The Hypocrisy and Idiocy of The NFL - A Follow Up To My Letter To Roger Goodell

Two days ago we wrote an open letter to Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner, suggesting a way for he and the NFL to get themselves out of the terrible jam they have created by pissing off millions of Americans and millions of NFL fans. The root cause of this jam is the hypocrisy and infantile behavior of Goodell and many NFL players in disrespecting the American flag, the national anthem, the country, and the service men and women and police men and women that protect all of us.

As a result of their behavior:

• Social media is red hot with fans expressing their disgust at the players’ and Goodell’s disrespectful behavior.
• Fans are vowing not to buy NFL tickets and memorabilia, boycotting NFL sponsors, and not watching NFL games on TV any more.
• Fans that have purchased special and expensive NFL TV packages have been asking for and receiving refunds on their purchases.

A couple of observations and talking points:

• First and foremost, President Trump should have never entered the fray, this is a marketplace matter, it does not have anything to do with Federal government functions. Trump should have been focusing on much more important national matters including a potential nuclear war with North Korea, the mess in Syria, terrorism in general, the repeal of the disastrous Obama Care legislation, tax reform, and any number of other pressing matters.
• But having said that, Obama also should have also kept his nose out of non Federal government, trivial matters: he should not have taken time off as President to record a commercial for a comedian’s (George Lopez) TV show, he should not have wasted so much time prancing and primping around on daytime talk shows like The View, Ellen, and others, he should not have wasted so much time every March thinking that he was an expert in picking March Madness games and going on ESPN to brag about his picks (which were never any good.), etc. He should have been focusing on much more important national matters  including a potential nuclear war with North Korea, the mess in Syria, terrorism in general, the repeal of the disastrous Obama Care legislation, tax reform, and any number of other pressing matters.
• Goodell comes off as hyper hypocritical in this matter. When players wanted to mark up their sneakers to honor those that died on 9-11 he stopped them because it was not consistent with and was disrespectful of league uniform rules. When a player wanted to mark up his spikes to honor his mother, he stopped the gesture because it was not consistent with and was disrespectful of league uniform rules. When the Dallas Cowboys wanted to put a decal on their helmets to honor the five Dallas police officers that were murdered by a domestic terrorist, he stopped the gesture because it was not consistent with and was disrespectful of league uniform rules. But when a bunch of players disrespect the flag, the country and the national anthem, acts of defiance that are not consistent with league rules, he goes mute. When quarterback Colin Kaepernick comes to an NFL practice wearing socks that depicted all cops as pigs, surely inconsistent with NFL uniform rules, Goodell was silent. So hypocritical.
• In fact, he got himself in a snit by claiming that Trump disrespected the league. He needs to keep in mind that the NFL needs America, America does not need the NFL. His players and employees disrespect the flag and country and those that protect us and he’s upset because he thinks that the league got disrespected, give me a break.
• Last week, a New York Giants receiver, Odell Beckham, caught a touchdown pass and as part of his post score antics he got down on all four legs and acted like a male dog taking a piss on a bush. To my knowledge as of today, Goodell has not reprimanded or punished Beckham for such crass and disgusting behavior but he tolerates the disrespecting of the country, the anthem, and the flag.
• But probably the other biggest screw up by Goodell, besides his super hypocrisy, is that all of these player protests, supposedly against racism in America, are totally useless. These protests are an empty gesture of spoiled millionaire players taking a few minutes to execute an empty protest without any plans, initiatives, and sense of what it takes to actually make a positive difference in society. As a result, the issue they think  they are highlighting is getting lost because of the way Goodell let them go about it. If there is widespread racism in this country, and real data would dispute the widespread assertion of these players, they blew the opportunity to address it with their disrespectful behavior. The issue they protested, racism, is now an afterthought to the furor and disrespect they have incurred and for that I blame Goodell for letting the crazies run the asylum and not focusing their passion into a positive action that involved fans, sponsors, law enforcement, and politicians.
• No kid in south Chicago is any safer from the drug trade violence in the streets as a result of millionaire players not respecting the flag. No opioid drug addict in inner city Baltimore is more likely to get addiction treatment as a result of millionaire players not respecting the anthem. No inner city school kid in Washington DC is getting more than a mediocre education as a result of millionaire players not respecting those in the police and armed forces that have died and suffered protecting all of us. And no bridges between police organizations and local communities have been built as a result of millionaire players pissing like a dog.

I have provided a way out of the mess he created. I doubt he will ever read it or act on my suggestions. That is certainly his right. But I am done with the NFL for now. Not so much because I disagree with the players but what they did and how they did it was stupid and self defeating. And the hypocrisy of Roger Goodell in this whole mess is juvenile, and certainly not the mark of a great leader. Two things I hate in life is hypocrisy and stupidity, and the NFL and Goodell have certainly displayed both of them in this issue, causing the real purported issue, racism, to  get lost in the noise.

