Certainly the poem here by John Roedel speaks to many of us, in particular the lost art of kindness.
Chevron is trying to convince us that the problem with high gasoline prices is the taxes we pay to keep our roads from falling apart. If we feel we’re paying too much at the pump, they want us to call our representatives and demand lower per-gallon taxes.
Well, could it be that Chevron earned over $18 billion in 2024, and that corporate greed may be the culprit here?
Americans may be stupid, but this is not going to pass muster.
I hope so, but I wouldn’t bet my (after)life on it.
It’s entirely possible that Trump’s appointing an alcoholic Fox News anchor with minimal military experience to manage the world’s largest war apparatus could turn into a global catastrophe in any of dozens of different ways, changing the course of humankind forever.
We will all breathe a sigh of relief when/if the United States regains some level of sanity.
What Roger Penrose says here strikes me as credible. But keep in mind what the philosophers of science say: If there is no possible experiment that could disprove a theory, it’s not science at all, but rather religion.
The meme here made me laugh, mainly because of the absurd notion that any of Trump’s sociopathic characteristics could possibly “haunt” him for a fraction of a second, let alone the rest of his life.
The man is a predator–in the worst sense. He consumes the well-being of Americans’ lives for the sole purpose of his own wealth and power.
Regarding the pathetic story at left, I have two responses:
1) Bulls***. If this woman legitimately believed that Trump’s clearly articulated plan for mass deportation would somehow show mercy to honest, non-violent mothers and their tiny children, she’s an idiot.
2) These are the same fools who don’t understand that the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process prior to such deportations and generally favors waiving this right to undocumented people. What they don’t seem to be able to comprehend is that this means that the government can claim that you, or I, or she, could be swept up, accused of a crime we didn’t commit, and sent away to a prison notorious for its use of torture.
This is not the United States that Americans fought and died to defend.
In a recent post, I tried to answer the question: just who are all these Trump supporters?
The submission from a reader (at left) provides a pretty solid answer.
If your capacity to think allows you to draw ridiculous conclusions about Democrats (killing babies?!), then you have what it takes to stand behind the president.
There are two basic answers to the question:
1) Anyone who understands that the scientists who study a certain subject know more about that subject than pastry chefs or baseball coaches.
2) People with real assets at risk. Yes, this includes insurance companies, but also organizations like the U.S. military who need to protect our country when large parts of the world become uninhabitable and hundreds of millions of desperate “climate refugees” come looking for a safe place to live.
If you think the recent Battle of Aleppo wasn’t at least partially caused by the scarcity of resources due to climate change, you’re mistaken.
Re: Trump’s post at left, is it possible that he simply ignores you because you’re criminally insane?
When I was a little boy, my maternal grandfather told me never to argue with a crazy person, which made a great deal of sense to me, and it’s advice I’ve followed all my life.
Worth 60 seconds of your life? I think so.
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