Aoril, 2016, Part 2, Polticial Class Insanity: Hillary Sucking Up FBI Resources, Another John Kerry Stupid Idea, Fighting Ourselves in Syria and More

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

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

It looks like our politicians have been especially insane over the past month or so let’s get started a day early with the latest insanity from today’s American politicians:

1) Hillary Clinton has constantly asserted that she never broke the law and never did anything wrong or illegal regarding having an easily hackable computer server in her own house to do State Department work and communications on. The FBI would probably beg to differ since according to recent news reports, including ones from the Clinton friendly Washington Post, there are a whopping 147 FBI FBI agents investigating all of the insanity of Hillary Clinton and her time in the State Department.

Since there are about 14,000 FBI agents across the country, that means that over 10% of the FBI agent resources are being used to investigate the many likely infractions of Hillary. 10% of agent resources that cannot be used to combat domestic and international terrorism, 10% of the agents that cannot be used to help secure the border. 10% of the agents that cannot be used to combat gang violence in our inner cities. 

What a tremendous waste of resources that Clinton has caused to occur because she never likely followed Federal laws and government protools on data and computer security. If ashe had any class,she would terminate her campaign, face the music on her lawbreaking, go away,and let these 10% of FBI agents get on with the more important job of protecting Americans. But you know she won’t, like any other American politician today, it is always all about her and them, never about America or Americans.

2) Sometimes when we do these insanity posts, you just have to shake your head and say what the heck is going on, who is in charge and why all of the stupidity? The latest bad news out of Syria is that two different militias have been fighting each other. No big news there, in any armed conflict and civil war you can expect different groups to be fighting each other in the chaos of war.

But only the American political class could arm two different militias which end up fighting each other. According to recent news reports, one militia has been armed by the CIA while another militia has been armed by the Pentagon. Insanity, the American taxpayer funding different groups of fighters in Syria that are fighting each other. You cannot make this up.

In the past two months, CIA-armed rebels have been fighting Pentagon-armed rebels in northern Syria near the Turkish border by the city of Aleppo. In February, a CIA-armed militia called the Knights of Righteousness, was routed out of the town of Marea by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east.

As with every other Obama administration effort and program in Syria, it has been a disaster. Now, when you have your allies shooting eachother with U.S. taxpayer funded American weapons, you can only conclude that the OBama administration still s no control or idea what is going on in Syria, a situation that it has managed to make worse with every effort it has launched.

3) Bill Maher has usually been a staunch defender of Obama, reportedly having donated over a million dollars to Obama campaign organizations and efforts over the years. So when Maher disagrees with the President and the insanity of his lies and deceptions, one has to sit up and take notice.

Obama recently asserted that “99.9%” of Muslims do not support radical Islamic elements and terror groups, just a small slice does. But Maher on a recent edition of his HBO show was having none of it: “But it’s not one small slice. You know, everybody talks about this, like there are no numbers. Obama said it’s very important for us to align ourselves with the 99.9% of Muslims who are looking for the same thing we’re looking for, order, peace, prosperity. I love the president, but he just pulled that number right out of his a**. There are numbers. We had a guest on a couple of weeks ago, Raheel Raza. … She goes by the numbers. That’s what her video was called. 53% of the population of 39 Muslim countries that were surveyed want, Sharia Law. sharia law, death for leaving Islam, death for insulting the prophet, or the Koran, stoning a woman to death for adultery, amputation for theft, whipping for missing Friday prayers ,or drinking alcohol. The numbers vary from country to country, but this idea that it’s just this small problem, the reason why this is a unique problem…. The New York Times says there are 5,000 militant Islamic groups in the world, armies, like Boko Haram, and ISIS, and the Taliban, and al Qaeda, intent — they want to get nuclear weapons, support from the local population. I’m not saying most people want to commit terrorist acts, I’m saying they have illiberal ideas, that are sometimes in line with what the terrorists believe, and recent events.”

