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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

February, 2023, Part 3, Political Class Insanity: Eric Adams Fails NYC, Joe Biden is a Liar AND A Hypocrite, and Global Warming Is Still A Myth

 It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.


To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.


1)Many times we have emphasized the reality that a very, very basic function of any government entity and the politicians that operate it is to protect the lives and property of the taxpayers they serve. No matter whatever else these politicians achieve, if they cannot protect then they are failures.


And the latest failure in this area has arisen in New York City:


  • Eric Adams is the current mayor of New York City.

  • In a recent interview on MSNBC Adams suggested that it would be a good idea if city business owners pay for private security to protect their business and employees in addition to paying taxes for police budgets.

  • The MSNBC presented the situation to the mayor: "We saw the front page of 'New York Post' here this morning, I'll hold it up, talking about how there are some here in the Bronx, shopkeepers, that there's a sense of feeling of the police aren't doing enough, that they are fed up with NYC crime," and followed that with: "Shop owners are hiring private guards to fight back. Is that a wise strategy?"

  • Adams responded: "No, it is a wise strategy because I say this over and over again, not only must the numbers reflect safety, but people must feel safe.”

  • This is not surprising since retail thefts are up 16% compared to theft stats in 2019 and assaults are up 18%.

  • But at the same time, in the face of rising crime, the number of criminal arrests is going down.


Rising crime, fewer arrests but I would bet that the tax burden on these city businesses has not gone down. Thus, Adams is a failure as he continues to NOT protect the property and lives of city businesses and residents.


2)A few posts ago we listed out a sample of the lies Joe Biden has tried to impose on the country over the years. The list stopped at 38 bold faced lies that came out of his mouth. 


And it turns out that Biden is not jst a liar, he is a very bold faced hypocrite also:


  • As most people know, Biden is in the  middle of a scandal where it has been found out that he illegally took classified documents out of government buildings and stored them in his office at the University of Pennsylvania, his Delaware home and his Delaware beach house.

  • He has taken a very nonchalant attitude, saying that one set of classified documents was found in his locked garage next to his Corvette, implying that if a locked garage was safe enough for his Corvette, having classified documents in the same garage was no big deal.

  • But back in 1977, Biden was a fierce opponent to a candidate, Ted Sorensen,  that then President, Jimmy Carter, had proposed as the CIA director.

  • The reason for Biden’s ardent opposition to a proposal, by a President from his own political party, is that Sorensen admitted to taking boxes of classified government documents to his home to work on a book he was writing about JFK, an administration Sorensen had worked for.

  • Biden also implied that Sorensen may have violated the Espionage Act of 1917, saying he had “carelessly” ignored the laws pertaining to  classified materials.

  • Carter ended up pulling the nomination even though the Washington Post had pointed out, at the time, out that Sorensen had not violated any laws or government procedures.

So 46 years ago, Senator Biden gets up into the face of a government employee that legally handled classified government information. But today, as President, he says the mishandling of classified government files is no big deal since they were in a locked garage, no foul, no harm. Super hypocrite in addition to be a super liar.

3)For decades many of us have had to be slammed for not believing the myth of  man made global warming. Much of that slamming came from politicians like Al  Gore, Barack Obama and others who insisted that only science that reinforced their fatalistic global warming predictions be considered even though much scientific research that debunked the whole global warming myth existed.

And people like Gore and Obama continued to preach man made global  warming, or their new marketing term, “climate change,” even though both of them had bought mansions at the beach, which raises the obvious hypocrisy: if man made global warming was a real thing, why would its big advocates buy million dollar mansions next to the oceans that were supposedly going to rise up and flood coastal zones? 

And as the decades passed, the dire predictions that global warming advocates had put forth never materialized. This caused them to move to the more nebulous concept of climate change, a shallow move to save their credibility. 

But the latest government data again proves that man made global warming, or its reinvented name, climate change, is still likely a bogus concept:

  • The government organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently reported that there has been no global  warming for the eighth year in a row.

  • Let me say that again for emphasis: there has been no global  warming for eight years in a row, certainly not what Gore and Obama and such predicted would happen.

  • Technically: “There has been no trend in the UAH global mean lower-troposphere temperature anomalies since September, 2014: 8 years 5 months and counting.”

Thus, the polar ice caps have not melted as Gore said was likely.

