Friday, October 30, 2015

October, 2015, Part 3, By The Numbers: What Americans Want and What Politicians Deliver (Or Really Care About)

This is the third post among a few days worth of discussion of “by the numbers.” We do this theme occasionally where we look at the reality of the numbers in the world and not the lies, deceptions, and spin of the American political class. I used to work for a boss whose favorite quote was: “There is nothing more devastating to an opinion than the correct number.” By looking at the statistics, trends, and numbers in our world we can cut through the politicians’ smoke screen to truly understand what is going on and hopefully, remedy the issues of the day.

The numbers we will look at this week will often have a common thread running almost through all of them: the views, positions, and opinions of the majority of Americans are often the exact opposite of the views and related actions that our politicians own. Since we are supposed to be living in a representative government system one would hope that the laws, rules, and government functions that our politicians oversee reflect the thinking, hopes, and views of the American citizenry.


As the numbers will usually show, that is nowhere close to reality, which I think reflects two underlying negative trends:
  1. American politicians vote and act for their own personal interests first, Americans’ interests and well being being of secondary consideration. If a politician’s actions can get them more votes or more campaign cash for their perpetual reelection campaigns, than that is their priority, usually not the priorities of their constituents.
  2. Second, I personally believe that today’s American politicians take care of their special interest friends and financiers first and foremost, and the interests of those special interest friends (e.g.unions, corporations, lobbyists, etc.) are usually not in alignment with what the majority of Americans have as their priorities.
Keep these two possibilities in mind as we go “by the numbers” for the next few days and try to show the major disconnect between what Americans want and what politicians are doing:

1) We have already shown this week that surveys of Americans show that they are more in favor of the Second Amendment than those that are not. This reality of the numbers puts them in direct opposition to people like Obama and Hillary Clinton who would confiscate every law abiding citizens’ guns tomorrow if they could weasel out a way to do it.

But if the following chart and its load of numbers from the Federalist  Papers website is to be believed, as published in an article by Brittany Soares, the crime numbers over time prove that the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms plays a major factor in keeping down violent crime rates:

Historical numbers are pretty clear: more gun control equals more murders simply because murderers and criminals do not obey laws including gun control laws. That is why they are called criminals.

Ms. Soares summarizes these chart numbers very nicely: “Year after year, stories of law-abiding citizens defending themselves and others with legal weapons continue to undercut the arguments of the anti-gun left. Areas that have seen gun regulations loosened continue to see lower murder rates. It turns out that if decent people have the right to defend themselves against violence, they will. Who knew, right?

That’s why it’s so important that those who believe in limited government be willing to stand up for the primacy of the “boisterous sea of liberty” while acknowledging that it does indeed have its waves. Because a free and armed citizenry is not only the cause for gun crime, it is also the solution to it.”

2)The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world. Thus, if Obama and Clinton were correct, than the numbers would show that Chicago is a crime free Shangrila. However, the latest crime numbers from that city would prove them totally wrong, as recently reported by Breitbart:

- In September, 2015, there were 59 murders and 362 gunshot victims in the city.

- This was the city’s deadliest month since 2002 despite stricter gun control laws passed over time.

- The last two weekend of the month witnessed more than 50 people shot each weekend.

- This compares to 40 people shot each weekend in the previous month of August in the city.

- As a result Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy laid out the police to attack illegal guns, including a new program that assigns a dedicated detective to gun cases who will track the “origin and flow” of the firearms involved.
But wait a minute! Isn’t it illegal to have a gun in Chicago? Why do the police have to put together a special program to go after “illegal guns?” Could it be that guns are not the root causes of Chicago’s never ending violence? Consider the words of people on the streets trying to make a difference there. Tio Hardiman leads a non-profit that works to prevent minor dust ups from turning into mass shootings: “They’re killing babies, shooting mothers, shooting kids… The mentality is, ‘If I don’t like myself there’s no way I’m gonna like you.’”Local community organizer Askari Ali has a similar opinion: “They don’t appreciate life because they feel like their life not shit. So they got no problem taking your life.”Both Ali and Hardiman suggest a number of actions that attack the root causes of the Chicago violence, none of which involve stricter gun control because frankly, the gun controls cannot get much stiffer in Chicago and we see that that resulted in. Their suggestions include:
  • Jobs programs for adults and youth.
  • Community centers.
  • Street level intervention programs to speak to youngsters in their language about violence and drugs.
  • Provide hope.
The numbers say that gun control is not working in Chicago, maybe we should give the local experts on the street the tools to try their ideas? How much worse could it get?3) One last set of numbers for today. The following graphic and the numbers on it comes from the Federalist Papers website. I do not know if the numbers are credible but other stories and numbers from the Federalist Papers have proven correct so there is little reason to think these are not credible numbers.Plus, these numbers are totally consistent with some of the surveys and statistics we have been discussing this week in our “by the numbers” discussions. Banning guns does not reduce or eliminate violent crime. In fact, as Chicago has shown as have other cities and countries have shown that have instituted stringent gun control laws and bans, the exact opposite happens: crime goes up because criminals, by definition do not obey laws, leaving law abiding citizens defenseless in the face of armed criminals:



More numbers tomorrow.