So much like previous posts where we showed how a lot of long time Obama supporters were finally seeing him for his deceiving self, it looks like Maher may be joining that group, actually looking at real numbers based on real research rather blindly accept numbers that Obama pulls out of thin air, 99.9%. 

The insanity here is that even Bill Maher, donator of loads of money to Obama’s political efforts and campaign, realizes that just because this President says something, does not mean it is true.

4) We have never been a big fan of John Kerry. Although a millionaire many times over, long ago we reported on how he stored his large yacht in Rhode Island rather than the state he represented in the Senate, to avoid higher Massachusetts boat taxes. Rather than execute real diplomacy and sympathy in the wake of the 2015 Paris terrorists attacks, he lamely flew James Taylor over to Europe to lamely sing “You’ve Got A Friend” in the absence of having any real plan to support the French in their times of need. Rather than have a real military, intelligence, and diplomatic strategy to combat ISIS, he met with Hollywood bigwigs about coming up with a Hollywood production to combat ISIS.

To this insanity, we today add another, new John Kerry embarrassment. He and his State Department has pulled together $1.5 million in U.S. taxpayer wealth to finance the production of a television show to combat ISIS in Afghanistan. Let me say that again for emphasis: $1.5 million in U.S. taxpayer wealth will be used to finance the production of a television show to combat ISIS in Afghanistan. Pathetic excuse for diplomacy and real strategy development.

The State Department announced that it has put up $1.5 million in a grant to develop and produce a drama series that is supposed to be “countering violent extremism among young people in contemporary Afghan society. The drama will be grounded in reality, but will also contain compelling creative content (i.e. storytelling, resonant narratives, strong characters, sophisticated production, etc.),In short, it will strive to be entertaining while challenging viewers to engage in critical thinking by placing characters in situations where they are faced with a choice: support universal values of tolerance and peace or be drawn into the dark world of extremism.”

Two small problems with this wasting of $1.5 million: how many people in the Afghan countryside of have televisions, where the terrorists are likely to be strongest, actually have televisions in their homes? Afghanistan is one ofthe poorest countries in the world I would bet that a 48 inch Sony is not a top priority for them and their families. Second, forget televisions,how many Afghan homes even have electricity to operate a televisions that likely to not own., What a boneheaded program, does no one at the State Department even think about this insanity before they waste taxpayer wealth?

5) Brent Scher, writing for the Washington Free Beacon on March 28, 2016, highlighted another problem that Hillary Clinton has in addition to her email server fiasco, Benghazi, overall lack of trustworthiness, and other issues. Clinton once praised Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as “setting a global standard” on how to fight corruption. But a recent New York Times report that massive protests against the corruption of Rousseff’s administration included about half a million citizens. That’s a lot of outraged citizens.

Rousseff’s problems include a myriad of different things including possible impeachment, taking bribes, protecting cronies, kickbacks involving businesses competing for government contracts, government accounting and financial hanky-panky, etc. But somehow Hillary Clinton thinks that Rousseff is setting some sort of high standard in the fight against corruption. Insane.

That will do it for today's insanity. Hillary Clinton not having a good grasp “global standard” against government corruption is, John Kerry’s State Department’s latest stupid idea on how to combat terrorism, another Obama supporter calling him out for his deceptions, fighting ourselves in Syria, and wasting government resources because Hillary Clinton was too arrogant to follow the rules and laws when it comes to government data security. More insanity tomorrow.

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The Obama Epic Fail Series. Part 3A - Foreign Policy

We are going to take a few days and discuss the track record of the Obama Presidency across several perspectives. The impetus for this discussion and review was the fact that when the world leaders and millions of French men and women rallied in France to protest and take a stand against global Islamic terrorism, this President embarrassed himself and the United States by NOT attending the gathering of world leaders in Paris. In our opinion, this was an epic fail and a missed historical opportunity.

Not only did he not attend, no high ranking member of his administration bothered to make the trip either. While world leaders of over 40 countries attended and high ranking officials of other countries made the trip, the highest ranking U.S. person was just the current French ambassador.

