My Main Problem With Donald Trump

The main thing I have against Donald Trump is that he supports the stupid ethanol mandate.
Some mainstream environmentalists are opposing ethanol, supposedly the greenest biofuel?
  As it turns out, corn ethanol isn’t all that green.

• Corn ethanol is at best a marginal gain in energy over the energy required to produce it.
• Corn ethanol has less than a 20% greenhouse gas advantage over conventional hydrocarbon fuels. (As the article documents, the EPA had to cook the books with unreasonably high crop yield estimates and unreasonably low corn prices to make the greenhouse numbers work.)
• Nitrogen fertilizer runoff pollutes drinking water supplies to potentially hazardous levels in cities like Des Moines, IA.
• Fertilizer runoff causes an annual dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico due to oxygen-depleting algae blooms; this year’s dead zone covered 6,500 square miles, an area the size of Connecticut.
• High corn prices and ethanol demand have driven the cultivation of marginal crop land — land which is not well-suited to corn production — which means low crop yields and high levels of erosion.

Arguments put forward to support ethanol is BUNK.

The ethanol programs may have originated for the best of intentions. However, the assumptions underlying those intentions are questionable, at best.  The idea that adding ethanol to gasoline will reduce carbon dioxide emissions and dangers of catastrophic climate change is bunk.  Many studies have found that ethanol in car and truck fuels actually increases airborne ozone levels.  How much fossil fuel do you think they have to burn to convert corn oil into ethanol?  

Everyone hates ethanol except the corn growers.  People are paying extra to buy gasoline without it.  It will ruin the engine in older model cars.  Boats, lawn mowers and lawn and garden tractors, and many other gasoline powered equipment will not even run on it.

So why do we still produce ethanol?  Very simple; the corn growers are a very large block of voters, so politicians want to keep them happy.  There is a way to have your cake and eat it too.  The solution is to discontinue ethanol and use all that corn oil to produce bio-diesel fuel.

Ethanol is very expensive to produce.  It’s like making corn whiskey.  First there is the fermentation process which produces alcohol.  Them comes the distilling process, which requires a lot of heat.

Bio-diesel on the other hand is very simple and inexpensive to produce.  You simply blend the corn oil with diesel fuel, no fermentation or distilling required.  And, unlike ethanol, diesel engines actually run better and cleaner on bio-diesel.

Willy Nelson tried to point this out years ago, but the environmental wackos thought they knew best, so we just keep paying extra to get gas without the engine damaging ethanol.
    
Further reading:

1.     Ethanol, the Fuel Only a Politician Could Love

2.     Great Achievements in Central Planning: The Renewable Fuel Standard

3.     Corn ethanol, fertilizer runoff & the Gulf Dead Zone

ARE YOU GOING TO THE SUPER B0WL?

The FBI is investigating a possible attack at the Super Bowl after a series of fiber optic cables were deliberately severed in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to an internal memo.

The unsolved attacks on the cables raises the possibility that someone is testing network stability ‘in conjunction with a more complex plot,’ according to the missive shared by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3406581/FBI-investigating-possible-attack-Super-Bowl-Series-attacks-fiber-optic-cables-raises-concern-complex-plot.html#ixzz3xummZdMF
 

A Look at Ted Cruz's Resume

Ted Cruz’s Resume is Very Impressive, Should Make him Standout Among Other Candidates.

• Graduated valedictorian in 1988 from Second Baptist High School
• Graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1992
• Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1995
• 1992 U.S. National Debate Champion representing Princeton
• 1995 World Debating Championship semi-finalist representing Harvard
• Served a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, making him the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008, making him the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country and the longest tenure in Texas history
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice
• Authored over 80 SCOTUS briefs and presented over 40 oral arguments before The Court
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms
• Presented oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds,
• Defended the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools
• Defended the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas, defeating Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst who was heavily favored and backed by the DC old-guard GOP
• Defeated Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election
• Endorsed by The Tea Party and the Republican Liberty Caucus
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
• Unlike Obama, Cruz didn’t seat in the U.S. Senate and vote “present.” He has sponsored 97 bills. Here are a few crucial pieces of legislation sponsored by Cruz:
• ObamaCare Repeal Act
• Prohibit use of drones from killing citizens of the United States within the United States
• Disarm Criminals and Protect Communities Act
• Firearm Straw Purchasing and Trafficking Prevention Act
• Defund Obamacare Act of 2013
• A bill to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to permit States to require proof of citizenship for registration to vote in elections for Federal office
• A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the Paul Brown United States Courthouse
• A bill to require the Secretary of State to offer rewards of up to $5,000,000 for information regarding the attacks on the United States diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya that began on September 11, 2012
• State Marriage Defense Act of 2014
• A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the intentional discrimination of a person or organization by an employee of the Internal Revenue Service
• A bill to prohibit the Department of the Treasury from assigning tax statuses to organizations based on their political beliefs and activities
• American Energy Renaissance Act of 2014
• A bill to deny admission to the United States to any representative to the United Nations who has been found to have been engaged in espionage activities or a terrorist activity against the United States and poses a threat to United States national security interests
• SuperPAC Elimination Act of 2014
• Free All Speech Act of 2014
• Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transfer Suspension Act of 2014
• A bill to require the Secretary of State to offer rewards totaling up to $5,000,000 for information on the kidnapping and murder of Naftali Fraenkel, a dual United States-Israeli citizen, that began on June 12, 2014
• A bill to prevent the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawfully created by Executive memorandum on August 15, 2012
• Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act of 2014
• Expatriate Terrorists Act
• Operation United Assistance Tax Exclusion Act of 2014