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

October, 2015, By The Numbers, Part 2: What America Wants and What American Politicians Deliver (Or Really Care About)

This is the second post among a few days worth of discussion of “by the numbers.” We do this theme occasionally where we look at the reality of the numbers in the world and not the lies, deceptions, and spin of the American political class. I used to work for a boss whose favorite quote was: “There is nothing more devastating to an opinion than the correct number.” By looking at the statistics, trends, and numbers in our world we can cut through the politicians’ smoke screen to truly understand what is going on and hopefully, remedy the issues of the day.

The numbers we will look at this week will often have a common thread running almost through all of them: the views, positions, and opinions of the majority of Americans are often the exact opposite of the views and related actions that our politicians own. Since we are supposed to be living in a representative government system one would hope that the laws, rules, and government functions that our politicians oversee reflect the thinking, hopes, and views of the American citizenry.

As the numbers will usually show, that is nowhere close to reality, which I think reflects two underlying negative trends:

  1. American politicians vote and act for their own personal interests first, Americans’ interests and well being being of secondary consideration. If a politician’s actions can get them more votes or more campaign cash for their perpetual reelection campaigns, than that is their priority, usually not the priorities of their constituents.
  2. Second, I personally believe that today’s American politicians take care of their special interest friends and financiers first and foremost, and the interests of those special interest friends (e.g.unions, corporations, lobbyists, etc.) are usually not in alignment with what the majority of Americans have as their priorities.
Keep these two possibilities in mind as we go “by the numbers” for the next few days and try to show the major disconnect between what Americans want and what politicians are doing:

1) Judicial Watch recently completed a new study using a lot of official government documents and found that the number of illegal criminal immigrants being released unto U.S. streets and civilians is mind staggering:

  • There are now 340 so-called sanctuary cities across the country, cities that are breaking Federal law everyday by allowing illegal immigrants to reside in their cities, protected from deportation by the Federal government.
  • Over the nine month period studied, in total, these cities on average allowed 1,000 illegal criminal immigrants to be released every month.
  • In those nine months, 9,295 illegal criminal immigrants were set free before Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could get them deported.
  • More than 600 of the criminal immigrants had been released twice.
  • The majority of the criminal immigrants released (58%) had prior felony charges or convictions, 37% had prior misdemeanor charges and 5% had multiple misdemeanor charges.
  • 2,320 of the 9,295 released were subsequently arrested within the nine month time frame for NEW crimes they committed.
Is there any doubt why 59% of Americans want illegal immigrants deported and 78% want a fence built on the Mexican border to keep illegals out of the country, as we discussed in yesterday’s post? If the local politicians will not turn over illegal criminal immigrants for deportation and the Obama administration does nothing to make them obey the law and do them over to the Feds for deportation, this becomes just another example of where the politicians we elect do not reflect the values and desires of those that elected them.

2) Obama and his fellow Democrats are on the warpath to gut or ignore the right to bear arms as outlined in the Second Amendment. One of the efforts they want to try enforcing is crack down on the purchasing of guns at retail stores and gun shows under the false theory that criminals actually buy their weapons at stores and gun shows.

I know, stupid assumption from stupid politicians but the numbers from a recent study actually prove that such lame efforts at gun control are actually that, lame. Researchers from Duke University and the University of Chicago conducted a study of criminal gun purchases that will be published in Preventive Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal. 

According to reporting by the Washington Free Beacon: The study found that due to fears of encountering undercover police officers attempting sting operations, a large majority of the criminals surveyed would only make illegal gun purchases from people they knew. “In discussing the underground gun market in their neighborhoods, most respondents emphasized the importance of connections — prior relationships that could create sufficient trust to reassure the seller that the transaction would not create an unacceptable legal risk,” the survey says. “A majority of the primary guns (40 of the 48 for which we have detailed information on the source) were obtained from family, fellow gang members, or other social connections; the fraction is still higher for secondary guns.”

The study went on to quantify that only 2 out of the 70 primary guns, or 3%, were reported as being purchased from a gun store. NONE of the criminals in the study, NONE, got their weapons from a gun show. The Chicago Sun-Times quoted Harold Pollack, co-director of the crime lab that did the study: “In a survey of almost 100 detainees in the Cook County Jail, few said they get firearms at gun shows or through the Internet. They also said they don’t normally steal guns or buy them at a licensed store.” 

Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, put these numbers in perspective relative to proposed new gun laws: “Criminals don’t obey laws. That’s why we call them criminals.”

3) And to illustrate another disconnect between Americans and politicians, especially those that want to restrict or eliminate gun rights and possession,consider the findings of a recent Gallup poll:

  • The majority of Americans feel that more concealed weapons would make America safer.
  • In a poll taken between October 7 and 11, 2015, 56% of those polled stated that they would feel safer if more Americans carried concealed weapons vs. 41% who would feel less safe.
  • In a somewhat inconsistent manner, while 86% of respondents said they would favor a law which would require universal background checks for all gun purchases, a majority (53%) of the same group said background checks would have no impact on the number of mass shootings and only 19% said it would have a great amount of impact on the number of mass shootings.
Another example where a great many politicians are on the wrong side of what the majority of Americans want. While people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threaten to illegally confiscate guns of law abiding Americans, the numbers show that criminals do not buy their guns where these ill informed politicians think they do and the majority of Americans would welcome more concealed weapons in the real world outside of the Beltway while those inside the Beltway want to have NO concealed weapons. 

But of course, people like Obama and Clinton would still have their armed guards available around the clock to protect their families while the rest of us would be stripped of our protection under their views, which are contrary to ours.

That will do it for “by the numbers” today, more proof that those in the Washington political class are so out of touch with the rest of America when you look at the numbers regarding the Second Amendment and the handling of illegal immigrants, especially illegal criminal immigrants who bring danger, violence, and crime to ordinary American citizens.

More numbers tomorrow.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

October, 2015, By The Numbers, Part 1: What America Wants Is Not What American Polticians Deliver (Or Really Care About)

Today’s post will kick off a few days worth of discussion of “by the numbers.” We do this theme occasionally where we look at the reality of the numbers in the world and not the lies, deceptions, and spin of the American political class. I used to work for a boss whose favorite quote was: “There is nothing more devastating to an opinion than the correct number.” By looking at the statistics, trends, and numbers in our world we can cut through the politicians’ smoke screen to truly understand what is going on and hopefully, remedy the issues of the day.

The numbers we will look at this week will often have a common thread running almost through all of them: the views, positions, and opinions of the majority of Americans are often the exact opposite of the views and related actions that our politicians own. Since we are supposed to be living in a representative government system one would hope that the laws, rules, and government functions that our politicians oversee reflect the thinking, hopes, and views of the American citizenry.

As the numbers will usually show, that is nowhere close to reality, which I think reflects two underlying negative trends:


  1. American politicians vote and act for their own personal interests first, Americans’ interests and well being being of secondary consideration. If a politician’s actions can get them more votes or more campaign cash for their perpetual reelection campaigns, than that is their priority, usually not the priorities of their constituents.
  2. Second, I personally believe that today’s American politicians take care of their special interest friends and financiers first and foremost, and the interests of those special interest friends (e.g., unions, corporations, lobbyists, etc.) are usually not in alignment with what the majority of Americans have as their priorities.
Keep these two possibilities in mind as we go “by the numbers” for the next few days and try to show the major disconnect between what Americans want and what politicians are doing:

1) According to a new public opinion poll by Clout Research that was reported on by the Washington Examiner:

  • A whopping 85% of voters think that America is going down the wrong track.
  • Only 9% of Republicans, only 15% of Independents, and only about half of Democrats think the country is headed in the right direction.
  • These results are based on a sample size of 800 likely voters.
  • Despite an $800 billion economic stimulus plan, an energy revolution that dramatically reduced energy costs, and the Federal reserve printing trillions of dollars that were injected into the economy, 80% of respondents described the current state of the economy as "very fragile" or "somewhat fragile" after seven years of President Obama's economic policies.
If you polled members of Congress and the current President, I would bet that they would have radically different views of life in America today. I would bet that they think they are doing a great job, a complete disconnect from what most of America believes is the reality of living outside of the Washington Beltway. And why not since inside the Beltway unemployment is low, salaries are sky high, and unemployment is never a possibility for those inside the American political class.

2) It is pretty obvious that border security and the deportation of people illegally in this country is a very low or a non-priority for the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress. If it was a priority, than many fewer innocent American citizens would not be dying at the hands of illegal immigrants and the number of deported illegals would not be declining rapidly as it is under the Obama administration.

Which brings us to the second major disconnect between Washington and America, as measured by the numbers. A recent public opinion poll from the Investors Business Daily polled 913 adults across the country if they “support or oppose the mandatory deportation of illegal immigrants in the U.S.”

