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An Open Letter to Idaho’s Central District Health Board

The following letter was sent to Idaho’s Central District Health Director Russell Duke for dissemination to the board, as well as to the governor, lieutenant governor, every Idaho state senator and state representative, and most of Idaho’s mayors.

Dear Mr. Duke,

Thank you for serving as director of Central District Health. With Covid-19 bringing a new type of infection to our citizens, I’m sure you’ve been awake many nights wrestling with how to best protect our citizens.

With that in mind, I want to call your attention to a few concerns.

Treatment of new cases
Factual, scientific discussions on mask efficacy
Rules of Idaho’s open meeting laws

Treatment of New Cases

With regard to treating new cases of Covid, I would like to know if Idaho’s doctors and hospitals are treating Covid with viable protocols at symptom onset, so as to minimize advanced stages of the infection AND to minimize the likelihood of hospitalization.

Based on data I’ve researched in my role as Assistant Editor at UncoverDC.com, at least two different early treatment protocols exist to accomplish these objectives.

The Zelenko Protocol.
Per the work of Dr. Vladimir Zelenko in New York:
- Identify high risk patients (age 60+ with symptoms and under 60 w/ comorbidities or shortness of breath)
- Treat on clinical suspicion (without waiting for test results) using –
  - Hydroxychloroquine 200mg 2x/daily for 5 days
  - Zinc sulfate 220mg 1x/daily for 5 days
  - Azithromycin 500mg 1x/daily for 5 days

As stated by Dr. Zelenko, “Hydroxychloroquine’s main function is to allow zinc to enter the cell, while zinc is a virus killer. Azithromycin prevents secondary bacterial infection in the lungs, and reduces the risk of pulmonary complications. So zinc is the bullet, hydroxychloroquine is the gun, and azithromycin is the protective vest.”

The study, which has been submitted for peer review, found that early intervention and treatment of risk stratified COVID-19 patients in an outpatient setting resulted in five times less hospitalizations and deaths. The main results show that of 141 patients who were treated with the triple therapy, only 2.8% (4/141) were hospitalized compared to 15.4% of an untreated control group (58/377) (odds ratio 0.16, 95% CI 0.06-0.5; p<0.001). Only 0.71% (1/141) patients died in the treatment group, versus 3.5% (13/377) in the untreated group (odds ratio 0.2,95% CI 0.03-1.5; p=0.16).

The Steroid Nebulizer
- Japan and Taiwan have been treating Covid using inhaled steroids and zinc and have had extremely low hospitalizations and death rates. On his own, Dr. Richard Bartlett in Texas came upon the same treatment and has had 100% success in treating high risk patients.
- The treatment centers around the inhaled steroid budesonide.

I would like to know, and I think it would be prudent for Central District Health to discover, if Idaho’s health care professionals are using either of these early detection protocols to keep Idaho’s citizens healthy and Idaho’s healthcare systems from being strained.

If Idaho’s healthcare professionals are not using either of these treatments, would it not be wise for the heath of our citizens and the capability of our health care systems to recommend they do?

Factual, scientific discussions on mask efficacy

During the last Central District Health board meeting, representatives from Idaho’s two largest health care systems presented data on their current case load and some data on hospital capacity, but information on mask efficacy was anecdotal, at best.

As a former speech and debate coach, I was surprised that the Central District Health board sought to hear only from representatives of Idaho’s health care systems on mask recommendations. Efficacy of masks in preventing spread of a virus is not settled science, as even the New England Journal of Medicine stated on May 21 of this year, “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.”

Additionally, meta analysis of mask studies show that mask use poses serious risks to healthy people.

Perhaps the best compilation of Mask Studies appears in an article by Denis G. Rancourt, Ph.D. “Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to Covid-19 Social Policy.” Rancourt’s article deserves a thorough review.

Additionally:

World Heath Organization: “Masks should only be used by healthcare workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms like fever and cough.”
CNN article from March 2, 2020: Masks can’t stop the coronavirus in the US, but hysteria has led to bulk-buying, price gouging and serious fear for the future
Jennifer Cabrera, Editor of the Alachua Chronicle:
“Today I sent a pulse oximeter to work with a 23-year-old man who works in an open kitchen over a grill.”

Before shift: 99% O2
3.5 hours of wearing a mask: 93% O2
7 hours of wearing a mask (feeling dizzy): 88% O2

Dr. Kelly Victory, MD: “Masks are intended for the ill when they will be potentially in contact with others, and for those who are caring for them. Multiple medical authorities, including the World Health Organization, the CDC, the New England Journal of Medicine, have now all acknowledged that there’s no scientific justification for normal healthy people to be wearing masks.”