Enough political class insanity for today: global warming is still a myth according to the Federal  government, Joe Biden is not only a liar but also a hypocrite, and Eric Adams fails to execute a basic government function in NYC.

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Monday, December 13, 2021

December, 2021, Part 5, PoliticalClass Insanity: Ocasio-Cortez Still Denies Reality, Ocasio-Cortez Thinks You Should Pay Off Her Student Loan, and Biden Has Plenty of Failures But No Plans To Fix What Is Broken

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

1) We used to talk a lot about Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her ignorance and idiocy regarding governing and real life were really quite funny at one point in time, and made us wonder how someone so out of touch with reality ever got elected to Congress.

But overtime her ignorance and ranting became tedious and more idiotic. Everyone and everything that did not agree with her was either racist, sexist, or both. She proposed no solutions to any problems that had any basis in reality or chance of being effective. As a result, we have cut back on her rantings since they accomplished nothing.

But let’s get back to her latest idiocy. It is no secret that defunding the police departments across the country has resulted in skyrocketing crime. The numbers do not lie. But apparently she has a math deficiency since she continues to insist that defunding the police is a valid societal approach to crime. And her blindness to reality has led her down another path of ignorance:
  • It is no secret that criminal gangs have been attacking, overwhelming and stripping retail stores, especially in California, of products on the shelves.
  • These retail gangs have threatened the safety of both employees and customers with a retail security guard already being killed in California.
  • There is no doubt that this is a crime spree that is out of control.
  • Even a fellow New York Democrat, state assemblyman Dov Hikind, is aware of reality: “These crimes that are being committed, there are real victims out there.”
  • But Ocasio-Cortez insists that the retail gang crime spree, as with the other types of ever rising urban crime rates, is a myth, just does not exist: “A lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not panning out.”
  • How she can say this with almost nightly news reports containing video of the crime spree, is beyond comprehension.
  • But Hikind knows better: “The bail reform she (Ocasio-Cortez) supports, in which criminals walk out before the police officer finishes the paperwork, is ridiculous, resulting in new victims. It’s entirely out of hand….Republicans are speaking out on this. Where are people from my Democratic Party? Are they blind? Maybe AOC is blind. She doesn’t see it.”
Kudos to Mr. Hikind for speaking out against a member of his own party. But he states the obvious. A primary purpose of any government is to protect the lives and property of the citizens they govern. Many government entities around the country are now failing miserably at this function as witnessed by the retail gang attacks on stores. And given that Ocasio-Cortez cannot even recognize the problem, she has no chance of resolving the crime problem that plagues mostly liberal cities across the country. So out of touch.

2) But one thing that Ocasio-Cortez does very well as it applies to long term politicians in Washington, is to take care of herself financially. She recently lamented that she had $17,000 in student debt and would like the American taxpayer to cover the debt she has incurred:
  • “I’m 32 years old now. I have over $17,000 in student loan debt, and I didn’t go to graduate school because I knew that getting another degree would drown me in debt that I would never be able to surpass. This is unacceptable.”
  • Obviously, in her mind, it is the fault of the world and not her because she did not go to graduate school even though untold thousands of average Americans go to graduate schools every year.
  • Keep in mind that Ocasio-Cortez earns about $174,000 a year as a member of Congress, about 2-3 times higher than the average household income in the country.
  • Keep in mind that this salary does not include the very robust benefits that Congress has voted itself over the years.
  • Keep in mind that has bought herself a Tesla electric vehicle, probably paying about $70,000 or so for the car.
  • And she wants average Americans, earning far less than her and not able to afford a Tesla to pay off her student debt?
  • To pay off her student debt and the student debt of everyone else who owes would cost about $1.6 trillion.
  • This means that every American household would have to pay out about $13,000 to cover the student debt of others.
So ridiculous for her to even think that American taxpayers are obligated to pay off her student loan. Would she be willing to pay off my mortgage? Would she be willing to pay off my neighbor's car loan? Of course not, that would cost her money. But she has no problem spending other people's money to pay off her debts. Again, has any politician ever been so out of touch with reality?