ALSO SEE: http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2013/03/ever-take-look-at-ted-cruzs-resume.html?m=1

   

Roller-coaster Designed to Kill You…No, Seriously, it Really is.

The white-knuckle ride to your death: 'Euthanasia Roller-coaster' will be the last thrill you ever get – although experts warn you may spend your final moments feeling SICK 

• Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas designed a roller-coaster to kill
• The 'Euthanasia Coaster' suffocates the brain through extreme G-force
• Designer says the fatal journey is 'euphoric', 'elegant and meaningful'
• But a top US neurosurgeon says it's riders would die nauseous

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3402836/The-white-knuckle-ride-death-Euthanasia-rollercoaster-thrill-experts-warn-spend-final-moments-feeling-SICK.html#ixzz3xWATQip1
 

The Looming Global Nuclear Weapons Crisis

The deal with Iran was widely celebrated as a move to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons around the world.

Early signs suggest it might do the exact opposite.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.thetower.org/article/the-looming-global-nuclear-weapons-crisis/

Bill Clinton made a similar deal with North Korea.  He also made a deal with China where he gave them the latest missile technology.  How are those deals working out now?

     

The roots of Black Lives Matter unveiled

What you never knew about Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) casts itself as a spontaneous uprising born of inner city frustration, but is, in fact, the latest and most dangerous face of a web of well-funded communist/socialist organizations that have been agitating against America for decades.  Its agitation has provoked police killings and other violence, lawlessness and unrest in minority communities throughout the U.S. If allowed to continue, that agitation could devolve into anarchy and civil war.  The BLM crowd appears to be spoiling for just such an outcome.

Nevertheless, BLM appears to be exercising considerable leverage over the Democratic Party, in part by pressuring and intimidating Democratic candidates such as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (VT) into embracing their cause.  The movement could also assist President Obama’s exploitation of racial divisions in society beyond his final term in office.

This report examines in detail, for the first time, how communist groups have manipulated the cause of Black Lives Matter, and how money from liberal foundations has made it all possible.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/the-roots-of-black-lives-matter-unveiled/#O3IhodFHP3JvzQ7L.99

How to get rid of raccoons (political viewpoint)

I received this in an email today. 

It is an interesting analogy and it may be right on.

You've been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons.  Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement.  You want them gone immediately so you hire a guy.  A pro.  

You don't care if the guy smells, you need those raccoons gone pronto and he's the guy to do it!  You don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he voted for Obama, you don't care if he has plumber's crack...you simply want those raccoons gone!   You want your problem fixed!   He's the guy.   He's the best.  Period.

That's why Trump is popular.  Yes he's a bit of an ass, yes he's an egomaniac, but you don't care.  The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republican Party is two-faced, gutless, and run by rinos, illegals are everywhere.  You want it all fixed!  You don't care that Trump is crude, you don't care that he insults people, you don't care that he had been friendly with Hillary, you don't care that he has changed positions, you don't care that he's been married 3 times, you don't care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell, you don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorist,...this country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo and Hamid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don’t even recognize the country we were born and raised in; “AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED” and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want. 

You're sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, Rino infested Republican Party, and sick of illegals.  You just want this thing fixed.  Trump may not be a saint, but doesn’t have lobbyist money holding him, he doesn’t have political correctness restraining him, all you know is that he has been very successful, a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he's also not a politician,  he's not a cowardly politician.  And he says he'll fix it.  You don't care if the guy has bad hair. 

You just want those raccoons gone.

Out of your house.

Now.

I said in a previous post that Trump could win it all: http://cyberpolyticks.blogspot.com/2016/01/trump-could-win-it-all.html

Perhaps this explains why!