Unlike many in Washington and the mainstream press, 59% of the total sample size said that they did support mandatory deportation of illegal immigrants in this country. This reality and number may help explain the success of Presidential candidate Donald Trump since a whopping 87% of Trump supporters are in favor of deportation.


Democrats in Washington want to allow illegal immigrants to stay in this country, border security be damned, while the vast majority of Americans want illegal immigrants deported. Massive disconnect.

3) Let’s stay with the disconnect between Washington and the rest of America as it pertains to illegal immigration since after this 59% number was made public, another survey reinforced this finding. According to Ben Bullard, writing for the Eagle Rising website on September 4, 2015, the latest public opinion poll from the YouGov organization found that an even larger percentage, 72%, of Americans support building a fence along our Mexican border to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into this country.

Only 27% of those polled believe that we should NOT build a fence on the border. I doubt that there is not a 72% vs. 27% consistency with the Washington political class because if there was, that much needed fence would already be under construction. Instead, we have people in Washington that want to continue to give government handouts to illegal immigrants, not send them back or fence them out. And while these top line numbers are overwhelming in favor of building a fence, the sub-category numbers are more amazing:

  • The concept of building an effective border fence is more popular than unpopular within every single subgroup in the poll.
  • More Democrats support building a fence than Democrats support not building a fence.
  • More African-Americans support building a fence than African-Americans support not building a fence.
  • And amazingly, more Hispanics (49%) support building a fence than Hispanics support not building a fence (38%).
If ever Washington could find a single, unifying set of numbers to build a consensus on, this would seem to be the concept: build a fence to stop the overwhelming flow of illegal immigration. But as usual, what the people want and what Washington’s politicians do is often the exact opposite.

That will do it for today but we have lots more numbers to cover in the upcoming days, numbers that usually show that what America wants is the exact opposite of what Washington wants, works on, or delivers. As these days unfold, please refer back to one of our most popular posts of all time at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2010/11/american-freedom-pyramid-where-it.html

That post describes the so-called freedom pyramid and how the American political class has corrupted the concepts of freedom, liberty, and representative government in our democracy. Once you understand how that corruption has happened, it is not surprising when you read how Americans views and desires take a back seat to what politicians do.


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Monday, October 26, 2015

Obama's Massive Foreign Affairs And MIddle East Failures

It is very difficult to find many success stories of the Obama administration. Despite spending $800 billion on an economic stimulus package, an energy revolution that dropped consumer and business energy costs, and a Fed that printed trillions of dollars, this administration engineered an economic recovery that was the weakest recovery in our history that has left us with a very weak job market in both quality and quantity of jobs, stagnant household income, and an additional $8 trillion in national debt.

Its “war on drugs”  effort has resulted on a heroin epidemic in this country, enriched international drug cartels, and not much, if any, drop in the use of illegal drugs in this country.

Its educational policies and programs have resulted in falling SAT scores and continued failures to educate our kids relative to the rest of the world despite spending more on education per student than just about every other country in the world.

Its energy policies has resulted in an all time high electricity rates for most of the country and tens of billions of taxpayer dollars wasted on crony infested alternative energy failures that produced no societal benefit.

Its health care policies have resulted in the abomination known as Obama Care which has caused millions of Americans to lose access to their preferred doctors, hospitals, and insurance plans, has caused insurance premiums and deductibles to rise, has exposed millions of Americans to an increased risk of identity fraud, will add almost $2 TRILLION to the national debt, and has caused many other disasters that are too numerous to list here.

Its policies, actions, and lack of transparency has resulted in numerous and illegal operations and efforts including Fast and Furious, IRS harassment of certain voter blocs, disregarding of judicial orders, and many other acts of criminality.

But nowhere has this administration failed so miserably than with its foregin policies in general and specifically in its Middle East foreign policy. When Obama came into power, Libya was a stable country, led by a dictator, but a dictator that had sworn off weapons of mass destruction and which had become friendly to the U.S. Egypt was also stable and an ally of the U.S. Iraq was safe, secure and democracy, or so said Obama when he hurriedly withdrew U.S. troops from that country. The Taliban were on the run in Afghanistan. Arabs were not going around stabbing Israeli citizens at random within Israel. Syria had not yet disintegrated. Iran had been blocked from becoming a nuclear weapons player.

Now, Libya is no longer a viable country, Egypt has been in upheaval since Obama came to office, Iraq has broken into three warring factions, the Taliban are getting so strong that Obama had to reverse his cherished withdrawal date and decide to leave U.S. troops in country, and the Israelis and Palestinians hate each other more than ever. Syria is no longer a country, resulting in millions of refugees heading for other locales. And Obama and Kerry signed a deal that will make it very easy for Iran to become a nuclear weapons player which will set off a nuclear arms race throughout the Persian Gulf.