3) Let’s do a quick review of Joe Biden’s first eleven months in office:
  • He completely botched the Afghanistan withdrawal to try and get a cheap political stunt for the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, resulting in unnecessary deaths of American service personnel and Afghan civilians.
  • He left behind hundreds of Americans and possibly thousands of Afghan allies behind Taliban lines and at the mercy of these butchers and he has no plans to rescue them.
  • Overall inflation levels have hit levels not seen in thirty years and he has no plans to fix the problem.
  • Inflation levels for durable goods have hit levels not seen in 40 years and he has no plans to fix the problem.
  • Energy inflation levels had seen gas prices rise about 50% and home heating energy prices soar even higher with no plans to fix the problem.
  • Crime is rampaging across American cities and he has no plans to fix the problem.
  • The American economy's supply chain process is broken and he has no plans to fix it.
  • He has insulted a host of longtime U.S,. allies (France, England, others) and has no plans to fix the problem.
  • He has emboldened Russia, China, Iran, and other enemies of the country, endangering the freedom and lives of people living in the Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel and has no plans to fix the problem.
  • His approval ratings for both himself and his Vice President continue to trend downward with no plans to fix the problem.
  • Covid is still a major health problem and he has no plans to fix the problem.
  • Russia and China are rapidly moving ahead with hypersonic weapon development and he has no plans to counteract this new threat.
  • His domestic spending plans and proposed plans will accelerate the growth in the national debt even higher, leading to the eventual financial collapse of the U.S. economy.
  • He has opened up the borders to a surge of unvaccinated, criminals, drug cartel members, and possibly terroristic individuals with no plans to fix the problem.
  • He has no plans to provide for the basic support of needy Americans, the hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans, the millions of hungry Americans, and the untold number of Americans in need of drug addiction help.
Bottom line: the country is in bad shape and Biden has no plans to fix any of the problems facing every American. You would hope that he would be busily dedicated to working with the best minds in the country and government to fix what he has mostly broken and fix what he inherited. But no, he would rather go on television and hang out with a Hollywood liberal:
  • He recently spent time appearing on the “Tonight Show” with famed Hollywood liberal, Jimmy Fallon.
  • This is part of the White House’s new public relations blitz to shore up Biden’s cratering popularity rather than shore up his actual performance as President, a really bad set of priorities.
  • During the interview with Fallon, he came up with the following gibberish response, a trademark of his current mental state, gibberish: “Well look, here’s the deal. I think that it’s uh, we’ve been in less than a year, um, a lot has happened, look, people are afraid, people are worried and people are getting so much inaccurate information to them. I don’t mean about me, I mean about this…their situation, and and so they’re, you know, they’re, they’re being told that you know, Armageddon’s on the way.”
  • Of course, he went on to blame Trump, much like his former boss, Obama, blamed George Bush for his failings, despite being in office for almost a year and having a Democratically controlled Congress.
  • And yet he has failed on so many fronts it is pathetic, probably making him a worse president than Jimmy Carter, once recognized as one of the least effective Presidents of the past 100 years.
But at least Carter never blamed everyone else for his failures, he was an adult who accepted responsibility. Biden is not that adult, he would rather incoherently parade around on late night TV while Americans suffer at the gas pumps, in Afghanistan, in their soon to be very cold homes, and at the food checkout lines. So very bad priorities.

That will do it for today: Ocasio-Cortez is still out of touch with reality and still greedy and Biden has been a failure along every perspective imaginable.

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Sunday, September 15, 2019

September, 2019, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: A Stupid Choice For The Supreme Court, Stupid Use Of Taxpayer Wealth, and An Out Of Touch Congressional Wife

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) It is sad that Joe Biden continues to get more and more play in our political class insanity posts. Sad because he continues to be the leading candidate to be nominated by the Democrats to run for President even though his gaffes, mistakes, and ineptness continue to bubble to the surface.

Consider his latest insanity:

  • Barack Obama is no longer a practicing lawyer.
  • Barack Obama never served as a judge anywhere, any time.
  • According to the LA Times: “Obama arrived in Chicago in 1993 with a degree from Harvard Law School and was hired as a junior lawyer at the firm then known as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard. He helped represent clients in civil and voting rights matters and wrongful firings, argued a case before a federal appellate court, and took the lead in writing a suit to expand voter registration. But the firm also handled routine legal matters and real estate. Obama spent about 70% of his time on voting rights, civil rights and employment, generally as a junior associate. The rest of his time was spent on matters related to real estate transactions, filing incorporation papers and defending clients against minor lawsuits.”
  • At least according to the LA Times Obama’s lawyer track record is quite unremarkable.
  • When Barack Obama was President, he trampled on the Bill of Rights, shredded the Constitution, and broke many laws:
http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-2-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

And yet, according to an interview Biden gave to Steven Colbert, he thinks that Obama would make a great Supreme Court justice. Yes, a non-practicing lawyer with only non-distinguished lawyer experience who was never a judge in anyway and who disrespected the rule of law for eight years as President would make a great Supreme Court justice. It does not get much more insane than this.

