Election 2020, Part 2: The First Invalid Presidential Election In Our History?

I have voted in every Presidential election for a lot of decades. I have never voted for a Republican for President and thus, I did not vote for Donald Trump either time. 

Thus, I think I can say without much bias that this just completed Presidential election is shaping up to be a disgrace to democracy given the highly likely it was corrupted, manipulated, and outright fixed by so many people and entities across the country. Ballots were lost,ballots were found in garbage cans, computers were hacked, computers inadvertently moved votes from one candidate to another, ballots showed up in polling places with no chain of command security protocols followed. Politicians announced results days before the voting took place.

I am sure some of the potential incidents of voter fraud and cheating were incorrect. But I am sitting on almost 200 news reports of, call them, “voting irregularities,” enough to convince me that this was the most dishonest, poorly handled, and obscene election that abuses the First Amendment rights and “one person, one vote” tenet that is basic to our democracy.

Over the next few days I will be pulling out a lot of those 200 news reports and briefly discussing what allegedly happened. I can not say all of these news reports are true and I cannot say all of these news reports are false. 

But when people are arrested, when people admit on video that they cheated, when there are videos made of people delivering box loads of videos in the middle of the night, I think the evidence is pretty clear that the corruption in this election was real and widespread.

I am not to drawing any conclusions but consider the following reality: the voting locales where most of the corruption occurred was almost ALL in Democratic party controlled areas: Democratically controlled cities, Democratically controlled counties, and Democratically controlled states and happened only in states that were considered “swing state” in the election, in other words, the states that could go either way and a nudge here or a nudge there , from a voting corruption perspective could make all the difference.

Each of these incidents are sourced by the organization that reported the voting fraud. I am not going to do a deep dive into each story but by providing the source, you can follow up and decide for yourself whether or not the voting fraud and corruption allegation is legit.

21) Judicial Watch - Government Watchdog, Judicial Watch, has been suing states for years for shoddy voter bookkeeping, given the following realities:

• Their recent research showed 353 U.S, counties had 1.8 million more registered voters than voting age eligible citizens in those counties.
• A few years ago they won a lawsuit that forced Los Angeles county to begin cleaning up their voter rolls since they had a whopping 1.6 million more registered voters than citizens.
• They have also launched or won lawsuits against Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois for bad voter record keeping.
• In this just completed election, they found that a Nevada county, a single county, still had 154,000 inactive voters on their rolls.

The potential for fraud is amazing, given how many false voters can still vote.

22) Freedom Headlines - An official ballot count watcher in the Detroit area witnessed and videoed mystery ballots being delivered at 4:00 am to an unsecured vote counting facility in Detroit:

https://freedomheadlines.com/freedom-wire/watch-ballot-count-watcher-corroborates-overnight-biden-ballots-being-carted-into-detroit/

23) American Liberty Report - Trump had a very large lead in Virginia for hours and hours, looking to win a state he lost back in 2016 when a “stack of votes” showed up late at night and all of a sudden, he lost the state.

24) American Truth Today - TV station WISN in Wisconsin is reporting on witness reports that poll workers in Wisconsin illegally filled out witness information on thousands of invalid mail ballots in the state. In Wisconsin, a mail-in ballot has to be signed by a witness who must list their address or under state law the ballot is invalid.

According to the report, the Wisconsin Elections Commission told poll workers to “add a missing witness address” to ballots lacking one, a violation of voting laws. Further, some poll workers went ahead and signed ballots that were even missing the witness signature: “Wisconsin Statute 6.86 provides that an absentee ballot must be signed by a witness, who is also required to list his or her address. If a witness address is not listed, then the ballot is considered invalid and must be returned to the voter to have the witness correct.”

According to retired state Supreme Court Justice and current poll worker Michael Gableman: “If an absentee ballot does not have a witness address on it, it’s not valid. That ballot is not valid. In defiance of and direct contradiction to the statute, the Wisconsin Elections Commission gave guidance–that is, cover–to all 72 county clerks and turned the statute on its head. They said, ‘Gee, we know the law says an absentee ballot without the witness address is not valid, but county clerk, you have a duty to go ahead and look up on your own the witness’ address if there’s no address on the absentee ballot.”

According to the report, the WEC informed voters that “your witness must sign and provide their full address (street number, street name, city) in the Certification of Witness section,” adding “if any of the required information above is missing, your ballot will not be counted.”

26) American Truth Today -Yesterday we talked about the disaster in Michigan where a “software glitch” mistakenly took 6,000 Trump votes and assigned them to Biden. Well, that same software was used in Georgia where both the Presidential results and a critical Senate vote are neck and neck. I wonder if anyone will check if a similar “software glitch” happened there?

I say that because two county voting computers that use the same software crashed on election day. Voting was stopped after the vendor uploaded a software change “the night before the election.” According to Marcia Ridley, an elections supervisor in one of the countries: “That is something that they don’t ever do. I’ve never seen them update anything the day before the election” She went on to say that she was not told what the upload contained or why it was being done. Really? Software is being changed inside of 24 hours of voting? Gross incompetence or fraud?

26) GOP Times - Former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, believes that Democrats stole election votes across the country and given the rampant and well known electron shenanigans that have gone on in Illinois for decades, he can be considered an expert on such vote stealing.

One reason he may feel that way is because a so-called professional election cheater has come forward to describe how easy it is. Methods include steaming open mail in ballots and replacing them and going through nursing homes which he considers a “gold mine” for fraud.

The source of this info is anonymous since he allegedly does not want to be put out of the vote cheating business but has come forward because he hates Biden and supports Bernie Sanders. Thus, take his story with a grain of salt, given the anonymity. But he claims that not only does he steal votes but he has crews of vote stealers that steal votes in every election.

