Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Scam That Is Climate Change

 We have  often  talked about the concept of “global warming” and its reincarnated marketing effort, “climate change.” We discussed the reality that back in the 1970s, climate scientists, and politicians, were screaming and glooming and dooming about the coming Ice Age. 


Then when the new Ice Age did not materialize, they started screaming about global warming in the 1980s, a 180 degree turnaround in less than a decade. When the ice caps did not melt as they predicted, when the temperatures did not rise like they predicted, when many of them were caught fudging data to falsely conclude their forecasts were right, they rebranded global warming as “climate change.


This was a smart marketing move because they could not be wrong, like they had been for several decades:


  • If temperatures rose, they could say they were right, it is climate change.

  • If temperatures dropped, they could say they were right, it is climate change. 


But rebranding does not make them right. The sin about this whole debacle is that no one knows what is going on and no one trusts anyone who has an opinion about the climate. Forecasts have been wrong, hysteria has been overblown, data has been  bastardized, it is a mess. The reality is as follows though:


  • The earth’s temperature has been warmer than it is today without the presence of humanity and its use of different fuels.

  • The earth’s temperature has been  cooler than it is today without the presence of humanity and its use of different fuels.


But those in the media and many liberal  politicians continue to  insist they got it right this time, that the earth is warming and that people need to take a substantial cut in their quality of life to prevent disaster. Never mind that these same people have never gotten a forecast or prediction right, this time they are sure they are on the side of good.


Many of these folks are claiming that the world has never been hotter than it was in 2023. This is, of course, not true, the earth has been warmer throughout its long history. But you would never know that if you just listened to what the climate change folks are telling you, 2023, was unbelievably hot. But rather than just blindly listen to the failed prognosticators and their failed prediction history, consider some real  temperature reality from 2023 (Note: the following statistics and realities come from author, David Craig, author of the book, "There Is No Climate Crisis"):


  • Before going any further, keep in mind that United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, recently proclaimed that: The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

  • But Tongulakh, Siberia recorded its lowest temperature ever, hitting an astonishing -62.4 C below zero on January 14th, 2023, the coldest temperature recorded on earth that day.

  • On February 4, 2023, Halifax airport in Nova Scotia saw its coldest wind chill temperatures ever recorded, -43 C below zero.

  • This broke its then current record of -41 C  below zero that was set 56 years ago.

  • On February, 19, 2023, the temperature at Shepherd Bay, Nunavut in Canada hit -49.6 C below zero, or -57.3 degree Fahrenheit.

  • On March 7, 2023, the United Kingdom suffered through -15 C with the temperature in Kinebrace, Scotland hitting -15.2 C, giving the area its coldest month of March since 2010.

  • In February, 2023 the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire reported a wind chill reading of -108 Fahrenheit, the coldest temperature EVER recorded in the United States.

  • Around the same time, the National Weather Service (NWS) in Caribou, Maine, reported instances of  “frostquakes” which are “Just like earthquakes, [they] generate tremors, thundering sensations. These are caused by sudden cracks in frozen soil or underground water when it’s very cold.”

  • In Boston, school officials closed schools when temperatures got to -10 Fahrenheit, easily breaking the city’s record set over 100 years ago.

  • In Providence, Rhode Island, the temperature hit - 2 Fahrenheit, breaking the existing record that was set in 1918.

  • The same weather that set these low temperature records in Boston and Providence also set records in Albany, New York, August, Maine, Rochester, New York and  Worcester, Massachusetts.

  • In June, Sydney, Australia set its record for cold when it had a temperature of 1.8 C.

  • At the same  time, over 100 weather stations in Australia registered their coldest temperatures on record.

  • On June 1, 2023, Finland saw a temperature of -7.7 C, a very cold temperature for summertime anywhere.

  • This broke Finland's previous record low of -7 C set back in 1962.

  • Antarctica set an early winter record low temperature of -76.4 C with other temps during this time often  below -70 C.

  • During the summer months in the southern hemisphere, Arctic air came by  and shattered any number of South America low temperatures records.

  • On February 18, 2023, multiple cities in Paraguay saw a sharp drop in temperatures which broke existing records

  • On the same day 30 cities in Argentina had record low temperatures.


