Love My Country, Loathe My Government: October 2017

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

November, 2017, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: HIV and Pronoun Idiocy in California, Hillary Gun Idiocy, and More

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Note: we realize that November, 2017 has not started yet but trust me, we have so much political class insanity to get to this month that we are going to start a few days early in order to get it all in:

1) One of the great things about this country is the ability to speak your mind and opinions and tell your rulers what you want done rather than having them tell you what they want done. This wonderful arrangement seems to be lost on most current and former politicians in that once in office they think they know what is best and are more than willing to impose their views and values on citizens.

A wonderful example of this type of political example recently came up relative to former Vermont governor Howard Dean. But first, a quick background review. Article V of the Constitution allows the states to petition the Federal government to act in certain ways according to the will of the people. In this process, state legislatures call for a Convention of States meeting where changes to how the Federal government works are discussed, voted on, and passed onto the Federal government which, according to the Constitution, must implement those Convention changes.

There is a major Convention of States effort underway to fix what the Washington politicians have broken:

Decimating our freedoms as guaranteed under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Bankrupting the country via excessive Federal government debt.
Usurping what should be state's’ responsibilities and taking them over at the Federal level.
Staying in office way too long and being way too ineffective while there, requiring that term limits be put in place.

The current Convention of States effort seeks to fix these four busted parts of our country. It is totally within the Constitution governance tenets to do so.

But according to the Convention Of States website, Dean recently attacked the Convention of States effort by claiming it will “be full of special interests who will want to do all kinds of right wing nut job things.” He also stated that: “The threat is the complete collapse of our democracy.”

No Mr. Dean, the Convention of States is the restoration of our democracy, not the collapse of our democracy. How can one argue against more freedom, rational fiscal policy, downsizing the massive and burdensome Federal bureaucracy by returning rightful Constitutional powers to the states, and getting rid of useless and inept Congressional members?

The only way to argue against the Convention of States is to want to maintain the current power trip that elitist politicians are currently on because returning power to the people in our democracy threatens the cushy and personally enriching lives that people like Howard Dean have grown rich and fat off of.

As far as “right wing nut job things,” the Convention effort is very focused on a minimal amount of substantial changes, something that Dean probably knows but needs to hype up to prove his misguided point of view. When citizens win, politicians lose and that is what his fearmongering is all about.

2) As we all know, a nut case recently opened gunfire from a Las Vegas hotel room and rained down hundreds of rounds of bullets into a concert crowd, killing dozens and wounding hundreds. One reason he was able to do so much damage in a short time was that he had a so-called bump stock which crudely changed his semiautomatic weapons into automatic weapons, allowing him to fire more bullets faster. It was a tragic situation caused by a deranged madman.

It did not take long for the political class, especially Democrats, to jump in and push their agendas even while people were fighting for their lives and families were desperately seeking to find the status of their loved ones. This pushing aside human suffering to push a political agenda is bad enough.

But when you are doing such trash and are ignorant about what you are talking about, that is even worse. Such was the case of Hillary Clinton who could not wait to wade into the middle of this tragedy with her gun control nonsense, especially as it relates to silencers: “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.” I guess her point is if the nut job had a silencer on his weapons even more people would have died since the crowd would have been slow to realize what is happening.

But alas, as with most stuff politicians talk about, they are clueless and Clinton was no exception. Her ignorance shows since she obviously has no idea what a silencer does and does not do:

NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch: “Suppressors [silencers] only reduce [noise] by a few decibels, still same decibel level as a jackhammer.”
National Reviews editor Rich Lowry said Clinton was a “tone-deaf political hack”
Scott Greer of the Daily Caller sarcastically called Hillary a “noted firearm expert.”
Former CIA member Buck Sexton said her comments were “appallingly stupid, and entirely irrelevant,” writing how “she knows nothing about firearms. "and even worse, she doesn’t care.”
The Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro echoed stated that Clinton’s comments were “ignorant, irrelevant and exploitative.”

In other words, she has no idea what she is talking about and yet some how thinks she does know what she is talking about. Ignorance at the time of tragedy = political class insanity.

3) Unfortunately, political class insanity is not restricted to Washington politicians. Many state politicians, seemingly a disproportionate of whom live in California, are also inept and ineffective. Consider the latest insanity from that state’s political class as reported by Keely Sharp on the Eagle Rising website:

The state government recently passed a law that makes it only a misdemeanor now to knowingly expose others to the AIDS/HIV virus including blood donated to blood banks.
Yes, let that reality set in: in California it is no longer a felony to knowingly pass on HIV to another person, either through direct contact or by submitting bad blood to a blood bank.\According to the article: “This new law also applies to blood banks. People will not be required to tell blood banks that they are HIV-positive and can therefore freely donate their infected blood.”
Sponsors of the bill tried to justify the downgrading of the crime by stating that modern medicine allows people to live longer with HIV so I guess no big deal if you get HIV from someone who knows they have the disease, just suck it up and start taking medicine and live with the disease for the rest of your life while the person that infected you gets a misdemeanor slap on the wrist.
One of the sponsors was quoted in the LA Times as saying: “We are going to end new HIV infections, and we will do so not by threatening people with state prison time, but rather by getting people to test and providing them access to care.”

