Illegal Aliens Are Mad And Not Going To Take It, Plan More Radical Approach

By William Teach October 18, 2013 – 8:28 am

Unfortunately, that radical approach doesn’t include them getting the hell out of the United States and returning to their home countries

(Fox Latino) The frustration, say immigration advocates, is reaching a fever pitch.

That is why, many say, recent weeks have seen activists use chains and pipes to tie themselves to the tires of buses that carry immigrants slated for deportation to court, block traffic on Capitol Hill and get arrested, surround Tucson police when they targeted two immigrants during a traffic stop, and chain themselves and block the entrance of a federal detention center.

More such actions, they vow, are coming.

“It’s absolutely out of frustration and impatience,” said Marisa Franco, campaign organizer for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which helped coordinate some of the more provocative actions. “Immigrant communities who are losing 1,100 loved ones every day to deportation cannot wait for Congress to end its political games or for the President to rediscover his moral compass,” she added.

“The people will take power back into their own hands and set a true example of leadership that the Beltway will have to follow,” Franco vowed.

I’d like to say “boo hoo, cry me a river.” I’d like to say “you have no power, you’re here illegally.” I’d like to say “arrest any of these folks and immediately deport them.” Unfortunately, there are too many Americans, mostly Democrat Party voters, most of the news media, and most of the elected Democrats, along with some idiot Republicans, who will fall right in line and agitate for a “pathway to citizenship” for these illegal aliens.

Many of the illegals have turned towards more radical methods, apparently after not getting their way regarding passage of legislation giving them legal status

Last Friday, the actions outside a federal courthouse in Tucson prompted a judge to cancel deportation proceedings.

Some 15 people were arrested after immigration rights activists blocked two buses bringing suspected illegal immigrants to a federal courthouse in Tucson. A few days later, on Tuesday, officers in Tucson pepper-sprayed members of a crowd trying to prevent U.S. Border Patrol agents from detaining two people who originally police encountered during a traffic stop.

The judge should be impeached. But he/she is just an example of how those in Power pander to illegals and give them what they want.

*photo snagged from The Two Malcontents, one of a series of illegals raising the Mexican flag.

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CNN Really Psyched That Government Has Reopened

By William Teach October 17, 2013 – 9:07 pm

Even though only 17% of the government was (supposedly) shutdown, the cheerleaders at CNN are super happy. How happy? With a massive graphic

I caught this CNN graphic while I was walking through the customer waiting room on my way in with lunch, and had to literally take a couple steps back in a pseudo double take manner to make sure I was actually seeing this correctly. Stolen from Ace, who notes “This… is a crippling progressive mindset that blinds CNN to its own bias.” This is the kind of bias that allows CNN London to interview…another so-called journalist about the effects of Shutdown Theater on The World.

PS: The Lonely Conservative rips President Snippypants apart, particularly about his comment to “ignore bloggers”

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Environmentalist Says Warmists Need To Give It A Break

By William Teach October 17, 2013 – 1:22 pm

I’ve mentioned before that one of the things that annoys me about Warmists is that the fold every real environmental issue under the “climate change” banner, marginalizing the real issue. Here’s an enviro, Jim Steele, who has a problem, too

(Mercury News) About 10 years ago, while working to restore watershed and wildlife habitat, Steele said it became clear that landscape changes and natural cycles had a much greater impact on wildlife than climate change. The initial plan was to write on the subject for various magazines and websites, but he realized only a book could tell the whole story. This Sunday, Steele will be at Florey’s to sign and discuss the book which developed from these earlier musings — “Landscapes & Cycles” (An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism).

“The more I researched the causes of change in wildlife populations and local climates, the more I became appalled by the amount of bad science that was too easily published simply because it agreed with the prevailing bias of climate catastrophes,” Steele said. “Every other chapter of the book highlights different species whose decline was mistakenly blamed on rising CO2.”

Consider

In another chapter, he discusses the colony of emperor penguins featured in the film, “March of the Penguins.”

“Despite that global warming models suggesting they will go extinct, the local temperature trend has never shown any warming,” Steele explained. “The faulty model was based on a drop in numbers in the ’70s when researchers were disturbing the colony and three islands were dynamited to make an airstrip. Likewise a chapter on Adélie penguins shows except for one small region, the Adélie penguins have been steadily increasing. The penguins that are genuinely endangered are not in Antarctica but on islands like the Galapagos where introduced cats and rats decimate the populations.”