Hard to take Antonio Guterres’s comment about global broiling seriously when it  is 50 degrees below zero or so. But climate change people, politicians, and the  mainstream media seems to have not gotten the word about these record low temperatures. And even if they were aware of them, they cannot accept them or they would again be shown to be wrong.


And it would derail their plans to take  control over our lives, dictating what type of cars we drive, making us pay more for food and utilities, and feeding their ego and selfish desire to dictate to others. Keep in mind two realities:


Reality Number 1 - even if humanity is causing worldwide broiling temperatures, do you really think that the inept people in Washington, the Federal government,  and the American political class can adjust Mother Nature? These people cannot even run an effective and efficient “do not call” list, given how many unwanted calls I still get every week even though all  of my phone numbers have been on the do  not call list for years. These people cannot operate any  government program efficiently and effectively, to really think that all of a sudden they can beat Mother Nature is ridiculous.


Reality Number 2 - Even if Washington decides to embark on a radical and doomed climate change path, India, China, and other major economies around the world will not follow their lead. They will continue to behave as they are now, keeping their economies running efficiently and improving the quality of life of their citizens. In the meantime, we will be experiencing regular utility blackouts, paying much more for transportation and every other life expense. As a result,  our lives are worse off and  the climate condition is basically unchanged.


Climate change is a rallying point for politicians around the world to take control  of  our lives, our wealth, our personal choices, and our freedom. To think  otherwise is to ignore real data that is contrary to their view and blindly accept that even though these people have  been absolutely wrong in their predictions for fifty years or so, somehow they are right now. Highly unlikely.


So the next time you receive an unwanted call for car warranties, mortgages, or other offers even though you are on the “do not call” list that Washington politicians administer, remember  these  are the same inept  folks that think they can control Mother Nature. Given their incompetence in everything they touch,  they probably cannot control their mother-in-laws, never mind controlling Mother Nature.

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Thursday, December 28, 2023

December, 2023, Part 10, Political Class Insanity: Taxpayer Funded Condoms For The World, Corruption In Chicago, $150 Billion For Illegal Immigrants, and More

A few last pieces of political class insanity for this month and this year:

1)In our last post we described how the Washington political class, via the Federal government, continues to waste taxpayer wealth on stupid, stupid projects:
  • They have sent over $400,000,000 to the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza strip which in turn was used for terrorist activities against Israel.
  • They sent taxpayer money to India to be used for online writing platforms for young LGBTQWI writers in that country.
  • Millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, in need of medical care, and have no medical insurance and this is where Washington is sending our tax dollars: funding terror activities and writing platforms.
  • But that is not the only way the Federal government is wasting taxpayer money today:
  • American taxpayers funded the shipment of 65 MILLION condoms to foreign countries in fiscal 2022.
  • This was billed as “family planning” and is somehow supposed to fix the climate.
  • In fact, the U.S. Agency For International Development sent not only 65 million condoms overseas but also sent 9.8 million injectable birth control products, and 334,000 IUDs.
  • This program is supposedly “[mitigating] the impact of population dynamics on natural resources and state stability” and that “climate vulnerability, population growth and unmet need for family planning often occur together,” touting family planning as a climate solution.
  • These products were sent to a variety of countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Haiti, Pakistan, and Uganda.
  • 500,000 condoms were sent to the terrorist haven, Yemen, and somehow those in charge of the program proudly claimed that of the 500,000 sent, 438,801 were “consumed” which I guess is a fancy way of saying they were used.
  • Obviously getting an accurate count of how many condoms were used in a backward country and terrorist country like Yemen is impossible but those in charge claim they know down to the 801st how many were used, total nonsense to claim that number as any validity.
  • The USAID website claims that “access to rights-based planning and girls’ education are among the most impactful climate solutions,” and that “climate change-related displacement can worsen already entrenched gender inequalities” like “disruptions in access to essential health services, poor maternal health outcomes, and an increase in gender-based violence and child marriage,” all of which is a lot of fancy, high powered language that really means nothing.
  • The overall supposed strategy is to cause the birth rates of these countries to decrease under the assumption that fewer people consume fewer natural resources which means less climate change.
Even if this program worked and even if this program decreased the birth rates around the world and it might affect climate change which might exist sometime in the distant future, I am sure that the millions of Americans who are hungry, homeless, and need medical attention TODAY would disagree with the need for this program. Ridiculous use of taxpayer funds.