2) It is no secret that ex-Presidents become fabulously and obscenely rich once they leave office. And yet, the American taxpayer still shells out tens of millions of dollars every year for their protection and comfort despite them being able to easily pick up those expenses themselves. 

Consider these unnecessary taxpayer expenses that are paid each year to former Presidents: 

  • According to the New York Post, Obama is the most expensive ex-President today with the American taxpayer shelling out over $1.1 million in 2018 to cover his daily expenses.
  • This estimate comes from the Congressional Research Service.
  • This taxpayer expense is spent on Obama despite the fact that he just bought a $15 million mansion up at Martha’s Vineyard.
  • This $1.1 million is $100,000 more than what Bush will get next year and $200,000 more than what Clinton will get.
  • Jimmy Carter will get less than half of what Obama is getting.
  • I do not believe that these figures include the cost of their Secret Service protection, that the expenditures are for office space, staff, and other such expenses.
  • According to the Post article: “By far the biggest cost for ex-presidents is renting office space. Mr. Obama’s office — 8,198 square feet in D.C. — will cost taxpayers $536,000 next year, the most of any ex-president. Mr. Clinton’s New York office is bigger, at 8,300 square feet, but slightly cheaper at $518,000. The younger Mr. Bush’s office in Dallas is $497,000, while his father’s space in Houston is $286,000. Mr. Carter’s Atlanta office is just $115,000.”
Why does an ex-President need over 8,000 of office space in prime real estate locations, at a cost of a whopping half a million dollars a year each?! 8,000 square feet is four times the size of my house and I rarely use most of that space. If they want that much space than they should put their offices in their massive Presidential libraries and let the American taxpayer keep the taxes spent on their oversized, probably under used stand alone offices.

Look, I understand that in the Federal budget several million dollars is not a big deal. But on the other hand, why spend it if you do not have to spend it, that is how we got to having a national debt of $22 TRILLION. If you do not want to give the money back to the taxpayers, how about redirecting that money to some Americans in need? 

How many meals for the homeless could be bought if Obama did not spend over half a million dollars on an unneeded vanity office in Washington DC? According to the organization Feeding America, it costs homeless shelters an average of $2.94 to feed a homeless American a meal. 

If Obama did not insist on having a $536,000 DC office every year, than that money could, in theory, could fund over 180,000 meals for the homeless. If we did the same thing with the Bush and Clinton office spaces we could annually provide over half a million meals for homeless Americans. This seems like a much better use of our taxpayer dollars, especially when 1) these Presidents are rich beyond most Americans’ dreams and 2) they could easily put their offices in their massive Presidential libraries.

3) Sometimes it is not just politicians who are insane, greedy, and inept, once in a while we find out their a member of their family is just as bad. Consider the recent ravings of a Congressman’s wife, keeping in mind that a member of Congress is paid over $170,000 a year, about three times what the average American household earns:

  • According to the Washington Free Beacon, the wife of Congressman Joe Cunningham is upset because taxpayers are not paying for her “mental health therapy sessions.”
  • Keep in mind that the American taxpayer foots the bill for about 75% of her family’s health care costs.
  • As a Congressional family, Cunningham’s family has an Obama Care Gold Insurance Program from Blue Cross Blue Shield for which the Congressman only has to pay for a quarter of the costs, courtesy of the American taxpayer.
  • But this sweet deal is apparently not good enough for the Congressman’s wife, Amanda, who had the nerve to post a rant on Instagram on how her health plan declined to pay for her therapy sessions.
  • According to her Instagram rant: “I’m gonna have a little bit of a rant here on social media because I think this is important. I’ve been going over my not-a-bill bill here from Blue Cross Blue Shield, and realizing that once again, all of my mental health therapy sessions are denied, in addition to all of our marriage counseling sessions. It’s just mind-blowing to me that these basic well-known needs, that mental health is health care, are still being denied, that we’re still fighting for these absolutely basic things, it’s unbelievable to me. So I’m reaching out to my congressman—yes, also my husband—but saying, like, hey, what can we do about this? Let’s go to the House floor, let’s write a bill, I don’t know what you do, but let’s do it because this is ridiculous.”
So this Congressional wife is upset because she can't get free mental health counseling even though the American taxpayer is relieving her of 75% of her health insurance premium costs? So she is upset because she cannot get free marriage counseling even though the American taxpayer is relieving of 75% of her health insurance premium costs? So she is upset even though her family’s income,both hers and her husband’s Congressional salary, is three times higher than the average American family?

