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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s  understandable that this woman is angry.  And she’s not alone; she is joined by tens of millions of our country’s meanest and most poorly educated people who are slowly figuring out that what little money they had is being steadily moved into the hands of the billionaires.

The MAGA crowd is not happy to learn that their costs of living (including taxes) are going up, even in the aftermath of DOGE, where their former hero Elon Musk gutted dozens of different activities that government formerly performed for the common American, e.g., weather forecasting and the maintenance of national parks, and padded his wallet with the proceeds.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

One thing we all need to admit about Trump is that he makes no attempt to lead Americans forward as a united country; in fact, he goes to great efforts to pull us apart.

This makes him appear childish, even traitorous, to most people around the globe, but his supporters here in the U.S. can’t get enough of him.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Obviously this is a glimpse of our future. Higher temperatures bring the energy required for more frequent and more severe storms.

The only aspect of the tragedy in Texas that puts it in our face is that it happened in the United States, home to only four percent of the world’s population.  Americans are far less concerned about the other 96%.

Of course, we can make it worse, and we’re doing precisely that, by continuing to dump greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, and by eliminating government efforts to predict the weather and mitigate climate change.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

The question posed at left by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good one: Can we summon the ingenuity and courage required to save us from environmental collapse?

FWIW, lots of smart people say no.  Kurt Vonnegut, for example, predicted shortly before his death that this will be the first civilization in human history that didn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If you think there is a way to deal with people like Julie using reason and logic, you’re out of your mind.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Those who might believe the myth that the United States has become more respected internationally now that Donald Trump has regained the White House may want to take a look at this mural, recently completed on a building in the north of France, depicting Lady Liberty hiding her face in shame.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I was chatting with some Swedes the other day who told me that they have an ongoing rivalry with the Danes.  When I expressed surprise, one asked me, “Don’t Americans feel competitive with Canada?”

I responded that I couldn’t speak for all Americans, but that most of us regard Canadians as intelligent, kind, and respectful people.  Of course, now that we’ve seen fit to destroy a friendship that had been in place for more than 200 years, it’s hard to predict how they will come to see us going forward.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Now, if your plan is to rape and pillage American society to satisfy your greed, do exactly none of this.

Destroy everything in the government you can get your hands on, so as to create tax breaks for the billionaires. Demolish education, the environment, the justice system, emergency assistance, weather reporting, healthcare, and food programs for hungry children.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

There is lot one could say about how revolting Hobby Lobby is, but a good place to start is that the Founding Fathers were adamant that the United States was not based on any religion.

In the words of John Adams: “The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I happen to know the author of the piece at left from my business days.

Here are two related answers to his question:

1) The American flag has taken on a new meaning since the formation of the MAGA bunch, in particular, since the storming of the Capitol and the subsequent president pardoning of the hundreds of insurrectionists convicted in the attack.

Formerly, the flag meant pride in our nation generally, i.e., “Hooray for the United States, for the freedom it offers for its citizens and the good it does for all people around the world.” Now it often means, “Hooray for Trump and the modern Republican party, and screw the “radical Democrat left.”

Insofar as the flag itself can’t speak as to what its owner is trying to communicate, many people simply (and wisely) avoid the issue entirely and refuse to display the flag altogether.

2) Anyone who is unabashedly proud of what America has become under Trump has serious moral and/or intellectual defects.  If you’re OK with broadspread racism, criminality, the rejection of science, cruelty, and the demolition of our relationships with former allies, you’re not a good person.

 

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