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An Open Letter To Roger Goodell and A Way Out Of The Current Mess He Created - Follow Up Discussion Tomorrow

September 26, 2017

Mr. Goodell:

It seems you have quite the problem on your hands given the now widespread habit of players not respecting the American flag or the national anthem at the start of NFL games this season. No doubt you know that this behavior has caused quite the discontent among your fan base as many in this country interpret the player's’ behavior as disrespecting the brave armed forces and police forces that protect our country and safeguard our towns, streets, and families.

I am assuming that you are also aware that the players’ behavior is resulting in formal and informal efforts getting underway to boycott NFL games, sales, and sponsors. Yes, you have quite the quandary to dig out from if the NFL and the NFL revenue stream is to be protected.

To be honest with you upfront, I too have a serious problem with both the players’ behavior and your behavior. I have had many friends and relatives who have served in this country’s armed forces and some who died in that service. I have many friends who are able, kind, and non-racist members of police forces that are being tarnished with this feeling that all police members are racists. In my opinion, the players’ pre-game behavior is a slap in the face of these other brave Americans. Your refusal to fine Colin Kaepernick for wearing socks at an NFL practice depicting all police officers as pigs while fining players for having a minor fashion discrepancy on the field is the height of hypocrisy. 

But whatever got us to this situation, the question now is how to get out of it so that all parties get what they want. And this letter is a suggestion to that end. You and the league are now stuck in a vortex that is not going to get any better if you and the league proceed in a business as usual manner. No good will come to the league and its owners, no good will come to those that are offended by the players’ behavior, and no good will come to protecting and advancing the protesting players intentions, which seem to be to combat racism is this country. 

My proposed solution attempts to break the league out of the muck and mire before it swallows you up while making positive contributions to humanity. The main components of this plan include the following aspects:

- The players that are protesting the American flag, the national anthem, and insulting all service members and police forces across the country will contribute to a fund to address society’s problems. If these millionaire players want to make a statement, let them back up that statement with the financial resources that they can surely afford. I propose that the protesting players put up $100 million for this effort.

- You have many, many rich corporate sponsors. I would suggest that as good societal presences that they also put up a contribution to this effort, with the intention of matching the $100 million put up by the protesting players.

- With this $200 million fund, call it the NFL Player Humanity Fund, the funds would be distributed to worthy and credible charity and activist organizations that would address the problems facing society, especially minority neighborhood problems across the country:

Some of the funds would be used by minority organizations to build bridges and relationships with local police forces, to build understanding and compassion between those in the community and those that police those communities. These efforts would help increase police training sensitivity awareness and build positive community outreach programs between all parties involved in a community’s safety.
Some of these funds would be used to protect the nation’s urban youth from the violence that many of these kids faces on city streets everyday with help going to organizations like Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCAs, etc. that would provide a safe, constructive haven for urban youth.
Some of the funds would be used to help treat the drug addicted throughout the country and especially in urban areas, a plague that in some places is now more fatal than gun violence.
Some of the funds would be used to fund viable and accredited education institutions, especially in urban areas where city kids never seem to get the opportunity education-wise to break out of the cycle of poverty.
Some of the funds would be used to support those that have been injured in the line of duty of protecting the country, be it servicemen and women or police men and women, helping in their recovery from wounds and injuries or in the case of death, helping the families they left behind.

Once this fund is established, any player that continues to disrespect the flag and the anthem would be fined $1,000 per game, money that would go into the fund. That helps the fund grow to help others, puts some skin in the game for these wealthy players, and takes the fever out of the sore with fans who know that if a player continues to disrespect the flag and anthem at least some monetary support will go towards helping society.

Hopefully you get the idea. Players disrespecting the flag and country without a viable plan to fix what they protest come off to many Americans as spoiled rich brats who think a minute or two of disobedience in their million dollar careers actually accomplishes something. People upset with the players need to recognize that there are actual racism issues in this country that need to be addressed beyond a couple of minutes of protest. Kids in urban areas that are getting shot, drug addicted and under educated never have a chance at a better life that I am sure the protesting players and the protesting fans would want to see happen. And despite what  Kaepernick thinks and you condone, the vast majority of police officers in this country are not pigs.

You need to break this vicious cycle of everyone shouting at each other, accomplishing nothing. A program such as the NFL Humanity Fund would address the issues that fans, players, and the underprivileged in this country are facing and actually have a plan to get things done. It gives everyone something that is important to them and puts the league in a much better public relations position.

I am aware that the NFL and individual players already donate a large amount of funds and time to worthwhile efforts in communities across the country. However, most fans are not aware of that so the current player protests make them come off as selfish hypocrites. However, the players have upped the ante so to speak with their protests and disrespect and thus, the need to up the ante on combating racism and society’s problems have to be upped also.

I hope this proposal lands on an NFL desk of someone who is interested in breaking this cycle of yelling and protests, by both players and fans, that accomplish nothing. The NFL PLayer Humanity fund would get some good out of a bad situation that is getting worse. Ignore it at your own peril, die hard football fans like myself are not going to be patient forever, the volume of yelling that gets worse every week and accomplishes nothing is turning may of us off, many who just want to watch a football game and relax without all of the distractions that now surround the game for no good reason and which, most importantly,  accomplish nothing.