The New York Post also interviewed this guy who claims that no election in New Jersey at any level of government is not corrupted and that he has been doing this for decades. He also claims that Post Office employees are critical members of his voter fraud team.

27) Steadfast Clash - We have already reported on the alleged vote buying of Congresswoman Omar up in Minnesota. Now a video has turned up where at least one person, Osman Ali Dahquane, admits that he sold his vote for hundreds of dollars to the Congresswoman's campaign. He went on to say: “We don’t mind illegal. If this continues this direction, many people will go to prison, or no one will vote in the city of Minneapolis. It is very, very corrupt. We are in trouble if they come after us. We are in big trouble if they come after us."

28) Real Conservatives Unite - Historically and, according to Pew Research especially for this election, voters rarely split their vote, i.e. voting for a mix of Democrats and Republicans. Given the divisions in the country today, I would assume that tenet is very strong with today’s voters.

But something weird happened this past week: 

• So far in Michigan, Trump has only about 7,000 more votes than the Republican running for the Senate in the state, John James, which means that they are about even and consistent with history, given that millions of votes were cast.
• But Biden has more than 69,000 more votes than the Democrat running for the Senate in the state, Gary Peters.
• In Georgia, the difference between Trump and the Republican Senate candidate is just over 800 votes while the difference between Biden and the Georgia Democrat running for the Senate is a whopping 95,000 votes.

Certainly not what history would tell us.

29) Real Conservatives Unite - As many as 6,000 illegal votes may have been identified in Nevada: 

• Trump lawyers have sent a letter to the Clark County District Attorney alleging voter fraud by people who were not residents of Clark County.
• Specifically: “Indeed, we have initially identified 2,062 voters who moved from Nevada before the election but still cast ballots in this election. We have verified this by cross-referencing the list of general election voters with publicly available change of address records."
• Furthermore: “For instance, demographic experts agree that the National Change of Address database only captures about one-third of relocations. Consequently, this number will likely grow by 6,000 voters, at minimum."

Given there are 16 counties in Nevada, if this same ineptness in the voting process exists in the whole state, then simple extrapolation puts the number of invalid votes at just under 100,00 votes.

30) Real Conservatives Unite - As a follow up to point 21) above, there is additional data and video footage of the early, early morning ballot drop Detroit:

• The ballot count watcher reported to the Gateway Pundit website that she witnessed multiple ballot deliveries and views it as “major fraud on a major scale.”
• Kellye SoRelle, is a Texas lawyer and member of the “Lawyers for Trump” organization.
• She videoed several vehicles pulling up and unloading coolers and suitcases into wagons via Facebook live.
• These wagons were then rolled into the secure area where vote counting was being done.
• The vehicles involved included a white Chrysler van and a Ferrari.

https://realconservativesunite.com/2020/11/06/ballot-count-watcher-claims-130-000-votes-dumped-for-biden/

31) Tediumedia - In Michigan there were a number of dead people caught voting at the polls:

• Seven of those dead people voting are older than the known oldest living alive today.
• The seven people were born in 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1850, making that voter the oldest known voter at 170 years old.
• But this should not be surprising since Republicans had complained for years that the Democrat in charge of voting in the state continued to send out ballots to known dead people.
• For example: William Bradley was born in 1902, he last updated his voter registration in 2002, and cast his FIRST ballot in 2020.
• But according to Mr. Bradley’s son, his dad passed away in 1984.

32) Tediumedia - An election clerk in Michigan found that the number of votes counted by the election software did not match the number of votes that were tabulated on so-called printed, tabulator tapes. The results of the county voting were then going to be counted manually.

Oh, by the way, this is the same Michigan county who mistakenly gave Biden 6,000 of Trump’s votes because of another “software glitch.”

33) Right Wing News Hour - The day before the election a Wisconsin judge ordered the election commission to immediately purge 209,000 non eligible voters from the voting rolls. In his order he stated that “time is of the essence.” Whether that purge happened in time is unknown.

34) American Patriot Newsletter - The Republican party in Georgia claims that its vote counting observers were told to leave the vote counting process in Fulton County and that voting counting continued once they were taken away even though the Republican vote watchers were told the counting was done for the day: “Fulton County told our observers last night to go home because they were closing up and then continued to count ballots in secret.” 

35) GOP USA - A lawyer who worked as a Republican poll watcher has alleged counting misconduct in Detroit. TCF Center, the location in the city where absentee ballots were counted: “Jessica Connarn, a member of the state bar from Bloomfield Hills, alleges she was told by someone counting absentee ballots in Detroit that workers were “changing the dates the ballots were received. When I approached the poll worker, she stated to me that she was being told to change the date on ballots to reflect that the ballots were received on an earlier date.” 

She claims that the poll worker slipped her a note that explained that ballots received on November 4 were backdated to November 2 to make them legal.

36) A video of ballots being secretly entered into a polling place in the off hours can be viewed at: 

https://tediummedia.com/watch-man-carts-in-ballot-box-into-detroit-voting-center-at-4-am-taken-into-secure-counting-area/

37) Big League Politics - “Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that Fulton County electrons officials had discovered an issue “involving reporting from their work on Friday.”

As a result, the state government sent extra personnel to the counting area to address this “issue.” TV staton WXIA News reported that the “issue” may have a significant impact on who wins the state.

38) Western Journalism - This source reported that a Nevada whistleblower claims that elections officials willingly violated the rules for handling mail-in ballots: “A whistleblower has come forward in Clark County saying they witnessed mail ballots being counted without signatures being verified,” the Nevada Republican Party wrote in a Twitter post Saturday.

