Tweets from Al Schmidt, City Commissioner, responsible for elections and voter registration in Philadelphia: “@LeaderMcConnell. The former POTUS incited supporters to threaten to kill my children and put their “heads on spikes” because we counted votes cast by eligible voters. …
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Explaining the Abysmal Ratings of Fox News
At left is what you can expect when you tune to Fox “News.” Donald Trump incited a deadly armed insurrection in an effort to overturn the 2020 election, and you’re blaming the current President of the United States for exercising …
Tagged with: Fox News
Bill Gates Wants To Block the Sun? Uhhh…..No.
Here’s a great illustration of the horrific effects social media can have on ignorant minds. Reader A: This is downright frightening…. and of the utmost arrogance. Bill Gates has no right to make this kind of plan or decision for …
Tagged with: actions that can be taken to control the amount of energy that the Earth receives from the sun that gets trapped in the atmosphere, conspiracy theories surround Bill Gates, geoengineering, geoengineering unintended consequences, sea level rise, temperature of both the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is rising (not falling)
Solar PV Arrays Face Challenges
My wife and I walk about three miles each morning, far enough for us to pass at least a dozen houses in our neighborhood with solar installations. I sometimes comment: “That guy’s roof doesn’t have the right exposure,” or “During …
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In Trump’s Defense, …….
Apparently, Trump’s attorneys are going to present last summer’s violence in Portland, Oregon as defense in the Senate Impeachment trial. What could possibly be the relevance, given that: • Rioting in the streets and breaking into the U.S. Capitol building seem …
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NPR Reports: “A ‘Scary’ Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary”
Robert Reich comments on a late-January 2021 survey of 2016 American adults as follows: A new survey reveals disturbing beliefs in major portions of the electorate, particularly Republican voters: — Over 60 percent of Republicans do not believe Joe Biden …
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Non-Violence
The annual celebration of Earth Day in Santa Barbara is held in a large, beautiful park, with perhaps 100 booths featuring ideas that promote a better planet. Many concern themselves directly with cleantech: water savings, electrical efficiency, EVs, renewable energy …
Trump Supporters Might As Well Jump
Perhaps the most disgusting part of everything we’ve seen and been through as a nation over these last four years is that Trump will ultimately be acquitted in the Senate, since only a few Republicans have any personal integrity whatsoever. …
Sorry To Say, We May Never See the Trump Administration’s Healthcare Plans
It’s starting to look like the United States will never get to see the Trump administration’s healthcare plans, not a single one of the many, so as to evaluate their merits in detail vis-à-vis Obamacare. Damn! And we were soooo …
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Ocean Plastic Pollution
One of my snide and ignorant readers sent me the meme here, to which I respond: Yes. The world is reducing plastic pollution as fast as possible, because every decent person on Earth finds what we’ve done to our oceans …
Tagged with: 4 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans., banning single use items, developing plastic that biodegrades at the rate appropriate to what it contains, every decent on Earth finds what we've done to our oceans to be unconscionable, The world is reducing plastic pollution as fast as possible