Does she not know that over 25 million American have NO health insurance at all, never mind subsidized Gold insurance plans? Does she not know that over 25 million Americans have NO health insurance at all and because of that they often cannot take their sick kids to the doctors because they cannot afford the medical costs? Does she not know that over 25 million Americans have NO insurance at all so the concept of free marriage counseling is not even a dream in their world?

Talk about a vain, greedy member of the political class. But just another example of how those in politics feel so entitled that the needs of the vast number of Americans living outside of the Beltway are secondary to their greed and selfishness. Be it wanting free healthcare to wanting lavish useless and expensive office space, it is all part of the same gene of entitlement that pervades Washington DC, at the expense and health of the rest of us.

That will do it for today: wanting a totally unqualified politician to be a Supreme Court justice to greedy ex-Presidents to vain Congressional wives, the insanity never ends.


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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Fighting Islamic Terrorism In the Wake Of Orlando, Part 3 - The Diplomatic, Humanitarian Solution

A few days ago we took some time to discuss the terrorist attack at a nightclub in Orlando a few weekends ago. We listed out a number of steps that needed to be taken in the short term, and extending into the long term, that would help prevent similar attacks in the future. These steps required extensive effort on behalf of the government and the Washington political class, something that neither has had the will or ability to do in the past. 

Instead, we get people like Obama and other liberals inside and outside of government that, as always, go to the knee jerk reaction of limiting Americans access to guns. As we pointed out yesterday, the 9-11 attackers did not storm the Twin Towers with AR 15 rifles, they used airplanes to carry their terror plans. The Boston Marathon bombers did not jump into a crowd in Boston and start shooting up the place, they used homemade bombs. Other terrorists here and around the world have used simple knives to kill in the name of radical Islamic terror.

We also pointed out that if a person wanted to carry out a terror attack, any new gun control laws passed by Washington would be nothing more than an inconvenience, if anyone wants a gun in this country, the drug cartels or other organized, and unorganized, criminal entity would be more than willing to make a few bucks by providing such weapons and guns. That is why the many suggestions we provided yesterday to attack the root causes of terrorism are far more important and more likely to be effective than window dressing gun control restrictions.

However, there has to be an overarching strategy to eliminate the terror threat from ISIS long term. While our suggestions from a few days ago would go a long way to help protecting us, a long term strategy to settle down the violence and hatred in the Middle East is required at the highest levels of diplomacy. That is where Obama needs to be concentrating as his Presidency winds down, putting together a long term plan, strategy, and way of life that brings all of the diplomatic players together in a grand coalition and effort that finally eliminates the root cause of the ISIS terror reign.

However, since he seems more interested in changing national bathroom policies, hosting Super Bowl teams at the White House, and hiking around a national park out west, two days ago we started the discussion on what the grand plan might look like, why it would work and how each interested party would have to give a little to get a lot, i.e. the end of the ISIS threat. To that end, we laid out the situational analysis on the ground in the Middle East, focusing on Syria, and what assumptions would go into formulating this overarching strategy.

In proposing this solution and plan, we realize that we are not trained diplomats. We have never held elected office. But we do realize that to have a final plan in any facet of life, you have to have at least a preliminary plan that is tweaked, negotiated, adjusted over time, etc. And since Obama, John Kerry, et al do not appear to have the will or have the ability to develop a plan, they are more than free to start with ours, as laid out below.

As we see it, and as we laid it out two days ago, there are nine major players involved in the mess in Syria with ISIS:

  1. ISIS - the most ruthless, heartless, and well financed Islamic terror group ever, currently dominating large parts of Syria and Iraq, composed mostly of Sunni Muslims.
  2. The United States - because we stick our noses into everything and the rise of ISIS was facilitated by the Obama administration.
  3. Syria - or what is left of it, headed up by Assad, a Shiite Muslim.
  4. Russia - an ally of Assad.
  5. Iran - a Shiite dominated country and ally of Assad.
  6. Iraq - a Shiite dominated country and an ally of Assad and Iran.
  7. Turkey - bordering Syria, anti-Assad, and an ISIS sympathizer.
  8. Saudi Arabia - and other Sunni Muslim Gulf states who are at least ISIS sympathizers.
  9. Kurds - Anti-ISIS fighters with the majority of Kurds living in northern Iraq and who want their own country.

