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Friday, October 8, 2021

October, 2021, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: A Clueless Congresswoman, A Cynical Congressman, and An Elitist Mayor

Before we get to today’s insanity, please consider the following proposition: as many of you know, the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a historic and fatal endeavor. But the failure did not start just in the past few weeks, it has been a twenty year disaster. It has cost American taxpayers about a trillion dollars, has left thousands of our brave armed forces folks dead, maimed, or wounded and has resulted in an unknown but substantial number of civilian deaths.

Afghanistan has been a collective failure of multiple Presidential administrations and multiple sessions of Congress. Thus, please consider signing the petition below that calls for the immediate resignation of every member of Congress that has at least twenty years of service and the resignation of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and critical, and failed, members of the Biden Administration. They do not deserve to serve any longer given their miserable twenty year track record of death, destruction and waste in Afghanistan.

Also, if you are passionate about this topic and effort, feel free to pass the link along to others who might also feel the same way, i.e. incompetence should not be rewarded:


Biden and others need to resign for dereliction of duty, incompetence and total lack of empathy. Nothing short of resignation is acceptable. Thank you.

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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.

1) In our opinion , Bill de Blasio is one of the worst mayors in the country. He led the “defund the police” in New York City, an effort that led to serious increases in violence crimes, murders, and other law breaking activities. He was grossly uneducated when it came to the pandemic, encouraging his citizens to go out and party like normal times because the covid virus is not passed via drinks and food, a position that probably led to the deaths and serious sickness of an untold number of city residents. He shut down all of the gyms in the city because of covid but then forced his gym to open up so he could work out, denying that same function to every other New Yorker.

And his sense of privilege for himself and his contempt for the city taxpayers still goes on:
  • The NYC Department of Investigation (DOI) has issued a report that says the good mayor misused police resources.
  • According to the DOI, de Blasio used police resources to help his daughter move out of Brooklyn in addition to using police resources to transport his campaign staff during his inane Presidential bid.
  • Police officers were used to carry furniture out of the mayor;s daughter’s apartment and then a police van took her furniture to Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor.
  • Police detectives also drove the mayor’s son to and from Yale University.
  • A whopping $319,794 of NYC taxpayer money was used to transport personnel around the country when he ran for President.
  • And the sad thing about this whole state of affairs is that de Blasio does not see the problem with having police officers turn themselves into a moving company for his daughter, a taxi service for his son, or a travel company for his failed and ridiculous Presidential campaign.
He attacked the report, claiming that his police detail’s very job is to protect him and his family. This is true but I am pretty sure that the details of that assignment do not include actually moving furniture and such. Another example of an elitist politician who thinks the rules do not apply to him.

2) For almost two years we've had to put up with government officials telling us, ordering us to wear a mask in public, stay six feet apart, do not gather in large groups, etc. But it seems that as soon as a politicians put a covid edict into place, they themselves ended up violating their own orders:
  • The mayor of Chicago shut down all of the hair salons but forced hers to open to get herself a haircut, a function she denied to all other city residents.
  • The mayor of Beaumont, Texas, shut down all of the nails loans but forced hers to open so she could get her nails done, a function she denied to all other city residents.
  • The governor of California ordered his state citizens to always wear a mask, avoid crowds and social distance but was then photographed in a swanking restaurant doing none of those things.
  • As we said above, de Blasio closed down all of the NYC gyms but forced his gym to open up only for him.
You get the idea, with American politicians it is often “do as I say, not as I do.” And a member of Congress recently told how she is following in that sad tradition:
  • Rashida Tlaib is currently a US Congresswoman.
  • She recently admitted, an admission that was caught on video, that she only wears a mask when she goes in front of the cameras.
  • She said that, “No, no, no, I’m just wearing it because I’ve got a Republican tracker here.”
The hypocrisy is so bad. We are suffering with this whole mask thing, being browbeat by local and national politicians to wear a mask and she readily admits that she only does it for show. So who is the idiot: Tlaib for not protecting herself or us for doing what those in power are not doing.

3) Since Biden came into office, the southern border has been a drug cartel, human trafficking, criminal gang, covid, juvenile abuse, and all round humanitarian disaster. Everyday thousands of people are illegally entering the country, endangering all of us from a drug addiction, covid, and terrorism perspective.

Recently over 15,000 illegal immigrants parked out under a bridge, causing a sanitary nightmare before they were shipped to locations around the country to endanger the lives of American citizens. News reports showed a constant stream of people wading across the Rio Grande river to illegally enter the country.

