To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.
1) The coronavirus crisis has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people dying around the world. It has probably caused millions of people to get sick. Those that have died have often been in quarantined conditions and died alone, away from their loved ones. Millions of people have lost their jobs that plunged them into depression and worries about feeding their families, keeping their homes, etc.
And yet CNN has absolutely no compassion for these folks. In a time of personal, national and international crisis, CNN’s Bill Weir went live with a story that he thought that coronavirus was actually a good thing since it buys us some time relative to global warming, saying that the virus “has helped humanity buy some time against global warming.” He also asserts, apparently with no data or research whatsoever, that the virus was caused by too much deforestation.
Never mind that global warming basically stopped about two decades ago which is why the global warming advocates had to rebrand global warming as climate change. Never mind that there is no doubt that the virus either came out of a wet market in China that was dealing with the sale of exotic foods, like bats, or out of a lab in Wuhan, China. It has nothing to do with deforestation.
CNN has done some really stupid and ignorant things over the past couple of years that we have covered in this blog. They are no longer an unbiased, reputable source of news and reality. And apparently they longer have anyone with compassion on their staff. People are dying, people are getting very sick, people are losing their jobs and this CNN employee thinks that, hey, this is all pretty good from a global warming perspective. Sad and sick reporting with absolutely horrible timing in a time of loss and remorse.
No wonder that most nights cable TV viewers would rather tune into a mushy movie on the Hallmark Channel or watch Cupcake Wars on the Food Channel. CNN no longer has a shred of sensitivity or respectability when in a time of crisis they are totally tone deaf to the suffering of millions, pushing a topic that frankly, millions of people could not care one iota about the midst of death, suffering and financial strain.
2) There is no doubt that the coronavirus came from China. There is also no doubt that the Chinese Communist government and leadership covered up the potential danger of the virus from the rest of the world at the onset of the virus spreading. They are culpable for the deaths and destruction the virus has caused.
And yet, that didn't stop the California governor, Gavin Newsom, from signing a $1 billion deal with China to buy face masks from a company in that country. Now, this could have been a great deal from a cost and timing perspective. There has been a big shortage of masks since Obama ignored the recommendations coming out of his mishandled flu epidemic in 2009 that the country stockpile masks.
But the shady thing about this deal, besides giving China a billion dollars of American taxpayer wealth for help in resolving a crisis that China created, is that Newsom refuses to divulge the details of the deal, even to his Democratic colleagues in the California state legislature:
- Two weeks after agreeing to the deal and after already paying half of the $1 billion, Newsom has provided no details of the deal to the press or his fellow politicians.
- Newsom is paying $1 billion for 200 million masks, of which 150 million are the important N95 masks.
- This comes out to $5.00 per mask.
- But if I just go to Home Depot's website, I can buy an N95 mask, at retail, for anywhere from only $2- $3 a mask.
- Thus, is Newsom not providing details because the Chinese ripped him off along with the California taxpayers?
- The LA Times and the San Francisco Chronicle have not been able to get the details of the deal and neither have members of the legislature.
- According to Phil Ting of the Assembly’s Budget Committee: “It would be great to get a heads-up directly from the governor’s office rather than watching it on national TV. We don’t have any information as to how many masks we’re buying, who we’re buying them from, at what price … What are we obligated? For how long are we obligated?”
- Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Holly Mitchell went so far as sending a letter to the governor asking for details: “Under normal circumstances, the Legislature would have had more time to deliberate an expenditure of this magnitude and would have been allowed to thoroughly vet the details of the contract before proceeding.”
- A member of the governor’s staff put forth the most ridiculous explanation for the lack of visibility into the contract in that he claimed that providing the specifics of the deal would risk disrupting the supply line of masks, a most inane and ridiculous argument to make.
Something is rotten in the state of California. The head of the executive branch throwing around a billion dollars of taxpayer wealth which looks like a horrible deal with the country that caused the problem in the first place. And refusing to disclose elementary details fo the deal to his political friends while coming up with a most stupid reason for not sharing.
Obviously, the sunshine does not shine within Newsom’s administration. And when sunshine does not shine on government operations, that is when government operations are usually corrupt, inefficient, or ineffective.
3) The people in Michigan have been the most vocal set of citizens objecting to the authoritarian lock down their governor has subjected them to. They have taken to the streets in the state capital asking for some relief from some of the really stupid rules the governor has laid down:
- Michigan citizens cannot purchase paint during the crisis unless they buy it from a store that is smaller than 50,000 square feet.
- They cannot buy garden equipment or seeds to plant unless they buy it from a store that is under 50,000 square feet.
- They are not allowed to travel to their second homes even if they would not come in contact during transit.
- They are not allowed to pay someone to cut their lawn even if they do not come anywhere close to those cutting the lawn.
Which is why the actions of a certain Michigan citizen are great:
- Attorney Nicholas Somberg is a Michigan attorney.
- He showed up at a recent protest event at the governor’s mansion to protest the stringent and unreasonable lock down rules.
- He also brought a weed whacker with the intention of helping clean up the governor’s mansion lawn since it was forbidden by her own rules to hire anyone to cut one’s lawn.
- But to his surprise, the governor's lawn was finely trimmed and looking good, something that it is highly unlikely the governor did herself, probably paying someone to do it for her.
That will do it for today’s insanity: hypocrisy and stupidity in Michigan, potentially shady financial dealings in California, and CNN being totally out of touch with humanity and compassion.
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