Wednesday $5 Billion Bucks – WTH ? Open Comments

 

I took this photo from a hard core leftwing website on their global warming hysteria page. These towers are part of a natural gas turbine electrical generating plant. What you see are plumes of water vapor used to cool the air entering the turbines. These are not clouds of toxic pollution and people in SE Texas see similar plants all over the region.

More than three decades ago, Congress launched an initiative called the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Today, it spends billions of dollars a year empowering liberal climate scientists to spread climate change doom.

The government group says its role is to provide the “scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United States” on climate change. It’s done so by producing five National Climate Assessment reports, which are considered the “crown jewel” of climate research.

and,

The National Climate Assessment is not simply an intellectual exercise, but rather one that carries real policy might. Congress and agencies use it to justify regulations and funding decisions, and states and cities across the country lean on it as the non-partisan scientific foundation for their own climate action plans. In summary, it is the scientific bedrock for directing policy at all levels of government towards liberal climate change goals.

While the U.S. Global Change Research Program states on its website that it has a budget of $4.95 billion in 2025, it only lists two full-time employees. So, who’s getting paid to put the massive and consequential report together?

Five billion bucks and two employees ???!!!

Sources familiar with past iterations of the National Climate Assessment say the work is largely outsourced to a group called ICF, a massive government contractor that has an active contract to work on the report. The Daily Wire identified at least one active contract from NASA for ICF to “support” the U.S. Global Change Research Program. ICF is set to be paid millions of dollars during the Trump administration to “assist the nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.”

Why does this agency still exist and why hasn’t DOGE shut them down ?


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46 responses to “Wednesday $5 Billion Bucks – WTH ? Open Comments”

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Propaganda is expensive. It makes sense to me to cut as much of the funding to the left for their evil propaganda efforts as possible.
    U.S. Global Change Research Program is just another propaganda arm of the power lusting, evil, deep state, leftist, scumbags.
    I don’t much care for them.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s Hump Day already? Week is flying by. Another dang cold day here, woke up to 43 but we’ll make the low 70’s so all is good.
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Touching: Amy Coney Barrett Adopts MS-13 Gang Member. 😀

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to sources, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett adopted an MS-13 gang member as a show of support for the much maligned community of violent illegal aliens in threat of swift deportation under President Trump.

    Justice Barrett is now welcoming convicted rapist and murderer Jose Ricardo Dominguez into her home. Adoption of the notorious MS-13 member was finalized this week at a private court proceeding attended by her husband and seven other children.

    “Sometimes I feel spread a little thin,” Barrett admitted, acknowledging the difficulties of adding a new member to an already large family. “But Jose is a free spirit and I couldn’t bear to see him sent to an El Salvador prison just because he was caught dismembering the corpse of a drug mule who threatened to talk.”

    “We all make mistakes,” she added.

    The 28-year-old Honduras native said he is grateful for the trust and compassion the Barrett family has placed in him. “The only reason I turned to violence — allegedly — was because of a lack of strong authoritative figures in my life,” the newly re-named Jose Barrett said. “I have finally found where I belong — in the home of an upper class white family.”

    At publishing time, the Barrett family was reported missing.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From the Mail Box;

    Your Wells Fargo Account Has Been Suspended

    What this means for you

    Your Account has been suspended due to the following problems below:

    • Unverified Email Address
    • Invalid Billing Address
    • Incorrect Phone number

    Due to security measures, You will not be able to transfer, withdraw funds

    from your account until you have securely clicked the link below and verified

    your identity.

    Of course I do not now nor have I ever had a Wells Fargo account, do they think I’m THAT stupid?

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The answer is yes. I got a notice my EZ-Pass account was overdue and I must make an online payment immediately. It was from an overseas number with a country code (63) from the Philippines. They didn’t even try to spoof the number. The next day I received the same message with a Los Angeles (213) area code.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shannon from last night;

    I cannot watch Walker. Never could.

    That frizzy-haired painter dude on PBS is more more compelling.

    😀 I only post this because it is SOO true and also it tickled my funny bone.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK I’ve found what Y’all can get me for my birthday; A Beautiful Custom Martini Cadet .22 Hornet

    FWIW; These little rifles were built by BSA in England for use as trainers for the military and in the 30’s thousands were surplussed and imported into the states. Almost all of them were converted from the obsolete .310 Martini Cadet caliber to 32-20 even though the .32 Cal (.3125″) bullet was too small for the Martini’s .323 barrel and caused accuracy problems. This particular rifle has been rebarrelled to 22 Hornet and the stock has been refinished and hand checkered into a work of art. Being a single shot 22 it’s likely very accurate.
    Oh, more thing, as you might guess it is a little pricey.
    😀

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My @ 7;15 AM; if you checked out the picture did you notice the checkered steel Butt-Plate? Typical of a British double rifle.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Much, if not most, of this horrific activity originates in Third World countries where law enforcement barely exists and child pornography is so taboo, they pretend it doesn’t exist.