What a mess, I do not think you could do more damage if you actually tried to screw things up. But on top of all of this, the Obama administration has allowed the worst terrorist organization the world has ever known to arise, ISIS. ISIS is brutal, evil, wealthy, and growing stronger as the Obama administration falls all over itself trying to get anything right. The following stories of incompetence back up this assertion:

1) John Hayward, recently writing for Breitbart, reviewed the findings of a recent Rasmussen public opinion poll:
  • Forty six percent of 1,000 likely voters said that Middle East terrorists were winning the fight against terrorism. 
  • The percentage of Americans who think we are winning the war on terrorism has dropped from 49% just before Obama got reelected to a consisitently low 30% or so since then.
  • This is the most pessimistic feeling among Americans relative to this topic that Rasmussen has polled in over a decade.
  • Specifically, Rasmussen stated in their findings that: “More voters than ever think terrorists have the advantage over the United States and its allies.” 
  • These bad trends exist despite the promise that Obama made a year ago that his policies would eventually destroy ISIS. But those policies have done basically nothing to stop the violence and carnage that ISIS has wrought despite the American taxpayer paying billions of dollars for a war strategy that they now recognize is not working.
  • Failure, failure, failure. Mr. Hayward sums up Americans’ feelings nicely in his closing paragraph: “The sense that terrorists have the initiative, while our government plays defense and scrambles to respond to their actions, makes us think the battle is out of our control. Even the remarkable string of recent law-enforcement successes against incipient terror attacks provides little comfort; it is the menacing specter of bloody massacres averted at the last moment by FBI agents that lingers in the public imagination. The next President will face a tall order in restoring Americans’ confidence in the War on Terror.” 
From where we were when Obama took office to where we are now almost seven years into his term tells you how big a disaster his foreign policy has been in the Middle East.

2) According to Andrew Stiles, writing for the Washington Free Beacon on October 6, 2015, all is not well within Obama’s foreign policy team:
  • On September 22, 2015, John Allen, a retired general who the President had handpicked to lead the U.S. war effort against ISIS resigned.
  • On September 29, 2015, Evelyn Farkas, who was a top Defense Department official responsible for managing the relations between the U.S., Russia, and the Ukraine, resigned after serving five years in that position.
  • Ari Schwartz, the President’s top advisor on cyber-security, resigned on October 1, 2015. This is a foreign relations effort since it seems every month or so some Russian or Chinese hack is breaking into some Federal government computer system, definitely putting this topic into the foreign relations arena.
Three weeks, three key resignations, three critical foreign policy areas. Something is amiss when you lose that kind of expertise in such a short time in three areas where the Obama critical foreign policy effort has been an utter failure.

3) Helle Dale, writing for the Heritage Foundation on October 6, 2015, described how two recently published analyses of Obama’s foreign policy shows that the U.S. approach to terrorism across the globe has been a disorganized failure:
  • According to the two analyses, fourteen years after 9-11, the U.S. Federal government still has not figured out how to coordinate its global anti-terrorism efforts around the world.
  • This conclusion was reached by both a bipartisan task force of the House Homeland Security Committee and by the “2015 Comprehensive Annual Report on Public Diplomacy” by the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (ACPD).
  • The U.S. has not been able to stop the flow of people flocking to terrorism organizations around the world or countering a very effective propaganda effort by those same terrorism organizations.
  • In just the past four years, over 25,000 people have gone to Syria and Iraq to become fighters for terrorism organizations including over 200 U.S. citizens.
  • Quoting from the Congressional study“There appears to be no comprehensive accounting of terrorist-travel programs in the U.S. government or any systematic government-wide efforts to identify gaps between them. . . . We found that hundreds of programs, projects, and initiatives have sprouted up to combat terrorist travel since 9/11, but without an overarching strategy to coordinate them, the United States may be wasting taxpayer dollars and failing to allocate resources where they are needed most. Indeed, lack of a strategy not only increases the risk terrorists might exploit weaknesses in the U.S. travel system, but also raises the prospect of waste, overlap, and duplication between agencies.”
  • The ACPD report and analysis states: “For public diplomacy professionals to effectively advance U.S. foreign policy efforts to counter violent extremism, there needs to be clear CVE (anti-terrorism) strategy across the U.S. government.” 
  • Fourteen years since 9-11 and the Feds and Washington political class have still not gotten anything right in the war against terror. Pathetic.
No overarching strategy against terrorism, top anti-terrorism experts and foreign policy experts resigning one after another, and an America that is finally realizing that those people in the White House and Congress have dealt us a losing hand when it comes to fighting terrorism. Strike one, strike two, strike three. Again, as we mentioned above, probably could not have done any worse than if these same people tried to screw things up in foreign policy.

