March, 2020, Part 3, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Trump Delivers Reduced Carbon Footprint and Democrats Feast on Demon Beef

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in man made global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have waded through the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) When Trump pulled the United States out of the ill fated and horrible Paris Climate Agreement several years ago, liberals and global warming advocates were besides themselves. They hated him from pulling out of an agreement that was never ratified by the Senate as required by the Constitution and which was horrible biased and costly against the United States. But the advocates acted like Trump had condemned the entire human race to death by global warming.

But according to a February 12, 2020 article on the Daily Wire website by Ryan Saavedra, their fears and forecast of doom, as always, failed to become reality. In fact:

• In 2019, the United States reduced its carbon footprint/CO2 emissions by more than any other country in the world.
• And unlike what would have happened if we had stayed in the Paris agreement, this reduction in emission was done while experiencing solid economic growth.
• According to the International Energy Agency (IEA): “The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis – a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt. US emissions are now down almost 1 Gt from their peak in the year 2000, the largest absolute decline by any country over that period.”
• The use of coal in this country was down 15%, a big goal of the failed Paris agreement.
• But despite the use of less coal, the cost of natural gas for energy also went down to the economic benefit of every American.
• As we have said many times in this blog, it does not matter what the United States does from a carbon footprint perspective unless the world gets China and India to seriously decrease their ever rising use of coal.
• This point was driven home again by the International Energy Agency which found that 80% of the increase in carbon came from Asia, mostly China and India: “Emissions grew strongly in Southeast Asia, lifted by robust coal demand.”

So, Trump pulls us out of the unfavorable conditions imposed on the United States by the Paris Climate Agreement and the global advocates of the world predict gloom and doom. Instead, the United States leads the world in total carbon emissions reductions, the cost of energy goes down, and economic conditions improve steadily, the exact opposite of what the advocates predicted.

And the reality continues that unless India and China get on board and do what the U.S.has done with its carbon footprint and substantially clean up its behavior and reduce its coal usage, the air and the climate will not get much better despite the United States stellar climate change behavior.

2) One constant culprit that liberals, Democrats, and global warming advocates love to attack is cows and the beef they provide. California has gone so far as to regulate what cows eat in order to clean up their farts, i.e. reduce the amount of methane that comes out of the rear ends of cows. Yes, cows are guilty of causing global warming and climate change.

But the hypocrisy of such advocacy was certainly on parade recently at a Democratic political rally:

• A few months back, the Democratic Party was in full blown hysteria trying to figure out who their 2020 Presidential candidate should be.
• At that time, the candidates and their campaigns were in Iowa trying to win the Iowa Democratic caucuses and be the early leader in the Presidential race.
• The Polk County (Iowa) Democratic party hosted a Steak Fry in which they cooked over 10,000 pieces of beef for the event.
• This was the menu despite weeks and weeks of lead up to the caucuses where every Democrat running for President lamented about the gloom and doom of man made climate change, of which beef production and cow farts have always been a part of the Democrats and liberals hatred.
• Many of the candidates had actually come out and stated they wanted to limit and cut down on beef consumption in this country because of their fallacy that it was messing up the climate.
• But despite their fear mongering, they were fed about 10,500 steaks but only 1,000 vegan burgers.

The hypocrisy is overwhelming: do as I say not as I do….or in this case, what I eat.

So Trump delivers great news about reducing our carbon footprint despite the gloom and doom from people like Al Gore. But people like Al Gore scarf down some big chunks of beef, the very culprit they accuse of causing climate change. What a crazy and hypocritical world we live in.

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

March, 2020, Part 2, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer in Science: "Expert" Forecasts That Failed Miserably Over Time

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in man made global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have waded through the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

Today we are going to focus on some environmental forecasts from long ago that were totally wrong, much like all of the major and minor global warming and climate change forecasts of more recent times have also been disastrously wrong. 

These failed forecasts from long ago come from the most recent issue of Reason magazine and an article written by Ronald Bailey. He talks about the first Earth Day event that was fifty years ago and the environmental disaster forecasts that were associated with that first Earth Day. 

The lesson to be learned is that blindly accepting any long term forecasts, even if done by so-called experts, should always be taken with a grain of salt. Many of these experts have books to sell, movies to promote, or egos to be stroked so saying something non controversial doesn't sell books, promote movies or stroke an ego.

