Oh man! I saw some of the confirmation hearing for Representative Mike Pompeo for Director of the CIA. Baby Senator Kamala “I have no F’ing clue why I’m on this commitee” Harris spent her time attempting to sound intelligent by grilling Rep. Pompeo on LGBT treatment, discrimination against mothers, and finally NASA’s conclusions on global warming.
The first two have some relevance, as Mr. Pompeo will need to manage employee policies of the CIA. It’s the last line of questioning about global warming which she kept harping about and spent the most time on, that was absolutely asinine.
Komrade Harris kept hounding Mr. Pompeo, if he believed NASA’s conclusions about global warming (renamed to climate science because they can’t prove global warming) was debatable. Mr. Pompeo said he did not want to get into the debate about the validity of climate science as he said he had not read the NASA report and that the focus of the CIA will be to help fight the wars that is being waged against our country, and NOT on the debate about the validity of climate science. Komrade Harris wouldn’t give up on her line of questioning until Mr. Pompeo agreed to discuss this topic with her at a later time. Her performance proves that she is clueless and quite the F’ing idiot!
Komrade Harris apparently believes that if NASA does something, it is akin to a “work of god” and cannot be questioned. She seems to believe there is no debate on “climate science” because NASA issued a “holy” report. The blind belief in climate science apparently is a litmus test for her as to the suitability of an individual to direct the CIA. Huh? WTF? Anyone have the odds on her endorsing to CONFIRM Rep. Pompeo? A million to one?
Someone needs to remind Komrade Harris about the “Mars Climate Orbiter“. Golly, it even has the word “Climate” in it. The gods of NASA managed to lose control of their (really “our” as taxpayers) $125,000,000.00 Orbiter because they used metric units (meters, newton-meters) for some data and English units (feet, pounds) for others in their flight calculations. The probe was so off course when it reached Mars that it crashed into the surface in a “FLAMING BALL OF WRECKAGE” without making a single orbit or sending back any useful data. The gods of NASA were perplexed when they couldn’t locate the probe as it neared the Red Planet. It took some time before they figured out that they had commanded the probe to smash into Mars. No DATA from the orbiter. Pretty good return on $125 million, 1999 dollars. That’s close to $200 million in today’s dollars, folks. Oopsie.
The error in units, by the gods of NASA, is something that a high school student might make, but an infallible god? On top of that, they had 9 months after launch to figure out they had a problem. However, not until well after the Orbiter augured into the dirt, did the gods notice that the telemetry calculation numbers made no sense.
Pretty good work for infallible gods! But who am I to question the work of gods?
Getting back to Komrade Harris, perhaps she believes that global warming is an area for the CIA Director to focus on because, like “Soon to be gone” Secretary of State Kerry, she believes ISIS can be defeated by giving them solar panels! You can read my commentary on that topic HERE.