Sincerely,

Walter “Bruno” Korschek

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Why The American Political Class Continues To Be Just Pond Scum - Part 2

I struggled to come up with as theme and title of today’s discussion. Rather than get cute or inventive let’s call it for what it actually is: the American political class is comprised of a just downright scummy set of people. They lie, they cheat, they are greedy, they have no integrity, and they are incapable of resolving any of the major issues facing the country today. And the sad thing about it is that they have hijacked our political processes so that they continue to go unpunished with their despicable and dishonest behavior. 

1) Yesterday Hillary Clinton was a major component of the pond scum examples from the American political class that we discussed. We are going to start off today’s continuation of the political pond scum discussion with a major Hillary Clinton lie that Judicial Watch has uncovered via the court system and their Freedom Of Information Act efforts. Most of this latest Hillary lie pertain to misuse and illegal use of an illegal and unsecured computer server. 

Keep in mind as we go through these acts of idiocy and misuse of computer processes that Hillary lied when she claimed that she or her staff never sent classified and secret information in an unsecured manner:

• The latest Judicial Watch findings found that there were 97 classified email communications that were transmitted via Clinton’s unsecured computer server despite her lie that this type of behavior never happened.
• On March 8, 2009, Clinton sent classified information to former Senator George Mitchell via her unsecured server.
• On April 16 2009, Deputy Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman sent classified information to Hillary’s top aide Huma Abedin via the unsecured server.
• On June 18, 2009 Abedin sent classified information via meeting notes after a meeting with Congressional members and State Department representatives via the unsecured server.
• On June 23, 2009 diplomat Martin Indyk sent classified information about discussions with Israeli officials via the unsecured server.
• On August 1. 2009, Abedin sent classified information from State Department employee Richard Verna regarding Clinton’s upcoming African trip via the unsecured server.
• On August 4, 2009, Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman sent classified information about discussions with Kuwaiti officials to Abedin via the unsecured server.
• On September 20, 2009, Abedin sent classified information about foreign leaders’ discussions about a UN matter via the unsecured server.

You get the idea, I could go on for another several pages but the message is the same: Hillary and her staff used an unsecured server numerous times to send and receive classified information that pertained to foreign leaders and foreign affairs via an unsecure computer process even though Clinton claimed that classified information was never sent via her unsecured server.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton summarized the entire situation quite nicely: “The emails show ‘what happened’ was that Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin obviously violated laws about the handling of classified information and turned the State Department into a pay for play tool for the corrupt Clinton Foundation. The clear and mounting evidence of pay for play and mishandling of classified information warrant a serious criminal investigation by an independent Trump Justice Department.”

Hillary lying? No new news here.

2) Why does Hillary keep showing up in this discussion? During her pathetic book tour, she was recently interviewed on NPR radio and somehow came up with another pathetic excuse why she lost the 2016 Presidential election: “Women will have no empathy for you because they will be under tremendous pressure — and I’m talking principally about white women — they will be under tremendous pressure from fathers, and husbands, and boyfriends and male employers, not to vote for ‘the girl.'”

Yes, the over 30 million American women who voted for Trump voted for him in great part because Hillary thinks they were too weak to stand up to their husbands and boyfriends. Really? How little she thinks of American women in the year 2017, she did not screw up her chance to be President, millions of American women are too weak willed to vote for their candidate of choice, stuck under the heels of oppression from their husbands and boyfriends. Really, are you that out of touch?

3) James Comey was the director of the FBI until Trump fired him earlier in the year. As such, he was responsible for leading an impartial investigation of Hillary Clinton’s shenanigans regarding, among other things, the use of an unsecured computer server to send and receive classified government material.

One would like to think that the FBI is above politics, that it serves as a vanguard of integrity and honesty in the protection of the laws of the land. That in a sea of pond scum behavior of the current members of the American political class, the FBI rises above the fray to deliver justice based on facts and realities.

And as always when it comes to hope relative to politicians, that is not going to happen. We now know via official government documents that Comey was writing, circulating, and finalizing a speech he eventually gave to the American public that allowed Hillary Clinton to skate by unmolested relative to her use of an unsecured server BEFORE the FBI had started and/or completed major facets of its investigation. 

Thus, whatever results that were to be uncovered by the investigation were not going to matter, Comey had already pre-determined what the outcome would be. Thus, he damaged the reputation of the FBI for integrity and likely helped Hillary Clinton avoid answering for what were clearly illegal acts. If you cannot trust the FBI to do the right thing, then hope for a clean, law abiding political class is way too much to ask for.

That will do it for this two day discussion of review of how wretched the American political class has become. Liars (Hillary Clinton), degraders of American women (HIllary Clinton), and protecting the interests of each other (Comey).

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Why The American Political Class Continues To Just Be Pond Scum - Part 1

I struggled to come up with as theme and title of today’s discussion. Rather than get cute or inventive let’s call it for what it actually is: the American political class is comprised of a just downright pond scum set of people. They lie, they cheat, they are greedy, they have no integrity, and they are incapable of resolving any of the major issues facing the country today. And the sad thing about it is that they have hijacked our political processes so that they continue to go unpunished with their despicable and dishonest behavior. 