Keep in mind that at this point in time fifty years ago, many, many people were just as agitated, concerned, frightened and playing Chicken Little as the latter global warming advocates are. And those advocates fifty years were as wrong as possible by abiding by and believing the forecasts of doom. Let’s see what forecasts went so wrong from five decades ago:

1) Some “experts” warned that cutting the world’s population in half and stopping all economic growth might still not be enough to avoid imminent and worldwide ecological disaster. Since this forecast, the world's population has about doubled without worldwide ecological disaster.

2) Paul Ehrlich, one of the more renowned and failed forecasters of the time predicted that there would be devastating famines around the world that would kill millions of people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In a 1970 article he predicted that 100 to 200 million people would be dying every year within the next ten years. While there have been periodic famines since then, these mostly localized famines have come nowhere close to killing hundreds of millions of people every year as he predicted.

3) Ehrlich predicted that by the end of 1973, there would be smog crises in Los Angeles and New York that would kill 200,000 Americans. Did not happen.

4) Ehrlich also forecasted that, “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born” and that by 1975, “some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions.” Did not happen.

5) Other leading “experts” of the time were not as pessimistic as Ehrlich, predicted that the great food shortages and famines would not occur until the 1980s. Did not happen.

6) Harrison Brown, writing for the well regarded National Academy Of Sciences, published an article for Scientific American in September, 1970 that predicted the world would run out of copper in early in the year 2000, which was an optimistic forecast for copper since he predicted we would run out of lead, zinc, tin, gold, silver before the year 1990. Did not happen.

7) In the February 2, 1070 issue of Time magazine, ecologist Kenneth Watt confidently stated that, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate that there won’t be any more crude oil.” Did not happen.

8) In the January, 1970 issue of Life magazine, we were warned that, “In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution.” Did not happen.

So all these forecasts did not happen, whew! Otherwise we would all be sucking in poisonous air, groveling for food, and be out of most, if not all, valuable minerals. 

So what did happen and how wrong were these “expert” forecasts:

1) While the world’s population did double over the past fifty years, it did not rise as fast as the experts predicted and the fertility rate of humankind went from 4.8 children per woman in 1970 to 2.4 today. And that fertility rate continues to drop which will eventually cause the world’s population to level out naturally and without great famines.

2) Although the world’s population doubled, the world’s food production levels tripled and the average per capita calorie intake increased 25% from 2,400 calories a day to about 3,000 calories a day.

3) U.S. corn yields went from 60 bushels per acre in 1970 to 170 bushels per acre today.

4) We did not run out of crude oil with the U.S. Energy Information Administration now estimating there are about 3.4 trillion barrels of crude oil that could still be recovered, quite a difference from having no crude oil that Watt predicted.

5) Oh, by the way we did not run out of copper. In 1974 the U.S. Geological Survey predicted that there was 417 million tons of copper left in the world that Harrison Brown predicted would be gone by the year 2000. But in the year 2019, the U.S.Geological Survey now estimates there are 803 tons of copper in the world, 803 tons more than Brown predicted would be available. Estimates of zinc reserves went from 236 million in 1974 to 230 million tons in 2019, tin reserves went from 10 million to 4.7 million tons, gold reserves went from 41,000 tons to 54,000 tons and silver reserves went from 187,000 tons to 560,000 tons. Remember, all of these minerals were predicted to be used up by the 1990s.

6) Although the U.S. economy grew 275% from 1970 to 2018, the EPA estimates that the total emissions from six air pollutants dropped by 74%.

7) In 1972, the EPA reported that 30% of the tested waters in the country did not meet the “fishable standard” (i.e. provided fish that were safe to eat) while in 2014, despite population growth and economic growth, that 30% estimate fell by 50% to 15%.

You get the idea. Long term forecasting is not easy. And it is made more unreliable when those making the forecasts are selling books, making movies, stroking their ego or looking for grants and research money to continue their work. The squeaky wheel gets the grease so to speak and for a researcher or expert to stay everything is good and safe and don’t panic, well that does not get the same attention of world ending disaster forecasts.