That is why Step 39 from “Love My Country, Loathe My Government,” is so important. Step 39 calls for the enactment of term limits for all Washington Congressional and Presidential offices because really, how much worse could it get if we replaced all of the losers currently in office who have created all of the messes listed above.? You can join this term limits effort by going to:


In reality, at least with the foreign policy disasters of the Obama administration, not much worse at all.


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Friday, October 23, 2015

October, 2015, Part 4, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: HItler Comparisons, The Greening Of Africa and More

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

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

  • Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
  • Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
  • Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.
To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

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

1) Readers of this blog and this series on global warming are aware that when those advocating for global warming laws and restrictions on freedom cannot win an argument on facts, science, and reality they then revert to name calling and insults. Al Gore is the leader in this tactic having called global warming doubters and believers in science homophobes, racists, and and a whole slew of other insults, as if insulting us and calling us names is a smart way to convert our evidence and feelings to his point of view.

We continue to point out these kinds of attacks to prove that more and more these are the only tactics that global warming advocates can use to defend what is becoming more and more a shaky theory. Consider the following hate filled tirade that a Yale University professor, Dr. Timothy Snyder, recently went on in the New York Times:

Hitler spread ecological panic by claiming that only land would bring Germany security and by denying the science that promised alternatives to war. By polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, the United States has done more than any other nation to bring about the next ecological panic, yet it is the only country where climate science is still resisted by certain political and business elites. These deniers tend to present the empirical findings of scientists as a conspiracy and question the validity of science — an intellectual stance that is uncomfortably close to Hitler’s.

Yes, if you are a global warming doubter you are equivalent to the worst tyrant whoever lived. A person who tried to exterminate an entire religion from the face of the earth by killing six million people. A tyrant is is responsible for the deaths of tens of million of people via the second world war. Yes, disagree with me and you are like Hitler. Pathetic way to win an argument and influence people.

Just this week we have pointed out a number of scientists who disagree with the notion that man made global warming and climate change are a reality. Are all those people also like Hitler? Who gets to decide what scientists are like Hitler and which are not, Dr.Snyder? You? Al Gore? Cut the hateful rhetoric and let’s all get together for an adult, mature discussion on climate without the slurs and mudslinging. Life is too short to waste time with people like you who would rather name call than problem solve.

2) Would Dr. Snyder also call researchers at Arizona State University Hitler-like for their recent scientific study that shows Africa is actually going against the forecasted trend of gloom and doom from global warming advocates and forecast models? The Arizona State University researchers found that climate changes over the past few decades has actually saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Africans from extreme poverty, starvation, and early death,

According to recent Breitbart reporting: “The study shows that the West African Sahel – part of the semiarid strip just south of the Sahara desert, which spans the African continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea – has been steadily “regreening” since the severe droughts of the 1970s and 1980s which killed more than 100,000 people. Among the reasons for the “regreening” are increased rainfall, the beneficial effects of increased atmospheric CO2 on plant growth and the ingenuity of farmers (“community-led conservation efforts) in this harsh, marginal region.”

Thus, rather than famine, hunger, and other calamities predicted by global warming advocates (see Susan Rice’s hysteria in yesterday’s post), at least throughout Africa, changing climate, for whatever reason, has been a good thing for humanity. 

3) The Townhall website recently pointed out that we have gone through another hurricane season that has been extremely mild with no major storms hitting the U.S. from either the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. As a relatively recent immigrant to central Florida, having arrived in the state in 2005, I have not experienced ANY hurricanes or very serious storms in the past ten years. 

Which was NOT supposed to happen. Global warming advocates for years predicted dire consequences with Mother Nature unleashing unbelievably powerful storms and hurricanes in increasing frequency as mankind continued to spew carbon into the air and accelerate global warming. 

What I especially enjoyed in the Townhall article was the following sarcastic paragraph and the calamities that global warming was causing:

Global warming is preventing the ice caps from melting, wreaking havoc on Antarctic research stationsd by preventing easy access for resupply ships due to the accumulation of sea ice, and expanded the Arctic Ice Cap by 533,000 square miles. Global temperatures have stagnated for nearly 16 years, and we’ve seen some of the quietest tornado seasons on record. In 2013, it was the calmest tornado season in six decades. In 2015, the tornado count is 59 percent below average.

No wonder why the CIA shut down its climate research program


Reality sucks, especially when your forecast models are utter failures in their prediction of dire natural calamities as a result of manmade global warming and climate change.