There are real man caused environmental issues, several more are discussed in the article, and we need to address them if possible. If Warmists simply say “climate change!!!!!!” instead of the real root cause, it’s not science, and we can never deal with the real issue.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 17, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…are evil plastic water bottles causing it to be hot and drop heavy snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark (who I snagged the photo from), with a post on the new GOP flag.

Also, Proof Positive, who alerted me to the picture, with a post on Art Appreciation Day.

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Special Needs Student Suspended indefinitely Over Bomb Drawing

By William Teach October 17, 2013 – 9:03 am

Zero tolerance follies

(Fox) The mother of a special needs middle school student in South Carolina said her son was suspended Monday after he brought in a drawing of a bomb to school, FoxCarolina.com reported.

Rhett Parham, the boy, is a fan of the video game “Bomber Man” and drew the cartoonish explosive, Amy Parham, his mother, said. Officials at the Hillcrest Middle School in Greenville told her that her son was suspended indefinitely after showing the drawing to older students who informed administrators, she told the station.

“They actually reiterated to me they knew he was non-violent,” said Parham. “They knew he was not actually having a bomb, creating or making a bomb. But that they could not go without making an example of him and take some type of action because they were worried about their perception. Perception is actually the word he used. Perception is reality, and parents might think you have a bomb or [might be] violent.”

Mom should have said he was a Muslim, then CAIR and the ACLU would have rushed in threatening law suits.

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Even Obama’s Hometown Paper Says Obamacare’s A Mess

By William Teach October 17, 2013 – 7:52 am

When we’re talking about Obamacare, the “Affordable” Care Act, the massive failure of the websites are simply a result of how bad this law is. How unwieldy. And the perfect symbol of failure. Here’s the Chicago Times Editorial Board

(Chicago Tribune) If you’ve tried to sign up online for health coverage under the problem-plagued Obamacare exchange, our sympathies. Many people have tried to create accounts and shop for insurance under the new law. Few have succeeded. Those that have enrolled have found that the system is prone to mistakes. Some applications have been sent to the wrong insurance company.

Wait. It gets worse. Those who have managed to browse the marketplace have often been hit by sticker shock. Take Adam Weldzius, a nurse practitioner and single father from Carpentersville. He sought the same level of coverage on the exchange as he and his 7-year-old daughter have now, with the same insurer and the same network of doctors and hospitals. At best, Weldzius found, his monthly premium of $233 would more than double. If he chose a plan priced at the same level, the annual deductible would be $12,700, more than three times his current $3,500 deductible.

They go on to note the problems many more times, and point out that most Illinois plans are higher than previously, especially the deductibles. That Obama delayed most rules till after the 2012 election. That they’ve had over three years to get it right. That HHS missed deadline after deadline. And blows the “web traffic” talking points away

The Department of Health and Human Services under chief Obamacare cheerleader Kathleen Sebelius has had three years to develop this system. It has busted deadline after deadline, all the while promising that the system would be ready on Oct. 1. It has overpromised and underdelivered. The excuse? Demand was unexpectedly high, crashing servers. Unexpected? Americans have been bombarded with marketing campaigns and news stories and outreach efforts on behalf of Obamacare. And now Sebelius and Co. are shocked that people are logging in to … buy insurance? Come on, Ms. Sebelius.

True, who would have expected lots of web traffic? The Chicago Times recommends that, at a minimum, the individual mandate be suspended for a year, to give Los Federales time to get it right.

There are more problems. People who have individual insurance coverage are finding that Obama’s oft-repeated promise — “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan” — is just not true. They are being told by insurers that their existing plans expire on Dec. 31 and they must choose new coverage. They’re learning that insurers managed to offer lower-cost plans by narrowing the networks of hospitals and doctors that are available or by upping the out-of-pocket expenses. Unless people are careful in selecting coverage, they may be surprised to find they have to pay much more for out-of-network care to go to their doctors or get treated at the best hospitals. Federal officials argue that they’ll work out the kinks in the system in plenty of time for people to sign up by Dec. 15 for coverage that begins Jan. 1. Yes, the techies might be able to work out the computer network problems by then. But that’s not a given.

