The Mueller Report

So the Mueller report is out and according to the reports, there was no collusion.  Something those of us with a brain knew from day one.  This was a conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected president whether you agree with the results of the election or not.  As more information materialized, we realized what we had was an attempt to overthrow our government because an outsider got elected and has exposed the corruption within our government agencies.  Remember, President Trump ran on draining the swamp and we now know how deep the swamp is.  This includes the establishment of both parties that feared exposure.  We are now witnessing the exposure with more to come.  We are awaiting the IG report on his investigation of the FBI and DOJ and their conspiracy to overthrow our government.  Regardless of your political ideology, what we were witnessing is what we normally see in a 3^rd world country.  However, rather than the use of force, we had the upper echelon of the DOJ, FBI, CIA and DNI conspire to remove the president by using fabricated information developed by the Hillary campaign and the DNC in conjunction with the lying news media.  The lying news media became the broadcast arm of the Socialist Democrat. 

Attorney General William Barr must impanel a Grand Jury and present all the evidence related to this conspiracy with those involved subpoenaed to testify.  At a Grand Jury those subpoenaed cannot have their lawyer present so with the information already obtained through closed door testimony to Congress and Emails, it may be difficult for those testifying to claim the 5^th Amendment.  However, as former FBI Assistant Director McCabe once said, “If I go down, I am taking others with me”.  Those involved at the lower end, will testify to save themselves and then we will see how far up the food chain this conspiracy goes.   Many believe, it will go to the White House, as none of this would be done without the blessing of former President Obama.  Is this what Obama meant when he said he was going to “Fundamentally Transform the United States”? Under Obama’s regime, we witnessed government agencies spying on American citizens and continued into the Trump administration where this spying was used against Trump and those of his supporters.  The swamp has been exposed and the establishment have done and are doing their best to destroy the Trump presidency.  This will fail as the American people will see the socialist democrats are more interested in “getting Trump” and supporting illegal immigration over passing appropriate legislation that is good for the country.

Supporting illegal immigration is important and that is why they are attempting to block including the question on the 2020 census “Are you an American citizen”.   The reason is they would like to have the illegals counted in the census so the state can gain more seats in Congress to provide the socialist democrats more members.  In other words, if you are a citizen, you can go screw yourself since we support illegals and getting them to vote.  Remember, for every illegal that votes, the citizens vote is wiped out. 

The truth on electrical cars

Interesting article.  Please read to the end

I wonder what AOC thinks?  Then again, does she ever think?

Electric Cars are Saving the Planet .

As an engineer  I love the electric vehicle technology.  However, I have been troubled for a long time by the fact that the electrical energy to keep the batteries charged has to come from the grid and that means more power generation and a huge increase in the distribution infrastructure.  Whether generated from coal, gas, oil, wind or sun, installed generation capacity is limited.  A friend sent me the following that says it very well.  You should all take a look at this short article.

INTERESTING -  ONE OTHER QUESTION: IF ELECTRIC CARS DO NOT USE GASOLINE, THEY WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN PAYING A GASOLINE TAX ON EVERY GALLON THAT IS SOLD FOR AUTOMOBILES, WHICH WAS ENACTED SOME YEARS AGO TO HELP TO MAINTAIN OUR ROADS AND BRIDGES. THEY WILL USE THE ROADS, BUT WILL NOT PAY FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE!

In case you were thinking of buying a hybrid or an electric car:

Ever since the advent of electric cars, the REAL cost per mile of those things has never been discussed. All you ever heard was the mpg in terms of gasoline, with nary a mention of the cost of electricity to run it . This is the first article I've ever seen and tells the story pretty much as I expected it to/

Electricity has to be one of the least efficient ways to power things yet they're being shoved down our throats.  Glad somebody finally put engineering and math   to paper.