1) We have recently found out that the Obama administration actually did wiretap the Trump Presidential election phones in an unprecedented attack on the integrity of our voting processes. In no previous national election did the current President order a government invasion of privacy of an opposing party’s Presidential candidate. 

But up until now, the Obama administration falsely claimed that it was not wiretapping a political opponent. Consider the public comments of former Director Of National Intelligence director under Obama, James Clapper:

• Last year Clapper went on national television on the Meet The Press Sunday news show when Trump claimed that the government under Obama had wiretapped his campaign.
• Meet the Press host Chuck Todd asked Clapper point blank if the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump to which Clapper responded: “But I will say that, for the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against– the president elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign. I can’t speak for other Title Three authorized entities in the government or a state or local entity.”
• Todd then specifically asked Clapper if there was an FISA (secret court) order or FBI effort to wiretap Trump, two things that we now know actually occurred, to which Clapper responded: 

      TODD: Yeah, I was just going to say, if the F.B.I., for instance,         had a FISA court order of some sort for a surveillance, would           that be information you would know or not know?
      CLAPPER: Yes.

      TODD: You would be told this?

     CLAPPER: I would know that.

     TODD: If there was a FISA court order–

     CLAPPER: Yes.

     TODD: –on something like this.

     CLAPPER: Something like this, absolutely.

     TODD: And at this point, you can’t confirm or deny whether            that exists?

     CLAPPER: I can deny it.

But we should not be surprised that Clapper lied with a straight face to the whole country. Remember a few years ago how he denied in Congressional testimony, when he was under oath, and then claimed he “forgot” that the Obama administration via the NSA was spying on every American’s electronics communications. These people have no morals and no shame.

2) Let’s move onto one of the greatest political liars of all time, Hillary Clinton. We have talked a lot about her historical lies, like when she claimed she landed under hostile gunfire in Bosnia, when she falsely claimed that all of her grandparents were immigrants, etc. Kyle Smith, writing for the National Review on September 20, 2017, brought us up to date on some of Hillary’s more recent lies:

• Hillary Clinton: “As the FBI had confirmed, none of the emails I sent or received [via her private, unsecured computer server] was marked as classified.” False, since FBI Director James Comey said that was not true. Politifact, a liberal leaning fact checker, said it was a lie and the Washington Post gave Hillary four Pinocchios for this lie.
• Hillary Clinton: setting up the private server was not sinister, it was just a matter of “convenience” since it enabled her to carry only one electronic device. Given that she had a staff that probably numbered in the hundreds to take care of her every need and whim, she obviously had enough people who could schlep different devices around for her. The liberal leaning Washington Post gave this empty claim three Pinocchios.

I did not include all of her excuses of why she blew the election to Donald Trump, racism, sexism, the Russians, husbands forcing their wives to vote for Trump, Comey, etc. since they may not be classified as lies, she may actually believe these fantasies. In which case, they are not lies, just Hillary being so out of touch with reality.

3) Antifa is a collection of anarchists and violent thugs. They have attacked those that disagree with their violent tenets, they have attacked police officers, and police horses. They are a seriously deranged set of violent agitators.

Which has not stopped Hillary Clinton from taking money from her failed Presidential bid to actually fund this violent, vile, and anti-freedom group of people. According to Jane Kristy, writing for the eHeadlines website on September 19, 2017:

• Clinton’s Super PAC “Onward Together” sent over $800,000 to violent Antifa groups.
• The money went to the group Onward Together according to FEC filings, which in turn sent out funding to at least five Antifa groups.
• However, the one group that denied getting Hillary money via Onward Together did point out that Hillary linked groups had been helpful in getting their message of violence out into the world.

I wonder if those that contributed to Hillary’s Presidential run are happy with her now taking some of those funds to finance masked street thugs who would shred the Constitution if they could?

4) Early in Obama’s first term he showed disdain for Wall Street bankers, calling them “fat cats,” and blaming them for the Great Recession. He then proceeded to execute the following accomplishments:

• Number of bankers indicted by Obama for almost crashing the domestic and world economy - none
• Number of bankers prosecuted by Obama for almost crashing the domestic and world economy - none
• Number of bankers sent to jail by Obama for almost crashing the domestic and world economy - none

So even though Obama lambasted the bankers, none of them ever were in serious trouble of paying their debt to society for their hi jinks. And now we may know why Obama never went after the fat cat bankers. According to Kristie McDonald, writing for the eHeadlines website on September 19, 2017:

• Obama gave three speeches in the past month in front of different bank personnel and audiences and collected a cool $1.2 million for just three speeches.
• For example, he collected $400,000 for a single speech he gave to clients of Northern Trust.
• He also gave a secret speech to the private equity group, the Carlyle Group.
• Let’s review how much Obama supposedly disdained these bankers back in 2009 that are eventually going to add millions of dollars: “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on wall Street. They’re still puzzled why is it that people are mad at the banks. Well, let’s see. You guys are drawing down $10, $20 million bonuses after America went through the worst economic year that it’s gone through in — in decades, and you guys caused the problem. And we’ve got 10 percent unemployment.”