This doesn't mean we should always reject the opinions of experts, especially when talking about shorter term, more immediate time frames and schedules. We just have to be sure to understand the underlying reasons for making such bombastic predictions, checking those predictions with other experts, and making sure to take them with a grain of salt.

Because while these predictions of disaster and the end of the world may seem real and accurate, they rarely are. And thirty years of failed global warming and climate change predictions and forecasts of doom and gloom prove this point.

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

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http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

Match, 2020, “I Am a Global Warming Doubter AND a Believer in Science": Too Much Ice In The Arctic, Another Inane Ocasio-Cortez Prediction, and More

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in man made global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have waded through the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a freshman Congresswoman from NYC. She has a bachelor's degree in business/economics. She was a bartender before somehow getting elected to Congress. Despite her college degree, she proved she had no idea how to calculate a simple unemployment rate. Despite running for Congress, she had no idea what the three branches of our government are. Despite representing the people of her district, she was so obnoxious that she chased Amazon out of her district and losing a once in a lifetime economic opportunity for her constituents.

Thus, given her track record of nothing, we probably should not take her latest climate prediction to heart. Specifically, her prediction said that, “When it comes to climate change, what is not realistic is not responding to the crisis — not responding with a solution on the scale of the crisis. Because what’s not realistic is Miami not existing in a few years. That’s not realistic. So, we need to be realistic about the problem.”

Given her history of being ignorant on anything, I do not think that Miami has anything to worry about despite her dire prediction. Why these folks think they know what is going on despite having absolutely no experience in any kind of science is mystifying. And their track record of predicting dire climate is abysmal. events 

2) We have often pointed out the reality that every single major climate change and global warming forecast of the past three decades has been dramatically and embarrassingly wrong. The following video highlights some scientific findings and forecasts that sound awfully like current global warming advocates but actually are about one hundred years old:

https://freedomheadlines.com/freedom-wire/devastating-blow-to-global-warming-activists-heres-the-hard-evidence/

As you can see, so-called experts were forecasting the end of the Earth and humanity, see Ocasio-Cortez’s prediction above, a century ago and they were also wrong. 

3) According to a recent article on the Godfather Politics website by Warner Todd Huston, an expedition going to the Arctic was looking for global warming evidence. Unfortunately, they ran into a some challenges:

• MOSAiC is short for Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate.
• It involves climate researchers from 20 countries and its main objective is to study the effects of global warming in the Arctic.
• Unfortunately, they have not been able to do a lot of research since their icebreaker, Polarstein, has been locked in Arctic ice since last October, certainly curtailing the ability to move around and do their research.

Such a shame that studying global warming gets blocked by too much ice being around.

4) Global warming advocates have blamed a whole set of various realities for global warming, from suburban lawns to beavers building dams. But they are not done looking for culprits to blame for the myth of manmade global warming:

• According to a new study, staying home to watch Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime on your home television is a major cause of climate change.
• The research estimated that watching just a half hour show from a streaming company such as Netflix causes 1.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide to be released into the air.
• The researcher, Maxime Efoui-Hess of the nonprofit group, the Shift Project, claims that watching the show is the same as driving almost four miles.
• The study also claims that accessing online pornography is also causing global warming.
• This program streaming and online porn causes the computer servers which carry the shows and porn to contribute .3% of all human carbon emissions.

So, rather than driving your two ton car to a movie theater more than four miles away for entertainment, you decided to stay home, car in the garage, and watch a TV show. But alas, you shouldn't do that either since this sitting at home causes global warming. 

So watching TV at home, having a nice front yard, and allowing beavers to do what they have been doing for millions of years causes global warming and needs to stop. I guess the solution is to kill all the beavers, let our lawn go to pot and just sit home alone without TV in order to save the world. Sounds about right.

As a statistician by training, global warming advocates appear to abide by this old statistical fallacy: “If you torture the data long enough it will confess to anything.” These folks will torture any data set any way in order to justify their global warming fears.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


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http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

My Email To Nancy Pelosi: Caring More About Themselves Than Americans

Ms. Pelosi:

I am 67 years old. I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life, I rarely vote for Republicans for national office, I did not vote for Trump, and when I lived in New Jersey I was once a registered Democrat. But the actions of yourself and Schumer by playing politics with the corona virus relief package for needy Americans is just plain despicable. The country is in crisis and you two and other Democrats would rather play politics and get greedy with other, secondary issues that have no bearing on the hardships the country is going through. Are you that out of touch with what goes on outside of the Beltway, are you that stupid, or you really do not care? Or is it all three? Get the damned relief flowing to needy American families and cut the s%$t politics.. For once in your life act like a compassionate human being rather than a political robot with no feelings, no empathy, and no caring for the rest of us. You are all pathetic and you have turned someone like me into a non-Democrat, nice job.