At a neighborhood BBQ, I was talking to a neighbor, a BC Hydro executive.  I asked him how that renewable thing was doing.  He laughed, then got serious.  If you really intend to adopt electric vehicles, he pointed out, you had to face certain realities.  For example, a home charging system for a Tesla requires 75 amp services.  The average house is equipped with 100 amp service.  On our small street (approximately 25 homes), the electrical infrastructure would be unable to carry more than three houses with a single Tesla, each.  For even half the homes to have electric vehicles, the system would be wildly over-loaded.

This is the elephant in the room with electric vehicles.  Our residential infrastructure cannot bear the load. So as our genius elected officials promote this nonsense, not only are we being urged to buy these things and replace our reliable, cheap generating systems with expensive, new windmills and solar cells, but we will also have to renovate our entire delivery system!     This latter "investment" will not be revealed until we're so far down this dead-end road that it will be presented with an 'OOPS...!' and a shrug.

If you want to argue with a green person over cars that are eco-friendly, just read the following.  Note: If you ARE a green person, read it anyway.  It's enlightening.

Eric test drove the Chevy Volt   at the invitation of General Motors and he writes, "For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine   ."  Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg   including the 25 miles it ran on the battery.  So, the range including the 9-gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh batteries is approximately 270 miles.

It will take you 4.5 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph.  Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours.  In a typical road trip, your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.  According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kWh of electricity.  It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.

 The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned , so I looked up what I pay for electricity.  I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kWh. 16 kWh x $1.16 per kWh = $18.56 to charge the battery .  $18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles =$0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.  Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg.  $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile .

The gasoline-powered car costs about $20,000 while the Volt costs $46,000-plus.  So the American Government wants loyal Americans not to do the math, but simply pay three times as much for a car, that costs more than seven times as much to run, and takes three times longer to drive across the country.

Here Are 5 Hysterical Environmentalist Claims in Modern History

Peddlers of the Green New Deal know that the only way for their radical agenda to become reality is if Americans buy into the wildest claims of climate extremists.

It’s clear that some of the most enthusiastic supporters of this radical agenda are young people.

This was on full display in the now viral video of a meeting between Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and a group of children from the Sunrise Movement.

Perhaps children and young Americans are more likely to buy into the extreme environmentalist doomsaying due to the fact that they weren’t around for the laughably wrong predictions of the past that never came true.

Panics over looming environmental and climate apocalypse have been with us for a long time. Thomas Malthus famously predicted in his 1798 book “An Essay on the Principle of Population” that population growth would overtake food supply and mass starvation would result unless population controls were implemented.

Of course, his predictions were utterly wrong, since free enterprise greatly increased the food supply as the population increased.

The modern environmentalist movement has picked up a Malthusian ethos of its own and, when combined with the politics of climate change, has produced numerous egregiously wrong predictions about global trends.

Here are five of the biggest misses:

1. Population Bomb to Cause Global Famine by 2000

The first Earth Day, in 1970, was filled with hyperbole and exaggerations about mankind’s future. Much of the craziness was unearthed in a remarkable expose in 2000 by Reason contributor Ronald Bailey.

One of the most common ideas, in a throwback to Malthus, was that the global food supply simply couldn’t keep up with population growth.

Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University—now named the University of North Texas—wrote about how mass starvation was in the world’s near-term future. Gunter spoke in language that should be all too familiar to those who have paid attention to the debate over climate change in modern times:

Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. … By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.

Ah, yes, all the scientists agree that the world will end by the year 2000.

Of course, this didn’t come to pass. In fact, a remarkable reduction in poverty has occurred around the globe since 1970. A chart published by Human Progress demonstrated just how dramatically global hunger has decreased in the past few decades. 

Thanks, capitalism.

2. Air Pollution Will Be So Bad That City Dwellers Will Have to Wear Gas Masks

Another grand prediction at Earth Day 1970 (it was full of doozies) was that the air pollution problem common to many American cities would continue to get exponentially worse without widespread government control of the American way of life.

