Sunday, June 2, 2019

The Rest Of The Story 4

After the terrible eight years of the Obama time in office filled with lies, deceptions, unethical and criminal behavior and Democrat party's massive malfeasance and obstruction on a whole broad front Nancy Pelosi has the audacity to open her mouth and say these words. Quote: "Tuesday at the “Time 100 Summit” during a question-and-answer session in New York City, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump’s administration was “an existential threat” to our democracy. Pelosi said, “We now see the administration engaged in stonewalling of the facts coming to the American people. They want to sue the Oversight Committee, Elijah Cummings, for making a request for testimony. They want to obstruct any subpoenas that come down for information. So this is a moment in our history. She added, “It’s not about politics, it’s about patriotism. It’s an existential threat, this administration, to our democracy, in terms of our Constitution. Article One the legislative branch spelled out in the Constitution, the power of oversight over other branches of government. The right to know."   Democrats ignore all the damage they have inflicted on our country over the past 10 years but have the audacity to claim the nation's  number one enemy is Trump and his administration.  What hutzpah she has. The political left is an unsavory lot filled with reprobates. Just check the facts which they never see, understand or acknowledge...every thing good that is now ongoing as Obama is prone to say is because of his criminal actions and grossly failed policies. These people are not only delusional they are also insane. Such is the state of members of a grossly dysfunctional Democrat socialist party.  They actually think that replicating the Mueller investigation will do the country a great favor...what insanity. 

This item worries that the political left progressives have already destroyed the nation's young people with their corruption of our K-12 school system aided by the internet and the mainstream media. This speculation may well be right. Quote: "The big problem is that schools and media stopped fulfilling their responsibility, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "to educate and inform the whole mass of the people."  Schools aren't teaching many facts; most media don't objectively report facts.  Can we now expect a vast ignoranti to govern itself?  People by the millions may chat on Facebook, but do they know what World War II was?  What lessons have they learned from the rise and fall of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Pol Pot?  Can people have big thoughts if they don't know the small facts about history, geography, science, and politics? Arguably, the American public has descended to a depth of ignorance that is genuinely frightening.  Sure, the internet can bring everybody together at the digital table.  But what will  everybody talk about?  What will they have in common beyond each day's ephemera? Some digital pundits are dreaming seductive dreams.  But the intellectual landscape shifts under them.  The premise seems to be that voters will somehow be smarter and wiser than ever before.  Perhaps that train has already left the station.  Today, students learn little.  As they become adults, their brains fill with swill from agitprop operations calling themselves media.  Ignorance squared."    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/k12_internet_vs_ignorance_who_wins.html

Quote: "The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in four years. First-quarter gross domestic product expanded by 3.2%, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday in its initial read of the economy for that period. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected growth of 2.5%. It was the first time since 2015 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%. "The upside beat was helped by net trade (exports jumped while imports contracted sharply) and inventories which combined contributed almost 170 bps of the rise," wrote Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group. "Personal spending though, the biggest component was up just 1.2%, two tenths more than expected as an increase in spending on services and nondurable goods offset a decline in spending on durable goods." Exports rose 3.7% in the first quarter, while imports decreased by 3.7%. Economic growth also got a lift from strong investments in intellectual property products. Those investments expanded by 8.6%."    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/26/gdp-q1-2019-first-read.html                      This will be surprising to many of us. Electric cars are found to be dirtier than even diesel cars. Quote: "If you’re considering an electric vehicle because you care about the planet, you might want to take a look at the results of a new German study. Researchers there say that electric vehicles there account for more carbon dioxide emissions than diesel cars do. According to the study, which was presented at Munich’s Institute for Economic Research, once you take carbon dioxide emissions related to producing batteries into account as well as the prominent role of coal in German energy, electric vehicles actually emit anywhere from 11 to 28 percent more emissions than diesel ones. This is because mining and processing the cobalt, manganese and lithium used in the batteries tends to consume a high amount of energy. Take the example of a Tesla Model 3 battery. They say that just one represents anywhere from 11 to 15 tons of carbon dioxide. When calculated across a lifetime of ten years traveling 15,000 kilometers per year, it sees 73 to 98 grams of carbon dioxide for each kilometer driven. That’s before taking into account the carbon dioxide that is given off to generate the electricity used to power the cars. All told, each of these Model 3s emits between 156 and 180 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer, according to their calculations, which exceeds that of a Mercedes diesel car."  
This is an excellent piece that debunks the myth that all federal laws trump state and local laws.    https://webmail.centurylink.net/mail#11

George Burns

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