All of which provided a good example of how out of touch Washington politicians are with the rest of the country:
  • We have previously discussed, many times, how Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is so out of touch with reality.
  • She once proclaimed that the Constitution is over 400 years old, it is not.
  • She once proclaimed that South Vietnam and North Vietnam both still existed, with North Vietnam ruling over South Vietnam even though South Vietnam disappeared over 45 years ago.
  • She once asked if one of the Mars rover vehicles would be going past the place where Neil Armstrong landed… on the moon!
  • And not to outdo her ignorance, she recently proclaimed that the southern border is closed and secure, despite the tens of thousands illegal immigrants, drug and criminal gang members, human traffickers and potential terrorists that come over the border every month since Biden took office.
  • In her special world, it is her opinion that “biased and unfair narratives” are being used for political purposes.
  • She is a Democrat and even Democrats in Congress and locally on the Texas/Mexican border are crying out for help to stop the flow of humanity illegally coming into the country and overwhelming Border Patrol and other government entities and services, but in her mind, all is good and fine.
Unbelievable that a member of Congress could be that ignorant of reality. She reminds of the Kevin Bacon ROTC character in the movie “Animal House.” towards the end of the movie, chaos and bedlam are breaking out in the downtown area and he is in the middle of it all shouting, “Remain calm!” His soothing words are so out of tune with the chaotic reality around him and he eventually gets run over by the stampeding crowd. Jackson Lee should put herself down on the border, it would be a hoot to see her Kevin Bacon impersonation trampled by the stampeding illegal immigrants.

A clueless Congresswoman, a hypocritical and cynical Congresswoman, and an entitled mayor, lord help us.

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Sunday, May 9, 2021

May, 2021, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: The Post Office Gets Into The Spy Business, Defunding the Police Continues To Be Dangerous, and Ocasio-Cortez's Latest Insanity

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.

1) At one point we followed the antics and idiotic comments often made by Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Her ignorance was actually pretty funny at one point:
  • Despite having a business college degree, she did not know the basic definition of unemployment, something a high school economics student was probably taught the first week.
  • Despite running for Congress, she didn't know what the three branches of the Federal government were.
  • By not keeping her mouth shut, she helped scare Amazon away from locating one of its headquarters buildings in her Congressional district, an act that would have brought untold wealth, jobs, and opportunities to her constituents.
  • In the process of scaring away Amazon, she showed her ignorance by not understanding the difference between a future tax credit and a tax reduction.
But we got tired of her idiocy and ignorance and have not talked about her much recently. She grew tiresome, framing every issue, every action as one that was based in racism not matter how stupid the connection was. As we have discussed previously, when people like her try to connect everything to racism then nothing is racist if everything is racist.

But let’s take a short visit with her latest idiocy. To her, the myth of climate change is rooted in racism. Read her following statement and then try to explain to yourself what sense, if any, she makes. Note: do not waste a lot of time with that effort since her view on climate change and how it is racist is ridiculous: “The climate crisis is a crisis born of injustice, and it is a crisis born of the pursuit of profit at any and all human and ecological cost, which means that we must recognize in legislation that the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change, that the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change because we are allowing people and we are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights and deny people the right to healthcare, the right to housing and education.”

My gosh, what nonsense. Climate change, racism, housing, education, healthcare, indigenous rights, she hit all the liberal hot buttons in one incoherent rant. The problem is that she votes on legislation that affects us all despite this type of tripe she pushes. Between Congressman Hank Johnson who thinks it is possible for a Pacific island (Guam) to actually tip over to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee who thinks that South Vietnam and North Vietnam still exist to Ocasio-Cortez and her wildly incoherent and unhinged from reality views, heaven help us form their incompetence.

2) As an example of Ocasio-Cortez’s denial of reality, she is a co-sponsor of proposed legislation that would spend a whopping $172 billion to make 950,000 public housing homes climate friendly:
  • The money would be spent over ten years and affect 2 million people living in public housing.
  • The legislation sponsors claim that this $172 billion would reduce water bills on these 2 million people by 30%.
  • It would supposedly reduce energy bills by 70% and would create 240,000 union jobs.
This is an organization, the Federal government, that has operated the Postal System for over two hundred years and still has not gotten it right since it currently loses billions of dollars a year. It is an organization that has operated the Social Security system for about 90 years and is driving it into bankruptcy. It has operated a Medicare system for about 50 years and is driving that into bankruptcy. It has operated a Do Not Call list operation for about ten years that does not prevent unwanted calls. It put forth a Cash For Clunker program that failed miserably.

And we are to believe that this government program will slash utility bills at a cost of $172 billion. I don't think so. Oh, and by the way, to think that the Federal government can miraculously create almost a quarter of a million jobs is insanity. Government does not create jobs, the market creates jobs. How many jobs would be created if that $172 billion would be left in the market and not hijacked for an inane government program like this? Again, Ocasio-Cortez, much like Johnson, Jackson Lee and about 500 other people in Washington have no concept of reality and the real world or even an inkling of competence.