One particularly extreme claim came from the January 1970 edition of Life magazine, as quoted by Bailey:

Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support … the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution [and] by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.

Again, such remarkable accuracy from these all-knowing scientists.

This didn’t happen, in part due to federal, state, and local restrictions on emissions. But it had much more to do with the general societal response to the problem.

Wealthier, more prosperous societies simply have more means and more of an inclination to make trade-offs to enjoy cleaner air. Free societies such as the United States found ways to reduce pollutants as a means to improve quality of life.

It’s very different in countries like, say, China, where pollution in some cities is unbearable due to the developing nature of the country combined with the authoritarian nature of government, which is more preoccupied with growth in gross domestic product than the comfort and well-being of individual citizens.

The fact is, free societies began solving this problem long ago, and our cities have become much better, not worse.

3.  Entire Nations Could Be Wiped Out by 1999

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., a self-avowed socialist, recently claimed that the world would end in 12 years if we don’t radically transform our economy to combat climate change.

The decadelong window of pronounced doom seems to be a favorite among climate alarmists.

A recently resurfaced report from the Associated Press shows how an almost identical, but more precise, prediction was once made by a high-ranking United Nations official in 1989.

AP reported: “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”

Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, claimed in 1989 that human beings had a mere 10 years to stop the effects of global warming.

Brown said: “Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?”

Brown pronounced doom for Canada and the United States, where the entire East Coast would be flooded and conditions would be like the 1930s Dust Bowl.

But fear not, Brown did offer hope to humanity: He also predicted that the Soviet Union might produce “bumper crops” during this time.

4.  Ice Caps Will Melt Away

Predictions about the polar ice caps melting have been common. Dramatic pictures of polar bears floating on tiny icebergs have been some of the iconic images of the climate change movement.

Former Vice President Al Gore said at a conference in 2009 that a scientist predicted a “75 percent chance that the entire polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice free within five to seven years.”

In 2014, the ice caps were still there. In fact, it’s 2019 and the ice caps are still there.

Gore wasn’t the only one to make such bold prognostications about the future of Arctic ice.

In his book “A Farewell to Ice,” Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, predicted that polar ice in the Arctic would be gone by mid-decade.

Not only have the ice caps survived these predictions of doom, but they have occasionally grown in size. Between 2012 and 2016, Arctic ice increased from an average of 2.2 million square miles to 3.3 million square miles, according to The Telegraph.

5.  The Coming Ice Age

In 1958, Betty Friedan, one of the leading thinkers of radical, modern feminism, wrote an article in Harper’s magazine describing the “coming ice age.”

It seems the mixing of climate science and radical left-wing politics is nothing new.

Friedan based her article on the work of two scientists, geophysicist Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia University’s Lamont Geological Observatory, and geologist-meteorologist William Donn.

She explained how these scientists foresaw American port cities being drowned by rising oceans, and how a giant glacier would cover Europe and North America. The scientists described conditions by which the earth would dramatically warm and then cool, sending us into another ice age.

These scientists were more cautious in their predictions than others, but this didn’t stop Friedan from speculating that, based on their calculations about the rate of warming, a layman could conclude that “the Arctic Ocean will be open and the Ice Age [will] begin in another twenty years.”

As Iain Calder wrote in Newsmax, this was just part of a tide of predictions about how a looming ice age soon was going to plunge the world into a deep freeze. Calder wrote:

Between 1973 and 1977 the great Time magazine had a number of blaring Page One covers like: ‘The Cooling of America,’ ‘The Big Freeze’ and ‘How to Survive the Coming Ice Age’ (with a subhead: ‘Things You Can Do to Make a Difference.’)

Needless to say, despite the chilly winter, the ice caps are still with us and the new ice age hasn’t come.

If there’s a lesson to be learned from all of these predictions, it’s not that scientists are always wrong or that we shouldn’t be good stewards of the environment. Instead, we should treat extreme predictions with skepticism, especially if they mean upending our way of life.