This obviously makes no sense at all. According to California Democrats’ warped logic, it is okay (i.e. not a felony) for a HIV infected person to infect another with a potentially fatal disease since medicine is much better at treating a life long affliction. I am not sure that the innocent person who knowling gets HIV from an infected person would agree with that statement.

Republican Senator Joel Anderson apparently does have some common sense: “I’m of the mind that if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony. It’s absolutely crazy to me that we should go light on this.” This is why we call it political class insanity.

On a somewhat related note, understand that the same politicians in California that just said it is basically okay to knowingly infect another person with the HIV virus also recently passed legislation that makes it a crime to call call a senior citizen in a California nursing by a pronoun that is not preferred by that senior citizen.

Specifically, any person who “willfully and repeatedly” does not “use a transgender resident’s preferred name or pronouns” could, if found guilty of the misdemeanor, spend up to a year in county jail and face a $1000 fine.” Thus, in California it is now a misdemeanor to infect someone with a life threatening fatal disease, HIV, and it is also a misdemeanor to call a person by the wrong pronoun name. Sometimes this stuff makes your head to explode.

Enough insanity for today: HIV and pronoun insanity from California, more Hillary ignorance, and Howard Dean insulting Americans exercising their Constitutional rights. More insanity to follow.

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Monday, October 30, 2017

November,2017, Part 3,Political Class Insanity: The Clintons Get Rich, Hillary Ignores Security Protocols, and Obama Builds His Temple

Note: we realize that November, 2017 has not started yet but trust me, we have so much political class insanity to get to this month that we are going to start a few days early in order to get it all in:

1) It is been pretty clear for some time that the Clinton Foundation charity organization was simply a tool for the Clinton crime syndicate to use to enrich themselves. Typically, an entity or government would make its needs known to Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State, those needs would be met after that entity or country donated to the Clinton Foundation and usually allowed Bill Clinton to give a speech for them for which he usually received hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pretty neat shakedown operation.

Now some people have claimed that the Clintons enriching themselves, while seeedy and greedy, could be overlooked because their charity and foundation did such great humanitarian deeds around the world. Nice try, but no cigar, according to Peter Hasson writing for the Daily Caller website on September 16, 2017:

According to IRS tax filings, the Clinton Foundation spent just under $91.3 million in 2014 according to their tax returns that year.
However, only 5.7% of that was actually spent helping out humanity since of the $91.3 million that they spent, only $5.2 million actually went to charitable grants.
The remaining 94.3% or $86.1 million was spent on employee salaries, employee benefits, and “other expenses.”
“Other expenses” comprised over $50 million.
A whopping $851,000 was spent on “professional fundraising expenses.”
According to the article, “Despite taking in an additional $30 million in 2014, the Clinton Foundation spent 40 percent less on charitable grants in 2014 than in 2013. Even as it slashed charitable spending, the foundation increased the amount spent on salaries, employee benefits and compensation by $5 million in 2014. The foundation also spent $5 million more “other expenses” in 2014.”
In addition, the work that the foundation was originally famous for, distributing drugs to poor people in poor countries is no longer done, according to Sean Davis at The Federalist, “the bulk of the charitable work lauded by the Clinton Foundation’s boosters — the distribution of drugs to impoverished people in developing countries — is no longer even performed by the Clinton Foundation. Those activities were spun off in 2010and are now managed by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, a completely separate non-profit organization.”

How does the Clinton Foundation’s use of donations compare to other charities? According to the Charity Navigator website, an organization that tracks and evaluates charities, the Clinton Foundation’s numbers are pathetic: “Our data shows that 7 out of 10 charities we've evaluated spend at least 75% of their budget on the programs and services they exist to provide. And 9 out of 10 spend at least 65%. We believe that those spending less than a third of their budget on program expenses are simply not living up to their missions. Charities demonstrating such gross inefficiency receive 0 points and a 0-star rating for their Financial Health.”

Since the Clinton Foundation only spends about 6% on good deeds, they would fall into the “simply not living up to their mission” category. So sad and insane that people like the Clintons could get so personally rich by leveraging their time in public service and political office, in this case using the cover story of a charity to make themselves rich beyond most people’s dreams.

2) I thought it was obscene when George W. Bush spent half a billion dollars to build his Presidential library. No one deserves that kind of tribute, especially a President whose tenure was nondescript at best. But according to a new report, Bush’s library expenditure looks absolutely miserly, according to a recent report on the American Outlook website:

Barack Obama’s Presidential library will likely need a $1.5 BILLION endowment to keep it operating.
That is the estimate the Obama architectural team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien came up with to satisfy Obama’s desires.
The article confirmed that the Obama Presidential library effort will indeed cost three times more than what used to be Bush’s obscene cost.
The Obama effort will contain not only a Presidential library but also a second building that will serve as a museum dedicated to the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama.