3) We have often discussed the insanity of the whole “defund the police” movement that has driven liberal politicians in major cities to slash police forces and resources without having a back up plan to deal with criminals and violence. As a result, as we have discussed, crime, violence, murders, rapes, etc. has jumped up significantly in cities like Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, New York City and other cities where liberal politicians, in an effort to appease organizations like Black Lives Matter, have placed their citizens in much more danger.

A recent study estimated two bad impacts of such political behavior:
  • UMass PhD candidate, Travis Campbell, has published a study related to urban crime and the relationship to Black Lives Matter.
  • He did find that police shootings dropped between 15-20% in cities that suffered through Black Lives Matter riots.
  • If true, this drop in police shootings would reduce about 300 shootings over a five year period, about sixt a year, a little more than one police shooting a week nationwide.
  • While that is good news, a reduction in police shootings, the increase in crime via homicides in those cities is estimated to claim an additional 1,000-6,000 lives.
  • In addition, his study found that cities with Black Lives Matter riots caused a loss of black police officers to the tune of about 6%, a shrinking resource that could be used to help bring minority communities and police forces together.
Again, a fundamental responsibility of any government entity is to protect the lives of the citizens it serves. This is just another piece of information that shows how big city mayors and their priority of looking good and pandering rather than serving the safety of their voters is resulting in the continued increase in the homicides of those they are supposed to protect.

4) The United States Post Office is tasked with delivering the mail. Given how it runs up operating deficits of billions of dollars a year, it does not do that sole job very efficiently.

Which makes the following story from Yahoo News all that more distressing and bewildering:
  • Apparently the Post Office under Biden is running a “covert operations program” to spy on citizens’ social media posts.
  • Why the Post Office would be putting resources on such nonsense and not trying to better deliver the mail is ridiculous.
  • The program is supposed to be looking through conservative social media postings and finding “inflammatory” posts which are then shared with other government agencies: “Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021,” says the March 16 government bulletin, marked as “law enforcement sensitive” and distributed through the Department of Homeland Security’s fusion centers. “Locations and times have been identified for these protests, which are being distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing leaning Parler and Telegram accounts.”
Such a waste and misuse of resources:
  • Deliver the mail, that is your charter, not anti-domestic terrorism.
  • Who thinks you can possibly do this better than the FBI and trained police forces?
  • And if you are going to do it, spy on Americans, why focus only on conservative social media posts when Black Lives Matter and Antifa sources are burning down cities and attacking police officers and civilians?
How successful were these efforts? According to Yahoo, the effort uncovered two Parler users, yes, TWO, who discussed attending an event to possibly engage in a “fight” and to “do serious damage.” Two people, not two hundred, not two thousand, two. Furthermore, the effort concluded: “No intelligence is available to suggest the legitimacy of these threats.” In other words, this unnecessary and possibly illegal spying on Americans resulted in nothing worthwhile.

Stupid stuff but serious stuff also. Why does the Biden administration need yet another government agency intruding into our lives and not doing what they are supposed to do: deliver the mail on time at a reasonable cost. Insanity.

That will do it for today: another government spying operation, more insanity from Ocasio-Cortez, and defunding the police movement continues to endanger innocent lives.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

April, 2019, Political Class Insanity, Part 6: More Congressional Computer Hacking, You're A Racist If YOu Disagree With This Judge, and Maxine Walters Ignorance...Again

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Several years Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz got into hot water because she allowed foreign citizen data professionals do work for Democrats in Congress. Things did not go well, with sensitive, classified information getting swiped by some of the data professionals. Wasserman-Schultz then went wild trying to prevent investigators from getting access to Congressional computers since it would prove how careless she was with government data.

Seems that scandal is lingering and growing in ways that were recently reported on the Freedom Outpost website:
  • Jackson Cosko, a data professional formerly working for U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, recently admitted that he stole tens of thousands of Congressional documents, credit card numbers, Social Security numbers and the ENTIRE contents of the network drive of Hassan’s office.
  • It is alleged that he stole private data about other Senators to embarrass them during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings.
  • Cosko took a plea deal for his actions and admitted he worked with an accomplice who helped him get access to the computers to steal the data.
  • News reports point to another staff Hassan staff member, Samantha DeForest-Davis, as the accomplice.
  • Apparently, the two of them worked for months getting access and stealing the data and information.
  • Hassan had already been fired by Hassan for other, unrelated issues but DeForest-Davis helped him gain access to computer rooms and computers: “Deforest-Davis — identified in court documents only as SUBJECT A — allegedly repeatedly provided Cosko a key that he used to enter the office at night and install tiny devices that capture every keystroke, including passwords which were then used to access further materials, according to the statement. After Cosko was caught in the act by a Hassan staffer in October 2018, the accomplice went to the office and wiped down keyboards and mice to erase any fingerprints, prosecutors said.”
  • Even more disturbing is the reality that Hassan serves on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs so she probably has access to highly sensitive information, information that may have been compromised by a fired former employee.
  • Court documents said Cosko feared that his “termination” by Hassan in May 2018 would stymie his career, but Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas hired him soon after. 
Despite being fired by a Senator, and subsequently breaking into that Senator’s office and her computers, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee actually hired Cosko to work on her computers in her office. You cannot make this insanity up. What a mess, these politicians in Congress expect us to trust them when they cannot even be trusted to secure vital government information?