We should be particularly suspicious of schemes such as the Green New Deal, which would entirely derail the American economy and place it under the power of government.

One way or another, free societies will do a better job of adapting to any change in climate than the Venezuelas of the world, where the folly of man causes starvation and not natural disaster.

The Socialist Democratic Party sprouts more hate

Did the little racist congresswomen Ilhan Omar go a little too overboard by criticizing the socialist elitist, Barrack Hussein Obama? She may have, except, just like the republicans, the democrats in the house under the great leadership Nancy no balls Pelosi will do nothing for fear of offending the now radical socialist base of the socialist party.  Do nothing or cower in a corner is out of the republican playbook.   As long as the idiot and Omar as well as the other young communist in the House continue to push a socialist agenda that the base supports, nothing will be done.  But anyway, this is what the little anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and pro Sharia law jerk said.

Ilhan Omar: Obama’s a ‘pretty face’ who got ‘away with murder’

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Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in an interview published Friday, belittling his “pretty face” and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion.

She cited the “caging of kids” at the Mexican border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch — and argued that he wasn’t much different from President Trump

“We can’t be only upset with Trump,” the freshman firebrand told Politico Magazine.

“His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was,” Omar said.

“And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.”

The explosive comments about a man lionized by Democrats were only the latest in a series of incendiary statements that have put the national spotlight on Omar, a Somali-American Muslim who spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya after her family fled the violence in their homeland.

In February, her second month in office, Omar responded to a tweet about House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s threats to punish her and another congresswoman for criticizing Israel.

“It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” she tweeted, a line from a Puff Daddy song about $100 bills.

Critics said Omar was perpetuating a hateful trope about Jewish Americans and money.

She recently got into another hot mess after another tweet was slammed by some as anti-Semitic.

The ensuing firestorm rattled the Democratic House majority and spurred days of recriminations and tense negotiations that led to the compromise package condemning bigotry that sailed through the House on Thursday, with only 23 Republicans voting against it.

The party’s leftist wing, led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said Omar was being singled out when others at the highest levels of government had said things that were worse and escaped censure.

More moderate Dems, including Jewish lawmakers such as New York’s Eliot Engle, wanted the resolution to focus only on anti-Semitism as a direct response to Omar’s comment, which questioned the loyalty of politicians who accept donations from pro-Israel PACs and organizations.

Ultimately, after days of chaos and acrimony, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was able to unite her caucus — and box in a big majority of Republicans — to back the compromise.

And Omar — along with Rashida Tlaib of Michigan the first Muslim women in Congress — said she’s willing to keep speaking out and be a Republican punching bag if it helps advance her agenda, a prospect that likely makes many of her fellow Democrats cringe.

This is what is wrong with California

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyIYc_7hbM

The Socialist Democratic Party, the party of hate

It is becoming quite obvious since the election of President Trump, that the Socialist Party (formerly the Democratic Party) is showing their true colors.  They are now the party of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholic, and anti-Christian and from the hearings held over the past 6 months, anti-God.  They do not believe as our Founders did, that our rights come from God, whereas they are trying to assert that our rights come from government and can be taken away at any time.   He who giveth can taketh away.  That is why the socialist controlled state legislators are doing their best to restrict your constitutional rights under the 2^nd Amendment, the 1^st Amendment and the 4^th Amendment.  The Socialist controlled House, cannot even have the courage to pass a bill condemning anti-Semitism for fear they may offend Islam and Muslims.  Offending Jew, Catholics and all Christians does not seem to be a problem.

In the past two months they have embraced the view of the radical legislator IIhan Omar who has expressed her hatred for Israel, President Trump and Christianity.  Christians and Jews believe in the same God, but Omar believes in a different God commonly referred as Allah.  The Christian and Jewish God does not advocate killing anyone that does not believe in him, while those following Allah will kill those who do not believe in Allah.  The only being I know that would advocate killing those who do not believe is Satan.  Contrary to what some may claim, the world has been at war with Islam for over 1400 years.  It is just that the Islamist rise up, have some success and then are defeated and then await for their next leader to take them on another can killing spree. 