The whistleblower has reportedly signed an affidavit on what he or she saw and that the accusations and affidavit has been forwarded to the Justice Department. The whistle blower contends that as a poll worker he was told to ignore ballots where the addresses did not match the records.

39) Breitbart - Two vote observers at the troubled TCF Center in Detroit claim that they witnessed poll workers creating new voter files from information listed on submitted ballots. Bob Cushman, a Republican poll challenger, wrote out a sworn affidavit which he said: “The main list of persons who had registered to vote on or before November 1, 2020, was listed on an electronic poll book, often referred to as the QVF. As I understand it, the Supplemental Sheets were the lists of persons who had registered to vote on November 2, 2020 or November 3, 2020. I observed that none of the names on these new ballots were on the QVF or the Supplemental Sheets. I saw the computer operators at several counting boards manually adding the names and addresses of these thousands of ballots to the QVF system. When I asked what the possible justification was to counting ballots from unknown, unverified “persons”, I was told by election supervisors that the Wayne County Clerk’s Office had “checked them out.” I challenged not one ballot, but the entire process as the names were not in the Poll Books or Supplemental Sheets and because the DOB’s were all wrong, all being marked as 01-01-1900. Every ballot was being fraudulently and manually entered into the Electronic Poll Book (QVF), as having been born on January 1, 1900. This ‘last’ batch of ballots was processed in the 8 PM to 10 PM time frame. When I asked about this impossibility of each ballot having the same birthday occurring in 1900, I was told that was the instruction that came down from the Wayne County Clerk’s office.”

40) GOP Times - Back to Michigan: Senate candidate, John James, is calling fraud when it was alleged and witnessed that 35,000 ballots were brought into a voting counting location in the wee hours of the morning, outside of normal vote processing procedures. Thus, he is accusing Michigan voting officials of several serious crimes including impropriety, voter suppression, and election interference. As a result of the mystery delivery of 35,000 ballots, his opponent picked up thousands of votes in the dead of the night.

A lawyer consultant for James claims that there are a “lot of irregularities regarding the election” that he has looked into: “There were all kinds of chicanery, including ballots that came reportedly in the middle of the night at 3:30 am - 35,000 ballots were deceptively brought in. There have been a lot of irregularities and a lack of integrity. They’re not letting challengers, they're not letting them get food or water. When they do, they’re not letting them come back. There are all sorts of disruptions to the process.”

These are the next 20 instances of voting fraud that have been alleged and reported. Again, some may not be true. But it is highly unlikely that all of them are empty, sour grapes of the losing side. The corruption is too wide, too consistent, too focused, and too overwhelming, as subsequent posts will show. 

And if true, many bad people have corrupted and damaged a fundamental right of freedom, the ability to have their vote counted and counted equally with other legal cast votes. Anything short of this high standard is wrong, dangerous, and treasonous. More to come.

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April, 2016, Politicians Say The Darndest Things...Unfortunately

I recently came across a listing of stupid things that politicians and other public figures have recently spouted out. While many of these things are funny in one sense, that fun goes away when you realize how much power they have over our lives. 

They have control over our retirement incomes and medical care (Social Security and Medicare), they have control over how much taxes we pay to the Federal government, they have control over the future financial solvency or insolvency of the country, they determine what laws get written, considered, voted on and enacted, etc. Once you put their idiotic quotes in that light, it gets really scary.

1) "I’ve been in 57 states. I think I have one left to go." Barack Obama, during his first Presidential campaign. Are we sure he went to college?

2) "The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word” jobs. J-O-B-S." Joe Biden, I love how he got it wrong twice, once when he said it and then when he spelled it. 

3) "Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again." Senator Chris Dodd while campaigning for the Senate, finally an honest politician, at least for one sentence.

4) "A zebra does not change its spots." Al Gore, and he still thinks he can recognize climate change far into the future when he does not know the difference between spots and stripes today.

5) "Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs." Nancy Pelosi, given that there are only 300 million Americans in the country today, with many of them kids, we now have proof that Ms. Pelosi lives in a different dimension altogether where mathematical logic is sorely lacking.

6) "Jews should get get the hell out of Palestine ...and go home to Germany and Poland." Journalist Helen Thomas, a statement that does not deserve another ounce of attention or consideration, given how inane and insensitive it is.

7) "African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do." Bill Clinton, I bet they put their pants on the same way also Bill.

8) "If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very, very low crime rate." Former DC Mayor Marion Barry, yeah, such a shame that they include killings as part of the crime statistics.

9) "Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, ‘Thank God, I am still alive.’ But of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again." California Senator Barbara Boxer, an understatement of epic proportions Senator.

10) "We’d like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles." Former Arizona governor, Wesley Bolin, problems cause troubles, who knew?

11) "It all depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is." Bill Clinton, yes, there are so many meanings of the word is, I can see your confusion.

12) "I am clearly more popular than Reagan, I am in my third term. Where’s Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less!" Former DC Mayor Marion Barry, ever here about term limits Mr. Mayor?

13) "His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. Bless her soul. And - although, she’s - wait - your mom’s still - your mom’s still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul." Vice President Joe Biden talking about the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen whose mother was indeed still alive, maybe the VP should have read his prep notes before talking.

14) "I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community. Not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up." Former Illinois Governor and current prison inmate Rod Blagojevich, yes, all black people shine shoes, what a racist statement to make.

15) "When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her, she had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African-Americans and women and then everyone who felt marginalized because of what they look like and who they love." Barack Obama, I guess that takes Dan Quayle off the top of the list for worst spelling politician ever.

15) Bonus quote: “I don't fear the terrorists, they are mothers and fathers.” Rosie O’Donnell, she must have forgot that the San Bernardino terrorists that shot up their co-workers were a mother and father as are probably hundreds of other suicide bombers around the world. 

