If you condone abusive behavior on the part of law enforcement, you’re a terrible person. Simple.
Author: craigshields
Will the Billionaire Taxes Cause the Rich to Go Elsewhere?
One of the most common arguments against taxing the rich is that they will simply leave whatever area is levying the tax. We hear about this most often in connection with New York City, where its liberal mayor is using …
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Some Investments Are Bound to Fail–But Only Time Will Tell Us Which Ones
A common tactic of Big Oil and the rest of the Trump-supporting world is to point out that some of our government’s investments in cleantech do not pan out. Unscrupulous people, as well as tens of millions of idiots, are …
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Tagged with: advancement of technology makes unforeseeable twists are turns, hydro relegated to small niche applications, incompetence and/or corruption, it's impossible for all investments to be winners, LCOE levelized cost of energy, plummeting costs of solar PV and wind over the past 10 years, Solar Thermal, some of our government's investments in cleantech do not pan out, tactic of Big Oil, Trump-supporting world
Nothing Good Ever Lasts, Or Does It?
If you don’t mind crying like a little kid, I hope you’ll watch the video below featuring Iris Dement singing “Our Town”; the theme is a sad one indeed. “Can’t you see, the sun’s sinkin’ fast, but just like they …
The Ultra-Right’s Efforts to Destroy Our Nation Will Ultimately Fail
What JD Vance says at left cuts across everything this country was founded on, and for that reason, it’s bound to fail. Yes, our population is far more hateful, uneducated, and ignorant of the core principles that underlie the basic …
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Tagged with: base-level understanding of our history, cuts across everything this country was founded on, our population is far more and ignorant of the core principles that underlie the basic formation of our country, our population is far more hateful, our population is far more uneducated, people like JD Vance have gone as far forward as they possibly can, we're a people of tolerance
Bringing Hydrokinetics to Scotland
I can’t swear that the meme here speaks the truth, but it’s certainly possible, and more to the point, it illustrates the fact that hydrokinetics has important (although narrow) applications in the constellation of renewable energy. There are places that …
Modern-Day Conservatives Hate Education
There are dozens of changes in what it means to be a conservative in America that have been made over the past decade, but perhaps the most glaring is the disdain these folks suddenly have for education. When we baby-boomers …
Tagged with: climate change is real, conspiracy theorists believe that our schools promote homosexuality, conspiracy theorists believe that our schools promote socialism, disdain for education, don't want people who are capable of critical thinking, Donald Trump wants ignorance, huge correlation between people who didn't go to college and Trump supporters, To get a good job get a good education, vaccines are safe and effective, what it means to be a conservative in America
Farmers and Renewable Energy
Here’s a video (from Big Oil?) that explains how climate change mitigation is ruining farmer’s lives. I’m sure you can convince a few morons that what you’re saying here is true. But the farmer’s I’ve spoken to feel the exact …
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Trump and Treachery
We all need to hope that the thought expressed at left becomes true, because the only alternative is Trump’s reaching the same status in the United States that Putin has in Russia, Xi has in China, and Jong Un has …
Some Governments Act for the Wellbeing of Their People, But Not America’s
In the United States, we are a million miles away from a government that works to ensure that its citizens are taken care of, and that at least their basic needs are met. When we look at Europe, as well …
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Tagged with: As suggested at left, as well as those in New Zealand, Costa Rica, Iceland, it is possible to blend free enterprise with a sense of community and harmony., we are a million miles away from a government that ensures that its citizens are taken care of. When we look at countries in Europe