Each of these nine players have to be an important piece of the final solution, a solution that gives everyone of them something but gives none of them everything.

The overarching strategy and sequence of events goes as follows:

  • A multi-national coalition of military forces is created with the sole purpose of defeating and dismantling ISIS, similar to what the first Bush presidency put together to free Kuwait from Iraq 25 years ago.
  • Part of this military effort involves creating a safe zone for refugees in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, currently occupied by ISIS.
  • This safe zone would expand as ISIS is pushed back from its current borders.
  • As the safe zone is expanding, the United Nations steps in, with financing from every other country, to provide shelter and food and to start the reconstruction process. 
  • Once ISIS is defeated militarily, a new country is created out of the northern part of Iraq and eastern part of Syria and run by Sunni Muslims.
  • Assad is allowed to stay in power in Syria but with a greatly reduced country that is Shiite dominated.
  • Russia would still have access to the Syrian ports that they crave.
  • Iran, Russia, and Iraq are allowed to build a Shiite pipeline for their oil and natural gas through whatever part of what used to be Syria they want.
  • The Saudis and other Sunni Gulf nations are also allowed to build a Sunni pipeline for their oil and natural gas through whatever part of what used to be Syria they want.
  • A to-be-determined tariff would be placed on any oil and natural gas that flows through either pipeline and be used to help rebuild the cities and infrastructure in both the new Sunni nation and parts of old Iraq that were destroyed by the ISIS fight.
  • As reward for helping to fight ISIS, the Kurds would have their own country carved out of territory in northern Iraq.
  • As all of this is going on, the new Sunni nation would be a United Nations protectorate as it regains its ability to be a functioning government and society.
  • Free passage back to the area would be provided for all refugees that fled the civil war and the ISIS terrorist group.
Okay, who wins and who loses under a diplomatic coup like this:

- ISIS is a big loser since it no longer exists with most, if not all, of its fighters and leaders killed or put on trial for crimes against humanity.

- The United States reengages militarily in the Middle East, historically not a good thing, costing America more money and lives. But its military mission would be focused solely on the defeat of ISIS and the short term protection of this new Sunni nation until a United Nations military force takes over permanently. In return, the U.S. lessens its refugee problem and associated costs, freeing up these costs to boost our homeland security, and reducing the threat of domestic and foreign terrorism on our shores. In addition, it helps destroy the ISIS terrorist organization that it had helped create.

- Assad gets to stay alive and in power but with a greatly reduced nation, territory, and power but the threat of ISIS on his remaining power and territory eliminated.

- Russia still has an ally, Assad in power even if the size of his country is greatly reduced, and still has access to the Syrian ports, but would have to face the reality that the Saudis and other Gulf Sunni nations do get their own pipeline for their oil and natural gas resources.

- Iran gets to keep their Shiite ally, Assad, in power, they get their Shiite pipeline through Syria but their pipeline has to pay a tariff to help finance the reconstruction of the devastated areas in the new Sunni nation and Iraq and they also have to compete with the Sunni pipeline.

- Iraq gets to keep their Shiite ally, Assad in power, they get rid of ISIS which has been terrorizing the country for years, they get a Shiite pipeline through Syria but their pipeline has to pay a tariff to help finance the reconstruction of the devastated areas in the new Sunni nation and Iraq and they also have to compete with the Sunni pipeline.

- Turkey gets to help create a Sunni friendly nation on its borders vs. having Assad’s Syria on its border but has to contend with a new nation on its other border that was created for the hated Kurds. Obviously, something else on the positive side of the ledger would have to be thrown in to get their support.

- The Saudis and other Sunni Gulf nations get to see the power of their arch enemy Assad greatly reduced and get to build their Sunni pipeline through Syria but but their pipeline has to pay a tariff to help finance the reconstruction of the devastated areas in the new Sunni nation and Iraq and they also have to compete with the Shiite pipeline.