Sean Coffey, a Democratic donor, talking to Bloomberg, kind of summed up what we all know how Obama has no pride when it comes to personal greed: “Not everyone’s going to be a Jimmy Carter, who does purely good works after he gets out. I don’t think getting any grief for doing this is going to bother him [Obama] at all.”

So let’s review what we already knew: the political class lies (as we see with Clapper and Trump’s wiretapping), Hillary lies (about her illegal computer server), Hillary is funding anarchists with money that was never intended to be used for that purpose (funding of Antifa groups,) and Obama shows no shame, taking money from the very people he supposedly despised and falsely berated. 

More pond scum behavior to follow.

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September, 2017, Part 2, Why I Am A Global A Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: More Bogus Forecasts and Destroying The First Amendment For A Likely Myth

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 of 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 posts 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) William F. Buckley once said: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” Never was this more true when you see what global warming advocates, who typically would classify themselves as liberals, say and do to people like myself that want to have a discussion using ALL of the available research, data, and science rather than just cherry picking such research that only supports their position. 

Julie Kelly, writing for the National Review website on September 13, 2017, listed out the attacks that global warming/climate change advocates have launched against those of us that dare to desire a more comprehensive discussion of all climate data and research in her article, “Climate McCarthyism Is On The Rise.” These are the types of attacks and antics that small thinking people use when they cannot refute your claims and defend their claims with real science, a mature discussion, and logic:

• Liberal California Senator Kamala Harris grilled Trump nominee for the CIUA director job, Mike Pompeo, about his views on climate change during his confirmation hearing as if the CIA director had any control over climate policy even given Harris’s silly assertion and belief that somehow climate change leads to rising instability in the world. Somehow the nut cases running North Korea and Syria, Islamic radicalism, and Putin’s ego are less important than “climate change” relative to the CIA director’s job.
• Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert, during a press briefing on Hurricane Irma, was asked by CNN reporter Jim Acosta about climate change even though that was the totally inappropriate time to ask about the more global issue of climate change during a briefing on a very active hurricane. Acosta added to his idiocy by falsely claiming that big storms are more frequent (they are not - Florida had not been hit with a major hurricane since 2014, 13 years ago). Ms. Kelly accurately assesses Acosta’s statement: “This is your average grade-school understanding of science.”
• Congressman Jim Bridenstine, Trump’s pick to head NASA, is under fire because he correctly asserted a few years ago a factual reality that global warming had ceased rising over ten years ago. In this case being right based on actual data is being wrong in liberals’ minds. Besides being right about leveling off temps, Bridenstine is a member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, he is a decorated naval aviator, and staunch supporter of space exploration, and yet that is not enough to overcome his fault of telling the truth.
• Newsweek got into the Bridenstine bashing act by running an article called, “Who is Jim Bridenstine, the climate-change denier Trump picked to head NASA?” In their view, Bridenstine had the audacity to correct point out that “the climate has always changed,” a correct statement.
• Sam Clovis, a nominee for a scientific post in the Department of Agriculture, a post that has little to do with researching, affecting, or analyzing climate change, has been attacked by a whole host of global warming advocates for being a so-called climate skeptic including the Union of Concerned Scientists (whoever they are), Senator Chuck Schumer, and Senator Brian Schatz with the two Senators claiming that Clovis is “wildly unqualified for the position of USDA Chief Scientists” simply because he is a climate skeptic.
• But it is not just political appointees and government workers who face the wrath of global warming advocates. Talk show host Bill Maher hates those that dare to have a difference of opinion with him and other liberals: “These places that got flooded, like Texas, okay, they have a low tax base. So the federal government bails them out. Their governors, their legislators they don’t believe in climate science.” Two questions for Mr. Maher: 1) In your view, fellow Americans and human beings should be made to suffer because their views do not align with yours and 2) by the way, Texas is the second largest contribution to the Federal government tax stream so do not talk about “low tax base” nonsense.
• Even Pope Francis, who I believe has NO scientific training or background, got into the act recently during a flight on his Papal jumbo jet (can you say huge carbon footprint?) by stating that, “I am reminded of a phrase from the Old Testament, from the Psalm: ‘Man is stupid. When you don’t want to see, you don’t see.’” While he was directing this passage to those of us that are global warming doubters, it could just as easily been directed to global warming advocates who only choose to see data, research, and science that supports their one sided views. Thus, the statement is useless in deciding what is really going on climate wise.

We have gone down a very dangerous path relative to the First Amendment and scientific accuracy when those of us with a different, fact-based opinion are attacked for those positions, denied access to jobs that have nothing to do with climate, and told to suffer just for having an informed opinion.

2) We have often pointed out the reality that global warming alarmist forecasts of flooding, savage storms, extensive wildfires, and other climate calamities would engulf the Earth by 2017 have always been wrong and wrong to an incredible degree. And thus, at some point when the Chicken Little forecasts never come true you really should take a step back and regard any climate forecast with a huge grain of salt.