“In fact, prolonged mask wearing actually increases the risk of disease to the wearer. People tend to touch their faces much more often when they’re wearing a mask. In addition, we end up re-breathing particles that our lungs have exhaled, whether it’s pollen, dust, virus, or bacteria particles, they are trapped in the mask, and on the very next inhale we breath them back in.”

“Furthermore, habitual wearing of masks decreases the body’s natural immune response.”

To issue an order for 500,000+ Idahoans to wear masks based on anecdotal evidence and not a thorough scientific compare and contract review of the evidence does not bode well for the professionalism of Central District Health.

Rules of Idaho’s Open Meeting Laws

It has come to my attention that when Central District Health voided the minutes of an illegally held meeting and then needed to vote again on a motion that was passed during that illegally held meeting, the CDH board did so in violation of Idaho Code 74-208. As I listened to the July 7 meeting, the board simply voted again to enact the motion voted on at the June 30 meeting, but failed to hold the discussion on the issues that led to the vote. This is in direct violation of Idaho’s Open Meeting laws, which requires the board to conduct the review of issues leading up to the motions and subsequent vote.

Because of this violation, I strongly recommend the Central District Health board review Idaho Law and pursue it, to avoid future legal action.

In closing, it would seem that if Idaho’s health care systems would treat Covid infections at symptom onset and not wait until patients are extreme in their symptoms, Idaho’s hospitals would not be overwhelmed and there would be no need for any talk of mandatory masks. In other words, by not treating the infection appropriately at symptom onset, Idaho’s healthcare systems appear to be creating their own crisis. One would think this would be a more efficient and effective approach to combating Covid.

With all due respect,
Daniel Bobinski
Resident, Boise, Idaho / Ada County

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About Daniel Bobinski and the New Book of Daniel blog:

For 30+ years, Daniel Bobinski was a management / leadership coach and corporate trainer. He’s also a certified behavioral analyst, NYT best-selling and award-winning author, and long-time columnist on workplace issues.

In 2019 Daniel decided to start writing about news & politics, penning a weekly column for UncoverDC, where he serves as assistant editor. He also writes for RedState.

Daniel is a veteran and a self-styled Christian libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism.

To connect with Daniel use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter and/or Parler. You can also follow him on Facebook.

Idaho’s Central District Health Chooses Anecdotes Over Facts

On the evening of July 7, 2020, I “attended” the virtual meeting of Idaho’s Central District Health board. During this meeting, the main discussion was the increase of Covid in Idaho’s Ada County.

I have to say, as the meeting went on I became quite unimpressed. In fact, it sounded like I was listening to high schoolers. Most surprisingly, when the topic turned to masks, the board didn’t ask for any hard data on their efficacy. Let me explain.

During the meeting. Jim Sousa, Chief Medical Officer of St. Luke’s Heath Care System, was one of the guests on hand to give information and answer questions.

Sousa said it was important we do something, because earlier in the year, their hospital in Idaho’s Blaine County had to shut down because half the staff went out sick and under quarantine with Covid, and it looked like Covid cases in Ada County (home of Boise / the State Capitol) might resemble what happened in Blaine County.

Sousa then gave anecdotal evidence as he advocated for masks. For example, he told a story about a couple of hairdressers in a southern state who had Covid, but because they wore masks, none of their clients became infected.

At that point, the question I wanted to ask was, “If masks work that well, why didn’t they prevent the hospital staff in Blaine County from catching Covid?” But it was a virtual meeting and there was no opportunity for questions.

Souza also stated that none of the recent spike in Covid cases came from the George Floyd protests, “because from what I saw, over half of the protesters were wearing masks.”

How’s THAT for science?

I should point out that this is the same Jim Souza who wrote an op-ed that appeared earlier this year in many Idaho papers, informing us that the virus “lies in wait. It likes crowds. It picks on the vulnerable. It waits for us to lose our focus. And then it moves in,” as if the virus were sentient.

No evaluation of the pros and cons

Amazingly, NONE of the CDH board members asked ANY tough questions of the hospital representatives on hand. And like I said, no hard science on masks was presented. One would expect a board of this stature – making a decision that will impact 500,000+ people – to demand (& evaluate) hard data on the PROS & CONS of wearing masks.

Nope. Nothing.

Also, during his time speaking to the CDH board, Souza said that treatment for Covid in Idaho hasn’t changed much. He listed all the drugs & treatments being used, and NEVER ONCE mentioned hydroxycholoroquine, zinc, or azithromycin. The HCQ/zinc/azithromycin treatment, also known as the #ZelenkoProtocol, has been proven to clear Covid symptoms in people within 8 – 12 hours of starting the protocol.