Fixing the computer network won’t fix the underlying problems with the law itself, nor that insurance seems to be unaffordable, at least if used. And restrictive. It’s almost like rationing. Even a Daily Kos diarist noticed how bad the law is in practice. And we’ve haven’t even gotten to the point where people might actually try and use the insurance.

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Trey Gowdy Blasts National Parks Director Over Barrycades

By William Teach October 17, 2013 – 7:04 am

And well he should have

(The Blaze) During a U.S. House hearing concerning the closure of national parks and monuments during the partial government shutdown, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) scolded the director of the National Park Service for treating “pot-smoking” demonstrators in the Occupy movement with more respect than the nation’s war veterans.

Gowdy relentlessly challenged National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to cite the federal regulation that prompted his department to put up barricades to keep veterans out of war memorials on the first day of the shutdown. He also pointed out that the Park Service failed to issue a single citation when Occupiers camped out at D.C.’s McPherson Square for 100 days — 100 days in “non-compliance” with federal regulations.

“That was two years ago,” Jarvis explained.

“Well, I can cite you the regulation that you did not follow two years ago. Can you cite me the regulation that required you to erect barricades from accessing a monument that they built?” Gowdy pressed.

“On the very first day of the closure, I implemented a closure order for all 401 national parks in compliance with the Anti-Deficiency Act,” Jarvis replied. “And immediately, that day, also included, as a part of that order, that First Amendment activities would be permitted on the National Mall.”

Unimpressed, Gowdy snapped back: “Do you consider it First Amendment activity to walk to a monument that you helped build, or is it only just smoking pot at McPherson Square?”

Of course, Gowdy shouldn’t have just been blasting Director Jarvis: he should have been blasting (NMP) Obama, the person ultimately in charge, who could have stopped this. Republicans should have been blasting Obama left and right during the shutdown over this. Whenever they came on TV or radio they should have been using harsh language, the same type of harsh language Obama and the Democrats have used. They should have been making sure every Low Information Voter knew what was going on, and how despicable it was. Instead, they continued with their measures, reasonable talking points. Thomas Sowell calls them the “inarticulate Republicans“.

Republicans were never going to defund Obamacare. The Senate would never sign off. Nor would Obama. They might have gotten a one year waiver on the individual mandate. Probably not. But they could have emphasized all the temporary breaks and waivers Team Obama has given out like candy. They didn’t. Not in language that resonates. As Phineas tweeted

Republicans pretty much obtained zip. Not even the messaging battle.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Rush – Countdown

By William Teach October 16, 2013 – 6:51 pm

I love this song. Always gives me goosebumps during the section where the countdown gets to 10 and under. Happened to be flipping through my MP3 player and it came up. Those 1980’s clothes, though. Sheesh.

And, you know what’s amazing? In 1981 we could launch a space shuttle. Now, Los Federales can’t even get a website to work. The cost of the entire space shuttle program was pegged at $209 billion (2010 dollars) through its entire run. Healthcare.gov cost $634 million (yeah, typo. Somehow the original with the typo posted instead of the update).

Think about it.

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Barely Functional Obamacare Websites Solicit Voter Registration

By William Teach October 16, 2013 – 2:47 pm

Let’s start off by noting that this is required by law under the 1993 voter registration law, as all government agencies that provide public assistance must ask. Yet, is it really necessary to ask even before someone finds out how much they are going to be nailed for health insurance? Before they can even start their application?

(Fox News) The federal website that enrolls Americans in ObamaCare also asks applicants if they want to register to vote, raising questions about why the Obama administration would further complicate an already crash-prone website.

“The [website] launch has not gone well,” Nick Novak, a spokesman for the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, which noticed the voter-registration question on the Wisconsin site, told FoxNews.com on Monday. “Why are they cluttering up the site?”

Novak, who has unsuccessfully tried numerous times over the past week to click through the site, also argues officials should have at least posed the question after customers sign up for insurance.

Of course, they don’t want to wait till after one has registered and even submitted a successful application (which is rare) to ask. People would be so tired and upset after the whole experience they might not bother to register to vote. And

“The president should be careful what he wishes for,” he said. “While he counted on young people to win the presidency, many are now experiencing ObamaCare sticker shock.”

Na. Most are either staying on their parents plan or simply not bothering to register.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 16, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a drought world that would be perfect for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on GOP immigration push.

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