This snub of the French is a tremendous, and possibly historic, missed opportunity. This could have been a defining moment in the Obama Presidency where he rallied the rest of the world in its fight against global terrorism. The whole world was watching but apparently the President was back in the White House, rumored to be watching NFL football games instead of leading in Paris. 

If Obama was a true leader, he could have used the commonality of the fight against terrorism to also work on other global issues. The leaders of Israel and the PLO were at the rally with a common, shared goal of fighting terrorism. What a great time in might have been of using that common objective to move onto other problem resolution opportunities.

The Russian Foreign Minister was also at the Paris rally. Why not use the common goal of fighting terrorism to talk about the Ukraine and other troubling Russian and U.S. issues? But the President missed this historic window of leveraging this common objective across most of the world.

But missed opportunities seems to be the theme of this President. Whenever an opportunity to be bold, productive, epic, and a leader arose, this President, and the administration he has put in place, has usually failed and failed miserably. Bad economic policies, divisive race politics, a failing health care reform law, a clumsy foreign affairs management history, bad management processes as a Federal government bureaucracy teeters on the edge of total incompetence, etc., this administration has not been able to get out of its own way to attain any problem resolution at all.

Given that we are comfortable calling his absence in Paris an epic fail, we are going to take a few days and see if there are other epic fails that this administration has attained. We will discuss the policies track records of this Presidency over the next few days according to the following general topics and see if the failure as epic as his absence in Paris has been repeated in other areas of governance:

• Transparency and integrity
• Economic policy
• Foreign policy
• Healthcare policy
• Government management policy

Foreign Policy Part A

1) The most epic foreign relations failure of this Presidency is discussed above. His non-attendance at the rally for unity in France to protest against terrorism was a historical opportunity missed and a slap at the rest of those in the world that are fighting against Islamic terrorism.

However, he doubled down on this disaster when later in the week he sent Secretary John Kerry to France along with James Taylor to have Taylor sing a long ago hit song, "You've Got A Friend." Really? Miss a historical diplomacy opportunity and instead you send an aged rock and roll singer who has not had a new hit in decades? This is what passes for foreign affairs management in the Obama administration, rock and roll songs? You cannot make this incompetency up. How embarrassing.

What's next? Send the cast from Disney's Toy Story movies to the Iranian nuclear disarmament talks to sing "You've Got A Friend In Me?" Once you replace real foreign policy thinking and strategies with popular rock songs the sky is the limit in other foreign relations situations.

2) President Obama took office in January, 2009. Six years later, North Korea and Iran are six years closer to having nuclear weapons capabilities with no credible deterrence or alternative implemented by the Obama administration.

3) President Obama promised that he would find a way to bring peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. Not only has he failed to fulfill that promise, but the two parties decided to go to war while the Obama administration and its bumbling Secretary of State, John Kerry, fumbled their way to to being non-factors in the whole situation. 

The diplomatic relationship between Israel and the Obama administration was further dampened when a high ranking Obama administration official went on record and called the Israeli Prime Minister a chicken sh$#. Not a sign of a good foreign policy when that policy degenerates into name calling like this, especially name calling an ally a chicken sh#@.

4) President Obama drew a "red line in the sand" if Syria's government used chemical weapons against its own citizens in the Syrian civil war. The Syrian government went ahead and used chemical weapons, Obama did nothing to enforce his red line declaration, even denying he ever made such a statement, and had to rely on Russia to get out of a very embarrassing international situation.

Such posturing without a an action plan to back up that stance further weakened the administration in the eyes of the rest of the world. This failure of action probably was a determining factor in Russia's unopposed march into the Ukraine and the annexation of a large swath of Ukranian territory.