This begs a deadly serious question. WHY are Idaho’s doctors NOT using the Zelenko Protocol? Do they still think “orange man bad?” Do they not realize that all the articles slamming HCQ as dangerous have been proven wrong & that multiple studies have shown HCQ to be safe & effective for treating Covid?

If Idaho’s doctors are letting Covid patients die without putting them on the #ZelenkoProtocol, and if our Central District Health board isn’t recommending that Idaho’s doctors look into the Zelenko Protocol, then both the doctors and the CDH board have blood on their hands.

Could it be that these hospitals would rather admit a Covid patient and collect large sums of cash for doing so instead of prescribing a valid, $20 treatment? They will no doubt vehemently deny any such motivation, but the way Idaho’s government went all Jekyll-Hyde since $1.25 billion came our way in March / April, I have serious questions.

So what’s the next step?

The CDH board voted for CDH Director Russ Duke to draft a Mandatory Mask recommendation for Ada County, and possibly Valley County. Yes, Idaho’s Central District Health board plans on making facemasks mandatory in Ada County, Idaho because a chief medical officer gave anecdotal stories yet had ZERO hard evidence for mask efficacy.

The Board didn’t examine any other evidence at the board meeting. None. Zip. Ziltch. Nada.

It really was like listening to high schoolers. There were so many holes in Souza’s talking points, a high school debate coach would have laughed him out of the room. And the fact that the board didn’t seek to weigh evidence from both sides of the issue was equally laughable, if it weren’t so sad.

It was obvious most of the CDH board had already made up their mind to vote for mandatory masks, evidence be damned. Without waiting for the board to discuss or make a motion, CDH Director Russ Duke eagerly said he would write up a mandatory mask rule if the board wanted it. Almost immediately after him saying that, board member Diana Lachiondo gushed over the fact that Duke spent so much time on the phone with her this past week. At that point, it became quite apparent that this meeting was merely a formality to invoke a decision they had already reached.

Only one board member, Megan Blanksma, seemed to want more consideration of facts. Thankfully, when it became obvious the board was getting carried away and about to make a decision on a far-reaching mandate concerning schools, Blanksma wisely jumped in to curtail it.

CDH Board Faux Pas

As a side note, earlier in the meeting the board went offline for a while to confer with legal counsel in executive session, because last week’s private board meeting (when they first voted to take Ada County back to Level 3) was in violation of the state’s open meeting law. As a result, when they came out of executive session, the board voided the minutes of their last meeting!

Of course, then they had to vote again to put Ada County back into Stage 3, but in so doing they also added the rule that no meetings of more than 50 people would be allowed. So much for church services! And I think there was less than 60 seconds of discussion on this issue.

To wrap up their meeting, the CDH board voted to instruct CDH Director Russ Duke to draft an order that all of Ada County, Idaho MUST wear masks when in public and in enclosed places. No timeline was discussed for how long that might last, and board member Ted Epperly included plenty of undefined terms in his motion. And they will include masks for children, too, because even though their infection rate is phenomenally low, Souza thought it would be a good idea.

Bottom line, the board came off looking like a rubber stamp for whatever Jim Souza recommended.

It would be good to get the CDH board to CONSIDER ACTUAL SCIENCE at their next meeting. Maybe – JUST MAYBE – Idaho’s CDH will act like professionals & carefully consider both pro and con evidence before deciding any rule that will affect 500,000+ Idahoans.

Treat Our Covid Patients Better!

Idaho also needs to stop the politics and get our Covid patients treated with the Zelenko Protocol. There is rarely a reason for people to be hospitalized for Covid if they begin the Zelenko Protocol within five days of symptom onset. And with that, the hospitals would NOT be dealing with Covid patients, and there would be no need to consider mandatory masks.

Per the peer-reviewed research, there’s no need to wait for a test result to start the Zelenko Protocol, just prescribe the protocol on clinical suspicion. If our Idaho doctors and our CDH board cannot fathom that this protocol works, then we need more open-minded doctors and a better-informed Central District Health board.

As it stands, this board meeting was unimpressive. We’ve had enough knee-jerk decisions the past four months. I hope to see more professionalism and a more balanced examination of facts at their next meeting.

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For 30 years, Daniel Bobinski has been a management / leadership coach and corporate trainer. He’s also a certified behavioral analyst, NYT best-selling author, and long-time columnist on workplace issues.

In 2019 Daniel decided to start writing about news & politics, penning a weekly column for UncoverDC. He also writes for RedState.

Daniel is a veteran and a self-styled Christian libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism.