    Authorities in Florida busted a child pornography ring that had over a million videos of pedophilic abuse.

    The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) issued an April 7 press release about arrests of a ring of child porn criminals in the United States who were customers of an overseas pedophilic porn entity. “The arrests of these predators are just the beginning. Every image of child abuse leaves a lasting scar on an innocent life, and we will aggressively prosecute these heinous crimes,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier stated.

    The ring was led by “John De Vil,” actually Mehmet Bozuyuk, a Turkish resident who steals identities to facilitate the sale and distribution of child sex abuse material (CSAM) around the world. While Bozuyuk himself has not yet been arrested, seven American residents who were his customers have. Warrants are out for Bozuyuk along with Ximena Del Real Maqueda of Oregon, who conspired to commit money laundering.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Covered in my review of the C &C yesterday. Special place in Hell for these folks animals.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Thanks to his parents, this Karmelo Anthony murder case has been blown up into a race war scenario. At least the online fund-raising was shut down. Half of Democrats approve of killing Trump and Musk so murdering some unknown kid at a track meet is a trivial event.

    Ameila Mugavero @ CBS11:

    The murderer, Karmelo Anthony allegedly was recently suspended from school for bringing a knife to campus. The day of the murder he was skipping school.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      UN-DAMN-BELIEVABLE! I saw some of this on the news yesterday total Bizarro World.

  10. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We’re rehearsing this one for Palm Sunday.

    I just love it with my guys harmonizing.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      That’s a Good-Un!

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Gene is 81 years old and touring like he is 31. He will be playing at Main Street Crossing in Tomball on Friday, June 20th. I’ve been to see him several time over the years and he puts on a great show.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Corn-Ball joke if the day spotted over yonder;

    Ole Dave goes to a job interview for a Fork Lift Driver in his home state. There were only 2 applicants, Dave and a fellow from out of state and their qualifications were similar so the interviewer decided to give them each a test. After the test the interviewer told Dave that they gave the job to other guy even though they both scored the same on the test, both got 19 out of 20 questions right so Dave asked why did you give the guy from out of state the job since I live here. The interviewer said, well it’s because of the way you answered question #7. The other guy answered “I don’t know” and you answered “me neither”.

    😀

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the knifing in Texpat’s @ 9:20 AM, the victim’s brother described his last minutes on earth and said blood was pouring out of his chest from the wound, apparently he was stabbed in his heart. The brother tried to use pressure to stop the bleeding but of course the boy was dead as soon as he was stabbed. Pure Evil!

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Lutherans may have out scammed even the Catholics when it came to free taxpayer money. I hope that $80 million booked after Trump was inaugurated was stopped.

    I counted over $500 million shoved out the door to the Lutherans between mid-November, 2024 and January 22, 2025.

    Check out this list of grants from Health & Human Services to assist, feed, house and support illegal aliens in America. Plenty of this money financed smuggling operations and human trafficking.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I have a dental appointment shortly, hopefully to get my first crown put in place. That one new tooth will change my chewing habits greatly, I think. Right now I have to search for chewing places in my mouth. There will also be a second attempt to get precise measurements for the next two crowns.

    I’ve been handed off to a resident for the last two drill holes in the upper right jaw. I am very, very disappointed to be losing Dr. Lucena, but I’m sure he’s going to be exceptional no matter where he lands, and I wish him well.

    So, a quick review of the C&C before I exit the jammies and put on my street clothes…

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today’s C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! These days, life is moving very fast. You’ll miss it if you don’t stop occasionally and appreciate what’s happening. I planned to take a day off from tariff reporting to catch up on the other breaking stories. But in various comments, tweets, and announcements yesterday, President Trump confirmed parts of what is becoming undeniably the most historic and significant political and economic earthquake since the Civil War. Or possibly since ever. Some are already labeling it the “Fourth Turning” but it could be even bigger than that. Useless corporate media is, as always, missing the boat. Just wait till you see the drops merging together like mercury. But first, a little light-hearted news about Kennedy’s reservational refugees.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First up: Indian trouble

    There’s heap big trouble brewing, down on the reservation. The Times reported the story under the headline, “R.F.K. Jr’s Plan to Send Health Officials to Indian Country Angers Native Leaders.” In other words, the Indians would rather have a pile of smallpox blankets than Biden’s covid sellouts and now they’re on the warpath.