2)Speaking of wasting taxpayer wealth, as most people know Joe Biden has allowed the southern border to have virtually no security at all and upwards of 13 million unvetted, unvaccinated, and unknown illegal immigrants have entered the country during his reign. This has forced local governments to spend billions and billions of dollars to feed, house, medicate, and police these millions of illegal immigrants.

These are billions of dollars that have been diverted from serving the very American taxpayers that have paid for serving these illegal immigrants. And now there is an actual estimate of how many billions of dollars have been diverted away from taxpayer needs:
  • A study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated that the Federal government spends over $66 billion a year to handle illegal immigration every year.
  • This does not include the $116 billion a year that state and local governments spend in this area, bringing the national total to a whopping $182 billion a year.
  • This is somewhat consistent with a November analysis by Congress’s Homeland Security Committee which found that taxpayers pay $150 billion a year to handle illegal immigrants.
  • These estimates include the expense of feeding, sheltering, medical attention, policing and judicial needs, etc.
  • Another study estimates that the annual cost is $451 billion (Center For Immigration Studies).
  • Since it is estimated that illegal immigrants contribute a mere $31 billion annually to the tax systems across the country, the net negative impact on taxpayers, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, is about $150 billion.
  • According to Robert Trenschel, the chief executive of Yuma Regional Medical Hospital in Arizona, many of the illegal immigrants he sees require substantial, and major, medical treatment and expense: “Some migrants come to us with minor ailments but many of them come in with significant disease. We have had migrant patients on dialysis, cardiac catheterization and in need of heart surgery. Many are very sick.”

Unbelievable. Today, about 600,000 Americans are homeless but illegal immigrants generally get free shelter. Upwards of 17 million Americans are facing food crises because of high food price inflation but illegal immigrants get free food. Millions of Americans are in need of medical care and over 20 million cannot afford health insurance but illegal immigrants get free medical care.

In reality, the free food, free shelter, and free medical care being handed out to Biden’s illegal immigrants are not free, all of it is being paid for by the American taxpayer, the same taxpayer that is paying for millions of birth control, gay writing online platforms, and a myriad of other wasteful, useless government programs.

3)I know I should not make fun of those politicians that have to take care of untold numbers of illegal immigrants coming into their world but I do have to smile (smirk) at New York City mayor, Eric Adams. Like many other big city politicians, for years Adams and his ilk have bragged how they are illegal immigrant “sanctuary cities” where illegal immigrants are welcome and are sheltered from being prosecuted under immigration laws. Sanctimoniousness is not an attractive feature that gets very tiring to the rest of us.

And now of course, which often happens with sanctimonious types, karma has jumped up and bit Adams in the rear:
  • We have previously reported how he is now suffering, as is his city, for being labeled as a welcoming sanctuary city.
  • Well over 100,000 illegal immigrants have taken Adams up on his offer, resulting in him needing to divert city tax money (5% so far) from taxpayers to feed, shelter and care for these 100,000+ immigrants.
  • And it appears that only about 2,000 of the over 100,000 illegal immigrants in his city have work permits which means that the rest of them cannot legally work in this country and will continue to be serviced by city taxpayers.
He now, finally, realizes that maybe having that many illegal immigrants lounging around with nothing to do may not be a good idea after all: “You know, lack of opportunities, an idle mind is the devil’s workshop, as they say,” with him going on to say that people who are unable to work could turn to crime and illegal activities, which concerns him about the safety of the city and its residents.

Adams went on to say things are going to get worse because Biden will not help him out and that the “dam has burst” regarding negative consequences for his city.

It certainly is karma, he asked for it and boy has he gotten it. This is what happens when politicians take their eye off of the job they were elected to do, protect and help their own citizens. By being so focused, and so smug, about illegal immigrants he has done his citizens and his taxpayers a grave disservice. But he is an American politician, most of whom only care about their own ego and self worth, not the safety of those they govern.