To inquire about 1:1 coaching with Daniel or corporate team training, reach him through MyWorkplaceExcellence.com. For things political, use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter and Parler. You can also follow him on Facebook.

Nancy Pelosi Engages in Cultural Appropriation

Cultural appropriation (verb)
At times also phrased “cultural misappropriation”
The adoption of an element or elements of one culture by members of another culture. This can be controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.

According to the handy definition above, Congressional Democrats donning Kente cloths made by the Asante and Ewe peoples in Western Africa positioned themselves to be a dominant culture appropriating a disadvantaged minority culture.

Here’s a video of Democrat Congressional members taking a knee in solidarity with ~~Travon~~ Black Lives Matter.

By the way, do you know what Black Lives Matter’s demands are? Let’s take a look at some of BLM’s observations and “demands.”

They believe there’s a war going on against black people.

They’re right. Fully 93 percent of black people who are murdered each year are killed by OTHER black people. So yes, there IS a war against black people. The “black community” is engaged in its own civil war.

They want to end surveillance in black communities.

I can get behind that. I want ALL governments to end ALL surveillance in ALL communities. Because ALL communities matter.

They want reparations for the “systemic denial of access to high quality educational opportunities in the form of full and free access for all Black people.”

Wait. Isn’t that what Affirmative Action was for? To give college admission preference to lower qualified black students over higher qualified white, Hispanic, and Asian students? Extra admission points just because of a skin color? They’re calling that a denial to access? Now they want college to be totally free for all blacks, but make whites, Hispanics, and Asians pay? Isn’t that racism?

They want redistribution of wealth.

Yeah, even if I was living at the bottom end of the poverty scale, I’m not so keen on this one. I can’t see how it’s fair for one person to work 40 hours a week at a job that requires intense education and training and superior attention to detail, and for that person to be “forced” to give a portion of his or her income to someone who works 20 hours a job that requires moving products from Box A to Box B. This isn’t even a “race” issue. This is a basic risk v. reward issue. When any person of any color or race invests in him or herself and deprives him or herself enjoyment of recreational time or makes huge sacrifices of time with his or her family so as to improve his or her value to a company, that person deserves a reward in keeping with the benefits he or she brings to a company’s bottom line.

Black Lives Matter also demands the elimination of private schools.

So, rather than try to lift everybody up, let’s just tear everybody down?

What’s the problem? Do leaders at #BLM not like that someone chooses to sacrifice time and resources for their children to have “private” instruction? Can they please show me in the Constitution where this should be an issue?

They want to end capital punishment.

So, if someone –anyone– is caught on video torturing and stabbing to death all a couple’s children in front of their eyes, rather than giving that person the death penalty, taxpayers should shell out $33,000 each year to provide for the killer’s food and shelter, AND make sure the killer has cable TV and access to a weight room? Pass.

These things listed above are part of #BLM’s demands. Are these things also desired by Congressional Democrats? When they take a knee to show support and/or solidarity with BLM, do they even know what they’re signaling?

I watched the video of these politicians on their knees wearing Kente cloths and I imagined the little thought bubbles popping up around the room: “Please vote for me.” “This is a great photo op to show I care.” “Does this Kente cloth make my ass look fat?” “Damn, I should’ve worn a matching green.” “I hope this stunt doesn’t backfire.”

By the way, according to the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Kente cloths are intended for religious and ceremonial events. This was neither. This was 100% cultural appropriation for a photo op.

Each one one of these politicians loses 60 political correctness points.

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PS. I anyone thinks ANY part of this post is racist in nature, such a person is operating from a position of pure political correctness and NOT logic. With this post, I am:
(A) making a mockery of Congressional Democrats, and
(B) pointing out the inconsistencies, the logical fallacies, and even the racism that exists within the Black Lives Matter list of “demands.”
I am speaking truth. If you can’t handle it, you can’t handle the truth.
I do not believe all blacks are racist.
I do not believe all whites are racist.
I do not believe all Asians are racist.
I do not believe all Hispanics are racist.
I believe black lives matter (not the organization. My statement stands on face value)
I believe white lives matter.
I believe Asian lives matter.
I believes Hispanic lives matter.
I believe ALL lives matter.
Why? Because Jesus died for all. The sooner we all realize that, and the sooner that we all acknowledge that we are all part of the HUMAN race, the sooner all this BS hate and strife we see about RACE will come to an end.

PPS. The fact that I even felt like I had to write that PS was BS.

PPPS. I will stand with anyone to advocate for actual justice. I will kneel before nobody but God.

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Daniel is also a veteran and a self-styled Christian libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism.

To inquire about Daniel’s coaching or corporate team training, reach Daniel through MyWorkplaceExcellence.com. For things political, use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter. You can also follow him on Facebook.