Seriously, $1.5 billion to pay tribute to a President who:

Almost doubled the national debt by adding a whopping $10 trillion to the debt burden of every American?
Weaponized the IRS to deny First Amendment rights to millions of Americans?
Illegally and immorally entered the Libyan civil war without Constitutional or legal standing, resulting in the destruction of a foreign country and turning it into a terrorist haven?
Spend over $800 billion on an economic stimulus program that failed miserably on every measure except the reality that his political cronies and supporters got rich off of taxpayer funding?
Put together the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Washington, Obama Care, and then lied about so many aspects of the law in front of every American?
Lied about the real story of Benghazi, blaming the disaster and deaths of our Americans on an unknown video?

We could on and on about the failure of his Presidency but let’s stop here since just these few failures listed above prove that he does not deserve a $1.5 million tribute to his failures. Fortunately, I will not be paying for it.

3) As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and her staff had the national security requirement to ensure that government communications stayed secret and held close to the vest in order to protect the interests, lives, and borders of the United States. There are laws and government regulations in place to help facilitate that need for secrecy and security.

Of course, we now know that Hillary Clinton and her staff treated those laws and regulations as mere suggestions, allowing top secret documents and plans to feed through and unsecured computer server in her house, a server that was likely hacked by more than one country around the world. As of yet, she and her abusers of government documents and plans have not faced the penalties that they should face.

To show you how careless they were with our country’s secrets, consider the highlights from an October 20, 2017 article that appeared on the Self Reliance Central website:

Judicial Watch recently announced that that the State Department has admitted that 2,800 State Department documents from the Hillary Clinton State Department days ended up on an unsecured personal computer of former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
Weiner used to be married to Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin.
Remember also that Weiner recently pleaded guilty to sexting with an underaged girl.
Abedin used a non-secure and non-State Department email account for government business, routing it through Clinton's unsecured home email server.
This information came to light after Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the State Department when the Department refused to comply with a 2015 Freedom Of Information Act request which sought, “All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.”
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president summed up the transgressions: “This is a disturbing development. Our experience with Abedin’s emails suggest these Weiner laptop documents will include classified and other sensitive materials. When will the Justice Department do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law?”
The article reminds us that Clinton attempted to delete 33,000 emails that were on her non-government server and that the State Department is still processing 100,000 emails Clinton failed to disclose when she was asked for them.

So, the Federal government, via the Clinton State Department, allowed almost 3,000 government documents to end up on the unsecured laptop of an admitted child sexual predator. And sher wanted to be President, ha!

That will do it for today’s political class insanity. Much more to come as Washington and other politicians continue to amaze us with their greed, ineptness, and stupidity.

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Sunday, October 29, 2017

November, 2017, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: A Tome Deaf Congresswoman, Foreign Troops Wandering Our Cities, and Constitutional Ignorance

1) As most of the world knows, Harvey Weinstein, a major Hollywood film producer, has been found out to be a potential sexual predator on young actresses. His alleged perverted behavior was sexist to the ultimate degree. In these days of supposed enlightenment, one would not have expected the following inane behavior from an African American Congresswoman, according to a recent article on the Independent Journal Review website by Virginia Kruta:

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnston, a Texas Congresswoman, recently condemned the alleged behavior of Harvey Weinstein.
But she could not keep from making a fool of herself when she continued on to suggest that women bear a certain “responsibility” when it comes to sexual harassment.
Adding on to her stupidity, she said that some women’s clothing can be “inviting.”
In her own words: “I grew up in a time when it was as much the woman’s responsibility as it was a man’s – how you were dressed, what your behavior was. I’m from the old school that you can have behaviors that appear inviting. It can be interpreted as such. That’s the responsibility, I think, of the female.”

How insensitive are these comments from a woman and a member of Congress? Pathetic. But even worse, can you imagine the uproar that would have happened if a white Congressman had said the same thing? There would have been a deluge of condemnation. But since a liberal said it, no big deal from other liberals.

That is the main reason for why our country is so divided, politicians are only upset when their political opponents say something insensitive and stupid.

The Congresswoman offered a half ass apology after she got roasted on social media: “Sexual assault and harassment has no place in our society. This is something I believe deeply. And at each turn of my professional life, I have made it my mission to fight for women’s rights. I do not blame victims of sexual assault for the actions of their assailants.

I do acknowledge that my comments regarding behavior and attire come from an old school perspective that has shaped how some of us understand the issue, but that does not detract from the fact that criminals need to be held accountable for their actions.”

As always with politicians, too little too late.

2) John Sopko has been the Inspector General for Afghanistan for years. We have reported on his fine work many times in past posts. He often was a lone voice in the woods in pointing out the massive corruption, ineptness, and wasting of billions of taxpayer dollars during the entire Afghanistan occupation.