2) Daniel Greenfield, writing for the Freedom Outpost website on April 14, 2019, discussed a ridiculous but dangerous position of an Obama appointed judge:
  • Judge Carlton Reeves was appointed by Obama.
  • He recently went off on this ridiculous rant: "When politicians attack courts as 'dangerous,' 'political,' and guilty of 'egregious overreach,' you can hear the Klan’s lawyers, assailing officers of the court across the South." 
  • So if someone disagrees with a court ruling, he or she is a racist member of the KKK according to the good judge, the First Amendment be damned?
  • He went on to rant that Trump is trying to bring the country to a "homogenous judiciary".
This is a judge who is out of control, wanting to suppress freedom of speech by designating someone with a different opinion of someone like him as a racist. 

3) So many members of Congress are so ignorant and out of touch with reality that it has kept this blog stocked with political class insanity for years:
  • Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson, during a televised Congress hearing, voiced his opinion that the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean could actually tip over if too many Navy resources were stationed there.
  • Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee once wanted to know if a Mars rover vehicle was going to drive anywhere close to where Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
  • Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi once stated that the Obama Care legislation had to get passed so that we could all find out what was in it, i.e. she wanted to enact a law before actually reading it.
  • New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said so many incorrect, ignorant, and out of touch with reality falsehoods that she now has a recurring set of blog posts every month.
The above is just a sample of their idiocy. Consider how goofball Congresswoman Maxine Walters recently made a fool of herself during Congressional hearings:
  • A bunch of bank CEOs were recently in front of a Congressional committee where the topic of student loans came up.
  • Walters went on a little bit of a jag, citing statistics that showed a lot of people in this country had very high student loans that needed to be paid off.
  • She then asked the CEOs what they and their banks planned to to do to ease the burden of student loans.
  • She first asked Brian Monahan what his bank, Bank Of America, planned to do.
  • Mr. Monahan answered: “We stopped making student loans in 2007 or so.” 
  • She then asked Michael Corbat what his bank, Citigroup, planned to do with student loan burdens.
  • Mr. Corbat answered: “We exited student lending in 2009.” 
  • Still oblivious to her ignorance, she asked Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan what his bank planned to do about student loans.
  • Mr. Dimon answered: “When the government took over student lending in 2010 or so, we stopped doing all student lending.” 
  • When Walters FINALLY realized how ignorant she looked, she dropped the student loan line of questioning and moved on to small business.
What Walters should have know before going into a public Congressional hearing and making a fool of herself is that prior to 2010, private banks made student loans that were guaranteed by the Federal government. But Obama decided that year to cut the banks out of the student loan business altogether and have the Federal government serve students directly from a loan perspective.

But Walters and her staff were too stupid to do a little research ahead of time and educate themselves on reality. As a result, she shows another example of how ignorant and stupid many Congressional people have been and currently are, people that write, vote and enact laws affecting us all. And it appears that they do so from positions of ignorance and out of touch with reality.

Insecure Congressional computer systems, a racist judge, and Maxine Walters strikes again, making our case yet again for term limits. More insanity to follow.

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

February, 2019, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: More Political Class Hypocrisy and More Ignorant Economic Policy

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) We have often made the case that politicians are totally ignorant and useless when it comes to setting economic policy. What sounds good in their inexperienced minds often turns out to be a disaster when their inane economic policies are implemented. Almost always, their policies often end up hurting the people that their economic policies are supposed to help.

And the one idiotic policy that liberals and Democrats keep coming back to is the $15 minimum wage crusade. Wherever such a minimum was put in place, people lost jobs as businesses had to adjust to a higher cost in their salary line and often the easiest way to do that adjustment is to lay off workers. This leads to the cruel irony in that “your pay went up but your job went away.”