4)We have not talked about corrupt Chicago politicians for a long time. But that city, as we have pointed out for years, along with the statewide political class, has been host to a plethora of corrupt and criminal politicians. And that long legacy of corruption apparently continues on unabated:
  1. Edward Burke is a former Chicago city council member.
  2. He, unsurprisingly for a Chicago politician, was recently found guilty on 13 counts of racketeering, bribery, and attempted extortion.
  3. He was accused of using his political position to force private developers to use his law firm.
  4. His political career started in 1969 but it was not until recently he was found guilty of these crimes.
  5. In one specific case/charge, he was accused of shaking down the owners of a Burger King franchise by stalling building and property permits as he tried to force the franchise owner to use his law firm.
  6. He also threatened to block an admission fee increase because the Chicago Field Museum did not hire the daughter of a friend.
  7. Good to see that things have not changed in the Second City, corruption on a grand scale apparently still seems to thrive.
That will do it for today: political corruption in Chicago, growing fear of being a sanctuary city in NYC, illegal immigrants treated better than Americans, and millions of taxpayer funded condoms for the world.

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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

December, 2023, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: American Taxpayers Pay For Hamas Terror Tunnels and Indian Writers, Free Tampons In Canada, and More

 A few last notes on American political class insanity for this month and this year:


1)In America today, millions of Americans are suffering:


  • At any time there are about 600,000 homeless Americans living on the streets with tens of thousands of them being our armed services  veterans.

  • It is  estimated that about 17 million Americans are in a food crisis because of high inflation and high food prices.

  • Millions and  millions of Americans are without medical  insurance or adequate medical care.

  • Millions and millions of Americans are in need of drug addiction treatment especially since Biden's border policies have allowed an unheard of amount of illegal drugs to flood into the country.


One would hope that American politicians would be focused on helping these Americans in need. But as always with our politicians, hope is never present.

Consider:


  • Douglas Murray is a reporter for the New York Post and he was recently allowed to visit the Hamas terror tunnels that the terrorist group Hamas has constructed under the Gaza Strip.

  • The sole purpose of these tunnels has been to build an underground network that could be used to attack and kill innocent Israeli citizens.

  • And these are not just simple crawl spaces, these are sophisticated tunnels that are big enough to drive vehicles in.

  • To  build such tunnels, it has to have taken billions of dollars, dollars that were intended for the poor citizens of Gaza but which were hijacked by Hamas leaders for their own enrichment and their desire to kill Israelis.

  • And to probably no one’s surprise, Murray reports that over the past 16 years or so, the American taxpayers have donated about $400,000,000 to these heinous individuals.


An incredible waste of our tax dollars which help finance the fatal consequences for over 1,400 innocent Israeli citizens. Think how that $400 million could have been used to help Americans in need:


  • That money could have provided about 230 nutritious meals to everyone of those 600,000 homeless Americans.

  • That money could have provided drug addiction treatment to over 60,000 struggling Americans over a year’s time.


And yet the Washington political class decided it was better off to fund a terror organization halfway around the world than to help struggling American citizens. Disgusting.


2)But the stupid wasting of American taxpayer wealth does not end in Gaza:


  • The U.S. State Department has provided American taxpayer dollars to a “queer” Muslim organization in India to provide “LGBTQWI” people in the region with a online platform to write.

  • Yes, a platform to write for people half a world away, funded with U.S. taxpayer money.

  • The money was funneled through a George Soros organization, “Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action.”

  • It eventually went to the Queer Muslim Project which is an “online platform for queer, Muslim and allied voices.”

  • Somehow this idiocy is supposed to “support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security,” which is obviously boilerplate nonsense.

  • Output from this effort will be presented at a “leading Mumbai literature festival.”

  • This idiocy follows on the heels of another State Department program that partnered with the Queer Muslim Project which paid for a 10-week “creative incubator” for young LGBTQIA writers which resulted in, wait for it, a magazine.