Unfortunately, he recently brought more bad news to Americans:

Apparently 152 foreign soldiers from Afghanistan, training in the U.S., have walked away from their bases and have disappeared into the country.They were brought here outside of normal immigration processes to train next to American soldiers and were to bring that training back to their home country.
So now we have trained military personnel wandering around the countryside and the Federal government has no idea where they are.
These wandering foreign troops started leaving American military bases in 2005, the majority of them walking off of the Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas and the majority of them disappearing between 2015 and 2016.
According to the report: “It is clear that Afghan trainees go AWOL while in the United States at a far higher rate than do trainees from any other country, and we believe that the State Department (as well as other government agencies) should use all the tools at their disposal to reduce these occurrences and ensure that Afghan trainees return to Afghanistan and make use of the substantial U.S. taxpayer investment in training.”

While there is no evidence that these walkaways have or will be involved in terrorism within our borders, it is quite distressing that trained foreign military troops are wandering around our towns and cities. And it is not so far fetched to think that their families back home in Afghanistan might be held hostage in exchange for committing acts of terrorism here. Insane incompetence of both the Obama administration and the Pentagon.

3) Many times people in Washington say something that is just so stupid or so devious that you cannot believe your ears. One such case if either extreme stupidity or massive deception recently arose, according to a report from Melissa Quinn, writing for the Washington Examiner on October 26, 2017:

Tom Perez is the head of the Democratic National Committee, making him a very powerful person in our national politics.
Thus, you would expect him to be very well versed in our laws including the Constitution.
He was recently a speaker at the Indiana University Law School’s Annual Birch Bayh Lecture series where he made the following totally inane comment: "The Electoral College is not a creation of the Constitution. It doesn't have to be there. There's a national popular vote compact in which a number of states have passed a bill that says we will allocate our vote, our electoral votes, to the person who wins the national popular vote once other states totaling 270 electoral votes do the same."
Obviously, Mr. Perez did not read the Constitution or somehow does not understand it since Article II of the Constitution states: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.”

Is he that ignorant of the Constitution, in which case why is he in such an important position? Or is he being that deceptive and is still ticked off that Hillary won the most popular votes for President in 2016 but lost the Presidency because of Article II. Ignorant or deceptive, not untypical but still undesirable qualities to have in our political arena.

Enough insanity for today: a leading political figure who is so ignorant or dismissive of the Constitution, foreign troops walking around the country’s streets and cities, and a tone deaf Congresswoman when it comes to sexual harassment. More insanity to follow.

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Saturday, October 28, 2017

November, 2017, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: The IRS Apologizes, Politicians' Perversion, and Economic Ignorance Still Exists

1) Several years ago it became clear that Obama had weaponized the IRS. This led the IRS to start a scorched earth campaign to make sure that non-liberal and non-Democratic Party groups and organizations would be denied a non-profit status from the IRS. This crippled hundreds of organizations from exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech and quite possibly helped Obama get elected to a second term.

Obama, of course, denied any of this was happening, claiming that rogue agents in one IRS office had done some bad deeds. He made this announcement before any investigation had been done, hoping to kill the scandal in its early stages. Eventually Congressional hearings were held but nothing was done since the 2012 election had come and gone and Obama had been reelected, quite possibly because of his weaponizing of the iRS to harass and impede Conservatives and Republicans.

Of course, Democrats claimed nothing nefarious had happened. But according to a recent article on the Daily Caller website by Jack Crowe on October 26, 2017, it looks like quite a lot of First Amendment trashing did actually occur:

The Federal government recently settled two class action lawsuits that had been filed by Tea Party organizations that alleged that Obama’s Justice Department discriminated against them solely because of their contrary political views.
Over 400 organizations reached an undisclosed monetary settlement.
They got this settlement because, as Attorney Jeff Session said that these organizations had their tax exempt status rulings delayed or denied “based solely on their viewpoint or ideology” and that “The [Internal Revenue Service]’s use of these criteria [holding a contrary political view] as a basis for heightened scrutiny was wrong and should never have occurred...It is improper for the IRS to single out groups for different treatment based on their names or ideological positions.”
In court filings the IRS apologized: “The IRS admits that its treatment of Plaintiffs during the tax-exempt determination process, including screening their applications based on their names or policy positions, subjecting those applications to heightened scrutiny and inordinate delays, and demanding some Plaintiffs’ information that TITA determined was unnecessary to the agency’s determination of their tax-exempt status, was wrong. For such treatment, the IRS expresses its sincere apology.”

So, not only did Obama help himself in his 2012 election campaign by wiping out the voices of at least 400 organizations that did not support his reelection, misusing and abusing Federal government resources in the process, his antics also cost the American taxpayer and undisclosed amount of money used to pay this settlement. And nobody went to jail for this obviously illegal and unethical use of government power to suppress First Amendment rights of Americans. Insanity.