Consider a real life example of that for a small business in Seattle, as reported on the Heritage Foundation website:
  • The article by Ginny Montalbano on January 18, 2019 explained how a Seattle business may have to close since they cannot afford to pay their workers $16 an hour, the minimum wage in that city.
  • Fifteen years ago, Heidi and Karam Mann took a chance and purchased a Subway restaurant franchise, realizing their American dream of owning their own business.
  • They were so successful , that nine years later they bought their second Subway franchise, providing a service to the community and jobs to people living in their community.
  • But that dream took a serious hit when the local government and political class dictated that they had to increase the wages of their employees to $16 an hour.
  • As a result, they now predict that they will likely be forced to close down both successful businesses within the next two years.
  • According to Heidi, the rise in the minimum wage is too much for them to absorb: “Labor costs are too high, our profit margin is too tight, and there is no relief for small business owners like us.” 
  • She went on to say: “We started this business believing in the essential truth of the American dream. But our dreams of being our own boss, earning a living wage for our family, and helping others through meaningful employment is slowly becoming a pipe dream and less and less reality as each piece of legislation is passed.”
  • First, they tried to cope with the mandated increase by cutting costs including the firing of four employees.
  • To cover the increased labor costs they raised prices but that did not work out since sales volumes dropped.
  • Those that were cut were the more inexperienced workers since they cannot afford to hire entry level and inexperienced workers, they do not have the budget for training costs.
  • This deprives young folks the chance to get real life work experience: “Small business owners are what make America strong. They are the heart of the economy and are a front line of defense, taking on the brunt of raising a solid workforce as employees navigate into careers and higher-paying positions.”
In summary, the city may lose two quality, functioning businesses, reducing the city’s tax base, depriving young people the opportunity to experience the real world work force, the American dream takes a major hit, and in the end people that were perfectly content to earn what they were earning are already out of a ob or will soon lose their jobs. Thanks to the arrogance and ignorance to local politicians who probably never operated a business themselves. More poverty, more unemployment, fewer market choices, nice job. Insanity.

2) We have always considered Sheila Jackson Lee one of the worst Congress people in office. Her gaffes and ignorant statements over time just smack of incompetence. Enter her name in the search box above to see what idiocy she has spouted over the years.

But it is one thing to constantly remind people you have no idea what you are talking about and it is another thing to cover up sexual harassment. And this is where Lee finds herself being accused of in this age of Me Too:
  • Lee was once the chairperson of the powerful Congressional Black Caucus.
  • But she recently had to resign that post once the latest Washington sex scandal broke.
  • A young lady who used to work for the Congressional Black Caucus has filed a lawsuit. 
  • In that lawsuit she claims that Lee fired her after the young lady threatened to pursue legal action regarding an alleged sexual assault.
  • The lawsuit claims that when the young lady was an intern for the Caucus she was raped by the intern coordinator of the Caucus, a rape she reported to police but took no legal action.
  • Down the road, when she was working in the Congresswoman’s office, she told Lee’s chief of staff that she was going to pursue legal action against the alleged rapist, a matter she wanted to discuss with the Congresswoman.
  • She never got that meeting and was fired several short weeks later.
The Congresswoman’s office denied that the two incidents, the rape and the firing, were related.The whole incident reveals two massive and destructive piece of hypocrisy that permeate this country day as it emanates from our current day politicians:
  1. When accusations like this fly against a Republican or Conservative e.g. the Kavanaugh hearings, Democrats and liberals are besides themselves with rage and fury even though nothing has been proven but when it happens to one of their own, liberals and Democrats are strangely, and hypocritically mute.
  2. When accusations like this fly against a Republican or Conservative e.g. the Kavanaugh hearings, the mainstream media is besides themselves with rage and fury even though nothing has been proven but when it happens to one of their own, the mainstream media is hypocritically mute.
Hypocrisy still lives in the American political class, especially the left side of that class.

3) Let’s finish up today’s insanity by sticking with the hypocrisy theme. Democrats and liberals always try to portray themselves as heroes to women and women’s rights. That it is conservatives and Republicans that are always “waging a war on women.” Well, according to Warner Todd Huston, writing recently for the Godfather Politics website, a New York Democrat apparently did not get that message:
  • A New York state politician was forced to apologize to a female state government staffer after telling her via Twitter to go kill herself.
  • The reason for this threat and outrage was not some dramatic and important and pressing political or government issue, it was over a parking pass.
  • State senator Kevin Porter from Brooklyn used his Twitter account for the attack after Candice Giove, a legislative aide, accused Parker of misusing a Senate issued parking pass.
  • Specifically, he directed a tweet at her that simply shouted, “Kill yourself”
  • The aide found that a parking pass issued to the senator was being used on a car that the pass was not designated or approved for, a rules violation, and as a result, the senator flipped out and told the aide to kill herself.
  • The senator eventually deleted the tweet and issued an apology: “I sincerely apologize. I used a poor choice of words. Suicide is a serious thing and and should not be made light of.”
Sure he apologized but what type of low life publicly tells someone who is just doing their job to go kill themselves in the first place? Over a parking pass issue? Disgusting behavior by apparently a disgusting individual in my opinion.

Oh, by the way, this guy is who is sponsoring a bill to prevent regular New Yorkers from getting a gun if they EVER made a distempered post to social media. And yet he is going around telling those he deems below him in social status and job status to kill themselves. Pathetic.