Andrew West writing for the Constitution.com website on September 19, 2017, summarized the latest findings regarding failed global warming forecasts:

• A landmark piece of research, that was recently published in the publication Nature Geoscience, concluded that computer models by global warming advocate scientists and the impact of carbon dioxide on the Earth’s climate were dead out wrong and the planet is warming much more slowly that forecasted.
• According to the Mr. West, “The paper – titled Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C – concedes that it is now almost impossible that the doomsday predictions made in the last IPCC Assessment Report of 1.5 degrees C warming above pre-industrial levels by 2022 will come true. In order for that to happen, temperatures would have to rise by a massive 0.5 degrees C in five years.”
• Since the planet’s temperature rarely has risen as much as .25 degrees in a DECADE, this means that based on historical data and trends, the Earth’s temperature at best would have to do 20 years worth of warming in the next five years.
• Mr. West accurately concludes that, “This, the scientists admit, is next to impossible. Which means their ‘carbon budget’ – the amount of CO2 they say is needed to increase global warming by a certain degree – is wrong. This in turn means that the computer models they’ve been using to scare the world with tales of man-made climate doom are wrong too.”

The best test of a forecast model’s accuracy is to see how closely that model actually predicts reality. In this case, it has failed miserably as have every other global warming doomsday forecast models. At some point, you just want Chicken Little-like science to just go away.

That will do it for this month’s discussion on “why I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” The destruction of the First Amendment and the scientific method and the reality that every global warming model has been wrong, sounds about right and reinforces the notion that it is perfectly sane to be a global warming, and man made climate change, doubter.

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September, 2017, Part 1, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Messing With The Data, Celebrities' Inane Climate Opinions 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 of 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 posts 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) For real science to have any basis for credibility and believability, the underlying raw data that scientific research and conclusions are based on must be pure and unadulterated. Global warming advocates over the years, as we have pointed out, have often been caught manipulating underlying raw data to better attain their predetermined conclusions they wanted the raw data to show. This is not science, this hokum.

Well, according to John Nolte, writing for the Daily Wire website on August 1, 2017, this data manipulation has not stopped by certain global warming advocates:

• Nolte cites work done by the Daily Caller website which found that for the second time in just three years the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) in Australia has been caught tampering with raw climate temperatures.
• According to experts familiar with the data manipulation, the changed raw data changed a "slight cooling trend to one of 'dramatic warming' over the past century."
• When, in 2014, the BOM stated that there was nothing shady about the action to "modify the physical temperature records that had been recorded at weather stations across the country,” Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, said the changed raw data led to a “dramatic change in temperature trend towards warming after homogenisation.” [Note - homogenisation = correcting for so-called anomalies in raw data, which is impossible since raw data is raw data, it was what was recorded and thus, does not need to be adjusted after the fact.]
• The latest data manipulation scandal includes the BOM admitting that incorrect data was used instead of the raw data that was initially recorded but the BOM blamed faulty equipment and that was the reason they changed the raw data.
• However, it appears that the only raw data “adjusted” was temperatures that were to cold to fit the pre-conceived theory of global warming.
• For instance, the article cites one temperature data point that was recorded as 5.54 degrees but was changed to 13 degrees in the final data set, not a minor adjustment.
• Apparently, none of the warmer temperature's records were reduced to cooler temps as a result of “faulty equipment.”

Just another example where certain global warming advocates have put theories, and often government grants, ahead of solid science.

2) Sam Di Gangi, writing for the Teddy Stick website on July 26, 2017, pulled together a bunch of global warming information from various sources to show, using real, unadjusted data, that global warming is likely a myth:

• He cites a recent Gateway Pundit article that contained recent NASA data relative to the height of the Earth’s oceans.
• The NASA data actually shows that if anything, sea levels are actually falling, not rising as predicted by people like Al Gore:

• The Iceagenow website concluded from this real government data that, “NASA satellite sea level observations for the past 24 years show that – on average – sea levels have been rising 3.4 millimeters per year. That’s 0.134 inches, about the thickness of a dime and a nickel stacked together, per year.” but that sea levels actually fell in 2016, something not predicted by global warming advocates.
• Consider the opinion of Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Morner: “The sea is not rising... It hasn’t risen in 50 years when studied in the fullness of the data available….It has been popular to threaten small islands and low-lying coasts with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea levels changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.”
• He goes on to state that, “for 35 years [he and others have] have been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe.” and that “the elementary laws of physics” work to tell us that “the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co. could not possibly come about.”

Is Nils-Axel Morner smarter than Al Gore’s scientists? Possibly not. But shouldn’t Morner get a seat at the table when adults decide what is really going on with climate as opposed to just listening to and trusting a former politician with no formal scientific research training?

