It was ridiculous enough that John Kerry was given that phony-baloney job title as “Special Presidential Envoy for Climate” by Dementia Joe Biden. But it’s gotten even more preposterous.
According to House Republicans, America’s Gigolo now has been assigned a staff of … 45 people.
Forty-five hacks! Supporting a narcissistic 77-year-old fop whose only real mission is to fly around the globe savoring fine dining and vintage wines?
What exactly do Kerry’s 45 payroll patriots do all day long, assuming, of course, that they do anything at all?
This 45 number was revealed a couple of days ago by Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., when the State Department responded to his official inquiry about Kerry’s office, or whatever the hell you’d call it.
The Herald Thursday filed a Freedom of Information Act request for Kerry’s entire State Department payroll, but we’re not holding our breaths. Neither is Rep. Burchett.
“We’ll probably get the info the day before they leave office,” he told me Wednesday. “Maybe.”
Compared to all the other unfolding President Biden fiascoes — gas shortages, border chaos, the return of stagflation, skyrocketing crime, war in the Mideast, etc. — John Kerry getting a staff of 45 paper-shufflers and pencil-sharpeners may seem like a minor blip in the history of the decline and fall of America.
But it’s classic hackerama, federal style. You can’t get any more John Kerry than this. You give an empty suit’s empty suit like Kerry a do-nothing job, and he tries to justify it by hiring a bunch of payroll Charlies. Good jobs at good wages.
The theory is, if Kerry has this many people working for him, he must really be doing something, right? Right?
“There’s no telling what they’re paying these people,” Burchett said. “We don’t even know if they’re showing up for work.”
When he ran for president in 2004, Liveshot Kerry found a guy in a bicycle shop and put him on his campaign payroll. That guy’s only job was to stay close to the candidate and always have with him the one thing Kerry cherished most in life — his comb.
His opponent, President George W. Bush, had a guy traveling with him who held the nuclear codes. Kerry had a guy with him who held … the comb.
Okay, I think we now have figured out the duties of one of Kerry’s 45 new employees. One down, 44 to go.
Then there are Kerry’s “botched jokes,” as he puts it after he gets busted for making lame cracks about, say, the Italian army or blurting out offensive comments like, “Study hard, or you’ll end up in Iraq.”
So Kerry needs a new “botched joke writer.” Two down, 43 to go.
Kerry was in D.C. Wednesday for a House hearing where he was supposed to be grilled about some of these issues. But in true John Kerry fashion, he found a way to duck out early.
“I can push to 12:30,” the haughty gigolo lectured the Congressmen, “but I am flying commercial uh and have a flight that I have to make so I have to make, so I have to leave here by 12:30.”
Notice how subtly he worked in the fact that he was “flying commercial,” as if that’s some kind of cruel and unusual punishment.
“I complimented him on his ability to run out the clock,” Burchett said, “because he did do a good job of it.”
Burchett did manage to ask Kerry one zinger, listing off all the offices and bureaus and desks in Foggy Bottom that are already dedicated to so-called climate change.
“Why does your office position even exist?” Burchett asked the long-faced Kerry.
“It’s a very fair question,” Kerry conceded, “uh and the answer is uh because we are in such a crisis globally and because President Biden wanted to find somebody uh who was uh experienced and had credibility within this arena to try to raise the profile of his effort and and and accelerate our movement.”
As Burchett put it, “My question was very pointed: What the heck does he do? And the answer was very vague.”
Probably Kerry would have liked to puff himself up and harrumph that he’s negotiating with, say, the Chinese. But that would have raised even more eyebrows, given his long history of giving away the store to, among others, the terrorists in Tehran.
This is not to say that Kerry has not enjoyed his share of success in negotiations over the decades.
He seems to fare very well in prenups, for instance. And don’t forget, the Squire of Naushon Island did get the City of Boston to remove the fire hydrant in front of the Beacon Hill mansion that was purchased for him by his second wife’s first husband’s trust fund.
But was Wednesday’s hearing on Capitol Hill what John Kerry signed up for, to be made sport of by Republican parvenus and backbenchers? And in the end, he had to flee to the airport … to board a commercial flight.
But look on the bright side, John: this time none of your fellow passengers got a cellphone photo of you without a mask.
Come to think of it, that must be the job description of yet another member of Kerry’s 45-person entourage — making sure no one catches His Majesty with his mask down when he’s flying on Air Plebeian.
Three down, 42 to go.
Read more at Boston Herald
Nowadays ice ages are referred to as “glaciations”, apparently because it turns out that our planet has been experiencing a cooling trend for the past 65 million years. Over the past 1.3 million years there have been 13 glaciations, average duration 90,000 years, each followed by a warming period (such as we now enjoy) average duration 10,000 years.
Google “Post-Glaciation Sea Level Rise” or “12,000 year graph of sea level” if the graph does not appear in place of this comment.