- The Kurds get their own country but lose any oil industry subsidies they were receiving by being a part of Iraq, they would have to accept Kurd immigrants from any other country, and would have stringent conditions imposed on them to discourage any Kurd terrorists attacks within Turkey as what has happened in the past.

As you can see, in our proposed solution, every player gets something they want but also gets things they do not want or things that they cannot have. That is the art of negotiation and diplomacy. You get your own pipeline but your enemy/competitor also gets a pipeline. You get to stay in power but in power over a greatly reduced territory. As you can see above, everyone of the players gets something positive but we have highlighted the BUT in all of their arrangements, meaning they did not get everything. But everyone gets the elimination of ISIS which makes the world a much safer place to be.

This solution also provides a wonderful opportunity for the United Nations to prove that it is a viable and positive organization for humanity. I do not think I can remember anytime in my life when the United Nations was so impotent and so unnecessary in the face of a dangerous world. 

If it could become the force that unites the world and starts the rebuilding of societies in war torn Syria and Iraq, providing humanitarian aid, providing safe zones, helping to rebuild whole cities, stationing military forces to help implement the diplomatic solution, it would regain some of its credibility and show it continues to deserve our tax dollars. If it fails, then I really do not see a use for it going forward since I would dare anyone to show me how it justifies its huge budget year in and year out without providing any tangible results.

That’s our proposed plan. You may not like it but at least it’s a plan, which puts us eons ahead of Obama and John Kerry. Our plan can be adjusted, tweaked, implemented in stages and then adjusted some more, it is tangible. Obama and Kerry have nothing that can be started, adjusted, tweaked, or what is tangible. 

But at least we are having public bathroom discussions as a result of the Obama administration. At least the Super Bowl champs, the Denver Broncos, got to visit Obama at the White House. At least the President got to visit our natural parks out west. 

Obama is all about building his narcissistic legacy. What better legacy opportunity than this, to bring peace and harmony to a major cesspool of terror and destruction? Even Jimmy Carter pulled something off like this decades ago when he got Israel and Egypt to play nice together, that effort still lives on today. Succeeding in this effort, with or without our plan, would dwarf this Carter success. 

That is what the President should be working on, not the trivial stuff that gives him photo opportunities at every turn. Give us a plan, Mr. President, any plan is better than no plan.

George S. Patton - "A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later."




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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

July, 2015, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Obscene Government Salaries, Obscene Wordlwide Violence, Madoona Gets Taxpayer Money, and More

At the beginning of each month we take a week or so to review the latest insanity from the American political class. Insanity from them includes a wide range of very depressing actions which can include wasteful spending, idiotic quotes, an inefficient and ineffective government bureaucracy, failed economic policies, etc. Every month we continue to prove that we are being served by the worst set of politicians ever.

And as you will see, this month’s review and discussions do nothing to prove that this thesis is wrong in any way:

1) It is both funny and frustrating when a politician or government bureaucrat acts like they are smarter than the rest of us. Given the track record of politicians and bureaucrats in wasting taxpayer wealth and never operating an efficient and effective government program, for any of them to talk to down to us or think we are less smart than them is just plain insane.

Let’s start this insanity off with some background data. According to a Pew Research effort from mid-2014, 53% of Americans either believe that the Earth is not warming or that it is warming naturally with mankind’s existence and actions having nothing to do with the warming. Given that background, consider the condescension from current EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy relative to global warming doubters: “When I put a report out on acting on climate like we did yesterday that shows how dramatically our world will change if we don’t act, and just the benefits we can deliver if we do. I am doing that not to push back on climate deniers. You can have fun doing that if you want, but I’ve batted my head against the wall too many times and if the science already hasn’t changed their mind it never will.

But in any democracy, it’s not them that carries the day. It is normal human beings that haven’t put their stake into politics above science. It’s normal human beings that want us to do the right thing, and we will if you help us.”


Now, many times in this blog, in fact every month, we have discussed the reality that being a global warming doubter and a believer in science is a perfectly sane and rational position to hold. In fact, in 2014, NASA admitted that it was not able to explain “the mystery of why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years.” In addition, despite rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1997. 

Despite all of the data and realities, Ms. McCarthy believes that 53% of Americans are not “normal human beings.” Maybe she needs to be reminded that regardless of what she thinks, regardless of how condescending she is, she just insulted 53% of Americans by calling us not normal, the same people that pay for her high salary and standard of living.