Even Atheists Recognize the Value of Christianity

Where do we get morals? Why is life considered sacred? Even atheists are realizing that without Christianity, the world would be a much crueler place.

Okay, SOME atheists believe that. Specifically author Tim Holland, an atheist who wrote the book, “Dominion: How The Christian Revolution Remade the World.“

I came across Holland’s book by reading an article by Jonathan Van Maron at Stream.org, in which Holland states that the ancients were cruel.

The Spartans routinely murdered “imperfect” children. The bodies of slaves were treated like outlets for the physical pleasure of those with power. Infanticide was common. The poor and the weak had no rights.

But with the growth of Christianity, things changed. Holland says,

Christianity revolutionized sex and marriage, demanding that men control themselves and prohibiting all forms of rape. Christianity confined sexuality within monogamy. Christianity elevated women. In short, Christianity utterly transformed the world.

Sadly, we have atheists in western civilization today who don’t understand this. Instead, they believe all western civ is cruel. Just listen to our social justice warriors as they burn America’s cities, steal from their neighbors, and even kill innocent bystanders.

Do they do these things because there’s no justice in America?

No. They SAY that, but that does not explain their actions.

They do it because they’re ignorant. They’ve been taught in a system that doesn’t teach them to think – only what to think. And in their upbringing, these rioters also received emotional imprints that white people are racist, that people with money exploited them, and that they were victims. They were encouraged to be angry about it — and that’s exactly what they became.

Today, when confronted with facts that clearly show their positions are ill-conceived, these atheist rioters will call you names, tear up whatever you’re holding, or — they may throw bricks, beat you up, or even shoot you.

You can pretty much bet on being called a name. It won’t be true, but it will make THEM feel better.

The fact is that Christianity DID fundamentally transform western civilization and the way humans think. Barack Obama worked to fundamentally transform us away from Christ’s work, and although he chipped away at it, he didn’t get too far. Referencing Holland’s work, Van Maron says, “Those who make arguments based on love, tolerance, and compassion are borrowing fundamentally Christian arguments.”

Such is the power of Christian philosophy. Jesus came, he saw, and he died. But he did it ON PURPOSE. He was the Lamb who took away the sins of the world, and by being an atoning sacrifice to assuage God’s wrath, Christ’s death fundamentally transformed the human heart.

Even atheists, if they’d examine the facts of history as Holland did, would see how those who followed Jesus set the tone for the benefits we have in TRUE western civilization.

Personal freedom
The scientific method (the early scientists were nearly all Christians)
Almost all the world’s great art, literature, architecture, and music

And don’t forget morals, such as do not murder, do not steal, and do not lie.

If atheists today succeed in removing all aspects of Christianity from society, they’ll THINK they succeeded, but it won’t be long before they’ll be wondering, “What happened?”

Referenced article: Atheists In Praise of Christianity?
by Jonathan Van Maron at Stream.org

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Daniel is also a veteran and a self-styled Christian libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism.

Gotta love globalism. It’s a riot.

As I predicted in March, leftists and globalists used the emergence of Covid 19 to start a scorched-earth war against liberty. Little did we know how far they’d push it. Back in January I wrote on my blog that globalists don’t care if there’s bloodshed in America. Well, behold: Today we have riots in dozens of cities with both protestors and cops getting shot and killed.

THIS POST HAS BEEN RELOCATED — read the entire column at UncoverDC.com.

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Daniel is also a veteran and a self-styled Christian libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism.

Globalists don’t care if there’s bloodshed in America

Globalists employ the Marxist philosophy: Divide the country to rebuild it the way they want. And guess what? They DO NOT CARE if there’s bloodshed.

Bottom line, globalists don’t give a rat’s a$$ what the majority of American people want – they believe they know what’s better for us. Their goal? Fundamentally transform the United States of America into a socialist / Marxist state.

Globalists will say I’m making that up. No, I’m not. I’m definitely not. They will say I’m using fearmongering tactics. No, I’m not. They will say I’m blowing things out of proportion. No, I’m not.

Why am I bringing this up? Because I want patriots to be aware of the situation, and stand for our patriotic values. To quote an 1867 speech by British philosopher and political theorist John Stuart Mill,

“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.“ [emphasis added]

Let me make it clear to the NSA, the FBI, and all the social media overlords who review what gets written on social media: I do not want bloodshed. Unfortunately, as we see in the article I link below, it’s looks like globalists do.

Reading the piece linked below is highly recommended. Pass it along to others. Globalists in our country (currently known as Elitists, Leftists, and/or Progressives) want to fundamentally transform what hundreds of thousands of our forefathers gave their lives to build. Patriots must be informed and stand firm. And they must say, “No” to further advances in the socialist / Marxist / globalist agenda.