March, 2020,Part 8, Political Class Insanity: Tlaib Continues To Embarrass Herself and Congress, Hateful Politics In Finland and More

It is 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.

Let’s get started:

1) Rashida Tlaib is a freshman Congresswoman from Michigan. She has also been one of the most profane, hateful, and disgusting members of Congress over the past two years. Everyone that disagrees with her is a racist, she has basically called for the destruction of Israel, and she drops f-bombs without much hesitation, hardly the behavior and class one would want from a member of Congress.

But her arrogance and greed may be getting her in serious trouble from a criminal perspective:

• The House Ethics Committee is investigating whether she requested money from her campaign finances for personal use, a Congressional no-no.
• The committee is in possession of documents that highlight the communications between herself and her staff members that indicate she actually had made those requests, an action that would be unethical and possibly criminal.
• Texts and emails indicate that she was desperate to get some of her campaign funds into her personal accounts.
• An April, 2018 email to her staff claimed that she was “struggling financially right now” and “sinking.”
• Specifically: “So I was thinking the campaign could loan me money, but Ryan [Ryan Anderson was her chief of staff.] said that the committee could actually pay me. I was thinking a one time payment of $5k.”
• In another email she complained that she was “just not going to make it through the campaign without a stipend. With the loss of a second income to lean back on, I am requesting $2,000 per two weeks but not exceeding $12,000. The cost of living stipend is going towards much needed expenses due to campaigning that includes car maintenance, child care and other necessities. Please let me know if I can proceed.”
• In a text message she stared, “Sorry for the early text but do you think the campaign can still pay me a stipend until the general. Trying to get out of debt.” 

The House Ethics Committee must now determine whether or not she violated ethics rules and/or Federal Law by diverting campaign funds to personal use. In either case it is not a good look since this person is responsible for helping determine where our tax dollars are spent and yet cannot manage her own personal finances.

2) Let’s stay with Tlaib and another example of why she is such a bad role model and intolerant person in addition to possibly being financially and criminally liable for misusing campaign funds. Obviously, the country is under a lot of stress right now with the coronavirus crisis. Jobs are being furloughed, public gatherings are being curtailed, people are getting sick, and there is a serious economic hit across the economy and the country.

In times like this, some people find strength and solace in prayer. Since the First Amendment provides freedom of religion in this country and protects that freedom of religion from persecution by the government, many people have probably turned to prayer for comfort in these trying times, which is certainly their right to do so.

As a member of Congress, one would think, and hope, that Tlaib would respect that right and someone’s desire to seek strength through their religion. But given her past disgusting behavior, that was probably too much to think of Tlaib. In response to the crisis, President Trump declared March 15th a day of prayer (“We are a Country that, throughout our history, has looked to God for protection and strength in times like these. No matter where you may be, I encourage you to turn towards prayer in an act of faith. Together, we will easily PREVAIL!”). 

In response, Tlaib put forth the following disgusting tweet: “Don’t let this administration address COVID-19 like our national gun violence epidemic. F*** a National day of prayer, we need immediate comprehensive action.”

Nice, dropping f-bombs relative to a simple request and suggestion that people find peace and solace in a particular way, a way that is protected from politicians like Tlaib under the First Amendment. In addition to being crude and disrespectful, I haven't seen any positive input from her relative to what would be “immediate comprehensive action.”

Only after a severe public backlash did she try to weasel her way out of her disgusting remarks: “Let me be clear as someone who has been praying through this all & as someone who attended the National Prayer Breakfast. My retweet was not to be an attack on prayer. It was to bring attention to the need for meaningful action to combat this public health crisis.” 

But this is too little too late. By saying “F**k a National Day of Prayer” she did commit an attack on prayer and those who practice it, no doubt about it. And again, in her attempt to back out of her hateful remarks, she provided no positive input on what would be a “meaningful action” beyond what is being done already.