This has nothing to do with queer or LGBTQWI issues or biases. Our reaction would have been the same if it involved sending money to straight, white writers in Ireland. Americans are hungry, homeless and in need of medical care and  sending money overseas for writing projects, wherever it is going for whatever group, alleviates none of their suffering. It is an insult to American taxpayers and an affront to those citizens in need.


3)But American politicians do not have a monopoly on stupid political acts, as witnessed by some insanity that happened up in Canada recently:


  • In an act of stupidity that has the full support of Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian government now requires that free tampons and other products for female periods be placed in men’s restrooms in government buildings, airports, and military places.

  • A Twitter account, @HoCVStaffer, posted the official tampon policy online, a policy that asserts that tampons are really important basic needs and by giving them away for free in bathrooms the hope is that people will feel less embarrassed or awkward about menstruation, a normal part of life.

  • Somehow someone in the government including the prime minister thought this was a good idea and a good use of taxpayer wealth.


So much wrong and stupid with this policy:


  • How is witnessing a tampon in a men’s room going to make anyone “less embarrassed?” 

  • Was market research done to verify this policy or did someone in the government have too much free time  on their hands and  needed to justify their job?

  • Since when is it the job of any government function to provide free tampons, or other personal health products, to anyone who walks by?

  • As a guy, I am pretty sure that men will either ignore this policy or the smart ones will simply just scoop up all of the free feminine hygiene products and bring them home to their wives and other females in their lives, saving themselves expenses while ripping off the Canadian taxpayer.

  • And keep in mind that it is not just the expense of the products that the taxpayers are paying for, there is a labor cost involved in stocking and restocking the supplies after they have been hoarded and taken home.

  • I assume that Canada also has homeless, hungry, and medical needs  for their citizens which would have been much better served with this funding.

  • I would also assume that if you polled every Canadian that “the need for free, taxpayer subsidized tampons in men's rooms” would not make the top 100 list of citizen concerns.


It constantly blows one’s mind that politicians and government bureaucrats can  waste so much taxpayer wealth on such stupidity.


4)One area that politicians excel at is their ignorance of basic economic principles. This is playing out again in California:


  • California state politicians have enacted legislation to raise the minimum wage to $20 in the state.

  • State politician Chris Holden introduced the law and claims that it will help fast food workers feed their families and improve their quality of life.

  • Nice sentiment that is completely devoid of economic understanding.

  • Two things are going to happen because of this law, the first of which is that fast food restaurant owners will have to increase their product prices to pay for their increased salary costs which is going to increase food costs which will wipe out at least some of the benefit of the pay increase.

  • Secondly, fast food restaurant owners will find ways to reduce their now increased salary costs by any way possible such as replacing human workers with machines.

  • Or they will do what many in-state Pizza Hut owners have already said they are going to do, which is to fire over 1,200 delivery drivers, thus, reducing their labor costs.

  • These Pizza Hut restaurants will rely on companies like DoorDash, GrubHub, and others to make deliveries, relieving them of the costs of paying 1,200 employees to deliver.

  • These 1,200 were from just a small geographic area, it is expected that Pizza Huts in other areas will also cut out their delivery staff.


So here is the result of this faulty economic reasoning by Holden and his cohorts in state government: “The good news is that you are now making $20 an hour. The bad news is that you no longer have a job.”  So much for these 1,200 employees having an easier time feeding their families and improving their quality of life


But we could have predicted this outcome of higher wages leading to  high unemployment. Consider what happened out in the Washington state area a few years ago:


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2015/03/economically-ignorant-in-seattleand.html


Wages were raised and people lost their jobs because of it, a precursor to the “Good news is that you are making more money, the bad news is that you no longer have a job.” 


It happened in the Seattle area in 2015 and it is going to happen again in California in 2024 simply because most American politicians have no understanding of basic economic principles. As a result, their actions result in higher inflation and more unemployment. The exact opposite of what they wanted.


That will be it for today: economic ignorance in California, tampon idiocy in Canada, wasting money on writing projects in India, and funding terrorism in Gaza. Never underestimate the ability of today’s politicians to waste money on bad priorities that usually have minimal impacts on society but if they do have impacts. it is usually negative, be it death in Israel  or unemployment in California.


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