ARTICLE: Democrats Seek Civil War, But Will Get Revolution
by William L. Gensert at American Thinker

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Daniel Bobinski, M.Ed. is a certified behavioral analyst, best-selling author, columnist, corporate trainer, and keynote speaker. In addition to working with teams and individuals to help them achieve workplace excellence through improving their emotional intelligence and improving the way they do training, he’s also a veteran and a Christian Libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism. Daniel writes on both workplace issues and political issues for multiple publication, but in his ideal world he’d be a speechwriter for President Trump.

Reach Daniel for help with your workplace through his website, MyWorkplaceExcellence.com. For things political, use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter. You can also follow him on Facebook.

Was Donald Trump destined to be President?

By Daniel Bobinski

It’s a conundrum to some. The legacy media (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, et. al.) paints Donald Trump so negatively that if you consider what they say, it’s easy to ask yourself, “Could it be true? Is Donald Trump not good for the country?”

Then you look at some facts. Unemployment at an all time low, and I mean for everyone. Blacks, Hispanics, whites, women – maybe even visitors from Mars. We also have foreign countries respecting the boundaries Trump sets, and the economy is so strong, even companies run by ardent Leftists are bringing jobs back to the United States — which I’m sure grates at their spines.

But there’s an aspect of the Trump presidency that the legacy media doesn’t like to touch, and that’s the fact that some Christians with prophetic giftings foretold of a two-term Trump presidency as early as 2007.

I know that many non-Christians will raise eyebrows at that statement, as will many Christians. But it’s kind of hard to ignore facts as facts when you look at them as facts, and I will present video evidence below.

As far as I know, Kim Clement was the first one making prophetic statements about Trump. Then there was Mark Taylor, a 20-year firefighter from Florida, who heard God’s voice in 2011 say that Trump was going to be President. I’m sure there have been more, but those are the two people whose prophesies caught my attention.

In the 13th chapter of the book of Romans, we’re told that the authorities that exist are established by God. In other words, throughout history, people rise and fall from power because of how God establishes their authority.

I believe this. Personally, through divine intervention, I’ve come to know that God is real, that Jesus was God made man, and that Jesus came to earth for many reasons, but the MAIN reason was to “buy us back.” … But I digress. My point is that back in the 1980’s, God made himself VERY real to me, and yes, I’ve heard his audible voice, so count me among those who believe God works in the lives of men.

With that, I invite you to invest seven minutes to watch the following video. I want to make clear that in 2016, I was wary of what a Trump presidency might mean. Stated another way, I was not a Trump man. However, I have watched what’s he’s done, and I’ve watch how elites and others with a globalist bent despise the man with all their heart. Even if you don’t believe in spiritual things, that ALONE should tell you something is up. But there IS something more.

Watch the video … if you wish to comment afterwards, feel free.

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Daniel Bobinski, M.Ed. is a certified behavioral analyst, best-selling author, columnist, corporate trainer, and keynote speaker. In addition to working with teams and individuals achieve workplace excellence through improving their emotional intelligence and improving the way they do training, he’s also a veteran and a Christian Libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism – while standing firmly against crony capitalism. Daniel writes on both workplace issues and political issues for multiple publications, but in his ideal world he’d be a speechwriter for President Trump. Reach Daniel for help with your workplace through his website, MyWorkplaceExcellence.com. For things political, use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter. © Shadowtrail Media, LLC

Startling Double Standards

By Daniel Bobinski

It’s January 7, 2020, and as predicted by the meme masters within hours of Trump taking out an Iranian terrorist general, everyone and their brother are suddenly experts in middle east policy.

I’m not an expert on the middle east, but here’s what I do know:

The political Left in America didn’t utter bleepin’ peep when Trump’s predecessor dropped 2,800+ bombs on the middle east countries … without consulting Congress … and killing many innocent civilians along the way.

If you think this is just hyperbole, you can read this fact for yourself in the Washington Times. The article’s author, Jacqueline Klimas, continues to cover Capitol Hill for The Times to this day, and she opened her April 27, 2015 article by saying,

“U.S. forces have now surpassed 2,800 strikes against targets in Iraq and Syria under President Obama’s war against the Islamic State, all as part of a conflict Congress has yet to specifically authorize — and amid worries lawmakers won’t ever act.”

So no, I’m not an expert in middle east politics. But I am a student of history. And when Nancy Pelosi and company start barking that Trump carried out his strike without authorization and vowing to limit his war powers, it is the absolute height of hypocrisy.