And of course, keeping with their ongoing hypocrisy, one has to go to non-traditional news sources to find anything detrimental to Democrats and the myth that they are the party in favor of supporting women’s rights even if one of their own told a woman to kill herself just for doing her job.

That will do it for today’s political class insanity: more hypocrisy and double standards from both liberal politicians and the mainstream media and more heartache and destruction from the liberals’ infatuation with increasing the minimum wage regardless of the harm it does to American workers and business owners.


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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

December, 2018, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: The Noose Closes A Little Tighter on the Clintons, and A Senator Thinks She Is Smarter Than All of Us

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) In our previous post we made it clear again that we always felt that Hillary Clinton deserved to be in jail for a wide range of offenses, from using an illegal and easily hacked computer in her home to conduct government business to using her position as Secretary of State to operate an international crime syndicate through the Clinton Foundation. In that post we reviewed how justice might finally get accomplished since a judge adamantly ordered documents be turned over to see if crimes actually were committed.

Her concerns about being held accountable for her crimes got even more serious recently, according to a report by Fox News:
  • Congressman Mark Meadows recently announced that numerous whistleblowers have come forward with documents that indicate widespread and illegal corruption when she was Secretary of State.
  • This alleged corruption includes misuse of funds and quid-pro-quo promises Clinton made to Foundation donors.
  • Meadows is in charge of the House Oversight Subcommittee on government operations.
  • His subcommittee is about to hold hearings on these very serious allegations.
  • A lot of this information was uncovered by U.S. Attorney John Huber who has been investigating for over a year.
  • Although the Foundation denies any wrongdoing, according to the Fox report: “However, The Hill reported Thursday that prosecutors working for Huber recently requested documents from a private investigative firm that also has been looking into the foundation. The firm, MDA Analytics LLC, reportedly has contacted the IRS, the Justice Department and the FBI's Little Rock office with evidence from its own investigation.In addition, The Hill reported that a whistleblower submission filed with the FBI and IRS in August 2017 included internal legal reviews that the Clinton Foundation conducted between 2008 and 2011. Those reviews raised concerns about legal compliance and improper mingling of personal and charity business.”
  • Apparently, MDA people met with the Clinton Foundation's CFO Andrew Kessel in late November, 2016.
  • Kessel asserted that there was a major problem and it was Bill Clinton “commingling” Foundation funds with his personal expenses.
  • Specifically, Bill Clinton "mixes and matches his personal business with that of the foundation. Many people within the foundation have tried to caution him about this but he does not listen, and there really is no talking to him."
As always , innocent until proven guilty. But while there may not yet be fire of guilt, there certainly is a lot of smoke, smoke that will hopefully get cleared away and justice will be done.

2) One major trait of current members of the American political class is that they often hold their own intelligence in high regard while looking at the rest of us with condescending contempt. Which is pretty ridiculous since if they were as smart as they think they are, their track record of never resolving any major issue facing America would certainly look a lot better.

But due the brutal honesty of a sitting U.S. Senator, it has now been proven that they really do think they are smarter than the rest of us:
  • Hawaii Senator, Mazie Hirono, recently stated that the reason that Democrats are struggling to connect with ordinary Americans is because Democrats are too darned smart.
  • They are so smart and have so many great answers to today’s problems, it is tough for them to communicate their greatness to us.
  • She expressed this feeling of superiority at a recent DC conference where she was asked what Democrats could do to increase voter turnout: “I wish I had the answer to that because one of the things that we, Democrats, have a really hard time is connecting to people’s hearts instead of [their heads]. We’re really good at shoving out all the information that touch people here [pointing to her head] but not here [pointing to her heart]. We have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons, it was told to me at one of our retreats, was that we Democrats know so much. That is true. And we kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain.”
Wow! And all this time I thought it was the incompetence and inability of our politicians that never get anything positive accomplished. And all that time it was our fault for being too stupid to understand what they were telling us! Who knew? 

Of course the previous paragraph was all sarcasm. Let’s take a quick trip down stupid lane and prove the Senator so totally wrong, based on stupid things we have seen her peers say and do over the years:
  • Remember when Democrat Hank Johnson actually thought the island of Guam could tip over in the middle of the Pacific Ocean if we put too many Navy resources on it?
  • Remember when Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee asked if the Mars Rover would be traveling anywhere close to where Neil Armstrong walked on the moon?
  • Remember when Democrat Nancy Pelosi said we had to first pass the Obama Care legislation and THEN see what was in it?
  • Remember when Democrat Maxine Walters said that 700 billion people would lose health insurance coverage because of Trump?
Senator: would you like to reconsider your statement in light of the above evidence showing how inane and out of touch with reality it is?

That will it for today political class insanity: the ring of justice may finally be closing in on the Clinton family crimes and a U.S. Senator thinks that Democrats are smarter than us, a point easily refuted with reality. More insanity to come.