As for the idiot (aka AOC), every time she opens her mouth only proves the name I have given her.  Now she is facing an FEC criminal allegation and we will have to follow closely how this is handled.  Dinesh D’Souza went to jail for a minor offense of the election law, but this was under the Obama justice department.  So, this requires watching to make sure there is equal justice.  Something that does not seem to apply to the Socialist Party over the years.    

Will the Jews in the Socialist Party leave the party and either become Independent or join the non-racist party commonly referred as the Republican Party.  Of course, we all know the Republican Party is also known as the NBP (No Balls Party) and that is why many in this party have a dislike for President Trump who is showing them how to address these haters and not be bullied by these swamp dwellers.  Just that, many in the Republican Party are part of the swamp that President Trump ran against in 2016.   We now know how deep the swamp was and is in Washington DC. 

By the way, in case you did not know, IIhan Omar worked for Nancy Pelosi as an aide.  Now you know why Pelosi will not address her racist anti-American comments.

AOC, the socialist democrats and more.

We all thought Nancy Pelosi was the Majority Leader in the House, but we have learned that it is the idiot (aka AOC) who is running the socialist party.  God forbid if you are a member of the socialist party and do not agree with whatever the idiot says, you will be ridiculed, mocked and the idiot will move to expunge you from the party by the next election.  If by some freak of nature, you believe life begins at conception or a few weeks after conception and do not believe in infanticide, you will be considered a radical.  If you believe that illegals should not be permitted to enter this country, should not possess a weapon and ICE should be notified when an illegal is apprehended, you are not only a radical, but anti-American. 

If you are under the illusion that if you work hard and are fortunate to develop your idea into a business and make tons of money, you should understand you are not entitled to millions of dollars you possess and spend, since the socialist know how to spend your money better than you.  The socialist believe possessing money is evil and you should only have the minimum amount to live and the rest of your income can be divided among the masses as the socialist feel fit to use.  Remember, they know better than you and that is why the government already has a $22 Trillion debt.  By the way, their green plan has been reviewed and the cost will exceed over $93 Trillion over 10 years.  But, have no fear as the idiot has stated, we can always print money.

So, if you like your job, the growing economy, the low unemployment and have money in your pocket because of the tax plan passed by the republicans, then you may have to worry that this will all disappear if the socialist win the White House in the 2020 election.  They have promised to repeal the Trump tax plan, impose higher taxes on those who work and not just the rich.  Under the socialist mantra, anyone who has money is considered rich and that must be taxed. 

But we may be saved as the idiot has now classified herself as a climatologist, weather scientist and meteorologist.  She has demonstrated her expertise in this field by advising us that the world will end in 12 years.  We all know Al Gore claimed the world was going to end in 10 years in the 1990’s.  So, either we are all dead and do not know it or the world still exist.  Every time we have a snowstorm, heavy rain, tornadoes, hurricanes or other climatic episode, it is all a sign of global warming or climate change, whichever the idiot and her comrades wish to use.  The fact that our continent has had snowstorms, heavy rains, tornadoes, hurricanes or other climatic episodes, since way before man began using fossil fuels, makes one wonder what planet the idiot and her comrades live on.  Their knowledge of history only goes back about 25 years and any period beyond that timeframe has no meaning.  But, she does have a college degree in economics and a minor in international studies.  We know her knowledge of economics is just below zero and she has demonstrated that she is clueless on what has been going on around this globe for over 100 years. 

So, you must listen clearly to what the idiot and her socialist party comrades’ say as you can rest assured what the idiot claims the opposing party is doing or proposing, is exactly what they are doing.  They like to accuse the opposition of what they intend to do.  They learned this from 8 years of the Obama administration.  Do, what you accuse the opposition doing.  Easier to get away with it.