As previously mentioned, 2GreenEnergy makes its “headquarters” in a rural part of Central California. Our town, Santa Ynez, has a distinctly “God and country” feel to it. Here’s what’s on display at a neighbor’s place, sending a message that this …
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Why This Republican Candidate Doesn’t Stand a Chance
At first I thought this was a joke, but no, it isn’t. Here’s a fine young idiot, running for the Republican presidential nomination, who bases his campaign on “radical new ideas.” News flash: “radical” is the very last thing that …
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Money in Politics
The United States isn’t the only country on the globe that has institutionalized corruption in its government, but we have, by far, the most severe case of it. As political activist David Cobb (Green Party candidate for president in 2004) …
Inflicting Pain on Our Most Underprivileged
Throughout U.S. history, the Republican party has worn many faces. Until the early 20th Century, it was the party of Lincoln and true loyalty to the American people. That flip-flopped about 100 years ago, but I don’t think anyone could …
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“Never Let the Unacceptable Become Acceptable” — Good Advice, but I Have Bad News
I hate to say it, but this is what we do all day long in the United States. We didn’t just jump from the sanity and intellectual distinction of the Obama presidency into where we are now: • On the …
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Media Whore CNN Made Some Serious Cash with Trump Town Hall
It’s good to know that we live in a country in which certain people have moral principles that inform their behavior, and Alexander Vindman is certainly among them. CNN wanted viewers, because viewers = money. They got what they wanted, …
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From the New York Times: House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden
After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct. Now, if you think for one minute that the …
The Use of Tunnels in Minimizing Flood Water Damage
Here’s an idea for processing storm water runoff, i.e., precipitation from rain and snowmelt that flows over land without percolating into the ground. There is no doubt that climate change is exacerbating the problems that our civilization faces with storm …
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Trump Won’t Be the 47th U.S. President, But This Is Not the Reason
Here’s an article by Robert Reich entitled: “Trump committed treason and will try again. He must be barred from running.” There are two other parts of our Constitution that renders what Reich says here unworkable. One lies elsewhere in the …
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Are America’s Political Parties Equivalent to One Another?
People say there is no right or wrong between the two main U.S. political parties, or that they are essentially identical to one another. The meme here suggests otherwise.
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