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A story on nytimes.com yesterday, by Michael S. Schmidt and David E. Sanger, concerns presidential emails hacked by Russians. However, although not mentioning Bill Clinton’s wife, seems quite damaging to her, regardless. 

 

The article states that, “Some of President Obama’s email correspondence was swept up by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system that was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged, according to senior American officials briefed on the investigation.

 

“The hackers, who also got deeply into the State Department’s unclassified system, do not appear to have penetrated closely guarded servers that control the message traffic from Mr. Obama’s BlackBerry, which he or an aide carries constantly.”

 

Now, several things can be implied here, without much imagination at all. Because, despite the belief of those feeling that “closely guarded servers that control the message traffic from Mr. Obama’s BlackBerry,” were not penetrated, there’s simply no way they can possibly know that.

 

And, far worse, if those same “closely guarded” servers might be vulnerable at all, then a private server, such as Bill’s wife used, is significantly more at risk. Which means that any successful hacking attempts on her equipment will likely never be known. Implying that her judgment regarding national security and decision-making are both quite poor.  

 

There’s another subject indicating poor executive administrative capability, this one not really talked very much about any more: the president’s health care tax. However, an editorial article in the Orange County Register at www.ocregister.com is titled: ”Red ink could kill Covered California.” 

 

The text states, “After two previous extensions, the open enrollment period for Covered California ends April 30. That deadline just might prove to be the tipping point for the state’s two-year-old health insurance exchange.

 

“That’s because this is the year Covered California is supposed to become completely self-sustaining.

 

“Indeed, there’s no more money coming from Washington after the state exhausts the $1.1 billion it received from the federal government to get the Obamacare exchange up and running. And state law prohibits Sacramento from spending any money to keep the exchange afloat.

 

"That presents an existential crisis for Covered California, which is facing a nearly $80 budget deficit for its 2015-16 fiscal year. Although the exchange is setting aside $200 million to cover its near-term deficit, Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee acknowledged in December that there are questions about the “long-term sustainability of the organization.”

 

Here again, however, although the article intends to address California’s budget problems, another presidential misjudgment is buried in the text, whereas, “Indeed, Covered California’s enrollment growth for 2015 was a mere 1 percent, according to a study this month by Avalere Health. That was worst than all but two other state exchanges. Meanwhile, California’s Obamacare exchange managed to retain only 65 percent of previous enrollees, the nation’s fourth-lowest re-enrollment rate.” 

 

Thus, although enrollment showed only 1% growth, 35% of enrollees, for whatever their reasons, either chose, or were forced,  to cancel. And, if that same ratio keeps up, three years from now, California won’t even need the program, whereas there won’t be any enrollees at all. 

 

And finally for today, Christopher Booker of telegraph.co.uk writes about another pin stuck in the global-warning balloon, as follows:. 

 

“Last month, we are told, the world enjoyed “its hottest March since records began in 1880”. This year, according to “US government scientists”, already bids to outrank 2014 as “the hottest ever”. The figures from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were based, like all the other three official surface temperature records on which the world’s scientists and politicians rely, on data compiled from a network of weather stations by NOAA’s Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN). 

 

“But here there is a puzzle. These temperature records are not the only ones with official status. The other two, Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama (UAH), are based on a quite different method of measuring temperature data, by satellites. And these, as they have increasingly done in recent years, give a strikingly different picture. Neither shows last month as anything like the hottest March on record, any more than they showed 2014 as “the hottest year ever”. 

 

Rightfully proud of himself and his mission, Mr. Booker writes on that: “So strong is the evidence that all this calls for proper investigation that my articles have now brought a heavyweight response. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has enlisted an international team of five distinguished scientists to carry out a full inquiry into just how far these manipulations of the data may have distorted our picture of what is really happening to global temperatures.”

 

Now, there is certainly strong evidence Mr. Booker’s gathered to support the fact that global-warming, climate-change, or whatever else zealot environmentalists wish to call it doesn’t really exist. 

 

However, if he wants to get the POTUS to agree with him, he’s going to have to raise more than $100 million for his project. Because that’s what die-hard environmentalist Tom Steyer has reportedly raised to receive the government backing he’s currently got.

 

Reader, Squidly2112 thrstr, put it this way:

 

WHY? .. you say... Here is WHY :

 

"Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection", says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer.

 

"The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated." – Ottmar Edenhofer

 

That’s it for today folks. 

 

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