I do have one question for my Leftist friends, though.

Why do so many on the Left showing support for this dead terrorist when we know for certain he was responsible for the deaths of more than 600 Americans?

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Daniel Bobinski, M.Ed. is a certified behavioral analyst, best-selling author, columnist, corporate trainer, and keynote speaker. In addition to working with teams and individuals to help them achieve workplace excellence through improving their emotional intelligence and improving the way they do training, he’s also a veteran and a Christian Libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism. Daniel writes on both workplace issues and political issues for multiple publications. Oh, and he would love to be a speechwriter for President Trump. Reach Daniel for help with your workplace through his website, MyWorkplaceExcellence.com. For things political, use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter.

I admit it: I’m a hater

By Daniel Bobinski

Go ahead and convict me. I’m a hater.

First of all, I hate lies. I especially hate lies that are intentional and made with a purpose to deceive me. I hate lies about Supreme Court nominees, lies about Presidential activities, and lies about people who want to conserve the principles around which our founders created the Constitution. I hate lies perpetuated through a complicit media that’s in bed with a particular political party – one that misrepresents truth and twists facts into pretzels on a daily basis; one that makes evil look good and good look evil.

I hate lies that result in innocent people getting killed because a President and a Secretary of State want to use a small, remote embassy to run guns under the radar. I hate when our country’s top legal personnel quickly and furiously defend the delivery of guns into a neighboring country, only to see those guns used to kill our own citizens. I similarly hate alphabet government agencies using our tax dollars to cover up their illegal operations, and otherwise operate in ways contrary to the principles of our country’s founding. I hate it when citizens working in those government agencies get paid with our tax dollars to spy on and do damage to their fellow citizens. I also hate it when people appointed to high offices lie to Congress under oath and can’t acknowledge what difference it makes to families when those families lose loved ones because of lies.

I hate it when people who are elected to represent United States citizens breathe out lies to their constituents and the country so they can gain financial donations and political power. I hate it when people ascribe motives to others that are obviously not true but present those motives as facts. I hate it when people put words in other people’s mouths and claim the person made those statements.

I also hate when people in positions of power sow dissention and discord among their country’s citizens – and when the media and senior government officials perpetuate discord and false narratives so that people burn and loot their own communities. I hate when an “us versus them” discord is stirred so much by the media and those in power that innocent police officers are assassinated while sitting in their patrol cars – leaving widows and fatherless children – all so a country can be fundamentally transformed into something it was not designed to be through the decimation of the country’s fabric instead of through the vote of its citizens. I also hate when people in positions of political power feign innocence, using passive-aggressive plausible deniability when they know full well the damage and pain they are purposefully inflicting.

Yes, I hate it when political candidates deceive the electorate, using words that have double meanings so that people will hope to have change for the better, only to be used as voters who are later told that things will not get better. I also hate it when people are told they can keep what they like, when such phrases are knowingly deceptive from their inception, and plans that have long been in waiting are enacted to decimate the health – and the economy – of a country.

I hate it when people want to challenge in court the qualifications of a national candidate, only to be told they don’t’ have “standing,” when in fact, the candidate’s decisions will have major financial impact on those same people’s lives. I hate it when bills are passed in the House of Representatives that impact the lives of every United States citizen, but lawmakers are not allowed to read the bill before voting on it. I hate it when one branch of government uses the word “tax” in one setting but “fine” in another, for the purpose of deceiving both the nation and an entirely different branch of government. I also hate when such deceptive and wicked plans include forcing a country’s population to purchase things they do not want.

I hate it when leaders of our country who have never built a business swagger up to a microphone while smugly lecturing business owners that they didn’t work to build their business – especially when such leaders have never built businesses. I also hate it when those same leaders claim to be of a particular faith yet arrogantly look down on and mock people who adhere to that faith.

I also hate it when people who have a particular skin color run to – and even instigate – events that create dissention and division of people based on skin color. I also hate that our nation’s media outlets focus on these needless divisions instead of focusing on things that unite us.

I also hate that laws punish citizens with fines and jail time for harming an egg that contains our national bird while at the same time fining and jailing citizens for videotaping the confessions of people who chop up unborn human babies and sell the body parts for huge profit. I hate that our government gives our tax dollars to an organization that promotes and performs the killing of innocent babies in the womb while that same organization donates money to candidates who will, in turn, give that money back to the organization.

I hate that 62 percent of our citizens between the ages of 18 and 29 think it’s okay to murder a baby before it’s born, and that more than 1/3 of our citizens over the age of 65 agree with them. I also utterly hate that some states in our union have made it perfectly legal to kill human beings immediately after they are born, all in the name of “choice.”