    … The IHS says Native Americans die disproportionately from chronic liver disease, diabetes, homicide, and suicide.

    Sec. Kennedy is siccing some Biden folks, including the wife of the Little Elf, on the natives. I can only imagine the consternation amonst the tribes.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Then a discussion of Trump’s Art of the Deal and how he’s applying it globally – very much worth a trip to the C&C to read it for yourself.

    I just have to share this snippet of Mr. C.’s text on this topic:

    Number 3: maximize your options, and Number 1: Think Big. He maximized his options to every other country on Earth. He literally can’t think any bigger than that, unless he can make a deal with the Martians. 

    Trump is, in a way. He is supportive of Elon’s efforts to colonize Mars.

    As we’ve previously suspected, this is about much more than trade. Trump is using the universal tariffs to force every other country on Earth to come to him, fast, so he can quickly fix nearly every problem that America has with other countries, and also to get the cash flowing back from the entire world back to the United States— not just through trade, but literally in every other way the President can think of.

    The Deal is truly breathtaking in its scope, scale, and ambition. It is difficult to overestimate what is happening here; and that’s just the part we can see. No President has ever brought the entire world to heel —without launching a drone!

    And yet Trump, the Dealmaker, has literally done it in days.

    Think about it. No U.S. president has ever simultaneously negotiated with the entire planet over everything [emphasis mine] — not just trade, but security guarantees, foreign aid, market access, immigration enforcement, energy deals, pharmaceutical policy, and so on— and done it openly, using tariffs as the primary pressure mechanism, rather than through military force, strings on IMF loan, CIA black ops, soft power, or covert destabilization.

    Those tools are too slow and clumsy for Donald Trump.

    He’s using tariffs as a sawzall, not a scalpel. He’s doing everything with tariffs and wielding it with zeal, by himself, so he can move faster and more effectively without being bogged down by committees and endless discussions.

    Think about it – solving a multitude of problems in just days, and usually in our favor. Love him or hate him, the guy gets stuff done. I’m glad he’s on our side.

    I wonder if Biden even knows what’s going on; if he does, what does he think about all of this? And is there ice cream involved?

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    So, skipping whatever may be passing through Biden’s head, the media isn’t far behind the meat puppet in dissecting this radical change:

    Even accounting for widespread Trump Derangement Syndrome, it’s astonishing how the economic experts and even corporate media are so utterly blind as to what is really happening here. They’re like Mr. Magoo wearing a falconry hood.

    I’ve given this much thought. It’s multifaceted. Part of the problem is that Trump didn’t explain his plan to them like they were fifth-graders, so they have to figure it out for themselves….

    It also has something the unimaginably breathtaking scope of Trump’s radical approach. Think Big (rule Number 1). The financial experts are thematic micromanagers. They simply can’t think this big. They are trained in what I will now call the classic model— slow-motion leverage through American largesse. It’s all they know. They never thought of anything like this, because it has never happened before.

    Trump isn’t white-boarding or slide-decking his doctrine for a focus-group audience. He just moves…. beyond the cognitive powers of the pundit class, who clearly prefer their geopolitics served in a policy brief with a bulleted executive summary.

    /snip

    And, to be fair, Trump benefited from a whole bunch of favorable things all coalescing at once. Congress,… ceded its tariff powers to the presidency under relatively recent laws for managing national security emergencies.

    So, Congress’ desire to avoid blame put them at the mercy of a man more than willing to wield the tool they gave him.

    Technology has also facilitated rapid communication, with the public and with foreign powers, without the usual diplomatic and political funnels and filters.

    The most underappreciated piece of the puzzle is that only President Trump spotted the possibilities. First, he got to practice for four years, unsuccessfully, learning the hard way. Then —thanks to his political enemies— got four years of forced time off to think and plan and study the battlefield.

    They thought they’d buried him. But he was out back the whole time, building all their caskets.

    Basically, Trump thinks so big and moves so fast that the puny minds that are usually in positions of power and influence couldn’t – or can’t – comprehend it.

    And their efforts to destroy him only made him stronger.

    See that bed you made? Go lay in it!

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C’s final thoughts are worthwhile reading, I’ll put snippets here and then I gotta run:

    A couple final comments. Remarkably, the long-sneered-at QAnon folks must be dancing a jig. They expected a storm, and a storm is what they’re getting. They expected something wild, unique, and unprecedented — and now Trump’s strategy has confounded the experts, bypassed the gatekeepers, and sent both enemies and frenemies scurrying for cover wherever he points the lightning.