16) An oldie but goodie quote: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it .” Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, regarding the pending Obama Care legislation, she must love opening Christmas gifts to find out what is inside them.

There you have it, a quick review of the continued insanity that comes out of the mouths of those involved with our political processes. These would be hilarious except for the fact that the people saying these idiotic things are the same ones that spend our tax dollars, control major aspects of our lives, and have no clue they are so inept and stupid sounding. Their constant jabbering make the case for term limits so much necessary:

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Part 3, The Lamest Washington Politicians Of All Time: In Their Own Words

We have spent the past two days reviewing some of the funnier, sadder, and more insane political quotes from our current set of politicians. This review has been keeping with our theory that we are currently being served by the lamest set of politicians in Washington in the history of our country. They somehow keep drawing high salaries and high benefits without ever resolving a single major issue facing the country.

Their ineptness is easily illustrated by their own words. Politicians that have no concept of simple math, e.g. you cannot have more people losing their jobs every week than which live in the country (Nancy Pelosi). 

Politicians that would rather see American citizens who differing views from them on a issues “go to hell” rather than have a civilized, adult conversation about those issues (Maxine Walters). 

Politicians that have no accurate concept of American history, e.g. Joe Biden who thinks that FDR went on television when the Great Depression hit, not knowing that the Great Depression hit before he was in office and before TV was more than a lab experiment.

Nowhere have we been able to find a recent politician’s quote that offered hope, change, insight, and solutions to our problems. All great American political quotes are attributable to politicians/leaders that lived long ago, e.g. Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Kennedy, etc. It could be that great leaders have greats words to say and great quotes and that is why we cannot find any form the current set of politicians running the country.

Unfortunately, we could not get all of the inane and stupid quotes into only two posts and need today to finish the job…for now. I am sure more evidence of the ineptness of the current political class will come forth, to be reviewed here, in the coming months.

One disclaimer before we finish up with up. I am sure that my liberal friends and family members will eventually tell me that I am biased in that I did not include George Bus quotes, Sarah Palin quotes, Mitt Romney quotes, etc. And they would be correct, I purposely omitted their quotes but for good reason.  Bush, Palin, Romney, etc. are no longer in office and are unlikely to be in public/political office anytime soon. 

They have really no impact on my life, my family, and my freedoms. Thus, I do not worry about what they say or think. I only worry about the knuckleheads that are in office today because every day, they negatively impact my life, my family, and my freedom at an alarming rate. Their incompetence deserves to be called out, using their own words. For all to see how poorly they are serving every one in this country.

Okay, let’s finish up the latest uncovered insanity quotes from the current political class.

1) ''I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.'' Former U.S. Senator and current Secretary of State John Kerry, on voting against a military funding bill for U.S. troops in Iraq, March 19, 2004. I guess he has all the bases covered and thus, cannot be wrong.

2) ''Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.'' Senator John McCain on September 15, 2008. Shortly thereafter, major Wall Street banks collapsed, the economy imploded and the Great Recession started, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Kind of missed the boat on that prediction, Senator. 

3) "In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." Vice President Joe Biden. I am still trying to figure out how Paula Deen got so lambasted and screwed for something she said decades ago while this politician can get away with this kind of racist statement.

4) "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Former Senator and Vice President and current global warming maniac Al Gore. Sorry Mr. Gore, but…no…you did not create the Internet. Smart scientists and engineers created the Internet, not some Washington politician.

5) "We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap." Congressman Henry Waxman. Thanks for the info, Congressman, I always wondered what was holding down the tundra and now I know. 

6) "If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate." Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, DC. Yeah, that’s a shame that you cannot take out the murders, that really would have improved your crime results. But you cannot take them out. [I included Mr. Barry’s quotes since even though he is not currently in office, he has been known to reappear many times over in public life.]

7) "We'd like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles." Wesley Bolin, former governor of Arizona. It is amazing how many times troubles and problems spring up at exactly the same time. Uncanny coincidences. 

8) "I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less." Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, DC. It’s called term limits, Mr. Barry, term limits.

9) "A zebra does not change its spots." Al Gore. Huh?

10) "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.''  Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. I would bet that there are, indeed, at least a few studies that show carbon dioxide is harmful.

11) "We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border." John McCain. What makes it extra hard is that Iraq and Pakistan do not share a common border.

12) "Can I explain to you what happened? First of all it happened during a period after she was in remission from cancer." Former Sen. John Edwards, on cheating on his wife. Well, that makes the adultery okay, she was in cancer remission when you had the affair, how very decent of you. Thanks for the explanation.

13) “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” Hillary Clinton. Spoken on her visit to Bosnia in 1996, contradicting every other account that said there was no threat or actual of gunfire. Clinton later said she "misspoke." How can you mispeak about people shooting guns at you? It either happened or it did not happen.

14) "I'm just not giving it up for f***in' nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there." ... "Give this motherf****r Obama his senator? F**k him. For nothing. F**k him.'" Former Illinois Governor, and current state penitentiary convict,  Rod Blagojevich. Nice language, true leadership in those words.

15) “There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.” Barack Obama. This quote I find particularly disgusting and disgraceful, he has obviously not operated a small business of any kind and does not recognize the major sacrifices small businesses and their owners own make. To assert they did not build their businesses is the utmost Washington condescension of all time.

16) “No, no. I have been practicing... I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." Barack Obama. Paula Deen syndrome again, how does he not got skewered for a heartless statement like this?

18) “Our assessment is that the Egyptian government is stable.” Hillary Clinton, shortly before the country exploded and its long time dictator was toppled. Must come from the John McCain school of forecasting (see McCain quote above.)

19) “I had the great honor in seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person I was able to award the Medal Of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it  posthumously.” Barack Obama. But Monti died in 2006 and received the medal in 2009, the true definition of posthumously. 

