The illustration here calls to mind the benefit of being 93 million miles from our nearest star–neither too close nor too far to support life.
That distance also supports solar energy; we receive 6000 times more power from the sun than all eight billion of us are using.
At left is the rationale for thinking of ourselves as “citizens of the world.”
To be proud that I, by virtue of absolutely nothing I have done, hail from a certain country that I believe to be superior to the other 205 sovereign nations on Earth, is stupidity at its finest.
Especially when the country in question has by far the strongest military power of the globe, extreme levels of patriotism result in serious problems on a global scale.
At left, former Georgia lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan expresses the decision he’s made in confronting the choice everyone in the GOP must make re: the 2024 presidential election.
Isn’t this is an indication that Trump is toast in 2024? There are traditional Republicans who will vote for Biden (or at least won’t vote for Trump) because their conscience prohibits their supporting a criminal sociopath. But how many traditional Democrats, countrywide, will vote for Trump?
I suppose we need to acknowledge that, every four years, there are lifelong Democrats who become old and angry. They come across Fox News, and wind up thinking that what’s on Hunter’s laptop holds the key to impeaching the kingpin of the Biden crime family. But this group cannot possibly approach the number of people like Duncan, a Republican with both a heart and a mind who understands the gravity of what’s at stake here.
The meme here sounds great, but let’s be realistic. About the best we can hope for is a country with one set of laws that apply to everyone, and a government that delivers valuable services, like education and healthcare, to its people.
There is no reason to expect people who are wired for hatred and ignorance to change their basic personalities.
He is old, but that’s not the reason he won’t change.
Rather, it’s that his lifetime MO of lying and cheating has never once let him down.
Even now, with the 88 felony charges against him, he may be successful in getting the SCOTUS to grant him immunity. Or, if he gets re-elected, he could order the Justice Department to drop the charges, even pardon himself.
We’re a long way from justice here.
From EarthAlerts:
The merger between Bayer and Monsanto, and the subsequent removal of Monsanto’s name for rebranding purposes, does not change the fact that the nation’s largest weed killer company was involved in food companies. This list highlights companies that had business dealings with Monsanto prior to the merger, with some still owned by Monsanto’s subsidiaries.
Another viewpoint: Most of these products are garbage and shouldn’t be part of any healthy family’s diet.
As shown at left, somehow people in other parts of the globe are better able than our Americans at home to discern that Trump is a criminal sociopath.
The development explained at left may sound noteworthy, and I don’t discourage these people or anyone from doing whatever they can to slow the rate of environmental degradation. And yes, keeping plastic out of our waste-streams is a great cause.
But let’s look at this for a second.
Who, and at what expense, both financially and environmentally, is going to round up all these avocado pits and process them into utensils, then absorb the costs of product marketing and distribution? How viable will this enterprise be, especially at very low volume, compared to the $43 billion plastic industry?
I’m reminded of a would-be client, “Fertile Grounds,” who met me a few years ago and asked for my help. Their idea was to collect coffee grounds from Starbucks’ and process them into organic fertilizer. I asked how they planned to collect the coffee grounds, and they explained that they would have drivers of small trucks with routes around the nation’s cities, who would drop off this feedstock to processing plants that would dry (over heat–where does the heat energy come from?), bag it, then sell it into the market of hardware stores and large home improvement centers.
Of the two, which idea is more inane? Hard to know.
I told the “Fertile Grounds” folks that I loved their name, but advised them to keep their money in their pockets and look for another business concept. I didn’t use the word “inane” at all in our conversation. That’s how to win friends and influence people. I should have written the book.
As the November election moves closer, it will be interesting to see how many households in this largely Republican part of rural California distinguish themselves as Trump supporters, perhaps by displaying the flag at the left.
I’m going to guess that folks around here will be more reserved than they were in 2016 and 2020, simply because of the ever-increasingly extreme nature of Trump’s behavior: demented rants, bald-faced lies, and outrageous antics at his criminal trials.
My wife thinks I’m wrong. We’ll see.
From this:
Donald Trump is by no means the same man he was even four years ago, a psychologist said as he also claims the former president’s “demented” speech is an indication of his deterioration.
I have bad news: Trump’s base doesn’t predicate its support for the former president on his capacity to make sense or tell the truth. If it were as simple as that, you wouldn’t be reading a post on the viability of Trump’s candidacy for president just six months from the coming election; the Republicans would be nominating some garden-variety conservative, perhaps from the Bush family.