2) First, we had a Democratic President in John Kennedy who was an adulterer before and during the time he was President. Then along came Democrat Bill Clinton who was a likely sexual predator before, during, and after his time as President. This was followed by Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner who could not stop himself from sexting with a variety of women even though he was married and his wife was pregnant, eventually being found guilty of sexting to a minor. And most recently, we have movie mogul Harvey E Weinstein, a heavy, heavy supporter of Democrats across the country including Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama now under fire for allegedly sexually harassing many, many young hollywood actresses over the years.

But deviant sexual behavior is not limited to national well known Democratic politicians and supporters. On October 11, 2017, police raided the home of Phillip Ahr who was a member of the Radnor, Pennsylvania Township Board of Commissioners. His alleged crime was child pornorgraphy. The police found hundreds of images and videos of child pornography. According to the news reports of the arrest, the material collected was disgusting in its abuse of kids as young as three to five years old.

It is so sadly insane that so many in the current American political class are useless, inane, inept, and distressingly and morally corrupt, from the White House to Hollywood to a small town in Pennsylvania.

3) We have often discussed the economic idiocy of the political class, especially as it applies to the minimum wage issue in the country. Many politicians have been obsessed with the nonsense concept of a “living wage” and in several areas across the country have raised the minimum wage level to $15 an hour in a futile attempt to get low end jobholders a “livable wage.”

However, ignoring economic sensibilities, the result of jacking up the minimum wage almost always results in businesses going out of business and many people losing their job, giving them a wage level per hour of $0.00. No matter how many real life examples that occur which reinforce the need for the market to set prices/wages, politicians still insist that raising the minimum wage is always a good thing and always results in much more hardship than it saves.

The Independent Journal Review recently ran an article by Will Ricciardella that described an example of a pizzeria that went out of business because it tried to force a $15 minimum wage into a market that would not support it, much like what happens when politicians mandate an unrealistic minimum wage:

Dudley Dough was a Boston pizza parlor that was dedicated to providing its employees a “fair wage” environment to work in, i.e. it raised its minimum wages to “above marketplace” wages without a politician mandate.
However, Dudley Dough had to go out of business because its high wages did not enable it to stay profitable, according to reporting by the Boston Globe.
Bing Broderick, executive director for the nonprofit Haley House, which oversaw the parlor’s operations stated: “The challenge for Dudley Dough was to support itself. While popular, the shop is not breaking even financially.”
This was a marketplace issue since three other restaurants opened for business at the same time that Dudley Dough opened and they are still operating.
So instead of getting marketplace determined wages, the Dudley Dough employees will be getting no wages.
Making the failure of Dudley Dough even more dramatic is that it could not stay profitable even though Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, gave the pizza parlor a $100,000 donation, a head start every other successful restaurant did not get yet they are still in business.

But I would bet that politicians will learn nothing from this basic economic lesson: the marketplace always wins. When politicians or others try to force the marketplace to bend to their prejudices, it never works out for the people that those politicians are supposed to be helping, the workers who lose their jobs because of politicians’ economic ignorance.

More insanity to follow. It is going to be a wild ride of insanity this month, guaranteed.

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Voter Fraud Review - Part 5

When this principle of one person one vote is violated or appears to have been violated, the whole foundation of our democracy and freedoms is undermined. We can never be quite sure if the election results actually reflect the will of the people or if those election results have been skewed by incompetence, deceit, criminal behavior, and anti-freedom forces.

I have people in my life that pooh pooh the idea that there is massive voter fraud in this country, either intentional or unintentional, due to incompetence or deceit of government officials and politicians. We have taken a look at their hypothesis that ‘s elections:voter fraud is insignificant over the past few days. I thought we would be done with this topic with the last post but more incidents of potential voter fraud have come to our attention, requiring another day of discussing this topic. When we finish all of the examples, you will agree that our voting processes are badly broken and possibly criminally broken and skewed and that unless actions are taken to restore the faith in our election processes, the country and the freedoms we enjoy are in serious trouble.

1) Joseph Curl, writing for the Daily Wire website on July 26 2017, pointed one of the reason why California may have thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants voting in our country:

In January, 2015, the state of California no longer required people applying for a California driver’s license to prove they were legal residents of the state.
All they had to show were “eligible proof of identification and residency in the state,” i.e. they only had to prove they actually were the name going on the license and that they lived in the state.
Under the law, the license could not be used to “discriminate against a holder of an AB-60 license, or use this license to attempt to question the holder's citizenship or immigration status."
But the law also said that these driver’s licenses could not be used to for identification purposes even though one of the main requirements for registering to vote in the state is a driver’s license.
According to the Sacramento Bee, over 900,000 illegal immigrants living in California have California driver’s licenses.

Now it is certainly possible that none of those 900,000 illegal immigrants never illegally registered to vote or illegally voted in state and national elections using their state issued driver’s license to register to vote. Right.

