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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From the Associated Press:

A New York man who received clemency from President Donald Trump in 2021 was sentenced Monday on charges that he swung an IV pole at a nurse, sexually assaulted his children’s nanny, harassed a member of his synagogue and dodged tolls while driving his white Lamborghini and black Ferrari.

Judge Kiyo Matsumoto sent Jonathan Braun back to federal prison for 27 months for the new charges and for violating the terms of his supervised release.

Look, Judge. Sure, convicted drug dealer Braun must have done something good to deserve clemency from Trump.  Of course, that means something good for Trump.

Wonder what it was?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

The comments on the meme here seem to miss the point: it’s crap.

The world’s oceans contain 97% of the planet’s water (321 million cubic miles), and enormous lakes, e.g., the Caspian and Black Seas and North America’s Great Lakes, constitute almost all the rest.

The water we’ve impounded with our dams is about 2000 cubic miles.

You are not shifting the Earth’s axis when you drain your swimming pool or fill your bathtub.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

What we see at left is true, but was there any way of accomplishing that?

Trump, the most powerful person on Earth, simply had his lawyers delay the forward motion of the three main criminal indictments until he became president again, and, in essence, dismissed the charges against him, just as if he were Putin or any other dictator.

Now, he’s using his prosecutors to go after Jack Smith and the others who sought justice for this nation.

At this point, the United States, for the first time in its history, is a banana republic.  If it can be done at all, it will take years, probably decades, to restore rule of law.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Eventually, many Trump supporters will come to realize that the meme at left is a hoax, that their leader fell for it, and spread it to countless people.  But it would be interesting to know how many care.

We live in a post-truth society, where the fact that something is simply invented out of thin air means little if anything.  In fact, if you’ve ever listened to Trump give a speech, you’ve seen that most of what he says is clearly false.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Readers in countries outside the U.S. may not know that our states and our federal government have different criminal codes, but they all have one thing in common: the way they criminalize taking the life on another human being depends greatly on the circumstances.  Though our president appears not to understand this, we have killing in self-defense, which is not a crime at all, then all types of accidental killing which occur during the commission of a lesser crime, which is normally some form of manslaughter, on up to premeditated murder, which carries the most severe punishment.

In 23 of our 50 states, there is no death penalty at all, regardless of the severity of the crime.

There are also a variety of domestic and international laws that prohibit harsher treatment for some groups of people than others.

It’s weird how no one expects the President of the United States to know as much about criminal law as the typical high school kid.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This isn’t exactly “breaking.” It’s from 2012.

People are entitled to their own opinions and are also entitled to accepting the opinion of an actor with a history of making racially insensitive comments.

Personally, I’m inclined to refer to people who study this stuff professionally.  Historians rate Obama’s presidency in the top 10. He’s the highest-ranking U.S. president since Harry Truman.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If readers skip this post because they think they’ve heard plenty of crap about the Republicans’ claim re: Obamacare, I won’t blame them.  In fact, I could scarcely believe my own eyes when I saw the meme here and realized we’ve been talking about this for almost 16 years.

Yes, for close to 16 trips around the sun, the GOP has been making the exact same noise. Eventually, even the very least intelligent voter out there is going to realize something very important, albeit completely obvious: the Republicans have nothing to offer here.

Baby boys who were born in March of 2010 are now shaving, learning to drive, and thinking about college.

We wonder how Donald Trump was elected.  Twice.  This level of stupidity is the reason.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In this speech, Trump explains that the radical left is “invading” our country, and that he and his administration are going to “take them out very quickly.”

He seems to be talking about civil war.  If so, this will be much different than the Union vs. the Confederacy, where the enemies lived in different parts of the country and the soldiers wore different colored uniforms.

Here, to take an example, we have high school faculties that are a blend of both liberals and conservatives. If you’re stupid enough to believe that the liberals are invading the United States and need to be removed, you have a real challenge on your hands, not only legally, but logistically as well.

Now, I suppose he could simply have the military deploy machine guns and wipe out each one of the seven million men, women, and children in protests like “No Kings”.  Or maybe just round them up and deport them. He has no regard for the Constitution and rule of law anyway, so maybe this isn’t as far-fetched as it seems.

One thing that Trump doesn’t seem to be considering, though, is that “the military” is run by generals and admirals who are sane and intelligent people, who have sworn an oath that would prevent them to committing atrocities at the behest of a psychotic in the White House.

Wow.  Life in America gets more absurd with each passing day.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In case you’re wondering about it, it won’t be Trump or JD Vance, or any of the congressional Republicans who carts you away.  As suggested at left, it will be some rando who used to pump your gas or weigh your broccoli at the grocery store.

As we have seen in all fascist regimes, it’s not the schoolteachers or veterinarians or philosophers or cardiologists who round up “undesirables” and send them away to their deaths.

Not a bad reason to support public education.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

We progressives have our favorite states.

Sure, anyone can like New York or Massachusetts, or the entire rest of New England, but they have an advantage: incredible levels of education, which make electing Donald Trump or some other sociopath completely impossible. Then you have the Pacific Coast, with its focus on technology and entertainment.  Lots of smart people with lots of money are also, not about to fall for an obvious conman whose goal seems to be crippling America.

But, subtracting out those advantages, you have places like New Mexico.  Ahhhh.  Breathe a sigh of relief.  Can you image a neighbor of Texas with any level of gentility?  It’s not easy.

Pleased (but not at all surprised) to see New Mexico in the news here.

And of course they’re right.  Relieving the stress from young parents will help everyone (directly or indirectly) involved.  Does anyone benefit from young people who can’t go back to work because they can’t afford childcare?

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