Bottom line: a despicable representative, a profane person in Congress who might also be a criminal representative of Congress.

3) An annoying habit that has been picked up by the American political class over the years, predominantly by liberals and Democrats, is to refrain from adult, mature, and logic based discussion of issues and just lash out and attack those that have a different opinion from themselves. We documented dozens of such examples in the following post:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/11/retro-3-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

Political discourse in this country, especially when disagreeing with a liberal, usually and quickly turns into violent, profane, and hateful attacks against those that have a different opinion.

Apparently, this trait is not restricted to just the American political class, at least one leftist politician in Finland recently displayed the same hateful traits as many American liberals and Democrats:

• Mish Dellinger, is a member of Finland's political class and Finland’s Left Alliance.
• Apparently, Dellinger is a global warming advocate which is certainly his right in a free country.
• However, he took it a step too far when he got caught using an anonymous Twitter account to call for the death of those that do not share his views on global warming/climate change.
• Yes, he wanted all “climate change deniers and fascists” to be put to death for having a different opinion than him, that “climate deniers should be shot.”
• When confronted with accusations that he used the fake account to make the threats he first denied that he was involved in the tweets and then he claimed that others had access to the account.
• He eventually admitted that, “the account does not live up to my values. I sincerely apologize to the party, my fellow party members and the left-wing electorate for the uproar surrounding the issue.” 

What a small minded, hateful person who is also apparently a rabid liar. First he said the account was not his then he said others had access to his account and then he changed his story a third time and apologized for his hateful words. What a loser but unfortunately, he is not much different than the hateful politicians in this country.

4) Last piece of insanity for this month. According to the Convention of States website:

• The Federal government annually sends about $40 billion in taxpayer wealth to foreign countries.
• Some in government claim that foreign aid is a necessary international tool.
• But a new study from the World Bank estimates that over 7.5% of American foreign aid ends up in the bank accounts of wealthy families and corrupt government officials in foreign countries and not used to help the ordinary citizens in those countries.
• The World Bank created those estimates by tracking the deposits of money in offshore bank accounts coming from countries receiving foreign aid.
• In some countries, the amount of money diverted to wealthy people and government officials is as high as 15%.
• But the 7.5% number is only the amount of wealth that leaves the country, it does not count the amount of aid that was stolen and used inside the countries receiving the aid.
• It is known that other parts of the foreign aid is used to buy real estate, high end cars, and make other high end purchases within the country.
• The Convention of States summed up why this abuse of taxpayer wealth is so atrocious: “Of course, $40 billion is just a drop in the federal budget, but it represents one of hundreds of expenses that the federal government fails to oversee. The feds waste billions of taxpayer dollars every year, money that hardworking Americans could use to expand their businesses, take care of their families, or save for retirement.”

We work hard to create the wealth and pay taxes and Congress and the rest of Washington casually hands it out to other, non-deserving wealthy types around the world. Insane.

That will do it for today’s and this month’s political class insanity: wasting our money under the guise of foreign debt, another hateful leftist politician,this one from Finland, and another despicable and hateful member of Congress.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

https://www.amazon.com/Walter-Bruno-Korschek/e/B002KYU08Q/ref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

Match, 2020, Part 7,Political Class Insanity: A Democratic Party Fund Raising Scandal, A Democratic Meth and Drunk Scandal, and A Liberal Tells Why Pelosi Needs To Go

It is 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.

Let’s get started:

1) We have never been a big fan of Hillary Clinton. Besides protecting, abetting, and defending the sexual predator habits of her husband, she operated the State Department and the Clinton Foundation as a money laundering operation to enrich her and her family. 

And while she has never been brought to justice, it appears that a lot of her past associates and donors may actually be brought to justice:

• The Gateway Pundit website recently reported that George Nader had been indicted for illegal campaign contributions that he funneled from foreign entities to Hillary’s 2016 campaign.
• Nader is a long term Democratic party operative and was a major witness for Robert Mueller’s Russian/Trump collusion investigation.
• Additionally, Attorney General Bill Barr has indicted eight other people for illegally funneling foreign sources of campaign cash to Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, and multiple Democratic Senators.
• This foreign money found its way into Democratic Party state organizations, many Democratic Super PACS, and the campaigns of Democrats such as Clinton, Schiff, Cory Booker, Ted Lieu, and Jon Tester.
• They were arrested under a 53 count indictment that included such charges as conspiracy, making conduit contributions, excessive contributions, making false statements, false record keeping, and obstruction.
• We are talking about millions and millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions.

