The content of the meme here isn’t true. First of all, where does “30%” come from? Now, it could derive from the fact that 62% of Trump supporters, which now total in the low 40s, say they would support Trump …
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In All Fairness To Trump Supporters
Tagged with: 63% of Trump supporters say they would support Trump no matter what he does, destroying the environment for profit, i.e., punishing liberals, regardless of any facts that are turned up in this or future investigations, tax cuts for billionaires, Trump is a liar, trump supporters believe that he's telling the truth, white supremacy
Expressing One’s Distaste for Trump
Tom Steyer writes, “Donald Trump is a failed businessman who lost over $1 billion while leaving behind a trail of bankruptcies and broken promises. Get one of Tom’s new bumper stickers for your car, laptop, or bike to let everyone …
Elon Musk Puts It Kindly
Musk’s statement at the left is putting it diplomatically, of course. In fact, this isn’t an “experiment” to see if the oil companies are wrong; it’s an exercise in power, greed, and evil. Big Oil’s four-decade-long disinformation campaign was effective …
Tagged with: Big Oil's four-decade-long disinformation campaign, clean energy and transportation would be overwhelmingly less expensive and would replacement fossil fuels at light speed, climate change is in the process of ruining this planet, Elon Musk, internalize the costs of the vast environmental damage, oil companies exercise in power greed evil, scientific literacy
What’s in a Name?
William Shakespeare, speaking through Juliet: “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Yes, that’s true, but sometimes names mean something important. At left is an assertion that those who care about the Earth …
Cost of War in the Middle East
Re: the meme here, a friend writes, “I haven’t verified it, but I believe it.” Yes, that’s about right. In round numbers we have: $6 * 1012 / (2 * 101 years * 104 hours/year) = 3 * 107 = …
Banner Day for the Coal Industry, Wish We Could Say the Same for Your Health
The toxicity of coal ash, and the fact that the Trump administration couldn’t care less about it, are two well-established facts. Here we have an article that chronicles the unraveling of previous guidelines by a) easing regulations on what pollutants …
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Presidents Aren’t Necessarily Terrible People
There is still living proof that old, white ex-presidents can be extremely fine human beings; sadly, that’s not going to remain the case forever. Larger version below.
A Government Of The People, By The People, And For The People Has Perished From The Earth. Will It Be Reborn?
On this day in 1731, a group of young men in Philadelphia pooled their money to set up the first library in America. Not a bad time to pose the question: What is the proper role of government? What things belong in …
Tagged with: Charles and David Koch, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, dismantling the federal government, Donald Trump mentally unstable and soon-to-be impeached, government of by and for the people, investigative journalist Jane Mayer., looting the U.S. Treasury on the billionaires' behalf, unlimited bribery has become the organizing principle by which our law-making apparatus operates
Generating Electricity with Ocean Waves
When 2GreenEnergy first came along a little over a decade ago, it appeared that ocean wave energy devices like the one shown in this video here might have a place in the constellation of renewables.
More on Gun Violence Prevention
What a coincidence. Shortly after I wrote this post: U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) Speaks on Gun Violence Prevention, I ran across this quote from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, who was around when I was a boy. …
