A couple of notes here:
1) Anyone who is surprised to learn that the senior political echelon in Texas is morally bankrupt is a fool.
2) This country was most certainly not founded on the bible; the founding fathers were abundantly clear on that.
“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation,” Vance claimed during an interview with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press.
There’s an old Quaker saying that goes like this: “Concern thyself not with the speck in thine brother’s eye when thy hast a log in thine own.”
Sounds like legitimate advice for a man whose state has the nation’s highest murder rate, and is thrilled that he’s sending his National Guard troops to Washington, DC to “fight crime.”
When a right-of-center newspaper calls out a Republican president for his moral atrocities, you know something very strange is happening in the good ol’ US of A.
Legendary environmentalist Paul Hawken once said, “Caring for our planet isn’t a way to get rich. It’s a way to be rich.”
When I read the first sentence of the meme here, that’s the message that I thought I was about to receive.
I laughed out loud when I read the second sentence.
Apparently, happiness derives from taking care of one another and the planet.
It’s part of what it means to be human to want to live in a society that actually cares about others; it’s natural to our species. Conversely, it’s unnatural to be indifferent to suffering.
FWIW, this is why those in other countries are so astonished and saddened by what’s happening in the United States. It’s not like the American culture was ever anywhere close to the social democracies of places like Scandinavia, Iceland, New Zealand, etc., but at least it wasn’t the sociopathic hellhole that is Trumpism.
Retired US military intelligence officer and freelance writer Jim Wright gives us the gem at left.
He has a point here, but sadly, about half the country doesn’t get it.
Have to admire this guy’s sense of humor.
We can’t give up, but enjoying an occasional laugh about the situation may actually be a good idea.
According to NPR:
The Trump administration has ordered companies to stop construction of a wind farm that’s being built off the coast of Rhode Island.
The acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Matthew Giacona, wrote in a letter to one of the developers, a Danish firm called Ørsted, that the government was halting work on the almost-finished project in order to “address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of the United States.” The project is also being developed by Global Infrastructure Partners.
The order to stop work on the Revolution Wind project is the latest move by the Trump administration targeting the country’s renewable energy industry. President Trump, a longtime critic of the wind industry, in January issued a moratorium on new development of offshore wind projects. The Internal Revenue Service recently put out new guidance that makes it harder for companies building wind and solar projects to qualify for federal tax incentives. And the Commerce Department is investigating whether imports of wind turbines and their components threaten national security.
How much damage is Trump and his administration inflicting on our planet’s efforts to prevent environmental collapse? It’s worth noting that the United States accounts for 12.6% of the world’s greenhouse emissions, and many countries around the globe are making great progress, even as the U.S. pursues its “drill baby drill” policy and actively destroys the efforts made by previous administrations to decarbonize the energy and transportation industries.
Environmental protection is just one of the many humanitarian causes being devastated by Trump. If, for some reason, the idea of a roasting planet doesn’t concern you, think about our educational system, healthcare, the military in cities governed by Democrats, pedophilia, and the end of American democracy.
Re: the words at left, it depends on whom you ask. In fact, the only reason we’re destroying our planet is that there are plenty of people whose main interest is the profit associated with doing so.