2) Another Joseph Curl article for the Daily Wire on May 31, 2017, went into more detail on illegal immigrants voting in Virginia, a topic we touched on a few days ago:

There were/are thousands of illegal immigrants registered to vote in the state of Virginia according to a new study by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF).
Furthermore, thousands of those illegally registered illegal immigrants have already cast thousands of votes in previous elections.
It took the PILF three lawsuits, tons of public record reviews, and reviews of voter history across 133 Virginia voting districts to uncover the truth.
The state of Virginia itself removed 5,566 voters who were illegal immigrants from the voting rolls between 2011 and 2017.
About a third of those removed had illegal voted in previous elections.
That third had cast 7,474, illegal votes over the years, some going back to the 1980s.
According to the PILF, Virginia state election government officials “routinely fail to alert law enforcement about these illegal votes or registrations” and that “At the instruction of Governor McAuliffe’s political appointees, local election officials spent countless resources to prevent this information from spilling into the open. Virginia hid critical information that would have improved election integrity while a political operative-turned-governor vetoed numerous proposals that would’ve prevented alien registration and voting. From NoVa to Norfolk and all urban and rural points in between, alien voters are casting ballots with practically no legal consequences in response.”
In Fairfax County alone over 1,000 illegal immigrants were removed from the voting lists.
Documents obtained by the PILF found emails where state employees talked about altering government records to hide the extent of the screw up.
One example of tampering involved Arlington County General registrar Linda LIndberg who wrote in an email: “This group [PILF] has and will interpret the fact that there may be voting credit on the cancelled record as “illegal aliens” registering and voting, despite the voter having subsequently affirmed his citizenship. ... I am going to delete or otherwise notate these names from my report, either by deleting the rows from the Excel version or marking them on the report.”

Illegal immigrants registering and voting and government officials altering government documents to cover up the reality. No wonder the integrity of our voting processes is in doubt in many parts of the country.

3) I used to work for a manager who had a great saying: Nothing is more devastating to an opinion than the proper number.” As a formally trained statistician, I believe that understanding the numbers of a situation allows one to understand the reality of the situation, much like some people did with a set of Harvard University based voting numbers:

Rowan Scarborough, writing for the Washington Times on june 19, 2017, discussed a study that estimated as many as 5.7 million non-citizens may have illegally voted in 2008.
The study was done by a group called Just Facts which is a widely respected think tank that is conservative and libertarian in nature.
Its president, James Agresti, and his organization looked at data from a large Harvard/YouGov study that goes out every two years and questions a sample size of tens of thousands of voters, some of which acknowledge they are noncitizens and thus, are not legally supposed to vote.
Just Facts analysis of the Harvard daya estimated that as many as 7.9 million non-citizens were illegally registered to vote in 2008 and that between 549,000 and 5.7 million actually did vote in the 2008 Presidential election.
For the 2012 Presidential election, Just Facts estimates that 3.2 and 5.6 million non-citizens were registered to vote and between 1.2 and 3.6 million actually did vote in that election.
In addition to this analysis, professors from Old Dominion University also looked at the Harvard raw data and did a different analysis.
This study was caused the Cooperative Congressional Election Study.
These professors estimated that in the 2008 Presidential election as few as 38,000 and as many as 2.8 million non-citizens voted.

Shady voting realities in California, Virginia, and across the country with potential illegal immigrant voting being a distinct possibility with the possibility of the wrong politicians getting elected also being a distinct possibility. That will do it for this series of posts where we have identified a multitude of voting irregularities that need to be addressed as soon as possible. Regardless of whether voter fraud is a reality or a perception, it does not matter, in either case it undermines the integrity of our voting processes and our democracy.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Voter Fraud Review - Part 4

I have people in my life that pooh pooh the idea that there is massive voter fraud in this country, either intentional or unintentional, due to incompetence or deceit of government officials and politicians. We have taken a look at their hypothesis that voter fraud is insignificant over the past few days. I think that when we are done today with this topic, you will agree that our voting processes are badly broken and possibly criminally broken and skewed and that unless actions are taken to restore the faith in our election processes, the country and the freedoms we enjoy are in serious trouble.

1) Joe Schoffstall, writing for the Washington Free Beacon on May 18, 2017, reported on an analysis that is done every year by the state of Kansas which checks multiple voter registrations across state lines:

The latest analysis found that over 7 million voters are simultaneously registered in at least two different states.
This finding comes from the Kansas operated voter registration crosscheck program that has been in operation since 2005.
And this analysis only covers the 28 states that participate in the program, indicating that the 7 million double registered estimate is probably way too conservative.
Also, the study found that 916,000 people are registered multiple times in the same state with North Carolina accounting for 90% of the in state multiple registrations.
Almost 68,000 of the voter records analyzed found that these registrations had invalid birth dates associated with the voter registrations.
The current analysis is about the same as the 2014 study which also found over 7 million multiple registrations which implies that no progress has been made in fixing this embarrassment.

There is a lot of room for voter fraud in a pool of 7 million dual registrations. Disgusting how poorly the American political class handles the very important task of voting integrity.

