There is a lot going on in the world: Obama and Russiagate findings, Middle East powder keg, the Russian/Ukrainian war, Federal government shutdown, etc. But through all this, the American political class continues to constantly deliver its own special brand of insanity, stupidity, wasteful taxpayer spending, and ineffective government programs.
1)Democrats and liberals have been yelling at us for over thirty years relative to the myth of climate change/global warming. All of their hand wringing and yelling has turned out to be mythical: temperatures have not gone through the roof, the ice caps have not melted, coastal lands have not been flooded over, etc. In fact, their global warming forecasts turned out to be so wrong that they had to do a whole rebranding effort to evolve from global warming hysteria to climate change hysteria.
In many liberal parts of the country such as California, politicians went overboard and tried their hardest to get rid of traditional sources of energy and replace them with renewable sources of energy. This has resulted in Californians having the highest energy and gas prices in the country as the climate change plans the politicians embarked on were not practical or cost efficient. They continued wasting money on climate change efforts despite the fact that the myths of global warming and climate change have been pretty clear to just about everyone else.
The latest debacle of the state’s renewable energy push has recently come crashing down:
Eleven years ago, the state of California spent $2.2 billion to build a huge solar energy plant.
Federal taxpayers donated $1.6 billion of the $2.2 billion cost.
Unfortunately, 11 years after being put into service it is already being shut down because it never met the original promises of clean energy.
Beside not meeting expectations, the technology that was put in place is already deemed outdated.
Not only did the power generated disappoint, but the technology has been responsible for at least 6,000 bird deaths each year.
The technology used massive movable mirrors (over 173,000 of them) to focus the sun on a central facility that resulted in tremendous heat, heat that was used to turn water into steam and to power steam turbines that produced the energy.
However, birds that flew into the focused sun rays immediately burned up.
Back in 2011 when the project was proposed, Obama's Energy Secretary, Ernest Moniz called it “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”
Obviously, he was wrong if the whole project is being shut down in just 11 years.
This was obviously a Rube Goldberg approach to solar energy: spread out 173,000 mirrors over acres and acres of ground, try to accurately focus the sun to bounce off of 173,000 moving mirrors as a day progressed and the sun moved across the sky, focus the reflections off of a large steam generator. What could go wrong?
Let’s do some simple math: the project cost $2.2 billion:
A rough estimate says that it costs about $22,000 to put solar panels on a typical American home.
Thus, that $2.2 billion could have put solar panels on about 100,000 homes.
The typical warranty for home solar cell installations is at least 25 years, often more.
Putting this all together means that, in theory, that $2.2 billion could have solar powered EVERY home in a city such as Fort Lauderdale/Florida or Irving/Texas, or Little Rock/Arkansas for at least 25 years with simple roof top solar panels installations, a process that would not kill 6,000 birds a year.
But rather than go simple and effective, the politicians in the state and Washington went grandiose, expensive and doomed to failure. The Washington political class cannot run a postal system effectively, they cannot run a "National Do Not Call” list effectively, they cannot operate within the confines of the tax dollars they collect. What makes anyone think that they can manage the climate and the technology they think is critical to the future of the planet?
2)Let’s face it, the United Nations has been almost a total failure since its creation after World War II, failures that continue today:
Failure to end the Ukranian/Russian.
Failure to bring peace to the Middle East.
Failure to end terrorism.
Failure to improve the lives of mankind.
The list goes on but the list of notable failures far outweighs the list of any type of success. As a result, American taxpayers pay out big bucks every year to support the UN but get and see anything worthwhile in return for their investment:
A recent Gallup poll shows that a lot of Americans hold a pessimistic view of the UN.
63% of those polled perceive the UN’s performance as “poor.”
Only 32% believe it is doing a “good” job.
60% consider the UN as necessary but that number is trending downwards.
Republicans hold a much more pessimistic view of the UN than Democrats.
The old saying says that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. For 80 years the American taxpayer has basically underwritten the financial viability of this organization that has no real accomplishments to speak of for over 80 years. And yet, the American taxpayer continues to pay for nothing.
3)We have talked many times about the many failures of the Biden administration. The latest two conversations on this topic can be accessed at:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ever-growing-list-of-biden-failures.html
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ever-growing-list-of-biden-failures_24.html
To these lists we should add another failure and corruption of the governing process in Washington:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington issues monthly estimates of how many jobs the economy has created the previous month.
This is a critical measurement process since it is an important measurement of the health of the economy and how well Americans are doing financially from a job availability perspective.
Thus, timely accuracy is critical for businesses and residents to make economic decisions.
Up until the Biden administration, one rarely questioned the integrity of the estimates or how they were calculated, a run of success that ended with the Biden administration.
It looks like the Bureau of Labor Statistics artificially inflated the number of jobs created by Biden’s economic policies.
And the inflation was not a small number since the Bureau eventually reduced the estimated number of jobs created in the country during the Biden aera by a whopping 818,000 jobs.
Thus, it looked like the Biden economy was doing much better than it actually was at the time of the estimates when in reality the estimates were inflated.
The Bureau eventually reduced their estimates much later by the 818,000 number mentioned above.
This was the largest downward revision in 15 years.
When the government manipulates numbers and estimates for political purposes, everyone loses. People and businesses make decisions based on faulty data just because someone wants to improve their political careers. It also brings doubt into people’s mind that if this government statistic is tainted, what other government statistics are also tainted. A sad commentary on government integrity.
4)As a nasty, and a very often fatal aspect of Biden’s failed immigration policies, is the reality that Mexican drug cartels were able to flood personnel and deadly drugs into the country, setting up operations around the country. This not only resulted in thousands of Americans dying from drug overdoses but the enrichment of the cartels, making them even more of a violent threat to their enemies and future drug addicts.
However, there was some recent good news in the effort to curb drug trafficking and the resultant overdose deaths:
A recent successful operation by the Federal government and Trump administration resulted in the arrest of over 600 alleged cartel operatives across the country.
Many of those arrested were associated with the Mexican Sinola drug cartel, a cartel that has flooded the country with fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and counterfeit pills.
The crackdown operation spanned five days and that short time the Feds uncovered over half a ton of fentanyl powder among other heavy volumes of other drugs.
Since two milligrams of fentanyl is enough to kill a person, half a ton can theoretically kill millions of Americans.
And the arrests were not just at the southern border, they were throughout the country.
In Franklin, New Hampshire, 27 people were arrested in connection with drug trafficking in that town.
In all of New England, far from the southern border, 171 people were arrested, $1.3 million in cash was confiscated, and more than 22,000 fake pills were taken off of the street.
The good news is that mega amounts of deadly drugs have been taken off of the streets, some very bad people were arrested, and the cartel cash flow was at least temporarily curtailed. The bad news is that the battle to protect Americans from all types of illegal drugs is still a big job that will continue as long as there is a demand for the drugs in his country. Beating up the supply of illegal drugs is good but the real battle is won when the demand for those drugs dries up.
Enough for today: a small victory against the Mexican drug cartels, destroying government statistical integrity, the United Nations history of failures continues, and another solar energy project dies a premature death.
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