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Sunday, May 6, 2018

May, 2018, Part 3, Political Class Insanity: More Politicians Accused Of Sexual Misconduct, Nancy Pelosi Goes Racist, and Sheila Jackson Lee Fails Math

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let's get started:

1) Diamond and Silk are two African American women who became YouTube and Facebook Internet stars for supporting Donald Trump. They had over a million followers on Facebook and had made quite a name for themselves by exercising their First Amendment rights in a logical, sane, non-hateful, and non-violent way.

However, since their views did not match up with the liberal, left leaning folks at Facebook, Facebook shut them down for no good reason. This upset millions of Trump supporters and caused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to get grilled and embarrassed in a Congressional meeting when he flaccidly and poorly tried to back up from the canning of Diamond and Silk. 

Eventually Facebook crawled back to Diamond and Silk, largely because of the exposure they received from cancelling a popular Trump supporting Facebook account. This pissed off our favorite inane Congress person, Sheila Jackson Lee. 

You remember our past discussions about the Congresswoman. She wanted to know if the Mars Rover would be driving by where Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. She thinks the Constitution is over 400 years old. She thinks that there are still two Vietnams, North and South, with North Vietnam ruling South Vietnam. A rocket scientist she is not.

And now we know that she is not a math genius. Check out the video link listed below where she was questioning Diamond and Silk at a Congressional hearing. The basic idiocy of her questioning is simple:
  • On April 11, 2018, Diamond and Silk were interviewed on TV and said that even though Zuckerberg told Congress that they were being restored to Facebook active status, as of April 11th, they had heard nothing from Facebook.
  • On April 12, 2018, Diamond and Silk finally heard via a Twitter contact that they were being restored to Facebook.
  • And yet the good Congresswoman insisted that Diamond and Silk lied about when they had heard from Facebook and thus, lied in the TV interview.
If this woman did not vote on laws that affect us all, her idiocy and incompetence would actually be both funny and pathetic:

https://www.facebook.com/DiamondandSilk/videos/1063875393761573/UzpfSTEwMDAwMDAxNTQ5NTY2NjoxOTEzNjIyNzY4NjQ4MjIx/

The epitome of political class insanity and ineptness.

2) Nancy Pelosi was once Speaker of the House early in the Obama Presidency. She has been a discussion point many times in this blog of the many inane, idiotic, and nonsensical comments she has made over time:


The Republicans eventually took control of the House and she lost her Speaker position. She was recently interviewed about the possibility of Democrats regaining control of the House and whether or not she still had enough pull to become Speaker of the House again, given that many Democrats are urging a change in their party’s leadership. At that point she issued the following racist comment:

“It’s important that it not be five white guys at the table, no offense,” Pelosi said, referring to the top two leadership spots in the House and Senate and the presidency. “I have no intention of walking away from that table.”

Can you imagine what would have happened if a white male member of Congress had something like that referring to minority men and women? Pelosi would have been leading the witch hunt. But when she says it, no racism cries at all. Pathetic.

3) We have not discussed the sexual predator and misbehavior of many politicians for a while but let’s get up to date on some of the latest politicians’ alleged sexual misconduct actions (remember that all of thee people are assumed innocent until proven guilty):
  • LA County Lisa Bloom recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of a sixteen year girl, a girl that has alleged that current Congressman Tony Cardena drugged the girl and proceeded to sexually abuse her.
  • Cardena is also accused of threatening the girl’s father in order to keep the alleged assault secret.
  • The lawsuit says that the girl has accused Cardena of drugging the girl with a funny tasting water before sexually abusing her back in 2007. 
  • Although Cardena’s attorney denies the accusations, there is likely something to the accusations since according to California law, the girl had to first convince a judge there was at least an element of truth to the situation before the accused perp’s actions could be made public, as in this case.
  • According to the lawsuit, Cardena is accused of drugging the under age girl with a glass of water after a round of golf, causing her to drop to the ground (without losing total consciousness) after which Cardena carried the girl to his girl to drive her to the hospital.
  • During the 30-45 minute ride to the hospital, Cardena supposedly “reached into her shirt [to rub] her breasts and also reached down her shorts.” More to follow.
  • A few months ago, Amanda Renteria, a California Democrat running against the incumbent Lieutenant Governor accused the incumbent of engaging sexual misconduct.
  • In Pennsylvania, a state government lawmaker was arrested and accused of engaging in sexual harassment and that taxpayer money was used to quietly settle the matter.
  • Multiple women have come forward to accuse Congressman Ruben Kihuen of Nevada of sexual misconduct and although he has denied the accusations, he shortly thereafter announced that he was not running for reelection.
  • California state Democratic politician Matt Dababneh has been accused of sexual misconduct by two different women which caused him to immediately announce that he was not running for reelection.
Given that past year of proven sexual misconduct by politicians at all levels of government, what are the odds that all of these [politicians are innocent? You decide.