2) Let’s go from 7 million voting problems nationally to a local voting problem down in Florida, according to an April 8, 2017 article on the Patriot reporter website, summarizing a report from the Daily Caller website:

In a recent political race for sheriff in Putnam County, Florida, 42 ineligible voters voted in the election.
The winning margin was only 16 votes.
Which from a theoretical perspective raises the question: if they caught 42 ineligible voters, how many ineligible voters did they not catch and would those uncaught bad voters have been enough to tilt a very close election? Again, perception is reality and the perception of voter fraud is just as bad as real voter fraud.

One fraudulent vote should be enough to concern all Americans.

3) Let’s travel west from Florida ands see what Hank berrien, writing for the Daily Caller website on June 13, 2017, found out about potential voter fraud in Indiana:

Turns out that 11 temporarily hired voter canvassers and their supervisor, Holiday Burke, were arrested for submitting fraudulent voter registration applications in the run up to the 2016 Presidential campaign, according to the Associated Press.
They were all employed by the Indiana Voter Registration Project.
Another political group, Patriot Majority USA managed the Indiana Voter Registration Project and the parent group has ties to Democrats Bill Clinton and Harry Reid.
When about a dozen bogus voter registrations showed up in Hendricks County in Indiana, a follow up investigation got underway to look at voter registration processes and results in pover 56 Indiana counties.
According to a Biz Pac Review article on this matter: “A search warrant unsealed on Nov. 14 says some workers admitted to falsifying registrations, saying they faced the possibility of losing their temporary job if they didn’t register at least 10 new voters a day. The probable cause affidavit says supervisors told canvassers “to obtain their quota by any means necessary.”
Some of those involved in this criminal action have confessed to their submitting of fake voter registrations and all involved could face up to two and a half years in jail and the Indiana Voter Registration Project could be fined up to $10,000.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said, “By giving someone a financial motive to (meet a quota) is what caused these canvassers to cut corners and do things that not only undermined the goal of having legitimate registered voters but led to a situation where we allege it bled over into criminal conduct.”

These folks got caught but again, the perception is raised is how bad is this problem and how many perps did not get caught and what damage did these folks to to the voting process integrity. Of course, in true liberal fashion, those in charge of Patriot Majority USA blamed this investigation on racism and attacks on the right of African Americans to vote despite the evidence uncovered and the fact that some workers admitted to falsifying records.

Today we have discussed voter fraud and voting problems in Indiana, Florida, and across the nation which undermine the integrity of our democracy. Over the past four days we have reviewed similar problems from New Hampshire to Virginia to Colorado to California.

After reading the past four posts in this blog and witnessing the analyses and research that proves our voting processes are broken and threatening our democracy, I am sure you would have to agree that at best we have a real perception of voter fraud and incompetence and at worse our voting processes no longer always reflect the will of the people.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Voter Fraud Review - Part 3

One of the most important cornerstones of our country and our democracy is the ability to elect people to office to carry out the wishes of the citizenry. The bedrock of that concept is that one person has one vote which makes all of us equal under this doctrine, rich or poor, white or black, young or old, every vote should be legitimate and count as one person voicing their own opinion in the voting booth.

When this principle of one person one vote is violated or appears to have been violated, the whole foundation of our democracy and freedoms is undermined. We can never be quite sure if the election results actually reflect the will of the people or if those election results have been skewed by incompetence, deceit, criminal behavior, and anti-freedom forces.

I have people in my life that pooh pooh the idea that there is massive voter fraud in this country, either intentional or unintentional, due to incompetence or deceit of government officials and politicians. We are going to take a look at their hypothesis that voter fraud is insignificant over the next few days. I think that when we are done, you will agree that our voting processes are badly broken and possibly criminally broken and skewed and that unless actions are taken to restore the faith in our election processes, the country and the freedoms we enjoy are in serious trouble.

1) Over the past few days we have showed many examples where there is nation wide voter fraud going on, either through incompetence or criminal fraud. Donald Trump has claimed that this situation existed during the entire 2016 Presidential campaign and set out to do something about it. He set up a commission that was planning to look into voting fraud and deal with it to protect the integrity of our voting processes and democracy.

The state of Colorado decided to help Trump weed out voter fraud. According to the Washington Examiner, shortly after Colorado agreed to turn over state voting records over to the effort, hundreds and hundreds of people across Colorado’s voting districts started to withdrawal their voter registrations.

In Denver alone 175 people pulled their voter registrations immediately. In Arapahoe County, Colorado, 160 people pulled their voter registrations immediately even though the usual rate over the same time period is usually around 10.

The obvious conclusion is that these were fraudulent voter registrations, either being pulled by people that were ineligible votes or were fake registration altogether. If they were legitimate voters who wanted to voice their positions on the issues, what reason would they have to pull their registrations in light of being investigated?

It is great that even the threat of investigating voter fraud results in likely fraudulent voters going underground. Unfortunately, 14 states have decided not to help Trump and America ferret out voter fraud in their states, further leaving the integrity of our voting processes in doubt.

