

By William Teach December 3, 2014 – 11:21 am

Interestingly, the most important part is not about how the money was used

(Newsweek) About $1 billion in Japanese funding that Japan claimed was part of a UN initiative to help developing countries take action against climate change went, unnoticed, towards Japanese companies for the construction of three coal-fired power plants, the Associated Press reported Monday.

Coal-burning power plants are the world’s biggest source of atmospheric CO2, a key driver of global warming.

Wait, I thought it was fossil fueled vehicles? Or agriculture? Or eating meat? I guess it depends on what the article author is pushing. Anyhow, here’s the main point

The slip-up highlights major gaps in oversight when it comes to funding climate projects in developing countries. The three power plant projects, built in Indonesia by Japanese companies, were listed as “climate finance.” But the U.N. has no formal definition of what constitutes legitimate climate finance, nor does it have a watchdog agency to ensure climate dollars end up in appropriate places.

In other words, nations are giving boatloads of taxpayer cash for “climate change”, and there is barely any way to track how the money is spent.

The funding came from a pot of money established by the U.N. in 2009, when wealthy nations pledged to accumulate $30 billion in climate finance over the following three years. At the time, Japan agreed to provide about half that sum. Meanwhile, the recently-established Green Climate Fund, which has similar goals to help poorer nations adapt to the warming climate, also has no watchdog agency or formal definition of climate finance, according to the AP. President Obama recently pledged $3 billion to the fund.

It’s a general slush fund for the U.N. to piss away however they see fit.

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