3) If there is anything worse than scientists manipulating raw data, it is Hollywood celebrities thinking that 1) they are scientists and 2) that they are smarter than everyone else. Consider the climate hysteria and idiocy of some celebrities in the light of recent hurricanes (keeping in mind that there has not been a major hurricane to hit Florida since 2014 despite Al Gore-like claims that hurricanes would become more frequent and more intense):

• Actress Jennifer Lawrence has figured out that Hurricane Harvey and Irma were a result of Mother Nature’s wrath for electing Trump as President.
• Then that brilliant scientist, who masquerades as a documentary filmmaker, Michael Moore, criticized Trump for not using his Mar-A-Lago country club as a disaster relief center, ignoring the simple reality that the country club is on a barrier island with water on all sides of it and sits in a mandatory evacuation zone, a simple fact check that Mr. Moore apparently did not make.
• Comedian and part time scientist Sarah Silverman cited six states (Florida, Texas, Washington, Montana, California, Oregon) that were undergoing natural disasters, hurricanes, wildfires, etc., and concluded from these six states that all Republicans “don’t believe in science,” but somehow forgot to check that four of the six states she cited currently have Democrats as governors (Washington, Montana, California, Oregon).

Tough to tell which is worse: failed forecasts from global warming advocates, scandalously changing raw data to serve a pre-determined scientific finding, or celebrities who are clueless. None of them contribute to an adult, mature, through discussion of the Earth’s climate and mankind’s interaction with it.

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September, 2017, Part 3, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: Single Payer Still Sucks and Americans Still Suffering

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, sugar, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and copays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care., To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

1) In our previous post we reviewed all of the analysis and studies that have been done to put a single payer health care system into effect in this country and what the cost would be. We found that even the most liberal states that have looked into a single payer system have shied away from it since it would cost so much money and deliver less than stellar healthcare. In most cases, the states found that every household in that state on average would have to see their tax burden rise by over $25,000 a year. That post can be read at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2017/09/september-2017-part-2the-unfolding.html

Bernie Sanders has proposed a single payer healthcare system in this country that he has dubbed “Medicare For All.” As with any single payer system, Bernie’s system would put the Federal government in charge of every aspect of one’s health care using Medicare as the basis is for the single payer system. Never mind the reality that Medicare is rushing towards fiscal insolvency and loses about $60 billion a year to fraud and wasteful spending. Bernie wants to double down on this disaster.

How much of a disaster is this plan? Well, a recent analysis from the iPatriot website went to the Medicare website and figured out how much a young American just entering the workplace would have to pay to be part of Bernie’s “Medicare For All” system. As you will see, the Bernie claim that everyone would get “free healthcare”: is not quite accurate:

• Using the Medicare website, www.medicare.gov, let’s start off with Medicare Part A.
• A young person who has been the workforce for less than seven a half years would be paying $413 a month for Part A.
• But they would not be able to access Part A benefits until the fulfilled a $1,316 deductible each year.
• Part B would cost that young American at least $134 a month but they could only access that benefit after fulfilling an annual deductible of $183 and even after passing the deductible they would still have to pay 20% of any medical bills incurred under Part B.
• So, already this young American is paying $547 a month before paying for deductibles but there are more Parts to pay for. Part C, which would cover vision, dental and hearing needs can range from $30 to $200 a month.
• If we assume the midpoint or so for Part C, about $100, then the monthly “Medicare For All” cost is now $647 a month.
• Part D, which covers prescription medicines, costs $10 to $100 a month so taking the midpoint of so, say $53, the monthly cost for the first four parts of Medicare is now about $700 a month.
• But don’t forget you cannot partake of the Part D benefit until you fulfill the $400 annual deductible.
• If you go for Parts G and H, which would help pay for the excess charges under Part B, that will cost you another $50 a month but only after you fulfill an annual $2,100 deductible.

Thus, using current government data, the annual Medicare cost for a single young American is about $750 a month, $8,500 a year which cannot be fully accessed until that person pays upwards of $2,700 in deductibles. This brings the possible annual cost to about $11,200 year. Does not sound like “free” healthcare to me.

And as always when dealing with government cost estimates, these are the current estimates. You know it is highly unlikely these costs will stay flat or go down over time so the $11,200 is likely a low ball estimate for one person.

The other factor that no one bothers to discuss with the single payer system is how many and what quality people will be enticed to enter medicine if the government controls everything including what the future doctors get paid and how they can practice. What quality student is willing to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars to become a certified doctor only to be ruled and controlled by inane and idiotic politicians and government bureaucrats? 

Thus, not only would costs go up, but health care quality would likely go down as the number of quality, smart doctors decreases over time. Higher costs, lower quality, not exactly a winning formula.

2) As we have discussed many times, people like Bernie Sanders keep trying to apply an insurance solution to a public health problem. If you can fix some of the root causes of our high health care costs, e.g. Americans eat too much, Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, Americans do not exercise enough, etc., than overall health goes up and health care costs, and thus insurance costs, go down.

Consider some simple and stark realities about poor eating habits that were discussed in a Fortune magazine article from the March 1, 2017 issue:

• On average, every American eats about 76 pounds of sugar every year.
• The sugar amount a consumer eats every year on average is up 8% since 1970, i.e. Americans from a sugar perspective are eating less healthy than they did almost 50 years ago.
• A study by The Lancet found that a whopping 74% of packaged goods on supermarket shelves across the country contain some sort of sweetener, either sugar or artificial sweeteners.