4) One last discussion point for this month’s update on being a global warming doubter and a believer in science. As many people have pointed out, there is a point of view that there is a vicious but conscious cycle in place between some politicians who want more control over our lives and climate scientists who advocate for man made global warming and climate change. 

These politicians who thirst for control and power need anything that sounds scientific to prove that manmade global warming, climate change is a danger to humanity and scientists need government/taxpayer funding to continue to have a job and income. This relationship often has caused the scientific process and appraoch to be compromised as we have seen in the various email system hacks that have occurred over the years. These hacked emails have shown scientists willing to forfeit the integrity of their work in order to keep the government grant money coming to them.

Such is the case in the following alleged facts about a George Mason climate scientist who has been using taxpayer money to live a very good life:


  • Jagadish Shukla is a professor at George Mason University and was a recent signee, along with 19 other professors, of a letter to the Justice Department which recommended that global warming doubters be tried under the RICO act as gangsters and racketeers.
  • But he is now under investigation by Congress for abusing taxpayer money and grants he received with Congressman Lamar Smith having formally requested all relevant documents from Dr. Shukla regarding a non-profit organization called The Institute Of Global Environment and Society, an entity that was heavily and/or totally funded with taxpayer wealth.
  • Smith’s Congressional committee is investigating two issues with the professor. The first question is if the institute is involved in “partisan political activity,” activity which is forbidden and illegal since the Institute, as a non-profit entity, is forbidden to do.
  • The second issue is to find out exactly what happened with the whopping $63 million in taxpayer funded grants the Institute received since there is apparently very little in the way of publications and research that has been generated for that $63 million.
  • Despite publishing very little, news reports contend that the professor and his wife allegedly personally pocketed over $800,000 a year in both 2013 and 2014.
  • According to Steve McIntyre, well known global warming skeptic, investigator, and researcher, as far back as 2001 Shukla was drawing a salary from George Mason University and that he and his wife received almost $215,000 from the Institute.
  • By 2004, he and his wife were drawing down about $400,000 from the Institute and by 2013 they were getting $547,000 just from the Institute.
  • By 2014 the Shuklas’ daughter was now employed at the Institute and the Institute had donated $100,000 to support a charity in India...that Shukla himself had founded.
  • Apparently under Federal law, it is illegal for state employees to be paid for doing work that they are also being paid for doing by a state government.
  • Since George Mason is a state university, Shuklas is a state employee and there is the potential crime being done where he is drawing Federal money for doing the same work that he is doing as a state employee, in this case, a college professor.
  • Besides breaking the law, George Mason might be entitled to the half of the $63 million that the Shuklas have taken from the American taxpayer.
  • Former Virginia State University Climatologist, Pat Michaels, one who Shukla and nineteen others who signed the Justice Department letter might be affected by that RICO letter, has publicly called the Shukla set-up as “the largest science scandal in US history.”

While I do not think this is the largest scandal in history, I would bet it is the largest global warming scandal in history if true. Hopefully, Congressman Smith and his Congressional committee case find the truth and hand out appropriate criminal punishment.

But this whole scandal illustrates how incestuous the relationship is between political operatives like Gore and Obama who want so much more control over our lives and freedoms via a highly shaky global warming/climate change theory and the scientists who are willing to give them fake scientific fodder for their position in return for perpetual taxpayer funding. 

I am not saying that all scientists who support global warming theories are out of integrity. But the potential for massive fraud and deception is underway today in the whole field and scientific integrity needs to be restored so that we make the right decisions based on ALL available science, date, and realities. And those scientists who fail to live up to accept levels of scientific integrity and inquiry should be punished as necessary for either their ethical or criminal activities.

That will do it to this month’s series on global warming. It is just another month where we again prove it is perfectly logical and sane to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science.


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Thursday, October 22, 2015

October, 2015, Part 3, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science:

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

As we have dove into the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:
  • Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
  • Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
  • Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.
To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

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

1) As we have mentioned any number of times in this global warming series of posts over the years, the science is not settled when it comes to man made global warming and climate change impacts. Just this week we have talked about how the CERN Institute and a Nobel Laureate have disputed this “science is settled” deception from the likes of Al Gore, Barack, Obama and others.

Today, let’s add another noted scientist to that array of scientist that say not so fast, the science is not settled. Consider the following facts as it relates to a world famous scientist:
  • Dr. Freeman Dyson is supposedly one of the world’s most renowned and famous theoretical physicists.
  • He has worked at the Institute For Advanced Study with Einstein.
  • He has been an advisor to the U.S. Federal government on a whole range of different science based issues. 
  • In his opinion, Obama has backed the “wrong side” in the climate change “war.”
  • Dyson claims that the climate forecasting models used by certain climate scientists are getting worse over time in predicting climate realities and that carbon dioxide does far more good than harm.
  • In a recent interview conducted by writer Andrew Orlowski of The Register, Dyson “expressed his despair at the current scientific obsession with climate change which he says is “not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to the obvious facts.”"
There you have it, another scientist that says it is okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science because man made global warming and climate change are not the reality of our times.