2) A major, overarching foreign relations policy objective of any American Presidency should be to protect the safety of every American. One way to do that is to minimize the violence and tyranny in the world to better shield Americans and American interests.

Now, given the narcissistic nature of this President, I am sure he thinks that he has been a superstar when it comes to foreign policy. In fact, he recently stated that he made the U.S. the most respected country in the world again, a position we soundly rebuked at the following link:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2015/06/june-2015-politicians-say-darndest.html


But it is pretty difficult to say his foreign policy is a success since as the leader of the strongest country in the world, he has oversaw a substantial increase in the amount of violence throughout the world, which indirectly (so far) places every American’s life in a higher chance of danger:

  • According to a recent article by the UK Telegraph paper: “The theory that human beings are evolving into more placid, cooperative creatures is undermined by research that suggests the world is considerably less peaceful than it was eight years ago.”
  • “Last year 180,000 people were killed in internal conflicts, a number 3.5 times higher than it was in 2010″ and “death from terrorism has risen fivefold – killing more than 32,000 people in 2014,” quoting Dr. David Hammond of the Institute for Economics and Peace.
  • The article reports that the United Nations estimates that almost 1% of the world’s population is now refugees.
  • This translates into 60 million people having been displaced because of the increased violence, making this level of refugees being at the highest it has been since the Second World War”
  • In another measure of increasing violence, worldwide military and security spending was a whopping $14.3 TRILLION in 2014, an increase of over 15% since 2008.
  • The $14.3 TRILLION is the equivalent of the combined economies of Brazil,Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Since much of world’s violence and military activity is in the Middle East, an area where the Obama administration has been actively involved, from Iran to Syria to Libya, it is pretty clear that this administration’s foreign policy efforts have been a failure.

Tough to make the world more violent when your public intent is to make it less violent, epic insanity.

3) As we all know, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were prime reasons why the Great Recession occurred. It resulted in the American taxpayer spending almost $200 billion to bail out these poorly managed, politically corrupt government entities. 

Thus, it seems a little stupid and wrong when both organizations announced recently that the CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will get a raise in their annual salaries from $600,000 to $4 million. $4 million a year, ten times more than what the President is paid. The reason given for the seven fold increase is that higher salaries were needed to attract good executives. 

To its credit, the Obama administration opposed the obnoxious pay raises but legally could not stop them. Just another area where this administration is powerless to have any influence or pull, not even being able to exert its will within the Federal government it supposedly leads. No government employee deserves a $6 million annual salary.

4) We have reported many times in this blog how the farm subsidy programs of the Federal government have made it easy for rich, non-farmers to get handsome sums of money in the form of subsidies even though most of them never farm the land they own. In the latest episode of American taxpayers paying huge sums to rich landowners, the New York Post recently reported that Madonna is the latest millionaire to get government subsidies.

The Post reported that Madonna purchased a taxpayer owned piece of land next to her $4.9 million mansion in the Hamptons on Long Island, New York. Apparently, she said she plans to use the land for a tree nursery. In fact, she has been planting Leyland Cypress, eastern white pines and Robusta juniper trees. Unbelievably, she is now entitled to collect multiple tax benefits because of the land’s “agricultural” use.

But the dealings are a little shady. The county and town of Southampton had purchased the the 24 acre parcel for $10 million in 2010 and had planned to preserve it as is. Somehow, Madonna paid only $2.2 million for it just five years later. In addition, since the land was zoned for “production for commercial purposes of agricultural products,” local residents say she is only growing the trees out of a legal obligation and to give her mansion more privacy and tax subsidies. 

According to the article, Madonna will receive big tax breaks from the county that are only given to farmers, and will pay just $2,260.28 a year in local property taxes on the 24 acre plot, all because she is planting a few trees. For comparison, the owner of one acre across the street from this parcel pays $6,841.52 in taxes annually.

“That’s not a nursery,” area farmer John White said. “She just doesn’t want people to see her riding — and falling.”

So, as we see, it is not only the Federal government that gives away taxpayer money to wealthy Americans for doing nothing under farm subsidy laws, local and county governments also get into the act of giving away taxpayer wealth.

That will do it for today. Giving millionaires taxpayer money for not farming, giving away millions of taxpayer dollars to leaders of dysfunctional government entities, increased world wide violence levels since the Obama administration came into power, and a top Obama executive calling the majority of Americans “not normal.” 

The diversity of political class insanity continues to astound, depress, and infuriate all of us.



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