America does not have a health insurance problem, America has a dietary problem that results in obesity which results in diabetes, heart disease, hip and knee replacements, and a whole slew of other maladies. Fix the dietary problem and our infested food chain, and you go a long way to fixing the health insurance problem.

3) Every month when we address the unfolding disasters of Obama Care, we usually finish up the discussion with real life stories of Americans whose lives and health have been severely disrupted by Obama Care. The source of most of our stories comes from the website:

www.ourhealthcarestories.com

Let’s continue that habit below:

KEN - COLORADO: My wife and I have been on the same health insurance plan for 12 years. The cost of that plan has gone up 110% in the last three years and we had to go with different plan due to the cost. The new plan covers less with higher deductibles. It is due to the Obamacare act. We called BCBS to ask why the cost has gone up each year (that's three calls, one a year) we were told the same each time, to get ready for the new health care act. So much for cheaper insurance. IT IS A SAD, RECKLESS LAW! All those who voted for it should be ashamed for what they did!

P.S. We are now slaves to our government, we now have to buy something from a private company or pay a fine, to live in this country.

DAVID - MICHIGAN: I received a letter from my insurance company that I was going to lose my insurance coverage due to obamacare. In order to keep my plan the way I had it but to make aca compliant my premium would raise from $430 a month to $699 a month.which is not affordable at all or my out of pocket deductible would go from $5000 to $15000. Which is also not affordable[. . .]It would be cheaper for me to pay [the] fine/tax then it would be to go with obamacare.

RENAY - WASHINGTON: Our insurance has DOUBLED! My husband is self employed and we have ALWAYS had insurance we bought on the open market, meaning we don't get it subsidized by an employer or government. We had a plan with a high deductible and low monthly cost because it worked perfectly for us. Of course, we didn't get to keep our insurance if we liked it (we were lied to by Obama) and our insurance didn't go down $2500. (we were lied to by Obama). Our insurance went from $500/month to $988/month. Our deductible went from $10,000. to $12,000. and with less coverage than we had before.

When Obama realized that he was caught in his lie and started handing out waivers to 'allow' us to keep our old insurance, I called our state insurance commissioner and said Obama said we could keep it. His office said they were not going to and just keep on as they were. I had looked at the exchanges and noticed that every insurance plan sold was almost EXACTLY the same in price. I also mentioned this to the insurance commissioner office that it didn't look like competition but more like price fixing and racketeering.

I asked what would happen to my complaints and I was told that they weren't even put into a complaint system and that nothing would be done about it! Yes, this is the government we have here in Washington state. We have an insurance commissioner that the only thing I can see that he does is when insurance companies ask for rate hikes (and we had double digit ones every year prior to Obamacare) he wrings his hands and allows ALMOST as much as they asked for and thinks he did a good job for the 'people.'

CHARLOTTE - NEW HAMPSHIRE: When my husband and I lost our long time insurance coverage due to the company's withdrawal from NH after ACA, we went shopping and discovered that we had only 2 options available: we could go through an exchange and lose all our doctors (because Concord Hospital was not an ACA networked provider) or we could pay $5000 more than we were paying before to get an outside-the-exchange plan that would require us to meet a $7000 deductible, covered none of our preventative care (nutrition / chiropractic / dental), but allowed us to keep our doctors. We chose the second option because losing all our doctors after working 9 years to find good ones was too much to bear. 

My family is now actively avoiding health care. We are just scraping by. Ever since the recession it's been one thing after another and now we're being nickeled and dimed to death. My husband was having chest pains / shortness of breath the other day and after speaking with a nurse he chose not to go into the ER because he said having to find a way to pay off another $3500 would have killed him for sure as he struggles to provide for our family (something that was much easier for him 6 years ago). This on top of all the infringements on conscience rights through the HHS mandate, the complete lack of private health records, and the rationing of Medicare through IPAB. 

I'm all for helping people with pre-existing conditions to get the care they need...but there were other ways of doing it without government takeover of health care.

CAROLYN - KANSAS: CBS News has confirmed millions nationwide will be losing their current insurance coverage. That's because it doesn't meet the new minimum requirements under the Affordable Care Act. There could be thousands of Kansans in that total.

The letters started going out last month, telling Kansans their insurance policies will be discontinued at the end of the year.

"I'm self-employed," said Carolyn Perry. She runs a day care out of her home. "So I need the coverage cause anything can happen at any given time."

She's among those the Affordable Care Act was meant to help.

"But the premium that I'm paying now is twice as much as what it was when I first started paying it," she said. Perry buys her own health insurance. So far, she's keeping it.

Another month, another set of stories of higher insurance premiums, higher deductibles, and politicians who still do not understand that no matter how much you apply an insurance solution to a public health problem you will still never fix the issue of high healthcare costs in this country. More unfolding disasters of Obama Care next month.

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