1) Let’s start today with some outer space political class insanity. Circling around the earth are thousands and thousands of pieces of space junk. Often, space junk collides with other space junk which creates thousands and thousands of new pieces of space junk.
Most of this space junk is traveling really fast so that even a little piece of space junk can cause big trouble when it hits another piece at speeds up to 17,000 miles an hour. This action even has a name, the Kessler effect. It is named after NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler, who wrote about it in 1978. It is a scenario in which the density of objects in low earth orbit gets larger over time, so that that a collision between objects causes a cascade. Each collision produces more space debris, which in turn increases the likelihood of further collisions.
As the number of pieces of space junk gets larger, the probability of a piece hitting and disabling a working satellite gets larger and larger. Such an event, if it knocked out a satellite, could have severe commercial, telecommunications, and national defense issues. So this is serious stuff. To quote George Clooney from his character in the movie, “Gravity”: "Half of North America just lost their Facebook."
There really is no way to solve the problem with today’s technology, there are just too many pieces of junk floating around and racing around in space. However, that will not stop the Federal government from wasting at least $6 billion to try and fix it. The Feds want to build something called the "Space Fence." It really isn't a fence. It's a $6 billion radar system that will monitor just a tiny fraction of the space junk.
Let’s be clear. Spending $6 billion will monitor and track only a small portion of the junk load. It will not be able to prevent any collisions. It will not be able to predict when these collisions will occur. It will only be able to say: “There was a collision.”
There is no known solution to this problem. There is no program to solve it. The "Space Fence" merely lets some Air Force person, who is staring at a screen, watch the chain reaction blow holes in the world's space-based telecommunications system, impact by impact.
But you know that some aerospace company gave some money to some politicians somewhere along the line to get $6 billion for a project that basically looks out into space. Pathetic waste of money.
2) The Washington Examiner reported on May 7, 2014 how a former Congressman was able to turn his life around inside of ten weeks despite resigning from Congress under suspicious circumstances. Former New Jersey Congressman Rob Andrews was facing an ethics probe for allegedly using his political campaign funds for personal travel and other personal expenses. When Andrews announced a sudden resignation from Congress in February, some observers concluded that it was because of the ethics investigations, a conclusion the former Congressman denied, citing quality of life issues.
Within ten weeks after his last day in Congress, Andrews registered himself as a Federal lobbyist. And guess what? As a former member of the House Armed Services Committee, he will lobby for a New Jersey defense company, to help them "gain business opportunities with the Department of Defense and other federal agencies," as he puts it on his disclosure form.
Again, nice work if you can get it. Yesterday, we discussed the fact that an EPA employee was paid despite spending many hours everyday downloading and viewing porn on the job. And now this former, possibly ethics-challenged Congressman escapes out of Congress to land a sweet deal in the lobbying industry. Sweet for the former Congressman, disgraceful for those of us that paid his salary for a very long time and ended up allegedly being abused by his actions.
3) I love pointing out hypocrisy and the following data from the Federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics points out a big hypocrisy of the Obama administration. Recall that over the past six years or so, the Democrats via Obama have controlled the White House and have controlled the Senate so they are not idle sideline observers in the following labor situation.
The Obama administration is always crying out about the “war on women,” blaming Republicans for being insensitive to the needs of American women. This President tries to position himself as the champion of women and their well being.
But is that true? Not if you consider the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):
- The number of women 16 and older not in the labor force climbed to a record high of 55,116,000 in April, according to a recent from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
- In other words, officially there were 55,116,000 women 16 and older who were in the civilian population who not only did not have a job, they did not actively seek one in the last four weeks.
- That is up 428,000 from the 54,688,000 women who were not in the labor force in March.
- According to BLS, the labor force participation rate for women was 56.9%, down from 57.2% in March. The labor force participation rate is the percentage of this population that either has a job or actively sought one in the last four weeks.
- In April, according to BLS, the female civilian labor force was 72,835,000 which was down 340,000 from the 73,175,000 in March.
4) Speaking of hypocrisy and lying, the President was recently giving a speech where again he whined about the Republicans and how they had filibustered 500 pending pieces of legislation to thwart his plans for the country. Nice try, but the usually Obama-friendly Washington Post called him on yet another lie, giving this claim its top liar rating of four Pinocchio’s.
Apparently, this claim is nowhere close to being reality with true filibusters occurring just a fraction of the time that the President claimed. But I guess we should not be too surprised that he lied or deceived again since he lied about how Obama Care would not cancel your existing policy or cut you off from your preferred doctors and hospitals, how he would close the prison at Guantanamo right after being elected but still has not, how he would cut the annual Federal deficit in half but has recorded record deficits since coming into office, how he would have the most transparent administration but really has the most secretive and opaque administration, etc. Remember that he was awarded three of the top ten political lies by the Post in 2013 and it appears that he is driving hard for a similar dubious record in 2014.
The really underlying problem is not just this lie. Independent polling organizations are now finding that a strong majority of Americans do not believe what the President says or they believe that he lies on a regular basis. When the country does not believe what the President says, his ability to lead is seriously impaired since no one will believe what he says, support what he says, or have any faith in his ideas, being scared of getting burned with yet another lie. That is no way to lead a country but that is what a multitude of Pinocchio’s will do for you, destroy your reputation for integrity and dignity.
5) One last piece of insanity for today. The nation’s Federal government debt load is now around a mind numbing $17.5 TRILLION as the Obama administration and the Washington political class continues to spend and waste not only the wealth of this generation but the wealth and well being of future American generations. Both the Congressional Budget Office and the new chairwoman of the Federal Reserve have warned that current government spending levels are not sustainable and will have dire consequences for the country in the future.
But how much is $17.5 TRILLION? It is so large it is almost incomprehensible, much like most of the political class. Given that this past week we celebrated Mother’s Day, the wonderful website Bankrupting America tried to quantify how much $17.5 TRILLION actually is:
- With $17.5 TRILLION, you Could Buy Your Mom 71 Billion Flower Arrangements From An Expensive NYC Florist. Matles Florist currently offers an orchid arrangement with a premium price of $245.
- With $17.5 TRILLION, you Could Buy Your Mom An Extravagant Private Island …Or 190,375 Of Them. Rangyai Island is a developed private island for sale off the coast of Thailand. It is currently listed for $160 million dollars.
- With $17.5 TRILLION, you could Buy Your Mom 11.7 Billion Jars Of Diamond Face Cream. If your mother has expensive taste for beauty products, Forever Flawless offers a face cream that is infused with diamonds for $1,500.
- With $17.5 TRILLION, you could give every adult resident of New York state a check for over $1.2 million, every adult, no exceptions.
- With $17.5 TRILLION, you could buy every resident of Massachusetts a Rolls Royce Ghost, starting price of $253,200. Thus, a family of four living in Massachusetts would have four Rolls Royces sitting in their driveway.
That will do it for this month’s insanity, enough is enough. Today we learned that the President got caught in another obvious lie, the country is going broke for nothing in return, we are wasting time and money looking at space junk explode, and life is bad for the working women in this country but great for allegedly ethics challenged politicians. Sounds about right.
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