20) “Well, the good news is that emissions are down because of the economy.” Senator Claire McCaskill. Great news, Senator. If we can another ten or twenty million  more Americans to lose their jobs then the air would be really clean.

21) “We used to have the best infrastructure in the world. We are the country that built  the Intercontinental Railroad.” Barack  Obama. Sorry, Transcontinental railroad, no such thing as the Intercontinental Railroad. Are you sure you were born here, given such a bad grasp of U.S. history?

I am going to finish this series with seven quotes from Hillary Clinton. I include them since up until recently she was a top member of Obama’s Cabinet, serving as secretary of state. She is highly likely to be a Presidential candidate in 2016. Thus, she will likely be in our lives at least for a little while longer.

Before we review her quotes, let me share an old saying that has guided me through the years: “The reason a person curses and swears is that they are not creative enough or intelligent enough at that moment not to curse or swear.” 

Now, ask yourself, given the following Hillary quotes and my quote, do we really think that she is creative enough and intelligent enough to lead or become President when this is how she behaves around other human beings and how she treats other human beings? I cannot imagine other great leaders from our past behaving as she reportedly does.

All of these quotes are cited with the sources they come from, they are no made up on my part, I am just reporting them from other sources, none of whom to my knowledge have been sued by her for false representation of facts.

#1 “Where is the G*damn f**king flag! I want the G*damn f**king flag up every morning at f**king sunrise.” Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler, p.244- Hillary to staff at the Arkansas Governor’s mansion on Labor Day 1991.

#2 “F**k off! It’s enough I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I’m not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut.” America Evita by Christopher Anderson, p.90-Hillary to her State Trooper body guards after one of them greeted her with “Good Morning.”

#3 “If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags!” The First Partner p.259- Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident. 

#4 “Stay the f**k back, stay the f**k back away from me! Don’t come within ten yards of me, or else! Just f**king do as I say, Okay!!?” Unlimited Access by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p.139- Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail. 

#5 “Where’s the miserable c**k sucker!” The Truth About Hillary by Edward Klein, p.5- Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer. 

#6 “You f**king idiot” Crossfire p.84-Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event. 

#7 “Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!” Dereliction of Duty p.71-72– Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.

There you have it. Politicians that curse and swear like drunken sailors and are about as effective in getting things accomplished as drunken sailors. 

Politicians that do not know American history. 

Politicians that are lousy forecasters which makes them lousy legislators who cannot anticipate the future to any degree at all.

Politicians that insult those that work for them, Special Olympic participants, and Indians.

What a disgrace. Time to dump them all out of office and start again, because really, how much worse could it get:

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It Is Not Just American Politicians That Are Corruptable And Contemptible

We have reviewed many, many contemptible acts and actions that our political class has perpetrated on us and the nation over the past few years. Just a few of their antics include the following:

• When national unemployment was soaring over 10% and major issues facing Americans were going on unsolved, the politicians in Washington worked at getting legislation passed that allowed the Federal government to control the sound volume on television commercials, displaying a very bad sense of screwed up priorities.
• When the Gulf oil spill was it its sickening height and people were losing their jobs and livelihoods and the environment was taking a beating, President Obama was taking multiple vacations, enjoying multiple rounds of golf and made at least two cross country trips to raise campaign money for fellow Democrats.
• With most Americans no longer able to get a traditional defined benefits pension from where they work, members of Congress get a generous pay check, a generous defined benefits pension, a generous 401k-like retirement account, and participate in Social Security.
• With the Federal government spending 70% more money than it was collecting in taxes and fees in 2011, running up well over a TRILLION dollars in additional debt and endangering the financial viability of the nation Congress decided to take a five week vacation, with pay, last August.
• The political class has slandered and demeaned tens of millions of Americans for simply expressing a difference of opinion with the politicians by calling them racists, smelly, un-American, terrorists, barbarians and a host of other slurs instead of celebrating the nation's diversity of opinion and the freedom that should come with it.
• Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sent to jail for felonies while former Congressman Anthony Weiner went into retirement for pompous, sexist stupidity.
• This administration and the Federal government ran a ridiculously inept gun running sting operation called "Fast and Furious" that resulted in military grade weapons ending up in the hands of the violent Mexican drug cartels and which have been used to kill a U.S. government agent and many Mexican citizens.
• Congress has rigged the process of Congressional salary increases so that they happen automatically and with little fanfare every year, regardless of how incompetently members of Congress performed during the year.

You get the idea. I could go on for a very long while to further verify that our politicians, for the most part, are contemptible. They waste taxpayer money, they focus on very minor issues and never resolve any major issues facing the country, they care more about their vacations and political careers while citizens suffer, and generally do a lousy job of governing the nation, solving problems, and protecting our democracy.

But, misery loves company. Consider how contemptible politicians around the world can also be, as documented in two articles in the January 20, 2012 of The Week magazine:

• Although the Italian federal government has driven the country's financial status to the brink of national bankruptcy, the average legislator in the Italian government earns $20,700 per month. This comes out to almost a quarter million dollars a year. Imagine how much money they would have gotten if they had actually done a good job managing the Italian economy.
• Italian politicians also get free travel anywhere they want within Italy, they get tax free housing allowances, $5,000 a month allowance for secretaries even if they do not have any, and subsidized gourmet dining.
• But the French politicians are not too far behind, on average, making about $217,000 a year.
• If these legislators made the same salaries in the U.S. they would be in the top 1-2% of earners in the country. Imagine how far up the income chain they are in their home countries.
• The Chinese government spends millions and millions of dollars every year by providing luxury cars for thousands of government officials.
• According to the article, Communist Party officials drive $100,000 Audis, police drive Porsche SUVs, and military officials drive half million dollar Bentleys.
• This auto and spending extravagance for the Chinese political ruling class is contrasted with a recent tragic accident where a bus that was supposed carry only nine people crashed with 62 kindergarten-aged children on board because the school could not afford to buy regular school buses. 21 kids died in the accident.

