Sunday, December 11, 2022

I have to Admit Joe Biden Is Right on Climate

      I have to thank Elon Musk for exposing how conservatives have been treated on Twitter and by extension on other social media sites like Facebook and Google. I have been publishing a blog for over 10 years on a Google service, blog spot. Those of you who follow my blog on a routine basis know that i have some good ideas and some unique ways at looking a policy and events. I expect Google to promote my blog on their search engine and I announce on Facebook and Twitter when a new article is published. I also send out emails to a few friends as well. I never expected to gain thousands of readers, but i tought that my readership would slowly and steadily grow.  Suddenly my usual readership went from 100-150 to 1300 and i though wow, my blog is on its way.  The next articles were back to 100-150 readers so I was a bit perplexed.  The article that seemed so popular was titled "I Have to Admit Obama Was Right." Of course, the title was tongue in cheek and written in response to Obama's ridiculous statement that global warming was the worst extrinsic threat to America. My article demonstrated that believing in apocalyptic anthropogenic global warming was the actual threat as it would destroy our economy and allow our enemies to take advantage of a weakened America. As it has turned out,President Trump believed the same thing and eliminated American dependence on foreign oil and made America a net exporter of energy. In addition, he pulled America out of the anti America and capitalism Paris accord. Biden's reversal of Trump's actions have produced high inflation and begun a recession.  Our energy security is in danger and America is weaker as a result.  Biden has begged our enemies for oil, though we have more than enough at home, if only we could drill for it and ship it by pipelines to refineries.

      I was surprised to see how many people read this post and expected my next posts to draw nearly as many reads.  Unfortunately that didn't happen.  I quickly realized that Google and Twitter promoted this article because of what seemed like a favorable article on Obama, because of the title.  The more critical of Obama and then the left, socialists, communists and last of all Joe Biden my readership slowly dropped off. With Musk's release of Twitter's hidden agenda to ban or shadow ban conservatives and articles detrimental to socialist progressives, it is clear that this is the explanation for how many people see my articles. By extension, I'm certain that Facebook and Google do the dame thing.

      My interest in global warming hoax began in ernest in 2010.  The reported science didn't really make sense to me and so I began doing research on the origin of apocalyptic global warming.  Typing in origin of apocalyptic global warming into Google's search engine, i was immediately presented with several pages of article referring to a recent article on the Nazi origin of global warming in the America Thinker.  Type the same thing in today and it will take at least ten pages of results before that one suddenly pops up. Sadly valuable information is being suppressed to promote an agenda that not only isn't true, but harmful to America, Americans, and the world in general.

     Promotion of apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change has forced European countries to loose their energy security and waste tax payer funds investing in unnecessary and barely useful energy sources. It has created extreme emotional distress among teenagers and young adults who now commit acts of vandalism and even violence in the name of climate change and question having children in a world that they think will disappear. Meanwhile to most ardent supporters of this hoax fly around the world in their private jets, travel on land in convoys of SUVs, and some leisurely enjoy huge yachts.

      We will see what this article with its title will have on my readership.

Thursday, December 1, 2022

The Fallacy of No Cash Bail and Criminal Justice Reform

       The death of career criminal George Floyd from a Fentanyl overdose, with help from Derek Chauvin's knee, not only initiated a Black Lies Matter/Antifa insurrection, but began a series of legislation that was designed to endanger Americans and favor criminals, all in the name of the dirtiest words in the English language "equity" and "social justice." Combined with George Soros bought District Attorneys and  crime exploded. Defunding and attacking police has also contributed to poor morale and understaffed departments. 

      No cash bail in several states and large cities was most destructive. It significantly reduced the type of criminal cases that could jail criminals until they showed up for trial.  The argument for no cash bail was based on the misconception that cash or bond bail discriminated against the poor.  It ignores two very real facts,  most of the criminals are poor as are their victims.  Corporate executive, doctors, school teachers, factory workers, small business owners don't hijack cars, commit snatch and grabs at sneaker or jewelry stores, or murder someone who "disrespects" them. They don't rob liquor stores or bodegas.  If they do commit a crimes, like murder of a spouse or embezzlement, they are usually either kept in jail or released on mugtimillion dollar bail and forced to turn in their passports.The victims of violent crimes, though often poor, may represent the only place in criminal justice where there is "equity."

      No cash bail has led to the release of criminals shortly after they are arrested and then they continue to go out and commit more crime,s get arrested again, and do it again and again.  In NYC there are criminals who have been arrested over one hundred times for theft and continue to be released shortly after arrest and do it again. Often a person's past criminal history can't be used at a bail hearing and so that is another reason why repeat criminals are released over and over again. Without bail, there is no incentive to show up for trial and so many criminals don't show up and that is why they also can repeat crimes over and over again without consequence. Another catastrophe is about to happen in California.  Over a thousand sexual predators have been released without serving much of their sentence. Most of these are pedophiles.  It is controversial whether pedophilia can be cured, so why release them. My advice to parents, look up your children if you do not want them to become a crime statistic. Some of these pedophiles may move to New York City as the city council voted to not allow apartment owners to perform background checks on prospective renters.  Now honest hardworking New Yorkers may have a criminal living next door and not know it.

      Lately, many of the criminals who commit what appear to be random acts of violence are mentally ill,  drug addicted, and homeless.  We can thank left wing activists in the 1970s who easily convinced mental hospitals to release most of the patients with a prescription and an out patient followup appointed,  The prescription were rarely filled and the mentally ill were never seen again, only to wind up homeless and drug addicted.  The activists said that most mental patients weren't dangerous to themselves or society, but as it has turned out this isn't true.   Being institutionalized is safer and healthier than being addicted, homeless, and violent.

      Granted, a mental institution is no great place to live, but it is a place where addiction can be treated and patient scan be given appropriate medications and therapy, allowing some to be released. Building homeless areas ignores the real problem and money is wasted unless it goes to treatment. Many of the homeless are veterans suffering from PTSD and there just may be a treatment for this using macrodosing of psychedelics under supervision.  It would be wonderful if homeless veterans could be turned into useful citizens again, That's a much better option then allowing unencumbered drug use with used syringes and needles littering streets and neighborhoods. 

     Mayors and some governors have ignored or even supported some of these failed policies.  More funding and better training for police will help, but judges should be allowed to imposed cash bail and district attorneys need to properly charge crimes. Soros bought DAs ought to be fired or recalled.  Criminal justice certainly needs to be reformed with sentencing more standardized as well as parole. Biden made a big deal of releasing all federal prisoners who were in prison on purely marijuana charges. How many did that release? None.  It was Obama who released more than 1700 prisoners who were guilty of drug crimes, some who were also guilty of gun crimes.  This leads me to my final thought. The left is opposed to gun ownership, but like immigration treats legal and illegal the same.  Nearly all gun crimes are performed by guns that have been obtained illegally.  Chicago, despite some of the stricter gun laws, leads the nation in gun crimes. Years need to be added to any sentence for anyone who commits a crime with a gun and even more with an illegal one. Though that may not serve as a deterrence, it will keep those criminals locked up longer.

      Social justice is not the answer.  It has led to a huge crime wave everywhere, but especially in those states and cities that have tried to pass laws favoring it.  We don not need more social justice.  We need more criminal justice.