Just another example that shows how corrupt our political processes have become. The question that always needs to be asked is how many other illegal activities involving millions of dollars corrupting our political processes have not been caught, stopped, and prosecuted? The good news is that these alleged law breakers may be brought to justice but are there others that are getting away with similar law breaking activities?

2) As a Florida resident, I am fully aware that Democrat Andrew Gillum lost out being governor of Florida by a very narrow margin, .4% in fact. Given what recently happened in Miami involving himself and a few others indicate that Florida may have really dodged a nasty political bullet:

• According to local news reports out of Miami, Gillum was involved in a suspected crystal meth incident in Miami Beach.
• Police reports indicate that EMT crews were called to a Miami Beach hotel at 1:00 in the morning about a reported drug overdose.
• Gillum and two other men, one of whom is a famous gay male escort, were reportedly in the hotel room at the time.
• The police reports indicate that Gillum was in an “inebriated state” at the scene of the “possible drug overdose” and that there were “clear plastic baggies that contained suspected crystal meth” nearby.
• Police officers said they tried to communicate with Gillum but that he was too inebriated to respond.
• Gillum denied in a press release that had ever used meth and that only he had had too much to drink.

Whether he was telling the truth and had never used meth or not, it displays very poor judgement for someone who claims to be a leader in the community to be found inebriated and with someone that was so high on meth that EMT and police had to be called. Nice example of the American political class.

3) Speaking of no class, let's move onto a Nancy Pelosi story. As you may recall, Pelosi acted like a five year old brat during the January State of The Union message by refusing to properly introduce Trump prior to the state of the union message and then insulted amazing Americans that Trump had cited in his speech by arrogantly and childishly ripping up a copy of the President’s speech in front of the entire country.

It was a disgusting and immature display, a display that a leading liberal law professor finds so heinous that he has called for her removal as Speaker of the House:

• Apparently Jonathan Turley is a liberal, Constitutional Law professor at George Washington University.
• He is also a big, vocal critic of President Trump.
• He also thinks that Pelosi should resign over her ripping up of Trump’s speech.
• He said that she disrespected over one hundred years of tradition and disrespected the office of both the Presidency and Speaker of the House.
• Specifically, “First, Pelosi dropped the traditional greeting before the start of the address, “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the president of the United States.” Instead, she simply announced, “Members of Congress, the president of the United States.” It was extremely petty and profoundly inappropriate. Putting aside the fact that this is not her tradition, but that of the House, it is no excuse to note that the president was impeached.”
• In addition: “Pelosi has demolished decades of tradition with this poorly considered moment. Of course, many will celebrate her conduct and be thrilled by the insult to Trump. However, even those of us who disagree with his policies should consider what Pelosi destroyed in her moment of rage. She shredded the pretense of governing with civility and dignity in the House. Notably, she did not wait to rip up her copy of the speech until after she left the House floor. Pelosi wanted to do it in front of the cameras, at the end of the address with the president still in the chamber. That act was more important to Pelosi than preserving the tradition of her office. In doing so, she forfeited the right to occupy that office. If Pelosi cannot maintain the dignity and neutrality of her office at the State of the Union, she should resign as the speaker of the House of Representatives.”

Wow, finally someone in Washington with a shred of decency and a sense of doing the right thing. Too bad he is not running the show down there and that childish antics from Pelosi will not be punished, an insult to Americans, the office of the Presidency, and the need to act like adults in these times of great political difference across the country. 

That will do it for today’s insanity: a liberal law professor reminds us how childish and immature Nancy Pelosi is, Andrew Gillum reminds us how childish and immature he appears to be, and multiple lawbreakers remind us how corrupt and broken our political processes are.

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March, 2020, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: Bernie's Ignorance, Bloomberg's Double Cross, And More Bad California Priorities

It is 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.

Let’s get started:

1) Bernie Sanders is running for President on the Democratic ticket. He has no medical training or any kind of health care training. But like many politicians, that would never stop someone like him from voicing a stupid and ignorant opinion without any rational thought or basis.