And finally, an article in the January 23, 2012 issue of Business Week that described the basket case that is Iraq, we find that a central government politician can earn up to $22,000 a month while in office. The typical Iraqi is lucky to earn a couple of hundred dollars a month, assuming they can get a job in their wreck of an economy.

An old saying that goes, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." However, I think a better old saying is "power attracts the corruptible." And the contemptible. Seems no matter where you are in the world, it is probably a safe bet that the political class will be more concerned with their personal enrichment and perpetuating their time in office than serving their country's people.

But at one point in our history's past we probably believed, falsely or truly, that our political system, our political class, and our politicians were better, more virtuous than the typical corrupt banana republic. But it is probably a good assumption that this belief is not valid today.

We have allowed our political processes to be hijacked by the political class for their own benefit and not the good of our democracy. Thus, the only way to return to a place where citizens run for office to serve the country and not themselves is to implement some of the steps put forth in "Love My Country, Loathe My Government,"

1. Step 6 - allow only citizens to contribute to election campaigns, banning donations from unions, corporations, PACs, lobbyists' groups, etc.
2. Step 7 - allow citizens to contribute only to election campaigns that affect them, e.g. people in Kansas cannot direct campaign contributions to New Jersey political candidates.
3. Step 8 -  strengthen FEC enforcement capabilities so that politicians finally obey all campaign finance laws.
4. Step 14- stop gerrymandering Congressional districts that greatly benefit incumbent politicians.
5. Step 37 - base annual Congressional raises on an annual customer satisfaction rating given by American citizens.
6. Step 38 - require every sitting Federal politicians to sign off on a annual shared values pledge that would hopefully guide politicians' behavior and would include such traits as integrity, trust, respect, commitment, and teamwork.
7. Step 39 - implement firm term limits for all politicians, "one and done."

Just because our politicians are like the rest of the world's, generally corruptible and contemptible, does not mean we cannot change it. Wouldn't it be nice to finally respect those that are in office rather than tolerating them because they were the lesser of two evils?



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Political Class Insanity - January, 2012 Edition, Part 1

Early in every month we review the actions, antics, and stupidity that our political class continuously springs on the American public. One would have hoped after doing this every month for two years that we would have finally documented all of the insanity.

Unfortunately, that is not the case as the American political class at every level of government continues to come forth with behavior that is wasteful, embarrassing, and non-effective in addressing and resolving the major issues facing American today. In fact, the past month has been so bad that we are splitting this month's insanity across two days, today and tomorrow, in order to adequately cover all of the antics and embarrassing actions of the political class.

Thus, without further delay, the political class insanity we have come across just in the past month or so:

- The following insanity comes from articles summarized in the December 16, 2011 issue of The Week magazine:

• Michele Bachman, who just dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for President, apparently boasted that she would close down the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran if elected President. Unfortunately, our embassy in Iran has been shut down since the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis, 31 years ago.
• The Drug Enforcement Agency, that U.S. government agency that brought you the failed Fast and Furious program, a program that provided military grade weapons to Mexican drug cartels, weaponry that was used to kill a U.S. agent and more than a dozen Mexican civilians while simultaneously breaking U.S. laws and international treaties, has been forced to defend the fact that it has consciously been breaking U.S. money laundering laws in a vain attempt to learn how the drug cartels move their money. According to the New York Times article that broke the story, DEA agents have regularly transported illegal cash illegally across the border and illegally deposited the cash into drug traffickers' bank accounts. How this is a good idea completely eludes me.
• According to MotherJones.com, President Obama has attended 69 fund raisers in 2011 alone.That's an average of one fund raiser every five days, a rate that is far more than either Bush or Clinton incurred in their third years as President. When you add in Obama's many golf outings and his many vacations (including his recent 17 day Hawaiian vacation), it makes you wonder if he ever does any work. Given the lousy economy, the skyrocketing debt, our high unemployment and underemployment, the divisiveness within the country, etc., the answer to that question is quite likely very little work.
• The Democratic controlled Senate recently passed a piece of legislation that allowed anyone, regardless of whether they are a U.S. citizen or not, suspected, not convicted, of being a plotter of terrorism attacks on the U.S. to be detained indefinitely, without trial by our military. Forget the Constitution, forget the Bill of Rights, forget freedom and due process, just lock the suspects up forever, if needed, without any trial or justice. The Republican controlled House has already passed a similar piece of disgraceful legislation. Obama claims he will veto it but if he does not, welcome to the incarnation of the Soviet gulag system, American style.
• In mid-December, the U.S. State Department ordered an "extensive and thorough review" of whether or not one of its main student visa programs was actually being used to support the sex slave industry in this country. Although the so-called J-1 Summer Work Travel program was supposed to allow foreign students to work summer jobs in this country, a Federal indictment charges that criminals have used it to staff New York City strip clubs and other sex jobs. Your tax dollars at work.