That will do it for today’s insanity: sexual misconduct accusations against politicians flying all over the place, Nancy Pelosi going all racist, and Sheila Jackson Lee still going all stupid. More insanity to follow.

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Friday, September 8, 2017

September, 2017, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: An Out Of Touch Congresswoman, An On Trial Senator, And More

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

1) We have often discussed the reality that most Federal government programs are criminally infested which costs honest taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year. A particularly bad program when it comes to criminal activity is the Federal food stamp program. According to a recent article by Phoenix Brooks, writing for the US Chronicle website, that criminal activity was recently exposed in Kentucky:
  • A Kentucky woman has been convicted of money laundering charges and committing food stamp fraud that totalled almost half a million dollars.
  • The convicted woman, Phyllis Tyler, committed her fraud over three and a half years.
  • Tyler owned a store that sold food, beer, lottery tickets and wigs (go figure).
  • Tyler would buy food stamp recipients’ food stamps at about 50% of the face value of their food stamps. 
  • That enabled the food stamp recipients to buy products (e.g. alcohol), a purchase forbidden under the food stamp program, and allowed Tyler to turn in the purchased food stamps to get full value for what she paid half of the face value for.
  • According to the police report of the undercover sting operation that nabbed Tyler: “On three separate occasions within the last 2 1/2 months, members of the Covington Police Department utilized a confidential informant to conduct controlled sales from within an establishment known as A&E Market.” 
Fortunately, the authorities got this criminal for breaking the law. She was sentenced to 66 months in jail and must serve at least 85% of her time behind bars. That is the good news, the bad news is how many times is this fraud going on throughout the whole country that is not being caught.

2) Keely Sharp, writing for the Eagle Rising website recently, reported on the hand written letter of advice that Obama had left for Trump. On the surface, this advice seemed to be very wise and insightful. Some of the quotes included the following:
  • Obama urged Trump to protect the “democratic institutions and traditions” of the country.
  • Obama stated that U.S. “leadership in this world really is indispensable.” 
  • He suggested that Trump leave “instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them”.
I find Obama’s comments so hypocritical. His administration weaponized the IRS to make sure that conservative non-profit organizations could not get non-profit status to advance their First Amendment rights. Hardly “protecting democratic institutions and traditions.”

He sat back and allowed the Iranians and North Koreans to advance their nuclear weapons programs with a nonsense strategy that Obama called “strategic patience.” He allowed and/or facilitated the rise of ISIS in the Middle East. His passivity allowed Russia, really a two bit nation with nuclear weapons, to become an international player again. His illegal intrusion into the Libyan civil war tore a foreign country apart and created a new haven for terrorists. Hardly making sure that U.S. “leadership in this world really is indispensable.”

Obama broke the law dozens or hundreds of times, from the Fast and Furious operation to unilaterally changing Obama Care’s legislation to his illegal entry into the Libyan civil war, his administration hardly left “instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them.”

Obama was always a smooth speaker. Problem he was usually lying or deceiving with his words to serve his personal purposes, goals, and huge ego. This letter to Trump proves again that this is so true.

3) Outside of Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Jackson-Lee, a Congresswoman from Texas, has proven to be the most reliable source of inane, idiotic, and out of touch quotes of any member of Congress. In the past, she has stated that the Constitution is 400 years old, that South Vietnam and North Vietnam still exist as two separate countries with North Vietnam ruling over South Vietnam, and wondered out loud if a Mars Rover mission would be driving past the spot on the moon where Neil Armstrong planted the American flag.

As a result of Hurricane Harvey, she was at it again. As most probably know, Harvey dumped dozens of inches of rain on Houston, the Congressional district of Jackson-Lee, which caused severe flooding. According to Jackson-Lee, that is because Houston sits 50 feet below sea level. That’s right, 50 feet below sea level. No wonder Houston flooded!

Well….not quite. Depending on what source you use, Houston is on average is 50 feet or more ABOVE sea level. No part of it is apparently at sea level, never mind 50 feet below sea level. How can a sitting member of Congress be so wrong about her own Congressional district? Talk about being out of touch.

The actual news interview where she makes this insane comment can be seen at:


4) One last quickie piece of insanity for today. If you have not heard, a sitting U.S. Senator, Robert Menendez, has just gone on trial for corruption. Yes, a current Senator is on trial. Nice set of people that run for and unfortunately, get elected to public office. 

Now, obviously the Senator is innocent until proven guilty. However, there is enough smoke to have resulted in indictments and a trial for him and others. Given the track record of sitting politicians going to jail as a result of their greed and low morals, I know what side of the table I would place my bet on this trial.

That will do it for today’s insanity. Senator on trial, a Congresswoman who is clueless about her own district, a former President clueless about his legacy, and more food stamp fraud. More insanity to follow.


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