5) The President illegally and un-Constitutionally committed U.S. military forces and taxpayer wealth to help overthrow the Libyan government of Gaddafi. This overthrow then led to the growth of Islamic terrorists groups in the country, some of which were involved in the siege of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the unnecessary death of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

6) The President withdrew all U.S.military resources out of Iraq despite the objections of his military advisors and others who told him that Iraq was not yet ready to stand on its own. He proudly proclaimed that we were leaving behind a "sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq."

Shortly thereafter, as predicted by the experts, a Sunni and terrorist uprising in northern Iraq became ISIS, probably the most dangerous terror organization ever to be formed. ISIS threatens to destabilize whole countries in the Middle East and spread its version of violent and intolerant Islam to the rest of the world.

The President condescendingly referred to ISIS as the JV of terror organizations until they started beheading people and routing the Iraqi army. As a result of his faulty logic and reasoning, U.S. military forces are now back in Iraq and the American taxpayer is paying billions of dollars to bomb ISIS forces. "Sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq" appears to be either another lie, deception, or self delusion.

Despite the ISIS beheadings, the killing and enslavement of women and children, the murdering of homosexuals, the President still refuses to call these terrorists Islamic terrorists even though they do their atrocious deeds in the name of Islam. Failure to recognize a problem means you will never resolve a problem, another foreign affairs failure of this administration.

That will do it for foreign policy failures for today. We will finish the epic fail of the Obama administration relative to foreign policy tomorrow.

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July, 2014, Why I Am A Global Warmng Doubter and A Believer in Science - Part 4

Today may be the last of four days we have spent going over a continuing theme in this blog, “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” The justification for this series was the fact that I just got fed up being yelled at and called a whole slew of not nice names by people like Al Gore simply because I choose to look at the entire spectrum of global warming, and its rebranded them of climate change, rather than the rantings and ravings of people like Gore that look only at the science that supports their viewpoint and not at all science, both pro and con.

Rather than try to have an adult conversation, people like Al Gore have caused us doubters racists, homophobes, science illiterates, etc. We maintain that if you look at ALL of the climate science, you will see the fallacy and emptiness of Gore-like viewpoints and rantings. To do anything else would not be scientific, it would be scientific heresy.

To view the dozens of posts we have done in the past where we quote famous and credible scientists, cite credible and independent reports, and use logic to show that the global warming scare and climate change mania is probably just that, scare tactics and mania, put the following phrase, “I am a global warming doubter” in the search box above to get a complete list of previous related posts. If you are an Al Gore fan, a dare you to read all of the science put forth in these posts before you commence with the name calling again.

Let’s see what new science evidence has come about since our last update to the theme, I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.”

1) A Mr. James Taylor wrote a piece for Forbes magazine in January, 2013 that discussed many aspects of the global warming myth along with pointing out the futility of the Untied States and President Obama unilaterally imposing carbon taxes and restrictions on the United States without the rest of the world dong the same:

• He points out scientific data that shows that indeed, global carbon dioxide emissions have risen more than 33% since the year 2000.
• He also correctly points out that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have declined during that time and should continue to decline for the foreseeable future.
• He cites the U.S. Energy Information Administration which has reported that just during 2012 alone, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions declined by 8% compared to 2011. In other words, the U.S. is doing exactly what Al Gore and Obama want us to do, reduce our carbon footprint, and we are doing it without and thing close to a carbon tax or government intervention in the market and our wallets.
• Mr. Taylor points out that China emits far more carbon dioxide than any other nation and Chinese emissions are growing rapidly year over year.
• In fact, China alone accounts for 75% of the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions since 2000. 
• His article maintains that if the United States completely eliminated all of its carbon dioxide emissions, the only thing that would accomplish would be to delay by about five years an equal increase in Chinese emissions. 
• And since eliminating all of the U.S. carbon footprint is impossible, the advantage to the rest of the world and the environment would be substantially less than five years.
• Since China has repeatedly and strongly shown it will not agree to any restrictions on its own carbon dioxide emissions. Anything we do do ourselves only would result in a much lower standard of living, a more anemic economy, and have no significant impact on the earth if manmade climate change and global warming somehow turn out to be reality.