- The December 2, 2011 issue of The Week magazine contained the following insanity:

• Antoin Rezko was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison in early December for his conviction on bribery and extortion charges. He has already served three and a half years for a 2008 conviction on 16 counts of fraud, money laundering, extortion, and kickbacks from companies that wanted to do business with the state government of Illinois when convicted politician Rod Blagojevich was governor. He also raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama's Presidential run in 2008. Do we think that the Obama political machine will do the right thing and return that money that was raised by a now convicted fund raiser? I doubt it.
• Mayor Dave Bing of Detroit announced in early December that the city of Detroit could run out of cash for city operations by April, 2012. Bing has laid out a plan to lay off 1,000 city employees (9% of the work force), raise corporate taxes (assuming there are still corporations in the city limits), and outsource city services such as public lighting and city buses. If you check the history of Detroit city political leaders, you will find that many of them were less than savory when it came to corruption and now the city is unlikely to survive as a viable government entity. Coincidence? I think not. I believe that Detroit will be the first major city to default on its financial obligations in 2012 or 2013 and the ramifications of that default will be felt nationwide.
• Many times we have covered the instances when Obama's Democratic Party members have disparaged ordinary Americans for simply having an honest difference of opinion with this administration. Words like racists, un-American, gerbils, Ku Klux Klan members, a__h___s, terrorists, knuckle dragging Neanderthals, etc. while the President was remained silent and allowed the slurs to continue to divide the country. However, late last year the President finally stepped up and started calling Americans names for no reason. He stated that Americans had gotten "a little soft" and followed up that slur with another statement at a fundraiser where he said "we (namely everyone but Obama) have lost our ambition." Just another way for this President to avoid taking responsibility for the sad state of the country. It is not his fault, it is the fault of the Republicans, the Japanese tsunami, the European crisis, his political "enemies" (including people who simply disagree with his policies), and those "bitter" Americans "who cling to guns and religion." Obama's words, not mine. Never his fault, it is amazing and insane. High unemployment, a divided country, anemic economic growth, trillion dollar debt every year, etc. Never his fault.

Corrupt political fund raisers, corrupt politicians, bankrupt cities, divisive language against ordinary Americans, stunted politicians, diplomatically deficient politicians, politicians that act like leisure princes, the Federal government illegally laundering money across national borders, and so much more. I cannot wait what we find out tomorrow that will continue to makes us so unproud of our political class.





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Not Making Their Parents Proud - Recent Antics Of The American Political Class

Seems like their has been a recent rush of bad behavior from three members of our political/government class, behavior that will definitely place at least one of our politicians in jail, may land another in jail, and has already led to the resignation of a high ranking member of the Obama administration. But before we get into the details of these three folks, let's do a quick review of other politicians that have been caught acting badly the past few years and whose antics have been given renewed press coverage lately, given the recent outbreak of bad politicians acting badly:

1. In 2004, Connecticut Governor, John C. Rowland resigned and served 10 months in prison for accepting gifts from state contractors and lying about it.
2. Also in 2004, married New Jersey Governor James MacGreevey resigned after confessing he had given a sensitive state government, homeland security-like post to his extramarital lover.
3. Ex-Illinois Governor George Ryan, was convicted in 2006 of steering state government contracts to friends and served prison time for his transgressions.
4. George Ryan is upholding a long criminal tradition in the state governor's office since four of the past nine Illinois governors have been sentenced to prison terms for criminal behavior.
5. Married New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned in 2008 after confessing to patronizing prostitutes and arranging for them to cross state lines, a criminal violation of the Mann Act.
6. In 2010, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford acknowledged an affair with a woman in Argentina, maintained through his misuse of state government money and resources.
7. Ex-Senator of North Carolina, John Edwards, will face trial in the near future for violating campaign financing laws when he allegedly used campaign funds from his Presidential campaign to support and cover up his extramarital affair, an affair that resulted in a child born out of wedlock, and an affair that was conducted while his wife battled terminal cancer.
8. Senator John Ensign of Nevada confessed to having an extramarital affair with the wife of one of his staff.
9. California  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was forced to admit to an adulterous affair and the father of a teenage child while in office.
10. President Clinton - too many bad behavior instances to review in this post.

Turns out all of these politicians were in one one form or another adulterers, liars, abusers of the power they controlled from their political office, or outright criminals. All of which could not have made their families (or their constituents) very proud.

They also did a horrible job of serving their constituents. If you are wasting time and energy maintaining an adulterous affair, maintaining a series of lies to cover up your bad behavior, abusing your power for your own enrichment, or conducting criminal activities, you cannot be focused on serving the Americans that placed their trust in you when they went to the voting booths.

To this ignoble hall of shame list of past politicians acting badly, three new members are have been recently inducted:

- Ex-Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in jail this past week for his antics while in office, including his desire to sell and profit by his responsibility to name the replacement for President Obama's vacant Illinois Senate seat. During Blagojevich's trials, we learned how he operated, shaking down businesses for campaign donations and other favors in return for favorable state legislative treatment, in addition to trying to auction the vacant Senate seat.

If you can find any positive attribute of Blagojevich's bad behavior, it occurred at his prison sentencing hearing where he at least stood up and took the blame and responsibility for his actions: "I caused it all. I'm not blaming anybody. I was the governor and I should have known better and I am just so incredibly sorry."

But taking responsibility for his criminal and disgraceful actions was not enough for the judge who accurately described the impact of his actions: "The abuse of the office of governor is more damaging than the abuse of any other office, except the President's. Whatever good things you did for people as governor, and you did some, I am more concerned with the occasions when you wanted to use your powers to do things that were only good for yourself"

Well said. Selfish, criminal behavior wiping out whatever good the Governor did elsewhere while serving. As discussed above, how much more good could have Blagojevich done for Illinois citizens if he was not so worried about his personal enrichment and had not spent so much time shaking down innocent Illinois citizens and businesses for campaign donations?

- Our second example does not include an elected official but a high ranking member of President Obama's administration. Top FAA administrator Randy Babbit resigned this week after being arrested for drunk driving when police pulled him over at night for allegedly drunkenly driving on the wrong side of the road in Fairfax City, Virginia. Within days of his arrest, Mr.Babbit had submitted his resignation.