    Q followers also expected some sort of global financial reset. Well? What Trump’s doing right now is delivering a real global financial reset. …

    He’s hollowing out the centralized global institutions like the WTO, WEF, and IMF, making them instantly irrelevant. And he’s restructuring all our bilateral relationships to enshrine American power as a billable service rather than a charitable donation.

    If that isn’t a global financial reset, then I don’t know what the word “reset” means.

    ***

    There is no longer any doubt. Trump is Main Street’s champion. The Democrats are Wall Street’s champions. The left has never looked more hypocritical or exposed. They should be terrified.

  20. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Day 80
    no perp walks
    no indictments
    Lots of crickets chirping.

    paging Pam blondie.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/again-fauci-touts-next-outbreak

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Senator John Kennedy was on Hannity last night with a group of other senators.

    “What do you think of the new leadership: Jasmine, AOC, and Bernie?” Hannity asked.

    “I consider Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to be the leader of the Democratic Party,” Kennedy said. “She’s entitled to her opinion. I’m entitled to mine.”

    And then he went for the jugular.

    “As I’ve said about her before, I think she’s the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle,” he said.

    That’s it. Game over.

     

    To really drive the point home, he added, “Our plan for dealing with her is called Operation Let Her Speak.”

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      “As I’ve said about her before, I think she’s the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle,” he said.

      Yup but she obviously can’t read or she’d never get out of the shower. That Lather, Rinse, Repeat would get her every times.

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dow up 24%.

    Hee hee

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      WOW!!!

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The anticipated crown hasn’t arrived, but we shall move forward with getting measurements for the next two.

    Dangit.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      So the “Queen” is getting anew Crown? 😉

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Silly pronoun crap is over.

    “As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” the press secretary wrote to a New York Times reporter, the newspaper reported Tuesday.

    “Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story,” Leavitt said in an email.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Sound reason and logic beats bluster and BS every time. It is quite refreshing to see it in action.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I wish I’d have said that. Perfect.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon goes to the Brahma baseball game on a beautiful night and then never tells us what the score was. He keeps failing in his independent journalist duties.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      I only lasted about an hour and a half or two. There was a distracting, chatty woman who I needed to get away from. And it got pretty chilly an hour after sundown. Giddings was well ahead when I left.
      As did Dad, I depend more and more on lip reading due to hearing loss. It’s hard to read lips and watch baseball at the same time.
      She had a bench-warming grandson on our team, but I don’t think she was very interested in the game.

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Dr. Salam and I get along so well, half of our dental sessions seem to be spent laughing. It turns out that some of the notes in my chart weren’t totally accurate, and that caused some of the confusion on my last visit and today. She called Dr. Chen to assist, I’m guessing he’s the attending today. He pointed out the inconsistencies and got my first scanning body inserted into my jaw. I made a joke about my mouth not wanting to get fixed. After some activity and a few chuckles, Dr. Salam told Dr. Chen that I “was the love of her life and the bane of her existence”.

    It’s a weird combination but I get what she said.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Never seen that tornado video before. Worst one I’ve ever seen.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Just one comment: If all of these geniuses believe Donald Trump was so stupid as to believe he didn’t realize his tariff actions would bust the international bond market….I simply can’t help them.

    They think he suspended tariffs for 90 days because he was forced to by that bond crash. Whatever, but it’s exactly what he wanted. Trump scared the hell out these ninnies and got their attention.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    One of the more stark realizations about Trump is his actions have only highlighted how incredibly dumb and incompetent most of the leadership in Washington has been since the Ronald Reagan was in office.

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Not dumb or incompetent.
      corrupt greedy and blood money sucking warmongers.

      been stealing 100s of billions of taxpayer money for decades so they could become multimillionaires.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat 8:25
    Perhaps I’ve always avoided Economics as a subject of interest because I knew instinctively that some economists are mostly lying, pretending, pretentious dumbasses?

  30. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    5.5 million illegal aliens received social security payments under the evil Kenyan/incompetent wooden dummy 4 year reign of destruction.

    maximum benefits/minimum contribution.
    anyone going to held accountable for that?

    how about autopen pardons and executive orders?
    how about the four year charade of pretending the wooden dummy was fit for office?

    any accountability for that?
    someone?
    anyone?
    paging Pam blondie.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby is asleep, so he missed the VW camper that was used for an inmate escape in this episode of Ironside. That would’ve thrilled him to death, because…Volkswagen!

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The FBI finally doing its job:

    .@FBIDirectorKash
    gives remarks after announcing the seizure of 48,400 pounds of illicit narcotics worth over $509 million in Port Everglades: “This is what it looks like when a United States whole-of-government approach brings every resource to bare… They are going to get all the drugs off the streets, off the markets — and we are going to lock them up.”

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