This graph sends an important message because it likely reflects typical sea level response during any of the past 13 interim warming periods. About 6,000 years ago the RATE of increase in sea level began to drop and that decreasing rate has continued. Now the rate of increase is a minuscule 1 to 3 mm per year. (1mm = about 4/100 of one inch). During this warming period sea level has increased more than 400 feet. The concern about rising ocean levels over the past several decades is based on the last few inches of sea level increase.
If this 1.3-million year trend continues then another glaciation is next. A foot or two of water covering the Big Apple is hardly comparable to sitting under a mile high glacier for a goodly portion of the next 90,000 years.
CO2 increase began in the mid 1800s, as our industrial revolution started. That increase is at least partially related to human activity. However, even though CO2 increase has been consistent there have been periods during which there was no temperature increase, and a three decade cooling period between 1945 and 1975. There are apparently other stronger forces at work. The popular belief is that increasing CO2 causes global warming which not only warms the oceans, but also causes glacier melt.
However there is no evidence that CO2 has ever had any impact on our global temperature. The proponents of warming have generated numerous computer models to justify their position. These models all assume that CO2 causes warming, but not much. The supposed CO2 impact is not enough to be worrisome so the models introduced another culprit, water vapor feedback, which generates 2 to 3 times the temperature increase as supposedly brought on by CO2 increase.
However, recently some Oslo researchers have demonstrated experimentally that CO2 levels increasing from .04% to 100% lead to no observable temperature increase. At least one other group has replicated that experiment.
https://notrickszone.com/2021/04/01/physicists-lab-experiment-shows-a-co2-increase-from-0-04-to-100-leads-to-no-observable-warming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=physicists-lab-experiment-shows-a-co2-increase-from-0-04-to-100-leads-to-no-observable-warming
If CO2 has little or no impact on warming that also rules out the possibility of any significant impact from water vapor feedback. There are also other problems with the water vapor feedback assumption. That feedback claim depends on the applicability of the greenhouse gas theory to actions which involve the open atmosphere. In that case the GHG theory brings with it a necessary condition – there is an accompanying necessary (but not sufficient) condition that there must also be a warmer region about 10km above the tropics, a “hot spot”. Despite decades of radiosondes that hot spot has never been found. The alarmists’ response about that missing hot spot offers little more than speculation as to where it may have gone.
But there’s another indication of cooling. Sun activity (sun spots) has recently gone quiet. Sun activity has driven every warming and cooling period during the past 800,000 years according to Don Easterbrook (geologist). His book “The Solar Magnetic Cause of Climate Changes and Origin of the Ice Ages” is available at Amazon. It’s based strictly on data. John Casey also talks about sun influence in “Dark Winter”.
Henrik Svensmark, Danish physicist, was claiming the same back in the 90s. Svensmark’s theory is that cosmic rays entering the lower atmosphere contribute to cloud cover. (CERN has long since validated Svensmark’s theory.) The normally unchanging stream of cosmic rays entering the lower atmosphere are partially blocked when the sun is active because of the sun’s strengthened magnetic field. An active sun therefore results in fewer cosmic rays entering the lower atmosphere hence lower average cloud cover which implies that more sun radiation reaches the earth’s surface, hence a warmer earth. When the sun is inactive the lower atmosphere receives more cosmic rays which leads to more cloud cover. More sun radiation is reflected back to space so less radiation reaches the earth’s surface which leads to cooling. It’s simple, and as Svensmark puts it – cloud cover dictates climate.
The sun has been active until recently which supposedly brought on our current warming. But now the sun has become quiet so average cloud cover should be increasing and a cooling should follow. Some indications of the arrival of cooling are the temperatures since 2016, (see Dr. Roy Spencer’s graph), also February 2021 was the coolest in about four decades. Texas experienced a record cold winter. England has experienced the coldest April (as of the 18th) since 1922 and Germany the chilliest April since 1917. The theory is simple and the data (oth live and Easterbrook’s) is beginning to support it.
https://chuckincardinal.blogspot.com/2021/04/englands-coldest-april-since-1922.html#comment-5352497312
There is considerable evidence that COOLING, rather than warming, is next on Mother Nature’s agenda. Those trillions of dollars to fight global warming can be shelved unless fighting a naturally-caused colder climate can be justified.
And why isn’t Kerry wearing his mask properly?
Maybe someone should consiter removing all the Air Conditioners from Kerry’s Office and Home after all according to this Nit-Wit their suppost to be contributers to this Global Warming/Climate Change load of Malarkey
Kerry is always powered by his monstrous ego and never ending self interest/image! How many of his employees are unemployed Keystone pipeline workers? Yeah right!! I believe the screws attaching his wig have irreversibly damaged what little grey matter he still retains.
But are they all qualified? Do they have their own private yacht and plane? At a minimum they should be able to wind surf to keep up up with Kerry … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9F8LSxR4Yo