I also hate many more things along these lines. Why do I hate them? Because the wisest man who ever lived once wrote some very wise words. He said, “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.”

In other words, I hate the things I listed above because the Creator of the universe also hates these things, and I am not better than the Creator. He is my Lord. If He hates these things, I will hate them, too.

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Daniel Bobinski, M.Ed. is a certified behavioral analyst, best-selling author, columnist, corporate trainer, and a popular keynote speaker. In addition to working with teams and individuals to help them achieve workplace excellence through improving their emotional intelligence and improving the way they do training, he’s also a veteran and a Christian Libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism. Daniel writes on both workplace issues and political issues for multiple publications. Reach Daniel for help with your workplace through his website, MyWorkplaceExcellence.com. For things political, use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter.

Employers should not be fascists

By Daniel Bobinski

A Tokyo marketing company recently enacted a great idea: Six extra days off each year if you don’t smoke.

According to an article by Kelly Taylor Hayes for the FOX TV Digital Team, an employee at the marketing company Piala, Inc. suggested it was unfair that smokers were taking multiple 15-minute smoke breaks throughout the day.

Here, here!! When I was in the Navy, a lot of guys smoked. I didn’t. It was irritating when these guys headed to the fantail (the back end of the ship) to take smoke breaks throughout the day while the rest of us kept working. One day I had enough – I went with them.

There were about eight us of standing around, and I was the only guy not smoking. An officer walked up and asked, “What are you guys doing?” “Smoke break,” someone said. The officer looked at me and said, “You’re not smoking – go back to work.”

And so I did.

After that, I still would occasionally accompany the smokers on their breaks. But when I did, I always bummed a cigarette, lit it, and held it while it burned down. That way, whenever someone asked what we were doing, I could stay and finish my “smoke break.”

Employer yes; dictator no

A few years ago, I was conducting management team training for a large, east-coast company. The Human Resource manager told me the company could save a sizable amount on its health insurance premiums if nobody working for the company smoked. There was already a “no smoking in the building” policy, but the owner wanted to save the company money, so they developed a strategy.

The first thing they did was ban all smoking within 200 feet of the building. This company was in Maine, and it was winter. That meant when it was 10 below zero, smokers had to walk 200 feet from the building to have a smoke, and they could only smoke during scheduled breaks or during their lunch hour.

Three months later, smoking was banned on all company property.

Three months after that, the HR manager announced nobody could be employed at the company if they used tobacco products of any kind – whether at work or at home.

Last time I checked, it’s legal for adults to buy and consume tobacco products. I can understand a company banning consumption of tobacco products on their property, but to dictate what you can or cannot do when you’re away from work sounds a bit fascist if you ask me.

What if your neighbor has a baby and hands you a cigar? Sorry. How about the traditional cigar with your dad while you’re out on a lake, fishing? Not if you want to keep your job.

Where does the line get drawn?

More companies are jumping on this “restrict-behavior-to-save-on-health-care-costs” bandwagon. Up until now the issue has mainly been smoking, but where will they draw the line? At some point insurance companies may tell their clients, “You can save a lot on premiums if no employee has more than 28% body fat.”

When that happens, will the company’s food police be pounding on your door while you’re nibbling on Christmas cookies?

When will companies restrict employees from other “high risk” activities like riding motorcycles, rock-climbing, BMX cycling, skydiving, or base jumping?

What about having a cocktail with friends? When will they implement the “no alcohol EVER” rule?

I have no problem with companies banning people from being under the influence of alcohol or drugs while at work. They can even ban all smoking on company property – after all, it’s their property, they can set whatever standards they want. And I can even see setting “off premises” behavior standards for salaried employees. But firing people for doing legal activities on their own time is dangerous precedent.

In the Taylor Hayes article I referenced above, the CEO of Piala, Inc. said, “I hope to encourage employees to quit smoking through incentives rather than penalties or coercion.” So far, 30 out of the company’s 120 employees have used some of their days off, and four people have already giving up smoking.

I applaud this CEO. Extra time off for not smoking is an excellent incentive that can also attract talent. It’s an employee-friendly policy, and I really wish more companies would think this way instead of taking the fascist approach. People like having freedom to make choices.

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Daniel Bobinski, M.Ed. is a certified behavioral analyst, best-selling author, columnist, corporate trainer, and keynote speaker. In addition to working with teams and individuals to help them achieve workplace excellence through improving their emotional intelligence and improving the way they do training, he’s also a veteran and a Christian Libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism. Daniel writes on both workplace issues and political issues for multiple publications. For help with your business, reach Daniel through his website, MyWorkplaceExcellence.com. For political matters, use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter.