Wednesday, January 15, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Several items today worth mentioning.
 
Haven’t addressed the hubbub about NSA spying whereas it’s not worth the effort. That’s because, regardless of whatever the administration says about changing or otherwise adjusting the program, the spying’s going to continue anyway, primarily because it should in defense of the nation and its citizens.
 
In that regard, today Fox News reported that “The National Security Agency has placed software on nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines using radio frequency technology, The New York Times reported Tuesday.”
 
The story includes the following, “The NSA describes the effort an "active defense" and has used the technology to monitor units of the Chinese Army, the Russian military, drug cartels, trade institutions inside the European Union, and sometime U.S. partners against terrorism like Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan.”
 
Consequently, with the available technology today in a world that contains significant peril, it would be immature, and likely suicidal, not to avail the nation with every possible protection obtainable.
 
On the other hand though, its possible that employing the NSA for national defense is perhaps the only thing this administration's ever done right.
 
Terry Miller  of the The Wall Street Journal on-line via Drudge reports that: “World economic freedom has reached record levels, according to the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, released Tuesday by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. But after seven straight years of decline, the U.S. has dropped out of the top 10 most economically free countries.”
 
Mr. Miller goes on: “It's not hard to see why the U.S. is losing ground. Even marginal tax rates exceeding 43% cannot finance runaway government spending, which has caused the national debt to skyrocket. The Obama administration continues to shackle entire sectors of the economy with regulation, including health care, finance and energy. The intervention impedes both personal freedom and national prosperity.”
 
After reading the preceding, I had to laugh when I came across this one from CBS DC also via Drudge: “On Wednesday [the incumbent]will go to North Carolina to draw attention to the type of manufacturing innovation hub that he promoted in his 2013 State of the Union speech. On Thursday he has invited college presidents to discuss ways to improve workers’ skills.”

This is the same guy who’s health care tax bill includes approximately $30 billion in revenue that the 2.3% tax on device purchases is supposed to raise over the next decade.

So, its not hard to see why the nation’s going backward economically. Because the guy at the top knows less than nothing about how business or taxation works and when in trouble seeks the advice of college professors and administrators who are clueless themselves about real-world productivity. Businessmen, however, are neither listened to nor trusted.  

And then we have a further example of administrative policy based on political positioning rather than reality whereas even an ardent supporter like California Senator, Dianne Feinstein, finds fault with false spin from the White House regarding Benghazi.  

According to John Nolte of Breitbart on-line: “Speaking to The Hill newspaper, Feinstein said, “I believe that groups loosely associated with al Qaeda were” involved in the attack.
 
When asked if she believed the infamous anti-Islam YouTube video caused a protest that evolved into a riot, Feinstein said, “It doesn’t jibe with me.”

Mr. Nolte goes even further by reporting that: “It is widely believed that The New York Times report was nothing more than a whitewash to protect Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State who is almost certain to run for president in 2016.”

So, another day and another story, slowly but surely exposing why Slick Willy’s wife’s not going to get a free and easy trip to the White House. Especially because when put to just about the only test she’s ever faced, Benghazi, she blew it in spades.

And then there’s this one on one of my favorite subjects.

CBS Boston via Drudge reports that: MIT Professor Richard Lindzen is a leading international expert on climate change who says that “The changes that have occurred due to global warning are too small to account for. It has nothing to do with global warming, it has to do with where we live.”

Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. The opportunities for taxation, for policies, for control, for crony capitalism are just immense, you can see their eyes bulge.”

What’s most important about this one is that a highly regarded climate expert, from MIT no less, has finally put the “climate change” farce in proper, finite, perspective. Noting that global warming  supporters are far more interested in financial gain than anything really having to do with the weather.

In conclusion, then, its probably a very good thing that fewer and fewer folks pay much attention to the incumbent’s continual speeches at all. Because other than for a continually shrinking number of believers, facts and reality are steadily refuting just about everything he says, promises, believes or promotes.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios

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