Given the realities pointed out in this Forbes article and other examples and data that we have already discussed that showed the U.S. is leading the world in reducing its carbon footprint. But the good we bring to the global warming table is more than offset by the dramatically coal and fossil fuel usage in the rest of the world, which renders our domestic sacrifices moot. Somehow that simple reality is not able to penetrate the dogmatic approach that people like Obama and Gore bring to the table.

The sad part of the whole matter is that if, somehow, manmade global warming and climate change are realities, the chance of Obama saving the world from itself is near zero. His inability to lead both on the domestic front and on the world stage has proven to the rest of the world that he is not to be followed, trusted, or taken seriously. This makes any effort on his part to convince China, Brazil, India, and other developing economies to forsake cheap carbon based energy forms futile.

2) An article from the may 9, 2014 issue of The Week magazine reported on scientific research that was described on the Smithsonian website. Apparently, 40- 50 million years ago, way before the global warming scare tactics of some scientists and people like Al Gore, the average temperature in Antarctica was around 57 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature of the surrounding Pacific waters was about 72 degrees.

During that time, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air was five times higher than what is today. And those levels were attained before man burned the first piece of coal. Kind of kills that statement form the President that we discussed earlier this week, namely that the ten hottest years ever have occurred in the past twelve years. Probably not true relative to an almost balmy Antarctic temperature levels 40 to 50 million years ago.

The lesson to be learned is that the earth has been going through warming and cooling periods since the first day of its existence, with and without mankind’s presence. To just look at a very small set of data and claim that the world is burning up is not science, that is fear mongering.

3) People like Al Gore want desperately stop the completion of the Keystone pipeline, claiming it will make a substantial contribution to more carbon in the air and thus more global warming and/or climate change. But, as always, this miss out on several realities:

• If the U.S. does not complete the pipeline that would take dirty oil from the Canadian tar sands to American refineries for refining, that oil will go elsewhere to be refined and eventually burned, the U.S. notwithstanding. 
• Thus, would environmentalists prefer that we refine it and use it under our relatively strict environmental laws or prefer it to go to China and elsewhere where we know the environment is usually not a consideration when it comes to cheap energy? That oil is going to be pumped and refined, it is just a question of where those events take place.
• A short article in the May 16, 2014 issue of The Week magazine showed the futility of opposing the pipeline. According to the Washington Post article, if the pipeline were approved, the EPA estimates that the additional carbon emissions from the burning of that oil would be only .286% of the total CO2 domestic emissions. Ten times that much of carbon emissions are released each year by cow burps and cow flatulence.

Thus, the environmental impacts of building the pipeline are minimal or nil while the job creation potential and national security and economic upsides are huge, facts and realities lost on the Obama administration.

4) An article in the May 16, 2014 issue of The Week magazine showed the futility of the U.S. going it alone on taxing carbon usage. The government of Ecuador has decided to allow oil drilling development in the country’s Yasuni National Park. Apparently the park is “one of the most biologically diverse spots in the world.”

In 2007, the president of Ecuador promised to ban drilling in the park if the world would pay his country $3.6 billion not to do so. However, only a mere $13 million was raised towards the $3.6 billion figure, indicating that the rest of the world did not care much to prevent another source of fossil and carbon based fuel from being developed and used.

5) More futility of the U.S. going it alone. An article from the June 13, 2014 issue of The Week magazine pointed out this inconvenient truth for Al Gore types: The EPA has estimated that if the U.S. shut down EVERY coal fired power generation plant in this country, it would reduce the Earth’s temperature by one 20th of a degree in the next hundred years.

Closing less than every plant would have an even smaller, minimal impact. But that is exactly what the Obama administration wants to do. The environmental impact would be minimal but the increase in the country’s electricity prices and the loss in jobs would be dramatic and negative. 

Okay, I thought we might finish up this series today but we will need at least tomorrow to present the latest proof that it is entirely possible to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

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