2) One nasty habit that global warming advocates have is that whenever something bad happens in the world, they somehow try to connect it to global warming. A typhoon in the Pacific - must be global warming even though there have been typhoons in the Pacific since the beginning of time. Forest fires in Canada - must be global warming even though there have been forest fires in Canada since the beginning of time. 

Never mind that they almost always have no data, no studies, or no proof that this is a true causal relationship, they just assume that bad news = man made global warming. Science and facts be damned.

And now the advocates have moved from blaming ordinary natural events on global warming to blaming political events on global warming. National Security Advisor Susan Rice recently gave a speech where she suggested that climate change was at least partially responsible for the civil war and refugee crisis in Syria.

In her opinion: “In the years prior to civil war breaking out in Syria, that country also experienced its worst drought on record. Farming families moved en masse into urban centers, increasing political unrest and further priming the country for conflict.”

Let’s step back and analyze her position:
  • First of all, she is not a scientist. She is a political appointee. She has no credibility in predicting cause and effect when it comes to climate science. 
  • To many Americans, she was a blatant liar in telling the world via five Sunday morning TV news shows that some obscure video caused the death of four Americans at the terrorist attack on our consulate at Benghazi. We now know that the whole video story was a cover up to protect Obama’s re-election rhetoric. Liar than, liar now?
  • She presents no scientific evidence that this cause and effect actually happened. 
Maybe some other factors were involved such as the Asaad family oppressing large segments of the Syrian populations for many decades, the chemical warfare that Asaad waged on the rebels, the crackdown on freedom protests, the fight for control of oil and natural gas transportation in the entire Middle East, the rise of ISIS once Obama abandoned Iraq, the centuries long fight of Shiite vs. Sunni Muslims in the Middle East, etc. 

Pure speculation and fear mongering on her part. Did I mention that she is not a scientist? In our first point above, Dr. Freeman Dyson, world renowned scientist says Obama is on the wrong side of the whole global warming debate. So who to believe: a real life scientist or a political appointee with no climate science background.

But no need to answer that question since Rice goes on in the same speech to completely kill her credibility, stating that: “Consider the impacts—to the global economy and to our shared security—when rising seas begin to swallow nations whole,” and that we will see rising sea levels of “as much as 20 feet.” Even most of the global warming advocate scientists do not predict that sea levels will go up anywhere near that high. 

And since the polar ice caps continue to expand and thus, reducing the possibility of any ocean rises in the near future, this is nothing more than speculative fear mongering backed up by NO facts.

3) Consider a recent scientific finding of epic proportions that was recently reviewed in the Canadian Free Press:

As world leaders get ready to head to Paris for the latest pact on cutting CO2 emissions, it has emerged that there isn’t as much urgency about the matter as had been thought. A team of top-level atmospheric chemistry boffins from France and Germany say they have identified a new process by which vast amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted into the atmosphere from the sea – a process which was unknown until now, meaning that existing climate models do not take account of it. The effect of VOCs in the air is to cool the climate down, and thus climate models used today predict more warming than can actually be expected. Indeed, global temperatures have actually been stable for more than fifteen years, a circumstance which was not predicted by climate models and which climate science is still struggling to assimilate.—Lewis Page, The Register, 30 September 2015

Much like Susan Rice, I am not a climate scientist. However, this discovery appears to be very significant in many ways but one that stands out relative to being a global warming doubter and believer in science: This phenomenon was never incorporated into any of the now defunct and failed climate forecast models over the years simply because no one knew about it.

Since VOCs reportedly cool the earth, is it not important to include them in any climate model in order to get a more accurate reading of what the future might hold? If this discovery holds, it should greatly mitigate the forecasted disasters that climate scientists’ forecast models tried to predict since it now appears the oceans of the world are producing an effect to cool the earth.

This is just another example showing that no matter how strongly a scientist or politician or a political appointee advocates for man made global warming and climate change, the reality is that they know very little about what is really going on. If they did know, then VOCs would be part of the discussion but it is not since no one knew about them until recently. Thus, doubting anything in this field of massive ignorance is not a bad thing to do.

That will do it for today. A recent discovery (VOCs) might prove why the doom and gloom climate forecasts models were always dreadfully inaccurate, why political appointees need to shut up when discussing climate change since they have zero background and credibility in the area, and another world renowned scientist comes down on the side of how rational it is to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. More good stuff tomorrow.


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