Random thoughts #33

So much stuff. So little time.

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Kamala Harris headlined a political rally for Angela Alsobrooks, the democratic candidate for Senate in Maryland. Alsobrooks is county executive of Prince Georges County and defeated dem representative David Trone in the democrat primary. Trone is the multibillionaire from Total Wine who bought his seat in Congress and spent $60 million of his own money in a losing effort in the Senate primary. Good riddance. I am glad he lost. Harris used the occasion to tout Alsobrooks’ support for gun control legislation. Alsobrooks said that she would hold gun manufacturers accountable “for the immense harm that they have caused our state and country.” That is interesting. Figures show that in 2022 they were about 48,000 firearm-related deaths in the US. More than half were suicides. Forty percent were classified as homicides That means that less than 20,000 are the cause of the “immense harm” cited by Alsobrooks. Consider that there were 46,000 vehicle deaths in 2022. I guess Alsobrooks is going to hold the automobile manufactures accountable for the immense harm that they are causing our country as well. Alsobrooks also stated that firearms were the largest killer of young people. This is not even close to the truth. The biggest killer of young blacks is the abortion industry with 500,000 deaths per year! Yet I bet Alsobrooks supports abortion on demand.

That Harris is considered an asset by the Alsobrooks campaign speaks volumes about the voters of Maryland who gave Biden a 20 point victory over Trump. Her opponent is the former governor Larry Hogan who is the rare republican to win statewide office in Maryland and was elected for two terms. Hogan is the type of republican that purists hate and label as RINO. Yet he is the only republican with a chance to win in Maryland. If he does win, don’t be surprised if he is the first republican whose voting record actually would overlap with at least one democrat senator. The purest on the right may be carping about Hogan’s positions but they should shut up. Hogan would be preferable to Alsobrooks.

A recent poll shows that 61 percent of Jews will vote for Biden and only 23 percent support Trump, despite Biden’s actions regarding Israel. This is virtually the same as Jewish support in the 2020 election.. Eighty-five percent feel strongly connected to Israel and say it is important for the US to support Israel. Ninety three percent of those polled said that antisemitism in the US is a serious problem and 55 percent say that Biden is better at combatting antisemitism than Trump. Huh? Have the Jews been paying attention to the pandering to the Muslims by Biden? I need someone to explain these poll numbers to me. Blacks have been cited as a blindly loyal voting bloc for the democrats. Perhaps it is time to add the Jews to the list. 

Hamas has reported that 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since the Israelis retaliated to the killing of 1,200 of their citizens on October 7. The pro-Hamas mob in the western world has labeled this as genocide and has vigorously protested Israel’s conduct of the war prompting a flareup of antisemitism.

I wonder what the same folks would call the killing of almost 500,000 unborn blacks per year? Genocide? Antiblack? Certainly not. But 500,000 abortions are performed on black women yearly. Think of this: over the past 10 years there are almost 5 million fewer blacks alive. The neo-Nazis rejoice – along with AOC, Raphael Warnock and members of the Squad who are people of color.

The CDC reports that 42 percent are non-Hispanic black women, 30 percent are non-Hispanic white women, 22 percent Hispanic and 6 percent other races. I find this astounding since blacks are only 14 percent of the US population. In New York City the number of abortions exceed the number of live births. I have written before how Planned Parenthood was founded by the racist Margaret Sanger to limit black births as a form of genocide. Planned Parenthood is predatory targeting black women and is disproportionately in majority black census tracts. Dick Gregory, the great comedian once equated abortion with genocide and at one time there were billboards in black communities stating “Black children are an endangered species.” Don’t misunderstand me. I am not opposed to birth control. But I am against the use of abortion for birth control. Abortion has been cited as the main reason for Biden’s support among suburban white women. Since apparently relatively few suburban white women get abortions, does this mean that they are antiblack? The stance of politicians of color can likely be traced to their financial supporters in the abortion industries. Isn’t this what they call “useful idiots?”

Margaret Sanger once said that Planned Parenthood recruits black ministers to promote their abortion clinics. Raphael Warnock calls himself a “pro-choice pastor”. How supposedly men of God can embrace abortion is beyond me. Perhaps their God will have a reckoning with them in their afterlife. Of course, Warnock is now a US Senator and probably feels beholden to his fellow leftists to spout the party line. Nonetheless, it is still troubling that he appears to have neither a heart nor a soul.

The EU is poised to follow the lead of the US in imposing stiff tariffs on Chinese EVs citing their low cost constitutes an unfair advantage to European carmakers. Ironically, the European carmakers have mostly opposed the imposition of the tariffs because of their heavy involvement in China. Many have manufacturing facilities there used both for the Chinese market and for importing to Europe. The question is whether cars in China made by European countries will be subject to the tariffs. The Europeans claim that the Chinese EVs are not only low cost but are also heavily subsidized. But don’t the Europeans subsidize their autos? The US with its China tariffs also subsidizes EVs and heavily subsidizes green industries as well as agricultural and industrial products. Criticizing China is disingenuous at best and is a case of the kettle calling the pot black – is that racist?

I have been waiting for the ethanol industry to revolt against going green. Ethanol is a gasoline additive derived from corn. It is a lousy additive with zero positives. It only exists to pander to the corn growers, especially in Iowa. The ethanol special interests are somewhat late in realizing that Biden’s green mandates threaten their boondoggle and have sued the EPA to preserve their cash cow. I guess now the ethanol lobby will contend that ethanol is a low carbon fuel and vehicles that run on it are actually green and should be exempt from the EPA madness.

Again it seems reasonable to me to set as a goal a level of carbon emissions that generate a minimal amount of harm – assuming that carbon is harmful. Instead of banning fossil fuel products, the administration should fund research on getting to that target, such as alternative fuels, more efficient engines and the like. Instead of wasting money on inefficient energy such as solar and wind to power the grid, the government should concentrate on nuclear and clean coal. Solar panels would be for individual structures only. Wind turbines only exist because of government subsidies which would be eliminated. The trillions of dollars spent on most green stuff has largely been as a political payoff ignoring economics. Such waste is rarely beneficial except to the environmental grifters.