He recently did such a thing. He recently opined that coronavirus could kill more Americans than U.S. soldiers died in World War II which was over 400,000 people. Let’s do some simple math:

• The death rate of those that contract the disease is about 3%.
• Which means that for Sanders to be right, 400,000 deaths, the total number of Americans that contract the disease would be over 13,000,000, a number we are nowhere close to so far.
• Less than 50 Americans nationwide have died from this virus so far, a far cry from Sanders fear mongering 400,000, .0125%.
• In the worst flu season of recent times, 2017-2018, about 61,000 Americans died from that strong flu strain, about 15% the size of what Sanders says could happen.

In other words, Sanders at this point in time has no idea what he is talking about. The vast majority of Americans recover from the worst flu strain and the coronavirus. The history and current numbers on bad flu strains and the coronavirus are nowhere close to Sanders’ 400,000 estimate.

Could he be right? Possible. Should we wash our hands, avoid crowds, and anyone who may be sick, either with the flu or the coronavirus? Certainly. But given his total lack of expericne in the field and his desire for media air time for his failing Presidential run, forecasting the future, especially stupid forecasts, have to be taken lightly. Keep in mind the words of a great American philosopher, Groucho Marx: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” Sanders is no exception to this reality.

2) Michael Bloomberg is already out of the 2020 Presidential race, having spent almost half a billion dollars for virtually no return. But that does not mean he did not lie like a long term politician:

• According to Politico, Bloomberg had promised people that he had hired for his Presidential campaign that they would have a job until November even if he withdrew from the race.
• But now it seems that he is firing staffers across the country despite promising them that they would have a job until almost the end of the year.
• And while they will get to keep their Bloomberg campaign-issued iPhones and MacBooks, they will have to apply for a new job with Bloomberg’s political action team if they still want a job.
• However, most staffers will get their last Bloomberg paycheck on March 31, eight months before they were supposed to be let go.
• This is a serious breach of the original promise of employment until November which would include a monthly salary up to $6,000 along with a $5,000 relocation bonus and with full dental, healthy, and vision benefits.
• One staffer, according to Politico, thinks the job opportunities offer has a shady side to it: “I think they are using the FEC regulations as an excuse to lay off a bunch of people” because they have to set up a new political entity.
• Another Bloomberg staffer had the following take on this lie: “I didn’t think I was going to have to apply for a job. It was presented as being automatic. Field organizers were told during interviews that they had a guaranteed job through November.”

He was a politician for only a few months and yet he had raised the art of lying to a level usually attained by lifelong politicians.

3) The state of California is in pretty poor shape. It’s infrastructure is among the worst in the country, its schools are terrible, its tax burden on citizens and businesses are back breaking, it has over $200 billion in unfunded liabilities, and it has a homeless problem that is so bad that that the state has 53% of the entire nation’s homeless population, a homeless population that has already led to the revival of at least one Medieval disease, typhus.

Given these crises, one would hope that the state’s political class and state government was focused on fixing on many, if not all, of these critical crises. But as always with California politicians, their priorities are elsewhere and they are pathetic:

• One state California politician thinks that it is horrible that clothes stores have separate displays for boys clothes and girl clothes.
• And he wants to punish California stores that dare to separate boys and girls clothes.
• California politician, Evan Low, has drafted legislation called AB2826 that would fine stores that had separate areas by gender for children.
• He says this idiocy was inspired by a discussion with an 8 year old kid on why stores should tell the kid what is a girl’s piece of clothing or toy and what is a boy’s piece of clothing or toy.
• The penalty for daring to separate boys and girls products would be $1,000 for each infraction.
• This is obviously a bone thrown to the LGBTQ lobby at the expense of convenience for shoppers.

Seriously, this is what this politician is worried about? The displaying of boys and girls clothes products in a retail store? Forget the $200 billion in unfunded liabilities. Forget the homeless problem. Forget the high taxes. Let’s listen to an 8 year old and have the kid drive legislative initiatives. Such bad priorities and a waste of resources.

Stupid priorities of California politicians, Bloomberg stiffs his staff, and Bernie Sanders talks about something he has no knowledge about. Stupid, cheap, and ignorant, sound about right for American politicians.

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