What makes this case of bad behavior so bewildering is a number of conditions:

• Mr. Babbit's boss, Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood has been very actively fighting the problem of drunk driving on our nation's roads. Thus, the drunk driving issue should not have been an unknown priority of Mr. Babbit's superior.
• According to recent news reports on this incident, Mr. Babbit has had a long career in government transportation efforts, dating back at least to the Clinton administration. The drunk driving issue, either directly or indirectly, was probably part of at least some of those transportation assignments.
• And finally, Mr. Babbit

Bewildering and certainly poor judgement, judgement that only fortunately killed what appears to have been a stellar government career before it killed an unsuspecting traveler. As a mature adult, a professional expert, one would have thought Mr. Babbitt would have used better judgement. But we probably thought the same of Spitzer, MacGreevey, Ryan, Blagojevich, Clinton, Sanford, Ensign, etc. and they all disappointed us also.

But to his credit, at least Mr. Babbit accepted responsibility for his actions when he nobly and promptly submitted his resignation: "I am unwilling to let anything cast a shadow on the outstanding work done 24 hours a day, seven days a week by my colleagues at the FAA. They run the finest and safest aviation system in the world and I am grateful that I had the opportunity to work alongside them."

- And our third candidate today for admission to the political class/government hall of shame, the ex-governor of my former home state of New Jersey, Jon Corzine. Mr. Corzine was chairman of Goldman Sachs before he was forced out of the company and served New Jersey as one of its two Senators in the U.S. Senate. He left the Senate to serve one lack luster term as governor of New Jersey. After his defeat running for a second term, he took over the investment firm of MF Global.

In the past month, MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy, mostly as a result of bad investments in European bonds. Now, companies collapse all the time and go out of business for making bad business decisions so a Wall Street type bankruptcy such as MF Global should come as no surprise.

However, it was how it went out of business that has aroused suspicions, questions, and is resulting in criminal investigations and Congressional hearings:

* Given that the Sarbanes -Oxley legislation, that arose after the Enron and Worldcom accounting/financial scandals from a decade or so ago, was supposed to make corporate accounting more stringent and less likely to lead to fraud, how did over a billion dollars worth of MF Global customer investment dollars "disappear?"

Was Corzine and MF Global illegally using their customers' funds not to invest for their customers' benefit but using those funds to cover the loss of MF Global's own investment wealth? As an ex-Senator who actually voted on the Sarbannes-Oxley legislation, he should have no excuse for not understanding the accounting reporting requirements under this law and allegedly stealing a billion dollars of customer funds.

* Given all of the hysterics and labor of passing the Dodd-Frank financial industry reform act, shouldn't Corzine have been aware, as an ex-Senator, that this legislation also probably prohibited a company from co-mingling its funds with the funds of its customers? Given how big MF Global is (it was the eighth largest firm to go belly up in the nation's history) and the political background of Mr. Corzine, ignorance is unlikely a valid excuse. An ex-politician acting badly is probably a better reason for this billion dollar scandal situation.

* Even with the above two pieces of legislation, which failed the industry and American investors again, this bad behavior of allegedly misinvesting over a billion dollars of someone else's money might also just be a basic criminal case of fraud by a high ranking ex-politician.

But the most annoying and despicable part of this sad situation was some of the comments made by Mr.Corzine when he testified this past week in front of Congressional committees investigating this potential fraud. He has invoked the so-called Obama defense, i.e. "it's not my fault." This defense has been used by the President innumerable times to blame the Bush administration, the tsunami in Japan, the Euro crisis, and myriad of other people and situations for the many failures of his administration.

Consider a few of Mr. Corzine's testimony statements as reported by the New York Times and The Associated Press:

• When asked what happened to the $1.2 billion of customer funds his company managed, he replied: "I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date." In other words, not my job.
• When asked how this misplacement of $1.2 billion could happen: “I did not, however, generally involve myself in the mechanics of the clearing and settlement of trades, or in the movement of cash and collateral. Nor was I an expert on the complicated rules and regulations governing the various different operating businesses that comprised MF Global. I had little expertise or experience in those operational aspects of the business.” In other words, not my fault, even though I ran the company and I used to run the one of the biggest financial firms (Goldman Sachs) of all times, others handled or mishandled the money, not me.
• When asked who was to blame for the collapse of the eighth largest firm in U.S. history, the Associated Press reported that "Corzine deflected blame for the company’s collapse. He argued that he inherited a firm already doomed by his predecessors’ bad financial decisions." In other words, those that came before me are to blame for what happened (e.g. Obama's constantly blaming of Bush for everything that went wrong during Obama's first three years).

Now, to be fair, Corzine did testify it was his responsibility for what happened to MF Global and the missing customer funds. But as we see from his actual testimony, he was all to anxious to blame others that worked for him or who came before him at MF Global.

So let's review: lying, adultery, felonious acts of crime, blaming others, drunk driving, extortion, misappropriation of customer and taxpayer funds, their parents should be so proud.

We must find a way to reform all of our political processes so that we no longer elect people who end up in the political class hall of shame. We need high integrity people that would actually make their parents proud, and in the process, make the American voter proud. Cleaning up these processes include many, if not all of the following steps that were laid out in "Love My Country, Loathe My Government:

• Reduce the volume and the impact of money from outside, special interest groups who bankroll our politicians. (Step 6)
• Remove politicians from their Congressional posts for non-performance (Sep 34).
• Require all sitting politicians to sign off on a shared  values/integrity pledge every year so they at least have a concept of what good behavior looks like. (Step 38)
• Institute term limits for politicians so that they have a limited time in office, hopefully limiting the time they have for bad behavior and extramarital affairs.(Step 39)

We need more action and less antics from those that sit in our political class.



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