2) Let’s move over to the state of Virginia and see how bad that state is faring relative to voter fraud and voting irregularities. According to a May 31, 2017 article on the Federalist Papers website by Robert Gehl:

A report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PLIF) found that over 5,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in Virginia sponsored elections.
These 5,000 illegally registered voters were eventually removed from the voting records.
But they were removed not because of any kind of government investigation but because they self-reported that they were not legal to vote.
Which leaves the question that if 5,000 people honestly removed themselves from the voting rolls, how more thousands who were not that honest are still on the voting registration lists and still illegally voting in Virginia?
According to PILF President, Christian Adams: “At the instruction of [Virginia] Governor McAuliffe’s political appointees, local election officials spent countless resources to prevent this information from spilling into the open. From NoVa to Norfolk and all urban and rural points in between, alien voters are casting ballots with practically no legal consequences in response.”

Another state and another state with a substantial issue of voter fraud and irregularities.

3) Let’s keep the voter fraud issue rolling and look at a national picture of voter fraud, as painted by an analysis and research by the Election Integrity Project of Judicial Watch, as reported by Deroy Murdock and the National Review website on August 11, 2017:

The basis of their analysis was data from the Census Bureau’s 2011-2015 American Community Survey and July, 2017 data from the Federal Election Assistance Commission.
Their analysis covered data from 38 states and overall resulted in an estimate that says there are at least 3.5 million more people on U.S. election rolls than citizens that are eligible to vote.
462 counties across the country had more voters registered than eligible voters in those counties.
These 462 counties were 18.5% of all the counties studied.
The most blatant example was Harding County in New Mexico which had 62% more registered voters than adults living in the county.
Washington’s Clark county had 54% more voters than citizens eligible to vote which represents at least 166,811 “ghost” voters.
California’s San Diego county had at least 810,966 ghost or over registered voters while Los Angeles county, at a 112% ratio of registered voters compared to eligible voters, had 707,475 ghost voters.
But according to Judicial Watch, LA County employees told Judicial Watch that the real ratio in LA County is 144%, not 112%.
In total, all of California counties have at least a whopping 1,736,556 ghost voters.
According to Judicial Watch President, Tom Fitton: “California’s voting rolls are an absolute mess that undermines the very idea of clean elections. It is urgent that California take reasonable steps to clean up its rolls. We will sue if state officials fail to act.”
Other states found to have significant numbers of ghost voters, enough to swing a Presidential election and the resultant Electoral College votes, include Colorado: 159,373, Florida: 100,782, Iowa: 31,077, Michigan: 225,235, New Hampshire: 8,211, North Carolina: 189,721, and Virginia: 89,979.
Note that Hillary Clinton won both Colorado and New Hampshire with winning popular vote margins that were far less than the number of ghost voters registered in each of those two states.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and co-chairman of Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity: “When you have an extremely large number of stale names on the voter rolls in a county, it makes voter fraud much easier to commit. It’s easier to identify a large number of names of people who have moved away or are deceased. At that point, if there is no photo-ID requirement in the state, those identities can be used to vote fraudulently.”
The CBS network affiliate in Chicago in October, 2016 compared local voting records with the Social Security Administration’s master death file and found that, “the analysis showed 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade.”
The CBS network affiliate in Los Angeles reported in May, 2016 that at least 265 dead voters had voted in southern California “year after year.”

Distressing examples of actual or perceived voter fraud situations across the country, possibly enough to upset and taint Presidential elections. But many (Democratic) politicians do not want to fix what is an obvious affront and danger to the integrity of our voting processes and democracy:

Democratic Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed common sense legislation earlier this year that would have required investigations of elections in which ballots cast outnumbered eligible voters.
When Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott tried to follow Federal law and clean up Florida’s voting records by removing 51,308 dead voters from the voting rolls, Obama’s Justice Department field a Federal lawsuit to stop him from doing another common sense deed to protect voting integrity.

Given that most of the most blatant voting irregularities are occurring in so-called blue states , e.g. California, New Mexico, Colorado, etc., and Democratic politicians go out of their way to stop common sense voting reforms, I think it is pretty obvious who benefits most from voting atrocities and fraud.

More distressing tales of voter fraud to follow.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

November, 2017, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: HIV and Pronoun Idiocy in California, Hillary Gun Idiocy, and More

Monday, October 30, 2017

November,2017, Part 3,Political Class Insanity: The Clintons Get Rich, Hillary Ignores Security Protocols, and Obama Builds His Temple

Sunday, October 29, 2017

November, 2017, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: A Tome Deaf Congresswoman, Foreign Troops Wandering Our Cities, and Constitutional Ignorance

Saturday, October 28, 2017

November, 2017, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: The IRS Apologizes, Politicians' Perversion, and Economic Ignorance Still Exists

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Voter Fraud Review - Part 5

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Voter Fraud Review - Part 4

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Voter Fraud Review - Part 3

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