Most of the people on Earth are hoping desperately that all this criminality and insanity is over soon.
Author: craigshields
Putin Laying Flowers
From the reader who sent me this: After he met with President Trump, Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots in Alaska, while making the Orthodox sign of the cross. Well, while he’s one of the heinous …
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Solar Energy in Norway?
Does this appear to be a cost-effective way to generate solar electricity?
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Beef Prices: Ouch!
Sometimes, rising prices are sufficient to change our behavior. Boomers can recall the 1970s, when a pack of cigarettes cost $0.75, or, if you lived close to the tobacco-growing regions in and near North Carolina, it could be a quarter. …
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How Little Regard We Have for the Truth
She was imprisoned for praying? How about a little honesty? From the United States Attorney’s Office: Bevelyn Williams was sentenced to 41 months in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (the “FACE Act”) in June 2020 …
Insulting Putin
From a reader: If you had it your way, you would be insulting Putin to no end instead of talking peace. Trump shows respect, because that is what brings people to the table. To insult and demean world leaders is …
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American Ignorance
Here’s something from the Facebook “chat” here in Central California. We live among people who are so deeply ignorant that they don’t know that only U.S. citizens can vote. It’s a truly pathetic time to be an American, and it …
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What Lies Beneath Humankind’s Atrocities
Aldous Huxley put this thought by Marcus Aurelius a bit differently: ‘The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.’
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Social Progress in the United States
As shown in the graphic here, the U.S. was making decent progress until fairly recently. Some speculate that the emergence of Donald Trump on the political scene released a great deal of pent-up hatred, allowing, in fact encouraging, white people …
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Finland and Homelessness
Finland’s tackling homelessness is a far easier challenge than one might think, insofar as they actually care about stuff like this. Everyone gets free education and healthcare in exchange for the taxes they pay, so their healthy and gainfully employed. …
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